Summary
âž¡ The speaker discusses their passion for history, emphasizing that it’s more engaging when taught with enthusiasm and creativity. They mention their plans to use pre-1912 history books to teach, believing these offer a different perspective on American history than modern textbooks. They also express interest in firsthand accounts for a more authentic understanding of events. The speaker also discusses the Southern tradition, arguing that it aligns more with modern Christian conservatism, and criticizes the way history is taught to promote a certain narrative or political agenda.
âž¡ The text discusses the structure of the U.S. government, emphasizing that the legislative branch is the most powerful as it creates laws. The executive branch, led by the President, is responsible for executing these laws, but its power is limited, especially in domestic matters. The judicial branch interprets the laws. The text also argues against the idea of the U.S. as a nation with a single, central government, instead describing it as a union of states with a federal system.
âž¡ The U.S. government designed the terms of office for the President, Senate, and House of Representatives to be different lengths to prevent collusion. Initially, there was no limit to how many times a president could be elected, but a tradition of serving only two terms was established by George Washington. The President and Vice President serve a four-year term together, and their election is determined by the Electoral College, a system that emerged in the 1820s. This system was designed to guard against tyranny and involves electors, chosen by the state legislature, who vote for the president on behalf of the people in their district.
âž¡ The text discusses the process of electing the President and Vice President in the United States, focusing on the role of electors and the Electoral College. It explains that each state appoints electors equal to its total number of Senators and Representatives, who then vote for two candidates, one of whom must be from a different state. The candidate with the majority of votes becomes President, while the second-place candidate becomes Vice President. The text also mentions potential changes to this system and the impact of these changes on the balance of power among states.
âž¡ The text discusses the historical context of the U.S. presidential elections, focusing on the 1800 election. It highlights the role of the vice president as the second-place winner and the 12th amendment. The text also mentions the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 and their impact on the Federalist Party. Lastly, it suggests that the deep state, or entrenched bureaucracy, should be removed to prevent political manipulation.
âž¡ The text discusses the historical and current political landscape, focusing on the Federalist Party and its evolution. It also mentions the author’s books and their content, particularly about Hamilton. The conversation then shifts to modern technology companies and their potential political leanings, with a focus on AI development. The author suggests that these companies may favor political figures who allow them to freely develop AI.
âž¡ The speaker discusses the potential of responsibly developed AI to reveal truth, recommends Bing Copilot and Yandex as reliable search engines, and answers a question about purchasing his books. He suggests buying from Amazon for now, but offers autographed copies via email. He also mentions his use of Amazon for business purposes, despite its drawbacks. The speaker then briefly discusses his upcoming show about the Articles of Confederation and the Confederate Constitution, before ending the conversation.
Transcript
Be sure to say hello, I am keeping an eye on it. And so we’re gonna work our way through Article 2, which is ironically enough, the President, United States. Real quick, this is live on the 7th of January 2025. So real quick, yesterday was the quote unquote certification of the electoral votes that really, it’s not a certification, it’s supposed to be the counting of the electoral votes. A lot of people told me ahead of time what I, what did I think was going to happen. You know, the Democrats going to try to, you know, play a game and not seat President Trump.
And my response is don’t worry, A, they don’t have the votes. B, they just got beat. And while they are still doing stupid stuff in the eyes of the public, court of public opinion is pretty strong and they’re not completely stupid. So they decided. I don’t know about that. Oh, you’re such a cynic. Yeah, no, I, I get it. I reckon I recognize who those who are opponents of the Constitution and liberty and good governance are. I recognize who they are, what they’re capable of and how out of their minds they are. A matter of fact, I opened my radio program last Saturday on KMET 1490am about bitterness.
And I want to turn it into a video. So if you go to YouTube.com douglas v. Gibbs my bitterness videos there. What’s funny real quick is while I was editing it, I didn’t realize I did this. And by the time I sent it out, I just screw it. About a couple of minutes in, there’s one section of the video. And because what I did is I took the video from the radio program, then I changed the aspect so the outside part is cut out and it’s just me and my logo. And then I don’t know what I did.
But suddenly while you’re watching the video, my head starts moving until it’s behind my logo and you can’t see me, you can still hear me. And then and then, I don’t know, it’s like five or ten minutes of video. Then it goes back to where it’s supposed to be, and it’s that way for the rest of the video. So don’t let the idiot slide distract you while you’re watching. Watching that video. I’m gonna try to fix it before I put it on Rumble. But anyway. Yeah, because, you know, when you use these. Use these video. Here’s somebody sneezing.
Yeah. Yeah. The wife over here. She. She’s got. Actually gotten a point where she looks forward to these programs. Does she? Because she’s learning something or because she has time to herself? No, because. No, she’s. She’s learning some. She’s. Oh, good. In fact, she’s like, doug, Doug, I can’t find my constitution. You got one for me so I can follow along? Nice. That’s awesome. You have to. Well, anyway, get back to the video editing, and then I’ll say something about that, and then we’ll get started as people slowly come into the chat. So when it comes to video editing, while I’m fairly good at the basic stuff, when you want to do something like change the.
The pers. Perspective and cut things out and all sort of stuff, I’m still relatively new at that part. And so while I was cropping and resizing all sorts of stuff, I did something for that one sec. That one section. So it’s like I said, I start sliding. But anyway, no, my wife. Let me say this about my wife real quick, and then we’ll get started. So my wife is like most of you most of her life. History, politics, and especially the Constitution was not a concern. You remember school, right? Most of you probably were not fans of your history class.
Probably didn’t care to read history. And then something happened at one point in your life, probably the election of Obama, which made you snap into. I want to know more about history. I want to know more about politics. I want to know more about Constitution. And so you’re in. In a. In the grand scheme of things, you relatively new at this? I’ve been studying stuff my whole life. She’s been married to me for 40 years, and she knows that I’ve always been a political animal. When we were in high school, and I’m gonna call Amanda out.
