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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good night.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Of talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, no, Brownie, You're
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Welcome to the Weekend with Michael Brown, broadcasting live from
the deep freeze of Denver, Colorado. Oh my god, it's
a freeze apocalypse. Everybody run for their lives and we're
going to move the inauguration indoors because it's colder than
a well digger's ass outside. It's January. Everybody, even even Michael,
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we are now sightly less than forty eight hours away
from the forty seventh President of the United States of America,
Donald J. Trump Junior, being sworn in inside the Capitol
Building by the way, instead of outside. So, I you know,
I actually people think I'm a cold hearted bastard, but
I'm really not. I'm really kind of just I'm really
a nice guy. Yet you gotta trust me on this.
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I really do feel sorry for all of the MAGA
people that have gone to d C hoping to stand
out in you know, in the cold. They're willing to
do that. I mean, come on, they're not coming unprepared.
They're not well, maybe some people are gonna wear shorts
and a T shirt, but most level headed people are
going to show up with their parkas and you know,
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a wool cap, and they're gonna be ready for the cold.
I mean, it's not like it's been cold in DC before,
so that I think they kind of it. So it
makes you wonder whether they're moving inside for safety reasons.
For the observers or safety reasons for the president, and
I truly don't know, and I'm not going to put
on my tinfoil hat yet and claim that it's really
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for protection of the president. But it's not unheard of.
It's happened before, and we've had I can't remember who
it was now. I should have thought about this before
my stupid mouth that we've had other presidents who have
taken the ENoG have taken the oath of office outside
in bitterly cold weather and then come down with pneumonia
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and died a couple of months later. So yeah, we
don't want that, right, we don't want that. So less
than forty eight hours and the world is already changing
and I find it fascinating. But before we get to
all of that, I want to go back to yesterday,
because yesterday I finished my weekday program and I forget
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what I'm doing. I'm touching around because it's the weekend
and I really don't do a lot of show prep
on Friday. When I first get off, when I finish
at ten am Mountain time on Fridays, I usually, you know,
I've got lunch with a friend or the wife or something,
and then I'll go home and putch around, do things
I need to do, pay bills, you know what, just
you know, normal stuff. But I'm down. I'm in my
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office and I hear something about the Equal Rights Amendment,
and I'm thinking, what's going on about the Equal Rights Amendment?
So I do a quick search, and I find this
statement on White House, you know, on the White House
letterhead for immediate release January seventeenth, which was yesterday, twenty
twenty five. Statement from President Joe Biden on the Equal
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Rights Amendment. And just bear with me. I want you
to listen to this, because somebody had to type this,
Somebody had to sit down at a word processor and
be told by unless you know, it's the Press secretary
or self, or it's a TOMMS director, it's the chief
of staff somebody, or maybe it's the custodian for all
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I know, because it's about how dumb this is. So
a man have been the custodian. But here's what it says,
I meaning Joseph R. Biden Junior, by the way, soon
to be former President Biden. I have supported the Equal
Rights Amendment for more than fifty years, and I have
long been clear that no one should be just be
discriminated against based on their sex. We as a nation
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must affirm and protect women's fully equality once and for all. Okay, well,
I'm fine with me. I don't support the Equal Rights Amendment.
I think it's totally superfluous. I don't think it's necessary,
and I think it leads to a lot, awful lot
of unintended consequences. But nonetheless, no one should be discriminated
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based on their sex, and we as a nation must
affirm and protect women's full equality once and for all. Well,
I think we've been doing that for a long time.
Second pair. On January twenty seven, twenty twenty, the Commonwealth
of Virginia became the thirty eighth state to ratify the
Equal Rights Amendment. The American Bar Association, let's pause for
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a moment. The American Bar Association. I quit my membership
in the American Bar Association maybe after three years of
being a baby lawyer, So this is right way back
in the eighties sometime. I just dropped my membership in
the American Bar Association because I realized they were a
bunch of left wing nut jobs that had that did
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not represent me as a lawyer whatsoever. And since ABA
membership is not required as a part of your license
to practice law in almost any state, I'm just like boom,
I'm out of here, It continues, The American Bar Association
is recognized that the Equal Rights Amendment has cleared all
necessary hurdles to be formally added to the Constitution as
the twenty eighth Amendment. Really, well, who gives the rights?
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That's what the ABA says. I agree, says the President.
I agree with the ABA and with leading constitutional scholars
that the Equal Rights Amendment has become part of our constitution.
Now I'd like to know who those scholars are. Who
are they, Where are they? Where do they come from?
You see Berkeley, Yale, Harvard, Georgetown, Duke, you know, all
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these liberal schools. Because they're wrong. Then, he continues, it
is long past time to recognize the will of the
American people. In keeping with my oath and duty to
the Constitution and country, I affirm what I believe. Well, okay,
you mean you believe that, and you want to tell
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everybody you know what I believe what I believe? Well great,
I'm not really sure what's going on in your brain,
mister president, But if you want to affirm to the
public that you believe what you believe with then you
know you can spend the rest of your term just
doing that. But for the love of God and for
the safety of the country, would you please just shut
down and shut up. I affirm what I believe and
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what three fourths of the states have ratified. The twenty
fifth Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all
Americans equal rights and protections under the law, regardless their sex.
So I read that, and I tweeted the following out.
By the way, this is what we're posted, which is
why you should be following me on X. The twenty
eighth Amendment I wrote is not part of the Constitution,
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regardless of what Biden says. Congress put time limits on
the states to approve the amendment, and Virginia's approval is
outside those time limits. So just declaring it the law
the land is well dictatorial. Go back to packing your boxes,
mister soon to be ex president. And I didn't think
much else about it, and I kind of moved on
with my day and just thought, you know, well, Jimmy Christmas,
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he really is losing it, or somebody really is trolling
the American public. And then I don't know what I
was listening to, but then someone played Biden giving a speech.
I don't remember where this was. It doesn't make any
difference where it was. But ladies and gentlemen, the President
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of the United States of America.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Just over one hundred years ago, a pioneering group of
women proposed Equal Rights Amendment to enshrine the principles of
gender quality our constitution. Throughout my career, I've been clear,
no one, no one, no one should be discriminated against
based on their sex for the amendment to be ratified,
and requires three fourths of the states to ratify it.
