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Taking back our country · 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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  During an interview, Justice Thomas said, Americans need to take back our country.
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  I wholeheartedly agree.
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  The question is, how?
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  Hello there, everyday Americans.
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  Paul Engle here with the Constitution Study, where we read instead of the Constitution, teacher writing generation be free.
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  So glad you could join me today.
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  And I want to thank the person, you know who you are, who sent me the video clip that I'm going to use to open today.
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  And I appreciate everybody who sends me, you know, content that they ask for for my comment or my my uh questions about it, because uh it shows people are thinking, and uh hopefully I'm giving answers that that people find useful and helpful.
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  This came from actually came from a pair of fellow American Outlauders who sent me this clip, and uh they didn't even ask, they just sent me the clip and assumed I I would respond to it.
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  And boy, I did.
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  Uh this was uh it was done on C-span.
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  I don't know where uh Justice uh Thomas was, but this is his response to uh some sort of question, and I think it's incredibly important, especially in this day and age.
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  Now, it is a fairly long clip.
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  So I'm gonna break it up into what I think are our relevant segments, but I'm not other than cutting it up to to interject here, I'm not changing a word that Mr.
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  uh Justice Thomas said.
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  I think if we don't stand up and take ownership of our country and take responsible for it, we are slowly letting others control how we think and what we think.
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  Okay, uh my response to that is two words.
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  Amen and amen.
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  He is absolutely correct.
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  We have allowed other people to think for us.
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  Uh, we haven't taken an ownership of running our country, and we've let other people tell us and control how we think and what we think, right?
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  Let him go on.
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  Uh, the I think the beauty of going to school uh is that you learn how to think for yourselves.
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  You develop the discipline to think things through.
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  Okay, here I disagree with Mr.
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  Thomas.
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  I believe education is where you learn to think things through.
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  Our schools have not been teaching that for decades.
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  In fact, I don't even know if I was taught it back when I went to school, and well, that's probably more decades than I'd like to admit here on the radio.
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  But with that one little caveat, let's listen to what he says next.
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  Uh, you if you think it's losing confidence, then you get up and you participate.
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  You don't sit on the sidelines.
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  You think that the sit that the state is being run and inconsistent with how you feel, then you get up and you participate.
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  You prepare yourself.
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  If you think that the medical profession is not right, when you become a doctor or be a medical uh uh person and you deal with that.
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  What a concept.
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  If you see a problem, fix it.
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  Don't just whine about it, don't play keyboard worry about it.
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  You see a problem, you get in there, and you fix it.
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  And I I again I wholeheartedly agree.
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  This is this is how this country was designed to work.
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  Now, uh Justice Thomas is going to take a little bit of a side road here, but uh, I want you to listen to this guy.
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  I still think there's important information here.
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  Uh I think we need to take ownership of our country.
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  It's our country.
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  It is not on automatic pilot.
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  People know more about how to program their cell phone than they know about their participating in their government.
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  Uh they read, they read more.
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  Who I don't know who reads all these notices when you have to update your stuff, but they probably do.
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  I mean, this the Constitution is that thing.
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  You can sit down over a cup of coffee and read the entire thing.
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  How many people have read it?
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  How many people know why those provisions are there?
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  Again, I completely agree.
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  Everyone should be reading the Constitution, every one of us.
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  It's the instruction manual for how the federal government is supposed to work.
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  It's how our rights are protected.
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  I I wish Justice Thomas sometimes would read it some more when I read some of his his decisions, some of his opinions, and some of his dissents.
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  I wish he'd actually read the Constitution he's claiming.
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  But okay, that's you know, no one's well, no one's perfect.
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  But this idea of it's it's ours.
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  The preamble starts with we the people.
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  And it ends with door Dana establish this constitution.
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  It is ours.
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  It is our country.
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  We create it, and we are ultimately responsible for it.
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  I mean, I think each of us, this again, I mixed the try to make the point, is government by consent.
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  That means we take ownership.
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  It's our consent.
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  And it's our country, and the only way I was asking a student at lunch today, and I'll repeat it.
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  If you let someone use your car, and you never check on it, whether they change the oil, they had its service, you just let them take it to East Texas and use it.
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  And you get it back.
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  What condition do you think it would be in?
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  It wouldn't let that, and that's what we're doing to our country.
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  And if you want, if you want to think of people how much they protect their cell phones, why don't we protect our country that way?
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  It's ours.
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  I I love the analogies that Justice Thomas is going up with, you know, we it's he talks about our consent, right?
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  But the government has their just powers from the consent of the governed.
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  The problem too often, I think, is we consent without actually doing anything.
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  We just simply say, yeah, rubber stamp and consent it.
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  But he also points, you wouldn't do that with your car, would you?
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  You know, if you were to lend someone your car and not make sure they maintained it properly, what mess are you gonna get in return?
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  That's the state of our country is in.
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  It is in this state because for generations, people, we the people have not made sure that uh our governments were properly maintained.
