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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.
- 0:31As I've said repeatedly on this program, there are consequences, not only for how we vote, but how we decide whom to vote for.
- 0:41I guess you could say it's like the game show, truth or consequences.
- 0:45Only this time with voting.
- 0:47Hello there, everyday Americans, Paul Engel here with the Constitution Study, where we read and study the Constitution, teacher Iran generation be free.
- 0:54Glad you could join me today.
- 0:56You know, again, I see many, many, many, many Americans who, when it comes to their elected employees act like they had no part in what happened.
- 1:07They signed a line from Star Wars.
- 1:09It's not my fault.
- 1:11It's like you know, Han Solo trying to, you know, not take responsibility for the condition of the Millennium Falcon.
- 1:17But it is our fault.
- 1:19Everybody who's in elected off, even if you didn't vote for them, it's your fault.
- 1:25Maybe not individually, but collectively, it's our fault, and there are consequences for them.
- 1:31And well, if we simply ignore those facts, well, it doesn't mean the consequences go away.
- 1:39It just means that we get to suffer with them even more.
- 1:43Because the consequences of you not engaging with the problem is someone else decides.
- 1:50And let's take, for example, New York City.
- 1:52Now, New York City has a has a warm place in my heart as well as give me adjusta.
- 1:57See, I was born in New York City.
- 1:59I lived in the city until I was 11 years old.
- 2:02I I was down there frequently for business.
- 2:05I still have family that lives in the city.
- 2:08So when I saw them vote for a socialist mayor, I knew the trouble was coming.
- 2:14It was as obvious as, you know, standing in a train tunnel, standing on train tracks, looking at a light coming at you and saying, gee, I wonder if that's a train.
- 2:24Yeah.
- 2:25And it's right now running, starting to run over the people of New York City.
- 2:31Now, one of the issues you have with with a lot of these high tax locations, right?
- 2:35I I did not leave New York State because of the high taxes.
- 2:38Well, it was one of the reasons.
- 2:39It was not the chief reason.
- 2:42But it was I'd lived with high taxes my entire life.
- 2:46And now, as we're there's a uh reporting of a surge of wealthy New Yorkers leaving the city and moving to places like Florida and Texas, and yes, even Tennessee, where um the taxes are much lower.
- 3:02Uh some people turn around and say, no, no, no, that that's not really happening happening.
- 3:08Just listen to Mayor Mandami.
- 3:10And so for all of the discussion of the imagined exodus that would take place were we to tax the wealthiest New Yorkers by the appropriate amount.
- 3:20I say imagined because before I was a mayor, I was a state legislator and I was part of an effort to increase taxes on millionaires at that time.
- 3:27We were told the same thing then.
- 3:29And what we find now is that we have more millionaires today than we did at that time, even after having passed that tax.
- 3:35Okay, that sounds like a very interesting argument.
- 3:37Uh claiming that they're not losing, that the people are not leaving New York state, New York City, millionaires aren't leaving New York City because they have more than they did before, is a bit of a red herring.
- 3:49Because the evidence is even where I live here in Tennessee, people are leaving New York.
- 3:53They're going a lot of them are going to Florida.
- 3:55Again, some are coming to Tennessee because of the taxes.
- 4:00The fact that you have more millionaires that still live there, well, okay.
- 4:05Could that the question is why?
- 4:08Is it that the millionaires didn't leave, or that people who were not quite millionaires, you know, 2015, 20 years ago now have become millionaires?
- 4:18Because again, people tend to accumulate wealth over time.
- 4:22So uh, you know, a a recent Siena College polls showed that uh 27% of New York residents are planning to leave the state within the next five years, and 31 say they were they plan to leave when they retire.
- 4:36And again, it's not just Mr.
- 4:37Mondami, Governor Hokel, back on March 11, pleaded for wealthy Americans to move back from Florida, move back to the the empire in order to fund the state's quote-unquote generous social programs.
- 4:52So the exodus is real, you know, his idea of well, you have more.
- 4:57Gee, I wonder how many you would have had if you hadn't driven out the ones that we can prove were driven out of the state.
- 5:02But he's got some more here.
- 5:05And so for all of that conversation about this imagined exodus, we have to reckon with the very real exodus that we are seeing in the city.
- 5:13An exodus of working class people, an exodus of those who cannot afford to live here, and for many who work here, who now find their residence in Jersey City or in Connecticut or in Pennsylvania, anywhere else where their dollar can go a little bit further.
- 5:29And by the way, this is nothing new.
- 5:32People have been working in New York City, especially in Manhattan.
- 5:35First of all, you have to understand New York City is five boroughs, right?
- 5:39So Manhattan is the epicenter of a lot of the business.
- 5:44The outer boroughs, right?
- 5:46Staten Island, Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, they were originally bedroom cities.
- 5:51They were where people who couldn't afford to live in the city went to live.
- 5:54They eventually got uh incorporated and then included in New York City.
- 5:59But for my entire life, people have lived in northern New Jersey, Jersey City, Hoboken, places like that.
- 6:06They've lived in in in southwestern Connecticut.
