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Jan. 7, 2024 - Lionel Nation
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The Mythology of January 6: All to Prevent Trump2024
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Good morning, dear friend.
It is January the 6th.
The morning of January 6th here live from New York City on a cold and pre-snowy 35 degrees.
No big deal.
The sadistic weather people are dying for something to report.
Why we have weather people today, why people, why we are even in need of them, I have no earthly idea.
What is the point of them?
Someone tell me.
In any event, they need a job and a gig too, I guess.
Now, a couple of things which is very, very critical, very, very important for you to...
Interesting.
I don't like the way I'm sounding.
I'm listening to this.
I'm wondering, why am I not sounding?
Let me see.
Let me see if this makes any sense.
Is this better?
Does this sound better?
Let me see.
I think this sounds...
No, I don't like that.
I don't like that.
Maybe not.
Stand by for a second.
It sounds a little off.
It does.
It sounds like it's in the background.
Let me see something.
Stand by.
Stand by.
Always check your thing.
I've been noticing I'm doing this.
Let me see.
I'm looking into the source of sound input.
Just a second.
Stand by.
Input, input, input.
I want to see my favorite little Yeti Michael.
It's not showing up.
If only life was like this.
If only we had the ability to see whether we are him.
Just a second.
Please forgive me.
Talk amongst yourselves.
There we go.
Let's see if that makes any sense.
Is that better?
Let me see.
There's so many little...
But that's not what I want.
That's not it.
I want to...
Let me see.
You hear yes.
You hear yes.
But that's not the Yeti.
I'm not getting this.
I'm getting the MacBook phone.
That's not what I want.
Stand by for a second.
Let me see something here.
Audio.
Please, again, talk amongst yourselves.
Nope, not there.
Hang on.
I don't care if I'm here all day long.
This is the beauty of it.
Sound is defective.
Thank you so much.
See, Dimitri is 5x5.
He's digging this.
Everybody seems to be happy.
I'm not so sure.
I don't like this.
I don't like this.
Wait a minute.
Let me see it.
Okay, there we go.
That should be it.
That should be it.
Right there.
You hear it?
That should be it.
Perfect.
Perfect.
Let me double check on something, please.
I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
Yes, yes, yes.
Now we're doing it.
And of course, whenever something happens, it's always the conspiratorium that says, they're shutting you down.
There, that's it.
See, now that's the clearer, crisper.
This little Yeti mic is still one of the best.
It's a USB mic.
It's fantastic.
It is absolutely the greatest thing.
I cannot...
I've been using them.
It's just USB.
Nothing.
That's it.
You know these fancy schmancy...
I've been around radios a long time.
I have a laptop.
I've got a couple of nice little lights and I've got a Yeti.
That's it.
I don't care about that.
Alrighty.
Let us pursue what we are doing right now.
Today is January the 6th.
And today, I want a promise to you, from you.
And I want you to take on this new role that you have, I think, today.
And I hope you embrace this role.
And the role is going to be you as the apostle of truth.
We're going to explain what that means, what we're talking about, and the like.
If I could, can I please remind you of something which is very, very critical?
Please like this video, subscribe to the channel, always subscribe.
Let me tell you right now that I'm going to be, and we're going to be at the beautiful and fabled cutting room on February the 3rd.
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I put it online for you.
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You can go right to my Twitter feed.
There's this...
Pin the link there at the cutting room February 3rd.
Please, please, dear and great and glorious friend, please see us and join us and be a part of the fun and the frolic.
And we wish you would join us and we thank you for all of your attention because this is part of the movement.
Now I want you to go out today, dear friends, and I want you to do me a favor.
And I want you to ask yourself this question.
And the question is simply this.
What is January the 6th about?
What was it?
Now, what I want you to do is you have to think like a prosecutor.
What is the official reason?
What is the evidence given?
And did they prove...
So in one particular word, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, dear friends of the conspiratorium, what is it?
What was January the 6th?
And I don't want cute, you're very cute, I don't want that pithy kind of, what was it?
Imagine you're doing a tour, you're in Washington, you're in front of the Capitol where we've been, and they say, Is this the site of January 6th?
Yes.
And somebody in the crowd says, what is?
What was it?
Have you ever been to the Capitol?
Because it's beautiful, because it's right there.
And then across the street is, of course, the Supreme Court.
It's fascinating.
What was January 6th?
Anger, distraction.
What was it?
Set up, steal the steel.
So you're going to be, you're on a tour, and you're going to be saying, yes, this gender 6 was a distraction, it was a setup, it was seal the steel, a dictator, flypaper, that's what you think it is?
That's what you would say, that's your, a staged event?
Staged.
That's your take on this.
That's what you would tell people.
If you were on TV, Never Lie, Let a Crisis Go to Waste, that of course was Rahm Emanuel.
So that's what you was.
It was a setup.
It was staged by the enemy to the people.
I don't know.
Thank you.
J6 political prisons are paying a big price.
We don't know how many of them are even still being held against their will.
Think about that one.
So let me ask you something.
Who staged January the 6th?
Who staged?
And by the way, please, if you're listening to this later on, and you're watching me, you must...
And you must read the wonderful insights because unlike other shows that do live broadcasts, they don't pay any reference or reverence or any reference to any of the people who are weighing in.
They do the talking and the people are kind of chattering.
But I'm doing this.
Nancy Pelosi did this.
Kubrick couldn't have staged any better.
Lizzie the Den Mother says him.
