WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:06.160 Today, we visit with Jimmy Page, founder of Unstoppable Freedom Alliance. 2 00:00:06.460 --> 00:00:11.200 It's a fun interview, and I'm the interviewee, and that is next. 3 00:00:26.520 --> 00:00:28.120 Hey, welcome back to The Barry Ferrell Show. 4 00:00:28.400 --> 00:00:29.920 I hope you're doing great. 5 00:00:30.360 --> 00:00:34.280 I just had a fast paced and fun interview with Jimmy Page. 6 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:37.240 He's the founder of Unstoppable Freedom Alliance. 7 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:39.520 His organization is on a mission. 8 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:41.160 He's a happy warrior. 9 00:00:41.680 --> 00:00:44.760 And if you've been with me for a while, you're used to seeing me interview other 10 00:00:44.760 --> 00:00:49.640 people, but here I'm being interviewed by him, but it went so well. 11 00:00:49.720 --> 00:00:52.400 We thought you would like to see the whole shebang. 12 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:53.600 What a great guy. 13 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:56.440 We talk about the courts, the filibuster and other stuff. 14 00:00:56.640 --> 00:01:01.640 He's pretty gifted at asking questions, and I did my best to rise to the challenge. 15 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:02.840 I think you'll enjoy it. 16 00:01:03.400 --> 00:01:04.080 So here we go. 17 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:07.120 Well, welcome to the Unstoppable Freedom podcast. 18 00:01:07.240 --> 00:01:08.120 I'm Jimmy Page. 19 00:01:08.520 --> 00:01:12.800 Today, we're going to tackle two really big topics that are threats to the 20 00:01:12.800 --> 00:01:14.000 American system of government. 21 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:18.880 The first one is a Supreme Court, and the second one is the filibuster. 22 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:21.600 And both are under attack from the left. 23 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:26.000 They're literally trying to dismantle these key components of our system, of 24 00:01:26.080 --> 00:01:27.080 checks and balances. 25 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:29.760 Well, our guest today is an expert in these two areas. 26 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:31.160 His name is Barry Farah. 27 00:01:31.320 --> 00:01:34.840 Barry is the host of the popular podcast by his name. 28 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:39.480 He's a highly successful businessman, the author of three successful business and 29 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:40.320 leadership books. 30 00:01:40.720 --> 00:01:45.040 And he speaks to groups on the foundations of the American dream, freedom 31 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:47.440 economics, and the American idea. 32 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:53.160 He's even made a run for governor of Colorado in 2018, and we sure do wish you 33 00:01:53.160 --> 00:01:54.440 had won, I'll tell you that. 34 00:01:54.720 --> 00:01:55.960 Barry, welcome to the show. 35 00:01:56.680 --> 00:01:57.480 Thank you very much. 36 00:01:57.480 --> 00:01:58.640 It's great to be on with you. 37 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:03.240 Did it, you know, the run for governor, okay, this isn't, this is just bonus 38 00:02:03.240 --> 00:02:03.680 material. 39 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:06.120 The run for governor, was that, did you enjoy that? 40 00:02:07.160 --> 00:02:07.720 I did. 41 00:02:07.720 --> 00:02:12.160 I just didn't give myself enough time to build the rapport I needed to with the 42 00:02:12.160 --> 00:02:12.680 assembly. 43 00:02:13.040 --> 00:02:14.040 It was a lot of fun though. 44 00:02:14.200 --> 00:02:15.800 And I enjoyed it. 45 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:19.760 If you've got an extra 30 or $40 million, I'll be happy to run again. 46 00:02:21.320 --> 00:02:21.640 Okay. 47 00:02:21.640 --> 00:02:25.040 Now that's, that's pretty sad to say that, but that's actually true, right? 48 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:27.320 Unfortunately, there's some truth to that. 49 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:27.720 Yeah. 50 00:02:27.720 --> 00:02:32.880 The money and the influence in politics is pretty sad, but, so let's get right into 51 00:02:32.880 --> 00:02:33.040 it. 52 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:39.080 It's no secret that the Supreme court, one of the three branches of our 53 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:42.160 constitutional Republic, we're going to talk a little bit about what that means 54 00:02:42.160 --> 00:02:45.880 at some point, that the Supreme court is taking heavy fire from the left. 55 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:50.080 Ever since the overturning of Roe, the leftists have been calling for the 56 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:52.720 complete destruction of the Supreme court. 57 00:02:53.040 --> 00:02:57.960 They're openly criticizing their decisions and worse yet in some ways, 58 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:02.560 they're allowing protests, sometimes relatively unpeaceful protests outside 59 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:05.200 their homes and others are talking about packing the court. 60 00:03:05.200 --> 00:03:08.600 We're going to get into all of those, but before we do help us understand the 61 00:03:08.600 --> 00:03:12.960 role of the Supreme court and why it's so important to the success of America. 62 00:03:14.040 --> 00:03:18.080 Well, certainly, I mean, if you look at article one of the constitution, you've 63 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:19.480 got the legislative branch. 64 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:21.600 That's important. 65 00:03:21.600 --> 00:03:27.080 You've got the house and the Senate and 2,200 and something words to explain how 66 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:27.760 that works. 67 00:03:28.200 --> 00:03:33.280 Then you've got article two, the executive branch and about half the amount of words 68 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:34.080 to explain that. 69 00:03:34.640 --> 00:03:37.360 And then number three is the judicial branch. 70 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:42.440 And the idea, the notion was in about 300 and something words for that. 71 00:03:42.720 --> 00:03:46.640 So it's very important, but you could get to the punch of it quickly. 72 00:03:47.040 --> 00:03:48.720 In other words, you didn't have as many issues. 73 00:03:48.720 --> 00:03:49.360 And why is that? 74 00:03:49.440 --> 00:03:51.360 Well, these guys were not going to be elected. 75 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:53.880 So you didn't have to go through all the explanation of what it takes to get 76 00:03:53.880 --> 00:03:54.200 elected. 77 00:03:54.200 --> 00:03:55.000 They're going to be appointed. 78 00:03:55.440 --> 00:03:58.800 And why are they going to be appointed versus the executive branch being elected 79 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:01.800 a certain way and the legislative branch being elected a different way. 80 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:04.680 And in within there are two different ways of being elected for the house and the 81 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:05.040 Senate. 82 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:11.760 And the reason there is this Supreme court or the whole judicial branch set up the 83 00:04:11.760 --> 00:04:16.560 way it is, is because it is supposed to be different than the other two where 84 00:04:16.640 --> 00:04:17.440 there's an election. 85 00:04:17.440 --> 00:04:19.560 That's why we have a constitutional Republic. 86 00:04:19.880 --> 00:04:22.600 We're not a true, pure democracy. 87 00:04:22.640 --> 00:04:28.840 Pure democracies can turn into a dictatorship, but a Republic has 88 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:33.600 infrastructure built into it that has what we've commonly called checks and 89 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:34.200 balances. 90 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:40.760 So the importance of the judiciary being separated is that they're supposed to 91 00:04:40.760 --> 00:04:44.800 judge without contamination. 92 00:04:44.880 --> 00:04:49.480 They're supposed to judge thoroughly and fairly and reasonably. 93 00:04:49.840 --> 00:04:54.640 Now, of course, if you don't have good judges that breaks down, but that's what 94 00:04:54.640 --> 00:04:55.680 judges are supposed to do. 95 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:59.160 So they're not supposed to be connected to mob rule and they're not even supposed 96 00:04:59.160 --> 00:04:59.920 to be popular. 97 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:01.760 And they're not supposed to vote 98 00:05:01.760 --> 00:05:03.160 according to the popular vote. 99 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:04.840 In other words, if the polls say 100 00:05:04.840 --> 00:05:07.680 70% of the people agree with this and 30% don't, 101 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:09.160 that shouldn't have anything to do with 102 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:11.760 how they determine what they come to. 103 00:05:11.760 --> 00:05:14.960 They should be purely ruling on the basis of law 104 00:05:14.960 --> 00:05:16.600 and on the basis of the interpretation 105 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:21.240 of what the Constitution meant and what it said. 106 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:22.840 Which is pretty important, right? 107 00:05:22.840 --> 00:05:25.400 And I guess in its original design by the founders, 108 00:05:25.400 --> 00:05:29.840 it was not meant to be a political body, right? 109 00:05:29.840 --> 00:05:32.640 I mean, it was meant to be independent by design. 110 00:05:34.080 --> 00:05:36.040 Has that changed over time? 111 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:37.560 Has it become... 