1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,559 go to Thepete calendarshow dot com. Make sure you hit 7 00:00:22,559 --> 00:00:25,000 the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to 8 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,600 your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much 9 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:32,920 for your support. Pete Calendar. Here. Once again, I apologize 10 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,359 for the way I sound. Unless I sound better, then 11 00:00:36,439 --> 00:00:39,240 I make no apologies. But I feel like I sound worse. 12 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:41,679 I don't know what I'm dealing with. I think it's 13 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,880 it could be allergies. I think that's what I've been 14 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:48,280 popping some Claritons. Now that's not an endorsement. I'm not 15 00:00:48,399 --> 00:00:51,039 paid by Clariton, although I am open to an endorsement. 16 00:00:51,079 --> 00:00:53,679 But now I don't know what it is. It's just 17 00:00:53,759 --> 00:00:57,799 kind of in the in the chestel area and a 18 00:00:57,799 --> 00:01:02,679 little puffiness in the up the nose. So I apologize 19 00:01:02,719 --> 00:01:05,840 for the way my voice sounds. I feel like ninety 20 00:01:05,879 --> 00:01:11,640 percent a little draggy, but nothing terrible. So again apologies 21 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:14,040 for the way I sound here today, but we will 22 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:16,120 will endeavor to get through it, and I'll be hitting 23 00:01:16,159 --> 00:01:21,959 the cough button like right there. Okay, So President Trump 24 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:27,359 has been blocked by a federal appeals court from using 25 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:33,719 the Alien Enemies Act or the AEA. Where's I call 26 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:38,640 it the AEA? It's a nineteenth century wartime law, and 27 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:44,519 Trump is using it to deport Venezuelan migrants his administration says, 28 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:48,799 belong to the criminal gang trend' rawa. That is, according 29 00:01:48,799 --> 00:01:54,280 to newsweek dot com. Again, they have changed the vocabulary 30 00:01:54,319 --> 00:01:59,319 again on us. It is no longer undocumented immigrants apparently 31 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:04,040 now the rule book says, and there is a literal 32 00:02:04,359 --> 00:02:07,480 rule book, it's called a style book. Actually, so I 33 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,639 guess the rule book has been shifted now yet again. 34 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,520 And now everybody's just a migrant, that's it. So this way, 35 00:02:16,039 --> 00:02:19,400 we don't know which population you're talking about. Are they 36 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:25,599 illegal aliens or are they legal aliens? Are they migrant workers? 37 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:30,400 Because these are all classifications in law. But the way 38 00:02:30,599 --> 00:02:33,360 the media and the left, but I repeat myself, are 39 00:02:33,439 --> 00:02:37,479 conflating all of these terms into a single one migrant, 40 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,840 it obfuscates the issue. So now you don't know who 41 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:43,240 you're talking about. And that's the whole point. It's to 42 00:02:43,319 --> 00:02:47,360 create confusion to then use empathy against you. As I 43 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,240 went over yesterday, this is a logical fallacy. It's an 44 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:55,120 appeal to emotion in order to short circuit logical rational thinking. 45 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:57,400 And so this way they can say, why do you 46 00:02:57,439 --> 00:03:01,400 want to deport this little baby? You're thinking, I would 47 00:03:01,479 --> 00:03:05,479 very much like to report to deport the rapist murderer 48 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:09,800 from Trende, Aragua. Right. That's the difference. One is an 49 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:13,280 illegal alien criminal came into the country on their own, 50 00:03:13,319 --> 00:03:15,240 and the other is a baby that got brought over 51 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:17,919 and is crying for mommy. And that's meant to talk 52 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,319 at the heartstrings, when in fact you're talking about the 53 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:28,120 criminals that are you know, running amok in America. So 54 00:03:28,479 --> 00:03:31,719 there was this court decision, and what's interesting is that 55 00:03:31,759 --> 00:03:34,719 I was reading Andy McCarthy at National Review from a 56 00:03:34,719 --> 00:03:36,800 couple months ago, and he actually thought this case was 57 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:39,759 going to go the other direction, at least the appeals 58 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,879 court level. This was the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. 