Four days after Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance, there is somehow even more fallout as Biden himself now admits that he's senile. Meanwhile, in another branch of government, the Supreme Court just dealt a huge blow to the administrative state.
00:05:10.720The Washington Post didn't go quite as far as the New York Times, but the Post said Biden should at least spend the weekend considering dropping out.
00:05:17.680Politico, another establishment outlet, has observed that a ton of other liberal lackey establishment columnists, Paul Krugman, Tom Friedman, Nicholas Kristof, Jonathan Alter, David Ignatius, Joe Scarborough over on MSNBC, they have all called on Biden to drop out or to seriously consider dropping out.
00:05:40.980This is a full-scale assault immediately following Biden's debate performance.
00:05:47.040Because these guys believe that Biden cannot win, can't beat Trump.
00:05:51.540Don't forget, the point of that debate, the reason the debate was held so early, was because Biden continues to trail Trump in the polls.
00:05:59.260So Biden was the one who called for this debate.
00:06:03.140There are some conspiracy theories floating around that actually this was 5D chess and the Democrats put Biden up to this debate because they knew he was failing and they wanted him to be exposed and they wanted their convention to be thrown into chaos so that they can replace him.
00:06:32.080And not only did the debate not turn his poll numbers around, it's going to sink his poll numbers even further.
00:06:37.780So all these guys, the Times, the Post, all the rest of them agree, he cannot beat Trump.
00:06:45.780So what do people like Barack Obama, what do people like Bill and Hillary Clinton, what do the real poobahs of the Democratic Party, what are they saying?
00:06:57.860They're saying the opposite of the New York Times and the Washington Post.
00:07:00.320Obama came out and said Joe's the nominee.
00:07:02.760He tweets out, quote, bad debate nights happen.
00:07:06.320But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself.
00:07:12.620Between someone who tells the truth, who knows right from wrong and will give it to the American people straight and someone who lies through his teeth for his own benefit.
00:07:18.780But last night didn't change that, and it's why so much is at stake in November.
00:07:23.320Now, I, of course, agree with Barack Obama entirely.
00:09:13.900I think that Obama and the Clintons recognize something that a lot of the pundits who are hysterical and reactive and impetuous don't realize, which is there's nobody better among the Democrats.
00:19:50.000No sooner do they issue that ruling than they decide that Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, is going to jail.
00:19:57.620The court denied on Friday Steve Bannon's request to stay out of jail pending appeal.
00:20:02.940So he's almost certainly going to put on an orange jumpsuit.
00:20:06.040And of course this is the case, first of all, because you've already got Peter Navarro, Trump's other senior White House advisor.
00:20:11.780He was the trade advisor who is currently in jail serving out his sentence for criminal contempt of Congress.
00:20:21.160So if the Supreme Court said Bannon doesn't have to go to jail, it would be kind of bad optics for Peter Navarro to keep languishing away there.
00:20:30.480Also because Steve Bannon is relatively small potatoes compared to the court's responsibilities right now.
00:20:35.880I'm not casting any shade at Steve Bannon.
00:20:37.520He's a very important right-wing figure, very important to the MAGA movement.
00:20:41.900But compared to all these other things the court is doing, the court overruling Chevron deference, the court about to rule on immunity.
00:20:47.440Does President Trump have immunity for actions that he committed as president?
00:20:59.100We know the court follows the election results.
00:21:01.040We know the court, especially under John Roberts, is very concerned with seeming to be impartial and seeming to have institutional credibility.
00:21:11.780Yeah, Bannon's going to jail, and we are just going to gear up for the big question.
00:21:23.680And there's even another January 6th case, and the court ruled in a way that is going to surprise a lot of people on the left and the right.
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00:22:47.940It's Juneteenth 1st because every month is now going to be viewed in relation to June at once because Pride Month is now Pride Year, but also because Juneteenth is the most important holiday on the liberal liturgical calendar.
00:23:03.020So we're on Juneteenth 1st, but we used to call it July 1st.
00:23:05.780It's weird that the court's meeting this late.
00:23:11.360Regardless, this is the most anticipated decision.
00:23:14.820Is Trump immune from prosecution for his role on January 6th?
00:23:21.160Now, either way, the reason that I'm not sweating it and checking my phone while I'm recording this show to see how the court rules is that actually either way, it's very unlikely that Trump would stand trial before the election.
00:23:35.380The fact that the decision is coming out this late means that either way, it probably won't affect the November election, which would seem to be a pretty clever way to do it.
00:23:49.900Because the Supreme Court, neither the liberals nor the conservatives on the court, want to be seen as interfering in the presidential election, rigging, stealing the presidential election, which is the contention that Trump is making.
00:24:01.540Now, the question of presidential immunity is an interesting one in itself.
00:24:07.660Is the president, should the president be prosecuted for things he does as president?
00:24:15.780There's got to be, like, if the president of either party goes out, shows up to the White House dining hall and just starts shooting his staff members.
