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Helping to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
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This is the Constitution Study on the America Out Loud Network with your host, Paul Engel.
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I've talked before about how litigious the United States has become.
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Today, more cases and more examples of the oligarchy that steers so much of the ship of state.
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Hello there, everyday Americans, Paul Engle here with a constitution study, where we read and study the Constitution, teacher acting generation to be free.
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I'm glad you could join me.
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You know, it's it's it's funny how often when I introduce what I do.
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I'm a constitutional scholar, uh, an author, a speaker, a radio host.
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When I mention constitutional scholar, the one of the questions I frequently get is well, where'd you go to law school?
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To which easy reply, well, I didn't go to law school because they don't teach the constitutional law school, they teach judges' opinions about it.
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And I see that in a lot.
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A lot of the work I do.
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You read a lot of my articles, you listen to my I point out how the legal system kind of ignores the supreme law of the land.
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But we are a litigious society, and to a certain extent, I understand, right?
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We're seeking a redress for our grievance.
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It's sadly too often it's being based not on the constitution, but on the opinion of judges.
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And that turns out to be a lot of what I end up covering here.
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So today, I've picked up a group of of mostly legal stories, and um I want to talk about the stories and what it says about our society and the constitution and whatnot.
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I'm going to start with a case that the Supreme Court decided not to hear.
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The Supreme Court gets thousands of what are called petitions for a writ of sorciori.
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A rid of sortiori is a say, yes, you can come make your case before us, and a petition says, I want one.
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I want you to issue me a writ that says we're going to take this to the Supreme Court.
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Now, they only hear about I think 60 or 80 cases a year.
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Many of them, you know, we don't hear about because it may be some legal technical issue, something that doesn't really impact us.
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But this one caught my attention because it involves the case of a Christian baker in California who was prosecuted for declining to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage celebration.
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Now, if you say, wait a second, I've heard that one before.
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Yeah, you you have.
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Now, when I talked about this then, I made a point that they really focused on the court really focused on the antagonistic language the Civil Rights Commission used in regard to um into the baker's faith.
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Here we have a case, and it sounds like very similar situation very similar facts.
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Here we have uh Catherine Miller, who's the sole owner of Kathy's Creation in Bakersfield, California.
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Um, uh and she operates a small bakery there called Tasty Bakery, Taste Tastries Bakeries, and one of the things she does is design and make custom wedding cakes.
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Now, she opposes same-sex marriage on religious grounds.
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Now, since starting the baker in 2013, she's received many requests for custom projects that were not with did not line up with her beliefs.
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She said some of them were gory cakes, marijuana cakes, adult cakes, cookies depicting genitalia.
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There was even one cake to announce a divorce that a husband was planning to surprise her that his then wife with.
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That would to me is just tasteless.
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I'm not talking about the cake.
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Now she declined all of those requests.
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However, in August of 2017, two women showed up at the bakery seeking a wedding cake for their upcoming wedding reception.
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Now, they wanted a cake with who women on it, and and Ms.
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Miller's told the women that she could not be part of a same-sex wedding because of her deeply held religious beliefs.
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She even went so far as to recommend a nearby custom wedding cake designer that would be happy to do the work they asked for.
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But that wasn't good enough.
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Rather than going to somebody that would actually be willing to make their cake, uh, they decided to retaliate.
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They went to social media to complain about Miller's policy, um, generated a lot of adverse media coverage for the situation, to the point where Miller shut down the bakery, uh, or I should say it shut down the bakery social media and even temporarily closed the store.
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Uh, she says she completed she received hundreds of abusive messages.
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Half of her employees quit, and some of her corporate contracts were lost because of harassment, uh, at least according to the legal filings.
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After this, the California Civil Rights Department took Ms.
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Miller and her bakery to court, claiming violations of the UNRWA Civil Rights Act, which is part of the state's public accommodation law.
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The statute forbids businesses from discriminating in the accommodations, advantages, privileges, uh, facilities, privileges, or services based on sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary uh language or immigration status.
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And these courts, the California courts have extended the laws protection of families with uh minors and elderly children.