59 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:51,919 It bars deportations from Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. And it 60 00:03:52,039 --> 00:03:57,639 started when you know, Trump designated Trende Arragua as a 61 00:03:57,759 --> 00:04:02,560 terrorist organization, a foreign terrorist organization or an FTO. This 62 00:04:02,719 --> 00:04:05,000 was a two to one decision by the US Court 63 00:04:05,039 --> 00:04:08,280 of Appeals which found there was not an invasion or 64 00:04:08,439 --> 00:04:13,719 predatory incursion by a foreign power as required by the law, 65 00:04:14,039 --> 00:04:17,560 which was from seventeen ninety eight. So that's what the 66 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:23,120 language says, due to invasion or predatory incursion. And so 67 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:26,720 there are a whole bunch of questions. Some of them 68 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:31,480 are just like really like legally esoteric. I mean, I'm 69 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:33,800 sure the lawyers would be like, it's really important whatever, 70 00:04:34,079 --> 00:04:38,879 but they're just kind of like process things, and people 71 00:04:38,959 --> 00:04:42,600 call them technicalities and whatnot. But one of the items 72 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:47,399 that this turns on is what the role is of 73 00:04:47,439 --> 00:04:52,439 the federal of the executive, the president, what the role 74 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:54,160 is of the Court, and what the role is of 75 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,439 the Congress, and whether or not there has to be 76 00:04:57,959 --> 00:05:01,959 a declaration of war by Congress. And there have been 77 00:05:02,079 --> 00:05:06,360 previously litigated cases at the Supreme Court level. Truman used 78 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:11,399 the AEA, and the Supreme Court was examining whether or 79 00:05:11,439 --> 00:05:14,199 not the war was still going on or not, because 80 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,800 it was nineteen forty six and the Germans had already 81 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:21,240 surrendered and that was a declared war. I believe that 82 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:24,759 may have been the last war that Congress has ever 83 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:28,920 formally declared, which you know, in my mind pretty important. 84 00:05:29,079 --> 00:05:31,160 If we're going to go to war, I feel like 85 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:36,600 we should, you know, declare war, just to make it official, 86 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:38,560 you know. And I said this at the during the 87 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,360 Iraq War as well as Afghanistan, like, if you're going 88 00:05:41,399 --> 00:05:45,519 to go to war, don't use these authorization of the 89 00:05:45,639 --> 00:05:48,079 use of force or whatever. There's no reason to do that. 90 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:52,959 Just do a declaration of war. So the Alien Enemies 91 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,240 Act past in seventeen ninety eight. It was part of 92 00:05:56,279 --> 00:06:01,240 the Alien and Sedition Acts under President John Adams. It 93 00:06:01,319 --> 00:06:05,160 grants the US President the authority to detain, restrict, or 94 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:09,920 deport foreign nationals from the country that is at war 95 00:06:10,439 --> 00:06:14,160 from a country that is at war with the United States. Okay, 96 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,199 that's how Newsweek writes this up. And there were other 97 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:21,439 parts of the Alien and Sedition Acts which either expired 98 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,959 or got repealed because they were like blatantly unconstitutional. John 99 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,519 Adams had a bit of a thin skin, so when 100 00:06:27,519 --> 00:06:32,240 people mocked him in the editorial pages and drew cartoons 101 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:34,160 of him, he got very upset. About that, So he 102 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:39,079 tried to say that was seditious. Anyway, the Act was 103 00:06:39,519 --> 00:06:43,000 only used three times before in US history, all during 104 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:46,279 declared wars, which would be the War of eighteen twelve, 105 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,439 World War One, and then World War Two. The Trump 106 00:06:50,439 --> 00:06:55,959 administration unsuccessfully argued that courts cannot second guess the president's 107 00:06:55,959 --> 00:07:00,920 determination that trend de Arragua was connected to Veniceze government 108 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:04,759 and represented a danger to the United States, which would 109 00:07:04,879 --> 00:07:08,839 merit the use of the Act. So that was their explanation, 110 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:12,120 And like, this is what makes me uncomfortable here is 111 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:18,759 that the courts are not the determining authority on whether 112 00:07:18,879 --> 00:07:22,959 or not we are suffering an invasion. No, wouldn't that 113 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,079 be the executive branch, which is in charge of the 114 00:07:26,079 --> 00:07:29,519 military and the intelligence assets. Wouldn't they be in a 115 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:33,920 better position to know whether there is a predatory incursion. 