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Shutdowns, shootings, and socialism: The real cost · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  Helping to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
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  This is the Constitution Study on the America Out Loud Network with your host, Paul Engel.
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  The federal government shutdown and all the shenanigans around it have been leading the news for a month.
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  However, there's plenty of other news in the world and things like shootings and socialism.
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  Hello there, everyday Americans, Paul English with a constitution study, where we read instead of the Constitution, teacherizing generation be free.
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  Glad you could join me today.
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  You know, I don't know why this the line from the Wizard of Arts came along when I thought, shootings, shutdown and shootings and socialism.
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  Oh my just three groups of things have been going on lately.
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  And while we've paid attention to the shutdown, and there's more news on that, um, I think we should be looking at some other things as well.
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  Now, as of this recording, um, the shutdown is apparently on its way out.
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  Um, the Senate has voted on a bill, it has to go back to the House.
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  The House is promising to work on it quick, which means we may get an a resolution of this in the relatively near future.
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  What's interesting though is have you considered what lessons we can learn from this shutdown?
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  Now, based on the numbers I've seen, there were roughly 670,000 federal employees that were furloughed, another 730,000 that have been working without pay.
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  And while, yes, you know, missing a paycheck or two can be really devastating to a lot of people, and a lot of attention has been paid to those.
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  Well, of the 670,000 that have been furloughed, how many do we really need?
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  I mean, if my memory is correct, there are roughly 7 million federal employees, 7 million people getting a paycheck from you and me through our taxes.
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  Now, yeah, the the ATC workers, the air traffic controllers who are among the group working without pay, uh, well, when they stopped showing up, when they started calling in sick, they uh there was an impact on the country.
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  Snap wasn't an employee issue, SNAP was a funding issue, which makes me wonder do we really need all of these employees sucking up uh money from federal taxpayer coffers?
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  But to me, it begs the question if the federal government, with the exception of air traffic control, which we're not furloughed, they they they were working without pay.
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  If there's if these the federal government worked fine without these 670,000 employees, why do we employ them?
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  What is their job that is worth their paycheck that uh uh should be taken out of the federal conference if we don't really need them?
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  Now understand the federal work source workforce is so large, in large part because uh roughly two-thirds to three quarters of what the federal government does is unconstitutional and illegal.
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  So we have the shutdown.
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  Of course, uh as I said, as of this recording, it looks like it's coming to an end.
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  The um the interesting thing was it it appears that it was the Democrats that blinked, which in my history seems to be well, not it's never happened, but it seems fairly rare.
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  So, roughly 40 days into the shutdown, into a shutdown that basically remember was the Senate Democrats refusing to vote on a continuing resolution unless they got an extension of an expired uh set of um uh of I guess just tax credits or something for the illegal Obamacare program.
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  And uh even offers to you know debate it later, have a vote on it later.
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  No, they they wanted to make it part of the continuing resolution, which to me, I mean, it would this was extortion, right?
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  You know, really nice place you have here, it'd be terrible if the government burned down because you didn't give us what we wanted.
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  They just reminded it was a Rama Manual, never let a crisis go to waste.
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  They had a crisis and they were using it.
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  The problem was, unlike so many times I remember in history, it was the Democrats that were really getting beat up and even getting beat up by their protectors in the corporate media.
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  So you ended up with eventually eight uh uh eight democrats after voting 14 times for cloture on this continuing resolution.
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  Finally, eight democrats said, yeah, we'll move it forward.
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  Now, it wasn't exactly what the House had sent over, meaning it's this legislation has to go back to the House for approval.
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  Um, the Speaker of the House has had already kind of warned people, um, start heading back to Washington.
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  This is gonna happen quickly, and we're gonna want to move quickly.
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  I guess it's got to go through the rules committee, then it can be voted on the floor, which means in relatively short order, they should start uh I expect they'll be reopening the uh reopening the government.
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  By that I mean taking all of the furlough employees coming back, um, scheduling paychecks for those who worked without pay, all that all that fun and games.
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  Now, from a politics standpoint, there's a couple of interesting things I'd notice in it.
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  Uh, as I understand it, uh, Senators Kane, Sheehan, uh Hanson and Rosen flipped their votes.
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  They were ready to support the House pass continuing resolution.
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  Um other Democrats, uh Fetterman, uh Cortez Maestro, uh, who is it, uh Angus King, uh, they were uh prepared to vote to fund the government.
