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Hi!
Welcome to Full Frontal.
I'm Samantha Bee.
By the end of the day, it's almost certain
that judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be confirmed as Supreme
Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
and even though it's not officially
official yet as of this taping, I'd like to congratulate her
by being the first to say, Yes!
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OK.
Happy time over.
Back to the horror.
With her previous experience as a federal district court judge,
appeals court judge, public defender, and member
of the Bipartisan US Sentencing Commission,
Jackson is hyper-qualified to be a Supreme Court justice.
There's really no good reason not to confirm Judge Jackson
to the Supreme Court, but that's just fine with Republicans
because they have no problem making up a bunch
of absolute [BLEEP] GOAT shit.
You also have a consistent pattern of giving child porn
offenders lighter sentences.
I've got a 9-year-old, a 7-year-old,
and a 16-month-old at home.
And I live in fear that they will
be exposed to, let alone exploited,
in this kind of material,
I want to deter people from going to the internet
and downloading a bunch of child porn by putting them in jail
longer, not less.
Lindsey Graham, you owe that woman an apology, I want you
to say, "Sorry, Miss Jackson," and then, "Woo," and then say,
quote, "I am for real."
Republicans are horrifically and disrespectfully attempting
to twist Jackson's record.
It is absurd and infuriating to have to say this,
but she-- like every other person who
has faced this recent allegation of choice from conservatives--
is in no way supportive of pedophiles.
Republicans are intentionally making
baseless accusations because they have nothing
else on which to fault her.
And they know they're arguing in bad faith,
otherwise they wouldn't have absolutely
lost their goddamn minds every time Jackson tried to respond.
KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: Can I explain why, sir?
going to give her--
the witness-- an opportunity to respond to you, Senator.
LINDSEY GRAHAM: Finally.
Has it been committed now?
DICK DURBIN: Would she-- LINDSEY GRAHAM: Go ahead.
DICK DURBIN: Please, let her complete her--
Senator, would you please let her respond?
No, not if she's not going to answer my question.
Senator, I didn't say, I'm not going to answer--
TED CRUZ: OK, then please tell us--
KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: I said my answer--
TED CRUZ: --just facts.
Ted Cruz is absolutely incapable of letting
a woman finish.
He's also incapable of getting a woman to start,
but that's a story for another time.
Fake worrying about pretend pedophiles
is an easy way for Republicans to score points
with their base, especially with the recent rise
of debunked child abuse conspiracy theories.
Save our children.
So I would say I follow Q. Like,
let's get to the bottom of the allegations
of child trafficking.
REPORTER: The heart of the conspiracy theory
is the baseless belief in a satanic child
trafficking operation that has global reach.
Yes, all of this stems from QAnon-approved conspiracies
like Save the Children, Pizzagate, and the latest one,
Save the Pizza.
It's a theory that BOOK IT! was actually a way to target less
cool children from the 90s--
not to traffic them-- to identify
them and humiliate them.
As nonsensical as this rhetoric sounds,
it's becoming more and more mainstream.
A 20/20 poll found that 17% of Americans
believed that a group of Satan-worshipping elites who
run a child sex ring are trying to control
our politics and media.
While 83% of Americans responded,
why the [BLEEP] would you call me during dinner time
to ask me that question?
Perhaps the most bat-shit part of all of this
is that Q believers think only Donald Trump can put a stop
to it, which, if true, means this man is
sure taking his [BLEEP] time getting around to it.
Look, if Donald Trump was going to save us
all from a cabal of satanic pedophiles,
he could have knocked it out literally any time in the four
years of his presidency.
But as much as QAnon has been debunked,
it's still going strong, which means Republicans are more
than comfortable Q whistling to the stupidest
people on the planet.
These Republican politicians and their allies
in conservative media cannot just come out and say,
there is an evil cabal of liberals running
a child sex trafficking ring.
They realize they sound nuts.
So instead, they find these not-so-clever ways
to play footsie with the people that do believe that,
like accusing Judge Jackson of being
sympathetic to child abusers.
Wink wink.
People like Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham
may cynically use this disgusting rhetoric as a ploy,
but there are also scum holes like Marjorie Taylor
Greene, who are true believers.
Marjorie Taylor Greene took things a step further,
tweeting that Murkowski, Collins,
and Romney are pro-pedophile because they
voted for Judge Jackson.
It is a disgrace that someone in our government is accusing
people of something so vile and despicable without any evidence
and without anyone in her own [BLEEP] party saying,
hey, idiot!
Maybe stop.
Besides, Mitt Romney doesn't support endangering children.
Everyone knows Mitt Romney only supports endangering dogs.
But the most hypocritical part of it
all is that there are actually people in their own party
who are endangering kids.
Now we're going to have the latest on Florida
Congressman Matt Gaetz.
He's facing an FBI investigation over allegations
of a relationship with an underage girl.
REPORTER: He calls them all liars,
but more and more former Ohio State University wrestlers
are coming forward to say their former assistant coach,
Congressman Jim Jordan, knew student athletes
were being sexually abused.
The marriage law is up for discussion
at the Tennessee State Capitol.
The bill would eliminate an age requirement.
There are concerns this could open the door
to sex abuse cover-ups.
The GOP's obsession with family values
has always rung hollow, and they've shown their asses
on pretty much all of it.
This nonsense prevents our government
from accomplishing anything of substance,
which is what they would do if they actually cared about kids.
We'll be right back.
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