Amanda Smith, who we used to go to high school. She’s like, but this girl was about as Marxist as they got. And she and I, during lunch, would I get into it. And it was funny. She was a friend of Virginia’s. My wife’s. And we would wind up with, like, 20 students around us just to watch us just, like, go at it, you know, And I was a Reagan baby. This is while. This is during Reagan’s first term when I was in high school. And so we’re going at it, you know, and, and, and so Virginia, even back then, this is when I was a junior and she was a senior in high school.
So we weren’t dating yet, but we were. What? She’s a cougar. She. She robbed the cradle. Cradle. You know, she robbed it. I’m just playing. So. No, no. What’s great about that is when we hit our different decades. I’ll use one of them. When we hit our 50s, she was in her 50s, I was still in my 40s. The next one is upon us. I’m still in my 50s. But anyway, and I. And I hammer her, the old woman, for like a year, you know, a little over a year. I’ve got that kind of claim. But anyway.
And so she’s always understood that I’m a political animal. Constitution. I’ve always been into that. By the time I was 15, I thought I was pretty good with the constitution. I’ve been studying it, you know, for like, half my life at that point. And. But it really wasn’t until 2006-2007-2008-2009, that my, my. My constitutional education truly began. Because what I had been studying was what the academics teach. It wasn’t. I really didn’t start understanding and getting deeper into the original intent until much later in my life. But anyway. And so I’ve always been a political animal.
She is not. And then about two years ago, well, you know, coming up with two years in April or May, and she had this epiphany and she went from, ah, that concert stuff, that’s just something Doug does to how. How can I help? We gotta save the country, you know, kind of thing. And so it’s been about almost the last two years where she’s got more interested. And now she goes to these events with. With me. And because she’s my wife, everybody just assumes she knows this stuff. So walk up to her. Oh, well, you know, Doug’s busy.
Hey, I got a question. She’s like, yeah, you’re gonna have to talk to Doug about that. Ah, it’s hilarious, right? And so. So she’s read, like two of my books now. And she’s, you know, she’s trying to educate herself because she’s realized, hey, if she’s going to be Mrs. Constitution. She’s got to be. Well, Mrs. Constitution. That’s awesome. So anyway, so she’s. So she’s learning too. But anyway, so now that we’ve killed a. A few minutes and, and I kind of like doing that in the opening, not only because I don’t like to just get to business, but also because I realize there’s people that are still coming in and, and I want to, you know, not just get started on the lesson until everybody’s kind of in their seats.
Yeah, I know. The tardy bell rings. I should just start. But I’m, I’m. I just never was that kind of teacher. But anyway, I like to warm the class up a little bit. But here we are, and it’s brand new year. And as expected, the January 6 went without a hitch. I. Like I said earlier, and matter of fact, Ron surprisingly had me call into a program real quick for like five minutes right before I was gonna go on the air on something else. And I told them exact same thing. They don’t have the votes and know considering what’s going on, they’ve already got for.
For lack of a better way of putting their butt in a sling as it is. So I, I’m not, I’m not of the. I’m not worried now. Yarn Addict. I want to add this real quick. I was the same Doug. Around 2009, I really started paying attention to politics. Safira. I studied in history, did all the work. The nun that was a teacher gave me a D unjustly. I said, screw it. I loved. Why. I loved to give you a D. Yeah, probably. You didn’t do your homework, huh? That’s. That’s what it was with me. Yeah.
I guess I don’t know when. And, And I mean, I never had a history. I never had a history class that I didn’t like. But I, I will say that the vast majority of my history teachers were. I mean, you know, history is one of those things where you need to have somebody who’s kind of like jovial. Expressive animation. Yeah. To. To talk about history. Because most history teachers, I find are the ones, you know, they, they love the statistics and all the names and, you know, their monotone. Yes. And in 1899, the United States did this.
Went to war with Spain, you know, and it’s like, come on, really? And you know, you have all that and people get bored with it. You’re like. But sometimes it’s just the topic, you know, I don’t care about history. That’s just, you Know, but I mean, in my humble opinion, history is probably the most exciting topic out there because. Oh, yeah, I mean, it’s just nothing but gossip. And if. If people understood. If people understood that history was gossip, they’d be all over it because, I mean, that’s what people do all the day, all day long is gossip.
So anyway, so when I was in Southern California, first part of December, right before Christmas one, and I was visiting my different constitution classes, and one of my students from my class down in San Diego, his daughter was also one of my students in my high school history class. And they got a new history teacher because I’m not there anymore. So I asked her, so. So what’s the. So how’s the new history teacher? It’s not the same, Mr. Gibbs. It’s. I, you know, I was, I had the passion. Sometimes I would dress up. I had. Yeah, I bring props and, and you know me, I’m kind of, you know, bouncing off the walls.
Love, love the topic. Speaking of history, just because we’re talking about it, I just want to let everybody know that I am in the process of getting a few books to, to teach from, in the new year. And they’re going to be history books that are pre 1912. And this one is called Story of America for Young people. It’s very difficult to see, but I have that book, believe it or not, Story of Young People from About America. And it’s. I want to say that this book was written or it was published in like 18. 1890 or 1888 or something.
1899. Those are the best books too. I love those ones. 1899. So. And I’m gonna start. I’m gonna start doing some, some shows on this because the history that you get in this about the country is completely different than the history that we get, you know, in our modern head textbooks. Not to say that there wasn’t a few games back then, but not like today. Well, and I ordered another set. Remember I talked to you about it? It was that five book set that was from 1912, you know, American History. Like a. More in depth, probably like more of a high school history book.
But it was like in five. It was five volumes and it was delivered on Friday. I can’t freaking find it. And I’m like, I’m looking everywhere for that dang box. I just talked to the mail carrier. Where’d you put it? So anyway, that’s. If I don’t get that and I have to buy another one. So. But anyway, just know that I’m gonna be doing some stuff on that because on, on old history. So. Because that. I’ve got one published in 1913, I’ve got a couple from the 1880s, 1890s, I got one from the mid-1800s. And I tell you what, I have a lot more fun reading through those than I do the modern books.
