WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:02.919 All right, and joining us now is Eric Peters of 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:08.240 Eric Peters Auto dot com, autos ploral, Eric petersautos dot com. 3 00:00:08.599 --> 00:00:10.599 And I wanted to get Eric on because he's had 4 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:13.000 He's posted several things about the election, and of course 5 00:00:13.039 --> 00:00:15.199 also about cars. I always love to talk about cars 6 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:19.399 and transportation because that is a very important component today 7 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:22.079 of freedom, and that's what they want to take away 8 00:00:22.079 --> 00:00:23.879 from us. Good to have you on, Eric, Thanks thank 9 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:24.640 you for joining us. 10 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:26.839 Oh, likewise, say thank you for having me. I'm not 11 00:00:26.839 --> 00:00:31.879 sure whether he be leaeved or nervous, and I'd like 12 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:34.640 to show the audience something in the way of the 13 00:00:34.759 --> 00:00:37.799 historical remembers. You guys remember this, This. 14 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:46.359 Is that's Bush plot. I see the nose. I couldn't 15 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:47.920 say it was straight on. I couldn't see the like 16 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:48.759 a Pinocchio thing. 17 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:51.200 Yeah, he's a real naval aviator. But the reason that 18 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:55.520 I wanted to bring him off people might repall when 19 00:00:55.759 --> 00:00:59.920 conservatives Republicans, not so much libertarians, but conservatives and republic 20 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:03.119 and we're just ecstatic that George W. Bush beat al Gore. 21 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:06.519 You know, we had saved all the danger of al Gore, 22 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:10.040 and when he became the war president, he had something 23 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:13.760 like a ninety plus percent approval rating and essentially was 24 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:15.879 able to rule as a dictator. And he called himself 25 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:18.239 essentially that I am the desire. You remember that. 26 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:20.120 Yeah, he got into. 27 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:22.280 Great trouble because of that, and then worse trouble followed 28 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:24.079 on his heels. Because I believe that it was on 29 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:27.120 account of everything that George W. Bush did that we 30 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:30.879 ended up with Barack Obama, which in turn gave us 31 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:32.879 Trump and Biden and all the rest of it. So 32 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:35.719 these things do have consequences, and I think it's important 33 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:38.319 that well, you know, I'm very much relieved that the 34 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:43.280 overt communists didn't win this particular selection. I'm still kind 35 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:46.760 of nervous about what the Orange Man might actually do 36 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:49.040 once he's inaugurated two months from now. 37 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:50.560 Oh yeah, yeah, I saw. 38 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:54.400 You know, I've been talking about these pronouncements from a 39 00:01:54.400 --> 00:01:56.519 lot of Christian leaders saying, wow, you know, you just 40 00:01:56.560 --> 00:01:58.799 got to there's no question about you know, you can't 41 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:00.359 vote for her, so you got to vote for him, 42 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:03.159 that type of thing. And one guy has stood out 43 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:05.920 and he has caught a lot of grief, and he 44 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:07.879 said this, because you got the lesser two evils He 45 00:02:07.959 --> 00:02:11.800 said the presidential electure results. Having delivered us from one evil, 46 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:15.719 God now tests us with another, right, and I thought 47 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:18.439 that was pretty good. He's testing you, to see, because 48 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:20.840 the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. And the key 49 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:23.039 thing about Trump is that he puts people to sleep, 50 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:25.479 and he puts a pacifire in their mouth. Everybody and 51 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:28.759 this club is afraid to speak out. Just like if 52 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:32.479 you were at a drag queen festival. You don't want 53 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:34.879 to point out that the lady up on stage or 54 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:37.080 the man up on stage isn't wearing any clothes, right, 55 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:39.039 because then everybody's going to hop on you. You don't 56 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:41.680 want to point out that the emperor is engaging in 57 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:44.240 naked tyranny if you're part of the Maga cult, because 58 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:45.800 then they're all going to hop on you as well. 59 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:48.759 Absolutely, a lot of people are rightly, in my view, 60 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:52.080 concerned with regard to what might happen visit to Israel 61 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:54.639 and what's going on there, and you know, I share 62 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:57.280 that concern. But another concern that I have, I think 63 00:02:57.360 --> 00:02:59.280 is more subtle, or at least it hasn't been commented 64 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:01.719 on very much. I'm aware of. You know, one of 65 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:04.639 the planks. I think that got Trump elected was that 66 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:06.960 he's going to promise to do something about this flood 67 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:11.199 of illegal aliens migrants into the country. Well, what exactly 68 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:13.319 is he going to do and what are people going 69 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:15.960 to be willing to