It was an opportune moment seized upon by the enemy.
Ah, ah, ah, ah.
Created a confused new image of the United States, Barack Obama.
So let me ask you something.
The fellow with the eye patch, that dude with the eye patch, the folks who had the Gadsden flags, the Valkyrie dude and feller, and the...
Proud Boys!
Were they staged?
Were they staged?
Let me ask you something.
Were they part of the stage?
If I went to the Proud Boys, if I said, you staged it.
What?
You staged it.
I staged it.
Yes, you did.
No, no.
They staged it.
Well, what were you doing there?
Oh, I was just there.
Yeah, but who staged it?
Well, I don't know.
Who staged?
You didn't do this.
No, no, we did this.
They arrested us.
So when you say staged, did the government stage it?
It wasn't real?
Those people who weren't there, they were just all crisis actors.
Ray Epps was actually, come on in!
This is a guy who basically was charged with something nominal.
And it really did look fishy, I admit it.
But that remains to be seen.
I don't know if Ray Epps was a government agent.
I don't know if one man could have done.
He's going to have his case.
What happened to him was pretty tragic, as is most cases.
But let me say, actors, Proud Boys, the left, they were all Uber Eats delivery people.
Ladies and gentlemen, the comedic wit of Mr. Edge Dweller.
They knew there was going to be lots of people there and they took advantage of the fact.
Who took advantage of the fact to do what?
What did they take advantage of?
What?
It wasn't staged, it grew.
Okay, it grew.
Did it happen or didn't it happen?
Yes, anyone who was there had to know this was a political setup.
What was the setup to block Trump?
No, no.
What was the setup?
Who arranged it?
And what was the setup?
Setup sounds like inside job.
Limited police presence.
Okay, I'm going to do this.
I like this.
And I'm going to keep doing this.
I'm going to kind of lead you.
Where was the setup?
Where?
Stop the steal.
Yes, we understand this.
Where was this set up?
Stop the steal.
That wasn't a set up.
That was a movement.
Trump was even saying, stop the steal and we're going to go to Washington, I mean to the Capitol.
You're getting close.
Social media arranged it or provided the platform for what was already said.
Solak says it was planned.
The Dems set it up to destroy Trump.
The Dems set it up.
The Dems got the eyepatch dude, the Valkyrie helmet dude, the Proud Boys.
The Democrats did that, Liz?
The Democrats did that.
I love this.
Rocker Jim Morrison was fascinated by Nietzsche's herd mentality of crowds and the ability to control them with a few well-placed agents.
Murder helpers on the way.
Pelosi and Schiff saw an opportunity to set him up.
How did they set him up?
They gathered up their minions.
Gathered up their minions.
You mean to tell me the people that were there, all those people, were what?
What?
Gavin McGinnis set it up.
Gavin McGinnis did not set it up.
He did not set it up.
And even if he said, that would be, I guess, whatever.
Okay, nobody's telling me.
So what I'm saying is nobody's answering my question.
Let me try this again.
Are you telling me that that wasn't real?
That all those people who were there, if I said, okay, how many people here are part of this setup?
The what?
How many people here?
Raise your hand.
Assuming I could do this.
It couldn't happen, really.
But how many people here are part of the setup?
Who are here because of some kind of invitation or at the behest of the Democratic Party?
Anybody?
How many of them were federal agents?
Well, there's always federal agents there.
Did the federal agents do anything?
No, they were just there.
Supposedly.
Or supposedly, as people say.
What did they do?
Well, they were there.
But what did they do?
Okay.
Code Blue.
Team Red.
Meet over there on the Senate side.
Team Blue.
Meet on the House side.
We're going to meet at 1300 hours.
We convene.
Sector Y. No.
They were just there.
They were there taking pictures.
They weren't a part of anything.
They were just there.
Nancy Pelosi.
Called off or could have called the National Guard to stop it, but didn't.
Is that misprision?
Good point.
But called off what?
She could have called off the what?
The insurrection?
It wasn't an insurrection.
So Nancy Pelosi didn't call off the riot.
I don't think it was a riot, but she didn't call off the riot that you caused.
Is that what you're suggesting?
Nancy Pelosi was responsible because she did not call off.
She did not involve herself in ending the what?
What are you saying?
How does this work again?
Explain this to me.
You see where we're going with this?
You see where it is?
It's very, very difficult.
To go through this very, it's very, to me, very fascinating.
This lunacy that we are seeing.
So, what we're doing is it's very difficult to explain.
Is it not?
She nixed the National Guard.
Okay?
So, maybe calling off, put it this way.
Let's assume there's a fire.
And I call, and somebody started it.
An arson is started.
And the firemen are on their way.
But I pick up the phone and I tell the fire department, don't bother.
And the house burns to the ground.
Did I cause the fire?
No.
But I could have put it out.
I sure could.
But I didn't.
Right.
See how that works?
So let's get this straight.
Let me say.
Mark Pryor says, not stage.
Ashley Babbitt's.
She's really dead.
Agent provocateurs saw and used an opportunity to take advantage of the real anger out there.
Take advantage of what?
You're not answering my question respectfully.
Who took advantage of what and how did they take advantage of anything?
I ask.
How does that work?
Took advantage of what?
What did they take advantage of?
Of.
What was it they took advantage of?
What?
What?
Nobody's able to explain that, per se.
Well, I've got the answer for you, because this is good now, but do you see how, do you see, and I say this with all due respect, Do you see how maybe you're like, you know what?