116 00:07:35,519 --> 00:07:40,160 That's what it seems like to me. I understand that 117 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:44,839 there's you know, we're not using the invasion like a 118 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:50,360 military invasion understanding of the law. But has there been 119 00:07:50,439 --> 00:07:55,560 an invasion? I would submit, yeah, you could. You could 120 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,399 argue that that would what we are seeing with these 121 00:07:58,639 --> 00:08:02,759 cartels in filtrating America. That is an invasion. I mean 122 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:06,360 a home invasion is an invasion of just one person 123 00:08:06,519 --> 00:08:11,160 into another person's home. Right, So I'm not sure it 124 00:08:11,199 --> 00:08:16,120 has to be like a state or a nation military 125 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:21,279 force that does the invasion or launches a predatory incursion. Right. 126 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,360 In the majority were US Circuit judges Leslie Southwick, she 127 00:08:27,519 --> 00:08:32,360 was a George W. Bush appointee, and Irma Carrillo Ramirez, 128 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:37,279 a Joe Biden appointee, and Andrew Oldham who was a 129 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:44,639 Trump appointee, And he dissented. He said, hang on a second, No, 130 00:08:44,799 --> 00:08:47,960 this is from the majority, the two judge majority. A 131 00:08:48,039 --> 00:08:51,399 country encouraging its residents and citizens to enter this country 132 00:08:51,399 --> 00:08:54,240 illegally is not the modern day equivalent of sending an 133 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:58,000 armed organized force to occupy, to disrupt, or to otherwise 134 00:08:58,039 --> 00:09:02,720 harm the United States. Again, here just common sense tells me, 135 00:09:02,879 --> 00:09:08,120 I disagree. A country that encourages its own people to 136 00:09:08,519 --> 00:09:21,159 enter America illegally and disrupt, takeover apartment complexes, kill their 137 00:09:21,159 --> 00:09:26,879 people with fentanyl, right. A country that encourages its own residents, 138 00:09:27,039 --> 00:09:32,879 its own gang members, cartel members. Right. So it's not 139 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:36,360 like this is your sort of American standard. Maybe there's 140 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,120 a little bit of a Western conceit going on here 141 00:09:39,159 --> 00:09:42,360 where it's like, oh, well, you know, Maduro is a 142 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:45,840 is a government leader, and these cartel members are just 143 00:09:45,879 --> 00:09:48,360 his citizens, and he's just encouraging them to go there. 144 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:50,960 It's no different than if we were to encourage Americans 145 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:54,440 to travel overseas. But there is a difference. These are 146 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:58,559 cartel members. He's a communist and he's trying to undermine 147 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:03,639 and destabilize America and kill Americans with the drugs. So 148 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:06,480 it seems to me like there is a bit more 149 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:10,799 of an analogy with a foreign invading army than with simply, 150 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:15,600 you know, your citizens traveling across the border for good jobs. 151 00:10:16,159 --> 00:10:18,360 All right, So you've heard me talk about Creative Video 152 00:10:18,399 --> 00:10:20,679 for almost a year. But did you know they also 153 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,000 offer a game changing app for businesses that reward their 154 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,440 teams with incentive trips. Well they do. It's called Incentive 155 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:29,600 Trip Kit. 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More fun, more memories, 170 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:18,279 more ROI check it out now at incentive tripkit dot 171 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:20,960 com or call Eric at eight eight eight five three 172 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:24,879 three seventy six thirty seven Extension two seven for the details. 173 00:11:25,639 --> 00:11:28,480 Going back to this Andy McCarthy piece at National Review, 174 00:11:28,519 --> 00:11:32,240 this was from back in July, and he had just 175 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:36,240 heard the oral arguments. The ruling came down today or yeah, 176 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:42,399 yesterday evening, but in listening to the in listening to 177 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:46,039 the oral arguments, he seemed to think that this was 178 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:48,240 going to go Trump's way, but that it eventually would 179 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:53,159 not after it gets appealed. So he said Judge Southwick, 180 00:11:53,679 --> 00:12:00,919 who is the hang on, excuse me, Judge Leslie Southwick, 181 00:12:01,919 --> 00:12:08,480 that's the w Bush appointee, seemed open minded regarding the 182 00:12:08,519 --> 00:12:13,480 acl use arguments on behalf