More Than Alito Problem

The courts are broken. The stakes are unprecedented.  And the vibes this week… 

Brian and Glennis discuss the public display of - not just partisanship, but MAGA allegiance - at Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's household. ICYMI, it was JUST reported that an upside down flag, a symbol adopted by the "stop the steal" crowd, was raised at Alito's house mere days after the Jan 6 capitol riot. 

They also talk about Trump's unhinged NRA speech where he, ya know, casually floated serving a third term. 

Then they give an update on Trump's New York trial as both the prosecution AND defense have rested their cases and it's now left up to the jury. 

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Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:48 Samuel Alito Let His Insurrectionist Flag Fly
• 12:28 Trump's Unhinged NRA Speech
• 16:00 Trump's NY Trial Coming to a Close
• 19:02 IT'S Giving - Rudy Coffee
• 21:19 GROUP CHAT
• 28:13 Good Vibe Goodbye

Transcript

Brian Derrick: [00:00:00] The courts are broken. The stakes are 

Glennis Meagher: unprecedented. 

Brian Derrick: This is Vibes Only, a podcast that promises to check the vibes of American politics each week leading up to this critical election and beyond. And the vibes this week. 

PBS Newshour Report: The symbol of the Stop the Steal movement reached the highest court in the land. An upside down American flag was flying at the home of supporters.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. 11 days after rioters stormed the capitol. 

Glennis Meagher: And 

Donald Trump: are we gonna be considered three term or two term? You tell me. Ronnie, what do you, 

Glennis Meagher: we'll also give you an update on Trump's trial after each side has rested their cases. 

Brian Derrick: Stick around for an, it's giving a look at our group chat and we'll send you off with a goodbye.

Goodbye.

Where were you this weekend? 

Glennis Meagher: I was in Ireland. 

Brian Derrick: Oh my God. You were in Ireland. I literally saw on Instagram. Yeah. That is how I discovered that you were in, yeah. Europe. Hello. 

Glennis Meagher: I left. I left the, I left the country for the weekend, but it was for a very important event. It was the girls allowed reunion tour.

Girls allowed is [00:01:00] like the best girl group, bestselling pop girl group in the UK and Ireland of all time. They're the X Factor UK 2002 winners. I'm really aging myself here, but it was chaos as you, I'm sure anyone who follows me knows that it was quite the weekend. 

Brian Derrick: I was shook it. When I saw that geotag. I was like.

Is this a TBT situation? What's going on? And then you're like, nope, I'm in Ireland. 

Glennis Meagher: You know, it's a six hour flight. So you can do a red eye. It's not really a red eye because you know, you're only sleeping for like three hours. And if you leave Sunday morning, you're back Sunday afternoon, New York time. So if the Irish tourism board wants to hire me, I am available.

Brian Derrick: Jet setter life. Glenn is just doing day trips to 

Glennis Meagher: chugging coffee right now because 

Brian Derrick: I'm still so tired from it. Well, while you were absconding to Europe for a fun concert, we were dealing with real problems because. The Supreme Court is causing [00:02:00] more and more drama as this election year progresses. This time we're not talking about your least favorite human in the world, Clarence Thomas, but instead Samuel Alito.

Glennis Meagher: What happened here? They're just giving us more and more receipts as to how they are not impartial. 

Brian Derrick: They've left all the receipts on the table, and here we are discovering more extremely suspect information about what is going on over at the Supreme Court. This time, it is Samuel Alito, where this photo has surfaced that's been validated by multiple outlets of Samuel Alito's house.

Shortly after the January 6th attack on the Capitol of an upside down flag, an upside down American flag flying outside of his house, which was the symbol of the Stop the Steal sham conspiracy theory, like, laden mob, and he was flying this outside of his house. It is a big deal, and it's Here's my question.

I can't. I can't. 

Glennis Meagher: Presumably, like, [00:03:00] concerned neighbors took this photo. They were, like, out walking the dog. And they're like, hmm. Correct. Justice Alito's house is flying a January 6th, like, solidarity, you know, flag. Why are we just seeing the photos now? 

