Will Cain Country - The Supreme Court Makes America Great Again

Episode Date: July 3, 2023

As we enjoy the long Fourth of July weekend, Will explains how the U.S. Supreme Court continues to move the country in a positive direction with pro-free speech and anti-handout decisions.   Story #1 - President Joe Biden, like the snake oil salesmen of old, tried to sell voters a bill of goods that couldn’t be cashed in on.    Story #2 - What was the Supreme Court decision about the rights of a website designer not to have to make website for a LGBT+ couple really about?   Story #3 - The debate of which sports are the hardest has hit the internet. Are the initial rankings correct? Yes and no.      Tell Will what you thought about this podcast by emailing [e-mail]   Follow Will on Twitter: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I hope you get outside. I hope you fire off some fireworks. I hope you crack open a cold one. I hope you laugh with your friends and family. I hope you celebrate America. Story number one. The Supreme Court of the United States. States making America great again. Not one day after the Supreme Court of the United States

knocked down the racist policy that is affirmative action in higher education admissions policies. The Supreme Court followed up last Friday by reaffirming our commitment to the First Amendment of the United States, not allowing a state to compel anyone to adopt a certain point of view, to adopt a certain expression, to adopt certain speech, and knocked down President Joe Biden's political handout, a $430 billion student loan forgiveness program designed to win votes during the midterm, designed to fail a kamikaze pilot of a policy that was going to crash and burn by everyone's estimation, from Nancy Pelosi to even, yes, Joe Biden. Let's go over both of these cases, the facts, and some of the true underlying problems in America.

Joe Biden promised that everyone sitting there under crushing student loan debt would find forgiveness under the Biden administration. In fact, still today, he stands by the promise that he will find a new, way to forgive your burdensome dead in this way joe biden is like a snake oil salesman who's rode into town promising a magical elixir that will shave 20 years off your appearance unblemished skin perfect remedy to all health maladies all you have to do is to buy into this snake oil for the high price of your vote tell all your friends gather around gather around hand out your dollars take home a case of Biden's student debt forgiveness snake oil. It was a false promise.

Joe Biden was challenged on that false hope, and he responded as he so often does these days with angry man face and angry man voice, but it was false, and he knew it. He knew that he did not have the power under the executive branch of the United States government and our republic with three branches of government. He knew it wasn't under the power of the executive to permanently forgive debt. He could delay payment in moments of financial emergency, but he couldn't make it go away. And then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi knew that to be the case. She said at the time, I don't think Joe Biden has the power to do this. He said it as well. In his own words, he admitted not really something within my power.

But that didn't stop them. That didn't stop them from running out that. promise, that false hope, that snake oil. And the Supreme Court of the United States said it is snake oil. You can't do that. It's the legislative branch of the United States government that retains the powers to make law. Joe Biden can't simply go around giving out bags of groceries. He can't do it in exchange for votes. Disappointed with that result, later that day, last Friday, he came back and said he's going to look for new avenues, new ways, new executive powers, to forgive student loan debt. You know, it's really unforgivable for an administration to not just give you

false promises, but to run on the promise of returning America to its norms, to integrity within its institutions. To follow that up with, well, an overt bribery scheme in the student loan debt forgiveness program, an investigative bribery scheme into selling influence to foreign powers. But to attempt to destroy all of our republic's institutions, the minute one of your agenda items doesn't make its way into power. That's what we've seen, by the way, immediately after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action. We saw all of these great protectors of democracy go about trying to destroy our republic.

We hear about, oh, it's time to pack the Supreme Court. Oh, we should impeach certain justices. Oh, we need to launch new, I'm sure, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative pieces into payment programs, into America's most revered and smartest justice and Justice Clarence Thomas. Oh, we're going to hear more about the attack on that institution of our Republic, the Supreme Court. of the United States, the defenders of democracy will do nothing. They will not let our republic stand in the way of gaining power in their democracy. But it really is also a shame that Joe Biden would knowingly, I mean, this is just a dereliction of power. This is not, this is craven. It's grotesque.

To do something you know you do not have the power, I don't have the power to do this. I know I can't do it. But I'm going to do it anyway. Why? Because it's going to fool the rube's and they'll vote for me. And by the rubs, I'm talking about young people, people saddle with student debt. Most likely people, because the vast majority of people with student debt are college graduates who have arrived at some upper middle class level in society and probably vote Democrat. I'm going to relieve them or falsely promised that I will relieve them of their burdens. And then when it's all said and done to just saddle back up to the same exact game of three card Monty, the same exact shell game. Oh, the snake oil didn't work. Well, guess what? I've got a bottle of anti-venom snake oil. It's the snake oil for snake oil that Joe Biden now promises to sell you. We've got a real problem when it comes to the higher cost of higher education. No, that part's true. I do have some empathy. Look, there isn't a real argument, not just an argument.