of the aliens. Judge Ramirez, 183 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:17,440 who asked that asked no questions until the hour long 184 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:20,240 session was winding to its conclusion, is very likely to 185 00:12:20,279 --> 00:12:24,039 side with the aliens. What was striking, though, was the 186 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:28,159 performance of Judge Oldham, a super sharp former clerk to 187 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:31,600 Justice Sam Alito and former General Counsel to Texas Governor 188 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:35,440 Greg Abbott. Not only does Oldham appear persuaded that the 189 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:40,759 president's AEA invocation is not just sorry, is not judicialbal 190 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:44,120 In other words, it should not even be reviewed by 191 00:12:44,159 --> 00:12:48,360 the courts. He's saying, it's not judicial, this is executive power. 192 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:52,039 This is not up to us. He went further than 193 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:56,720 the Trump Justice Department in suggesting that the administration's conclusion 194 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:00,759 that an alien is a member of TDA is also 195 00:13:00,919 --> 00:13:05,679 beyond judicial review. On the other hand, he says, at 196 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:08,840 issue here are alien threats to national security, which are 197 00:13:08,879 --> 00:13:14,679 by nature political rather than judicial, i e. For example, 198 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:20,000 they involve judgments about foreign affairs, military force, and classified 199 00:13:20,039 --> 00:13:25,919 intelligence that are not within the judicial ken. Even conceding 200 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:31,120 that it is the court's job to interpret statutes. Should 201 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:36,159 an elected courts Sorry, I think it's the drugs I'm 202 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:42,799 missing words here. Should an unelected court's judgment about whether 203 00:13:42,879 --> 00:13:46,799 a predatory incursion by a foreign power quote unquote has 204 00:13:46,799 --> 00:13:50,840 occurred or not? A judgment that determines how the government 205 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:55,919 should respond, potentially militarily and diplomatically. Should an unelected court 206 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:01,159 judgment about that supersede the judgment of the president, who 207 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:07,879 is specifically elected to protect national security and conduct foreign affairs. 208 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:12,559 I think reasonable people may be able to disagree on this, 209 00:14:12,759 --> 00:14:19,320 but my reading a predatory incursion by a foreign power, 210 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:26,039 I think that is a massive umbrella. I don't think 211 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:30,240 it has to be a traditional nation state. I don't 212 00:14:30,759 --> 00:14:43,840 a foreign power, whatever that might be. Say, for example, Communism, 213 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,879 why not doesn't communists? Look, they don't even recognize their 214 00:14:47,879 --> 00:14:50,480 own nation state, right, they're workers of the world, unite 215 00:14:50,519 --> 00:14:54,559 and all of that. It is an expansionist philosophy. Well, 216 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,600 now that i'm thinking about it too, about Islam, Oh, no, pete, 217 00:14:58,639 --> 00:15:00,879 you can't say that. Well, I just I mean, they 218 00:15:01,039 --> 00:15:04,840 view themselves as the you know, the Uma, the Califate, 219 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:07,679 you know, They're like, we're all part of the whole 220 00:15:07,679 --> 00:15:10,279 big Islamic world, except if you're like in the like 221 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:12,440 the Shia versus Suny branches, and then you could just 222 00:15:12,559 --> 00:15:15,320 murder each other like that anyway, But I digress. The 223 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:19,120 point is I find the predatory encourasion by a foreign 224 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:29,360 power to include a transnational narco state, a transnational cartel. Yeah. 225 00:15:29,399 --> 00:15:32,799 I think that that's covered. And here's the most important 226 00:15:32,799 --> 00:15:35,960 part was that when the executive branch, the leader of 227 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:41,480 the military, and the intelligence community and the diplomatic corps, 228 00:15:42,879 --> 00:15:46,200 when they make that decision, they then harness all of 229 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:51,799 those powers around that decision for a strategy. If a 230 00:15:51,879 --> 00:15:58,480 court comes along and says, you're wrong, you can't do that, Okay, 231 00:15:58,519 --> 00:16:01,679 then what do we do are we Are we allowed 232 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:04,600 to do anything? We're not, but we can do all 233 00:16:04,639 --> 00:16:07,360 these other things, but we're not allowed to deport. Is 234 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:09,840 that the idea, because that's what Trump is using it for. 235 00:16:09,919 --> 00:16:14,320 Oh hang on, He's not just using it to deport. Sorry, 236 00:16:15,639 --> 00:16:21,720 he blew up. A boat killed eleven people. The government 237 00:16:21,919 --> 00:16:25,440 says that it was a boat that was running drugs 238 00:16:26,399 --> 00:16:30,440 from Venezuela and it was being run by the trende 239 00:16:30,519 --> 00:16:37,320 Aragua cartel. Eleven people killed in the strike in international waters. 