WEBVTT 00:06.480 --> 00:09.940 So, I was listening to Rev Massey earlier. 00:10.900 --> 00:14.900 Take a minute on the floor there to say his piece on. 00:15.400 --> 00:17.940 Ah, just what's going on in Congress these days. 00:18.460 --> 00:21.620 Can we be honest with the American people about what's going on here? 00:21.700 --> 00:23.060 This is political theater. 00:23.760 --> 00:25.660 I'm going to call out both sides right here. 00:26.500 --> 00:28.900 It's all posturing, it's fake fighting. 00:28.900 --> 00:30.400 We all know where it ends up. 00:30.480 --> 00:31.580 This is Groundhog Day. 00:31.740 --> 00:35.720 I don't care if the Democrat is the Speaker or Republican is the Speaker. 00:36.020 --> 00:42.820 They're just straight telling everybody, to their faces, things that I just, I still 00:42.820 --> 00:47.640 every once in a while I just have to pinch myself like am I, is this, am I awake right 00:47.640 --> 00:47.960 now? 00:48.200 --> 00:50.140 Am I in one of those dreams that I have? 00:50.760 --> 00:52.400 Is this happening in our reality? 00:53.060 --> 00:57.620 There's no way that this winter is ever going to end. 00:58.100 --> 01:00.060 We have Glenn Greenwald. 01:00.420 --> 01:04.980 There's like a viral post of his that's going around where he's talking about, you know, 01:05.020 --> 01:09.220 it's kind of weird how just everybody, everybody knows we don't really have a president right 01:09.220 --> 01:09.460 now. 01:09.540 --> 01:10.800 We just don't really have one. 01:11.420 --> 01:16.600 This is a really unprecedented situation where we don't particularly know who the 01:16.600 --> 01:18.940 Commander-in-Chief of the United States is. 01:19.260 --> 01:22.160 Seems to me, Megan, we're basically without a president right now. 01:22.520 --> 01:23.400 Is he still the president? 01:23.560 --> 01:24.700 Who is the president of the United States? 01:24.900 --> 01:25.980 Well, here's. 01:25.980 --> 01:27.920 Well, yeah, it's, we don't have one. 01:28.420 --> 01:29.440 And this is. 01:29.440 --> 01:30.340 So strange as that. 01:40.660 --> 01:41.660 Not really. 01:41.900 --> 01:45.540 And everybody just kind of knows that and we're all just kind of accepting it because 01:46.060 --> 01:48.000 there's a machine that's running our country. 01:48.480 --> 01:53.920 He wasn't fit to be the nominee for an election in November, but apparently he's fit to 01:53.920 --> 01:55.900 be president of the United States until January. 01:57.480 --> 02:02.800 To anybody with the slightest touch of Asperger's, there's no way to go along with this. 02:03.160 --> 02:06.300 It's just it doesn't make any logical sense. 02:06.640 --> 02:12.340 What I've been assured privately is that there is a team running the White House 02:12.340 --> 02:16.760 far better than Joe Biden and that I'm supposed to be elated because of the 02:16.760 --> 02:21.740 high competency of the team that has effectively replaced the president. 02:21.740 --> 02:29.820 Now, these are levels of self-deception and self-justification that I just can't 02:29.820 --> 02:30.640 participate in. 02:31.080 --> 02:32.140 And it's not our president. 02:32.460 --> 02:37.940 That's a tweet that's been sent out by one of the foremost major journalists 02:37.940 --> 02:40.320 that people actually know their full name. 02:40.680 --> 02:46.260 But what's fascinating is that this is what I've called an anti-interesting 02:46.260 --> 02:46.660 event. 02:46.920 --> 02:50.860 The media is absolutely pathologically uninterested. 02:50.860 --> 02:56.400 And the idea that we're in a half war with Russia and we don't know who the 02:56.400 --> 03:01.580 commander in chief is at a functional level given the tiny window that we might 03:01.580 --> 03:04.000 have if nuclear weapons were used. 03:04.220 --> 03:06.760 That's the level that things are currently at. 03:07.180 --> 03:13.400 And I just thought it might be nice for a few minutes to talk about the 03:13.400 --> 03:19.980 evolution of consciousness in terms of government systems and what people 03:19.980 --> 03:24.800 accept as reality at any given time. 03:25.460 --> 03:31.620 I talk a lot on this channel about the American Revolution and documents like 03:31.620 --> 03:35.500 the Declaration of Independence because I think they're really important markers 03:36.160 --> 03:42.140 in modern human history of the evolution of the concept of rights and 03:42.140 --> 03:47.180 liberties and freedoms and how people thought about these things over time. 03:47.720 --> 03:52.940 I think it's very important to understand that so we can understand where we 03:52.940 --> 03:53.800 are right now. 03:54.300 --> 03:58.580 And you know what they say about people who don't learn their history. 03:58.740 --> 03:59.480 They're doomed to repeat. 03:59.920 --> 04:01.760 There's a lot of things we don't want to repeat. 04:02.240 --> 04:03.780 They don't think people realize that. 04:04.260 --> 04:09.640 And so one of the modern criticisms that I see quite often and especially 04:09.640 --> 04:15.680 lately for America's founding fathers is this idea that it's all now 04:15.680 --> 04:18.980 been boiled down to they were just a bunch of wealthy merchant class people 04:18.980 --> 04:20.580 who didn't want to have to pay their taxes. 04:31.840 --> 04:34.540 So it's either that or they just didn't do enough. 04:34.920 --> 04:37.900 There are more things that needed to be changed and they only changed 04:37.900 --> 04:39.580 so many things and it wasn't enough. 04:40.350 --> 04:46.840 But I feel like these hindsight arguments don't really recognize the consciousness 04:46.840 --> 04:50.160 level, the mindset of where people were at at the time. 04:50.800 --> 04:54.460 It's like that scene out of The Matrix where Agent Smith says they tried 04:54.460 --> 04:56.200 to make a utopia, but it didn't work. 04:56.420 --> 05:01.540 It was designed to be a perfect human world where everyone would be happy. 05:02.100 --> 05:02.960 It was a disaster. 05:03.720 --> 05:05.220 No one would accept the program. 05:05.220 --> 05:10.200 They were already changing so many things that it's a surprise that it took 05:10.900 --> 05:15.380 and didn't actually go backwards into something much, much worse, 05:15.540 --> 05:19.700 because that has happened multiple times in the past where they've tried 05:19.700 --> 05:22.160 to make big changes and the big changes didn't work out. 05:22.840 --> 05:26.220 And so the things swung back into an even worse tyranny than the one 05:26.220 --> 05:28.620 they were trying to have a revolution against. 05:29.280 --> 05:30.680 This is just a really hard. 05:30.900 --> 05:33.820 I'm listening to myself at it and I just I feel like I need to add 05:33.820 --> 05:37.240 something to try to clarify it, but it's a really hard thing to try to explain. 05:37.580 --> 05:40.960 So I don't know if this is going to come across well or not. 05:41.640 --> 05:46.360 When you look around today at some of the things that people accept, 05:47.740 --> 05:53.520 apathetically accept as OK, as true, not just as true, but as OK. 05:54.200 --> 05:54.640 All right. 