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What we can learn from the recent elections · 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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  They weren't presidential or even midterm elections earlier this week.
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  But there's still a lot we can learn from them.
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  Hello there, everyday Americans.
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  Paul Engel here with the Constitution Study, where we read and study the Constitution, teacherizing generation be free.
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  Glad you could join me today.
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  Again, earlier this week we had elections in a few states and a couple cities.
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  And I think there's a lot we can learn.
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  Of course, people have been talking about Virginia and New Jersey and the gubernatorial races.
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  To me, those are just partisan divides.
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  It's, you know, the Republicans, it's the donkeys versus the elephants, and you know, they're whining and crying over who got the most.
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  And I really don't care.
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  Partially because I don't live in those states, but partially because again, the the partisan bias to me isn't the is part of the problem, not the uh uh not the solution to what ails this country.
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  However, there is one race that got my attention for a couple of reasons.
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  It didn't surprise me at all that Zoran Mandani won the president, the mayoral, sorry, the mayoral race in New York City.
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  Um a lot of people said, oh, socialists will never win.
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  I knew he was, I figured he was gonna win.
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  Uh I'm not a betting man, but boy, you know, I would have taken those odds.
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  And there's a couple things behind that.
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  One is, and of course, a lot of people point out that uh, you know, he's he's a uh he's a Muslim.
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  Yeah, well, uh again, from a you know, while I have my own personal opinions from a qualifications for the role of mayor.
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  We can't single him out because of it.
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  It's actually unconstitutional to have a a religious test, at least for federal office.
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  I think you should extend that to state and local offices as well.
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  Now, a lot of obviously have been made about the fact that he is a member of the Democratic Socialist Party, which to me is a redundancy.
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  He's you know, Democratic Socials of America, Democrat and socialists today are pretty much synonymous.
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  It's like saying an elephantine Republican uh or an asinine Democrat.
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  Maybe you could make that uh joke as well.
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  But the point is the Democratic Party has been moving socialist faster and faster over the years, so it doesn't really surprise me.
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  But that doesn't mean we can't learn something from that uh that particular fact.
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  For example, um, well, it proves that the American people are easily bribed into giving away their vote.
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  I mean, all you have to do is promise them free stuff, and and they'll vote for anybody.
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  Uh, they'd probably vote for a trained monkey if they promised them free stuff.
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  Free rent, controlled rent, free bus rides, you know, uh city run grocery stores that would supposedly be cheaper than all of the it's it's all rhetoric designed to look at the basic greed of human beings.
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  I want something for nothing.
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  But the lesson that seems to be lost is there's no such thing as a free lunch.
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  There's no such thing as a free apartment, no such thing as a free bus ride, and no such thing as a free grocery store.
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  Which is the second thing I observed.
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  I would like to observe from this particular election, and that is at least in New York City, the citizens seem not to learn from history.
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  Now, whether you prefer the line from uh Santiana, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, or maybe you prefer a little bit of uh Albert Einstein doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result is a definition of insanity.
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  Um take a look at every socialist nation.
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  And I mean truly so not ones that they call socialists, truly socialist nation.
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  And uh tell me one that actually thrives.
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  Okay, you can look and say China's doing real well right now.
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  Well, um, yes, a yes and a no.
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  The government of China's doing really well.
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  It's people, I would say not so much.
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  But if you look at socialism throughout history, it doesn't work.
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  Because as Margaret Thatcher once says, eventually the socialists run out of other people's money.
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  So if, you know, who is it?
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  Mondani said that his his quote unquote free buses are gonna cost between 600 and 700 million dollars a year.
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  That's a pretty expensive free bus ride.
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  Because there is no such thing as a free bus ride or a free lunch, and sooner or later you're gonna run out of other people's money.
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  Now, what's interesting is I've heard a lot of people saying there's going to be a mass exodus from New York City if they since they've they elected a socialist.
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  And I think that's a yes and a no.
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  I think you're gonna see people of means, you're gonna see the wealthy move away, just as they always have.
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  There's a reason why there's so many wealthy neighborhoods just north of New York City and just east in Connecticut, uh, because well, they were these with the rich people escaping the uh the ravages of the crazy ideas and crazy policies of New York City.
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  On the other hand, I think you're gonna see a lot more poor heading into the city because they can get free stuff.
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  They've been promised free stuff.
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  We'll head in the city.
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  Gee, I you mean I can get an apartment at a at a subsidized by the city of New York.
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  Yeah, let me moot, let me do that.