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That bench barrows fat benchmark was passed when Virginia ratified
the era a few years ago. Today, I have firm
iCal Rights Amendment to have cleared all the nests of
their hurdles to be added to the US Constitution.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Now, oh, you do huh, well, yell at us and
scream that, but you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Hey, I have firm iCal rights Amendments have cleared all
the necessary hurdles to be added to the US Constitution. Now,
Baker writes, amendment is the law of the land.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Now, oh, the equal Rights amendment is the law of
the land. Now, well, when we get back, let's think
about two things. Let's think about whether it's the law
of the land or not. But let's stop and think
about who's advising him, who's writing this. We're in really
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dangerous territory. Be sure and send me a text message
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program plus the weekend program. Now back to Biden for
a moment, because let me tell you why I'm starting
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out with this story, because I was truly dumbstruck. Now,
anytime there's a transition of power from one administration to another.
That's a very vulnerable time for the country. Because let
me paint a small picture for you real quickly, just
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a little small polaroid. Most of the desks in the
West Wing, with the exception of some of the permanent
staff members on the National Security Council, the White House
Situation Room, the White House Communications Office, and by the
Communications I don't mean like the Press Office. I'm talking
about downstairs underneath the East Wing is where the Presidential
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Emergency Operations Center is. There is also the White House
Comm's Office. Those are the people that you know, take
care of the nuclear football that the president has with
him at all times, and they're in charge of all
communications for the President to you know, all the cabinet members,
world leaders, everybody. It's it's you know, I mean, it's
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kind of like if you wanted to pretend like, you know,
the bat phone exists between the president and immediately to
Vladimir Putin er Jijen Ping. They're in charge of all
of that. So those people still exist. Some of the
permanent members of the Secret Service. Oh, that's probably going
to change a lot. Some of those desks are still occupied,
but generally it's empty they've all gone home and they
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ain't coming back on Monday. So if something really bad
were to happen right now in terms of the White House,
or in terms of the Pentagon or Homeland Security, matter
the CIA, now in a lot of those cabinet agencies,
there's still the deep state. There's still the civil servants,
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the bureaucrats that don't go anywhere. They're still there. But
the leaders, the decision makers have to some extent checked out. Now.
They're probably still in DC because they're going to attend
the inauguration or they're going to be around or you know,
they're going to do whatever they're going to do. They
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most of them live there, so they haven't gone back home.
But the chain of command, while in my mind is clear,
the chain of command becomes a little muffled because, well,
at you know, twelve oh one, you know, less than
forty eight hours from now, the new commander in chief
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is going to be Donald Trump, and the current commander
in chief is this guy who is, in my opinion,
truly senile because this whole equal rights amendment that he
blustered on about on Friday is absolutely false. So it
led me to this conclusion there's two things I think
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going on either one or two things that maybe both
of them are true. First, he truly is senile. I mean,
I don't think he has all his faculty.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
All the necessary hurdles to be added to the US Constitution.
Now think who writes amendment is the law of the land.
Now it's a twenty eighth Amendments of the Constitution.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Now, keep yelling? Is keep yelling? Any what else? Kind
of scares me? The useful idiots and the audience. I mean,
do they think they're at a at a taping of
the view and they're listening to those five ditches talk
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about Equal Rights Amendment? What are they cheering about? Do
they really believe that he can just unilatterally declare that
the Equal Rights Amendment, the twenty eighth Amendments of the
Constitution has now passed. Now, so it has not, let
me just tell you flatly, it has not. But someone
wrote that for him. Now maybe he wrote it, but
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I seriously doubt that. So someone on the staff, you know,
on Thursday, or maybe on Wednesday, but sometime before he
gave this speech on Friday, wrote those words. Because he's
reading it from the teleprompter, which begs the question, then
are they trolling us? Are they? For example, is it
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someone that is so pissed off at Biden because he
withdrew from the race and now Kamalas stepped in and
they've lost everything. They've lost the White House, the House,
and the Senate. And so this little goober is all.
I shouldn't call him the goober because you guys are
Goober's this little idiot in the West wing. He's really
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pissed off at the President and at you for having
voted for Donald Trump. And so they're thinking, you know what,
he'll read anything I write, so let's just do this.
Or he the President went to the staff and said,
you know, I've got I've really got to do stuff
to build up my legacy. So I'm going to go
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declare the Equal Rights Amendment has passed. And they all
look at him like you're out of your f and mind.
But none of them have the guts, They don't have
the testicles to tell him, sir, you're wrong. It hasn't passed.
So they just, you know, they don't care. They just
don't care, so they'll just write it. So he wrote
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this speech and he goes to whatever this conference is,
and standing behind the seal of the President of the
United States of America at the lectern tells everybody to
this bunch of clapping seals that all, yeah, it's past,
and they just applaud like, oh yeah, yeah, it's a
dangerous time. I don't wish time to fly any faster
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than it already does for all of us. Oh but
my gosh, we cannot get to noon on Monday fast enough.
Because anybody with any sense, you know, every every intelligence
agency in the world, both friend and foe, listens to
this stuff and they think, wow, maybe if we you know,
if we're going to I'm going to be I'm going
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to be This is hyperbole, but it could be true. Hey,
why don't we just attack the United States right now?
Because he's clearly out of it, He has no clue
what he's talking about, and they'll be confused about who's
in charge. Remember what I've always said about disasters, When
when you're facing a natural, man made disaster, if you
cannot answer who's in charge, I guarandamn to you, that
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disaster is going to become even worse than it is initially,
because you've got to be able to answer who's in charge. Well,
I know right now. Unfortunately he's in charge. But considering
that a lot of these people have gone home, they're
checked out, they don't care anymore. They're just trying to
you know, they're out looking for new jobs. They're trying
to burrow in somewhere, they're trying to, you know, do
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whatever they can. And he's just left there standing alone
giving a speech that claims that the Equal Rights Amendment
has passed.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
The wady to give them a stand, dozens of consccial scholars,
to make sure there is all within the power to
do this.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Really, name them, Name one of them. Now, on the
other side of the break, I'll tell you the truth
about the Equal Rights Amendment and it'll show you just
how off this guy is. I'll be right back tonight.
Michael joins me here, the former FEMA director of.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, No, Brownie, you're doing
a heck of a job the Weekend with Michael Brown.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Hey, welcome to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Really glad
to have you with me. Hope you're surviving the deep
freeze for everybody? What was it? You know, the weather
is no longer just the weather like now, the weather's
become nationalized, so that uh, you know, Fox News for example,
has their own weather channel now Fox Weather, and the
(18:30):
networks always start out with that. They don't always, but
they often start out with a national weather report. And
the networks have a habit of using, you know, a
hyperbolic language. You know, we got the polar vortex coming now.