There is a factor that needs to play in this debate. It needs to weigh heavy in this debate. When you lay this weight on the scale, it carries significant gravity. That you cannot just escape your burdens. You cannot escape accountability. It's not a way you raise a generation. It's not a way you create a responsible public. Oh, don't worry about it. You don't have to pay your debts. Oh, we know you voluntarily took on these debts. You knew what you were doing, but you don't have to pay your debts. Not really. I mean, that's how you create, not just an entitled society, but a slump-shouldered, anti-hero, anti-man-of-his word, populace.

What more? One where the cost of higher education and the path, as promised, to greater wealth, is paid off by those that don't go to college? I mean, come on, there's just something grotesque about blue-collar people being forced to pay off the debts of white-collar college graduates. Get real with this. Get real in painting yourself as the party of the middle class, the party of the working class.

You're the party of the elite. But, but I'm not here to pretend that a problem does not exist. It's insane what's happened to the cost of university. outpaced the rate of inflation. I mean, I've told you just before, it was one year ago last summer when I was on vacation. I got a vacation coming up in a couple of weeks. When I was on vacation,

I looked up the annual cost to something like Baylor or TCU, and it was $72 to $80,000, including room and board, a year. I mean, is college really providing you through your ginger studies degree? That type of ROI, a return on investment that pays off? debt that then accumulates interest. At $80,000 a year, man, it is a scam. College is a scam. And it is a problem. There's an account that I enjoy in a podcast that goes under the handle Martyr Made. It's a guy named Darrell Cooper. He tweeted about this. He said, kids are brainwashed for 18 years to believe that going to college is mandatory for alive with any shred of dignity. Then we allow 17

year olds with no understanding of personal finance to decide to indenture themselves with no option of bankruptcy. It can't be relieved of your student loan debt through bankruptcy. Probably for decades. Being saddled with so much debt makes people dependent and easily controlled, afraid to step out of line because they have no room for error in their finances. Universities let mediocre students borrow $200,000 to try for a bullshit ethnic studies degree they never use and yet take no hit when the kid can't hack it in a program they never should have been admitted to in the first place. It's all upside for them. All upside for the banks with a free money portfolio of federally guaranteed loans. But the students can't get out from under their side of it, even in

bankruptcy, and all of this at a time when there's a massive shortage of qualified workers for well-paid trade jobs. This system is indefensible. He says, but I cannot get past the idea of taxing those tradesmen to bail out the one-third of the country fortunate enough to go to college. He goes on, here's a potential solution. One, tax endowments to pay for student debt relief. Two, make student loan qualification account for future ability to pay. Doctors and petroleum engineers need a loan to get to college. Great, but gender studies majors, the banks and universities know that those loans are never

going to be paid back unless those students marry a plumber or a landscaper who can take care of her and they know full well they're scamming her forcing them to put some skin in the game and the critical well compensated fields will still get their loans but no one is going to let her sign her life away for degree in a phony made-up field with no prospects someone will say yeah but only kids rich kids will be able to afford majors in medieval poetry yes and that's good cooper says those fields have always been a diversion of the rich if some poor kid has a truly brilliant mind destined to revolutionize our understanding of Marcel Proust will find him and get him where he needs to be. And if we don't, our understanding of Proust stays the way it is. Who cares?

He's right. Oh, I know we think about it's harder to get into college, but there's more colleges than ever before, lowering the standards overall, allowing encouraging, incentivizing everyone to come in under the banner of loan and debt, more available, debt for everyone. The bankers make out the colleges and universities make out the feds pay and subsidize and guarantee these loans then they sell us crappier and crappier degrees stuff that has no application to a useful and productive life so you take on a ton of debt you're underqualified in the first place to get a degree that has no no material worth and then you live a life compromised and burdened yes yes accurately described burdened by that student loan debt.