- 6:09And if to get away from the taxes, because they couldn't afford to live in New York City.
- 6:15And all if you look at the transportation system around New York City, look at the the commuter rail system, and what do you see?
- 6:24You have path going into New Jersey.
- 6:26You have whole railroads dedicated to getting people out of New York City, out onto Long Island, up into Connecticut, upstate New York, out in New Jersey.
- 6:35There is a whole infrastructure of rail system designed to get people out of New York City to live.
- 6:43Why?
- 6:44In Mondami's own words, where their dollar goes farther.
- 6:48Oh.
- 6:50So it's not just, I mean, people who couldn't afford to live in New York City have been moving out of New York City for decades.
- 6:57And um, again, this is this is nothing new.
- 7:00This is nothing new.
- 7:02This is just, we're saying, well, you know, eventually that even the rich people have had to leave New York City.
- 7:02This is just, we're saying, well, you know, eventually that even the rich people have had to leave New York City.
- 7:08But there was one more little comment I want you to listen to.
- 7:08But there was one more little comment I want you to listen to.
- 7:11And we've seen just in a snapshot from 2000 to 2020, the city lost 200,000 of its black residents.
- 7:11And we've seen just in a snapshot from 2000 to 2020, the city lost 200,000 of its black residents.
- 7:22That is the cost of inaction.
- 7:22That is the cost of inaction.
- 7:24So in other words, his issue isn't isn't the rich people.
- 7:24So in other words, his issue isn't isn't the rich people.
- 7:28We've had black people leaving.
- 7:28We've had black people leaving, you little racist.
- 7:32But again, notice is that's a cost of inaction.
- 7:35Well, yeah, your status quo, he talks about 2020 through your 2000 to 2020.
- 7:41What about the decades?
- 7:42What about the century, the last century where we've watched people leaving the city?
- 7:48And you're just going to ignore the fact that now, when rich people could still afford to live in New York City and in New York State, and now are deciding to leave.
- 7:59People who can't afford to live in the city have lived outside the city for you know for my entire life.
- 8:06In fact, there was even um uh what was there?
- 8:09There's a song made.
- 8:10Uh it was Bachman Turner Overdrive.
- 8:13They have a so-called taking care of business.
- 8:15And they talk about, you know, hey, you get up, you go, you take the 815 into the city.
- 8:20That's common around New York City.
- 8:22You get up early to get a train into New York City because you cannot afford to live in the city.
- 8:28Most people can't afford to live in the city.
- 8:30And again, Mr.
- 8:31Mondami, he's worried about the the uh the black people who had to leave because they couldn't afford to live in his city, and he wants to make it more expensive for him to live in this city.
- 8:43And now when you see that that it used to be, right, if you were rich, you could afford to live in the city.
- 8:48Even the rich are saying, no mosque, I've had enough.
- 8:52Now, like I said, when I moved out a little over 10 years ago, high taxes was not my primary reason for leaving.
- 9:01It was the corruption, it was the regulation.
- 9:03It was the socialist idea of um uh of the city, of the state that thought they could regulate every aspect of our lives.
- 9:13But when I got down here to Tennessee, it it was a bit of a culture shock, not the Southern, it was it had to do with taxes.
- 9:22You see, in New York City, I had to pay income tax or New York State, I had to pay income tax.
- 9:27And when I moved down here, I realized the sales tax down here is actually higher than it was up in New York when I lived up in New York State, almost two percentage points higher.
- 9:36And I was like, oh my God, did I did I miss something?
- 9:40And then I did the math.
- 9:42Yes, I pay higher sales tax down here, but you know what?
- 9:45A, I can avoid the sales tax, I can decide not to buy stuff.
- 9:48B, again, I did the math.
- 9:51I'd have to spend $400,000 a year, just spend it in order for my additional sales tax to offset the income tax I paid up in New York.
- 10:03So even though I see the sales, and again, it's part of seeing the taxes.
- 10:07I see them here, I know what they're doing.
- 10:10I can I can uh um adjust my lifestyle if I want to, as opposed to the hidden taxes, the income taxes, the ones that are collected from you before you even see them.
- 10:21And my other, and I love to tell this the to people who still live in the empire, uh, or as my cousin calls it, the Godforsaken country.
- 10:30And um I tell them I moved from five and a half acres of land with a 1600 square foot house to 70 acres of land with almost a 4,000 square foot house, and my property taxes are a third of what I paid for.
- 10:47So while it may not have been a driving factor, it certainly was an impact once I got out of this this high tax corridor.
- 10:57So what's uh the city's what's New York City's solution?
- 11:00What's New York State's solution in order to deal with this um uh the their taxing issues?
- 11:07They're the fact that they're writing cash that they're writing checks that um their governments can't cash.
- 11:13Well, it's another tax, of course.
- 11:16Governor Hochel and Mayor Mandami are proposing a tax on the second home that you hold in the city that's worth five million dollars or more.
- 11:26Meaning, uh if I understand this correctly, if you have a second, if you if your primary resident isn't in New York City, if you have a second home in the city, they want to add an extra tax just for because you have a second home.