Brian Derrick: I know. That is honestly so bizarre and why I triple checked when I saw it that that Information was correct because hello, why did it take three and a half years to literally airdrop this photo to the New York Times?

I don't understand, but it did. And it's legit. And he's confirmed it by his response. 

Glennis Meagher: He blamed. Are we surprised Brian who he blamed on this? He blamed his wife. He blamed his wife. And I quote, I had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag. It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor's use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.

I'm sorry, what? You're going to blame your wife? I, first of all, straight to divorce court. Mrs. Alito. 

Brian Derrick: Yeah, right. She's, she's [00:04:00] probably only married to him for the power that she has to now subvert future elections. Like, this is crazy because at the time that this flag was being flown, there were already cases that the Supreme Court could have been reviewing or was reviewing around the 2020 election.

And even to this day, there They continue to review cases that have to do with the 2020 election. All the while, we have this, like, sleeper agent in Alito who's a potential member of the very same groups and school of thought that led thousands of people to storm the Capitol. 

Glennis Meagher: 1000%. You know whose group chat I wouldn't want to be in, but I want to see?

Alito's wife and Clarence Thomas's wife, because you know, they were rapid firing back and forth telling like, how are we going to convince our husbands when they get home from work tonight, how to stop the steal? It's so crazy. Yeah. You know, Fox News, Shannon Bream, she's the Fox News [00:05:00] attorney, attorney and journalist.

She tweeted that there was basically like a neighborhood brawl. And that's why that was a catalyst to why this flag was flown. I don't care if your neighbors. Dog is like shitting on your lawn ad nauseum because you're pissed like you as the wife of A Supreme Court justice cannot take a political stand like this.

You just can't. You're not a private citizen in that way. 

Brian Derrick: Yeah, it's easy to forget because the court has been so politicized by conservatives. Uh, justices are not supposed to have any kind of political lean. I think we should still Like, anchor there in that that's like a common baseline expectation that we should have.

It feels so out of reach these days. But the idea that you even are privately engaging in things is wrong. The idea that you are flying extremist political flags is wrong. Just out of this [00:06:00] universe, like so perverse. 

Glennis Meagher: It's so unhinged and not to get all like the like, I don't know if you like an elementary school, they would assign you little like projects and tasks as a student.

One of them was like, go fly the flag in the morning and or do the school announcements and you know how they were so strict about how you handled the flag and how you folded it and how it couldn't touch the ground. Isn't this flying the flag upside down like disrespecting the flag? 

Brian Derrick: These are the same people who say that taking a knee during the national anthem is like equivalent to violence and should result in people being fired from their jobs and thrown out of stadiums and all these things and it's like In your own home, as a, one of the most important members of the American government, you're flying the flag upside down.

I 100 percent agree with you. I think that that's extremely disrespectful, regardless of what message you're trying to send. The fact that you're trying to send one that is openly anti democratic, is disrespectful. [00:07:00] So now we have two of the nine justices who have flagrant connections to the effort to overturn the fair 2020 election.

Um, being Clarence Thomas's wife, who was actively texting Mark Meadows. Some very sketchy stuff. Literally, she's like, 

Glennis Meagher: stop this deal. And Mark Meadows was Trump's chief of staff. Do not forget that. So she was directly trying to influence the results of the election. 

Brian Derrick: And then now we have Alito's wife, self admittedly flying this, stop this deal flag.

So the idea that we're supposed to rely on this court to make decisions about how we can hold Trump accountable for, uh, The crimes that we all watched him commit. I don't know what to tell you. 

Glennis Meagher: Yeah, I feel like they're like gaslighting us and it's just we've talked about this before on the pod but there's just like every single day there's a new headline that is unbelievable [00:08:00] so it can become so everything can seem like benign because Everything is so unhinged.

But the reality is it is unhinged and deeply not okay. So don't forget that. 

Brian Derrick: And that wasn't the only headline that we got about Alito this week. 

