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The Federal government is still being weaponized under Trump · 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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  I'm sure most Americans hope that when Donald Trump once again became president, the weaponization of the federal government would end.
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  Sadly, that's not happened.
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  Hello there, everyday Americans, Paul Engel here with the Constitution Study, where we read and study the Constitution.
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  Teacher Island generation be free.
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  Glad I could join you today.
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  You know, I remember talking about the weaponization of government.
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  I've talked about the weaponization of government under the Biden administration.
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  Now it's time to talk about the weaponization of government under the Trump administration, the second Trump administration.
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  I know there are people out there that are just pulling their hair out because, well, they're just Trump apologists and they don't think Trump could do anything wrong.
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  But there's a lot going on.
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  It involves the weaponization of government under this administration.
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  Take, for example, the Department of Justice.
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  We're going to look at several cases out of the Department of Justice.
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  The first I'm looking at is a uh a complaint they filed in federal court against the state of New Jersey, because the state of New Jersey allows in-state tuition and in-state financial assistance to illegal aliens.
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  Now, I'm not arguing that allowing in-state tuition and financial assistance to illegal aliens is a good thing.
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  I think it's uh it's a bad thing to reward criminal activity, but it's the point of this is New Jersey dealing with New Jersey stuff and the federal government intervening because they don't like it.
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  Now, the the lawsuit filed in the District Court of New Jersey names um the the state itself, the higher education student assistance authority, uh the acting secretary of higher education, the board of the directors of the New Jersey Educational Opportunity Fund, and the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education.
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  Now, it this again, this is the federal government suing the state of New Jersey for how New Jersey deals with its own education dollars.
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  Now, the DOJ claims it wants the state's laws enforced in compliance with federal law.
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  Well, there's a big problem with that, and I have a big problem with that.
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  Uh, first of all, um, this federal government has absolutely no say in how the state of New Jersey spends their money.
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  Right?
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  There's no because uh what's the constitutional violation?
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  Remember, the power to regulate immigration is not delegated to the federal government.
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  They've assumed it.
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  They're saying that to it be enforced by federal to be in compliance with federal law, but federal the constitution doesn't delegate to the United States the authority to regulate education, higher education or otherwise.
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  So any federal law made that requires spending of money or regulating education is not made pursuant to the constitution, is therefore not the supreme law of the land.
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  Therefore, there's no requirement that the state of New Jersey or any other state comply with an unconstitutional act.
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  Remember, according to uh uh Alexander Hamblin in Federal 78, no legislative act contrary to the Constitution can be valid.
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  But here we have we don't like this.
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  What and again, what's the logic behind it?
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  Well, according to U.S.
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  Associate Attorney General uh Stanley Woodward, I guess he's he's uh prosecuting the case is imagine being denied the opportunity of education in your own country by granting illegal aliens in-state tuition, the state of New Jersey is doing just that.
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  Says who again, in-state tuition is not limited.
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  If you live in New Jersey, um you know, you it's not like, well, we could give you in-state tuition, but we can't because we gave it to somebody else.
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  It doesn't work that way.
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  Now, according to the Justice Department Civil Division and Assistant Attorney General uh Barrett Schumann, he says, in New Jersey and nationwide, colleges cannot provide benefits to illegal aliens that they do not provide to U.S.
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  citizens.
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  What are they first of all?
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  Um, the federal law has no meaning because the federal law cannot regulate education.
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  So again, this law is unconstitutional.
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  It is null and void.
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  It's a fiction that we keep following because, well, most people are ignorant of the constitution.
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  But tell me, if you're offering in-state tuition, are you telling me they're not offering it to U.S.
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  citizens?
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  Right?
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  This is ludicrous.
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  He goes on to say that the Department, this Department of Justice will not tolerate American students being treated like second-class citizens in their own country.
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  Where?
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  I'm still waiting for someone to say, well, wait a second, a U.S.
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  citizen was trying to get in-state tuition in New Jersey, and they were denied because it was given to an illegal alien.
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  I'm sorry, you went through college and and and law school, and you can't understand this basic concept of English.
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  I mean, the the New Jersey law requires colleges and universities to provide in-state tuition to all people, aliens and residents in the state, regardless of whether they're legal.
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  But this is though, this is a political job.
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  This is we don't like in state, we don't like illegal aliens, so we're going to attack, we're going to use these illegal laws as an attack on a state because we don't like them, and we're we're gonna um we're gonna hold them accountable, right?
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  We're gonna sue them to comply with these laws that they don't have to, that are not legal, they're not constitutional.
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  They're even in this case, this thing the whole premise that they provided is a lie.
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  Now, I haven't read the actual complaint.
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  I'm still trying to figure out which federal law they're trying to comply with, because I but I know it's not constitutional because it's regulating education, not a power delegated to the United States.
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  But when you have an assistant U.S.
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  attorney saying, uh, well, you're denying citizens a right because you're giving by you're giving it to illegal aliens, but not just to citizens, it's available to everybody who resides in New Jersey.
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  That's just plain.
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  I mean, that's one of those perfect examples of better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it.
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  This is not the only lawsuit against the state of New Jersey.
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  The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Governor uh was it Mikey Sherrill, I think is his name is, and Attorney General Jennifer Dent Davenport.
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  Why?
