Ep. 569 - Establishment Conservatives Craft A Plan For Defeat
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In the wake of Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg's death, some conservatives argue that it would be unprincipled to flip the court. Also: Chris Cuomo gives a Constitution lesson to CNN's Don Lemon, and the entire country of Japan is canceled.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Republicans have the chance to flip the Supreme Court,
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rescue it from the clutches of left-wing radical activist judges, and potentially save millions of
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unborn lives in the process. But some so-called conservatives are arguing that it would be
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unprincipled for Republicans to take advantage of that opportunity. We'll talk about that. Also,
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five headlines, including Chris Cuomo giving a constitution lesson to Don Lemon on CNN last
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youtube.com slash Matt Walsh. Okay. Now, I have never much liked the phrase establishment
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conservative. Establishment brings to mind something like an actual cabal or cartel of Republicans
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meeting in secret smoky rooms, hatching dastardly plans. I think the actual reality of the
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establishment conservative so-called does not involve cabals or secret rooms, certainly not smoky
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secret rooms. There's less of a conspiracy and more of a, of a mutual instinct to shrink away from
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serious ideological fights and to protect one's reputation by acting and speaking in a way that
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will not offend the sorts of people that these sorts of people want to be admired by. All of that said,
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I will, I will use establishment conservatives today. Just, just for lack of a better term may
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not be the best description, but it is succinct at any rate. So we'll use it. And so I can report
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that establishment conservatives seem to finally be getting on the same page in the week, in the wake
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of justice Ginsburg's death. They've, they've tried desperately to think of a way to take these
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winning cards we've been dealt and lose the hand anyway. And that's what they're very good at doing.
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They all, it seems have come up with the same plan. So here's Jonah Goldberg in the LA times.
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I'll read a little bit of this. He says towards the end of his piece, he says,
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what some now dismiss as politics and posturing are actually important considerations that honor the
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conservative distinction between can and should and fall under such antiquated notions as statesmanship,
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prudence, legitimacy, consistency, and precedent. These concepts put maintaining the long-term health
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of our institutions above the demands of the moment. Take Senator Lindsey Graham, who promised
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in 2016 that if an opening were to come up in the last year of president Trump's term,
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a nominee would not be considered until after the election. By going back on that promise in such
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spectacular fashion, he's not merely debasing himself. He's also teaching people that nothing
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politicians say matters. By the way, is there, is there anyone over the age of 12 who needs to be
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taught that lesson? Really? You mean politicians will lie? I had no idea. Scandalized. Anyway,
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he continues, moreover, merely on the level of real politic, abandoning all considerations other
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than what you can get away with amounts to preemptive disarmament for the wars to come.
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The pernicious logic of apocalyptic politics works on the assumption that the long-term doesn't matter,
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but the long-term always becomes now eventually. This is why the Senate could use some posturing in
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politics right now. Republicans have the ability to replace Ginsburg before the election or
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immediately after in a lame duck session. That is a huge bargaining chip. And given that the GOP's
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majority is so slim, it's a chip that can be traded even by even a handful of Republican senators.
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So here's the deal that he proposes. A few Republicans could agree to postpone the process
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until after the election in exchange for a few Democrats agreeing never to vote for a court-packing
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scheme. This would give voters some buy-in for whatever happens next. Okay. Did you get that?
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The plan here is for Republicans to choose not to vote on a justice, as long as Democrats pinky
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promise, really pinky promise, okay, like super serious, to never pack the court in the future.
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David French in Time agrees. He says, what can be done? An increasing number of center-right legal
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scholars, including the American Enterprise Institute's Adam White and George Mason Law School,
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Professor Ilya Soman, are proposing a variant of an approach best summed up as make them keep their
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word. It goes something like this. First, Trump makes his pick. Second, the Senate applies the Schumer
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principle and gives the nominee a hearing. This will have the benefit of giving the American people a more
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complete picture of the qualifications and philosophy of the nominee, and thus the stakes of the
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presidential election. Third, then, the Senate then applies the Graham-Rubio-Cruz rule and does not vote
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before the election. If Trump wins, they then vote on the nominee. Now, there have been other articles in
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Reason, the Bulwark, others have echoed this same plan. Republicans declined to confirm a nominee,
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which, you know, confirming a nominee would potentially flip the court in favor of constitutionalism
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in the process, save millions of lives, declined to do that and returned the Democrats' promise with
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all their heart and souls to never pack the court. Now, the problems with this plan are, I think,
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obvious, but let's discuss them anyway. First of all, we should emphasize this again. There is
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absolutely no reason whatsoever to not confirm Trump's picks, okay? This is not even a problem that
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we need to be thinking about. There is nothing whatsoever strange or outrageous or controversial
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about a duly elected president putting forth a judicial nominee and duly elected senators confirming
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or not confirming that nominee. This is what they were elected to do. There is no reason not to do it.