Yeah. And I also try to go to a lot of first hand accounts rather than history books or. Because if you can get a first hand account of something, someone who was there, who wrote a book, you know, like, like that one book we’ve discussed. Curtis. Curtis B Doll. Thank you. Yeah. You know, he, you know, who was kind of in the mix. Going to get a more honest story when you find firsthand accounts or secondhand accounts. But anyway. All right, very good. I’m looking forward to you playing with history. I have a feeling. And, and I, I’m gonna say it again.
I want to get. Actually what I really want to do is I want to get you and I want to get Warhamster on and, and do some stuff going back in, you know, going back in, talking about old history, but I really want to get you on to do some stuff on 18. The war, the Mexican American War, because I know that’s one of your great passions. Yeah, that that time period is. And you know, it’s funny because I was talking to, I was talking to Warhamster one time. He says that then when it comes to early 1800s and the 1700s, I’m the guy.
But his, but his guy for after that period is Brian, Brian McClanahan. Oh, and, and if you guys have never heard or seen Brian McClanahan and it’s Brian B. I r o n Brian McClanahan. He has, he has a YouTube channel and man, I’ll tell you, you. That is a fantastic, fantastic channel to follow. And he does, I think he does a, A show almost every day. And, and he actually is head of the. I think he heads up the, the Abbeville Institute, which is. He has a PhD in history. Yeah, but he, but he, but he heads up the, he heads up the Abbeville Institute, which is out of South Carolina.
And they focus a lot on pre, you know, was it, was it pre. What is it? What’s the, what do they call it? Pre bellum or antebellum. It’s not antebellum is after. Antebellum period is the period between the war between the States. Antebellum before or after? Yeah, yeah. A N T E anti Antebellum. Okay. That’s right. Yeah. And they focus a lot on the antebellum history. And it’s all about how if you really look at the, the conservative nature of who we are as a country, you have to look at the Southern way of life. And I know people are going to say, oh, but slavery.
Oh, but slavery. You know, what we have been taught about slavery is all wrong. It’s all. Again, I, I, if I’ve said it one time, I’ve said it a thousand. History is not taught with the purpose of, so that you can understand history for how it was, how it happened. History is taught so that you will accept a narrative and an agenda, a political agenda. So it’s taught to cultivate a mindset in you, not taught to teach you about how what actually happened. And Southern and, and the, the Southern world, the Southern tradition. All of that is fascinating to me.
And there’s ups and downs. The ups are when it comes to a moral foundation and, and localism and, and state, state sovereignty and things like that. One of the negatives which does come from slavery is because you’ve got other people doing the work for you. You, it created a, for those who had slaves. It created a class of people who, well, be honest with you, were became lazy. And so you have your ups and downs in that culture. But the overall culture, when it comes to morals and liberty and things like that, really the Southern liberty, Southern traditional culture is a good one.
Absolutely. The Southern ideals are much more aligned with, with modern day Christian conservatism. Absolutely. 1000%. And, and the, the elitist attitudes of the north are much more aligned with the Marxist tendencies of the left. And, and as Brian McClanahan getting back to him, it would say the Yankee Puritan Yankees. And you know, when Warhaps returned me onto a video, when he talked about the Puritan Yankees, I’d be like, yeah, huh? Because I know so much about the Puritans and hadn’t put two and two together. Well. And, and to correct you real quick, Warhamster says he’s speaking of Brian Mcclanahan.
He’s not the head of Abby’s Phil, but he is a board member and a major contributor. I think at one time he was like, he was on the board and he was heading the board. That’s probably, that’s probably in a position that they rotate. But, but I, I think he’s also on the Mises Institute. He’s, he, because he lives in Alabama, but, but, but whatever. Anyway, he’s fantastic. He, he really does a lot of very good work. Let me just say this one interesting point about, about slavery. If the, you know, if you paid, if you paid $100,000 today to buy a human being to do work in your yard, would you beat them to death? Well, no.
No, of course not. Okay. So the idea that, the idea that people bought people and strictly for the purposes of wanting to just be cruel and punish them is, is nonsensical. And secondarily, the vast majority of the best. The vast majority of black people today are Christians. Well, they didn’t have Christianity in Africa. And so when they came, but not in some. But not like it was in the United States. And if the, if the masters were so brutal to them, why would the vast majority of the black people adopt the very religion that caused brutality? I mean, just food for thought.
Food for thought. Also the first Christian church outside the Middle east and southeastern Europe when the beginnings of Christianity was in Ethiopia. Yeah. So trust me, Christianity was in Africa. But I get what you mean. Most of the tribes were not running around praising Jesus. They were, you know, it was, it was still a very, very paganistic culture and their own gods and, you know, whatever. Yeah, and that’s a good point. Well, and, you know, I, I, I have, I, I have said this, and few people understand what I mean when I say this. Thank God your ancestor was brought here in slavery, Otherwise you would live in Africa.
You’re in the freest country in the world because of a bad circumstance. But it turned out. I’ll be right back. I have to go take care of something. All right, so. And while you’re doing that, it’s time for Article 2. All right, so Article 2, since that’s what we’re supposed to be here for anyway. But, you know, sometimes, you know, things happen. All right, so Article 2 is the section of the constitution that establishes the executive branch. We have three branches of government. Legislative branch, executive branch, judicial branch. I name them in that order on purpose.
A, because Article 1 is a legislative branch, Article 2 is the executive branch, and Article 3 is the judicial branch. But also name them in that order because of their position in power. There is a, There is an idea that is taught in history classes to this day that we have three co. Equal branches. And you’ll hear it all the time on TV and, and different people. And we do not, we were not designed to have three CO/ government. And I can prove to you that we don’t have three co. Equal branches. First of all, they don’t do the same job if they’re equal.