accept, particularly on you know, so 70 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:18.439 to speak, our side of the fence. What if he 71 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:22.039 institutes a regime of your papers please, you know, and 72 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:25.960 on us you know, And of course our side largely 73 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:28.159 I think would probably go along with that, because, after all, 74 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:30.000 we got to get it under control, you know, we 75 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:32.560 got to cash all these illegal aliens and do something 76 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:34.719 about them. But what may end up happening is something 77 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:37.240 is done to us, and I'm very much concerned about that. 78 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:38.439 Oh I agree as well. 79 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:40.400 We were just talking about that earlier, had a listener 80 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:42.280 who pointed that out, and I said, yeah, that's right, 81 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:46.120 the immigration and several of these voters, voter fraud and 82 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:48.080 that type of stuff. But it'll also be you know 83 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:49.759 a lot of people will jump on and say, well, 84 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:52.560 you know, we got porn being given the kids, so 85 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:53.879 we need to have an ID to get on the 86 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:55.560 internet and all this other kind of stuff, right, because 87 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:59.000 they're already saying in Australia, that you got to you 88 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:01.599 can't use social media. They're introducing a bill so you 89 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:03.879 can't use social media if you're not sixteen years old. 90 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:05.719 How they going to know that, Well, it means that 91 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:08.800 everybody's got a register, right, that's obviously the situation. So 92 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:11.439 if you want government to fix everything like that, you're 93 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:14.319 going to have to give it total to solitary and power. 94 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:16.000 And that is a very dangerous thing. And I've played 95 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:18.480 the clip of Trump thing we're going to stop them 96 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:20.639 by the air, by the land, by the sea, you know, 97 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:23.000 and all the rest of this stuff. The technocracy would 98 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:26.600 love to do this with IDs, digital IDs. And as 99 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:32.160 you point out, your identity papers please right, the hallmark 100 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:35.720 of an occupied to tolitarian government is to have to 101 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:38.759 have identity papers to go everywhere, including internally. 102 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:41.439 I don't think Trump is a stupid man. I think 103 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:43.480 it's silly to suggest that he's stupid. But I do 104 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:47.600 think that he can be thoughtless and reactionary and art 105 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:50.240 to live sometimes in terms of the things that he advocates. 106 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:53.000 You know, the classic who want example of that might be, 107 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:56.560 you know, do process later, take the guns now, things 108 00:04:56.639 --> 00:04:59.759 like that instead of stopping for a little bit to 109 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:01.959 think about it before he shoots off at the mouth 110 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:05.639 or acts, and I wish that he were a little 111 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:08.439 bit more reflective than thoughtful. But we'll see. You know, 112 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:10.480 the die has been cast, as Caesar said before he 113 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:14.360 passed the rubicon, and it's now essentially a fate, a 114 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:17.040 complete We're going to see what he does, and it's 115 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:18.079 going to get very interesting. 116 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:20.519 I think I think we crossed the rubicon four years ago. 117 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:24.319 Sure enough, that wasn't a rubicon. I don't know what is, 118 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:25.439 but you know. 119 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:27.720 This is this is you know, and people use the 120 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:30.240 word consequential perhaps too often, but I do think this 121 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:33.920 is a consequential election in that if he does not 122 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:36.240 do anything, I don't think it's going to wear will 123 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:39.600 So he's probably going to do something. And then the 124 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:42.360 question becomes, okay, exactly what and how is that going 125 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:46.079 to affect America and Americans? You know, and it may 126 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:49.160 affect America and Americans in a very negative manner that 127 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:52.920 they're right now completely blisfully unaware of as a bask 128 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:53.879 in the orange globe. 129 00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:55.000 Yeah, that's right. 130 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:59.000 Well, I fully expect him to really energize the base 131 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:02.560 and see them go absolutely crazy if he de escalates 132 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:05.839 or ends this Ukraine war. Right, this is wearing on. 133 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:08.519 Everybody is sick of that as well, sick of the money. 134 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:13.279 Every Zelensky has become this comic little clown that's grifting everybody. 