Revolutionary flags are only OK when leftists carry them (05-29-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:29] Let's talk about flags, right?

[00:00:31] Let's talk about flags and how they harm people, particularly flags that are associated

[00:00:36] with America's founding.

[00:00:39] I went over this a couple of days ago, I believe producer john Moore has turned one of these

[00:00:43] rants into a bit of a promo that's running on WBT during hopefully everybody shows.

[00:00:50] But it's, it's amazing to me how eager leftists are to abandon the symbols of America and

[00:01:04] its founding.

[00:01:06] And you can go back to the Gadsden flag in 2008 2009 with the rise of the Tea Party.

[00:01:14] That's the yellow flag which says don't tread on me with the snake, you know.

[00:01:19] Same thing goes with the Betsy Ross flag.

[00:01:21] Remember, there were some Nike sneakers, and they got canceled because it was a bad, you

[00:01:27] know, Betsy Ross.

[00:01:28] Or they had American American flag colors, Betsy Ross iconography, and they canceled

[00:01:34] that.

[00:01:35] And then of course, the whole Betsy Ross flag was problematic and everything.

[00:01:37] Of course, the US flag has been problematic for a lot of leftists.

[00:01:43] And when you realize it's because they really do hate America, then a lot of that makes sense,

[00:01:48] right?

[00:01:50] But what's amazing to me is how Democrats and media, but I repeat myself how how quick

[00:01:53] they are to just surrender their own historical symbols.

[00:02:01] And I understand that a lot of these things like they are just flags, you know, I get

[00:02:06] it, they're just they're designs.

[00:02:07] But they are also there.

[00:02:10] They're meant to rally people around ideas.

[00:02:13] The flag in and of itself is not sacred.

[00:02:16] The flag in and of itself is not the idea, it represents the idea.

[00:02:21] And that's the thing that rallies people, and it should.

[00:02:25] And particularly for a nation like America, that is organized around a philosophy, a concept,

[00:02:34] right, these ideas, there isn't anything that ties us together, except the concept of what

[00:02:42] is America?

[00:02:43] What is it all about?

[00:02:45] And we are and have been unique in the history of the world.

[00:02:50] Others have now, you know, joined our side, our cause, and they look, they have looked

[00:02:56] to us and said, oh, we like the way they're doing things.

[00:02:58] And so we want to try to do some stuff the way they're doing it, but not identically.

[00:03:05] And so when you reject these symbols of what America is as an idea, you are rejecting

[00:03:15] the ideas.

[00:03:17] And so when you are offended and you find it to be egregious that somebody would fly

[00:03:24] a flag from the revolutionary period, then I have to make certain assumptions about you

[00:03:35] and about why you don't like these symbols of our founding, of the revolution.

[00:03:47] Axios.com started the second chapter of Flagsgate.

[00:03:54] Remember the first story that we were treated to was that there was an upside-down flag

[00:04:01] that was hung at Justice Sam Alito's house somewhere around January of 2020.

[00:04:12] And obviously you've got J6, and so the connection there is that he's standing in solidarity

[00:04:18] with the insurrectionists, right?

[00:04:22] But the details actually don't support that.

[00:04:26] But they thought they had him on that one.

[00:04:30] By the way, even if he did fly the flag, even if it was him, which it wasn't, apparently

[00:04:35] it was his wife, and even if it was about J6, which they say it wasn't, it was about

[00:04:39] a neighborhood fight that they were having with their left-wing moonbat neighbors.

[00:04:45] Well the neighbor's kids, or kid and her live-in boyfriend during the pandemic.

[00:04:51] I got some details.

[00:04:54] Even if that was the case, it's a sign of distress.

[00:05:00] Which are you telling me that, like when you fly the American flag upside down, it's a

[00:05:05] sign of distress.

[00:05:07] That's why you do that.

[00:05:08] Your ship is sinking or something and you need help, right?

[00:05:14] Why would you automatically assume that he's flying it, even if he did, which he did not,

[00:05:19] but even if he did, why would you assume that it is not a symbol of distress that is

[00:05:26] occurring in the country because of J6?