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  But as Andrea, it's kind of like this split deal where they're gonna fund part of the government for a short time and part of the government for a longer time, which is why it's it's new language, it has to go back to the House for final approval.
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  But again, I think what we've learned uh from a politics standpoint is yeah, believe it or not, the American people, if the Republicans stand by at least their alleged principles, they when they've got a good argument, they can win.
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  The problem is they don't always have a good argument, but then again, as far as I'm concerned, a pox on both their houses.
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  This a lot of this shutdown was to me was more about party politics than actually funding the government.
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  It just happened to be a convenient whipping boy for this particular uh situation.
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  But remember, the the the Democrats, at least the Democratic leadership held all of this up because they wanted to reinstate expired tax credits.
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  How did Reagan put it?
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  The closest thing to eternal life we have on this earth is a government program.
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  That's kind of what we have.
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  We we we had, you know, during COVID under the Biden administration, uh Congress passed uh tax credits for health care.
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  They were scheduled to expire, they did expire.
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  Um, I think they tried to get them renewed in the big beautiful bill.
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  That went down in flames.
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  So the Democrats use this opportunity.
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  Now, again, they were trying to for illegal subsidies because the federal government's not authorized to collect taxes to uh uh spend on health care.
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  Um illegal program called the Affordable Care Act, or colloquially known as Obamacare.
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  Um, there's a lot of ugly in their position.
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  And uh I think um Trump may use it for his own political advantage.
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  Hey, never let an opportunity go to waste, right?
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  He wants the Senate Republicans to redirect health care money from the that's issued under the Affordable Care Act from insurance companies to people.
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  Uh, he said in a in a truth social post, I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the hundreds of billions of dollars currently being sent to money-sucking insurance companies in order to save the bad health care provided by Obamacare be sent directly to the people so they can purchase their own much better health care and have money left over.
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  Okay, you know, on the one hand, yeah, let's get rid of Obamacare because the Affordable Care Act has made things less affordable.
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  Uh when I left corporate America the last time, uh, the let's say it's the cost of my life.
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  My life insurance, I'm sorry, my health insurance is the greatest single expense I have in my life.
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  I mean, uh, in my life, I granted I have health insurance for myself and my daughter, actually.
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  I don't even cover my wife.
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  My wife's covered on another plan.
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  And I pay more in that than I do than anything else in my life.
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  Uh, because the Affordable Care Act has made things unaffordable.
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  So to take the but the interesting thing is is this view, and a lot of people saying, see, yes, return the money to the people, the money that the government took from the people, uh
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  Skimmed their portion off the top.
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  We'll return that to the American people.
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  I have a better idea.
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  How about the federal government just stops taking the money in the first place?
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  I mean, what Trump is doing is at its core, although the entities are different.
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  It's no different than the uh the social strife that the Democrats use.
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  Oh, we have to save the poor.
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  Hey, you know, tax the rich, give to the poor.
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  Isn't that kind of what Trump is saying here?
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  Take the money away from the rich companies and give it to the individual people.
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  At first that may sound like uh like a decent idea, but again, this is money that's already been embezzled for the American people.
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  It's been taken for illegal purposes.
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  And again, don't forget the federal government takes their chunk off the top as well.
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  So uh, yeah, this is not a gift.
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  This is literally saying we're gonna gonna give you your money back after we've taken a tax out of it.
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  After we've taken a cut out of it.
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  That's that's Trump's plan.
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  Uh, I don't know if this is directly related to the shutdown, but it seems that it's tied to the Democrats uh month-long holdout trying to extort money for health care.
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  So I it wouldn't surprise me, but yeah, so the shutdown has had um, even as it comes to an end, it's still having a negative impact on the American people.
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  Now, the idea that the American people should be able to pick their own health care coverage, your own insurance coverage.
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  I love, I just wish the federal government would get out of manipulating the market.
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  See, it's really interesting.
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  I have to pay for things that I am not only would never use, but a morally against the government says, well, health insurance must include this.
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  Um, which again is a violation of the constitution, it's a violation of the law.
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  This is, I mean, I'm I'm I sound like a broken record, because I say it all the time.
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  All of this stuff is illegal, unconstitutional, immoral, and uh, well, technically void, but we keep doing it.
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  I think in many cases, because the American people don't know any better.
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  Now, maybe Trump's plan is the lesser of two evils, but it's still evil.
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  It's still confiscating money from the American people for an illegal purpose.
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  And then rewarding them for it.
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  Well, no, no, not rewarding them.
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  Um taking the after they've taken their VIG, returning some of the money back to you.