135 00:06:13.319 --> 00:06:15.680 So you know, he could end that, but I think 136 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:17.839 at the same time what he would do is escalate 137 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:20.560 the war with Iran because you've got Lindsay Graham and 138 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:22.680 all these other people. And Lindsey Graham was saying, yeah, 139 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:24.399 they got this man, I forget what he was. It's 140 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:29.800 like they got seventeen trillion dollars worth of resources in Ukraine. 141 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:31.560 We don't want Russia getting all that. We want it 142 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:34.160 for ourselves, you know. I mean, this is like neocolonialism. 143 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:36.600 It's crazy, and he's actually saying this kind. 144 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:41.000 Of it's apocalyptic and dangerous. Probably this goes back a 145 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:42.759 few weeks before the election to Scott River. You know, 146 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:46.199 the UN the Inspector of Weapons of Mass Destruction, like 147 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:48.680 I take as a very credible person, and published an 148 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:51.759 interesting article about what appears to have been an underground 149 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:54.839 nuclear test in Iraq. You know, there was seismic evidence 150 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:57.519 that something happened out there that wasn't an earthquake, it's 151 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:00.639 not yet be verified, but the possibility that they have 152 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:03.839 acquired a nuclear weapons capability is something that really ought 153 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:06.560 to be thought about. You know, if if Trump decides 154 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:09.240 to lob bombs on them, they might swamp back a 155 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:12.480 different kind of bomb and start something altogether horrible. You know, 156 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:16.240 they could be absolutely cta clusing for all of us. 157 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:20.600 And I pray that Saner Commer has prevailed over this thing. 158 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:23.680 Well, I think that, you know, certainly they would have 159 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:26.360 to do something asymmetric. They would not be able to 160 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:28.959 launch a trans continental ballistic at the United States and 161 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:32.399 hit US. What they would wind up doing maybe smuggling something, 162 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:35.560 you know, across the open border. And then that would 163 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:38.680 be the excuse to clamp everything down. And now everybody 164 00:07:38.759 --> 00:07:42.519 is clamoring for complete biometric control and ID and all 165 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:45.079 because we don't want to have another one of these attacks. 166 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:48.240 So yeah, I think something like that easily could happen. 167 00:07:48.279 --> 00:07:51.360 But you know, you talk about how Trump can change. 168 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:54.439 Earlier in the program, as I was talking about Elon Musk, 169 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:56.160 and of course I said, you're going to be coming on. 170 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:57.639 I said, the first time I talked to you, we 171 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:00.000 talked about Elon Musk. Is the King of chrony Capitalist. 172 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:02.360 That was your article at the time. Now I guess 173 00:08:02.399 --> 00:08:05.839 he's going to be the president of crony capitalism. And 174 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:08.839 it's just amazing to me to see this guy who's 175 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:12.839 become the world's richest man put out as somebody who 176 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:16.600 is going to make government eliminate government waste. 177 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:18.720 He is government waste. 178 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:21.600 I wonder whether Trump, now that Elon Musk is apparently 179 00:08:21.600 --> 00:08:24.839 his best friend, is going to do anything to end 180 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:27.800 this pushing of the electric vehicles that have made Elon 181 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:31.600 Muscow billionaire. Most people outside of the business don't understand 182 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:34.080 that the reason in the Musk is a billionaire is 183 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:37.960 because he's managed to leverage these zero emissions requirements and 184 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:41.759 these carbon credits into this vast empire that's funded his 185 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:45.159 electric car drift. Now, you know one thing I would 186 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:46.919 like to see Trump do, and I hope that he 187 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:51.679 does do this is tackles the issue of the permanent bureaucracy, 188 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:53.960 the regulatory state, which is serving now as a de 189 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:57.519 facto legislature. You know, they'll issue of regulation and the 190 00:08:57.559 --> 00:09:00.720 regulation has to be complied with, so has the force 191 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:03.919 of law, and yet it's not a law and it's 192 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:08.000 not constitutional. The Constitution says that Congress must write the laws. 193 00:09:08.759 --> 00:09:11.840 Congress has abrogated that and has given it over to 194 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:14.840 this unelected regulatory apparat for a number of reasons. One 195 00:09:14.840 --> 00:09:17.960 they're lazy, but two, I think more importantly, they do 196 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:20.759 not want to be held accountable. You know, Congressmen can say, well, 197 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:22.960 it's not my fault, it's the bureaucracy. You know, the 198 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:24.679 reason that you you know, you have to spend a 199 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:27.360 fortune to get your homes air conditioner replaced. Now it's 200 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:29.080 not because of me. You know, these bureaucrats did it, 201 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:31.519 these awful bureaucrats. And of course you can't vote the 202 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:34.919 bureaucrats out, so they're utterly unaccountable once they get in there. So, 203 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:37.799 you know, Trump has a constitutional argument first of all, 204 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:40.759 and even has a juridical one in regard to the 205 00:09:40.840 --> 00:09:43.120 Chevron decision, which says that, you know, the Supreme Court 206 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:47.279 ruled that these these bureaucrats can't just summarily issue decrees 207 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:49.600 like that that have the force of law. And then 208 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:53.480 there's just the moral argument is wrong. You know, these people, 209 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:57.320 why do they get to run shot over our lives? 