240 00:16:37,879 --> 00:16:41,200 How do we feel about this now? I mean, if 241 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,919 a court, well two judges, if they're telling us that 242 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:48,440 he can't even deport people from Trende Arragua because they're 243 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:51,399 not a foreign power, well he just whacked eleven of them. 244 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,240 So when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's, 245 00:16:55,279 --> 00:16:57,519 and before he died, my mom and my dad took 246 00:16:57,519 --> 00:16:59,759 care of him as he got worse. Forty years ago, 247 00:16:59,799 --> 00:17:02,960 there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers 248 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:05,519 and family. But things are different today because of the 249 00:17:05,559 --> 00:17:08,759 work of so many people, including the Alzheimer's Association of 250 00:17:08,759 --> 00:17:12,400 Western Carolina. It's a great organization with awesome people with 251 00:17:12,559 --> 00:17:15,319 huge hearts. I've been a supporter for twenty five years. 252 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,640 This cause means a lot to me. I participate in 253 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:21,559 the annual Walk to end Alzheimer's and I'm leading a 254 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,759 Charlotte team again this year, and it's called once Again 255 00:17:24,839 --> 00:17:27,200 Pete's Pack. You can sign up and you can join 256 00:17:27,279 --> 00:17:30,039 the team and walk with us. It's on October eighteenth 257 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:34,200 that truest field sign up at alz dot org slash 258 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:37,279 walk and then you can search for my team name petespac. 259 00:17:37,559 --> 00:17:40,680 There's also a link at thepetepod dot com. There's also 260 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:43,559 a link in the description of this podcast. Also, I'll 261 00:17:43,559 --> 00:17:46,640 be am seeing the Gastonia Walk on October eleventh, and 262 00:17:46,759 --> 00:17:48,880 so you can make a team and join that one too, 263 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:51,160 or make a donation and help me hit my goal 264 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:54,079 of five thousand dollars. If you do, I really appreciate it. 265 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:56,799 There are a bunch of other walks all over the Carolinas. 266 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,559 You can go to alz dot org slash walk for 267 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:03,519 all the and locations. We're closer than ever to stopping Alzheimer's. 268 00:18:03,599 --> 00:18:05,359 Can you help us get there? Will you walk with me? 269 00:18:05,599 --> 00:18:09,480 For a different future, for families, for more time for treatments. 270 00:18:09,839 --> 00:18:12,839 This is why we walk. So, going back to the 271 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:17,920 Andy McCarthy piece at National Review about this litigation over 272 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:21,279 the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan 273 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:27,960 migrants affiliated with the TDA Trende Rabah Cartel, Congress has 274 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:31,079 not weighed in on whether there has been an invasion 275 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:35,720 or predatory incursion by an arm of the Venezuelan government. 276 00:18:35,759 --> 00:18:40,599 That's what the Trump administration alleges, even though US intelligence 277 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:46,039 agencies are in disagreement with each other. So there's varying 278 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:51,039 differences of opinions the Trump whether it's an arm, whether 279 00:18:51,079 --> 00:18:54,519 the incursion, or whether TDA is an arm of the 280 00:18:54,599 --> 00:18:59,839 Venezuelan government or not. Okay, that component. The Trump Deo 281 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:07,640 insists that Trump's decree is sufficient. What Andy McCarthy said 282 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:12,079 was that the lack of any congressional agreement calls for 283 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:16,960 more judicial scrutiny. Our constitutional system is skeptical of claims 284 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:21,400 of unilateral power. So once again, yeah, if Trump had 285 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:24,920 gone to Congress or this is going to sound crazy, 286 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:28,880 but Congress had done its job on its own, right, Like, 287 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:30,839 maybe you guys could have done that on your own. 288 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:36,640 Why not just run a declaration of war against trendy Arragua. 