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  And if we, if we want it, if to have trust, if you want correct what you think is wrong, then get up and do it.
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  Learn more about it.
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  Uh, I was at um a group of high school students visited me some years ago, many, probably I don't know, 30 years ago.
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  It's hard to say that.
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  Hard to say that.
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  I'm hanging around a long time.
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  I'm hanging around a long time.
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  But the 30 years ago, and the teacher in front of the students said, how many members of the court are there?
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  But the 30 years ago, and the teacher in front of the students said, how many members of the court are there?
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  Well, she had a brochure in her hand that had nine members.
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  Well, she had a brochure in her hand that had nine members.
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  I mean, well, how hard is it to count to nine?
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  I mean, well, how hard is it to count to nine?
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  So I think we it's our country.
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  So I think we it's our country.
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  We should take ownership of it, learn more about it, participate.
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  We should take ownership of it, learn more about it, participate.
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  If you don't like the way it runs, you run.
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  If you don't like the way it runs, you run.
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  And I again.
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  And I again, that that was the end of the of the clip.
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  And again, I agree, because what is he talking about?
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  He's talking about responsibility for your citizenship.
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  It is our country.
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  We need to oversee it.
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  And if we see something wrong, we need to do something about it.
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  We need to get involved.
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  We need to get engaged.
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  It's not enough to say, well, somebody should be do something because then nobody does anything.
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  If you see a problem, you try to fix it.
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  You know, years ago, I was uh I was on a diaconate in our church, and invariably somebody would come up with a problem or maybe a solution they thought should be implemented.
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  I learned after a little bit, my answer was always that's a great idea.
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  You run with it.
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  See, too often we want someone else to do the work.
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  No, no, no.
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  You see something wrong, you step up and try and fix it.
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  Now, are there going to be disagreements about how to fix it?
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  Yeah, but that's the way a republic is supposed to work.
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  We have different ideas, we have different theories.
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  The federated idea of government, federalism is that we've got now 50 states that each can experiment in how they solve a problem.
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  And then all the other states can look and see how that went.
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  Did it work out well?
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  Did it work out wrong?
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  Can we learn lessons from them?
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  But that involves we the people getting engaged, getting involved.
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  And again, not just at the federal government, but at our state governments, at our local governments.
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  And you know, I've been working on a speech, and I point out, you know what?
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  Last year, I helped kill two really bad resolutions in our county legislature.
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  I didn't do it, I helped.
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  How did I help?
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  Well, I think I helped by by analyzing and explaining what was going on and doing so at the county commission, doing so in committees, doing so uh on on uh with there's a uh a Facebook site that that published some of my stuff.
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  But by getting involved by participating, I think that's what Justice Thomas is talking about.
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  We need to engage, we need to be involved, we need to stop waiting for someone else to fix the problem.
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  But if we're going to do it properly, we also have to educate ourselves.
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  How do we think?
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  And if we don't understand the constitution, especially when you're doing it at the federal level, if you don't understand the constitution of the United States, how are you going to regulate the people that took an oath to follow it to support it if we don't know what it says?
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  Same in our states, right?
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  If you don't know the constitution of your state, well, how do you know that the people you hire to support that constitution are actually doing their job?
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  So I, you know, listen, I disagree with Justice Thomas on a lot of things.
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  But this, wow, this was beautiful.
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  This to be articulated such an important point of our need to be involved, to be engaged, to take ownership of our country and take ownership of the people we hire to represent us.
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  For example, um, uh, I just saw this article.
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  So apparently Alexandria Acasia Cortez uh has decided she wants to try a run for president.
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  Now, hey, if she meets the qualifications, she's 35 years old, I understand, so that would make her old enough to run for president.
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  Um, she's also considering running for senate, she'd be qualified.
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  If the the of course, in order to be able to run for president, she has to be a natural-born citizen.
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  I don't know where she was born, so I don't know if she's technically a national natural-born citizen or not.
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  I to me that's not the biggest question in her qualifications, but that's kind of my point.
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  We the people have to take responsibility for the people we vote for and how we decide to vote for them and processes.
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  And listen, if you think Alexander Acajia Cortez is the best person to be the the to have hold the executive power of the United States, I'd like you to figure out why and help explain it to other people.
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  Because I think that's what we need to do.
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  And if you think she's not the right person, same charge.
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  Find out why, and then figure out how to explain that to other people.
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  Because you know, this is an important step.
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  Too often I think we're voting for donkeys or elephants or men versus women, black versus white.
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  No, I'm looking for someone who is qualified to hold the executive power of the United States.
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  But let's say we don't even know how the president is elected, and I can prove it.
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  Here's another example.
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  Uh, so Virginia governor Abigail Spanberger signed a bill that added the the Commonwealth of Virginia to the National Popular Vote Compact.
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  Again, showing just the ignorance of how we actually elect the president.
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  Now, first of all, understand there is no such thing as the national popular vote.
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  Let me say that again.
