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- 0:16From the plausibly live newsroom, this is your Morning
- 0:19News update. The Trump administration is
- 0:21asking a federal appeals court to permit new Postal Service
- 0:25requirements for mail ballots. Several states are challenging
- 0:28the rules, arguing that the president lacks authority to
- 0:31impose nationwide election procedures.
- 0:34Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is resigning after 18 months in
- 0:38office. The White House offered no
- 0:40reason, although several reports describe tensions with Defense
- 0:44Secretary Pete Higgseth. A government watchdog says
- 0:48maintenance delays cost the Navy's attack submarine force
- 0:51more than 15,000 operational days over the past decade.
- 0:55Two people are dead and one remains missing after flash
- 0:59flooding in the Grand Canyon. Approximately 80 people were
- 1:02rescued. And in baseball, the Mariners
- 1:05begin a critical series in Boston this afternoon.
- 1:08The M's begin the day six games back of the Astros in the
- 1:12division and 5 1/2 games out of the Wild Card race.
- 1:37The world is a complicated place.
- 1:40Fortunately, Dave Bowman has opinions, some informed, some
- 1:44inconvenient, and a few that may require supporting
- 1:48documentation, history, politics, and the absurdity of
- 1:51modern life. This is the Dave Bowman Show.
- 1:58Well, good morning, good evening or good afternoon, wherever you
- 2:01are, whatever you do. A lot of things happening in the
- 2:04world today, most of them are far beyond our control, you
- 2:07might say. So perhaps it's time we took a
- 2:10pause and thought about life and thought about the laws, you
- 2:14know, the actual supreme law of the land Constitution,
- 2:20submarines. What does it mean to be Jewish?
- 2:27You'd think we'd already answered that question, but
- 2:29apparently not. And the court system, criminal
- 2:34justice system, has managed to do something that the Dallas
- 2:36Cowboys have not. Who's surprised by that?
- 2:42Look, the Constitution tells us that states conduct elections.
- 2:47Congress can regulate them. But apparently the postmaster
- 2:55and the president may have discovered yet. 1/3 option could
- 3:00be arguably controversial, right?
- 3:06Trump administration has asked the First Circuit Court to lift
- 3:09its injunction it's temporary restraining order, and this
- 3:14would cause the states, including Washington, to provide
- 3:19the United States Postal Service with mail ballot recipient
- 3:24lists. Just let it marinate for a
- 3:28moment. Each ballot then receives a
- 3:31unique barcode and a ballot could be rejected.
- 3:37If the barcode or the voter information, I would assume that
- 3:40means the barcode and the voter information don't match up.
- 3:44So in other words, if the barcode says this person is
- 3:48going or this person is Dave living at this address and the
- 3:56voter information doesn't match that barcode, somehow or another
- 4:02it would reject that. I'm sure that it could be a
- 4:07functional system. I don't the technology is there.
- 4:10I'm not going to argue that, but it raises a lot of questions.
- 4:18Number one, I'm not sure I trust the Postal Service with mail
- 4:25ballot recipient list. I, I, we keep whining about, you
- 4:29know, privacy and stuff like that.
- 4:31It's conservative. We talk about the fact that,
- 4:32well, we don't like flock cameras because flock cameras
- 4:35are tracking us. Well, why are we OK with this?
- 4:38Because this is tracking you. Moreover, this program was
- 4:44created through an executive order by the president of the
- 4:48United States. Now, again, this isn't about the
- 4:53president per SE. It's about president and
- 4:56executive authority versus congressional legislation.
- 5:00And what does the Constitution actually say?
- 5:04The states run the elections. They can be regulated by
- 5:08Congress, but not controlled by Congress.
- 5:12Once you're once you're into that, that zone where Congress
- 5:15is controlling the elections, you have essentially federalized
- 5:19the elections. Now, there are many people who
- 5:21want that. I get it.
- 5:24There are people, there have been people since literally 1787
- 5:28who have wanted to do that. Alexander Hamilton famously
- 5:32wanted to do away with states governments and and just replace
- 5:35everything with the federal government.
- 5:37James Madison was in that camp, although quite not as not quite
- 5:42as vehement about it. So this idea that we are going
- 5:48to federalize something has been around for a long time, but it's
- 5:54not what the Constitution says. Now, there is a report that
- 6:00there is a whistleblower out there.
