Ep. 117 - Kavanaugh Backfiring Big Time on Democrats
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The FBI investigation into the allegations against Brett and Christine Ford appears to have found no evidence of sexual assault. Does that mean that Christine Ford is a liar? Or is this a case of mistaken identity? And if so, who is to blame?
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Well, it looks like we might finally be getting to the end of the Kavanaugh saga.
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The FBI report is done. Will we ever see it? Seems not. But we do know that Democrats
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and Christine Ford's attorneys have already complained that it's unfair, the investigation
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was unfair, yada, yada, yada. They're saying that it's not a legitimate, and this is a huge shock,
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by the way. No one saw this coming. I mean, we all thought that they would
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certainly accept the results, right? That's what we all thought.
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One complaint, I think a really stupid complaint is, well, the FBI didn't interview Christine Ford
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or Brett Kavanaugh. Well, we've already heard from them. They've given their side of the story
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in lengthy interviews in front of the Senate. So all the FBI would do is just ask them the same
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exact questions again, which actually, you know, Ford's attorney should be happy that she wasn't
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interviewed because she's the one with the constantly changing story. So she may not hold up well under
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FBI interrogation. But they did interview all the alleged witnesses and everything so that there's no point
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in them hearing yet again the same story from Kavanaugh and Ford. Instead, okay, they're going to go and
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listen to the alleged witnesses. Let's get their stories. But they don't like that. So I think we can ascertain
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from that that the investigation didn't uncover anything and didn't corroborate Ford's accounts.
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In fact, if it uncovered anything, it just further uncovered the fact that Christine Ford is lying.
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And I just want to underscore that point quickly. I wrote about this yesterday. And, you know, I was
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among those in the early going who I wanted to be gentle with Christine Ford, and I wanted to be
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generous to her, give her the benefit of the doubt as much as possible. And that doesn't mean taking
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her story at face value, because I never did that. You know, smart person, you never should have done
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that. Because there were always holes in the story and so on and so forth. But I thought, okay, maybe,
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and I said this multiple times, you know, I said, maybe she was, maybe she's mistaken, maybe she's
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misremembering. Even as the inconsistencies piled up, I said, like many supporters of Brett Kavanaugh,
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and like Brett Kavanaugh himself, I mean, he said this himself on multiple occasions, that maybe
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something bad did happen to her. And she's just conflating. She's, she's misconstruing, accidentally
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conflating one thing with another, injecting Brett Kavanaugh into it accidentally. Maybe that's, that's what I
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thought. That's, that's what I mean by giving her the benefit of the doubt. But I think now, now that
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we've seen all this play out, and we've seen the evidence, or lack thereof, or really, we've seen
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the evidence, which all comes down in Kavanaugh's favor, I think we have to stop being so gentle about
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it, and say what is now very difficult to avoid, what I think is a plain reality, which is that Christine
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Ford is a liar. She may still have been victimized at some point, in some form, at some point in her
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life. And, and if, if that's the case, then I feel badly for her, for that abuse, if she ever did suffer
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it at some point. But it's just not possible anymore for someone, for a rational person to say,
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to theorize that this may all be a case of mistaken identity. Somebody, somebody is a liar here. Somebody
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is a straight up liar. And to me, it seems very clear that that person is Christine Ford.
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And that's the, there's a reason why Rachel Mitchell, who's the sex crimes prosecutor hired by
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the Republicans, there's a reason why she wrote that lengthy memo we talked about a few days ago,
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where she said she didn't find the story credible at all. There are too many gaps, and not just gaps,
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but the gaps are far too convenient that she can't remember specific, she specifically can't remember
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any of the details that may exonerate Ford or, or, or, or may confirm that she, any of the details that
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could confirm or disprove her claim, she can't remember any of those conveniently. She also can't
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remember the things that she did and said even a few months ago. So here's the thing. If her memory
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is really that terrible, that she can't remember anything, even, even things that happened in the
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last month or two. Well, in that case, if her memory is that bad, I have a bad memory. Okay. I know that I
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have a bad memory. That's one thing I remember is having a bad memory. If her memory is really bad,
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and it seems like her memory would be worse than mine. If, if this really isn't a memory issue,
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then she knows that her memory is bad, which means she knows that she cannot speak with absolute
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certainty about something that happened 35 years ago. So even in that case, even if most of this is
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a memory issue, uh, we still have, she said it was, she's a hundred percent sure it was Kavanaugh,
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but if her memory is that bad, then she knows that she can't possibly be 100% sure. So at a minimum,
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that's a lie. And it's a big one. Um, but, uh, but it's more than that Ford story has changed over
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and over again. And it's changed in a way that's not, that is, that is not just haphazard. It's
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changed in ways that seem calculated and targeted, uh, to kind of get around Kavanaugh's defenses.