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  When it comes to voting, there's no such thing as a national popular vote within the United States.
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  The people do not vote for president.
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  They tell their states who they want to vote for president.
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  They tell their states which electors they want voting for president.
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  So the very idea of a national popular vote shows you're uh you're constitutionally ignorant, right?
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  The people in the 50 states plus the district of Columbia do not vote for president, therefore there's no national popular vote.
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  But this compact is there, and uh, well, it's basically trying to turn the presidential election into a democratic process.
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  Well, let me read a direct democratic process.
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  Again, completely constitutionally ignorant because the people don't elect the president, the states do.
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  Why?
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  Because the president's job is to execute the powers of the United States.
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  He represents the states, he's working for the states, not the people.
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  But there's more because of the, I think it's now 18 states plus the District of Columbia that have joined into this um compact, are also violating the Constitution of the United States.
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  You see, Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 says, no state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in time of uh peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state or with a foreign power or engage in war unless actually invaded.
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  So without the consent of Congress, these states cannot enter into a compact with these other states.
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  States cannot enter into a compact with these other states.
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  So uh yeah, again, it shows their constitutional illiteracy.
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  So yeah, again, it shows their constitutional illiteracy.
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  It shows their complete disregard for the Supreme Law of the land.
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  It shows their complete disregard for the supreme law of the land.
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  Now, listen, if we want the people to elect the president rather than the states, all you have to do is amend the constitution.
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  Now, listen, if we want the people to elect a president rather than the states, all you have to do is amend the Constitution.
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  But you see, here's the problem.
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  But you see, here's the problem that no one's been able to.
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  I don't even know if anyone's tried.
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  So you have these states say, Well, I know it's wrong, but I can't get my way, so I'm going to come up with a workaround to try and do this.
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  So you have these states say, well, I know.
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  But I want you to, everybody, other all the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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  Understand that Miss Banberger and your legislature, right?
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  The people you hire to represent you, the person you hired to execute the laws of your state, have just sold your representation down the river.
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  Let's say that I think Virginia just did some redistricting and they have they they ended up with like 90% of their house uh delegates expect to be Democrat.
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  Fine.
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  Now, let's say that the um the next presidential election, 2028.
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  Let's say that the vast majority of Virginians vote for the Democratic candidate for president, right?
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  They vote for electors for the Democratic candidate for president.
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  But let's say the nation as a whole votes for the Republican.
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  That means the state of Virginia will not appoint electors based on the representation of their decision of their own citizens, but by the decision of other citizens.
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  Now imagine you're in Virginia.
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  Imagine you voted Democrat.
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  Imagine your whole family voted Democrat, only to find out that the presidential elector that was appointed was a re was promised to vote for the Republicans because, well, not because people of the state of Virginia or the Virginia said so, but because people of other states said so.
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  Literally, if I were in Virginia right now, I would be pissed because your representative, you, the people of Virginia.
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  This is you need to take control of your legislature.
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  And if it's your position that you wish to give up your right to to tell your state who to vote for, okay, you just did.
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  But you violated the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land to do it.
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  Anyone else see the problems going on here?
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  This is what happened from our our ignorance, our unwillingness to read and study the Constitution, our unwillingness to even bother thinking through so many of the issues that we're dealing with in this day and age.
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  And uh you want to know why we're losing our country?
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  Do you want to know why other people are making those decisions for us?
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  Well, it's because of nonsense like this.
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  Because you let a bunch of politicians say, no, no, no, your vote doesn't count.
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  You can't tell us what we're gonna listen not to the to the people of Virginia.
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  We're gonna listen to everybody else.
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  Good luck.
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  Welcome back, everyday Americans to rejoin the Constitution study.
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  And today we're talking about taking back our country.
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  And today we're talking about taking back our country.
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  And you know, we tend to think of the you know, Washington, D.C.
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  And you know, we tend to think of the you know Washington, DC and the federal.
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  and the federal government, but our country is a federation of states, and within those states, there are lots of counties and cities, and and we really need to start there.
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  You know, that you start taking over your country or taking back your country, not in Washington, DC, but in your own backyard.
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  And then I saw this club.
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  This is actually posted on X, and it's uh uh a video taken by uh a realtor in uh in New Jersey.
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  Now, put this in context.
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  Um, I think it was last week I was talking about um Mayor Mandami who said, Oh no, no, there's no there's no exodus uh uh from New York City.
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  People, rich people aren't leaving New York City, it's the black people that are leaving New York City.
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  Well, listen to some evidence from someone on the ground just outside of New York City.
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  The craziest thing happened yesterday.
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  So I made an offer for a house that was kind of high price, like I thought it was a little bit high price for the market.
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  We went 150,000 over asking.
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  Someone else came in much higher than us.
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  Like we weren't even in ballpark.
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  My buyers didn't get the house.
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  Then I have a list saying in Middletown, no offers for two and a half weeks.
