 I feel like maybe I'm an R&B announcer. Yeah, I need to say, I need to roll back. I can't even do that again. Well, come on. Do it all over again? You should make sure people hear that intro. I want to make sure everyone hear that intro. Are you going to share? Wait, hold on. So, hey everybody. It's Erica Reddick here, generally irritable. Joined this evening by my husband Benjamin Nathaniel Reddick II. He is my research researcher. That's what we're calling him because you know all the news programs have a researcher. So, that's Benjamin's job. Yeah. Also, Hype Man. Yeah. He's a common Hype Man. Also, music, what's the word? Like you buy music or you get curator. Our source. Music. There's a different word I'm looking for that I can't think of right now. No, like you're like a buyer, but there's a fancier word for it. Procure. Music procurement. That's the word I was looking for. Deed procurement. Okay. So, can you share a link to this nonsense? It's not nonsense, but I will do it. So, we are opening this evening with a song by Dragon Ball Durag. Durag by Thunderbolts. Durag. Oh, that's how you spell Durag. I don't know. Like, is that like Durag? Yeah, it's like the Durag. Yeah. That's how you spell that? Yeah, I knew another one by the way. Here's kidding. Put that on here. This is the grocery list here. Durag. This is how we're going to spell it. We're really going to get to the convention of states eventually in politics. I swear, you guys. So, right before we were about to go live, I was getting open Facebook to get set up and to prepare for the live stream. And I noticed that my husband, Benjamin, standing right at the second, posted a video called Dragon Ball Durag by Thundercat, official music video. Yeah. Hopefully he's going to share a link to it. I did. Oh, you did? In the live stream. You should share. You should go watch it. Yeah. I don't know. Can you guys hear it? Can you guys hear that on the other side? Can you hear that on the other side? Because on the other side is relaxation. All right. All the days. What did you say? I'm covered in cat fur, but I smelled it. I said I'm covered in cat fur, but I'm still smoking. Oh, yeah. Okay, we're moving on. Okay, we're really live here, people. This is me being serious. Okay, now we need to get back so we can answer questions. Will you navigate to the thing for me? Oops, nope. That's not what I wanted to do. We have to open up another screen since it's open in this one. Yeah. Why is it silly? I'm focused. You scroll up. Oh, I'm focused. Okay. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Generally Irritable. We decided to go ahead and keep the Monday evening live streams going. I took last Monday off just to take a break, rest, and recoup. We are back in Texas. Is that where I'll see Congress? That's the Congress. Oh, I see. We're going to be very effective here to navigate away from this screen. Well, you know, I don't know. You know, look at how red I am. We've got to figure out the light in here. So this is what I'm not in my usual setup. No, that's not good either. That's terrible. Where it is. I guess that's it. So not in my usual spot. We're in our place in Texas. And yes, we do live in a dojang. A bunch of people have asked me that in some of my other meetings. You see the, um, all the, the statues and trophies and stuff like that from Daniel Eastloss, master Daniel Eastloss master Eastloss master Eastloss. His dojo is a cougar or dojang, cougar type Wando in, in Gerald, Texas. Yes. I probably shouldn't tell people. Maybe, maybe not. Who knows. Whatever. They know me. They know. Now they know. It's too late. See that trophy in the background? See that big tall one? That's like six feet tall. That's Benjamin's trophy. I went to the tournament. Victory was assured. Notice also all the weapons. So if anybody did try to come mess with us because now they know we're address. Um, you would regret it. So we're just getting settled in deciding, you know, what to do and what's next. And I am really excited to share with people that I in this next phase of, of Erica's development have been invited to work with convention of states in their development department. And I'm super excited because if I've talked to any of you about convention of states, you know that it's an organization that I really support. And I have a ton of respect for the founders and the people in charge. I went to the leadership summit last year. When was that August last year? Something like that. And it was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. And I said to Benjamin back then, if I ever get a chance to work for them, I'm going to take it because it was just getting to be at a conference with all of these people, men and women who were devoted to not just this country, not just their neighbors, but to the founding principles of this nation and more to the point to liberty and freedom. And we talk a lot about liberty and freedom in our conversations. I talk a lot about it on my live streams and in my content because I think it's one of the most important things that we can work to preserve if we hope to continue to live in a free society. So convention of states is awesome. Everyone should go to conventionofstates.com and fill out the petition. I'm talking to you not as an employee right now because I can't be. Talking to you as an employee right now. I'm talking to you as Eric Reddick, your former Senate candidate. I'm talking to you as Eric Reddick, your neighbor, Vermonter, Texan. We have dual citizenship in Vermont and Texas. Can you say that? I think that is a thing since Texas technically is a country. Yeah, it probably is. We're just going to go with that. So I have been volunteering for convention of states for over a year, a little over a year. And how do I want to start this conversation? Am I going to talk about what convention of states is more of what we're trying to accomplish? What is this organization you're talking about? We've never even heard about it. I'm not in half of the screen. That's what I want to talk about. Because this is about me. I'm a star. You're the hype man. That means we're supposed to be like... When the Buster Rhymes split-star was still there. He'd been halfway off the screen. Yeah, he was. It's not true. Well then... That's good. We're good. No, I'm mad now. The frame is balanced now. Nope. I'll go back. So now you're focused. Look at that. We're rack-focusing with my body. Nope, it's too late. I'm mad. So now you're focused. Why does this scam look so terrible in this? It does. Good talk. Next time we're going to have to have this fixed before we get started. Okay. I thought it was really funny. I got this super funny comment on one of my videos the other day. It said something like, Go away. You didn't get elected. And I was like, Oh, it's funny. You think that was the point of all my videos. No, it is to help facilitate, engaged and informed electorate. So that is what I believe my purpose is here on earth. And that is what I'm working towards. And so that's why I ran for office. It's why I come to you with these live streams and why we're presenting more information. Hopefully next week, if I can get it together, it may not be next week. It may be the week after depending on who I can get together. We're going to focus for a few weeks on the legalization of drugs. So now that it's passed, you know, it's decriminalized in Vermont, they're setting up the legal, the marketplace for marijuana. And then in the light of the massive heroin epidemic that we're facing with fentanyl being trafficked through our borders in Vermont. Places like New York and Springfield mass. And then also with the push to take away the stigma of being arrested. So, you know, like trying to get people help. So in Portugal, as an example, decriminalized all drugs and they have a program going on. So I'm trying to find, I posted about it on Facebook. I'm trying to find experts in a few different fields. So if you know somebody, please feel free to direct message me and or share my information with them. So I'm looking for folks who are libertarian and who can speak to the libertarian side, right? Because here we focus on liberty, freedom. So what is the libertarian argument for legalizing drugs? What is the libertarian argument to say all of these things should be decriminalized and figuring that out? Yeah, I'm curious. I think what I've heard quite often is that if I'm doing something and it doesn't directly affect you, then I should be able to do it. That's what I've heard is the general... That's what I've heard too. The problem is that addiction never affects just the person using the drugs. So this is why I want to see a libertarian who can argue with me, that fact. Or argue with any... It's like a spirited discussion. Exactly, exactly. And I don't mean argue as in like, you're wrong but I really just want to know what their basis is, what their argument is, what their justification is. Because that's the lines of logic. Because the goal here with generally irritable is not just to be entertaining and have a little fun and make funny videos like The Homeless Landlord. But it's also to educate people so they can make informed decisions and engage with your legislators and tell them what you want and what you think and the questions that you want to have answered by their experts. Things like that. So feel free everybody to ask a question, throw something up in the comments there. Let us know if there's something you want us to address. If there's something I say that you want me to clarify. Again, the topic this evening is Convention of States. The organization, we're going to talk about it. We're going to talk about what it is, why it's awesome, and, well, interesting. And actually was really kind of a stepping stone. I shouldn't say a stepping stone, but getting involved with Convention of States was one of the things in my journey into conservatism that opened up a lot of doors for me and said, okay, well, this is what you think about the way the process works in this country and how the Republic works. But here's some things that you need to go read about. Okay, so when you talk about amending the Constitution as an example, you go, oh my God, amending the Constitution. Like, what's the first thing you think when I say amending the Constitution? You guys out there listening. Type, what's the first thing you think when I say I want to amend the Constitution? Like, what's the first thing you think? What's the first thing you think about? Congress. Okay, Congress. The first thing I think. Okay. Difficult Congress. Does it make you nervous at all? Does it make you think, what the heck? If I give it some thought, yes, because you're going to change something that's foundational. So depending on what you're talking about, yes, there can be reasons for concern, but I mean, if I didn't know you, yes, I'd be far more concerned than... Are you saying I have some credibility? Yeah. Because of my influence on you, yes. Yes, okay. So because Benjamin tells me what to do. Yes. That's how this works. That's how this works. Yeah, that's what... Did you guys know... Oh, I won't go there. You know... Right on this one. We're just going to have a sip of water. We're going to keep this one clean on this one. We'll go test those topics later. Yes. I have a very wonderful husband. I was talking to my new boss today, Patty, and I said, I have the best husband in the whole wide world. And she kind of made a face. And I was like, Mark might be okay. I'm just saying Benjamin's the best. But anyway. So a lot of you guys know anything, but my followers know I'm very much about the Constitution. I call myself a constitutional conservative or a small government conservative. And so when I learned about the convention of states, they're calling for an Article 5 convention. And what that is, a lot of people know that, or have heard of constitutional conventions. So normally when you hear about amending the Constitution, whether it was, you know, the 19th amendment that gave the women the right to vote, that was this year, the 100th year anniversary. Or black people, or, you know, any of the other amendments that we've had over the years have gone through as a constitutional convention. And what that is is when Congress decides to work together and do a constitutional amendment. Got it. Okay. So that's, you know, we know that you need to have two thirds, wait, is it two thirds? Three quarters. Three quarters of Congress has to agree in order to amend the Constitution. Now, the framers knowing that there was a good chance the federal government was going to take too much power and encroach on states' rights, they put a kind of release valve in the Constitution that said if the federal government gets too big for its britches, so that we don't have to have a revolutionary war, right? So keeping in mind, some of the, a lot of this stuff was written in the shadow of the revolutionary war. So what they said was the federal government can get too big for its britches. Human beings tend towards tyranny. We always do. It's just taken 250 years here, but whatever. So we need to make sure that there is a way for the people to take their power back. And so in the Constitution was written in Article 5 Convention. So state legislatures can actually call to amend the Constitution. So instead of waiting for the federal government to do it, instead of waiting for Congress to do it, our state legislatures can get together and decide to make changes to the Constitution. Diana's saying, side note, I just found out my vote did not count as I checked with the SOS. And I'm suddenly mysteriously not listed. I am not surprised. And we can totally talk about that at some point if you want to send me a private message. I do want to focus a little bit on our conversation and topics on Convention of States. So you should know though, reach out to Deb Bilidu, the state party chair, because I know that the state party was asking for people to report any voting anomalies. Also, you're not the only person. I was getting the Secretary of State's list of people when the ballots returned so that we could target people that hadn't voted yet with our messaging. And I would say a minimum of 10% of return ballots were rejected. I haven't looked at the final tallies or anything like that. We only got them through the last, the Friday before Election Day was the last day we got them. So I wouldn't have updated information, but at least 10% were rejected for not being in the right envelope, not having a signature, and stuff like that. Really big bummer. So Convention of States. Where was I? Article 5 Convention, state status factor. The state can do when the government is, the federal government is acting tyrannical. Being wild. Wild. Okay. So now the thing about an Article 5 Convention is that you have to have, each state has to pass an application for the Article 5 Convention. And it has to be the exact same application in every state. So you've heard about, like, oh, what the heck was it? The Equality Act? No, not the Equality Act. There's some equal rights amendment or something that they tried to pass as an Article 5 Convention, but it failed. It only passed, it didn't pass all the states and it had a time limit on it. So the time elapsed and now they're trying to pick up the mantle again. So there's that. There's one out there for just term limits, just term limits. And that's like TermLimits.com or something like that. I don't remember what it's called. So there have been some attempts at Article 5 Conventions. Now you can imagine the difficulty of trying to pass the exact same application in 50 states. Well, actually, you don't have to pass it in 50 states. You have to pass it in 34 states. Wait, no, that's not right. I'm gonna fail my job right off the bat. Yes, it's also TermLimits.com. Yeah, it is 34 states. Okay. It's TermLimits.com. It is TermLimits.com. Don't go there, though. Go to conventionofstates.com. Well, I mean, you can go there. Go to both. Do both, for sure. So it takes 34 states to call the convention, but it takes 38 states to ratify any new constitutional amendments. So it's just like Congress, two-thirds to call, three-quarters to pass. So that's interesting. Now, what constitutional amendments convention of states calling for? I know. I've been leaving you on the hook. I've been making you wait for it. I've been reeling you in to find out. Should I tell them? Should I tell them? You haven't heard it, but we should tell them. I should tell them. Okay. So the three conversations, or the three areas that convention of states is calling for constitutional amendments, the three items listed in the application are limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, impose fiscal restraints, and add TermLimits for federal, place TermLimits on federal officials. So no more congressmen being there in Washington for 20, 30, 40, 50 years. What is it like he's been there for like 40, 70 years now? He's 217 years old. I know. I'm sorry. I'm being rude. But it really is. Why is Nancy Pelosi's in her 80s? Diane Feinstein's late 70s at least. Why are these people still in Congress this many years later? People like them. Why? What do you think is the danger of being in Congress that much? The main thing that what you end up having is a circumstance where there's no impetus or reason to change the status quo or to be responsible or to do things differently. So you have people like, as an example, Diane Feinstein who's been in Congress for 1,400 years. Her husband was given the contract to sell a bunch of U.S. Postal Service locations. So her family personally made millions and millions of dollars off the sale of that property. So why is that okay? You know, when you have things like, this is one of the things that I always think is really funny as a really good illustration. When we have federal officials who go in, they make laws that help themselves and help their friends and all that kind of stuff to give them funding, to give them whatever it is that they need. So you have, you'll have people, I totally lost my train of thought. I was going to give you a good one. Yeah. So they go in, they create laws to help their buddies and all that kind of stuff crap. I was going to give you a job or something. Oh, well that's definitely part of it. So like you have congressmen who will help pass laws that are beneficial to the chemical companies and then they go and get jobs working as the CEO for Monsanto or something like that, making a bajillion, zillion dollars. Hmm. Oh, this is what I was going to say. So as an example, everybody's talking about cancelling student debt now, right? This is a hot topic. How much have you heard about cancelling student debt in? A lot. Right? Everybody's talking. All the Democrats are talking about it. That was like a major platform for Bernie Sanders. A lot of people are student debt and they are thinking it's going to be good for it to be cancelled. And actually how many of the Democratic candidates were senators or in Congress or of something like that when they passed the Affordable Care Act? I know where you're going. A lot of them, like most of them. So what many people don't realize, this is what's amazing. This is going to give you an example of not just why term limits are important but why the size and scope or the power and jurisdiction of the federal government is a problem. So back in the day during Obama's presidency when they worked on the Affordable Care Act, Congress decided that they were going, in order to pay for the Affordable Care Act, one of the ways they were going to pay for it was to nationalize student loans. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that is correct. In case you didn't know, the reason why, especially Vermonters, the reason why Melnet owns your student loan now instead of VSAC is because the federal government nationalized student loans. That means the federal government closed an industry and took it over. So you now, unless you live in, I think the one state is Wisconsin, no, is it Wisconsin or Montana? It's one of the countries out west that's a smaller population, Wyoming. I have no idea. I have to look it up. Somebody look it up, don't, I can't remember exactly which state it was. But basically, there's only one state left in the union that has a student loan, a bank that is allowed to loan student loans, and it's in that one of those states. And the law is written that says, basically, you can't have a student loan bank unless it's at least 200 years old or something. So they wrote the law because that one senator said, well, I'll sign it, but only if we get to keep our student loan bank. And I'm not articulating the words correctly, but that's what it was. So this guy signed it and said, okay, I'll go along with it, but we get to keep our bank. So it says it's literally written like that, basically all lenders unless they're 200 years old or whatever the number is are closed and we've nationalized this. And the reason they did that was so they could use the interest earned from the student loan debt to pay for the subsidies for the Affordable Care Act. Also those, I saw a document that said that the average tuition had increased by 12% in that block of time or something. Oh, that's interesting. The following four years of loans, student loan debt or student tuition spiked another 12% because apparently they made the getting of these loans easier. Yes. Yes. So no longer are loans based on merit or ability to repay when people get out of school, it's just backed by the federal government. And so anything that's backed by the federal government was just Was there another situation where the government backed something and then the industries took advantage of it? What's that? Was that housing? Wasn't it the housing thing where this was like, which one is even in there? Wasn't that the one they were talking about where they were backing the loan to guarantee them some sort of company, sort of writing that and knowing it would be covered by subprime mortgages? By big daddy, by big daddy government with a black card? Wait, can you thank Obama for that one too? And I think that was a joint, the book I read, book I read said it was a lot of different factors. The Clinton administration did deregulate a lot of stuff in the banking industry. There was something specific they passed that was to help people get into home ownership but it facilitated people manipulate the system as the thing is like, Well, and that's why it's not just that, it's predatory lending on the part of the federal government. Not only in supporting that kind of home loan program, but also in the federal student loans. Like you should not, I'm sorry, if you want to be an English major, that's great. You should do that. But you should do it on your own dime. You should not be graduating with $100,000 in student loan debt with an English degree that you're maybe going to make $50,000 a year as a copywriter or an English professor. The American people... You've got to go live at home for like two years. No, that's what I said. You can do that, but the American people are not paying for it. There should be no student loan. If a loan is going to be given out, it should be a private loan that you personally have subsidized and will pay back or you declare bankruptcy or whatever. The federal government, aka you and I, should not be co-signing the loans for dance theory. I do think there's an issue with that. And especially when it's something that we're not saying we need because that's something as the American people... Is there a demand for this degree? So this is the thing. This is why I say this is predatory lending. So the student loan industry, to me, I'm not surprised that we have a generation of people who are mad and want their stuff forgiven. We're totally off topic here. But actually, we're not. No, we're not off topic because we're talking about predatory lending from the federal government. This is actually what I'm talking about. So power and jurisdiction of the federal government, limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government is one of the COS application items that we're calling for. And so that would include you don't get to give out loans with our money to people who have no ability to repay them. Don't understand that the government doesn't have money. They have... our money. So every time you add a program, you add a new agency or whatever, that's them spending our money on a new thing that may or may not be something we actually need. And then, worse than even that, if you've ever been involved in federal government in many different ways, they are not efficient often with the money. And so what is happening is that you're giving someone money that they did not have to go out and fight for an arm. So you're giving a kid a credit card. And so it doesn't matter if they're well-intentioned. It's still somebody with a credit card that's doing what they think is right and they're not doing what is in your best interest fiscally. It's often what you see in federal expenditures. And that's why I'm a small government conservative. So how many times have you heard things like, oh, well, if we don't spend the money, we won't get it in our budget next year. Exactly. Many times. So, wait a second. So you didn't need all of the money that you last for. So you're giving it back to us the people you borrowed it from. And being reasonable, you're spending it all so that you can justify asking for more next year. And so therefore it just keeps growing at Infinitum with no reason to rein it in. And now we're back to the term when it's conversation. And more importantly, you've established a precedent and principle where people think that that kind of activity in the federal government is okay. See, most of us look at the first order, I guess the first order effects of, well, this is what's going to happen if I do this. We don't look down the line of there's somebody watching me in the way that I'm moving. Yeah. And they may not be as altruistic as I am. They may not have the best of intentions like you do, but they're going to do the exact same thing. They're going to use the exact same argument. And there's a plethora of applications to what we're talking about right now across the entire strata of civilization, but we're going to keep it focused on just this one. So when you set a bad precedent about we don't need to balance our budget because we're doing what's right. Okay, so we think happens when the next guy comes in, he thinks he's doing what's right. There's no principle to hold to. Well, and also, who's to decide what you think is right is right. That is also correct. Maybe right for you. Maybe right for now. Maybe right for this season. But every program should be measured and reassessed on a regular basis. Monitored constantly for efficacy. And for fraud. Yeah. Because this, here's the thing that I find interesting and you just touched upon this is this idea that human beings are inherently good and decent. And I don't understand what human beings that people who believe that have been around their whole life. I mean, in all sincerity, this is, I'm asking like the Burlington City Council, some of our current legislators, it's who are like, oh, we want we want to decriminalize the sex trade. And it's like, do you believe that everything that everyone does is good and just like literally what planet have you been living on? Have you never been victimized? Have you never been a victimizer? Here's the other part is like, do you think that criminals, when they hear stuff like that, don't smell the opportunity? Figure out how to take advantage. Like, you're seeing it in our society right now where people see that certain individuals are okay with certain activities and so they go engage full tilt knowing full well there are no repercussions. They're not. I mean, I'm not, I mean, we're not even trying to go down the route, but I'm just we're getting, but that's the thing. Well, and that's the thing is when the government has this much control over your life and this much say in what you can and cannot do when you can simultaneously have the state legislature trying to ban weapons, ban guns and things like that, while the city and town people are then trying to defund the police so, okay, so you don't want me to defend myself and you don't want me and you're not going to provide me a defense that seems like that would impede life right to life, liberty property, pursuit of happiness liberty, right? I mean, not life and liberty. That's true. I mean, the second amendment is to protect all of the others. No way to protect my personal property. Literally, y'all, the second amendment is there to protect all of the other amendments in case you don't know that. How else do you protect your life? Your liberty? Cops. So let's protect those with cops that are going to show up after you've been maybe murdered, raped or robbed. That's the other thing. So that's how you protect. You call the cops after the people who've already broken and you're being unconscious and then that's how they protect you. Because then, we're not dealing with more victims of society. No, that's when the protection kicks in, right? Oh, okay. But then that creates victims of society, which we then have to forgive for however they act as a result of their victims. Well, first of all, we have to catch them. So here's the deal. It has to happen. Then you get justice by calling the cops and then they're going to do like a CSI level investigation. Like forensics, the machine that's going to spin and do all the 3D microbe shots and tell them about it. Yeah, it's going to be just like that. And then that's a lie. That's not what happens. You've ever been robbed? As I've been robbed? No one does that. They take serial numbers down. They take serial numbers down. And no, there's no dust. The laser blue light that shine around the room to see things. The dude shows up with a notepad, right? They're not dusting for prints. It was a legitimately disheartening experience the first time. I was like, wow, we're just really going to... I was like, where's the ratio at? Where are the glasses? Where is that guy? Where's that guy? Yeah, you did it right. But you have to do, it's two parts. There's two parts to it. I just watched this. Um... I can't believe that there was a robbery at the house and he would say, you don't believe it, but this just got real. I did it. I did it every time. I did it every time. Yeah. I need to have a saying like that, but I do. We need that in our life. Yeah, they don't want you to protect your property because they don't even want you to have private property. That is a very good point. Yeah, they get rid of cars. Mr. Cuckinear, sir. Yeah, I'm trying to get rid of cars in some place. They don't want you to have private cars. I think it's all public transportation. Well, I mean, Burlington is doing that and there's like, Austin has a lot of those car share programs and stuff like that. Oh, that's rough, man. I don't think that's going to fly in Texas. I don't think that's... But no, I do, it is interesting how many people do not seem to believe that private property. It's like they think that all the things that we own and that are ours come from the government or are granted to us as a privilege like their father and we're still in daddy's house and we're not. That's not what this is. Yeah. I want to go back to the convention. We're talking about student loan debts and the government. So limiting fiscal imposing fiscal restraint is one of them. It doesn't specifically... So one of the things you guys the applications all say limit the power jurisdiction of the federal government impose fiscal restraints and place term limits on federal officials. Every application and every state has to have the same exact verbiage and so people will ask me, well, what exactly are the um what exactly are the amendments that you guys are going to propose? And it's like, well, we can't say exactly what the amendments are that we want to oppose. That's for the people who go to the convention to decide. So each state chooses its own delegates and they choose how they want to choose their delegates. So if anybody is interested shoot me a direct message and I can email you some documents to review. I can send you a link to convention of states to some other resources that they have publicly available to learn more but so each state gets to choose its own delegates and each state produces its own mechanism for choosing delegates. So you could have one state where like Texas say as an example, they maybe they would want to have one delegate from each region of the state. So northeast, west, south central, right? So they would send 65 delegates or a state like Montana that doesn't have a huge population may just send one delegate. You can choose but in the end each state only gets one vote so you can send however many delegates you want. But each state in the end still only gets one vote and you need 38 states to agree on the amendments to ratify them. Got it. Actually put them into the Constitution. So I never knew that was a possibility. Yes, so they have to go to the convention to decide exactly what the amendments will be. So like as an example I would love to see an amendment relating to debt spending. So I don't know if you ever pay attention to this Benjamin but a lot of people may remember all the conversations about raising the debt limit. Do you remember hearing this? So you'll hear it sometimes in the news of course nothing else is happening in the world except for COVID and the presidential impeachment like that's all that we've been talking about the last four years. But what we didn't talk about a lot was the omnibus bill that President Trump signed for last year's budget. This was before COVID hit. So you may like Donald Trump for a lot of reasons. I like Donald Trump for a lot of reasons. I was super duper mad when I saw their budget come out. And this is not related to the COVID stuff. It was the largest budget ever passed. It was like three or four trillion dollars or something. It was something nonsense. So they just decide that they're just going to take out loans for stuff. And who do they take out loans from? Do you know Benjamin who they take out loans from? I have a guess. Let's start with the seeds. It does! It's China. So they own something like two-thirds of our debt. I don't know how that is a good idea. It's not. It's a terrible idea. See this is I mean the book says the debtor becomes slave to the lender and you've ever I have a principle about this. You ever owe someone money? You talk to them different when you own money. The relationship changes and that is always in the back pocket that they can pull out on. What about that money though? I've seen people who are friends have that conversation. So imagine people who don't necessarily like each other. You owe them cash and you're talking fly. I don't think that's a good combination. Not so much. Not only that but the human rights is not even like the buddy you borrowed money from your buddy. It's just a jerk. We borrowed money from our creepy uncle. The loon shark who might also be making inappropriate films. So you can go over and tell him, hey man you should stop doing that stuff and say hey man you should pay me my money. So when we're talking about a country with human rights atrocities that China has the oh let's see, killing of all the baby girls and fantasies. I haven't heard anybody talk about that. In a while, right? Why aren't the feminists really angry about that? Because they're too busy looking for one sexist in America. So they have to work so hard to find the one guy that's still a sexist here in America that they cannot focus on the actual murder of baby girls forcibly by the Chinese government. We can't be bothered with that. We can't be bothered with the Uyghur Muslims who are in slave camps and who are used for slave labor. We can't talk about that. Hey China, can we sell more of our debt to you? Anyway, so I digress. But that's the point. This is again limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government. So the fact that our federal government has the ability to go into debt with a country on our behalf. So they go into debt on our behalf with a country that treats people like trash. And now we are in a position to have to defend ourselves financially, economically and possibly physically. Didn't they just isn't Hong Kong pretty much? Yeah, Hong Kong is basically no more. It is no longer a free state. They have officially started imprisoning all their... Wasn't the U.N. supposed to be like Britain and UK? I know, but we got to try to talk to them more. I'm asking you a serious question. Wasn't the U.N. supposed to do something about that? What could have swore there was something I read that was talking about the way that that deal was positioned where Britain or somebody was supposed to insure Hong Kong sovereignty. Well that was the whole thing that was stupid about it. And it gave its word that it would leave them alone. And everyone should have known better that that was not going to happen. They did not keep their word with England. And so there has been some talk about whether or not England would use any sort of military action since... So there's like a weird question. The answer is no. And I don't know about the U.N. No, that would be interesting. But I mean, is it the part of the deal that says what I mean? Well, they're probably trying to sanction them or something because of it. Are they trying to sanction them? I don't know. That somebody let us know. It's weird when you have a lot of money and you're willing to fight people. Oh, and you just give stuff away. It's weird. Think about this. Do you talk about building a country off of slave labor? China is literally building internet and stuff like that in all these other countries. Using slave labor. Everything that they've done, I shouldn't say all because I don't know well enough. But their manufacturing uses child slave labor, the Uyghur Muslims and they just put people in work camps because they don't care. Where are the people in China? Aren't there people in China fighting for their $15 an hour? Where are those people at? I haven't seen a lot of them on the news. What? No? Are they not? I think it's a pretty valid question. It's a very hot topic with all the workers they have over there. Somebody would be fighting for a livable wage in China. I thought. But isn't it funny how almost every conversation that we've had around limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government imposing fiscal restraints and placing term limits? Because all these things relate to the facts of the government. So many problems so many problems that we're facing are because of the government. They are like a result of the federal government. Here's how I look at situations like this. You have a brother and you two are competing in some game. I don't care what game it is. And your dad comes in and helps your brother win. How would you feel about that? I'd be pretty mad. You'd be mad if you lost anyways. But at least if your brother just beats you straight up. Then you take that L and you continue on down your day and hopefully you'll learn a lesson from that. But if your parents are stepping in they pay for your brother's tuition but they didn't pay for yours. So for instance we talk about eradicating debt and student loans and stuff. Dan Crenshaw had a really interesting and he was talking about that but the gist of his the quote they attributed him is that you're going to make people like Ben who dropped out of college because it was not going to pay me what I wanted to pay me. I could tell by looking at my curriculum drop out of college until I could figure out what would make the most sense for me to make these decisions to make them make sensory financially until I could pay for it myself really is what happened. And I suffered through that not having the advantage of a degree but also not having the debt. You want me to pay for people who have bachelor's degrees and masters it feels that they maybe should have been sharp enough to not engage in because they couldn't make the money back because they made a bad business decision because all of life is a series of business decisions for the record. It's all, it's a gamble it's odds it's you know cost return all of life is just for the record. So I'm supposed to to pay for the people who quite honestly might be my direct competition how I make a living I don't know how that's fair and it's not it's not fair and that's the thing is they're not concerned with fairness so a lot of times people are not concerned with fairness they're concerned with outcomes. That puts them in front of me. Well, I mean according to you but according to them getting a college degree puts them on par with you don't, I'm not, it's a joke I'm not supposed to get it. Good, good because I was really struggling really trying to figure out are you with me and I had to yeah it was a joke. I don't think that's the logic in that one for them is that with a predatory lending and all that stuff was unfair to you. That's for real. And it's fine but again the result of you making an adjustment like the one you're talking about is that you will leapfrog these people ahead of me. So they made an investment and it didn't work out well and so now just like any other business person well but here's the thing a normal business person if they've taken out a loan they can discharge the debt via bankruptcy they have that option, they have that opportunity you can't do that with student loan that is correct. You cannot ever ever ever do that and so here I said something that I wanted to just make sure I correct before we go on so when I say that I understand the why people are angry and that you know student loans, predatory lending blah blah blah right? So I say that and I mean it legitimately I think that the fact that we are giving out student loans is predatory lending it really really really is it is irresponsible on the part of the federal government and one of the ways that we can do away with this, the way that we can protect young people is by imposing term limits on federal officials so that they don't have the impetus to keep a lot of these programs going and continuously funding them to the level that they are now again you see tuition going up for student for colleges that's because it's subsidized by the federal government and they can now charge whatever they want because the federal government is going to give somebody a loan for it. College is not supposed to be as expensive as it is. So imposing fiscal restraints so that the federal government can't just give not only just give our money away to pay for schooling for people but to take loans from China to pay for somebody to go get their English degree that they're never going to be able to that they're never going to be able to pay repay. This is not my fault we're sitting at the dumb desk. So no that is good that's what I remember here Ron Paul talks a while ago and he just talked to me about well how will people pay for college he said you pay for it the way you pay for it in any before you save money and you go to school and if we didn't have if the federal government wasn't propping it up college wouldn't cost as much it would have to be more efficient or they go out of business but we change the way we do college. So right now COVID one of the beauties of COVID that people should have realized is how much of the facilities we're offering aren't required and then how many people some people are doing better oh good point with homeschooling and in distance learning than they did in school so hold on I didn't get to finish my thought because I went on a little bit of a tangent so I said the thing about predatory learning the thing I also what comes up a lot is personal responsibility so yes the federal loans are predatory absolutely and I think it's wrong and at the same time where were these kids parents exactly what kind of parent encourages their child to be saddled with a hundred thousand dollars worth of debt for a gender studies degree why would you let your kid do that oh they want to be free to dismiss themselves it's not that you encourage them probably to do it I can say it probably happened they want it to do it and they have free reign to do whatever they want to right you might have told them not to they did it anyways right and so it wasn't a tremendous amount I'm assuming a lot of these parents to control what these people are doing I mean no because I didn't need my mother's permission to get a student on yeah but that's not you know you may not have but that doesn't mean that's not what these kids are doing what I'm saying is I'm sure that has happened sometimes you don't think I don't think no most of our parents go to the kid and say to them hey kid that degree you want is not going to get you a job you're not going to make enough money you miss what I'm saying I'm certain that's happened quite often people do what they want to do it's not the parents fault the kids these aren't kids first of all you're voting if you made a bad financial decision you're probably in the streets party, drinking, nope you're in the street, party, party, drinking driving a car, having sex you were acting like an adult you made an adult decision and it was a trash one and it didn't work out for you and we've all done that that doesn't make you a bad person but that's what you did so we keep talking about these people like these are 17 year olds and 16 year olds, 18 20, 22 year old people in college and this is the decision that they made that's true and that's actually the point really of what I was trying to get after with that but you're right is how many of our laws and how much federal spending is done as a result of trying to shield people from their mistakes a lot how much student loans federal loans different social programs welfare you know and I'm not saying I grew up poor I've been the beneficiary of some of these programs so I'm not saying that they're all bad most is how they're implemented but even that the times that I've had to use it even when I was a kid it was because of not good decision making and I if anybody says they're going to talk to my mom and be like you're terrible but seriously we didn't have to be in section 8 housing we could have lived with my grandparents in Burlington we didn't have to be in section 8 housing in St. Albans we could have lived with my grandparents in Burlington but there was a program out there that gave my mom the opportunity to pay for her bills I'm not sure that that was better I'm not sure that having our own apartment in St. Albans was a with people abusing your children next door to us a drug dealer across the street and all of that was a better option than my mom having to suffer living with my grandparents because she didn't like them very much and I'm speaking in shorthand he wasn't a drug dealer he was a pre-legislation pharmaceutical representative but that's my point that was a decision that was made my grandparents decided to get divorced so the section 8 housing was to support people not supporting their families the time that I got I had help after I got out of prison was because I was in prison like the social programs are there to help shield people from suffering the consequences of their decisions not all people on social welfare programs have made bad decisions I'm just saying a lot of them are to shield people from making their bad decisions I don't think that you should shield people from the damage of a bad decision people have to face some of the you gotta face some of the consequences and then if you are gonna get someone a program to help them elevate out of that situation easy to be with the wherewithal but this is your fault there is some aspect of the game you didn't play correctly isn't that just society is unfair even if it is unfair but that's not the reason that you Mr. A B or C started dealing coke and damaging up your neighborhood you chose to do that there were probably some other opportunities out there that you didn't engage in so now that you've done that we've got this work release program to get you back on your feet but in realisation you jammed something up and now you've got to go about repairing and fixing that thing and that's the way that is often the impetus for people to change their life and make different decisions I talk about that all the time getting in trouble was the reason it was the impetus for me to start going in a different direction and looking for help and so I had help for a little while I was happy I was even taking care of family after that and if we didn't have as an example if the federal government and the state government were not taxing us so much we're not taxing us so much and we're not borrowing from places like China and UAE and all of these places to pay for stuff there wouldn't be the opportunity for so much fraud there wouldn't be a continued growth of the bureaucracy because this is the other thing it's about votes let's see Robert says it's about votes that's where so many people confuse pursuit of happiness with guarantee of happiness ooh good point that movie was not called guarantee of happiness by the way it was called pursuit of happiness for a reason that's where the entire movie and that's what made the movie good when you don't suffer and there's no journey and there's no growth and you don't learn anything which are all the elements that make a good movie are all the elements that make a good life what we like to see in movies is life why do we keep trying you know what happens when you take the struggle out of a movie you get, I don't know Captain Marvel what is the other movie they came out of is just like that there's a couple of movies, I think the new Mulan is very similar to that you take all the struggle out of a movie it's not a good movie there's no character development they just are the same person the whole time and they just become amazing it's part of it when there's no character development they're just the best and they're just awesome the whole time there's a whole lot there's not even a go there people want to see that hustle part of what inspires people to get involved with you and to want to get behind you is the fact that they know that you are willing to bleed for whatever it is you are pursuing and if you haven't learned that what are you passing on to the next generation when you have people who come under you how do you mentor them if you've just been handed everything what do you have to teach it's not good and there are ramifications there are a lot of weird order effects to all these things that we're talking about I had something really important to say and you totally interrupted me this COVID home may yet be inadvertently the public school systems undoing because if I can teach my kids at home wait, it's almost as if there's all of this information and some people actually don't learn better sitting behind a desk the information is easily accessible without spending hundreds and thousands of dollars on new textbooks and new editions because if it was digital they would just update when it had to it's weird it's so strange how all these things would make schooling cost-effective and we're learning all that but you know why we can't do that why is that? because we have an unelected fourth branch of government and as far as the school books go we're talking about the department of education yeah, and if you're making money off of those books they're selling those copies oh my god, so this is the thing you guys so here's where the problem lies, okay well there's a lot of problems but here's a problem so like when we talk about the power and jurisdiction of the federal government when we talk about imposing fiscal restraints we're talking so as an example the department of education federal department of education sounds like a good idea, sounds like it's important seems like we should do that make sure everybody has some education because we had some problems back in the day and I'm sure we still have problems but so the idea of it sounds good, we want to try to make sure everything is equitable we want to make sure that lower income places have the money that they need and all that stuff the problem is that all the money that's set aside for the department of education as an example and I don't have the exact numbers and I should look into this but you'll find this with every administration or administrative department is the department of education is set up to do all this great stuff but the majority of the money that goes to that unelected bureaucracy is for salaries it's for office space it's for their desks and the paper that they use it's for pens, it's those budgets that we have to spend all of the money so that we can get the same budget and justify our budget for next year it seems weird do you think any of these people might have a relationship with any of these companies that make any of these products it'll be weird if Simon and Schuster for instance like supporting political campaigns or anything I'm not saying they all I really don't know, that's a legitimate question no, that is legitimately what we touched upon a little bit earlier where you had people who were in charge of the FDA as an example who then later went on to work for Monsanto for multi-million dollar contracts that's not unheard of that's in movies and documentaries that you can find it should be the beautiful thing is Congress is Congress and guess why they won't because they have no reason to it is a racket, it's so good and they can keep putting their own homeboys in there and homegirls in there because they're so term limits well done, slow clap this is good they exempt themselves from the laws that they pass for us this is my favorite they get to have health insurance for that when we're at Infinitum conventionally I should add that if Congress if so forth if Congress passes another law dealing with health care or money they should be forced to no, let me finish they should be forced to have to live by some of those laws they're passing so if we get certain kinds of health care and from blue cross, blue shield the high deductible whatever by the way, once you're not a congress person anymore done this retirement after what, eight years no Bernie Sanders now a millionaire who talks about taking money from the little people still gets a pension from the billionaires because he's a millionaire now it's the billionaires he still gets a pension from the city of Burlington why does that fool still get a pension from us he's not a fool he's not a fool, that is a man who knows there is a paycheck in the mail that he doesn't probably need and instead of donating to his state which is cash trapped instead of doing that instead of acting like a real public right serving Vermont instead, he collects his check and moves along with his day so Donald Trump the terrible dreg of a human being supposedly did I use that word right? dreg so is there singular is it a singular we have to look it up tell us in the comments section is that a singular word donates every one of his presidential paychecks he hasn't taken a single dollar for being president of the united states do you think never mind I'm not going to go there I'm digressing again the remnants of a liquid left in a container together with any sediment or grounds or the most worthless part or parts of something so dregs would be singular and plural yeah I think a dreg works okay so federal government fourth branch if you hear people if you hear political pundits talking or you may hear me talk about the unelected fourth branch of government so you have the executive branch of the federal government which is the president you have the legislative branch which is congress and then you have judicial which is the supreme court and then there's more parts underneath that like and then how they relate to one another and how they work together but the point is that so there's three branches of government legislative executive judicial so they say there's a fourth branch of government and that's the bureaucratic department so you have the department of education the FDA the EPA the environmental protection agency we're not saying and when I say I don't think that these agencies should exist when I when you hear other politicians say that these places that these bureaucracies shouldn't exist we're not saying we think that you should be able to dump toxic waste into the river we hate mother earth and we should burn tires everyone should burn tires in their backyard okay it's not what we're saying you like that one? the burning tires it's really nasty burning tires is nasty remember what was that chemical plant that caught fire near here a couple years ago it was nasty anyway I digress what were we talking about unelected fourth branch of government the legislature is supposed to be making the laws you guys okay they're the ones who are supposed to decide what the rules are they're the ones that are supposed to decide how they're followed and the parameters and what they do is they obfuscate their responsibility to either their staffers or lobbyists to write the laws you know that those guys they're not writing that stuff themselves let's be real Chuck Schumer are you kidding me the guy can't hardly tell a sentence without reading it off of a piece of paper like this there's no way he's writing legal pros for anything anyway I'm digressing again I do want to say we talked about obfuscating that also happens with the state to the federal government which is half the problems we're having right now once anyone gets part they don't give it back so one of the things I think is very interesting is that why should you need a federal board of education your state should be able to fund your schools in addition to that you should be saying the parameters of what success and lack of success look like what should happen is that if your kids are uneducated compared to kids coming from another place they have to become very apparent your children will be discriminated against and it should cause you to fix your schooling this is a competition Texas should want to have better students in South Carolina and Arkansas in California this should be competitive Vermont should want that Vermont should want that as well and right now we spend the most per people in the country and are not even in the top 10 as far as outcomes that's rough does anybody feel the pain from that they just keep taking taking our money to pay for stuff and it's all going to the special education stuff so every kid is getting their own I'm speaking really flippantly and I should be careful about it because it's not like it's going to special education funding to like kids who actually need the help and have learning disabilities and could use people like anybody listening if you have a kid with like dyslexia or some kind of learning disabilities even if you've gotten it tested by the school call King Fisher Learning call Melissa King at King Fisher Learning and have her do a report and a test for you even if the school has already done a report they actually have some kind of responsibility if you want a second opinion and so if you call King Fisher Learning Melissa King at King Fisher Learning and I'm sorry I don't have her number handy right now but I know she's got a fancy new website she's amazing and I love the work that she does every time I hear about what she's working on I literally start to cry because it's just she's doing such good work and I really need help so I would be fine if every one of our special education dollars was going to somebody like a Melissa King who was in there with the kids teaching them getting their hands dirty and helping them learn 802-557-0697 King Fisher Learning the phone number is 802-557-0697 tell her Eric Heretic generally Erie will send you thank you Dian and Thelma for signing up for my youtube channel I love it did you see the homeless landlord you like air horn wham wham wham wait can we get like a can I get like a you know I'm sure you can get a soundboard yeah isn't there those things you can program sound effects into it I just realized it's 8.15 already um yes Dian turn limits for sure absolutely I just don't even know why it's a question and this let me ask you guys this as we start to wrap up I'll be talking about convention of states some more feel free to ask me questions go to conventionofstates.com read more sign the petition I know there's a grassroots army building in Vermont who support convention of states and they have a framework even to help take back our legislature to really engage people you know I think there are so many disenfranchised conservatives you know small c conservatives in the state of Vermont whether you're a republican or libertarian conservative whatever it is the fracturing of the party because of all the rhinos in charge has been devastating and if we can all find a cause that we can get behind that we can unify around that will help us take back our state and help us take back the nation I think that's really important so anybody who wants to learn more about convention of states reach out to me uh hahaha I said how much I love my husband yeah on this podcast um oh best documentary ever thank you Robert my mock people keep asking me when the next episode is going to be um I need people who have houses or something that butts off up onto private property that we can post up on and get the show going um it might be spring before we do another one they're lucky we didn't figure this out in California oh my gosh oh my god well that's we've yeah it is we've also I've thought about parking it out in front of certain public officials houses hahaha maybe I can get away with that now that I'm not a candidate anymore but when I was a candidate I was like yeah I probably shouldn't do that oh I am talk about that I also don't think it's cool like I say that I was gonna do it and go on people's yards but like I actually think the some protesters had gone to like Murrow Weinberger's house and so much that and here's the deal as much as I do not like Mayor Weinberger as much as I vehemently disagree with every policy that he has and probably every decision he's ever made is the Mayor and I'm sure I'm speaking hyperbolically and I don't care as much as I dislike him as a human as as a Mayor he may be a fine human being I don't know he may be I just think he's a terrible Mayor it doesn't matter how much I dislike him I guess is my point which I think I demonstrated well thank you Ben to put be in a position where you could be interfering with his family's ability to be okay because like he has a wife and kids and I wouldn't want to do something that made his wife and kids feel unsafe and the protesters did that and I thought that was really jacked up so I've been hesitant to park my homeless landlord shelter on a public official's property so if you can find me somebody who's single maybe I just put it like right in front of the job right in front of their job business oh oh you mean make it difficult for them to do their job get this dance you about to lose your job has anybody have you guys seen you about to lose your job dance and song we need to get I need to start learning how to use OBS or whatever so I can share my screen so coming up in the next few weeks in the next month or so I'm going to be stepping up my game a little bit we're using OBS or whatever right stream labs so I can cross in some things for you guys to see wait what is it going to be like razzle dazzle what's that from oh my god you guys I just had a flashback to a Scooby-Doo episode with the Harlem blow Toronto don't I know what episode you're talking about but I I don't know what I don't remember that part oh we're going to have to look that up how can they look up that you about to lose your job should we post that in there too I will find it but should we share that maybe we shouldn't share that internet is a treasure trove if you search you about to lose your job what it what was I I was going to wrap up with something how do I contact you I see your campaign contact still that the same yes that is a great way to contact me also anybody that's interested in running for office in the next couple years holler at me we are putting together a group of folks to help cultivate and groom candidates for the next couple of election cycles so you know it's going to be hard to be as wonderful on camera as me but we can certainly we're you know the plan is to help coach people how to be on camera how to you know do public speaking get their campaign stuff together so they can be working on it well ahead of time and have a strategy so definitely reach out go to conventionofstates.com sign the petition check it out read more holler at me yeah I think you can direct message me here as well on facebook you can also still my campaign website is still live I'm not going to lie I haven't updated it since before election day have we we've been we've been talking about revamping it to do something else but it's been undecided but you can still reach out there you can still sign up to be on the newsletter which that's also going to be rolling out in the next couple months we're actually going to take everybody's information and create a newsletter because there really is a movement of patriots in the state of Vermont who've been motivated and activated by our campaign and that was really um yeah it was the whole point it was actually really really amazing I'm going to cry okay I'm good um no really like I mean this is you know this is my purpose you guys my purpose is engaged in an informed electorate it's what I'm here for on this earth and so to know that our message resonated with people and help people feel like they had the courage to stand up for themselves and to stand up for their family and what they believe it just was really awesome yeah especially in this world as we talked about this before bullies I detest bullies of all sorts I did even what you're talking about Mary one brother uh going to his house knowing that he isn't going to come out and fight you makes you a coward you threaten someone knowing they're not going to fight you you're a bully but you're a bully but you're bullying people when people whatever side they're on and walking around punching people in the head from the back we don't see them coming you're a bully we hate all forms of bullying it's not okay it's really not okay telling people that they're not black if they don't vote a certain way telling people like what was it year you're not black if you vote for Trump and our roommate is not Cuban if he doesn't vote for Trump wait wait you said that no you're not black if you vote for Trump he's not Cuban if he does vote for Trump does not vote for Trump right exactly and so it's just like you don't get to apparently blackness is determined by your political party now the one I saw the one I saw that was the best my best the best example um I won't use the word they use it's a very derogatory term for black people that black people use a lot uh starts with a C right um you're only that word your black is really caught on the question if you don't if you're voting wrong you're dating the wrong skin color person I listed the wrong music are you not into things that everybody else of your color typically is into um never mind the fact that your color in your original culture aren't really all that they're not necessarily the same because they do different things in Africa but that's a different conversation um oh you mean not all black people from Africa correct but the whole part that's fun to me is that if you're dealing drugs if you're shooting people and you're a gangster half the people in gangster rap um talk about all these things their blackness is never questioned if I go out and I murder someone in the streets because I'm real my blackness isn't questioned I can kill one of my brothers my black brothers blackness never questioned that is tremendously confusing to me that sounds like you guessed it bullying and this is why I resist these things this is why I'm often called and feel I want to troll people I want to say things I don't even believe in sometimes just to shock the system to show them that I don't care I have an urge I really have to resist that's one of the urges that I have to resist because people I'm like you think you're gonna tell me what I can and can't do watch me show you how that's not going to happen watch me and so that's catches us a stance it's a problem it's a problem it is a tremendous problem but we're seeing it on all sides and this is what we saw in Vermont most people are somewhere in a reasonable range of the center left or right most of us believe that you should have a right to your personal property that people shouldn't be able to show up and take your property from you for that reason that they think that they have because that is how you get to anarchy when people think they can just take stuff because they feel like it which is not what we're supposed to be in right now these are things that we're watching happen and people don't feel like they have the right to speak out about it most people aren't super right or left they're somewhere in the middle but we've been taught during this Trump Biden the black lives matter all this stuff if you can't be