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  Because of what New Jersey has a law, they call the Law Enforcement Protection Act.
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  Because of what New Jersey has a law, they call the law enforcement protection act.
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  Um, it prohibits law enforcement officers from wearing masks while working, and uh it requires that they provide sufficient identification to detain or arrest an individual.
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  Um, it prohibits law enforcement officers from wearing masks while working, and uh it requires that they provide sufficient identification to detain or arrest an individual.
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  Oh my god.
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  Oh my god, you in other words, you have to provide identification before you arrest an individual.
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  You in other words, you have to provide identification before you arrest an individual.
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  How crazy is this?
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  How crazy is this?
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  Reading from the complaints is most dangerous of all, Governor Shell signed Senate Bill uh S 3114.
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  Reading from the complaints is most dangerous of all, Governor Shell signed Senate Bill S 3114 uh and S313216 uh with uh the Orwellian title of Law Enforcement Officer Protection Act.
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  Um
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  This blatantly unconstitutional ban prohibits law enforcement officers, including federal officers from wearing masks while in the performance of their duties.
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  Well, wait a second, what's unconstitutional about that?
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  Show me where in the constitution law enforcement gets special treatment, where law enforcement can't uh doesn't have to be identified in order to do what they're doing.
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  Because there's more.
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  It goes on to say further the act requires every law enforcement officer to provide sufficient identification prior to detaining or arresting an individual.
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  You mean if someone comes up to you on the street, they actually have to identify as a law enforcement officer before they detain you?
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  Incredible inconceivable, how dare you?
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  You mean you just can't come up with uh what you know, a black mask on and and civilian uniforms and grab somebody and they're just supposed to assume you're law enforcement officer?
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  This, ladies and gentlemen, this is nothing, this is the I don't know if it's a political attack or if it's just a a uh, you know, the federal government going crazy, but this is the federal government going after the state of New Jersey simply because I don't know exactly why.
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  But these are trying to enforce unconstitutional laws.
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  They claim it's unconstitutional.
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  You know what I don't see?
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  I don't see a single quote from the constitution about what's unconstitutional about a state requiring law enforcement, including federal law enforcement, to be both visible and to identify themselves.
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  Tell me, is it a reasonable uh seizure for someone to to uh uh to seize you without identifying themselves as the law enforcement officer?
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  Is it is it reasonable for law because you have to remember one of the issues, and this is I know what that has to deal with ice and all of that, is that you have a legal right to photograph a government employee in the function of their duty.
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  You can video them, meaning that the police come up to you, they can video you on their on their their uh cameras.
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  You have the right to video them as well, so that you have evidence of any malfeasance they may commit, but they want to hide.
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  They want the ICE wants masks.
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  But again, they claim it's unconstitutional.
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  Um what are they violating?
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  Now they're claiming it's the supremacy clause, this vaunted, oh my god, everything's a supremacy clause.
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  They even they do actually quote the supremacy clause.
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  Um, they say this constitution and the laws of the United States, which shall be made in pursuance thereof shall be the supreme law of the land.
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  It's that in pursuance thereof.
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  Tell me what federal law follow, tell me where in the constitution the federal government authorizes it.
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  We get to wear masks.
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  We get to uh we get to seize people without identifying ourselves as as law enforcement first.
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  Tell me where, where, where?
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  It doesn't exist.
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  They quote, they say, well, the president uh has a duty to take care that the laws are faithfully executed.
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  Yes, faithfully, not just to the law, but to the constitution, the supreme law of the land.
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  This is the weaponization of government.
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  And again, one more example.
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  Now, I uh I've talked about the the Supreme Court case about Louisiana uh versus uh Callus and the the use of race in in uh gerrymandering voting districts.
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  Now, the 63 decision was issued on April 29th, and um it it uh said, no, you you can't have a map that that is designed to create a majority black congressional district.
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  That's racial uh gerrymandering that violates, I believe they called the 15th amendment, which says you cannot uh uh deny someone the right to vote based on the color of their skin, right?
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  Race, color, or previous uh state of servitude.
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  Well, before I mean the ink was barely dry on that uh decision when the DOJ says we're working to enforce nationwide the Supreme Court's rule uh ruling, they claim it's a decision, not a ruling, in Louisiana versus Calus uh uh Calus, which it limited the use of race in redistricting under section two of the voting rights act.
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  Um, okay, so now I assume, based on history, not proven yet, but I assume that means the Department of Justice is going after each and every one of the blue states to get them to try and redistrict without using race.
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  Will they go after the red states?
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  Don't know.
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  Not sure, but I would say, based on what we've seen so far, what the DOJ is doing, they're going after New Jersey for not letting their ICE agents act like a Gestapo.
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  They're going after New Jersey because they don't like the way New Jersey handles New Jersey money around education.
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  And now, and they're going after um uh so I I would be surprised if they don't go after uh New Jersey and other blue states because they don't like the way the map was redistricted.
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  Now, I agree, racial bait, you know, racial uh gerrymandering is wrong.
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  But it seems like you know, the DOJ was just chomping it, they were just waiting.
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  They had this all cued up and ready to go.
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  It seems to me, because like I said, before this stuff was bare, the ink was barely dry, they're Johnny on the spot, ready to go after these states that um again create these racially gerrymanded districts, which uh I'm pretty sure most of those racially gerrymand districts are uh black and and uh uh and Hispanic and tend to vote Democrat.
