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Supreme Court nominee Amy Yvonne Brooks has been nominated to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a conservative conservative icon who served as the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. But will she be confirmed?
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hi mike how are you doing great it's so good to be back on your show thanks for having me on you're
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welcome so is seriously i know we have to pick a woman for some unknown reason is the sex change
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out of the out of the realm of possibility with you well not in the next 72 hours that seems a
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little hasty okay all right so mike i want to talk to you about the vacancy what's going on um
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ted said that he has concerns of anybody that is nominated because we always screw this up
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is there anybody on this short list that you feel is a real home run yeah look i i think it's going
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to be amy coney barrett i i could be wrong i don't think i'm going to be i think it's going to be her
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and i think uh she would be a fantastic supreme court justice i think she'll be a textualist
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and originalist she'll be devoted to the cause of constitutionally limited government that's what
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we need so who would you compare her to who do you think she's going to be more like she she will be
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in the mold of her former boss justice scalia and in the mold of uh justice alito my former boss
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and in the mold of justice thomas uh she'll be somewhere in that universe wait justice thomas
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oh clarence thomas i was thinking roberts i thought you said roberts there for a second no no no that would
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be a very different story it's gonna be uh somewhere between uh roberts and uh and scalia
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she's right in the sweet spot where we would want her to be she's she's a scalia alito uh thomas
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type of jurist and that's exactly what we want now the last time she was confirmed in front of the
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senate they just raked her across the the coals for her religious beliefs she's a strong catholic
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and uh i mean just really were i thought way out of line uh they were i i was horrified glenn as i
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sat through there i was in the committee room i serve on the judiciary committee with uh and as we
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were going through uh the process of confirming her a couple of my democratic colleagues started asking
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her these questions and i couldn't believe what i was hearing at first one of my colleagues said uh
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you know the dogma seems to live strong in you or or words right right another colleague asked her if
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she would describe herself as an orthodox catholic both of those questions came off to me as though they
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were saying well uh it's one thing if you're catholic but if you actually believe that stuff
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then you're kind of crazy that really bothers me as a religious minority myself uh i find that very
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offensive as an american i i find it appalling as a constitutional lawyer i find it unacceptable
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imagine saying that to ruth bader ginsburg about her religion exactly i mean that's that's outrageous
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absolutely outrageous um so tell me about what you're expecting uh the democrats to do i mean
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they are talking about burning the place down if this if this passes tell me is that is that rhetoric
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are they serious what what what's what's happening mike i i don't know it's 2020 and so i i don't know
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whether to read anything um just figuratively or literally because it could easily be both
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uh insofar as they're expressing outrage over this that's really quite absurd i mean look this is not
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an historical aberration for us to be confirming in this context you know in 2016 which they like to
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point out president obama nominated merrick garland and the senate gave its advice and consent on that
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nominee by rejecting him this year president trump will nominate a replacement i think it's going to
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be amy coney barrett for justice ginsburg and consistent with the constitution will again give
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our advice and consent if we like the nominee we'll confirm her if we don't we won't it's it's that
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simple you know there have been uh there have been supreme court vacancies in presidential election
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years 29 times in the history of our republic in 10 of those cases the presidency was held by one
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party in the senate by a different party in nine of those 10 instances uh the nominees were rejected
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by the senate just like garland was on the other hand there have been 19 times when a supreme court
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vacancy occurred in a presidential election year where both the presidency and the senate were controlled
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by the same party only one of those 19 nominees abe fortis was rejected and he was rejected on a
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bipartisan basis after an ethics scandal every other nominee 18 out of those 19 was confirmed in an
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election year when the senate and the presidency were under the control of the same party there is
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nothing unusual about us doing this there's no reason why they should threaten to burn the house
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down whatever that means mike you know for the last few years we've been talking about we need to make