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French and Goldberg and the others, they go on and on about principle and how somehow, in some way,
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it violates principle for the president and the Senate to perform their constitutional duties.
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This is nonsense. It is abject nonsense. The only thing it potentially violates is what some of them
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said in 2016. Well, so what? Who cares? Some Republicans made a bad argument for not holding a
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vote for Garland. They said that, you know, they shouldn't do it because there's an election coming up.
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That was a bad argument. That was a dumb argument. They should have said they aren't going to vote
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because they refuse to allow another activist on the court and they have the constitutional authority
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to prevent it, and so they will. And they also, and they could have pointed out, they also have
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the mandate from their constituents demanding that they prevent it. That's what they should have said.
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Instead, they made a bad, stupid argument. Are they now, because of principle, required to live by
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that bad argument forever? If you do the right thing, but you justify it with faulty reasoning,
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are you now required to live by that faulty reasoning for the rest of your natural life?
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If I save a kitten from getting run over and someone asks me why I saved it and I say,
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well, because it's Tuesday, does that mean that from then on I must allow kittens to be run over
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on Wednesday and Thursday? Or should I just continue saving the kittens even if my initial reasoning for
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doing it must be adjusted or abandoned? Now, that was a weird analogy, granted, but I think it works.
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Even if it doesn't work, it just demonstrates my point about faulty reasoning.
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Second point, we cannot make a deal like this with Democrats because it relies on Democrats keeping
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their word. Not just their word, but future Democrat politicians have to honor the word of previous
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ones. The thing is, I wouldn't trust Democrats to honor their word, period, but I wouldn't even expect
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them to honor the word of some other Democrats from years ago. I couldn't even blame them for breaking
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that word. I just, I can't believe that men like French and Goldberg really think that a plan like
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this is feasible or plausible or coherent. It's like if a guy has taken 10 hostages and he's
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demanding $10 million and a plane ride out of the country. So you give him the $10 million and the
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plane and you tell him to take the hostages with him. But when he gets wherever he's going, he has
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to promise to let them go. Yeah, that's not a deal. That's not a negotiation. That's not a compromise.
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That's just simply giving the other side everything they could ever want. And in this case,
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it would be like doing it when the hostage taker has no gun and no bomb. You have all the ammo.
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You hold all the cards. They can't even say, and yet you still give them everything you want.
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This is what passes for principle among some on the right. It is so weak and limp and pathetic that
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I can almost feel my testosterone levels dropping as I read some of these pieces. Now, here's what we
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must understand about Democrats, okay? They say that conservatives are racist, fascist Nazis in league
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with the Klan. And they say that conservatives want to control women and remove their autonomy and
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enslave them like the Handmaid's Tale. And the thing is, they really believe it, or at least they act as
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if they do. And what that means is that they're going to do everything in their power and tell any lie
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they need to tell in order to stop those oppressive, woman-enslaving, neo-Nazi savages.
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That's why the Kavanaugh hearings went the way they did. They could act to destroy this man,
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destroy his family, slander him, defame him, ruin him. And they could feel entirely justified and
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noble every step of the way. After all, they're up against Nazis, remember? Wouldn't you accuse a Nazi
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of gang rape if that's what you needed to do in order to stop him from seizing power? Of course,
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the difference is that Republicans aren't actually Nazis. So that's all a bunch of hysterical bulls**t.
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On the other hand, Democrats are actually infanticidal radicals who believe that it's
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morally acceptable to dismember a fully developed infant and throw the pieces into a dumpster.
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That is the truth. They really believe that. That is their real-life position. And they want a court
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that reflects it and shares it and advances it. What that means is that the ruthlessness they show
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when it comes to the Supreme Court or anything else is not morally justified because the basis for it
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is false and their actual objectives are evil. But for Republicans, it is morally justified to do
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whatever must be done within the bounds of the law to stop them. The basis for our actions is not false.
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It is really true. That is what we're up against. And you are not a principled conservative unless you
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are willing to look into that darkness, confront it, acknowledge it, and fight it with all you have.
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That's Thinker.org. Okay, let's get to our five headlines. I just saw this come across my desk.