- 6:02Raise your hand if you're surprised by this, because I
- 6:04don't know who would be. But there's a whistleblower who
- 6:08claims that the supporting computer system was rushed,
- 6:13inadequately tested, kind of like voting machines, right?
- 6:18Not what it now, isn't that the problem we have with those?
- 6:24You know, we're all, we're all concerned about Skynet, but here
- 6:29we're turning over this whole thing to the Postal Service.
- 6:35Now, look, I get the argument. I, I have a very close relative
- 6:40who works for the Postal Service, and this is a constant
- 6:44jab between him and I. You're a federal employee.
- 6:47No, we're not. We're not federal employees only
- 6:54because of a technicality. Everything else is federalized.
- 6:58So we're basically handing these lists over the federal
- 7:02government, and that doesn't seem to bother us along the way.
- 7:09Again, the Constitution, state legislatures initially control
- 7:12the manner of the of the congressional elections.
- 7:15Now, Congress can alter some of those regulations under the
- 7:19Elections clause of the Constitution, but there is no
- 7:25assigning of any comparable election regulating power to the
- 7:30president of the United States, the executive of the United
- 7:33States. If you go back in history, one
- 7:37of the problems we had with King George the Third was that he was
- 7:40meddling in elections. He was buying elections.
- 7:44He was controlling elections. You may have heard the term
- 7:48rotten borough. That's where it comes from, the
- 7:51idea that the King was essentially buying parliamentary
- 7:56elections. There is no comparable power for
- 8:00the President of the United States to do that.
- 8:04UPSUSPS, sorry, can regulate the handling of mail, but can it
- 8:10determine whether a lawful state ballot is valid or not?
- 8:16It's, it's an uncomfortable question.
- 8:19It should be an uncomfortable question.
- 8:21Look, I get election integrity in the, in the, in the broadest
- 8:26sense of, of things. You will find that I am not one
- 8:31of those people that is convinced that there isn't
- 8:34cheating going along. I'll, I'll tell you something
- 8:35you don't know about me. I am firmly convinced based on
- 8:39circumstantial evidence, Yes, and all evidence is
- 8:41circumstantial, that there was significant malfeasance in the
- 8:462020 election and that President Trump, I'll just say it probably
- 8:50won legitimately. But water under the bridge and
- 8:56#2 I personally believe that the Democrats screwed themselves by
- 9:01doing that. It was a stupid thing to do.
- 9:05It was a stupid thing to do because you've already had Trump
- 9:08hamstrung. You had control of Congress.
- 9:11You were just going to keep impeaching him, impeaching him,
- 9:13impeaching him. He wasn't going to get anything
- 9:14done. And guess what?
- 9:16In 2025, he would have been gone.
- 9:21Instead, you made him a martyr. Now, again, people are going to
- 9:26send me emails. I can already hear him going.
- 9:29You're you're an election denier.
- 9:30You just do that. No more than Hillary Clinton was
- 9:33in 2016. I'm convinced that there was
- 9:37some malfeasance going on. I think the circumstantial
- 9:40evidence of that is pretty strong.
- 9:42But I also believe that that has happened before.
- 9:46There was circumstantial evidence that 1960 was
- 9:49manipulated. Clearly 1876 was manipulated.
- 9:54The country survived all of that.
- 9:56The reality of it is that who is in the Oval Office isn't as
- 10:01important as the transitional functions of that and the fact
- 10:06that we maintain those. And it's a strange thing to say,
- 10:10I know, but reality is we survived Rutherford B Hayes, we
- 10:15survived Richard or John Kennedy, and we survived Joe
- 10:20Biden, barely. But we did.
- 10:24And in the process of that, every time there was that
- 10:27cheating. Look what happened after that.
- 10:29Look what happened after every case that there is strong
- 10:33evidence of of malfeasance in an election in 1876.
- 10:36What happened in 1880? Tada, the Democrats won.
- 10:43What happened in 1968? Richard Nixon was back.
- 10:47We didn't have him to kick around anymore, but now he's
- 10:50back. What happened in 2020?
- 10:55Biden won. But what happened in 2024?
- 10:59Not only did the Democrats lose, they got bitch slapped.
- 11:05Election integrity is the ultimate objective, but is this
- 11:08the best way to achieve that? And is this method
- 11:11constitutional? I got to be honest, if I'm
- 11:14sitting in a judge seat right now, I'm going to have some
- 11:17serious questions for the administration's attorney.
- 11:22Explain to me where in the Constitution the president of
- 11:27the United States can do this? Where?