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sure we're watching russia and any foreign actors on uh on our elections the what the democrats are doing
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now with the mail-in ballots um and how bad our systems are in every state uh the soros owning the uh
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many of the attorney generals or the uh district attorneys i i am really really really really concerned
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that no one is going to believe the results of this election no matter which way it happens
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it is certainly concerning uh and one of the many reasons why we need to resist
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any effort ever to centralize all voting authority um because of the fact that it would make it
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more subject to manipulation by nefarious actors either outside of their our country like like russia
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or otherwise um by the way that's exactly what a proposal advanced and passed by the democratic
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house of representatives in this congress hr1 would have done is centralize election authority
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making it more vulnerable uh our system is far more vulnerable than i would like it to be
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but much better than it would be if the reforms proposed by the democratic party were enacted into law
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in the meantime people can do their part by making sure that they vote by looking out for irregularities
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whenever they see them and uh and praying to almighty god with everything in them uh that he'll guide us
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through this particularly difficult election cycle and we'll make it through mike are you concerned with
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um uh the the lack of record for amy uh coney barrett um i mean all of them are short hers is
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probably the best but are you concerned that we don't know enough about these guys i'm nearly
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always concerned that we don't know enough i wish we we knew more with judge barrett we know more than
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we know with most yeah we confirmed her about three years ago to the u.s court of appeals for the seventh
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circuit and we also have her career long uh track record academically we know that she's been involved
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in the federalist society we know that she's a textualist originalist we know that she clerked
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for justice scalia so those are all good signs all the indications we have from her are positive and
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that's why i'm confident about this choice scalia is this was his favorite uh uh assistant or what
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what did you call it a clerk yeah his favorite clerk right yeah he he loved her and he was not overly
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emotional or attached to clerks i i have a friend uh my friend uh john fee who is a law professor now
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at byu clerked for justice scalia and i believe it was john fee who told me that on the last day of his
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clerkship justice scalia said something to him along the lines of uh you know you guys are all fungible
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to me right oh my gosh he he he he was sort of you know he he was yeah half joking in many joking in
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many in most respects but his point was uh i i can't get emotionally attached to each law clerk but
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he loved judge barrett and uh i think it speaks well of her and of of him that he felt that way um
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just because donald trump loves a show uh and uh he likes these big surprises uh let me talk to you
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about barbara lagoa a bit um i like her story uh born to uh cuban immigrants um you know and really
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seems to understand america uh first cuban american woman selected for the court but she was also
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nominated by jeb bush uh so do we what do we know about her okay so here's the thing i'm sure
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she's a great person i voted to confirm her to the u.s court of appeals to the 11th circuit uh from
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what i can tell she is a good judge there i would not be comfortable confirming her to the supreme court
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of the united states the same way i would be with amy coney barrett for the simple reason that we don't
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know that much about her history of commitment to textualism and originalism at least not you know
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before just a few years ago uh one of the standards i employs i i like to go back 20 years i i like to
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find out uh who someone was associating with who they were working with uh 20 years ago uh what were
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they doing to promote understanding of the constitution of textualism of originalism you know
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20 years ago amy coney barrett uh was was clerking or preparing to clerk for justice scalia i know that
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she was involved heavily in the federalist society that entire time i don't know that about barbara
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lagoa in fact i haven't been able to find anybody who can confirm that to me i could be wrong in having
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that concern but because i don't know i did that that nominee would scare me i did uh simply because
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i don't know enough about her wow okay um let me uh let me just switch topics and then i'll let you
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go mike on the president came out with a ban on woke capital working with the u.s government um he has
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tried to stop these woke um uh you know hypnotist programs that are that are going on right now in
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critical race theory and we have several branches of the administration that are ignoring his his order
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to not do any of these critical race training theory uh meetings cdc was the first they had uh i think a