- 11:40Well, if if that tax is worth $5 million or more, I don't know.
- 11:45I haven't been in New York City real estate, but I don't know what you get for $5 million as a home in New York City, but whatever.
- 11:52They they they think they're gonna raise half a billion dollars from they say non-residents because they have a secondary home in New York City.
- 12:02Now, listen, if you don't need, if it's just a secondary home, well, are you willing to pay that extra tax?
- 12:12Or that be just one more reason for you to leave the Godforsaken empire.
- 12:18Let's face it, New York City has a $5.4 billion budget deficit.
- 12:23And as I've been saying, they are um they're putting in, they're they're trying to spend more money they don't have, and they're trying to do it by taxing people rather rather than realizing you guess what?
- 12:36You don't have the money to spend it.
- 12:39You look at the city and state's budget problems, I'll bet you it's like it's like Congress's, it's not a taxing problem, it's a spending problem.
- 12:47But you have two Marxists.
- 12:49Now, Mayor Mandami is an avowed Marxist, he's an avowed socialist.
- 12:54Governor Hochel is simply an acting Marxist.
- 12:57He actually is a Marxist by by deed, if not by by admission.
- 13:01And their answer to everything is steal from somebody else so that we can give it to people we think deserve it.
- 13:08And you know what?
- 13:09If you have the means, you can go somewhere else.
- 13:14Let's face it.
- 13:15Uh, you know, if you if you have a second home in, if you can afford a second home in New York City, a home worth $5 million or more.
- 13:25That's a luxury you probably don't need, unless, of course, you do a lot of business in New York City, and and uh, you know, you you don't listen as your primary residence, but you're there a lot because it makes sense for for doing business.
- 13:39At that point, wouldn't it make more sense maybe to rent some place rather than buy a place?
- 13:46Again, you know, it it the these are the people that the that the people of New York City and of New York State have voted for to be their chief executives.
- 13:56And apparently that's what they want.
- 13:58They want to be driven into bankruptcy.
- 14:00Into bankruptcy.
- 14:02They want to drive people out of their city, out of their state.
- 14:02They want to drive people out of their city, out of their state.
- 14:07They want to destroy the very tax base they plan to use to fund their programs.
- 14:07They want to to destroy the very tax base they plan to use to fund their programs.
- 14:13And this is these are the people that the people of the empire have chosen.
- 14:13And this is these are the people that the people of the empire have chosen.
- 14:20You know, Hochel and Mondami were not foisted on the people of New York.
- 14:25They voted for them.
- 14:25They voted for them.
- 14:29They actually.
- 14:29They asked for them.
- 14:32This is their wish.
- 14:35It's who they voted for.
- 14:36It's who they wanted.
- 14:38And now, as they're suffering the consequences, suddenly we say, well, wait a second.
- 14:43Not only are middle income people who can't afford to live in the city moving out to commute into the city, but the wealthy people, they're not moving out to commute into the city.
- 14:54They're moving out of the state.
- 14:57See, if you have somebody that moves to northern New Jersey or to Southern Connecticut and commutes into the city, they're still working in the city, they're still paying city income tax.
- 15:10But when they move not just out of the city, but out of the state, when they go to Florida and Tennessee and Texas, not only does both the city and state lose, they lose that tax base.
- 15:19They lose that income.
- 15:22And now what are they going to do?
- 15:25The thing is, you know, there's an old adage.
- 15:28Um, what you want more of, you subsidize what you want less of, you tax.
- 15:33Well, if you're going to keep taxing wealthy people, you're gonna have less wealthy people to collect tax from.
- 15:40And the people that you that voted for you, they're the ones that are going to be suffering the consequences.
- 15:46And if they're not prepared for that, those consequences can be quite severe.
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- 15:55There's a lot of things I did to prepare to leave the state before I actually left the state.
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- 20:38Welcome back, everyday American Jeffrey.
- 20:40Join the Constitution say today.
- 20:41We're talking about votes and consequences.
- 20:43And sometimes the consequences of our votes impact other votes.
- 20:49Take the great state of Texas.
- 21:00A new uh they they call it the Texas Election Administration Management Team or Team.
- 21:06And it's a new, it's a 2.0 version of well, they refer to as a glitch-ridden update to a originally clunky database.
- 21:06And it's a new, it's a 2.0 version of well, they refer to as a glitch-ridden update to a originally clunky database.
- 21:15Now again, I spent 30 years in IT.
- 21:15Now, again, I spent 30 years in IT.
- 21:18Uh, I dealt mostly with hardware, but I've dealt with several database systems.
- 21:18Uh, I dealt mostly with hardware, but I've dealt with several database systems.
- 21:21So I I I can understand what may be going on here at a very high level.
- 21:21So I I can understand what may be going on here at a very high level.
- 21:26You know, database design actually is very technically.
- 21:26You know, database design actually is very technically involved.
- 21:30Getting them to operate properly.
- 21:32It's not just hardware, it's software.
