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Today, the Supreme Court strikes down Colorado's attempt to remove Donald Trump from the ballot. In a unanimous decision, Justice Sotomayor, Jackson, Kagan, and the other three Democratic-appointed Justices rule in favor of the former president. Also, a conservative journalist is arrested for simply doing his job.
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So today, the Supreme Court strikes down Colorado's attempt to ban Donald Trump from the ballot.
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Remove the legitimate opposition to Joe Biden from the ballot.
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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.
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We'll dive into all the details that are involved with that.
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Also, a blaze journalist, Steve Baker, has been arrested by the FBI for simply doing his job.
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This is very obviously an attempt to intimidate conservative reporting.
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Make sure that no other story comes out about January 6th or anything else that the Biden regime does not want people to know about.
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All right, so like I said, the Colorado court had originally gone ahead and attempted to strip Donald Trump from the ballot.
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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.
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Again, as I have explained many times on the show, that language was always chosen by the Democrats, by the media.
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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.
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All of a sudden, the word insurrection has popped up everywhere.
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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.
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And Colorado ran with that logic and removed Donald Trump for the ballot or provisionally was going to do so.
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Other states like Illinois were following suit.
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And so it was very important that the Supreme Court go ahead and hear this case and make a decision on it.
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Now, it's interesting that the way this came down was 9-0.
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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.
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However, the way that decision was reached, the way that different justices got there, is important.
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And so I want to dive into that in just a second.
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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.
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Now, the ruling came down, again, unanimous in its decision that they had that 9-0 decision.
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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,
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there were multiple versions of the opinion that people attached themselves to.
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The three Democrat-appointed justices, Jackson, Sotomayor, and, of course, Kagan,
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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.
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Now, this sent a lot of Democrats spiraling out of control.
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Of course, they wanted to see Donald Trump get removed.
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The Supreme Court was not ready to just go ahead and declare the republic over.
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Obviously, having a Supreme Court just completely remove the political opposition from the ballot
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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,
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Now, we'll talk about why that may be over anyway here a little bit later,
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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,
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that could create a real, very serious constitutional crisis.
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A lot of Democrats, again, got very angry about this, but they forget the reason the 14th Amendment even exists.
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The 14th Amendment is created, along with the 13th and 15th Amendments,
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as part of what is usually termed the Civil War Amendments.
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They come right after the North's victory in the Civil War during the Reconstruction period.
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It's often called the Reconstruction Amendments as well.
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And the purpose of that amendment is to make sure that a lot of people from the South,
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a lot of people who had previously been a part of the Confederacy or the government,
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these kind of things, did not suddenly populate the entirety of the federal government of the reconstituted United States.
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So if you allowed states to decide whether or not things were valued as insurrection,
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if the individual states got to make the decision,
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that would kind of work against the original intent of the 14th Amendment.
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If all of the Southern states get to decide whether or not someone is an insurrectionist,
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well, then no one would have been an insurrectionist or they would have just made it people they didn't like.
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And so the decision was always meant to be made at the federal level.
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Now, a lot of people would argue, and I'd be one of them, that this is a usurpation of states' rights.
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It's understandable, I suppose, under the circumstances, their motivation.
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But this is very clearly one of the reasons that the 14th Amendment is a clear shift away
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from the idea that states could have individual governance and there had to be a centralization at the federal level.
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Again, you may say, well, that's understandable.
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That has to be the way it is because of the historical circumstances.
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the idea that states could govern themselves was kind of dead and over.
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We had decided that the 10th Amendment was done,
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these things are all going to just basically make it so that the federal government will make all of the decisions.
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The idea that states would be able to determine many of these things for themselves
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So it's kind of funny that the Democrats are very angry
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at the fact that the justices would look at the 14th Amendment and say,
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no, clearly the intent was to have the federal courts or the federal authorities make those decisions,
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and that would make them angry that individual states couldn't strip Donald Trump from the ballot
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because, of course, the whole point of putting the authority in the hands of the federal government
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was to go ahead and take it away from former Confederate states.
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Or more importantly, even if they understand it, they just don't care.
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Because you have to understand that the Democrats are interested in winning at any cost.
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They'll talk about the importance of democratic norms and all this garbage.
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In the slightest period, they are only interested in power.
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They're only interested in defeating their enemies.
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They're only interested in stripping someone like Donald Trump off the ballot.
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They don't care if it gets done by indictments.
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They don't care if it gets done by the 14th Amendment.
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They are just, it's naked power grab the whole way.
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As long as my enemy can't get reelected, that's the only thing that matters.