00:24:26.000If the president then pulls out a bunch of hard drugs and invites a ton of hookers over and a bunch of Mexican gangbangers, you know, from MS-13, and they all have a kind of satanic ritual and then go out and murder more people, does the—surely the president should be prosecuted then, right?
00:24:52.420So there's got to be some—it's kind of a silly example, but it's an important example because it just shows you there's got to be some limit.
00:24:58.820So how much leeway should the president have?
00:25:00.880And it would seem to me that the president should have a lot of leeway.
00:25:05.620Okay, I recognize there's got to be some limit to what the president can do in office, but there's got to be a lot of leeway.
00:25:10.860Otherwise, we're going to become even more of what Joe Biden's turned us into, which is a banana republic, a tin pot dictatorship where the cost of serving as president in a way that's dignified and just is that you spend the rest of your life in prison.
00:25:27.120That would be a major upending of our political order if we start jailing former presidents.
00:25:31.240Now, we're already getting good signs on these questions because the Supreme Court, again, the star of the show here, has just ruled in favor of a January 6th demonstrator.
00:25:42.060And before the libs get their garments in a twist, the decision was 6-3, and it wasn't on ideological lines.
00:25:49.120The Supreme Court was asked to rule on a former police officer who shows up on January 6th.
00:25:57.000You know, he's a J6 demonstrator and is charged with obstruction.
00:26:06.040Obstructing an official congressional proceeding, which actually Jamal Bowman, the Democrat congressman who just got voted out by his constituents,
00:26:13.320he did a much more egregious version of that crime when he pulled that fire alarm in Congress, but somehow he never gets prosecuted for it.
00:26:20.320The question was, do the January 6th guys, sorry, January 6th people get prosecuted for obstruction?
00:26:26.680And the charge comes from part of a law enacted in 2002 as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
00:26:35.260Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed after the Enron scandal.
00:26:37.880The purpose of this provision of the law was to prevent evidence tampering, basically.
00:26:45.300It was in response to the Enron stuff.
00:26:47.440It targets anyone who, quote, obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding or attempts to do so.
00:26:54.040The majority of the court said, no, that's way too broad a reading.
00:26:57.700It's really about financial bookkeeping and fraud and evidence tampering.
00:27:01.340No, you're not going to charge this guy for obstruction here.
00:27:03.720And the justices who said that were Roberts, chief justice, kind of conservative.
00:27:37.460Whenever the Supreme Court decisions are not purely on ideological lines, it looks good for the court and helps them maintain institutional credibility.
00:27:49.380The other thing you have to remember about the court is that there's a broad consensus on a lot of issues that come before the court.
00:27:54.640It's just the really, really contentious ones, the really, really political ones, party political ones that get all the attention, like a Dobbs decision or like the Obamacare decision or like Chevron, for that matter.
00:28:05.220But a lot of the procedural, more in-the-weed statutory questions, there's often a lot of consensus.
00:28:11.080The libs are attacking the court right now in particular because they're looking down the pike and they see that this could be a contested presidential election if the cadaver that they've ostensibly nominated can even make it to November.
00:28:22.440However, there could be a real contested election, and the court could rule because it's a largely conservative court, could rule in favor of Trump.
00:28:30.440And so the libs are preemptively attempting to tarnish the credibility of the court.
00:28:34.380And they've been up to this for quite some time because the court provides a check on a lot of their power grabs through the bureaucracy in particular and through the other branches of government.
00:28:45.380So they've been going after the courts for a while.
00:28:47.220They never forgave the court for giving the election to George Bush in 2000, even though that was the obvious decision to be made.
00:28:52.440So, regardless, this is filtered into the public consciousness.
00:28:57.380And most Americans, according to an AP survey, believe that the Supreme Court puts ideology over impartiality.
00:29:09.480The Associated Press NORC, Center for Public Affairs Research, found that 7 in 10 Americans think the court's justices are influenced by ideology,
00:29:18.200while only 3 in 10 Americans think that the justices are more likely to provide an independent check on other branches of government by being fair or impartial.
00:29:26.360What this survey reveals is nothing about the Supreme Court.
00:29:29.560What this reveals is the ignorance of the survey respondents about the words ideology and impartiality.
00:29:37.500They don't really know what these words mean.
00:29:39.200It is not the job of a Supreme Court justice to not have opinions on anything.
00:29:46.140It is not the job of a Supreme Court justice to not have an ideology or, at the very least, to not be influenced by ideas and a particular view of the world.
00:29:57.500It is a job requirement that justices have a clear vision of the world.
00:30:03.300It is a job requirement that justices have opinions about things.
00:30:06.220It is a job requirement that judges can discern right from wrong.
00:32:48.600They've just found there's no link between diversity and corporate profits.
00:32:53.080The methodology of the McKinsey studies is very silly and ridiculous.
00:32:59.280Just to give one example that's been pretty widely reported on.
00:33:02.980McKinsey originally had linked profits over several years at a company with diversity at the end of that period that they were looking at.
00:33:11.500And they concluded from that, that having, you know, in 2024, having a diverse boardroom is why the company was profitable from 2015 to 2024, for example.