289 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:40,359 You can do that, right, Why not do that? And 290 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,200 then Trump can have all of these war fighting powers 291 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,200 that he says he needs. And I think you tend 292 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:49,759 to agree, so why not just go ahead and do that? 293 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:57,359 But instead he uses the Alien Enemies Act. Congress gets 294 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:01,640 to not do anything except, you know, do YouTube videos, 295 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,640 make speeches, dial for dollars and that sort of thing. 296 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,319 And then in the meantime, now we have an attack 297 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:16,079 by our US Navy on an alleged drug running boat 298 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:21,519 owned by trende' arragua. I do not know if this 299 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,759 is true or not. I mean, they released a video 300 00:20:24,839 --> 00:20:26,640 of them blowing up a boat, so I'm pretty sure 301 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:29,880 that part happened. But I don't know who was on 302 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:31,880 the boat. I don't know what the boat was carrying. 303 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,039 I don't know. All I have to go on is 304 00:20:35,079 --> 00:20:40,240 what the administration tells me, and I have learned over 305 00:20:40,279 --> 00:20:45,480 the years, people and government lie, especially when they make 306 00:20:45,519 --> 00:20:47,960 mistakes and killing us in people, then they really lie, 307 00:20:48,559 --> 00:20:52,400 but not even always. I remember President Drone Strike. You 308 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:55,519 remember him, Yeah, he used a drone strike and took 309 00:20:55,519 --> 00:21:00,519 out an American citizen. That was Obama got the name 310 00:21:00,559 --> 00:21:03,240 President Drone Strike because it just started drone striking everything 311 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:08,319 all over the place, killing innocent people and killing American citizens. Now, 312 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:11,599 they were, you know, fighting in an overseas war theater, 313 00:21:11,799 --> 00:21:16,640 so it kind of tracks. But people were upset at 314 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:20,880 the time because that was an American citizen and you 315 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,480 whacked him without due process. I argued that at the 316 00:21:24,519 --> 00:21:26,559 time that I kind of feel like you may give 317 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:30,079 up those rights to due process when you travel overseas, 318 00:21:30,519 --> 00:21:34,319 take up arms and start shooting and killing US military 319 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,279 service members in the theater of combat. Like to me, 320 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,759 that like that all kind of lays out the case 321 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:46,599 for me. But this would be so much easier if 322 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:52,319 you just did a declaration of war, right, The President 323 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:55,640 said eleven people were killed in the strike in international waters. 324 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:59,400 Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the lethal strike as 325 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:03,039 taking place in the Southern Caribbean against a drug vessel 326 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:07,240 which had departed from Venezuela. The use of military force 327 00:22:07,279 --> 00:22:11,200 against Latin American drug cartels represents a significant escalation by 328 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,960 the Trump administration and could have serious implications for the region. 329 00:22:15,039 --> 00:22:18,599 So this is wishcasting by CNN. That's not actually journalism. 330 00:22:18,839 --> 00:22:22,000 That's just making predictions about what could happen, because it 331 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:26,440 could also not have any implications for the region, or 332 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:31,119 it could have less than serious, just some minor implications. Right, 333 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,720 they don't know, they're just throwing that out there. TDA 334 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:39,200 is a designated foreign terrorist organization. It operates under the 335 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:44,079 control of Nicholas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, 336 00:22:44,319 --> 00:22:47,440 sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terror across the 337 00:22:47,559 --> 00:22:52,160 United States and the Western Hemisphere, said Donald Trump in 338 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:56,279 a post on the Truth Social the State Department designated 339 00:22:56,319 --> 00:23:02,000 Trende Iragua as a foreign terrorist organization and specially designated 340 00:23:02,039 --> 00:23:06,759 global terrorists, and they did that back in February. Right, So, 341 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:13,319 if you can label somebody as an ft O or 342 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:19,720 a was it a global or specially designated global terrorist organization? 