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  Oh, you mean I'm gonna get free bus fares and I'm gonna get discounts at the city uh at the city grocery stores.
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  What do you end up doing?
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  What we've seen over history is that the both both the wealth and the man in cases, the um, I don't want to say the intelligence, but the the more the the more wide-collar uh uh worker will flee New York City, and the poor and the uh the the blue-collar will tend to flock into New York City, further decreasing the tax base.
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  Now, I'm not saying that all the wealthy people are gonna flee, because guess what?
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  Uh, if you're really wealthy, a little extra taxes probably doesn't hurt too much.
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  Uh, you get that nice apartment up on the upper east side, maybe, uh, or maybe on Fifth Avenue.
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  I mean, there's a uh there'd be a lot of people that stay.
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  What you're gonna see is the middle class squeezed out.
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  That's my expectation.
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  Now, the other one I heard, which uh again really got me uh uh really interesting me was um well, most of what Mondani wants to do, he has to get he can't do, he needs the state to do it, and the New York State's just not gonna let him happen.
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  I'd like to introduce you to uh uh governor Kathy Hogel and look at her track record, and you really think that this socialist democratic governor is not gonna support many of the goals that this socialist democratic mayor is gonna promote.
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  Maybe he won't get all of them, but I bet you he's gonna get most of them, especially the ones that are directly under his control.
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  Things like uh trying to get rid of the police, uh, you know, sending social workers to domestic violence cases, not uh police.
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  Yeah, I think um he's gonna be able to do a lot of that, and I think eventually New York City is going to suffer because it's it's the people of New York City.
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  I forget who was that said it that uh, you know, we live in a democratic nation.
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  What you vote for, people should get what they vote for, and they should get it good and hard.
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  And uh that's what I think is gonna happen in New York City.
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  Now, I have a I have a cousin that still lives in New York City.
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  He's got uh uh an apartment on the lower east side of Manhattan.
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  Um I'm kind of curious what he's gonna do because he has a lot of economic advantages to stay there because it is a historically run-controlled building, and his job, the last I uh I would talk to him, which wasn't that long ago, was still based in Midtown Manhattan.
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  But is this gonna create added pressure for him to leave the city and take his taxes with him?
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  I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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  Now, there was uh something else I learned actually happened over in New Jersey.
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  No, it wasn't a gubernatorial race, it was the apparent uh bomb threats made at several New Jersey election sites on election day, uh, prompting these polling areas to be temporarily closed.
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  Now, apparently these bomb threats uh were uh I guess they were emailed to polling areas in Bergen, Exis, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Passaic Counties.
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  Now, law enforcement officers responded.
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  Uh, they didn't see any credible threats.
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  They secured the the polling locations uh to
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  To guarantee help protect the safety of everyone, poll worker and voter alike.
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  Um I expect uh uh New Jersey law enforcement is looking into it.
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  Apparently, the um, according to the U.S.
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  attorney for the district of New Jersey, uh, the federal department of justice is looking into this as well.
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  And again, I'm not that familiar with uh New Jersey politics.
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  I don't know if there's a common thread through those particular counties.
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  Maybe there is, maybe there isn't.
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  Could that lead to a motive behind these?
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  We'll have to wait and find out.
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  I'm, you know, I'm I'm I don't want to speculate too far.
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  But I don't think it's too much of a stretch that an individual or individuals or a group, whatever, um, deemed the actual people exercising their right to vote so dangerous to their agenda that they were willing to threaten, if not actually enact bombings at polling centers.
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  Now, what does that say about the status of at least some people in American society?
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  Uh again, like I was talking about yesterday, freedom of speech.
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  You have the right to say a lot of things.
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  Calling in a threat goes beyond your freedom of speech.
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  You can be held accountable.
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  And I hope the people that that person are people that did this.
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  Um, I hope they are caught.
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  I hope they're prosecuted.
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  I hope they get their day in court, that they're confronted with evidence against them and able to be bring evidence in their defense.
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  And if they're found guilty, I hope they're punished appropriately.
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  Because this isn't just uh an attack on a political party or on the process of voting.
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  It truly is an attack on the idea of self-government.
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  That, you know, that uh governments are instituted among men to secure our rights and that they get their just powers from the consent of the governed.
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  If we are not allowed to vote, if we're not allowed to consent to our representatives, then we're not a republic.
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  And if this is the case, remember the federal government has has the duty to ensure each state has a Republican form of government.