[00:05:29] Why do you assume that he's on board with the J6, the protest turned riot?

[00:05:35] Why couldn't it be that he was in opposition to that?

[00:05:39] That this is of great distress to him to see this occurring.

[00:05:43] He's a conservative, Sam Alito, and conservatives tend to want to preserve institutions.

[00:05:50] And what we saw on January 6th wasn't exactly in line with that.

[00:05:54] So why would the assumption be that flying the flag upside down would be in line with

[00:05:59] the riot and not in opposition to the riot?

[00:06:02] They never do say that.

[00:06:04] They never get around to explaining their baseline assumption because of course not.

[00:06:09] They have a story to write.

[00:06:10] So that was the first story.

[00:06:11] The second story was, guys, we found another flag.

[00:06:19] This one was at his house at the Jersey Shore, which if you want to impeach Sam Alito, I would

[00:06:25] say that right there is the cause.

[00:06:29] Having a house at the Jersey Shore, I think that's...

[00:06:33] I kid the Jersey Shore.

[00:06:35] I kid.

[00:06:36] I kid.

[00:06:38] This flag, the second flag, was a flag that I had never even seen before.

[00:06:42] I don't think.

[00:06:43] I mean, I may have seen it someplace.

[00:06:45] I don't recall ever seeing it.

[00:06:46] It's a white flag and it's got a pine tree on it, like a cartoon pine tree.

[00:06:51] I did not know that this flag was also from the Revolutionary Period.

[00:06:56] And then later on, years later, they added some words underneath the flag.

[00:07:01] What did it say?

[00:07:04] Something about heaven.

[00:07:05] Oh, I forget.

[00:07:06] It's in the story here someplace.

[00:07:09] I didn't even know the flag.

[00:07:10] I couldn't even tell you what the flag was.

[00:07:14] I'm not just saying that.

[00:07:15] I really don't even remember.

[00:07:17] It's like about to heaven or ascend to heaven or appeal to...

[00:07:20] Thank you.

[00:07:21] Appeal to heaven.

[00:07:22] Yes, there it goes.

[00:07:24] Which is what I think the strategy for Trump is going to be if he's convicted.

[00:07:27] That's the...

[00:07:28] I kid.

[00:07:29] It's just a joke.

[00:07:30] Like, I didn't even remember the name.

[00:07:33] So okay.

[00:07:34] So appeal to heaven got added on later.

[00:07:37] But even so, it's been around for a long time.

[00:07:39] And most people, 99.9% of Americans don't even know this flag exists.

[00:07:43] But some people do.

[00:07:45] And guess what?

[00:07:46] Those people tend to know a lot about history as proof in the fact that they know the freaking

[00:07:52] flag, right?

[00:07:53] The fact that you would know that that flag has some sort of revolutionary tie means you

[00:07:58] are up on your Revolutionary War history or period history.

[00:08:04] And those people, I know I'm going to offend some folks on the left here, but those people

[00:08:09] tend not to be leftists.

[00:08:11] Leftists tend to think that history sort of kind of began with Karl Marx.

[00:08:16] They don't even go back to Hegel.

[00:08:18] It's Karl Marx.

[00:08:20] It's all in the now.

[00:08:21] It's all in the last hundred years.

[00:08:23] So the people who are really in tune to the Revolutionary War and period history, they

[00:08:29] know the flag.

[00:08:30] And so this flag got flown at the Beach House by the Elitos.

[00:08:36] That's it.

[00:08:37] So those were the two installments, the first two chapters in Flagsgate.

[00:08:44] Okay, so now what has occurred?

[00:08:46] Well, we find out since that after I believe it was the New York Times did the story on

[00:08:51] the flags, the Washington Post comes out and says, hey, you know what?

[00:08:56] We actually had that story first.

[00:08:58] We had it.

[00:08:59] We had it three years ago, but we did not run it.

[00:09:03] Turns out, yeah, they sat on it for twelve hundred and twenty one days.