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  And we're supposed to say thank you.
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  How about you don't take the money in the first place?
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  How about you get your your boots off the neck of American health care and let the American people decide what they want to pay for their health care, how they want to pay for their health care, what they need in their insurance.
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  And you know what?
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  If insurance companies and individuals can't come to a a common workable agreement between the two of them, then people have to make a choice.
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  There's a lot of ways we could do this that doesn't involve the government manipulation of the system.
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  That just doesn't seem to be what's coming out of Washington, even under Donald Trump, even Donald Trump's plan.
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  So hopefully this record breaking shut down will do more than just be in the record books.
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  Maybe it can help we the people learn a little bit more about the way our country is designed to work, the way Congress was supposed to work.
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  And well, if we start hiring people that actually fulfill their oath to support the Constitution rather than fulfill their indebtedness to the political parties, we'd have fewer shutdowns and other general mayhem and fiscal irresponsibility.
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  Ultimately, I guess the question is up to we the people.
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  What do we want?
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  Who do we want representing us in Congress?
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  And are they doing the job that we've hired them for?
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  Did we hire them to have a political fight over the open reopening of the government or not?
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  I guess we'll find out in the next election.
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  So that covers the shutdown.
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  We're looking at shutdown shootings and socialism.
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  We did the shutdown.
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  Now it's time to take a look at the shootings.
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  By now you've heard of the incident out in Chicago where shots were fired at border patrol.
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  And uh, well, a little bit of a, I guess a little riot came out.
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  Now, here's what's interesting.
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  Here's what I know so far is that um there was a shooter in the black in a black Jeep who's driving a black Jeep who fired shots uh at uh border patrol um in the the near the 26th Street and Kedzie Avenue area of Chicago.
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  Now, this is while agents were conducting uh they call them immigration enforcement operations, i.e.
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  a raid.
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  Now, the Department of Homeland Security did release a statement confirming the incident, and uh also went on to say that there was an unknown number of agitators that threw paid cans and bricks at the border patrol vehicles.
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  Now, as I understand it, uh Chicago police did respond.
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  Um there were no reports that anyone was hit by gunfire.
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  Uh what's interesting is this comes just to a few days after uh Judge Sarah Ellis from the DC court for the Northern District of Illinois issued an order restricting the government's use of tear gas and other quote unquote anti-riot measures during its immigration operations in Chicago.
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  Apparently, this is based on the judge's belief that the claims of witnesses that there was violence were just not credible.
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  Now, I find it interesting that shortly after that, like you had first you had the gunshot, and then you have agitators throwing pink hands and bricks, but the claims of or witnesses' claims of violence just weren't credible to the judge.
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  Now, as I've said before, I have concerns about these these ice raids.
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  I have concerns about their constitutionality under the Fourth Amendment.
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  Uh, were there warrants issued?
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  Uh, were did they have the uh uh uh the legal authority to search?
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  Did they have warrants for seizure?
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  Um, you know, was this a hey, we saw one, we we got a one person, and we're using that to bootstrap searches and seizures of others.
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  I have concerns.
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  I say concerns because I really haven't seen reliable evidence on either side, whether or not they have these sources or that they don't have these sources.
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  It's all been kind of a mishmash.
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  Um but the to use a gunfire as a response, that's truly is an escalation.
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  And you should know me by now.
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  It's not because I'm anti-gun.
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  I believe we have guns to protect ourselves from call them rogue actors from governments that act beyond their legal means.
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  But I'm concerned that the response to these ICE, these ICE uh actions, these raids, um, rather than being bringing accountability, are just escalating the problem.
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  And as much as the Department of Homeland Security says, oh, you know, violence against our officers cannot be allowed by federal law enforcement.
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  How about the violence that the federal law enforces enforcing, possibly illegally?
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  So I think it'd be pretty simple for them to produce a warrant that says, here we had a judge sign off.
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  Here's our probable cause, here's who are there to search, here's where we were allowed to search, here's where we're allowed to seize.
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  But I'm not seeing that.
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  And that's the part that concerns me.
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  It's not so much the enforcement of the law, it's the way you go about doing it.
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  Because when you make when you take shortcuts, when you say, well, you know, uh, we can use this to bootstrap that, that is not just a slippery slope.
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  That is, you know, it's ill, it's illegal.
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  And though you may have good reasons for it, that's my concern is that not only is my concern for the people who are being potentially illegally seized, but what about the people who are legitimately seized and should be seized who now have an action to challenge that seizure because uh ice was cutting corners?
