March 23, 2022 • 41 mins
Today we look at the senate's very serious and reasonable look at Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Biden's acknowledgement of genocide in Myanmar.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Worst Year Ever, a production of I Heart
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This is the podcast where we believe that the time
started less than a year ago and everything before is
a hallucination created by the illuminati. Well, you don't know,
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that's not true. Nothing has ever happened before this moment,
and nothing happened beyond it. That's right. This is all
of existence convinced into a podcast for the podcasting which
will continue. Cody, I watched Peacemaker. Did you have that?
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I have watched Peacemakers? Was all about that sky high
it was? It was, Oh boy, guys. I just have
to say, before we even dived down this path of
talking about it, a number of our wonderful, beloved listeners
have reached out to me to say thank you, Katie,
thank you for your recommendation of Patriot, and these motherfucking
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boys that I worked with that I work with will
much respect or listen to my suggestions. Pker Peacemaker, It's
pretty good. How did you enjoy it? I like you know,
I really like John Cena. I like John Cena a lot.
I think he's he's charming, and I'm continually surprised at
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how talented he is. For example, really seen a very
emotional scene where he plays the piano and I looked
it up Tom and he that's actually him. He's just
like I was watching my first when that scene started,
I was like, no way, that's him playing. They got
a body double that to play. Then there was a
shot that, you know, James Gunn was like, we're going
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to need a shot that like, clearly that's playing. So
they do like his face panning down to his hands,
and I was like, I'll be damned, that's dope. He
also speaks fluent Mandarin. What he's really good in the show.
He's he's a wonderful actor. Um and I was not
familiar before this. I I had a lot of fun
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watching this. Whole cast is great. Yeah, the whole caseories.
I enjoyed it thoroughly. Well. Everreated this exact conversation for
like a half hour with David Bell yesterday with David Bell. Yeah,
oh he was on Bastards right, Yeah he was. He was.
This is just a podcast where I talked to my
friends about things I've said to my other friends and
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I about shows that you are also recommend. Because the
world's doing fine, We're not needed to cover in our work.
Work here is done. Letting Google. Oh okay, yeah, small
small yield nuclear weapons could make nuclear war more accessible
than ever. That seems fine. Alright, you saw that really
good article. It's fine. That's not not really even worth
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covering in any detail. We need, we need our entertainment.
I do have an awareness now that my attention span
is all over the place and it's hard for me
to zone out being alone. I've probably said this on
the show, So I give myself permission to take two
days with an episode of a show if it's like
a longer episode, you know, like, don't give up, just
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do it in pieces if your attention is split. But yeah, yeah,
I just don't think too much about things who do
things or believe things. Just don't just don't recommend not
caring destructive nuclear arms will consume us all. Thank god.
I have to say that this is at odds with
everything we talked about last week on even More News
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or other show where we went deep with Danny Fernande
is on white nihilism and the importance of not saying
there's nothing not white nihilism, to say everything seems fine time. Yeah, um,
how y'all doing. I'm I'm I think I'm terrible in
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most ways. But all of the sheep on our on
our on our little farm just had babies. So there's
for very tiny sheep. I got to see them when
they were like two hours. It's so cute because I
went out and fed them, and then I came out
a couple of hours later and there were babies, so
I knew they had to be like maybe two or
three hours old. And they're just already up and doing
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sheep stuff like fine, living life, vibe and doing all
of the things they will do as adults. They're already
walking around. Sheeps come out walking, they come out ready
to go. They're just I guess you away, it's just lams, baby,
little little baby lambs. One of them is a ram.
He's got a little bitty little bit of problems on
his hand. Uh. Their dad. They're like, I mean, they're
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about the size of a cat, like sized cat. Um,
they're not big. They're a little taller than cats obviously
because they're sheep, but they're about the mass of a
cat man. Birthing a sheep's got to be brutal. Oh,
you don't have to do any of that. Ship. Their
moms take care of it. Well that's what I mean
for the mom. Yeah, not you. Yeah. They seem to
be doing just fine. And their dad is very proud
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of the fact that he made a bunch of little
baby lambs. Uh. He kept trying to head butt us
when we picked him up to cut their umbilical cords off.
But I just had to grab onto his horns and
then it was fine. Protective, what loyalty. I love him.
They're going to give their kids complex. He liked it.
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Behind his neck he wiggles his entire back end like
a dog. It's very cute. He's a good boy. I
she could spend the whole hour talking about this pretty
good ram. Yeah, this mammal stuff. Yeah yeah. See. How's
that for positivity? I would say that is a show.
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We're done. Great episode today, I feel wonderful. Have a
good one to the worst year ever. A podcast where
I update you about the tidy farm that I live on.
Um chickens are fact. That sounds lovely, though m Hm,
it does. I think we all want to live vicariously
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through you. It's not, it's maybe not. There's problem the
best for an audio medium. Too many eggs, way too
many eggs. Too many eggs. You can't eat all those eggs.
It's impossible to give them away. I'll get like sixty
eggs in a week. That's what That's what we gotta do.
That's what we gotta do. We gotta start doing some
baking and freezing bot eggs. Yeah, freeze them, pickle them,
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do what you can. Anyway. What's the news. How are
we doing? Oh? I want to talk about great end
of sec Yeah, I don't know. With the Supreme Court.
Uh yeah, that's what we're talking about. Looking for a
new member. Um. Yeah, they're doing maybe too, that's the
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only thing. What's the what's the dear, dear deal with Clarence.
He's sick with something. He'll probably be fine. Fine, He'll
be fine this time, he'll be fine. Yeah, he'll definitely
be fine. Yeah. But it'd be pretty cool if he died,
though he die right now, otherwise it'll be pretty frustrating
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if he died like after the mid terms and we
are incapable of confirming anybody would just like him to
get hit by a bus on his way out of
the hospital. Be nice him and his wife. Yeah, sure, absolutely,
that sounds fine. With a smile. It didn't feel right, though,
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I'm fine with it. I have gotten over the hump
of wishing death upon who else want to I just
I guess I don't necessarily want them to be hit
by a bus. I'd rather, um, well, I happen to
support public transit Katie, Well, yeah, what do you what
do you want? You want them to get hit by
a tesla in a tunnel. I don't want them to
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die in some way that's incredibly tragic and everybody's like, oh,
you know, these people are wonderful. I'd rather uh to
continue to bespitch their name, I guess. But I don't
want him to be serving. I want him to die.
I don't need Jinny too. She can be around to
like be a goal. And yeah, I mean, obviously the
ideal death for a bad person is like auto erotic asphyxiation.
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But how often does that get to happen? Very I
mean very early. Yeah, I've got one in mind. But anyway,
so beyond that confirmations, Yeah, I think it's only happened once. Yeah,
and to Quentin Tarantino in eleven years strangled by a
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foot shaped rope. What that's funny. Trust your feelings, you
know it to be true. I mean normally I don't
like when you predict things. But they'll do a Star
Trek and then he'll be I'm not saying I wanted.
I have nothing against Quentin Tarantino. It just seems plausible. Anyway.
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We've got a Supreme Court in theory. Yeah. Um, yeah,
they're they're doing that. They're doing it today. They did
a little bit yesterday. It's very do more tomorrow. Good
and exciting. They're doing a great job. Um. I shout
out to Lindsey Graham. Shout out to Marcia Blackburn, shout
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out to Josh Holly, Shout out to a friend of
the show. Are you shouting these also? They're just doing
a really good job. They're doing a good job. Uh.
