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- 0:11Helping to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
- 0:15This is the Constitution Study on the America Out Loud Network with your host, Paul Engel.
- 0:30From executive orders to judicial orders, from taxes to the debt, it seems the United States keeps spiraling towards its own destruction.
- 0:40Is there an exit ramp from this path we're on?
- 0:42Hello there, everyday Americans, Paul Engel here with the Constitution Study, where we read and study the Constitution, teach the rise of generation be free.
- 0:49I'm glad you could join me today.
- 0:51You know, I'm sure there's plenty of metaphors you can come up with, the idea of spiraling towards our own destruction.
- 0:57And I'm sure that pretty much every generation has well thought we're basically going down the tubes.
- 1:04I want to look at some things going on today and ask ourselves is America climbing for the freedom or spiraling into its own destruction.
- 1:15Now I'm going to start with, well, tariffs, right?
- 1:17And more executive actions, because again, you know, a lot of people put a lot of hope in Donald Trump that things would get better.
- 1:26And really what I've seen is I've seen some things get better.
- 1:29Don't get me wrong.
- 1:30There are things that have been getting better, but I'm also seeing Donald using the same types of tactics that his predecessor did.
- 1:39Not to the same goals, not to the same ends, but certainly, well, certainly to the same uh uh methods.
- 1:48No, there's the goals are different, the destinations are different, but the methods seem to be the same.
- 1:55For example, back on uh was it the January 12th, shortly before the Supreme Court is expected to release this decision on whether or not the president has the authority to make these tax these these tariffs, um, he posted on true social effective immediately.
- 2:12Any country doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran will pay a tariff of 25% on any and all business business being done in the United States of America.
- 2:22This order is final and conclusive.
- 2:24Thank you for your attention to this matter.
- 2:27Okay, let's start off first of all that a post on true social means absolutely nothing legally.
- 2:34All right, this this legally, this has no bearing.
- 2:39I'm sure this is being followed up with an executive order or some other uh uh you know fake nonsense to say, hey, I can impose tariffs.
- 2:47Now, again, I want to stop and look at this because I want to look at this uh sanely and calmly and and rationally, because as I've pointed out, the constitution gives the power to collect duties, which are the dollar portion of tariffs.
- 3:03Um, they place it squarely in the hands of Congress.
- 3:06Only Congress has the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises.
- 3:13So uh where the president gets this authority, well, he claims there's legislation that says uh Congress says, listen, in an emergency, the president can regulate foreign commerce.
- 3:27Well, you've got the question of the anti-delegation doctrine, but uh, you know, did can Congress delegate its foreign commerce power to the executive, like they claim.
- 3:38Well, that's another question that I don't know the court's going to answer, but they're certainly going to give their opinion on.
- 3:46So we have the president saying I'm going to, I mean, he's effectively he's all about saying I'm going to do rule with a pen and a phone and get what I want.
- 3:56Now, is is uh the Islamic public or in is that a nice country?
- 4:01Is that a good country?
- 4:02Is that a country we should be doing business with?
- 4:06I don't I don't think so, but you look at their at their recent crackdown on their own citizens and say, yeah, that would I I would lean to people that's a bad country, it's it's doing bad things.
- 4:19This is the latest example.
- 4:20And no, I really don't think that the American economy, the American people should be supporting it as a whole.
- 4:27Individually, that's an individual decision.
- 4:30But as a an entity as a whole, nah, I don't think we should be doing that.
- 4:35But again, is that a power vested in the president of the United States, or is it vested in Congress?
- 4:41Well, Congress is too slow.
- 4:43Yeah, you're right, and it's slow for a reason.
- 4:46It's meant to be a deliberative body.
- 4:49The uh the even the structure, the House um being representative of the people has been rather rambunctious.
- 4:58And they describe, and the founders describe the Senate as the the saucer to cool the fiery rhetoric that may spill out of the cup.
- 5:09And uh, you know, the idea was to be slow and deliberative to not make rash judgments.
- 5:14Those are the actions of a dictatorship, where an individual gets to make a rash judgment, and then all of us have to pay the consequences of it later.
- 5:23So there you again, the the there was talk about uh uh about the the Supreme Court releasing last week the uh this decision.
- 5:34Now, maybe we're this week, but in the middle of that, you have the president um imposing taxes, laying in laying on taxes uh in violation of the constitution.
- 5:46You have Congress saying that he can perform of foreign relations, which again is not a power delegated to the president.
- 5:54Contrary to what the lawyers and yes, even the justices of the Supreme Court have said, the power to to uh uh engage in foreign relations to dictate foreign policy is not a power delegated to the president of the United States.
- 6:09So even the you know, Supreme Court, the chief justices, the the supposedly smartest legal minds in our nation.
- 6:17Apparently can't read the basic simple language an 18th century farmer can understand, that being the Constitution of the United States.