It's a scam. And colleges, as a result, jack their prices up year after year after year. More loans, more Fed guarantees, higher prices. What do they do with that money? They spend it. New water slides at the fourth pool to attract students to this country club. Pay the college football coach more, although in his defense, it's one of the revenue producing net positive programs in college.

and rack up an amazing endowment, as pointed out in that tweet, maybe what we do here to solve this problem is go after university's endowments. Maybe we heavily tax those endowments to put it back into education, or maybe don't put it back into education, quit subsidizing and guaranteeing education as it is, and maybe it settles back into a normal market. It's an absolute racket. and it needs to be solved. You just don't solve it

by absolving people of their debt, which would do nothing to reduce the price of college. It's like granting amnesty. It's like granting amnesty to illegal immigrants. Okay. I guess you've reduced the illegal immigrants that we have in the country today

by just no longer making them illegal. But what about the next wave of the illegal immigrants that come in and see that as an incentive? Oh, they'll grant us amnesty as well. What about the next wave of students that have to take on more crushing debt under the higher prices of college? In 20 to 30 years, are they also forgiven of their student loan debt? Is that on a rolling basis every time we get a Democratic president? It doesn't solve the problem.

It simply buys votes. Now, how will it play politically? The fact that the townspeople have now seen that Joe, Biden has sold them snake oil. I talked about this on Fox News tonight last week with Lawrence Jones. Will he pay the price politically? It's doubtful. Not to sound like I just wasted my college degree on medieval poetry, but dating pre the era of the Middle Ages, Plato wrote about the allegory of the cave. The allegory of the cave is the idea that if you had a man chained up in a cave

forced to stare at a wall a fire at his back and only shadows cast upon the wall that was all he would be able to see the shadows dancing in the fire would begin to be what that man perceives to be as reality

he would think the shadows that he was the shadow that other people in his life were the shadows and the way they interact was actually reality right there the allegory is fascinating enough for modern day society and that we live not through shadows on a wall but content through a phone content through a box a television dancing across our screens

spending more and more time with it is that our reality but the point of this allegory is different Plato went on to say if a man came in and liberated that person from the cave broke their chains set them free and they could turn and see reality they could move they could leave outside of the cave. They could see what reality truly is. One of the first things they would do is return to the cave and kill the man who broke them free of their chains. People don't want to face reality. They like their false fiction. Will they make Joe Biden pay for selling them that snake oil for convincing them that the shadows a reality? Will they take it out on the people to point out that wasn't true? He never had the ability to free you from your debt.

Will they go after the Supreme Court? Will they go after Republicans? Will they attack responsibility? Meanwhile, the Supreme Court on that very same day reaffirmed our commitment to the First Amendment. We'll be right back with more of the Will Kane podcast. Stop. Do you know how fast you were going? I'm going to have to write you a ticket to my new movie, The Naked Gun. Buy your tickets now and get a free chili dog. Chili dog, not included. The naked guard. Tickets on sale now. August 1st.

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compelled to create a website for same-sex couples that celebrates a same-sex wedding. This morning I was... writing into work, listening to 10-10 wins. It's a local New York radio news channel that gives you promises to give you the news in 10 minutes. It certainly paints itself as objective. It doesn't paint itself in any way as editorial programming them. And I heard them describing the results of that Supreme Court case, and it was described as follows. The Supreme Court has possibly opened the door to discrimination by suggesting that businesses do not have to serve people do not have to serve same-sex couples.

That was 100% fake news peddled off as real news. We're swimming in this type of stuff. This atmospheric fake news comes everywhere through legacy gravitas, NBC, CBS, who just simply lied to you. That is not what the Supreme Court of the United States held. And the fact that they're quoting these institutions, these media companies, the dissent. Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kintanji Brown Jackson, shows they know the depth of their deceit. They know it's not true. They're not mistaken.

They're not stupid. They're liars. Their propaganda. The Supreme Court and the majority made this 100% clear did not give people the right to discriminate, businesses, the right to discriminate to others based upon their orientation, their identity, based upon their, the fact that they, are a same-sex couple. Did not open the door to questions about interracial marriage. He did not open the door to any of the hyperbolic rolling back to the 1950s. Most of the mouth-breathing idiots believe was decided by the Supreme Court. What they instead decided was you cannot compel someone to adopt your point of view.

You cannot force them to echo your speech. They reaffirmed our principle to free speech. Couple of facts to give you some background on these cases. First of all, whether or not it's this Colorado website designer or Colorado cakemaker. These are not plaintiffs, protagonists in this case, that you believe them to be. They're not simply a same-sex couple walking in one day who says, oh, I'd really like to have the cake made. Would you mind making one a far gay wedding where they encounter horrendous bigotry? It's not.