We're talking a lot about critical race theory. Oh yeah,
and children's books, because what else are you gonna talk
about that's really important for us to talk about during
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this limited period of time. Yeah, there's a really funny
Lindsey Graham quote about this uh, not about this, but
like basically saying, uh, people are gonna call us a
racist during this Republicans, and that's not gonna fly with
us because we're used to it by now. And I
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just think that's really really funny. Like I know what
he meant. He's like, yeah, you falsely accused of racism.
We're used to that. But like just saying, like we're
used to being called racist all the time. It's very funny. Cellphone,
cell phone, cellphone. It's a fun time talking about critical
race theory. But first we're gonna talk about George W.
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Bush um alleged war criminal, alleged alleged worker alleged um
who today with work a middle of funny term. Sorry,
just the fact like sure putin Yeah, okay, war criminal,
but like war is criminal. No, no, let's wow, let
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it simmer and hit y'all. War is the crime. Um. Yeah,
he's with alleged work criminal George W. Bush with alleged
work criminal Bill Clinton. I guess all presidents are war
criminals him something. Yeah, and let that asprint factory. Yeah.
Also alleged criminal. Yeah, definitely alleged rapist criminals George W.
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Bush and Bill Clinton. Yeah, let's go with that's easiest, easiest,
easiest way for it. Yeah, it's a Chicago's Ukraine village
and they're they're doing um, they're like lank flowers and
solitarity with Ukraine. Fine, whatever, fine, whatever, it's it's ex
president ship like ex president stuff, the body countries being faded. Um.
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One might say the opposite of what they did when
they were president, but whatever. Um. Uh. So George W.
Bush was brought up today, and I think this is
really interesting how these senators are, particularly the Republican senators,
handle this and like frame stuff and ask about stuff
and try to get their little their little sound bite
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in their little moment um. John Cornyn was asking today
about George W. Bush and first of all, we didn't
even say her name. Katangi Brown Jackson is the Supreme Court.
Incredible that we've made it this far. What a hack
saying ridiculous, absolute shame. That's her name. So she was
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asked about one point calling George W. Bush a war
criminal during her career, and she was very confused by this.
She didn't think think she ever said it, um, which uh,
one could argue that it's fine if she said that
at one point that you could. You could very well
argue that, but obviously if you're in the in the
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Senate the United States, you can't argue that as a senator. UM.
I think it would be based if you did, but
it's unlikely that people would, which is why they wouldn't. Yeah,
based in senate pilled Uh, but they're not doing that.
What they're asking is accusatorially. You called Bush and Rumsfeld
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war criminals. UM, and you've been so charming and reasonable
today and I'm surprised that you would do such a thing.
And so he did his little spiel and she was like,
what are you talking about? And they went on. Then
they took like a short recess and they came back
and uh, Senator Durban did a brief follow up, a
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little dicky d down. Durbaned down. Alright, so a deep
Durban happened and he that was good. That was a
good one. Come on, I mean if it made me
go yeah, and then you'll be saying that in five months,
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after four months of complaining. Um, But they came back
and UM, basically it didn't happen. UM. She was representing
UM an accused terrorist, and like all lawyers, you defend
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your your client. Um. And basically the argument was like
this person was tortured and torture is a war crime,
and that was that. That was this, But they weren't
saying sous twist. Yeah, yeah, ordered and allowed by President
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Bush and Rumsfeld. But like it's not she's not like yeah,
she's not like making these like speeches from the bench
like George Bush a war criminal, was like no, he
was tortured. Tortures of war crime. Well, everything everything that
they're doing there, they know that she's going to get confirmed.
They know. Let's let's back up here just a little
bit and say that Kaji bron Jackson is the single
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most qualified person to be nominated for the Supreme Court,
at least if you're looking at it compared to literally
everybody else on that fucking bench. Um, she's already been
nominated and passed unanimously by the Senate very recently at
a lower court, and now there's the opportunity, and she's
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the first choice. She she is a grand they voted
for her. So what they're doing right now is digging
up anything they can to make a show of it,
knowing what is ultimately going to happen. I mean, everything
about it is disingenuous. Well, we can look at the
different attacks, like she just looking at her, you can
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tell that she is whatever of critical race theory, fucking racist. Um,
how about just the line of questioning about her going
easy on sexual predators when if you because she she
has sentenced people below like a lesser point lesser sentence,
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but that's actually turned out to be way more strict
and less lenient than many many many judges. And is
there's a conversation apparently that's widely accepted that these um
sentencing guidelines should be changed, that some people think that
they're not appropriate. So actually, if you look at it,
they're just scrambling for whatever they can. But framing her
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in the most disingenuous I'll bet she's harsher on sexual
predators than Republicans in Congress were. Then I bet they're
harsher than you know, I mean, they're fucking I'm sorry
that gate that gates. I mean, it doesn't matter, Like
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none of this matters. Likes matter, but none of it
matters politically, because all that matters is Republicans are gonna
go after her because she's Biden's nominate, Like and that's
and it's um, you know, it's I guess, a window
into like just like their future strategy. Interestingly, I don't
think anybody brought up, uh that the election was stolen
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from Donald Trump, which you I would expect at least
somebody to talk about that because they're all pathetic. It
seems to be what they can't They can't. They can't
stop talking about it and literally every other arena, So
why not now, But what they're doing and like you
can you see it elsewhere in other arenas, um more
and more these days. But they're just trying to like
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frame everybody is like a pedophile and like uh like
supporter of like grooming children. That's what they they're doing. Um.
The line of questioning from Holly about anything about like
what like a drag queen story hour, um, don't say
gay stuff, all this kind of stuff that they like
to bring up. It's circling this claim um and this
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like fascist belief about about the left and Republicans are
really amping it up. It's gonna get worse and bad,
I think, but you can kind of see it in
in this series of events. Yeah, I love events. We
gotta take a quick break y'all. I'm not a fan
now on this show, Clarence Thomas breaks his neck walking
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out of the hospital together. Everything you're bad talking about something.
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The law, Yeah, I love about the law. It never fails.
It never fails two longstanding social issues because it exists
primarily to maintain systems of inequality. I'm curious, So I
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guess fine, she's she seems like a better case scenario
than most for Supreme Court justice. That that'll be good.
I'm sure Republicans will continue being shitty and there will.
She wants the job. I mean, she's sunned up to
be shot down a lot. You know, I'm thinking about him,
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like it's grim you want to be a liberal judge
on this court. I think job for life, job security.
That's one way to deal with inflation. You could pull
a Jeffrey Tuban in the office and not get fired, right,
And I think she should. That's feminism right there, that's feminism.
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I do think it's funny. It is what it is. Basically,
like this is gonna happen. It's gonna be a big
circus and big show for everybody who wants to put
on a show. Like every single one of these fucking things,
whether it's a confirmation hearing or the fucking impeachment of
a president whatever. Uh. If Mansion says yes, then she'll
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get She'll get it like it's fifth it's uh yeah,
one votes is all she needs for this. Um. But
I really quick just have to talk about Ted Cruz. Um,
just because he was our guest last week. He's our
guest next week. So I want to make sure that
our listeners can always get a taste of Cruise. Your
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daily Ted m exactly, boy on my shoes. Daily Ted
tends to mean a different thing, but okay today not today.
Here it's it's for Cruise creates this time. Um. He
loves talking about critical race theory um in a way
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that makes it seem like it could be mean literally anything. Um.