00:33:23.660But you said, well, hold on, they only had the diverse boardroom at the very end of that period.
00:33:26.840So McKinsey is concluding that diversity causes profits.
00:33:30.020You might be able to say, actually, profits cause diversity.
00:33:32.820The more profitable a company becomes, the more mainstream and establishment a company becomes, the more pressure it feels to implement DEI policies and invite tokens into the boardroom strictly for their skin color or their sex.
00:33:44.780But the other reason that it's so obvious that diversity does not, diversity, capital D, does not lead to profits is that unless black people are uniformly more productive than white people and are being kept out of jobs by some nefarious hidden force that can only be rectified by DEI policies.
00:34:06.440Because without the DEI policies, ostensibly, the corporations are just hiring the people that they think are best for the job.
00:34:20.080And maybe that means it's only white guys.
00:34:21.960And maybe it means it's seven white guys and three black guys.
00:34:24.720And maybe it means it's nine men and one woman.
00:34:27.780And maybe it means it's three normal people and seven, like, LGBT, pansexual, whatever.
00:34:35.580But regardless, without the mandates and you need X number of black people and X number of women and X number of this, the corporation is just trying to make money.
00:34:44.220It's just trying to make money for its shareholders.
00:34:45.940And the main color that corporations care about is not black or white or yellow or red, but green.
00:34:52.380So the very fact that such a policy would be pushed by government, such a type of DEI policy would be pushed by agitative NGOs and lawyers and all the rest of it.
00:35:05.580Is specifically because corporations are simply focusing on profits.
00:35:14.400No surprise, then, that the policies do not increase those profits.
00:35:18.620No one – it's one of those examples where it's the IQ bell curve.
00:35:22.560The drooling idiot at the lowest end of the IQ bell curve knows that, yeah, of course, like, duh, implementing these diversity quotas don't actually increase profits.
00:35:32.500Then the people in the middle of the IQ curve are trying to say, no, but actually, here's why, you know, because at McKinsey we found the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and they have this bogus methodology.
00:35:41.000And then at the top of the IQ bell curve, you say, yeah, duh.
00:35:44.000If your goal is to make money, then you're going to make more money.
00:35:49.720And if your goal is to prioritize all these other ideological fashions, then you're going to get more of that, but that might come at the cost of money.
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00:38:48.180But generally, as a rule of thumb, it's always the ones you most expect.
00:38:52.580Of course, because human behavior is somewhat predictable.
00:38:56.320And when people fall into vices and sins and bad habits, they, absent some major repentance and change of heart, they pretty reliably keep doing that stuff.
00:39:07.840And if you get involved in a little bit of bad stuff, you're likely going to get involved in more bad stuff.
00:39:12.880And if you hang around with bad people, you're likely going to hang around with more bad people.
00:39:16.460That's how habits form and human behavior works.
00:39:19.380And the reason I mention this story is this would not have happened had we simply enforced the laws already on the books and prosecuted pornography as we have for most of American history.
00:39:37.140Not only would this guy not be going to prison, not only would this guy not have committed this horrific crime,
00:39:42.440not only would not as many victims fall prey to this awful industry,
00:39:51.220he wouldn't have even been tempted to do it in the first place.
00:39:55.720This guy is involved in depraved and aberrant sexual behaviors.
00:40:01.860He works in that kind of stuff professionally.
00:40:04.700His job is to just corrupt his soul, warp his mind, turn his brain into mush,
00:40:11.560and cultivate disgusting desires that can never really be satiated because there are these appetites that,
00:40:18.340you know, it's not like you blow off a little steam and then, you know, you feel better.
00:40:21.960You start to cultivate really bad habits and then you need more and more and more and just kind of crazy stuff.
00:40:27.100Like with anything, you start out, you know, doing a soft drug.
00:40:30.860And then if you keep going down that path, you're going to do a little bit of a harder drug and a harder drug and a harder drug.
00:40:34.900Very few people start out with crack cocaine,
00:40:37.460but they just end up there because they keep wanting more and more of a high.
00:40:42.140Had we just told this guy, instead of having a culture where we say,
00:40:45.600actually, we're going to celebrate weird sex stuff for a whole month or more than a whole month.
00:40:49.660And actually, we're going to totally stop prosecuting porn.
00:40:52.820And actually, we're going to say that indulging selfish sexual desires
00:40:58.380and putting obscene content everywhere in the culture is, that's a good thing.
00:41:03.300And we're just going to do that all the time.
00:41:04.280If instead, we just discouraged all that stuff,
00:41:08.740what are the odds that he would have gotten to this point where he'd be engaged in as depraved activities as you can possibly imagine?
00:41:16.860He might have gotten involved in some bad activities,
00:41:21.460but then if we just kind of punished that or discouraged that or cut off the supply to that or just made that much more difficult,
00:41:26.700he wouldn't have even had the opportunity to abuse his free will in this way that has destroyed his life.
00:41:31.420We don't even have to go back that far in American history to look at this.