I thought I understood this a little bit better, but you know, doggone it, he's done it again.
He's done it again.
He's kind of made me realize, I really don't know what it is that I've been saying.
And I've been saying a lot of stuff for the longest time, but I'm not really sure what it is that I'm saying.
I mean, I use terms like setup and...
Inside job and, you know, but I don't know exactly what that means.
And it's important to know what it means, isn't it?
It sure is.
But does that mean nothing happened?
No.
Well, tell me.
Tell me what exactly happened.
What was it?
How did it happen?
What did they do?
Did they set anybody up?
Not at all.
What?
Not at all.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
What do you mean not at all?
Not at all.
Didn't set anything up at all.
Did they do something?
Well, what was it?
Well, it's very, very simple.
Well, tell me.
Tell me, what was it?
What did they do?
It's very simple.
Now, before I tell you, Let me ask you one thing.
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Okay, here's what they did.
Number one, they knew this was going to happen.
They knew they were coming.
They knew they could read social media.
They could read social media.
They've been saying this the whole time.
Trump saying this.
Remember Kimberly Guilfoyle dancing?
Remember Kimberly Guilfoyle?
She thought she was the belle of the ball.
Oh my god!
Reminds me of Bezos' wife.
Kind of got that look.
She thought, I am so sexy.
Remember she was doing all this dancing all the time at this rally and that rally and there was a scene of her, it was Gloria?
I don't know, but they were like laughing.
And that was a bad visual.
Is that against the law?
No.
No.
Did Trump say trespass?
No.
No.
Did he say form an insurrection?
Nope.
Was it an insurrection?
Nobody was charged with it.
Nobody.
Trespass?
Oh yeah, definitely.
How about seditious conspiracy?
For some, yeah.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Read the statute.
But what did they do?
What did they do?
This is something they've had in the offing for the longest time.
If you think this was just something that just happened, you're not paying attention.
Let me tell you what happened.
They said, we are going to do the following.
We know that on January the 6th, when this vote, when this certification, kind of a pro forma thing, is going to be transferred, we know there's all these people coming.
And we are going to do absolutely nothing to stop it.
We're going to let that fire grow.
We are going to let that fire grow out of proportion like nobody has ever seen or could imagine.
Then we're going to take and utilize all of our friends in big tech that we own.
We own big tech.
We own them.
They're ours.
We put them in power from the beginning through In-Q-Tel and DARPA.
It goes way back.
And for all the special taxes, we're going to say, everybody, I want to know all of the phone activity.
Who was there that day?
I want their names.
I want to know.
We're going to do a kind of a beta test.
A dress rehearsal.
We're going to do a huge, or huge as we say in Hell's Kitchen, this huge dragnet.
Pull people in.
We're going to arrest people.
We're going to tell Capitol Police, do nothing but let them in.
Unless you're Ashley Babbitt.
Then, instead of her saying, come on in!
What was so special about Ashley Babbitt?
Why didn't they shoot that Valkyrie dude with the horns?
Why didn't they shoot him?
Why didn't they shoot anybody else?
There were people banging on the door.
It was this cop who overreacted ostensibly, wasn't trained, ostensibly.
But why was anybody else shot?
I mean, if somebody breaches, watch it, walks into the house chamber?
And it's on the floor sitting in the speaker's chair?
And they don't get shot?
Not that I'm advocating people being shot, but do you understand what is happening here?
God, how did this, how did this happen?
How?
How, I say, how?
Fascinating is it not?
All the questions we will never know.
We will never know.
We will never know exactly how this thing works.
We're not sure.
We are not sure how this works.
But anyway, so then what they did was, so first they said, let's go a step further.
DOJ got together and they said, let's teach these bastards a lesson.
Let's make it all in order to get Trump.
So in order for us to have something to pin on Trump.
In order for us to have something that we can blame Trump with, we need a bevy.
I think they actually charge seven because the total number of January 6th cases filed.
I think it was 700.
It was...
Okay, three years.
Yes.
Approximately 11 individuals have been arrested on a series of charges.
Approximately 1,186 defenders have been charged with entering or remaining in the restricted federal building.
Now, there's an NPR database.
There's all kinds of stuff.
So what they did was they said, we're going to do a couple of things.
Number one, we're going to really inflate this.
Inflate this to the point of absolute ridiculousness.
Ridiculousness!
We're going to inflate this.
We're going to call all of our operatives at our favorite stages.
Here's your talking points.
This is an attack against civilization, an attack against sovereignty, an attack against liberty.
It's Trump.
It's the MAGA.
You got it?
Good.
All this.
Good.
Next, we're going to charge all these people with everything from seditious conspiracy to trespass to...
But nobody's going to be charged with an insurrection.
Nobody.
Nobody.
Then we're going to take...
All of the information, we're going to collate it.
We're going to work with our agents.
Remember, the mainstream media are proxies for the shadow government.
That's the name I give to the kind of behind the scenes, the police state, intel state, shadow government, ruling class, whatever you want to call it.
It's not Democrats, Republicans.
That's a uniparty thing.
And by the way, uniparty, the term was, I think, first uttered during the Wendell Willkie era.
It's nothing new, but we have one party.
The left-right paradigm.
Two sides of the same coin.
We've been saying this for 25 years.
There's nothing new to this.
What we did was get all the people and we're going to create this meme.
We're going to call this a MAGA thing.
And MAGA is going to be synonymous with racist, white supremacist, whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever.
You got it?
Good.