And because it does to them, and he's, yeah, all
bad things the same thing. He's a very it's very
He's just such a Daily Wire fanboy. It's so funny
to watch him try and squirm um confidently. Um he
he squirmed confidently that he does it. Um. So Tanji
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Brown Jackson is on the board of Georgetown Day School,
and so this gave Ted Cruise an opening to talk
about critical race theory and he asked her to define
it and she was like, yeah, this like school thought
in law, and like it doesn't really apply to what
I do. I don't really use it in my job. Um,
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but that's what it is. And so he kept going.
He took that as a sign to be like, this
is then I should talk more about this. And so
he talked more about it and brought up some books
that were assigned at this fucking school and one of
them is a children's cartoon book called Anti Racist Baby,
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and it's about teaching your kid to be anti racist,
because the conceit is that kids aren't. They're not like
born racist. They're taught racism. They're taught to be racist
by their environment and society, their family and all the
things that we know about human beings and how they
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develop their opinions about stuff. Um. So he brings up
this fucking book and I don't know if we can
play it, but basically he talks about this book for
a little while. It's like, yeah, it says this, and
it says that you know, you you have to teach
kids to be anti racist because otherwise they'll be racist.
There's no there's no neutrality, which, like the book isn't
saying there's no neutrality, it's saying that the kids are
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taught racism. Um. So he does this for a while,
like four minutes, about these fucking books, about books that
have nothing to do with being a supreme nothing to
do with the Supreme Court. He's just he's just making
ship to go on Twitter. It's and it worked. We're
talking about it. Yeah, of course. So here's the end
of his little spiel. Are you comfortable with with these
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ideas being taught to children as young as four and,
in respect to the first book, as young as eight nine, Senator,
I have not reviewed any of those books, any of
those ideas. They don't come up in my work as
a judge, which I am respectfully here to address in
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my work as a judge, no need, which is evidenced
from my near decade on the bench. Then let's go
back to your work. Let her fucking finish. Like incredible,
She like said, what a piece of ship. It has
nothing to do with my job that I've done, nothing
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to do with this h That to me sounded like
she was not quite done, but she was. She was done. Um,
from what I gathered and she was basically saying respect respectfully, disrespectfully. Actually,
it's embarrassing and such a waste of time, and you
actually have an opportunity to have some interesting conversations and
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thought provoking conversations. And look, I don't know, I don't remember.
I didn't watch Supreme Court Justice earrings when I was younger,
so I can't compare to how questioning is. But it's
just such bullshit. It's such fucking obvious, theatrical bullshit. You
don't want a real conversation. You don't want to give
her an opportunity to show, you know, talk about real
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issues or have an actual conversation because that might change
people's minds about something. Anyway. That's that's how I feel.
I mean, it's all yeah, I mean, it's definitely like
reached a fever pitch with all these or does. But
like you know, no, it's not knew that these little
freaks go up there and do their little dance and
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try to get their little their little SoundBite and their
little their little show um at the expense of I
wonder if they see I wonder if if they get
a real good zinger in did their Twitter follows go?
It is to apology apologize for the phrase trumped up. Now. Um, yeah,
he's really ruined that word as a word I feel
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comfortable using. Um. But yeah, r I p uker players,
Um but it is Uh. I just think it's funny
that he spent five minutes talking about these books that
have nothing to do with being Supreme Court justice. And
she basically responded, respectfully, No, I'm not here to talk
about those there's nothing to do with this, and he
was like, oh, okay, then then let's go to go
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to go to your work like he knows, he knows
what he was doing. It didn't work. Um, she said,
being an idiot right now, and he moved on kindly. Kindly,
she kindly said that can I can I play an
interaction between her and Lindsey Graham where he was also
wasting everybody's time And I love interactions where senators waste
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time and being and being an Assholeum, motherfucker. Um, okay,
I get this club for you guys, give me it all.
What faith are you, by the way, Senator, I am
um Protestant, okay, nondenominational? Could you fairly judge a Catholic senator? Question?
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Is that judging everyone. I'm just asking this question because
because you're an asshole, is your faith to you Senator personally? Um?
My faith is very important. Um. But as you know,
there's no religious tests in the Constitution under under Article six. God,
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God damn it. It's just I was gonna say before
we played this that we should let Supreme Court candidates
hit one person with a brick during their confirmation hearings.
But that's not going to be enough. It's not enough
good death glare though not death clare. But she's got like,
while keeping her voice calm, her eyes say, are you
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fucking she knows what she was stepping into. Yes, she did.
It's not her first day, she knows, not her first
rodeo the Senate is in general, what kind of question
is could you fairly judge a Catholic? Well, again, he
voted for her, firmed her months ago. As a judge,
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I'm just gonna say right now, I could not fairly
judge of Catholic because as a papist, they cannot be
trusted to fairly apply the law. They're always going to
be a servant of the Vatican, just like John Fitzgerald Kennedy,
which is why Bernard Sanders had to shoot him. Robert, Robert,
you're letting it. You're letting it all out in the bag.
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I would have been like, now they know, we'll return
to that later. I would have been like, yeah, I
judged them all the time. I think it's fair. I
don't know there's a better joke in there. I mean,
she did a great job with all these freaks, um,
these papists, I got more. Should we take another ad
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break here, let's take let's take an ad break here
together everything so don't don't don't mars. That works as grammatically.
Both both are fine, Both are fine. Um. Yeah. The
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United States, the Biden administration, i should say, has declared, um,
what the government of the military junta and well not
just the military junta because it was actually done under
um the president who was recently deposed by the military
as well on song Succhi. Um. But yeah, the Biden
administration has declared what the military and government to me
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and mar did against the Rohinga the ethnic cleansing which
took place over about you know, the several years up
until the present point as a genocide, five years about
five years. Good, it is good? How come it took
Sister Robert well, you know, in the US recognizing a
genocide terms. This was not a bad turn around, because
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you have to, but it's really hard. It was a
year ago that Biden recognized the Armenian genocide from years ago.
I remember that. I do remember that, and so that's
a point well taken. But I UM, along with a
lot of our listeners, I think, have been horrified by
this a lot of things that happen around the world,
and it is especially frustrating. While good as this is, uh,
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it is especially frustrating to see the swiftness of our
response UM to what's happening in Ukraine and the attention
of the world. And this has been happening for five years,
you know, the warrant gray like it's just anyway, why
you're not going to see nearly as much movement on
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the part. Part of why I suspect the Biden administration
was made this decision now after five years, is because
what's happening in Myanmar is connected to what's happening in Ukraine.
Because the top Medaw the military are armed by the Russians.
They're using Russian planes and and not Russian small arms.
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They actually have a pretty significant indigenous small arms industry
that the military does. But they're using a lot of
Russian UM artillery and aircraft UM in order to crack
down on the rebels in the civil war, and they
were using it before in the genocide. Whereas what the
what's happened in Armenia recently, UM, the the war a
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Zerbijan carried out, which has genocidal elements, what's happening in
uh Tigray, UM, and what's happening between the the the
Turks and the Kurds in southern Turkey and in Northeast
Syria UM, those all have genocidal elements as well. But
in all of those cases UM, either the Turkish nation,
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which is the second largest military and NATO is directly
involved as they are in the genocide in h the
or the ethnic cleansings at least in his Aerbijan and
the genocides genocidal acts against the Kurds UM or in
the case of Tigray, Turkey is heavily arming the Ethiopian
government and in fact, the rebels in Tigray were pretty
close to taking the cap before the same brackt drones
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that people are celebrating in Ukraine were sent by Turkey
to the Ethiopian government, which allowed them to turn back
the advance of the rebels. So part of why you're
seeing this recognized now is that the US government's interests
are in doing so as opposed to recognizing that there
are genocides that are allied Turkey is involved in. UM
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less in elect that makes sense, UM, disappointingly but makes sense. UM. Ill.