- 21:35I've dealt with plenty of database systems that uh well were slow and clunky until they were properly tuned.
- 21:45Uh, according to the the um uh one of the election administrators, uh county chairs are frustrated they're hitting barriers when entering candidates for the big primary.
- 21:56Um another said uh not being able to have access to so many precious functions in the old team, very frustrating.
- 22:04Now, as I understand it, it this is all about progress.
- 22:08I don't mean the progressive movement, I mean progress, but we never seem to answer the question, progress to what?
- 22:15See, apparently this civics is a company made this program.
- 22:19They spent the state of Texas 17 million dollars on it, and um, it's supposed to be a real-world tested applications to ensure the integrity of voter and election-related data.
- 22:31However, election officials that actually have to deal with this, they've been complaining for months about data integrity, security, legal and compliance risks, leading to the erosion of public trust in Texas elections.
- 22:47In a letter to the uh state uh secretary, Texas Secretary of State, uh Jane Nelson, um uh Tassio, that's the the Texas election administration.
- 22:58I'm sorry, that's the Texas Association of County election officials.
- 23:01Um, they come, they said that they have concerns have all fallen on deaf ears, that the Secretary of State have cut off all communications with people dealing with these problems, with these quote-unquote improvements.
- 23:14So I have to ask the people of Texas is this a consequence of your elections?
- 23:21Now, according to a spokeswoman for the uh Texas Secretary of State that the upgrade has been quite an undertaking involving the migration of more than 20 million records and the training of hundreds of users in the new system.
- 23:35Uh the assistant of the Secretary of State for Communications said since that time we have had four successful elections, including the March 3rd primary, in which a record number of Texas voters cast a ballot.
- 23:46While it is not unexpected to have issues launching and implementing a new system, we continue to systemically address problems and offer county election officials direct support.
- 23:55However, the actual electoral officials disagree.
- 24:00They describe deflection and gaslighting and said the Secretary of State's office has been diabolical.
- 24:21All of these in dealing with voter registration applications and compliance problems.
- 24:27And again, this is Texas.
- 24:30We're not talking New York or California.
- 24:32We're talking Texas.
- 24:35And the Randall County elections administrator, uh, Shannon Lackley told the Federalist in an interview, the issue we're having is it's just so inconsistent.
- 24:44What works today may not work tomorrow.
- 24:48Now, again, I spent 30 years in IT.
- 24:51I've seen situations like this where upgrades that are often rushed when they're rushed or when they don't take into consideration all the possibilities and permutations when they're not properly tested and vetted beforehand can lead to these types of problems.
- 25:08I don't know what the specific problems are.
- 25:10I'm not even offering to go down and fix them.
- 25:13But I'm, you know, when you're doing an upgrade like that and people are reporting a problem, the first thing you have to do is recognize there must be a problem.
- 25:22Now, maybe it's a problem with the system, maybe it's a problem with the data, maybe it's a problem with the training, but there is a problem.
- 25:29And when you're talking voting, when you're talking the exercise of our one uh most important civic duties, the backbone and foundation of the republic, it's something that should be taken seriously.
- 25:43Now, the Secretary of State's office say, well, we're taking it seriously, but the people that are using the system say, no, you're not.
- 25:52And that, ladies and gentlemen, is part of what is eroding trust in our public uh institutions.
- 25:58It you know, there's already a trust problem with elections.
- 26:02People who don't think their elections count, or think people who think that there may be cheating, or in this case, maybe just a bad system.
- 26:10And it's not like this is unprecedented.
- 26:12Anybody remember when Obamacare first wrote rolled out its first website?
- 26:16Yeah, the one that spent more time down than it did up.
- 26:20If nothing else, Texas should say we must have a problem somewhere.
- 26:25Let's hold off, let's roll back, let's figure out what the problem is, deal with it, and then implement it.
- 26:32It's not what I'm hearing from the local people.
- 26:35I understand this desire to get things done.
- 26:37We just have to complete this.
- 26:40The problem is that may make things even worse.
- 26:42Because if they're talking about data loss or data corruption, if you don't roll back, now you've got possibly corrupt data.
- 26:50You've heard the saying, hopefully, garbage in, garbage out.
- 26:53If there's garbage going into these systems, how can you ever trust them again?
- 26:57To me, that's a serious issue in any state, especially in you look at a state the size of Texas.
- 27:06Now, not everything's going wrong in Texas.
- 27:09Texas legislators have spent uh the past year implementing regulatory changes designed to limit access to the estimated 1.7 illegal aliens that reside within the state.
- 27:22Um, this is this is interesting because it's led to both support and criticism for those state actors.
- 27:30Now, according to a report by the Texas Tribune, uh the state has taken steps such as tightening eligibility requirements for occupational licenses, restricting access to commercial driver's license, limiting who can qualify for in-state tuition at public universities, and um there's more than 6,400 refugees and DACA recipients have lost their commercial driver's license, and their additional restrictions are expected to affect again, non-citizens working in licensed industries.
- 28:00Industries.
- 28:01And you know, again, people are complaining, oh my God, you're taking away their licenses.
