Supreme Court halts Title IX rewrite (08-19-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_00]: So on Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion, a ruling, an order where they rejected the Biden administration's request to be allowed to temporarily enforce most of a rule that was drawn up back in April that would implement Title IX changes.

[00:00:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay? Title IX of the Education Amendments, 1972, Title IX, it would prohibit sex discrimination in education programs that receive federal funding, right? And they changed, the Biden administration changed the meaning of sex to include gender identity.

[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_00]: This is why, right? Sex is not gender identity, except when it has to be in order for us to get what we want. And Democrats have been playing this game with the language. This is not the only example. They do it with all sorts of other things.

[00:01:39] [SPEAKER_00]: But this is not the only example. But this is the most obvious example. Because on the one hand, we are beaten over the head with this idea that sex and gender are different. And then, when you don't have the votes to change Title IX law, you then try to shoehorn gender identity and gender into the definition of sex.

[00:02:04] [SPEAKER_00]: So, on the one hand, it's not the only example. So, on the one hand, it's not the same. So, on the one hand, it's different. That's why I keep saying the Harris Walls campaign slogan needs to be same, but different.

[00:02:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Friday's ruling will leave in place for now some lower court ruling. Okay? The lower court had prevented the Biden administration from enforcing any portion of the rule.

[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_00]: So, there are, like, there's lots of elements about the rule, but there are three provisions specifically that target discrimination against transgender people in schools.

[00:02:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And the Biden administration was not asking the Supreme Court to intervene with regard to two of those provisions.

[00:02:49] [SPEAKER_00]: The justices split five to four on whether to temporarily bar the government from enforcing the entire rule.

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_00]: So, that's what this split was over. Do you block enforcement of the whole thing or just some portions of it?

[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_00]: And by a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court blocked it all.

[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_00]: The four votes against blocking it all that they wanted a more targeted approach,

[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Sonia Sotomayor, Alana Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, and Ketanji Brown-Jackson.

[00:03:24] [SPEAKER_00]: They said that the court's orders were over broad.

[00:03:29] [SPEAKER_00]: The orders came in two separate challenges.

[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_00]: There was one filed in Kentucky.

[00:03:33] [SPEAKER_00]: That included six states.

[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_00]: There was another in Louisiana with four states.

[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Both challenges focused on three provisions of the April 2024 rule that target discrimination against transgender people.

[00:03:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Amy Howe, writing at SCOTUSblog.com, SCOTUSblog.com, Amy Howe, says,

[00:03:54] [SPEAKER_00]: The first provision recognizes that Title IX's ban on sex discrimination includes discrimination based on gender identity.

[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_00]: How can that be?

[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_00]: How can that be so?

[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_00]: If they are different, then they are different.

[00:04:12] [SPEAKER_00]: You don't get to now claim that they are the same so you can stick it into the law.

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_00]: The guys who wrote the law, the guys who passed the law, the members of Congress in the 70s, have said, have gone on the record and said,

[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_00]: this was about male and female sex.

[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_00]: That's it.

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_00]: This is about what used to be referred to as genders, and then they kind of stripped that word out.

[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Gender and sex used to be synonyms.

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_00]: In my lifetime, like up until about a minute ago, they meant the same thing.

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_00]: You would see the term one or the other on forms.

[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_00]: It would be listed as sex.

[00:04:54] [SPEAKER_00]: But then people were like, oh, I don't want to see the word sex.

[00:04:57] [SPEAKER_00]: And so then they were a gender.

[00:04:58] [SPEAKER_00]: They were the same thing, male or female.

[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, if you're going to blow up the whole notion of male or female as the only options,

[00:05:09] [SPEAKER_00]: then you've got to get rid of the term non-binary.

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Because the very word itself indicates that there were two options.

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_00]: And you're like, I reject all of them.

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_00]: But you can't reject the science.

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_00]: So, the first provision recognizes the ban on sex discrimination includes discrimination based on gender identity.

[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_00]: It's not written into the law, but that's what we think it means now.

[00:05:41] [SPEAKER_00]: It's living and breathing, if you will.

[00:05:46] [SPEAKER_00]: This is the definition of judicial activism, right?

[00:05:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Where you don't have the law stating the thing you want, but you can't get the votes to get it done legislatively.