So I know that you guys have been talking UM
or have covered the civil war and what's happening over
there a lot on UM it could happen here, but UM,
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why don't for our listeners that maybe don't know what's
happening over there? A was elected in a landslide last
year one reelected and then um immediately the military UH
stage to coup and overthrew her and has imprisoned her
under a variety of charges. She's seventy six. I think
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she's currently facing six years or eight years in prison
and is another charge on top of that all about
like I don't know what it was, staplers or something
like something. Yeah, there was just like COVID protocols being breached.
That yeah, UM, And since since then, Um, you know,
it started with a huge um national strike that uh
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you know, and everybody was engaged in watching for a while.
But then you know, attention. Of course, Peter's off on
the national stage. Um Roberts. Can you fill us in
a little bit on the stuff that's been going on?
Sure it is. There were a bunch of protests. The
government responded eventually to those protests by just shooting a
lot of people to death with live ammunition, both the
military and the police doing that, And so a bunch
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of folks were like, well, I guess let's go to
the Jungles, A sizeable chunk of what is referred to
as Myanmar as like a state is actually not under
the control of the government and hasn't been for a while.
It's under the control of like the what are the
ethnic armed organizations is one of the terms you'll see
form And they're different kind of tribal groups that have
a large degree aboutonomy. I think the biggest being the
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karin Um and they have been in some cases fighting
like an insurgency against the government in all cases kind
of uneasily preserving their autonomy. And it's a complicated story,
but a lot of these rebels when the military hunter
took power like fled to these areas and were trained
by these indigenous armed organizations and are now and have
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been ever since over the last year so fighting a
civil war against the military of Myanmar, the tommadaw UM
and that's that is ongoing to this day. And so
large chunks of the rural areas are, if not in
control of rebels or e a o s, out of
the control of the state. But the state, which by
which when we say the state in mean while we're
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referring to the military, does control the cities UM or
at least the bulk of the cities. You know, there's
areas and whatever. It's it's it's a it's a pretty
complicated conflict. It does not get a lot of attention
UM in the United States. If you'd like more to
know more about that, I would recommend checking out the
four part series we did on It could Happen Here
about the war in Myanmar. UM. There's a lot that's
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that's quite interesting about what's going on there, including the
prevalence of Generation Z militias, which is how they refer
to them, which is kind of made up of these
kids who were the first generation in Myanmar to have
internet access and who grew up with a great degree
of freedom and feeling connected to the international community. And
then UM, you know, are rebelled when the government was like,
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well that's all gonna end. We're not willing to accept that.
UM and who have been experimenting with a lot of
really different kind of horizontal organizational structures in in opposition
both to the government and also kind of counter to
how a lot of these e A o s handle
things which are more kind of traditional insurgent military structures. UM.
And there's also a lot of like homemade weapons, UM,
(36:14):
including three D printed arms that are increasingly becoming like
a factor on the battlefield. It's a it's an interesting
conflict and one that doesn't get a lot of attention,
in part because you know, at Southeast Asia, UM, in
part because most people have not heard much about Myanmar.
It was not a country up until pretty recently that
was very connected globally to to the rest of the world.
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You know, again, from most of its history, it's been
like a series of dictatorships UM for most of its
modern history. Because it was also like a British colony
and in fact George Orwell was actually a policeman in Burma. Um, like, yes,
that was one of a kind of foundational experience for him.
Was like helping to brutally apply British rule in this
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colony and then having feelings about it. And then there's
a whole conversation of course about the white colonizers and
how that has affected how the country are very established.
Um so, how what does the United States Joe Biden
declaring this genocide? What does that do? I mean, it's
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good other than publicly acknowledging that recognizing it does it.
That's all it's doing at this point. There's unless one
the thing that the Biden administration could do is provide
the rebels in mean Mar with some of the same
equipment we're providing Ukraine. Primarily, there's a lot of talk
of no fly zones and um, you know, usually again
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we we've we've chatted about this a bit on our shows.
Usually when people talk about those, they are referring to
like the idea of sending in US RNATO aircraft to
stop other aircraft for making in an area. But one
way you can apply a no fly zone without doing
that is by shipping a lot of anti aircraft weapons,
which is what we're doing now Ukraine, right, we're doing
in Ukraine. And you know, Aim Stout and I when
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we were working on our story in Mianmar, were in
pretty regular contact with the twenty three year old kids,
all Lynn, who was a member of a militia Generation,
one of the gen Z militias in Myanmar, and so
he would chat with him, and then we would see
footage of him fighting the Topmadaw and footage of him
hanging out with his girlfriend who was wounded by a
mortar like while we were chatting with him, um. And
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then a couple of days after we started dropping the episodes,
he got killed by an air strike. UM. And it's
one of those things where the government has air supremacy
because the rebels, you know again they're they're like cobbling
together their own rifles. They certainly don't have aircraft. UM.
So if you want to say, like, what could the
US be doing, there's an argument to be made for
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providing anti air weapons to the rebels, But if we're
not going to do that, then effectively the only real
they impact this has well, at least we're acknowledging it's
a genocide. So right now, what is the impact this
is going to have on the war in Myanmar? Nothing?
Um that that that's the short answer. It's not going
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to do anything. That said, I'm always supportive of the
United States being like, hey, look at genocide. That's a genocide.
It's like, it's good to recognize it. Like we have
the most we can all argue about, like what is
reasonable and what is ethical when it comes to like
providing weapons. You know, those are complicated discussions to be had,
but the minimum everyone should do when there's a genocide
(39:24):
is be like, well that that looks like what it is.
That's definitely a genocide. We should at least be able
to agree on that. Yeah. So I'm like, I don't
think it's bad. I think I would go so far
to say it's good that the Biden administration recognized it
as a genocide. But I don't think at the moment,
I've seen no evidence that Biden administration is going to
(39:45):
take any actions that will material materially affect circumstances on
their own. R Yeah, okay, well thank you for that.
Speaking of war, you know what else is a war?
What ending a pod cast episode? Yeah, I can be
that makes dangerous the greatest heroes of all or criminals
(40:08):
or criminals. Yeah. It is also remember episode of the podcast.
I'm not sure if you remember, but war is criminal.
It's true something about that. I'm sure our listeners are
thrilled with this episode. Yeah, it seems like we really
have it together. I'm proud of us. I'm proud of us.
(40:31):
Devil's advocate. Yeah I don't think we do. Oh wow, okay,
speaking of the you know, who needs an advocate? Who
the devil? The devil? I was right there in the
setup and culture comes for the Prince of lies. Oh god,
is he gonna? Are they gonna ask about cancel? Culture?
(40:53):
The Devil's triggered. That's so good. It's so good. You
love it, You love to see it, You love to
see it. Guys. Um cool. That's it for us this week.
We will be back next week with energy and news.
We will not energetic news, just like this weekend every
week before it play us out fear. Oh I met
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This is the podcast where we believe that the time
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that's not true. Nothing has ever happened before this moment,
and nothing happened beyond it. That's right. This is all
of existence convinced into a podcast for the podcasting which
will continue. Cody, I watched Peacemaker. Did you have that?
