Matter of Facts: SCOTUS Makes Heads Explode

[00:00:03] Welcome back to the Matter of Facts podcast on the Prepper Broadcasting Network. We talk prepping guns and politics every week on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. Go check out our content at MWFpodcast.com on Facebook or Instagram.

[00:00:14] You can support us via Patreon or by checking out our affiliate partners. I'm your host Phil Rabbley and my co-host Andrew Bobo is on the other side of the mic and here's your show.

[00:00:22] Welcome back to the Matter of Facts podcast. Andrew and I are not streaming this because I suck as a podcast producer and we literally figured out what we were going to talk about

[00:00:31] this week while I was praying to Saint John. Well, you and I over the last eight years or so one of the things that we've talked about trying to get better at is like hey let's plan on topics

[00:00:45] and let's do some you know and no no today well I mean it also doesn't help that I've been traveling the last like month between our M.O.F. trip and then came back worked for a week left for the

[00:01:02] upper peninsula for a week came back I'm home for two days and then I uh I'm going up to visit my parents for the week for this entire week of 4th of July

[00:01:15] and basically I'll be back I don't know like I don't even remember knowing when I want to be back it so so yeah so it's just been a busy week so with my and then on top of my work schedule

[00:01:25] we're already having a hard enough time scheduling something so let's just add to the shenanigans and I've been hopping from one foot to the other just you know just busy busy busy busy

[00:01:38] and in two weeks I'm going to be stuck in uh stuck out of town for a week for work so I don't know will you either have to skip a show or try to pre-record something I mean I'm gonna

[00:01:56] if I were driving I would just bring all my podcast equipment and say well we could probably get together one evening while I'm sitting at the hotel room but this isn't

[00:02:04] that kind of a deployment I don't know what you're flying or flying well yeah first of all I'm flying for work that's something for you I know how much you like no it's uh I detest flying if I was

[00:02:16] supposed to fly I would have been born with wings or rocket up my ass but neither of those are the case so the bigger problem is that I don't know what my work schedule is going to be like up

[00:02:25] there like I'm supposed to be like you know on a relatively stable bankers hours type of schedule but this isn't that kind of deployment I could be working 12 hour days while I'm up there

[00:02:38] and if that happens I just I can't reliably tell you oh yeah we'll be able to get together at this time at this date you know I don't know yeah it's whatever um I don't know uh we'll

[00:02:51] figure something out but yeah so before we get to current events do you have any preparedness projects you would like to share with the audience anything cool going on in your world

[00:03:03] not really anything cool I mean just been camping and uh just figuring out my tent and uh been using the uh the old truck tent uh quite a bit over the last month um and then just

[00:03:16] re-figuring out kind of like what I want to do uh maybe some stuff I'd like to change or uh like the deck drawer system that I have uh I've I think I've repacked that thing like

[00:03:28] I don't know at least a couple times just trying to like fit because I've been like I have shoot I have a I have a truck jack I have a jack in there for my truck uh just because I don't trust

[00:03:41] the nice flimsy one that the dealerships give you or that the manufacturers give you so I have a uh I want it's like a one or two ton jack in the back sitting in the drawer system with the handle

[00:03:54] I have an axe I've been utilizing so what's nice about the new deck drawer system is they the new redesign with the single drawer for like Tacomas and stuff is they left the the

[00:04:04] sides open so they used to be completely closed all the way to like corner to corner of your bed and now those are actually open so like I have a smaller axe that I keep in the drawer

[00:04:16] and then I have a long I have a bigger axe that is a lot you know bigger to swing and stuff like that but I have that and I just I slid that like right into the side it fits perfect uh so I have um

[00:04:28] yeah so I'm just trying to figure out how to better utilize my space uh also I need to buy a bracket for my I have a five gallon propane tank uh that I have packed in the drawer which if I buy

[00:04:41] the if I buy a uh or build a bracket uh for that then of course that will be out of the deck drawer the the drawer system so that'll free up some space and uh but no I mean overall uh

[00:04:52] I'm really happy with the setup um I the entire time in the UP uh or upper peninsula for those of you not from Michigan or familiar with terminology uh I ran my fridge uh my electric fridge the icico

[00:05:08] I ran that off of my goal zero uh the whole week uh well all the way until we got to the air bnb but for four days basically I ran it off of my goal zero uh I bought a set of boulder 100 uh

[00:05:20] briefcase solar panels so I had those sitting out and it charged it up enough to where uh like it charged I just put them out all day long and it actually charged the battery all the way

[00:05:31] through the days to where at night it would run on it and that I'm really really happy with uh when you have that fridge on eco mode and have it set to where it's not like a stupid ridiculous

[00:05:42] like temp like you know obviously if it's set to 32 or 20 or 30 degrees it's going to work harder to keep that temperature versus I think I only had I mean I had beer and then some some food

[00:05:54] I mean I had steaks and stuff in there but I mean I kept it at roughly 39 40 degrees uh and it kept everything cool and honestly like I noticed the it didn't run that much like it

[00:06:04] didn't run hardly at all uh or when it did it didn't take up much juice so I think one night I honestly because it got cold I got down to like four low 40s the one night uh it actually I

[00:06:17] noticed my battery I think the next morning it only dropped I think like 10% or something like that so it didn't drop it hardly at all uh so I'm really liking that setup the only thing I would like

[00:06:29] to do different is maybe get a bigger goal zero uh I have the 500x I'd like to get the 1000 just just for that added security of if it's a cloudy day and I can't charge the panels then

[00:06:41] that should last it you know that should keep it a full day uh versus I think it's like 20 hours or something like that uh on the current uh the current unit or whatever but so I don't know

[00:06:52] I mean there's a couple things that you know that I'm looking at that it would be nice to change I definitely want a dual battery setup in my truck uh really found out found that out uh but uh but

[00:07:04] no it's uh it's good I like it and uh I mean that's basically just trying to use my gear uh and figure out what I want to change and uh just yeah just trying to make a plan for it

[00:07:15] just because things aren't cheap and I have not that much money so yeah and the two things I would offer to you because you know I feel like I might be just a little bit further down the road of

[00:07:26] like 12 volt fridge and power stations because just because I've been playing with them a little bit longer um I always make a point of making I mean obviously like make sure your fridge