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Now, Miller's defense was that she was exercising her right to free speech and free exercise of religion, protective of the Constitution's first amendment.
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Well, there's problem number one, okay?
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Problem number because the First Amendment says Congress shall make no law restricting uh you know, establishing a religion or guarding the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech.
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Congress didn't make this law.
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This is a violation of the 14th Amendment, because the state is depriving Ms.
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Miller and a lot of other people of both their liberty and their property without due process of law.
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Now, a a state court found that yes, Ms.
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Miller's First Amendment rights were violated, but a California Court of Appeals reversed that decision, uh, finding that a uh um that that they a white multilayered cake that Miller would provide would not convey a particularized message about the nature of marriage.
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Apparently, like I said, judges are some of the dumbest people I've ever seen.
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But we see the same twist.
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The court held that Miller's refusal to make cakes for same-sex weddings constituted discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
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Now, she never refused to do work with these people.
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There was a certain message that she was not willing to provide to speak.
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She was not, it's not even speak.
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There was a certain message she was not willing to communicate in her custom creations.
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So what we have here is almost an exact replica of the Masterpiece Cake Shop.
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By the way, that's not the only case.
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Um, in in 2023, we had the 303 Creative LLC case, where the court said that Colorado couldn't force a Christian web designer to create websites to celebrate same-sex weddings.
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Um, and so this is we kind of have a they talk about case law.
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They talk about present, they talk about starry decisives.
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And in fact, the petition to the Supreme Court argued that the free speech, it's free sheets precedence that compelled participation in a ceremony, particularly one with deeply religious significance, such as a wedding ceremony, is forbidden by the First Amendment.
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But the Civil Rights Department of the United States government, they urged the court not to take up the case.
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They came that the lower courts correctly rejected Miller's free speech claims, and her free exercise arguments are based on our premise on a misunderstanding of state law.
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I think it's the U.S.
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Civil Rights Department that has the misunderstanding.
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Uh, according to the department says you cannot deny someone service by claiming a pre-designed multi-purpose cake is protected speech.
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But wait a second, isn't this a wedding cake?
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Didn't they ask for it to be customized?
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They didn't just buy a cake off the show.
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They did just order a pre-made cake, they wanted it customized.
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So here we are again, and I'm not sure why the court decided not to hear this case.
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That's quite common.
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They simply deny cert.
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In another case, a a uh U.S.
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Circuit Court Appeals for the C Sixth Circuit voted two to one to um issue a preliminary injunction preventing Michigan from enforcing their 220 to a 2023 ban on um whether they they they well, conversion therapy for minors.
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Now, I've talked about this before.
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There's there's many states, uh, I think how many is this like 16 states, I think that in the District of Columbia that that, I'm sorry, 23 states in the District of Columbia that ban this, what they call conversion therapy for minors.
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Um
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But here's the interesting part, really for my standard, a lot of interesting things, because they claim that it's being done as a violation of the First Amendment.
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Well, as I've pointed out already today, Congress didn't make this law, so it cannot violate the First Amendment.
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But apparently, attorneys and judges just can't read that part of the Constitution to understand it.
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Well, what are you gonna do?
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But it does bring up to me an interesting point.
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They've issued this injunction that means that the Sixth Circuit, at least this three-judge panel believes that that the um the ban the ban on conversion may be unconstitutional.
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Now, in the majority opinion, um, one of the judges wrote that the Michigan law allows therapists to offer their minor clients counseling that provides assistance to an individual undergoing a gender transition.
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If they're seeking to change, that's okay.
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If you're seeking not to change, that's ill that that's illegal according to Michigan.
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That's blatant viewpoint discrimination.
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Now, uh again, it's not a First Amendment issue, it's a 14th amendment issue.
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You have a state denying a uh, in this case, you're dealing with a minor, so you're denying the parents the control of the liberty and the property they have in controlling the health care of their child without due process, without showing actual harm.
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Though a lot of places claim harm, a lot of experts say there's harm, but you need actual evidence of harm.
