00:21:23.300Only metaphorical pikes and figurative heads.
00:21:27.280But what the student asked was, listen, this guy Ilya Shapiro, he's a lecturer at Georgetown Law and he's the director of the Center for the Constitution.
00:21:37.520Seems like an unobjectionable sort of place.
00:21:40.480But he advocates an originalist position on interpreting the Constitution.
00:21:44.460And what the student asked was, why do we need this?
00:22:15.040Why does Georgetown, a left-wing law school, need to have these pesky conservatives making all the students cry?
00:22:21.440Well, I mean that's the view of a lot of the left.
00:22:23.920And I'll give you at least one reason.
00:22:25.580Let's assume you don't care about intellectual diversity.
00:22:28.120Let's assume you don't care about learning anything other than the orthodoxy and propaganda that you're being spoon-fed.
00:22:33.520Presumably, at least some of the students at Georgetown Law want to practice law.
00:22:40.140They would actually like to be practicing lawyers.
00:22:42.760And presumably that means they'd like to go in a courtroom and argue to judges that the judges should do what is in their client's interest.
00:22:50.060I can tell you there are a heck of a lot of judges in the district courts and the courts of appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court that believe, I think quite rightly, that the text of the Constitution and the text of the statute is controlling.
00:23:01.200And that, you know, that the original understanding of that text has, at a minimum, a major interpretive weight.
00:23:12.600You can disagree on how much weight, and there are disagreements among judges.
00:23:16.540But if you've got a law school that is graduating lawyers who don't know what originalism is, who don't know how to argue on originalist bases, you're going to graduate crappy lawyers.
00:23:27.240You're going to graduate lawyers who don't know how to actually litigate in court, and part of the problem is in some of these law schools, they're okay with this because you've got a bunch of deans and professors in ivory towers who don't actually engage in the practice of law, and it's just all politics for them instead.
00:23:46.580Well, that is a sort of silver lining.
00:23:48.360I hope that Ilya can keep his job, but if he can, and if the cancel culture mob really claims all these originalist scalps, at least the next generation of liberal lawyers will not perform very well in front of conservative judges.
00:24:00.680And, Michael, I'll point out also, so the left's game, they say at the outset we're going to discriminate based on race.
00:24:07.920In this case, we know Joe Biden is going to nominate a black woman.
00:24:10.500We also know from the pattern of Biden's nominees that the odds are overwhelming whoever he nominates will be a radical left-wing activist because most of the judicial nominees Biden's made this past year have been radical left-wing activists.
00:24:23.680But we also know the next step in this game.
00:24:26.380They're going to say anyone that opposes the radical left-wing activist is a racist and sexist who hates black women.
00:24:33.340That's their gameplay, and I mentioned, you know, when Joe Biden and the other Democrats filibustered Janice Rogers Brown, she was a black woman, but of course there they just didn't want a constitutionalist.
00:24:46.060Same time they filibustered Janice Rogers Brown, Joe Biden also filibustered a guy named Miguel Estrada.
00:24:52.860Miguel Estrada is an Hispanic, an amazing Supreme Court advocate, Supreme Court clerk.
00:24:58.800George W. Bush nominated him to the D.C. Circuit.
00:25:01.820The Democrats had a real tough problem because Miguel was unquestionably qualified, and there was nothing in his record that was disqualifying.
00:25:11.500And actually, one of the Democratic staffers for Ted Kennedy wrote a memo to Ted Kennedy on the Judiciary Committee along with Joe Biden.
00:25:21.040The Democratic staffer says, we must defeat Miguel Estrada.
00:25:31.160They say we must defeat him because he is Hispanic, and it was widely anticipated if Miguel had been confirmed to the D.C. Circuit that Bush would put him on the Supreme Court and he would be the first Hispanic ever on the Supreme Court.
00:25:43.620And so not only are Democrats willing to discriminate based on race when they're favoring someone who meets their ideology, they are even more eager to discriminate on race against someone who disagrees with their ideology.
00:26:00.640And there was Joe Biden filibustering an Hispanic, and there was Joe Biden filibustering an Hispanic, incredibly qualified nominee.
00:26:06.160Now, is it because I think he hates Hispanics?
00:26:09.720He's a leftist who hates anyone who disagrees with his orthodoxy and is willing to divide based on race.
00:26:15.640And he believes in his heart, like most Democrats, that discriminating based on race if they think the cause is righteous and just is a good thing.
00:26:26.300And I think it is a terrible thing in America to discriminate on race, period.
00:26:31.100Well, I hope Ilya Shapiro can make it through.
00:27:04.720People who at one time actually were somewhat relevant.
00:27:08.480And it looks like he's actually sort of on the ropes.
00:27:13.160So I got to say, Michael, just at the outset, who knew Neil Young was still alive?
00:27:19.160Who knew Joni Mitchell was still alive?
00:27:22.220You know, Graham Natch, Peter Frampton.
00:27:24.560I mean, we've got every geriatric rocker who was playing when I was in diapers and you were a twinkle in your daddy's eye.
00:27:34.420That's that's when these guys had their heyday.
00:27:36.840And I got to say, I think it's funny as hell that a bunch of 70 and 80 year old rock and roll stars from prior eras got more press this week than they've had in 30 years.
00:27:56.260They're saying we really don't like that that many people are listening to Joe Rogan.
00:28:01.180And I think maybe they have a plan here, which is nobody wants to listen to their songs.
00:28:05.060So if they get big tech to ban the things that they're actually listening to, maybe you'll have no more choice but to listen to their songs because they'll be the only things left.
00:28:25.080And I think people are beginning to wake up to this fact that maybe they weren't so much in favor of free speech.