210 00:09:57.519 --> 00:10:00.279 So I hope he'll do that. Unfortunately, I don't he'll 211 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:02.519 do that. Everything that he has said thus far indicates 212 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:05.320 that he's not so much opposed to regulations. He's just 213 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:08.360 opposed to the way the regulations have been used by 214 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:10.799 the other side. So in that sense, he's sort of 215 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:13.679 a typical Republican and that he's not opposed to big government. 216 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:15.480 He just wants big government to be used in the 217 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:17.320 way that he liked the government to be used. 218 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:19.840 Oh, I agree, I agree. And you know, if we 219 00:10:19.879 --> 00:10:21.320 go back and we look, and I've talked about this 220 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:24.240 many times, you've get civil asset forfeiture for example, right, 221 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:26.960 people have their property stolen, as you well know. You know, 222 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:29.399 in the name of the war on drugs, they steal 223 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:34.080 people's property. They call it asset forfeiture, a theft. And 224 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:37.399 they don't find you guilty. First, they don't even charge 225 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:39.559 you with a crime. They charge the property with the crime. 226 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:43.039 So it's the US government versus nine thousand dollars cash, 227 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:45.919 or the US government versus lear Jet serial numbers such 228 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:49.039 and such. And they say that they don't have to 229 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:53.519 follow the Constitution because they say that rules are different. 230 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:56.639 They they and so they not only have to find 231 00:10:56.879 --> 00:10:58.799 they don't have to find you guilty. You don't have 232 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:01.600 a presumption of innocence. That have to have an indictment, 233 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:05.039 a trial, a finding of guilt. And they are also 234 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:09.840 not required to obey the prohibition against excessive fines and 235 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:12.320 punishment because they say it's a rule, not a law. 236 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:14.759 So if it was done by Congress, it would be 237 00:11:14.759 --> 00:11:16.679 a law and they'd have to follow the Constitution. But 238 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:19.200 if they create this as a rule, none of the 239 00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:22.639 Constitution applies. That's one of the most amazing things. And 240 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:26.960 both Republicans and Democrats go along with it because you 241 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:29.919 point out if things go wrong, they don't want the 242 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:33.120 responsibility for it, and they can always if things go wrong, 243 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:36.039 they can always blame it on that regulatory agency, and 244 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:38.360 they can come in and rescue everybody and look like 245 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:41.200 the good guys by putting the regulatory agency back in 246 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:45.440 its place. And so that allows the implausible deniability from 247 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:48.759 all this stuff. They love to abdicate their authority over 248 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:50.480 to it. No, I'll give you an example of Trump 249 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:53.639 doing this in his first term. The Dreamer thing, right, 250 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:58.679 the idea that you had DHAKA, the Deferred Action on 251 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:04.080 Childhood Rivals that was an executive order from the Obama administration. 252 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:07.120 It wasn't a law coming from Congress, and so they 253 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:09.279 just put this thing out as an executive order. Now 254 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:13.320 Trump comes along and he says, well, I'm going to 255 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:15.080 change that. I'm going to get rid of that, but 256 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:18.440 I've got to ask permission from the Supreme Court. 257 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:18.559 To do that. 258 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:21.080 It's like, how do you have to ask them permission 259 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:24.279 as for an executive order from the previous president? 260 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:25.000 You can just do it. 261 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:27.559 But he played that game and then the Supreme Court 262 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:28.960 came back and said, no, you can't do it, and 263 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:30.840 so he said, oh, okay, I can't do it. And 264 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:35.240 so it allows these guys to escape from their campaign 265 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:37.840 promises and all the rest of this stuff. And that 266 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:42.799 whole regulatory rule regime is awful. And we saw it 267 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:45.159 in spades when all the pandemic stuff came, didn't we. 268 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:48.840 Yeah, it's as greasy as it is tyrannical. They call 269 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:51.399 an administrative procedure and it goes all the way down 270 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:54.159 in a number of states to traffic infractions. It used 271 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:55.799 to be that you'd actually have a day in court. 