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_00]: So, you go to a court to get a judge, a lawyer in a wardrobe change, to reinterpret the meaning of the words that were written by people that clearly state,

[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_00]: that's not what we meant.

[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_00]: A second provision at issue makes clear that schools that violate Title IX, or will violate Title IX,

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_00]: when they bar transgender people from using bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity.

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_00]: What does that mean?

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_00]: You are not allowed to restrict access.

[00:06:32] [SPEAKER_00]: It's open bathrooms for everyone.

[00:06:36] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what that says.

[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_00]: A third provision defines a hostile environment harassment to include harassment based on gender identity,

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_00]: which the states say could require students and teachers to refer to transgender students by the pronouns that correspond to their gender identity.

[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, forcing people to abide the delusion, to play along.

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_00]: See, this is the thing that is transgressive about this philosophy and this entire movement.

[00:07:12] [SPEAKER_00]: They transgress your rights.

[00:07:14] [SPEAKER_00]: They are refusing to let you sit on the sidelines.

[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_00]: You must care.

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_00]: You will be made to care.

[00:07:25] [SPEAKER_00]: You will be made to say what we want you to say.

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, two plus two is five.

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_00]: In June, federal trial courts blocked the Department of Ed from enforcing any part of this rule in the 10 states that brought the challenge.

[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Federal appeals courts in New Orleans and Cincinnati then turned down the federal government's request

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_00]: to allow it to temporarily enforce all of the rule.

[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what the feds wanted.

[00:07:53] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what the Biden administration was like.

[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, look, while we're settling this, just let us enforce the whole thing.

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_00]: It was supposed to go into effect on August 1st.

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_00]: With the exception of the latter two provisions targeting discrimination against transgender people,

[00:08:08] [SPEAKER_00]: which the government said are the source of the injuries that the 10 states are alleging,

[00:08:11] [SPEAKER_00]: they wanted to be able to enforce this rule while the appeals were heard.

[00:08:16] [SPEAKER_00]: The justices explained that they all agreed that the three different provisions that I just went over should remain on hold for now,

[00:08:26] [SPEAKER_00]: quote,

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_00]: What are they saying there?

[00:08:41] [SPEAKER_00]: That was unanimous.

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_00]: It was unanimous that that's on hold.

[00:08:46] [SPEAKER_00]: All of them recognize it.

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_00]: They all recognize what the Biden administration is doing by stuffing this new definition into the original text.

[00:08:57] [SPEAKER_00]: The challenges to the April 2024 rule are also pending elsewhere, including Texas, Kansas, Alabama, Oklahoma and Missouri.

[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Notably, not North Carolina.

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Do you know why?

[00:09:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Because our attorney general did not sign on with any amicus briefs or amicus briefs, whatever you want to call it.

[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Josh Stein, who wants to be governor.

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Does not want to.

[00:09:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Be a part of this lawsuit, does not want to protect women's spaces, girls spaces in K-12.

[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_00]: And is OK with rewriting.

[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Federal law to usurp states rights to define these things for themselves.

[00:09:42] [SPEAKER_00]: But also, he's OK with the judicial activism, which, of course, he is, because we've all seen him operate as attorney general.

[00:09:48] [SPEAKER_00]: The U.S. Department of Education has finalized its Title IX rule that was paused last June.

[00:09:55] [SPEAKER_00]: This is the story, by the way, from A.P. Dillon at the North State Journal, NSJ Online dot com, North State Journal.

[00:10:02] [SPEAKER_00]: This story was from April.

[00:10:05] [SPEAKER_00]: The new rule redefines sex by adding gender identity as a protected group, effectively opening the door for transgender women to play on women's sports teams and use women's spaces in schools.

[00:10:21] [SPEAKER_00]: The rule prohibits discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation.

[00:10:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And then they added in gender identity and sex characteristics in federally funded education programs, applying the reasoning of the Supreme Court's ruling in Bostock versus Clayton County.

[00:10:38] [SPEAKER_00]: That's according to the U.S. Department of Education's fact sheet that it published.

[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, Title IX was established in 1972.

[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_00]: It's older than me.

[00:10:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And it was done to protect women against discrimination based on sex.

[00:10:56] [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, does this discriminate against women?

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Does adding gender identity and allowing males into female spaces, is that discriminatory against the females?