And then I heard a number yesterday which I don't
know whether it's true or not quite Frankly, I don't care,
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but the networks talking about how, you know, one hundred
and fifty or two hundred million Americans are going to
be in the deep freeze over the next several days
or whatever, you know, any thing to make it just
sound like it's horrible, like it's the end of civilization. Really,
it's January and you're shocked that Siberian cold front is
moving across the Arctic in Canada and coming down into
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the United States, and you're shocked about that, and that's
the lead news story. This is how we are absolutely
being played by the cabal. It's not just the news,
it's the freaking weather. They have to take the weather
and make it into some sort of like oh my gosh,
running high getting your basement. Oh my god, it's gonna
be horrible. Now, how about you put your stupid code on.
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I'm not going outside barefooted. Good grief. Back to the
Equal Rights because this is just as stupid. Joe Biden
became the United States Senator in nineteen seventy two. Why
is that important because the Equal Rights Amendment had been
unsuccessfully introduced in every single session of Congress from nineteen
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twenty three until night teen seventy two, And it was
in nineteen seventy two, the year that Joe Biden entered
the US Senate. Now, what were you doing in nineteen
seventy two? I bet there's some of you and I
hate you. I bet there are some people in this
audience that weren't even born in nineteen seventy two, Michael,
I'm looking at you, by the way, that that nineteen
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seventy two either, I don't know. I wasn't even around them.
But in nineteen seventy two, the stupid Equal Rights Amendment
finally passed both houses by substantial majorities too, by the way,
and then that same year twenty two states ratified it,
but still a total of only thirty five states eventually
ratified it, so they were always three short of the
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thirty eighth that they needed. And then and oh, by
the way, and when it was when the amendment was
passed in nineteen seventy two, it was given a deadline.
I forget what the deadline was. That it was nineteen
seventy nine or some thing, and then they extended to
nineteen eighty or nineteen eighty two. It's immaterial. But Congress
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set a deadline, which they are entitled to do, and
that's that has been upheld by the courts that if
Congress wants to set a deadline, then look, here's an
amendment to the Constitution, and you know, two thirds of
the states need to pass it by as such and
such date or it becomes Nolan void. And that's what
Congress did. And so nobody passed it. I mean nobody,
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not The two thirds did not pass it by the
original deadline. They extended the deadline to eighty or eighty two,
whatever it was, and they still couldn't get thirty eight states.
And then on top of that, some legislatures, some state
legislatures rescinded their approval of the amendment. So there's no
way in hell, this thing has been properly approved or
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adopted in accordance with the terms of the legislation that
proposed it and in terms of the procedure put for
within the US Constitution. So now think about what the
President of the United States is saying, and you truly
have to be like those useful idads in that audience
who stand up in a plot, Oh yeah, yeah, you've
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affirmed it. Well, you know, wow, who are the legal
scholars that said that it's been passed? So I kind
of dug around trying to find, you know, and I'm
sure there are some law school professors, let's put it
that way. There are probably some law school professors who
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are probably left of center who believe that, you know,
the Constitution is just what they say it is, not
what the Constitution itself says, but just how they interpret it,
not how the courts interpret it, but how they interpret it.
But in terms of legal scholars, I don't think there
are really any legal scholars that would say, oh, yeah,
he's right, And I can't find out those who said
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that he is except for the American Bar Association. And
if you want to believe what the American Bar Association
says about the United States Constitution. Then you're buying into
a progressive Marxist ideology that just permeates the American Bar Association.
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So when when Virginia back in twenty twenty January fifteen,
twenty twenty, I think it was when Virginia became the
latest states to ratify the era. It didn't make any difference.
It was outside the time limit in which to do it.
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So it's just it, really, it truly bothers me that somebody,
you know, I can see Biden sitting around and doctor
Jill Biden doing the same thing. We've got to cram
as much stuff in because they're going to be writing
about us. So what can we do in these last
forty eight hours that will make it sound like, wait,
we're the greatest president since sliced bread. I know, let's
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just declare the Equal Rights Amendment has passed. So they
do that, or some staffer who has to be like
a D student, maybe an F student, maybe a DEI
hire ends up saying to the President, oh, you want
to add something to your legacy once you give you're
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going to give this speech to I don't know who
it is, but let's just say it's some you know,
anti discrimination group. So why don't you go give this
speech and just declare that the Constitution has been amended
by the twenty eighth Amendment and now the era is
now the law of the land. Oh that sounds great. Yeah,
would you write that up for me? Okay, it's a
really precarious time for the country and it I can't
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explain why other than it's just so blatantly wrong that
he would have the audacity to go out and give
a speech just days before he's when you give up
the presidency and make this so supposedly historical announcement that
the Equal Rights amendmentists past, and I hereby declare it
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to be the law of the land. Well, who are you, Mussolini?
Who are you? I mean, are you at a parna
and you're going on to the balcony and you're going
to wave a flag and gavel it down and just say, ah,
hereby declare this is the law of the land, mister president.
That's not how it works. That's not how it works
at all. And the fact that you're doing it tells
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me that you're really a lot sicker than what we
think you are. And it also tells me that the
staff that is supposedly there to support you is not
supporting you in the least. After he gave the speech,
that's when both he and Kamala Harris released these written
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statements declaring the ERA to be the law of the land.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Interestingly, while the Biden administration publicly insists the president's statements
constitutionally enshrines the ERA, most government officials are privately acknowledging
that the announcement is nothing more than just a declaration
of his belief. Which is why I go back to
that statement that he wrote that says, you know, I
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hereby declare my belief. Well, you know, I believe that
it's cold outside, but it's not terrible. Yeah, I hear
by tell you that it's for me, it's getting close
to lunch and I'd like to have something to eat,
But I got to talk to you. Oh. In twenty
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twenty and then again in twenty twenty two, the Department
of Justices the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel
affirmed that the ratification deadline it was established by Congress
for the ERA is a valid and enforceable deadline. Court
decisions at both the district and the circuit levels, so
at the trial court level and at the appeals court
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level have affirmed that the ratification deadlines were established by
Congress for the era are valid deadlines. So therefore, the
archivists of the United States cannot legally publish the Equal
Rights Amendment as part of the US Constitution. So when
you think about the legacy of this president, I think
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that what we're witnessing today, and there are a lot
of people now talking about I can't I, which is
sad because I'm kind of ready to dance on the
grave of a dying, senile old man, and and I
apologize for thinking that way, but I truly cannot wait
to read the tell all books. They're going to tell
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us that, you know, we knew that he was in
bad shape in twenty twenty or even twenty nine tea,
or for Barack Obama to tell us that the reason
he shoved Joe Biden aside in favor of Hillary Clinton
was that Barack Obama saw way back in twenty fifteen
or maybe even earlier, that he saw even then that
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Joe Biden was incapable of handling the presidency. You there's
been a lot of damage done to this country, a
lot of damage. I only pray that Donald Trump and
his cabinet officials, and as I've worn my local audience,
don't expect everything to turn around instantaneously, but do recognize
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that things are already turning around. If you want to
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Will send me a text message the number three three
one zero three. Just start the message with the word
Mike or Michael, and let me pull up Hang on one minute,
let me pull up the US Constitution. Because someone asks
a really good question and I want to I want
to read it verbatim.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I want to read verbatim the Constitution.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
UH.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
And I don't have it. I don't have my pocket
Constitution with me, the twentieth Amendment because many people, some
people are asking me on the text line about is
there a does he really take the Does he really
become president at midnight, like at twelve oh one am
on the twentieth No, the twentieth Amendment is quite clear.