- 6:25Now, of course, tied to tariffs was the point that, well, they're bringing in money.
- 6:29That was actually part of the debate in at the Supreme Court, but it's still being mentioned how many billions of dollars these tariffs have brought in.
- 6:36Yet the national debt is still skyrocketing.
- 6:39Now, I heard one group claim that the national debt grows about a million dollars every 15 seconds.
- 6:46$8 billion, I'm sorry, no, six billion dollars every year.
- 6:50So I'm looking at the U.S.
- 6:52debt clock, US debt clock.org, and uh it shows, yeah, the the debt continues to go up.
- 6:59The amount of money the United States government borrowed in the name of the people on the good, on the faith, good faith and credit of the United States, it's continuing to go up.
- 7:09We still haven't fixed this problem.
- 7:11Um I looked at it though, and I don't think it's every mummy and every 15 seconds.
- 7:17It's more like a every 21, 22 seconds, which still is bad.
- 7:23And I look at this and say, this is you know, this is absolutely crazy, the spending.
- 7:29And you know, I guess the only thing that's that I look at saying, well, we've been doing it so long, it's like people are inul to the idea.
- 7:36It's like we don't notice it because we've just grown up in it.
- 7:40How many people have grown up in this crazy debt-driven government?
- 7:46And of course, the debt is driven by a simple factor.
- 7:51A lot of people throw a lot of things in there.
- 7:53The debt is is based on one single fact.
- 7:58The federal government spends more than it collects in taxes.
- 8:03That's it's not rocket science, it's not brain surgery.
- 8:06It's simple.
- 8:08When the federal government spends more than it collects in taxes, that is a that leads to a deficit in the budget, which of course cumulates into our total debt.
- 8:22And just to make the point, the uh uh the the debt clock shows the the top four uh biggest budget items that are again that are driving our debt.
- 8:33And um, well, two of them, the first two, the largest impact on our debt uh of the budget is um our unconstitutional programs, Medicaid Medicare, and Social Security.
- 8:47Those entities are not powers delegated.
- 8:51The power to pay for someone's medical care, to pay for someone's retirement is not a power delegated to the United States.
- 9:00And in fact, the the power to collect taxes to those things is not a power delegated to the United States.
- 9:06Remember, Congress can only lay and collect taxes to do three things to pay the debt of the United States for the common defense of the United States and the general welfare of the United States, not the individual states, not the individual people, this entity we call the United States.
- 9:22And speaking of paying the interest, it's one of the things that Congress is allowed to collect taxes for.
- 9:28The interest on the debt is now the third most expensive item in the budget.
- 9:34That's right.
- 9:35We spend more.
- 9:36We're uh in in on debt, paying the national debt than we do for our common defense.
- 9:45And I want you to think about that for a moment.
- 9:47That's that that fiscally, that's a very dangerous um dangerous situation.
- 9:53Now, of course, there's a lot of things that do this.
- 9:55And I was talking uh yesterday about uh president trying to.
- 10:00Cap credit card interest rate.
- 10:02But to me, that again, it doesn't fix the problem.
- 10:06Because the problem isn't the interest on the credit card.
- 10:10It's the fact that so many people are living on those credit cards.
- 10:13I've had credit cards for decades.
- 10:15I remember I was, oh man, I was must have been early 20s.
- 10:18And my father told me that if you're going to go into business, you want an American Express card.
- 10:23And I got one.
- 10:24And again, decades ago, and I still hold it, and I still use it.
- 10:29But I pay it off each and every month.
- 10:32So I don't care, you know, the interest rate doesn't bother me because I don't pay the interest.
- 10:37But we're dealing with the same problem in our in our inner individual homes.
- 10:41That we we borrow money on our credit cards that we're unable to because we're unable to.
- 10:48Now sometimes it's an emergency.
- 10:50And I understand that, right?
- 10:51Sometimes you just something crazy happens.
- 10:54There's a uh problem with your home, car breaks down, uh health care emergency, you don't have the cash readily available.
- 11:01You put it on the credit card so you can pay it off over time.
- 11:05Understood.
- 11:06But that's not what I'm talking about.
- 11:08I'm talking about people in households that live day by day off their credit cards.
- 11:14They cannot pay them at the end of the month.
- 11:17So if we, the American people cannot manage our own finances.
- 11:24Well, why should we surprise when the people we hire to represent us in Congress can't do so either?
- 11:30And of course, well, but well, Paul, the cost of living.
- 11:34So again, not Trump is talking about a new executive order, trying to deal with cost of living.
- 11:43He's apparently researching another executive order, something a power not again.
- 11:47He can write executive orders, but he's using them to rule rather than to tell his departments how to follow the law.
- 11:56And again, it's not just they were talking about uh uh, you know, he wanted to keep a uh uh institutional investors out of purchasing single family homes.
- 12:07Uh now he wants to look at um we we're gonna help people reach their retirement and college saving goals to to afford a down payment on a on a on a home.
