Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was forced to flee his dinner without dessert,
mind you after a group of pro choice protesters approached the Morton's
steakhouse that he was eating at.
I don't know what version of this story you've heard,
so I wanna be very clear about what actually happened.
Because the idea that he had to flee a dinner rushing into the actual back alley,
which I think is a bit on the nose considering the content isn't exactly what
happened.
Wednesday night DC protesters heard that he was eating at Morton's and so
protesters soon showed up out front.
The manager apparent they wanted them to kick out Kavanaugh, so
the manager had him leave through the rear of the restaurant.
Supposedly we later learned Brett Kavanaugh never heard the protesters,
he never saw the protesters.
This wasn't him taking the last helicopter off of the roof of the Morton's or
anything like that, just to be clear.
But despite that, Morton's has put out a statement defending him and
trying to stop people from doing stuff like this saying,
honorable Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh, putting honorable there's a choice.
I'm just gonna say that, honorable Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh and
all of our other patrons at the restaurant were unduly harassed by unruly
protesters while eating dinner at our Morton's restaurant.
Politics regardless of your side or views should not trample
the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner.
There is a time and a place for everything, disturbing the dinner of all
of our customers was an act of selfishness and devoid of decency.
Specifically, the right to congregate and eat dinner, I will point out not
specifically enumerated in the constitution, so it's void.
We don't have to abide by it.
Wouldn't it be great to have a right to privacy at this particular moment,
Brett Kavanaugh?
You should have thought about that.
But anyway, yeah, look, a lot of people have a lot of jokes to make.
I understand there's a debate to be had about exactly what sort of protest
is acceptable or not.
I personally think you should use the rights they still let you have while
you still have them and protesting is one of those rights.
But considering the content, I wanna start off with you Jessica.
What do you think about this?
>> Yeah, if our privacy is not respected, why should we respect theirs?
That's pretty simple for me.
This is about the right to privacy, right?
You don't want to be bothered when you're going about your personal life and yet
you're making policy that impacts the most intimate aspects of our lives.
And at the end of the day,
they really don't want us to be bothering them because they don't wanna be held
accountable to the public because they don't think that they are.
They don't use their position of power in society, in government,
which is supposed to be a democracy to represent the interests of the people.
They don't think that they're accountable to us.
So of course, why should we bother them at their homes?
They would rather use their power to pass policy that's in line with their ideology,
that if the majority of the country disagrees with, they don't really care.
That's what they would like to do and not be accountable to the public.
These are not people who care about our fundamental rights and liberties.
>> Yeah, so first off, yes,
let's note the delicious irony of them complaining about privacy.
Yes, because abortion rights in Roe v Wade were based on the right to privacy and
they just destroyed that, so that's fair.
Also, I wanna point out why it's happening, because
we no longer have a democracy by the way, also because of the Supreme Court.
Now, those were decisions that were made in 76, 78 and the citizens united.
So those three decisions destroyed our democracy.
Now, it's an auction also brought to you by this very, very corrupt Supreme Court.
And so because we have no one to represent us, because the Democrats won't fight for
us, because they take donor money too, because the Republicans are so
authoritarian.
Well, then now people are bottled up and going,
I voted already, I voted a thousand times and it didn't do any difference.
And now the Supreme Court seems like it's gone forever.
So now my rights are gone, my rights are gone.
I got nobody representing me, well, I'm mad.
So now when the right wing gets mad, they get violent, they break into the Capitol,
they kill people, etc.
When the left wing gets mad, they do protests and look at the reactions.
So the right wing does a full out riot where they try to murder
their own vice president and the Republicans are like,
it's no big deal, it's just a bunch of tourists.
It's no big deal, shouldn't even be having hearings, etc.
When the left wing does protest around, near a political figure,
everybody goes nuts.
My God, the beloved honorable.
I mean, have you seen the reactions,
have you seen them when they were doing the protest at their homes?
And now, beloved Morton's where the incredibly expensive steakhouse,
our three martini dinners might be interrupted.
Where will this end, the madness and the chaos, right?
Now, having said that, I'm not sure how I'm gonna vote on our own poll, okay?
So the pole in this case is,
do you believe political figures should be confronted in person, yes or no?
TYT.com/polls.