Glennis Meagher: Wait, what else did we 

Brian Derrick: get? So there's a second unfolding scandal where Alito sold off his Bud Light stock, potentially over 10, 000 worth of Bud Light stock, and then bought A similar amount in course, and this was at the same time as the Dylan Mulvaney.

For those who don't recall Dylan Mulvaney, a trans influencer was hired by Bud Light to do some paid marketing and the right wing. Internet lost their minds and started boycotting Bud Light and Kid Rock was shooting it with machine guns. And so there was this like whole anti Bud Light campaign on the right.

And this is, again, receipts. They're not even trying [00:09:00] to hide it anymore. This is receipts that Alito is like participating in this right wing culture war because he lost money on this deal. And like knew. At the time, based on like the price of both of these stocks, that that was going to be a losing trade.

But he did it anyway because he's essentially trying to virtue signal and punish Bud Light for working with a trans influencer. 

Glennis Meagher: I don't, I don't know what we're going to do. We just got to get out there and vote. It really does stress me out that people like this are like in this such strong positions of power and are so clearly anti basic human rights and freedoms.

Brian Derrick: I did make a post. This was before I even knew about the Alito stuff, but I was crunching the numbers as I like to do around what the future of the Supreme Court might look like based on what happens in the 2024 election. And so there are two potential paths in front of us. In one path, a worst case scenario, if you [00:10:00] will, Trump is reelected.

Yeah. Clarence Thomas and Alito who are both in their 70s would resign under Trump to make sure that he's the one who appoints their replacements. So that's at least two more Supreme Court picks for Trump. That would mean he will have picked five of the nine. Trump alone would have appointed a majority of the Supreme Court.

Then we could have a third appointment. There are several other justices who are up there in age. So if he were to appoint Three Supreme Court justices. We could be looking at a super majority conservative court until, are you ready for this? 2048. The alternative would be that we elect Joe Biden and he would almost certainly have at least one pick in Sonia Sotomayor, assuming she doesn't step down before November, but if.

Clarence Thomas or Alito are forced to step down from the court just because of age. He could have up to three picks as well. And if he [00:11:00] did, then we would flip the court in a single presidential term. We would flip the court back to a liberal majority and we would enjoy the that for the rest of our lives and we could focus on constitutionally protecting abortion access and instituting some sanity around gun safety reform and on campaign finance reform and like all these issues suddenly have a path forward during our lifetime.

And in the worst case scenario, we're talking about like waiting until we're in our seventies. To try to change some of this stuff, which is horrifying to me. 

Glennis Meagher: Horrifying. Also, we've talked about it on the pod, Trump were to be reelected. He has the Heritage Foundation Project 2025. There's an entire plan of how the consolidation of power into these offices is going to occur to make sure that they have like ultimate control over our basic human rights and like liberties as Americans.

Brian Derrick: Another reminder that the conservative school of thought and conservatives 10 to 15 years ago. We're fans of limiting executive power. Didn't think that [00:12:00] a single person elected to the presidency should be able to enact their will on a whim and believed in, in checks and balances. And that is gone. Like they absolutely will do everything they can to give Trump as much power as possible to imagine the potentially three people he would choose.

As Supreme court picks next. It's a nightmare. It's a nightmare scenario. We cannot allow it to happen. We can't.

Glennis Meagher: And to add to that nightmare. I don't know if you, if you caught Trump's NRA speech, I did catch up on this. 

Brian Derrick: Are they still a thing? 

Glennis Meagher: The NRA? Yeah. They're like pew, pew, pow, pow. Like the NRA still exists. And Trump did a very, very, very unhinged speech where in that speech, he floated. That he could potentially have a three term presidency.

So it's another thing to add to your list of bad things that would happen if Donald Trump were re elected. He, you know, referenced FDR, you know, FDR had 16 years, almost [00:13:00] 16 years. FDR, 

Donald Trump: 16 years. Almost 16 years. He was four term. I don't know. Are we going to be considered three term or two term? You tell me Ronnie.

Glennis Meagher: And then the crowd in response to that, we're like three, three. 