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  Yesterday, same day, four offers, all over asking, all phenomenal offers, and this is going on in other parts of Monmouth County as I speak to other agents as well.
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  Um, so there is definitely mass exodus from New York.
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  People that are worried in Hoboken for bat spillover, they're jumping over to Monmouth County with you know the ease of transportation to the city.
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  Um, so if you don't live in this area already, I don't think the average person is going to be able to move into Mahmouth County, the eastern Monmouth area very soon.
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  So to me, there are two sides of this coin.
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  Very interesting.
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  So, first of all, yeah, people are trying to leave, apparently, people are actually trying to leave New York City, and they're willing to pay a premium for it, meaning they'll not only pay what this realtor thought was a high price, possibly overpriced home, they'll pay over asking in an attempt to get out of New York City.
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  It kind of reminds you of uh was a few years ago you had the the Yule Hall study, which showed that the there were so many people leaving California that the price of getting a U-Haul in California to leave was something like two to three times what it would cost to get a U-Haul to drive back to California.
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  It was an exodus.
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  She's seeing it here in real estate prices.
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  But there's a flip side of that story, and that is the people of her area, Eastern Monmouth County, that are saying, ooh, um, we may not be able to live here because, or we may not be not be able to move here because uh all these people are coming in and they're paying very high prices for homes, which of course will drive up tax assessments, meaning the people that already live there will end up paying more because the you know, again, the tax assessors go up, tax assessments go up, taxes, property taxes go up.
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  I saw this with uh a lot with my in-laws' farm when uh a neighbor bought an old farm and turned it into a luxury home.
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  Uh suddenly the the tax assessments went way up and the and the property taxes went way up.
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  But again, this comes from people of New York City that said, uh, you know what, we want a socialist to run this.
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  Again, I keep looking at this going, this is what the people of New York City wanted.
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  Maybe not individually, but as a whole, the people that were willing to stand up and do something said, we want a socialist who's going to make all these promises, they're gonna write all these checks that we can't cash, and we're gonna drive our tax base out of the city, right?
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  If you're going to if you're going to from New York City, if you're moving from New York City to New Jersey, right?
• 25:15
  Um, you're not doing it for convenience.
• 25:19
  You're taking the income tax base out, right?
• 25:23
  They still have the property tax base because that hasn't changed, but you're taking the income tax base out of New York City, which not only do you pay state income tax, you pay city income tax in New York City.
• 25:34
  And now the people in in eastern New Jersey, northeastern New Jersey, are looking saying, well, not only are they coming in, they're paying higher prices.
• 25:42
  They're driving the cost of our homes up, but that also drives the ink the property taxes for that area up.
• 25:50
  These, ladies and gentlemen, are all consequences of the people we hire to represent us.
• 25:56
  Now, the people of New Jersey didn't hire Mondami, but they did hire the people that represent them.
• 26:02
  And I'm curious if anything is going on on that side.
• 26:06
  I mean, it's it's we we're never immune for the consequences of other people's decisions.
• 26:13
  But what are we doing to protect ourselves, to protect our own decisions?
• 26:18
  And um, by the way, that's that's a same, we're having similar questions here in my home county.
• 26:24
  Do we want developments?
• 26:26
  We want subdivisions brought in, or do we want to main a more rural uh county?
• 26:32
  Um, do we want the services that come with the development of suburban uh suburban uh uh uh areas, or are we willing to do without those because we prefer a rural county?
• 26:45
  And this is actually a big debate that's going on within our county to figure out what do we want the future of Bedford County to look like.
• 26:53
  And um, this is these are questions that that we, the people, need to be involved in.
• 26:59
  And I don't just mean you know, Facebook keyboard warrior or ex-keyboard work.
• 27:04
  I'm talking about actually getting involved, going to meetings, having discussions, discussing it with your neighbors, and seeing what may be a good solution to whatever it is you're looking for.
• 27:15
  Now, if New York City is unhappy, the if the citizens of New York City are unhappy with this wealthy exodus from the city when it's time for them to take control of their c of their city and restore something more along what I would consider sanity.
• 27:33
  However, I know a lot of people in New York City that think socialism is is the greatest thing since sliced bread, and this is exactly what they wanted.
• 27:40
  They just didn't think of the consequences of it.
• 27:43
  And maybe they'll learn, and maybe they'll change their mind, but that won't matter unless once they change their mind.
• 27:49
  They also try to get back take back control of their city.
• 27:53
  See, it starts at the city, it starts at your town, it starts in your neighborhood, then eventually moves up to the state.
• 28:00
  For example, um, I always say, you know, Californians are deal with the consequences of their decisions every day.
• 28:00
  For example, I always say, you know, Californians deal with the consequences of their decisions every day.
• 28:06
  Now there's a report saying that there was apparently a two billion dollar budget error that uh political leaders in California kept hidden for months.
• 28:06
  Now there's a report saying that there was apparently a two billion dollar budget error that political leaders in California kept hidden for months.