112 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:40.600 Obviously, it's at the center of politics, right? 113 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:43.000 It's getting attacked right now by the left, 114 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:45.600 but occasionally it gets attacked by the right. 115 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:47.560 Is it in its function? 116 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:49.360 Is it a political body today 117 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:51.880 or has it changed from the original design? 118 00:05:52.760 --> 00:05:53.880 Well, the original design, 119 00:05:53.880 --> 00:05:55.800 keep in mind there's always been rascals, okay? 120 00:05:55.800 --> 00:05:58.560 So the notion that we only have rascals recently 121 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:00.920 is not probably fair to say. 122 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:02.640 So there've always been attempts 123 00:06:02.640 --> 00:06:05.360 to use the Supreme Court for bad things. 124 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:07.360 The Supreme Court wasn't always proper, 125 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:11.000 but they did over time correct themselves. 126 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:13.520 So of course, there's the horrible time 127 00:06:13.520 --> 00:06:17.120 of the Supreme Court ruling badly on equality. 128 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:21.560 And with the 14th Amendment coming in in 1868, 129 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:24.840 and then the following rulings that came as a result of that 130 00:06:24.840 --> 00:06:26.400 people were to be treated equally, 131 00:06:26.440 --> 00:06:29.880 regardless of what color they had and where they came from 132 00:06:29.880 --> 00:06:31.720 and whether they were a man or a woman. 133 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:33.760 And so that's a good thing. 134 00:06:33.760 --> 00:06:35.560 The Supreme Court got it right, 135 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:38.800 but if they didn't have that independence, 136 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:40.080 essential independence, 137 00:06:40.080 --> 00:06:42.280 where there was that you're appointed 138 00:06:42.280 --> 00:06:44.480 and then you're left on your own to make good judgments, 139 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:46.320 even at the chagrin of the guy that appointed you, 140 00:06:46.320 --> 00:06:49.040 which has happened more often than not, 141 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:51.440 then you lose the potential to self-correct. 142 00:06:51.440 --> 00:06:54.560 So what has seemed to change 143 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:56.960 is a concerted effort to use the Supreme Court 144 00:06:56.960 --> 00:06:57.920 to get their way. 145 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:00.800 And so in the fifties and sixties, 146 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:02.520 abortion was this huge issue. 147 00:07:02.520 --> 00:07:06.720 And it was one of the singular issues of certain movements. 148 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:10.040 And they believe that by having the ability 149 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:13.120 to force abortion through, 150 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:14.200 they would be able to accomplish 151 00:07:14.200 --> 00:07:15.160 a whole bunch of other things 152 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:16.560 that were part of their agenda. 153 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:18.400 So this group of people 154 00:07:18.400 --> 00:07:20.600 actually had a thought through plan of how to get there, 155 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:22.160 but they couldn't get there through legislation. 156 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:23.320 They tried over and over again. 157 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:24.920 The legislative body, 158 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:26.800 the body that's closest to the people 159 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:29.160 that's supposed to make the laws, 160 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:31.280 that group didn't make the law they wanted. 161 00:07:31.280 --> 00:07:32.960 So they decided to figure out a way 162 00:07:32.960 --> 00:07:34.920 to make a law through the Supreme Court. 163 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:35.760 And it was actually a plan, 164 00:07:35.760 --> 00:07:38.960 a concerted plan over a number of years. 165 00:07:38.960 --> 00:07:42.200 Larry Ladder is probably the foremost contributor 166 00:07:42.200 --> 00:07:44.240 to executing this plan. 167 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:47.000 And so through public relations and everything else, 168 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:50.240 they accomplished the 1973 Roe versus Wade decision, 169 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:53.040 which was really not a very good decision. 170 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:56.080 It's not a decision that was based on constitutional law. 171 00:07:56.080 --> 00:07:58.880 There is no word abortion in the constitution. 172 00:07:58.880 --> 00:08:00.720 What the Supreme Court should have said is, 173 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:02.680 look, this needs to be a state issue. 174 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:04.800 And the Supreme Court really can't decide 175 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:06.880 for every state this law, 176 00:08:06.880 --> 00:08:10.600 since this law is not clearly laid out in the constitution. 177 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:13.760 So since they couldn't do it legislatively, 178 00:08:13.760 --> 00:08:14.960 they did it through the courts. 179 00:08:14.960 --> 00:08:17.080 And that did change things a lot. 180 00:08:17.080 --> 00:08:20.680 So then earlier on in the seventies, 181 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:23.120 all the way up to really about 85, 86, 182 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:25.600 most Supreme Court justices were approved. 183 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:27.040 There were a few that were blocked, 184 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:31.480 but most of them were approved on 80 to 90 to 10, 185 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:33.440 80 to 20 majorities. 186 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:34.960 So they were massive majorities 187 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:37.320 from most of the Supreme Court justices that got on 188 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:39.960 until Justice Bork. 189 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:42.880 And Bork was this extraordinary scholar 190 00:08:42.880 --> 00:08:44.680 and he believed in originalism. 191 00:08:44.680 --> 00:08:49.680 And he was this guy who had a command of natural law. 192 00:08:49.760 --> 00:08:51.720 And he was able to just like put you in your place. 193 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:55.320 So are you older today than you were yesterday? 194 00:08:57.080 --> 00:09:00.240 Yes, but it's relative I think today. 195 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:01.720 Regardless of how you feel, 196 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:04.960 are you less young today than you were yesterday? 197 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:07.560 Listen, that's a complicated question today, 198 00:09:07.560 --> 00:09:08.840 hard to believe. 199 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:10.040 Isn't that too funny? 200 00:09:10.040 --> 00:09:12.040 So he would use natural law and he'd say, 201 00:09:12.040 --> 00:09:15.120 so he'd say, if I got you on that one, 202 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:16.840 that's a law of nature, 203 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:18.960 I can get you on all the other laws of nature. 204 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:22.360 So he was so eloquent and so powerful in his communication 205 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:23.800 that the left was scared of him. 206 00:09:23.800 --> 00:09:25.400 So they Borked him. 207 00:09:25.400 --> 00:09:27.080 And this was really the first time 208 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:32.080 that the Supreme Court nominee had an all out attack 209 00:09:32.600 --> 00:09:35.440 against the nominee, 210 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:38.120 not on his jurisprudence capabilities, 211 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:39.440 but on the fact that he was too good 212 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:40.720 at what he believed in. 213 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:41.960 And we don't agree with him 214 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:43.080 and we don't want him to be on there 215 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:45.800 because he's gonna be able through natural law 216 00:09:45.800 --> 00:09:48.840 to support an overturning of Roe versus Wade. 217 00:09:49.680 --> 00:09:50.920 And then ever since then, it's become political, 218 00:09:50.920 --> 00:09:52.200 mostly by the left, 219 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:55.800 trying to torpedo conservative justices 220 00:09:55.800 --> 00:09:57.200 and not until Trump came along 221 00:09:57.200 --> 00:09:59.720 and until really the Democrats changed the way that things, 222 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:05.840 rule works, which might be happy to discuss, did it turn out to be almost political of 223 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:06.840 who gets on? 224 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:07.840 Yeah. 225 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:08.840 But in terms of the Supreme Court operating politically- 226 00:10:08.840 --> 00:10:09.840 Let me jump in real quick. 