Douchebag Ben Shapiro knock-offs keep thinking they're smarter than Ketanji Brown Jackson
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🗓️ 3 September 2025
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Summary
VR6 - For today’s Vapid Response Wednesday, Thomas, Lydia, and Matt review two examples from a newly-popular genre of lazy right wing op-eds: insecure white guys complaining about Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. What is with these losers who are so obsessed with trying to prove that one of the most qualified nominees to the high court in our lifetimes isn’t fit for the job? We take dark-money sugar baby Josh Hammer up on the joke to compare his life achievements to someone who began her SCOTUS career with four times as much courtroom experience as John Roberts, Elena Kagan, Clarence Thomas, and Amy Coney Barrett combined--before moving on to trying to even understand what Federalist weirdo Shawn Fleetwood thinks he is saying.
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“Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is an Insult to the Supreme Court,” Josh Hammer, Newsweek (7/1/2025)
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“KBJ Could Learn a Few Lessons in ‘Professionalism’ From Justice Barrett,” Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist (8/20/2025)
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Ketanji Brown Jackson’s career timeline from the Southern Poverty Law Center (4/7/22)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to opening arguments. |
| 0:14.5 | We're the podcast that breaks down the law in the news. |
| 0:18.3 | We have rapid response Friday, but this is Vapid Response Wednesday. I'm Thomas. That |
| 0:21.9 | over there is real life attorney. Matt Cameron, how are you doing, Matt? Hey, everybody. It's recording this on Labor Day, so I'm just chilling, you know, having shaved in a couple days, wearing a t-shirt. Never mind, I'm off. I'm balking out. I forgot it's a holiday. I'm out of here. But we're celebrating labor today with some truly lazy writing. |
| 0:20.6 | You're saying they didn't put any work into it, like in order to... But we're celebrating labor today with some truly lazy writing. |
| 0:43.8 | You're saying they didn't put any work into it, like in order to, in recognition of Labor Day. |
| 0:44.6 | All right. |
| 0:46.2 | And Lydia Smith, how are you doing? |
| 0:47.8 | Hello, doing well. |
| 0:48.8 | Happy to be back. |
| 0:51.4 | I had last week off, but I'm here this week. |
| 0:51.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.2 | You didn't have to sit through tons of hours, just countless hours of British lies. |
| 0:58.5 | You guys are the real heroes. |
| 1:00.8 | That was nuts. |
| 1:01.5 | Speaking of labor. |
| 1:02.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.2 | Yeah. Any updates with that yet? |
| 1:05.6 | There's no, she's not like pardoned or anything. |
| 1:07.7 | I feel like we've heard about that. |
| 1:09.1 | Still hanging out in her minimum security. |
| 1:10.9 | I feel like that's the deal she got. I feel like we've heard about that. Still hanging out in her minimum security. I feel like that's the deal she got. |
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