• 28:21
  Now, according to uh reporting from the New York Post, the problem stemmed from two miscalculations tied to the California pension.
• 28:21
  Now, according to reporting from the New York Post, the problem stemmed from two miscalculations tied to the California pension system, CalPur's.
• 28:32
  And that in their January budget planning, they assumed a $2.9 billion shortfall.
• 28:39
  Now, apparently, this was discovered back in February.
• 28:44
  According to a legislative uh legislative assistant, um, his office identified a double counting problem, and they alerted lawmakers.
• 28:56
  Now, have however, the governor's department of finance rejected this uh this calacterization.
• 29:03
  They claim this isn't a calculation error, it's a revision to better estimate how those payments are made.
• 29:10
  And this isn't the only example.
• 29:12
  Um the uh legislative analyst office acknowledged that back in November of 25, their own deficit forecast missed the mark by roughly five billion dollars.
• 29:25
  And again, this is nothing new.
• 29:27
  For four straight years, California has had a budget shortfall.
• 29:33
  It was 27 billion in 24, 55 billion in 25, 15 billion in 26, and now we're looking at uh what, 18 billion this uh this fiscal year, which ends in in uh 20 in 27.
• 29:50
  Um, you know what?
• 29:52
  That seems to be an ongoing problem.
• 29:54
  It seems to be out of control spending by the California government.
• 29:59
  And well, what are the people of California going to do about it?
• 30:04
  Because again, it's your state, ladies and gentlemen.
• 30:07
  It doesn't belong to Gavin Newsom, it doesn't belong to the legislature, it belongs to the people of California.
• 30:12
  You've hired these people to represent you.
• 30:16
  And if they can't perform basic math, all right, let's go beyond let's just say it's accounting.
• 30:22
  So maybe it's a a little beyond basic math, but accounting still is mostly addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
• 30:30
  But if four years in a row, they can't balance a budget.
• 30:34
  Well, what ladies and gentlemen are you going to do about it?
• 30:36
  Because every time they don't, every time they borrow money to cover that budget shortfall, that costs the people of California even more.
• 30:44
  Uh are you ready to take back your state to get some, or are you just too happy taking other people's money, taking your children's money from your children's mouths and spending it on all your goodies so that it makes you feel better or makes you feel comfortable?
• 30:59
  Is that really uh how you want to live?
• 31:04
  Apparently so.
• 31:06
  And it's not just money.
• 31:08
  I talked before about uh Assembly Bill 2624 out of California, uh, that's been nicknamed the uh the stop Nick Shirley Act.
• 31:17
  This all has to do with Nick Shirley, who's an independent journalist, and uh he's been doing an expose on fraud in Somali run.
• 31:26
  He was known for doing expose on the Somali daycare in Minnesota, and apparently he's turned his attention to California.
• 31:35
  Now, I looked at this at this legislation earlier.
• 31:37
  If memory serves, it basically says, listen, um, if you are an independent journalist, in other words, you're not tied to some corporate media outlet, then you lose your freedom of press, that you cannot report on malfeasance within the state of California simply because you don't work for some government approved and recognized media organization.
• 31:59
  And of course, this goes as far as if if this law were to pass, and the very expose that Mitchelly did exposing the daycare uh scam in Minnesota would get him charged with a misdemeanor.
• 32:14
  That's right.
• 32:16
  Investigative journalism would now be a misdemeanor in the state of California with a fine of $10,000 and possible imprisonment, and the content has to be taken down.
• 32:27
  Now, again, I skimmed the the leg, I didn't detail the whole thing, but I skimmed through it, and that seems to be exactly what it's saying.
• 32:35
  And of course, now the the sponsor of this legislation, uh Assembly Woman Mia Bonta, well, she's unhappy that people are pointing out that this is the anti-free press act, or the as I like to call it, the anti-Nick Shirley Act, the Stop Nick Shirley Act.
• 32:50
  Uh, even Elon Musk weighed in on this, calling it the California's legislatures are trying to make investigating fraud illegal within California.
• 32:59
  Now, as I said, uh uh uh the wife of attorney general Bonta respond, who's the assemblywoman said uh AB 2624 doesn't stop journalism or fraud investigation, it stops bad faith actors from doxing workers serving immigrants with proven intent to threaten threaten or incite violence, doxing isn't journalism.
• 33:19
  Except that's not what the legislation actually says.
• 33:23
  Now, maybe that wasn't the intent of Ms.
• 33:26
  Bonta, but from what I've read, um, yeah, the whole idea is to stop these types of investigations.
• 33:34
  Now, she claims it's it's well, we're trying to event doxing.
• 33:38
  Okay, I agree, you know, putting people's private information out as as an attempt to um, well, uh terrorize them as an attempt to intimidate them, that's wrong, and that's evil.
• 33:52
  But if what I've been if my understanding is right, and again, I admit I haven't done a deep dive into the legislation.
• 33:59
  Sounds more like uh they're trying to prevent investigation of fraud into the in uh into their own government actions than they are preventing the doxing.