227 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:10.840 Yeah, please. 228 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:11.840 I'm sorry. 229 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:17.160 It is interesting to me that, because I looked at the Senate confirmation, what you're speaking 230 00:10:17.160 --> 00:10:20.720 of in particular is the Senate confirmation process. 231 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:25.960 And obviously, now we just need a simple majority, I think, as I understand it, which is a change, 232 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:26.960 right? 233 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:28.340 And I'll let you talk a little bit about that. 234 00:10:28.340 --> 00:10:34.340 But I remember looking, I looked at the scorecard and for years and years and years, all of 235 00:10:34.340 --> 00:10:40.460 these Senate confirmation hearings would end with a vote, an overwhelming vote to confirm 236 00:10:40.460 --> 00:10:45.780 candidates or to not confirm if they weren't qualified, if they were deemed unqualified. 237 00:10:45.780 --> 00:10:48.000 But it was overwhelming until the Bork decision. 238 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:55.680 And then ever since then, it feels like to me, both sides are trying to appoint justices 239 00:10:55.920 --> 00:11:03.920 that support their own view of how the Supreme Court should evaluate the constitutionality of laws. 240 00:11:03.920 --> 00:11:05.680 There's no doubt that that's the case. 241 00:11:05.680 --> 00:11:06.920 And I get that, right? 242 00:11:06.920 --> 00:11:10.880 So I remember when Trump came in and he said he was going to appoint a certain kind of 243 00:11:10.880 --> 00:11:13.840 judge that was originalist, right? 244 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:18.960 That would interpret the law against the original intent of the constitution, which I believe 245 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:21.960 is, of course, the way to do it. 246 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:29.160 No justice should be given the power to legislate from the bench, which it was that Roe decision. 247 00:11:29.160 --> 00:11:34.640 You know, tell us a little bit about how the Senate confirmation requirements have changed. 248 00:11:34.640 --> 00:11:36.680 Yeah, this is fascinating, actually. 249 00:11:36.680 --> 00:11:37.680 I just learned this. 250 00:11:37.680 --> 00:11:39.520 So you said I was an expert. 251 00:11:39.520 --> 00:11:45.400 That might be a little heavy, but I read it on an internet somewhere and so it must be 252 00:11:45.400 --> 00:11:46.400 true. 253 00:11:47.040 --> 00:11:53.960 So going back to 1806, the filibuster was put in place as a rule. 254 00:11:53.960 --> 00:11:54.960 It was rule 22. 255 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:58.480 The first 20 rules came in in 1789, right out the gate. 256 00:11:58.480 --> 00:11:59.480 And why is that? 257 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:02.520 Well, it's because in article one, section five, it says the Senate can make up their 258 00:12:02.520 --> 00:12:03.520 own rules. 259 00:12:03.520 --> 00:12:04.520 The House can make their own rules. 260 00:12:04.520 --> 00:12:05.520 They need to be governed by it. 261 00:12:05.520 --> 00:12:06.520 Of course, it makes sense. 262 00:12:06.520 --> 00:12:07.520 How am I going to have a chair? 263 00:12:07.520 --> 00:12:11.160 How am I going to recognize somebody that's on the floor, et cetera? 264 00:12:11.160 --> 00:12:14.420 So the first 20 rules were in place, 1789. 265 00:12:14.420 --> 00:12:17.820 There's only been seven changes to the rules since then. 266 00:12:17.820 --> 00:12:23.060 And in 1806, there were a few other rules added, which was rule 22. 267 00:12:23.060 --> 00:12:26.980 And rule 22 basically put in this filibuster, which basically said, look, we want the minority 268 00:12:26.980 --> 00:12:27.980 to always have a say. 269 00:12:27.980 --> 00:12:33.100 And the way we're going to do that is we're going to let people stand up, make their case, 270 00:12:33.100 --> 00:12:34.940 and they can delay things. 271 00:12:34.940 --> 00:12:39.900 Well, finally, in 1917, they said, you know what, we probably ought to modify this so 272 00:12:39.900 --> 00:12:46.980 that if two-thirds of the Senate says, shut up already, that we can have a cloture and 273 00:12:46.980 --> 00:12:49.240 then force the debate to end. 274 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:53.140 And then they modified that in 1975 to three-fifths, so 60. 275 00:12:53.140 --> 00:12:54.840 So that's where you have the 60 senators. 276 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:59.220 So since then, the filibuster's still been in play from 1970s on. 277 00:12:59.220 --> 00:13:02.900 But really, all the way through the 1970s, it wasn't used that often. 278 00:13:02.900 --> 00:13:05.780 A few times, a goofball would use it, and they would get overruled. 279 00:13:05.780 --> 00:13:09.860 And then a few times, somebody sincere would use it for a good reason, and it wouldn't 280 00:13:09.860 --> 00:13:11.940 get overruled and eventually change the dynamic. 281 00:13:11.940 --> 00:13:16.220 But overall, the filibuster has stopped the country from going too far right or too far 282 00:13:16.220 --> 00:13:17.860 left too fast. 283 00:13:17.860 --> 00:13:20.020 That was kind of the whole concept. 284 00:13:20.020 --> 00:13:24.980 Well, fast forward to Harry Reid, 2013. 285 00:13:24.980 --> 00:13:28.780 Harry Reid's the head of the Senate, and he's frustrated as heck. 286 00:13:28.780 --> 00:13:34.380 And he's got Obama, he's got the House, he's got the Senate, and he can't get any of his 287 00:13:34.380 --> 00:13:35.380 appointments through. 288 00:13:35.380 --> 00:13:36.380 And he's mad. 289 00:13:36.380 --> 00:13:38.440 And these are just federal judges. 290 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:40.620 Because how many votes did they need at that time? 291 00:13:40.620 --> 00:13:41.620 We need 60. 292 00:13:41.620 --> 00:13:42.620 60 votes. 293 00:13:42.620 --> 00:13:43.620 Okay. 294 00:13:43.620 --> 00:13:46.620 So we're still in that 1975 Rule 22. 295 00:13:46.620 --> 00:13:49.940 Rule 22's still intact, hasn't changed, not one word. 296 00:13:49.940 --> 00:13:56.500 And they just added, I mean, they changed it from 1806 to 1975, but in 1975, Rule 22 297 00:13:56.500 --> 00:13:57.500 is intact. 298 00:13:57.500 --> 00:14:01.540 So the only thing that really changed is they added some exemptions, they said, exceptions. 299 00:14:01.540 --> 00:14:04.760 They said, you know, when you're doing budget reconciliation, you don't need it. 300 00:14:05.760 --> 00:14:08.200 That's why they were able to get the $1.9 trillion passed. 301 00:14:08.200 --> 00:14:11.080 So budget reconciliation, you don't have to have it. 302 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:15.280 For some things, you don't have to have it, like army bases and treaties. 303 00:14:15.280 --> 00:14:18.880 But you have to have it for major legislation, and you have to have it for appointments. 304 00:14:18.880 --> 00:14:21.600 But in 2013, Reid's frustrated. 305 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:23.480 So he says, I'm going to use what's called the nuclear option. 306 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:24.640 People, what's the nuclear option? 307 00:14:24.640 --> 00:14:28.080 Well, I'm going to invent a manipulative way to use Rule 20. 308 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:31.920 Now, you go to Rule 20, and it's funny as heck that they were able to pull this off, 309 00:14:31.920 --> 00:14:33.640 but it's just a point of order. 310 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:39.240 So I'm going to have a point of order and basically put my resolution in the point of 311 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:40.240 order. 312 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:45.040 And then the presiding officer of the Senate will say, no, that doesn't comply with the 313 00:14:45.040 --> 00:14:46.040 rules. 314 00:14:46.040 --> 00:14:49.960 And then according to Rule 20, if it doesn't, now keep in mind, the Rule 20 was in place 315 00:14:49.960 --> 00:14:51.900 to just say, let's clarify rules. 316 00:14:51.900 --> 00:14:53.720 That's the whole point of it. 317 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:56.600 And we're going to let the presiding officer clarify it. 318 00:14:56.600 --> 00:15:00.000 So now Rule 20 goes into place, and he says, look. 319 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:06.080 Then at the end of Rule 20 is if the presiding officer, the pro tempore president, basically 320 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:10.640 a guy who's appointed, he's number two in charge, and he operates as the president of 321 00:15:10.640 --> 00:15:15.000 the Senate to administer just votes and stuff when the vice president's not there, which 322 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:17.080 is most all the time. 323 00:15:17.080 --> 00:15:20.880 If they disagree with him, they can disagree with this administrative clarification of 324 00:15:20.880 --> 00:15:27.400 a rule by just saying, okay, then I, the chair, say you, the president of pro tempore, you 325 00:15:27.400 --> 00:15:28.400 tell me I'm wrong. 326 00:15:28.400 --> 00:15:31.200 I'm going to say, let's put it to a vote. 327 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:32.480 No debate. 328 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:34.400 Rule 20 says you immediately vote on it. 329 00:15:34.400 --> 00:15:35.400 No debate. 330 00:15:35.400 --> 00:15:36.720 And then whatever happens, happens. 331 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:41.280 Well, they were never intending for this to be on a major issue, especially an issue that 332 00:15:41.280 --> 00:15:44.680 Rule 22 says can't happen unless you have two thirds of the Senate. 333 00:15:44.680 --> 00:15:48.800 Two thirds of the Senate have to agree to a rule change. 