05:55.580 --> 05:58.820 Then you really fully let that sink in and you go back 05:58.820 --> 06:02.640 and look at history again through that lens, you start to recognize 06:02.640 --> 06:04.720 like we're lucky we even got this far. 06:05.020 --> 06:06.600 OK, that is what you start to recognize. 06:07.440 --> 06:12.440 I mean, there has been so many crazy, ridiculous, superstitious, 06:12.620 --> 06:16.400 nonsensical things that have been fully full on, not just believed 06:16.400 --> 06:21.340 by a majority of people, but acted upon as if that were true throughout time. 06:21.560 --> 06:22.720 It's pretty amazing. 06:23.640 --> 06:26.080 We need food and water to survive. 06:27.200 --> 06:31.340 But if full out settles on your food, the food itself isn't harmed 06:31.340 --> 06:35.240 or made radioactive since radiation only damages living tissue. 06:36.720 --> 06:41.240 You simply remove the fallout particles using everyday methods of food preparation, 06:41.920 --> 06:44.460 feeling, wiping or washing. 06:45.060 --> 06:48.500 Full outs followed accidentally with food or in drinking water. 06:48.600 --> 06:50.060 What do you know, immediate harm? 06:50.260 --> 06:53.480 So that is what I'm trying to get across here. 06:53.860 --> 06:58.200 Like we're lucky we got this far at all on these concepts. 06:58.820 --> 07:02.580 So so I just don't think people recognize the level that things were at 07:03.400 --> 07:08.920 and the things that led to an American Declaration of Independence in the first place. 07:09.180 --> 07:15.580 Just throwing the tea in the harbor was a major act of defiance that today 07:15.580 --> 07:18.600 you probably think, oh, whatever, they just threw some tea in the harbor. 07:18.780 --> 07:20.060 You might get arrested for that. 07:20.160 --> 07:24.900 But this is something that they debated over for days and days 07:24.900 --> 07:26.820 beforehand for hours and hours. 07:27.300 --> 07:31.020 There was much terror over making this decision because they knew that it would 07:31.020 --> 07:35.160 be considered treason and that they could all be rounded up and killed for it. 07:46.640 --> 07:52.320 So it wasn't just like a little idea someone had to be funny as a prank. 07:52.860 --> 07:58.000 They debated over this for a very long while before it finally came down 07:58.000 --> 07:59.820 to that decision being made. 08:00.540 --> 08:03.900 And it was seen as a major act of treason. 08:04.300 --> 08:07.400 And America and Great Britain are revocably linked. 08:07.940 --> 08:13.080 The entire framework of America's existence is taken from its fight 08:13.080 --> 08:16.860 for independence from the British crown specifically 08:17.560 --> 08:21.760 and a British aristocracy system that was insulating that crown. 08:22.460 --> 08:26.640 And so the American Declaration of Independence against King George 08:26.640 --> 08:30.000 the Third came infamously complete with a long train of abuses, 08:30.700 --> 08:35.020 which is described in specific detail as repeated injuries and usurpations, 08:35.340 --> 08:39.800 all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. 08:40.420 --> 08:42.200 And they capitalized the word tyranny. 08:42.540 --> 08:46.700 So the capital T tyranny that the colonies were suffering 08:46.700 --> 08:50.480 at the hands of the British crown included all the things we learned 08:50.480 --> 08:54.460 about back in grade school, things like refusing to ascend to laws necessary 08:54.460 --> 08:58.740 for the public good, forbidding governors to pass laws of immediate importance, 08:58.940 --> 09:02.280 which then amounted to large districts of people's representation 09:02.280 --> 09:04.900 in their government just basically becoming void. 09:05.280 --> 09:08.280 Representative houses of government were being dissolved repeatedly 09:08.280 --> 09:11.460 for opposing the king's invasion on people's rights. 09:11.720 --> 09:16.100 King was obstructing justice literally by making judges dependent upon 09:16.100 --> 09:19.800 the crowns will alone for their tenure of office and for their salary. 09:19.800 --> 09:23.320 King erected a multitude of new offices and swarms of officers 09:23.320 --> 09:27.520 to harass people and eat out their substance, quartered large bodies of armed troops 09:27.520 --> 09:31.600 and kept a standing army in the colonies in times of peace 09:31.600 --> 09:36.600 without legislative consent, which they wanted the colonies to pay for. 09:36.740 --> 09:39.520 And they rendered that military independent of and superior 09:39.520 --> 09:41.400 to the civil power in the colonies. 09:41.480 --> 09:45.440 They also accused the crown of giving British soldiers mock trials 09:45.440 --> 09:48.180 that would protect them from punishment for anything they did 09:48.180 --> 09:52.480 while they were on colonial soil where arbitrary power sits upon her breeze 09:52.480 --> 09:55.420 and throne and governs with an iron sector. 09:57.120 --> 10:00.160 It is a hardship not to be endured. 10:01.080 --> 10:03.820 Cut off the colonies from trade with the whole rest of the world 10:03.820 --> 10:06.400 and impose taxes on them repeatedly without their consent. 10:06.540 --> 10:09.020 Deprived in many cases of trial by jury, some of them were being 10:09.020 --> 10:12.820 transported across the seas to have trials in England, took away their 10:12.820 --> 10:15.800 charters, abolished their laws, fundamentally altering their forms 10:15.800 --> 10:18.560 of government, inciting domestic insurrections among the people, 10:18.740 --> 10:21.960 plundering the seas, ravaging the coast, burning towns, destroying people's lives. 10:22.080 --> 10:23.600 It gets pretty serious there at the end. 10:24.000 --> 10:27.360 But these are all phrases directly out of the American Declaration of Independence. 10:29.660 --> 10:35.120 And so that's the point it got under King George III, where they declared 10:35.120 --> 10:40.060 we are dissolving the bonds between us in a very alchemical language 10:40.060 --> 10:43.200 that is used in the Declaration of Independence. 10:43.200 --> 10:45.160 The bonds are being dissolved. 10:47.560 --> 10:53.020 But it was over a hundred years earlier in 1641, the year before the English 10:53.020 --> 10:57.740 Civil War officially broke out under King Charles I, that the House of 10:57.740 --> 11:01.300 Commons and the British Parliament of the day drew up what was then 11:01.300 --> 11:05.640 an unprecedented document which they had delivered to their king 11:06.140 --> 11:10.400 and also directed to be printed and handed out to people directly, 11:10.400 --> 11:16.380 if I recall correctly, called the Grand Remonstrance, wherein they laid out 11:16.380 --> 11:20.900 in very great detail and for many, many more pages, their own version 11:20.900 --> 11:25.460 of the long train of abuses that they felt they were suffering under 11:25.460 --> 11:27.180 Charles I's rule. 11:27.660 --> 11:31.840 And this one is 204 items in all. 11:32.040 --> 11:35.480 So there's 27 things on the Declaration of Independence, right? 