Okay.
That's what we're going to do.
Okay?
You got it?
Good, good, good, good.
Now, continuing on.
We're going to then take this and we're going to try to keep Trump off the ballot.
Remember, the second impeachment was curious because what they wanted to do was they wanted to prevent him from ever being able to hold office again.
This is all about keeping Trump off the ballot.
Everything that we see here is to keep Trump off the ballot.
No other candidate, if this had been done by the Chris Christie, If Chris Christie could have somehow put his weight behind a similar movement, nothing would have happened because Chris Christie doesn't pose an existential threat to the ruination of our republic through these people.
Do you hear what I'm saying?
It would have never happened.
It's only Trump.
So we exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate, and we have all of our people, the Rachel Maddows and the Lawrence O'Donoghue, Donalds or whoever these people are, the usual suspects, the Don Lenz and the Fredo Cuomo and all these people.
And we say, okay, this is where you earn your keep.
Here are the memos.
Read them.
Commit them to memory.
Use these terms over and over again.
Jamie Raskin.
And we're going to bring in, the best one is Liz Cheney.
Liz Cheney is the Sammy the Bull Gravano of the Republican Party.
She's a...
She's an informant, a rat, whatever you want to call her.
She's of no use to anybody.
Nobody wants her.
Nobody trusts a rat.
Nobody trusts a Quisling.
You got it?
So now what they're going to be doing is, now they're going to be saying, is it possible for us to then take this, whether it's been called an insurrection or not, can we keep him off the ballot, Trump, using a variety of issues?
May I say to you, dear friends, the following.
Please refer to, and this is very good, sometimes you gotta know where to go.
National Review is a marvelous, marvelous, marvelous document sometimes for the paleoconservative take.
Very, very good.
There's a good piece by Andrew McCarthy on Trump's trial strategy.
Delay, delay, delay.
No matter what issues arise, former presidents, criminal prosecution, focus on the timing.
It will tell you all that you need to know.
Delay, delay, delay, delay.
They're doing everything in their power to keep him off.
There's also, by the way, a wonderful article on how Donald Trump has the worst bleeping attorneys.
There's Alina Haba.
Should be absolutely...
Because nobody will apparently represent Trump.
She is the worst.
And when she went on Hannity's show...
By the way, new rule.
It's only Bill Maher.
If you're on Hannity's show more than three times, that's not good.
It's not because of your content.
It's not because of your wisdom.
It's because you're part of the Monkey Circus Show.
You're apparently hitting a nerve.
You're screaming.
You're yelling.
You're something.
It's never to do with wisdom.
It's never to do with, well, that was a brilliant point.
No, no, no, no, no.
And Alina Haba, apparently, in fact, always go to social media.
If you want to know what somebody's about, go to social media.
Go to her Instagram.
Any questions?
For example.
Anyway, I'm sure she's a fine person, but she's one of the few people who will even handle the Trump case.
She thinks this will somehow elevate her.
How they haven't...
There we go.
Wow, that was weird.
How she hasn't...
I guess he's very, very difficult.
He's very difficult to deal with.
So they kind of need her.
And he likes to be around, quote, hot women.
There's a lot about the President Trump that's puerile, juvenescent.
He's just the way he is.
It's his thing.
I don't know.
And they also say he doesn't pay his bills.
You've got to read this National Review article.
I don't know anything about that.
Absolutely terrible.
But here's the deal, and this is important.
This is a very, very important point.
This is this one piece.
I want to read this to you.
This is really, really good.
This is an article by Dan McLaughlin in the National Review.
Very, very good.
If I could just read this one particular point, and please, it's online, National Review, and the article is called What You Need to Know About the Supreme Court Taking Up Trump's Ballot Qualification.
And it says the court took up Trump's petition, but not the Colorado Republican Party's petition, which at least for now is still pending.
It is possible, but not likely, that the court would add the second case to its docket.
More likely, it would defer action on the Colorado GOP action until it has ruled on Trump's appeal.
As Mr. McLaughlin previously said it, Trump raised a broader challenge encompassing the many questions in the case, with the exception of the Colorado GOP's argument that it has a First Amendment freedom of association to nominate a candidate who was ineligible to hold the office.
An issue raised in an amicus brief, which is very interesting.
This is their case.
Again, this is a Colorado GOP's argument that it has a First Amendment freedom of association to nominate a candidate who was ineligible.
Not the strongest argument.
Trump also has much more, obviously, uncontested legal standing to ask a federal court to decide whether he is disqualified from the ballot, all of which means a court can now make its own choices, number one.
To disqualify Trump?
To rule that he didn't engage in insurrection?
To decide that he's not disqualified because Section 3 of the 14th Amendment doesn't cover presidents?
Remember that we talked about that?
It was officers, and we went through that before.
To conclude that Section 3 is effective, a dead letter, is an effective dead letter, or when it requires a criminal conviction before it can be enforced, is it self...
Self-activating or whatever you want to call it.
You know what I'm talking about.
And finally, to rule that the question isn't one for the courts, or, because remember, under section 5, I think it says, it says Congress is the only remedy for this.
And finally is...
Alright, fine.
So...
This is interesting because they're going to be looking at all these issues, which, of course, the court has never really looked at before.
Now, what do I believe in?
I believe that the argument is going to be made very simply.
Number one, section of the 14th Amendment dealt with and specifically was about nothing but the, dare I say, the Civil War.
In fact, section...
Section 4 deals with references the compensation for slaves.