00:28:31.640Maybe they just wanted to smash whatever standards existed of the day and they wanted to just install their own standards.
00:28:38.220And now Joe Rogan is contradicting that.
00:28:40.580So they are the the defenders of the entrenched power.
00:28:43.740But the thing that's crazy to me is, as you say, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, these people have not been relevant in decades.
00:28:49.860And yet they do seem to be potentially getting Joe Rogan not to back down, but to permit a disclaimer on his controversial episodes to get more left wing guests on.
00:29:03.920I mean, it does seem that they're that they really are putting a lot of pressure on.
00:29:14.560I mean, look, he's got it's been reported like a hundred million dollar contract with Spotify.
00:29:19.040A hundred million dollars is a lot of leverage.
00:29:21.100I mean, he has shown a lot of courage, a lot of boldness.
00:29:24.300But but I have to assume Spotify, they haven't given in yet.
00:29:28.340But but to the extent I mean, Spotify is kind of at the intersection of big tech and Hollywood music.
00:29:35.300So you've got to assume everyone in that world is arguing surrender, surrender, surrender, surrender, give in to the woke mob.
00:29:42.600And and and I do think it will do real damage to free speech if Rogan knuckles under, because what people will say is if they could force Rogan to comply.
00:30:17.840What what what incentive does he have not to just give in here?
00:30:21.380Look, the only incentive is integrity that his viewers listen to him because they they believe he's speaking from the heart and he's telling the truth.
00:30:29.280And I got to say, you know, any time you you sell out for cash and you're intimidated when you give into the mob, it does lessen your credibility.
00:30:37.780And I want to give him a lot of props.
00:32:24.920But anyone on the wrong side to go after.
00:32:26.900And so Rogan may think, OK, well, if I are it, I've had some some doctors on my show who are skeptical of some of the things they're saying about covid.
00:32:36.220So I'll have some people on the other side who say, believe whatever St.
00:32:40.120Fauci says and maybe the mob will be satiated.
00:33:59.220And, you know, Rogan is actually important to conservative sites on the future.
00:34:04.500We've talked a lot on this show about how when I was a kid, the character caricature of the GOP was that it was rich uncle.
00:34:10.620Penny bag, smoking a cigar, shilling for corporations, keeping the working man down.
00:34:15.940And that that is not the case anymore.
00:34:17.940You're seeing you're seeing it just in exit polling.
00:34:20.760You're seeing it in the lawn signs and people's yards.
00:34:23.640And you're seeing it in the behavior of Democrats who are now very clearly the party of the global elite.
00:34:29.340And Republicans have positioned themselves as the party of the working man.
00:34:32.420My question is, why is it that Americans who have such a history of loving freedom and fighting back, why is it that we are currently being outdone by America's hat, our polite, lovely neighbors to the north, the Canadians, where Canadian truckers by the thousands are showing up to the nation's capital and protesting these draconian vaccine mandates?
00:35:24.020Someone did a mashup of Simpsons videos where there was an old Simpsons episode that had Homer driving a truck.
00:35:30.460And he gets in a convoy and he gets in a convoy and then they cut to Trudeau as prime minister of Canada crawling out the window to run away.
00:35:37.420And, you know, it actually says something that there were a bunch of fact checkers today who fact checked that Simpsons mashup said it's actually not factually correct that the Simpsons predicted the Canadian truckers because these were two different episodes that someone put together.
00:35:55.280And I'm just like, you guys are nimwits and idiots and the Canadian truckers.
00:36:01.460Look, they're standing up for freedom.
00:36:03.400And, you know, a year ago, we listened to people pontificate online very solemnly.
00:36:12.300The truck drivers are heroes in America.
00:36:15.380We also listened to them to say doctors and nurses and police officers and firefighters.
00:37:59.220He asked, what concrete policies are the – is the GOP going to put forward to – now that the GOP is positioning itself as the workers' party?
00:38:11.020So is it simply that the GOP is saying, doors open, you're welcome to come in, but we're not going to change anything about the way that we look at economic issues, social issues?
00:38:20.020We're not actually going to change the policy.
00:39:39.420And ask yourself, every policy that Ohio steel workers or Texas truck drivers support, those are the policies that Republicans, I think, ought to be supported, including, by the way, protecting free speech and religious liberty in the Second Amendment.
00:39:55.640Democrats want to take away the guns of working men and women across this country.
00:40:03.700And I will say one of the things I think Republicans have gotten better at, but they're still too much of, is corporate cronyism, giving in to big business.
00:40:14.080Look, when it comes to big business, big business has gone woke.
00:40:17.620For too long, Republicans behaved that whatever big business wanted, they listened to.
00:40:33.500They don't need any mandates to benefit them.
00:40:36.940We ought to be the party of the little guy, of the small business owner, of the worker.
00:40:41.420And Democrats are the party of taking away your job.
00:40:44.440And I think that's playing out in a very, very real way.
00:40:47.060Now, I do, because some of those things the GOP has talked about for a long time, but especially when you're talking about the big corporations, that would be a shift.
00:40:54.920When I was a kid, the GOP was the party of helping out every gigantic corporation.
00:40:59.960They would assist them in shipping jobs overseas and getting sweetheart deals from the government.
00:41:11.220And it does tie into the small businesses, too.
00:41:13.260Because if the GOP is going to be the party of the big, woke, multinational corporations, then sort of by definition, they're not the party of the small businesses.
00:41:50.260If the Democrats are going to be the party of more and more and more and more immigration, then the Republicans really can offer something different there as well.
00:41:59.960That makes me hopeful for the future, Senator, even as we're all getting canceled, even as we're going to get radical leftist judges all over the courts.
00:42:08.180There does seem to be some hope looking ahead to 2022 and 2024.
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