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for the way my voice sounds. I feel like ninety
percent a little draggy, but nothing terrible. So again apologies
for the way I sound here today, but we will
will endeavor to get through it, and I'll be hitting
the cough button like right there. Okay, So President Trump
has been blocked by a federal appeals court from using
the Alien Enemies Act or the AEA. Where's I call
it the AEA? It's a nineteenth century wartime law, and
Trump is using it to deport Venezuelan migrants his administration says,
belong to the criminal gang trend' rawa. That is, according
to newsweek dot com. Again, they have changed the vocabulary
again on us. It is no longer undocumented immigrants apparently
now the rule book says, and there is a literal
rule book, it's called a style book. Actually, so I
guess the rule book has been shifted now yet again.
And now everybody's just a migrant, that's it. So this way,
we don't know which population you're talking about. Are they
illegal aliens or are they legal aliens? Are they migrant workers?
Because these are all classifications in law. But the way
the media and the left, but I repeat myself, are
conflating all of these terms into a single one migrant,
it obfuscates the issue. So now you don't know who
you're talking about. And that's the whole point. It's to
create confusion to then use empathy against you. As I
went over yesterday, this is a logical fallacy. It's an
appeal to emotion in order to short circuit logical rational thinking.
And so this way they can say, why do you
want to deport this little baby? You're thinking, I would
very much like to report to deport the rapist murderer
from Trende, Aragua. Right. That's the difference. One is an
illegal alien criminal came into the country on their own,
and the other is a baby that got brought over
and is crying for mommy. And that's meant to talk
at the heartstrings, when in fact you're talking about the
criminals that are you know, running amok in America. So
there was this court decision, and what's interesting is that
I was reading Andy McCarthy at National Review from a
couple months ago, and he actually thought this case was
going to go the other direction, at least the appeals
court level. This was the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
It bars deportations from Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. And it
started when you know, Trump designated Trende Arragua as a
terrorist organization, a foreign terrorist organization or an FTO. This
was a two to one decision by the US Court
of Appeals which found there was not an invasion or
predatory incursion by a foreign power as required by the law,
which was from seventeen ninety eight. So that's what the
language says, due to invasion or predatory incursion. And so
there are a whole bunch of questions. Some of them
are just like really like legally esoteric. I mean, I'm
sure the lawyers would be like, it's really important whatever,
but they're just kind of like process things, and people
call them technicalities and whatnot. But one of the items
that this turns on is what the role is of
the federal of the executive, the president, what the role
is of the Court, and what the role is of
the Congress, and whether or not there has to be
a declaration of war by Congress. And there have been
previously litigated cases at the Supreme Court level. Truman used
the AEA, and the Supreme Court was examining whether or
not the war was still going on or not, because
it was nineteen forty six and the Germans had already
surrendered and that was a declared war. I believe that
may have been the last war that Congress has ever
formally declared, which you know, in my mind pretty important.
If we're going to go to war, I feel like
we should, you know, declare war, just to make it official,
you know. And I said this at the during the
Iraq War as well as Afghanistan, like, if you're going
to go to war, don't use these authorization of the
use of force or whatever. There's no reason to do that.
Just do a declaration of war. So the Alien Enemies
Act past in seventeen ninety eight. It was part of
the Alien and Sedition Acts under President John Adams. It
grants the US President the authority to detain, restrict, or
deport foreign nationals from the country that is at war
from a country that is at war with the United States. Okay,
that's how Newsweek writes this up. And there were other
parts of the Alien and Sedition Acts which either expired
or got repealed because they were like blatantly unconstitutional. John
Adams had a bit of a thin skin, so when
people mocked him in the editorial pages and drew cartoons
of him, he got very upset. About that, So he
tried to say that was seditious. Anyway, the Act was
only used three times before in US history, all during
declared wars, which would be the War of eighteen twelve,
World War One, and then World War Two. The Trump
administration unsuccessfully argued that courts cannot second guess the president's
determination that trend de Arragua was connected to Veniceze government
and represented a danger to the United States, which would
merit the use of the Act. So that was their explanation,
And like, this is what makes me uncomfortable here is
that the courts are not the determining authority on whether
or not we are suffering an invasion. No, wouldn't that
be the executive branch, which is in charge of the
military and the intelligence assets. Wouldn't they be in a
better position to know whether there is a predatory incursion.