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Didn't really come across my desk. I just like to phrase it that way. That Mitt Romney has announced
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that he will vote, that he's in favor of voting on a nominee before the election. I guess there are
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people who are surprised by that. They thought that, you know, would Romney be one of the squishes
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who said we should wait till after the election? I'm not surprised by it at all, actually, because you
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have to understand Mitt Romney is a senator from Utah. He represents Utah. And if you know anything
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about Utah, the voters in Utah, extremely socially conservative, they are not going to tolerate the
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guy who represents them standing in the way of potentially flipping the court in favor of pro-life
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and conservatism. That was just not going to happen. So Romney really has no choice,
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which is a credit to the voters in Utah. But we still have a long way to go because right now the
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votes are lined up, but Democrats have barely even begun to launch their assault on Trump's nominee,
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who hasn't even been officially named yet. And so we'll see. Right now they've got whatever,
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53 votes. We'll see if all those Republicans hold the line. I think Romney will, no matter what,
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because like I said, I don't think he has a choice. His, his, his, his base, his voters in Utah won't
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tolerate other, other senators like Susan Collins. We'll see. Okay. Just to give you an idea, we move
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on to number one here, just to give you an idea of how bad the bias is in media. Here's a conversation
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between Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo last night, where Cuomo is the sane and rational one in the dialogue.
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Listen, if the Democrats were in control of the Senate right now and Trump was president and he
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wanted to nominate a justice, what do you think they'd say? Well, I think they do the same thing
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they did in 2016. They, they do it. That's what they did. That's my point. That's why nobody cares
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what the Democrats are saying. No, no, no, no, no. I think they do exactly what they did in 2016.
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You can say what you want about Democrats. Democrats usually wet the bed. They're not as strategic.
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You think they give Trump a justice after what happened with Merrick Garland? I think if they,
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if yes, I think they do abide by, well, it's different because it's different because Democrats
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did not make the promise. So you keep comparing things that aren't equal. Democrats did not make
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the same promise in 2016. It wasn't a promise. Democrats are on the other side. They said,
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it wasn't a promise. It was a BS rationale to explain what they were doing to deprive him of power.
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Semantics. They didn't allow the, the, the, his nominee to go through. They wouldn't even have a
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hearing. They said, we're not going to do it. So that wasn't Democrats doing that. That was
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Republicans doing it. And if you come on this side, I don't know what Democrats would do.
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Democrats back in 2016. It would not mean that they were being hypocritical if they did it.
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Okay. So you see, uh, he, the dude really claimed there that Democrats, if they were in control,
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would allow Trump's nominee to go through. They would cooperate with Trump and play fair.
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Lemon says that's, that's, that's what we're getting. So we're just, we're just pretending that they,
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that they didn't try to stop a Trump nominee by accusing him of serial gang rape. By the way,
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Republicans stopped an Obama nominee by not holding a vote, which is an authority and power
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they had legally. Democrats stopped or tried to stop a Republican nominee by orchestrating a smear
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campaign and accusing him of being a, the ringleader of a gang of teenage rapists. Okay. One of those
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methods is an assault on the rule of law and norms and decency. The other is not. And, uh, you know,
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I'll let you guess which is which later in the same conversation to make matters worse. Cuomo had
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to explain the constitution to Don Lemon. He, Cuomo had to become the constitutional scholar in the
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conversation. Watch. No matter what happens, everybody sticks. We're going to have to blow
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up the entire system. And you know what we're going to have to do? I don't know. You know what we're
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going to have to do? You just got to honestly, from what your closing argument is, you're going to
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have to get rid of the electoral college because the people, I don't see it because the minority in
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this country decides who the judges are and they decide who the president is. Is that fair?
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A constitutional amendment to do that. And if Democrats, if Joe Biden wins, Democrats can sack
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the courts and they can do that amendment and they can get it passed. Well, you need two thirds vote
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in the Congress and three quarters of the state legislature. They may be able to do that. Maybe.
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Yeah. It's pretty clear from that conversation there that Don Lemon really thought that just by
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taking what, if, if, if Democrats had just a simple majority in the Senate, they could amend the
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constitution. That's all it would require. Uh, a profoundly stupid individual is
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Don Lemon. Um, and also a partisan dishonest hack on top of it. That's, that's, that's tough break
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when you're, you know, stupid as well as incredibly dishonest, which is why for me, it's like, I,
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that's why I figure I know I'm stupid. So I might as well try to be honest. Like I got to have
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something going for me at least. Let's go to number two. Uh, Alan DeGeneres was back on the air
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yesterday and her opening monologue, she addressed all of the accusations that, uh, have been circling
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around out there that she's a monstrous sociopath who mistreats everybody around her.