Brian Derrick: It's like this right wing to mainstream Republican pipeline that we always see where we were talking about Trump 2028. As a far right wing blog post a couple of months ago, and now suddenly Trump is making jokes about it and injecting the idea into the discourse of 2024.

And then before you know it, it's just like mainstream Republican thought of like, of course, we're gonna try to keep Trump in office. Beyond, you know what I mean? Like, and we see this happen with so many ideas where it starts with a Marjorie Taylor Greene and then suddenly all the base is saying it, and then suddenly Trump is saying it, and then suddenly Republicans in Congress are saying it, and like we watch it happen again and again and again.

Glennis Meagher: And I think that kind of, In the [00:14:00] general, you know, electorate, especially in the Dem electorate, I feel like there's this like vibe of disbelief, like, Oh, no way this is going to happen. No way that they're going to do this, but we have to kind of remove ourselves from that and believe it. Like we, we can't think it's just like a land of imagination for Republicans and for the conservative movement.

They have been strategically building this movement for 40 years. It is not fake news to them. This is like go time for them. And they're going to do everything in their power to get as many conservatives elected this cycle to be able to implement. All of these plans that they've been building and making, and they're just waiting to execute on.

Brian Derrick: Not to get too meta, but America is the longest running continuous democracy in human history. And I think about that a lot when people try to sort of say that we're being like overly dramatic, or that this is not actually going to happen, that we already have a system in place that would never allow things like this happen.

We're already setting the record, right? Like in every other [00:15:00] situation in human history, when we've gotten to this point, it fell apart, right? It's never gone this long continuously with, with a real democracy. And so that should keep us a little humble, right? It's something to be so proud of and is one of the reasons I'm very proud to be American and should keep us humble to say, like, we are an uncharted territory and we have to hold onto it.

A Republican view can keep it. Like it's something that we have to fight for to keep. It is not just going to happen in perpetuity forever because that's how every country goes. It's not 

Glennis Meagher: right. That's a good point. And you know, I think, feel like so many Americans, not so many, but many, even I was for a moment in time, so passive in working within this system and yeah, you gotta, you said this last week, like if you're looking at polls, you should be doing something.

PBS Newshour Report: Exactly. 

Glennis Meagher: If you're listening to vibes, only group chat us. Like if you need, if you need like advice as to what to do, we have plenty. We have a sweet, a menu of civics. Options.[00:16:00] 

Something happened in the city of New York, downtown. 

Brian Derrick: Yes, it did. Kind of unexpected. I mean, a little different than what we've been saying. 

Glennis Meagher: Everyone has to live their life as though each day is their last and do the thing that you want to do because now I don't have the opportunity to go down to the courthouse.

Brian Derrick: You're right. It's slipped right through your fingers like sand. So the prosecution rested their case against Donald Trump for his violation of campaign finance laws and his attempt to cover up payments to Stormy Daniels. And. Trump officially decided, drumroll please, not to testify, which is not at all surprising because we all know that he would just like 

Glennis Meagher: melt under 

Brian Derrick: cross examination.

It would not go well. 

Glennis Meagher: His like spray tan would start like dripping down his face. 

Brian Derrick: And so the trial is final. functionally over. So the prosecution has rested, the defense has rested, but I think that [00:17:00] we're still waiting to start jury 

Glennis Meagher: deliberations. Yes. So the defense also rested its case. They had two additional witnesses, not Donald Trump, as you mentioned, although Trump did say that he never rests, which is like, okay, cool.

Except 

Brian Derrick: for when you're asleep in the courtroom. True. 

Glennis Meagher: Literally resting, literally falling asleep. And there was some drama with the last two witnesses. One of them was like side eying the judge and rolling his eyes and saying, geez, Louise. And it's like, you can't clap back to a judge. It's just like, that's not how our system works.

It's kind of my cousin, Vinny. Totally, totally. Marissa Tomei just being like, yeah, we got him. My cousin Vinny clip in. Thank you. Goodbye. 

Donald Trump: Sit down and stay there until you're told to leave. 