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  This is an attack on the Republican form of government, meaning people choosing representatives to exercise their power in their name.
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  And uh uh, yes, it should be looked at because it's an attack on the foundations of the republic on the foundation of a republican form of government where people get to choose who they want to represent them without the intimidation of uh bomb threats uh or or other means to prevent people from going to the polls.
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  As I said, the governorship in New Jersey, not it, you know, it it uh I really don't care.
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  I'm not surprised they chose a Democrat uh uh, you know, same in Virginia.
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  I'm not really surprised.
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  To me, it doesn't make that much of a direct impact.
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  It's a question of the person in that office.
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  How are they gonna execute the duties of governor, the chief executive of their states?
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  Um I know large parts of New Jersey believe in the communist socialist democratic agenda.
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  Uh same thing in Virginia, they believe in that in that agenda, some don't, which means some people are going to be happy, some people are gonna be sad, some people are gonna enjoy the next few years, some people are expecting to be a very painful next few years.
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  The understanding the point is the people of these states chose, and they should get what they chose good and hard.
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  And the only limitation on them should be the constitution of their state, and the laws made pursuant thereof, and the constitution of the United States and the laws made in pursuance of it.
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  If the people are unhappy with their governor, they got to choose him, they have to live with them.
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  Even if you didn't specifically vote for him, that's part of living in a society.
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  You don't get your way.
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  You have to work in a society with other people.
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  And the majority of people said we want the socialists in New York City, we want Democrats in New Jersey and Virginia, and now it's time for them to live with the consequences of those decisions.
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  And I think we're going to be learning over the next few years what those consequences are.
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  But I want to point out I had a a comment I looked at earlier today, talking about uh uh how representatives don't represent the people to do that, but we the people keep voting for them.
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  We place them in these positions.
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  So ultimately, who's responsible?
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  The elected or the people that put them there.
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  Is it the representative, or in this case the executive, or the people that put them there?
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  You've asked for this, you got it.
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  Now you have to live with it.
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  And when people start whining and complaining, the people of New Jersey, the people of New York City, the people of Virginia, we voted, they voted for these people.
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  Um not only do they have to suffer the consequences.
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  I only wish that maybe they would learn.
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  Now, some of them are going to learn that, hey, they offered me free stuff.
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  I'm going to get some free stuff.
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  If I get free stuff, then I'll keep voting to be a dependent on the government to be a slave, a subject of a government actor, and that's what they want.
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  Hopefully, someone look at this and say, I'm not real happy with this.
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  I don't like being a slave of a government entity.
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  I'd rather be free.
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  Yeah, there's risks, yeah, there's work, but in the long run, it's worth it.
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  The question is, will the people of the states and the city of New York will they learn that lesson?
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  History tells me it's unlikely.
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  Now, I want to take a look at some of the longer term impacts of different elections.
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  And maybe what we can learn, what we should have learned.
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  First thing I do is say, have you met or followed uh the Governor Hokel's record?
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  And have you looked at how much he actually needs state assistance for?
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  Going to the first part.
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  The idea that the governor Hochel is not going to put in any crazy socialist uh uh items.
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  He's not gonna she's not gonna allow New York City to do that.
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  Well, there's a recent story out about um 19 members of the New York.
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  So in New York, you have an assembly in a Senate.
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  All right, they don't have a house, they have an assembly in the Senate.
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  And there are 19 assembly people, assembly men, who have urged Governor Hokel to delay um, I said of building electric uh building electrification goals that she sent that she set.
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  Uh oh, by the way, these aren't Republican assembly men, these are Democrats.
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  Now, according to the well, the leading uh uh the leader of this is uh William Conrad, who sent a letter claiming that the electric building mandate, which bans gas appliances for most new structures starting at the end of this year, could strain New York's grid and hike cuss consumer costs.
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  Why?
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  Well, because the the utility companies that actually have to supply the electricity are struggling to meet the electrification mandate.
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  Now, according to um experts, those are scare quotes, right?
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  Energy experts, New York's power grid is already running under restrain.
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  Adding more electrical load is gonna make the problem worse.
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  Now, personally, I'm not a fan of electric stoves because I don't like the way they work.
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  Right.
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  Uh, it's not a question of you know, uh political position.
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  I prefer a gas stove.
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  I granted I haven't tried an induction stove at this point, but I've had gas, I've had electric gas as a as a cook, I think works much, much better.
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  Um but uh again, even Democratic lawmakers are saying that this is this gas stove ban is gonna collapse under the weight of its own hypocrisy.