- 28:01And you know, again, people are complaining, oh my God, you're taking away their licenses.
- 28:06They shouldn't have the license in the first place.
- 28:06They shouldn't have the license in the first place.
- 28:08If you require, now again, states over license everything.
- 28:08If you require, now again, states overlicense everything.
- 28:12I talked to my barber, and he tells he tells me about what is necessary.
- 28:12I talked to my barber, and he tells he tells me about what is necessary here in Tennessee, just to have a barber shop.
- 28:17Here in Tennessee, just to have a barber shop.
- 28:21And you know, but again, if it requires a license, should you be able to get a license if you're not legally here?
- 28:21And you know, but again, if it requires a license, should you be able to get a license if you're not legally here?
- 28:28We're not just talking citizens.
- 28:28We're not just talking citizens, permanent residents.
- 28:31If you are here legally and you're allowed to work, that should be a requirement for getting any state required license.
- 28:38I don't care if you're practicing medicine and law or if you're cutting hair.
- 28:43If it's required license, then they should be here legally.
- 28:46I have no problem with fact.
- 28:47I wish if more states did this, well, maybe we wouldn't have the same immigration problems that we have today, regardless of what the federal government has been doing.
- 28:56The state apparently is also examining in the 1982 Supreme Court decision plier versus Doe, requiring public schools to educate non-citizens.
- 29:06And again, to me, it's not a question of citizens, it's legal residency.
- 29:10Are you here legally?
- 29:12A spokesman for government app Abbott's office made a statement saying benefits, licenses, and taxpayer funded services should not be used to incentivize incentivize unlawful presence at the expense of hardworking Texans.
- 29:25These steps ensure compliance with federal law, protect the integrity of our systems, and prioritize jobs and resources for legal residents and citizens.
- 29:34Again, this is a consequence of elections of your vote.
- 29:42The people in Texas have voted for a legislature that says, you know what?
- 29:47If you're not here legally, you shouldn't get our benefits.
- 29:50They elected a chief executive, a governor that's willing to put teeth to that.
- 29:57That who has an office listen, if you're not here legally, then you shouldn't be getting these these access to licenses.
- 30:06You shouldn't have benefits, you shouldn't have taxpayer funded services if you're not here legally.
- 30:11No, she said the unlawful presence.
- 30:13It incentivize people to come and be here illegally.
- 30:17Meanwhile, in California, apparently the state's going full 1984 censorship mode.
- 30:25See, there's an independent journalist by name of Nick Shirley, and he went viral.
- 30:30He made the national news back in January over allegations of state administered fraud in California.
- 30:37Remember, had all those fraud allegations in Minnesota.
- 30:40This guy starts exposing uh alleged fraud administered by the state in California, which of course really pissed the California lawmakers off.
- 30:51Oh, not that there was fraud, but that it was exposed.
- 30:56Now, in an interview with California State Assemblyman uh Tave Tangimpa, I think that's how it's pronounced.
- 31:03Uh, he told the Daily Signal that the California legislature is advancing legislation that would limit the release of video recordings by independent journalists who investigate taxpayer funded programs.
- 31:16Um yeah, freedom of the press apparently doesn't exist in California.
- 31:20Now, Assembly Bill 2624 was introduced in the state legislature by a similar woman, Mia Bonta.
- 31:28Gee, I wonder if she's any relation to the state attorney general.
- 31:32And of course, this legend showed up after Shirley exposed what was going on.
- 31:38This video questioning health care and daycare fraud in the state, and that video got up to 149 million views on X.
- 31:48As as uh Timega told the Daily Signal, ask yourself this.
- 31:52Why are Democrats trying to protect people who are being questioned about state administration and non-governmental organizations over their funding and what that funding actually achieves?
- 32:03Why is the government alleging that those who question how funds are being used are harassing people?
- 32:09That's a very good question.
- 32:12Now, for everyone out here who thought, hey, this is a First Amendment issue, it is not a First Amendment issue.
- 32:19First five words of the First Amendment.
- 32:21Congress shall make no law.
- 32:22Congress hasn't made a law, it's not a First Amendment issue.
- 32:26Is this a 14th Amendment issue?
- 32:28You betcha.
- 32:30And I can point it on two reasons.
- 32:31First of all, this is attempting to deprive people, in this case, independent journalist, quote independent journalists, meaning journalists that don't work for some a company that the government recognizes, and they're depriving them of their liberty without due process of law.
- 32:49That's a violation of the 14th Amendment.
- 32:52It's also a violation because they're targeting, quote unquote, according to this reporting, independent journalists, meaning you take two people doing exactly the same job.
- 33:02One works for ABC, NBC, CNN, whatever.
- 33:06The other is freelance.
- 33:08And the law would only impact one of them.
- 33:10That is not equal protection under the law.
- 33:13That is also a 14th Amendment violation.
- 33:17What it really is at its heart is a violation of Article 1, Section 3 of the California Constitution, which reads every person may freely speak, write and publish his or her sentiments on all subjects being responsible for the abuse of this right.