11:35.600 --> 11:37.680 Whole new country was founded on that. 11:37.800 --> 11:38.860 That's a list of 27. 11:39.300 --> 11:44.840 The British Parliament in 1641 came up with a list of 204 things, 11:44.920 --> 11:47.640 which I am not going to read all of that to you because it would probably 11:47.640 --> 11:48.340 take me an hour. 11:48.600 --> 11:52.980 It's a very long document, very detailed of all the things that they 11:53.600 --> 11:55.340 said were happening at that time. 11:55.460 --> 11:59.360 And if you read through that list, though, you will find that within 11:59.360 --> 12:03.600 it are direct corollaries to the long train of abuses that were laid 12:03.600 --> 12:06.860 out in the American Declaration of Independence and also the first ten 12:06.860 --> 12:10.640 amendments in the Bill of Rights as well, which is part of what went 12:10.640 --> 12:14.480 into the decision, I think, to come up with a Bill of Rights to begin with. 12:15.220 --> 12:19.680 Because too many times they had seen these kinds of things going on in the history. 12:20.880 --> 12:24.760 And there is a huge difference, though, between and it's not just 12:24.760 --> 12:28.520 the number of items, there's a huge difference between the American 12:28.520 --> 12:33.180 Declaration of Independence and the Grand Remonstrance in that 12:33.180 --> 12:36.800 in the Declaration, they directly call out the king. 12:36.980 --> 12:39.720 They directly say, this is the king's tyranny. 12:40.280 --> 12:43.120 The king is directly responsible for these abuses. 12:43.540 --> 12:47.480 Whereas in the Grand Remonstrance of 1641, they continually 12:48.040 --> 12:52.020 have to defer it to the king's evil or venomous counselors. 12:52.720 --> 12:55.040 They don't directly accuse the king himself. 12:55.920 --> 12:59.680 So first of all, that is a difference in consciousness 12:59.680 --> 13:03.360 that took place over that time, because at the time of 1641, 13:03.640 --> 13:07.400 no one was directly calling out the king and saying anything to him. 13:07.860 --> 13:11.180 De Quincey pointed out in his essay on the falsification of English history 13:11.180 --> 13:14.840 that the king was not allowed to ever be personally wrong. 13:15.080 --> 13:17.180 And people believed that. 13:17.460 --> 13:20.820 That was actually a belief that was held by people. 13:21.100 --> 13:25.600 As God's representative on earth, it's not possible for him 13:25.600 --> 13:27.620 to be personally directly wrong. 13:28.080 --> 13:31.300 And I've read Pete Writers of the Time talking about this, 13:31.480 --> 13:35.580 that this is part of the system at that time, that the king cannot be wrong. 13:35.700 --> 13:39.840 It's part of it's baked into the government system of that time in England. 13:40.260 --> 13:45.020 I read this guy talking about how the king could still be held responsible, 13:45.220 --> 13:49.100 sort of, because if he orders somebody to kill someone else for him, 13:49.300 --> 13:53.760 then that guy can be held to the account of the law. 13:53.940 --> 13:55.440 But still not the king, though. 13:55.440 --> 13:58.960 See, that's just not how anything would ever work today. 13:59.200 --> 14:01.860 But in the 1640s, that's exactly how it worked. 14:01.960 --> 14:03.900 If the king ordered somebody to kill someone else, 14:04.760 --> 14:06.700 he cannot be held liable for that. 14:07.080 --> 14:09.120 The person who does the killing for the king, 14:09.200 --> 14:11.140 that's the guy that will be held responsible for that, 14:11.160 --> 14:12.940 because the king literally cannot. 14:13.140 --> 14:16.220 That is the level that they took this to the power 14:16.220 --> 14:20.580 that that system was allowed to wield was that level of power over everyone. 14:21.100 --> 14:24.240 And I just don't think people recognize that that's where 14:24.900 --> 14:27.100 that's where the system came from. 14:27.320 --> 14:31.480 We had to move past that as a people and recognize, like, OK, that's 14:31.480 --> 14:32.560 that's not right, though. 14:33.400 --> 14:37.260 It's not right that the king can't be held responsible for his own behavior. 14:37.500 --> 14:39.860 Like, but that's the level it was at. 14:40.060 --> 14:42.860 I don't think people realize things like I didn't I didn't know this. 14:43.180 --> 14:45.680 I had to go dig in some very old history books 14:45.680 --> 14:48.760 that are written in very old English to find this out. 14:48.760 --> 14:51.300 OK, but this is what people believed. 14:52.060 --> 14:53.860 So that's how the system was run. 14:55.540 --> 14:59.360 So that's where the American colonists were coming from, a system like that 14:59.360 --> 15:02.180 where you have kings that are just they're doing whatever the hell 15:02.180 --> 15:06.080 that they really want, and it's blatant and it's in everyone's face 15:06.080 --> 15:07.960 and there's nothing anyone can do about it. 15:07.960 --> 15:12.220 So when the American colonists said the king directly has done this, 15:12.660 --> 15:16.520 that was pretty groundbreaking and it's hard to believe today 15:17.040 --> 15:20.000 looking back on it, how groundbreaking that concept was. 15:20.180 --> 15:21.820 But it broke the freaking government. 15:22.060 --> 15:25.280 It broke the colonies away from the British crown. 15:25.360 --> 15:29.440 It broke everything for them to say, you have no power over me. 15:30.880 --> 15:32.980 You have no power over me. 15:33.060 --> 15:36.680 So I want to go over some of these things that are on the Grand Remontrance. 15:36.820 --> 15:39.220 I've summed it up. I'm not going to read you 204 things. 15:39.400 --> 15:43.080 But I want you to see some of what was going on in 1641 15:43.080 --> 15:46.480 so you can see the progression of how much worse things were 15:47.140 --> 15:51.360 like 130 years earlier that led to the English Civil War 15:51.360 --> 15:55.060 that led to a king being beheaded in England. 15:55.740 --> 15:58.040 So the very first item on the Grand Remontrance 15:58.040 --> 16:01.840 details how the king dissolved parliament and the repeated 16:01.840 --> 16:04.700 dissolving of parliament is mentioned multiple times 16:04.700 --> 16:07.160 throughout this document, several more, at least four more times. 16:07.920 --> 16:11.420 And that's because King Charles the first did that a lot. 16:11.420 --> 16:14.600 He dissolved parliament at one point for so long during his reign 16:14.600 --> 16:18.700 that it's actually referred to in history books as the 11 years tyranny 16:19.420 --> 16:24.260 wherein the king ruled over the nation from 1629 to 1640 without parliament, 16:24.600 --> 16:28.840 which is the longest such interval in modern English history that a king has done that. 16:29.340 --> 16:31.820 And this is somebody again, this is an absolute monarch 16:31.820 --> 16:36.180 who believes himself ordained by God and therefore he can do whatever he wants 16:36.180 --> 16:39.780 without having to answer to literally any other person on earth 16:39.780 --> 16:43.740 because there's no one above him to stop him or check his power 16:43.740 --> 16:48.120 unless God shows up because there is no human person on earth 16:48.120 --> 16:50.700 is going to do anything to stop this guy. 16:50.860 --> 16:54.160 He's the king and because in their system, he cannot be wrong. 