334 00:15:48.800 --> 00:15:49.800 Amazing. 335 00:15:49.800 --> 00:15:51.920 Unbelievably conniving sons of a guns, aren't they? 336 00:15:51.920 --> 00:15:56.440 I mean, gosh, it's, this is why so many people get so frustrated is they don't know exactly 337 00:15:56.480 --> 00:16:00.640 what happened here and it's kind of takes a long time to explain, but they kind of understand 338 00:16:00.640 --> 00:16:02.720 in general that something bad happened. 339 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:05.600 They basically took this concept where you're supposed to have two thirds of the Senate 340 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:09.840 to change a rule by which everybody operates and they figured out a way to basically come 341 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:13.520 up and say, hey, I raise a point of order and then the president pro tempore says that's 342 00:16:13.520 --> 00:16:14.520 not right. 343 00:16:14.520 --> 00:16:20.700 And then he says, okay, I appeal, I appeal the ruling and I want you to put it to a vote. 344 00:16:20.700 --> 00:16:27.260 So anyway, at that time, 2013, they had 52 senators that voted in concert with Reed with 345 00:16:27.260 --> 00:16:29.260 this conniving plan. 346 00:16:29.260 --> 00:16:35.380 And then 48 were Democrats and three, I mean, three Democrats and all the rest Republicans 347 00:16:35.380 --> 00:16:36.780 said, no, we don't want you to do it. 348 00:16:36.780 --> 00:16:39.460 So it was 52 to 48 and they lost. 349 00:16:39.460 --> 00:16:42.020 And so I'm going to read you, I just found it here. 350 00:16:42.020 --> 00:16:43.020 Okay. 351 00:16:43.020 --> 00:16:45.700 So this is what happened at the very end. 352 00:16:45.700 --> 00:16:52.100 Under the precedent set by the Senate today, November 21st, 2013, the threshold for cloture 353 00:16:52.100 --> 00:16:55.660 on nominations, not including those to the Supreme court of the United States is now 354 00:16:55.660 --> 00:16:56.660 a majority. 355 00:16:56.660 --> 00:16:58.500 That's simple. 356 00:16:58.500 --> 00:16:59.500 Can you believe that? 357 00:16:59.500 --> 00:17:00.500 No. 358 00:17:00.500 --> 00:17:01.500 So that's how they changed it. 359 00:17:01.500 --> 00:17:05.060 So that's why all appointments now sail through just on these real thin little minorities. 360 00:17:05.060 --> 00:17:06.060 It's amazing. 361 00:17:06.060 --> 00:17:10.540 And the Republicans did the same thing in 2017 for the Supreme court, basically saying 362 00:17:10.540 --> 00:17:16.140 Mitch McConnell said, I promise you, Harry, over your dead body, which is what it ended 363 00:17:16.140 --> 00:17:25.700 up being, but I will do the same thing to you that you did to us when we get power. 364 00:17:25.700 --> 00:17:29.140 And this is the crazy thing about things like the filibuster and changing these rules. 365 00:17:29.140 --> 00:17:30.940 The power always goes back and forth. 366 00:17:30.940 --> 00:17:32.540 I mean, I'm a Republican. 367 00:17:32.540 --> 00:17:35.780 I wished it was always Republicans, but that's just not going to happen. 368 00:17:35.780 --> 00:17:42.900 And so anyway, as a result of that appointments now sail through, and then because the Republicans 369 00:17:42.900 --> 00:17:47.100 did the same thing on that same exact procedure, they said, we're going to do the same procedure. 370 00:17:47.100 --> 00:17:51.800 They actually use the same words and just change Supreme court for the appointments. 371 00:17:51.800 --> 00:17:57.380 And so now all appointments, Supreme court justices go through with just a thin majority 372 00:17:57.380 --> 00:17:59.540 vote, which was not the intent. 373 00:17:59.540 --> 00:18:00.960 It's amazing. 374 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:06.400 And it makes the, the judiciary a more political body because of it, because you don't really 375 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:08.440 need any cooperation from the minority. 376 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:11.760 You said, you said a couple of things that were really interesting in that one. 377 00:18:11.760 --> 00:18:16.240 You said the rules originally were designed to make sure that the minority always has 378 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:17.240 a voice. 379 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:18.240 And I love that. 380 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:21.120 And I think that's the beauty of a constitutional Republic. 381 00:18:21.120 --> 00:18:23.320 You know, we hear it all the time. 382 00:18:23.320 --> 00:18:24.640 Everything is a threat to our democracy. 383 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:25.640 Oh my gosh. 384 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:29.320 If you've seen those, you know, I don't know if it's a meme, but they show where the news 385 00:18:29.320 --> 00:18:31.320 system is all saying the same thing. 386 00:18:31.320 --> 00:18:35.040 And they're all saying the same narrative in the same way, everything's a threat to 387 00:18:35.040 --> 00:18:36.040 our democracy. 388 00:18:36.040 --> 00:18:39.760 But truthfully, we started it off the program by saying, we're not a democracy. 389 00:18:39.760 --> 00:18:42.560 We're a constitutional correct public. 390 00:18:42.560 --> 00:18:44.840 What, what are the differences between the two? 391 00:18:44.840 --> 00:18:47.100 We know, we know this. 392 00:18:47.100 --> 00:18:51.680 We don't want to be a democracy, a straight democracy because a straight democracy is 393 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:54.600 simply the majority wins mob. 394 00:18:54.600 --> 00:18:57.040 In essence, it's mob rule. 395 00:18:57.600 --> 00:19:00.440 The contrast of course, is the rule of law, right? 396 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:02.640 That these laws are given by God. 397 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:06.360 These rights are given by God and we limit the role of government. 398 00:19:06.360 --> 00:19:12.320 Tell us why it's so important that we're a constitutional Republic and not a pure democracy. 399 00:19:12.320 --> 00:19:16.200 Well you pretty much answered the question with your question, which is exactly right. 400 00:19:16.200 --> 00:19:17.480 So mob rule, which is great. 401 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:18.480 I like it that way. 402 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:22.000 Then I can just copy off of you and have a good answer. 403 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:29.400 So a constitutional Republic has a structure to it that prevents one branch of the government 404 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:30.520 from doing everything. 405 00:19:30.520 --> 00:19:34.080 So a democracy over time allows for dictatorship. 406 00:19:34.080 --> 00:19:36.400 I'll give you an example, Venezuela. 407 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:38.880 They had a very similar constitution to ours. 408 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:40.440 They had a constitutional Republic. 409 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:44.600 So Chavez gets in power and now he's mad as heck against the Supreme court because the 410 00:19:44.600 --> 00:19:47.400 Supreme court keeps knocking him down. 411 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:50.840 They believe, they still believe in private property and they say, you know, you can't, 412 00:19:50.840 --> 00:19:53.400 you can't just take away this guy's company. 413 00:19:53.400 --> 00:19:56.280 So Chavez gets mad and he packs the court. 414 00:19:56.280 --> 00:19:58.320 He does what the Senate is trying to do now. 415 00:19:58.320 --> 00:20:00.040 He adds enough to the Supreme. 416 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:08.880 court to dilute the natural majority that they had before. So out of the 45,000 rulings since 417 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:13.840 he packed the court, guess how many of those rulings went against Chavez and his successor? 418 00:20:13.840 --> 00:20:16.720 I would have to think none. Zero. 419 00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:18.800 Zero. I mean, come on. It's ridiculous. 420 00:20:18.800 --> 00:20:24.160 So then here's what happened. In his case, he was able then not only to pack the court, 421 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:28.960 but he's able to just basically make up laws and then shove them over to the Supreme Court. 422 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:34.720 Supreme Court would basically affirm his law, which diminished the power of the legislature. 423 00:20:35.840 --> 00:20:43.200 So the legislature were becoming and became, and now are, packed with people who vote 424 00:20:43.760 --> 00:20:48.400 for the president. So the Supreme Court says yes to the president. Legislature says yes to 425 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:55.440 the president. It's a dictatorship. So democracies always tend toward either total chaos and anarchy, 426 00:20:55.440 --> 00:21:00.080 which is rare, or what most of the time happens and what Ben Franklin and Tom Jefferson and John 427 00:21:00.080 --> 00:21:04.400 Adams were so concerned about, James Madison, all these guys were really concerned about it. 428 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:09.680 Talked about it a lot in our Federalist Papers. They adopt our constitution because it prevents 429 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:17.600 that. It prevents moving toward a kingdom. It prevents one guy from having control. 430 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:20.160 Here's what's interesting. 431 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:24.160 Or even a few, right? It could be just ruled by the few. 432 00:21:25.120 --> 00:21:30.320 Absolutely. All this talk about the Supreme Court, just for grins, from January 1st through June 30th, 433 00:21:30.320 --> 00:21:39.360 2022, what percent of the cases did the media tell you were ruled either 9 to 0, 8 to 1, or 7 to 2? 434 00:21:40.320 --> 00:21:51.200 36% were ruled 7 to 2, or 8 to 1, or 9 to 0. 