- 33:34A law may not restrain or abridge freedom of speech or press.
- 33:41This, ladies and gentlemen, abridges the liberty of press.
- 33:45You're saying if you're not one of the targeted, tagged, licensed people, you don't have freedom of the press.
- 33:53You cannot report on this stuff.
- 33:56Now, this happens because the people of California have hired these legislators that think the government is above reproach.
- 34:04You can't, you can't question the government.
- 34:07You can't question what we're doing.
- 34:09Those are the very same scenarios we saw in the Soviet Union.
- 34:14We see in Cuba, we saw in Communist Venezuela, communist China, where you're not allowed to criticize or question the state.
- 34:23That's not the United States of America.
- 34:25The very fact that the state legislature is spending time on this legislation shows that the people of California are suffering the consequences of their bad decisions.
- 34:36Who they vote for and how they decide who to vote for.
- 34:40And they're suffering the consequences.
- 34:42Sadly, as often happens, the rest of the country are going to suffer some of those consequences as well.
- 34:49See who you vote for and how you decide who to vote for is a very important part of the civic life of our duty as American citizens.
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- 39:37Today we've been talking about votes and consequences, the consequences of who you decide to vote for and how you make that decision.
- 39:45Now, I'm going to head off to Illinois, because this is hang with me, this is a little interesting.
- 39:50There is a bill in the Illinois General Assembly, SB3444.
- 39:56It's called the Artificial Intelligence Safety Act.
- 40:00And the idea is it's presents it's supposed to be a safety framework for what they call frontier AI models.
- 40:09What is this?
- 40:10Well, the bill defines a frontier model as one using more than 10 to the 26 power computational operations or a compute course that costs that exceeds 100 million dollars.
- 40:23What is this supposed to do?
- 40:25Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 40:26It's supposed to shield people from liability for what comes out of the AI.
- 40:36Specifically, Section 10 states that a developer may not be held liable for critical harms if the developer did not intentionally, intentionally or recklessly cause the critical harm.
- 40:47Now, what does this mean?
- 40:48Well, there's a couple interesting twists here, because one is it really is trying to treat an artificial intelligence as an artificial person.
- 40:58Because the idea is the artificial intelligence, the developer of the artificial intelligence is not responsible for what gets done by their product.
- 41:07Artificial intelligence is a product.
- 41:10Think of it this way, right?
- 41:12You you're a parent.
- 41:13You raise a human being.
- 41:14When that human being becomes an adult, you're not responsible for their actions.
- 41:20Well, that's kind of what this Illinois bill says.
- 41:22You have to be what they call a frontier model.
- 41:24Once you've run through 10 through the 26 power computational operations, or once they spent 100 million dollars on your compute costs, you're now considered a artificial adult, and your developer cannot be held liable for the criminal harms caused by the the product of the artificial intelligence.
- 41:45Yeah, this is uh this again, but I find interesting is the the idea of liability shields.
- 41:54Now, this is a state actor, right?
- 41:57This is not a First Amendment issue.
- 41:59When Congress does this, this is a First Amendment.
- 42:00Congress does this, this is a First Amendment.
- 42:01This is a state actor.
- 42:01This is a state actor.
- 42:03But it does violate the Illinois Constitution.
- 42:03But it does violate the Illinois Constitution under Article 1, Section 5.
- 42:06Under Article 1, Section 5, we read the people have the right to assemble in a peaceful manner, to consult for the common good, to make known their questions, their opinions and their to their representatives, and to apply for redress of grievance.
- 42:09We read: the people have the right to assemble in a peaceful manner, to consult for the common good, to make known their questions, their opinions and their to their representatives, and to apply for redress of grievance.
- 42:22When a government actor says you cannot sue there's a liability shield, you have denied people the right to petition.
- 42:22When a government actor says you cannot sue there's a liability shield, you have denied people the right to petition for a redress of grievance.
- 42:32Now, are there situations, are there types of grievances that possibly you should not be able to do?
- 42:38For example, um the the lawful commerce in arms, where you can't sue the manufacturer for the criminal use of their product.
- 42:48Now, I haven't been detailed into this law yet, but this doesn't the synopsis I saw doesn't deal with this key the developer cannot be held for the criminal abuse by others.
- 43:02It simply says, listen, you know, uh, once you've reached that threshold level, developers cannot be held accountable for what their product does unless they can people someone can show that they they purposely did this.
- 43:17In fact, reading from the synopsis of the bill says it provides that a developer of frontier artificial intelligence model shall not be held liable for the critical harms caused by the frontier model if the developer did not intentionally or recklessly cause the critical harms and the developer publishes a safety and security protocol and transparency report on its website.
- 43:38In other words, it's pretending that this art of this quote unquote artificial intelligence is a separate entity.
- 43:44It's not the product of the developer.
- 43:46No, this is, I mean, imagine this, right?
- 43:48If you um uh you know if you found a critical error in I don't know, Microsoft Word, and it caused you harm, could you sue Microsoft?
- 44:01Yes.
- 44:03But if you're in Illinois and Microsoft said, no, we used an AI model for that, and we didn't cause the critical harm.
