They Hate the Constitution!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Assault on our constitution and assault on our republic again.
You go to Ben Franklin. Got a republic if you
can keep it? Do we want to even keep it anymore?
Are we going to be able to keep it? There
was a poll that was done asking Americans if they
could name all three branches of the US government. Yeah,

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one third, one third. One third of the people polled couldn't.
Couldn't name the three branches of the US government. Most
of them didn't really even know what was in the
First Amendment. For crying out loud, these people vote. There

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was a piece today Jonathan Turley Vote a piece for
the Wall Street Journal talking about what progressives are doing,
what the left is doing, and the assault on our
constitution again. You hear them all the time. Every Kamala
Harris rally. She talks about saving democracy. We're saving democracy.

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They're not. They don't like it. Okay, they don't like
our republic. It gets in the way of what their
their belief system is in many respects. In many respects,
they're They're a lot like Gi Hottis. They're a lot

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like the Gi Hotties or the Taliban. They want no,
no constraints on what they believe is write what they
should do, and most certainly not this this document called
the Constitution. Again, you've talked a lot lately about adding
people to the Supreme Court, Turley points out, these are

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these are legal scholars, okay. Irwin Chemerinski, dean of the
UC Berkeley Law School, author of No Democracy Lasts Forever,
how the Constitution threatens the United States, he called conservative

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justices partisan hacks. New York Times book critic Jennifer Saslai
scoffs at what she calls constitutional worship. She writes, Americans
have long assumed that the Constitution could save us a
growing course. Now wonders whether we need to be saved
from it. She frets that by the power of the
majority of the Constitution can end up fostering widespread cynicism

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that helps authoritarianism grow. In a twenty two New York
Times op ed, the Constitution is broken and should not
be reclaimed law professors Ryan Dorfler of Havard and Samuel
Moyne of Yale called for liberals to reclaim America from

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constitutionalism others going against individual rights, and Turley's book on
Free Speech I discusses the movement against what many professors
deride as rights talk. Barbara McQuaid of the University of
Michigan Law School has called free speech America's achilles heel.

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In other times, op ed the First Amendment is out
of control. Columbia law professor Tim Wu, a former White
House aid Biden White House it It asserts that free
speech now mostly protects corporate interests and threatens he essential
jobs of the state, such as protecting national security and
the safety and privacy of its citizens. George Washington University

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of Law. Mary Anne Franks complains at the First Amendment
and also the second is too aggressively individualistic and endangers
domestic tranquility and general welfare. Democrats are listened to this
aach right aak Alexander Kanzio Cortes talking about her support

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for a court packing bill. Okay, how much does the
current structure benefit us? I don't think it does. Kelly Robinson,
president of the Human Rights campaign set at the Democratic
National Committee's LGBTQ kickoff that we've got to reimagine democracy
in a way that's more revolutionary than that little piece

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of paper. And then you get the nation's Elie misstyle.
I don't even know if this guys, I don't even
know if this is serious. You take a look at
this guy. He looks like he belongs at the bar
scene and uh that and in Star Wars there right
that you know that you ever seen this guy? He
calls the Constitution trash and urges the abolition of the

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US Senate and Rosa Brooks Georgetown law Americans are slaves
to the Constitution. I have I've been saying for some
time that our system, they always they talk about communism
and uh fascism and all these various different things. I

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do believe that we are more certainly on a bit
of a fascist bent here in the United States. We
are melding many corporate interests with Washington d C. And
my longtime acxis of evil has gotten more powerful? Has
it not?

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Was?

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Have I been wrong? I put that together making fun
of George W. Bush's acxis of evil? I can't even
remember the year. I did it for crying out loud
a long time ago, big business politicians in the media,
and quite frankly, they're again. They're that trilogy of terror,

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that axis of you, whatever you want to call it.
They're more powerful today than they were then yesterday. Yesterday again,
I read that quote from Alexander Fraser Tyler talking about
and we were talking about taxes, and I thought about it.

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I thought about it, and I said to myself, you know,
I was talking about, you know, how the sequence, the sequence,
how democracies, republics, how they progress, and going from bondage
to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from
courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness,

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from selfishness to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence
back to bondage. We got to get back to spiritual
faith here in this and I do believe that I do.
That's that's what we're missing right now. That's what's really
I want to say, lost in the sauce right now

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is getting people back and to church, a little bit
of you know, fear of God, which again has disappeared
in many places again many places. I'm seeing it coming
back with the vengeance, and I'm happy to hear. You know,
many different areas in the country that are doing well
with this. Again. A big fan of Ascension and Hallow

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and the things that they've been doing. And you take
a look at the success of the television show that
chosen and some of the other things that are coming
down the pike, which is good. Which good again gives
me hope. But that's what we're going to have to
circle back to. I mean, our founders knew this. They

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knew that it doesn't work. You know, the republic like
ours is not going to work unless you have people
that have, I guess, a moral center, a faithful people.
They knew they were aware of that. And you're not
worshiping you know.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
My truth?

Speaker 2 (08:30):
What I want what feels good? No, no, no, no,
that's that's not what it is. Again. We have individual
rights here in the country. But the thing about again
individual rights, which is great, I could say do whatever
I want, you have to have that moral center. You
want true freedom again, you got to be able to,

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you know, check yourself. And we don't have that anymore.
We don't. It's it's if I like it, follow my heart.
I'm gonna do this. You don't know. No, it's wrong
and that's what we're missing, and that's what kind of
have to circle back to people. And I don't know
if we will, you know, God willing it happens, but

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if not, I mean we're going down a dangerous path
and it's not the first time, it won't be the
last time. Watch Dog on Wall Street dot Com