[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Particularly when it comes to athletics.

[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_00]: When it comes to sports.

[00:11:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Are the women now being discriminated against based on their sex?

[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Because physically, they cannot perform at the level, you know, all things being equal.

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_00]: They cannot perform at the same level as the male.

[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Because the male body is built differently.

[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_00]: So, are these girls now being discriminated against?

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of seems like it.

[00:11:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of seems like it.

[00:11:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Because somebody else, a male, is coming into the space and robbing them of their opportunities for scholarships, for awards or whatever.

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Naming rights deals.

[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's that kind of thing.

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_00]: The rule was first proposed in 2022.

[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_00]: The Department of Ed reviewed more than a quarter of a million comments, most in opposition to the changes.

[00:12:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Critics say Congress never intended these types of protections under Title IX.

[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And in 2022, nearly two dozen states sued the Biden administration over the changes.

[00:12:16] [SPEAKER_00]: The same year, in July, a federal judge blocked the proposed guidance.

[00:12:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Virginia Fox, Republican congresswoman from North Carolina.

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_00]: She is the chair of the House Education and Workforce Committee.

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_00]: She said, quote,

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_00]: This final rule dumps kerosene on the already raging fire that is Democrats' contemptuous culture war that aims to radically redefine sex and gender.

[00:12:41] [SPEAKER_00]: This is a very good point she makes.

[00:12:43] [SPEAKER_00]: What do you hear from the left about the culture war?

[00:12:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that it's Trump wanting to fight it.

[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's just these conservatives fighting this culture war.

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_00]: People are so tired of the culture war.

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:12:57] [SPEAKER_00]: The action is the reaction.

[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Saul Alinsky.

[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Rules for radicals.

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_00]: The action is in your opponent's reaction.

[00:13:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes action is direct.

[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's direct action.

[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to go do something.

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:13:11] [SPEAKER_00]: But sometimes the action is simply to induce the reaction.

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's what you see here.

[00:13:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:13:17] [SPEAKER_00]: They start pushing and pushing and pushing.

[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And then the conservatives push back.

[00:13:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And they resist.

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And they say, no.

[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Stop.

[00:13:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Unwind this thing.

[00:13:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And then they are the ones accused of waging the culture war.

[00:13:34] [SPEAKER_00]: When in fact they are the ones responding.

[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_00]: To the initial incursions.

[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Catherine Truitt is the superintendent for public instruction in North Carolina.

[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_00]: She says the current proposed rule from the Department of Education would undermine the intent of Title IX, which was to increase opportunities for female athletes.

[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And that is exactly correct.

[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Riley Gaines.

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_00]: A 12-time All-American swimmer out of the University of Kentucky with five SEC titles.

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Also two-time Olympic trial qualifier.

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_00]: She said the president and his administration can't act like they care about women or our opportunities and then go and wipe out women's protections under the country's landmark sex equality law.

[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_00]: The bill was passed into law.

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Governor Roy Cooper vetoed the bill.

[00:14:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And then the legislature overrode that veto.

[00:14:45] [SPEAKER_00]: So.

[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Riley Gaines said with its new Title IX rewrite, the Biden administration is unilaterally erasing 50 years of equal opportunity law for women.

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_00]: The IWF, which is the Independent Women's Forum, as well as the Independent Women's Law Center, joined a coalition of organizations to sue over this action to block it.

[00:15:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's where it stands right now.

[00:15:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, Jordan Boyd at the Federalist said that this rewrite of the law obliterates female spaces and free speech.

[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Because not only does it allow males into all the female spaces.

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm sure, I'm sure prepubescent and pubescent boys would never lie in order to gain access into women's spaces.

[00:15:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Despite what you may have seen in the old documentary porkies.

[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_00]: But.

[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I think there might be some mischief that could occur, but also free speech.

[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_00]: You will be made to say the thing that you do not believe is true.

[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_00]: You will bend the knee.

[00:15:56] [SPEAKER_00]: One of the other things that the Biden administration did with their rewrite of the Title IX law.

[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_00]: That they tried to do just administratively, like, you know, under Chevron, the Chevron deference, which the U.S. Supreme Court also blew up.

[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_00]: But this idea that the bureaucrats changes and the things that they do, that they could just kind of fill in the gaps along the way.