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Section one. The terms of the President and Vice President
shall end at noon on the twentieth day of January,
and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on
the third day of January of the years in which
such terms would have ended if this article had not
been ratified, And the terms of their successors shall then begin.
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Then it goes on to talk about fixing the terms
of the office, et cetera. Now, the new president, Donald Trump,
becomes president at noon on the twentieth on the twentieth stage,
in the very first sentence, the terms of the President
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and Vice President shall end at noon on the twentieth
day of January. So that's when Trump becomes president. Now,
even if they don't actually take the oath of office,
let's just say that, you know, something happens and there's
a you know, the power goes out inside the Capitol building,
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I mean, just any number of things. Well, Donald Trump
still becomes president at noon because go back to when
the electoral college vote was counted, that determined that Trump
had won the electoral College, and then the constitution specifies
that he becomes president at noon because the terms of
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the president and the vice president end at noon on
the twentieth Now something that people probably aren't aware of,
but it doesn't really make any difference. The president signs
the oath of office, not on the podium while they're inside.
While he you know, he raises his right hand, puts
his left hand on the Bible states, you know, takes
the oath of office. He doesn't, then you won't see
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him then reach into his pocket, take a pen and
sign the oath. They'll do that later at the White House.
I know that because I've been involved in the inaugurations before,
but I don't know where this midnight stuff comes up.
Because this constitution is pretty clear. So for those who
have questions about it, you can go read the twentieth Amendment.
The terms of the President and vice President shall end
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at noon on the twentieth day of January. And that's
regardless of whether they've actually taken the oath of office
or not. So the Constitution provides that transfer of power
from one to the other. So let's say that just
for example, LBJ after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Well,
(32:21):
the moment that JFK was declared dead, the vice president
assumed the office, So LBJ became president at the moment
of death of JFK. Then once they boarded Air Force
one and started making their way back from Dallas love
(32:42):
Field back to d C. You recall that iconic photo
of LBJ taking the oath of office. I think there
was a federal district judge from Dallas that got on
the plane and she administered the oath of office, and
they took a photograph. Jackie's in the background with the
you know, bloodstained dress, and people think that that's when
LBJ officially became president. Well not technically, that's when the
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world saw LBJ as president. But according to the Constitution,
there is not. There is. You do have to take
the oath of office at some point, I mean, you
have to swear to the oath, but that doesn't mean
that the power has not been transferred to you. So
at noon on Monday noon where they are East coast time,
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at noon on Monday, that's when Donald Trump becomes president.
That's why they try to time things as closely as
they can so that even if so there is just
no question. Even though the Constitution is clear by the
very words, they still want to do that oath of
office as close to noon as possible so that boom,
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it's over and if anything goes on in the world,
we know who the commander in chief is, even though
you now know that even if he if the oath
gets disrupted, don't pan me. He's still the president. Uh.
(34:11):
Now that text message you got me off where I
was going. Oh, there's there's no segue to this, but
let me just go ahead. And this was the story
I wanted to do next anyway, CNN on Friday, and
this is I think maybe the second or third huge
defamation case. So CBS has already agreed to pay to
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either a charity of Trump's choosing or to the Trump
Inaugural Committee. I think it was fifteen million dollars for
defaming him. When George Stephanopoulos insisted that Trump had been
convicted of rape, which he has not, the jury instruction
was clear, did you do you find that Donald Trump
(34:56):
raped Egene Carroll? And the jury marked no, so he's
not guilty of rape. But the jury instructions then went
on to say, do you find yes, or no, whether
or not Donald Trump sexually assaulted Egen Carroll, and the
jury answered yes. Well, George Stephanopolis got into an argument
with I think Congressman Mace about whether or not he
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had actually been convicted of rape, and she kept trying
to say no, and George Stephanopolis just repeated it over
and over and over that Donald Trump had been convicted
of rape. So Trump sues them for libel and slander
and he wins. They or at least they settle for
fifteen million dollars. Well, now, CNN just yesterday Friday agreed
(35:39):
to pay a navy veteran an undisclosed sum. Now I've
heard that the jury awarded five million dollars to this veteran,
this navy veteran, and they are still deliberating the punitive damages,
which could be in the billions of dollars. It came
just the settlement did came just after a six perc
(36:00):
some jury in Florida that concluded that CNN's reporting about
Zachary Young was so egregious to warrant punitive damages. Now
we don't know the details of it, but here's what
CNN did. They started accusing this veteran of being a
criminal propheteer who was exploiting the misery of Afghans trying
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to escape the Taliban back in twenty twenty one, and
that's not what he was doing at all. CNN just
lied about it. But then we found the emails where
they talked about, hey, they were going to get this guy.
They wanted to punch him in the face. He was awful,
you know, CNN, the cabal, they're awful. I'll be right
back
Good night.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Of talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, no, Brownie, You're
doing a heck of a job The Weekend with Michael Brown.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Welcome to the Weekend with Michael Brown, broadcasting live from
the deep freeze of Denver, Colorado. Oh my god, it's
a freeze apocalypse. Everybody run for their lives and we're
going to move the inauguration indoors because it's colder than
a well digger's ass outside. It's January. Everybody, even even Michael,
(00:29):
my producer in LA, was bitching about the cold. And
Los Angeles it got down to forty one degrees. It's
currently eleven degrees in Denver. So here are the rules
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we are now sightly less than forty eight hours away
from the forty seventh President of the United States of America,
Donald J. Trump Junior, being sworn in inside the Capitol
Building by the way, instead of outside. So, I you know,
I actually people think I'm a cold hearted bastard, but
I'm really not. I'm really kind of just I'm really
a nice guy. Yet you gotta trust me on this.