I mean, it obviously never was intended to do this.
That's important.
Next, under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, it says Congress is like the sole determiner, not the courts.
It's not for the courts to decide.
Another issue is, let me ask you, does he have to be He's found guilty in a criminal court of insurrection.
I say no.
Now, this may not help his case, but I'm saying no.
As a justice, I would say no, no.
Sometimes there are cases that are used, it's almost like a political thing.
You know, under the impeachment reference where they say high crimes and other misdemeanors, or sorry, other high crimes and misdemeanors?
Oh, it's a high crime.
Well, we don't have any statutes.
Do you have to be prosecuted for high crimes?
Well, there is no high crime.
Well, still, is it misdemeanor?
I don't think you necessarily have to have an adjudication because the court can say, this is insurrection.
Because it's almost like a political issue.
It's almost, if you look at by virtue of Section 5, it's a political issue.
It's kind of like impeachment is a political issue.
But it has no relevance now.
This was a 14th, I mean, it almost was exclusively to the Civil War.
Do you, I mean, do they want Jefferson Davis to be able to run for, by the way, Jefferson Davis may not have also sworn as an officer.
It's a weird, the way it is worded.
So I'm glad this Supreme Court will adjudicate it.
Don't be surprised if they don't answer, if they throw the thing out, they answer one question and don't answer the rest.
They do it all the time.
They are so famous for this.
But Alina Haber is such an idiot.
She goes on, I want to read this, she goes on, here we go, she goes on Hannity and Let me see this.
This is the line that just...
It's so stupid.
Hang on a minute.
Okay.
I want to get this line right.
Oh, here we go.
She's on the Sean Hannity show.
Okay.
Quote, I think it should be a slam dunk in the Supreme Court.
I have faith in them.
You know, people like Kavanaugh, who the president fought for, who the president went through hell to get into place, he'll step up.
This is the direct quote.
And the vulgarity of it, it's disgusting.
Suggesting that a Supreme Court justice would...
Put his thumb on the scale, tipped the scale, would look the other way in favor of Trump because Trump appointed him and, quote, fought for him, is beyond comment.
And this is, again, as Jeffrey Blahar, the National Review says, is beyond its rancidness or rancidity.
This is the legal firepower that he's got.
This is the legal firepower that he's got.
It's unbelievable.
And by the way, if you really want to see what's going on, do me a favor.
Do me a favor.
Just spend a little bit of time.
A little bit of time.
Go to Alina Haba on Instagram.
That's all.
That's all.
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First of all, I don't know if Trump can get any lawyers.
I don't know if anybody even wants him.
I don't know if anybody wants to deal with him.
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I want to explain something to you about lawyers, just for a moment.
It's one of those things where you have to ask yourself...
I'll give you an example.
I had a case.
Somebody called me.
And...
It was involving, they needed a referral for domestic, family.
It wasn't really, it was going to be a really nasty divorce.
Physical stuff, not good, not good.
And so my friend, who was a retired cop at the time, it's his daughter, and anyway, it's in this part of the country, didn't matter where it was.
So what did I do?
How do I do?
How do I?
He says, well, I went online.
You want online?
That's good.
What'd you see?
Did you go see Alina Haber?
Did you go see if they were on...
I would always use social media as kind of like a means of eliminating people.
But what is it that you...
Oh, I said, what are you looking for?
I want somebody who's good for your daughter.
Okay, good.
So I did my research.
You know what I did?
I said, what state are we talking about?
Do you call this county, circuit, whatever?
Sometimes it's circuit court, county court, superior court, whatever it is.
Who are the people who are involved here?
Who are they?
Okay, what county is it?
Great.
Let me look.
I went and I looked and I saw the local bar association.
I looked for a couple of things.
I kind of triangulate.
You get pieces of data and then you put them together.
I said, I want to know who is the current chairman of the family law association, family law section.
Of that county, which is very, very good.
Very good.
I want to see who's board certified.
I like that.
Somebody who does this all the time.
And more importantly, and this is the best, who's on the Judicial Nominating Committee?
Who's politically active?
Who's a real macher, a real big shot in that area?
Of course, you're going to price yourself out of it, but that's kind of what I want.
I'm not interested in anything but...
So when this person walks in, they're going to say...
There was a guy years ago named Philip Corboy.
Philip Corboy was one of my heroes.
Oh, Harold Price Farringer, another one.
Looked great.
White hair.
Oh, God.
Looked...
Tab collar.
Just perfect.
But Philip Corboy was the dean...
I think it was Aviation Law, but anyway, he was it.
Mr. Tortz, this guy out of Chicago, I've met him one time, he's fantastic.
And there was a case where, remember when they used to dump, bump you?
Bump, you remember that?
You got that?
Well, there was a case where they bumped a client.
Well, this guy would happen to be...
A Supreme Court justice or something from Illinois.
And he was going to, I think, Ocala, Florida or something where his horse was going to, or a foal or whatever.
Anyway.
He was on his way.
He said, I'm sorry.
You've been bumped.
And lo and behold, the person who took his flight was like a lawyer.
Somebody he knew.
Well, he was.
Fit to be tough.
So the story goes, he went to Corboy.
And Corboy put an end to that.
And he goes before the jury.
And this very, again, white here, hoary, H-O-A-R-Y, white, venerable, with age, respected.
This hoary dean of torch goes before this jury, and he was a trial lawyer too, goes before the court and says, this, it was, I don't know what it was, Eastern, whatever it was.