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  And I've got I I'm gonna dig into this more in the next section because they're still there's still more to consider.
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  But I want you to see, we have three stories now out of the U.S.
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  Department of Justice, where they are not seeking justice, where they are trying to intimidate states, the state of New Jersey and other states with the voting acts to comply with their wishes.
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  This is the weaponization of government.
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  This is not fulfilling the duty to faithfully execute the laws of the United States, because the president has to faithfully execute all the laws of the United States, not just the ones that he decides, you know what, benefit my political party.
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  To faithfully execute the laws of the United States, because the president has to faithfully execute all the laws of the United States, not just the ones that he decides, you know what, benefit my political party.
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  Not just the ones that go after, you know, well, this is ICE and illegal immigration.
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  Not just the ones that go after, you know, well, this is ice and illegal immigration.
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  You're not allowed to all of the laws, including the Constitution, including the supremacy clause that says in order for him to faithfully execute a law of the United States, that law must be made pursuant to the Constitution of the United States, the Supreme Law of the land.
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  You're not allowed to all of the laws, including the Constitution, including the supremacy clause that says in order for him to faithfully execute a law of the United States, that law must be made pursuant to the Constitution of the United States.
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  You see why I encourage people to read instead of the Constitution.
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  You wouldn't know what was going on here if you hadn't uh uh um spent some time reading and studying the Constitution, learning what it says.
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  This, ladies and gentlemen, is important.
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  It's important for several reasons, right?
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  One of the reasons this is so important, at least to me, is the fact that you know we're we're coming up on the 250th anniversary of the publishing of the Declaration of Independence, the 250th anniversary of the idea that um we the people get to govern, that we create constitutions and governments, and it's it's up to us.
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  So I don't care if the government's being weaponized by donkeys or elephants, it's wrong.
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  It's evil.
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  It's a violation of their oath of office, and it needs to be exposed and it needs to be dealt with.
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  So if you're sitting there thinking that Republicans, if you're more interested in Republicanism than in justice, you're not gonna like what I'm saying today.
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  If you're interested in in in the democratic rule, then justice, you're not interested in what I have to say today.
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  Because I don't care if it's donkey or an elephant.
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  When you use the powers of the levers of government to attack your political opponents or your ideological opponents, that is evil.
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  And I don't care that you're a popular president or not, it is evil.
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  We'd hoped that it was over under the Trump administration.
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  It isn't.
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  I talked a bit about it at the end of the first segment when I was talking about the uh the Supreme Court case dealing with the Louisiana's redistricting.
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  Districting.
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  And um been a lot of talk about that, because the court basically said listen, the the um the requirement under section two of the voting rights act that you create racially um you had to create racially defined uh uh districts, right?
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  And been a lot of talk about that because the court basically said listen, the um the requirement under section two of the voting rights act that you create racially um you had to create racially defined uh uh districts, right?
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  The idea was uh you you to prevent dilution of uh uh uh racial minorities power.
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  The idea was uh you you to prevent dilution of uh a uh racial minority's power, you had to create these funky gerrymandered maps in order to do that.
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  You had to create the
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  Gerrymanding is nothing new.
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  Gerrymandering goes back all the way, I think back to was 1812 or 1817.
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  Um Eldrich Jerry came up with the governor of Massachusetts, came with the it's all it's it's been an issue for more than a century.
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  It's the you know stuff we deal with.
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  Well, here's the interesting part.
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  So the Supreme Court, I haven't done a deep dive into this decision yet.
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  It it's on my um uh on my to do list.
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  But uh as I understand it, they claim that the 15th amendment prohibits racial gerrymandering.
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  Now, the 15th amendment says that the right of the citizens, right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be a denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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  Now, I find this very interesting, right?
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  Because um the whole idea of racial gerrymandering is you're going to uh um abridge the right of certain of a majority of a gr area because well we want racial minorities to have a say.
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  I don't think racial minorities should be outlawed.
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  I mean, I'm not saying they shouldn't have the right to vote, but the question is, you know, does the minority rule over the majority?
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  And that's kind of what, if I understand it correctly, what the Supreme Court was talking about is you've basically created these.
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  Um this, of course, has has aggravated some people.
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  Uh, for example, members of the Democratic Party in Louisiana are upset because, well, they suspended their primaries because they're living on the waste.
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  So the Supreme Court said our districts are gerrymandered wrong.
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  They're there, they've in this court invalidated the state's congressional map.
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  How can we have a primary in this situation?
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  That's kind of what they said.
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  Now, understand, to me, primaries uh, you know what a primary is?
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  It is a publicly funded election for a private organization designed to limit who you get to see on the ballot.
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  All right, this is these are private organizations, the the different political parties, but these elections are paid for by taxpayer dollars.
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  And the whole purpose isn't is to say the parties get to decide who goes on the ballot, not the people.
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  Now, if things follow true, right?
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  Well, the people vote in the primaries, yeah.
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  But some states allow only members of the party, if you're registered that way to vote in the primary, some have it open.
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  It's it's again, it's designed, of course.
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  There are a lot of parties where that's part of the decision, but we're effectively letting private organizations decide who gets on the ballot.
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  So they're they're very upset, and I'm not quite sure what the state of Louisiana is going to, because again, how do you hold an election, even a primary election for a congressional district in a map that doesn't exist?