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12 or 13 week course uh another one's got a 21 week course that is going on they're just ignoring
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aren't we should people be fired i talked to somebody at the uh omb yesterday and he said well
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we really can't we can't fire people who are directly going against a presidential directive
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that seems wrong to me and first of all i'm very grateful to to the office of management and budget for
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putting out this memorandum last week i had russ vote the head of omb come and speak to the senate
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republicans and uh explained the need for this memorandum look these people are hating america
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on america's dime and it's time to cut off their allowance this is absolutely ridiculous
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now look have we always lived up uh to the lofty ideals that we believe in no we're mortals we're
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imperfect but more than any other society that i know anything about in recorded human history
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we have the ideals we do embrace them and we gravitate over time toward them to shake america's
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foundations to their core to suggest that we don't have those ideals is fundamentally un-american it's
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not helpful it's not what they should be doing and in this case it violates an executive branch
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directive so yeah these people shouldn't be having those courses by the way glenn who does a 13 week
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course on anything within the government let alone a 21 i know these people if if we're doing that much
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time in training on things that that have nothing to do with anyone's job in the federal government
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why do they have a job to begin with i don't know but it's that expendable but if you if you don't fire
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these people um you're going to teach everyone else you can get away with it they'll slap you on the
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wrist they'll make you stop doing it but they're not going to fire you examples need to be made
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that you respond to the duly elected president of the united states you're a part of his administration
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that's exactly right the one thing that the founders had in mind when they designed the
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executive branch of government is that the president of the united states would be the head of the
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executive branch of government they didn't contemplate this byzantine labyrinth this impenetrable
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fortress in which people once inside could never be taken out right uh there are civil service laws
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need to be reformed such that the american people can have a say in who operates their government
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the president needs discretion to take out people who aren't willing to execute and enforce the laws
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according to his directives we need to overhaul our laws in that area going to washington seems like
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hotel california you can check in but you can never leave thank you so much
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drew holton is uh with us he's from the resurgent uh and uh the author of the resurgent
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welcome uh to the uh welcome to the program drew how are you thank you sir i'm doing well glenn how
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you know uh you know i i would i would be better if we didn't have our country on fire on fire right
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now uh and it's a reasonable thing to be concerned right and it seems to me drew and you're great at
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pointing this out it seems to me they are willing to do anything they really i think they mean burn
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the whole thing down yeah i mean you know senator schumer said the other day that all options are on the
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table right and they've floated all of the bad ideas be it during the nominating process and since
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and i i can't help but agree with you so you uh you do what you you do best you took everybody's words
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uh now and then you want to give us some of the uh most stunning
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sure yeah i mean i think up from the start president barack obama was saying just four
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short years ago that it would be irresponsible for the republicans to not consider a nominee before
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one is even announced he has since four years later called on congressional democrats and senate
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democrats to do the exact same thing senator schumer uh another one of our greatest hits he was saying
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the same thing he said you know what the senate has confirmed 17 scotus justices in presidential
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election years the senate should do their job confirm a nominee back when it was a democratic
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nominee right when merrick garland was going to be the one but this was all up and down the ticket i
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mean potential you know the presidential nominee joe biden saying the same thing it would be a genuine
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constitutional crisis to block a potential justice nominee on the court all of those thoughts all of
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that all of that logic has gone entirely out the window uh in the span of four years so i have to tell
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you drew uh stew and i are one of the only two that i know of i know there are more but the only two
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that i know of that actually said give an up or down vote i mean we're consistent with garland even
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though i don't think you need to be uh consistent on these two because there is a difference the senate
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is it was not controlled by the democrats and that's usual for them not to you know honor the uh the the
