JD Vance and Nixon Renaissance

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Welcome, hello. I agree with hello. If you said that, I forget. Hi, I'm Cody. Hi , Cody and Jonathan is also here. Wow, how about that for one? couldn't agree more. More shall we talk about my missing trash some more for the audience. The people are clamoring. No, you know what? Wait, the people are clamoring to find out about your trash. Yeah. A bag of trash went missing. I don't know where it went . End of story. This big truck came and picked up . What are you The trust came, Jonathan, making so much noise, grabbing the garbage from outside my home and just hauling it away . Hm , interesting. What are you guys gonna do with that? Speaking of bags of trash, we've got some Scotus rulings to discuss this morning. So yeah, we 're gonna do them out of order because I'm gonna go with like they saved their big one for last, you know , they do all these dramatics . Tomorrow morning, by the way, is when we're getting birthright citizenship ruling and bans on trans athletes in states. So we're going to, you know, just really steal yourself for whatever that is, but they tell you they're like they build a lot of suspense for the big ones for some reason. Season finale. It's a big week. Yeah, they should big days this week. So yes. But at any rate , the first one we've got today is Trump v slaughter . The court ruled six to three that Trump can fire a commissioner from the Federal Trade Commission basically for whatever reasons he wants , this goes against and really completely overturns a ninety year precedent called Humphreys Executor , which said that the president can't just fire whoever he wants because those agencies were created by Congress and were quote quasi judicial and quasi legislative. So even though they're part of the executive branch, Congress created them and decides what they do. So Congress kind of controls how this goes and it is the executive job to sort of execute the laws of Congress. You know, how our country 's like kill them. He's he chooses to see execute as like an execution. Yeah. Katie one. Basically , it's good . And thank you . And the name of the commissioner who is gone is Rebecca Slaughter, she was given no reason for her firing, even though the law that created the FTC said the president can only fire the commissioner for quote, inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office . So this is a big win for unitary executive theory saying that like everything under the executive branch, like the president gets control over, he can do whatever he wants. And it kind of ends the idea that there are civil servants who work in these agencies for years keeping their head down just doing the work of government because they are now political agencies that the president can just fire everyone at will and put in his cronies really, really, really, really bad. Kind of kind of kind of puts a puts a nail in the coffin of the conservative claim that they want to limit executive power the small and Obama was a tyrant and things of that nature kind of kind of kind of laughs in the face of their position on executive power completely. Curious how they will react with a different administration I'm not a different person making I know how they'll react. Choices, yeah, right. That 's outrageous Because with ruling, they also Roberts wrote this one and he wrote the ruling in Trump V Cook and they put them out together. So we already know John Roberts is very good at finding little wrinkles of why this thing actually doesn't apply to it's a slightly different thing . And he said that Trump cannot fire a governor on the Federal Reserve Board. That's Lisa Cook. This was a five to four ruling. So Roberts and Kavanaugh switched to join the Liberals to say no , he can't fire someone on the Fed board because of the history. There's a history of central bank independence , even though there's also a history of other agency independence, but there's a history of central bank independence and central banks carve out a special role in our government and they're funded different ly than the other agencies and trails off. Like, I'm surprised that the ruling doesn't literally go . Furthermore, there's ellipsies, ellipsis. So that's like good news that he can't fire her, but it's also Lice of good news, but it's also very confusing and weird. And the rest of the news is bad . Yeah, which even Clarence Thomas pointed out in his like wait, what? I thought we were doing this. Yeah, he's like he says although the court expresses concern that the president removed a board member for the first time in the Federal Reserve's one hundred and eleven year history , it expresses no such concern that it today upholds an injunction against the president's removal of an executive order for the first time in the Constitution's two hundred and thirty seven year history. He's basically like calling out Roberts bullsh it . And like, I guess we're glad the bullshit exists for this thing. We wished it didn't exist at all and agencies were as Congress created them. It's very frustrating because any changes that may be made to the Supreme Court, it's not on anybody's radar. It would seem not really in any real way to make significant changes to the Supreme Court. And this is just who we have. This is just it's just I mean, it seems like it should be a prerequisite for