272 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:58.399 You know, if a cop pulls you over for something, seeding, 273 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:01.919 whatever it might be, you had a legal right to 274 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:03.919 your day in court and to present your case to 275 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:05.840 a judge and even a jury if you wanted to. 276 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:08.360 In some cases, well what they did was to make 277 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:11.320 it into an administrative matter and in some cases handed 278 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:13.200 over into a private company. 279 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:14.200 To deal with. 280 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:16.480 And you had the only thing that you were allowed 281 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:18.840 to do was to submit in writing, not in person. 282 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:22.080 You know, your your supposed explanation and or excuse or 283 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:24.919 defense or whatever it was. And that was totally performa 284 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:26.799 you know, you're going to pay regardless, you know, and 285 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:28.480 if you didn't pay, then they'd go after you with 286 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:31.279 the credit card credit bureaus then slam your credit you know, 287 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:33.080 if you didn't, if you didn't hand over the money. 288 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:35.840 And it's a really solid thing, and it's just sort 289 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:40.480 of leached out and pervaded the whole system. And I 290 00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:43.080 do think the one positive thing I think we can 291 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:45.039 we can take away from this election, I do think 292 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:48.320 there is an awakening going on. I think by and large, 293 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:51.639 a lot of people are beginning to realize the maliciousness 294 00:13:51.919 --> 00:13:55.080 that just saturates the system now and how the deck 295 00:13:55.159 --> 00:13:57.600 is stacked. And granted, you know that Trump has has 296 00:13:57.679 --> 00:13:59.759 leveraged and used that, but that doesn't mean it's not, 297 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:02.519 and that doesn't mean that it is going to be 298 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:04.879 sated by non action. I think people are going to 299 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:08.480 demand that things get better, and that is something that 300 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:10.399 makes me feel good about the election results. 301 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:13.000 Well, I think you know that when we're talking about 302 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:15.399 the red light cameras and speed cameras and things like that, 303 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:18.120 where you've got a corporation that is accusing you of 304 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:20.960 something and you don't have a right to confront your accuser. 305 00:14:21.159 --> 00:14:24.279 Sometimes that's been overturned in Texas, and I don't know 306 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:25.919 how it is in Virginia. I don't know how it 307 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:28.240 is in Tennessee either, But in Texas it was in 308 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:31.600 the state constitution that if you got a speeding ticket, 309 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:34.960 you could demand a jury trial. And I used that 310 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:37.799 demand for a couple of tickets that I got in 311 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:42.759 Texas to basically negotiate away the ticket and you know, 312 00:14:42.799 --> 00:14:45.240 to make it disappear, and because they don't want to 313 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:47.559 do a jury trial, so it's a great negotiating tool. 314 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:50.600 I didn't have the time where I could go do it. 315 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:53.279 You know, I'm going to travel to some speed trap 316 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:56.919 town in East Texas and fight this thing in a 317 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:59.799 small hit. But I hung tough on it and made 318 00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:02.600 the go away. But that's the key thing, and you 319 00:15:02.600 --> 00:15:04.279 can put that in. My point is is that you 320 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:06.799 can put that in at the state level, the local level, 321 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:09.799 things like that, to stop red light cameras, to stop 322 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:12.639 speed cameras, to have a day in court. Those are 323 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:14.200 the types of things that you can do at the 324 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:17.200 local level that Trump isn't necessarily going to do anything 325 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:19.600 for you or the Congress. We need to start redirecting. 326 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:22.799 I think everybody's focused back to the local level. I 327 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:24.159 think that's where it's really important. 