36%. So no argument on 36%. They were freedom issues 435 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:56.160 that you couldn't argue against. You had a hard time arguing against. So no argument there. That's 436 00:21:56.160 --> 00:22:06.640 36%. Now, 67% of the 5 to 4 votes went with liberals. The media doesn't tell you that. 437 00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:12.320 That was only 21% of the votes. But that 21 plus 36, that gets you to 57. The balance of the votes 438 00:22:13.120 --> 00:22:14.000 were 6 to 3. 439 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:15.040 Wow. 440 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:23.840 That's just from January to June of 2022. That's the current Supreme Court. The one with this 441 00:22:23.840 --> 00:22:26.560 incredible 6 to 3 margin. 442 00:22:26.560 --> 00:22:28.080 Supreme majority, right. Yeah. 443 00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:32.800 Sometimes the mix was interesting. You had Gorsuch connected with, I think, 444 00:22:32.800 --> 00:22:38.000 Sotomayor on one of those. They were the two against the seven. It was for different reasons. 445 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:43.440 What I'm trying to say is the Supreme Court needs to be able to make their own argument. 446 00:22:43.440 --> 00:22:48.720 They've got to be able to look at the Constitution and make their case. I'm not going to agree with 447 00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:52.560 them all the time. They're not going to agree with me all the time. But we have got to accept 448 00:22:52.560 --> 00:22:56.960 that the Supreme Court was put in place for a reason, as a part of our constitutional republic, 449 00:22:56.960 --> 00:23:03.920 for the very reason that the majority is upset right now. To put things in place in 450 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:08.000 accordance with the Constitution so that your freedoms don't get vanquished. 451 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:10.800 Look at all the things that have been ruled against them that are related to the vaccine 452 00:23:10.800 --> 00:23:14.320 mandates. Those were things that they didn't want to have ruled against them for those that 453 00:23:14.320 --> 00:23:18.960 like to have power. But the benefit of them being ruled against is those freedoms have 454 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:25.440 been restored to us by constitutional authority. Now the Supreme Court says you can't willy-nilly, 455 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:31.600 as the government, tell a company right now that they have to have a vaccine. 456 00:23:31.600 --> 00:23:35.120 That's because the Constitution made that ruling. That was one of their 457 00:23:35.120 --> 00:23:39.360 five to four rulings. Or six to three rulings. 458 00:23:39.360 --> 00:23:45.680 Yeah. I'm super encouraged to hear the... I mean, I would like it to be six, three on every issue 459 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:52.160 that I'm in favor of, of course. But I'm really actually encouraged to know that there is that 460 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:57.600 independent judiciary because you would not believe that based upon the media and the 461 00:23:57.600 --> 00:24:02.240 villainization of our current group. You would think they're in lockstep on every issue. This 462 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:07.520 is totally polarized. That's just simply not true. So that's a super encouraging thing. 463 00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:13.200 The other thing that you mentioned in this, and I think it was implied by what you said, 464 00:24:13.920 --> 00:24:20.720 government is designed to be hard to change. It's designed to be slow. We don't like it 465 00:24:20.720 --> 00:24:24.560 because it always feels like gridlock. I remember the days of gridlock where 466 00:24:24.560 --> 00:24:29.440 it felt like the government couldn't get anything done. But in some ways, our system is designed, 467 00:24:30.080 --> 00:24:34.560 maybe not for gridlock, but certainly to slow down the rate of change. Is that right? 468 00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:40.400 Absolutely. Because originally with the Constitution, if you include the 10 amendments, 469 00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:44.240 and I've got to throw the 14th in there too, because that's an area where we were really 470 00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:49.200 harebrained and we should have gotten that way before 1868. And I know people wanted to, 471 00:24:49.200 --> 00:24:53.760 but we know the arguments in the case for why it took... Basically, it was the Democrats from the 472 00:24:53.760 --> 00:24:59.280 South that opposed it, is the bottom line. But when you put the amendments in there, 473 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:01.600 and you've got the constitution, 474 00:25:01.600 --> 00:25:06.600 the 1791 version of the constitution, 475 00:25:07.240 --> 00:25:09.320 you've got a pretty good government. 476 00:25:09.320 --> 00:25:11.340 Now we've gone way beyond that, 477 00:25:11.340 --> 00:25:12.980 but you had a pretty good government. 478 00:25:12.980 --> 00:25:14.760 So what is in there? 479 00:25:14.760 --> 00:25:17.140 You have article one for the legislative 480 00:25:17.140 --> 00:25:18.360 and even within the legislative, 481 00:25:18.360 --> 00:25:20.160 just look how brilliant this thought is. 482 00:25:20.160 --> 00:25:23.640 We're gonna have 435, 483 00:25:23.640 --> 00:25:25.160 eventually is what it turned out to be, 484 00:25:25.160 --> 00:25:27.960 of these guys representing people, 485 00:25:27.960 --> 00:25:30.800 and we have a population of 330 million people. 486 00:25:30.800 --> 00:25:32.440 In each of our congressional guys, 487 00:25:32.440 --> 00:25:34.600 it comes down to like 840,000 a person. 488 00:25:34.600 --> 00:25:38.200 So one congressional guy is pretty close to the people. 489 00:25:38.200 --> 00:25:40.640 He's got 800 and something thousand in his church, 490 00:25:40.640 --> 00:25:43.080 in his chapter that he's representing. 491 00:25:43.080 --> 00:25:44.440 So that's the 435. 492 00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:46.080 They have to come up every two years. 493 00:25:46.080 --> 00:25:47.680 So that's intentional. 494 00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:50.040 They want you to be constantly campaigning. 495 00:25:50.040 --> 00:25:51.280 I mean, people say that's so negative. 496 00:25:51.280 --> 00:25:52.880 It's actually a good thing. 497 00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:55.320 It forces you to be very close to the people. 498 00:25:55.320 --> 00:25:56.780 It gives you more of the customer service 499 00:25:56.780 --> 00:25:57.620 side of government. 500 00:25:58.280 --> 00:25:59.480 I'm here to serve you and help. 501 00:25:59.480 --> 00:26:01.800 Oh, you've got a guy who's blocking a development 502 00:26:01.800 --> 00:26:03.080 over here for no good reason. 503 00:26:03.080 --> 00:26:04.160 But here's what's interesting. 504 00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:05.960 So those are two years close to the guy, 505 00:26:05.960 --> 00:26:07.120 smaller territory. 506 00:26:07.120 --> 00:26:09.080 Then you've got the staggered six year term, 507 00:26:09.080 --> 00:26:10.580 which is so brilliant. 508 00:26:10.580 --> 00:26:12.360 So it's staggered for the Senate. 509 00:26:12.360 --> 00:26:14.240 And it's six years and it's a bigger territory. 510 00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:15.480 It's the whole state. 511 00:26:15.480 --> 00:26:17.400 And so that is really smart. 512 00:26:17.400 --> 00:26:20.240 This guy in the Senate is gonna be more deliberative. 513 00:26:20.240 --> 00:26:21.200 I've got six years. 514 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:22.040 I just got in. 515 00:26:22.040 --> 00:26:23.000 Nobody's gonna remember what happened 516 00:26:23.000 --> 00:26:24.240 five and a half years ago. 517 00:26:24.540 --> 00:26:26.140 He's, you know, there's a, you know, 518 00:26:26.140 --> 00:26:27.620 I don't remember the actual joke, 519 00:26:27.620 --> 00:26:29.940 but there's a joke with the content of it 520 00:26:29.940 --> 00:26:31.940 is basically the first year of a Senator 521 00:26:31.940 --> 00:26:34.480 is his most honest because he's constantly 522 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:36.180 trying to do the right thing in that, 523 00:26:36.180 --> 00:26:38.280 in the last, he's doing the right thing in the first year. 524 00:26:38.280 --> 00:26:41.100 And then the last four years in the second year, 525 00:26:41.100 --> 00:26:43.060 maybe sometimes in the last four years, 526 00:26:43.060 --> 00:26:44.340 he's trying to get reelected. 527 00:26:44.340 --> 00:26:47.100 So, but the first year is honest, 528 00:26:47.100 --> 00:26:48.860 but the bottom line is it's staggered. 529 00:26:48.860 --> 00:26:51.820 And so those two legislative bodies are not competitive, 530 00:26:51.820 --> 00:26:53.560 which is powerful. 531 00:26:53.580 --> 00:26:56.140 So the House can just run a majority 532 00:26:56.140 --> 00:26:57.420 and just ignore the minority. 533 00:26:57.420 --> 00:26:58.620 So if you took away the filibuster, 534 00:26:58.620 --> 00:27:00.380 I know you want to talk about that at some point, 535 00:27:00.380 --> 00:27:04.580 you take away the power of the minority to slow things down, 536 00:27:04.580 --> 00:27:06.100 which is a good thing. 537 00:27:06.100 --> 00:27:07.900 If we put everything in place 538 00:27:07.900 --> 00:27:10.260 that the Democrats wanted us to put in place 539 00:27:10.260 --> 00:27:12.900 this last 17, 18 months, 540 00:27:12.900 --> 00:27:15.120 it would be, our country would be gone. 541 00:27:15.120 --> 00:27:16.900 They would have taken away our voting capability. 542 00:27:16.900 --> 00:27:18.580 They would have taken away all kinds of things. 543 00:27:18.580 --> 00:27:21.300 They would have forced this gender nonsense on everybody 544 00:27:21.320 --> 00:27:23.840 in a legal way with the feds being involved. 545 00:27:23.840 --> 00:27:25.840 They would have forced a lot of churches to shut down. 546 00:27:25.840 --> 00:27:27.080 It would have been unbelievable. 