• 34:09
  You know the the idea that, because again, she presumes that uh well, okay, we don't want you know, people are just out to get us, you know, and that's what we're trying to stop.
• 34:18
  But you know, they're they're trying to intimidate others.
• 34:21
  I agree, doxing is wrong, but is that the limit of what the of what the legislation does?
• 34:27
  And again, people of California, are you okay with this?
• 34:32
  Is this what you want?
• 34:34
  If not, as Justice Thomas said, it's up to you to do something.
• 34:39
  Don't sit around and wait for someone else to do something.
• 34:42
  You need to sit up and do something.
• 34:43
  It's your state.
• 34:45
  You need to get involved.
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• 40:02
  Welcome back, everyday Americans who rejoin the Constitution study.
• 40:06
  Today we're talking about taking back our country.
• 40:09
  And uh, I got a few more stories.
• 40:11
  Uh this one's actually a twofer.
• 40:14
  So uh the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, um, released a group of files showing that the the accusations surrounding Ukraine uh that led to Donald Trump's 2019 impeachment were knowingly faulty.
• 40:33
  And in fact, she's gone so far as to make criminal referrals on some of these uh uh uh accusations.
• 40:40
  So surprise, surprise, the uh the attempt to impeach Donald Trump in 2019 was all made up out of thin air, it was faulty, it was wrong, um, and uh possibly illegal, possibly criminal.
• 40:53
  And that of course, you know, okay, yeah, you know, we we remember the the impeachment came from a house vote, meaning the people that represent us in Congress, the House of Representatives, chosen by the people, they did this.
• 41:08
  Did they do it based on faulty information?
• 41:10
  Yeah.
• 41:11
  Did they do anything to validate the information before making the vote?
• 41:15
  If they did, they didn't do a very good job of it.
• 41:18
  But that's not really what caught my attention.
• 41:19
  I mean, that's interesting.
• 41:21
  Don't get me wrong.
• 41:22
  Evidence that uh of the criminal activity of others, especially in government, especially the federal government, even in Congress, yep, gets my attention.
• 41:31
  No, here's the thing that I found interesting is apparently there's a move within the U.S.
• 41:37
  House to quote unquote expunge the impeachment.
• 41:42
  Now remember, Donald Trump was impeached, but found not guilty.
• 41:46
  I'm trying to figure out this expunging stuff.
• 41:51
  I know nothing in the Constitution and the laws of the United States that allow an indictment or an impeachment to be expunged.
• 42:00
  Understand the word expunge means to destroy, to blot out, to obliterate, to erase.
• 42:00
  Understand the word expunge means to destroy, to blot out, to obliterate, to erase.
• 42:06
  All right, basically to get rid of it.
• 42:06
  Basically to get rid of it.
• 42:09
  There is no way to expunge a uh an impeachment.
• 42:09
  There is no way to expunge a uh an impeachment.
• 42:13
  You can't make it not have happened.
• 42:13
  You can't make it not have happened, right?
• 42:16
  You can't the oh, what are you gonna do?
• 42:16
  You can't the oh what are you gonna do?
• 42:19
  Take it off the record?
• 42:19
  Take it off the record.
• 42:20
  No, those those records are sankroscant.
• 42:20
  No, those those records are synchrosanct.
• 42:22
  You can't do that.
• 42:22
  You can't do that.
• 42:23
  Now, could Congress pass a resolution saying that the impeachment was faulty?
• 42:23
  Now, could Congress pass a resolution saying that the impeachment was faulty, it was based on on uh faulty information, and um we're sorry, and we wish we hadn't done that.
• 42:29
  It was based on.
• 42:36
  They could make such a resolution, but you're not expunging Donald Trump's record.
• 42:43
  You're not expunging the fact that he is the second president of the United States to be impeached.
• 42:49
  Now, he not none of them have been convicted, but he was impeached.
• 42:53
  Um, so there really is nothing to expunge.
• 42:55
  Now, I suppose if he had been found guilty by the Senate, then there could have been an attempt to um overturn that decision, which would have created an entire interesting constitutional crisis, but it he he wasn't found guilty.
• 43:11
  So there's no there's nothing to give him back.
• 43:15
  So again, this is again to me more politics, but again, then again, you have criminal referral, which to me is the much more important part.
• 43:24
  If people committed a crime in providing fault knowingly false information to the House of Representatives in an attempt to impeach a sitting president, then yeah, there should be criminal referrals and they should have the accused should have their day in court.
• 43:38
  And I think that would be a perfectly appropriate thing.
• 43:42
  But this idea of the House expunging uh the impeachment, uh that's just to be political theater.
• 43:50
  And at best saying, oops, you know, an official, oops, we're sorry.
• 43:55
  Speaking of Donald Trump, he recently signed an executive order.
• 43:58
  There's a shock.
• 43:59
  Um, this one is claimed to allow expedited review of psychedelic drugs to be used for medical purposes, including mental health conditions.