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  All right, so yeah, this is going to be kind of an ugly twisted situation, which by the way is being exacerbated by, well, Barack Obama.
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  In a post on X, he said that today's Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the voting rights act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities so long as they do it under the guise of partisanship rather than explicit racial bias.
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  Well, if that isn't the PAC on the kettle black, because for decades, states have used the power of gerrymandering to legislate districts to systematically dilute and weaken the weaken the voting power of any racial group under the guise of partisanship rather than racial bias.
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  All right.
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  This is literary.
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  We you for decades they've been saying, well, we're going to gerrymander based on racial bias, but we know that the vast majority of the black race votes for Democrats.
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  So you're telling me that wasn't done for partisan reasons again, but this is the this shows to me two things.
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  This is it's fine for us to to gerrymander for our benefit, but you're not allowed to do it for yours.
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  But it also shows the undue influence political power, political parties have in the election process.
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  Because again, you're, you know, the we we have uh political partisanship in the state legislators, that legislatures that are making these congressional districts, right?
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  They're doing the the congressional maps.
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  They obviously want to benefit their own party.
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  The idea that, well, we're just doing it for race is absolute hogwash.
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  But it's been going on it it's kind of like this this pay no attention to the the fact that that these minorities vote very highly toward the towards a Democratic Party.
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  Pay no attention to that.
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  Well, this is all about uh uh being fair racially by taking, you know, it's not the majority of people that make the decision.
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  We want to make sure that we have a majority of black people or Hispanic people making this decision.
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  More proof though, Barack Obama is a racist.
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  Always has everything I've seen since he became nationally known, the man is a racist, and this is just more proof.
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  How dare you not gerrymander racial scenarios?
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  How dare you not give racial minorities an a and a voting advantage?
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  He claims to be for democracy, but he wants to ignore the will of the people, unless those people happen to be black or I'm assuming Hispanic, I would uh assume that.
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  That's again the weaponization of government just done in a different way.
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  All right, let's go back.
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  There's another example of uh of um the the weaponization of government, and that is section 702 of FISA.
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  It is a blatantly unconstitutional act.
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  Well, I should say it's the way it can the federal government spy collect intelligence on foreign people.
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  Yeah, there's nothing in our constitution that says you can't.
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  The problem is the way FISA is 702 is written, is it's not limited to people outside the country.
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  It does not exclude uh uh U.S.
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  citizens.
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  Now it's supposed to protect them, but those protections are thin as a veil of tissue paper.
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  Protect them, but those protections are as thin as a veil of tissue paper.
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  So the idea is something like this.
• 28:06
  So the idea is something like this.
• 28:08
  Let's say uh let's say you get an email from Uncle Billy.
• 28:08
  Let's say uh let's say you get an email from Uncle Billy.
• 28:12
  Uncle Billy forwards you an email about some news item, right?
• 28:12
  Uncle Billy forwards you an email about some news item, right?
• 28:16
  Something that's going on in the world.
• 28:16
  Something that's going on in the world.
• 28:18
  Now, Uncle Billy got that news item from a mailing list, and on that mailing list is um say someone under surveillance in a foreign country, right?
• 28:18
  Now, Uncle Billy got that news item from a mailing list, and on that mailing list is um say someone under surveillance in a foreign country, right?
• 28:28
  Doesn't matter what they are.
• 28:28
  Doesn't matter what they are, according to the what's called the three hop rule.
• 28:33
  Since Pfizer can, uh Pfizer warrant can find the person of interest overseas.
• 28:39
  They can also uh spy on those people they talk to up to three steps, meaning you've got the person overseas, they sent an email to your Uncle Bobby.
• 28:50
  Now, Uncle Bobby is now under surveillance.
• 28:54
  Now, his name's supposed to be hidden, but he's under surveillance.
• 28:57
  And since Uncle Bobby sent it to you, your data is now being collected.
• 29:01
  Again, it's supposed to be masked, it's supposed to be hidden.
• 29:04
  That's supposed to be who you are, supposed to be anonymous, supposed to be.
• 29:07
  But we have this another problem.
• 29:10
  See, to access this data, not just about foreigners, but about people inside the United States, including American citizens, they need a what's called a FISA warrant.
• 29:19
  Well, guess what?
• 29:20
  The problem is FISA warrants are supposed to be held to the same standard as the Fourth Amendment, but frequently they're not.
• 29:29
  We saw this with with the Russia collusion where FISA warrants were issued without probable cause.
• 29:36
  There was no uh um uh uh the the oath or affirmation was not supported by actual evidence, it was simply rubber stamped and uh was used to spy on a candidate and eventually uh uh candidate for presidency for president and an actual sitting president of the United States.
• 29:54
  And this has been a problem since it was created uh back in you know early 2000s after 9-11.
• 30:00
  And every time it comes up for renewal, and people say you need to fix this.
• 30:05
  We need to put proper Fourth Amendment protections into this law.
• 30:10
  Congress just doesn't bother.
• 30:13
  And it's always the same thing.
• 30:14
  We need to be able to infringe on your rights to protect you.
• 30:19
  Where have I heard that before?
• 30:20
  Oh, yeah, Benjamin Franklin, he would give up essential liberty for the promise of temporary safety, deserves neither liberty nor safety.