running for president in twenty twenty eight is what are he going to do about the Supreme Yeah. We'll see if that becomes any sort of topic a of conversation , what are you gonna do? Pack me packed court . They seem quote from packed court. They seem very unafraid they don't seem that they are particular ly concerned about a Democratic president like ruining their gig . Yeah . Yeah , no, they don't they don't seem concerned about that at all. I also want to point out before we move on that Bill Poulte the head of like six things now . He's like the director of the federal housing agency and also is acting director of national intellig ence, I think. Wow, lots of overlap there. Okay, but is he in a cult I mean, Trump doesn't count . He's in one cult. He's not in multiple cults. Yeah, then yeah,. then we're good Tulsi Gabbard. That's me, that's an improvement. I think we're doing pretty good . Polte posted, as I have repeatedly said, I believe Lisa Cook will be indicted for mortgage fraud because if you forgot he's the mortgage fraud. Yeah, yeah, mortgage fraud guy. Yeah, he's the bulldog s of hat for lots of little hats. Get him tiny hats. Go get them. And they like all those other cases have not gone anywhere, but he thinks this one will . So what I mean, what the courts got to say that. Yeah, got to keep saying it. And then you can be really angry when it doesn't happen saying this is shocking . The activist courts . Yeah, they were like, well, we can't he can't fire her for something she allegedly did before she was on the Fed board. Like Roberts really was like this doesn't fall. This isn't by the book right here with this one . So but Polte still thinks like a this vindictive prosecution is really going to go so far right after Adam Shifty Schiff gets arrested and whoever else did the mortgage fraud stuff . And then Obama . Yeah. I have no evidence, but I would say that Donald Trump has absolutely committed mortgage fraud, a lot of it. I mean of everybody in the government if I had to guess has committed list would be him. Do you get like a traditional mortgage when you buy like Marlago or something. I assume like probably doesn't have the money around cash. He borrows it from somewhere. But how does that work? Thirty year fixed rate , does he get one of those fifty year mortgages? He's still paying off Marlago . Let's see. He's looking at the race I got I can't believe I got mortgage for property taxes. I already bought this place. Now I owe more . You should stop for going his salary . I do want to like up before we move on to the other ruling and I hinted at this earlier, but like Congress created the agencies and said here's what the agencies do and it's in the executive branch because it's the president's job to execute the laws that Congress passes because the president doesn't create laws, right? Like the very high level, that's how this country works. It's unclear to me, maybe a lawyer can explain it to me that if the way they created, if the way that Congress created the FTC , however long ago was unconstitutional, does it mean that the president can do what he wants with that agency or shouldn't it mean that that agency doesn't exist and needs to be created. That's a really good . I don't know. Like why are is every agency abolished now because Congress created it with authority that they didn't have or they don't actually have or the creation is fine . Yeah . Yeah, but we're telling you can't tell the president how to do stuff. Yes, you can. That's the party. That's the part of it. It's a big part of it. Lawyers sound off. We do have some good news ? Yeah, they, you know, the sprinkle of sugar . So they ruled five to four mail in ballots , late arriving mail in ballots as long as they are postmark ed by election day can still arrive later in states that allow them. This is based on this is upholding a Mississippi law , but of course we know that late arriving mail ballots are also a very big deal. A bit contentious these days. This is good news. This isn't just a sprinkle. I think this is good news. Yeah, no, it is. It absolutely is. Unquestionably Roberts and Barrett this time are the two who joined the liberals . This anti Prat Court is disgusting . They refuse to look at the obvious fraud that's all over the place because vote vote . And sure I knew about it. Yes, I knew that the votes would be trickling in after the election day . Yes, we all knew about it. Yes, we tweeted about it. Yes, when it happened, I pretended it was fake . Something about the Supreme Court tells me that they love , I don't know, homelessness or something. I don't know. I hate that guy. I mean, they're also probably just unfamiliar with him. They're not exactly fans of the Hills. You know, it's a long time ago, but still I think it was passed there. Maybe in Barrett's era. No, this is great. This is great news . It doesn't counteract the other bad news, but this is good, this is good , especially given what we're heading into and all the attempts to strip away voting rights and protections from people. And so yeah . At Stanford Medicine, we know discoveries change lives and advances made right here lead to better health for patients everywhere . It's why our world class school of medicine and adult and children's health systems work together , pioneering treatments , teaching the innovators of tomorrow , and delivering the best possible care today . Stanford Medicine , Advancing Knowledge, improving lives . Stanfordmedicine. org you can still send them those ballots. They make up a pretty small share of the vote total in all of these states , but like some of these margins are not exactly we see these margin s in elections all the time . There's a graphic that we can put on screen that has what percentage of the twenty twenty four presidential vote was received late and it's like Illinois one point nine percent, Nevada point eight percent, New Jersey. five percent, Alaska four point one percent, which could be important November . That makes a whole lot of sense too . That's Alaska. That's where you that's where you'd want to vote by it takes longer to deliver stuff . And Nevada like Nevada, you can totally see a presidential race being within zero point eight percent . So that can be important. Obviously, Trump hates them because they tend to be I don't know about Alaska, but in the continental US, they tend to be more blue those ballots . So it's good that they decided not to make it illegal. Alito's whole thing is like election day . It says it right there in the name of the day . Also, this would have it's unclear what would have happened with military ballots if this would also have applied to military ballots which they like. People living overseas that vote absentee . That's good. They rejected Egene Carroll's case or Trump 's case that he wants to fuckin'. Yeah, this is good news. And then as we've already alluded to, tomorrow will be the real the real cliffhanger, the real season finale verdicts will come in tomorrow. Steven Miller Day . And like, we expect them to go a certain way, one yes, and one. Oh no . And we'll see . You know what? I don't even want to say it. , we don't know. There's a truth social post from Donald Trump celebrating the his ability to fire anyone now. fire the Fed chair though. Has he commented on that? Has he commented on Eugene Carroll? He's commented on everything and I can read these one at a time, him being like, happy and also I hate you. Got this website fucking sucks. It's an horrible website. Every single time I go here, God pieces of shit website. I mean, so he used the mail in ballot loss to say that we have to pass the Save America Act. It's the only way to save the country, blah, blah, blah, blah blah . Then says, surprisingly, the Supreme Court declined to review a fake case brought against me by a woman I never met, decades old celebrity photo line standing with her husband does not count. I will continue to fight the blah blah blah. He owes her millions of dollars. Just pay her the money. Man, you're stealing billions from us. The cook lawsuit having to do with her suitability and sitting on the board of the Federal Reserve was sent back by the Supreme Court on a strictly procedural basis. We will take appropriate action immediately to make sure that someone who has committed wrongdoing will not be making vital decisions concerning the welfare of the United States of America. So I'm sure he's just like arrest her immediate . You gotta arrest Lisa . Go get her, go get her . And then, but he didn't call the court completely illegitimate and stupid because they gave him something he liked. And he wrote, To show the importance of the slaughter case, ninety years of precedent has been completelye and unquivocally overruled, greatly increasing presidential power at a time when it is most needed. That's our argument. That's yeah, well, I know for him. It's kind of it's pretty wild that I mean that was not completely expected, but like just being like, yeah, we're gonna we're going to blow up the Supreme Court and I can do whatever I want . Again, I think maybe this sort of laughs in the face of the Ceronsvative movement 's position on the executive power and maybe him celebrating a massive expansion of presidential power on his own website is maybe indicative of that. It's scary. It is scary to think about what this means or what means what this could mean moving forward . I already mentioned don't they care about when there's a new administration, when there's , you know, another party in charge no body's shaking his head. I don't think they're concerned . They're not concerned. And why aren't they concerned? That concerns me. We'll never tell . And I don't want to be a fear mongery fearmongerer , but someone stole my trash . Lisa Cook, perhaps? Someone should look into it. The dog days of summer are coming up, so why not crank that AC? Or if you don't have it, turn on a fan, or if you don't even have that, put a wet box of tissues on your head and space out to some movies on Pluto TV that may or may not be dog related . There's no law that says the dog days have to be all about dogs , but they could be. Do some free streaming of your all time favorite summer blockbusters, like Mean Girls, Men in Black, the Hound of Music, the Sniff Element , Dalmatian , Ferminator Two, Pugmant Day , Bite Club directed by David Pincher . 