343 00:23:19,839 --> 00:23:22,279 If you if you can apply these labels and then 344 00:23:22,279 --> 00:23:26,720 it allows you to do something, then I guess you 345 00:23:26,759 --> 00:23:29,400 can do it. And I guess that means blowing up 346 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,839 a boat with a bunch of drugs on it from Venezuela. 347 00:23:33,079 --> 00:23:37,319 By the way, Rubio just recently just he made he 348 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:41,640 made remarks about the boat bombing and then went to 349 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,519 Scentcom or Southern Command. Yeah, and then he went to 350 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,359 He's on a trip to Mexico and then to Ecuador. 351 00:23:49,759 --> 00:23:53,079 So do you think this was coincidental that they blew 352 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,920 up this boat on what was apparently a known shipping route. 353 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,519 That's why they knew it was going to be there, 354 00:24:01,039 --> 00:24:03,880 and I guess they tracked it and they blew it 355 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,640 up just before he heads to Mexico. I don't think 356 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:12,200 that's coincidental. I just do not believe that very well 357 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:15,720 could be. I just think this is like, hey, guys, 358 00:24:15,839 --> 00:24:19,240 this is what we can do. Marco's come into town. 359 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,480 See if you can work with them on some stuff, right, 360 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:27,920 because otherwise this is what we're doing. CNN previously reported 361 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,319 that the US military was deploying more than four thousand 362 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,000 marines and sailors to the waters around Latin America and 363 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,039 the Caribbean as part of a ramped up effort to 364 00:24:35,039 --> 00:24:38,759 combat drug cartels, a show of force that has given 365 00:24:38,799 --> 00:24:41,759 the president a broad range of military options should he 366 00:24:41,839 --> 00:24:45,440 want to target drug cartels or maybe just be ready 367 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:49,079 in case of World War three. I'm sorry, did I 368 00:24:49,079 --> 00:24:52,960 say that? It does seem like a like a good 369 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:56,119 idea to have some boats in position around some of 370 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,799 these hot spots in case China and Russia start, you know, 371 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,400 although wait, you know what I did see this? There 372 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,000 was an off There was a hot mic moment caught 373 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:08,599 where Putin I'm not kidding Putin and Winnie the Pooh's 374 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:13,559 Jianping they were caught talking about organ transplanting and how 375 00:25:13,599 --> 00:25:15,279 they are going to be able to live to be 376 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:18,119 like one hundred and fifty, which means they don't want 377 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,279 nuclear war. So that's a good sign. I mean, downside, 378 00:25:21,599 --> 00:25:24,839 they may be organ harvesting their people and slaves and such, 379 00:25:24,839 --> 00:25:28,640 but they don't want nuclear war. 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There, we 418 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,640 ain't playing well. It depends on which audience. Jasmine Crockett 419 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,079 would be saying that in front of right because she 420 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:56,440 code switches depending on the audience. Dean says, putin not 421 00:27:56,559 --> 00:28:01,359 wanting nuclear war is like asking a sober alcoholic how 422 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:11,480 he would act when he's drunk. What I award you 423 00:28:11,519 --> 00:28:14,440 no points? I don't. I don't know what that means. 424 00:28:15,519 --> 00:28:20,640 Now get this. According to CNN, the US military was 425 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:24,799 deploying the four thousand Marines and sailors right around the Caribbean. 