- 12:20How does he plan on doing this?
- 12:23Well, as I said, one of the things is is to prevent institutions from purchasing single homes, as if that's going to fix the problem.
- 12:29See, he he he posted again on truth.
- 12:32He said for a very long time, buying and owning a home was considered the pinnacle of the American dream.
- 12:37It was a reward for working hard and doing the right thing.
- 12:40But now, because of the record high inflation caused by Joe Biden, the Democrats in Congress, the American dream is excreasingly out of reach for far too many people, especially younger Americans.
- 12:50Okay, stop for a second, right there.
- 12:52All right, record high inflation caused by Joe Biden.
- 12:55Yep, he had record high inflation.
- 12:58But that doesn't mean that inflation started with Joe Biden.
- 13:00There was inflation under the first Trump administration.
- 13:03There's been inflation for as long as I can remember.
- 13:06And remember what inflation is.
- 13:08Everyone thinks inflations are just higher prices.
- 13:10No, inflation is the devaluing of the dollar.
- 13:14It's the devaluing of the currency.
- 13:18See, if you go back and he talks about, you know, uh, you know, buying a home.
- 13:21Well, yes, a home costs more in dollars than it did back in the 1970s, but you know what?
- 13:27It doesn't cost any more or not much more than it did in gold.
- 13:32Meaning it's not the fact, it's not the price, the prices are not driven by the increased cost of the home.
- 13:38It's the decreasing value of the U.S.
- 13:42dollar.
- 13:43But I love this.
- 13:44He said, if if owning a home is a reward for working hard and doing the right thing, why is he saying, well, it's it's too far to reach, even especially for younger Americans?
- 13:55Well, yeah.
- 13:56You haven't worked hard enough to and done the right thing enough to actually report a home.
- 14:02But once again, we want to push people into homes that maybe they can't really afford yet.
- 14:08When did we do this?
- 14:09Oh, yeah, you remember 2008, the housing collapse.
- 14:14You want to watch a movie.
- 14:15Look, look up the movie The Big Short.
- 14:18It shows how this manipulation of the mortgages in order to get people into homes they couldn't really afford led to the 2008 collapse.
- 14:27And that's is that is that really what what we're trying to go to again?
- 14:32Now listen, I believe people, I think owning a home is a good thing.
- 14:36I believe working hard to get a uh uh a down payment.
- 14:40I believe 20% should be the minimum, but to get a down payment on a home is a good thing in the long run.
- 14:50But just because you're a young family doesn't mean you are you're owed to own your own home.
- 14:57As he said originally, it's a reward for working hard and doing the right thing, yet now he wants to take steps to basically push younger people into homes, whether they can afford them yet or not.
- 15:11Again, by fiat, by diktat, not by law, certainly not by following the constitution of the United States, but by simply making up a desire and putting people into place.
- 15:22You see why I say America's spiraling toward its own destruction.
- 15:27Even the people that claim they want to make America great again seem to be doing it by collapsing the very things that made America great in the first place.
- 15:36A constitutional republic, the rule of law, and the uh the application of finances, capitalism, and the government not placing its thumb on the scale for one group over another.
- 15:51But that seems to be forgotten.
- 15:53That seems to be lost, even among the current administration.
- 15:57So what are we to do?
- 15:59How do we deal with this government and these government actors?
- 16:04Yes, including Trump, that may have they may have ideas, good ideas, they may even have ideas that you like.
- 16:11The question is, are they legal?
- 16:14And do they truly make America great again, or do they simply promote the agenda of one politician or another?
- 16:22I want to look at this deeper.
- 16:24I want to get more involved, but before I do that, I want to go back to something that proved what happens when America when government places his thumb on the scale and meddles with your life.
- 16:34That's COVID.
- 16:36Remember, COVID, they came up with a nonsense of the masking, which had no science behind it, the six-foot separation that had no science behind it, the the uh the the fake vaccines, which are not really vaccines, they're actually gene therapy, which not only not only had they never had proper safety uh trials, but they were never even tested to see if they were effective.
- 16:57And we were lied to.
- 16:58Oh, you take it the shot, and the the the pandemic stops, except it doesn't.
- 17:04This is what happens when you let government meddle.
- 17:07And we're still dealing with the consequences.
- 17:10Shedding, long COVID.
- 17:12These are what's happening.
- 17:13These are the the after-effects of letting our government run amok.
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- 21:19And today, well, we're watching America spiral, I think to its own destruction, but we can change that, I think, if we have a little bit of knowledge and education and learn how to use it.
- 21:31Before I get to that, I want to point out we talked about executive actions.
- 21:34How about we look at the judicial actions?
- 21:36Here's another district court judge that uh, well, in this case, I think uh think she's queen.