- 11:28Where is the congressional authorization of this?
- 11:32Because if there isn't any, I don't see the argument making
- 11:35this, you know, staying there. Yes, barcodes could establish
- 11:41tracking, chain of custody, all that kind of stuff, and maybe
- 11:45put a stop to some of the shenanigans that have gone on.
- 11:50The problem is, of course, if we wait till the litigation ends
- 11:54over this, we may not be prepared for November.
- 11:58Which raises the question, is that what we're all about?
- 12:04I don't know. Federal elections could create a
- 12:08legitimate national interest. There could be that argument.
- 12:13Does it? Does it need uniform safeguards?
- 12:17Is the the Constitution needing to be amended to make this that
- 12:23way? The real question though,
- 12:26becomes and, and this is where it gets introspective and where
- 12:29we have to think about things. If this were reversed, reverse
- 12:33it 180°, if this was Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton or Barack
- 12:37Obama recommending this exact same thing, signing this exact
- 12:43same executive order, how would we react?
- 12:49I'll wait. Can the United States Postal
- 12:53Service refuse a ballot that complies with state laws?
- 12:56In other words, if it if it matches the state's laws, which
- 12:59are supposed to control it? Does the United States Postal
- 13:02Service, one of the least effective, poorest run, most
- 13:08useless organizations in the entire federal government?
- 13:13Yes, you are. Can they decide that a state law
- 13:17doesn't matter? And what remedies exist if my
- 13:22ballot gets rejected by a a defective database or a USPS
- 13:26employee that just decides he doesn't count?
- 13:31And why hasn't Congress decided to enact these legislative
- 13:35requirements themselves? Those are questions that we
- 13:39don't have answers to, folks. And while I get it, while I
- 13:44understand we're all concerned, we're all still mad.
- 13:47We're all still a little butt hurt over 2020.
- 13:48I got it. But reality is, do we violate
- 13:53the Constitution because of that?
- 13:58I, I can't go with you on that. Be right back.
- 14:21Welcome back. It's plausibly live The Dave
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- 14:48The Dave Bowman Show podcast, a term which, by the way, I
- 14:53outright stole from a good friend of mine and also who's
- 14:56also in the biz, who taught me that phrase plausibly live
- 15:01because he does. At the time he was doing a
- 15:03national sports show and because of time, because he had to be
- 15:10somewhere else, he was recording a show at like 3:00 in the
- 15:14morning. And he used that term.
- 15:16Well, it's plausibly live. Every recording it as is live,
- 15:18which is something I've always done.
- 15:20I've always recorded my show as live as if it's live.
- 15:24I don't edit things out. Occasionally, if there's a
- 15:28technical problem, I'll edit something out, but I don't edit
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- 15:35Frock. Don't do it with Dave does
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- 15:41I do edit Dave does history for content because, well,
- 15:46unfortunately, sometimes things are out of control, out of my
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- 15:55But there you go. That's why that's hence the name
- 16:00plausibly live, which is a name that I very much like.
- 16:03And indeed, I had a conversation with him some years ago about
- 16:07that, told him I flat out stole that from you, which he he then
- 16:11graciously granted his his blessing upon.
- 16:14So. So it's not like I just stole it
- 16:17stole it. Get over your line.
- 16:19More than 15,000 attacks submarine operational days lost
- 16:23from fiscal years 2016 to 2025. So if you haven't been keeping
- 16:30up with this, the Navy has a huge problem.
- 16:33The country has a huge problem with maintaining our naval
- 16:37vessels. And while this story
- 16:40particularly focuses on submarines because I'm a
- 16:42submariner, the fact is it's it's affecting the entire Navy.
- 16:47The lack of shipyards, the lack of maintenance facilities, and
- 16:53the lack of conducting maintenance has cost an
- 16:57additional repairs needed $3.4 billion in that time.
- 17:04And of course this leads to maintenance backlogs, at least
- 17:08to inefficient shipyard capacity and indeed some of the
- 17:12submarines. This is the ridiculous part.
- 17:14I think it was the US Boise if I remember right.
- 17:18Trying to remember the name. I'm I'm sure it was the Boise.
- 17:21Fully crude, fully manned, but can't dive.
- 17:28She'd lost her dive certification because time had
- 17:30expired and she hadn't made it into the yards yet.
- 17:32And so she literally sat next to the pier for something like 5 or
- 17:357 years, couldn't move, couldn't operate.