(01:03):
I have watched Peacemakers? Was all about that sky high
it was? It was, Oh boy, guys. I just have
to say, before we even dived down this path of
talking about it, a number of our wonderful, beloved listeners
have reached out to me to say thank you, Katie,
thank you for your recommendation of Patriot, and these motherfucking
(01:24):
boys that I worked with that I work with will
much respect or listen to my suggestions. Pker Peacemaker, It's
pretty good. How did you enjoy it? I like you know,
I really like John Cena. I like John Cena a lot.
I think he's he's charming, and I'm continually surprised at
(01:46):
how talented he is. For example, really seen a very
emotional scene where he plays the piano and I looked
it up Tom and he that's actually him. He's just
like I was watching my first when that scene started,
I was like, no way, that's him playing. They got
a body double that to play. Then there was a
shot that, you know, James Gunn was like, we're going
(02:09):
to need a shot that like, clearly that's playing. So
they do like his face panning down to his hands,
and I was like, I'll be damned, that's dope. He
also speaks fluent Mandarin. What he's really good in the show.
He's he's a wonderful actor. Um and I was not
familiar before this. I I had a lot of fun
(02:29):
watching this. Whole cast is great. Yeah, the whole caseories.
I enjoyed it thoroughly. Well. Everreated this exact conversation for
like a half hour with David Bell yesterday with David Bell. Yeah,
oh he was on Bastards right, Yeah he was. He was.
This is just a podcast where I talked to my
friends about things I've said to my other friends and
(02:51):
I about shows that you are also recommend. Because the
world's doing fine, We're not needed to cover in our work.
Work here is done. Letting Google. Oh okay, yeah, small
small yield nuclear weapons could make nuclear war more accessible
than ever. That seems fine. Alright, you saw that really
good article. It's fine. That's not not really even worth
(03:13):
covering in any detail. We need, we need our entertainment.
I do have an awareness now that my attention span
is all over the place and it's hard for me
to zone out being alone. I've probably said this on
the show, So I give myself permission to take two
days with an episode of a show if it's like
a longer episode, you know, like, don't give up, just
(03:35):
do it in pieces if your attention is split. But yeah, yeah,
I just don't think too much about things who do
things or believe things. Just don't just don't recommend not
caring destructive nuclear arms will consume us all. Thank god.
I have to say that this is at odds with
everything we talked about last week on even More News
(03:57):
or other show where we went deep with Danny Fernande
is on white nihilism and the importance of not saying
there's nothing not white nihilism, to say everything seems fine time. Yeah, um,
how y'all doing. I'm I'm I think I'm terrible in
(04:20):
most ways. But all of the sheep on our on
our on our little farm just had babies. So there's
for very tiny sheep. I got to see them when
they were like two hours. It's so cute because I
went out and fed them, and then I came out
a couple of hours later and there were babies, so
I knew they had to be like maybe two or
three hours old. And they're just already up and doing
(04:40):
sheep stuff like fine, living life, vibe and doing all
of the things they will do as adults. They're already
walking around. Sheeps come out walking, they come out ready
to go. They're just I guess you away, it's just lams, baby,
little little baby lambs. One of them is a ram.
He's got a little bitty little bit of problems on
his hand. Uh. Their dad. They're like, I mean, they're
(05:03):
about the size of a cat, like sized cat. Um,
they're not big. They're a little taller than cats obviously
because they're sheep, but they're about the mass of a
cat man. Birthing a sheep's got to be brutal. Oh,
you don't have to do any of that. Ship. Their
moms take care of it. Well that's what I mean
for the mom. Yeah, not you. Yeah. They seem to
be doing just fine. And their dad is very proud
(05:26):
of the fact that he made a bunch of little
baby lambs. Uh. He kept trying to head butt us
when we picked him up to cut their umbilical cords off.
But I just had to grab onto his horns and
then it was fine. Protective, what loyalty. I love him.
They're going to give their kids complex. He liked it.
(05:47):
Behind his neck he wiggles his entire back end like
a dog. It's very cute. He's a good boy. I
she could spend the whole hour talking about this pretty
good ram. Yeah, this mammal stuff. Yeah yeah. See. How's
that for positivity? I would say that is a show.
(06:13):
We're done. Great episode today, I feel wonderful. Have a
good one to the worst year ever. A podcast where
I update you about the tidy farm that I live on.
Um chickens are fact. That sounds lovely, though m Hm,
it does. I think we all want to live vicariously
(06:33):
through you. It's not, it's maybe not. There's problem the
best for an audio medium. Too many eggs, way too
many eggs. Too many eggs. You can't eat all those eggs.
It's impossible to give them away. I'll get like sixty
eggs in a week. That's what That's what we gotta do.
That's what we gotta do. We gotta start doing some
baking and freezing bot eggs. Yeah, freeze them, pickle them,
(06:54):
do what you can. Anyway. What's the news. How are
we doing? Oh? I want to talk about great end
of sec Yeah, I don't know. With the Supreme Court.
Uh yeah, that's what we're talking about. Looking for a
new member. Um. Yeah, they're doing maybe too, that's the
(07:16):
only thing. What's the what's the dear, dear deal with Clarence.
He's sick with something. He'll probably be fine. Fine, He'll
be fine this time, he'll be fine. Yeah, he'll definitely
be fine. Yeah. But it'd be pretty cool if he died,
though he die right now, otherwise it'll be pretty frustrating
(07:37):
if he died like after the mid terms and we
are incapable of confirming anybody would just like him to
get hit by a bus on his way out of
the hospital. Be nice him and his wife. Yeah, sure, absolutely,
that sounds fine. With a smile. It didn't feel right, though,
(07:57):
I'm fine with it. I have gotten over the hump
of wishing death upon who else want to I just
I guess I don't necessarily want them to be hit
by a bus. I'd rather, um, well, I happen to
support public transit Katie, Well, yeah, what do you what
do you want? You want them to get hit by
a tesla in a tunnel. I don't want them to
(08:20):
die in some way that's incredibly tragic and everybody's like, oh,
you know, these people are wonderful. I'd rather uh to
continue to bespitch their name, I guess. But I don't
want him to be serving. I want him to die.
I don't need Jinny too. She can be around to
like be a goal. And yeah, I mean, obviously the
ideal death for a bad person is like auto erotic asphyxiation.
(08:42):
But how often does that get to happen? Very I
mean very early. Yeah, I've got one in mind. But anyway,
so beyond that confirmations, Yeah, I think it's only happened once. Yeah,
and to Quentin Tarantino in eleven years strangled by a
(09:05):
foot shaped rope. What that's funny. Trust your feelings, you
know it to be true. I mean normally I don't
like when you predict things. But they'll do a Star
Trek and then he'll be I'm not saying I wanted.
I have nothing against Quentin Tarantino. It just seems plausible. Anyway.
(09:27):
We've got a Supreme Court in theory. Yeah. Um, yeah,
they're they're doing that. They're doing it today. They did
a little bit yesterday. It's very do more tomorrow. Good
and exciting. They're doing a great job. Um. I shout
out to Lindsey Graham. Shout out to Marcia Blackburn, shout
(09:49):
out to Josh Holly, Shout out to a friend of
the show. Are you shouting these also? They're just doing
a really good job. They're doing a good job. Uh.