16:55.020 --> 16:57.840 Charles the first past declarations that made petitions 16:57.840 --> 17:02.100 passed by parliament destructive to themselves, as specifically mentioned 17:02.100 --> 17:07.400 with the 1628 petition of right, which they issued based on Magna Carta 17:08.360 --> 17:11.520 says the position of right, which was granted in full parliament 17:11.520 --> 17:15.060 blasted with an illegal declaration to make it destructive to itself, 17:15.180 --> 17:17.500 to the power of parliament, to the liberty of the subject 17:17.500 --> 17:19.320 and to that purpose printed with it. 17:19.840 --> 17:22.580 And the petition made of no use but to show the bold and presumptuous 17:22.580 --> 17:25.760 injustice of such ministers as durst break the laws 17:25.760 --> 17:28.500 and suppress the liberties of the kingdom after they had been 17:28.500 --> 17:30.480 so solemnly and evidently declared. 17:31.320 --> 17:35.640 So we try to declare our rights in this petition of rights, 17:35.640 --> 17:37.280 which is what that document is. 17:38.320 --> 17:42.360 And it was blasted with an illegal declaration 17:42.360 --> 17:46.400 to make it destructive of itself, and then they blame that on ministers. 17:47.540 --> 17:50.760 King Charles the first raised a standing army amongst the people 17:50.760 --> 17:53.740 and quartered large numbers of troops all over the country. 17:54.020 --> 17:58.860 He also confiscated the arms of the trained citizen militias. 17:59.060 --> 18:02.040 And then he stockpiled all of the country's gunpowder 18:02.040 --> 18:05.000 in the Tower of London and put a price on it so high 18:05.000 --> 18:07.500 that people couldn't afford to purchase it. 18:07.900 --> 18:11.120 So he effectively left, especially the poor people of the time, 18:11.260 --> 18:12.600 unable to defend themselves. 18:13.300 --> 18:16.040 He is accused of violating the rights of habeas corpus 18:16.040 --> 18:20.400 and trial by jury as first embodied in the 1215 Magna Carta. 18:20.760 --> 18:25.120 And there are a whole bunch of mentionings of jurisdictions 18:25.780 --> 18:29.900 being stepped out of bounds on all kinds of pretended courts 18:29.900 --> 18:31.900 just all over the place. 18:32.620 --> 18:35.420 And he also had people jailed without bail 18:35.420 --> 18:38.440 and left some people to die in prison for charges. 18:38.660 --> 18:41.800 They were not allowed any legal recourse to refute. 18:42.120 --> 18:45.040 And the courts were also loaded with judges and juries 18:45.040 --> 18:47.540 that were favorable to the crown and would do the king's bidding. 18:48.440 --> 18:52.280 And speaking of speech, Charles the first forbade people 18:52.280 --> 18:56.460 to even speak of parliaments, which I'm sure some of them 18:56.460 --> 18:59.020 wanted to since they didn't have one for 11 years. 18:59.730 --> 19:03.420 They also accuse the crown of publishing, quote, 19:03.660 --> 19:08.060 untrue and scandalous declarations to espouse parliament's proceedings 19:08.060 --> 19:11.400 and some of their members unjustly to make them odious 19:11.400 --> 19:13.780 and color the violence which was used against them 19:13.780 --> 19:16.060 with proclamations set out to the same purpose. 19:16.820 --> 19:19.800 So now they're accusing the system of publishing propaganda 19:19.800 --> 19:21.460 against parliament outright. 19:22.040 --> 19:25.840 Then you've got so many items on this list regarding draining 19:25.840 --> 19:29.440 the finances from the country in ways that just make taxing. 19:30.020 --> 19:32.180 People without their consent look like a cakewalk. 19:32.760 --> 19:35.340 Almost like the king just went and made himself a checklist 19:35.340 --> 19:38.680 of all the possible ways to take every cent of wealth 19:38.680 --> 19:41.140 and suck it out of the country for himself. 19:42.160 --> 19:45.260 He not only continued to collect something called tonnage 19:45.260 --> 19:48.100 and poundage dues, which was in direct violation 19:48.100 --> 19:51.500 of the Petition of Right of 1628, but worse, 19:51.680 --> 19:53.960 he went out of his way to actually bring back 19:53.960 --> 19:58.040 sometimes ancient customs as a new means of taxing people 19:58.660 --> 20:01.500 in addition to creating new unheard of taxes, 20:02.260 --> 20:05.680 things like ship money tax, which was placed on merchants 20:05.680 --> 20:09.820 supposedly to help guard the seas, but then they were left unguarded 20:09.820 --> 20:13.280 and many merchants were attacked by Turkish pirates. 20:13.540 --> 20:15.600 Their ships seized and they were forced into slavery. 20:16.260 --> 20:20.200 Charles I was also accused of requiring excessive taxes, 20:20.200 --> 20:23.780 including raising the prices in the official book of rates, 20:24.280 --> 20:26.560 which was a thing they had that set the value of goods 20:27.200 --> 20:28.820 just to garner higher taxes. 20:29.580 --> 20:31.500 And some goods were even taxed to the point 20:31.500 --> 20:35.320 that the tax became more money than the value of the goods being taxed. 20:35.480 --> 20:38.220 Charles was selling monopolies for a premium 20:38.220 --> 20:41.200 to certain producers of common goods like salt, soap, 20:41.420 --> 20:44.360 leather and wine, and then he would force ships 20:44.360 --> 20:47.100 to take their goods to monopolize reports only. 20:47.100 --> 20:50.700 He also he started giving people nighthoods 20:50.700 --> 20:54.200 so that he could collect a nighthood fee on it. 20:54.360 --> 20:57.660 And if you didn't show up to get your nighthood and pay your fee, 20:57.880 --> 20:59.280 you would be put in jail. 20:59.840 --> 21:03.820 Oh, and he was also selling government titles for money just outright. 21:05.100 --> 21:08.760 And he's accused of purposely engaging in unwinnable wars 21:08.760 --> 21:10.620 just to pass new taxes. 21:11.400 --> 21:15.100 So not having a war for any other reason than that. 21:15.880 --> 21:20.200 He also enlarged the boundaries of the royal forest 21:20.860 --> 21:24.060 contrary to the Charter of the Forest of 1217, 21:24.760 --> 21:28.440 which gave Freeman rights to access to parts of the forest. 21:29.040 --> 21:32.440 So he enlarged the boundaries of the royal forest much, much larger 21:32.440 --> 21:34.740 and then would find people for using it. 21:35.320 --> 21:38.600 He was also accused of using something called the Statute of Improvement 21:38.600 --> 21:42.940 to take large quantities of common grounds without anyone's consent. 21:42.940 --> 21:48.540 On top of all of that, he also began attempting to just force people 21:48.540 --> 21:52.600 to make loans to him, including a forced loan on the city of London, 21:52.600 --> 21:57.080 wherein he had a list drawn up of the names of wealthy alderman 21:57.080 --> 21:59.480 that he deemed fit to lend the King money. 22:00.320 --> 22:03.460 And when the alderman on the list refused to pay out that loan, 22:03.600 --> 22:04.480 they were sent to prison. 