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nominee exactly and it's not a rubber stamp right i mean i think that's the thing that's kind of lost
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on people is that the role of the senate isn't to vet a candidate and say yep okay here they go they're
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fine we'll let them through it's to it's to vote up or vote down i i agree with you i was i think i was
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saying the same thing back when and said hey you know what fine we don't like the guy vote him down get it
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over with it vote down whoever you want but but have the vote and do it and again this is the old
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this is in a lot of ways it's the old harry reed filibuster play it you think it's going to work for
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you in the short term it makes a lot of sense but in the long term you look like you got a lot of egg
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on your face so i find it interesting how the change in the left here in on tone hillary clinton
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this is the tweet from abc news at the time calls for a full and fair hearing for merrick garland
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in announcing judge merrick garland as his nominee president obama has met his responsibility now
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it's up to the members of the senate to meet their own end quote it seems respectable listen to this
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hillary clinton says senate democrats will have to use every single possible maneuver to prevent
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senator mcconnell from enacting the greatest tragedy a travesty and monumental hypocrisy in attempting to
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fill ruth bader ginsburg's supreme court uh seat i mean the words that the left is using now they are
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just so extreme they they are and you know i think they would be extreme even if the merrick garland
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situation hadn't happened right i think to his credit senator schumer pointed out 17 times we filled
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a supreme court seat in an election year so the idea in general of calling this a monumental hypocrisy
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the greatest travesty is just it's baldly ridiculous but when they were saying the exact opposite just
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four years ago it really does i mean for anyone sitting at home who may still kind of think that
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there are people on the left side of the aisle who are going in good faith to try and do things that
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are in the best interest of the american people rather than politicians who are gunning for power i hope
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this dashes that thinking and this is why drew it seems like you know there's a few conservatives out
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there who have you know a lot of them i like who are kind of trying to propose this this idea that we
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would maybe make a deal with the democrats and tell them well we don't pack the court and then if you
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don't pack the court then we won't put up a nominee and i mean i you know i like i like the sentiment it
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feels good i wish we had a country in which that was appropriate i still push for a nominee but i i wish
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we had a country in which the democrats could be trusted in such a situation but quite clearly we
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don't right yeah i mean you're you're spot on it's it's one of those things where i you know you talk
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about the david french is the jonah goldbergs who are just kind of waiting and hoping that the dems
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will act in good faith and particularly on something like the supreme court i don't know where they've
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been for the last few years i don't know if maybe they haven't been paying attention but i don't know
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how any conservative uh you know with with any electricity going on between the ears could look at the
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kavanaugh situation and say yes i trust these same people to now act in good faith it's like it's a
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schoolyard thing right like this is the sort of thing that you usually learn as a five six seven
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year old when you ask someone not to do something and give something up for it and for some reason
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that that message hasn't hit home for some of these folks it hasn't hit home though i think for a lot
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of democrats too that are you know there's there's a difference between a marxist a progressive a
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liberal and a democrat i've got a lot in common with democrats some things in common with uh liberals
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but they're important things on you know we both agree with the bill of rights once you get into
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progressive and marxist it's a different story but those are the people that are now in charge and it
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it appears as though they just despise america and will destroy it if they have to and destroy it
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because they want to at least the ones that they're listening to and empowering on the streets
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yeah and i think part of it is you know they they feel entirely compelled to have some measure of power
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and control and they're used to they're familiar with having a supreme court and having a justice
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system that by and large is going to is willing to legislate from the bench is willing to carry
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victories and willing to carry water when democrats lose elections or can't get legislation through or
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whatever it is and i think what you're seeing right now this kind of collective freak out on the
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streets is oh no what happens if we lose that what happens if that sort of power and authority goes out
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the window uh and you're right i think there's a lot of people who are willing to truly burn down