[00:07:36] is in the shade yeah I feel like the ambient temperature is up where you're at we're helping you out a lot like I've gone camping I try not to go camping when it's retard hot outside for

[00:07:47] obvious reasons but the difference in having that your fridge in the shade versus sitting in full sun can be massive and a lot of times I leave my fridge sitting on the back of my truck underneath my

[00:07:59] soft topper which is beautiful because I've got shade no matter what but I've also got like you know I can roll up the sides and I've got tons of airflow so I'm not just baking the 12 volt

[00:08:10] fridge in a hot truck or you know under a hot soft topper where the hot air is no way to escape the other thing and a lot of people don't think about this I always try to put my power station

[00:08:23] where it's in the shade because lithium lithium iron lithium iron lithium ion batteries and lithium iron phosphate batteries everything I've ever read indicates that they perform better in the shade they perform better when they're not baking in the sun electronics don't like getting hot so I always

[00:08:42] like if I have the ability to put the jackery on the back of the truck and I'll have the power I'll have the uh the solar panels either sitting on top of my soft topper or I'll have them set up

[00:08:52] on the side of the truck but I keep the jackery inside the bed of the truck under cover and if I can't do that for some reason which has been there's been times where just the way the campsite

[00:09:03] is laid out I have to put the panels too far away from the truck to get good sun and in that case I'll actually take the the jackery and I'll tuck it up underneath the side of one of them just any

[00:09:17] amount of shade you can get for your power station is going to help it work a little more efficiently it's just you know yeah the one thing I'm going to do is uh I'm going to actually

[00:09:23] pick up goal zero obviously I mean every company makes their own thing but uh yeah goal zero I'm going to buy they have a 30 foot extension for the the solar panels to the battery uh yeah I'm

[00:09:35] gonna I'm buying that thing because I was very limited to how far I could put like I mean basically I had my fridge and I had the the goal zero on my front seat the front passenger seat the

[00:09:45] the icicle fridge was actually in my back in the back seat uh and I can only it it was like a six foot cord so I was very limited to range and unfortunately the week that we're up there

[00:09:56] there was a couple nice really nice sunny days which I could probably have pulled it out but there was just not it mostly it rained it was it was rain off and on it was very the weather this

[00:10:07] the weather this past week uh up in the upper peninsula in Michigan in general it was very bipolar uh very rain than sun and then rain clouds and I mean it was very

[00:10:18] crazy so uh so yeah so very limited so I'm gonna uh I'm going to buy that cord um so I can I can pull it out at least like that's a good 30 feet away from uh where it's sitting if it's in the

[00:10:30] truck and so that kind of limited me but yeah other than that I mean that's the thing is uh we found out my buddies that I was with we found out that our gear was pretty good I found out

[00:10:40] that I'm very happy with the tent on the truck because we had a we had a nasty thunderstorm roll through that I don't know what the gusts were they were reporting gusts from this particular

[00:10:51] string of thunderstorms up into like 80 90 mile an hour when Jesus and um so we I know when it started raining like 5 30 in the morning uh the the lightning woke me up in the thunder because it was

[00:11:05] I mean it hit so clear I mean it sounded like a bomb went off it it hit so hard and uh but I remember I sit the front of my my tent and I looked and the one guy one of my friends was in a TP

[00:11:16] style like hot tent uh sitting by like he was set up by the lake and another another friend was on the other side of the campsite that like uh or our our site in a normal kind of tent but I mean

[00:11:27] still and then I had a pop-up I bought a pop-up and so we had that up and we had it staked down and that was probably the best hundred bucks that I've ever spent on something because that thing

[00:11:38] was a champ like the winds come well then winds would kick up I unzipped the tent I was like all right my the two guys they're still in their tents they didn't blow away but then I was looking at my uh my

[00:11:48] pop-up and like I at one point obviously we're not recording video but it was like slanted like this like the legs were it never came never budged it never came undone stakes held great but man

[00:12:01] those legs held up nice so it was it was pretty gnarly there for a second and uh but I'm glad so you know all our gear performed really well really happy with everything that was going on so um and we

[00:12:13] caught some fish uh on the one day and we had a good fish fry rate I always like the idea of um lake or like field uh field to table or lake to table within an hour or a couple like two hours

[00:12:26] and so the idea that we caught two nice pike uh had them cleaned deep fried and en within an hour of catching them like I don't know just something about it it just made it taste better no I can

[00:12:41] certainly understand that I mean there's an aspect of I don't know I I I believe as hippy-dippy as it sounds that like there's something missing from our our societal modern lifestyles that gets

[00:12:56] rekindled when you go camping when you you you are able to harvest your protein from nature and even if you don't do that like we usually don't we just bring our food out there with us but I

[00:13:09] think there's just something I feel like there's something missing from modern society that you rekindle when you go out camping and you are out there in nature and you're not just bathing air conditioning and you know staring at Netflix and playing on your phone the whole day like

[00:13:24] that's always been a big thing with me and my family when we go camping it's like I don't want cell phones enhanced the whole time like I want I want I want to listen to the squirrels

[00:13:35] chittering at each other and the birds squawking and like I want all that because I feel like we need that occasionally. So I unfortunately have not been camping because it is hmm right now right now this very minute outside it is almost noon and it's 92 degrees outside which

[00:13:55] means the real Phil is probably 122. The Rablay family will not be going camping again for a while we're actually going to the beach in July because you know it's the perfect thing to do

[00:14:06] when it's hot as hell outside is go sit on a beach and roast but not really good camping weather. I am still working on that the man pack that you and I have been talking about which

[00:14:21] I will have it at prepper camp and I think by the time I get to prepper camp I will have something fairly interesting show the people who do come out. So I recently purchased a 17 meter

[00:14:35] long or about a 41 foot tall spider beam branded fiberglass telescoping mast to use for my roll-up j-pole antenna. It's not a strap to the side of your pack and like you know go humping into the

[00:14:51] woods kind of setup I mean it's almost four feet tall fully collapsed it's a big man it's a for a field mast it's a big one it's one of the tallest I found and it's very sturdy and it's very