22:05.140 --> 22:09.740 It also says the seizing of the money and the bullion in the mint 22:09.740 --> 22:12.520 and the whole kingdom like to be robbed at once. 22:12.940 --> 22:14.280 Went in there and took it. 22:14.620 --> 22:15.440 Double the taxes. 22:16.280 --> 22:20.520 And in some ways it got to the same point as it did with King John 22:20.520 --> 22:22.200 over 400 years earlier. 22:22.380 --> 22:23.880 Triple the taxes. 22:24.300 --> 22:27.600 Which many of you will know from the Disney Robin Hood cartoon 22:27.600 --> 22:29.680 was described as the worst. 22:30.020 --> 22:32.700 He's going to be known as John the First. 22:33.460 --> 22:35.200 Before the passage of the Magna Carta, 22:35.500 --> 22:37.020 it had been written that, quote, 22:37.620 --> 22:41.200 many kings made frequent encroachments upon the liberties of their people, 22:41.200 --> 22:44.720 but especially King John made use of so many illegal devices 22:44.720 --> 22:45.920 to drain them of money. 22:46.160 --> 22:47.900 As soon as he was king, 22:48.420 --> 22:50.680 John turned on the good nobles of the kingdom, 22:51.060 --> 22:53.580 stole their goods, and drove them out of England. 22:54.220 --> 22:56.560 But weiried with intolerable oppressions, 22:56.680 --> 22:59.680 they resolved to oblige the king to grant them their liberties. 23:00.520 --> 23:02.460 And so they put out the Magna Carta, 23:02.880 --> 23:04.660 and the Charter of the Forest was part of that, 23:04.740 --> 23:05.760 and then they released it separately. 23:06.260 --> 23:08.900 Then they released the Magna Carta again in 1225. 23:08.900 --> 23:11.700 In fact, they released the Magna Carta or versions of it 23:11.700 --> 23:14.720 or things based on it like the 1628 Petition of Right 23:14.720 --> 23:18.780 multiple times throughout the years after Magna Carta was put down. 23:19.720 --> 23:22.460 And they were trying to make gains with that each time. 23:23.000 --> 23:26.160 So I thought it had only been put out in 1215 23:26.160 --> 23:28.360 until I did more research and realized this, 23:28.440 --> 23:31.320 that they just re-release it when it's necessary. 23:31.640 --> 23:33.840 So maybe they should think about that again today. 23:34.660 --> 23:37.420 But once it circled back around to Charles the First, 23:37.420 --> 23:42.180 forcing loans on people and knighthoods with fees, 23:42.440 --> 23:44.800 and people didn't pay it, they were jailed without bail, 23:44.940 --> 23:48.280 and you're starting to get to a really pretty dark place 23:48.280 --> 23:50.980 in the history of your system there and your monarchy. 23:51.240 --> 23:52.780 Violence took the place of law. 23:53.180 --> 23:54.720 Extortion was praiseworthy. 23:55.140 --> 23:57.940 Justice was an abomination and innocence a crime. 23:58.380 --> 24:00.100 And so it was really pretty bad. 24:00.320 --> 24:01.960 He was just doing whatever the hell he wanted 24:01.960 --> 24:04.920 because who's going to tell him he can't? 24:04.920 --> 24:07.380 There's literally no one that can tell him he's wrong. 24:07.500 --> 24:09.840 It's a backbone of that system at that time. 24:10.480 --> 24:14.040 Oh, and because the king in England is also the, 24:14.040 --> 24:16.960 quote, supreme governor of the Church of England, 24:17.080 --> 24:18.460 he's the head of the church, 24:18.660 --> 24:21.740 and the crown and the church are united in that way. 24:22.240 --> 24:24.180 Instead of a separation of church and state, 24:24.280 --> 24:26.500 you have a unification of church and state. 24:27.100 --> 24:29.340 The crown was intermingled with all the religious 24:29.340 --> 24:31.460 and spiritual aspects of the church. 24:31.740 --> 24:34.820 So it was considered a royal subject of the realm's 24:34.820 --> 24:38.520 religious duty to say prayers for the royals 24:38.520 --> 24:39.840 as part of their church services. 24:40.200 --> 24:42.260 So they're literally required to pray 24:42.260 --> 24:43.660 for the crown at this time. 24:43.660 --> 24:45.940 So they have a spiritual tax basically 24:45.940 --> 24:49.340 that they are required to give a prayer, 24:49.580 --> 24:52.340 a spiritual energy for that crown, for the king. 24:52.980 --> 24:57.380 But on top of that, Charles I also imposed new oaths 24:57.380 --> 24:59.720 on both clergy and laypeople for, quote, 25:00.300 --> 25:01.960 the maintenance of their own tyranny, 25:02.140 --> 25:03.700 according to the grand remonstrance. 25:04.260 --> 25:07.680 And he had new liturgy drawn up to be read in church 25:07.680 --> 25:09.280 that went contrary to parliament, 25:09.800 --> 25:11.120 to the people's rights and liberties, 25:11.560 --> 25:13.560 and to the established laws of England. 25:14.020 --> 25:16.820 And if the ministers refused to take these new oaths 25:16.820 --> 25:18.800 and lead the people in these new prayers, 25:19.100 --> 25:23.120 not only was an army raised to attempt to force them to do so, 25:23.320 --> 25:25.720 but they faced censures of a suspension 25:25.720 --> 25:27.880 and excommunication if they would not. 25:28.540 --> 25:31.020 I mean, there's even one in here that simply says, quote, 25:31.500 --> 25:33.200 the restraint of the liberties of the subjects 25:33.200 --> 25:35.440 and their habitation trades and other interests. 25:36.360 --> 25:37.700 So that's just your whole life. 25:37.800 --> 25:44.200 Your whole life is being screwed with by this guy in a costume. 25:44.520 --> 25:46.740 I mean, that's what's up in that system. 25:47.960 --> 25:49.060 Check this out. 25:49.140 --> 25:50.960 This is by the 1730s. 25:51.840 --> 25:54.540 The legislature of England wrote the London Journal 25:54.540 --> 25:57.580 is the only power in the sole authority in England. 25:58.180 --> 26:01.380 The people have no voice over this supreme authority. 26:01.380 --> 26:04.040 The claim that they do is to speak of rebellion 26:04.040 --> 26:06.060 and of taking the government into their own hands. 26:06.660 --> 26:08.420 The power of the people extends only 26:08.420 --> 26:10.760 to the constituent act of establishing the government. 26:11.280 --> 26:12.240 When the government is settled 26:12.240 --> 26:14.440 and the power of legislation given to a body 26:14.440 --> 26:15.740 chosen represents community, 26:16.460 --> 26:18.120 then the original power of the people 26:18.120 --> 26:19.800 and their collective body ceases. 26:20.340 --> 26:22.080 For the sole power and the sole authority 26:22.080 --> 26:23.720 is invested in the person's chosen, 26:24.180 --> 26:26.120 who are to judge and act for all of us 26:26.120 --> 26:27.840 in a matter relating to legislation. 26:30.240 --> 26:33.680 The London Journal defended corruption on one occasion 26:33.680 --> 26:35.700 as a fact of modern life, 26:35.800 --> 26:38.480 like the standing army and the riot act. 26:39.000 --> 26:41.960 It was a result of the present circumstances of the world, 26:42.480 --> 26:44.460 the natural condition of human affairs. 