547 00:27:27.080 --> 00:27:29.840 All of the stuff from HR1 and HR5 548 00:27:29.840 --> 00:27:32.240 and Build Back Better got into law, 549 00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:34.460 but they were all blocked because of the filibuster. 550 00:27:34.460 --> 00:27:35.300 It's amazing. 551 00:27:35.300 --> 00:27:37.240 And so we will touch on the filibuster 552 00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:38.320 because it is so important. 553 00:27:38.320 --> 00:27:40.400 And it's such a political football right now. 554 00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:42.700 And it's so important that we keep it, 555 00:27:42.700 --> 00:27:43.540 but let's talk, 556 00:27:43.540 --> 00:27:47.480 let's stick to the overturning of Roe v. Wade 557 00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:48.320 just for a minute, 558 00:27:48.320 --> 00:27:52.580 because there was all kinds of conversation and hubbub 559 00:27:52.580 --> 00:27:55.720 around how the Supreme Court of the United States 560 00:27:55.720 --> 00:27:59.700 has no right to overturn what they call settled law, right? 561 00:27:59.700 --> 00:28:00.940 Hey, this is settled law. 562 00:28:00.940 --> 00:28:03.240 It's been in place for decades, 563 00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:07.420 but isn't that exactly what the Supreme Court is there to do 564 00:28:07.420 --> 00:28:10.780 to evaluate law against the constitution 565 00:28:10.780 --> 00:28:14.740 and then undo bad laws in the event that they're bad? 566 00:28:14.740 --> 00:28:16.860 First of all, they've done this before, right? 567 00:28:16.860 --> 00:28:17.700 Yeah. 568 00:28:18.040 --> 00:28:19.120 People don't know what they're talking about 569 00:28:19.120 --> 00:28:21.720 because the way that the Supreme Court works 570 00:28:21.720 --> 00:28:24.140 is actually to establish constitutional law. 571 00:28:24.140 --> 00:28:26.960 So when the Supreme Court gets it wrong, 572 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:30.200 it's incumbent upon the Supreme Court to fix bad law. 573 00:28:30.200 --> 00:28:32.220 So if you look at what happened 574 00:28:32.220 --> 00:28:37.080 with the unequal treatment of people in this country, 575 00:28:38.040 --> 00:28:42.680 the Supreme Court ratified bad constitutional theory 576 00:28:42.680 --> 00:28:46.120 and made it okay to treat people unequally. 577 00:28:46.120 --> 00:28:48.000 We had an amendment that overturned that 578 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:50.520 after we fought a bloody civil war, 579 00:28:50.520 --> 00:28:54.680 but we still had people from the South, Democrats, 580 00:28:54.680 --> 00:28:56.880 who wanted to keep some rendition 581 00:28:56.880 --> 00:28:58.880 for themselves of discrimination. 582 00:28:58.880 --> 00:29:03.120 They wanted to even keep their ability to have lynching 583 00:29:04.280 --> 00:29:05.840 for people who aren't white, 584 00:29:06.780 --> 00:29:09.240 who committed the same crime of somebody who was white. 585 00:29:09.240 --> 00:29:10.080 Unbelievable. 586 00:29:10.080 --> 00:29:12.420 And this is all the way through the fifties. 587 00:29:12.420 --> 00:29:17.420 So the Supreme Court came in and overruled bad law 588 00:29:17.500 --> 00:29:20.420 and said, no, we have to treat people equally, period. 589 00:29:20.420 --> 00:29:23.340 Supreme Court's ruling, that is the new constitutional law. 590 00:29:23.340 --> 00:29:25.340 So when you come up to the SCOTUS ruling, 591 00:29:25.340 --> 00:29:27.460 the Supreme Court ruling for Roe versus Wade, 592 00:29:27.460 --> 00:29:29.540 it's the only thing that the liberals care about 593 00:29:29.540 --> 00:29:32.100 to some extent, because it builds on so many other 594 00:29:32.100 --> 00:29:33.220 of their building blocks. 595 00:29:33.220 --> 00:29:34.980 It helps defeat the nuclear family 596 00:29:34.980 --> 00:29:37.420 and all kinds of other things they care about. 597 00:29:37.420 --> 00:29:40.260 And it opposes all kinds of things I care about. 598 00:29:40.260 --> 00:29:43.180 But let's just look at the law. 599 00:29:43.180 --> 00:29:46.180 I will actually accept what a state rules on, 600 00:29:46.180 --> 00:29:49.380 even if I disagree with it, if they legislate it. 601 00:29:49.380 --> 00:29:50.380 It's close to the state. 602 00:29:50.380 --> 00:29:51.980 Now you're not even talking about federal legislators. 603 00:29:51.980 --> 00:29:53.540 I'm at state legislators. 604 00:29:53.540 --> 00:29:55.940 You're talking about, you know, congressmen 605 00:29:55.940 --> 00:29:58.220 and the equivalent of congressmen and senators 606 00:29:58.220 --> 00:30:00.520 from the state, some of them called them house. 607 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.160 commons, et cetera, but they're close to the people. And if they vote on something and I 608 00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:09.920 don't agree with it, I'll still comply with it. I'm not going to change that law. So I'm going 609 00:30:09.920 --> 00:30:18.560 to respect that. But what the liberals wanted is for the Supreme Court to uphold a very fallaciously 610 00:30:18.560 --> 00:30:25.280 put together law. There was really no evidence that that law was put together constitutionally. 611 00:30:25.280 --> 00:30:33.120 And as one of the Supreme Court justices said at the time, this law was a legislative ramrod. This 612 00:30:33.120 --> 00:30:39.440 was a legislative force that he had never seen before. They had just invented things. Neither 613 00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:45.040 side asked for a trimester concept and the Supreme Court just invented a trimester concept in that 614 00:30:45.040 --> 00:30:50.080 law. Just invented it and decided this is when life starts and this is when it doesn't. And that 615 00:30:50.080 --> 00:30:55.520 was changed in 92. And Casey just made up their own law by changing from this trimester concept 616 00:30:55.520 --> 00:31:01.040 that the Supreme Court just invented. It sounded very legislative. And then this Casey 92 law did 617 00:31:01.040 --> 00:31:06.240 the same thing, except they changed it to the feeling of the mom. If the mom feels a certain 618 00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:10.960 way, then it's okay. So, well, I guess in New York, you can feel like you don't want the baby 619 00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:17.040 until the baby's out of the womb. Yeah. Yeah. It's ridiculous. And so it really was just bad, 620 00:31:17.040 --> 00:31:20.160 bad. And the reason there was so much fear about it for so long, and the reason they had the 621 00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:24.720 Borking thing going on, because Bork would have just blasted the credoodles out of them in one 622 00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:30.080 big time. And he was so authoritative in the way he spoke and so smart, nobody could outsmart him. 623 00:31:30.080 --> 00:31:35.040 So that they Borked him. But the reason they were so strong on, the left was so strong on 624 00:31:35.040 --> 00:31:39.200 inventing this concept of coming against a Supreme Court justice for the first time in that way, 625 00:31:39.200 --> 00:31:45.120 in a personal way to kind of attack him, not based on his jurisprudence, is because they knew that 626 00:31:45.120 --> 00:31:52.080 the law that was crafted to begin with was faulty. It did not have a constitutional bearing. 627 00:31:52.080 --> 00:32:00.960 Exactly. So for me, at what point can the Supreme Court uphold that it's unconstitutional 628 00:32:01.840 --> 00:32:08.000 to allow states to make laws that impede on other people's right to life? So for example, 629 00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:14.480 this decision, all it did, it didn't outlaw abortion. It didn't make it a crime. None of 630 00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:20.640 that happened. All it did was send this issue back to the states. But at what point can the 631 00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:27.200 Supreme Court consider the fact that an abortion could be infringing upon a greater right, a greater 632 00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:33.280 natural right to life, which I believe is protected in the constitution that we all have the right to 633 00:32:33.280 --> 00:32:39.120 life, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in our documents, right? At what point could they 634 00:32:39.120 --> 00:32:45.120 consider that? Well, Justice Alito, as I recall, I don't have it right in front of me, but he 635 00:32:45.120 --> 00:32:50.080 basically mentioned that. And the way he presented it was, I can't remember the exact words, but he 636 00:32:50.080 --> 00:32:56.000 basically said, I'm kind of amazed that none of the dissenters on this six to three decision 637 00:32:56.720 --> 00:33:03.680 ever mention the right of the unborn child at any time. Not ever. I mean, is there no right 638 00:33:03.680 --> 00:33:10.480 for this unborn child at any time? So he opened the door for what you're saying, which is to 639 00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:16.000 circle back to that. Now, I don't think that's practically going to happen, to be honest. It's 640 00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:20.880 just too potent of an issue. So I think what's going to end up happening is the states will 641 00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:28.160 basically do what Europe kind of did up to a certain period of time where science is clear 642 00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:32.800 beyond any shadow of a doubt. And I'm a person of faith, but for people who don't have any 643 00:33:32.800 --> 00:33:39.680 belief in God, even to them, when there's no doubt that that is a person, then they basically rule 644 00:33:39.680 --> 00:33:46.160 that it's illegal. And so that's coming to settle somewhere between 10 and 15 weeks. And of course, 645 00:33:46.160 --> 00:33:51.600 with science and technology, it's getting fewer and fewer weeks, but it's becoming close to the 646 00:33:51.600 --> 00:33:57.920 time that you're even aware that you are pregnant. And so that's already the way it is in Europe and 647 00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:02.320 a lot of other countries, Japan, others. And so they were actually more conservative than the 648 00:34:02.320 --> 00:34:06.640 U.S. on a national level, but there's a reason for that. They did it legislatively. 