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So we're going to keep today's show a little bit briefer because we have a live stream , Tuesday night six PM Pacific daylight time . I think still daylight time. It is still daylight. Pacific daylight time, we will be streaming and talking about all things news and all of things America and two hundred and fifty . But before we leave today, we would like to watch a clip . Yeah. Of our favorite VP. Yeah, we're talking about the expansion of executive power and sort of the implication that Trump can kind of get away with whatever the hell he wants . And maybe we watch this clip of his vice president maybe. Kind of talking about that too . He's very, very red in this clip. So we were talking about this a little bit backstage, but I'm actually fascinated by Nixon as a character in history. I think that his historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, but I think deservedly so . As I joked with Robert backstage, if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a twelve hour news story. The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy . And by the way, if you look at the story of the deep state took down Richard Nixon . It's not all that different what the same groups of people, the same institutions tried to do to Donald Trump in the first Trump administration. There is a parallel I also just at a personal level, you know , okay , young senator , vice president , writes some best selling books, is hated by the media. It kind of sounds like JD Vance. So I'm a little I've always liked I've always liked Richard Nixon, but so that's a lie . I just obviously got a liar and he's full of shit. No that he's always liked Richard Nixon . He famously has a text about Donald Trump saying either Donald Trump is going to be America's hitler or an asshole like Nixon. And both of them were framed as being bad things to be . He's not always been a fan of Nixon. Cody showed up on the seats. He thought he fucking sucked and was an asshole that he didn't want to be president. He's a liar. He is not wrong, though, that he is somewhat similar to Nixon in that Nixon , Nixon was like an impressive guy and made his way up to be in this elite group of people that he never thought like respected him and he never got like what was due him. And I feel like that's Vance where he's like, I wrote a selling novel. I'm the vice I'm the youngest vice president president hate me ever. And everyone still hates me . So let me get like a grudge presidency where I just get in there just to like screw everyone and grumble and you know if, God will be forced to resolve it. The point like oh in disgrace. We did. We did Nixon dirty man. These days , none of that would have held any water. It wouldn't have even been a scandal. That's the problem , dude . That is the fucking problem . This is what people there's no normalcy anymore. There's no sense of decency. There's no right or wrong. It's all just this huge cluster fuck and it is it is a problem that major news stories break and there isn't enough oxygen in the room for people to pay attention to it. It's not because our standards have changed, it's because we're overwhelmed and desensitized to the barrage of news or I guess half the country their standards have changed , but only with this president because again , if it was any other administration and if it was a Democrat in office , all of these scandals that they pretend are nothing burgers that just blow over within twelve hours would be front page every day. You would never let any of it go. They're still talking about Hunter Biden. Give me a fucking break. And Nixon having a renaissance, what are you talking? Who's out here praising Nixon all of a sudden Nixon for you, JD Van? The right wing that he follows on the edge. The right wing . And I want to guess it's not because Nixon created the EPA . No, it's not. It's because of the it's because of he's an asshole. They like him . Yeah, it's absurd. It's very frustrating, obviously , what a stupid guy little fraud guy . No one ever does this . Certainly not in that environment, but when he says stuff like that, like, yeah, like, you know, what took down Nixon? That would be like a twenty twelve like a twelve hour news story. Okay . And is that good ? Do you think that's good? You're just saying that it's true. And you're right . It would be a very like it's a blip. You're right. Is that good? Obviously he thinks it's good because it helps him and his administration get away with more stuff and it's the entire smile . He smiled. He loves it. He's a little weasel man And but it's, you know, the banned flood is like it's this is the effect of what they wanted to do. They wanted to create this environment where yeah, you flood the zone with as many stories as possible, you overwhelm everybody. And then years later, you can be like, man , what Nixon did, not that big a deal, actually, would have been just like a blip and do more of that kind of stuff. It's the deep state. It's the people who didn't like him in FBI that were saying have the gall to look into it after he like broke into the DNC and had the CIA cover it up. He went valid grievances, you know , yeah So yeah, he's a putts. Yeah . But he's our putts. JK, not my putts, not my pets. Jadie. And I think you stole my fucking trash, J ad andie I want it back. Well, it's 'cause it's filled with his book. He's like, I need copies of this to sign at the mountain Barnes and Noble. Hurry, I just need it, I need it. I don't know if I've mentioned it twice already, but we've got a live stream Tuesday night indeed Pacific daylight time . And we're gonna we're gonna we're going to celebrate America. This is what we're going to do. We're going to clip this out. 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