[00:15:05] heavy but I went ahead and built a guy ring for it measured out some guy lines it's at this point it's ready to just go pick a spot plant the plant the bottom of it in the dirt stake it out a

[00:15:21] couple of different directions and then stick an antenna 40 feet up in the air with no trees or anything else around me and 40 feet of antenna height now means I can get at least around here

[00:15:32] I can get over the top of a lot of trees and it means that at prepper camp we'll be able to unless orchard lake pitch is a holy fit about it we'll be able to stick an antenna 40 feet up in

[00:15:46] the air and we should be able to cover the entire camp ground from there. I mean hills in elevation not withstanding the line of sight the line of sight like measurement the math says that I

[00:16:01] should have line of sight communications out to eight miles in full simplex with a 40 foot antenna height so we should have no problem. Yeah I mean obviously we're in a bowl I mean we're in a bowl

[00:16:14] but there should be no reason why we can't reach our our campsite. No reason at all and the the only piece I've left to get is the Argent Data Systems SR1 simplex repeater controller which

[00:16:28] one of our patron steward has already he's already made me the data interface cable I need to connect that to my man pack I really just need to like order that do some setup on it do some testing

[00:16:41] plug it in and I'm not I don't think I'm deluding myself by saying there's going to be some test and tune involved here because like I'm integrating two things together that best I can

[00:16:53] tell haven't been done many times so I think it's going to take some playing with the settings but I think when we get to prepper camp for anybody that's out there that will be at prepper camp

[00:17:03] with a GMRS license and a GMRS radio I think I'll be able to stand up a simplex repeater to cover that area basically out of a backpack. So we'll see I mean if it works it works and

[00:17:16] if it doesn't it'll be a learning experience either way but I would like to be able to to demonstrate that capability for the people that come out to prepper camp just because you know one

[00:17:26] of the things we talk about in the preparedness community is the need for off-grid communications and your average person doesn't have a backpack with a radio in it they have a little little

[00:17:35] bitty handheld which only has maybe a mile range but if I can build if I can demonstrate that it's possible to build a mid-range repeater system that you can deploy out of the back of a

[00:17:47] truck that will have about an eight an eight to an eight to fifteen mile you know diameter coverage area that's a massive capability that I could see a lot of people being interested in but that's my that's been my long-term project lately. Nice.

[00:18:12] Yes so go ahead and call me radio dork if you want it's interesting to me but it's just you know how my brain works man like after all this time podcasting together I get interested

[00:18:23] in the subject and then I just dive all the way down into it and I don't come up for air until I feel like I've got the whole thing figured out. Yeah but no it's good it's not a bad thing but

[00:18:34] yeah um no I mean we might as well get to uh I mean we're talk we just want to talk about some current events today uh as well. Oh are there a bunch of them? Yeah there's a bunch of them

[00:18:45] we'll stay away from the disaster that was the the debate uh just because everybody I hate I did not watch it for a particular reason I know you didn't either and it was just it it's ridiculous

[00:18:57] so good luck on the golf course to both of those guys but not only not only did I not watch it but the debate spoiled like everything because you could not go anywhere on social media without

[00:19:10] 10 different channels live stream of that event and commenting on it and I'm just like can we just talk about anything else other than this right now please. I was actually really happy

[00:19:20] I it was on and I honestly like I never saw a single thing online about it uh I mean I saw like the disaster that Biden was but other than that I did not see a single live stream

[00:19:33] yes so I was pretty happy with it but um no one thing I wanted to throw out there is uh the the whole Ukraine war obviously whether you're for it or against it what you want to

[00:19:44] support the troops you don't want to support them I don't really care but the one thing that I know I feel like the American people are sick of is endless wars we just got out of a

[00:19:55] 20 year war that basically solved zero we went in took the Taliban out of power fought for 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan countless I mean how many people were wounded and killed soldiers and stuff

[00:20:13] and families torn apart not to mention the amount of people that died and you know the civilians that died on both sides too or you know actually I mean you know in Afghanistan and

[00:20:23] Iraq but then 20 goes you know go down 20 years later and basically US pulls out and the Taliban take back over and so and we are now sending the Taliban if you actually look into it the Taliban

[00:20:36] the US government is sending money to the Afghan government uptuned to like I don't like 40 million dollars or some crap like that uh like every week uh so we're basically uh yeah we're funding

[00:20:51] the Taliban the US government is so good for us but anyway the Ukraine war uh the one thing was you know I know I've heard a lot of people say we just like people we don't want to see US troops

[00:21:01] in the ground on ground fighting against Russia potentially China and now potentially North Korea yeah and the fact that I feel like the the this current joke of an administration their work around it is contractors so the US the Biden administration is actually moving to

[00:21:23] allow contractors to be deployed to Ukraine that's going to be great for the contracting companies there's gonna be a lot of money involved in that and then you're gonna get military and former military worker you know military members and stuff we're now contractors you're gonna

[00:21:42] get them on the ground the the thing is where I can see it going south is uh you're gonna have US former you whether they're former or not you're gonna have US military members over there

[00:21:56] potentially fighting and then like I mean what I'm trying to say basically is like this is a cop out from the government the US government to say well we don't have us military active military

[00:22:09] which I'm pretty sure there is active military on the ground right now anyway there has to be it's just very secretive but yeah that's the thing is this is their cop out and their way around

[00:22:20] of saying no US military members are actively fighting in the area which you know but US personnel are I mean US Americans are fighting over in Ukraine well so yeah let's call this what it is

[00:22:37] like back in the 1980s when Russia was invading Afghanistan it's not it I would like to think it is beyond the pale of debate even though some idiot out there is going to debate it

[00:22:48] that the CIA the United States government was funding the Afghanis to the tune of millions in a clandestine operation that was designed to flood Afghanistan with weapons and the training

[00:23:01] to use those weapons by the way so that they could go shoot at the Russians and it was for no other reason than the fact that we wanted to bleed Russia and I see this and very much the same guys like

[00:23:17] we could debate we could debate whether or not that's the right move to make but like the United States funding Ukraine for the sole purpose of bleeding Russia I just I don't know

[00:23:30] I I am very conflicted about about this in moments like this because on the one hand I am a student of history and I understand that if the French had not interceded in the