(01:33):
I really do feel sorry for all of the MAGA
people that have gone to d C hoping to stand
out in you know, in the cold. They're willing to
do that. I mean, come on, they're not coming unprepared.
They're not well, maybe some people are gonna wear shorts
and a T shirt, but most level headed people are
going to show up with their parkas and you know,
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a wool cap, and they're gonna be ready for the cold.
I mean, it's not like it's been cold in DC before,
so that I think they kind of it. So it
makes you wonder whether they're moving inside for safety reasons.
For the observers or safety reasons for the president, and
I truly don't know, and I'm not going to put
on my tinfoil hat yet and claim that it's really
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for protection of the president. But it's not unheard of.
It's happened before, and we've had I can't remember who
it was now. I should have thought about this before
my stupid mouth that we've had other presidents who have
taken the ENoG have taken the oath of office outside
in bitterly cold weather and then come down with pneumonia
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and died a couple of months later. So yeah, we
don't want that, right, we don't want that. So less
than forty eight hours and the world is already changing
and I find it fascinating. But before we get to
all of that, I want to go back to yesterday,
because yesterday I finished my weekday program and I forget
(03:01):
what I'm doing. I'm touching around because it's the weekend
and I really don't do a lot of show prep
on Friday. When I first get off, when I finish
at ten am Mountain time on Fridays, I usually, you know,
I've got lunch with a friend or the wife or something,
and then I'll go home and putch around, do things
I need to do, pay bills, you know what, just
you know, normal stuff. But I'm down. I'm in my
(03:23):
office and I hear something about the Equal Rights Amendment,
and I'm thinking, what's going on about the Equal Rights Amendment?
So I do a quick search, and I find this
statement on White House, you know, on the White House
letterhead for immediate release January seventeenth, which was yesterday, twenty
twenty five. Statement from President Joe Biden on the Equal
(03:46):
Rights Amendment. And just bear with me. I want you
to listen to this, because somebody had to type this,
Somebody had to sit down at a word processor and
be told by unless you know, it's the Press secretary
or self, or it's a TOMMS director, it's the chief
of staff somebody, or maybe it's the custodian for all
(04:07):
I know, because it's about how dumb this is. So
a man have been the custodian. But here's what it says,
I meaning Joseph R. Biden Junior, by the way, soon
to be former President Biden. I have supported the Equal
Rights Amendment for more than fifty years, and I have
long been clear that no one should be just be
discriminated against based on their sex. We as a nation
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must affirm and protect women's fully equality once and for all. Okay, well,
I'm fine with me. I don't support the Equal Rights Amendment.
I think it's totally superfluous. I don't think it's necessary,
and I think it leads to a lot, awful lot
of unintended consequences. But nonetheless, no one should be discriminated
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based on their sex, and we as a nation must
affirm and protect women's full equality once and for all. Well,
I think we've been doing that for a long time.
Second pair. On January twenty seven, twenty twenty, the Commonwealth
of Virginia became the thirty eighth state to ratify the
Equal Rights Amendment. The American Bar Association, let's pause for
(05:11):
a moment. The American Bar Association. I quit my membership
in the American Bar Association maybe after three years of
being a baby lawyer, So this is right way back
in the eighties sometime. I just dropped my membership in
the American Bar Association because I realized they were a
bunch of left wing nut jobs that had that did
(05:32):
not represent me as a lawyer whatsoever. And since ABA
membership is not required as a part of your license
to practice law in almost any state, I'm just like boom,
I'm out of here, It continues, The American Bar Association
is recognized that the Equal Rights Amendment has cleared all
necessary hurdles to be formally added to the Constitution as
the twenty eighth Amendment. Really, well, who gives the rights?
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That's what the ABA says. I agree, says the President.
I agree with the ABA and with leading constitutional scholars
that the Equal Rights Amendment has become part of our constitution.
Now I'd like to know who those scholars are. Who
are they, Where are they? Where do they come from?
You see Berkeley, Yale, Harvard, Georgetown, Duke, you know, all
(06:18):
these liberal schools. Because they're wrong. Then, he continues, it
is long past time to recognize the will of the
American people. In keeping with my oath and duty to
the Constitution and country, I affirm what I believe. Well, okay,
you mean you believe that, and you want to tell
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everybody you know what I believe what I believe? Well great,
I'm not really sure what's going on in your brain,
mister president, But if you want to affirm to the
public that you believe what you believe with then you
know you can spend the rest of your term just
doing that. But for the love of God and for
the safety of the country, would you please just shut
down and shut up. I affirm what I believe and
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what three fourths of the states have ratified. The twenty
fifth Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all
Americans equal rights and protections under the law, regardless their sex.
So I read that, and I tweeted the following out.
By the way, this is what we're posted, which is
why you should be following me on X. The twenty
eighth Amendment I wrote is not part of the Constitution,
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regardless of what Biden says. Congress put time limits on
the states to approve the amendment, and Virginia's approval is
outside those time limits. So just declaring it the law
the land is well dictatorial. Go back to packing your boxes,
mister soon to be ex president. And I didn't think
much else about it, and I kind of moved on
with my day and just thought, you know, well, Jimmy Christmas,
(07:46):
he really is losing it, or somebody really is trolling
the American public. And then I don't know what I
was listening to, but then someone played Biden giving a speech.
I don't remember where this was. It doesn't make any
difference where it was. But ladies and gentlemen, the President
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of the United States of America.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Just over one hundred years ago, a pioneering group of
women proposed Equal Rights Amendment to enshrine the principles of
gender quality our constitution. Throughout my career, I've been clear,
no one, no one, no one should be discriminated against
based on their sex for the amendment to be ratified,
and requires three fourths of the states to ratify it.