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  Now, here's the interesting thing, and again, I haven't seen anybody bring this up.
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  What about what if I told you that this gas stove ban uh violates the 14th amendment?
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  Why?
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  Because it deprives you of the liberty to use the product you want without due process of law.
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  There is nothing protecting the rights of the individual in this agenda in this law.
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  Now, to everybody in in New York, especially in the assembly, um, I point out that uh whether you voted for or not, the assembly is getting what it voted for, and it's getting it good and hard.
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  And I really hope they do, not because I want New Yorkers to suffer, I want them to learn.
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  You know, when when people are a child, sometimes they need a painful lesson to learn.
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  I remember I had a uh a cousin who had a small boy who um when his mother told him to not go run after his grandfather who was out on the lawnmower, uh, ran after the lawnmower, his grandfather on the lawnmower, and it took a slightly painful reminder that you need to obey your mother that to teach him that lesson.
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  Maybe that's the case with the people of New York.
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  Maybe that's the case with the people in the assembly.
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  You gotta learn the lesson.
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  Okay, here's a painful lesson.
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  You elect a socialist governor, you elect socialists in your assembly in your Senate, you're gonna get socialist dictatorial mandates like this, and when they bite, they're gonna bite hard, and it's gonna hurt.
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  And the more you point the finger at uh Hokel and others, remember, we the people of the state of New York voted for this.
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  She was elected.
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  Granted, yes, she first took over from Cuomo, but she got she won an election.
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  She was chosen, you asked for it, you got it.
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  I hope you enjoy it, New York.
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  Speaking of that, uh, there's actually a case in federal court, um, where X, formerly Twitter, is suing the state to stop enforcement of the Stop Hiding Hate Act.
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  Uh it was a law, it was signed in the law in December of 2024, and it requires social media companies operating in the state of New York with more than 100 million dollars in annual revenue to report twice a year about how they monitor and respond to user-shared content related to hate speech, uh, extremism, misinformation, harassment, and foreign political influence.
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  Um, first of all, uh why?
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  Where does the state of New York get the authority to tell a company, a private entity, to report information?
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  And and and by the way, who defines what is hateful?
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  Who defines hate speech?
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  Because there's no legal definition of it that I'm aware of.
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  Because one person's hate speech is a politically inconvenient truth.
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  And how often have we found misinformation a few weeks later turned out to be absolutely true?
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  Now, okay, extremism.
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  Again, you have a problem with definitions.
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  Umassment, okay, there's a legal definition for harassment and for foreign political influence.
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  But foreign political influence is not a inherently a state influence.
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  I should be a I thought that was a federal, you know, our our our commercial relations with with other nations.
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  No, what this what this really is is an attempt to suppress politically incorrect speech.
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  Whether it's labeled hate speech or misinformation or extremism, what this is in New York State is an attempt to censor and suppress politically incorrect speech.
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  Because I bet you when they talk about hate speech, they're not at all talking about the people that were uh firebombing synagogues.
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  Or the uh was the the students in Columbia University that had to hide in a in a in an office because of the anti-Semitic uh group that was that was hounding them.
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  I bet you that level of harassment wouldn't qualify under the Stop Hiding Hate Act.
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  I I guess the the attacks by Antifa and Black Lives Matter that were organized on social media.
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  I bet you they wouldn't qualify.
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  But this is what we get.
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  We we never learn the lesson that the people we hire to represent us are gonna do what they do, and if we don't choose bet people who have a better standard, we're gonna keep getting this type of discriminatory, dictatorial, top-down, do things our way or else.
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  Now, what's interesting is I I took a quick look at the complaint for the uh um the this the suit, and it seems to be focused more on divulging sensitive information.
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  In other words, it says nothing about hey, the state of New York is trying to deprive deprive X and the owners of X of its liberty and that it has in running its own private company the way it wants, unless and until you show actual harm to somebody, an actual deprivation of rights, and B, you're depriving me the of their property in the comp in the the platform the company owns by telling us how to run it again without showing actual harm to someone else.
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  It is by uh it would be defined in my view as arbitrary and capricious, because those terms, hate speech, extremism, uh extremism, misinformation, um, even to a certain extent harassment, they are they're arbitrary to the determined.
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  At least those first three, right?
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  Hate speech, extremism, misinformation.
• 30:04
  Those are arbitrary terms.
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  That makes this an arbitrary capricious law, but that isn't what I saw.