[00:09:09] The Post former Supreme Court reporter Bob Barnes did a front yard interview with Justice

[00:09:14] Sam Alito on January 20th, 2021, President Biden's inauguration day about the upside

[00:09:20] down American flag that had flown outside the justices home in Fairfax County, Virginia.

[00:09:25] And the Washington Post decided that it was not a story.

[00:09:28] It was not a story until the New York Times did the story.

[00:09:33] And then it is totally a story three years and four months later.

[00:09:37] That's what you call, by the way, packed journalism.

[00:09:40] The flag, according to Axios.com, says Alito attributed the flag to his wife.

[00:09:46] She put it up, Martha Ann Alito.

[00:09:49] And according to Axios, it raised ethics questions that were heightened after The Times reported

[00:09:56] last week on a second provocative flag flown at an Alito property.

[00:10:02] Why is it a provocative flag?

[00:10:05] It's a Revolutionary War flag.

[00:10:07] What's the matter flying the flag?

[00:10:09] Are you saying that all the flags from the Revolutionary War period are now no longer

[00:10:12] allowed to be flown?

[00:10:14] This is absurdity.

[00:10:16] The key takeaway in all of the Flagsgate saga is that revolutionary flags are okay

[00:10:25] to carry if you're a leftist.

[00:10:28] All right.

[00:10:29] That's the key.

[00:10:30] That's the standard.

[00:10:31] That is the lesson here, because look, the upside down American flag was carried through

[00:10:37] many Black Lives Matter protests.

[00:10:41] It turned it upside down as a sign of distress.

[00:10:43] People have been doing this for decades.

[00:10:45] I mean, I knew this as a kid.

[00:10:48] Not that I ever did it, but I knew about it.

[00:10:53] And this story of the upside down flag was known by the Washington Post three and a half

[00:10:58] years ago.

[00:11:01] They didn't report it.

[00:11:04] Cameron Barr, the Washington Post's former senior managing editor, said that we should

[00:11:12] I agreed with Bob Barnes and others that we should not do a single slice story about

[00:11:17] the flag because it seemed like the story was about Martha Ann Alito and not her husband.

[00:11:23] In retrospect, I should have pushed harder for that story.

[00:11:27] Oh, OK.

[00:11:28] So now that The New York Times does it, you're like, oh, we totally had that story too.

[00:11:32] And and and I totally regret that we didn't we didn't run it.

[00:11:36] No, you made the right call back then, because that's what the story was about.

[00:11:40] The story was about a neighborhood fight.

[00:11:45] Between and apparently they live on a cul-de-sac.

[00:11:48] Found that out today in reading through this ridiculous New York Times story headlined Inside

[00:11:55] the Clash That Prompted the Alitos Upside Down Flag.

[00:12:01] The police in Fairfax County, Virginia.

[00:12:04] This is how they start the story.

[00:12:06] Received an unusual phone call on February 15th, 2021.

[00:12:09] A young couple claimed that they were being harassed by the wife of a Supreme Court justice.

[00:12:15] Quote, Somebody in a position of authority needs to talk to her and make her stop, said

[00:12:21] the 36 year old man making the complaint, according to a recording of the call that

[00:12:26] was reviewed by The New York Times.

[00:12:28] The officer on the line responded that there was little the police could do because

[00:12:33] yelling was not a crime.

[00:12:35] Apparently, Martha Ann yelled at them and that hurt their feelings.

[00:12:42] These are people that posted signs in their front yard saying bleep Trump at a school

[00:12:48] bus stop for young kids and some other choice words.

[00:12:55] But no, no.

[00:12:55] When someone yells at them, they're the victim.

[00:12:58] Right?

[00:12:59] They're the victim.

[00:13:00] By the way, we know the woman's name.

[00:13:03] So here's what happened.

[00:13:04] You get this.

[00:13:05] So one of the Alitos have a neighbor.

[00:13:07] It's an elderly woman and her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend came to live with

[00:13:13] them during the pandemic.

[00:13:16] So they weren't even homeowners on the block, they were the daughter and the daughter's

[00:13:21] boyfriend of the neighbor.

[00:13:24] And they were the ones that were putting signs out in front of their mom's yard.