- 17:39Just waiting for a shipyard to say, yeah, we'll, we'll, we'll
- 17:42handle you now. Can you imagine that?
- 17:46Look, I, I was in the Navy, talked about this numerous
- 17:48times. I was blessed in a lot of ways.
- 17:51Number one, I never had to do a yard period.
- 17:55OK, maybe that's just luck on my part.
- 17:58I don't know. I never had a mess cook either.
- 18:02But I everybody tells me, and I've talked to people that have
- 18:06been there, the yards just suck. Being in the yards just it's
- 18:09terrible. Your ship is torn apart.
- 18:12You have to live in a barracks on a barge, unless you're, you
- 18:16know, renting an apartment somewhere or house somewhere.
- 18:20The workloads are absurd. If there's even anything to do,
- 18:24if you can even get on your ship, there's the workloads are
- 18:27ridiculous. It's depressing.
- 18:29You're not doing what you signed up to do.
- 18:32Remember the the mother from the Abraham Lincoln sailor who who
- 18:36told CBS News that, quote, her son didn't sign up to be on a
- 18:39ship in the middle of the ocean? I'm making that up.
- 18:42She said that, well, when you're in the yards, believe me,
- 18:48talking to people that have been there, the one place you want to
- 18:51be is out in the middle of the ocean because then you feel like
- 18:53you're doing something in the yards.
- 18:54You don't feel like you're doing things.
- 18:56You don't have control over your own ship.
- 18:58You don't have any of this stuff.
- 19:00And so I never having been in the yards myself, although I
- 19:03have been through refits which are similar, just much shorter,
- 19:08you know, 25 days. It's a pain in the ass and it's,
- 19:14it leaves the crew morale very low.
- 19:18Some of the lowest morale crews you'll ever see are those crews
- 19:21that are in the yards for, for LinkedIn here in Bremerton, we
- 19:25had a, a, a carrier that was in the yards here for some years.
- 19:29And I'm trying to remember who it was.
- 19:32Was it the Washington? I don't remember.
- 19:34Anyway, the point is that they had multiple suicides that they
- 19:37were blaming on being in the yards because it lowers morale.
- 19:44It sucks. I, I think it's a more important
- 19:47thing to consider that there are operational consequences to
- 19:51having this problem with the yards.
- 19:53It leads to fewer missions, fewer deployments, which means
- 19:57that we're not getting stuff done that we need to get done.
- 20:01And I've, I got to be very careful how I say this.
- 20:03Much of what attacks submarines do is known as intelligence
- 20:07missions. A submarine is a wonderful
- 20:11platform for gathering intelligence.
- 20:13I don't know if you knew that or not.
- 20:14Don't know if you care, but if they're not out there, we're not
- 20:18gathering that intelligence. It leads to less crew training,
- 20:21which means less proficiency. It's greater pressure on the
- 20:25submarines that are still available.
- 20:26Now they're having to go out. Although I got to be honest with
- 20:29you, that doesn't. That never bothered us as much,
- 20:33I don't think. Did we complain about it, all of
- 20:38the Abraham Lincoln sailors? Absolutely.
- 20:41But given the choice between an up tempo operational system and
- 20:47sitting in the yards, you're not going to find a sailor who says,
- 20:50yeah, I want to sit in the yards, put me there.
- 20:53Of course, the problem then that is that it wears on the boats
- 20:56that are out there, which means that they need to go to the
- 20:59yards sooner. And if you have simultaneous
- 21:03crises, well, could be a problem.
- 21:08Now, that leaves us to the questions that Congress is
- 21:10having to wrestle with right now.
- 21:12Should we buy more submarines or fix the maintenance capacity?
- 21:20Why not both? Would another public shipyard
- 21:24materially solve the problem? Remember, we closed a bunch of
- 21:26shipyards. Mayor Island, one down South,
- 21:30can't remember the name. We, we, we closed shipyards
- 21:33under the Breck program, the, you know, the end of the Cold
- 21:35War. What if we had those back?
- 21:39What about employment? Do do we have the skills to
- 21:42actually do these things anymore?
- 21:45And if we start transferring submarines to Australia as part
- 21:50of the AUCUS plan, how does that affect our own shortage?
- 21:57Those are questions that haven't been answered yet.
- 21:59And those are questions that are going to have to be answered or
- 22:02the problem is just going to get worse as we go along.
- 22:06And therein lies the issue in all this.