They’d be doing the same thing. They’re not. And when it comes to power, it’s real simple. The legislature can impeach and convict and throw out of office the president and judges, but the judges and the President cannot dislodge anybody from their position, much less anybody. In Congress, for example. That’s just one example. We have, we do have three different branches and they do differ in their responsibilities and level of power and responsibilities. And so your legislative branch is supposed to be the strongest. More have more responsibilities, more authorities and so on and so forth. Another thing when it comes to that is the executive branch cannot execute law unless there is law.
The judicial branch cannot judicate law unless there is law. Where does that law come from? The legislative branch. It all begins with them. So they are the most important branch of the three. So we don’t have three co. Equal branches, Legislative branch first, then the executive branch, and then the weakest of three branch branches originally intended, the judicial branch. Everything has been flipped because that’s what the narrative for tyranny does legislate. Because legislation typically comes through the consent of the governed and through mechanisms beyond just voting. And that is an enemy to tyranny. Tyranny. The thing about tyranny’s dictatorships, it’s sort of like, as you, some of you heard me say, this sort of like Jean Luc Picard on the, on the Enterprise, you know, make it so right.
It happens. It’s very efficient, but it’s also very tyrannical. We have checks and balances. We have a legislative system that has to put, you know, these laws in place in the first place. And then someone says, well, yeah, but the President has to sign the laws. No, he doesn’t. What if he vetoes it or refuses to sign it? If the legislature has 2/3 approval on both houses, each house, they can override that too and still make it a law. But the President can’t override the Congress to make a law. So once again we, it shows where the importance and the, and the power lies and it lies in the legislative branch.
That said, the executive branch is important. The legislative branch can legislate all they want. If those laws just sit there, if they’re not executed, the execution of the laws, the carrying out of the laws belongs to the present. Now we have to also remember this, remember the, we have this enumeration doctrine. The federal government only has so many authorities, very limited on what they. So that means the President’s ability to execute law is very limited and domestic Laws are super limited. Majority of federal authority is outside the United States, outside the domestic interior park. If it does involve the interior, it has something to do with the union, like communication of the union, you know, postal service, something like that.
Protecting the intellectual property of the union, like Copyright office, patent office, things like that. And then of course, disputes within that union. If there’s a dispute between two states, then the federal government can act as a mediator. But aside from that, the federal government’s authorities are really external. So the President of the United States is not a president of you. He’s the president over the union. And I want people I, it drives me but bananas batty. Whatever words you want to use when, well, the president is a man of the people. Better not be. I don’t want him in my life.
He’s the man of the union. And that’s a tough concept for us to grasp because once again, going back to what Ron said earlier about history and narratives, there’s a narrative that has to be fed. You know, a ruler over the people. That’s what they want you to believe. And so it is put out there. I just wrote an article, matter of fact, and if you want to go to douglasvgibbs.com and they go to the blog or just go to political pistachio.com the title is Nation. I, I guarantee you Ron already knows what it’s about just hearing the word nation.
What does that word mean? Are we a nation? And why? If we’re not, why is that being pounded into our brains? Just like the word democracy, A nation is a, is typically a single entity under a single government. And while the word nation is often used synonymously with country or union of states, and we call ourselves a nation, the founding Fathers even did that every once in a while. And I get that. It, when it comes down to brass tacks, we’re not a nation. We are a union of states. A nation doesn’t have this union, this, this agreement between members to be a part of this country.
A nation is a single entity with a single government that controls everything. National government. And you know, and then a matter of fact, in the article, I have a image there and it gives you the three most common types of systems that if you want to include the United States, you have the national government or unit, Unitarian control, you have the federal government and you have confederation. And I then have a diagram to show you what each of them mean. We are not supposed to be a nation with a national government, and that therefore the president is not a ruler.
He is not the most powerful man in the free world as we’re told, because his power is nothing without a Congress. His authority is nothing without the states and the people and the Congress. He is simply the guy whose job it is to make sure that federal law is executed. It’s an important position, don’t get me wrong. And he’s the representative of this country. He holds many titles that are of national. I kind of idea he is the one who negotiates the treaties. But he’s not a king. He’s not a member of a national government who goes out there and signs a treaty.
And that’s just the way it is because we have a republic, a federal system, that treaties does come back to the Senate to be ratified. And that Senate before 1913 was the voices of the different states saying, okay, let’s see what we think of this treaty before we approve it. So being president, it’s not a ruler. He has executive power, execute the laws. And that’s how Article 2 begins. The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. Executive power, the ability to execute law, not make law, adjudicate law, execute law.
Vested, Vested, as with the usage of that word in Article 1 and Article 3 means that first of all, those powers are exclusively his don’t belong to anybody else and they’re irrevocable. He can’t just give them away. So the executive power, the ability to execute the laws of the United States shall be given to singularly only him, exclusionary, irrevocably, to the President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office for during the term of four years. Now, this is interesting because they were afraid of collusion between different parts of government working together. So what they did is they staggered the terms.
Member of the House two years, Member of the Senate six, President four. There’s always changes going on and none of them line up so that we can hopefully, yes, understand humanity has human nature. Collusion’s gonna find its way somewhere. So we. They try to put mechanisms in to battle against it the best they could. And that staggering of the terms was a part of that. Now you’ll notice that there’s no term limit here. Originally, the president could be elected as many times as as the people would have them or the states would have them, depending on how it was being done.
And together with vice president chosen for the same terms. In other words, the first day of the term of four years is going to start on the same day for the president and the vice president and end on the same day for the same term, be elected as follows. Then it goes into what we call the electoral college. So you’ve got a President and a Vice president for four years together. There is no term limit. The President of the United States named George Washington, the first guy under the Constitution to hold that title after two terms, didn’t, did not run for a third term.