- 21:44Uh Judge Beryl Howell of the District Court for the Digital Columbia issued a an order uh claiming that uh in the the case of um the American uh Academy of Pediatrics versus the Health and Human Services, that the American Academy, they're the pediatrics, they're likely to succeed in their claim that HHS violated the first amendment of the constitution when officials cut 12 million dollars in grants to the academy.
- 22:14That sentence right there kind of went, what?
- 22:18So she went on to say in her opinion said this is not a case about whether uh AAP or HHS is right or even has the better position on vaccination and gender affirming care for children or any other public health policy.
- 22:32Okay.
- 22:33She said this is a case about whether the federal government has exercised power in a manner designed to chill public health policy debate by retaliating against a leading and generally trusted uh pediatrician member professional organization focused on improving the health of children.
- 22:50All right, well, let's back this up a little bit and again start from the beginning.
- 22:54Um the federal government has not been authorized by the Constitution to fund grants to do research.
- 23:01Remember, Congress does have the power to protect inventions.
- 23:06See, under Article 1, Section 8 clause, clause eight, the Congress has the power to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
- 23:20It says nothing about giving them money.
- 23:24Furthermore, uh the the judge suddenly said, well, the uh the American Academy of Pediatrices is they're doing God's work is kind of what she's saying, right?
- 23:34She she said this is a trusted pediatric member profession, uh trusted by whom?
- 23:40Right?
- 23:41She said focuses on improving health care health of children.
- 23:44I would doubt that I would debate that.
- 23:47Based on the fact that the American Academy of Pediatricians have put together lots of policies and recommendations that actually harm the health of children.
- 23:56Again, I don't I don't buy that.
- 23:59She went on to say, well, the the American Association of Pediatricians has marshaled substantial and undisputed evidence from statements and other actions by HSS leaders, leadership, and officials that demonstrate the likelihood of a retaliatory motive for the grant terminations at issue.
- 24:16Well, that sounds a little bit of bias when she said it's undisputed evidence because I bet you there are a lot of people that dispute the evidence and those statements and how they're being used.
- 24:27But we still come back to the question of does the constitution authorize Congress to appropriate funds to these organizations?
- 24:35And does Congress does the Constitution delegate to Congress the authority to spend this money?
- 24:42Oh no, it's the executive branch.
- 24:45So basically we have another judge that simply ignores the language of the Constitution.
- 24:50I would say to a political end, although I'm not 100% sure, maybe she's just ignorant of the Constitution.
- 24:56It would not be, it's not uncommon among federal judges.
- 24:59Now she noted that the grants go to multiple initiatives, including programs aimed at reducing sudden infant death syndrome and furthering early detection of autism.
- 25:09Except that's not a power delegated to the United States.
- 25:13And this judge took an oath to support the Constitution of the United States, which specifically said if a power is not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, that power belongs somewhere else.
- 25:26So what you have is a swindle that this judge says is more important than actually following the Constitution of the United States.
- 25:34Sadly, I've kind of got used to this.
- 25:36It's it's like it happens so often.
- 25:38Uh, I'm I'm not at all surprised.
- 25:40I'm not shocked or surprised.
- 25:43I'm saddened.
- 25:44I'm saddened that you once again have a judge that ignores the Constitution for their own.
- 25:50Again, I would say based on the fact that she's out of the District of Columbia, one of the most radical uh leftist Marxist regions of the country.
- 26:01Uh, I would not be surprised to find out that she's actually doing this for her own political reasons.
- 26:09All right, let's shift gears again.
- 26:10Let's talk about elections, right?
- 26:12Because we are a republic.
- 26:14Somebody asked me the other day, um, you know, if if we're you know a really a republic.
- 26:19And I said, legally, we're a republic.
- 26:22Effectively, though, uh, we're becoming more of an oligarchy.
- 26:25And here's the part of the thing with with a republic, people elect representative.
- 26:31The people who are citizens of this country elect people to represent them.
- 26:35That's the definition of a republic.
- 26:38So when an illegal alien pled guilty to voting illegally in the 2020 election, anyone else remember the 2020 election?
- 26:46Also pled guilty to lying on a passport application.
- 26:50Jose uh Vascuale's Rosa is a um committed a crime.
- 26:56Citizen of the Dominican Republic who entered the United States who was a residing in the United States, I should say, illegally, pled guilty to three counts.
- 27:05All right, false statements in a in a passport application, false statement on the citizenship uh uh uh application and uh to attempt to get federal benefits and voting illegally.
- 27:18Now, this is one person, one person who was caught, one person who was tried, and one person who has pled guilty.
- 27:25So some people, well, you know, it's it's it's one person.
- 27:28The question is, how many others?
- 27:31You see, all these attempts to prevent making you know the this implementing election security protocols, following the Constitution, uh, have led to the scenario where more and more people are able to illegally uh not only begin legally call themselves citizens, get a passport, to get a driver's license, but to get benefits, illegal federal benefits, but also to vote.
- 28:04So the question is if if we've we've opened, you know, the the floodgates, right?