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  Were they cutting corners?
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  I don't know.
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  And that's the thing that that concerns me is there's a lot of I don't know.
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  And the next story is actually uh uh about a story uh showed lawsuit uh regarding a shooting that again to me is um it's shocking.
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  Abby's Werner was shot in January of 2023 while sitting at a reading table in her first grade classroom, first grade.
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  She was shot by a six-year-old student.
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  That's shocking number one.
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  How does six-year-old get their hand get their hands on a gun?
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  Obviously, gun owners that don't believe in gun safety, but okay.
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  Now, what's the other part of this is okay?
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  That's that's that's pretty shocking.
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  She sued um the former assistant principal, as well as the superintendent and the school principal.
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  Why?
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  Well, you know, she again, obviously she survived though.
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  The bullet apparently narrowly missed her heart.
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  Now, according to testimony, uh, Ms.
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  Werner was notified, she found out about the gun when she was tipped off by students.
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  This was hours before the shooting.
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  Now, apparently, Ms.
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  Warner notified the assistant principal, uh uh uh a uh Ms.
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  Parker of the fact that this six-year-old child had a gun on campus.
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  But apparently Parker didn't do anything about it.
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  She, you know, she said it was unforeseeable that a six-year-old would bring a gun to school.
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  And that's really what the lawsuit was based on was that um uh Zwarner said that Parker, Ebony Parker, um, had a duty to to uh uh do something about the report of a of a six-year-old with a gun and simply failed to do so.
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  Um the rest of the story, uh again, there's probably more to this that that I didn't see in the story, but again, first of all, as as a lifelong gun owner, I've been around guns my entire life.
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  Uh, my father taught me to shoot when I was a wee type, and we were always taught gun safety.
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  And the idea of uh, you know, other than you know, having a gun when I was a teenager, having a gun in the car because I was going or was coming from going, I was coming from hunting or going to hunting.
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  Yeah, that was no big deal.
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  But the idea of a six-year-old having access to a gun just seems wrong.
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  I mean, it it's one of the things I love to do is teach people who have never shot a gun how to safely operate a handgun, and we talk about safety and and you know, storage, and just allowing the six-year-old to get access to a gun to me is shocking enough.
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  I know it happens because well, obviously it does, but that's that's that's to me is pretty shocking.
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  But then to have somebody report a gun on campus with all of the apoplectic with the very idea of you know, uh a pop-tart chewed into the shape of a gun or pointing your finger like a gun at somebody, and you have a an elementary school that has uh an assistant principal that has a what seemed to me a credible report of a child with a gun that does absolutely nothing.
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  I uh that's the part I find shocking.
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  That's the other part I find shocking.
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  Now, Ms.
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  Werner had originally sought 40 million dollars against the assistant, not against the school, against the assistant principal.
• 29:09
  A jury awarded her 10 million dollars.
• 29:12
  Uh because again, you know, from uh uh Ms.
• 29:15
  Parker.
• 29:17
  And apparently Ms.
• 29:18
  Parker still standing trial for criminal charges involving eight counts of felony child neglect.
• 29:27
  I guess that would be the other children in the class uh during the shooting.
• 29:31
  Um I did I didn't find the details on that.
• 29:37
  Now, that is an example of someone being held accountable for not doing something.
• 29:43
  But do we hold people accountable for actually doing something?
• 29:49
  For example, recently, uh a candidate for attorney general Jay Jones sent a text message um to a report.
• 30:00
  A Republican delegate from Virginia, where he suggested that in a hypothetical situation where he had three evil people to kill and only two bullets.
• 30:14
  What would he do?
• 30:15
  Now, those three people happen to be um Adolf Hitler, Paul Pot, or uh then speaker of the House of Delegates of Virginia, Todd Gilbert.
• 30:28
  Now, Todd Gilbert is a Republican and Mr.
• 30:31
  Jones is a Democrat.
• 30:33
  Guess what his response?
• 30:34
  He wrote three people, two bullets.
• 30:37
  Gilbert, Hitler, and Paul Pot.
• 30:39
  His response.
• 30:41
  He says, Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.
• 30:46
  Now, that should tell you a lot about the um priorities, the mental situation of uh this particular person, Mr.
• 30:58
  Jones.
• 30:59
  I'm not saying he's making an actual threat.
• 31:02
  I'm not saying that he actually played he actually plans it, but apparently, in his mind, a Republican speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates is worse than two of the most uh evil, vicious, deadly desk in our history.