He goes, this, he points at the P and I'll say, this is whatever, let's just call it Eastern, I don't know what it was.
This is Eastern Airlines P&L sheet of last year, and this is what it made.
Okay.
This is what I want.
If somebody made $20,000 a year, I want them to pay a dollar.
Is that fair enough?
I want you to order, because it's up to you, but I would like a figure that would be equivalent to somebody who made $20,000 a year paying a dollar.
Well, the jury's like, nah, give you $2.
And he just did it.
Remember, was it Brendan Sullivan?
The fellow who represented Oliver North.
Kind of a Wally Cox, very professorial.
Love that.
The worst lawyer, Bruce Cutler.
You know what I mean?
Not worse, yelling, bombastic.
No good.
I want the lawyer who gets along with everybody.
I want the lawyer who sits there and says, somebody who's really respected.
Now in New York, it's a different story.
New York is, Andy McCarthy says, it's a political system surrounded by judges.
And if you think I'm going to go in front of the court and this judge, remember Alina Haber?
I dare you!
I'm in it!
Why am I doing that?
Why am I saying anything?
What am I doing other than getting publicity for me?
Am I helping myself?
Edie Crowley, by the way, says there is a large swath of our population that is food-deprived.
Emergency measures are a first world option.
Oh, absolutely.
Oh.
And by the way, but thank you for that.
I don't want to go into the plant-based thing yet.
Please.
Why would I go in front and tell Latisha James, and you, how dare you?
You're a caravan.
Are you crazy?
What is the point of that?
What is the point of that?
You're going to just make people, hey?
I always loved the nurse ratchet approach.
I do it all the time.
I understand her position.
I prefer to argue my case in before Judge Ingeron or whatever.
I believe that is the tribunal where this is best argued, not here in the courtroom.
I thank you for your attention.
And have a good day.
Because if they're going to cut me a deal, if I have any chance of somebody saying, you know, it's not going to happen if I say, and you, you corrupt you.
And then making fun of the clerks and tweeting, and I don't understand them.
Why are you doing that?
Now, sometimes you can mock your executioner.
You're on the, you're on the, in the gallows, so to speak.
You know, you got the noose around your neck, and you say, any last words?
Yeah, I got a few words, yeah.
You, your mother, you know, go ahead.
It's not going to help, but...
That's what I wish somebody in an execution would say, do you have any final words?
Yeah, I got a few words.
Yeah.
You know, I mean, you could be something for the record book.
Albert Fish, apparently, just released a string of epithets that were just God knows.
In any event, in any event, this is the Trump mentality.
Thank you.
What is this about?
And the first thing you do is this Maine Supreme Court, she's a hack!
She reminds me of an actress.
And I cannot, she almost is a dead ringer for this one actress, and I cannot.
By the way, can you help me with something?
Please, please, please, please do me a favor.
One of you fine, kind people the other day reminded me of something.
There are two particular words that are used on college campuses.
One is trigger warnings and the other one is...
What is that other word?
What is the other phrase?
Dear, please help me.
I cannot for the life of me remember it.
No, not snowflake.
It is called trigger warnings and it's kind of like a clinical term almost for something.
It's this clinical term.
You know what I mean?
New Hampshire bans chemtrails.
Wonderful!
Microaggression.
Thank you.
This is driving me crazy.
You know, when you get to be my age, which is a grand age, you think sometimes, they're always telling you, you're forgetting names.
I've forgotten names my whole life.
But never cared about it then.
By the way, the other day, Mrs. L, we were in a store and somebody says, Excuse me?
Yes?
Very nice woman.
Would you...
What?
This is not to me, sir.
Would you...
I don't know how to say this.
What is it?
Say it!
Would you like the senior discount?
Are you kidding?
Yes!
Yes!
What?
I love it!
You know, so this senior business, I don't know what this senior thing is.
Terrific!
Anyway, years ago, I was trying to think of, I don't know, I said, what was it?
Somebody said, this is before the internet, what were the names of all the cat ladies?
Oh yeah, Julie, oh, Batman.
Julie Newmar, Craig, Diane, well she was a cat woman, not, no.
Catwoman.
No, wait a minute.
She was Batgirl.
Excuse me.
But Catwoman was Julie Newmar.
And the one that I could not think about was Eartha Kitt.
Eartha Kitt.
And I remember this.
I remember when this happened.
I said, what the hell?
You know, black woman.
She was like, scary.
What the hell is her name?
People look at me.
I don't know what you're talking about.
No, you know I'm talking about the Catwoman.
What are you talking about the Catwoman?
See, black singer, remember the thing with LBJ?
I don't know what you're talking about.
Anyway, forgot it.
Like a year later, two years, I'm talking to somebody and all of a sudden I have this brain fart and I said, Eartha Kitt!
They said, what?
I thought of it.
It was in the back of my mind on something.
Eartha Kitt could not So anyway, I was 20-something years old.
So it happens.
By the way, did the doctor ever tell you?
Now listen.
I checked that thing on.
It's okay.
But do me a favor.
If you have any pain right here, at any point, you call me right away.
What?
If you feel any pain right here, anything, you let me know immediately.
Or go straight to the emergency room.
Really?
Guess what you're going to feel all day.
You're going to be here.
Does this hurt?
What kind of a pain?
On a scale from 1 to 10?
So when they tell you, when you get older, are you going to forget stuff?
You swear you're forgetting everything.
But you're not.
But you're focused on it.