328 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:26.039 Well, I agree, but at the same time, there is 329 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:29.480 absolutely now a mandate, and it's not just Trump's. It 330 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:32.480 operates in the House and the Senate. The Republicans have 331 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:35.080 been handed this victory, and I think one of the 332 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:37.360 things that they will hold their feet to the fire 333 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:40.639 to with regard to these regulations and the regulatory opparatus 334 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:42.679 that going forward, if we're going to even have to 335 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:45.080 have these things, that they be subjected to a cost 336 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:49.759 benefit analysis minimally with public effents before they are an 337 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:53.200 accident imposed on people, so you don't have some bureaucrat 338 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:56.440 in the EPA or the DOT which just summarily decrease 339 00:15:56.519 --> 00:15:58.720 something that's going to end up costing everybody who buys 340 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:01.080 a car another five or bucks up front, and god 341 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:02.799 knows how much money down the road when the thing 342 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:08.039 feels on the business of some speculative, hypothesized gain that 343 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:11.879 is literally like contemplating how many angels can dance on 344 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:13.799 the head of a pin. You've got to show that 345 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:17.200 there's going to be a meaningful and justifiable benefit before 346 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:20.279 that regulation is imposed on people. I think that's an 347 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:22.639 extremely reasonable and fair position to take. 348 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:23.759 Oh, I agree. 349 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:26.080 I think the problem that we face you and I 350 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:30.240 is that there's not any corresponding organization for cars like 351 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:32.879 there is for guns right. You've got the NRA, You've 352 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:34.759 got Gun Owners of America, and a lot of others 353 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:37.240 National Association for Gun Right. There's several of them that 354 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:40.879 are out there, and they're all focused on a single issue. 355 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:43.360 And you can say the same thing about the pro 356 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:45.440 life issue whatever. And there's other ones that are out 357 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:48.399 there as well. You could look at on the left side, 358 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:51.120 you could look at marijuana prohibition and stuff normal and 359 00:16:51.159 --> 00:16:54.720 a bunch of others who are successful and nullifying the 360 00:16:54.879 --> 00:16:56.720 un I've talked about this this week. You know, even 361 00:16:56.720 --> 00:16:59.720 though you had you had in three conservative states, Florida, 362 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:04.119 North and South Dakota, you had an issue on the 363 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:09.559 ballot to legalize recreational use of marijuana, not just medical marijuana, 364 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:14.559 because medical marijuana is now nullified by two thirds of 365 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:17.319 the states, actually more than that, and so if that 366 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:19.680 had passed in those states, you would have had more 367 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:22.599 than half of the states would have nullified even recreational 368 00:17:22.680 --> 00:17:25.920 use of marijuana. And yet according to the War on Drugs, 369 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:29.039 it is a Schedule one drug. My point being is 370 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:31.720 that if we do things at the state level, we 371 00:17:31.799 --> 00:17:34.480 can nullify this tyranny. And if we start to and 372 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:36.279 I think really the only way that we ever make 373 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:39.799 any traction is if we've got an organization that is 374 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:42.359 a single issue organization that's going to push on that 375 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:46.400 single issue. Because the politicians are this grocery cart full 376 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:49.839 of garbage, and some of the stuff in there is good, 377 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:51.680 and some of the stuff in there is bad. Most 378 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:55.160 of it's bad, but you can't really get anything done. Instead, 379 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:59.359 if you focus a local on a specific issue and 380 00:17:59.400 --> 00:18:01.640 you attack it at the state level, that's what we're missing. 381 00:18:01.640 --> 00:18:02.680 Maybe that's what you should do. 382 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:07.400 You should start an organization is going to fight against 383 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:08.359 car regulations. 384 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:11.359 Well, actually, there is such an organization. It already exists, 385 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:14.720 and I'm affiliated with it. It's the National Motorists Association. 386 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:17.920 Yes, I've interviewed them. It's been wow, but yeah, And 387 00:18:17.960 --> 00:18:20.839 I think they advertise on your they do. 388 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:23.160 And a lot of people are not aware of the 389 00:18:23.160 --> 00:18:26.160 existence of the NMA. But the NME played a critical 390 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:29.799 role back in the nineties and securing the repeal of 391 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:34.039 what was called the NMSL, the National maxim Speed Limit 392 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:36.720 Law which played the country for twenty years from seventy 393 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:39.599 four to about ninety four, which required a fifty five 394 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:42.000 mile an hour speed limit on the highways. You remember it, 395 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:42.720 I remember it. 396 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:45.079 You know, a lot of people were a Republican president. 397 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:49.680 It was absolutely miserable and mean driving anywhere to such 398 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:52.559 a hassle and an expense. You know, millions of people 399 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:55.880 molted of millions of dollars for driving its speeds that 400 00:18:55.920 --> 00:19:00.000 were legal and so presumably safe before drive fifty five 401 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:04.960