[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_00]: If the law is ambiguous or leave something open, they can just kind of make up their own rules inside of a law that, you know, creates a certain program or service.

[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_00]: And this has been used to abuse Americans in all sorts of ways.

[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_00]: The was it Loper and Bright, I think, were the companies that sued to get the Chevron deference overturned.

[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And these were like these were the fishing boats, remember, that had to pay to have some federal inspector on their boat.

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Hundreds of dollars a day.

[00:17:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And the rulemakers in Washington just just made up the rule that they had that the the fishermen had to pay this cost.

[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And so they sued and they won because it was not explicitly spelled out in the the original legislation.

[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And so that's what I like my opinion.

[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what these guys are doing with the Title IX rewrite.

[00:17:25] [SPEAKER_00]: They do it on all sorts of stuff.

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_00]: It's become commonplace.

[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_00]: It's why the federal code is so lengthy now.

[00:17:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Because these people sit around all day thinking of ways to, quote unquote, improve the laws, you know, make up new processes,

[00:17:43] [SPEAKER_00]: create more paperwork and forms and try to, you know, manage every aspect of whatever it is that's under their jurisdiction in their little fiefdom.

[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_00]: One of the other things that this rewrite did, it loosened.

[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_00]: The Trump administration's due process protections on how schools handle sexual misconduct claims.

[00:18:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Before the Trump administration.

[00:18:14] [SPEAKER_00]: There were all sorts of horror stories about.

[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Usually guys getting accused of some form of sexual abuse or assault or something like that.

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And.

[00:18:28] [SPEAKER_00]: It would turn out that the the allegations were not true.

[00:18:33] [SPEAKER_00]: But the accused, the accused never had an opportunity to defend themselves, mount a defense, do cross examination.

[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And in fact, the rewrite of the law of the Title IX law under the Biden administration would send us back, which is weird because I thought their campaign slogan was we're not going back.

[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_00]: But they wanted to bring us back to the single investigator model, single investigator model, which is the school.

[00:19:06] [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't understand why the schools are the ones leading these investigations.

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_00]: That to me is such a bizarre concept.

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't get it.

[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Why are the schools doing?

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_00]: These are criminal charges, right?

[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_00]: These are criminal acts.

[00:19:21] [SPEAKER_00]: If somebody is accused of raping somebody or sexually abusing somebody, those are crimes.

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_00]: That is up to the district attorney.

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_00]: That is up for the local law enforcement jurisdiction to do the investigation and to bring charges.

[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_00]: That is not up to the school because the school has its own interests.

[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_00]: The school does maybe doesn't want.

[00:19:44] [SPEAKER_00]: The crime stat reported.

[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_00]: So they could they could cover it up if they don't, you know, if they have too many rapes, people don't want to go there.

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Or maybe they do.

[00:19:54] [SPEAKER_00]: But then you would just end up with probably a college of rapists, which would be very easy then to kind of put a wall up around them or what.

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, but they have an interest in the outcome.

[00:20:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And they then rig the process.

[00:20:10] [SPEAKER_00]: They removed in the rewrite here.

[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_00]: They removed a requirement that was added for live hearings and cross-examination by defendants.

[00:20:22] [SPEAKER_00]: You have to be able to face your accuser.

[00:20:24] [SPEAKER_00]: But they the schools play this game like, oh, well, we're we're like a quasi judicial proceeding.

[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_00]: We're not we're not law enforcement.

[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_00]: We're not prosecutors.

[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_00]: We're quasi judicial.

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to construct this like honor court or something.

[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And then we're not going to let you present a defense.

[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_00]: We're not going to let you cross-examine.

[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_00]: You're not even allowed to be in the room when we take this stuff.

[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_00]: You can't do any of these things that you would normally be able to do in our actual legal system.

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And then we're going to toss you out of school.

[00:20:57] [SPEAKER_00]: And then you're not going to be able to get in anywhere else because of this record.

[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_00]: This thing was like 1600 pages.

[00:21:08] [SPEAKER_00]: This is how the AP wrote it up.

[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_00]: The new rules also provide more protections to students who make accusations of sexual misconduct.

[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_00]: The new rules provide more protections to students who make accusations of sexual misconduct.

[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_00]: By reversing due process protections for the accused.

[00:21:34] [SPEAKER_00]: See, I added that last part because that's what you're doing.