• 44:09
  Uh, titled The Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness.
• 44:13
  Uh, Trump told reporters today's order will ensure that people suffering from debilitating symptoms might finally have a chance to reclaim their lives and lead a happier life.
• 44:24
  Did anybody notice that none of this is actually constitutional?
• 44:26
  None of it's actually legal.
• 44:28
  All right, let's start with the beginning.
• 44:30
  Um in order for Trump to sign an executive order, there must be some act of Congress that has a law that he's enforcing.
• 44:40
  Where's the act of Congress that says, hey, he can do this?
• 44:43
  Maybe there's an act of Congress that says he can he can uh you know require he can allow for expedited uh review and and and all that stuff amongst the the FDA and and whatnot.
• 44:54
  Maybe there's actually a law that allows that.
• 44:56
  I don't know.
• 44:58
  You know what I do know?
• 45:00
  The very fact that the federal government's regulating medicine is itself a violation of the Constitution.
• 45:06
  You see, there's nothing in the Constitution of the United States that delegates to the United States the authority to regulate Medicare or medicine, uh any medical products, medicine, the practice, none whatsoever, which means according to the 10th Amendment, well, the the you know, the that power is not delegated to the United States, it's left to the states or to the people, which means that Congress, when they pass the acts creating, oh, the FDA, the CDC, Medicaid, Medicare, all that nonsense.
• 45:35
  Well, that's unconstitutional acts, which are void.
• 45:39
  Not my words, ladies and gentlemen.
• 45:41
  I keep saying Alexander Hamilton, Federal 78, no act counter the constant contrary to the Constitution can be valid.
• 45:48
  The Supreme Court in the cases Marbury versus Madison, ex parte seabold, Norton V.
• 45:52
  Shelby County, all said that an act contrary to the Constitution is void.
• 45:58
  So you have an executive order implementing um illegal laws that violate the constitution, therefore are not the supreme law of the land and are null and void.
• 46:09
  And everyone's excited about it.
• 46:11
  Now, listen, I don't know.
• 46:13
  Um, you know, personally, I think that the FDA really is kind of stupid in how they regulate some of this.
• 46:20
  You know, we've seen attempts to pass right to try acts, meaning, listen, if you're in a condition where you know they're worried, well, there might be adverse treatment, you know, there might be adverse effects of these drugs, but those those are far less than the actual disease you have.
• 46:37
  Yeah, it's stupid.
• 46:38
  This is your body.
• 46:40
  You have the liberty, protected by the Fifth Amendment, to try anything you want, as long as you don't harm someone else in doing it.
• 46:49
  See, these the FDA laws, these are violations on the 10th Amendment, not only of the necessary and proper clause that Congress has the authority to make all laws necessary and proper to put into effect powers vested in the government of the United States.
• 47:02
  Um, it doesn't the it doesn't touch the general welfare clause, because that's a taxing clause, not a regulatory clause, article one, section eight, clause one.
• 47:11
  It also violates the Fifth Amendment because it die denies people the liberty to try things without due process of law.
• 47:19
  There's no proof that if this person takes this drug, it's going to harm someone else.
• 47:24
  It may harm them, but that's what liberty is all about.
• 47:28
  You get to do stupid things because you're at liberty to do so.
• 47:33
  So when it comes to taking back our country, we have a lot of work to do.
• 47:38
  And probably one of the biggest areas is this idea of regulating medical care.
• 47:43
  It's the idea of regulating drugs, uh, medical treatments, and and what you can and cannot use on your own body.
• 47:51
  But this doesn't change until we the people start pushing back.
• 47:56
  Until we the people start saying, you know what, that that the FDA saying says that I can't.
• 48:01
  Um, yeah, it doesn't count here.
• 48:04
  And in fact, trying to enforce it is a federal crime, deprivation of rights under color of law.
• 48:09
  I love that one.
• 48:10
  ATNUSC section 242, if you want to look it up.
• 48:13
  But it's also the the freedom to live our lives as we see fit without unnecessary external influence.
• 48:20
  It's hiring people in Congress that actually take their oath to the Constitution seriously.
• 48:27
  That, you know, okay, the lawyers have a lot to say, but what does the Constitution say?
• 48:32
  Because a lot of what we're dealing with is lawyers who haven't read instead of the Constitution, don't know what it actually says.
• 48:38
  We the people need to do that.
• 48:39
  It's not that hard.
• 48:41
  As uh Justice Thomas said, you can do it over a cup of coffee.
• 48:46
  But this last story, uh, again, it's interesting.
• 48:48
  It's one that caught my attention.
• 48:50
  And it has to do with um federal land versus state land, and um, well, let's just say there's a there's a new Mexico land commission who's not happy that the United States is well, he calls it a land grad.
• 49:00
  That the United States is, well, he calls it a land grad.
• 49:04
  They're trying to acquire a parcel of land on the the New Mexico-Mexico border.