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And here she is addressing it. As you may have heard this summer, there were allegations of a
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toxic work environment at our show. And then there was an investigation. I learned that things
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happened here that never should have happened. I take that very seriously. And I want to say,
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I am so sorry to the people who were affected. I know that I'm in a position of privilege and power.
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And I realized that with that comes responsibility. And I take responsibility for what happens at my
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show. This is the Ellen DeGeneres show. I am Ellen DeGeneres. My name is there. My name is on underwear.
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We have had a lot of conversations over the last few weeks about the show,
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our workplace and what we want for the future. We have made the necessary changes. And today
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we are starting a new chapter. Yeah, I have to say less than inspiring. Um, I, I, you know,
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I, I felt like she was just taking whatever BS spiel she gave to the staff during the staff meeting,
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you know, when they first got together and repeating it here. Also the whole idea that
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she found out about bad things that happened is obviously bogus because the whole controversy
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and scandal was that she was the one doing the bad thing. So she's claiming that she,
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she found out about the things that she herself was allegedly doing. Now you could always say,
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of course, that you don't believe all these stories about Ellen DeGeneres. And, um, I fully agree that
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false accusations do happen, but there is a certain point, right? Where, you know, I mean,
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dozens of people who, who have worked with you and have been around you are all saying the same
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things about you and telling the same kinds of stories. There's a point where there's no plausible
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reason to disbelieve it. And then what's also conspicuous is that all these people coming out,
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some on the record, some off the record saying Elle DeGeneres is just an absolute sociopath and is
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horrible to everybody. And all of that, uh, like you can't even look her in the eyes when she walks down
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the hallway, that kind of thing. There's really, there was really nobody, very, very few people
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coming out in defense of her and saying, no, you know what? This is crazy. She's a wonderful person.
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Very few people saying that. And that's, that really, you know, that's, that's an indication
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that there's an issue when everyone who's ever been around you agrees that you're a scumbag and
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almost no one who's been around you will say otherwise. Well, you know, I think probably
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we can draw some conclusions at that point. Number three from the daily wire, uh, it says NBA superstar,
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LeBron James claims that the votes of black people do not matter in America,
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noting that he's seen recounts and apparent suggesting that black votes have been intentionally
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voided in his lifetime. Um, James said black people in the community don't believe that their vote
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matters. And he was explaining why he was apathetic about voting when he was younger. We grow up and
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don't think that our vote actually matters. It doesn't. We've seen recounts before we've seen our
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voices be muted our whole lives. And then he goes on from there. Yes. Uh, LeBron James,
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superstar, mega celebrity. I mean, everything he says is headline news, but his voice is being muted.
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LeBron James's voice is being muted. Let me, let me just ask LeBron at this point. Um,
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maybe you could just tell us LeBron, how much attention do you need the whole world to pay to you?
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Before you will agree that you're not being oppressed. Like how much is needed? Because
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right now, do you need to, I guess my question is, do you actually need everyone in the world to,
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to do nothing with their lives, but listen to you and talk about you? Is that what you require in
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order to not be oppressed anymore? Because apparently being a multimillionaire, mega, super famous
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celebrity, that's not enough. So just, just let me know what you, what you need. Do you need all of
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the fame and all of the money in the entire world in order to, because if so, just let us know LeBron,
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because this, the world is here for you. That's, that's why we all exist is simply for you.
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And so all you have to do is let us know what you need and we'll be here for you.
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Yeah. I mean, nothing, nothing irresponsible or reckless about that. Right. Though, by the way,
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a, you know, LeBron James claiming that black people's votes are being discarded or thrown out or
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no basis for that whatsoever. He's just making that up. So he says that he goes out saying that
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we're being hunted in the street, no basis for that either. But all of the, uh, all of the, the
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requisite, uh, chaos and anarchy and everything that, that, that comes from false narratives like
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this. LeBron's not susceptible to any of that. He's, he's protected from that behind his, his gated
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house in his mansion. So he doesn't care. Great guy that LeBron James. Number four, AOC,
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Alexandria Queza Cortez has a message that, um, I actually agree with. This may be the first thing
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she's ever said that I agree with. Listen, I'm sorry to tell you, you're not going back to brunch.
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We're not going back to brunch. That's not happening. I have to say, I could not agree more.