He actually didn’t want to run for the second term. He was convinced to, but he, he held two terms and then he stopped. So a tradition was created there that nobody should hold office longer than the father of the country. So while there was not at the time a two term limit per se in writing, traditionally it held. There was only two times prior to Franklin Delano Roosevelt that a president tried to run for a third term. Grant Teddy Roosevelt. In the case of Teddy Roosevelt, it was when he ran as a Bull Moose party slash progressive party candidate against Wilson and Taft, which split the Republican vote and got Wilson in.
Right. And, and just FYI, Roosevelt was net. Teddy Roosevelt was never ever a conservative. No matter of fact, he was proudly a progressive. There is some writings that suggest that in his dying days or on his deathbed that he regretted his progressive ways and he renounced those progressive ideas. But there’s no hard evidence. That’s just been rumor and hearsay and the word of mouth of some people. One wonders, it’s amazing how clear sometimes, I suppose some people’s thinking might become when faced with death. Just, you know, never know when you’re gonna have to go meet your maker.
All right. God, I screwed up. I shouldn’t have done that. Yeah. Oh, but Ron, Teddy gave us national parks. Hey, you know what? Again, tell us, tell everybody how he got onto Mount Rushmore. So, well, the idea of Mount Rushmore was to put the four presidents that had particular aspects about them regarding the Union. So George Washington created the Union. This is from their point of view, not mine. He didn’t create it, but he was first president. But from that, with their point of view, he created the Union. Thomas Jefferson expanded the Union. Louisiana Purchase. Try not to laugh, Warhamster.
And Ron, Abraham Lincoln would be the next one because he saved the Union. And then, you know, Ron’s really percolating when his face turns red like that, you know, and nothing like saying just Lincoln and get him going. But. And then finally no idea. And then Teddy Roosevelt conserved the Union, conserved areas of the unit. That’s so. So that’s how they chose the four presidents that would be on Mount Rushmore personally, if it If I. If it had been my choice, it would have been Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Coolidge. That’s just me with space for somebody else maybe, you know, you know, with maybe y’all crazy hair, you know, just got elected.
Maybe, you know, someday. But anyway, all right. I got a chance to see Mount Rushmore too long ago. That’s the reason why I know all that is because I. I read everything. Museums hate me because I’m there for like eight hours reading everything. But anyway, so we’ve got. So we’ve got this president of the United States executive. He’s not a dictator. He is not a man of the people. He’s a man of the Union. And therefore, for fear that we may get a dictator type and for fear that democracy could be used against us in the election of the President may formed a different way to elect them.
And that’s. And. And we call that the Electoral College. The term electoral College did not emerge until the 1820s. It is electors who vote for president. The electors voted for president independently. You chose. Or you and your state legislature chose different electors depending on which one it was. And then they would vote for president for you. So you in your district would hope you’d get the guy who’d vote for the guy you want. You would. They would campaign to get your vote to. Right. So I’m imagining some of those electors were the most popular guys in their neighborhood for a while until after the election.
And some of them were hated by certain groups. But anyway, so here is how it establishes second paragraph in Article 2. Each State shall appoint in such manner as a legislature there may direct. So the actual election of the elector is up to the legislature of the state. On how that’s going to happen. In most cases it was. The number of electors is based on the number of representation in Congress that a state has. The number of members of the House plus the two senators, the ones that were in most of the states, the way they were elected, the.
The electors, the ones who represented the. The house representatives, their congressional districts would elect those electors. And then the two remaining which were there because of the Senate, each state legislative house would appoint that one. That way the voting for president was kind of a mixture of the states and the people and then not directly by people, not direct democracy, but indirect democracy. Voting for an elector to vote for President. They believed this was a way to guard against if the people were fooled by tyrants. And so, so much so that even if a majority of the people in a particular district expected an elector to vote one way he could still vote another way.
Because the electors are supposed to be the people of those districts who know these things. They pay attention and they’re trusted by, you know, the people for the most part. And if they’ve been and they’ve been around for a while, might be someone like you in your neighborhood. I don’t know. And so they expected the wiser, more politically savvy. But not office holders. Can’t be an office holder to be an elector. Politically savvy members of communities to be the electors. So being lazy here says real special ed. How is the electorate decided for each state? 538 for the union seems arbitrary.
Well, first of all, it was supposed to be based on population with, when it comes to representation with a representative not allowed to represent less than 30,000 people, well, you couldn’t have more than two, should I say for 30, for 30, 000 people. And what eventually happened is the number was going up so fast that they put a limit. So now the representatives, some of them represent millions, which is fine. And that’s a debate for another time. I know there’s a lot of people who want the original first amendment to be ratified. So that is one representative per 30,000.
I am not the mood to have thousands and thousands of members of the House Representative, I don’t think growing the bureaucracy is a big good idea. Say. Well, yeah, but Doug, they’re representing less people. They’ll be more be able to listen to the people. If that’s the case, then how do you explain city council members? They represent less people and they’re worse in some cases. But anyway, she hates the winner takes all on the states. Yeah, that, that’s also, that’s also something that has developed over time. It is, it is not in line with what was originally.
The concept originally was each elector goes to wherever they go. Now the winner take takes all only exists in 48 states. Nebraska and Maine does not participate with that. It is up to each state and it is something that they decided. The states have decided over time. And, and the reason why they do it is because it’s easier, it’s easier for tyranny to get their people in that way. Could you imagine, could you imagine the Democrats trying to win an election if everybody, all the districts that voted for Trump in California went to Trump? Yeah, actually that’s a, so that’s, that’s an interesting point.
And, and definitely something that I think that we should, that should be addressed level. The, the, the, the, the electoral college also doesn’t Operate as it originally was originally intended. And I’ll get into that in a minute. So we have each state appointing in such manner the legislature thereof may direct a number of electors equal to the whole number of senators and representatives into which state in. To which the state may be entitled in the Congress, but no senate, senator or representative or person holding an office of trust or profit on the United States shall be appointed elector, which I told you guys already.
Then real quick, somebody. I mean you. You talking about this as. As spark. Oh, I know the chat room’s going. The chat room’s going a little bit crazy, but. And Warhamster is in here and I want to tell. I want to say this while. While he’s listening and you’re here is I really want to do that show that talks about the. In. In James Wesley Rawls book Patriots After a Calamitous Second Civil War in the United States. How it talks about the. The proposed or. Well, he. He said that it. You know, it was. It was an Article 5 convention that they can.
That they. They did once. Everything. Once the dust had settled and they. They set forth like. I think it was like eight new amendments and it was all the things that they. They went back and kind of torched and like repealing the 17th amendment, repealing the 16th amendment, repealing the 26th amendment, things of that nature and you know, enhancing the second Amendment. Just a lot, A lot of. To me that would be a very fun show to do to talk about how there’s certain things in the Constitution may they got it right, maybe he got it wrong.
But anyway, that is a show that I really want to do with you two. Yeah, you’ve talked about that before and. And I would definitely have fun picking some of that stuff apart or agreeing with it, depending. Yeah, exactly. And someone. And Jane Lee said something that. That. I’m sorry, not Jane Lee, Yarn addict. Uh, stateside, California, New York. Have uh, too much control that way. If. If you’re referring back to winter take all. Absolutely. If. If the electors went as they voted and when it came to the electoral count, it would be more honest and it would.
And it would disallow the states with larger populations from trying to control the election. They did not have a winner take all system originally. The. The next part and third paragraph of Article 2. The elector shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for two persons. Now remember, this is the way it originally was. There have been some changes. I’ll point them out as we go ballot for two persons of whom one at least shall not be inhabitant of the same state with themselves. In other words, if you were an elector from New York and you’re voting for two persons for president, you’re picking your first and second choice.
You’re not ranking them, you just. You’re picking two people. One of them has to be from a state different than your own. It was a way to keep the big states from only put picking their own people. It forced them to also pick somebody else if they want to pick one of their own people. And they shall make a list of all the persons voted for and the number of votes for each, which list they shall sign. And certify. That’s the first time the word certify shows up in Constitution. It appears twice. January 6th is not a certification of the election.
It is a counting of electoral votes. The certification happens by the electors. The electors certify the election. They certify their vote, they seal it, they send it to Congress to be counted by the President of the Senate vice president. On January 6th is the date. We do it now to count the votes. It’s not a certification, it’s simply accounting of the electoral votes. They’ve already been certified by the electors if it’s done the proper way. Part of our problem now is even our electors are not chosen properly right now they’re chosen by the parties, not by the state legislatures, which is unconstitutional.
And transmit sealed the seat of government to the United States directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall in the presence of the Senate and House Representatives joint session of Congress open all the certificates and the vote shall then be counted. That part is not changed in the 12th amendment. It’s worded exactly the same. The person. Now this part’s the. The part that changes the the person having the greatest number of votes shall be the President. If such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed majority, you know, 270 to win has to be in a majority.
And if there be more than one who have such majority and have an equal number of votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of them for present. And if no person have a majority, then from the five highest on the list the said house shall in like manner choose the the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states the representation from each state having one vote that also has not changed if it goes to the House of Representatives. And we, we heard that right. Well, what if neither Biden or Trump got, you know, the majority? Well, then it would go to the House and it’s by state, not by representative.
So. And people say, well, the Democrats had a majority, you know, back in 2020 when we were talking about this. Yeah, but most of the states are red. Right. Actually, if you, if you look at the map and you look at the, the, the areas that are blue, which should be red, are blue, you’ll see that it’s almost like a, it’s a sea of red and it’s tiny little blue islands. Yeah, well, if you look at it, it by county, that’s exactly what it is. You’ve got the whole map being red with the certain areas being blue.
Here’s what’s interesting. If you superimpose the map showing the greatest crime infested areas, they’re all blue. They match well. And here’s the interesting thing. Okay. You know, a lot of my audience is older and I’m sure that a lot of my audience will recall a time when it used to be when you would say, oh, he’s a true blue Republican or he was in the 70s or he was a blue dog Democrat, meaning that he was a Democrat that, that had, that had Republican tendencies. They didn’t change. They, or they, they altered that in 1984. Well, it may have altered before that.
Well, some of the media channels did at that time, but not all of them abided by it until the late 90s. Yeah. So the, but, the, but, but the Democrats were, were red. And when they were, when they started to become overtly Marxist, they had to migrate away from red because red was known as communistic. And then we took that color and we did two things with it. One, we made it, well, great again. And B, and B, we gave it to the Anaheim Angels. Okay. Anyway. Oh God. That’s why the Angels are more of a blue red before.
Now they’re all red. Yeah, all right, whatever. I, I, why, why would you even go there, man? Why would you, why would you want to like, you know, you know, my son in law is originally from the Bronx. I asked him what he told me. The World Series. Yeah, he’s very happy, man, at this moment. I told him about you and he told me to send my condolences. Yeah, it’s okay. I just, I’ll just look at that. World Series ring. Business at hands. Business at hand. And Warhammer just. Well, you know what, just, just ask him if he had a fun time watching Aaron Judge drop the ball again on New Year’s Eve.
That’s pretty good. Warhamster, man. The facetious man, that he is in the chat room. Hey, when do we get to the part of the Constitution where they create ruling political parties? Ah, that’s good. Warhamster. If you want to join us, I’ll send you the invitation. You’re more than welcome to show up. And then real special Ed, was that a Doug Dig? Hence a dig dug. Yeah, you know, I used to love that game. Ah, that’s a great game. And actually when I was in construction, you know what I did right? I dug trenches. So. So the joke was when dig dugs, how much ditch does dig dug dug? Or something like that.