- 22:09We're watching it, but I don't know what we're going to do
- 22:12about it. I don't think Congress does
- 22:14either. Stay with her.
- 22:16We'll be right back. Welcome back.
- 22:50It's me, Dave. It is the Dave Bowman Show.
- 22:54So the state of California has introduced a bill.
- 23:01Maybe you saw this, maybe you didn't.
- 23:02I don't know. They have introduced a new bill,
- 23:07Senate Bill 1387 by Democrat State Senator Harry Stern.
- 23:14I've been out of California politics for almost a decade,
- 23:18couldn't tell you who this guy is, but the bill defines
- 23:27ethnicity in California law as inclusive of Jewish identity.
- 23:34The idea here is beginning the January 1st, 2029, there would
- 23:38be a a new state agency. No, it's it's an old state
- 23:42agency. They're already asked
- 23:43Californians to identify them. Race, ancestry or ethnicity
- 23:47would generally have the option to include Jewish ancestry or
- 23:50ethnicity. Does this.
- 24:01It would not require every California resident to answer
- 24:04the question. The option would be quote UN
- 24:07quote voluntary. It's only available on forms
- 24:11that already collect racial or ethnic into information and it
- 24:16is selectable alongside of these other categories.
- 24:19So you know how that is, are you white, Hispanic, white, non
- 24:21Hispanic, white African? You know you can you can click
- 24:26all these things, which is that can get you in trouble if you're
- 24:31not careful. Once Upon a time, I clicked
- 24:34Other. Ben was starting kindergarten,
- 24:37and I clicked Other. And then it said what other?
- 24:41And I wrote Klingon just as a joke.
- 24:44Everybody in the world knew it was a joke.
- 24:47And then my wife gets a call from the school because they
- 24:52don't have Klingon support at the school.
- 24:55And while they get the joke, apparently the state of
- 25:00California would not. And so there you go.
- 25:07The information would collect the individual responses, but
- 25:10only aggregate and define statistics could be published,
- 25:15whatever the hell that means. They couldn't identify
- 25:17information about an individual purpose person even though my
- 25:21ballot could because it would have a barcode on it.
- 25:25Agencies, this is where we get nerve racking.
- 25:28Here. Agencies must employ minimum
- 25:30reporting thresholds and other de identification methods.
- 25:39The data may only be used for democratic demographic, not
- 25:43democratic demographic analysis. Approved research, reporting,
- 25:47identifying disparities, and guiding policy or funding cannot
- 25:52legally legally be used to create a registry of individuals
- 25:58and cannot be used by law enforcement or immigration
- 26:01enforcement. Well OK, but if the whole point
- 26:05is to support anti-Semitic crime or to fight anti-Semitic crime,
- 26:12why couldn't law enforcement use it?
- 26:16Doesn't that seem kind of counter supporters argue that
- 26:24the current forms in use tend to make Jews statistically
- 26:28disappear. Most Jews, according to this or
- 26:32many Jews check white for race and receive no opportunity to
- 26:35identify their Jewish ancestry, which results in discrimination
- 26:39against Jews, unemployment or economic disparities, health
- 26:44trends within Jewish communities and there are some genetic
- 26:50illnesses that affect Jews more than other people.
- 26:53Jewish representation in schools and public programs, which is
- 26:58odd because we're not supposed to allow that anyway.
- 27:02Distribution of government services.
- 27:07OK. And of course anti-Semitic
- 27:09incidents motivated by ancestry rather than religious practice.
- 27:13Jewish organizations, of course, are coming out cautiously or
- 27:21anti this arguing that treating Jews as one ethnicity
- 27:26oversimplifies a diverse population.
- 27:28Ashkenazi, Sephardic misery, Ethiopian, Indian, Latino, other
- 27:34Jewish communities possess different geographic origins,
- 27:38cultural experiences and converts such as myself further
- 27:43compliment complicate any definition based on ancestry.
- 27:47I have no Jewish ancestry. I'm, it, I'm, I'm, I'm the first
- 27:51one in my, in my entire family going back to the 1617, I think
- 27:56now we have where my ancestors came to America, not as Jews.
- 28:04They were German. They were probably Lutheran.
- 28:05In fact, they were Lutheran. Opponents also argue that
- 28:09California does not ordinarily place individual religions
- 28:12inside its ethnic classifications.
- 28:15Recognizing Judaism alone as both a religion and an ethnicity
- 28:20could create unequal legal trip treatment or blur distinguish
- 28:25blur distinctions amongst religion, ancestry and race.