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  Now, again, I didn't read through the whole complaint.
• 30:14
  It's it's there's a lot to it.
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  But um to me, it's it this is what you get when you hire people that don't uphold their oath to support the constitution or just have a their own view of um what they should and should not be allowed under the constitution.
• 30:35
  Let's not forget the actual wording.
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  We're just gonna no, this is okay.
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  We shouldn't allow hate speech.
• 30:40
  Well, define hate speech.
• 30:43
  It is is hate speech uh uh from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free.
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  Is that hate speech?
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  Is it extreme to believe that the constitution means what it says when it says the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed?
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  That's my problem with the law.
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  And of course, it shouldn't really surprise you that the state of New York is asked the judge to dismiss the case.
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  We'll have to wait and see.
• 31:09
  Now, if we're talking about X, well, that all obviously makes you think about Elon Musk, and which brings you to this story.
• 31:15
  Surprise, surprise, it's been found that Google has been actively suppressing uh their their search results involving a competitor.
• 31:28
  Who here is shocked?
• 31:30
  Oh, that's a big surprise.
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  That's an incredible.
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  I think I'm gonna have a heart attack and die from that surprise.
• 31:38
  Exactly.
• 31:39
  There's no surprise in in any of this.
• 31:41
  But uh, so apparently Musk has launched Gracopedia.
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  It's his alleged AI-driven online encyclopedia.
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  Now, by now you probably have good idea what I think about.
• 31:56
  Well, they call it AI, artificial.
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  It's not artificial intelligence, ladies and gentlemen.
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  It's imitation intelligence.
• 32:03
  It's trying to imitate the way we think, but like any other intelligence, it's taught by humans.
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  And if humans can make mistakes, they can you know in responding to questions, humans can make mistakes in training these AIs.
• 32:20
  Uh, I talked, uh, was I think it was yesterday, I was talking about uh chat GPT, made up outrageous lies about uh people, and then uh they got sued for defamation, and the court said nope, you can't sue this guy because he's actually a radio host that makes him a public figure.
• 32:36
  But again, are we surprised that Google, instead of pointing towards Gracopedia and Elon Musk, um prefers to point people towards Wikipedia?
• 32:50
  Now again, Wikipedia is a source, it's not a trusted source.
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  Can you use it for information?
• 32:57
  Yeah, you you can and uh uh the the point is do you trust it?
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  Because again, it's been found to lie.
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  Gracopedia's been found to lie.
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  All of these AIs, they call it hallucination, which is a basically a try to get around the fact that AI is merely mimiting, it's merely doing what is trainers told it to do.
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  Any biases in these AI come from the trainers and the content they were trained on and how the trainers taught them to respond to that content.
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  So the Google search algorithm, the fact that it's suppressing what's considered a more conservative AI, should really surprise absolutely no one.
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  But it does.
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  Which uh again, why?
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  With all of the examples of the biases of Google, there's a reason why I don't have an Android phone.
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  Because of what I've seen from Google.
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  There's a reason why I don't use the Google search engine.
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  There's a reason why I don't use Google products whenever possible.
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  Um not just because of the the uh uh political bias, but because of of what they do with the data that I share with them.
• 34:14
  Um, yeah, no.
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  And again, I look at this and saying it's just to me one more reason why I don't trust Google.
• 34:23
  You know, they're there.
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  I wish they would follow their model, their motto, their motto is supposed to be don't be evil.
• 34:29
  Yet more and more, it seems like Google's evil.
• 34:33
  But I want to ask you a question.
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  Who do you think it's supposed to fix this?
• 34:38
  I'm I'm reading this off of a news busters, and they're saying, well, you know, Google has been uh busted, actively suppressing a competitor.
• 34:47
  Well, does that mean you expect government to come in and force Google to promote a competitor?
• 34:53
  Isn't Google a private company?
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  Don't they have the right to uh uh run their algorithm any way they see fit, as long as they don't harm the rights of another?
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  You see, uh does not have a right to be included in Google search results.
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  They don't.
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  Google's a private company.
• 35:14
  Now, you learn about this and say, well, gee, does that mean I want to trust?
• 35:19
  Maybe maybe I look at this and say, maybe I don't want to trust Google, or maybe Google drops down a few points because hey, you're suppressing information.
• 35:27
  Now the question is, where else do I go?
• 35:30
  Well, sure, you've got bang, and I I personally like duck duck go, and and there are other locations that you can go.