• 30:29
  But that's exactly what Congress wants us to do.
• 30:32
  Now, the Senate passed a, I believe they called their a clean reauthorization of Section 702.
• 30:40
  The House was well, they decided, you know what, we're gonna kick the can down the road a few weeks.
• 30:48
  So now we've got another 45 days of surveillance company entities scooping up your communication without a warrant, these unreasonable searches, because Congress cannot cannot uh fulfill their oath to support the Constitution of the United States.
• 31:07
  Now, do me a favor, raise your hand if you believe after this 45 day kick the can down the road, anyone in the house, or I should say the House Old is really going to push back and actually not just give lip service to the Fourth Amendment, as I understand the Texas bill does, but actually require a valid warrant to collect information about Americans, right?
• 31:31
  That needs to be based on probable cause supported by ultra affirmation in order to collect data about Americans.
• 31:38
  Now, listen, if they're talking about keeping us safe, how hard is it to say, okay, um, this this guy overseas, we think he's he's dangerous, we're spying on him.
• 31:50
  He sends out an email that includes Uncle Billy.
• 31:53
  How hard is it to go to a judge and say, listen, um, this guy emailed Uncle Billy, and um, we think we have probable cause that Uncle Billy may be associated with this person.
• 32:07
  How about how hard to actually show that he does?
• 32:10
  Well, we don't know because we can't see.
• 32:13
  Well, that's the point.
• 32:14
  See, we forget that the government has the burden of proof.
• 32:17
  Uncle Billy doesn't need to prove he's not dangerous.
• 32:20
  The government needs to prove he is dangerous.
• 32:23
  That's why the Fourth Amendment's warrant is standard is set up the way it is.
• 32:28
  Government needs has the burden of proof.
• 32:30
  Government needs to have probable cause.
• 32:33
  And tell me why are Uncle Billy's emails any different simply because he got one from someone under under surveillance overseas.
• 32:42
  How does that change Uncle Billy anymore?
• 32:46
  If we had logic and reading, well, he was just on a mailing list.
• 32:51
  Big deal.
• 32:51
  That shouldn't be probable cause for that.
• 32:54
  Oh, he's doing direct correspondence with this person.
• 32:56
  And look at, we looked at the at the communication and said, well, it looks like they may be planning something, so we need to see all of Uncle Billy's emails.
• 33:06
  That would be probable cause.
• 33:08
  That would be fulfilling their oath to support the Constitution.
• 33:11
  And Congress cannot be bothered.
• 33:13
  Now, I don't know if it's just because they're generally ignorant of the Constitution, or if they're just afraid that if they don't pass it and something happens, they'll be blanked.
• 33:22
  I don't know if it's if it's animus or cowardice, I don't care.
• 33:27
  Because it proves that these members of Congress aren't up to the job.
• 33:32
  That we the people hired the wrong people to represent us in Congress, which means it's up to we the people to fix this problem.
• 33:40
  Now, this bill is going to be kicked down 70, 45 days.
• 33:44
  I would not be surprised if it passes when it comes up in what?
• 33:47
  June.
• 33:48
  And uh, oh, by the way, that means it's what, another three years, I think, that this is authorized spying on the American public.
• 33:57
  Now we'll have an election between them, but tell me, do you really think, are you really ready to prepare prepared to vote against your incumbent Congress person simply because they voted to violate your Fourth Amendment rights?
• 34:10
  If the answer is no, well, then what value do you give to your rights?
• 34:16
  What are your rights worth?
• 34:18
  Yes, okay, they say they're gonna keep you safe.
• 34:22
  Um have they?
• 34:26
  Maybe they have, maybe they haven't.
• 34:29
  But if you're sitting there cowering, hoping that the federal government will keep you safe, what's going to keep you safe from the federal government and its own weaponization of their unconstitutional power to search and seize information or to seize you on the street without you know actually identifying themselves.
• 34:49
  I want to see them go beyond that.
• 34:50
  I want to see them not only identifying yourself, I want them to identify the penal code they're seizing you under.
• 34:56
  What's the law that was being broken?
• 34:58
  They should be have they should have to tell you, not some vague, you know, oh, disturbing the peace or or you know, no, there should be or suspicion of this or suspicion of that.
• 35:00
  Not some vague, you know, oh, disturbing the peace or or you know, no, there should be or suspicion of this or suspicion of that.
• 35:07
  No, they should actually have to say, um, you know, you're being detained for violation or suspected violation, uh regional article of suspicion of violation of this actual law.
• 35:07
  No, they should actually have to say, um, you know, you're being detained for violation or suspected violation, uh regional article of suspicion of violation of this actual law.
• 35:20
  And guess what?
• 35:20
  And guess what?
• 35:20
  Here's the other thing I'd love to see.
• 35:20
  Here's the other thing I'd love to see.
• 35:22
  I'd love to see courts hold police officers to the same standard they do the rest of Americans.
• 35:22
  I'd love to see courts hold police officers to the same standard they do the rest of Americans.
• 35:27
  If they lie,
• 35:27
  If they lie, they lose.
• 35:31
  It's a crime to lie in law enforcement, but it's not considered a crime to for law enforcement to lie to you.
• 35:39
  That to me is just more weaponization of government.
• 35:43
  Now, a lot of these plans, a lot of the ideas, they're being supported by um with different groups, right?