[00:13:29] Oh, and their leftists, which should surprise nobody.

[00:13:34] The whole point, the whole objective of Flags Gate, these stories about Sam Alito and the

[00:13:44] two flags that were flown at his house in Virginia and his house on the Jersey Shore

[00:13:51] is that it's a pressure point to get him to recuse himself from any case that comes to

[00:13:58] him regarding January 6th, Trump's immunity, whatever.

[00:14:03] It's it's to undermine confidence in the court and it's to get him to recuse himself.

[00:14:08] That's the whole point.

[00:14:10] They're trying similar plays like they're doing one like Rolling Stone has a story today

[00:14:15] about Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's husband, who is a lawyer and is

[00:14:20] representing Fox Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, in a defamation lawsuit.

[00:14:31] But he's not representing Fox in front of the U.S.

[00:14:33] Supreme Court. And as Rachel Bovard points out, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's husband, Marty

[00:14:42] Ginsburg, worked at a firm that routinely had business in front of the Supreme Court

[00:14:48] while she was on the court, and none of that was ever disclosed, never disclosed.

[00:14:55] Oh, and by the way, we got an exclusive from the San Francisco Chronicle that just

[00:15:01] just broke that the Appeal to Heaven flag, the Pine Tree flag that they're making all

[00:15:08] of this hullabaloo over in the up in the at the house on the Jersey Shore.

[00:15:14] That flag has been flying for years outside of San Francisco City Hall until Saturday.

[00:15:24] They took it down on Saturday.

[00:15:27] The flag has been up there all this time.

[00:15:31] And Stephen Miller said, well, I guess this means San Francisco is no longer MAGA

[00:15:36] country. Probably not.

[00:15:41] So this couple that lived for time during the pandemic with with the girl's mom.

[00:15:48] On the same street as the Alitos, this couple placed a phone call to the police after a

[00:15:56] series of encounters with Martha and Alito, wife of Justice Alito, that had gone from

[00:16:01] uneasy to ugly.

[00:16:02] That day, Emily Baden is her name, Emily Baden, whose boyfriend, now her husband,

[00:16:09] contacted the police.

[00:16:12] That day, she and her boyfriend had traded accusations with Mrs.

[00:16:17] Alito, who lived down the street.

[00:16:19] Ms.

[00:16:19] Baden admitted to calling her a lewd epithet.

[00:16:22] OK, so it was the woman, it was Emily Baden, who and by the way, there's a neighbor who

[00:16:27] saw this happen on the street.

[00:16:29] She acknowledges, yes, I called her a very ugly word for a woman.

[00:16:35] The clash between the wife, and she's 70 years old, this woman.

[00:16:38] OK, Martha Annalito is 70 and Emily Baden is in her 30s.

[00:16:46] The clash between the wife of a conservative Supreme Court justice and the couple who were

[00:16:50] in their 30s, liberal and proud of it, played out over months on a bucolic block in

[00:16:57] Alexandria, Virginia.

[00:16:58] It was the kind of shouting match among private citizens at the height of tensions over the

[00:17:02] 2020 election that might have happened in any mixed political community in America.

[00:17:08] And people wonder why we are sorting ourselves away from people who are insane like

[00:17:14] this. Three years later, the neighborhood spat has now taken on far greater proportions.

[00:17:21] Both sides agree it began over an anti-Trump sign.

[00:17:25] It was a vulgar anti-Trump sign.

[00:17:28] It was a vulgar sign.

[00:17:29] That was the objection.

[00:17:31] It was it was dropping F-bombs outside of a elementary school kids bus stop.

[00:17:38] The Times reported this month that Justice Alito's household flew an upside down flag,

[00:17:43] which had been adopted as a symbol of the Stop the Steal campaign in January 2021.

[00:17:47] All right. I got to tell you, I get a lot of emails, so maybe I missed it.

[00:17:51] I did not get the message from the Stop the Steal people that the upside down flag was

[00:17:55] now the official mask or official flag, the official symbol.

[00:18:00] Didn't never saw it.

[00:18:02] Never saw this adopted.