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Um, I don't think anybody should be going to brunch. I agree with her. Brunch is for cowards
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who don't want to step up and choose between lunch or breakfast. I've always said that,
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you know, it's no wonder that women brunch is very popular with women. What does that tell you?
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Because women are notorious for, for being totally unable to make food related decisions. And so they
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invented this brunch thing because they can't even decide what meal they want to have. If you're
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having brunch, then that means it's a time, you know, it's what, what brunch is going to be 10,
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10 o'clock, 11 o'clock. So that, that's a time when you could, you could either be having a late
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breakfast or an early lunch. And I think it's up for you to have some conviction and decide.
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And FYI, if you have to choose between lunch and breakfast, always choose breakfast. I think that
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I think, I think we can all agree on that. Number five, the Emmys happened on Sunday,
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hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. Um, I didn't watch the show. Uh, I was going to watch it, but then somebody
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offered to come to my house and stab me in the jaw with a rusty screwdriver instead. And I just thought
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that that was a much more appealing way to spend my time. And it just so happens that there's no
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shortage of people who would be willing to stab me in the jaw with a rusty screwdriver. So it kind
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of works out. So I didn't watch it, but I did, uh, there was one segment from the show that caught
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my eye after the fact, as it's been making the rounds online. This is a, I guess supposed to be
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a comedy bit between host Jimmy Kimmel and actor Anthony Anderson. But the cringe factor here is off
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the charts. Watch. Before we announce the nominees, you know, I have a few things that, uh, I'd like to
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say. You do? Yes, I do. Because in rehearsal, I thought we decided that we're just going to- You
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know, we have a record number of black Emmy nominees this year, which is great. This is the part where
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the white people start to applaud. Oh. And nod. Oh. Thank you, Jimmy. All right. These Emmys would
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have been all-star. These Emmys would have been NBA All-Star Weekend and Wakanda all wrapped in one.
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This was supposed to be the blackest Emmys ever. Y'all wouldn't have been able to handle how black it
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was going to be. But because of COVID, we can't even get in the damn building. This isn't what it
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should have been, Jimmy. But, but you know what? I'm still rooting for everybody black because black
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black stories, black performances, and black lives matter. Say it with me, Jimmy. Black lives
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matter. Louder, Jimmy. Black lives matter. Louder, Jimmy. Say it so that Mike Pence can hear it.
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Black lives matter. That's right. And because black lives matter, black people will stay at home
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tonight to be safe, which is fine because guess what? Y'all don't know how to light us anyway.
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No. Jimmy, I'm glad I got that off my chest. I am too. I am too. Yeah. I'm glad you did. I'm,
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I'm, I'm, I'm appreciative that you've given me a safe space to say this from. No, it's my pleasure.
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You know that. Yes. Uh, could you scoot over so I can stand on this star? Okay. Yes, I will.
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Bring out. All right. Yes. That was the most uncomfortable thing I've ever seen in my life. It was,
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it was, it was cringe comedy, but not in a good way. Cringe comedy minus the comedy,
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just pure cringe all the way down. What was the comedy supposed to be exactly?
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This is the ritual humiliation of a neutered white man. Now I admit sort of grotesquely
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fascinating to watch in a certain way, but not really funny. Now, if this wasn't the Emmys,
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you know, if this was, we know this isn't the case in the Emmys, but if it wasn't the Emmys,
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I might think that this was supposed to be a parody of BLM and its constant demands for pledges
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of allegiance and a parody of the pathetic little puppy dogs like Kimmel who bark on command as
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they're told. But I don't think it, it is a parody. Um, I think it's, it's just exactly what we've
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been seeing. In fact, there was another example of it. Uh, we've seen these, you know, mobs of BLM
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people walking down the road and demanding that, you know, diners at restaurants put up the black
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power fist and all of that. Here was another recent example from a few days ago. Um, let's,
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Black lives matter. You put the fist up and you gotta say black lives matter.
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Yeah. Say black lives matter, homie. Say black lives matter right now. Black lives matter.
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Say black lives matter, bro. You didn't, I didn't hear. Okay. Let him talk. Let him talk. Let
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all right. Thank you. Yeah. That was in Portland, I believe, of course. And that dude, he got his
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truck smashed anyway. Apparently he did what he was told. And then he came out and the truck
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was still smashed. He performed the choreography, dance, the jig, jump through the hoops, and
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they still went after him anyway. That's the way it goes. Cause that's the way it always
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goes. And when I say that's the way it always goes, I mean, I'm talking about going back through
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history. Okay. Way before BLM, this is how evil oppressors always operate. This is one of the
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hallmarks of oppressors is that they demand pledges of allegiance, displays of fealty,
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whether sincere or not. One of the most common things that tyrants do is that they, they, they,
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they need you to at least pretend. They need you to say the words and perform the actions.