- 28:10The previous administration, along with others, opened the floodgates to illegal immigrants, have not enforced the laws regarding illegal immigrants, have been dubious about uh following the law when it comes to elections and citizenship and and uh uh and others.
- 28:30Why are we surprised?
- 28:31You found one.
- 28:32Yay, how many others have have happened?
- 28:35How many others?
- 28:37And think of it this way.
- 28:38So this person, remember, 2020 election, a very hotly contested election, a lot of stuff.
- 28:43I wonder with all of the, you know, we suddenly had to have mail-in voting everywhere because oh my god, there's a there's a flu out there that you might get sick if you show up, you might get sick and die if you actually show up to vote, which was another lie that was used, I believe, to manipulate the 2020 elections.
- 29:02And here's an example of that happening.
- 29:05Yet, how often when someone says, well, we need to ensure, and again, I think elections should be free, fair, and transparent.
- 29:13Right?
- 29:14I I don't think people who can legally vote should be prevented from legally voting.
- 29:19But to be fair, only those who can legally vote should be allowed to vote.
- 29:25And if we're going to be transparent about it, we need to be open so we can find the people who cheat.
- 29:30I'm never saying we're gonna get rid of all the cheaters, but we need to be able to find out who's cheating because they do have an impact.
- 29:39Here's another one from Tennessee.
- 29:41Now, again, I have this issue with commercial driver's licenses.
- 29:44Mainly the fact that the federal government thinks it has the authority to establish commercial driver's licenses.
- 29:49They do have the right to regulate interstate commerce, not interstate travel.
- 29:55So uh the the the constitutionality of CD of
- 30:00The federal CDL laws is dubious at best.
- 30:04But one of the requirements that Congress put in was that in order to get a commercial driver's license, you must be a citizen or legal resident of the United States.
- 30:14Now listen, I don't have a problem with the rule, just the fact that the rule comes from Congress in a dubious fashion, right?
- 30:22And Tennessee has joined a list of states that said, you know what?
- 30:26Uh we found uh a lot of um of people with uh CDLs from our state that uh never provided citizenship or lawful residence documentation.
- 30:40In fact, the Tennessee Department of what are they called?
- 30:42The Department of Safety identifies 8800 of the 150,000 CDL holders.
- 30:51Um they're gonna receive a notice that their documentation was not required when their licenses were issued.
- 30:59Now that's not quite six percent of the CDLs issued by um the state of Tennessee.
- 31:04Not a good number.
- 31:06But again, they did a they did a review of the CDL records.
- 31:11Um again, because Donald Trump said, hey, we want you to double check all this stuff.
- 31:16And they found um there were there were problems.
- 31:19Now, again, I doubt you're ever gonna get that number to zero.
- 31:24Let's be realistic, right?
- 31:26You're never gonna get the numbers to zero.
- 31:28But I have to ask, even in my state of Tennessee, um, they they never required the proof of citizenship when it was issued.
- 31:36If you're issuing a CDL based on a federal law, if you're assuming the federal law is legal, which I have serious questions about, because again, it's not regulating interstate commerce so much as uh, well, it's commerce, all right?
- 31:51These are commercial driver's licenses.
- 31:54Yeah, but it doesn't require them to be interstate.
- 31:58It's one thing to say if you're going to to uh do commerce across a commercial driver across state lines.
- 32:04That's one thing.
- 32:05That's not what the law the I understand the law, that's not what the law says.
- 32:09So um, but again, back to Tennessee, really.
- 32:12You you you put this in place and you didn't actually document the legal status, the citizenship or legal status of the people you issued these licenses to.
- 32:22Now, remember, a commercial driver's license can be used for everything from uh a big 18-wheeler, you know, over the road 18-wheeler to a school bus driver.
- 32:33I believe school bus drivers need to be need to have CDLs as well.
- 32:37So I ask you, you know, have we are we just like ignoring the laws because they're an inconvenient?
- 32:45Are we ignoring rationality because it's inconvenient?
- 32:49I know a lot of people make a lot of hype about well, you know, they're they're here, and you know, they seven of them don't speak the language, they can't read the road signs, they're dangerous, and I'm sure some percentage of them are.
- 33:01Of course, and again, I wonder how many American citizens are functionally illiterate and can't read the signs either, but that's that's a whole nother question.
- 33:09I mean, I remember when they started replacing signs with words with signs with symbols, because well, if you're illiterate, you need to know what it says.
- 33:18And you know, that that was a whole nother that was a push way back starting.
- 33:21I think it's like that started back in the 70s.
- 33:25It points to me a bigger issue.
- 33:27In other words, it's not just the United States as a whole that seems to be ignoring what's going on.
- 33:33It's the individual states.
- 33:35And again, Tennessee found it, but only after they were prompted by well uh uh an or an executive order from Trump, one that doesn't legally apply to the states.
- 33:45And uh now they're setting up saying, hey, we need your proof.