[00:23:40] revolutionary war we very likely would still be you know tax slaves to the British crown because I don't know that we would have come out of the other end of the engagement the way it did without the French intervening and giving us weapons and money and arms

[00:23:55] so on the one hand I'm sympathetic to the country of Ukraine but on the other hand I just keep going back to this idea that like what is our goal there it seems to me as though

[00:24:07] we're not we're not so much trying to like put Ukraine in a position to win the war we just want it to keep going on and I can't figure out a good reason why we should continue

[00:24:19] to send millions upon millions of dollars to a foreign nation in the middle of a war with an adversary that is known to hold grudges for decades at a time when our own nation is eyeball deep in debt and dealing with massive social unrest and massive economic problems

[00:24:41] in our own backyard so it's not that I am un sympathetic to Ukraine it's more the fact that I'm like I'm not going to go to my neighbor's house with a bucket of water to put their house

[00:24:53] to put the fire out on their front porch when my roof is on fire we got problems we need to deal with right here and there doesn't seem to be appetite for that the one thing that they the

[00:25:03] one thing that they are saying in this too is supposedly which it's starting out like it's gonna I feel like it's gonna start out this way and just like the bump stock band when they

[00:25:14] when actually trump did that whole thing and gave the atf the ability to do that I remember you and I talking about it and how the slippery of a slope it's going to be for him to give the ability

[00:25:24] you know because I remember they I remember they he opened it up to them to say hey reclassify this do whatever and I remember us talking about it and saying this is a slippery slope if they're

[00:25:32] gonna do this with one thing what are they gonna do with next and look at the path that the atf has taken they basically took you know they basically took it and ran and went full

[00:25:41] frickin retard with it and was like hey look what I can do but anyway this this article is also saying that it's it's going to be strictly for the repairs to the the systems that the US is sending

[00:25:54] over so the Ukraine just supposed to be getting a bunch of f-16 jets here this year apparently so they want to make it to where they can actually instead of it's because supposedly right now all the equipment that's that needs to be repaired is getting shipped out

[00:26:09] out of country to other country neighboring countries like Romania and stuff like that where the US or where it's getting fixed and then it's getting sent back allowing contractors to go in

[00:26:20] to fix the stuff is supposedly going to help speed up and help Ukraine get some leg up on on Russia but we both know that's not going to happen because like you said Russia is going to hold

[00:26:31] a grudge and Russia doesn't lose they go full potato if the if there's any idea I mean you can see it happening in the past where they just carpet bomb I mean they went full scorched earth

[00:26:45] when the idea of them possibly losing or something was going to happen they were like hey watch this so yeah so we'll see what happens it's going to be interesting but uh yeah I'm sick of us sending

[00:26:57] money uh what was I saw me I think on Instagram the other day or a couple days ago or a week ago or whatever that said like uh if the US government has enough money to send overseas to fund a war

[00:27:09] the American people are getting taxed too much hallelujah like that's just it's crazy to me like I mean and that's the thing is we are so so yeah but uh yeah that's interesting so

[00:27:21] so pump so kick the clutch and let me shift to gear I know before the show started we were talking about the Supreme Court uh ruling against Chevron deference and you mentioned that you're not

[00:27:33] super up to speed on that legal principle but I had mentioned like I wanted to talk about on the show because I want genuine reactions and so for the for the listeners that are familiar

[00:27:44] Chevron deference is a principle that's been in place in um in Lee in our legal landscape for quite a few decades I'd have to go back a research when it originally came about but if memory serves me it was actually an EPA case that originally set this precedent

[00:28:01] and the idea was basically that if an executive agency is sued based on a rule that they are promulgating and if this sounds like it has a lot of bearing on like ATF promulgating rules and it

[00:28:15] does stick with me though but it's it's way bigger than just ATF this is ATF this is EPA this is Bureau of Land Management this is all executive branch agencies all the three letter agencies if they if they promulgate a rule supposedly to interpret legislation because

[00:28:33] legislation wasn't written perfectly and then they are sued to have that rule stopped the courts would defer Chevron deference they would defer to basically the interpretation of the agency to basically say like well you're the EPA you're all are you are the experts in protecting the

[00:28:50] environment that's why you're the environmental protection agency so we the courts are going to take y'all's word for it that the rule you have promulgated directly pertains to the legislation you're trying to interpret and that's as far as their legal you know thinking

[00:29:07] ever went age government said that the government said this and the government looked at the government's rule and determined the government did no wrong and that sounds freaking insane then you know welcome to my life but that was the principle Chevron deference so every time

[00:29:22] we sued the ATF or the EPA or any other agency and said hey this rule oversteps the boundaries of this legislation we had an uphill fight every inch of the way because the court would

[00:29:36] ultimately say but the government said this and we determine the government did no wrong because we are the government so by the Supreme Court's finally striking down and I believe this was done in relation to another EPA case but by the the Supreme Court striking down the principle

[00:29:52] of Chevron deference they are sending a very clear signal to the lower courts and to the executive branch and the three letter agencies that there are going to be strict limits on what you can promulgate as a rule based upon trying to interpret legislation or under the guise

[00:30:11] of interpreting legislation they're basically saying they're basically stating I believe Congress has the responsibility of lawmaking and if Congress doesn't write the law properly that's not for y'all to say well we think they meant this so that's what we're gonna

[00:30:27] that's what we're gonna enforce the executive branch's job is to enforce the law the legislative branch's job is to make the law and if the legislative branch screws up the law then the

[00:30:38] executive branch doesn't get to take it and run with it the legislative branch has to fix their house and write the laws properly or libertarian fill says the legislative branch shouldn't be legislating so damn much about stupid stuff that they shouldn't be regulating and we wouldn't

[00:30:54] have all these problems but you know when you have a bunch of mouth-breathing idiots in one room that are all legislating on stupid stuff that they shouldn't be legislating on inevitably

[00:31:03] they're going to screw a bunch of it up and then the executive branch being run by ideologue morons takes that and tries to run with it and that's how we wound up here so this doesn't like I

[00:31:16] was saying Andrew like this doesn't just impact the ATF set trying to try to turn a bump stock into a machine gun or trying to say that a pistol brace is a stock and therefore