[00:18:04] Never saw anybody write it down.

[00:18:06] Never had anybody call in to tell me this.

[00:18:09] Never saw it flying around parts of Western North Carolina, parts of Charlotte, anywhere

[00:18:13] I ever traveled. Never seen it.

[00:18:15] OK, but then again, maybe I don't have my finger on the pulse of conservative politics.

[00:18:21] That's that's possible.

[00:18:26] The Times says that the justice who did not participate in the contentious neighborhood

[00:18:30] exchanges cited the dispute as the reason his wife had raised the flag.

[00:18:34] The conflict in the neighborhood does not explain why a second flag associated with

[00:18:38] the January 6th riot, as well as with a Christian nationalist movement, later flew at

[00:18:43] the Alitos New Jersey Beach House.

[00:18:45] So now they're tying it to Christian nationalism.

[00:18:47] How does that figure into the San Francisco City Hall flying the flag?

[00:18:51] Does it? The justice has offered no explanation for that flag.

[00:18:57] So now any flag from the revolutionary period counts as an insurrectionist Christian

[00:19:03] nationalist flag.

[00:19:05] This is what I mean. Democrats and media, but I repeat myself, are so eager to just

[00:19:10] abandon and surrender the symbols of their own history.

[00:19:15] The Times interviewed Ms.

[00:19:17] Baden, her mother and her husband, as well as other neighbors.

[00:19:20] Now, I should point out here, Ms.

[00:19:21] Baden's husband did not want to be identified by name because he has a job.

[00:19:29] Whereas his employer requires staff members to keep their political views private.

[00:19:38] So government, military?

[00:19:42] What? Far be it for me to suggest that there would be like an overrepresentation of

[00:19:49] government employees in Alexandria, Virginia.

[00:19:52] But Justice Alito's version of events was that the flag was briefly placed up there by

[00:19:59] Mrs. Alito in response to the neighbor's use of objectionable and personally insulting

[00:20:05] language on the yard signs.

[00:20:07] A neighbor on the block displayed this neighbor displayed a vulgar anti-Trump sign near where

[00:20:12] children wait for the school bus.

[00:20:14] Mrs. Alito complained to that neighbor, quote, things escalated and the neighbor put up a

[00:20:20] sign personally addressing Mrs.

[00:20:22] Alito and blaming her for the January 6th attacks.

[00:20:26] Later, the Alitos are on a neighborhood walk and there were words between Mrs.

[00:20:31] Alito and the unnamed husband.

[00:20:36] The justice said the man used the vulgar language, including the C word.

[00:20:40] After that exchange, Mrs.

[00:20:41] Alito was distraught and hung the flag upside down.

[00:20:44] But the Baden's version of this story is that Martha initiated the conflict.

[00:20:52] Aside from putting up a sign, she says we did not begin or instigate any of these

[00:20:57] confrontations. Oh, is that aside from putting up the signs?

[00:21:01] Right. That's it.

[00:21:02] It's all we did. Right.

[00:21:04] Everybody is always the victim of the hero of their own story.

[00:21:07] Never the villain. Right.

[00:21:08] All we did was put up some signs that were vulgar against Trump and then attacking the

[00:21:14] Supreme Court justices wife on her neighborhood block in the cul-de-sac while we were

[00:21:19] staying with mom during the pandemic.

[00:21:23] Oh, yeah, they stayed with her during the pandemic.

[00:21:25] They even adopted a pandemic puppy.

[00:21:30] There was little else to do.

[00:21:31] So they would go on walks and they would end up confronting the Alitos on a regular

[00:21:35] basis because they live in the same neighborhood on a cul-de-sac.

[00:21:40] Oh, get this.

[00:21:41] The couple participated in Black Lives Matter protests in Washington, propped up Biden

[00:21:45] Harris signs. And on the Saturday in November, when the election was called, they

[00:21:49] whooped and danced in the streets of the nation's capital.

[00:21:53] When they got home, they displayed a political sign that they made from torn up

[00:21:57] Amazon boxes, classy saying Biden on one side and bleep Trump on the other.