We're talking a lot about critical race theory. Oh yeah,
and children's books, because what else are you gonna talk
about that's really important for us to talk about during
(10:10):
this limited period of time. Yeah, there's a really funny
Lindsey Graham quote about this uh, not about this, but
like basically saying, uh, people are gonna call us a
racist during this Republicans, and that's not gonna fly with
us because we're used to it by now. And I
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just think that's really really funny. Like I know what
he meant. He's like, yeah, you falsely accused of racism.
We're used to that. But like just saying, like we're
used to being called racist all the time. It's very funny. Cellphone,
cell phone, cellphone. It's a fun time talking about critical
race theory. But first we're gonna talk about George W.
(10:52):
Bush um alleged war criminal, alleged alleged worker alleged um
who today with work a middle of funny term. Sorry,
just the fact like sure putin Yeah, okay, war criminal,
but like war is criminal. No, no, let's wow, let
(11:14):
it simmer and hit y'all. War is the crime. Um. Yeah,
he's with alleged work criminal George W. Bush with alleged
work criminal Bill Clinton. I guess all presidents are war
criminals him something. Yeah, and let that asprint factory. Yeah.
Also alleged criminal. Yeah, definitely alleged rapist criminals George W.
(11:37):
Bush and Bill Clinton. Yeah, let's go with that's easiest, easiest,
easiest way for it. Yeah, it's a Chicago's Ukraine village
and they're they're doing um, they're like lank flowers and
solitarity with Ukraine. Fine, whatever, fine, whatever, it's it's ex
president ship like ex president stuff, the body countries being faded. Um.
(11:58):
One might say the opposite of what they did when
they were president, but whatever. Um. Uh. So George W.
Bush was brought up today, and I think this is
really interesting how these senators are, particularly the Republican senators,
handle this and like frame stuff and ask about stuff
and try to get their little their little sound bite
(12:19):
in their little moment um. John Cornyn was asking today
about George W. Bush and first of all, we didn't
even say her name. Katangi Brown Jackson is the Supreme Court.
Incredible that we've made it this far. What a hack
saying ridiculous, absolute shame. That's her name. So she was
(12:41):
asked about one point calling George W. Bush a war
criminal during her career, and she was very confused by this.
She didn't think think she ever said it, um, which uh,
one could argue that it's fine if she said that
at one point that you could. You could very well
argue that, but obviously if you're in the in the
(13:01):
Senate the United States, you can't argue that as a senator. UM.
I think it would be based if you did, but
it's unlikely that people would, which is why they wouldn't. Yeah,
based in senate pilled Uh, but they're not doing that.
What they're asking is accusatorially. You called Bush and Rumsfeld
(13:22):
war criminals. UM, and you've been so charming and reasonable
today and I'm surprised that you would do such a thing.
And so he did his little spiel and she was like,
what are you talking about? And they went on. Then
they took like a short recess and they came back
and uh, Senator Durban did a brief follow up, a
(13:44):
little dicky d down. Durbaned down. Alright, so a deep
Durban happened and he that was good. That was a
good one. Come on, I mean if it made me
go yeah, and then you'll be saying that in five months,
(14:05):
after four months of complaining. Um, But they came back
and UM, basically it didn't happen. UM. She was representing
UM an accused terrorist, and like all lawyers, you defend
(14:26):
your your client. Um. And basically the argument was like
this person was tortured and torture is a war crime,
and that was that. That was this, But they weren't
saying sous twist. Yeah, yeah, ordered and allowed by President
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Bush and Rumsfeld. But like it's not she's not like yeah,
she's not like making these like speeches from the bench
like George Bush a war criminal, was like no, he
was tortured. Tortures of war crime. Well, everything everything that
they're doing there, they know that she's going to get confirmed.
They know. Let's let's back up here just a little
bit and say that Kaji bron Jackson is the single
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most qualified person to be nominated for the Supreme Court,
at least if you're looking at it compared to literally
everybody else on that fucking bench. Um, she's already been
nominated and passed unanimously by the Senate very recently at
a lower court, and now there's the opportunity, and she's
(15:32):
the first choice. She she is a grand they voted
for her. So what they're doing right now is digging
up anything they can to make a show of it,
knowing what is ultimately going to happen. I mean, everything
about it is disingenuous. Well, we can look at the
different attacks, like she just looking at her, you can
(15:54):
tell that she is whatever of critical race theory, fucking racist. Um,
how about just the line of questioning about her going
easy on sexual predators when if you because she she
has sentenced people below like a lesser point lesser sentence,
(16:15):
but that's actually turned out to be way more strict
and less lenient than many many many judges. And is
there's a conversation apparently that's widely accepted that these um
sentencing guidelines should be changed, that some people think that
they're not appropriate. So actually, if you look at it,
they're just scrambling for whatever they can. But framing her
(16:37):
in the most disingenuous I'll bet she's harsher on sexual
predators than Republicans in Congress were. Then I bet they're
harsher than you know, I mean, they're fucking I'm sorry
that gate that gates. I mean, it doesn't matter, Like
(17:00):
none of this matters. Likes matter, but none of it
matters politically, because all that matters is Republicans are gonna
go after her because she's Biden's nominate, Like and that's
and it's um, you know, it's I guess, a window
into like just like their future strategy. Interestingly, I don't
think anybody brought up, uh that the election was stolen
(17:24):
from Donald Trump, which you I would expect at least
somebody to talk about that because they're all pathetic. It
seems to be what they can't They can't. They can't
stop talking about it and literally every other arena, So
why not now, But what they're doing and like you
can you see it elsewhere in other arenas, um more
and more these days. But they're just trying to like
(17:46):
frame everybody is like a pedophile and like uh like
supporter of like grooming children. That's what they they're doing. Um.
The line of questioning from Holly about anything about like
what like a drag queen story hour, um, don't say
gay stuff, all this kind of stuff that they like
to bring up. It's circling this claim um and this
(18:11):
like fascist belief about about the left and Republicans are
really amping it up. It's gonna get worse and bad,
I think, but you can kind of see it in
in this series of events. Yeah, I love events. We
gotta take a quick break y'all. I'm not a fan
now on this show, Clarence Thomas breaks his neck walking
(18:34):
out of the hospital together. Everything you're bad talking about something.
(18:54):
The law, Yeah, I love about the law. It never fails.
It never fails two longstanding social issues because it exists
primarily to maintain systems of inequality. I'm curious, So I
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guess fine, she's she seems like a better case scenario
than most for Supreme Court justice. That that'll be good.
I'm sure Republicans will continue being shitty and there will.
She wants the job. I mean, she's sunned up to
be shot down a lot. You know, I'm thinking about him,
(19:38):
like it's grim you want to be a liberal judge
on this court. I think job for life, job security.
That's one way to deal with inflation. You could pull
a Jeffrey Tuban in the office and not get fired, right,
And I think she should. That's feminism right there, that's feminism.
(20:00):
I do think it's funny. It is what it is. Basically,
like this is gonna happen. It's gonna be a big
circus and big show for everybody who wants to put
on a show. Like every single one of these fucking things,
whether it's a confirmation hearing or the fucking impeachment of
a president whatever. Uh. If Mansion says yes, then she'll
(20:22):
get She'll get it like it's fifth it's uh yeah,
one votes is all she needs for this. Um. But
I really quick just have to talk about Ted Cruz. Um,
just because he was our guest last week. He's our
guest next week. So I want to make sure that
our listeners can always get a taste of Cruise. Your
(20:43):
daily Ted m exactly, boy on my shoes. Daily Ted
tends to mean a different thing, but okay today not today.