• 31:20
  Now, what does that say about Mr.
• 31:23
  Jones?
• 31:24
  What does it say about the people who support Mr.
• 31:27
  Jones?
• 31:28
  Listen, you can disagree with people all you want.
• 31:31
  I don't have a problem with that.
• 31:32
  I don't even have a problem with hating people you disagree with.
• 31:36
  Saying that that uh in in given the choice, oh yeah, we we we we'd rather have Hitler or Pol Pot than Mr.
• 31:45
  Gilbert because he's a Republican.
• 31:47
  I'm assuming it's because you're Republican, because he doesn't actually say anything that Mr.
• 31:51
  Gilbert has done that would actually be evil, much less on the scale of murder associated with uh Hitler and Pol Pot.
• 32:01
  Now, of course, the responses on both sides have been uh uh you know pretty vocal.
• 32:07
  Um denouncing the comment, finding it appalling and and all that.
• 32:13
  And again, I'm not saying he actually made it.
• 32:16
  Maybe he was just being hyperbolic.
• 32:18
  I don't know the person, I don't know the context.
• 32:21
  But to me, it makes you stop and think when in any situation where you can find a political party opponent, someone just from another party, more evil than two of the most vicious dictators in history, tells me there's something not quite right there.
• 32:42
  I mean, Hitley and his Nazi regime is accused of killing or sponsor killing six million Jews, but that wasn't all.
• 32:51
  You've got polls, Romas, Soviet prisoners of war, people with disabilities.
• 32:56
  The total estimated death toll from the Hitler and the Nazis is 20 million people.
• 33:04
  And Paul Pott and the Khmer Rouge.
• 33:06
  Well, they're estimated between just 1.5 and 2 million people.
• 33:10
  Uh tell me, uh, how many people did Mr.
• 33:13
  Jones and his regime kill?
• 33:16
  Um yeah, that that's a level of rhetoric, even if it's meant to be hyperbolic, that uh I I think goes a bit beyond the pale.
• 33:28
  Now, of course, and in all the questions of shootings, whether they're real or threatened or just uh accused of everyone the question always comes back to what's gun control, right?
• 33:38
  When there's a shooting, we gotta have gun control.
• 33:40
  We gotta keep the guns out.
• 33:41
  Of course, schools are gun-free zone, and and that didn't work too well there.
• 33:46
  It's already a crime to attack federal law enforcement.
• 33:50
  That didn't help.
• 33:51
  But in the midst of this mail you, and I get asked this question all the time.
• 33:55
  You know, why not just get rid of all the guns?
• 33:57
  Well, part of the problem is you're only looking at one side of the of the equation.
• 34:02
  See, you're looking at the times when guns are used to kill and hurt people.
• 34:07
  What about the time when firearms are used, especially by average citizens to stop crimes to save people?
• 34:16
  Now, you go to the FBI, right?
• 34:18
  Because the FBI have their crime statistics statistics from across the country, and for years, they've used a number of approximately 3.7% of all uh quote unquote active shooter reports are stopped by good citizens, uh, good Samaritans, citizens with guns.
• 34:36
  This is what the FBI and the media commonly claim.
• 34:39
  There's just a little problem.
• 34:40
  When you look at the actual data, which the crime prevention research did, they looked at 10 years of active shooter data.
• 34:48
  And you know what they came up with?
• 34:50
  Uh, not 3.7%, but between 36 and 62% of incidents are stopped by citizens, average citizens that stop using a gun to stop these crimes.
• 35:04
  Now, the crime prevention research center, they looked at the numbers and they explain the disparity.
• 35:08
  They say one of the reasons is FBI uses a very restrictive definition of active shootings, and it actually misqualifies many of the shootings.
• 35:19
  For example, uh, the FBI does not include in its count case cases where citizens show their weapons but don't shoot.
• 35:28
  Now, listen, if someone's pointing a gun at you or at someone else, and you draw your gun and they run away, that gun helped thwart a crime.
• 35:38
  But the FBI doesn't count that.
• 35:41
  In some instances, the FBI classified volunteer security guards as professionals.
• 35:48
  Why is this important?
• 35:50
  Well, if we look at the data, the not the FBI summary, but the data itself, CPRC says what we find is that having armed citizens is much more of a lifesaver than a life threatener, and certainly much more than either the FBI or media have told us.
• 36:09
  So we look at these, we look at the criminal shootings, we don't look at the times guns that are used to save lives.