[00:22:05] Biden's mother, Barbara Baden, a 75 year old former executive at the Public

[00:22:10] Broadcasting Service at PBS, because of course she is said that she hesitated over

[00:22:16] the sign at her home because she was afraid it would look tacky.

[00:22:18] But she left it up because she did not want to interfere with what she saw as her

[00:22:22] daughter and her daughter's boyfriend's expression of political concern.

[00:22:26] They made the signs with good intent.

[00:22:28] See what I mean? Like the blind spot here.

[00:22:32] It's unbelievable.

[00:22:35] Shortly after Christmas, Emily Baden was with her dog in her front yard.

[00:22:39] An older woman then approached, thanked her for taking down the sign.

[00:22:43] But it had merely blown down.

[00:22:44] She didn't take it down. It blew down.

[00:22:46] And when she realized that it was Martha and Alito, she told her, I'm going to put

[00:22:50] the sign back up. That's the kind of person she is.

[00:22:54] She said she can't remember if she ever put the signs back up or not.

[00:22:57] That just slipped my memory.

[00:23:00] And then came J6.

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[00:23:54] Noah Rothman at National Review, he's got a write up on this and he says the sequence

[00:23:59] of events regarding the Alitos replying or implying that the Alitos were the

[00:24:05] aggressors. It appears damning until you put the events actually in chronological

[00:24:09] order. And when you do that, it's not.

[00:24:12] Which is what I determined to.

[00:24:14] Back to The New York Times story.

[00:24:15] So you got the pandemic.

[00:24:16] You got these leftists that move in with Mommy and they start putting up all these

[00:24:20] signs. And then J6 comes and then rocked by the violence and threat to democracy.

[00:24:25] The couple soon put up new signs in their yard saying Trump is a fascist and you are

[00:24:30] complicit. That's what they put up in their yard.

[00:24:33] But Mommy took him down.

[00:24:35] Mommy, the retired PBS executive, she took him down not because she was afraid of

[00:24:39] offending the Alitos. She was afraid that some Trumpian mob was going to come

[00:24:43] terrorizing the neighborhood.

[00:24:44] And attack her or the house or something.

[00:24:47] Screaming, this is MAGA country.

[00:24:50] It's not clear whether the Alitos ever saw that sign.

[00:24:53] But the day after, so January 7th, the Baden say that Mrs.

[00:24:59] Alito pulled up in her car and, quote, lingered in front of their house, lingered

[00:25:05] glaring for a long moment.

[00:25:08] And then they texted their friends about the encounter.

[00:25:11] You don't think they're getting off on this a little bit?

[00:25:13] You don't think they're getting off on this a little bit?

[00:25:15] These leftists that are out there screaming in the streets, BLM and all this other

[00:25:19] stuff, putting signs on Mommy's yard.

[00:25:20] You don't think that they're not relishing this fight with the Supreme Court

[00:25:24] justice's 70 year old wife?

[00:25:27] Really? OK, I got a pretty good idea about like what is motivating these people just

[00:25:32] based on this this hagiography that is written up in the in the New York Times on

[00:25:39] them on January 17th.

[00:25:42] So 10 days later, that's when the flag is is flown upside down on the Alito house.

[00:25:49] Neighbors say it was up for a few days.

[00:25:51] It was photographed on the 17th.

[00:25:53] And if it was intended to be a message for the Baden's, they did not have a direct

[00:25:58] line of sight to the Alito residents.

[00:26:00] And so they didn't see it.

[00:26:01] Then comes the inauguration.

[00:26:04] Ms. Baden and her then boyfriend decide to drive past the Alito home.

[00:26:10] Quote, there was a part of me that's like, let's see what's going on.

[00:26:15] What do you mean?

[00:26:16] Let's see what's going on.

[00:26:17] Like what would be going on at her house?

[00:26:23] She happened to be standing outside and according to interviews with Ms.

[00:26:26] Baden and her husband, as well as messages that they showed to the New York Times

[00:26:31] that they had sent their friends afterwards, they claim Martha and Alito, 70 years old,

[00:26:37] ran towards their car yelling something that they did not understand.