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anything um any any institution any value right you're hearing talk about packing the supreme court
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abolishing the electoral college doing away with the filibuster it's anything that could be an
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impediment to that vision of what they think of as a better america can go out the window incredibly
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quickly uh as as soon as they they get threatened there's a great story on the blaze today mike
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bloomberg helps pay court fines for 31,100 florida felons so they can vote but they're all handpicked
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they're they're democrats that they're doing and they're they're uh uh hispanic or blacks they're
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not doing it for whites how is michael bloomberg going to get away with this is he you know to be
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honest with you i'm not confident he is i think if there were another universe in which and you know
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i'm personally i'm i think i'm a pretty big fan of restoring voting rights to felons they've served
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their time but the idea of going through and selecting only the ones who you can confidently
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rely on to vote dem uh one yes i mean i'm sure there's an enormous number of legal challenges i'm
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sure he'll get sued i would be relatively surprised i think if he were to get away with it one and two
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like again it just shows how obviously in bad faith what he's doing is because if what he was really
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concerned about was restoring the rights of felons there's been a lot of great work in florida done
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pushing on that issue there's a lot of ways to do that rather than handpick throughout the voting
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roles of people who you think are going to vote for your team so drew have you war game this out in
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your head how does america come back together after this because we're seeing what the left is doing
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to the voting roles and to uh you know mail out ballots and and things like this in florida we're
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seeing it we know that they are going to be litigating everything um they keep claiming that
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we're trying to throw the election and we're trying to cheat with i guess russia again i don't know what
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it is um but they won't believe a a verdict of trump is president and i don't know unless it's a blowout i
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would believe that this was a fair election how do we come together yeah you know i mean
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my first thought glenn is i think what we need to do is have a really rock solid supreme court with
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nine justices that we can count on whatever happens from the election we're going to need to have a
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supreme court that is able to legislate the outcomes right we've got 50 separate state-based
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elections all of which could end up at the supreme court so i think we need to have an institution that
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people can trust and rely on that has probably as many justices as usually sit on it to be able to
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make that decision one two i think what you're going to need to see and on both sides right i don't
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think this is a uniquely democrat problem but what you're going to need to see is the more trusted
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respected voices within the institution come back and say okay we have we have it we have things we
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have norms we have institutions you're going to need if president trump wins re-election you're going
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to need joe biden and barack obama and nancy pelosi and chuck schumer to get up and say we
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are accepting the results of this election you see that concerns no i mean i think the problem is i
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don't i could see it from maybe biden probably obama um but the idea of trusting someone like
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nancy pelosi or hillary clinton who haven't accepted the results of the 2016 election to come out and say yes
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i trust that this was fair when we have so many more variables at play um i guess the short answer is
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yes i i've war gamed it out no i don't have a good i don't have a good answer for how we can walk
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back from the the abyss we're staring all right thank you very much drew i really appreciate it
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uh god bless it's mine sir you bet and you as well thank you thank you drew holden uh from the research
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long time no see i know it's been too long i know you're i mean you're trapped in california
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you're gonna slide off into the sea at some point uh just in texas pardon me i was just in texas
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actually doing that you know california thing of looking around and saying maybe i should get out
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maybe maybe you haven't been convinced yet what is it now we're first getting out first of all you
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are getting out yeah first of all before we get into uh your spectator which is an awesome column
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uh what is it like right now in california you know it's uh it seems like i was gone for two weeks
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and they i came back and it seems like it's uh settled down a little bit but it feels it's just
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strange you know i went down to the third street promenade to do some shopping and it's just a
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reminder of everything still boarded up lots of places are shut down it was weird to be in arizona
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and texas where things are much more open uh you can just go into restaurants and eat with masks you