That's what it seems like to me. I understand that
there's you know, we're not using the invasion like a
military invasion understanding of the law. But has there been
an invasion? I would submit, yeah, you could. You could
argue that that would what we are seeing with these
cartels in filtrating America. That is an invasion. I mean
a home invasion is an invasion of just one person
into another person's home. Right, So I'm not sure it
has to be like a state or a nation military
force that does the invasion or launches a predatory incursion. Right.
In the majority were US Circuit judges Leslie Southwick, she
was a George W. Bush appointee, and Irma Carrillo Ramirez,
a Joe Biden appointee, and Andrew Oldham who was a
Trump appointee, And he dissented. He said, hang on a second, No,
this is from the majority, the two judge majority. A
country encouraging its residents and citizens to enter this country
illegally is not the modern day equivalent of sending an
armed organized force to occupy, to disrupt, or to otherwise
harm the United States. Again, here just common sense tells me,
I disagree. A country that encourages its own people to
enter America illegally and disrupt, takeover apartment complexes, kill their
people with fentanyl, right. A country that encourages its own residents,
its own gang members, cartel members. Right. So it's not
like this is your sort of American standard. Maybe there's
a little bit of a Western conceit going on here
where it's like, oh, well, you know, Maduro is a
is a government leader, and these cartel members are just
his citizens, and he's just encouraging them to go there.
It's no different than if we were to encourage Americans
to travel overseas. But there is a difference. These are
cartel members. He's a communist and he's trying to undermine
and destabilize America and kill Americans with the drugs. So
it seems to me like there is a bit more
of an analogy with a foreign invading army than with simply,
you know, your citizens traveling across the border for good jobs.
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Going back to this Andy McCarthy piece at National Review,
this was from back in July, and he had just
heard the oral arguments. The ruling came down today or yeah,
yesterday evening, but in listening to the in listening to
the oral arguments, he seemed to think that this was
going to go Trump's way, but that it eventually would
not after it gets appealed. So he said Judge Southwick,
who is the hang on, excuse me, Judge Leslie Southwick,
that's the w Bush appointee, seemed open minded regarding the
acl use arguments on behalf of the aliens. Judge Ramirez,
who asked that asked no questions until the hour long
session was winding to its conclusion, is very likely to
side with the aliens. What was striking, though, was the
performance of Judge Oldham, a super sharp former clerk to
Justice Sam Alito and former General Counsel to Texas Governor
Greg Abbott. Not only does Oldham appear persuaded that the
president's AEA invocation is not just sorry, is not judicialbal
In other words, it should not even be reviewed by
the courts. He's saying, it's not judicial, this is executive power.
This is not up to us. He went further than
the Trump Justice Department in suggesting that the administration's conclusion
that an alien is a member of TDA is also
beyond judicial review. On the other hand, he says, at
issue here are alien threats to national security, which are
by nature political rather than judicial, i e. For example,
they involve judgments about foreign affairs, military force, and classified
intelligence that are not within the judicial ken. Even conceding
that it is the court's job to interpret statutes. Should
an elected courts Sorry, I think it's the drugs I'm
missing words here. Should an unelected court's judgment about whether
a predatory incursion by a foreign power quote unquote has
occurred or not? A judgment that determines how the government
should respond, potentially militarily and diplomatically. Should an unelected court
judgment about that supersede the judgment of the president, who
is specifically elected to protect national security and conduct foreign affairs.
I think reasonable people may be able to disagree on this,
but my reading a predatory incursion by a foreign power,
I think that is a massive umbrella. I don't think
it has to be a traditional nation state. I don't
a foreign power, whatever that might be. Say, for example, Communism,
why not doesn't communists? Look, they don't even recognize their
own nation state, right, they're workers of the world, unite
and all of that. It is an expansionist philosophy. Well,
now that i'm thinking about it too, about Islam, Oh, no, pete,
you can't say that. Well, I just I mean, they
view themselves as the you know, the Uma, the Califate,
you know, They're like, we're all part of the whole
big Islamic world, except if you're like in the like
the Shia versus Suny branches, and then you could just
murder each other like that anyway, But I digress. The
point is I find the predatory encourasion by a foreign
power to include a transnational narco state, a transnational cartel. Yeah.
I think that that's covered. And here's the most important
part was that when the executive branch, the leader of
the military, and the intelligence community and the diplomatic corps,
when they make that decision, they then harness all of
those powers around that decision for a strategy. If a
court comes along and says, you're wrong, you can't do that, Okay,
then what do we do are we Are we allowed
to do anything? We're not, but we can do all
these other things, but we're not allowed to deport. Is
that the idea, because that's what Trump is using it for.