[00:26:41] So they just continued driving.

[00:26:43] And as they passed to exit the cul-de-sac, Mrs.

[00:26:47] Alito appeared to spit towards the vehicle.

[00:26:50] Don't know if that's true either.

[00:26:53] You've shown up in her cul-de-sac.

[00:26:54] Now, now you're harassing her at her house, right?

[00:26:57] The couple still shaken by the Capitol riot said the encounter left them feeling

[00:27:02] uneasy and outmatched by the wife of someone so powerful.

[00:27:05] Oh, there are the victims here.

[00:27:06] See, they went driving past her house to see what's going on.

[00:27:11] And now they're the victims of a 70 year old woman who's upset that they are

[00:27:16] now trolling her at her house.

[00:27:19] The same day, a Washington Post reporter who had heard about the inverted flag

[00:27:24] arrived to ask her about it.

[00:27:25] She looked upset.

[00:27:26] She said the flag was a signal of distress and then shouted

[00:27:29] about a dispute with neighbors.

[00:27:32] That's what the Washington Post reported.

[00:27:34] The conflict then seemed to quiet down, but fast forward almost a month,

[00:27:37] February 15th, day after Valentine's Day.

[00:27:41] The couple is pulling some trash bins into their house when the Alitos who

[00:27:45] appear to be on a stroll approach and Mrs.

[00:27:49] Alito addresses the pair by name and used an expletive and called them fascists.

[00:27:56] And then they tried to walk away.

[00:27:58] Justice Alito remained silent.

[00:28:00] They said that's when Emily Baden just snapped.

[00:28:03] She had had enough.

[00:28:05] She does not remember her precise words, but she said it was something along the

[00:28:08] lines of how dare you behave this way?

[00:28:12] You've been harassing us over our signs.

[00:28:15] You represent the highest court in the land.

[00:28:18] Shame on you.

[00:28:19] You bleeping bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep.

[00:28:23] She didn't add that last part.

[00:28:24] I threw that in because she said she said that word, but note the way she's framing

[00:28:28] it in the best possible language, right?

[00:28:32] Ms.

[00:28:33] Baden said that she, not her partner, used the lewd expression and the neighbor who

[00:28:39] was standing in the street who asked not to be identified because of all the

[00:28:42] friction on the block said he heard her say the word too.

[00:28:46] So to document the incident, the Badens then called the cops because that's what

[00:28:51] Black Lives Matter protesters do.

[00:28:53] You see?

[00:28:55] Oh, no, no.

[00:28:55] It's not at all.

[00:28:57] It's not at all inconsistent.

[00:28:59] What do you know?

[00:29:00] And of course not.

[00:29:02] Just like just because you think you want to defund the police and all cops are bees

[00:29:09] and you have all of these ideas and you're marching in the streets and you're

[00:29:13] protesting all over the place.

[00:29:14] Oh, and by the way, when the ruling came down on abortion, right, the the Dobbs

[00:29:22] decision came down, they had already moved away.

[00:29:25] OK, so they had they had already moved away.

[00:29:27] But they happened to be home visiting mommy.

[00:29:31] And while they were there, there was a mob out in front of the Alito's house.

[00:29:37] Remember those days?

[00:29:39] Mm hmm.

[00:29:40] And they joined that mob.

[00:29:43] That's when they held up signs that Justice Alito may have been referring to,

[00:29:46] accusing him of being a fascist and an insurrectionist.

[00:29:51] They're not the victims here, people.

[00:29:53] They're not.

[00:29:53] Right, this is F.A.F.O.

[00:29:56] That's what this is on a very, very tiny little slice of neighborhood or HOA

[00:30:06] interaction like this is this is just a tiny little example of it.

[00:30:10] You've picked a fight with your mom's neighbors and I suspect you picked a

[00:30:14] fight with them because you knew who they were and you expected them not to do

[00:30:19] anything to you.

[00:30:20] And then all of a sudden you got all worried that, oh my gosh, this person

[00:30:23] might have some power.

[00:30:25] I don't even believe that, though.

[00:30:26] All right.

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