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And if you're gonna ban it generally, you have to show not just well, one or two people suffered harm, that there's a significant percentage that suffered harm.
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Now, I talked about this before because the Supreme Court is considering a challenge to Colorado's law banning this so-called conversion therapy, which I expect to hear probably somewhere around June.
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It's it's frequently that more controversial cases, uh, the decisions are released at the end of the term, which goes from for the Supreme Court from October through June.
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So we'll have to wait and see.
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If the court says that Colorado's law is unconstitutional, then I'm sure Michigan's law will fall as well.
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If on the other hand, the court says, no, no, it's okay.
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It's okay for you to uh ban therapy that that pushes one way and not another.
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Um, then I expect the Michigan court to be uphill as well.
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What I find interesting is both of these cases are based on the wrong part of the Constitution, because both of these cases are based on the First Amendment.
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That someone is talking to someone else.
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And that's the problem.
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Completely ignoring the fact that the first amendment says Congress shall make no law and completely ignoring the due process clause of the 14th Amendment, which to me is quite sad.
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Not because uh of that.
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It's the fact that we have so much of our legal system that apparently either has not or cannot read or uncomprehend the Supreme Law of the land.
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They focus on there's this navel gauging.
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This, you know, well, previous judges have said as if previous judges are perfect.
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I have a perfect example of previous judges not being perfect.
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Do you remember the uh uh the Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan?
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Yeah, she was the one that was charged in aiding and abetting a fleeing illegal uh aiding an illegal image to flee from federal immigration uh uh agents outside of her courtroom back in April.
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Well, a jury found her guilty of obstruction, um, which can she can receive up to five years in prison.
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They did acquit her of the lesser count of concealing a person from arrest.
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And um, we're waiting to see what she's actually going to be sentenced for.
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So here you have a judge that obviously, well, that apparently did something wrong, right?
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They said, no, you you didn't so much conceal a person from arrest, but you did obstruct justice.
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It was an obstruction charge by uh uh her actions to prevent um I think it was ice was there from entering her courtroom while she ushered their target out a back door.
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Um the guy got caught anyway, but it goes to show judges are not perfect, which is why this obsession with starry decisis, this obsession with what previous judges have said, completely devoid of the actual language of the law is so offensive to me.
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How can we call ourselves a nation of laws if we're decided if those if the decisions of men supersede the law?
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Men and women, I'm you know, I'm using man men in the the colloquial form.
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And that to me is a major problem, not just with the legal system, but with uh our society as a whole.
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After all, how can you follow the law if you're not sure what a judge is gonna say the law is?
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Or you, you know, if you imagine having to read all the law books to understand the law when you can just read uh a few paragraphs in a piece of legislation to know what it is.
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I mean, that that to me is is crazy.
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Welcome back, everyday Americans who rejoined the Constitution study.
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And today, well, we're just looking at uh a legal review.
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You know, something's been going on in the law in the courts recently, and I think this may become a regular segment because assuredly is lots of stuff going on legally and in the courts.
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Now, of course, we talked in the first segment about actual court cases, cases that were being heard by a court.
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Sometimes it isn't the court decision that makes a difference.
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Sometimes it's just the threat of a lawsuit.
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Um I find quite frequently when people are giving me a hard time, when people are uh depriving me, the threat of a lawsuit gets people's attention.
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And uh I have a couple of examples here today.
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Let's start with this.
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Um the U.S.
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Department of Justice Civil Rights Division has filed a lawsuit against uh several states trying to get them to clean up their voter registration roles.
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Now, according to some reporting, it says six states did not voluntarily comply with our data requests and have shared their information.
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Some states voluntarily, now that the president has lifted the fee that was associated with clean their data rolls uh through the federal save database.
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Some are doing that on their own, and we're helping in coordination with the agencies, but sure they have the data they need to take the dead people off the rolls, people who are not citizens off the voter rolls.
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Now, let me stop for a second, because I agree that dead people should not be on the voter rolls.
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In fact, it reminds me, I probably need to uh uh contact uh a county in the state of New York because my father recently died, and I need to make sure his name is taken off the voter rolls.