426 00:28:25,039 --> 00:28:28,799 The Trump administration has taken an aggressive approach to combating 427 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,240 Latin American drug cartels, okay, designating many of them as 428 00:28:33,279 --> 00:28:38,839 foreign terrorist organizations. Tom Caraco, a senior fellow at the 429 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,519 Defense and Security Department at the Center for Strategic and 430 00:28:42,599 --> 00:28:48,240 International Studies. Tom Caraco said while he did not know 431 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,279 of an instance of such action being taken against a 432 00:28:51,359 --> 00:28:54,200 drug cartel in the past, namely the blowing up of 433 00:28:54,359 --> 00:28:59,400 the of the drug boat, so he does he's not 434 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,640 aware of another incident like this, however, quote on the 435 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:07,279 other hand, I'm not sure that we would know, he said. 436 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,759 It would not surprise me in the slightest if there 437 00:29:10,759 --> 00:29:13,759 were I don't know a dozen or so instances that 438 00:29:13,799 --> 00:29:19,799 we just don't talk about. Interesting. Okay, so we can 439 00:29:19,839 --> 00:29:21,960 blow up their boats and kill a dozen of their 440 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,799 cartel members, but we definitely cannot expel them from the 441 00:29:25,839 --> 00:29:28,359 country when they have arrived here illegally. I think I've 442 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,200 got this straight now, Thank you very much, all of 443 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:38,440 the judges very very very clear. Now I can see. 444 00:29:38,559 --> 00:29:41,680 I also just saw. So I have it on good 445 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:46,960 authority that President Donald Trump is not debt that he 446 00:29:47,119 --> 00:29:52,759 is alive. Apparently there was. There was a whole bunch 447 00:29:52,799 --> 00:29:56,839 of scuttle butt and rumors and wish casting and giddyness 448 00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,839 over the weekend from folks on the left on the 449 00:30:00,079 --> 00:30:06,920 social media that Donald Trump was was dead. And the 450 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:11,240 reason why they thought this, I mean obviously, was because 451 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,519 he had not made an appearance in front of TV 452 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:19,319 cameras for like seventy two hours, and so that obviously 453 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,960 means he's that. And they also are focusing a lot 454 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,839 on his hands he's got like some like a bruise 455 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:27,799 on his hand, and so they keep focusing on his hand. 456 00:30:27,839 --> 00:30:32,000 They also focus on his ankles that because they appear 457 00:30:32,079 --> 00:30:36,079 swollen when he sometimes when he's sitting down with these 458 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,799 meetings with the foreign leaders in the Oval office. You know, 459 00:30:38,839 --> 00:30:40,839 they're sitting in the two chairs next to each other. 460 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:42,799 And a couple of months ago, he was in one 461 00:30:42,799 --> 00:30:45,200 of the chairs and somebody took a picture of his 462 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,400 of where his you know, his shoe. He always wears 463 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,400 the wingtips, right, so he's got the you could see 464 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,519 the ankle is kind of like puffing out over the 465 00:30:54,559 --> 00:30:58,279 sides of the shoe. Now, the guy's like eighty years old, 466 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,599 so I would be shocked if he doesn't have some 467 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:05,359 sort of hypertension issues going on. There's I'm if it's 468 00:31:05,359 --> 00:31:08,319 not hypertension. I'm sure it's something like water retention or 469 00:31:08,319 --> 00:31:11,279 something like that. I mean that usually happens like as 470 00:31:11,319 --> 00:31:14,640 you get older, your feet swell, your legs swell up 471 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,960 and stuff like that. You're eighty, you know. And the bruising, 472 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,240 I think they said at the time was they identified 473 00:31:21,279 --> 00:31:24,599 some you know, non life threatening condition that he's got 474 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,000 and you know, shaking a lot of people's hands and 475 00:31:28,039 --> 00:31:31,359 he gets you know, he bruises easily. Again, he's eighty, 476 00:31:31,599 --> 00:31:34,519 you know, as Norm MacDonald told the story about his 477 00:31:34,519 --> 00:31:37,359 grandmother who was bruised from her wrist all the way 478 00:31:37,359 --> 00:31:39,240 to her shoulder and he asked what happened and she 479 00:31:39,279 --> 00:31:44,400 said wind. So I'm glad to see though, that the 480 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:48,640 media that spent four years unable to identify any single 481 00:31:48,759 --> 00:31:51,480 sign of cognitive decline in a president, they have now 482 00:31:51,559 --> 00:31:55,839 learned their lesson and they are now hyper focused on 483 00:31:56,079 --> 00:31:59,279 every single physical attribute of Donald Trump because they're not 484 00:31:59,319 --> 00:32:01,519 going to make that miss again. People. It's for us, 485 00:32:01,799 --> 00:32:06,319 the firefighters of democracy. All right, that'll do it for 486 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,039 this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could 487 00:32:09,079 --> 00:32:11,359 not do the show without your support and the support 488 00:32:11,359 --> 00:32:14,240 of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if 489 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,279 you'd like, please support them too and tell them you 490 00:32:16,319 --> 00:32:18,400 heard it here. 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