• 36:15
  I was having this discussion actually with my sister not that long ago.
• 36:19
  And it's important.
• 36:20
  If you're gonna ban guns, you're not just banning them from people who want to do harm, you are banning them from people who might actually be using them to save their lives or the lives of others.
• 36:34
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• 40:39
  It's time to stalk socialism.
• 40:41
  And of course, we're talking socialism.
• 40:43
  We have to point out that you know we have Zaram Mondani, the mayor elect of New York City, uh the arguably the largest city in this country, our financial said the center of capitalism in this country will soon be led by a socialist.
• 40:59
  So uh one of these uh on the street uh uh interviewers start asking people questions.
• 41:04
  They ask them if they support Mondani and why, and listen to just some of the answers.
• 41:10
  Guys, can I ask you how you feel about Zoran winning?
• 41:13
  I'm I'm happy about it.
• 41:15
  Why are you happy about it?
• 41:16
  Um I don't know.
• 41:18
  I just I don't um I don't really know.
• 41:21
  I just do.
• 41:22
  Really?
• 41:23
  Yeah, because I keep seeing all the like cute TikToks of him, like partying and clubbing, and honestly, he's like one for the people, you know.
• 41:29
  That's why you support him.
• 41:30
  Yeah.
• 41:30
  Okay.
• 41:30
  Thank you.
• 41:31
  I appreciate it.
• 41:32
  And there you have it, folks.
• 41:33
  Yeah, I mean, I hope that he can get some of the things down that he's saying.
• 41:36
  He's like what well, he wants to do like he wants to help people with their rent, he wants to help people with transportation costs.
• 41:43
  He's gonna pay for that.
• 41:44
  I have no idea.
• 41:46
  I don't, I don't know.
• 41:47
  I don't know.
• 41:48
  I'll admit, right?
• 41:49
  This is this is probably they picked uh three, these are just three of the examples.
• 41:54
  Uh, these aren't only examples of the person that he countered, and I'm sure they they picked the one that spun it the way they wanted, but let's face it.
• 42:01
  Um, the first answer is from two it looks like college age young ladies.
• 42:06
  Uh, yeah, we support him.
• 42:07
  Why?
• 42:08
  Uh I don't know.
• 42:09
  Um we do.
• 42:11
  And then, of course, the the second one was another looks like it may be a college age, maybe a little little uh older, but uh basically a college age woman says, I don't know why he goes out clubbing and partying.
• 42:24
  That's how you want to pick the executive of your city is because they're out partying and clubbing, and that's your qualifications.
• 42:34
  Uh you know what?
• 42:36
  Maybe this maybe Jesus wants a rock star, a good old-fashioned you know, drugs and and alcohol and you know, throwing furniture out the windows of the hotel and track maybe that's what she wants.
• 42:49
  She thinks that would be a great uh uh a great leader there.
• 42:52
  And then the last one, more of a closer to a middle aged, you know, not an older one, but a little older than the first two, and she's she's got a a booth, she's selling stuff on the street uh in New York City, and she goes, Well, I hope he gets to do what some of his things.
• 43:10
  Well, like what?
• 43:10
  Well, I don't know, help with the rent and and help with the okay.
• 43:14
  Who's gonna pay for the I don't know?
• 43:17
  I wonder if she'd be surprised if she found out that she was one of the people that was going to be paying for this.
• 43:24
  She's gonna be one of the people because, well, she has a booth and you know, she's selling things, of course.
• 43:29
  Maybe she's selling them under the table.
• 43:31
  Maybe it's a criminal enterprise and and she doesn't pay taxes.
• 43:35
  You know, maybe she's you know, maybe she's scamming the system herself and she doesn't pay, but even then, you're gonna still have uh uh rules and regulations that are gonna make the very capitalist system she's trying to exercise more difficult in a socialist environment.
• 43:54
  It kind of goes to the question of the people who voted for Mondani, do they really know what they voted for?
• 44:00
  I don't think so.
• 44:02
  They probably voted again for the the goodies, the freebies, but I doubt they voted for everything that goes along with it.
• 44:10
  Now, Mondani is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and uh apparently a document has been leaked or procured with their plans, that they're they're what they're asking Mondami to do.
• 44:25
  Um this includes things like uh supporting the anti-Israel agenda that he he said he would back in January, things like divesting city pensions from Israeli bonds and securities, banning Israeli product from city-run grocery stores, uh again, the whole idea of city run grocery stores is crazy.