• 35:38
  But the question I keep coming back to is are the people we elected gonna try and meddle in this because well, they think the fact that that you know Google uh ranks their search results in the way that they think their customers want is wrong because you're hiding Gracopedia.
• 35:58
  Well, does that mean that Gracopedia must refer to Wikipedia as offices as it does to itself?
• 36:04
  Um, you know, does it it's it's part of this mentality that gets promoted by the people we vote for.
• 36:13
  And to me, it's just another example of what we can learn, not just from the recent elections, but from the reaction to pri of the people that have already been elected.
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  Something we can learn.
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  And learning, learning is a good thing.
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  Welcome back, everyday Americans you've rejoined the Constitution study.
• 40:56
  And well, today we've been talking about what we can learn from the recent elections.
• 41:00
  I want to kind of expand that because it's not simply from the elections, but from the people who have been elected, right?
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  The people that we hire to represent us.
• 41:11
  We need to remember when you go to the ballot box, you are hiring employees.
• 41:17
  If there's an idea, I would just love to drum into the minds of the American people.
• 41:21
  You are hiring employees.
• 41:23
  They are there to represent you.
• 41:25
  Their job is to uh be a representative of you to exercise your power in your name.
• 41:32
  And uh that to me, that's that's incredibly important.
• 41:36
  So I want to I I saw this article, and at first you may not think this is true, but let me follow along with me a little bit.
• 41:44
  So apparently Trump announced that he wants he's gonna move the the headquarters of U.S.
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  Space Command from Colorado to Alabama, Huntsville specifically, from Colorado Springs, Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama.
• 42:02
  Now, he is the commander-in-chief.
• 42:05
  These are the headquarters of a military command.
• 42:08
  Here's the interesting thing.
• 42:09
  See, Colorado is filed a lawsuit to prevent the Trump and administration from making this move.
• 42:17
  The reason why is interesting.
• 42:20
  So they the state of Colorado claims that the move is unconstitutional.
• 42:26
  Why?
• 42:28
  Well, they claim that uh that when Trump announced the move, that he said uh that he has a problem that he has with Colorado, they do mail-in voting, and that played a big factor in his decision to move Space Command from Colorado to Allabama.
• 42:48
  Now, the lawsuit claims that the Constitution does not permit the executive to punish or retaliate against states for lawfully engaged exercising sovereign powers reserved for the states, as Trump and the executive branch have unlawfully done here.
• 43:02
  That's an interesting question.
• 43:05
  Okay.
• 43:06
  The first step the the there's a couple things I want to that I think we should be paying attention to here.
• 43:12
  So, first, um let's start with the is Trump re punishing or retaliating against the state for exercising its sovereign powers.
• 43:22
  Um to a certain extent, yes.
• 43:26
  I haven't seen the the announcement, but if it's true that he said that he has a problem with Colorado because they do mail-in voting, um, okay, yeah, then he's he's but he's moving them because of an action they took.
• 43:42
  In other words, Colorado has every right to to say we're gonna do mail-in voting, uh, except if Congress passes a law involving the election of House and Senate members that says you can't do mail-in voting for those uh seats.
• 43:59
  That's the that's the only federal rule they have.
• 44:02
  But that doesn't mean that there aren't going to be consequences for that actions.
• 44:07
  It's a it's a question of let's lay aside the fact that this is a big factor.
• 44:12
  How big a factor, we don't know.
• 44:14
  If it apparently wasn't the only factor, but if the executive says, listen, you have a less than secure mail in uh voting process, you know, I don't want my uh the the soldiers and airmen, the the the are the space cadets, we'll call them.
• 44:34
  We don't want the the members of the space force being subject to mail in voting because it's less secure.
• 44:42
  So we're gonna move that's one of the factors in why we move somewhere else.
• 44:46
  I mean, to take Colorado's position to its logical conclusion, then the state can do anything it wants without any consequences, which it just isn't reality.
• 45:00
  You know, you basically say Colorado could secede from the union but still get federal subsidies because that would be punishing them for taking a an action, exercising their sovereign powers.
• 45:14
  Um, you know, I I think Colorado doesn't have a very strong leg to work on.
• 45:19
  Now, could they claim that this move is arbitrary and capricious?
• 45:23
  Yeah, possibly, and then that may be farther down in uh in this uh uh this complaint.
• 45:31
  I haven't uh read all the way through it.
• 45:34
  It's it's again curious.
• 45:37
  But the idea that the state of Colorado has a right to be the headquarters of U.S.