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And so the ideological consistencies or legal nuances present in the 14th Amendment
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So the three Democrat appointed justices only went so far as to say that the federal government
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should be the one making some kind of decision here.
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Now, most of the other justices outside of, I believe, Amy Cohn and Barrett went ahead and
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They said that actually it needs to be Congress that makes this decision.
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It's Congress that would define under the kind of insurrection portion of the 14th Amendment,
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what that actually means and how that gets applied.
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Now, it's interesting because the 14th Amendment was never actually meant to keep people from
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It was never actually meant to keep anyone from even actually winning a contest under the
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It was only supposed to be after the fact that Congress had the ability to remove someone
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if they found that they were an insurrectionary actor.
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And so this isn't actually supposed to be there to keep someone like Donald Trump from running
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The left don't give one iota about what the actual purpose of this amendment is or the language
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or the procedure, any of that they were just building this narrative in hopes that they
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would go ahead and eliminate Trump from the running, keep him from being able to act.
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Now, this ruling is important, of course, because other states were following suit and
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because states like Colorado and Maine have a primary coming up tomorrow.
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So it was important for them to go ahead and make this ruling and make it clear.
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It sounds like it should end the issue, but it doesn't actually completely end the issue
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because as I pointed out on my stream last week, the Democrats have already been building
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another narrative, another idea of how they could still go ahead and get rid of Trump.
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And their idea, the one that the article in The Atlantic that I went through last week
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was laying out, was the idea that even if Trump was to be allowed back on the ballot,
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if the court did not clearly state that he was eligible under the 14th, that he had not
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committed insurrection, that that clause does not apply to him, then the Democrats could
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choose to not certify his election after the Electoral College hands it over.
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So in the event that Trump went ahead and won an Electoral College victory, and in the event
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that Democrats won the House and they were the ones that would then certify the election,
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if the Democrats did not feel that the Supreme Court had successfully made it clear that Trump
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was eligible under the 14th Amendment, that he had not violated, had not committed insurrection,
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and therefore was not ineligible under the 14th Amendment, they could take it under their
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kind of kind of their moral guidance. They should they could say, we're the ones who are going to
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make this decision. It ultimately falls to us. And we're going to go ahead and declare that Donald
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Trump was someone who committed insurrection. Now, in the in in the impeachment articles, and this is
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what they would be pointing to, because remember, none of the charges against Trump, none of the charges
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that have been leveled against Trump have said that he committed insurrection. None of these 90
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something indictments against Trump say anything about insurrection. And that's because they can't
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prove it in a court of law. There is no way to prove it. Because the because in a court of law,
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you actually have to have proof. There's a real burden of proof. However, there was an impeachment
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that said that Trump was guilty of insurrectionary insurrectionary activity or instigating insurrectionary
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activity. And the impeachment has no legal requirements, you can you can go ahead and
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say whatever you want in an impeachment. It's a political process is not a legal process,
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things are not clearly defined inside that process. And so you can go ahead and say whatever
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you want. And so they were pointing to that and saying, this is the standard we'll use,
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not the legal standard in a court of law, because we can't prove that because he didn't actually
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commit any kind of insurrection. There is no proof of that we can't actually create that and hold that
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charge up in a court of law. However, we can do it in a political proceeding because there is no
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standard. There's no definition, high crimes and misdemeanors in the Constitution is not legally
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defined. And so you can go ahead and basically impeach a president for anything. It doesn't matter.
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And so they're saying, well, because he went ahead and was impeached as an insurrectionist,
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even though we can't prove that in any law in any court of law where there's a real standard,
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that would be the reason that we would feel morally justified in going ahead and denying Trump
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a presidency, going ahead and saying we will not certify his election. Now, again, that's still a
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lot of different events that have to occur. You'd have to have Trump win. You'd have to have the
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Democrats win the House. You'd have to have them feel like it was close enough or that they could
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go ahead and justify blocking this. But however, it does leave this door open because the Supreme
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Court was clear enough to say that the decision has to be made by Congress. So that means that you can't
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have a federal court somewhere go ahead and hand down a decision that Trump committed insurrection.