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But um, I hate to tell you this, but that's not a power vested in the federal government.
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Congress can set rules for the time, place, and manner of elections, but they have no say over the voter rolls over who is actually registered themselves to vote, who's uh allowed to vote.
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Not like not like that.
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So when they say, well, sixth place uh they did comply eventually, that's just it.
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They complied.
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These are compliant states.
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They are simply bending the knee to an illegal federal demand.
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It's it's like when the police make an illegal uh give you an illegal order, demand.
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Let's say you're pulled over uh for uh uh a traffic stop, and they want your your phone number and your social security number, those are not legal demands.
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You have a choice.
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Do you comply with the illegal demand, or do you simply refuse?
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Bunch of states have complied with this illegal demand.
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And according to the DOJ Civil Rights Division, they filed lawsuits against Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin, and DC for failing to produce their full voter registration lists upon request.
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Well, first of all, it was a request that does not create a legal requirement.
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I know I use words, words matter.
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They didn't say that was a a uh upon demand, they said it was upon request.
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Well, if you request something, I can simply refuse.
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But apparently, this this was not a request, this was a demand, but that would be an illegal demand because there's no federal power that the U.S.
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Department of Justice would be enforcing.
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Now, the Department of Justice uh has sued apparently a total of 22 states over failing to bow the knee for this illegal request.
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Sadly, my new home state of Tennessee told the DOJ that they intend to turn over their registration list, but again, that's bending the knee to um uh to an illegal demand.
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Now, of course, the Department of Justice cites the National Voter Registration Act of 93, the Help America Vote Act of 02, even the Civil Racks Rights Act of 1960 for its alleged authority.
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There's just one problem.
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In order for those laws to be effective, in order for them to be the supreme law of the land, they must be made pursuant to the Constitution of the United States.
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And since the power to regulate uh voter registration is not one vested in the government of the United States, it was neither necessary nor proper for Congress to create these three pieces, these at least the first two pieces of legislation.
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The Civil Rights Act has to deal with, you know, are you being denied the right to vote because of the color of your skin or because of your sex or that's another issue, but that's not what we're talking about here.
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They want to, we just want to we want to clean up the voter rolls.
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I understand that, but that's not a federal power.
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And the fact that we keep looking to the federal government to do for us what we should be doing at the state level, again, proves our general ignorance of the Constitution, but also uh our unwillingness to live uh as a free republic.
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We're not longer free citizens of republic, these aren't independent states anymore.
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They literally simply, well, we're just gonna bow the knee to whatever demands come out of Washington, DC.
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Speaking of the District of Columbia, uh Department of Justice is also suing the District of Columbia over its ban on what so-called assault rifle assault weapons, um, specifically the AR-15 and many other firearms protected under the second amendment.
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Now, in a statement, the Department of Justice called the list of of banned firearms, an unconstitutional incursion into the second amendment's right of law-abiding citizens seeking to own protected firearms for lawful purposes.
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Now, I bring this up for one very important.
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This is DC.
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DOJ is not suing a state, they're suing a federal district.
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One, by the way, who the Constitution says the exclusive legislative authority is Congress.
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Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17, the Congress has the power to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district not exceeding 10 miles square as may by secession of particular states and acceptance of Congress become the seat of the government of the United States.
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So that area we now call the District of Columbia.
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It was ceded originally seated by both Maryland and Virginia, although Virginia asked for their land back.
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It does not exceed 10 miles square, and is now the seat of the government states.
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So Congress has exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever.
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So by suing the District of Columbia, in fact, the DOJ is suing Congress.
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Why?
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Because Congress, this legislation is unconsted by the City Council of DC is unconstitutional.
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Why?
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Because Congress has exclusive legislative authority over the District of Columbia.
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Well, they created the Home Rule Act.
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I don't care because that act is null and void because it violates the Constitution of the United States.
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Alexander Hamblin, no legislative act contrary to the Constitution can be valid.
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The Constitution says Congress has exclusive legislative authority.