[00:31:28] makes something in SBR like it does all those things it impacts all those things but it's not just that it also goes back to the EPA and says if this is the way the law was written this is

[00:31:40] the way you have to enforce it you can't say well they wrote this but they meant all these things you have to enforce the law and nothing but the law it goes to bureau of land management

[00:31:49] and it says this is what was written your rules cannot be an outgrowth of the law you have to enforce the law so on the one hand i'm kind of encouraged by the fact that chevron deference

[00:32:03] has finally been stricken down because asking the government to rule that the government knows best and therefore can do whatever they want is freaking stupid it's a complete abortion of the separation of powers of the three branches of government to allow the executive branch to

[00:32:18] legislate on their whim but on the flip side of things I also know just enough about our our legal system in this country to know that this is not going to immediately overturn anything

[00:32:32] all the rules that have been written are still going to have to be drug kicking and screaming in a court they're all going to have to be challenged individually and it's still going

[00:32:40] to be the thing that frustrates me to no end it's going to be we get taxed millions upon millions of dollars and then we have to spend what little we have left to hire lawyers

[00:32:51] to go in the court to argue with the government that what they're doing is an abridgment of our rights and then they use our tax dollars to pay their own lawyers to screw us in the end yeah uh

[00:33:08] yeah that's what I always like about fighting the government is they you're I mean you're going broke on both sides because not only do you have to spend your money to uh

[00:33:18] to hire a lawyer and uh to fight on your behalf but uh the government uses your money also to hire their lawyers which are many uh to go against you so yeah that's that's so good

[00:33:34] yeah but then like like we were talking about earlier like that is chevron deference in a nutshell and by being overturned it's a it's an enormous arrow taken out of the quiver of the atf and gun

[00:33:50] control the gun control movement it's a huge step in the right direction all of the people and by the way like I I tend to I tend to trace around in reddit because damn it is a great freaking intel

[00:34:04] gathering device because those people think that they're anonymous so they can just say whatever they want and I believe people when they tell me who they are but I am seeing people who are identifying themselves anonymously but they're claiming they are federal employees who are absolutely peeing

[00:34:19] their pants over chevron deference being taken away over the fact that like the legislator the legislators are too stupid to write the laws properly and now we can enforce the laws properly

[00:34:30] because of scotis and this and the other and I'm like but this is the separation of powers you morons y'all are not supposed to interpret the laws you're not supposed to do that you're supposed

[00:34:41] to enforce them and if if the house and the senate screwed up make them go back and do their jobs properly they get paid a lot more money than the rest of us they should do their jobs properly

[00:34:53] and if they can't then they should be in office it's just you know fill in a soapbox or having a rant but it's just frustrating to know into me that the idea that I'm seeing expressed

[00:35:07] over and over and over is well we're smarter than they are so we're going to do their job for them instead of doing our job and somehow this is this is renewed this is renewed calls to like pack

[00:35:22] the supreme court or to add 10 more justices because obviously all the trump's appointments are just causing all this havoc when from my perspective what's happening is that the supreme court is saying you're supposed to enforce law enforce law stop trying to create it yeah well

[00:35:40] and that's the thing is they I mean when you hear because that's the things every single time the supreme court uh overrules uh because I mean that's what's funny is so a number of gun uh

[00:35:51] gun issues have gotten in front of the supreme court or gotten thrown out or they haven't heard it uh and then you have those same people saying they're clapping I mean they're they're rejoicing

[00:36:01] that the supreme court hey that's great you did your job all this stuff whatever and then in the same breath though they turn around and they overrule or they overturned like the bump stock band

[00:36:11] they overturned the chevron deference or stuff like that now you have those exact same people saying we need to pack the courts just because it doesn't go in their favor and that's that's

[00:36:21] the only reason and that's you know so that's the thing is we need to pack the courts we need to make it so the the that they can't I don't know it their bait that basically comes down to

[00:36:31] their pistol and go their way so they want to cheat they want to do figure out a way to cheat the system to make it so it goes their way every single time so yeah that's where we're at

[00:36:43] well in my only hope every time this whole court packing thing for supreme court comes up my only hope is that you you are old enough and I am old enough to remember when the rules of

[00:36:57] overturned the rules of senate confirmation were changed it used to be I think it was 6040 you had to have 60 had uh you had to have 60 of the senators that would confirm a political appointment and then the it got changed to 5050 because you know chuck schumer and his infinite

[00:37:16] fucking wisdom got mad that their appointment couldn't be rammed through on a simple 5050 majority vote and he was warned and I remember this sound bite he was warned by congret by congressional republicans you are going to regret doing this because the because the thing

[00:37:36] you were doing today when the when the votes are going the other direction it's going to be done back to you and I'm telling you I've lived long enough to watch that man probably regret

[00:37:46] the decision he made because when it was trump in charge and trump was making appointments the democrats didn't have the votes to hold him back and they would have if they left it the

[00:37:56] way it was previously well but then that's a thing though is they you they go on tv and they cry about it and it's just like well hey listen this is what happened and yeah so yeah

[00:38:07] it's it's crazy I don't know but uh in that same breath I know we kind of touched on it was the supreme court striking down the bump stock band thank so rejoice if you have a bump stock you can

[00:38:20] if you had to bury it put it in a you know put it in a closet put it in the corner shun it do whatever you had to do make it feel bad yell at it and make it call it mean names

[00:38:29] because of the deaths that it the all the death and mayhem that it caused you can now pet on the head and uh and play with it again uh so

[00:38:39] but see I I never had a bump stock I still don't want a bump stock I don't want a bump stock but no that's the thing is yeah I'm the same way is I I don't want to I don't see a need for it I

[00:38:49] don't want one I don't I mean they look fun I've shot them before uh but at the same time I just like force reset triggers and stuff like that I've I've shot those uh they're fun but I personally

[00:39:01] I don't see a need however because I don't see a need for it I don't think it needs to be banned and I also don't believe that it causes all the freaking death and destruction that it

[00:39:13] that the ATF the government and the anti gunner say it did I don't care what you say a bump stock cannot with cannot hold that that rate of fire for that long but we're not going

[00:39:23] there that's a different that's a whole different uh different day but but I take a very different point of view with this whole debate like for me I don't care if a bump stock is a machine gun