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So if we're going to absolve her of all dishonesty at this point, then we have to believe
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that her memory lapses are coincidentally convenient and the gaps in her story are
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coincidentally convenient and the changes in her story are coincidentally convenient. Um,
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and not only that, but it's also coincidentally convenient that all of the, the witnesses that
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she claims have also suffered amnesia, uh, around the same kinds of events. Then there's
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Ford's ex-boyfriend who came out, issued a sworn statement claiming that, uh, Ford coached her
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friend on how to pass a lie detector test, claimed that Ford flew recreationally all the time, which
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would seem to dispel the notion that she has this fear of flying. Ford never once mentioned any sexual
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assault, despite having dated him for years. Now on the, on the lie detector thing, the, the friend
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that Ford supposedly coached did come out the next day and denied, denied it, but notice something.
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First of all, she denied it to the press. She didn't deny it under oath. Second, and I'm not saying
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it's true, but she has to deny it because if she admitted that she was coached on how to pass a lie
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detector test when going for this, whatever government job, she would lose her job and she
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could even go to jail. So she can't, she has no, if it happened, she has no choice, but to deny it.
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But the real significance, uh, I think of her boyfriend's testimony
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is that it is just another person who denies or refutes elements of Ford's story.
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So if Ford isn't lying, it means that her ex-boyfriend is lying. It means that Kavanaugh is
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lying. It means Mark judge is lying. And it means two other witnesses as well are either suffering
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selective amnesia or are lying. So it's five against one. Okay. And that one five against one. And the one
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is a very, very lonely one. You know, one is a lonely number, especially for Ford, because think
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about what it's only one. And that means that not even her parents or other family members or other
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friends, nobody has come forward to vouch for any aspect of her story at all. And in fact, I think the
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silence of the people around her is so deafening and so noticeable and so peculiar that it almost
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counts as yet another witness against her. Um, so she's lying. Where did the lie originate? Where
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did it begin? Why did it begin? You know, why would she lie about that? That's a question we hear a lot
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is, well, why, why would somebody lie about something like this? Uh, well, I, I don't know.
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We can only speculate. And it's actually, it's not that hard to speculate. It's not that hard to
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believe that somebody could lie about something like this. Number one, because we know people lie
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about this kind of stuff. And we can go through all the examples, Duke lacrosse, Rolling Stone,
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Lena Dunham, uh, all that stuff. We could, we could go through all the examples of, uh, of false rape
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accusations. But, but, but even before that, we, we, we know why people lie, right? Because we've all
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told lies. So you, you know why people lie. Um, now hopefully you haven't told any lies as big as,
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as this or as damaging as this, but you still told lies. And I think that small lies and big lies
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generally have the same kinds of motivations behind them. So people lie. Why do people lie? Why do you
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lie? Why have you told lies? Uh, well, you've lied to gain some sort of advantage. Uh, you've lied to
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get attention. You've lied to maybe hurt other people that you dislike. Again, hopefully not to
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this degree, but still to some degree or another. Um, and then sometimes people lie inexplicably.
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They, there are times when people lie for no reason that you can even ascertain. And then it,
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and then it snowballs from there. So I think any or all of these could explain Christine Ford.