Glennis Meagher: And yeah, jury deliberation is likely to begin after Memorial Day. I can only assume that the judge is giving people a beat because everyone's exhausted and they want people coming.

I, you know, I don't actually know now that I said out loud, you think you'd want them to dive right in, but maybe, you know, he wants to get people a [00:18:00] little long weekend before the summer. Let them celebrate Memorial Day. 

Brian Derrick: Goons are gonna show up at these people's houses. Yeah, I will say again, I've said it before, all that matters is a conviction in this case.

America did not pay close enough attention to the trial for it to have a meaningful impact on the presidential, if he is convicted of felonies. In this case, I think that it could, it doesn't mean that it will, but it definitely means that it could become a factor. 

Glennis Meagher: Yeah. And just to take a step back there, there were 34 felonies in this, like he was tried for 34 felonies and a juror can come back and charge him with like four of them, but not the other 30.

So. I had to remind myself of that because I was like, Oh, if he's guilty, he's guilty of 34 felonies. But no, it's like they're going to go line by line. And I think maybe that's why. That's like a lot of work for the jurors to go line by line. 

Brian Derrick: We're ready for you in that orange jumpsuit. We've got it all steamed and ready to go.

Let's see what the jury comes back with. [00:19:00] We got messaged by a listener who texted us with our new vibes only hotline, baby text us. And someone texted us a tip on this. I had not seen anything about it, but our producer brought it to our attention with the group text, with the group chat. 

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Brian Derrick: It's giving bridesmaids bathroom scene. Right. That coffee should come with a surgeon general's warning. I know, why did he say it's gentle [00:20:00] on your stomach? Like, what? Because it looks like it comes in like an orange. Old sweaty protein bag is what it looks like. No, it's gross. And the art is gross.

He said it's the best coffee you'll ever try, but I promise you it is the last coffee you're ever going to try because after all the diarrhea you have, you're going to kick it. 

Glennis Meagher: Yeah, that coffee is definitely giving diarrhea and it's just from the bag. It's not even from the beans. Like you look at that bag and you're straight to the toilet.

Brian Derrick: I mean, imagine having A big cup of black, rooty coffee, and then suddenly you find yourself at Four Seasons Landscaping. There's hair dye pouring down your face like a mascara mess. So bad. And you're suddenly being indicted for crimes and sent to prison. 

Glennis Meagher: Yeah, and then the coffee sells itself. Cut two. Did you see this?

You're in Arizona at like your hearing for like election fraud, which just happened today, and you leave your mic on and everyone hears you in the bathroom. 

Brian Derrick: Did that literally happen? 

Glennis Meagher: Yes. 

Brian Derrick: He got hot mic'd in a [00:21:00] bathroom? 

Glennis Meagher: He didn't turn his computer, his zoom off. He was there for like a zoom hearing for like the initial charges or whatever.

And he left his mic on. Like, he didn't mute himself. 

Brian Derrick: After a big cup of Rudy. 

Glennis Meagher: Oh my god, imagine. Honestly, that's a good ad.

Group chat. Brian. Okay, I texted our Vibes Only group chat because I got polled today. Finally. It finally happened. 

Brian Derrick: Heard us, the polling gods heard our episode last week where we said no one that we know has ever gotten a call for a presidential poll and then boom, Gigi gets the call. 

Glennis Meagher: And I didn't get polled for a presidential, I got polled for exactly what I should have been polled on.

Brian Derrick: Oh no. 

Glennis Meagher: Which is the casino in New York City. 

Brian Derrick: Oh, what a letdown. Oh my God. I thought it was the presidential. I was like, no, they're calling you in New York. 

Glennis Meagher: [00:22:00] No, it was in New York city. They're trying to put a casino up at United Nations Plaza. Have you heard of this? 

Brian Derrick: Yes. 

Glennis Meagher: And by the way, they're calling it Freedom Plaza.

I told the pollster, I was like, we already got one of those. So, you should work on the branding. 

Brian Derrick: You can't just call everything in New York freedom. Is it robot or human? 