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Doesn't give them the authority to say, hey, we're gonna we're gonna lend this some of this to somebody else.
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Well, you know, the the the Congress has the ability to override that.
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Congress doesn't have the authority to give the that power to the DC in the first place.
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Now do you see why John Jay said every member of the state ought diligently to read and study the constitution of his country, teacher I can generation be free?
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As he said, by knowing your rights, you'll sooner perceive when they are violated and be the better prepared to defend and assert them.
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Well, guess what?
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We're seeing two situations where the federal government is acting far beyond its constitutional powers, trying to regulate voter registration, trying to uh uh claim that the District of Columbia is outside of the direct control, the direct control of Congress, and now we're seeing lawsuits.
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Well, not in one case based on this lie, in the other case, kind of ignoring, saying, Well, was why are we paying attention to a law from an entity that doesn't legally exist?
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Well, you know, the people of the district, you know what?
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The you're living in a federal district.
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You're part of the, you know, we don't have register, we don't have representation in Congress.
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That's because you're not a state.
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If you you're living in a in a city that was created specifically to be the seat of the federal government, whether you chose it or your predecessors, say you chose to live in a non state.
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You chose to live in a federal district rather than in a state.
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And there are consequences for that decision.
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You don't get a you know, you don't get a city council.
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Why?
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Because the const you you create this is district's created to be the seat of the federal government.
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That's its purpose.
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Its purpose is not to be a residential neighborhood.
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Sure, you might have places to live there because people are traveling to DC to do their work, especially members of Congress.
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Um, maybe uh uh, you know, different parts of the of the executive branch, at least the legitimate parts of the executive branch, but that's not the same as having a population that lives there.
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It was never designed that way.
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And we have a lawsuit in this case because.
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The City Council of DC that was never legally legitimately created is doing something that violates the Constitution.
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And rather than having Congress deal with it like they're legally able to, now you have the district the DOJ suing because Congress is too feckless to actually do their job.
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Now let's flip the tables a little bit.
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You see, a group of 16 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to stop embezzling money for these electric vehicle charging stations.
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Well, okay, they didn't use the term embezzled.
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I use the term embezzled.
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Why?
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Because funding infrastructure like this is not a power delegated to the United States.
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It is not the paying the debts of the United States.
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It's not the common defense of the United States.
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And it's not the general welfare of the United States.
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But Paul, these are both helpful to us.
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But it's the general welfare of the capital U Capital S United States.
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Not the uh the individual states or the individual people, not the several states of the or the people, but the its entity called the United States.
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So this is illegal.
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This is money that's illegally spent.
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It's embezzled from the American people, being spent on something Congress is not authorized to collect taxes to fund.
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And now states, guess what?
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Led by California.
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That's right, has filed a lawsuit claiming you've got to give us our illegal money.
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You've got to give us our bribe.
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You bribed us to put in these stations by promising us money.
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Now you're not giving us the money that you didn't legally have the authority to give us in the first place, and we're gonna sue.
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But I want you to know when we get back, I am gonna sue somebody.
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I don't know who, and I don't know how, but by God, I am gonna sue somebody.
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Now listen, if states want to put in these electric charging stations, that's their business.
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They don't have a right to the American taxpayer dollar to do so.
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So again, California, Colorado, Washington, Arizona, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin, along with the District of Columbia.
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Uh, you're suing to you to accept a bribe.
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And you're suing to accept embezzled money.
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I'm sure you don't look at it that way.
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That's because you're greedy little politicians who want every dime from somebody else that they can get their dirt their dirty little hands on.
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You know, I find it very interesting.
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People talk about greedy corporations.
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Here we have greedy states.
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We want your money from the federal taxpayer so that we can put in the infrastructure that we need without paying for it all by ourselves.
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That's a greedy little states, and no one seems to be complaining about these greedy little states and the greedy little politicians in these states that are demanding the American people have their money embezzled from them to pay off the states for doing these ridiculous programs in direct violation of the Constitution of the United States.
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I mean, what good is the Supreme Law of the land if everybody's going to ignore it when it's inconvenient and lie about it when they think it'll help them?