26:46.360 --> 26:46.920 Wow. 26:47.980 --> 26:50.000 So when you look at the Declaration of Independence 26:50.000 --> 26:50.800 and the Bill of Rights, 26:50.940 --> 26:53.340 it's pretty easy to start matching up all the ways 26:53.340 --> 26:57.460 in which these inherent rights had a very long history 26:57.460 --> 26:59.640 of being violated by English kings. 27:00.380 --> 27:02.320 And so this is why you have a declaration 27:02.320 --> 27:05.700 that begins by defining what government is 27:05.700 --> 27:07.340 and what its purpose is 27:07.340 --> 27:09.700 and why it's instituted among men 27:09.700 --> 27:11.900 and that it's only legitimate 27:11.900 --> 27:14.040 if it's by the consent of the governed 27:14.040 --> 27:15.460 and that there is no other way 27:15.460 --> 27:17.260 for government to be legitimate 27:17.260 --> 27:19.520 except by the consent of the governed. 27:19.680 --> 27:20.440 And do you know why? 27:20.580 --> 27:23.260 It's because you're not a royal subject 27:23.260 --> 27:24.800 in the United States of America. 27:25.180 --> 27:25.780 You're a citizen. 27:25.780 --> 27:27.020 It's not the same thing. 27:27.340 --> 27:28.520 A royal subject, 27:28.700 --> 27:31.160 if you look up the definition of the word subject, 27:31.400 --> 27:35.020 a subject is that which is placed under the authority, 27:35.480 --> 27:38.400 dominion, control, or influence of something else 27:38.400 --> 27:39.300 or someone else. 27:39.720 --> 27:42.600 Specifically, one who is under the authority of a ruler 27:42.600 --> 27:44.460 and is governed by his laws, 27:44.740 --> 27:47.480 one who owes allegiance to a sovereign. 27:47.780 --> 27:49.640 The subject must obey his prince 27:49.640 --> 27:51.260 because God commands it. 27:51.800 --> 27:53.120 Human laws require it. 27:53.540 --> 27:54.680 So if you're a subject, 27:55.300 --> 27:58.240 you are not consenting to anything. 27:58.620 --> 27:59.280 You don't have to. 27:59.960 --> 28:01.320 Subjects don't have to consent. 28:01.560 --> 28:02.400 It's not required. 28:02.940 --> 28:04.860 You're not, you're just in that control. 28:05.140 --> 28:08.280 You do not have the concept of consent 28:08.280 --> 28:10.900 is not there in that definition. 28:11.360 --> 28:13.480 You are placed under the authority of, 28:13.620 --> 28:14.940 you are born into a system 28:14.940 --> 28:16.340 where you just tell you what to do 28:16.340 --> 28:17.020 and you do it. 28:17.060 --> 28:18.060 That's how this works. 28:18.180 --> 28:19.940 When you're a subject, that's how it works. 28:20.780 --> 28:22.960 So I just think it's important 28:22.960 --> 28:24.180 for people to recognize 28:24.720 --> 28:25.940 where we've been 28:25.940 --> 28:29.080 and to remember that's the thought process 28:29.080 --> 28:30.760 of people's minds at that time. 28:31.280 --> 28:33.560 It was a big deal to write the grand remonstrance 28:33.560 --> 28:35.140 even if they tap danced around 28:35.140 --> 28:37.380 blaming the things they were saying 28:37.380 --> 28:38.480 on the king himself. 28:39.060 --> 28:42.240 It was still a really unprecedented unheard of thing 28:42.240 --> 28:44.120 to write that document at that time. 28:44.740 --> 28:46.640 And I guess they handled the situation 28:46.640 --> 28:47.400 the way they did 28:47.400 --> 28:48.820 because they just could not figure out 28:48.820 --> 28:50.740 any other way to get the guy to stop. 28:51.360 --> 28:54.300 That's the only time in British history 28:54.300 --> 28:56.240 that a king has been beheaded. 28:57.560 --> 28:59.280 And to get to the point 28:59.280 --> 29:01.080 in 1776 29:01.080 --> 29:02.620 where they're writing the American Declaration 29:02.620 --> 29:03.300 of Independence 29:03.300 --> 29:04.300 and they straight say, 29:04.680 --> 29:06.540 King, you're tyrannical. 29:07.380 --> 29:07.880 We're not going to, 29:08.040 --> 29:10.280 we're dissolving our bonds with you. 29:10.920 --> 29:13.220 We're just not going to have it anymore, period. 29:13.800 --> 29:14.500 This is over. 29:15.180 --> 29:16.200 We're breaking up with you. 29:16.560 --> 29:17.880 You want a divorce, you know? 29:18.640 --> 29:19.640 That was huge. 29:19.920 --> 29:20.240 That was just, 29:20.400 --> 29:22.260 that was not a heard of thing. 29:23.060 --> 29:24.560 So consciousness wise, 29:25.220 --> 29:26.860 we evolved at that point. 29:27.400 --> 29:29.480 That's an evolution of belief. 29:30.080 --> 29:32.480 The people believed up until that point 29:32.480 --> 29:33.500 as colonists, 29:33.620 --> 29:35.420 they were royal subjects of the king. 29:36.040 --> 29:37.380 And after that point, 29:37.880 --> 29:39.060 the bonds were dissolved 29:39.060 --> 29:39.580 and they said, 29:39.740 --> 29:41.080 no, this is the only way 29:41.080 --> 29:43.080 we will legitimize a government 29:43.080 --> 29:44.560 is under these conditions. 29:45.160 --> 29:46.920 So you can't do that to us anymore. 29:47.360 --> 29:48.860 And it changed everything. 29:49.680 --> 29:51.960 And yes, there was a war fought over that. 29:52.260 --> 29:54.860 But if we don't remember all of these things 29:54.860 --> 29:57.320 and we don't actually remember what happened, 29:57.660 --> 30:01.160 we have a very real situation ahead of us here 30:01.160 --> 30:03.900 in this new digital overlaid society 30:03.900 --> 30:05.960 of going back to something like that 30:05.960 --> 30:08.380 in a new form of digital tyranny. 30:08.900 --> 30:10.060 And it might not be kings, 30:10.160 --> 30:11.940 it might be corporations this time, 30:12.140 --> 30:12.840 but it's not, 30:13.140 --> 30:14.640 it's really not much different. 30:15.020 --> 30:15.160 You know, 30:15.220 --> 30:16.960 the consequences of something you say 30:16.960 --> 30:18.380 on a social media platform 30:18.380 --> 30:19.700 is going to affect you 30:19.700 --> 30:21.240 and in physical reality, 30:21.240 --> 30:23.980 then the rights need to work the same way. 30:24.420 --> 30:25.620 We need to have those rights 30:25.620 --> 30:27.220 be upheld on here as well. 30:27.440 --> 30:29.440 Because they're trying to do something now 30:29.440 --> 30:30.180 that is just, 30:30.440 --> 30:31.980 it's very one sided 30:31.980 --> 30:35.460 and it does not respect individual rights 30:35.460 --> 30:37.420 and freedoms in the ways that it should. 30:37.840 --> 30:39.140 And if we're going to live in a world 30:39.880 --> 30:42.220 that's half online and half off, 30:42.340 --> 30:43.820 then the half that's online 30:43.820 --> 30:45.260 needs to match the half 30:45.260 --> 30:47.180 that's off in terms of people's rights. 30:47.800 --> 30:48.840 They're inherent rights, 30:48.960 --> 30:49.960 the ones we're born with, 30:49.960 --> 30:51.260 we didn't get them because 30:51.260 --> 30:53.540 they were written down on pieces of paper. 30:53.860 --> 30:54.680 Those pieces of paper, 30:54.800 --> 30:56.080 all these many hundreds of years 30:56.080 --> 30:58.440 are just reminding the people in power 30:58.440 --> 31:00.020 how this actually works. 31:00.840 --> 31:02.440 Today, you wouldn't think it's okay 31:02.440 --> 31:03.980 for a king to do any of the things 31:03.980 --> 31:04.720 that I just said 31:04.720 --> 31:06.020 on that very long list 31:06.020 --> 31:07.920 of crazy things that he was doing. 