• 44:48
  Um investigating real estate agents hosting illegal sales of stolen lands in the West Bank, uh shipping tax exempt nonprofit state or stripping tax exempt nonprofit state from entities that raise funds for the Israeli Israel Defense Force, ending the NYPD's training with the Israeli occupation forces, arrest Prime Minister uh Benjamin Netanyahu and active IDF soldiers for war crimes if they enter the big apple and dismantle the New York City Israel economic council formed by the outgoing mayor Adams.
• 45:23
  Now, okay, so we can pretty much sell that uh the Democratic Socialist of America are um anti-Semitic at the very least, anti-Israel, probably anti-Semitic, and that's what they want here.
• 45:39
  I'm wondering if the Jews in New York City are aware of this plan that the DSA has for Mr.
• 45:47
  Mond that they want Mr.
• 45:49
  Mandani to uh to enact or at least promote.
• 45:52
  Um, I wonder how many of them voted for him because of promises of free goodies, only to find out, yeah, oh well, yeah, these pretty much um anti-Israel.
• 46:01
  Well, listen, Israel has made its mistake, so has every nation in the world.
• 46:06
  I find it interesting that with all this promotion of uh, you know, not in you know, don't don't don't allow Israeli products in the stores, don't give them tax exempt status, uh, don't work with their police forces, arrest the prime minister.
• 46:21
  What about the um the Hamas militants that attacked, raped, and kidnapped innocent people a couple years ago?
• 46:30
  October 7th.
• 46:32
  I don't see any calls for for uh arresting these militants should they arrive in New York City, or any support of Gaza, which not only has uh in Hamas, which is not only um uh you know, continue to attack um the Israeli homeland, but um yeah, use human beings as shields against military and police attack, police enforcement.
• 47:01
  Don't see any claims about that.
• 47:03
  I wonder if that's what they've uh um what the people of New York City had planned for when they voted for this democratic socialist to be their mayor, and of course, this type of stuff it spreads, it it always does.
• 47:20
  Literally, the day after Mandani won the mayoral mayoral race.
• 47:25
  Um, the city of Nashville announced that it will offer the first ever income-based free fare program for residents of Davidson County, which is the county that Nashville is in.
• 47:39
  Now, listen, if a city wants to offer free buses, um, and that's what the people vote for, okay.
• 47:48
  But I still have the I have the same question the interviewer asked the one lady.
• 47:52
  Who's gonna pay for it?
• 47:54
  Because that's an answer that that's a question that never seems to get answered.
• 47:58
  Who's gonna pay for it?
• 48:00
  Oh, the other bus riders.
• 48:01
  Oh now, uh according to the the mayor, the Metro government of Nashville, um, there were actually 2500 people enrolled before the official launch.
• 48:14
  But it's interesting.
• 48:15
  Mayor O'Connell's office said that uh they're going to expand the free bus passes to defray the impact of losing snap benefits during the government shutdown.
• 48:28
  I want to wonder once they've issued these additional free bus, will they take them back now that the government is reopening?
• 48:34
  Hmm.
• 48:36
  Now O'Connell stated this is government that works.
• 48:39
  This is putting our dollars to work in a way that improves all of our lives and brings down the average cost of transportation for Nashville households.
• 48:47
  Uh under Balder Dash.
• 48:49
  Okay, putting our dollars to work.
• 48:52
  How is it putting our dollars to work?
• 48:54
  If you're spending on people who are using the bus system but not paying for it, how is that putting them to work?
• 49:00
  How does it lower the average cost?
• 49:02
  All you're doing is deferring the cost from one group of people to another group of people.
• 49:07
  Now, listen, I don't live in Nashville.
• 49:10
  I don't, I don't use their their public transportation.
• 49:13
  So uh this doesn't really impact me, but it goes to show this idea of we can bribe people with free stuff is not unique to New York City.
• 49:22
  Right here in Nashville, music city.
• 49:24
  Then again, Nashville is much more socialist than the rest of the state.
• 49:28
  It's one of the three pimples on the uh uh on the state of of Tennessee, Nashville, Knoxville, and Memphis, where apparently reason and logic fly out the window for the promise of free stuff, even though it has never worked in the history of mankind.
• 49:49
  The closest thing you can get to a an actual socialist nation that still thrives is China, and they do it by enslaving their people.
• 50:00
  People to uh well basically sell their stuff so cheap that they take over markets.
• 50:05
  In other words, they use capitalism to fund their socialist uh uh quote unquote utopia, which for most people is uh not so utopianistic.