- 33:49Uh what are they gonna do about people who do not actually provide the proof?
- 33:55And again, I've been talking a lot about the federal.
- 33:57Actually, I looked it up.
- 33:58State Tennessee state law requires proof of citizenship, a lawful permanent residence to obtain a commercial driver's license, but they didn't.
- 34:08And of course, this is being promoted for political reasons, right?
- 34:13On the one hand, you have the the MAGA movement, and you know, we need to get these illegal uh foreigners out of the CDL because they're dangerous.
- 34:22They're they're on the roads and they're dangerous.
- 34:23That's the focus.
- 34:25Then you have the other side saying the leftist Marxists saying, Oh, you can't do that.
- 34:29People have a right to earn a living, and and how can you prevent them from doing so simply because they broke the law to get here?
- 34:36That's that that that yeah, that's kind of the problem.
- 34:39This problem, isn't it?
- 34:41Well, no, they shouldn't be punished for actually breaking a lot of get here.
- 34:44They need to break another law once they get here before we can punish them.
- 34:47That's kind of the the crazy spiral of irrationality that seems to pervade so much of not just government, but so much of the policy discussion among the people of the United States.
- 35:02Okay, I've got another break home.
- 35:04Before I go, though, you know, I these are just some examples of our rights being under attack and mostly by government, but government are not the only actors.
- 35:13There are plenty of organizations that are promoting the destruction of our rights.
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- 40:34And today we're talking about spiraling America.
- 40:37And we've talked a lot about um about governments and their actions, but what about we the people?
- 40:44What are we doing?
- 40:46Now, one of the areas that I have great concern is our dependence on artificial intelligence.
- 40:54Because first of all, I speak you have to remember, I spend 30 years in the IT realm.
- 40:59I have a passing understanding with artificial intelligence.
- 41:03In other words, I've not set up one for myself, but I've I've done some studying on the subject, and there's a couple things that we need to remember.
- 41:11Um we we act as if artificial intelligence is well, it's it's like exactly all reflux intelligence.
- 41:17No, it's imitation intelligence.
- 41:19Meaning the the systems are set up and trained by intelligent people to imitate them.
- 41:29They're trying to imitate this idea of intelligence.
- 41:31And we forget that they're trained by human beings, human beings define uh for them what is right and wrong, what is true and not true, and set their the limits on what they can and cannot do.
- 41:44And uh a lot of people, I've been you know, I've had several people claim that uh my answers are are AI generated, but they're not.
- 41:51I don't use AI to for any of my analysis.
- 41:55In fact, I don't even use it for any of my research.
- 41:57The closest I get is if I use a search engine.
- 42:00Some of them use AI in the background, and and that's it, but I'm still looking for the original documents.
- 42:05Why do I bring this up?
- 42:07Well, another AI chatbot, in this case Grok, the one that's built into X.
- 42:12Um, well, they kind of got themselves in a little bit of hot water.
- 42:16See, they they generated and shared an AI image depicting two young girls in what they're referred to as sexualized attire.
- 42:27Now, a lot of people go, oh my god, AI did this.
- 42:30What is this is terrible?
- 42:31Remember, AI was trained to do this.
- 42:34AI was or maybe not specifically this, but this comes under their AI training.
- 42:39Now, X admitted that Grok violated their ethical standards.
- 42:46Now, here's the so the the X really tell me why X is not closing down the account for Grok if they admitted they violated their ethical standards.
- 42:56Because I bet you if other people did this, if a human did this, they're there they'd get a strike in their account or or some sort of one, why not grok?
- 43:06Well, guess what?
- 43:07It's also possible that the GRAC violated U.S.
- 43:11law on child sexual abuse material.
- 43:15Um they do say that it was a failure in safeguards, and actually they asked a chatbot, and the chat bot said, well, it was a failure in safeguards, and I'm sorry for any harm I caused.
- 43:26Uh XII is reviewing to prevent future issues.
- 43:29That's interesting.
- 43:30You're asking the chat bot to look at this, and the chat bot admits admitted it violated these things.
- 43:35Again, were they trained?
- 43:36Was it given this information beforehand?
- 43:39But I come back to the question.
- 43:40People who've become dependent on or becoming dependent on these artificial intelligence systems to think for them.
- 43:48Now, in this case, all right, someone asked for an image, it generates something inappropriate.
- 43:54Did why would AI do this unless they were asked to produce something that was maybe risque or or or beyond that?
- 44:02It's the understanding that you're the AI is imitating intelligence that it was trained to follow, and that it's getting its data set from information that it was given to say, here is how you uh here's your data sets where you can look uh for data on.
- 44:19I had somebody the other day we were talking about um the shooting in Minnesota in Minneapolis, and they were making all these claims about the person that was shot.
- 44:29And uh I said, Well, where's your evidence?
- 44:31Oh, it's all over the internet.