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You, you, you really can't know. I mean, I could, if we're left to speculate and she's the one who's
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left us to speculate by throwing this out there with all the inconsistencies, not even not, there are
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some things she could offer us to give a little bit of evidence, like her therapist notes. Well,
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she doesn't want to give us those. So she's left us to speculate. If I had to guess or come up with
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some theory, I could, I don't know, but I could see maybe hypothetically a situation where, um,
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where she originally brought this up in couples therapy. There's some, there's some oddness with
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the couples therapy stuff, because she said that, that, uh, she was in couples therapy because of
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a remodel of the home. And specifically because she wanted a second front door,
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which has to do with her fear from the sexual assault. Yet apparently the, she was in couples
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therapy in 2012. The remodel of the home was in 20, 2008. So four years later, she's going to really,
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I mean, four years later, you're still, you're, you're, you're, your relationship is still suffering
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from the remodel and you have to go. I don't know. Um, what's the connection between another front
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door and sexual assault? Well, apparently they were, uh, they were hosting interns, um, I think
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from Google or something. And so they had interns and young men in the house that they were having
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in the house. And so she wanted another front door so that they weren't traipsing through the house
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because she was afraid of, um, the interns sexually assaulting her. And so she wanted to get them
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another front door. That's the story she tells. Well, that's kind of weird though, right? Because
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if you really are that paralyzed with fear that one of these guys might sexually assault you,
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why are you hosting them in your home in the first place? It seems like that's,
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it seems like the argument would be if you're, if your husband wanted to have the interns,
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the argument would be, no, I don't want them. Not let's get a second front door. But anyway,
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you could, if you needed to speculate, you could see a situation maybe where this,
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where she started to kind of spin the story in couples counseling for one reason or another.
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Um, and it snowballed from there. We can't see the therapist notes. I think the reason why
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we can't see the therapist notes is that the story is significantly different. The story she told her
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therapist is significantly different from the story she's telling us now. Um, including we're told she
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didn't tell the therapist, the name of the person. I think she may very well have said to the therapist,
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I don't remember who it was, something like that. Um, so she could have started spitting the yarn then
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and, uh, and it kind of just snowballed from there. So there are all kinds of, of situations,
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but that, that, that doesn't matter. Um, the why doesn't matter. It's the what that matters.
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And it also matters that Democrats know that Ford story is not credible. Whatever they say,
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they know that it's not credible. They know it as well as you and I do. Yet they played this hand
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anyway. And, and I think ultimately it backfires on them because here's what's happened.
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This Democrats have overplayed their hands, their hand significantly here. They have unmasked
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themselves at the worst possible time because think about it. They, they, they're, they were
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headed into the midterms. They were looking pretty good. They were sitting in a pretty spot. Um,
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because obviously their base hates Trump hates Republicans. So they were counting on a good
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turnout. Meanwhile, conservatives and, and Republicans have been fighting with, we've all been fighting
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with each other for several years now. Uh, many, many conservative Republicans are feeling kind of
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drained of energy, somewhat despondent, right? Fighting amongst ourselves, bickering, drained,
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despondent. I mean, all these things, that's not a good recipe for voter turnout. It's a great recipe
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for Democrats, not a good recipe for Republicans, but then Democrats come along at the last minute here,
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they take off the mask, they reveal their fangs and they pounce like wild animals on an innocent man and
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his family. And I think that's caused most conservatives to look at that and, and, and,
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and to rally together, unite again in many ways and to, uh, and to refocus on the real opponent.
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And there are polls and surveys that bear this out, but I don't even need the polls and surveys. I,
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this is just a sense. I think if you're a public conservative or Republican, you probably have
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sent this census as well. There's just this sense now of, uh, of a more cohesive unity
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among conservatives than there's been in a long time. And that's, we have the Democrats to thank for
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that. Because I think a lot of people have looked at this and said, wow, I mean, these people are
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evil. We got to do whatever we can to keep them out of power, uh, that they would stoop this low. I
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mean, sometimes it's easy to lose sight of that. Sometimes to lose sight of just how evil the
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Democrats are, how dishonest, but they have helpfully reminded us of the fact and given us
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such a startling illustration of it right now, right, right before the midterms. So I don't know
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what's going to happen in the midterms, but I think this was a, a terrible strategy on their part.
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They could have, they could have thrown out these unsubstantiated allegations and just throw them
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out there. And then they could rally their base a little bit around that, uh, and kind of exploit
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the me too movement even more than they already have and rely, kind of rely on that to gin up more
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interest among their, among their voters and, and kind of left it there. But the way that they have
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not let go, and even now they won't let go, um, it's, it's backfired big time. So we'll see what
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happens, but I, I'm sensing a certain unity again that, um, I haven't seen in a very long time,
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which you might say is a little bit of the silver lining, but I hesitate to speak of silver linings when
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you consider, uh, what's happened to Kavanaugh and his family. Um, so there's nothing that will
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make that worth it. All right. Thanks for watching everybody. Thanks for listening. Godspeed.