31:08.220 --> 31:08.900 But at the time, 31:08.980 --> 31:09.800 there were a lot of people 31:09.800 --> 31:10.860 who lived in that situation 31:10.860 --> 31:12.580 who did think it was okay 31:12.580 --> 31:14.600 because they were under the misapprehension 31:14.600 --> 31:15.940 that simply because 31:15.940 --> 31:18.520 the guy's name is king whatever 31:18.520 --> 31:20.040 and they put a crown on his head, 31:20.080 --> 31:22.240 it means he could do whatever the hell he wants 31:22.240 --> 31:24.000 and no one can hold him responsible 31:24.000 --> 31:26.120 personally for anything that he does. 31:26.580 --> 31:28.500 And I'm not just talking about loyalists 31:28.500 --> 31:30.140 who benefited like the actual people 31:30.140 --> 31:31.440 that were part of the aristocracy 31:31.440 --> 31:32.120 who benefited. 31:32.940 --> 31:34.580 There were people that were 31:34.580 --> 31:36.520 just such mental children 31:36.520 --> 31:37.960 that they refused to question 31:37.960 --> 31:39.760 the reality with which they were presented 31:39.760 --> 31:41.780 on whether or not that's real or not. 31:41.920 --> 31:43.360 Or just the guy in a costume 31:43.360 --> 31:44.420 is taking all your money 31:44.420 --> 31:45.840 in every possible way he can 31:45.840 --> 31:46.780 and if you don't like it 31:46.780 --> 31:47.520 puts you in jail 31:47.520 --> 31:48.640 so you can rot and die. 31:48.780 --> 31:50.160 I mean, that's pretty insane, right? 31:50.720 --> 31:52.540 But at the time, people thought that was okay. 31:53.300 --> 31:55.660 And today we literally have a congressman 31:56.240 --> 31:57.960 asking people on social media 31:57.960 --> 31:59.100 what will it take for them 31:59.100 --> 32:00.460 to withdraw their consent? 32:01.420 --> 32:02.160 I mean, it is just, 32:02.440 --> 32:04.780 it is unreal the time 32:04.780 --> 32:06.100 that we are living in right now. 32:06.160 --> 32:07.540 It is unreal. 32:08.180 --> 32:09.340 Mr. Speaker, I came here 32:09.340 --> 32:11.220 to make sure our Republic doesn't die 32:11.220 --> 32:13.200 by unanimous consent in empty chamber 32:13.200 --> 32:14.960 and I request a recorded vote. 32:15.200 --> 32:17.240 If you stop to actually think 32:17.240 --> 32:19.460 about the things that are happening right now, 32:20.160 --> 32:21.440 it's mind-blowing 32:22.100 --> 32:23.920 that this is the level we're at. 32:24.460 --> 32:26.460 I'm just going to play out the rest of his speech. 32:26.600 --> 32:27.500 Just listen to the rest 32:27.500 --> 32:29.540 of what he sat in front of everyone 32:29.540 --> 32:31.480 and said out loud, okay? 32:32.120 --> 32:32.900 And I love you guys. 32:33.020 --> 32:33.680 I'll talk to you soon. 32:33.920 --> 32:35.960 Can we be honest with the American people 32:35.960 --> 32:37.060 about what's going on here? 32:37.140 --> 32:38.480 This is political theater. 32:39.140 --> 32:41.080 I'm going to call out both sides right here. 32:41.960 --> 32:43.260 It's all posturing. 32:43.400 --> 32:44.300 It's fake fighting. 32:44.600 --> 32:45.820 We all know where it ends up. 32:45.940 --> 32:47.000 This is Groundhog Day. 32:47.000 --> 32:49.440 I don't care if the Democrat is the speaker 32:49.440 --> 32:51.140 or Republican is the speaker. 32:51.420 --> 32:53.400 We always get a CR in September 32:54.120 --> 32:55.560 and then we get an omnibus. 32:55.720 --> 32:57.340 Sometimes there's a twist on that. 32:57.480 --> 32:59.400 We might get the omnibus before Christmas, 33:00.090 --> 33:01.080 but if we're not good, 33:01.120 --> 33:02.340 it comes after Christmas. 33:02.780 --> 33:04.640 But that's what's going to happen. 33:04.960 --> 33:05.980 And in the meantime, 33:06.660 --> 33:08.160 it's political theater. 33:10.040 --> 33:11.220 It's good theater. 33:11.380 --> 33:12.400 We've got great writers. 33:13.240 --> 33:15.080 I wish they just come up with a new plot. 33:15.720 --> 33:18.400 It's the same plot every fiscal year. 33:20.020 --> 33:21.420 What should we be doing? 33:21.900 --> 33:23.000 It's already been discussed. 33:23.240 --> 33:24.920 We should have done 12 separate bills. 33:25.660 --> 33:27.360 We should have done 12 separate bills. 33:27.820 --> 33:29.440 But again, whether Democrats are in control 33:29.440 --> 33:30.660 or Republicans are in control, 33:30.740 --> 33:32.220 we never do the 12 separate bills. 33:33.360 --> 33:35.460 Why do we always spend 33:35.460 --> 33:37.680 at least as much as we did last year 33:37.680 --> 33:39.000 and why do we never cut spending? 33:39.740 --> 33:42.060 It's because Democrats want to grow 33:42.060 --> 33:42.980 the welfare state 33:42.980 --> 33:44.720 and Republicans want to grow 33:44.720 --> 33:46.320 the military-industrial complex. 33:46.800 --> 33:49.000 And we're eventually going to get together 33:49.450 --> 33:51.000 and they're both going to go up. 33:51.380 --> 33:52.560 I guarantee it. 33:53.420 --> 33:55.440 And both parties are just fine 33:55.440 --> 33:58.760 letting the bureaucrats do their thing, 33:58.960 --> 34:00.120 which should be our thing, 34:00.200 --> 34:03.520 according to Article 1 Section 8 34:03.520 --> 34:04.700 in the Constitution. 34:05.360 --> 34:06.880 We are empowered with these things. 34:07.540 --> 34:09.780 Most important of the things we do 34:09.780 --> 34:10.360 is the funding. 34:10.500 --> 34:12.180 And that's the big lever we have. 34:12.180 --> 34:13.760 You know, I've sat through now 34:13.760 --> 34:15.280 almost two years of hearings 34:15.280 --> 34:16.160 in this Congress 34:16.590 --> 34:18.900 where we've exposed lies at the CDC, 34:19.320 --> 34:20.440 shortcuts at the FDA, 34:20.720 --> 34:23.320 unconstitutional gun bans at the ATF, 34:23.800 --> 34:26.000 over prosecution of January 6ers 34:26.000 --> 34:26.940 at the DOJ, 34:27.160 --> 34:29.400 targeting common citizens at the FBI, 34:29.640 --> 34:30.920 spying by the NSA, 34:31.640 --> 34:34.740 illegal mandates for livestock by the USDA, 34:35.080 --> 34:36.400 targeting plant vaccine 34:36.400 --> 34:39.620 or transgenic plant vaccine at the NSF 34:39.620 --> 34:41.100 and censorship, 34:41.660 --> 34:43.800 the censorship industrial complex 34:43.800 --> 34:46.160 of which the NSF is part of, 34:46.280 --> 34:48.080 automobile kill switch at the DOT. 34:48.560 --> 34:49.700 Now these are all things I think 34:49.700 --> 34:51.440 most Democrats are just fine 34:51.440 --> 34:53.440 with this kind of totalitarian state 34:53.440 --> 34:55.800 that the bureaucrats are pushing on us. 34:56.280 --> 34:58.040 But Republicans at least pretend 34:58.040 --> 34:59.420 to be against these things. 34:59.700 --> 35:02.040 But what are we going to do this September? 35:02.320 --> 35:04.280 We're going to fund every freaking one 35:04.280 --> 35:05.980 of those things that we have exposed. 35:06.480 --> 35:08.680 That is the tool that we have is the funding. 35:09.240 --> 35:11.200 Why are we funding things we don't like? 35:11.400 --> 35:12.180 We don't have to. 35:12.540 --> 35:14.420 Well, it's because we're addicted to spending. 