(08:34):
That bench barrows fat benchmark was passed when Virginia ratified
the era a few years ago. Today, I have firm
iCal Rights Amendment to have cleared all the nests of
their hurdles to be added to the US Constitution.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Now, oh, you do huh, well, yell at us and
scream that, but you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Hey, I have firm iCal rights Amendments have cleared all
the necessary hurdles to be added to the US Constitution. Now,
Baker writes, amendment is the law of the land.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Now, oh, the equal Rights amendment is the law of
the land. Now, well, when we get back, let's think
about two things. Let's think about whether it's the law
of the land or not. But let's stop and think
about who's advising him, who's writing this. We're in really
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dangerous territory. Be sure and send me a text message
three three one zero three. Just started with Michael Michael,
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a moment, because let me tell you why I'm starting
(10:17):
out with this story, because I was truly dumbstruck. Now,
anytime there's a transition of power from one administration to another.
That's a very vulnerable time for the country. Because let
me paint a small picture for you real quickly, just
(10:38):
a little small polaroid. Most of the desks in the
West Wing, with the exception of some of the permanent
staff members on the National Security Council, the White House
Situation Room, the White House Communications Office, and by the
Communications I don't mean like the Press Office. I'm talking
about downstairs underneath the East Wing is where the Presidential
(11:03):
Emergency Operations Center is. There is also the White House
Comm's Office. Those are the people that you know, take
care of the nuclear football that the president has with
him at all times, and they're in charge of all
communications for the President to you know, all the cabinet members,
world leaders, everybody. It's it's you know, I mean, it's
(11:24):
kind of like if you wanted to pretend like, you know,
the bat phone exists between the president and immediately to
Vladimir Putin er Jijen Ping. They're in charge of all
of that. So those people still exist. Some of the
permanent members of the Secret Service. Oh, that's probably going
to change a lot. Some of those desks are still occupied,
but generally it's empty they've all gone home and they
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ain't coming back on Monday. So if something really bad
were to happen right now in terms of the White House,
or in terms of the Pentagon or Homeland Security, matter
the CIA, now in a lot of those cabinet agencies,
there's still the deep state. There's still the civil servants,
(12:08):
the bureaucrats that don't go anywhere. They're still there. But
the leaders, the decision makers have to some extent checked out. Now.
They're probably still in DC because they're going to attend
the inauguration or they're going to be around or you know,
they're going to do whatever they're going to do. They
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most of them live there, so they haven't gone back home.
But the chain of command, while in my mind is clear,
the chain of command becomes a little muffled because, well,
at you know, twelve oh one, you know, less than
forty eight hours from now, the new commander in chief
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is going to be Donald Trump, and the current commander
in chief is this guy who is, in my opinion,
truly senile because this whole equal rights amendment that he
blustered on about on Friday is absolutely false. So it
led me to this conclusion there's two things I think
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going on either one or two things that maybe both
of them are true. First, he truly is senile. I mean,
I don't think he has all his faculty.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
All the necessary hurdles to be added to the US Constitution.
Now think who writes amendment is the law of the land.
Now it's a twenty eighth Amendments of the Constitution.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Now, keep yelling? Is keep yelling? Any what else? Kind
of scares me? The useful idiots and the audience. I mean,
do they think they're at a at a taping of
the view and they're listening to those five ditches talk
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about Equal Rights Amendment? What are they cheering about? Do
they really believe that he can just unilatterally declare that
the Equal Rights Amendment, the twenty eighth Amendments of the
Constitution has now passed. Now, so it has not, let
me just tell you flatly, it has not. But someone
wrote that for him. Now maybe he wrote it, but
(14:25):
I seriously doubt that. So someone on the staff, you know,
on Thursday, or maybe on Wednesday, but sometime before he
gave this speech on Friday, wrote those words. Because he's
reading it from the teleprompter, which begs the question, then
are they trolling us? Are they? For example, is it
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someone that is so pissed off at Biden because he
withdrew from the race and now Kamalas stepped in and
they've lost everything. They've lost the White House, the House,
and the Senate. And so this little goober is all.
I shouldn't call him the goober because you guys are
Goober's this little idiot in the West wing. He's really
(15:09):
pissed off at the President and at you for having
voted for Donald Trump. And so they're thinking, you know what,
he'll read anything I write, so let's just do this.
Or he the President went to the staff and said,
you know, I've got I've really got to do stuff
to build up my legacy. So I'm going to go
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declare the Equal Rights Amendment has passed. And they all
look at him like you're out of your f and mind.
But none of them have the guts, They don't have
the testicles to tell him, sir, you're wrong. It hasn't passed.
So they just, you know, they don't care. They just
don't care, so they'll just write it. So he wrote
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this speech and he goes to whatever this conference is,
and standing behind the seal of the President of the
United States of America at the lectern tells everybody to
this bunch of clapping seals that all, yeah, it's past,
and they just applaud like, oh yeah, yeah, it's a
dangerous time. I don't wish time to fly any faster
(16:12):
than it already does for all of us. Oh but
my gosh, we cannot get to noon on Monday fast enough.
Because anybody with any sense, you know, every every intelligence
agency in the world, both friend and foe, listens to
this stuff and they think, wow, maybe if we you know,
if we're going to I'm going to be I'm going
(16:34):
to be This is hyperbole, but it could be true. Hey,
why don't we just attack the United States right now?
Because he's clearly out of it, He has no clue
what he's talking about, and they'll be confused about who's
in charge. Remember what I've always said about disasters, When
when you're facing a natural, man made disaster, if you
cannot answer who's in charge, I guarandamn to you, that
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disaster is going to become even worse than it is initially,
because you've got to be able to answer who's in charge. Well,
I know right now. Unfortunately he's in charge. But considering
that a lot of these people have gone home, they're
checked out, they don't care anymore. They're just trying to
you know, they're out looking for new jobs. They're trying
to burrow in somewhere, they're trying to, you know, do
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whatever they can. And he's just left there standing alone
giving a speech that claims that the Equal Rights Amendment
has passed.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
The wady to give them a stand, dozens of consccial scholars,
to make sure there is all within the power to
do this.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Really, name them, Name one of them. Now, on the
other side of the break, I'll tell you the truth
about the Equal Rights Amendment and it'll show you just
how off this guy is. I'll be right back tonight.
Michael joins me here, the former FEMA director of.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, No, Brownie, you're doing
a heck of a job the Weekend with Michael Brown.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Hey, welcome to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Really glad
to have you with me. Hope you're surviving the deep
freeze for everybody? What was it? You know, the weather
is no longer just the weather like now, the weather's
become nationalized, so that uh, you know, Fox News for example,
has their own weather channel now Fox Weather, and the
(18:30):
networks always start out with that. They don't always, but
they often start out with a national weather report. And
the networks have a habit of using, you know, a
hyperbolic language. You know, we got the polar vortex coming now.