• 50:17
  So let's again back up look at this state of the day.
• 50:20
  We got shutdown, shooting, and socialism.
• 50:23
  What do they have in common besides the fact that they all start with the letter S.
• 50:28
  Little bit of alliteration is a fun thing.
• 50:30
  Well, in today's news, the news you've been looking at, it's politics.
• 50:36
  It's the the theory that political parties and supporting is more important than anything else.
• 50:44
  It is the driver uh it drove the shutdown, the political move, the political decision to not allow, not fund the government because you wanted more money, money that had been allocated and set to expire.
• 51:04
  You didn't want it to expire, right?
• 51:05
  You took the what Reagan said, the closest thing to eternal life on earth is a government program.
• 51:11
  Well, you didn't, you wanted to resurrect it, even though it's supposed to die.
• 51:14
  That was a political statement that we spent a month over a month talking about.
• 51:21
  Shootings, shootings tend to get attention generally when one of two things happen.
• 51:26
  If uh, first of all, if uh someone prominent is involved, the shooting, the the assassinate attempts of uh Donald Trump or the assassination of Charlie Kirk, that, or even a school shooting like the Covenant school shooting, they get a lot of attention.
• 51:43
  The other is when there's a political bent to it, like the Democrat that says he would reserve, you know, if he only had two bullets, he'd reserve both of them to shoot his Republican opponent.
• 51:56
  Politics.
• 51:58
  And then, of course, socialism.
• 52:00
  Well, it's the idea that politicians know best that somehow when you be when you start giving a government paycheck, you become smarter than absolutely everybody else.
• 52:11
  Uh, the fact that that doesn't work, we don't care because you get promised goodies.
• 52:17
  Government promises us goodies, so we will fund a government that will take away everything we value, well, everything we claim to value in order to give us our goodies, that we will give up our sacred rights for the promise of being taken care of.
• 52:36
  Like we like the government is some sort of sugar daddy that you know, as long as we play the game, we get what we want.
• 52:45
  Except those don't usually work out very well in the long run, do they?
• 52:49
  Now, the interesting is all three of these also have a cure that starts at the same point.
• 52:56
  Yes, even shootings, and that is logic.
• 53:01
  That that's reality, that that's seeking the root cause and then dealing with the cause of the problem the shutdowns, the shootings, the socialism.
• 53:12
  Some people will, I think will take the quick and easy answer.
• 53:15
  Oh, it's all poverty.
• 53:17
  No.
• 53:18
  No, ultimately, it's greed.
• 53:22
  It's greed that says, I want someone else's money to pay for a program that I think is important.
• 53:29
  That's what the whole shutdown was about.
• 53:31
  Taking other people's money to do something.
• 53:34
  Or as Margaret Thatcher, I think was said, socialism works until they figure out that until they run out of other people's money.
• 53:42
  You say, well, socialism.
• 53:43
  Well, again, socialism, it's greed.
• 53:45
  It's I want someone else's stuff.
• 53:47
  It's the same basis for the shutdown.
• 53:48
  I want someone else's stuff.
• 53:50
  I want someone else to pay for my lifestyle.
• 53:54
  Shooting.
• 53:56
  Well, sure, sometimes it's greed because you have something I want.
• 54:00
  Sometimes it's greed because, well, uh, I don't like what you want, and I want you to follow me.
• 54:07
  And if it means I have to take your life to that, well, that's just a a to me, a just value, right?
• 54:14
  The ends justify the means.
• 54:16
  But it's also a question of not just the ends justify the means, but that I'm willing to exercise my rights, but I'm not willing to allow you to exercise yours because I don't like them.
• 54:31
  See, the thing about liberty, the thing about freedom is it only works when you allow your opponent, the person you disagree with, to exercise the very same freedoms you wish to exercise.
• 54:47
  Whether that be freedom of speech, whether it be freedom of the press, whether that be the right to keep and bear arms, or the right to be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures.
• 54:59
  That's how freedom works.
• 55:01
  And the fact that we have become so self-centered, so narcissistic that we are willing to deny other people even the right to life to promote an agenda.
• 55:17
  That says an awful lot about how far I believe society in America has fallen.
• 55:23
  But that's also the good news.
• 55:26
  Because if it's if it's our viewpoint, if it's the American people that have led to this decline in the value of rights and freedoms and liberty, well, the American people can change.
• 55:41
  We can determine that things are more important than what makes me happy.
• 55:48
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