Here it's it's for Cruise creates this time. Um. He
loves talking about critical race theory um in a way
(21:04):
that makes it seem like it could be mean literally anything. Um.
And because it does to them, and he's, yeah, all
bad things the same thing. He's a very it's very
He's just such a Daily Wire fanboy. It's so funny
to watch him try and squirm um confidently. Um he
he squirmed confidently that he does it. Um. So Tanji
(21:29):
Brown Jackson is on the board of Georgetown Day School,
and so this gave Ted Cruise an opening to talk
about critical race theory and he asked her to define
it and she was like, yeah, this like school thought
in law, and like it doesn't really apply to what
I do. I don't really use it in my job. Um,
(21:52):
but that's what it is. And so he kept going.
He took that as a sign to be like, this
is then I should talk more about this. And so
he talked more about it and brought up some books
that were assigned at this fucking school and one of
them is a children's cartoon book called Anti Racist Baby,
(22:15):
and it's about teaching your kid to be anti racist,
because the conceit is that kids aren't. They're not like
born racist. They're taught racism. They're taught to be racist
by their environment and society, their family and all the
things that we know about human beings and how they
(22:35):
develop their opinions about stuff. Um. So he brings up
this fucking book and I don't know if we can
play it, but basically he talks about this book for
a little while. It's like, yeah, it says this, and
it says that you know, you you have to teach
kids to be anti racist because otherwise they'll be racist.
There's no there's no neutrality, which, like the book isn't
saying there's no neutrality, it's saying that the kids are
(22:56):
taught racism. Um. So he does this for a while,
like four minutes, about these fucking books, about books that
have nothing to do with being a supreme nothing to
do with the Supreme Court. He's just he's just making
ship to go on Twitter. It's and it worked. We're
talking about it. Yeah, of course. So here's the end
of his little spiel. Are you comfortable with with these
(23:21):
ideas being taught to children as young as four and,
in respect to the first book, as young as eight nine, Senator,
I have not reviewed any of those books, any of
those ideas. They don't come up in my work as
a judge, which I am respectfully here to address in
(23:43):
my work as a judge, no need, which is evidenced
from my near decade on the bench. Then let's go
back to your work. Let her fucking finish. Like incredible,
She like said, what a piece of ship. It has
nothing to do with my job that I've done, nothing
(24:05):
to do with this h That to me sounded like
she was not quite done, but she was. She was done. Um,
from what I gathered and she was basically saying respect respectfully, disrespectfully. Actually,
it's embarrassing and such a waste of time, and you
actually have an opportunity to have some interesting conversations and
(24:26):
thought provoking conversations. And look, I don't know, I don't remember.
I didn't watch Supreme Court Justice earrings when I was younger,
so I can't compare to how questioning is. But it's
just such bullshit. It's such fucking obvious, theatrical bullshit. You
don't want a real conversation. You don't want to give
her an opportunity to show, you know, talk about real
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issues or have an actual conversation because that might change
people's minds about something. Anyway. That's that's how I feel.
I mean, it's all yeah, I mean, it's definitely like
reached a fever pitch with all these or does. But
like you know, no, it's not knew that these little
freaks go up there and do their little dance and
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try to get their little their little SoundBite and their
little their little show um at the expense of I
wonder if they see I wonder if if they get
a real good zinger in did their Twitter follows go?
It is to apology apologize for the phrase trumped up. Now. Um, yeah,
he's really ruined that word as a word I feel
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comfortable using. Um. But yeah, r I p uker players,
Um but it is Uh. I just think it's funny
that he spent five minutes talking about these books that
have nothing to do with being Supreme Court justice. And
she basically responded, respectfully, No, I'm not here to talk
about those there's nothing to do with this, and he
was like, oh, okay, then then let's go to go
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to go to your work like he knows, he knows
what he was doing. It didn't work. Um, she said,
being an idiot right now, and he moved on kindly. Kindly,
she kindly said that can I can I play an
interaction between her and Lindsey Graham where he was also
wasting everybody's time And I love interactions where senators waste
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time and being and being an Assholeum, motherfucker. Um, okay,
I get this club for you guys, give me it all.
What faith are you, by the way, Senator, I am
um Protestant, okay, nondenominational? Could you fairly judge a Catholic senator? Question?
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Is that judging everyone. I'm just asking this question because
because you're an asshole, is your faith to you Senator personally? Um?
My faith is very important. Um. But as you know,
there's no religious tests in the Constitution under under Article six. God,
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God damn it. It's just I was gonna say before
we played this that we should let Supreme Court candidates
hit one person with a brick during their confirmation hearings.
But that's not going to be enough. It's not enough
good death glare though not death clare. But she's got like,
while keeping her voice calm, her eyes say, are you
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fucking she knows what she was stepping into. Yes, she did.
It's not her first day, she knows, not her first
rodeo the Senate is in general, what kind of question
is could you fairly judge a Catholic? Well, again, he
voted for her, firmed her months ago. As a judge,
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I'm just gonna say right now, I could not fairly
judge of Catholic because as a papist, they cannot be
trusted to fairly apply the law. They're always going to
be a servant of the Vatican, just like John Fitzgerald Kennedy,
which is why Bernard Sanders had to shoot him. Robert, Robert,
you're letting it. You're letting it all out in the bag.
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I would have been like, now they know, we'll return
to that later. I would have been like, yeah, I
judged them all the time. I think it's fair. I
don't know there's a better joke in there. I mean,
she did a great job with all these freaks, um,
these papists, I got more. Should we take another ad
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break here, let's take let's take an ad break here
together everything so don't don't don't mars. That works as grammatically.
Both both are fine, Both are fine. Um. Yeah. The
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United States, the Biden administration, i should say, has declared, um,
what the government of the military junta and well not
just the military junta because it was actually done under
um the president who was recently deposed by the military
as well on song Succhi. Um. But yeah, the Biden
administration has declared what the military and government to me
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and mar did against the Rohinga the ethnic cleansing which
took place over about you know, the several years up
until the present point as a genocide, five years about
five years. Good, it is good? How come it took
Sister Robert well, you know, in the US recognizing a
genocide terms. This was not a bad turn around, because
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you have to, but it's really hard. It was a
year ago that Biden recognized the Armenian genocide from years ago.
I remember that. I do remember that, and so that's
a point well taken. But I UM, along with a
lot of our listeners, I think, have been horrified by
this a lot of things that happen around the world,
and it is especially frustrating. While good as this is, uh,
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it is especially frustrating to see the swiftness of our
response UM to what's happening in Ukraine and the attention
of the world. And this has been happening for five years,
you know, the warrant gray like it's just anyway, why
you're not going to see nearly as much movement on
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the part. Part of why I suspect the Biden administration
was made this decision now after five years, is because
what's happening in Myanmar is connected to what's happening in Ukraine.
Because the top Medaw the military are armed by the Russians.
They're using Russian planes and and not Russian small arms.