• 35:50
  Not for profits and NGOs and other groups, and they get a lot of their money from the corporations you and I do business with.
• 35:57
  How about we stop doing business with them?
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• 39:33
  Welcome back, everyday Americans.
• 39:35
  You rejoin the Constitution study.
• 39:37
  And uh today we're talking about the federal government is still being weaponized.
• 39:42
  I know we'd hope to be in, but it hasn't.
• 39:45
  Before during the election process, right back in 24, uh, people would always ask me, who do I support?
• 39:51
  And I'd always say I don't support people.
• 39:53
  I don't support individuals.
• 39:54
  I don't support personalities.
• 39:56
  I support policies.
• 39:57
  You have a good policy, I'll support it.
• 39:59
  You have a bad policy, I won't support it.
• 40:01
  I'll be against it.
• 40:02
  I don't care who you are, I don't care what party you're part of.
• 40:05
  In fact, I've had a couple of arguments where people got really upset when I said I wouldn't support an individual.
• 40:12
  I only support policies.
• 40:14
  And it's important, and I bring it up today because guess what?
• 40:18
  I beat up on the Biden administration when they were weaponizing government, and I'm beating up on the Trump administration when they're weaponizing government.
• 40:25
  Because my job is not to support or oppose Donald Trump.
• 40:31
  It's the policies, it's the Constitution, it's the laws of the United States that I support.
• 40:38
  And when actions go against that, the unconstitutional, I oppose them and I do so vociferously.
• 40:45
  It's kind of my job here.
• 40:48
  However, when things make more sense or at least constitutional, well, then I support those.
• 40:53
  So I've been beating up on the Trump administration.
• 40:55
  How about this?
• 40:56
  Uh Donald Trump recently signed an executive order that wants to change the the way federal con federal government contracts are uh are done.
• 41:08
  Now, one of the problems they have is the federal procurement has frequently depended on on what are called uh what I know as time and material contracts.
• 41:19
  Um, in other words, uh, we're not gonna let's say the federal government came and said, Paul, uh, we have a project for you to work on, right?
• 41:27
  Maybe it's back in my days when I was in IT or whatever.
• 41:30
  And uh uh we want you, we're gonna pay you based for your time and the materials that you use.
• 41:37
  Which is really great for me because no matter what, I'm making money, right?
• 41:42
  Any expense I incur on this project, the federal government's gonna pay for it.
• 41:46
  Any, and and I'm making money for every hour that I work because they're paying me time and materials.
• 41:51
  The problem is twofold.
• 41:53
  One is that's very unpredictable cost benefit.
• 41:57
  You know, how do you know how much this project is going to cost if you're just paying me for my time and materials?
• 42:00
  Cost if you're just paying me for my time and materials.
• 42:04
  Now, sometimes that's necessary based on the type of work being done, but uh more often than not it's not.
• 42:04
  Now, sometimes that's necessary based on the type of work being done, but uh more often than not it's not.
• 42:12
  But the other problem you have in there is it assumes that I'm an ominous, I'm an honest broker.
• 42:12
  But the other problem you have in there is it assumes that I'm an ominous I'm an honest broker.
• 42:18
  Now you may say, Well, Paul, you are an honest broker.
• 42:18
  Now you may say, well, Paul, you are an honest broker.
• 42:21
  People who know me say, yes, you're honest, you're meticulously honest.
• 42:21
  People who know me say, yes, you're honest, you're meticulously honest.
• 42:24
  I would be comfortable with that, but not everybody is.
• 42:24
  I would be comfortable with that, but not everybody is.
• 42:27
  So let's say as part of this project, I need to.
• 42:27
  So let's say as part of this project, I need to decide I need to build uh a facility, right?
• 42:32
  A 10,000 square foot facility uh for whatever work that I'm doing.
• 42:37
  And uh as soon as the contract's over, I still own the facility.
• 42:40
  Meaning the federal government bought that facility for me because it was done under the time and materials contract.
• 42:46
  So here's what the executive order wants to do.
• 42:50
  Um they want they they've been looking at some of the federal spending, and it's estimated in fiscal year 24, there was roughly a hundred and twenty billion dollars spent on these cost reimbursement contracts, these consulting contracts that um again have no incentive for cost control.
• 43:12
  So now the Trump administration wants agencies to rely more heavily on fixed price contracts where they have an they know it's gonna cost.
• 43:21
  So instead of saying, well, we'll just pay you time and materials, maybe I come back and I say, well, okay, uh, I need to figure out what it's gonna cost me to do this, uh, some reasonable profit built in there and tell the government it's gonna cost me X can cost you X amount of dollars for the project or X amount of dollars a year.
• 43:40
  A fixed price.
• 43:41
  You pay that, whether I make money or lose money, that's what the government's gonna pay.
• 43:45
  That's the way most of business works.
• 43:48
  Most places where I do it uh where I'm doing this type of stuff, I'm gonna say, well, okay, you're gonna pay me X amount of dollars, and here's the work that I'm gonna do.
• 43:57
  And uh, you know, only in the federal government do we see these, these a lot of these time and material contracts.
• 44:03
  We do see them occasionally in business, but that's only when the scope is unknown.
• 44:09
  And usually they're very tight restrictions put on it.