And you think, the stuff you do remember, oh my god.
Did you ever talk to a young person?
Did you ever talk to a young person today?
Good luck.
I was talking to somebody who was, everything I said, Everything was like...
I said, well, if this isn't Stanley Kubrick, you know what?
You know, Dr. Strangelove, what?
You know, Torkinson, George C. What?
Well, you know, Kubrick, they say, is involved in the moon landing.
Who?
The moon landing.
The what?
You know, the moon landing.
I heard about that.
No, no, they said it was fake.
What?
Vietnam, what?
Gulf of Tonkin, what?
Have you ever done this?
Have you ever done this?
I mean, this is the thing that is so difficult.
Well, it was before my time.
Oh, oh, oh.
By the way, may I recommend to you, please, May I recommend to you the following?
And this is so important, it's not even funny.
I watched...
I told you the other day, I'm watching stuff that I never, ever, ever...
I never watched Amy Goodman.
Not that I don't dislike her.
On Democracy Now, there was a former IDF soldier turned anti-Zionist.
Her name is...
Mital, M-E-I-T-A-L Yaniv.
One of the most fascinating interviews ever.
And you must watch this.
She talks about she had panic attacks.
This doesn't affect...
It is this thing about...
Younger people today being able to say that the way I feel can disqualify the dissemination of ideas in the light.
One time, I'll never forget, when I was a kid, my first years of high school, I forget what it was.
I told my father, I don't want to go to school.
I'm not feeling...
What?
I'm not feeling...
I was never played hooky.
But for some reason, he could tell.
And I said, you know, I just...
And I remember he told me, he said, wait a minute, let me get this straight.
You don't feel like going to school?
Is that what you're saying?
You don't feel like it.
And he never hit you or anything.
He made you feel like an idiot.
So you don't feel like it.
Is that what you're saying?
You're just not inclined, you know, today.
Is that what you're saying?
You're just not up to it.
So you're saying you're feeling kind of, well, I don't feel good today.
I said, okay, alright, alright, just stop it.
I'm going.
No, no, no!
I just want to make sure I define it.
You know, are you feeling peaked?
If I had told him, microaggressions or this whole notion of, you know, these little weird supercilious trigger warnings, and I just love that.
I remember hearing the first time somebody said, you know, we would rather not hear anything about the Holocaust, because you see, the Holocaust, it's like a...
What?
So you've got to watch this interview.
And this woman, she says, I don't think there should be a state of Israel.
I was like, what?
Because they shut down the first day of California legislature because she said, but what she said, I'll never forget.
It was very interesting.
She says, you don't understand something.
I was raised in a family that not only was very pro-Zionist, but very IDF, very military.
Military, not like your military.
You were military because, well, my grandfather was in World War II over there.
And I was in Vietnam over there.
See, everything here is like over there.
But in Israel, it's here.
And it was very interesting, a mindset.
Always pay attention to the mindset.
And they also said, which is very interesting, this idea that...
There's a whole thing about the Holocaust.
And she talked about this.
And I remember one time somebody said to me, you don't understand.
I'm a daughter.
No, I'm a child of a Holocaust survivor.
Okay.
I didn't know what that meant.
All right.
I defer to people.
I heard it again.
Somebody else.
You don't understand.
I'm the child of a Holocaust survivor.
So I asked, what does that mean?
And they looked at me, and I was just asking the question, what does that mean?
They looked at me like, wow.
So understand the mindset.
Rafael Legonde says, lawyer David Boies, big time lawyer in the 90s, has he a legend?
Was he a legend for you too?
Not really.
He's kind of...
I don't know.
Boy Schiller.
We always walk by in D.C. all the time.
Boy Schiller.
He had a case with Dershowitz.
He did some good stuff.
In his day, he was good.
He did the case of...
He did the...
Was it Proposition A case?
It's very, very good.
Very, very good.
There is a wonderful...
Now, remember, there's different lawyers.
Appellate lawyers.
There's one Supreme Court lawyer who is...
I forget his name.
He is terrific.
And I love to watch him.
What is his name?
Oh, God.
There's a couple of great...
I like actual practitioners.
There are the practitioners.
There's different levels.
There's different levels of people.
There are people who just...
You've got to ask yourself, what's your level of success?
What's your level of success?
One of the most preeminent, in terms of money, have you seen Morgan& Morgan for the people?
John Morgan, started in Tampa.
He was on every cab, every cab, it was cabs in the old days, for the people.
For you.
Never said, you know, accident.
And now he, I think, is the largest law firm, perhaps, in making oodles on very mixed reviews regarding lawyer advertising.
First Amendment to me says commercial free speech.
Yes, yes, yes.
Is it good for the profession?
Not really.
Have you ever driven into Philly?
You come off of the turnpike and you do whatever that exit 6 is and you're...
I'll fight for you!
Don't fight for me!
I'll fight for you!
I'll fight!
We're gonna fight!
God damn it!
I lost my hand!
What are you fighting for?
They got coverage!
I'm gonna fight!
They're gonna fight!
Wait a minute!
The best is, you know, not the best.
I shouldn't say this.
I got hit by a Pepsi truck, you know, and I've got brain damage.
You're not going to fight anything.
They're going to fight.
They're going to fight.
Don't own us.
I don't understand this.
I just don't.
It's so weird.
It's so strange when people look at the whole law thing.
So you have trial lawyers and the people at the Harvard level, you know.
Now, then you've got those who are routed and directed for the academic level.