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Your purse, because your personal views are irrelevant to them. They don't care about that. It's your
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submission they want. So BLM is following this script and there's a lot of historical precedent
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for it. None of it good, but there's a lot of it. On the other hand, you know, you notice how
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you never see gangs of, of pro-lifers at the March for Life. You never see them gathering around
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someone and demanding that the person express their support for the pro-life cause. That never happens
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because pro-lifers really care about their professed cause and their professed cause is saving babies
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and coerced statements of, of, of support from people who are scared of, you know, getting their
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asses kicked by a mob of angry people that does nothing to advance the cause of saving babies.
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Now for BLM, Antifa, et cetera, the real cause is control and coerced statements of support really do
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advance that cause. And they would advance it no matter what the statement was. Doesn't even matter
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what it is. They might as well demand that you do the Macarena or, you know, saying she'll be coming
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around the mountain. It doesn't, it doesn't matter what you're doing or what it is. They say, oh,
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say Black Lives Matter, put up the fist. That doesn't even make a difference. The whole point is simply
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to train you to do what they say. And that's it. That's all they want. All right, let's get to our
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daily cancellation. Okay. This will be a quick one today. I just need to cancel Japan real quick.
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Just, just get in, cancel Japan, get out. I don't think I'll need more than three minutes to cancel
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a whole country. It's, it's that easy. Japan today, Japan today is being canceled for this.
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We'll play the footage for you. There it is. Now this is a giant robot that they're building in Japan.
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I'm told this is a life-sized Gundam. I have no idea what a Gundam is. I assume that's Japanese
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for spectacular waste of money. I don't know. Now you can see here, all the things this robot can
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do. And by all the things, I mean, it can, it can give a thumbs up. It can move its arms.
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It can kneel. Even giant robots pander to Black Lives Matter, apparently. But, but that's all it
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can do. It can't fly. It can't shoot lasers. It can't do anything else. Now I ask you, what the
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hell function will a giant 60 foot robot that gives a thumbs up serve? Well, I'll tell you what the
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function is. It serves the function of Japan being able to say to the world, Hey guys, look at this
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thing that we did. And the world goes, Oh, cool. And that's it. That's the whole purpose.
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Think of how many man hours went into this. How many people worked on it? There are people who
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spent years going to work to build this. Okay, honey, I'm off to work to buy the, to build the
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giant robot today. All right. Hey, by the way, has anyone explained to you why you're doing that?
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Uh, no, I guess not. They haven't explained. I have no idea. Now people online are saying that
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Japan is going to take over the world with its giant robots. They're saying that we should be
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shaking in our tiny boots as we behold the future of warfare. No. Do you realize how utterly useless
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this hunk of metal would be in the context of modern warfare? First of all, you could easily knock
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it over with a missile from a fighter jet. That would be it. Probably a strong wind would do it.
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And then it will crash down and crush whatever happens to be underneath it.
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Speaking of crushing things, where would you use this robot? You couldn't use it to defend your
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own cities because you just ended up destroying as many buildings as you save, which if you recall
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was a major problem in Power Rangers. Are you going to try to launch some sort of foreign invasion
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with these things? The enemy would see you coming literally from a mile away, lumbering along at the,
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you know, the speed of two miles an hour in your giant tin cans. A few missiles later and all of
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your robots are splayed out on the ground like really expensive dominoes. You know where this
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would come in handy? If you were, say, laying siege to a fortress in medieval Europe. I could see it
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being useful in that setting. But unfortunately, Japan is about 600 years too late for that. It would
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also be useful in the Star Wars universe, where the technology to make fully conscious robots
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is so ubiquitous that every hobo in the galaxy has five of them a piece. And everyone flies around
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in spaceships that can exceed the speed of light like it's nothing. And yet the most advanced weapon
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is a laser sword. You know, that you need to be within two feet of the enemy to use. So in that sort of
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reality where technology is somehow a million years ahead of us and 700 years behind us at the same
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time, I could see the giant robot filling a role. But not in this reality. The reality we happen to
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live in and are stuck with. Listen, I would love if there was a real function for giant robots
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in this world. I would. But there isn't. And so for that reason, Japan is canceled.
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