• 44:12
  So I don't have a problem with Trump saying we're gonna rely more heavily on fixed price contracts because it's simply fiscally sound, right?
• 44:21
  I mean, that's that beaten up on the Trump administration so much today.
• 44:25
  That's that's fine.
• 44:26
  Um here's another example.
• 44:29
  So again, there has been evidence of fraud in Minnesota, vast fraud.
• 44:35
  And as a consequence of this fraud, uh the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services say they're going to delay 91 million dollars in Medicare claim Medicaid, Medicaid claims to the state.
• 44:51
  Now, of course, this you know, Dr.
• 44:53
  Amemon Oz, the uh administrator for CMS uh was on a video announcing all this, and he says this is up about protecting patients and respecting taxpayers.
• 45:04
  That's nice.
• 45:05
  Uh, he went on to say 76 million dollars tied to 14 service categories, highly vulnerable to fraud.
• 45:13
  Um, another 14 that could potentially be directed toward illegal immigrants who are not supposed to be getting this coverage.
• 45:22
  So uh okay, is this is this the federal government weaponizing?
• 45:26
  Well, kind of yes and kind of no.
• 45:29
  Right?
• 45:30
  The initial thought is well, again, if there is fraud, if Minnesota is having problems with fraud, why should the federal government, why should the U.S.
• 45:37
  taxpayer be funding Minnesota fraud, right?
• 45:41
  That's a problem that Minnesota needs to deal with.
• 45:44
  If you, you know, if there's fraudulent um transactions going on, there have to be consequences.
• 45:50
  Notice they as I understand these are delayed payments.
• 45:53
  Now it's not that that Minnesota's not going to get the money.
• 45:57
  They're going to be withheld for a while until they can verify that these are actually legitimate claims.
• 46:03
  It's is how I understand it.
• 46:05
  Now, that doesn't mean that any of these payments are legal.
• 46:07
  These are all unconstitutional payments.
• 46:09
  Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, they're not authorized by the Constitution of the United States.
• 46:14
  Meaning Congress didn't have the power to create legislation to execute to execute these powers because they weren't vested in the government of the United States.
• 46:24
  Necessary and proper clause.
• 46:27
  That's why I say this is not really a weaponization.
• 46:32
  This is uh it isn't a standpoint of the federal government is punishing Minnesota for their bad behavior.
• 46:39
  And as an entity spending money, you have a right to say, listen, if you're not fulfilling the legal requirements, I don't have to pay you.
• 46:47
  I have somebody, I contract with somebody to do some work.
• 46:50
  I'm looking to get some work done here on the farm, right?
• 46:53
  I contract with them.
• 46:54
  We set up a payment schedule.
• 46:56
  If they don't meet the requirements for the payments, they don't get the payments.
• 47:01
  If they need to have X amount done before they get their, you know, usually they get an opening payment, they sign the contract, they get an initial payment.
• 47:08
  Then when they meet some milestone, they'll get another payment.
• 47:12
  If they don't meet the milestone, they don't get the payment.
• 47:15
  They don't get the payment until they meet the milestone.
• 47:16
  That's the way business works.
• 47:18
  And uh I think that's the way it should work.
• 47:20
  But again, remember, all of this money is embezzled for the American taxpayer.
• 47:25
  That $91 million they're delaying has been embezzled for the embezzled.
• 47:31
  In other words, it was money collected from the American taxpayer and spent on something the federal government is not legally authorized to spend money on.
• 47:40
  Because even though Congress passed the law, it was not a power delegated to the United States, therefore, Congress didn't have the legal authority to pass that law.
• 47:47
  Therefore, that law is null and void.
• 47:50
  Again, not my words.
• 47:52
  The words of Alexander Hamilton in Federal 78, the words of the Supreme Court in Marbury versus Madison, ex parte Sibold, Norton v.
• 47:59
  Shelby County.
• 48:01
  These are so this is the it's the weaponization of government, not the way we traditionally think of it.
• 48:09
  It is the government stealing money from the American taxpayer to manipulate a system that it controls so much of our medical establishment.
• 48:20
  How many payments, how many insurance companies are base their their funding or their their chart, their costs on what Medicaid and Medicare pays.
• 48:31
  These illegal entities.
• 48:34
  This is still a weaponization from that standpoint because the government is being used to manipulate the system.
• 48:41
  They're not legally allowed to, and they get away with it.
• 48:45
  Withholding money to an entity that's not fulfilling their part of the deal is not the weaponization.
• 48:50
  It's the whole system.
• 48:51
  It is Medicaid and Medicare.
• 48:53
  It is Social Security.
• 48:55
  It is the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the Department of Transportation.
• 49:00
  This is all weaponized government.
• 49:00
  This is all weaponized government.
• 49:03
  This is government being used to manipulate the system illegally.
• 49:03
  This is government being used to manipulate the system illegally.
• 49:08
  And since it's used to punish people that don't comply with these illegal orders, that, ladies and gentlemen, is a weaponization of government.
• 49:08
  And since it's used to punish people that don't comply with these illegal orders, that, ladies and gentlemen, is a weaponization of government.
• 49:16
  You thought it was going to disappear when Trump took office.
• 49:16
  You thought it was going to disappear when Trump took office.
• 49:20
  Ain't happening.
• 49:20
  Ain't happening.