It's not what happens. It's no coincidence these happen in Colorado. where there was a state law made that they thought they might be able to underline. That, the facts of these case reveal what in fact happens is plaintiff shopping and defendant shopping for that matter. Oftentimes the plaintiffs don't even know they are the plaintiffs in these cases and people robocall shop after shop after shop

until they find someone who declines service. You'd ask yourself like intuitively like, Why would you want your cake made by someone who doesn't want to make your cake? Why would you sue and force and go after a cake shop that says, I don't want to make a cake in celebration of a gay wedding? Because it's not really about a cake for a gay wedding. It's about shopping for a lawsuit. And that's exactly what happens in many of these instances.

And what more, it's not as innocuous as sold to you and anesthetize on 1010 wins or even in, often the facts of the Supreme Court. We had on the Will Cain podcast, the maker of the bake shop, the bake shop who didn't want to bake the cake. In that case, it was about religious exemptions to anti-discrimination laws. That's not what the case, with the website designer on Friday was with the Supreme Court. We're going to return to that in just a moment. That was the case about free speech. But you never told really the details of the case.

And I wanted to share with you some of what we're talking about. This is The facts from that cake maker in Colorado When it was When it was decided that he wouldn't have to bake a cake Or he would have to bake a cake for a same-sex couple This is the call he immediately got He got a call from a

from a request for a cake, and I had the exact words pulled up here. So I'm going to have to try to give you this by memory. Don't worry. It's a little bit burned into my memory. But he was asked to make a cake by a satanic worshipper for a gay wedding where it would feature Satan giving to a 9 inch black by the way they want the

to actually rise up off the cake not be made you know out of fond it and want the to spin in gyrate

as Satan in the cake design performs on this 9 inch black gyrating on the cake and the dude's like

I'm sorry not comfortable making that cake news week wrote about this and they also said when you surveyed they called a bunch of cake makers and asked them about their willingness to make this cake. I was like, oh, that? Oh, I don't think I'd make that cake either. This is what we're talking about. Can you be compelled under the guise of anti-discrimination laws to do something that you do not feel is right to say something

you do not feel as right to endorse in essence with your artistic expression, with your speech, a point of view you do not believe. Most people in America, when understanding the facts and and ask that question, understand that to be, no, you can't force me to make a cake of Satan given a to a nine-inch gyrating black. And we can extend this out. This analogy is easy. Should a black cake shopmaker be forced to make a cake for a KKK member celebrating white supremacy? Should he be forced to adopt that point of view?

Should he be forced to echo that speech? Should a Muslim website designer be forced to design a website that denigrates Muhammad against his religion? Take out religion. What if just simply it's his point of view, something he deeply and passionately disagrees with? What if it's pornography? as in the example we just gave you with the do you it's not good enough to simply say

oh you can't discriminate if you're in business I saw this Twitter account as a Christian pastor saying hey if you're in business to the public you have to accommodate the public that's insane that's just uncritical thinking

faith does not require you to be stupid virtue does not require you to be weak Virtue demands, in fact, that you be strong. It's not good enough to just go, oh, you can't discriminate. Discrimination is the basis of religion. The problem is the word discrimination has been turned into a proxy for racism. We discriminate every day all day long.

What you will or will not eat. Where you will or will not go. What you will or will not drink. What step you take. you're discriminating safety danger good judgment bad judgment discrimination and judgment are one in the same religion is based upon the concept of judgment his judgment and our judgment exercising good judgment throughout the day on top of that set aside the religious argument wisdom wisdom itself is the ability to exercise good judgment

and discrimination. Don't eat that. That's poison. That's bad fruit. Eat that. That's safe. We live. We are not only allowed.

We are encouraged to discriminate. We are not supposed to discriminate in the United States of America under our Constitution on the basis of race and gender and sexual orientation. And that in this case in Colorado is not what was done. It was about discriminating based on whether or not we agree with certain speech. In the Supreme Court of the United States, remembering that it's fundamental to who we are, fundamental, written down first in the Bill of Rights, is that we here in the United States

of America have the freedom of speech. And you cannot force me to celebrate, to echo, to artistically express your point of view. That is what happened at the United States. Supreme Court that the reaffirmation of freedom of speech we're going to step aside here for a moment stay tuned book club on monday gym on tuesday date night on wednesday out on the town on thursday quiet night in on friday it's good to have a routine and it's good for your eyes too because with regular comprehensive eye exams at Specsavers, you'll know just how healthy they are. Visit Spexavers.caver's.cai to book your next eye exam.