Now, confronted is the question there, right?
Because protests, absolutely.
I don't like going to people's homes, I think that that's out of bounds.
I get it but I don't like it personally, okay?
But always remember when you're voting on a pole or
when you're thinking about a new shoe, what if the shoe was on the other foot?
Cuz I worry about Sotomayor or
I ran into Kagan once at a Starbucks in DC, it was so random, okay?
And no one even knew who she was, she was just sitting there outside in public,
I'm like, that's a Supreme Court Justice.
And I happened to be getting coffee with someone else and we had a meeting and so
I was there for like 45 minutes, not one person came up to her, okay?
They had no idea who she was, people walking by left and right, okay, in DC,
it's amazing.
Anyway, I asked her if she ever gets recognized, but
I explained that to members.
Become a member, get the bonus episode where I tell you those details.
TYT.com/join, anyway, so what if it's Kagan or
Sotomayor or now Jackson, right?
And these idiot right wingers swarm them wherever they are and you know them,
they're not gonna stop.
You think they're just gonna do a protest or
vigil like the left wing did in front of their houses?
So I'm worried about it, way things are devolving, I don't love it.
I like protests a lot, I love protests but when you get into their personal space,
I start to worry, so that's my opinion.
>> Well, this one now it's affecting corporations and as Jake pointed out,
our politics in America, it's basically an auction, right?
Whoever makes the most money can influence the most policy,
they lobby elected officials, make sure that they hold their seats and
then govern on behalf of corporations.
What's interesting here is now, Morton's is realizing that public unrest in
the United States is affecting business.
This is when corporations might actually have a stake in having people have
representation in government.
I don't know, unrest is bad for business suddenly, do you care?
Maybe.
>> Yeah, well, look, protests of corporations is an excellent idea.
Giant multi billion dollar corporations, that is the perfect target.
Because then you're not going to somebody while they're having lunch or
you're going to their home.
No, corporations aren't even people,
I know the Supreme Court thinks they're people but they're not.
Okay, so you go to their lobbies, go to their place of work.
Do sit ins, etc, whatever you need to do and have them stop bribing our
politicians cuz those bribed politicians are the ones that picked Kavanaugh,
etc to destroy our democracy.
>> Yeah, look, I think context is key.
What does it mean to confront even confront?
There's a wide range of things that could be a confrontation,
being outside of a building that a person is in, I feel too often like they can
punch you in the face and how dare you bleed on them and
like specifically because it's a high price steak place.
This feels to me like the media is trying to get the peasantry to
be horrified about the fact that an urchin approached the Lord's carriage.
They will make a peasant of you if you let them, don't confront them, don't hit them,
don't do anything scary or dangerous or whatever.
But mere protest in the vicinity of a public figure,
there is a line we couldn't cross and I don't think we can see it yet.
>> Yeah, as they're entering the Supreme Court building,
I think that's totally legitimate, that's a place of work, etc.
So everybody draws their line in a different place and
I don't want people thinking confront me as physical in our poll.
No, I would never ask a poll question about that.
You should never do anything physical, right?
I mean, confront through aggressive protests that are non physical at
places where they're eating or they're living, etc.
And that one, that's the one I'm not sure about, but I love protests.
So that's our job is to find those fine lines, figure out where it is and
do things the right way, the political way, the democratic way.
>> And people did some great stuff in this instance with Morton's where they
were booking reservations at Morton's across the country
to disrupt their business in response to this.
Which is a really well organized effort to say,
hey, we don't agree that you're defending Brett Kavanaugh right now.
>> Yeah, super last thing I'll say is I don't like Morton's.
>> [LAUGH] >> I've gone there, super mediocre.
Okay, but they didn't really do anything wrong.
I mean, other than their, I do declare statement they put out afterwards, right?
But I mean they had a guy eating at the restaurant and they're like,
please leave him alone.
>> Yeah.
>> It's not really Morton's fault.
>> Just don't mess with the waiters or the hosts, the bartenders, whatever.
>> Definitely don't do that.
>> I known them for many years, they didn't have anything to do with this.
I have a feeling the waiter probably didn't like serving Brett Kavanaugh.
>> Or maybe he did like it.
>> Okay, then you can mess with them. [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH]