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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, I was confused if today's word of the day
was going to be prostitute, lesbian, or bank robber. But
let me do all three. Prostitute someone elected to represent
the people, yet sells out and takes money from donors
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that are antithetical to their constituents' well being. Lesbian a
person that has no sexual attraction to men, but is
sexually attracted to women that work hard to present as men.
Note not to be confused with the lipstick lesbians. Bank
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robber a profession I've often thought about getting into Oh
come on, not really, I just want to go in
there and steal all their suckers.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
So I'm looking at my driver's license. I don't know
what that was about.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
We were having a little bit of fun on Friday,
because it's just whatever stupid word or phrase that we
picked up that we said randomly because we were talking
about redheads being hot. The text messages doesn't talk backs about,
you know, redheads. So we're talking about random words. And
so then somebody you know, glommed onto that. But you
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don't get to pick the random word, you know, the
random murder.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
The random word occurs organically, naturally.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I can go to random word generator and type that
in and find something if we would like.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
No, okay, cause that way, because that way it's not
it's not organic. It's true, it won't be just randomly
picked a word, but it'll be definitely be random. But
it would be random, but it's not. It's not going
to be organic. Right. Yeah. Well anyway, so you know,
I'm leaving for Chicago's you know today, Who cares I do?
Because it's two days I'll be gone, so I can't,
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you know, And I'm going to do something I love,
which is, you know, dodge bullets in Chicago, So that'll
be fun. But and in doing so, not not not
in playing the yild to Chicago, but in doing show prep,
I run across this announcement. So I pulled out my
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Colorado driver's license, Colorado, USA across the top in green.
Of course it's green because you know we're a green state.
You know, we're actually a blue state, but they like
to pretend that we're a green state. And it says
in here that it is a driver license. That's that's
kind of good to know, I mean, otherwise you would
know what this is. Just says state of Colorado's got
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my name, date of birth. It's got a.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I think you can get an ID. It's not a
driver's license right right, I'm sure at that point it
would just say identification card.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Right, just ID or something just right, or identification card.
But it does have a d l R on here,
which or a DL hashtag which I guess means driver's
license number, which is nub blah blah blah blah. And
you got your day to birth, and you got your
expiration date, you got your name, you got your address,
and then you have an issue date. Now it's kind
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on here at sex Now. I don't recall when I
renewed my license back in When did I renew this
back in November, whether I had a choice or not.
It's got my heights, got my baby blue eyes, my
sexy baby blue eyes, Class R restriction C. That's got
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this really ugly, I mean really but ugly photo of me.
In fact, I remember it at the time that I
took this photo. She said do you want to smile?
And I said no.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
When they told me I could not smile, They're like,
don't smile?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Oh she she she maybe she just thought I was
like in a really bad mood, which I wasn't a
really bad mood. And I was in a bad mood
because for the first time I had a previous type
A license, but now I have a restricted license ROW.
I require glasses to drive, which is interesting because had
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I had I covered my left eye when I read
the little chart, I could have read it just fine.
It's when I combined the two of them without glasses.
That's the left eye because of the retina surgery. Is
excuse me, it's so bad that any anyway I need
I need correcting lenses. But I'm looking at this and
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I can. I'm feeling it. Like over here where it's
got the date of birth and license number, those are
raised letters. I'm an organ downer. So there's a little
heart over on the blower right hand corner, and then
it's got it's obviously a oh what do you call it?
It's got the try when when you it's got the uh,
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it's the little embedded what's this word? Uh? Huh? Come on,
let's work on this now, let's think about it.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
You keep on it, help us out you.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I keep wanting to say hieroglyphics. It's not hieroglyphics. Hologram,
hologram thank you hologram. It's got a little hologram of
the state. And then now in the corner it's got
this stupid little it's obviously a copy of my photo.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
And.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's like a goose or there's some something flying, and
it's it's kind of a hologram of some sort. I
don't I don't know what it is. It's so stupid.
Then when you kind of look through the hologram, it's
got you know, mantains and valleys and little hills and
greens and forests, and on the backside there's a bar code,
and there's a QR code, and then there's another bar code.
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It's got the little stripe another hologram of the mountains
and stuff. And I'm thinking, I I I'm thinking to myself,
this will help prevent the delay. So if my flight's delayed,
i'd say, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute, I'm entitled
to an on time performance. But what kind of delay
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is she talking about. I'm not I'm not trying to
be a smart ass here. I'm really thinking what what
what is she trying to what's she trying to say?
Why do I need why do I need to prove
my ident? I didn't say to the government to get
on an airplane to go somewhere. Why I aliens don't.
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They just they just line them up, you know, they
just line them up in ol Passo or you know,
somewhere Vorrez someplace. They just want, I'm on a plane
and bring them in, or vice versa. They just load
them up on the airplane and think about So. Now
nowhere on here does it say real ID. But but
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it's got what can you see it from in there?
I know what it is.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
My wife's a banker, so we oh yeah, so we
got to do with this for years.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah. So it's got the star. It's got the star,
which is not a hologram, which is not raised, which
is just imprinted. I don't know if there's anything embeded
in the star or not. I don't know whether I'm
the stripe or anything. You know, if you were just
swipe this to a card reader, if it would say anything.
But it's got the star, So now I know it's
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a real ID. Now here's the funny part. I'm not
gonna use this when I go to the airport today.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
To make it even more fun and interesting. Not everybody's
got the same star.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Oh, really, what kind of star do you have?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Well, I believe here in Colorado we all have the same.
But I think California their star because our star is
a dark circle.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
With a clear star. That's it.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeah, Now there are some that are just a dark
star with and there is also for California. I believe
their darker background is a bear with a star embedded
on the bear.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
So that's cool because you know, bears the same, but.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So they're not all the same nationwide. So our real
idea is different than California.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Well I wouldn't I wonder I from California if the
if the star on the bear prevents delays. Now I
find that fascinating. Why do I need an ID, a
real ID to walk into a government building that is
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paid for? You know, Tuesday is tax day for all
of you that don't get extensions like I have to
every year because my stupid k one.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Are why and looking at some more to some have
a gold background, gold circle with a oh a gold star.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Because we're in Colorado, we get a blackstar. Yeah, yeah,
we don't get a gold star. We get a black star. Well,
then then I'm totally in support a Senate bill twenty
five to three because who cares about guns? Because this
is going to keep me safe. This little card is
going to keep me safe because I mean it prevents
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fraud and enhancesecurity. Uh fraud from what people get defrauded
all the time. Uh, you know they get someone social security. Yeah,
I'd be more concerned about the real idea of might
say my social Security ID, you know which, I have
no clue where my Social Security card is. I assume
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it's in in a vault somewhere where it's in the safe,
in one of those we've got to it a little
safe within a safe. It's probably down in there where
marriage license and our wills and testaments all that. You know,
it's in the safe and the safe and the safe
kind of you know, like a Patucia the call. It's
it's kind of dull. It's kind of just buried and
buried and buried. Do you're a part to protect the country? Now?
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When I when I go to the airport today, I'm
not going to use this because I will use my
Global entry form, I'll use my passport one or or
I'll go through clear uh and and use that. But
have you thought about why is it now? What I
find funny. Is now this is as as of May
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seven of this year, American travelers, travelers nothing else, Like
if I walk into the liquor store and they want
to see my ID, they don't go, oh, that's not
a real ID, or if I walk in you know,
or for that matter, let's go back to the federal building.
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I walk into a federal building. Let let's say I
walk into the courthouse because I just want to go
watch I want to go watch a trial. There's a
trial going on, and I want to go watch a trial.
What should what should the court room? What should the
US marshalls care about? What should the Federal Protective Service
care about? That I don't have a gun or a
bomb when I walk into the building, or a knife,
you know, or a sharp sharp object? Do they care
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who I am? What difference does it make who I am?
It shouldn't make any difference, done whatsoever. But yet we're
all clamoring for real ID. Well, anyway, so as of
little less than a month from now, you'll be requite. Now,
remember this has been put off and put off and
put off and put off and put off. But now
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we finally reached the real, the real idea has reached
the real deadline. Not a Michael Chip in a neck,
not gonna get that, not gonna get chip in the head,
although we probably should, just a driver's license that meets
basic Post nine to eleven federal security standards. Now, yes,
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I'm a libertarian, and I am a I believe someone
of a constitutional scholar, and I have I am awake.
One indignant poster proclaimed on X over the weekend that nope,
that's a constitutional violation of my right to travel, and
another worn with cinematic dread, that next we be banned
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from driving state to state. Others went for orwelliam to
crying the coming police state, accusing Gnome of treason was
apparently enforcing him. Act passed by Congress under my old
boss is now talentmount to betrayal. Let's well, where you've been?
Where have you been? The Real ID Act was passed
in two thousand and five. It's not the you know,
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the evil spawn of the Trump administration. Christynam just didn't
come up with this. It was part of the Emergency
Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror,
and tsunami relief, all one big, one big beautiful bill
that legislation bundled. In case anybody forgot, was this post
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nine to eleven national security package that was designed to
prevent terrorists from boarding planes with falsified or weak state
I issued ideas. Now, that was the reason back in
two thousand and five. Now let's go forward twenty years.
Is that the real reason we want it now? As
I've maintained for years, I don't really as long as
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they don't stink, as long as they don't want to
chat with me, as long as they don't try to
invade my space, which would preclude click shake Muhammad KSM
because he's big, fat Harry stink ugly, you know, dirt bag.
I really don't care who's sitting next to me. I
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don't care for Sama had been lauden, which I guess
he probably really would stink now because he's turned into
fish food. But I really don't really careful Sama have
been loud in this sitting next to me on the airplane.
As long as they don't have any weapons, that's all
I care about. Just don't have any weapons, don't stink,
and don't try to chat, and we'll get along fine
on the flight. The original enforcement date was two thousand
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and eight stay out seventeen years from the original enforcement
delate delays piled up. There were privacy concerns, there were
budget issues, there were technical infrastructure problems. States balked and
balked and balked. By twenty thirteen, DHS had introduced a
phased enforcement plan. Then by twenty twenty all fifty states
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and DC were certified compliant, issuing real ID compliant credentials,
and then territories like Puerto Rico and guambe followed suit.
By twenty twenty four, no state is currently applying for
a waiver, not one. As of today, the United States
is fully real ID compliant. And yet now in twenty
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twenty five, when the law is finally taking a fact
in this most basic application boarding domestic lights, it's funny
that Democrats have decided that this is the hill to
die on. Now we can argue for I just find
it funny they're doing it now again. I get back
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to the airlines can require me to prove who I
am because I have engaged in a commercial, contry, tractual
legal transaction with the airline I have purchased, of course
on United because I'm a prostitute for United. I have
purchased a round trip ticket to O'Hare and back on
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United Airlines. I've entered into a legal contractual agreement which
limits my ability of what I can and cannot do
with that carriage of contract, which is my ticket. So
the airlines have a legal and I think a legitimate
requirement for knowing who I am, so that I don't
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give the ticket to Dragon, or I don't sell it
on the black market, or I don't do you know
what instead of I decide today, you know what, Dragon,
I really don't want to go to Chicago. Why don't
you go in my place? Here's a ticket you go. Well,
the carriage of contract, the count which I emphasize contract
prohibits me from doing that. But Nola's said all of
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that side, I've checked in. They validated who I am. Yes,
you and I are the ones that edited into the contract.
Now I'm going through security. What does security care about
who I am? What should security care about? Because they
don't care about the illegal aliens. They don't require ID
for them, why do they require ID for me? And
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I do think there's some constitutional issues here.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Hey, Michael, come on, man, you are all part of
that Department of Homeland Security. So don't act surprise, just
more and more taken away our rights. Meanwhile, yeah, as
you said, the illegals come and go, come and go.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Yet I have to have a passport to come into
my countrys the whole system.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Was she in the shower or frying bacon?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Oh, bacon, bacon?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Did you hear that background noise?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yeah, it was there, But I assume shower to begin with,
because it's morning. People often shower in the morning. But
I like your bacon idea because.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I listened closely, and quite honestly, I kind of started
to tune her out because I was too busy trying
to figure out what the background noise was. Is it
is she in the shower or getting ready to get
in the shower, or she in the kitchen frying some
bacon and eggs. I want to think it's the latter bacon.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
And I really don't want to picture some of the
audience naked in the shower.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
We hear that disturbs No. Yeah, now one of the
reasons that now this was not you got to remember
this story, And you're right, I was part of all
of this. That's why I walk around with my head
and shame all the time. I walk around with a
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big with a big placard. This says I was original.
I was a part of the original DHS. Please forgive me,
and people stone me and throw things at me all
the time. It's really pathetic. I can't go out in
public anymore. But at the time, in five the reason
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for the real ID, and let's not blame this so
much on Bush, as we should blame it on Congress,
was that they really did want a national ID, and
that's what this has become. But since then it's become
even more of a national ID because the states began
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issuing driver's licenses to illegal aliens. Now, states like California
and New York have provided licenses to individuals who cannot
prove their lawful presence in the United States. Those licenses
are I've not seen one, so anybody who lives in
New York or California's more than welcome to send me
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a photo of your or driver's license if you want to.
But those licensees are explicitly marked as quote in all caps,
not for federal purposes, which is at least a statutory
acknowledgment that they do not comply with the real ID Act,
because the real ID Act requires proof of legal residents,
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and that's not negotiable. If a person cannot demonstrate lawful
presence lawful status, then they cannot get a real ID
comply in driver's license. So it exists to prevent individuals
who are in the country and lawfully from using state
documents to gain access to federal functions such. But is
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it a federal function to board a domestic flight? Is
it a federal function to enter a courthouse? Is it
a federal function? I mean, what else? What else would
you possible need? I suppose if you went, and I've
never done this, so I don't know. But if you go,
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if you go, apply for like I don't ever remember
applying for well. I think I did have to fail
out some form, but I don't ever recall. I mean
I never I've never been in a Social Security office
in my entire life. I wouldn't even I couldn't even
tell you where one is in Colorado. I'd have to
go look it up, no idea whatsoever. But I don't
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ever recall. You know, when when when when I reached
the age sixty two where you've got to make a
decision about what you're going to do or not do
that did I don't recall ever, like scanning my driver's license.
I don't. I don't recall doing any of that. I
recall having to go online and set up an account
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and you know, do the two factor authentication, you know,
put in my cell phone number in the or my
email address and then confirming a you know, a verification
code or whatever. But I'm not sure what other federal
functions are there that would require a federal ID the
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two that are presented as Because there are people on
here's what's driving this. As I started digging through this,
a lot of people are making the argument that this
is that I say this, I'm holding up my driver's license,
that this is a violation of the tenth Amendment, that
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driver's licenses are precisely that their licenses to go drive now.
I'm not going to go down the path of I
don't believe that driving is a privilege. I think that
driving is a right. I'm a radical about that. But nonetheless,
I get a driver's license because when I get pulled
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over by a cop, I don't want to have an
argument about why I don't have a driver's license, cause
I don't think I need one, So I yes, I
canpitulate and I get one, and you can judge me
for that. But I believe that I have a right
to go to point from point A to point B
without interference by state or local government, and I have
a right to do so on roads which I have
paid for. Now, if the government wants to regulate my
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speed on that highway or the weight of my vehicle
on that highway in order to preserve the pavement and
do all of that and to lower maintenance costs, than
I'm fine with all of that. But to have a
license to use a car to go from point A
to point B, I just think is unconstitutional. And I'll
always think that you'll never convince me. Otherwise you can try,
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but you won't convince me. And then there are people
that argue that the real ID does not violate the
tenth Amendment, that it is just simply saying to the
states that you have to if you're citizens want to
board an airplane, which is a federal function. Uh now,
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let's think about flying an airplane, or just don't think
about flight, let's think about flying on an airplane on
a commercial flight. Because I don't want to get tangled
up in a pilot's license. I don't want to get
tangled up in air traffic control and the regulations about
you know, the altitude and speed and everything else that
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you're going to fly, because I do believe those are
all valid federal functions to keep the skies safe, and
you need to comply with those. I'm talking about a
commercial passenger like myself on a commercial flight. How in
the hell is that a federal function because my contract
is I literally, I know you don't think about this,
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but the ticket that you buy is a contract, and
the federal government is not a part of that contract.
It's a track between me and United Airlines, Inc. Or
you know, you heard Frontier they're going to redo their
revenue projections or Frontier Airlines. That's that's your carriage of contract. Now,
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there may be a lot of rules and regulations that
govern that carriage of contract, but nonetheless, it's a contract
between me. There's no third party between me and United Airlines.
It's not between me United Airlines and a third party
called I don't know, the FAA or the the Department
of Commerce, you know, contract division for private Rights of
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carriage or whatever. No, No, it's between me and and
the airline. So it's not it's not, in my opinion,
a federal function at all. Now again, let's go to
the courthouse. Whether you're a party to a lawsuit, or
you're a visitor, you're a reporter, or you're just an
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interested party. I have gone to the Tenth Circuit Court
of Appeals when I know that there have been cases
that I find fascinating and I know they're going to
be oral arguments. I have gone to the federal courthouse
in order to hear the oral arguments. Yeah, I'm a
total nerd. Total nerd. That is a federal function walking
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into a federal courthouse. What if I was walking into
a federal courthouse that also happened? Has h I don't
know the Department of Agriculture? What business is it of them,
whether or not I am can now be whether or
not I am a US citizen because non citizens have
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a right to go observe a trial. Non citizens have
a right to walk in and ask questions about the
AG policies. Maybe they work on a farm and they
want to know about a policy, so they walk into
a Department of ag building somewhere, or think about this.
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You're here illegally now right now. It might be kind
of dangerous to do this, But you're here illegally and
you want to walk into and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement office.
You have to have a real ID to do that
because if you don't, well, let's bring up full circle
before we get to the brake time. What has this
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driver's license become if we accept all of those things.
If you accept that you have to have this to
bord An airplane and that somehow that's a federal function.
If you accept that, if you want to go watch
a trial at a federal courthouse and you have to
have a real ID, and if that's a federal function
of some sort, you know what you've done. You've admitted
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that this is a national ID just happens to be
issued stayed by the state of Colorado, with the state
of California, the state of New Mexico, wherever you might be.
So we've now have a national ID that is issued
by a national ID issued by state government. Seems kind
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of odd to me.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Today's random word of the day is smart. Most redheads
are smart and funny. Also in Colorado, it's not smart
to vote for Dems. In the last six years, the
budget has gone from twenty three billion to forty five billion,
a thirty six percent increase, which is ten times the
increase of our population growth. What has it got us?
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Higher taxes and fees, higher cost of living, crappy roads,
and less personal freedoms.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Don't vote them, but look at all the great things
it has brought us. I mean think, just make your
list of all the great things. So I'm going to
go to the text messages about this whole real ID thing.
I'm not sure what the point is here. Forty four
to sixty seven, Mike. When a car is stolen and
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it goes across state lines, doesn't that become a federal crime? Yes,
it is transporting a stolen vehicle or prostitute across state. Yeah,
that's federal crime. Does that have to do with your
real ID? I'm not sure. Wouldn't this same be applied
to if you use your a vehicle to cross state lines?
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Isn't that become a federal control because it's multi state? No? No, no,
it's not. You're you're free to travel from state state
state state. Uh, there's no. And saying that a plane
that's traveling from Chicago to Denver, vice versa. Does that
involve interstate commerce? Yeah, it involves interstate commerce. What does
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that have to do with a federal ID? What does
that have to do with real ID? I'm entitled to
I can, I can walk, I can I can or
take a bike and right across the state line. And
no idea is required at all for that note at all.
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Let's see, you can't fifty five ninety three. You can't
get a library I'm sorry, I a library. You can't
get a library card, and Jeff go without an ID,
A spouse cannot check out their spouse's books. On hold,
you got to have an ID. Okay, again, I'm not
sure what that has to do with real ID, but
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I do find that kind of bizarre that if you
got the same last name. But hey, who knows, Well,
I suppose it doesn't mean it should make a difference. Yes,
because if Dragon and I happen to have the same
last name, I just go say, well, yeah, you know,
my name is you know, Michael Redbeard, and I'm here
to pick up for my brother, Dragon red Beard, and
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I just take the books and just keep them, never
turn them back. Uh, this is interesting thirty six twenty Mike, Well,
how about that? I just checked online it's in the
Google box and found that the TSA is accepting the
Colorado digital ID at the North checkpoint for certain travelers.
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It seems probably a bunch of hoops to jump through,
but since I don't intend to fly much the rest
of my life, I stinly don't much care, so they'll
take the is the digital ID? Is it? By the way,
don't do that. Don't don't put your driver's license on
that digital ID thing. You don't want to hand the
cop your phone. This is now. Listen to eight ninety
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four nine. My wife and the kids met me at
my work to head to the airport. I jumped in
her car get to the airport for my dumbass to
realize I left my wallet at the workplace. No problem.
TSA gets on the phone, asked me some verifying questions
in a way I go. Had to do it again
to get back to Denver. Here's what's interesting. They told
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me I would be unable to fly without an ID
for a two year period after that. Huh, why would
there be a two year period? Anyway, it certainly can
be done yeah, I've not heard this story about a
two year waiting period or whatever. It is a two
year bar, but I've certainly heard of people forgetting their
ID in. And you know, you can say, well, wait
a minute, I've got my American Express card, or I've
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got my concealed carry card, or I've got something else,
and they'll like, okay, well that's good enough. Sixty six
twenty one. For my job, I have to be badged
at DA. To get that badge, you have to show
your birth certificate. They do not take old state issue
birth certificates anymore, but you know what they will take
a student ID. Ah. Well, let's see, I just pulled
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off the Colorado app with my digital Colorado ID on there,
and there's no star. Huh. Oh Colora has been using Yeah,
I think they've been. Colorad's been in compliants for long
time anyway, Just things for you to ponder
Hey, I was confused if today's word of the day
was going to be prostitute, lesbian, or bank robber. But
let me do all three. Prostitute someone elected to represent
the people, yet sells out and takes money from donors
(00:20):
that are antithetical to their constituents' well being. Lesbian a
person that has no sexual attraction to men, but is
sexually attracted to women that work hard to present as men.
Note not to be confused with the lipstick lesbians. Bank
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robber a profession I've often thought about getting into Oh
come on, not really, I just want to go in
there and steal all their suckers.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
So I'm looking at my driver's license. I don't know
what that was about.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
We were having a little bit of fun on Friday,
because it's just whatever stupid word or phrase that we
picked up that we said randomly because we were talking
about redheads being hot. The text messages doesn't talk backs about,
you know, redheads. So we're talking about random words. And
so then somebody you know, glommed onto that. But you
(01:23):
don't get to pick the random word, you know, the
random murder.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
The random word occurs organically, naturally.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I can go to random word generator and type that
in and find something if we would like.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
No, okay, cause that way, because that way it's not
it's not organic. It's true, it won't be just randomly
picked a word, but it'll be definitely be random. But
it would be random, but it's not. It's not going
to be organic. Right. Yeah. Well anyway, so you know,
I'm leaving for Chicago's you know today, Who cares I do?
Because it's two days I'll be gone, so I can't,
(02:01):
you know, And I'm going to do something I love,
which is, you know, dodge bullets in Chicago, So that'll
be fun. But and in doing so, not not not
in playing the yild to Chicago, but in doing show prep,
I run across this announcement. So I pulled out my
(02:25):
Colorado driver's license, Colorado, USA across the top in green.
Of course it's green because you know we're a green state.
You know, we're actually a blue state, but they like
to pretend that we're a green state. And it says
in here that it is a driver license. That's that's
kind of good to know, I mean, otherwise you would
know what this is. Just says state of Colorado's got
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my name, date of birth. It's got a.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I think you can get an ID. It's not a
driver's license right right, I'm sure at that point it
would just say identification card.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Right, just ID or something just right, or identification card.
But it does have a d l R on here,
which or a DL hashtag which I guess means driver's
license number, which is nub blah blah blah blah. And
you got your day to birth, and you got your
expiration date, you got your name, you got your address,
and then you have an issue date. Now it's kind
(03:20):
on here at sex Now. I don't recall when I
renewed my license back in When did I renew this
back in November, whether I had a choice or not.
It's got my heights, got my baby blue eyes, my
sexy baby blue eyes, Class R restriction C. That's got
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this really ugly, I mean really but ugly photo of me.
In fact, I remember it at the time that I
took this photo. She said do you want to smile?
And I said no.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
When they told me I could not smile, They're like,
don't smile?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Oh she she she maybe she just thought I was
like in a really bad mood, which I wasn't a
really bad mood. And I was in a bad mood
because for the first time I had a previous type
A license, but now I have a restricted license ROW.
I require glasses to drive, which is interesting because had
(04:21):
I had I covered my left eye when I read
the little chart, I could have read it just fine.
It's when I combined the two of them without glasses.
That's the left eye because of the retina surgery. Is
excuse me, it's so bad that any anyway I need
I need correcting lenses. But I'm looking at this and
(04:43):
I can. I'm feeling it. Like over here where it's
got the date of birth and license number, those are
raised letters. I'm an organ downer. So there's a little
heart over on the blower right hand corner, and then
it's got it's obviously a oh what do you call it?
It's got the try when when you it's got the uh,
(05:13):
it's the little embedded what's this word? Uh? Huh? Come on,
let's work on this now, let's think about it.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
You keep on it, help us out you.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I keep wanting to say hieroglyphics. It's not hieroglyphics. Hologram,
hologram thank you hologram. It's got a little hologram of
the state. And then now in the corner it's got
this stupid little it's obviously a copy of my photo.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
And.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's like a goose or there's some something flying, and
it's it's kind of a hologram of some sort. I
don't I don't know what it is. It's so stupid.
Then when you kind of look through the hologram, it's
got you know, mantains and valleys and little hills and
greens and forests, and on the backside there's a bar code,
and there's a QR code, and then there's another bar code.
(06:08):
It's got the little stripe another hologram of the mountains
and stuff. And I'm thinking, I I I'm thinking to myself,
this will help prevent the delay. So if my flight's delayed,
i'd say, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute, I'm entitled
to an on time performance. But what kind of delay
(06:33):
is she talking about. I'm not I'm not trying to
be a smart ass here. I'm really thinking what what
what is she trying to what's she trying to say?
Why do I need why do I need to prove
my ident? I didn't say to the government to get
on an airplane to go somewhere. Why I aliens don't.
(06:55):
They just they just line them up, you know, they
just line them up in ol Passo or you know,
somewhere Vorrez someplace. They just want, I'm on a plane
and bring them in, or vice versa. They just load
them up on the airplane and think about So. Now
nowhere on here does it say real ID. But but
(07:18):
it's got what can you see it from in there?
I know what it is.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
My wife's a banker, so we oh yeah, so we
got to do with this for years.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah. So it's got the star. It's got the star,
which is not a hologram, which is not raised, which
is just imprinted. I don't know if there's anything embeded
in the star or not. I don't know whether I'm
the stripe or anything. You know, if you were just
swipe this to a card reader, if it would say anything.
But it's got the star, So now I know it's
(07:49):
a real ID. Now here's the funny part. I'm not
gonna use this when I go to the airport today.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
To make it even more fun and interesting. Not everybody's
got the same star.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Oh, really, what kind of star do you have?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Well, I believe here in Colorado we all have the same.
But I think California their star because our star is
a dark circle.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
With a clear star. That's it.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeah, Now there are some that are just a dark
star with and there is also for California. I believe
their darker background is a bear with a star embedded
on the bear.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
So that's cool because you know, bears the same, but.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So they're not all the same nationwide. So our real
idea is different than California.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Well I wouldn't I wonder I from California if the
if the star on the bear prevents delays. Now I
find that fascinating. Why do I need an ID, a
real ID to walk into a government building that is
(09:17):
paid for? You know, Tuesday is tax day for all
of you that don't get extensions like I have to
every year because my stupid k one.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Are why and looking at some more to some have
a gold background, gold circle with a oh a gold star.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Because we're in Colorado, we get a blackstar. Yeah, yeah,
we don't get a gold star. We get a black star. Well,
then then I'm totally in support a Senate bill twenty
five to three because who cares about guns? Because this
is going to keep me safe. This little card is
going to keep me safe because I mean it prevents
(09:58):
fraud and enhancesecurity. Uh fraud from what people get defrauded
all the time. Uh, you know they get someone social security. Yeah,
I'd be more concerned about the real idea of might
say my social Security ID, you know which, I have
no clue where my Social Security card is. I assume
(10:19):
it's in in a vault somewhere where it's in the safe,
in one of those we've got to it a little
safe within a safe. It's probably down in there where
marriage license and our wills and testaments all that. You know,
it's in the safe and the safe and the safe
kind of you know, like a Patucia the call. It's
it's kind of dull. It's kind of just buried and
buried and buried. Do you're a part to protect the country? Now?
(10:39):
When I when I go to the airport today, I'm
not going to use this because I will use my
Global entry form, I'll use my passport one or or
I'll go through clear uh and and use that. But
have you thought about why is it now? What I
find funny. Is now this is as as of May
(11:01):
seven of this year, American travelers, travelers nothing else, Like
if I walk into the liquor store and they want
to see my ID, they don't go, oh, that's not
a real ID, or if I walk in you know,
or for that matter, let's go back to the federal building.
(11:23):
I walk into a federal building. Let let's say I
walk into the courthouse because I just want to go
watch I want to go watch a trial. There's a
trial going on, and I want to go watch a trial.
What should what should the court room? What should the
US marshalls care about? What should the Federal Protective Service
care about? That I don't have a gun or a
bomb when I walk into the building, or a knife,
you know, or a sharp sharp object? Do they care
(11:46):
who I am? What difference does it make who I am?
It shouldn't make any difference, done whatsoever. But yet we're
all clamoring for real ID. Well, anyway, so as of
little less than a month from now, you'll be requite. Now,
remember this has been put off and put off and
put off and put off and put off. But now
(12:07):
we finally reached the real, the real idea has reached
the real deadline. Not a Michael Chip in a neck,
not gonna get that, not gonna get chip in the head,
although we probably should, just a driver's license that meets
basic Post nine to eleven federal security standards. Now, yes,
(12:30):
I'm a libertarian, and I am a I believe someone
of a constitutional scholar, and I have I am awake.
One indignant poster proclaimed on X over the weekend that nope,
that's a constitutional violation of my right to travel, and
another worn with cinematic dread, that next we be banned
(12:54):
from driving state to state. Others went for orwelliam to
crying the coming police state, accusing Gnome of treason was
apparently enforcing him. Act passed by Congress under my old
boss is now talentmount to betrayal. Let's well, where you've been?
Where have you been? The Real ID Act was passed
in two thousand and five. It's not the you know,
(13:16):
the evil spawn of the Trump administration. Christynam just didn't
come up with this. It was part of the Emergency
Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror,
and tsunami relief, all one big, one big beautiful bill
that legislation bundled. In case anybody forgot, was this post
(13:37):
nine to eleven national security package that was designed to
prevent terrorists from boarding planes with falsified or weak state
I issued ideas. Now, that was the reason back in
two thousand and five. Now let's go forward twenty years.
Is that the real reason we want it now? As
I've maintained for years, I don't really as long as
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they don't stink, as long as they don't want to
chat with me, as long as they don't try to
invade my space, which would preclude click shake Muhammad KSM
because he's big, fat Harry stink ugly, you know, dirt bag.
I really don't care who's sitting next to me. I
(14:22):
don't care for Sama had been lauden, which I guess
he probably really would stink now because he's turned into
fish food. But I really don't really careful Sama have
been loud in this sitting next to me on the airplane.
As long as they don't have any weapons, that's all
I care about. Just don't have any weapons, don't stink,
and don't try to chat, and we'll get along fine
on the flight. The original enforcement date was two thousand
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and eight stay out seventeen years from the original enforcement
delate delays piled up. There were privacy concerns, there were
budget issues, there were technical infrastructure problems. States balked and
balked and balked. By twenty thirteen, DHS had introduced a
phased enforcement plan. Then by twenty twenty all fifty states
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and DC were certified compliant, issuing real ID compliant credentials,
and then territories like Puerto Rico and guambe followed suit.
By twenty twenty four, no state is currently applying for
a waiver, not one. As of today, the United States
is fully real ID compliant. And yet now in twenty
(15:28):
twenty five, when the law is finally taking a fact
in this most basic application boarding domestic lights, it's funny
that Democrats have decided that this is the hill to
die on. Now we can argue for I just find
it funny they're doing it now again. I get back
(15:51):
to the airlines can require me to prove who I
am because I have engaged in a commercial, contry, tractual
legal transaction with the airline I have purchased, of course
on United because I'm a prostitute for United. I have
purchased a round trip ticket to O'Hare and back on
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United Airlines. I've entered into a legal contractual agreement which
limits my ability of what I can and cannot do
with that carriage of contract, which is my ticket. So
the airlines have a legal and I think a legitimate
requirement for knowing who I am, so that I don't
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give the ticket to Dragon, or I don't sell it
on the black market, or I don't do you know
what instead of I decide today, you know what, Dragon,
I really don't want to go to Chicago. Why don't
you go in my place? Here's a ticket you go. Well,
the carriage of contract, the count which I emphasize contract
prohibits me from doing that. But Nola's said all of
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that side, I've checked in. They validated who I am. Yes,
you and I are the ones that edited into the contract.
Now I'm going through security. What does security care about
who I am? What should security care about? Because they
don't care about the illegal aliens. They don't require ID
for them, why do they require ID for me? And
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I do think there's some constitutional issues here.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Hey, Michael, come on, man, you are all part of
that Department of Homeland Security. So don't act surprise, just
more and more taken away our rights. Meanwhile, yeah, as
you said, the illegals come and go, come and go.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Yet I have to have a passport to come into
my countrys the whole system.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Was she in the shower or frying bacon?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Oh, bacon, bacon?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Did you hear that background noise?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yeah, it was there, But I assume shower to begin with,
because it's morning. People often shower in the morning. But
I like your bacon idea because.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I listened closely, and quite honestly, I kind of started
to tune her out because I was too busy trying
to figure out what the background noise was. Is it
is she in the shower or getting ready to get
in the shower, or she in the kitchen frying some
bacon and eggs. I want to think it's the latter bacon.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
And I really don't want to picture some of the
audience naked in the shower.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
We hear that disturbs No. Yeah, now one of the
reasons that now this was not you got to remember
this story, And you're right, I was part of all
of this. That's why I walk around with my head
and shame all the time. I walk around with a
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big with a big placard. This says I was original.
I was a part of the original DHS. Please forgive me,
and people stone me and throw things at me all
the time. It's really pathetic. I can't go out in
public anymore. But at the time, in five the reason
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for the real ID, and let's not blame this so
much on Bush, as we should blame it on Congress,
was that they really did want a national ID, and
that's what this has become. But since then it's become
even more of a national ID because the states began
(19:37):
issuing driver's licenses to illegal aliens. Now, states like California
and New York have provided licenses to individuals who cannot
prove their lawful presence in the United States. Those licenses
are I've not seen one, so anybody who lives in
New York or California's more than welcome to send me
(19:59):
a photo of your or driver's license if you want to.
But those licensees are explicitly marked as quote in all caps,
not for federal purposes, which is at least a statutory
acknowledgment that they do not comply with the real ID Act,
because the real ID Act requires proof of legal residents,
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and that's not negotiable. If a person cannot demonstrate lawful
presence lawful status, then they cannot get a real ID
comply in driver's license. So it exists to prevent individuals
who are in the country and lawfully from using state
documents to gain access to federal functions such. But is
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it a federal function to board a domestic flight? Is
it a federal function to enter a courthouse? Is it
a federal function? I mean, what else? What else would
you possible need? I suppose if you went, and I've
never done this, so I don't know. But if you go,
(21:06):
if you go, apply for like I don't ever remember
applying for well. I think I did have to fail
out some form, but I don't ever recall. I mean
I never I've never been in a Social Security office
in my entire life. I wouldn't even I couldn't even
tell you where one is in Colorado. I'd have to
go look it up, no idea whatsoever. But I don't
(21:31):
ever recall. You know, when when when when I reached
the age sixty two where you've got to make a
decision about what you're going to do or not do
that did I don't recall ever, like scanning my driver's license.
I don't. I don't recall doing any of that. I
recall having to go online and set up an account
(21:52):
and you know, do the two factor authentication, you know,
put in my cell phone number in the or my
email address and then confirming a you know, a verification
code or whatever. But I'm not sure what other federal
functions are there that would require a federal ID the
(22:13):
two that are presented as Because there are people on
here's what's driving this. As I started digging through this,
a lot of people are making the argument that this
is that I say this, I'm holding up my driver's license,
that this is a violation of the tenth Amendment, that
(22:35):
driver's licenses are precisely that their licenses to go drive now.
I'm not going to go down the path of I
don't believe that driving is a privilege. I think that
driving is a right. I'm a radical about that. But nonetheless,
I get a driver's license because when I get pulled
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over by a cop, I don't want to have an
argument about why I don't have a driver's license, cause
I don't think I need one, So I yes, I
canpitulate and I get one, and you can judge me
for that. But I believe that I have a right
to go to point from point A to point B
without interference by state or local government, and I have
a right to do so on roads which I have
paid for. Now, if the government wants to regulate my
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speed on that highway or the weight of my vehicle
on that highway in order to preserve the pavement and
do all of that and to lower maintenance costs, than
I'm fine with all of that. But to have a
license to use a car to go from point A
to point B, I just think is unconstitutional. And I'll
always think that you'll never convince me. Otherwise you can try,
(23:44):
but you won't convince me. And then there are people
that argue that the real ID does not violate the
tenth Amendment, that it is just simply saying to the
states that you have to if you're citizens want to
board an airplane, which is a federal function. Uh now,
(24:07):
let's think about flying an airplane, or just don't think
about flight, let's think about flying on an airplane on
a commercial flight. Because I don't want to get tangled
up in a pilot's license. I don't want to get
tangled up in air traffic control and the regulations about
you know, the altitude and speed and everything else that
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you're going to fly, because I do believe those are
all valid federal functions to keep the skies safe, and
you need to comply with those. I'm talking about a
commercial passenger like myself on a commercial flight. How in
the hell is that a federal function because my contract
is I literally, I know you don't think about this,
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but the ticket that you buy is a contract, and
the federal government is not a part of that contract.
It's a track between me and United Airlines, Inc. Or
you know, you heard Frontier they're going to redo their
revenue projections or Frontier Airlines. That's that's your carriage of contract. Now,
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there may be a lot of rules and regulations that
govern that carriage of contract, but nonetheless, it's a contract
between me. There's no third party between me and United Airlines.
It's not between me United Airlines and a third party
called I don't know, the FAA or the the Department
of Commerce, you know, contract division for private Rights of
(25:36):
carriage or whatever. No, No, it's between me and and
the airline. So it's not it's not, in my opinion,
a federal function at all. Now again, let's go to
the courthouse. Whether you're a party to a lawsuit, or
you're a visitor, you're a reporter, or you're just an
(25:57):
interested party. I have gone to the Tenth Circuit Court
of Appeals when I know that there have been cases
that I find fascinating and I know they're going to
be oral arguments. I have gone to the federal courthouse
in order to hear the oral arguments. Yeah, I'm a
total nerd. Total nerd. That is a federal function walking
(26:22):
into a federal courthouse. What if I was walking into
a federal courthouse that also happened? Has h I don't
know the Department of Agriculture? What business is it of them,
whether or not I am can now be whether or
not I am a US citizen because non citizens have
(26:44):
a right to go observe a trial. Non citizens have
a right to walk in and ask questions about the
AG policies. Maybe they work on a farm and they
want to know about a policy, so they walk into
a Department of ag building somewhere, or think about this.
(27:06):
You're here illegally now right now. It might be kind
of dangerous to do this, But you're here illegally and
you want to walk into and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement office.
You have to have a real ID to do that
because if you don't, well, let's bring up full circle
before we get to the brake time. What has this
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driver's license become if we accept all of those things.
If you accept that you have to have this to
bord An airplane and that somehow that's a federal function.
If you accept that, if you want to go watch
a trial at a federal courthouse and you have to
have a real ID, and if that's a federal function
of some sort, you know what you've done. You've admitted
(27:51):
that this is a national ID just happens to be
issued stayed by the state of Colorado, with the state
of California, the state of New Mexico, wherever you might be.
So we've now have a national ID that is issued
by a national ID issued by state government. Seems kind
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of odd to me.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Today's random word of the day is smart. Most redheads
are smart and funny. Also in Colorado, it's not smart
to vote for Dems. In the last six years, the
budget has gone from twenty three billion to forty five billion,
a thirty six percent increase, which is ten times the
increase of our population growth. What has it got us?
(28:35):
Higher taxes and fees, higher cost of living, crappy roads,
and less personal freedoms.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Don't vote them, but look at all the great things
it has brought us. I mean think, just make your
list of all the great things. So I'm going to
go to the text messages about this whole real ID thing.
I'm not sure what the point is here. Forty four
to sixty seven, Mike. When a car is stolen and
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it goes across state lines, doesn't that become a federal crime? Yes,
it is transporting a stolen vehicle or prostitute across state. Yeah,
that's federal crime. Does that have to do with your
real ID? I'm not sure. Wouldn't this same be applied
to if you use your a vehicle to cross state lines?
(29:25):
Isn't that become a federal control because it's multi state? No? No, no,
it's not. You're you're free to travel from state state
state state. Uh, there's no. And saying that a plane
that's traveling from Chicago to Denver, vice versa. Does that
involve interstate commerce? Yeah, it involves interstate commerce. What does
(29:48):
that have to do with a federal ID? What does
that have to do with real ID? I'm entitled to
I can, I can walk, I can I can or
take a bike and right across the state line. And
no idea is required at all for that note at all.
(30:08):
Let's see, you can't fifty five ninety three. You can't
get a library I'm sorry, I a library. You can't
get a library card, and Jeff go without an ID,
A spouse cannot check out their spouse's books. On hold,
you got to have an ID. Okay, again, I'm not
sure what that has to do with real ID, but
(30:29):
I do find that kind of bizarre that if you
got the same last name. But hey, who knows, Well,
I suppose it doesn't mean it should make a difference. Yes,
because if Dragon and I happen to have the same
last name, I just go say, well, yeah, you know,
my name is you know, Michael Redbeard, and I'm here
to pick up for my brother, Dragon red Beard, and
(30:50):
I just take the books and just keep them, never
turn them back. Uh, this is interesting thirty six twenty Mike, Well,
how about that? I just checked online it's in the
Google box and found that the TSA is accepting the
Colorado digital ID at the North checkpoint for certain travelers.
(31:14):
It seems probably a bunch of hoops to jump through,
but since I don't intend to fly much the rest
of my life, I stinly don't much care, so they'll
take the is the digital ID? Is it? By the way,
don't do that. Don't don't put your driver's license on
that digital ID thing. You don't want to hand the
cop your phone. This is now. Listen to eight ninety
(31:35):
four nine. My wife and the kids met me at
my work to head to the airport. I jumped in
her car get to the airport for my dumbass to
realize I left my wallet at the workplace. No problem.
TSA gets on the phone, asked me some verifying questions
in a way I go. Had to do it again
to get back to Denver. Here's what's interesting. They told
(31:56):
me I would be unable to fly without an ID
for a two year period after that. Huh, why would
there be a two year period? Anyway, it certainly can
be done yeah, I've not heard this story about a
two year waiting period or whatever. It is a two
year bar, but I've certainly heard of people forgetting their
ID in. And you know, you can say, well, wait
a minute, I've got my American Express card, or I've
(32:18):
got my concealed carry card, or I've got something else,
and they'll like, okay, well that's good enough. Sixty six
twenty one. For my job, I have to be badged
at DA. To get that badge, you have to show
your birth certificate. They do not take old state issue
birth certificates anymore, but you know what they will take
a student ID. Ah. Well, let's see, I just pulled
(32:46):
off the Colorado app with my digital Colorado ID on there,
and there's no star. Huh. Oh Colora has been using Yeah,
I think they've been. Colorad's been in compliants for long
time anyway, Just things for you to ponder
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