And then I heard a number yesterday which I don't
know whether it's true or not quite Frankly, I don't care,
(18:51):
but the networks talking about how, you know, one hundred
and fifty or two hundred million Americans are going to
be in the deep freeze over the next several days
or whatever, you know, any thing to make it just
sound like it's horrible, like it's the end of civilization. Really,
it's January and you're shocked that Siberian cold front is
moving across the Arctic in Canada and coming down into
(19:13):
the United States, and you're shocked about that, and that's
the lead news story. This is how we are absolutely
being played by the cabal. It's not just the news,
it's the freaking weather. They have to take the weather
and make it into some sort of like oh my gosh,
running high getting your basement. Oh my god, it's gonna
be horrible. Now, how about you put your stupid code on.
(19:37):
I'm not going outside barefooted. Good grief. Back to the
Equal Rights because this is just as stupid. Joe Biden
became the United States Senator in nineteen seventy two. Why
is that important because the Equal Rights Amendment had been
unsuccessfully introduced in every single session of Congress from nineteen
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twenty three until night teen seventy two, And it was
in nineteen seventy two, the year that Joe Biden entered
the US Senate. Now, what were you doing in nineteen
seventy two? I bet there's some of you and I
hate you. I bet there are some people in this
audience that weren't even born in nineteen seventy two, Michael,
I'm looking at you, by the way, that that nineteen
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seventy two either, I don't know. I wasn't even around them.
But in nineteen seventy two, the stupid Equal Rights Amendment
finally passed both houses by substantial majorities too, by the way,
and then that same year twenty two states ratified it,
but still a total of only thirty five states eventually
ratified it, so they were always three short of the
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thirty eighth that they needed. And then and oh, by
the way, and when it was when the amendment was
passed in nineteen seventy two, it was given a deadline.
I forget what the deadline was. That it was nineteen
seventy nine or some thing, and then they extended to
nineteen eighty or nineteen eighty two. It's immaterial. But Congress
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set a deadline, which they are entitled to do, and
that's that has been upheld by the courts that if
Congress wants to set a deadline, then look, here's an
amendment to the Constitution, and you know, two thirds of
the states need to pass it by as such and
such date or it becomes Nolan void. And that's what
Congress did. And so nobody passed it. I mean nobody,
(21:27):
not The two thirds did not pass it by the
original deadline. They extended the deadline to eighty or eighty two,
whatever it was, and they still couldn't get thirty eight states.
And then on top of that, some legislatures, some state
legislatures rescinded their approval of the amendment. So there's no
way in hell, this thing has been properly approved or
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adopted in accordance with the terms of the legislation that
proposed it and in terms of the procedure put for
within the US Constitution. So now think about what the
President of the United States is saying, and you truly
have to be like those useful idads in that audience
who stand up in a plot, Oh yeah, yeah, you've
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affirmed it. Well, you know, wow, who are the legal
scholars that said that it's been passed? So I kind
of dug around trying to find, you know, and I'm
sure there are some law school professors, let's put it
that way. There are probably some law school professors who
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are probably left of center who believe that, you know,
the Constitution is just what they say it is, not
what the Constitution itself says, but just how they interpret it,
not how the courts interpret it, but how they interpret it.
But in terms of legal scholars, I don't think there
are really any legal scholars that would say, oh, yeah,
he's right, And I can't find out those who said
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that he is except for the American Bar Association. And
if you want to believe what the American Bar Association
says about the United States Constitution. Then you're buying into
a progressive Marxist ideology that just permeates the American Bar Association.
(23:17):
So when when Virginia back in twenty twenty January fifteen,
twenty twenty, I think it was when Virginia became the
latest states to ratify the era. It didn't make any difference.
It was outside the time limit in which to do it.
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So it's just it, really, it truly bothers me that somebody,
you know, I can see Biden sitting around and doctor
Jill Biden doing the same thing. We've got to cram
as much stuff in because they're going to be writing
about us. So what can we do in these last
forty eight hours that will make it sound like, wait,
we're the greatest president since sliced bread. I know, let's
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just declare the Equal Rights Amendment has passed. So they
do that, or some staffer who has to be like
a D student, maybe an F student, maybe a DEI
hire ends up saying to the President, oh, you want
to add something to your legacy once you give you're
(24:21):
going to give this speech to I don't know who
it is, but let's just say it's some you know,
anti discrimination group. So why don't you go give this
speech and just declare that the Constitution has been amended
by the twenty eighth Amendment and now the era is
now the law of the land. Oh that sounds great. Yeah,
would you write that up for me? Okay, it's a
really precarious time for the country and it I can't
(24:47):
explain why other than it's just so blatantly wrong that
he would have the audacity to go out and give
a speech just days before he's when you give up
the presidency and make this so supposedly historical announcement that
the Equal Rights amendmentists past, and I hereby declare it
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to be the law of the land. Well, who are you, Mussolini?
Who are you? I mean, are you at a parna
and you're going on to the balcony and you're going
to wave a flag and gavel it down and just say, ah,
hereby declare this is the law of the land, mister president.
That's not how it works. That's not how it works
at all. And the fact that you're doing it tells
(25:30):
me that you're really a lot sicker than what we
think you are. And it also tells me that the
staff that is supposedly there to support you is not
supporting you in the least. After he gave the speech,
that's when both he and Kamala Harris released these written
(25:53):
statements declaring the ERA to be the law of the land.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Interestingly, while the Biden administration publicly insists the president's statements
constitutionally enshrines the ERA, most government officials are privately acknowledging
that the announcement is nothing more than just a declaration
of his belief. Which is why I go back to
that statement that he wrote that says, you know, I
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hereby declare my belief. Well, you know, I believe that
it's cold outside, but it's not terrible. Yeah, I hear
by tell you that it's for me, it's getting close
to lunch and I'd like to have something to eat,
But I got to talk to you. Oh. In twenty
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twenty and then again in twenty twenty two, the Department
of Justices the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel
affirmed that the ratification deadline it was established by Congress
for the ERA is a valid and enforceable deadline. Court
decisions at both the district and the circuit levels, so
at the trial court level and at the appeals court
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level have affirmed that the ratification deadlines were established by
Congress for the era are valid deadlines. So therefore, the
archivists of the United States cannot legally publish the Equal
Rights Amendment as part of the US Constitution. So when
you think about the legacy of this president, I think
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that what we're witnessing today, and there are a lot
of people now talking about I can't I, which is
sad because I'm kind of ready to dance on the
grave of a dying, senile old man, and and I
apologize for thinking that way, but I truly cannot wait
to read the tell all books. They're going to tell
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us that, you know, we knew that he was in
bad shape in twenty twenty or even twenty nine tea,
or for Barack Obama to tell us that the reason
he shoved Joe Biden aside in favor of Hillary Clinton
was that Barack Obama saw way back in twenty fifteen
or maybe even earlier, that he saw even then that
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Joe Biden was incapable of handling the presidency. You there's
been a lot of damage done to this country, a
lot of damage. I only pray that Donald Trump and
his cabinet officials, and as I've worn my local audience,
don't expect everything to turn around instantaneously, but do recognize
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that things are already turning around. If you want to
send me a text message, it's really easy on your
message app. The number is three three one zero three.