Glennis Meagher: It was a human. And when it's a human, I like fully, I'm like, I'm here to help, right? Like, that's a hard job and you gotta deal with people who have opinions and are like back and forth.

But it was funny cause a poll really was just polling to see if I would show up to a community board meeting. Isn't that interesting? 

Brian Derrick: Did they self identify who the poll was from? 

Glennis Meagher: Yes. And I won't list it here, but a firm, you know, a firm. 

Brian Derrick: Okay, 

Glennis Meagher: so basically, the poll was, you only get these 20 things in New York City if the casino gets built.

So they were trying to be like, if the casino isn't built, you don't get X amount of tables. Yeah, like, you don't get a 

Brian Derrick: roulette wheel. 

Glennis Meagher: Yeah, they were like, you don't get any spot. And they were like, it was just, I was like, this is capitalism at its worst, sir. [00:23:00] That's what I said. I'm not saying 

Brian Derrick: it should be illegal per se, but I do not want a casino in Manhattan.

Glennis Meagher: I said no. I said I don't support the casino. And I think that all of these community benefits that you're saying are going to come with the casino should come without the casino. We should be caring about New Yorkers without putting in a massive 

Brian Derrick: casino. My group chat was obsessed with Beach Blonde.

Built bad, built body, bitch. It was so good. It was so good. It was so good. If you didn't see, there was a clip of a congressional hearing gone haywire, where Marjorie Taylor Greene started throwing personal insults at Jasmine Crockett, who if you've ever heard Jasmine Crockett speak, you know Marjorie Taylor Greene picked the wrong one.

Glennis Meagher: Yeah, barking up the wrong tree. I think your fake eyelashes are messing up.

Jasmine Crockett: I'm just curious, just to better understand your ruling, if someone on this committee then starts talking about. Somebody's bleach blonde [00:24:00] bad built butch body that would not be engaging in personalities, correct? 

Brian Derrick: Uh 

Jasmine Crockett: oh, what now? 

Brian Derrick: It's a really good clip. I mean, of course we like, don't think that Congress should be this dysfunctional and blah blah blah.

Like, everyone knows how we feel about these things. We talk about it on the pot all the time. But! I was good to see her get hers. 

Glennis Meagher: Totally. The internet has taken this and like on TikTok, it's a whole song now. Someone's remixed it. 

Brian Derrick: The other thing that absolutely blew up the internet this week and my group chats was the Harrison Butker speech.

It happened right after our last episode. I was like, Oh my gosh, I wish I had seen this very unhinged behavior that I'm glad. They're saying the quiet part out loud, right? Like, we know that that's the agenda. If you look, if you spend even five minutes looking at what conservatives are pushing for, you know that the agenda is, we're gonna strip rights away from women, and put women in the kitchen where we think they belong.

Glennis Meagher: Yeah. 

Brian Derrick: But to actually say it out loud in front of a bunch of college graduates is a [00:25:00] choice. 

Glennis Meagher: I would be sitting there like, what? Like I just spent all this money to go to college and you're telling me I should be in the kitchen? There's actually a clip I think we have that I think is important to play, which is a Pittsburgh local CBS affiliate asked Donald Trump about restrictions on contraception.

Rudy Giuliani: Do you support any restrictions on a person's right to contraception? Well, 

Donald Trump: we're looking at that and I'm going to have a policy on that very shortly. And I think it's something that you'll find interesting, and it's another issue that's very interesting, but you will, uh, you will find it, I think, very smart.

Glennis Meagher: For Trump to say that on the record, it's like, oh, so he's in back rooms and they're talking about it for real because they know the contraception issue moves conservative voters. 

Brian Derrick: 100%. It's that and that the entire lineage of Supreme Court decisions that stem from Griswold, which was the Supreme Court decision that made contraception a constitutional right under the right to privacy.[00:26:00] 

is like what they're trying to upend completely to also overturn marriage equality. So it's, it's all interconnected, but they're really trying to unweave a tapestry that has been very carefully woven to provide people more basic privacy and dignity. Over the last 50 years. Totally. In order to strip rights away from people that they don't like.