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This is the problem we have.
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Now, listen, you have a right to petition your government for readers of grievance.
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You don't have the right to twist the law to say what you want it to say, whether that be the federal government's going to uh regulate the voter registration or uh um spend money on electric vehicle charging stations, or even the District of Columbia saying, hey, we're gonna make a law outside of the Constitution, outside of the Congress, meaning it's unconstitutional, is therefore null and void, but we expect people play it in this and the stupid idiots of the DOJ are going along with this.
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How about saying, listen, this law is unconstitutional because Congress has exclusive legislative authority over the District of Columbia.
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The Constitution doesn't allow them to simply hand that off to somebody else.
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It doesn't take a rocket scientist, it takes somebody with a basic understanding of the English language and the ability to read, which apparently is too much not only for our lawyers, but our judges and our politicians as well, which puts us in a pretty sad state of affairs.
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So looking at the a review of the legal system from these are these these particular articles.
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Now, granted, I tend to pick on the art on the cases and the instances that uh are problematic constitutionally.
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So, yeah, I'd give them a D minus.
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Not quite an F, but close.
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And I'm sure there are other cases that I haven't covered that maybe would have raised that grade a bit.
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But we don't need to fix cases that are constitutional.
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We don't need to fix decisions that are constitutional.
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We need to fix the unconstitutional issues.
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And as I mentioned to somebody who commented on a video of mine, um, if you're not happy with all Congress is doing, remember, we hired them.
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If you want Congress to do a better job, we need to hire better people to represent us, not just in Congress, but at the state and local level as well.
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We spent a lot of time looking at well, legal reviews, looking at legal cases and dealing with the constitutionality of them and whatnot.
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I'm shifting gears a little bit.
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So the last story I covered were states that were suing the federal government for not embezzling money from the American people to bribe the states to put in these EV charging stations.
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So I wanted to go down this EV route for a little bit before we close the day out.
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And I'm going to start in Europe.
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Paul, why Europe?
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I mean, it's it's not the United States.
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They don't have our constitution.
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Why Europe?
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Well, because a lot of people look to Europe for ideas of what to do next, including the ban on the sales of what they call combustion vehicles.
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Look at California, they've been trying to ban the use of combustion vehicles or fossil fuels in cars.
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They've got you know uh crazy uh environmental laws that go beyond trying to keep the environment clean, but apparently, in my opinion, attempt to ban these vehicles that are combusting these as California consider them evil fossil fuels.
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How terrible.
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Well, the European Union tried this, and uh well, it appears it has failed.
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You see, the European Union uh apparently they were going to ban the sale of combustion cars after 2035 within the European Union.
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Well, now they're changing their rules.
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See, under the proposed rules, tail pipe see tailpipe CO2 emissions uh for that year must be reduced by 90% rather than 100% compared to 2021.
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In other words, okay, they're still trying to push people out of these vehicles, right?
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Because they they think plant food is a pollutant.
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Remember, CO2 is plant food.
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Remember, basic was a middle school science.
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We learned that plants, green plants convert CO2 into oxygen.
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We breathe because plants turn CO2 into oxygen.
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We eat because plants turn CO2 into oxygen, and in fact, greenhouses will often pump in extra CO2 so that the plants will grow bigger and faster and stronger.
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So the EU, under this ridiculous nonsense of believing that plant food is a pollutant, originally said that from 2021, by 2035, there were the CO2 emissions out of a pale tailpipe had to be zero compared to 2021.
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At that point, it's compared to anything, right?
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Zero.
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It bans uh anything that burns a fuel, anything that might emit carbon dioxide.
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And again, now they well, okay, you only have to go down 90% from 2021.
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Now, again, I understand there's a lot of pollutants that come out of the tailpipe.
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CO2 is not one of them, ladies and gentlemen.
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This is this myth that is this that has been promulgated that the people create so much CO2 that it's warming the planet, even though science and evidence has proven that to be absolutely false.
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Doesn't matter.
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This is the craziness that goes there.