35:14.820 --> 35:16.440 And this doesn't do anything 35:16.440 --> 35:18.840 about the addiction at all. 35:20.700 --> 35:25.700 So let me touch on one point too here 35:25.700 --> 35:26.780 that I think is important. 35:27.800 --> 35:29.040 A couple of years ago 35:29.040 --> 35:30.680 or a summer and a half ago, 35:30.760 --> 35:32.300 I suppose now we did something 35:32.300 --> 35:36.280 where we allowed the debt limit to be increased. 35:36.920 --> 35:39.820 But as a condition of that, 35:40.100 --> 35:41.400 we said if you do a CR 35:41.400 --> 35:43.700 that last past April 30th, 35:43.740 --> 35:45.740 everything's going to get cut one percent. 35:46.580 --> 35:48.780 And that to me seemed like 35:48.780 --> 35:50.220 at least a little tinge 35:50.220 --> 35:52.500 of fiscal responsibility was creeping in. 35:53.240 --> 35:55.580 But now I notice that this CR, 35:56.240 --> 35:58.320 instead of going one year 35:59.000 --> 36:01.200 and giving us time to do 36:01.200 --> 36:02.820 the 12 appropriations bills, 36:03.380 --> 36:04.680 is going to go six months. 36:04.680 --> 36:06.220 Now let me tell you what's going to happen 36:06.220 --> 36:07.720 because this goes six months. 36:07.960 --> 36:11.560 Number one, it ends in March 28th, 36:12.160 --> 36:13.560 on March 28th. 36:13.660 --> 36:16.360 Well, the automatic cuts happen on April 30th 36:16.360 --> 36:17.800 if the CR went past that. 36:17.940 --> 36:21.820 So that is exactly why the speaker chose a six month CR 36:22.480 --> 36:25.560 is so we don't have even the chance, 36:26.000 --> 36:29.640 a threat to this town. 36:29.820 --> 36:31.480 It's a threat of a one percent cut. 36:31.960 --> 36:32.680 We don't want to even, 36:32.680 --> 36:33.900 this is like t-ball. 36:34.080 --> 36:36.360 The one percent cut is on the T 36:36.360 --> 36:38.800 and Republicans won't even swing at it. 36:39.240 --> 36:42.200 So instead, we're going to do a six month CR 36:42.200 --> 36:43.480 instead of a one year CR. 36:43.640 --> 36:46.360 That sets up this another crisis next spring 36:46.360 --> 36:48.240 where we can do another pretend fight 36:48.760 --> 36:49.980 sometime around March. 36:50.660 --> 36:51.300 And that fight will, 36:51.740 --> 36:52.760 it'll be the same fight 36:52.760 --> 36:54.400 regardless of who wins the presidency 36:54.400 --> 36:56.400 and who's in charge of the Senate and the House 36:56.400 --> 36:59.580 and we're basically going to get pretty much the same result. 37:00.460 --> 37:01.800 But that's six months from now. 37:02.680 --> 37:04.840 In the meantime, we can kick the can down the road. 37:05.020 --> 37:06.400 All of these things that we've exposed 37:06.400 --> 37:07.560 and all of these hearings 37:07.560 --> 37:09.480 are going to continue to get funded. 37:10.380 --> 37:13.580 But wait, there's a bright, shiny object on this CR. 37:13.820 --> 37:15.160 I've never seen one of these. 37:15.860 --> 37:18.480 I have never seen a bright, shiny object attached 37:18.480 --> 37:20.680 to one of these must pass bills. 37:20.920 --> 37:21.520 Oh, wait, no. 37:21.940 --> 37:22.800 It actually happens. 37:22.960 --> 37:25.260 There always is a bright, shiny object, 37:25.480 --> 37:26.880 a bobble, if you will. 37:27.580 --> 37:29.880 It's a little something to get excited about. 37:30.120 --> 37:32.580 This save act is going to save us all. 37:32.680 --> 37:33.420 Right? 37:34.420 --> 37:37.060 And by the way, this is good political theater. 37:37.240 --> 37:39.100 I do like this part of it 37:39.100 --> 37:43.080 that we're going to see almost every Democrat cast a vote 37:43.080 --> 37:46.520 so that illegals can vote in our elections. 37:47.020 --> 37:49.120 I mean, that's pretty clever on the part of our speaker 37:49.120 --> 37:51.320 to set that up, make you all take that vote. 37:51.680 --> 37:52.780 But here's what he's going to do 37:52.780 --> 37:53.980 after you take that vote. 37:54.920 --> 37:56.180 He's going to take it off. 37:56.520 --> 37:58.260 The bright, shiny object goes away. 37:58.680 --> 38:00.500 It's Lucy in the football again. 38:00.500 --> 38:03.120 And the American public is all revved up. 38:03.240 --> 38:04.600 Yeah, we're going to get to save that. 38:04.820 --> 38:06.200 We're going to save these elections. 38:06.460 --> 38:08.420 We're going to stop the illegals from voting. 38:08.900 --> 38:09.380 Really? 38:09.560 --> 38:11.580 How are you going to do that in like six weeks? 38:11.860 --> 38:13.760 I think they're already registered 38:13.760 --> 38:14.900 if they're going to vote. 38:15.040 --> 38:16.440 Some of them probably already voted. 38:17.300 --> 38:19.280 This save act ain't going to save anything. 38:20.580 --> 38:23.320 And particularly because it ain't ever going to become law. 38:24.720 --> 38:28.980 It's a false promise to get all the Republicans half pregnant. 38:29.640 --> 38:31.960 And then you're going to get fully pregnant 38:31.960 --> 38:35.040 by the end of September when you vote for this CR. 38:36.420 --> 38:39.100 It's not going to have this... 38:39.100 --> 38:41.080 I mean, I hate to break this to you. 38:42.060 --> 38:43.580 I mean, the Democrats already know this. 38:43.700 --> 38:45.080 I'm not telling you anything special. 38:45.520 --> 38:47.040 I hate to break it to the Republicans. 38:47.780 --> 38:49.560 You ain't getting the save act. 38:49.800 --> 38:51.720 It is not going to stay on this bill. 38:52.220 --> 38:52.540 Why? 38:53.860 --> 38:55.280 Because we're going to cave. 38:55.920 --> 38:56.560 We're going to cave. 38:56.860 --> 38:58.000 Is it a fight worth having? 38:58.000 --> 38:58.560 Absolutely. 38:58.880 --> 38:59.780 It's a fight worth having. 38:59.960 --> 39:02.600 Make those Democrats say they want illegals to vote. 39:03.140 --> 39:05.660 Make them take that vote as many times as you can. 39:06.160 --> 39:08.380 And then make them go to the ballot box in November. 39:08.920 --> 39:11.240 But that's what it is, is political theater folks. 39:11.740 --> 39:12.720 We all know where it ends up. 39:13.340 --> 39:13.800 We've seen it. 39:13.900 --> 39:14.820 I've been here 12 years. 39:14.940 --> 39:15.880 I've seen it 12 times. 39:16.660 --> 39:21.020 I refuse to be a thespian in this failure theater. 39:22.340 --> 39:23.460 And with that, I yield back. 39:24.720 --> 39:26.700 The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence 39:26.700 --> 39:29.680 can live only as long as they are enshrined 39:29.680 --> 39:31.120 in our hearts and minds. 39:31.540 --> 39:34.120 Whether we will preserve and extend popular liberty 39:34.660 --> 39:36.340 is a very serious question. 39:36.520 --> 39:39.080 But after all, it is a very old question. 39:39.900 --> 39:42.200 The man who signed the Declaration faced it. 39:42.900 --> 39:44.640 So did those who wrote the Constitution. 39:45.500 --> 39:48.000 But each succeeding generation has faced it. 39:48.520 --> 39:51.520 And so far, each succeeding generation 39:51.520 --> 39:53.780 has answered it in the affirmative. 39:53.780 --> 39:56.940 I would like to solve the puzzle.