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You can't have some rogue panel of judges somewhere make that decision. But you can still have Congress
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make that decision. The power does ultimately still rest with them. And the Supreme Court did not
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explicitly say that Trump did not commit an act of insurrection. And so therefore, they did not
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explicitly say that the 14th Amendment does not apply to him. They simply said that the states do not
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have jurisdiction. And furthermore, the Republican appointees said that only Congress has that
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jurisdiction, that no federal court could go ahead and go rogue and make that ruling. And so that's
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going to be the key thing here. A lot of things still have to fall into place for that to be something
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that matters. However, the Democrats can still hold on to this hope. They can still hold on to this
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idea that Donald Trump's election, if it were to happen, would be illegitimate. And you can see why
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the Democrats are getting concerned about this. A lot of polling is coming out that is showing Joe
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Biden with just horrific numbers in pretty much every area. Understandably so. A lot of things aren't
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great in the country. A lot of people are tired of what's going on. Very clear that Joe Biden doesn't
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actually run the country. A lot of people are tired of watching this embarrassment of this weekend
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at Bernie's presidency continue on. It's hard not to be demoralized in a country where you clearly
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understand that someone like this is not running your country and you're not allowed to know who
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is running the country. You can understand why these numbers are going very poorly for Joe Biden.
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At the same time, a lot of people are looking at things like the border crisis. They're like,
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whoever's running this, and I don't know who's running this country, but whoever's running this
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country obviously is allowing some pretty deleterious things to happen. You don't have to be
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a hardcore Republican. You don't even need to be a particularly strong American nationalist to
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understand that constant open borders are just a danger to everybody. They're a tragedy on every
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level. They're a tragedy for the people who are attempting to cross them and often getting sex
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trafficked, getting human trafficked, all the drugs that pour over this, all the crime, the number of
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people who have been killed by illegal immigrants recently that have become very prominent figures
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has become staggering. A lot of people are recognizing the danger of the constant open
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border. And they're just saying, Joe Biden is just, or whoever's running the country in Joe
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Biden's name, we don't want to be involved with this anymore. You're even seeing polls that are
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showing minorities that are usually monolithic for the left, like the black community, like Latinos.
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The polls are saying that they're shifting. Now, I'm always skeptical about this. We kind of hear
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these talking points. Every time there's an election, we always hear that, oh, finally, this is the
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election where the kind of the monolithic black vote for the Democrats is going to break, or we're
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going to finally see the big sea changed and kind of the Hispanic vote. And suddenly the based minority
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vote is going to turn out and this is going to shift everything in the Republicans' favor. I'm always
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skeptical about that narrative. We did see some shift in the Hispanic vote, especially, again, when you
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look at places like Florida with Ron DeSantis, places that were always blue, like Miami-Dade truly did
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start to shift in a significant way. That does show us that perhaps there is ground to be gained in
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certain areas. But I am always skeptical of this idea that this is the election where we're finally
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going to break this. Unfortunately, no matter how you try to slice it, the truth is that these
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communities have remained staunch Democratic supporters. They've done so even when the
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Democrats are not acting what you would think is in their favor. They just continue to back the
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Democrats no matter what. You hope that changes. Maybe it does. Maybe this is the election, but I'm
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always skeptical of that narrative. Either way, none of this is good for Joe Biden. Now, we should
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recognize that polls, you know, there are problems there. We do know that, of course, repeatedly,
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Donald Trump was shown to be winning or losing rather dramatically in polls in both the 2016
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election and the 2020 election. We were told that Donald Trump only had a 1% chance against Hillary
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Clinton in the 2016 election. You know, pollsters really made them a laughingstock of themselves,
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showing their incredible bias. And so you wonder how accurate these polls can be. Now, there was a lot
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of incentive for pollsters to go ahead and suppress the Republican vote. It was very clear. And again,
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we talk about the 2020 election in particular, and how desperate the left was to go ahead and keep
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Donald Trump out of the White House, and how many professionals were willing to just throw all of their
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credibility, shred all of their credibility. Doctors, scientists, lawyers, pollsters were among these
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people. We don't talk about this enough. Obviously, we know that the social media outlets, we know the
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intelligence community, we know the scientific community, all these people were willing to go out
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and destroy their credentials, their precious credentials, the things that were supposed to
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elevate them and make them neutral arbiters of truth in our society. They were willing to light all of
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this stuff on fire because of Donald Trump, their hatred for Donald Trump. And that's why it feels
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for a lot of people like things are crumbling and falling apart, because we replaced a lot of the
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narrative in the United States with this idea of managerial elites. The managerial elites are the
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ones who are qualified to lead us. They were the ones that have all the authority. You know, they have
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the degrees, they have the Harvard and Yale positions, they have the studies, the science is behind
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them. The science team is behind these people. And that's why they have the authority. And so many of the
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people in our society who had assumed these positions of neutral arbiter, you know, and then
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there was a lot of social capital in that, like they, they, we, they sacrificed a lot and worked very
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hard to put themselves into those positions. And they had invested a lot of the kind of idea of
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classically liberal neutral governance into the expertise of these people. And the fact that they
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were willing to light all of that on fire, they not, you know, and it was never neutral, to be clear,
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there, there were never neutral institutions. These people were never actually neutral in any
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of their decisions. They were always nudging constantly. They're always saying, oh, well,
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we're going to change the definition of this just a little bit. We're going to go ahead and close the
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Overton window just a little bit. We're going to apply a little bit of censorship. They are always
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doing that little nudge, right? So it was never neutral. That was always a myth. However, they had
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successfully kept that myth going because they were always careful about the way they applied pressure.