- 44:09It was the AI model.
- 44:10You can't sue us because, well, it was the AI that did it.
- 44:14I guess this is the modern version of the dog ate my homework.
- 44:19But what I'm really curious about is why is the state of Illinois promoting that?
- 44:24Why are they looking at this?
- 44:26Why are they trying to detach the AI product from its developer?
- 44:31Again, it's it's it's this, it's like we've turned AI into people.
- 44:36It's like we we think we're in the the matrix or or Terminator.
- 44:41It's the machine, it's completely similar.
- 44:43I have no responsibility.
- 44:44I created this AI, I designed it, I developed it, I trained it, but I have no responsibility for what it actually did.
- 44:51Sorry, no.
- 44:53An artificial and an artificial intelligence is not an artificial person.
- 44:58And that's what this is law is trying to make.
- 45:02Reading some of this, you know what?
- 45:04If it let's say, let's say uh you took one of these AIs, right?
- 45:09And uh you asked the AI, hey, how do I create a chemical, biological or radiological device?
- 45:17I want to create a dirty bomb.
- 45:20And it tells you how.
- 45:24Does it does it have an does it hold any results?
- 45:26Now, if you were to ask a person, how do I make a dirty bomb, and they were to tell you that person would be held liable?
- 45:33But if you ask an artificial intelligence, now suddenly the person that created that that said, I'm sorry, but my my safety code will not allow me to disperse disseminate that type of information.
- 45:47It's an interesting conundrum.
- 45:50And it's uh um, it's it to me, it's interesting on several several levels.
- 45:57But I keep finding this interesting.
- 45:59We're trying to turn these artificial intelligences into artificial people as if they have some sort of moral agency, as if they can make moral decisions.
- 46:10An artificial intelligence doesn't make moral decisions, it answers questions.
- 46:15The morals are instilled by safety protocols placed in the artificial intelligence by the developer.
- 46:22And the same way, if a car manufacturer does not put proper safety uh uh uh products into its car, and you are injured by them, you can sue.
- 46:33Why is that any different for the the company that the entity that created the the uh uh the artificial and why is it only these big corporations?
- 46:44Uh in other words, if you're gonna spend a hundred million dollars on an AI, this is not someone you know, working in their basement.
- 46:54This is not a small company that's saying, you know what, I I got this great idea for an AI, and I'm gonna create no, no, no.
- 46:59These are the major, these are the chat GPTs, the Microsoft's, the uh the the uh the Googles of the world.
- 47:07And that to me may be a reason why the state of Illinois is promoting this.
- 47:12Not because they're worried about the safety, not because they're worried about the promotion of artificial intelligence.
- 47:17Seems to me this is more about protecting the backsides of major corporations when they create these products and let them loose, and we find out, by the way, they give out garbage information all the time.
- 47:30They lie, they slander, they defame.
- 47:34But the developers don't want to be held accountable for that.
- 47:37That seems to me a more logical reason.
- 47:39Don't have proof, but that's my my assumption.
- 47:43That's the that's my opinion based on what I've seen so far.
- 47:46Okay, now this story got my attention, and it's a bit different.
- 47:49It's not so much about voting about the consequence of vote, it's about the actual vote process and our lack of understanding.
- 47:56So back on April 9th, the Supreme Court declined to uh uh intervene in a debate in a controversy about primaries.
- 48:08They declined to reinstate a gentleman by the name of Samuel Ronan, who had previously run as a for office as a Democrat, and he wanted to be on the Republican ballot in the May 5th primary.
- 48:21Uh, this is for the uh seat in the in the House of Representatives from the state of Ohio.
- 48:28Now, the court didn't sign the order, they didn't, there was no uh dis dissension, nothing.
- 48:34They just no, we're not gonna, we're not gonna do this.
- 48:38This means that Mr.
- 48:38Ronan will not appear on the ballot in the Republican primary for Ohio's 15th district on May 5th.
- 48:45Now, a lot of people say, well, what's wrong with this?
- 48:47What's going on here?
- 48:48Why is a Democrat trying to be on the Republican Party ticket?
- 48:53Well, um, this case started because a voter filed a protest saying that uh um Mr.
- 49:00Mr.
- 49:00Ronan was claiming to have changed party affiliations, but uh he bore no allegiance to the Republican Party.
- 49:00Ronan was claiming to have changed party affiliations, but uh he bore no allegiance to the Republican Party.
- 49:07Now, I weren't this up for one very specific reason.
- 49:07Now, I weren't this up for one very specific reason.
- 49:12You have to remember primaries are not public elections.
- 49:12You have to remember primaries are not public elections.
- 49:18They are publicly funded elections for private organizations.
- 49:18They are publicly funded elections for private organizations.
- 49:22The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are private organizations.
- 49:22The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are private organizations.
- 49:28You have no right.
- 49:28You have no right to tell a private organization who can be on their ballot.
- 49:34Now, these are usually set up by state law and uh, but this is still a private organization.
- 49:42Meaning the private organization can set their own rules for voting in their private elections, even though they're publicly funded.