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This is what they say are the 10. most difficult sports. That's it. That's all I have for you in terms of defining our terms. Number 10, soccer. I saw Dana White. There's a clip talking about how easy soccer is by Dana White. He's like, it's the most ridiculous sport.

You know, you run around, you kick a ball, and you can only score one or two goals a game. on a goal that is like four times the size, length and height, not height, but much bigger than the goalie. And you can only score that many. It's a reflection of how difficult it is, Dana. Not how easy it is. I agree it's one of the most difficult sports. You have to acquire that skill with your feet over a long lifetime.

Number nine, baseball and softball. Look, I've heard it said one of the most difficult things to do in sports is to hit a fastball from major league pitcher. it is a skill-based sport. It's absolutely difficult. Number eight, gymnastics, I think it belongs higher. I think it looks like one of the hardest. Strength, coordination, athleticism, gymnastics at 8.

Tennis at number seven. I like tennis. I have a lot of fun. I played tennis as a kid. I'm not sure I put it that high. I'm going to share with you some sports that didn't make it into the top 10 in just one moment. Martial arts at number six, I don't know. Never did it enough.

I know jujitsu is like chess. They say, I don't know. Number five, wrestling. Number four, basketball. I think basketball is difficult. I'm not sure it's... I think basketball is the best all-around athleticism sport,

most applicable to other sports. If you were drafting someone from one sport to play others, I think I would draft basketball pretty high. But I actually might draft number three. Football players before basketball players. I told you last week. Football players are just athletic marvels. They're beasts.

They're genetic freaks. They're big. They're fast. And that may mean they're capable of jumping into other sports more easily. But I think it undercuts that football being number three. I don't think football is even the top 10. I told you last week, Jim Nagy, director of the senior bull, said it's one of the few sports you can take up like at age 17 and still become one of the best in the world. As long as you're a physical freak.

And that's not what I understand. to mean by difficulty, being born with certain gifts. Number two, ice hockey. I believe that. First, first, you got to know how to skate. And then, like, I've played with ice hockey sticks on Fox Square during Fox Sports. That's not easy to hit the puck with any kind of accuracy, much less moving while you're on ice skates.

That could be number one. Instead, number one, most difficult sport ranked is boxing. I'll have to take your word for it, but I believe you. Water polo, my sport came in at number 12, and I don't think I'm being a homer to say, I actually think water polo does belong pretty high. Like ice hockey, like first, first to start, you got to swim, swim really well.

And then two, what people don't believe about water polo, I don't know about water polo is it's essentially a wrestling match underwater. It's kind of jiu-jitsu and wrestling while swimming, and then add in the ball and the skills of not water polo but maybe like I mean not not basketball and not quite soccer it's not it's not as skill based as soccer or basketball but you throw that on top of the wrestling and the swimming and you got to be able to shoot dribbling the water polo ball is pretty easy just put it between your arms and go you got to be able to shoot see the field pass lacrosse came at number 14 I think lacrosse pretty

tough um rodeo steer wrestling came in at 15 man you know i've watched a fair minute rodeo my life i never knew that steer wrestling was the hot hardest one i want to get a rodeo i want to ask a rodeo start about that because look um the other rodeo cap roping came in at number 40 um and bull riding came in at 42 that's bull bearback and bronc riding so calf half-roping and steer wrestling more difficult than bull riding. People were upset at this list because golf came in at 51. I don't do. I actually agree.

I don't think with the ranking, I'm not a good golfer. But look, look how many people play golf? Like, the barrier to entry isn't, like, huge. I mean, maybe, to be Tiger Woods, sure. But I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't,

think golf actually is one of the easier sports to take up and achieve some high level of competency at there's just too many dudes that do last on this list was fishing i get it i buy that uh swimming 45 for sprints i think distance races and swimming came in yeah at 36 i guess i I think swimming is a little hard. Skiing came in at like 25 freestyle. Why? Points your skis downhill and let gravity do the work. Surfing is above it, 23.

I think surfing's tough. Again, first swim. Racquetball and squash at 22? No. I played racquetball. Fun. Not that hard. Anyway, those are your most difficult sports.

The chefs to take their word for, boxing, ice hockey. One and two. Waterpull it belongs much higher. You can hit me up at Will Kane on Twitter. All right, I hope you have a good Fourth of July. Hope you're driving somewhere. Be with friends and family. I hope you have a few laughs.

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