They used to. I remember that anyway. I remember that. You remember when I was in trenching. Yeah. So a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from 2/3 of the states. 2/3 of the states must be present and a majority of all of the states shall be necessary to a choice. In every case, after the choice of president, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electoral shall be vice president. What that’s saying is the second place winner is vice president. Remember, the electors are voting for two people and then in a sense they’re voting for president and vice president.
But the vice president is the second place winner. Back then, that has original. Originally, yes, originally. That’s why they. That’s what they had to come out with the 12th amendment. Right. So. Yeah. Well, when you have second place winners winning and it’s the opposing party and you have like the Adams Jefferson situation, can you imagine? Could you imagine a Trump president with Kamala Harris as vice president? Yeah, boy, that’d be joyful. Between. Between the mean tweets and all the cackling. Right. Hold on, I just want to say something. 27 World Championships when there was really no competition and they owned everything.
So. Yeah. Anyway. Are you still crying about pinstripe control? Whatever. What’s up there, Mr. Warhamster? What’s up, my friends? See, see, you gave him. You gave him the ability to change away from baseball. So now, now we have all three Southern California teams represented. Yeah, I’m the only one who’s. Well, let’s see. I’ve never won a World Series. He. So he took. He takes the brown one, though. He takes the brown pill. I take the blue pill and. And Douglas takes the. The red pill. Well, it’s actually, you know, I will repeat this once more, but one of the biggest frustrations in my life is if you do go to the San Diego Padres home stadium at Petco park, you’ll see Steve Garvey’s number is a retired number in San Diego.
And we got a Dodger in our. In our Mount Rushmore. Oh, no, you have two, actually, because you have Jackie Robinson as well. And so does the Angels. And so does everybody else. Well, you know, I have to admit. You know it. Since you’re on this topic now, the Angels won a World Series because of the Dodgers. They had a Dodgers. A former Dodger manager. Former Dodger coaches. Yep. Yeah. But anyway. All right. Yep. Back to the Constitution. Back to the Constitution. All right, so vice president was second. Second. The. The first place loser. Well, and actually, actually, let me just say one thing.
This is actually politically related. I would have rather have seen Steve Garvey win the senatorial rate or short senator race than the douchebag who won whatever that came and bring himself to say his name. Huh? I don’t. I can’t. I don’t. Yeah, I. I deliberately try to, like, put it out. Well, he’s full of ship. Yeah, thank you. Yes, exactly. Adam. Shifty. Shift, shifty. Yeah. But if there remain, should remain two or more who have equal votes, the Senate shall choose from them the ballot for vice president. Senate, of course, then will be choosing their president of the Senate.
Now, I have this feeling, before I continue going on, that Warhamster didn’t just join the program because he wanted to get into a Padre Dodger Angels discussion. No, I actually wanted to bring him. No, I invited him. Oh, okay. But I’ll bring it up. It’s totally pertinent to what you’re talking about right now. Let’s talk about the 1800 election, okay? Because that’s a fun one. That’s exactly what you thought. It was a nasty affair. And here’s the thing, too. The left back then known as the Federalist Party, Hamiltonians, they played the same crap they do today.
You want to talk about the anatomy of a smear? They had. They had convinced Americans that Jefferson hated Christianity because he saw he. He gave some support to the French Revolution, not because of the secular anti Christian aspect of it, because, you know, anytime that country wants to get rid of a ruling tyrant, he supported such a thing. And so the Federalist Party convinced everybody that. That Jefferson was, you know, not a Christian and he was anti Christian and that if he elected president, he would confiscate your Bibles. And there was actually articles written of people who had seen women in New England burying their Bibles in their yard to hide them from the.
From the Jefferson administration. So what I’m getting at is the, the smear tactics by the left was nothing new. Is. Is nothing new. It was even going on back then. So, so when Jefferson and. And very popular guy. Come on, he wrote the Declaration of Independence. And then you had Aaron Burr, which was a republic. Jeffersonian Republican, but he leaned kind of moderate. So a lot of Federalist Party guys kind of liked him too. He’s a Tory. He was a Tory. Well, you know, he did kind of. He. He did wind up. Yeah. And he conspired with the British agents.
Yeah. And then, and then you’ve got, and you’ve got Adams, you know, the, the, the former president, you know, but. But he wasn’t, you know, as bad shape as Biden. He knew what was going on. And what happened is nobody got the majority. And so it went before the House of Representatives. And the House of Representatives then. Remember, it’s per state vote for president. And a lot. Some states went for Jefferson, some went for her, and some went for other candidates. But Burr and Jefferson were actually the top two at that point. And then there were some states who didn’t cast a vote because they did not have a decision.
One of them was Vermont. Vermont had three members in the House of Representatives. One voted for Burr, one voted for Jefferson. The other one was in jail. In fact, he’s the only member of the House or Congress to be reelected while in jail. So, Doug, let me interject. Why was he in jail? Oh, that’s where I was getting ready to go to, but I’m glad you asked. Well, I’ll pretend he, he, you know, pushed me in that direction. But anyway, because there’s three times in history what he’s about to talk about has happened, and we’re just getting out of the third.
Lion was guilty of sedition according to the Sedition Act. In other words, he spoke against the Adams administration and there was an Alien and Sedition act that had been passed which applied to Adams and his people. Interestingly enough, it didn’t apply to the vice president, but that’s beside the point, you know, Jefferson, his political opposition. But. And so if you were to speak out against the Adams administration and they, and they put it in the name of, well, you know, insurrection, you know, because there’s other countries that, you know, trying to influence our elections and that you’re an insurrectionist if you’re speaking out against the presidency and because you’re supporting those who are trying to influence the election.
Sound familiar? But anyway, so he wrote an op ed that just was scathing against the Adams administration. So Matthew Lyon, representative from, from Vermont, was put into jail. Now it was, it was four months jail time and $200. His four months ended after the 35th vote that did not produce a President of the United States. He sat down in a seat on 36 vote, voted for Jefferson. Vermont had one for Burr, one for Jefferson. His for Jefferson pushed Vermont in that direction. Vermont and one other state shifted towards Jefferson. With those two, it was enough to give Jefferson the presidency.