in a reasonable range you have to be extreme and there's everything wrong with that extreme anything is a problem and that illustrates really well what's wrong with the power and jurisdiction of the federal government you noticed did you see my brown background that was nice did you see that that was beautiful oh yeah no but seriously we're not supposed to care you guys we're not supposed to care this much about the federal government we're not supposed to care this much about who the president is I didn't even know where that came from we're not supposed to care we're just not supposed to care this much you guys and the only way that we can restore the balance of power between the states and the federal government is to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government impose fiscal restraints and place term limits on federal officials when you say you want more federal government what you're saying is that you want less responsibility for your life and you want less freedom that's literally everything the federal government does is the threat of a gun everything that they do that is the power that they have so when you say you want them to run something you're saying I cannot manage it on my own we're stupid, stupid, incapable regular citizens the government official gods have to take care of it for us and when you do that you almost never get it back so if they do a bang up job it won't matter they can do a worse job than you it won't matter because now you've handed it over you think we're gonna just start suddenly having private loans again because they feel like letting us do that for student loans? no that's not how that's gonna work the only time we get it back is if it fails completely and they can't do anything with it the only time we get it back is with an article 5 convention that too see that? I'm trying to put a button in it and you keep talking no buttons but luckily you're doing it you're helping me bring it back around baby doesn't go in a corner to limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government imposing fiscal restraints and placing term limits on federal officials in fact that they're not limited there's a meme, the best meme ever it's the libertarian meme I saw and it said if you're panicking about whoever's getting ready to be elected president it's because the government has too much power so that's it tonight introduction to the convention of states go to conventionstates.com check it out sign the petition I can't read that one out loud we'll see you again we'll see you man we'll see you anyway thank you all for participating, for asking questions feel free to keep the conversation going like, share, and subscribe to my youtube channel the more youtube followers I get the more stuff I can do everybody's going over parlor I think I might check that out I think it's supposed to be like the twitter it's like a version of twitter I guess people are leaving facebook and twitter for parlor so I think it's like a we'll see I'm not going to be there exclusively I go where the people are because that's the point we don't want to be in an echo chamber I mean if you're talking because you want to have the liberty we don't want to be in an echo chamber we want liberals over there too I want leftists I had Bernie Sanders supporters who supported my campaign so I'm not just I'm a conservative but that doesn't mean our values don't translate for other people we need to have conversations and so we need to have conversations I want everybody to move to parlor I want everybody to be on a platform where they're not censoring us so that's not why I'm moving I'm moving and I can tell you guys sincerely that in the last couple weeks of the election even though almost every video was boosted paid for I got significantly less reach I got significantly less clicks likes shares views ad campaigns that didn't even use up all the money so I would boost a video for like 25 bucks or 35 bucks a pop or whatever and somehow not every one of them got used interesting but there's like there were like 100,000 voters or something at least in Chinook County but somehow you were only able to help me reach 300 people out of 100,000 so anyway yeah so I just don't want to be censored yeah the thing is I think a lot of people are going over there because of that they're going over there thinking it's going to be the echo chamber and we're saying I wouldn't want to be there for the echo chamber we need to have conversations now if everyone went there because it was more Wild West great but like if it's just one side going to parlor that kind of changes the point of this this is for comp to meet and show people and hey is it Dion or Dion how do I pronounce it spell it phonetically in the chats don't let Facebook chase us away I hear what you're saying but they have to suffer like money talks y'all like real talk and so all the boycott nonsense that the left has started doing we need to do it back like I haven't had a Netflix subscription since when we're the thing where the Georgia passed the Hartley bill was that what it was and Netflix was like screw you Georgia we're going to just drop all of our filming there we're just going to pull it all and I was like are you serious this state has decided that it is choosing to protect life and so you want to be a bully and force and force them to change their lives check this out here's what's amazing about that a large amount of the black acting community is in Atlanta Georgia so when they pulled out for that you affected how a lot of people in my industry of film and television eat that's cute weird, I thought they cared about us thought black people were like the golden stepchild that you were trying to bring to court so you don't want corporate money in politics and you want abortions so badly that you don't care what the consequences are mmm no it's more important that not the not the ones that are in the womb no but here's the thing even outside of that the ones that are already alive and trying to eat and pay bills I got you so anyway I cancelled my Netflix subscription because of that I was like you guys are ridiculous you don't get to bully a state government into choosing its laws are you sick you literally say that that stuff is disgusting you shouldn't be allowed to do that their company they get to do whatever they want to do they get political if they want and you know how you avoid letting corporate money affect your state or your life you you limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government I don't know I was a good shot Dion thank you for correcting me heard you have to give your driver's ID every time you post privacy really? that can't be right that's weird why I'm gonna have to just sit and look at it I'll figure it out but the point is let me know what else you guys what are their topics you guys want to hear as I mentioned earlier in the show I'm putting together a series to talk about legalization of drugs I really don't know where I stand on this I've heard compelling arguments for legalizing drugs because it changes the dynamic of the legal stuff blah blah blah every time they do anything like that people find a way to be trash even if it does have a good intention people do ridiculous things but the point is I want to have the conversations so I want to have a libertarian who can come on here with me and talk about the libertarian argument I'd like to have a prohibition person talk to me about it I know there are some people who are anti-marijuana in Vermont and I could contact those people and then I have there's the model in Portugal so if somebody could speak to what it looks like to actually legalize drugs and what all that we did it Wisconsin or somebody somebody has an organ there's an organ in where everything is fine now is it an organ? I thought it was an organ where they said that it's all it's undecriminalized so it wasn't just a state it was a whole state you're right I might be an organ I think you're right I don't know if it's illegal but I think it's decriminalized yeah like possession I think you need I think that's what I heard so anyway we're looking to have these kinds of conversations I don't necessarily just want to talk to people I agree with I do want to talk to people who are reasonable and can have a conversation and who can justify their stance unlike our presidential election where they kept the woman Jorgensen for me hitting the stage because they didn't want a diverse set of opinions on stage yeah we can't have that spectrum of ideas weird we can't have that spectrums of ideas are terrible but you know who doesn't or what would be necessary for that to not be terrible really tell me more what do we need to do please interrupt okay I did a really good job now just being ridiculous have I heard of me we know what's that what's me we is that like I us me we no it's some other platform there's a couple other platforms out there I'll probably be on because I do it for work what's the one that Dave Rubin started I don't know it's a paid one right I don't know there's a bunch of them I haven't heard of me we but I'll check it out maybe we should just take away the special rights of those stupid platforms so they can't do what they're doing anymore anyway really wrapping it up Dave is uh new free speech platform what the heck is it called locals that's right locals dot com I've heard of that one I think that's the one that's subscription based so that way they don't have all the advertising nonsense I think so can we get famous like go viral no okay you guys we need to go famous and be viral go viral be famous we're gonna eat I'm just gonna sit here and be awkward really? excuse me oh my goodness I'm violent okay goodnight everybody thank you for joining us come back next week tune back into the events page to find upcoming topics okay bye oh yeah well I suggested topics stuff you want to talk about you're silly honey no I'm not