• 45:42
  Space Command, regardless of what they do, well, that shows to me an attitude of entitlement.
• 45:49
  No matter what I do, you can't take something away from me.
• 45:53
  We see this in a lot of different rays, ways, right?
• 45:56
  You know, I can uh uh people who say, well, I can call for the assassination of my political opponents, but you can't punish me for it because I was just exercising my freedom of speech.
• 46:08
  Now, that may be uh an extreme example, but it still comes back to the question of does the state of Colorado have a right to be the home of U.S.
• 46:21
  Space Command.
• 46:23
  Now, they also claim that the president has indicated that this action is only the start and that he will order further executive actions to coerce Colorado and other states to end mail-in voting.
• 46:35
  Um, I'd love to see the evidence of that.
• 46:38
  I'm assuming they've got some evidence somewhere.
• 46:41
  And again, you know, if it's maybe he's extended, he's going beyond his scenario to demand it, but that doesn't mean he has to support it through through his actions either.
• 46:52
  But here's the interesting question.
• 46:53
  Here's a scenario that it's actually point three in the complaint.
• 46:57
  He says, at the foundation of our republic, the constitution established a system of dual sovereignty with states retaining a residuary and inviolable sovereignty.
• 47:07
  This is based on the case Prince versus United States.
• 47:10
  We've talked about this uh in the past.
• 47:13
  Um, you know, we have Sheriff Mack uh actually had a suit as well that became Prince versus the United States, you know.
• 47:20
  They there is a question of to me, it's not dual sovereignty, it's more parallel sovereignty because the 10th Amendment says a power not delegated to the United States is reserved to the states unless it's prohibited to the states.
• 47:34
  But the idea that just because you retain a power, I'm not saying Colorado doesn't have the right to have mail-in voting unless and until Congress says you can't have mail-in voting for U.S.
• 47:46
  House and Senate.
• 47:47
  Then for those elections and those elections only, Colorado would have to suspend mail-in voting.
• 47:54
  They'd have to have in-person voting.
• 47:56
  But that doesn't mean those decisions come without consequences.
• 48:00
  Now, to me, the question is does the president have unitary authority to determine um where different uh branches of the military are headquartered.
• 48:14
  Is that a power delegated to him, or is that one reserved by Congress?
• 48:18
  That'd be an interesting argument to see to see the deep and consider the details of that.
• 48:23
  Um the the idea that, well, we can do whatever we want, and you know, you can't punish us for it.
• 48:31
  Yeah, that's that's what comes from the from the uh apparently elected officials in the state of Colorado.
• 48:38
  I'm I'm gonna keep an eye on this.
• 48:39
  Might be an interesting case if depending on how it moves forward.
• 48:44
  Now, again, another thing we can learn from the reason now, the elections, they did not include any of the federal, but our elections in general have consequences.
• 48:55
  For example, on October 22nd, the U.S.
• 49:02
  national debt surpassed 38 trillion dollars.
• 49:08
  38 trillion dollars.
• 49:12
  Now that's bad enough.
• 49:14
  That that in itself shows the consequences of the idiots we've put in Congress.
• 49:18
  Because remember, no money is spent except out of the U.S.
• 49:21
  Treasury, except by appropriations by Congress, which means the people we hire to represent us in the House and the people we hire to represent our states in the Senate.
• 49:30
  But there's more.
• 49:32
  You see, the U.S.
• 49:34
  debt hit 37 trillion dollars only back in August.
• 49:39
  That's right.
• 49:40
  From August through October, the United States borrowed a trillion dollars.
• 49:50
  This country existed for over 200 years before we were a trillion dollars in debt.
• 49:57
  Now we're adding a trillion dollars in debt in a month.
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  And a half, well, sorry, two and a half months.
• 50:02
  I think it was a 70, 72 days.
• 50:04
  I think 72 days was the number I heard.
• 50:07
  What does that say about the people we hire to represent us?
• 50:12
  And this, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, is in the middle of a government shutdown because one party wants to extend uh tax credits that were due to expire because of legislation that this is going to expire on this date, uh you know, the end of 2024, and they don't want it.
• 50:33
  They want to spend even more money.
• 50:37
  Now think of it this way.
• 50:39
  In January of 24, the U.S.
• 50:41
  debt hit 34 trillion dollars.
• 50:44
  July of 24 hit 35 trillion dollars.
• 50:48
  In November of 24, it hit 36 trillion dollars.
• 50:53
  And then again, in August of 25, it hit 37.