[00:39:37] I don't care if it if it I don't I do not care the only standpoint I'm willing to operate from at this point with regards to what civilians be able to be allowed to have and what government

[00:39:47] should be allowed to have is does the government have it are they going to give it up and when the answers are yes and no then I say the civilian should be able to have it so

[00:39:56] the government obviously has lots of machine guns the army has machine guns the freaking marines have machine guns the son of a bitch and coast guard has machine guns the atf has machine guns the doj has machine guns everybody's got machine guns in the government everybody's

[00:40:13] got machine guns everybody's got select fire weapons so I don't care to have a debate about well this thing makes it shoot so much faster and it's so much more dangerous so that people

[00:40:22] can't be trusted with no if the government has it we should have a two period end discussion get over yourselves we should have f-16s and missiles and gatling guns and before anybody comes in me about this whole argument about well should civilians have nuclear weapons I don't

[00:40:35] think the government should have nuclear weapons so that's my standpoint and it's intellectually pretty ironclad I don't think the government should have nukes I don't think they should have chemical weapons I don't think they should have biological weapons even though

[00:40:48] don't get me going down that freaking rabbit hole about what I think COVID might have been gain a function research and this and the other but all I'm saying is if the government has it

[00:40:57] and they're not giving it up then we should have it too and if that makes you uncomfortable then perhaps the problem is that you trust your government more than I do Andrew you have to save the blood pressure warning for when we're streaming

[00:41:10] the one time you use it and we're not live on the air yeah that's okay okay so for the audio listeners um y'all won't hear that but uh probably about I don't know six

[00:41:25] to eight months ago I made one of these goofy little things in it built in our stream yard interface I've made a blood pressure warning and it's a klaxon and like a red text on the screen

[00:41:38] that says warning blood pressure dangerously high and I left it there specifically for Andrew to use when I was cooking one off and he just fired it off and we're not streaming yeah I got you such a working on my timing

[00:41:54] God that is like the biggest that is the biggest emotional cockblocking I've ever seen on this show but seriously like that's that's my whole standpoint I don't I don't care to have a debate

[00:42:05] about how dangerous bump stocks are I don't care to have a debate about whether or not it's full auto or not I don't give a shit right the government had if the government has machine

[00:42:13] guns people should have machine guns too and if if your argument is well bump stocks turns up the end of machine gun I don't care I don't care we should have machine guns too and until I can buy

[00:42:25] machine guns out of a vending machine with no background checks I don't care to have a debate about whether or not bump stocks make something a machine gun yeah and that's and that's the thing

[00:42:34] is uh I mean the whole like everybody with Trump and stuff like that I I he was you know his whole comment about basically giving the ATF the green light to go after bump stocks and like we kind of

[00:42:47] talked about earlier was uh he doing that I remember when we talked about that and he announced it and all that crap and I remember us talking about it and saying well that's a

[00:42:57] slippery slope because that basically gives the ATF you know that they get they gave him the green light too what are they gonna go after next and we're seeing that we're seeing that that

[00:43:07] they basically were giving the green light on this one thing and then they looked at every single thing and said what can we do now they went after I mean the forest reset triggers the frame

[00:43:18] receiver rule the but are the uh the pistol brace rule which just got stopped as well so we'll see where that goes but uh but yeah so it's interesting so I'm glad that this got

[00:43:31] overturned I'm hoping that it this it keeps going which it should it's ridiculous that it even has to go through the courts uh this long anyway uh but uh but yeah uh step in the right

[00:43:45] direction um another supreme court rule was uh they made it basically uh to where the j6 protesters because it wasn't a riot it was not in uh insurrection it was a simple gathering

[00:44:00] in a protest that just got out of hand whether or not you believe that there is fbi in place which I'm sure there were uh well yeah um there there's probably more fbi agents out there than actual

[00:44:12] protesters uh so but the fact that is that the us supreme court basically made it to where makes it harder for like the j6 protesters and stuff like that uh to be charged with the

[00:44:26] the laws that the federal government has and I say federal government I mean the by administration has been using to unconstitutionally jail uh a lot of protesters uh people that they're going after for just simply being there they didn't do anything it was if they were there

[00:44:45] they're being trumped up these charges are being thrown at them it's making it harder so I'm hoping that this actually overturns some of those crap freaking charges and gets a lot of these

[00:44:54] people out of these americans out of out of jail sooner than uh sooner than later and sooner than it'd be nice to see all of them out because it's unconstitutional what they're going through

[00:45:09] yeah so my standpoint on this whole thing is that like I've reviewed as much of the information around january 6th is humanly possible and I will be the first to admit I have seen evidence that there were people who were genuinely behaving like assholes violent breaking stuff

[00:45:28] throwing stuff at police officers take every one of them and charge them with exactly what they did no more no less and hold them to account but I've also seen lots of evidence of people who

[00:45:39] literally like got to a door that was propped open walked inside broke nothing and basically helped themselves to an unscheduled tour of the building and those two groups of people are being charged with the exact same thing which is stupid and that's my gripe with jdrae 6th or

[00:45:59] there because or they were let in that's the thing too is like they were led in by the police yeah by the capital police they were let in the door showed around they were seen there's

[00:46:07] a video of them walking around talking and the guy like police are officers or they're pointing stuff out and they're talking casually and they're just people walking around and saying oh well hey what's this over here and whatever but the thing is though is that's that's a taxpayer

[00:46:22] building yeah like I mean you shouldn't I mean if I want to walk in there right now I should bail it to and without warning and without cause and without an appointment all that crap but

[00:46:33] do we even approach the fact that like one pro tester Ashley Babbit was shot dead by capital whole police officer there's been best I can tell no frigging investigation or anything done into

[00:46:43] that shoot to determine if it was a good shoot or not I mean the the person who put his knee on George Floyd's neck was crucified in court over a course of six months his life was torn apart

[00:46:55] to tell to find out if that was proper action taken or not but a guy does this unarmed woman in front of a hundred witnesses and video no investigation yeah on video no investigation

[00:47:09] I'm sorry I just like there's there's a level of hypocrisy in place around the events of January 6th that I am just not able or willing to go along with because it just makes no freaking sense to me