They're going to be the academic level.
I think there's one of the, you know who's very good is Noah Feldman.
Very interesting.
Watch his lectures.
He's Harvard.
And he's an expert in Arabic law and argues on behalf of Sharia.
I haven't seen him lately, but he's very good, very interesting.
He's the academic.
Cass Sunstein.
Absolutely unintelligible.
This is a guy who came with cognitive interference.
He's married to Samantha Power.
He was also married to...
No, no, no, no.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
He was a partner.
One of his...
What was his name?
Oh, there were...
I don't want to go too much.
Personal life doesn't really matter, but there was a, there was a, oh God.
Anyway, his legal philosophy, by the way, judicial minimalism.
Arguing that judges should focus on deciding the case at hand and avoid making sweeping changes to the law or decisions.
It's kind of like what Scalia would say.
He's into behavioral economics.
I also think he wanted, wasn't it animal rights?
Sunstein's work has addressed the question of animal rights, co-authored a book, Facing Animals, The Ethics of Animals.
Animals?
Animals?
In 2008, he filed a paper with Adrian Vermeule.
Call it a conspiracy theory.
He's dealing with the risks and possible government.
So he's one of these guys who couldn't find his way in a courtroom.
Couldn't find his way.
Wouldn't know what to do.
He's an illegal theorist.
There was a woman years ago I followed her and they were touting her as one of the most brilliant jurors anybody's ever heard of.
And her husband.
They were the most Brilliant husband and wife.
Oh my God.
And I listened to her give a lecture on federalism.
And so help me God, I'm wondering, this is the biggest bunch of bullshit I've ever heard in my life.
What are they saying?
What are they saying?
What is the purpose of this?
So you've got the law part.
I like the front row battle lines.
You know, you want to work in the Pentagon?
Or do you want to be in the infantry?
Where do you want to work?
You want to work in the infantry?
You want to fight?
You want to fight the enemy?
You're going to be the foxhole?
That's what I like.
That's the fun part.
That's the reality of this.
Academia?
La la land.
Understand the basics.
Understand the theories.
But they're in another world.
They don't really...
They're not practical.
They couldn't find their way...
I one time went to a...
There was a...
In a hearing, there was a seminar in my law school years ago, and they never asked me again, and it was about criminal cases.
What would you do, or whatever it was.
And I'm on this panel, and they've got the professor, and they've got this, and they've got this.
I said, what would you do if you were charged?
Well, I would look at the charges.
I'm going to find out whether the indictment or the information, did it actually charge?
Did it make out a case for a cause of action?
Was there using the whole notion of pleading?
Did it establish venue?
Were bill of particulars required?
And I'm looking at the what?
The what?
This is ridiculous.
They got to me.
My first question is, did he pay you?
I said, what difference does it make?
What difference does it make?
Did he pay you?
It's your client.
Well, did he pay you?
Well, he's going to...
What was that again?
Well, he's going to pay you a little bit now.
Oh, forget it.
Then you're going to file a notice of limited appearance.
Maybe, but stay away from that.
You don't want to get stuck into this thing.
You're stuck.
They looked at me like, what are you talking about?
I said, this is the most practical application.
Unless you're working for some firm where none of this stuff matters, but if you're on your own, if you're in the front line, things like that matter.
Is he a nut?
Is she a nut?
Does she have a good case?
What is it?
How many priors?
Who's the judge?
What do they want?
What do they want?
What's going on?
What's your best case?
Have you done this before?
I mean...
So what I'm saying is, as...
Whether it's politics, whether it's legal matters, whether it's January 6th, whether it's Trump, there's always this thing called legal realism, political realism, the way it really is, and not the way, la, la, la.
Now, if you want to do it in the Cass Sunstein level, you want to talk about appellate judges, you want to talk about Nino Scalia and originalism, yeah, that's fine.
But short of that, it's a different story.
Alright, my friends.
Now, do me a favor.
First and foremost, I want you to make sure you sign up right now, right now on our show.
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And don't even, don't even, don't even hesitate for a second.
Do you understand that?
Don't hesitate for a second.
And one thing too, by the way, I've got coming up for you.
Which is something which I will never understand.
I don't know about you, but I get newsletters from people all the time.
This is one you need.
This is my newsletter, which I'm going to be sending out and keeping you apprised and the like.
Let me remind you, as I have before, my friends, let me again say to you one more time, not to bludgeon you, but to kindly remind you of so much important stuff.
On February the 3rd, right here, I'm going to be at...
The famed cutting room.
I returned to the stages.
Returned with my one-man show.
Music, guitar, gut bucket, you name it.
Okay?
On February the 3rd, tickets are available.
You've seen me.
The best, if you're listening, just go to my YouTube.
My Twitter page, as it were.
And just, if you don't mind, if you wouldn't, you could.
My Northern Sky is a great Nick Drakewood in tone.
But just go and write their pin is the link.
And it's very, very...
In fact, I'll give it to you one more time.
It's going to be a real barn burner.
And have you noticed this Cat Williams stuff?
This Cat Williams stuff is so interesting.
Isn't it interesting?
It is so interesting.
And he's very, very funny.
But mine is different.
I don't ever want to say stand-up comedy.
This is stand-up thinking.
And that's it.
Anyway, dear friends, have a great and glorious day.
Pray for us.
We're waiting for the big snowfall to hit us today.
Which means it promises to be nothing.
Have a great and glorious day.
Don't ever change.
I mean that sincerely.
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