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They actually have a pretty significant indigenous small arms industry
that the military does. But they're using a lot of
Russian UM artillery and aircraft UM in order to crack
down on the rebels in the civil war, and they
were using it before in the genocide. Whereas what the
what's happened in Armenia recently, UM, the the war a
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Zerbijan carried out, which has genocidal elements, what's happening in
uh Tigray, UM, and what's happening between the the the
Turks and the Kurds in southern Turkey and in Northeast
Syria UM, those all have genocidal elements as well. But
in all of those cases UM, either the Turkish nation,
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which is the second largest military and NATO is directly
involved as they are in the genocide in h the
or the ethnic cleansings at least in his Aerbijan and
the genocides genocidal acts against the Kurds UM or in
the case of Tigray, Turkey is heavily arming the Ethiopian
government and in fact, the rebels in Tigray were pretty
close to taking the cap before the same brackt drones
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that people are celebrating in Ukraine were sent by Turkey
to the Ethiopian government, which allowed them to turn back
the advance of the rebels. So part of why you're
seeing this recognized now is that the US government's interests
are in doing so as opposed to recognizing that there
are genocides that are allied Turkey is involved in. UM
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less in elect that makes sense, UM, disappointingly but makes sense. UM. Ill.
So I know that you guys have been talking UM
or have covered the civil war and what's happening over
there a lot on UM it could happen here, but UM,
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why don't for our listeners that maybe don't know what's
happening over there? A was elected in a landslide last
year one reelected and then um immediately the military UH
stage to coup and overthrew her and has imprisoned her
under a variety of charges. She's seventy six. I think
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she's currently facing six years or eight years in prison
and is another charge on top of that all about
like I don't know what it was, staplers or something
like something. Yeah, there was just like COVID protocols being breached.
That yeah, UM, And since since then, Um, you know,
it started with a huge um national strike that uh
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you know, and everybody was engaged in watching for a while.
But then you know, attention. Of course, Peter's off on
the national stage. Um Roberts. Can you fill us in
a little bit on the stuff that's been going on?
Sure it is. There were a bunch of protests. The
government responded eventually to those protests by just shooting a
lot of people to death with live ammunition, both the
military and the police doing that, And so a bunch
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of folks were like, well, I guess let's go to
the Jungles, A sizeable chunk of what is referred to
as Myanmar as like a state is actually not under
the control of the government and hasn't been for a while.
It's under the control of like the what are the
ethnic armed organizations is one of the terms you'll see
form And they're different kind of tribal groups that have
a large degree aboutonomy. I think the biggest being the
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karin Um and they have been in some cases fighting
like an insurgency against the government in all cases kind
of uneasily preserving their autonomy. And it's a complicated story,
but a lot of these rebels when the military hunter
took power like fled to these areas and were trained
by these indigenous armed organizations and are now and have
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been ever since over the last year so fighting a
civil war against the military of Myanmar, the tommadaw UM
and that's that is ongoing to this day. And so
large chunks of the rural areas are, if not in
control of rebels or e a o s, out of
the control of the state. But the state, which by
which when we say the state in mean while we're
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referring to the military, does control the cities UM or
at least the bulk of the cities. You know, there's
areas and whatever. It's it's it's a it's a pretty
complicated conflict. It does not get a lot of attention
UM in the United States. If you'd like more to
know more about that, I would recommend checking out the
four part series we did on It could Happen Here
about the war in Myanmar. UM. There's a lot that's
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that's quite interesting about what's going on there, including the
prevalence of Generation Z militias, which is how they refer
to them, which is kind of made up of these
kids who were the first generation in Myanmar to have
internet access and who grew up with a great degree
of freedom and feeling connected to the international community. And
then UM, you know, are rebelled when the government was like,
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well that's all gonna end. We're not willing to accept that.
UM and who have been experimenting with a lot of
really different kind of horizontal organizational structures in in opposition
both to the government and also kind of counter to
how a lot of these e A o s handle
things which are more kind of traditional insurgent military structures. UM.
And there's also a lot of like homemade weapons, UM,
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including three D printed arms that are increasingly becoming like
a factor on the battlefield. It's a it's an interesting
conflict and one that doesn't get a lot of attention,
in part because you know, at Southeast Asia, UM, in
part because most people have not heard much about Myanmar.
It was not a country up until pretty recently that
was very connected globally to to the rest of the world.
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You know, again, from most of its history, it's been
like a series of dictatorships UM for most of its
modern history. Because it was also like a British colony
and in fact George Orwell was actually a policeman in Burma. Um, like, yes,
that was one of a kind of foundational experience for him.
Was like helping to brutally apply British rule in this
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colony and then having feelings about it. And then there's
a whole conversation of course about the white colonizers and
how that has affected how the country are very established.
Um so, how what does the United States Joe Biden
declaring this genocide? What does that do? I mean, it's
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good other than publicly acknowledging that recognizing it does it.
That's all it's doing at this point. There's unless one
the thing that the Biden administration could do is provide
the rebels in mean Mar with some of the same
equipment we're providing Ukraine. Primarily, there's a lot of talk
of no fly zones and um, you know, usually again
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we we've we've chatted about this a bit on our shows.
Usually when people talk about those, they are referring to
like the idea of sending in US RNATO aircraft to
stop other aircraft for making in an area. But one
way you can apply a no fly zone without doing
that is by shipping a lot of anti aircraft weapons,
which is what we're doing now Ukraine, right, we're doing
in Ukraine. And you know, Aim Stout and I when
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we were working on our story in Mianmar, were in
pretty regular contact with the twenty three year old kids,
all Lynn, who was a member of a militia Generation,
one of the gen Z militias in Myanmar, and so
he would chat with him, and then we would see
footage of him fighting the Topmadaw and footage of him
hanging out with his girlfriend who was wounded by a
mortar like while we were chatting with him, um. And
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then a couple of days after we started dropping the episodes,
he got killed by an air strike. UM. And it's
one of those things where the government has air supremacy
because the rebels, you know again they're they're like cobbling
together their own rifles. They certainly don't have aircraft. UM.
So if you want to say, like, what could the
US be doing, there's an argument to be made for
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providing anti air weapons to the rebels, But if we're
not going to do that, then effectively the only real
they impact this has well, at least we're acknowledging it's
a genocide. So right now, what is the impact this
is going to have on the war in Myanmar? Nothing?
Um that that that's the short answer. It's not going
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to do anything. That said, I'm always supportive of the
United States being like, hey, look at genocide. That's a genocide.
It's like, it's good to recognize it. Like we have
the most we can all argue about, like what is
reasonable and what is ethical when it comes to like
providing weapons. You know, those are complicated discussions to be had,
but the minimum everyone should do when there's a genocide
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is be like, well that that looks like what it is.
That's definitely a genocide. We should at least be able
to agree on that. Yeah. So I'm like, I don't
think it's bad. I think I would go so far
to say it's good that the Biden administration recognized it
as a genocide. But I don't think at the moment,
I've seen no evidence that Biden administration is going to
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take any actions that will material materially affect circumstances on
their own. R Yeah, okay, well thank you for that.
Speaking of war, you know what else is a war?
What ending a pod cast episode? Yeah, I can be
that makes dangerous the greatest heroes of all or criminals
(40:08):
or criminals. Yeah. It is also remember episode of the podcast.
I'm not sure if you remember, but war is criminal.
It's true something about that. I'm sure our listeners are
thrilled with this episode. Yeah, it seems like we really
have it together. I'm proud of us. I'm proud of us.
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Devil's advocate. Yeah I don't think we do. Oh wow, okay,
speaking of the you know, who needs an advocate? Who
the devil? The devil? I was right there in the
setup and culture comes for the Prince of lies. Oh god,
is he gonna? Are they gonna ask about cancel? Culture?
(40:53):
The Devil's triggered. That's so good. It's so good. You
love it, You love to see it, You love to
see it. Guys. Um cool. That's it for us this week.
We will be back next week with energy and news.
We will not energetic news, just like this weekend every
week before it play us out fear. Oh I met
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