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know everybody seemed to be respectful of wearing masks but they also were still just going about
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their lives and coming back here it still feels very uh closed up and uh people it's more the
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interactions with people that are upsetting i feel like everybody's become very suspicious of each other
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and you know in the beginning of the pandemic there was there was that kind of solidarity we were all in
00:26:25.200
this together and it quickly shifted to you know crossing the street hurriedly and making sure that
00:26:31.220
you're you're it's just strange it's a strange not it doesn't feel hospitable and and the homelessness
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is really just staggering that's really the thing that is the most noticeable it seems to just keep
00:26:46.100
getting worse so are californians getting it i mean are they starting to see wow wait these guys
00:26:55.140
maybe not maybe maybe this isn't the best way to uh run a government for a state i don't know you
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know as i've become someone who pays more attention to these things there does seem to be a strange
00:27:10.680
lack of awareness between the people you're voting for and the policies that you're complaining about
00:27:18.300
there i feel and i think with california in particular you'll see people just leave california
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and i always say to californians you know in my little youtube show on dumpster fire i did a whole
00:27:30.360
rant about this i was saying don't take your crappy policies thank you states where they don't have them
00:27:39.000
because it's not you know that's it's a weird disconnect that i don't fully understand so i'm curious to
00:27:45.920
see what happens in these states where they've received the california refugees
00:27:52.100
so you you write in your uh you write in your column almost every democrat who is voting for
00:27:58.640
trump has a personal story about being ostracized shamed or losing a close friend or family member
00:28:02.940
over politics i thought perhaps after hillary's lost uh the left would learn that bullying people
00:28:08.180
tone policing and punishing people for wrong think only turns people off how wrong i was
00:28:14.300
mm-hmm i was very wrong i you know it's what's evidence of me being very wrong is that i'm having
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conversation with you about this and not jake tapper
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you would think they would want to hear from me um being that i'm somebody who is of the left and
00:28:39.240
still lives in a very liberal place where people feel like because i'm so publicly open about my own
00:28:46.100
independent politics that they can confess their true feelings to me so i hear things just even on
00:28:52.980
the ground and from friends that they would never publicly admit to saying and i feel like every
00:28:59.500
single person who wrote me who's voting for trump who was a former democrat which was a surprising
00:29:07.200
number um it leaned by the way the emails probably i have a thousand at this point leaned much more
00:29:15.600
heavily in favor of trump obviously that could be self-selecting based on my audience i anecdotal is
00:29:22.560
is is what it is but it still seemed like a big pattern of people who independence independence i feel
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like vote for more policy they seem to say well i can look aside from his character and i can look at
00:29:39.000
what he's doing on paper with the democrats it's it was personal almost every single person writing me
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had a personal story of i mean people have gotten divorced over this over the politics and the fights
00:29:52.680
and parents have had fallings out with their children their kids aren't talking to them they're not
00:29:58.340
seeing their grandkids this is these were exciting things to read this isn't happened i don't think
00:30:05.660
since the civil war when you know the the split in the family would happen and it really divided the
00:30:12.840
families i mean we've had arguments for a long time with family members but we still got together
00:30:18.120
that's not happening we're we're getting lots of lots of people telling us can't go see my grandkids
00:30:24.780
anymore can't go see my son and daughter can't you know i mean it's nuts yeah it's upsetting that and i
00:30:32.460
see it from the left to the right perspective as well there there are a lot of uh people whose parents
00:30:39.640
have been kind of taken down uh the very far right conspiracy theories that are extremely you know
00:30:47.220
almost in the q anon territory where they're a little bit unreachable and then you see it on the left
00:30:54.140
where the where the you know trump derangement syndrome or whatever you might want to call it
00:30:59.260
um on the right i call it trump devotion syndrome on the left the trump derangement syndrome is is uh
00:31:06.100
very intense and they're they're unreachable so there's just people are truly losing themselves
00:31:14.600
into the tribal instincts and there isn't much because you know unless you're pretty self-aware
00:31:22.880
doing work there there isn't much to stop that process i think once it starts happening and in
00:31:28.520
fact our media and our society is very supportive of that divide and everywhere you're here you'll hear
00:31:35.300
on the left all the time you know breakup you'll see tweets like this all the time i i i stopped talking
00:31:41.040
to my parents i wrote them out i mean that i come from a big huge irish catholic family where everybody
00:31:47.700
was there were lots of different opinions all across the political spectrum there were 10 kids in my dad's
00:31:54.040
family and we it was drilled into us by my grandparents rest in peace they were amazing
00:31:59.940
you do not fight over money or politics blood comes before all of that you just you love each other and
00:32:07.840
have disagreements and yes people would get drunk and the cops would come sometimes but that's a
00:32:13.400
normal irish catholic family yeah right we we still all love each other and we would still make up and
00:32:21.400
we still all have great relationships even if our politics are you know i have i have a very far i have
00:32:29.400
a extremely conservative uncle and i have aunts and uncles who were in the portland protest
00:32:35.560
from protesting and we all still sit down and break bread and love each other that that is where i
00:32:41.360
come from and i i hate seeing this when people talk about the fabric of society starting to shred this is
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where i'm seeing it the most yeah and it's just upsetting and i get i don't think people can understand
00:32:55.860
what happens also when people feel rejected that that feeling of rejection is um radical
00:33:05.360
it can be radicalizing to people if they suddenly feel ostracized or shamed you know they're just
00:33:11.420
little little stories about people at work being being outed or being it's very strange it's it's such
00:33:19.300