[00:47:22] I got into a into a very very passionate discussion with someone that I love dearly who's very close to me huh said you get into a passionate discussion don't don't beat me to the punchline

[00:47:35] and they refer to January 6th as the insurrection and I don't know maybe I there was a lot going on in my personal life right then maybe I was just really keyed up but I let it out I flat out told that

[00:47:47] person I'm like that wasn't an insurrection and they they started trumpeting you know NBC ABC bull crap and I shut them down mid-sentence and I said no I'm like do you want to know

[00:48:00] what theoretically in Minecraft I would do if I were trying to quote unquote overturn the government in that crowd on that freaking day do you know what those people would have done from the standpoint

[00:48:12] of like a military veteran who has training and how to friggin put together these kinds of operations to do direct assault do you want to know what we would have done and I walked her through a whole

[00:48:22] plan and she sat there with her mouth hanging open and I was like if that was an insurrection if that was an attempt to take over the government it was the least it was the most poorly orchestrated

[00:48:35] most poorly equipped and most bullheaded stupid plan I've ever seen in my life because no one with any amount of experience and how to properly take a building and secure the people

[00:48:47] inside and take hostages would have done this this way so on the face of it I am not willing to accept that that was an insurrection that's bull crap because if it were truly an effort to take

[00:49:02] the government to capture all the people that were in that building that day it would have been done drastically differently and that's that is why from the work go I've never been able to

[00:49:13] accept that this was insurrection I do believe that there were people there that were protesting who probably got riled up and did some stupid shit and by all means if they broke stuff to face

[00:49:24] property or injured her capital C police officers then charge them with it but when you start talking about grandma and what was it what was the guy the guy that had the buffalo horns and

[00:49:36] oh the uh uh the shaman the uh oh yeah whatever he was yeah whatever there the QAnon shaman but when you start talking about them just walking through goofing around and everything get over yourselves you can't convince me that's an insurrection we what it was

[00:49:52] was a bunch of people who friggin let themselves into a building that they weren't supposed to so charge them with simple trespassing give them community service and let them freaking go

[00:50:01] the fact that they've been in jail for years is stupid and it was stupid to pursue the charges it was stupid it had to go to the supreme court it was stupid that it had it took this long before

[00:50:15] some bought some jurisdiction finally said this was stupid and I feel as though the DNC the democrats have they have freaking set fire to so much political capital by pursuing these people to this degree that it looks punitive and it looks political to a large segment of

[00:50:35] independence now and that's the dangerous part the there are people who will always see j6 an insurrection you can't change their minds it's not possible there are people who will never see it as an insurrection you can't change their minds but there's this big chunk of people

[00:50:50] in the middle and they're starting to look at this with side eye not that I think there's enough of those people left in the world because I don't know man the more I look at politics in

[00:51:00] this country the more bifurcated it looks and the less I see people using any amount of common sense to try to tease these things apart yeah that's too fil rants maybe we just shouldn't stream anymore

[00:51:13] for some reason being a being being on the internet in front of people just calms me down maybe we should just I should just sit here in a dark room with a cup of coffee and just

[00:51:21] let it fly every time there you go um so yeah so basically our last thing we want to discuss is uh julian assange yes he is free after what four years been a hot man i'm uh i mean i know he's

[00:51:42] been in a battle a legal battle freaking for this article says like 14 years which is nuts but uh basically he pled guilty to us espionage charge so basically he pled guilty looks like

[00:51:59] they sat and done with like 64 months or some crap like that and then times 62 months he is due to be sent in 62 months time already served so he's being released and all the stuff that he has on the government magically disappeared coincidentally i'm sure yeah that's that's odd

[00:52:21] yeah my understanding from what I read was that that was part of his plea agreement was that he had to expunge all that information from his media sources and then he had to swear an affidavit

[00:52:32] that he was destroying all the original sources yeah which it's i mean it's already on the internet so i'm sure it can be dug up somewhere but well and that's the thing of it is that

[00:52:44] what julian assange so what the what the government is going to have to learn the hard way because you know you would have thought they learned this with cody wilson when it was the liberator and defense distributed and when it was 3d printed guns and apparently they've

[00:52:58] got to learn this the freaking hard way with julian assange all over again is that once one of these people who is prepared to risk it all puts it on the internet you've already lost

[00:53:09] you cannot stop the signal you cannot turn off the way back machine like once it's on the internet it's in the wild and it will always be in the wild it will always be on a thumb drive in

[00:53:20] somebody's basement it will always be on a cd rom it will always be on a backup hard drive someplace in in somebody's basement you will never ever ever manage to get rid of it once it's on the

[00:53:32] internet it will always be there and it will hide from you and it'll pop back up at the least convenient moments so the moment julian assange put all that information out on the dnc all the leak

[00:53:41] emails all the friggin all the efforts to um to like tilt the 2016 election towards hillary away from bernie sanders once he put all that on the internet he had already won he won the war

[00:53:55] before he the first shot was even fired and yet there are people in our government who are still trying to play checkers with people who are playing chess and that's why i agree with you

[00:54:09] wholeheartedly like this idea that well we made him take down the stuff we didn't like and he has to burn the sources so freaking what he already won he won the minute he did it and he won for years

[00:54:21] afterwards while you were pulling your paintings at your butt trying to figure out how to get him to stop it was too late so at this point yeah he can he can he can say sorry for being a bad boy

[00:54:32] and undo quote unquote undo it all but it's too late he's already won now the one thing i would love to point out a mo at a moment like this is that julian assange is what we used to call a

[00:54:46] journalist he's a person who goes looking for information sources that are not popular with the current or any freaking government and publishes them for the people to be able to keep an eye on

[00:54:57] what their government is doing and this level of persecution towards him ought to be alarming but i feel like a broad swath of the american public is probably either neutral or a okay with it because

[00:55:13] he's doing bad things because that's what their government told them to be i just feel like this is another great example of like the fact that somehow somehow over a course of 240 something years

[00:55:27] we've gone from a people who intrinsically distrusted our government to a group of people who like ba in the field and eat the grass and do what we're told and think what we're told

[00:55:41] and behave like we're told and anyone who speaks unpopular truths that we used to call a journalist and we used to by the way by our way the way go out of our way to protect we're now happy to see