- 49:52It's why I don't participate in primaries.
- 49:56And a lot of people, but but then how you the whole purpose of a primary is for the taxpayer to pay for an election for a private organization to limit who will be on the ballot.
- 50:07It is a method of control of the election.
- 50:12You want to know what is the biggest one of the biggest problems in our elections is the fact that these parties have taken over the state election laws to the point where they control the elections, not the people nor their representatives.
- 50:26Now it's interesting because I saw this article on the Epoch Times, and of course, they're focusing on well, you know, uh he was a candidate for the DNC in 2017.
- 50:35Um he ran for the the Democratic Party nomination uh to the House of Representatives in 2016, and now he wants to run on the Republican ballot.
- 50:45It has nothing to do with donkeys and elephants.
- 50:48The donkeys and elephants are private organizations.
- 50:54They aren't public entities.
- 50:56They're private, not for private, they're 501c4s, I believe.
- 51:00They are no different than say, like uh the NAACP or any other politically active group.
- 51:08They're private organizations.
- 51:10The very fact that we spend taxpayer money to deprive us and tell us who can be on the ballot is to me insane.
- 51:21But that's because we've been taught since childhood.
- 51:24This is how it works.
- 51:26This is what is wrong with our election process.
- 51:30Right?
- 51:30Now, again, I'd love, I think states should find a much better way to determine who is on the ballot.
- 51:36I think there should be some, you know, maybe a petition, all right.
- 51:39If you can get X number of signatures on a petition, you are on the ballot.
- 51:44Or, you know, some variation thereof.
- 51:48Because this whole question of third party candidates all come from the control the two major parties have over the election process and the way they use that to prevent people who don't bend the knee to donkeys and elephants from actually getting on the ballot and opposing them, especially higher in the election brackets, right?
- 52:07As you get to from local to state to to federal, you see more and more control over who's allowed on the ballot.
- 52:15Because again, if your name is on the ballot, it's really, really, really hard to get elected.
- 52:20Sure, technically you could have a uh a sign in, a write-in uh ballot uh process, but again, that's very, very hard to do.
- 52:29So I look at this not because it's like, oh my God, that the Republicans are evil, they wouldn't let him on the ballot, or you know, he's just a Democrat trying to infiltrate him and manipulate the Republican.
- 52:40No, this is about a private organization that manipulates the election and the fact that the vast majority of Americans not only don't realize that, they promote the idea.
- 52:52And that uh to me, that's where the real problem is.
- 52:56So again, today we've been talking about votes and consequences.
- 53:00And as we're seeing, the primary system is starting up for the midterm elections.
- 53:04And uh I want you to think are you first, are you gonna vote?
- 53:09I think you should vote.
- 53:10If you are a citizen of the United States, I think you should vote.
- 53:14How do you decide who to vote for?
- 53:16That to me is the real question.
- 53:19As I said before, I have one question I ask every candidate, and I make a point of reaching out to candidates, even at the local level, and I ask them show me when you fulfilled your oath to support the constitution when it was hard, when it cost you something.
- 53:35And the general answer I get is a blank stare.
- 53:38Because nobody thinks about it this way.
- 53:40You are applying for a job where you will take an oath by uh by oath or affirmation, you will by you will swear to make a solemn promise to support the constitution of the United States and in many many cases of your state as well.
- 53:55When did you do that when it was hard?
- 53:58See, it's easy to do that when everybody's going along, but it's when it's difficult when you're up you're opposing something, that character is exposed.
- 54:10Will you stand up to your oath even when people say you're wrong?
- 54:15Will you stand up to your oath even when the party threatens you?
- 54:18Will you stand up for your oath when that when the people will mock you?
- 54:24Or do you fold?
- 54:26Do you have the character?
- 54:28Do you have the spine to stand up for your oath?
- 54:32Or will you simply fold like a cheap suit as soon as the pressure comes on?
- 54:37That tells me a lot about the person and about whether or not I can support the idea of them representing me and some body.
- 54:46Now, you know, these these are important ideas.
- 54:49And uh I keep telling people I'd love when I get the opportunity to talk.
- 54:52In fact, May 16th, I'm going to be in Lake County, Florida, speaking at the uh that county's branch or chapter of the Constitution Party.
- 55:04Uh, you can find out more.
- 55:05Go to the website, Constitution Study.com slash events.
- 55:08You'll see that event listed, and you can find out more.
- 55:10If you're in the area, I'd love to see.
- 55:13I'd love you to stop by and join me.
- 55:15I'm going to have a really interesting time.
- 55:16I got a really good uh talk uh wound up for it.
- 55:19So it's going to be a lot of fun.
- 55:21So hopefully join me in that's Eustace, Florida.
- 55:24It's Lake County on May 16th of this year.
- 55:29Uh it starts at 5 p.m., I believe.
- 55:31And uh we should have a really good time.
- 55:33Again, find out more by going to Constitution Study.com/slash events.
- 55:38You'll find it on the Constitution Creation Day Banquet in Eustace, Florida.
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