649 00:34:06.640 --> 00:34:07.840 Ah, interesting. 650 00:34:07.840 --> 00:34:11.360 And that kind of forces that. But yeah, I don't think that's going to happen, 651 00:34:11.360 --> 00:34:12.800 but Alito opened the door for it. 652 00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:17.199 Well, it's funny. I have my own personal opinion about whether that should happen, 653 00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:20.159 especially living in a state like Colorado, like you and I both do. 654 00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:28.080 Colorado just passed one of the most egregious anti-life bills in the history of earth. It's 655 00:34:28.080 --> 00:34:35.280 barbaric, actually. Conferring no rights, like you said, absolutely zero rights to personhood 656 00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:41.920 to the unborn child all the way up through delivery, which is just absolutely unconscionable. 657 00:34:43.679 --> 00:34:49.199 It's revealing a bit about the actual agenda as far as I'm concerned, but I think that's the 658 00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:59.280 perfect law to take to the Supreme Court because they have denied the unborn child any personhood, 659 00:34:59.280 --> 00:34:59.840 any rights. 660 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:03.360 as a person. And I think we can, you know, you mentioned it. 661 00:35:03.360 --> 00:35:07.920 That one, I think you would actually have, I think you would actually have an argument with that one. 662 00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:08.320 Yep. 663 00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:12.240 And that would be really interesting to see what would happen with that. I just don't think it's 664 00:35:12.240 --> 00:35:13.360 going to happen anytime soon. 665 00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:14.320 Probably not because 666 00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:20.800 I think it would have to be down the road just because there's so much steam behind this one. 667 00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:24.400 It would have to be maybe five, seven years from now, but I think that's an interesting argument 668 00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:25.840 and Alito opened the door for it. 669 00:35:25.840 --> 00:35:29.840 That's amazing. It is, it's so contentious, right? And you mentioned the difference between 670 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:36.080 science and faith. Science tells me when life begins and that's actually not in dispute, 671 00:35:36.080 --> 00:35:42.160 right? There's no dispute biologically or according to science about when life begins, 672 00:35:42.160 --> 00:35:49.840 but faith informs my opinion, my belief system about the value of that human life and whether 673 00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:54.720 or not we should protect it and when, but science is kind of settled on this issue. 674 00:35:55.120 --> 00:36:01.440 Well, science basically says that at conception, you've got all the elements and I'm sorry for 675 00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:05.360 those who are confused about their gender and such, and I don't mean to be not compassionate, 676 00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:11.040 but I'm not confused about gender and I don't think God is, but there is support for the 677 00:36:11.040 --> 00:36:16.160 biblical concept of he created them male and female, which is a really powerful verse. It's 678 00:36:16.160 --> 00:36:23.760 the very first part of our Bible. And the concept there is that there was a deposit of God on that 679 00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:29.120 person created in his image. What's interesting is science actually kind of proves that out. 680 00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:38.240 The DNA, the personality, the gender, that person is a male or a female at that time is known to 681 00:36:38.240 --> 00:36:46.160 science at conception. And you can look this up on WebMD embryo or just type in a couple of things 682 00:36:46.160 --> 00:36:49.360 and they'll explain it to you and they'll show you all kinds of pictures. Yeah, because of the 683 00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:54.880 chromosomes, the double X or the XY, we know immediately what the gender of that child is. 684 00:36:56.080 --> 00:36:59.360 And a lot more. And a lot more. That's right. DNA issues and such. So yeah, 685 00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:04.800 if you're going to go to faith, the Psalm 139 concept has been supported by science. 686 00:37:06.240 --> 00:37:10.960 Yes. Well, it's amazing. I think that this is going to continue to be an issue, of course, 687 00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:15.360 and it's why we have to protect the role of the Supreme Court. One thing, real quick, 688 00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:24.480 I want you to comment a little bit about why we allowed protesting outside of the Supreme Court 689 00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:32.480 justices' homes when that is a clear violation of federal law. Isn't that right? It's a clear 690 00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:36.960 violation of federal law. It's also a clear violation of state and city municipal law. 691 00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:43.120 That is called weenie. That's called no sheriff stepping up and coming in when he could have. 692 00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:47.680 Any one of those local sheriffs could have come in and just asserted their authority and said, 693 00:37:47.680 --> 00:37:50.960 the heck with what everybody else is not doing here, I'm going to just assert my authority. 694 00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:56.560 The local police could have asserted themselves. They've got municipal code that supports that. 695 00:37:56.560 --> 00:37:59.840 You're not supposed to be able to go to somebody's house and harass them. You just can't do that. 696 00:38:01.680 --> 00:38:06.400 Not even if you're a judge. Then you put on top of that the envelope of a federal 697 00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:11.520 appointed position, and there's a whole other layer of protection. Then on top of that, 698 00:38:11.520 --> 00:38:18.400 you put a Supreme Court justice, of which there are only nine on the planet. They have a specific 699 00:38:18.400 --> 00:38:23.920 call out for you not being able to go against, to try to harass them in any way, shape, or form 700 00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:32.080 to change their mind. All of these violations are, in my opinion, a sign of a really bad moment, 701 00:38:32.080 --> 00:38:36.320 which really needs to get spanked. I'm hoping at these next elections, they get spanked badly for 702 00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:41.280 it. But this is in contradiction to what the whole constitution is based on. 703 00:38:41.280 --> 00:38:44.720 John Adams comes out the gate and says, look, man, this constitution is a republic. 704 00:38:45.600 --> 00:38:53.440 It's kind of simple, but it's not got the capability to handle anything but a moral 705 00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:57.680 people. You've got to have moral people running it, or it won't work. It's the same thing. If 706 00:38:57.680 --> 00:39:01.520 you're not going to enforce the law, I mean, look at Portland, look at Seattle. These are 707 00:39:01.520 --> 00:39:08.640 beautiful cities, gorgeous. It breaks your heart. You go to Portland now, you are afraid to go 708 00:39:08.640 --> 00:39:14.240 there. You go to LA. I mean, I was born in Pasadena. I always had a nostalgia for Southern 709 00:39:14.240 --> 00:39:23.360 California. You go to LA, I cannot believe how bad it is. The needles all over the place, the 710 00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:29.200 level of degradation and safety, and that's all because you're not enforcing the law. 711 00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:33.360 What they didn't do with the Supreme Court justices that's happening everywhere else is 712 00:39:33.360 --> 00:39:39.280 really a violation of our whole code of ethic. You're supposed to uphold the law. When they 713 00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:43.760 didn't do that, they really denigrated themselves, and that really needs to get corrected. 714 00:39:44.640 --> 00:39:51.040 I think as just an everyday citizen, it's disturbing that people can be encouraged to 715 00:39:51.040 --> 00:39:55.200 harass people when they're out in public, whether they're at restaurants. We saw that happen 716 00:39:55.200 --> 00:40:00.480 with Justice Gorsuch and others. We're seeing a 717 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:05.300 elected officials, encourage people to get up in people's faces and harass them. 718 00:40:05.300 --> 00:40:10.000 It's just the breakdown of a civil society based upon virtues and values that we used 719 00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:11.360 to have in common. 720 00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:14.320 And of course, it's part of the overall agenda, right? 721 00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:20.040 To increase the control and power of those few in power and to really make the rest of 722 00:40:20.040 --> 00:40:21.040 us just subjects. 723 00:40:21.040 --> 00:40:26.480 You know, they had two organizations that I was able to find a podcast or two ago, and 724 00:40:26.480 --> 00:40:28.960 I just spent the last one and I identified them. 725 00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:34.280 And these organizations were giving bounties to give locations. 726 00:40:34.280 --> 00:40:37.540 That's how they knew Gorsuch was at Morton's Chophouse. 727 00:40:37.540 --> 00:40:40.200 And they were able to go and intimidate the general manager. 