[00:55:54] them locked up in prison for doing what nothing more nothing less than telling the american people hey your government's doing some shady stuff you all should know about it i mean ask me how i

[00:56:05] feel about edwards noden same freaking problem and he's been very upfront about the fact that and i'm sure julien is a lot of science would probably echo this who am i guilty of betraying

[00:56:17] if what i did was take information about the government and i gave it to the people who did i betray i mean but that's the thing is like i mean the people and i feel like we're

[00:56:29] on the same page but the same people who if you're if you're upset and you're worried and you're you're tired of like the second amendment being trampled on you should be feeling the exact

[00:56:39] same way about the first amendment and if you're somebody who's upset about the first amendment but you're not upset about like the second amendment or actually any of them being trampled on you should probably really reevaluate your feelings and your thought process because you

[00:56:54] should be upset that our entire constitution at one time or another and currently is still being completely trampled on non-stop by our current government of any administration every single administration is guilty of it republican democrat i don't care what color

[00:57:11] blue red rd whatever it is they have trampled completely on our constitution every single amendment everyone has been trampled on and so the fact that if you but that's the thing is like

[00:57:26] if you look at it and you're upset that if you're upset that the first amendment has been trampled on but then you're not upset about the other ones you yeah like i said you need to kind of

[00:57:37] reevaluate some stuff because you should be upset that every one of them especially the first you know the first two like the first and second amendment they're the first and second for a

[00:57:47] reason and if it weren't for those i mean they take away our guns and our free speech i mean it's we're yeah it we're gonna be political prisoners for the rest of our lives

[00:57:59] and generations to come so yeah well let's let's put the first amendment into context the the the lynchpins of the first amendment were first of all that the government could not

[00:58:12] establish a religion and that is because when we were all you know jolly old subjects of the king of england there was a state-sponsored religion and you were required to be a part of it and you were

[00:58:23] required to tithe to it and that's why our founding fathers said nope we're not having any part of that there will be no state spot state-founded religion everybody can do whatever the hell they

[00:58:30] want pray to whatever you want have fun and then they also said and by the way while we're on that on that subject you have the constitutional right to protest your government because if

[00:58:41] you spoke out against the king of england you usually disappeared so all i'm saying is is like anytime we have trouble figuring out what those funny old men and white wigs really meant when

[00:58:51] they wrote these things all we have to do is look 40 50 years earlier 40 50 years prior to 1775 and we say what was going on between us and the king of england at that time you were not allowed to protest your government you were not allowed to politely decline to

[00:59:08] be involved in the king's religion you were not allowed to own arms you had no expectation of a fair speedy trial you had no right to privacy and so when you start looking at all of our constitutional amendments our founding fathers

[00:59:22] literally wrote a blueprint for how our country was going to be fundamentally different from the one they had left behind and what do we have today hate speech laws i would make a hell of a good argument even though some way out there's going to get wildly

[00:59:38] offended by this and i don't give a shit but i would argue that pride in you know being sponsored by local state and federal government and pride being in classrooms is a state sponsored religion

[00:59:48] convince me otherwise if you don't think so uh all the gun control laws goes against the second amendment uh search and seizure search and seizure being what it is um i would argue

[01:00:02] that the fourth and fifth amendment would have been completely torn apart i would say that the government's ability to punt a case down the road indefinitely to bleed you dry until you plead

[01:00:13] is an abridgment of a fourth and fifth amendment rights speedy trial trial by your trial of your by jury of your peers i mean we could do an hour long episode talking about all the way our

[01:00:23] constitutional rights have been torn apart over the years but what it goes back to is that we started off as a nation by saying this is the nation we left behind we're not going to do

[01:00:33] this again and 250 years later i feel like we're almost right back where we started which is freaking frustrating yeah it's uh yeah 248 years uh is what we're going on uh and which is honestly

[01:00:48] will we make it to 250 at this rate well you know what they say about uh um about empires and stuff so uh but uh but yeah no it's uh it's pretty interesting because yeah and and honestly 200

[01:01:02] with the grand scheme of things as far as how old some of these other countries i mean look at how old china is and how far that dates back and uh and everything it's 248 years is not that long

[01:01:12] of time for people to say hey this is the right way of doing stuff and then it completely just goes south uh from there so yeah so very interesting yeah well i guess as we go ahead go to wrap

[01:01:27] this up because now you got to get off to work and i got stuff to do yeah but like this is something that we see very often in the business world where a group of people start a business and it

[01:01:38] it's a beautiful idea and it runs great everything's super efficient and then the successive generation of managers don't have the same passion or don't have the same ideals or they don't have the same expertise and so the business runs a little bit less efficiency

[01:01:53] and every time every generation that management turns over the business slowly grinds to a halt because the genius that started the business and i don't mean genius in a singular but the genius the intelligence the ideals the methodology that started the business is no longer the one that's

[01:02:08] running it and i feel like that's what we have here the founding fathers were geniuses they were ideologues by the way they were people who like fundamentally if you told them well you're

[01:02:21] not running your country right they would tell you to go to hell they didn't care they didn't care to have a debate about how the king's rule was better than what they had set up they were ideologues they

[01:02:30] were ardent ideologues and they were also freaking geniuses to set up a system in which the rabble the people could rule themselves through elected through electing their leaders in a way that that could happen without turning in anarchy for 250 years they were geniuses but every

[01:02:47] success of generation of leaders we've had since then has effed this up worse every time and now we're where we are today how do we fix it i don't know man i'm going back to the four seasons

[01:02:59] argument you know that the weak men have made hard times that's why we're in situation we're in today the hard times are gonna have to make strong men strong men are gonna have to unscrew

[01:03:09] this whole problem welcome to phil's ted talk welcome to phil's ted talk how do we make things better by letting it burn to the ground and then plow all the ashes into the ground to

[01:03:19] fertilize the next generation have fun well fun all right well you have fun today yeah i'm sure i will i gotta go do a good deed and go run some errands but we'll talk to everybody another week

[01:03:33] and uh maybe just maybe andrew will bust out the blood pressure warning on me when i'm in the middle of just screaming bloody murder live on the air one time matter of fact hex podcast going out the door good night everybody see you