• 50:57
  And now in August, it's hit 38.
• 51:00
  The consequences, what we can learn from our from these elections, is the people are more than happy to steal from their neighbors, to take the bribe from the from the federal, state, and local governments, and simply rob their neighbors blind in order to get free goodies.
• 51:24
  Because in 2000, it was 2023.
• 51:26
  I looked at the 202023 spending and uh looked at how much of it was actually authorized by the Constitution in the United States.
• 51:37
  And roughly two thirds of our spending every year, in 2023, was unconstitutional.
• 51:46
  You know what that means?
• 51:48
  That means not only if we if the federal government only spent the money was constitutionally authorized to spend, not only would we have a balanced budget, not only would the annual deficit be a surplus, but that we could we could pay off the federal debt in I think roughly 10 years.
• 52:10
  But we don't want that.
• 52:11
  The American people don't want that.
• 52:12
  We want to steal from our neighbors.
• 52:15
  We want to embezzle money from our neighbors to fund our lifestyles and just leave it to our children and grandchildren to pay off the debt.
• 52:24
  Sounds like a greedy bunch of people, doesn't it?
• 52:27
  Well, look in the mirror because if you voted for people in the house that are appropriating money this way, guess what?
• 52:35
  You help feed the embezzlement.
• 52:38
  You are an accessory before the fact.
• 52:42
  The good news is you can do something about it.
• 52:44
  You and your neighbors.
• 52:46
  You can't do it alone.
• 52:47
  You need your neighbors, but guess what?
• 52:48
  Let's start hiring people for the House of Representatives that understand how to balance a budget, a checkbook, how a credit card works, or a loan works, how debt works.
• 53:00
  And that recognizes that they take an oath to support the Constitution, which means they're only supposed to be appropriating money that is authorized by the Constitution.
• 53:10
  Congress can collect taxes and do three things pay the debt of the United States, the common defense of the United States, and the general welfare of the United States, not of the states, not of the people, the United States itself.
• 53:25
  That's our those are the consequences of the last past elections.
• 53:29
  There's 38 trillion dollars in debt, and that's not going to go away until the American people start taking responsibility for the people they hire to represent them and to approve this.
• 53:41
  Now, does that mean we're going to have more government shutdowns?
• 53:44
  Probably.
• 53:48
  Absolutely.
• 53:49
  Let's face it, when you become addicted to something, it's painful to withdraw from it.
• 53:55
  We've become addicted to stealing other people's money.
• 53:58
  It's going to be painful.
• 54:00
  But the good news is once you get through that short-term pain, and yes, it'll be relatively short term.
• 54:06
  The possibilities become endless.
• 54:19
  When we start holding our elected representatives accountable, when we treat them like employees, not simply as a giant ATM of money embezzled from ourselves and our neighbors.
• 54:34
  Now, where can you learn more about this?
• 54:36
  I always recommend my book, The Constitution Study, Returning the Constitution to We the People.
• 54:41
  It's been it in it hasn't so much been taken as we've abdicated our responsibility to study it for ourselves.
• 54:48
  You know, we've allowed the lawyers to create this Gnostic system where, oh, you couldn't possibly understand the Constitution.
• 54:55
  It's too complicated.
• 54:56
  No, it's not.
• 54:57
  It's the opinion of judges that have made it complicated.
• 55:00
  It's the attorneys have made it complicated.
• 55:02
  The Constitution itself, dirt simple.
• 55:04
  An 18th-century farmer could understand this.
• 55:06
  Why can't a 21st century American?
• 55:09
  That's why I wrote this.
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  It's my clause-by-clause study of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, written in plain conversational English, so that any American should be able to read and understand the Supreme Law of the L.
• 55:23
  Why?
• 55:24
  Because John Jay, our first chief justice, said every member of the state ought diligently to read and study the constitution of his country, teacherizing generation be free by knowing their rights, they'll sooner perceive when they're violated and be the better prepared to defend and assert them.
• 55:39
  It's not it's not really that hard.
• 55:41
  It's not hard at all.
• 55:42
  It's only been made scary because we've let the lawyers lie to us that it is difficult.
• 55:47
  You can sit down and read it.
• 55:49
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• 55:50
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• 55:54
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• 56:11
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• 56:21
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• 56:23
  If you and I aren't going to defend our own rights, who's going to do it for us?
• 56:29
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• 56:34
  But that's what we try to do here at the Constitution Study is help people recognize, yes, you can read and study the Constitution.
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