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And again, a lot of states and often the federal government like to follow what the EU has been doing.
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They oh, we gotta be alike more like Europe.
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Why?
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Lower standard of living, less square living in less square feet, more rules and regulations.
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Why do we want to be like that?
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I don't want to be like Europe.
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If I wanted to be like Europe, I'd move to Europe.
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So maybe if Europe has figured this out, maybe well, California and these other crazy states will also learn that you know banning the production of CO2 is a bad thing.
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It's already been bad for many car manufacturers.
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Ford had this wonderful, they had a dream of oh, electric key vehicles and and you know, gas generator hybrids and and they, of course, Ford sells a lot of pickup trucks.
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I think it's their biggest seller, trucks.
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So they invested a boatload of money into EV and hybrid trucks.
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Specifically, I think it was like 19.5 billion dollars for EV trucks, another Ford Lightning.
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I don't know about you, but um that didn't make a lot of sense to me.
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Granted, electric vehicles produce a tremendous amount of torque, right?
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The the electric engines produce a lot of torque, which could be really good in a pickup truck.
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However, they have a lot of downsides.
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One, the batteries are really, really, really heavy, which means it puts more weight in the vehicle, more energy is used to move the vehicle, which means it can haul less stuff.
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You also have the problem of charging.
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It takes a fair amount of it, you don't get the range you would like.
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And uh it takes a lot longer to charge an electric vehicle than it does to fill up a gas or a diesel vehicle.
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Now, again, Ford is gonna write off over 19 billion dollars in this EV truck nightmare that they created, and again, they're moving toward hybrids.
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They're doing something interesting though.
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Instead of having a the hybrid, the way you know we've got like the the Prius and whatnot, where you've got gas and electric energy being used at the same time.
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Apparently, what Ford wants to do is they want to keep the electric vehicle, but they're going to install a gas generator in order to recharge the battery.
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So they're gonna add even more weight in both the gas generator and the fuel to power the gas generator to recharge.
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Now, maybe they could get rid of some of the batteries, right?
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Since their range is not as big a deal, the gas powering the batteries, you don't need maybe need as much batteries.
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So maybe that'll watch out.
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But what does it show?
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It shows that this push towards electric vehicles was the myth.
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So many people have talked about since its beginning.
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Now, I'm not saying there's not a place for electric vehicles.
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There are scenarios where they make a lot of sense, right?
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Especially in dense urban areas where people tend to drive shorter distances, and you've got a lot more density, which means pollution is a bigger issue.
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Makes sense.
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You know, if you if you're in a suburban area and you're driving to maybe a train station or you're not that far from work, it may make sense.
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There's a cost to it, right?
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Because not only you still have to pay for your electricity, and well, that ain't cheap in most of the country.
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Of course, I think it's cheaper than the EU, but that's a whole other question.
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Right.
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So there's a cost you have to put in the charging station.
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But if you live a lifestyle where it works and it makes sense for you, then yeah, I don't think electric vehicles should be banned.
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It was this promotion, it was this coercion by governments to get uh to get people into electric vehicles.
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When people didn't buy electric vehicles, they tried to coerce the companies into making them in many cases based on the the quote-unquote cafe standard, the corporate average fuel economy.
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The problem is people didn't buy the vehicles.
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People don't want electric vehicles, some people do, but they don't, the vast majority of American people don't want electric vehicles.
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So you have a an attempt to push people into a certain direction.
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And um, well, it failed in Europe, and Ford said it failed for us.
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I guess you could say that um the Ford EV has been found on road dead.
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For those of you know amongst the car community, right?
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Ford is kind of the some people say that Ford stands for first on race day.
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Uh, others say that it's found on road dead.
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It's kind of a humorous thing amongst gearheads that they talk about.
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But again, it's a failure of government to coerce people into acting the way government wants rather than the way they want.
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Let's face it.
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If electric vehicles were all that great, people would be flocking to buy them.
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They couldn't keep them on the dealership floors, but that's not the case.
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And unfortunately, it's taken you know years, and Ford's gonna cost them a lot of money for this.