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_00]: You have removed due process protections for the accused.

[00:21:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And so now the bar to accuse is much lower.

[00:21:47] [SPEAKER_00]: And the bar to, quote, prove the accusation is much lower.

[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_00]: What else?

[00:21:55] [SPEAKER_00]: At least seven states have laws or other policies calling for schools to notify parents if their children are transgender.

[00:22:00] [SPEAKER_00]: This regulation seems to authorize those requirements, stating that nothing in these final regulations prevents a recipient from disclosing information about a minor child to their parent who has the legal right to receive disclosures on behalf of their child.

[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_00]: North Carolina has such a law.

[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Laws intended to protect from discipline teachers and or students who won't use the pronouns transgender or non-binary students use.

[00:22:27] [SPEAKER_00]: They had a regulation that kind of wrestled with this in the AP story.

[00:22:32] [SPEAKER_00]: They have a quote here.

[00:22:33] [SPEAKER_00]: You're harassing a student.

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Can constitute discrimination.

[00:22:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_00]: If you're not using their pronouns, it can constitute discrimination.

[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_00]: But then they also say that a stray remark does not constitute harassment.

[00:22:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's not clear at all.

[00:22:52] [SPEAKER_00]: So who's to determine what's a stray remark and what's not in every circumstance?

[00:23:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:23:00] [SPEAKER_00]: This is what is this is what is told to not just students and teachers, but also people in corporate settings that have to go through these trainings.

[00:23:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Is that your intent is irrelevant.

[00:23:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Irrelevant.

[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Your intent is irrelevant.

[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_00]: The only thing that is relevant is how somebody feels when you say something.

[00:23:21] [SPEAKER_00]: That is the only thing by which you shall be judged.

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Whether or not they should take offense at what you said because it wasn't meant to be offensive doesn't matter.

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Intent is irrelevant.

[00:23:34] [SPEAKER_00]: The point here is destabilization.

[00:23:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Again, the issue is never the issue.

[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_00]: The issue is always the revolution.

[00:23:39] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[00:24:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I got a tweet here from moral compass.

[00:24:13] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a Pete tweet.

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_00]: The very act of allowing men and women's spaces is a violation of title nine.

[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Indeed.

[00:24:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Indeed.

[00:24:21] [SPEAKER_00]: I would say so.

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Also.

[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Just in time.

[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_00]: The Republicans leading the House Oversight Committee and the House Judiciary Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee released their 292 page report saying President Biden engaged in impeachable conduct.

[00:24:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Just in time for the.

[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, he is leaving.

[00:24:49] [SPEAKER_00]: OK.

[00:24:49] [SPEAKER_00]: OK.

[00:24:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Actually, I saw pictures out of the White House.

[00:24:52] [SPEAKER_00]: They got you holes in front of the White House today.

[00:24:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Which has people speculating that maybe Joe's just going to like quit tonight.

[00:25:00] [SPEAKER_00]: He's just going to step down.

[00:25:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I'm out.

[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Take it over.

[00:25:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Kamala.

[00:25:04] [SPEAKER_00]: It's all yours.

[00:25:08] [SPEAKER_00]: This report was the culmination of their months long impeachment inquiry, declaring in their highly anticipated report that he, quote, abused his office and defrauded the United States to enrich his family.

[00:25:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, Republicans said there is, quote, overwhelming evidence that Biden participated in a conspiracy to monetize his office of public trust to enrich his family.

[00:25:33] [SPEAKER_00]: They alleged that the Biden family and their business associates received tens of millions of dollars from foreign interests by, quote, leading those interests to believe that such payments would provide them access to and influence with President Biden.

[00:25:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, because obviously that was the that was the game.

[00:25:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Clearly, that was the game.

[00:26:02] [SPEAKER_00]: The committee said that the Biden family and its associates received more than twenty seven million dollars from foreign individuals or entities beginning in twenty fourteen.

[00:26:12] [SPEAKER_00]: And they alleged that the Biden family leveraged his position as veep to obtain more than eight million dollars in loans from Democrat benefactors.

[00:26:22] [SPEAKER_00]: So that's an addition to.

[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:26:25] [SPEAKER_00]: So twenty seven million from the foreign individuals or entities and then another eight million in loans.