- 44:32Uh, that doesn't mean anything.
- 44:34The internet is full of false information, misinformation, lies, and innuendo.
- 44:39Where's your evidence?
- 44:42And again, you know, uh do an AI search.
- 44:45No, I'm AI lies all the time.
- 44:47Why are we trusting this as if AI were a not only a real human being, but that AI is not um it isn't is not prone to they call it hallucinate.
- 45:03It's it's it's it's training is flawed.
- 45:05And it it this is not the first time.
- 45:07This this time they got in trouble because of the sexualized nature of the of the uh of the image.
- 45:15What about the image of uh George Washington being black?
- 45:19But it keeps bringing me back to part of the reason we're spiraling is we've literally divested ourselves from the ability to find out for ourselves to demand proof, not simply rumor.
- 45:34Everything chat says you should be tricked treated as rumor unless they provide the actual data.
- 45:41And you gotta be careful because uh I've I've seen multiple instances where uh you know people are reported AI making up a link to a document that doesn't exist or linking to a document that doesn't say what it claims it says.
- 45:56Why are we trusting it?
- 45:58Why are we we giving away our ability to think for ourselves?
- 46:04Why are we selling our rationality, our logic, our reason to a program that we've seen time and time again are abject failures.
- 46:16They yeah, they've got they're they're useful tools as long as they're treated as a useful tool, as what they are imitation intelligence, not actual artificial intelligence and not certainly not the the oracles of fact and truth.
- 46:34Speaking of facts and truth and teaching, um there's now a report from teachers in the New York City flushing high school claiming that their administrators, their higher-ups, were forcing them to pass students who are failing a math class.
- 46:53Uh now, according to QNS, there were at least three teachers that told them that they were forced to give passing grades to students who were chronically absent, uh, failed to return in homework, did not participate in class activities, regularly failed tests, including state exams, yet they claim that they were required to hand pass in passing grades.
- 47:18Uh, one teacher told uh QNS, I don't know what QNS stands for.
- 47:21They didn't put it in the article.
- 47:22Uh it it it's it's she said it seems like expectations have become lower.
- 47:27It's becoming easier to get a passing grade just based on what the administration expects teachers to be doing.
- 47:32Now, the city's department of education has announced that they are opening an investigation into this issue.
- 47:39Uh, at New York City public schools, rigorous academic instruction is a top priority, according to the uh New York City Public Schools.
- 47:47And uh, to support this, we have a robust publicly available grading toolkit that schools use to create their individual grading policies.
- 47:56Well, I doubt the statement that they said is it's it's a top priority.
- 48:00I don't know where it fits on their top priorities based on uh other factors from the New York City public schools.
- 48:07Now, I wouldn't be surprised if part of this policy has to do with well, is it really fair because you know students don't have the work ethic, maybe it's a cultural thing, maybe it's a racial thing.
- 48:18I don't know.
- 48:19I don't know, I haven't seen why these these claims were made.
- 48:22But here's the interesting point.
- 48:24Um a teacher told uh the QS uh students have mentioned that it's not fair, they're trying, and then they see classmates show up half the time and have nearly an equivalent grade.
- 48:36They get frustrated, which will lead that will demotivate them from working because they think it's an unfair policy, which to me is an interesting point.
- 48:46If you can, you know, I remember as a student when I was a kid, they said, you know, cheaters never prosper, and when you cheat on a test, you're only cheating yourself because you're not learning.
- 48:58And I have to wonder, yeah, if you have two students, one works hard, and the other doesn't, but they both get the same grade.
- 49:06Why bother to work hard?
- 49:07It's kind of the socialism dilemma, right?
- 49:10If working hard doesn't get your reward, why should you bother to work hard?
- 49:15Now, reporting says that the flushing school uses what they call a mastery grading policy.
- 49:20They use this during the 24-25 academic year, and it gives the student multiple opportunities to complete assignments until they get a hundred.
- 49:30Meaning, if at first you if at first you fail, try, try again, even in class to correct your mistakes until you get the answer.
- 49:38But the problem with that is it doesn't show you what is the purpose of a test.
- 49:43The test is supposed to show your mastery of a certain skill and the quality of the education you're getting to that.
- 49:51If you don't master the skill, but you get to try and try and get until you get the right answer, then the grading is false.
- 50:00It doesn't show that you that you you have you've mastered the skill.
- 50:03It merely shows that you can, you know, when when you you're told what the wrong answer is, you can eventually figure out what the right answer is.
- 50:09And ultimately, this is detrimental not just to the school's image, but to the students, both those who are artificially promoted and those who are not.
- 50:19Which again, you know, you you the idea is getting 100% because of an artificial process doesn't show that you're growing.
- 50:28It doesn't show that you're learning.
- 50:30It simply shows you can figure out the right answer eventually.
- 50:33But that's not the way the real world works.