a strange i i don't understand that instinct but it's strange for people to be doing that to one
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another as if that couldn't turn around and happen to them i gotta tell you it is it is so bizarre
00:33:33.360
um stew is there any doubt in your mind as conservative as this company is we've we've had
00:33:42.740
progressives we've had people work for if if we had somebody who was like a joe biden supporter
00:33:49.120
is there any doubt in your mind that we would all be cool with that person yeah i mean there's there's
00:33:54.920
i don't understand this outing stuff and the shame and the that's awful that's just an awful people
00:34:01.580
that's a group of awful people um let me go ahead go on oh i just i call it like micro cancellations
00:34:09.380
you know these are we talk a lot about cancel culture just in the discourse and then i think
00:34:15.100
this this evidence of micro cancellations that i'm viewing which is these little ones that are
00:34:20.720
happening all over america in friend groups and in families i don't think we can underestimate
00:34:26.600
that effect the people i hear from who are generally republican voting for biden almost across the
00:34:33.320
board it is a character trump's character that they have the biggest issue with and um some of the
00:34:42.200
corruption and some of the people surrounding him etc with the with the left voting for the right
00:34:47.760
almost every single person has it two things it's being kind of red-pilled by the mainstream media
00:34:56.120
between covid and riots and protests and now even with the saying that the left saying they're gonna
00:35:03.180
get rid of the filibuster and stack the courts and then personal experience of being quote-unquote
00:35:10.360
canceled all right i'm going to continue with bridges phetasy here in just a second i want to play
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an audio clip and and ask you if you think people uh that vote for democrats actually believe this
00:35:26.580
stuff or if they're just tolerating it when he talks about like black lives matter 93 percent of the
00:35:32.760
protests are peaceful the vast overwhelming majority are peaceful and by the way the seven percent that
00:35:38.580
are not they have a very broad definition of what's not quote-unquote peaceful for example if you
00:35:42.640
block traffic or something like that or if you respond to police provocation and even then a big
00:35:48.560
percentage of that which we that wasn't peaceful is actually outside agitators extremist right-wing
00:35:55.120
agitators posing as protesters in order to make the protests look bad that's the first thing
00:36:02.200
i mean we're hearing this line just got me we're we're hearing this all the time from the media that
00:36:13.080
that it's a peaceful no the the protest when they started they were peaceful now they're generally a bunch
00:36:20.880
of white punks that are just destroying things because they can um so they're not peaceful and it's
00:36:27.600
certainly not right-wing uh agents coming in are people do people believe that or you just look at
00:36:35.580
it and roll your eyes i don't i i i don't know i i don't i think it depends on the individual really
00:36:43.320
what what you believe so i've been thinking a lot about this because because i'm hearing from so many
00:36:51.260
people who were behind the idea i think everybody was kind of on board of we need to really look at
00:36:58.760
police brutality and then right things everybody i wonder how didn't do we know what percentage of
00:37:04.960
people actually protested you know how many how many people in america because that means a lot of
00:37:11.420
other people were just observing this going down and still probably supporting but not necessarily
00:37:18.760
oh yeah uh i don't know do you know anybody when that when that first uh killing happened do you know
00:37:26.580
anybody that said no police are always right no no we were united we were united and then somehow or
00:37:34.840
another it was used to divide us yeah i i mean i just i i wonder too um what the biggest problem i'm
00:37:47.180
seeing i do think probably if you look statistically at how many protests there were even little ones
00:37:52.520
the majority of them probably were peaceful and they probably went off without a hitch for the most
00:37:57.840
part i i think i think everything that happened during the day probably was peaceful it was just
00:38:02.720
tonight is that a good metric though like so what if only seven percent were violent like that's not
00:38:08.980
acceptable like if you would spend only seven percent of your days murdering someone you'd still be
00:38:13.940
thought of generally as a murderer i don't think people would be like oh well that one day he went
00:38:18.100
and he helped at the soup kitchen no one cares but i don't think necessarily the seven percent are even
00:38:25.820
voting you know this is something where i do i do think that a lot of the people who are dead are
00:38:32.720
violent and this is where i feel the left has done a very bad job the democratic party in general
00:38:38.020
is that they have not divorced themselves from this extremism and in fact you know for all the talk
00:38:44.240
about carrying water and all this stuff i don't see them pushing back hard enough against that
00:38:50.200
violence and if they have started to it's only because they realize that it's pulling that that they
00:38:55.600
need to but for the most part they've they've accepted it and they've allowed it and
00:39:03.200
encouraged that on cnn encouraged it even if it's out of the side of their mouth even so do you do you
00:39:10.640
think the average person that doesn't pay attention to the news that they know that the democrats were
00:39:16.960
like crazy on this uh i i think the problem is that the average person who doesn't pay attention to
00:39:25.860
the news what little they're getting they can't separate the truth from fiction they can't separate
00:39:32.080
the well no they can't separate the seven percent from the 93 so they are going to look at the news
00:39:37.060
and say wow the left is crazy even even i mean to be fair they are but i don't i don't think the
00:39:47.920
majority i know lots of you know people who are kind of i would call biden liberals and my family who
00:39:55.040
are i was laughing about this the other day because i was on the phone with a family member who's
00:39:59.800
old school biden liberal voting for biden and he was like bridgette i'm very worried about you
00:40:06.520
uh in in the aftermath of the election if trump wins which i think he's going to i think you need
00:40:14.260
to get out of la and i was like so the party that you're voting for is gonna burn my city down if they
00:40:22.260
lose like how do i reconcile this it's logic what did he say did you say that to him
00:40:28.620
yeah of course and he he was kind of laughing but he was saying you know that same thing is that
00:40:34.680
those aren't those people aren't voting this is a pretty but he pays more attention to the news i
00:40:41.040
would say then because these antifa people aren't voting they're whoever it is that the agitate the
00:40:47.540
outside agitators no but you but you have the upper end of the democrats actually supporting this
00:40:53.780
stuff uh and it's it's it's really it's it's a frightening time