Oh hang on, He's not just using it to deport. Sorry,
he blew up. A boat killed eleven people. The government
says that it was a boat that was running drugs
from Venezuela and it was being run by the trende
Aragua cartel. Eleven people killed in the strike in international waters.
How do we feel about this now? I mean, if
a court, well two judges, if they're telling us that
he can't even deport people from Trende Arragua because they're
not a foreign power, well he just whacked eleven of them.
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Andy McCarthy piece at National Review about this litigation over
the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan
migrants affiliated with the TDA Trende Rabah Cartel, Congress has
not weighed in on whether there has been an invasion
or predatory incursion by an arm of the Venezuelan government.
That's what the Trump administration alleges, even though US intelligence
agencies are in disagreement with each other. So there's varying
differences of opinions the Trump whether it's an arm, whether
the incursion, or whether TDA is an arm of the
Venezuelan government or not. Okay, that component. The Trump Deo
insists that Trump's decree is sufficient. What Andy McCarthy said
was that the lack of any congressional agreement calls for
more judicial scrutiny. Our constitutional system is skeptical of claims
of unilateral power. So once again, yeah, if Trump had
gone to Congress or this is going to sound crazy,
but Congress had done its job on its own, right, Like,
maybe you guys could have done that on your own.
Why not just run a declaration of war against trendy Arragua.
You can do that, right, Why not do that? And
then Trump can have all of these war fighting powers
that he says he needs. And I think you tend
to agree, so why not just go ahead and do that?
But instead he uses the Alien Enemies Act. Congress gets
to not do anything except, you know, do YouTube videos,
make speeches, dial for dollars and that sort of thing.
And then in the meantime, now we have an attack
by our US Navy on an alleged drug running boat
owned by trende' arragua. I do not know if this
is true or not. I mean, they released a video
of them blowing up a boat, so I'm pretty sure
that part happened. But I don't know who was on
the boat. I don't know what the boat was carrying.
I don't know. All I have to go on is
what the administration tells me, and I have learned over
the years, people and government lie, especially when they make
mistakes and killing us in people, then they really lie,
but not even always. I remember President Drone Strike. You
remember him, Yeah, he used a drone strike and took
out an American citizen. That was Obama got the name
President Drone Strike because it just started drone striking everything
all over the place, killing innocent people and killing American citizens. Now,
they were, you know, fighting in an overseas war theater,
so it kind of tracks. But people were upset at
the time because that was an American citizen and you
whacked him without due process. I argued that at the
time that I kind of feel like you may give
up those rights to due process when you travel overseas,
take up arms and start shooting and killing US military
service members in the theater of combat. Like to me,
that like that all kind of lays out the case
for me. But this would be so much easier if
you just did a declaration of war, right, The President
said eleven people were killed in the strike in international waters.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the lethal strike as
taking place in the Southern Caribbean against a drug vessel
which had departed from Venezuela. The use of military force
against Latin American drug cartels represents a significant escalation by
the Trump administration and could have serious implications for the region.
So this is wishcasting by CNN. That's not actually journalism.
That's just making predictions about what could happen, because it
could also not have any implications for the region, or
it could have less than serious, just some minor implications. Right,
they don't know, they're just throwing that out there. TDA
is a designated foreign terrorist organization. It operates under the
control of Nicholas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking,
sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terror across the
United States and the Western Hemisphere, said Donald Trump in
a post on the Truth Social the State Department designated
Trende Iragua as a foreign terrorist organization and specially designated
global terrorists, and they did that back in February. Right, So,
if you can label somebody as an ft O or
a was it a global or specially designated global terrorist organization?
If you if you can apply these labels and then
it allows you to do something, then I guess you
can do it. And I guess that means blowing up
a boat with a bunch of drugs on it from Venezuela.
By the way, Rubio just recently just he made he
made remarks about the boat bombing and then went to
Scentcom or Southern Command. Yeah, and then he went to
He's on a trip to Mexico and then to Ecuador.
So do you think this was coincidental that they blew
up this boat on what was apparently a known shipping route.
That's why they knew it was going to be there,
and I guess they tracked it and they blew it
up just before he heads to Mexico. I don't think
that's coincidental. I just do not believe that very well
could be. I just think this is like, hey, guys,
this is what we can do. Marco's come into town.