• 49:22
  It's not going to happen until we the people read and study the Constitution, teacher action generation be free.
• 49:22
  It's not going to happen until we the people read and study the Constitution, teacher action generation be free.
• 49:28
  That's what John Jay said.
• 49:28
  That's what John Jay said.
• 49:30
  Why?
• 49:30
  Because he said by knowing their rights, they'll sooner perceive when they're violated.
• 49:35
  Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, on and on and on.
• 49:39
  And be the better prepared to defend and assert them.
• 49:42
  And that's the point.
• 49:44
  See if we're going to be free, if America is going to be the land of the free, it has to be the home of those brave enough to stand up for their rights, to take the chance to say, my rights are worth spending a little extra here.
• 49:58
  My rights are worth saying no to a government actor, knowing that I may have to pay a price, that I may be taken to jail illegally, that my have to defend myself in court.
• 50:10
  I might have to defend my rights in court.
• 50:13
  I may have to find a way to provide for my family while I'm doing that.
• 50:16
  I may have to provide for my legal team to do that.
• 50:21
  Because if you're going to give up your essential liberties for the promise, the false promise that government will take care of you, that government will provide for you, that government will not prosecute you for doing absolutely nothing wrong, like, oh, I don't know, a state deciding that they're going to spend their education dollars in their state their way, that the law enforcement must actually identify and be identifiable.
• 50:53
  Oh my God.
• 50:56
  But they're attacked anyway.
• 50:59
  This isn't, you know, they say freedom isn't free.
• 51:02
  Yeah, yeah, they're right.
• 51:03
  It's taken the blood of many an American to purchase your freedom.
• 51:09
  It's taken the courage of many Americans to stand up and say no, to be willing to file loose lawsuits, to file criminal complaints, to simply push back to say no, to know what their rights are, to bestand on them, knowing that even if they do everything right, the courts may not agree.
• 51:29
  Because the courts are part of the very government that we're trying to make sure we're free of.
• 51:34
  Not free from their legal authority, free from their illegal acts.
• 51:39
  Is it worth it?
• 51:41
  I can't say if it's worth it for you or not.
• 51:44
  I can tell you what it's done for me.
• 51:46
  It's amazingly freeing to realize I don't care.
• 51:54
  It's you know, I tell the story of uh during COVID, I was invited to a uh book fair in a neighboring county.
• 52:03
  And after I got there and set up, I was told that the the uh county had passed a mask mandate.
• 52:08
  And I said, I don't care.
• 52:10
  It's illegal.
• 52:12
  If they try to enforce it on me, guess what?
• 52:14
  I'll show them the law, and if they still want to pursue it, I will follow, I'll follow up with criminal complaints.
• 52:22
  I may go to jail, but it's worth it.
• 52:26
  Is it worth it because I get to live free?
• 52:29
  Yeah, maybe.
• 52:31
  But it's really worth it so that my daughter can live free.
• 52:36
  I need to be brave enough to defend our rights so that we remain the land of the free for my daughter and for the rising generation.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, let's not put up with government weaponization, regardless, regardless of it's donkeys or elephants.
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  Bad actions don't change, don't become good actions simply because they're done by your team.
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  That, ladies and gentlemen, that idea is truly evil.
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  And it's led to so many evils in this country.
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  The idea that my party, the right or wrong.
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  Yeah, well, that's uh that's what happens in the Soviet Union.
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  It's what happened in communist China.
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  And in many ways, it's happened here in the United States as well.
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  Now, let's say you've got this idea.
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  Okay, I want to read and study.
• 53:28
  I want to know the Constitution.
• 53:29
  What can I do?
• 53:30
  Well, let me humbly recommend my book, The Constitution Study.
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  It is my clause by clause study of the entire Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
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  Every article, every section, every line, every clause written in plain conversational English.
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  Meaning, I don't just simply recite it to you.
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  I quote it, but then we break it down.
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  What does this mean?
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  How can we understand it in 21st century America?
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  How does it apply to our lives in 21st century America?
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  Now you can find this book anywhere books are sold, but you can also go to the website, constitutionstudy.com/slash shop.
• 54:10
  You'll, that's my Constitution Study store, and you'll find it in the books section.
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  As I said, it's there, it's got the details to take it from not simply, okay, I've read the Constitution.
• 54:21
  I don't really know what it says, but I've read it so I feel better, to being able to stand up in front of a government agent like I have and say, I'm sorry, I'm not playing chit chat.
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  I have a right not to speak to you.
• 54:33
  I have a right to be secure in my home.
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  I know the rules, I know the boundaries.
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  I don't have to follow your instructions unless they're legal, unless those are lawful.
• 54:43
  Or I how do I know if it's a lawful order?
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  Does it comply with the supreme law of the land?
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  Or does it violate it?
• 54:49
  Not everybody's ready to stand up like that.
• 54:51
  I understand.
• 54:52
  But there's an amazing feeling when you find out that government is there to serve you, not to rule over you.
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  That means every person in government, local, state, and federal, are there to serve you.
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  They're public servants, not public masters.
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  And that knowledge, that understanding, that way of living is tremendously impactful.
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  It wasn't tremendously impactful to my life.
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  I believe it'll be a tremendously impactful to yours as well.
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  That's why I recommend.
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  And again, you buy the book if you want, I'll even sign it for you.
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