Just start your message with either the word Mike or Michael.
Tell me anything, ask me anything, and do me a favor.
Go follow me on X It's at Michael Brown USA.
I'll be right back. Hey, welcome back to the weekend
(28:59):
with Michael Brown. I'm glad to have you with me.
Will send me a text message the number three three
one zero three. Just start the message with the word
Mike or Michael, and let me pull up Hang on one minute,
let me pull up the US Constitution. Because someone asks
a really good question and I want to I want
to read it verbatim.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I want to read verbatim the Constitution.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
UH.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
And I don't have it. I don't have my pocket
Constitution with me, the twentieth Amendment because many people, some
people are asking me on the text line about is
there a does he really take the Does he really
become president at midnight, like at twelve oh one am
on the twentieth No, the twentieth Amendment is quite clear.
(29:48):
Section one. The terms of the President and Vice President
shall end at noon on the twentieth day of January,
and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on
the third day of January of the years in which
such terms would have ended if this article had not
been ratified, And the terms of their successors shall then begin.
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Then it goes on to talk about fixing the terms
of the office, et cetera. Now, the new president, Donald Trump,
becomes president at noon on the twentieth on the twentieth stage,
in the very first sentence, the terms of the President
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and Vice President shall end at noon on the twentieth
day of January. So that's when Trump becomes president. Now,
even if they don't actually take the oath of office,
let's just say that, you know, something happens and there's
a you know, the power goes out inside the Capitol building,
(30:49):
I mean, just any number of things. Well, Donald Trump
still becomes president at noon because go back to when
the electoral college vote was counted, that determined that Trump
had won the electoral College, and then the constitution specifies
that he becomes president at noon because the terms of
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the president and the vice president end at noon on
the twentieth Now something that people probably aren't aware of,
but it doesn't really make any difference. The president signs
the oath of office, not on the podium while they're inside.
While he you know, he raises his right hand, puts
his left hand on the Bible states, you know, takes
the oath of office. He doesn't, then you won't see
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him then reach into his pocket, take a pen and
sign the oath. They'll do that later at the White House.
I know that because I've been involved in the inaugurations before,
but I don't know where this midnight stuff comes up.
Because this constitution is pretty clear. So for those who
have questions about it, you can go read the twentieth Amendment.
The terms of the President and vice President shall end
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at noon on the twentieth day of January. And that's
regardless of whether they've actually taken the oath of office
or not. So the Constitution provides that transfer of power
from one to the other. So let's say that just
for example, LBJ after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Well,
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the moment that JFK was declared dead, the vice president
assumed the office, So LBJ became president at the moment
of death of JFK. Then once they boarded Air Force
one and started making their way back from Dallas love
(32:42):
Field back to d C. You recall that iconic photo
of LBJ taking the oath of office. I think there
was a federal district judge from Dallas that got on
the plane and she administered the oath of office, and
they took a photograph. Jackie's in the background with the
you know, bloodstained dress, and people think that that's when
LBJ officially became president. Well not technically, that's when the
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world saw LBJ as president. But according to the Constitution,
there is not. There is. You do have to take
the oath of office at some point, I mean, you
have to swear to the oath, but that doesn't mean
that the power has not been transferred to you. So
at noon on Monday noon where they are East coast time,
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at noon on Monday, that's when Donald Trump becomes president.
That's why they try to time things as closely as
they can so that even if so there is just
no question. Even though the Constitution is clear by the
very words, they still want to do that oath of
office as close to noon as possible so that boom,
(33:51):
it's over and if anything goes on in the world,
we know who the commander in chief is, even though
you now know that even if he if the oath
gets disrupted, don't pan me. He's still the president. Uh.
(34:11):
Now that text message you got me off where I
was going. Oh, there's there's no segue to this, but
let me just go ahead. And this was the story
I wanted to do next anyway, CNN on Friday, and
this is I think maybe the second or third huge
defamation case. So CBS has already agreed to pay to
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either a charity of Trump's choosing or to the Trump
Inaugural Committee. I think it was fifteen million dollars for
defaming him. When George Stephanopoulos insisted that Trump had been
convicted of rape, which he has not, the jury instruction
was clear, did you do you find that Donald Trump
(34:56):
raped Egene Carroll? And the jury marked no, so he's
not guilty of rape. But the jury instructions then went
on to say, do you find yes, or no, whether
or not Donald Trump sexually assaulted Egen Carroll, and the
jury answered yes. Well, George Stephanopolis got into an argument
with I think Congressman Mace about whether or not he
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had actually been convicted of rape, and she kept trying
to say no, and George Stephanopolis just repeated it over
and over and over that Donald Trump had been convicted
of rape. So Trump sues them for libel and slander
and he wins. They or at least they settle for
fifteen million dollars. Well, now, CNN just yesterday Friday agreed
(35:39):
to pay a navy veteran an undisclosed sum. Now I've
heard that the jury awarded five million dollars to this veteran,
this navy veteran, and they are still deliberating the punitive damages,
which could be in the billions of dollars. It came
just the settlement did came just after a six perc
(36:00):
some jury in Florida that concluded that CNN's reporting about
Zachary Young was so egregious to warrant punitive damages. Now
we don't know the details of it, but here's what
CNN did. They started accusing this veteran of being a
criminal propheteer who was exploiting the misery of Afghans trying
(36:24):
to escape the Taliban back in twenty twenty one, and
that's not what he was doing at all. CNN just
lied about it. But then we found the emails where
they talked about, hey, they were going to get this guy.
They wanted to punch him in the face. He was awful,
you know, CNN, the cabal, they're awful. I'll be right
back
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