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Now I've got one more.
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I've been I've been trying to find a point to slot this in.
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I got a few minutes, so let me do this because we're going back out to California.
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Now, somebody pointed me in this direction, and what I was told isn't exactly true, but I want to bring this up because you may hear something too.
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And that's the the California is trying to take away tax exempt statuses from churches.
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And that's the way, in fact, I'm I'm looking at a um a headline.
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This is on startchurch.com that says proposed California law could take away tax exemption.
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Okay, here's what's going on.
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A the Senate, the state senate governance and finance committee voted five to two to move legislation forward that would say a uh basically if an entity has a youth group, and that youth group, quote unquote, in the state's determination discriminates on the basis of gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, or religious affiliation, the state will revoke its tax exempt status.
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This is you talk about separation of church and state.
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This is what
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Jefferson was talking about the state interfering with the church.
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Now, listen.
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A lot of people don't like the fact that churches are tax exempt.
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They kind of forget the fact that churches are in general a moderating factor in society.
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They moderate some of the more crazy lifestyles, right?
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They moderate some of the more outrageous and they help set a more sedate moral tone.
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Which of course is exactly what California doesn't want.
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So imagine you go to a church in California, and yes, you have a youth group.
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Why?
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Because, well, you know, Jesus did tell us to spread the word to all nations.
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He did say, you know, suffer the little children to come on to me, that uh if you uh if you cause one of the little children to save to sin, it'd be better if a millstone were tied around your neck and you were thrown into the sea.
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There's this kind of issue of raising the next generation.
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Now, if you have a youth group and you say, you know what, Tommy, you are not a girl.
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Or, you know, you say what uh uh uh you know, you know what, uh Jimmy.
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Um it's really nice that you want to lead the youth, you want a leadership position in a youth group, but this is a this is a a Catholic church, and um you're a Muslim, and so you're not qualified for leaders.
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You actually have to believe what we believe to be in a situation.
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California wants to take away their tax exempt status.
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Now, this would involve California taxes only, because California has no authority to take away uh federal tax exempt status.
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Of course, then we get into the whole question of the Johnson Amendment and all that nonsense.
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But this is California saying if you're not our own hippie dippy uh crazy sexualized religion, we're going to punish you.
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That's basically what they're saying.
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That's what this law would do.
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And again, imagine it isn't simply your own uh youth group.
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A lot of churches uh host uh boy scouts, Cub Scouts, girl scouts, um, different organizations.
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If one of them say, you know what, we want a leader that actually believes what we believe, well, you can't have a tax exempt status.
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This is an attempt to punish churches that don't go away with state dogma.
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In other words, it is a violation of freedom of religion.
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Now, it's not a First Amendment violation.
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Remember, the First Amendment says Congress shall make no law.
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Now, it does seem to me that it violates Article 1, Section 4 of the California Constitution, which reads free exercise and enjoyment of religion without discrimination or preference are guaranteed.
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The liberty of conscience does not excuse acts that are licentious or inconsistent with the peace or safety of the state.
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The legislature may make the legislature shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.
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Well, in effect, the state's saying, yeah, you can have your religion and be tax exempt as long as we get to set the rules for it.
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This is a violation, this would be a violation of the California Constitution.
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Why is that important?
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Well, because you're dealing with the with California and uh or Camifornia as I like to call it sometimes, and this is the problem Californians have because they have spent decades hiring people to think they have a right to control other people's religion, their faith, and how they go about their business.
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Now, I don't live in California, I have no plans to live in California.
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To me, that sounds like torture.
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But if I were in California, I have to ask the the church members, the Christians, especially in California.
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What's more important?
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Your oath to your God or your oath to the state.
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Who do you said you cannot serve both uh um God and mammon?
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You have to choose.
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This may be a scenario in the churches of California.
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Say, choose.
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Is your are you willing to give up your tax exempt status in order to follow God, or are you willing to give up following God in order to protect your tax exempt status?
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To me, that'll tell you a lot about the members and the leadership of your church.
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Personally, I know what I would do, but it's up to you.
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