- 50:36You know, if you go to to fill out your taxes, which we'll all be doing soon, and you get the number wrong, the IRS doesn't usually say, hey, you got the number wrong.
- 50:46Try again.
- 50:48No, they usually say things like, um, well, guess what?
- 50:51That means you didn't complete your taxes properly.
- 50:53There are fees, there are penalties, there may be back taxes.
- 50:59It's made to look good, but not actually be good, which to me is well, it's a common problem in a lot of these programs.
- 51:06And to me, it's not just a failure of government, it's a failure of society.
- 51:12So, it used to be the parents educated the children, and schools were there to assist the parents.
- 51:19You brought in a school and a school teacher because, well, they were going to get a better education.
- 51:24They were going to do that, but they were there to assist the parents, not to replace them.
- 51:29And now, well, in some places, schools are a little more than daycare, where you take your little toddler and you you send them off to school and you let somebody else do it.
- 51:39We'll let the professionals do it.
- 51:41Except the professionals may not be doing a very good job, but they don't worry about that because, well, we don't want to tell the teachers what's going on in many situations because they just they just muddle in the thing and let the professionals do it.
- 51:52That's one of the reasons why we homeschooled our daughter.
- 51:56Is we didn't want that to be her standard.
- 52:00And when you consider that something like 90% of all students go to a public school, and you see these types of schemes to make the scope public schools work better.
- 52:12And we see all attempts to provide teachers another option being ridiculed and in many cases being being blocked, often by teachers' unions.
- 52:25We have to wonder is our spiraling education system leading to the spiling of the rest of the country.
- 52:32I I mentioned when I first read the constitution, I was struck by two things.
- 52:37One was how little I had learned in school.
- 52:40Um, very, very little of what the constitution actually said that I learned in school.
- 52:44What really bothered me though was how much I had learned both in school and in life about the constitution, though, is actually wrong.
- 52:53I don't mean a little bit.
- 52:54I mean totally 100% wrong.
- 52:57Fake failure.
- 52:59Is that part of what's leading the spiral of the American people?
- 53:03We don't have an education system.
- 53:05We don't teach civics anymore.
- 53:07Heck, when I was in high school, they didn't even teach history.
- 53:09They called it social studies.
- 53:11We're not going to teach the history of this nation and of the world.
- 53:15We're going to teach the social movements, and it's all about socialism, or maybe not socially, maybe it's about being social and how societies work.
- 53:24How about the actual history?
- 53:27So we send people into this world who they don't know the basic civics.
- 53:33They're left to figure it out for themselves.
- 53:36Some of them are going to get jobs or they're going to take an oath to support the constitution, maybe of their state, probably of the United States, and they have no idea what that document actually says.
- 53:47I had an example.
- 53:50I saw a report, and I'm trying to track down the original document of a law enforcement officer, a chief law enforcement officer in Tennessee, who said, your constitutional rights don't really matter on Tennessee highways.
- 54:05To me, that's dangerous.
- 54:06It really got my dander up, and I'm trying very hard to find the original source.
- 54:11I want to make sure this wasn't made up.
- 54:14Because that to me is dangerous.
- 54:16I just had a meeting with a potential sheriff in my county.
- 54:19And what I wanted to make sure was that no, the constitutional and the rights it protects is very important.
- 54:25That the deputies will be trained in that their first and primary responsibility is to protect the rights of everybody they encounter.
- 54:33This spiral has led to, I think a lot of damaging things, but I think it's going to continue as long as we the people depend on government to be the standard to teach us, to uh follow the rules, to interpret the constitution.
- 54:53No, our founding father, John Jay, first chief justice said every member of the state ought diligently to read and study the constitution of his country, teacherizing generation to be free.
- 55:02He said by knowing their rights, they'll sooner perceive when they are violated and be the better prepared to defend and assert them.
- 55:08So are you reading and studying the constitution?
- 55:11Maybe you're trying to figure out next steps.
- 55:13How do what where do I go from here?
- 55:14I get that question a lot.
- 55:16And my answer is usually it depends.
- 55:18Because it does.
- 55:20Depends on a lot of things.
- 55:21How much have you read so far?
- 55:23Uh how well have you understood it?
- 55:24What are your plans?
- 55:25What are your goals?
- 55:26It's the reason I created the Constitution Study Wizard at constitutionstudy.com/slash wizard.
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- 55:34I'm going to email you responses.
- 55:37But it it asks you a series of questions.
- 55:40And based on your answers, the system will generate emails to you of suggestions.
- 55:44They're recommendations, right?
- 55:46By the way, I look at each and every entry and I will add comments if I think they're necessary.
- 55:52But the point is, the wizard is free.
- 55:55Many of the suggestions, well, the suggestions are free.
- 55:57Many of them include options with free uh free options for you to pursue, but it's meant to give you ideas of how you proceed to both read and study the constitution and teach the horizon generation to be free, which is not bad.
- 56:10So you got a free program to get free advice to help be a free country.
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