728 00:40:40.200 --> 00:40:42.240 And of course, security wasn't going to wait around. 729 00:40:42.240 --> 00:40:45.800 They got him out of there and they said, we're not going to wait to figure out what happens 730 00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:46.800 here. 731 00:40:46.800 --> 00:40:50.920 But, you know, he's just trying to enjoy a meal in a pretty fair, kind of a private type 732 00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:51.920 of a restaurant. 733 00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:54.720 It's quiet and sort of dark. 734 00:40:54.720 --> 00:40:57.760 And you know, the general manager did a good job of saying, go pound sand. 735 00:40:57.760 --> 00:40:58.960 We're not going to be intimidated by it. 736 00:40:58.960 --> 00:40:59.960 But can you believe that? 737 00:40:59.960 --> 00:41:05.040 They're giving people bounties to locate Supreme Court justices so that they can be harassed. 738 00:41:05.040 --> 00:41:10.800 And then they have these people already, they're like, they can be ignited on the fly. 739 00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:15.360 They pull the trigger and boom, you can get a whole bunch of people over to protest. 740 00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:16.360 Yes. 741 00:41:16.360 --> 00:41:17.360 Very, very, very bad. 742 00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:18.360 That's troubling. 743 00:41:18.360 --> 00:41:21.760 And that is not the way that our constitution is set up. 744 00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:28.200 It's set up for good people to be ordered in a way with limited government so that you 745 00:41:28.200 --> 00:41:30.400 can freely enjoy your life. 746 00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:31.680 But it requires good people. 747 00:41:31.680 --> 00:41:32.680 Yeah. 748 00:41:32.680 --> 00:41:36.200 And at the same time, they're trying to take away our second amendment rights to not only 749 00:41:36.200 --> 00:41:39.480 protect ourselves against the tyranny of the government, but also to protect ourselves 750 00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:45.480 just in a common sense, you know, self-defense environment, which, which can you imagine 751 00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:47.620 in the environment we currently sit in? 752 00:41:47.620 --> 00:41:48.620 We didn't have that right. 753 00:41:48.620 --> 00:41:51.780 And the good news is the court just ruled that, you know, you can't put unreasonable 754 00:41:51.780 --> 00:41:54.860 restrictions on someone's right to conceal carry. 755 00:41:54.860 --> 00:41:56.860 So I think that's another big win. 756 00:41:56.860 --> 00:41:59.260 That was a six to three, that was a six to three win. 757 00:41:59.260 --> 00:42:03.020 They got all mad about that, but it was a good six to three when it was based on constitutional 758 00:42:03.020 --> 00:42:04.020 law. 759 00:42:04.020 --> 00:42:09.060 You know, Thomas comes out and says, look, the second amendment is pretty clear. 760 00:42:09.060 --> 00:42:11.620 I mean, it says shall not be infringed. 761 00:42:11.620 --> 00:42:12.620 Yeah. 762 00:42:12.620 --> 00:42:14.540 I mean, what else do you need? 763 00:42:14.540 --> 00:42:18.620 And so he's like, you can't make it a weaker thing just because you don't like it. 764 00:42:18.620 --> 00:42:19.620 Right. 765 00:42:19.620 --> 00:42:20.620 And it was thought through. 766 00:42:20.620 --> 00:42:23.380 It was one of the 10 amendments that survived. 767 00:42:23.380 --> 00:42:24.380 Yeah. 768 00:42:24.380 --> 00:42:25.380 Thank God it did. 769 00:42:25.380 --> 00:42:26.380 I'll tell you that. 770 00:42:26.380 --> 00:42:29.460 I mean, you know, I would hate to be in a situation where only the bad guys have the 771 00:42:29.460 --> 00:42:31.540 ability to do significant harm. 772 00:42:31.540 --> 00:42:32.540 And I would. 773 00:42:32.540 --> 00:42:33.540 What about that Indiana guy? 774 00:42:33.540 --> 00:42:35.260 Oh my gosh. 775 00:42:35.260 --> 00:42:36.260 The young hero. 776 00:42:36.260 --> 00:42:37.260 Yes. 777 00:42:37.260 --> 00:42:38.260 Yes. 778 00:42:38.260 --> 00:42:43.140 And there, and it goes on unreported of course, but there's estimates that between 300,000 779 00:42:43.140 --> 00:42:52.260 and 500,000 times law abiding citizens intervene and prevent crimes because they're concealed 780 00:42:52.260 --> 00:42:53.260 carries. 781 00:42:53.260 --> 00:42:54.260 I mean, it's incredible. 782 00:42:54.260 --> 00:42:55.260 I believe that. 783 00:42:55.260 --> 00:42:56.260 Yeah. 784 00:42:56.260 --> 00:43:02.900 I can tell you that I just saw a statistic yesterday where 22 of the 400 mass shootings 785 00:43:02.900 --> 00:43:03.900 were stopped. 786 00:43:03.900 --> 00:43:04.900 Wow. 787 00:43:04.900 --> 00:43:05.900 By a guy. 788 00:43:05.900 --> 00:43:06.900 Yeah. 789 00:43:06.900 --> 00:43:08.900 22 of the 400 were stopped. 790 00:43:08.900 --> 00:43:12.780 And I think that's like since 2000 or something, 2000 to present, there's been 400 mass shootings. 791 00:43:13.420 --> 00:43:18.420 I guess a mass shooting is three or more get killed, but that's still a lot and you don't 792 00:43:18.420 --> 00:43:23.180 ever hear the media talking about, Hey, thank God for all of the 22 times, what half a dozen 793 00:43:23.180 --> 00:43:28.140 people that survived because the good guy shot the bad guy that had a concealed carry. 794 00:43:28.140 --> 00:43:29.140 He wasn't a cop. 795 00:43:29.140 --> 00:43:30.420 The cops didn't have time to get there. 796 00:43:30.420 --> 00:43:31.420 Yeah. 797 00:43:31.420 --> 00:43:34.860 All of my military friends, especially the guys that did special ops, special forces 798 00:43:34.860 --> 00:43:39.700 guys, they'll all say the best defense against a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a 799 00:43:39.700 --> 00:43:40.700 gun. 800 00:43:40.700 --> 00:43:41.700 Absolutely. 801 00:43:41.700 --> 00:43:42.700 And you know, they're right. 802 00:43:43.620 --> 00:43:47.340 We've covered a lot of ground and this is so important that we do this because we need 803 00:43:47.340 --> 00:43:49.820 an educated citizenry. 804 00:43:49.820 --> 00:43:53.040 We need people to know what our structure is. 805 00:43:53.040 --> 00:43:57.620 But as we wrap up the show, you know, let's encourage our listeners, tell them what they 806 00:43:57.620 --> 00:44:02.020 can do to make a difference and defend freedom and keep America strong. 807 00:44:02.020 --> 00:44:06.020 What from your seat, what are some ways that we can encourage our listeners? 808 00:44:06.020 --> 00:44:09.980 Well first of all, just read article one, two, and three of the constitution. 809 00:44:09.980 --> 00:44:10.980 They're pretty easy. 810 00:44:10.980 --> 00:44:11.980 It won't take you that long. 811 00:44:12.380 --> 00:44:13.940 Read the declaration of independence. 812 00:44:13.940 --> 00:44:17.980 Look at the Federalist Papers and educate yourself. 813 00:44:17.980 --> 00:44:24.100 But what you can do is vote and you've got to vote with people that are closer to the 814 00:44:24.100 --> 00:44:27.820 original concept of ruling and governing. 815 00:44:27.820 --> 00:44:33.260 And that is that you're there to start with a freedom principle and then build and develop 816 00:44:33.260 --> 00:44:37.020 legal theory and legislation from there. 817 00:44:37.020 --> 00:44:41.380 You're not supposed to start with how can I control people and get something accomplished. 818 00:44:41.780 --> 00:44:45.140 You're starting from a freedom principle, protecting that freedom principle, and then 819 00:44:45.140 --> 00:44:48.100 administering what's to the benefit of folks from there. 820 00:44:48.100 --> 00:44:51.380 And keep in mind that general welfare was to the states. 821 00:44:51.380 --> 00:44:55.100 And so it's not for the federal government to determine general welfare. 822 00:44:55.100 --> 00:44:57.740 It's the states to determine the federal welfare. 823 00:44:57.740 --> 00:44:59.980 So I love it when people do that. 824 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:06.600 refresh themselves on the 10th Amendment, the whole concept of the states having a lot of authority was also another check and balance. 825 00:45:06.600 --> 00:45:11.920 So you get the check and the balance within the legislative, the check and the balance between the legislative and the executive and the courts, 826 00:45:11.960 --> 00:45:22.200 and the check and the balance between the feds and the states. It's a good mix of, hey, government, you serve us, we are the people. And this is a 827 00:45:22.200 --> 00:45:29.600 government of the people and by the people, and it's for the people. Yes. And so I think when we forget that we end up with all these crazy bad 828 00:45:29.600 --> 00:45:36.360 legislative ideas, and when we remember that, we come up with good ways to set people free and let them live prosperous lives. 829 00:45:36.440 --> 00:45:45.120 Yes. Well, that is a great, a great and encouraging note to end on. Get involved, engage in the voting process, engage at the local and state 830 00:45:45.120 --> 00:45:51.440 levels, because that's where a lot of this really gets settled. Very, you've been awesome. Thank you so much for the way you've undertaken 831 00:45:51.440 --> 00:45:52.680 the topics. Yeah, you're the best. 832 00:45:52.680 --> 00:45:53.400 A lot of fun to be with you. 833 00:45:53.480 --> 00:45:54.280 God bless you, man. 834 00:45:54.840 --> 00:46:04.560 I hope you enjoyed that. Unstoppable Freedom Alliance has some lofty goals. They encourage everyone to do their part to protect and promote 835 00:46:04.760 --> 00:46:14.080 freedom. They have a passion to activate millions to organize and amplify the voice of individual choice and personal responsibility. Their 836 00:46:14.080 --> 00:46:23.640 strategy is to tap into the strength in numbers concept. Then they endeavor to equip and train people to jump in with both feet. It's great stuff. 837 00:46:23.920 --> 00:46:30.040 You can learn more about them at unstoppablefreedomalliance.com. I hope you enjoyed the interview. To your freedom. 838 00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:39.680 Hi, I'm David Farah. Thank you for listening to my dad's podcast, The Barry Farris Show, Culture Shift. 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