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They never burned the credential. They never burned their actual status in an attempt to make big
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changes. But with Trump, they lost everything. And this is why I have continually said that Trump's
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only value really is his ability to just drive the left insane. He creates this, this wrecking ball
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that just destroys the left, their ability to think, their ability to reason, their ability to have any
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kind of self-control. He drives them insane. He sets off all of their most ridiculous, insane
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instincts, and he makes them rip the mask off and tell everybody what they really believe and how they
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really feel and how they really want to conduct themselves. And so the fact that the pollsters,
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even people whose job is literally to go ahead and predict elections in theory, right? That's what
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they're supposed to do. But in actuality, they're often influencing things with their polls. The polls are
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not actually there to reflect public opinion. They're there to inform public opinion. They're there to guide
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public opinion. And usually they do this by small percentage points or targeted questions. But in this
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election, especially the 2020 election, it is very clear that they were just rabidly trying to stop Trump
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from getting elected and they were willing to say anything. So maybe that's the only source of the polling
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being bad. And maybe the polling now is fine because that desire to go ahead and bury Trump is gone
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and we're just, or rather, it's just not being reflected in the popularity of Joe Biden and the
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popularity of Joe Biden is honest. It's hard to know. It's really difficult to know. There's just
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really, you know, this is the travesty of having institutions completely break down. There's just no
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information to trust. Are these people completely deceitful? Are they being honest this time? Was it only that
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bias? You know, you have to kind of read the biased tea leaves. And that's kind of what we're doing
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a lot of the times as conservatives. And unfortunately, many times, because we don't
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have access to the consensus making apparatus, people on the right don't have access to these
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things. We don't control these institutions. We get really good at like reading the matrix,
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right? We have to go through and say, okay, the ones and the zeros there, that's the normal amount
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of bias. But I can go ahead and read past that and see the data behind that and say, oh, no,
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there is some truth to it this time. Or no, that's all false this time. We have to get really
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good at not just looking at the news, but parsing the news and pulling out the actual information,
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trying to discard as much bias from the left as possible, read between the lines and kind of
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understand what's happening, which is why, again, I like to pay so much attention to what the narratives
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are being built by the left into the conversation. Because now we see that the Supreme Court here has
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said, well, we're not going to let the states decide. And we're not even going to let federal
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courts decide, which again, has the left just absolutely losing their mind. I'll get to some
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of the reactions to that in a second. But we're not even going to let the federal courts decide.
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Instead, it has to be done by Congress. But that has to be done by Congress does allow the specific
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strategy that the article in The Atlantic went ahead and laid out about how the Democrats could still go
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ahead and overturn a legitimate Donald Trump victory. So that path that was explained in that
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article that I broke down last week is still there, which is why I broke it down. Because you can still
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see this narrative threat alive. You can still see this option alive for the left. It feels like it
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would be a suicide pact to do it at this point. It would be like, again, the end of rule of law as we
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know it. However, how many times does it seem like the end of rule of law should be very clear to
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everybody? And yet it isn't. So maybe they would try it. We can't know for sure. But we do know that
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that narrative threat is still alive. That logical threat is still alive. The Supreme Court, while
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they struck down most of what the left wanted it to do, they did not strike that down. And so that is
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still there. All right, guys, I want to go ahead and talk a little more about the reactions to this
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decision, this clearing of the path for Donald Trump to go ahead and continue to run for
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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
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
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
00:34:41.480
comprehension. So he specifically calls out the liberal female justices here. And collectively,
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
00:34:59.540
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again, shouldn't be surprising. These people have talked about the need to get rid of this of the
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
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
00:38:15.280
established voters. Give them a lot of stuff, mostly that you appropriated from the middle class that
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
00:39:04.780
boundaries left, and they already control most of this. These things barely slow down the left.
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
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,
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.
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,
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
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
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.
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
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
00:59:40.000
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