• 49:04
  They're trying to acquire a parcel of land on the New Mexico-Mexico border.
• 49:09
  And I actually love the way that's written because you have to remember, these aren't just national borders.
• 49:09
  And I actually love the way that's written because you have to remember, these aren't just national borders, these are the state border, the state of Mexico, New Mexico borders this the nation of Mexico, the country of Mexico.
• 49:14
  These are the state border.
• 49:15
  The state of Mexico, New Mexico borders this, the nation of Mexico, the country of Mexico.
• 49:21
  Here's what things.
• 49:21
  Here's what things.
• 49:22
  So back in 1898, the federal government gave a parcel of land near Santa Teresa to.
• 49:22
  So back in 1898, the federal government gave a parcel of land near Santa Teresa to the New Mexico State Land Office.
• 49:32
  It was apparently, I guess, was supposed to be to generate money for local schools.
• 49:37
  Now, the federal government wants part of it back.
• 49:41
  So the Customs and Border Patrol sent a letter to the New Mexico land office saying, um, yeah, we want to acquire this parcel to construct a new border infrastructure along the United States Mexico border.
• 49:54
  They want to put up bollards and barriers.
• 49:56
  They want to put up, they want to build sounds like Trump's road or Trump's wall.
• 50:01
  Okay.
• 50:03
  Now the CBB, CBP has offered the New Mexico $800,000 for this land.
• 50:11
  The Department of Justice says that's uh that's fair market value for the land.
• 50:17
  But uh apparently New Mexico, they're not talking.
• 50:21
  According to DOJ, the uh the land office of Mexico didn't respond by April 1st.
• 50:28
  And um now CBP is looking to seize the property under, I guess it'd be eminent domain.
• 50:37
  Now, there's a couple things that uh I that I started looking at.
• 50:40
  Of course, obviously the first thing I start with is uh Fifth Amendment, the the takings clause.
• 50:45
  This says, nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.
• 50:50
  Except this isn't private property, this is public property.
• 50:53
  It's owned by the state, not the federal government, but it's still public property.
• 50:58
  So that's kind of an uh of an efficient statement right there.
• 51:02
  Um, could it be a deprivation of property without call under color or without uh uh due process?
• 51:08
  Well, no, but again, because it says no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
• 51:14
  So it's we're not dealing, well, we're dealing with an artificial person, I guess, in the in the form of the state, but even that's kind of a pushy, that's a questionable little thing there.
• 51:24
  Um, but I I come back to something else that I you know, and I'm I'm looking at this.
• 51:29
  Okay, you're you've got you've got the border, and uh you've got the state line, and and I'm really kind of curious is New Mexico's issue with the land, or was it the amount of money that the United States was offering for the land?
• 51:46
  I don't know the actual fair market value.
• 51:48
  I know the DOJ says so, but that doesn't mean diddly squat to me.
• 51:52
  But then I stumbled, I started thinking along these other lines, and I realized what about Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17?
• 52:00
  That gives Congress the power to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district, not exceeding 10 miles square, is may by succession of particular states and acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state, and in which the same shall be for the erections of forts, magazines, article, uh, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings.
• 52:26
  So let me think about this for a second.
• 52:28
  Is the federal government trying to erect uh a Fort Magazine Arsenal dockyard, another needful milling?
• 52:33
  It sounds like maybe not a building, but infrastructure.
• 52:37
  So, okay, they're doing this, but they have to purchase it by the consent of the legislature.
• 52:44
  And that to me may be the sticking point.
• 52:47
  Because unless the legislature of New Mexico approves this land sale, it violates Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17.
• 52:56
  The federal government cannot implement uh eminent domain against public land.
• 53:03
  They can't against private property, right?
• 53:06
  Fifth Amendment, they cannot take private property for public use without just compensation.
• 53:11
  They're not trying to take private property, they're trying to take public property.
• 53:14
  So to me, this got to be an interesting question, an interesting conundrum.
• 53:18
  And I do believe the people of New Mexico have a decision to make.
• 53:23
  Do you tell your legislators, you know what, this is important?
• 53:27
  Um, let's make a deal.
• 53:30
  Do you tell them this is important, but the money isn't good enough?
• 53:33
  Or do you tell them we don't want it?
• 53:36
  We say no.
• 53:37
  And if you try to take it, well, that violates the Congress doesn't have the power to take this land and and make it federal land.
• 53:45
  So what you have is basically a I guess a little mini civil war.
• 53:51
  I find this these are those kind of corner cases, the outliers that I like to gnaw on for a while.
• 53:57
  So maybe I will.
• 53:58
  But I'm curious, what do you think?
• 54:01
  Should New Mexico give up the land because we need it for our border.
• 54:06
  Should they be forced to give up the land if they don't want to?
• 54:09
  Who decides if 800,000 is enough for it?
• 54:11
  Or does the constant does the state say, no, we don't want to sell the federal government the land, therefore they can't buy it.
• 54:19
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