Also, including you and me. 

Glennis Meagher: Yes. Like get a life, get a life, go have sex. You're going to feel better. Bye. I can't handle it. I don't think the 

Brian Derrick: way they do it. I don't know if that's a guarantee. Oh man. You know what I mean? You know what I 

Glennis Meagher: mean? 

Brian Derrick: Yeah. 

Glennis Meagher: I, I, I'm picking up what you're putting down. 

Brian Derrick: You mentioned that your nightmare group chat is Ginny Thomas and the Mrs.

Alito. But my dream group chat turns out to be an actual group chat between eight women governors who all have a group [00:27:00] chat. Maura Healey of Massachusetts, Katie Hobbs of Arizona, Kathy Hochul in New York, Laura Kelly in Kansas, Tina Kotek in Oregon, Michelle Lujan Grisham in New Mexico, Janet Mills in Maine, and Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan, literally have a group chat with all of them.

That's fine. I went in so bad. Yeah, they're gonna have to run, 

Glennis Meagher: Derek. 

Brian Derrick: It's just eight badass women governors and me. That's my dream scenario. What a cool group of women. I, they just did a really cool feature on it. The number of women governors has quadrupled since 2018, which is awesome. And. The fact that they all have a group chat made me really happy.

So we love to see women supporting women. 

Glennis Meagher: Yeah. And community. We have community in this work. This work is difficult. It's I'm sure we're not electives, but just be hell. I'm a governor. Yeah. I mean, it's good. It's good that they have each other. 

Brian Derrick: What do you think they send each other? 

Glennis Meagher: Probably like what we send each other, like Alito's upside down flag, being like what a moron.

Brian Derrick: I think that when People like Chris Mays dunk on [00:28:00] Rudy Giuliani, I bet that that's in the 1, 000%. 

Glennis Meagher: I hope it's signal. I hope that it can't be subpoenaed. 

Brian Derrick: Yeah, I'm sure. I mean, these are some smart ladies.

Should we set them off with a good vibe? 

Glennis Meagher: Yeah. Speaking of smart ladies, actually, we have a good vibe. Goodbye. Elizabeth Warren. The senator from Massachusetts was like the brain trust of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, say that 10 times fast. And Supreme Court recently sided with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, burning a conservative attack.

So the conservatives went nuts. Why did they go nuts? 

Brian Derrick: The CFPB is supposed to look out for everyday people against these like huge banks and other financial institutions that try to take advantage of them with things like predatory loans and Like payday lenders and those kinds of things. And so the CFPB was after the 2008 financial crisis, Obama.

And as you're saying, Liz Warren's way to fight back and conservatives have been trying to defund it [00:29:00] entirely ever since it was created and they thought they were going to win this case. Everyone thought the Supreme court was going to literally gut the CFPB and boom. They shut the door to that entirely and said its financial structure is sound and have a nice day.

It's staying put. 

Glennis Meagher: I will say we have been talking about the Supreme Court and talking shit about two of them today. I'm going to continue to do that because Alito, Kel Suprise, he was the one who wrote the dissenting opinion. It was a 7 2 decisions with Gorsuch. So it was just those two conservative bad boys who showed that they actually do not want a protections to be in place for American people.

So Alito, we're watching you. Okay, 

Brian Derrick: we gotcha. And your little dog Gorsuch too.

Those are all the vibes this week. Thanks for listening. And thanks for all the texts you sent in. If there's anything you want to hear us discuss on the show, or if you have questions, comments, Please reach out by [00:30:00] finding the text link at the top of the description in our show notes, or email us at vibes at courier newsroom.

com. And Glenis, what? Our listeners can come hang out with us in person? Tell me more. 

Glennis Meagher: Yes, next week, Tuesday, May 28 at 6pm at No Bar at the Standard East Village, Brian and I are going to be hosting a little happy hour. Come on by. Uh, DM us if you want to come. 

Brian Derrick: And if you're not in New York, we'll be back again next week, same time, same place.

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