[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_00]: The loan.

[00:26:33] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's thirty five million dollars.

[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_00]: The loans have not been repaid and the paperwork supporting many of the loans does not exist and has not been produced to the committees.

[00:26:46] [SPEAKER_00]: The Republican said the conspiracy took place while Biden was serving as vice president.

[00:26:50] [SPEAKER_00]: They say he did actively participate by attending dinners, right?

[00:26:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Taking the phone calls, joining on speakerphone, that kind of thing.

[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Republicans also said the Biden family, quote, went to great lengths to conceal this conspiracy.

[00:27:06] [SPEAKER_00]: And remember, the only reason that we found out about any of this.

[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Was because Hunter Biden left his laptop at that shop in Delaware.

[00:27:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Had he not done that, we would not have known all of these connections.

[00:27:22] [SPEAKER_00]: We would not have had all of the bank accounts, all of the LLCs.

[00:27:26] [SPEAKER_00]: You wouldn't be they wouldn't have been able to track all of the money where it flows.

[00:27:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Because when you see the way the money is moving between six or seven different LLCs, there is no reason to do that.

[00:27:38] [SPEAKER_00]: If you are running a legitimate business, there's no reason to be washing money through six different LLCs.

[00:27:45] [SPEAKER_00]: But if you're trying to mask it and you're trying to confuse anybody that might kind of sniff around that doesn't have a good clear picture on all of the different LLCs and who's running them and where the money is going and who's getting paid out of it.

[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Then it makes total sense, right?

[00:28:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I've said this from the very beginning of all of this stuff.

[00:28:05] [SPEAKER_00]: There is a reason why it looks like the Biden family was engaged in a an influence peddling operation.

[00:28:13] [SPEAKER_00]: It's perfectly reasonable explanation for it.

[00:28:15] [SPEAKER_00]: It's because they were.

[00:28:17] [SPEAKER_00]: It's because they were.

[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_00]: What good or service or product were the Biden selling?

[00:28:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Was Hunter Biden when he was meeting with the Chinese energy company, CFC, what was his expertise there?

[00:28:29] [SPEAKER_00]: What was he selling?

[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_00]: What was he providing?

[00:28:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:28:33] [SPEAKER_00]: What product or service or good?

[00:28:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:28:36] [SPEAKER_00]: When he he's got some guy giving him millions of dollars where he's going to then act as an attorney and then never does anything for him.

[00:28:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, what is that for?

[00:28:48] [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, also, he claimed that he was like he had that his superpower was finding crack in whatever city he was in.

[00:28:56] [SPEAKER_00]: And I find that to be not coincidental.

[00:29:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's just say.

[00:29:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Is it possible that foreign governments maybe would always make sure that there was somebody in the vicinity to make sure that Hunter Biden could score wherever he went, that he could score?

[00:29:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying he knowingly like was a participant in the deals.

[00:29:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Like I'm not saying he knew he may have been, you know, getting played there.

[00:29:18] [SPEAKER_00]: But if you're trying to hook the vice president's son.

[00:29:23] [SPEAKER_00]: That's a real good way to do it.

[00:29:25] [SPEAKER_00]: That's how that's how the Communist Chinese Party gets people.

[00:29:31] [SPEAKER_00]: The report also said Biden used his official position to conceal his mishandling of classified information as a private citizen.

[00:29:37] [SPEAKER_00]: This goes to the the classified documents that he took while he was vice president.

[00:29:42] [SPEAKER_00]: He was not allowed to take them, but he took them.

[00:29:45] [SPEAKER_00]: He had no authority to do so, but he did.

[00:29:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And then he put them in his garage.

[00:29:51] [SPEAKER_00]: But don't worry.

[00:29:52] [SPEAKER_00]: It was totally a secure location because he keeps his Corvette there.

[00:29:56] [SPEAKER_00]: And you know how much he loves that Corvette.

[00:29:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, also, Hunter Biden had access to the Corvette in the garage.

[00:30:04] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm sure he never used any of the files to do any of the briefs for these companies like Burisma and CFC.

[00:30:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:30:13] [SPEAKER_00]: When they were trying to get a lay of the land and such.

[00:30:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Never would he use that for personal reasons.

[00:30:19] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[00:30:19] [SPEAKER_00]: That'll do it for this episode.

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