See if you can work with them on some stuff, right,
because otherwise this is what we're doing. CNN previously reported
that the US military was deploying more than four thousand
marines and sailors to the waters around Latin America and
the Caribbean as part of a ramped up effort to
combat drug cartels, a show of force that has given
the president a broad range of military options should he
want to target drug cartels or maybe just be ready
in case of World War three. I'm sorry, did I
say that? It does seem like a like a good
idea to have some boats in position around some of
these hot spots in case China and Russia start, you know,
although wait, you know what I did see this? There
was an off There was a hot mic moment caught
where Putin I'm not kidding Putin and Winnie the Pooh's
Jianping they were caught talking about organ transplanting and how
they are going to be able to live to be
like one hundred and fifty, which means they don't want
nuclear war. So that's a good sign. I mean, downside,
they may be organ harvesting their people and slaves and such,
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Carl who says you are crazy, but it's a good crazy.
I think it's cute and some of the things you
say make us lose it. Have a great day, Carl.
I believe the word the preferred word. It's not crazy.
That's offensive. It's a microaggression. The word is wacko. Okay,
thank you, Donna, says, I call this a good strategy,
one that should have been utilized more often. As Jasmine
Crockett would say, we ain't playing quotation marks. Oh that's
a text. Okay, that's a voice to text. There, we
ain't playing well. It depends on which audience. Jasmine Crockett
would be saying that in front of right because she
code switches depending on the audience. Dean says, putin not
wanting nuclear war is like asking a sober alcoholic how
he would act when he's drunk. What I award you
no points? I don't. I don't know what that means.
Now get this. According to CNN, the US military was
deploying the four thousand Marines and sailors right around the Caribbean.
The Trump administration has taken an aggressive approach to combating
Latin American drug cartels, okay, designating many of them as
foreign terrorist organizations. Tom Caraco, a senior fellow at the
Defense and Security Department at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies. Tom Caraco said while he did not know
of an instance of such action being taken against a
drug cartel in the past, namely the blowing up of
the of the drug boat, so he does he's not
aware of another incident like this, however, quote on the
other hand, I'm not sure that we would know, he said.
It would not surprise me in the slightest if there
were I don't know a dozen or so instances that
we just don't talk about. Interesting. Okay, so we can
blow up their boats and kill a dozen of their
cartel members, but we definitely cannot expel them from the
country when they have arrived here illegally. I think I've
got this straight now, Thank you very much, all of
the judges very very very clear. Now I can see.
I also just saw. So I have it on good
authority that President Donald Trump is not debt that he
is alive. Apparently there was. There was a whole bunch
of scuttle butt and rumors and wish casting and giddyness
over the weekend from folks on the left on the
social media that Donald Trump was was dead. And the
reason why they thought this, I mean obviously, was because
he had not made an appearance in front of TV
cameras for like seventy two hours, and so that obviously
means he's that. And they also are focusing a lot
on his hands he's got like some like a bruise
on his hand, and so they keep focusing on his hand.
They also focus on his ankles that because they appear
swollen when he sometimes when he's sitting down with these
meetings with the foreign leaders in the Oval office. You know,
they're sitting in the two chairs next to each other.
And a couple of months ago, he was in one
of the chairs and somebody took a picture of his
of where his you know, his shoe. He always wears
the wingtips, right, so he's got the you could see
the ankle is kind of like puffing out over the
sides of the shoe. Now, the guy's like eighty years old,
so I would be shocked if he doesn't have some
sort of hypertension issues going on. There's I'm if it's
not hypertension. I'm sure it's something like water retention or
something like that. I mean that usually happens like as
you get older, your feet swell, your legs swell up
and stuff like that. You're eighty, you know. And the bruising,
I think they said at the time was they identified
some you know, non life threatening condition that he's got
and you know, shaking a lot of people's hands and
he gets you know, he bruises easily. Again, he's eighty,
you know, as Norm MacDonald told the story about his
grandmother who was bruised from her wrist all the way
to her shoulder and he asked what happened and she
said wind. So I'm glad to see though, that the
media that spent four years unable to identify any single
sign of cognitive decline in a president, they have now
learned their lesson and they are now hyper focused on
every single physical attribute of Donald Trump because they're not
going to make that miss again. People. It's for us,
the firefighters of democracy. All right, that'll do it for
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