- 28:29It's early in the morning, folks.
- 28:31It's early in the morning. My eyes aren't working.
- 28:34The argument then becomes confused when people ask, are
- 28:38Jews a race? This bill does not declare Jews
- 28:43a race. It places Jewish identity within
- 28:47ancestry and ethnicity data while a while allowing
- 28:50respondents to select or additional categories.
- 28:53So if my ethnicity and ancestry aren't Jewish, but I am
- 29:02according to the state of California, is there a race or
- 29:04not? If government policy then, is
- 29:08driven by demographic data, can Jews afford not to be counted?
- 29:12Given our history, can we afford to be counted?
- 29:17Remember that Once Upon a time there was a group of people who
- 29:21define Jews basically as, you know, anybody with Jewish blood.
- 29:25And interestingly enough, in their laws of 193534, somewhere
- 29:31in there they also wrote that anybody who chooses to worship
- 29:35as a Jew is considered Jewish and should be treated as such
- 29:39under our system. Well, SB1387 shares a conceptual
- 29:47feature with that It treats Jewish identity as ancestry or
- 29:51ethnicity, rather than solely as a religion, which matters
- 29:56because legal categories can outlive the people who created
- 29:59them, especially in a state that has term limits.
- 30:05The final bill says the information cannot be used to
- 30:07create a registry or for law enforcement or immigration
- 30:11purposes. That's meaningful, but they're
- 30:15statutory protections and statutes can be amended.
- 30:19As we've seen in the past, data braces, databases, databases can
- 30:24be breached, administrative rules can change.
- 30:27Information collected by one agencies can someone times into
- 30:30somewhere else and maybe an executive decides that those
- 30:37laws don't apply to him anymore. Then what happens?
- 30:45Where does this end up? Makes me nervous.
- 30:48Glad I don't live in California but you know Washington will
- 30:51follow. Start to lose my voice again.
- 31:15It's just weird because it's early in the morning.
- 31:19Do you know that 57% of Canadians oppose higher tariffs
- 31:23on Canadian goods? 22% support them.
- 31:27Who cares? 63% of Canadians oppose renaming
- 31:32Lake Ontario Whoop Dee Doo whoop Dee freaking do.
- 31:41Yesterday there was a verdict in the Tupac shooting murder case.
- 31:46Do you remember this? I, I remember look, I, I'm not a
- 31:49huge rap fan. I never have been.
- 31:51There are some of it that I like.
- 31:52Tupac was never one of my favorites, but it was a human
- 31:57interest story to follow and he had the old East Coast, West
- 32:00Coast rivalry thing going on. They convicted a guy yesterday
- 32:04by the name of Dwayne Davis, convicted of first degree
- 32:07murder, arguing that he organized the attack, he didn't
- 32:10actually fire the weapons, and apparently his own years of
- 32:17interviews, boasts, published statements became the central
- 32:21evidence against him. Which means that since Tupac was
- 32:29murdered, the legal system has managed to find can convict the
- 32:35man who did it. And the Dallas Cowboys haven't
- 32:38won a playoff game since then. Just food for thought.
- 32:43Just some ideas, you know, kind of lay upon that whole thing.
- 32:49I don't know why that strikes me as funny as I, but it does.
- 32:53Look, the common thread today has been very simply this The
- 32:57possession and performance are different things.
- 33:02The president possesses power, but that doesn't mean that
- 33:05everything he or she or it does is constitutional.
- 33:11And if our entire mindset is, well, it's my guy, so it's OK,
- 33:16That's not constitutional either.
- 33:19The Navy possesses submarines, but that doesn't mean that they
- 33:22can go to sea. And if they're not going to see
- 33:25they're not doing what we paid them for.
- 33:28Government is very good, very good at counting what it has.
- 33:33The harder question is whether any of it actually, you know,
- 33:36works. Those are questions we're going
- 33:40to have to answer. Those are questions we're going
- 33:41to have to wrestle with. And those are questions we don't
- 33:45have answers to today and we don't have time to get any
- 33:48further into it. Take the time right now.
- 33:49Tell the people that matter in your life, you love them very
- 33:51much. You'd miss them if they weren't
- 33:53there. So don't pass up those
- 33:54opportunities. You don't want to have those
- 33:57regrets. I'm Dave Bowman.
- 33:58This is my show, Plausibly Live, The Dave Bowman Show podcast,
- 34:02and we'll see you next time right here.