So what I would add is that the Alien and sedition Acts of 1798 were so unpopular with the founding generation, the Federalists went from a 60 to 46 advantage in the house to a 68 to 38 deficit. They got completely just kicked out of power altogether. And it still took how many, 58 votes to get past the electoral college? Yeah, well, 36 took 36 times. And not only that, but what’s also interesting is that when Jefferson then took office, he fired half of the federal bureaucracy. The Federalist Party, half. The Federalist Party could not recover from having their deep state being removed, their deep state power.
And within 20 years, they were gone. So, message to Donald J. Trump. You want to disarm and dismantle the Democratic Party, Fire the deep state. Get rid of that. Get rid of their embedded monsters that are inside the bureaucracy. I think there’s a lot of that coming. You know, we’ll see. I’m hopeful. I’m, I’m hopeful. But I, I do, you know, I do believe that we are, you know, I, I don’t think that we’ve really seen any, any form of chaos that really has materialized significantly. I think there’s a couple of things that have happened, but I think that we’re going to see quite a bit more.
Just try, you know, the deep state. The deep state is not going to go down quietly. They’re just not. I mean, they’ve worked way too hard and way too long to get to this point. And they’re not just going to give it up, just to give it up. But I don’t think they’re going to win. But I don’t, you know. Yeah. And I’d like to respond to two things in the chat. So Melvin says Federalist Party then translate to the MSN now. No, the Federalist Party translate not just the mainstream media, but all of the hard left.
The Federalist Party, interestingly, there was nothing Federalist about them. A Federalist is someone who believes in the Constitution and its concepts. A Federalist Party member was the opposite. They believed in big government. They didn’t Think the Constitution went far enough in building a big government system. So Federalist Party and that’s in, in the left. That’s what they do. They take words and they, they hijack them. They even did it back then. The Federalist Party was really the, the Democratic, you know, party, mainstream media leftist, you know, establishment machine that we have today. That’s what it was then.
It was the Federalist Party and their allies. Easy way to say it is the Federalists were nationalists, the anti Federalists were federalists. You could you go further? The Republicans were nationalists, the Democrats, well they were populist naturalists or so they were. Well yeah, but now you’re getting later ON in the 18th, the 19th century, I mean didn’t take that long. But the bottom line is the political parties always lie about who they really are. This is true. The other comment like to make about what was in chat room, real special ed who has a copy of my part one of my history book.
He says read a bit about Hamilton at the end of Doug’s book. And I’m not a fan of the guy. Not only read about Hamilton, I have this whole section basically about Jefferson versus Hamilton in that book, but also my book seven Worst Constitutional Liars. I have a whole chapter on Hamilton there. I guarantee you after reading that and reading my section in my history book, you’ll not only not like Hamilton, but then you’ll want to start reading other things like oh, I don’t know, Hamilton’s Curse by J. DELL Thomas J. DeLorenzo and How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America by Brian McClanahan.
You know, just you know, fit in with what I’ve already told you about Hamilton. But so thank you real special Ed for plugging my book there seven worst constitutional liars would be another one repeal democracies no. 1 which I, which I believe you have too. Right. Real special. And I think you do. But uh, they’re all important and, and here’s the thing, one last thing. It’s 4:33. Yeah, we have a few minutes. We have a few minutes. That’s the, that’s what the whole point of going to the, to the, to the 3:30 time frame so that we wouldn’t be like pressed.
So we have, we have a few minutes. Well I’m gonna leave off there when it comes to where we are in the Constitution. So we’ll pick up on the next paragraph in Article 2. But when it comes. But now we get back to Warhamster being here. Uh, so is there anything you wanted to throw in there? Real quick Warhamster before go off the air. No, not really. I mean this is. Well actually I will if you guys once we get into Article 3 because this, we’ll tie back to this whole thing about 1800 election and I definitely want to Ron, if you’ll invite me on if I get it, you’re welcome to join us anytime.
We’re talking to constitution class. I mean if you want to be a part of this, I mean I’ll just, I’ll just include you in the link and then if you want to join you can. And if you don’t, if you can’t, you can’t. But I mean you’re always welcome to join us for this class. Well, I’d love to join. It’s always fun hanging out with you guys. It’s just a little different with three hour time difference and I’ve got some different domestic obligations than I once did. You need to, you need to convince Alexis to become a student of the class like my wife over here who’s taking notes and has her, her, her pocket constitution spread out on her little table.
She’s well, she’s well on her way. Very good. She’s well on her way. She’s, she’s more concerned with modern day events and certain conspiracy theories that we’re, we’re going after so. Well, she’s a little more leaning in that direction than I would typically. I’m a firm believer. And, and please don’t misunderstand me here. Usually when I see something that’s conspiracy theory and I see something that isn’t and they think that it’s got to be one or the other and I’m usually of the mind that is probably somewhere in between the answer. I mean my, I’m gonna tip my cap to Virginia for thinking.
Yeah, she, yeah. And I, I listen, I don’t say that like flippantly or derogatorily. I mean, I mean that like genuinely like because people who have that mindset are people who are thinking about things and they’re looking at and they’re questioning and they’re analyzing and they’re like yeah, this doesn’t add up. I, I, this, this. So I, I, I’m, I’m serious when I say that that’s, that’s not, that’s, that’s not a, that’s not a, that’s not a criticism. Well and I want to leave it with this real special Ed. You definitely have topped it nicely for us with the cherry.
Love this D program and thankful for the interactions with Chat, even if it does get us sometimes a little off a topic. Kind of off topic. And that’s, and that’s okay. That’s a. Part of the reason why I like doing these is I don’t mind chasing things every once in a while. I, I do like to work my, you know, shoot the rabbit, get back on the main trail. Rabbit trails are fine, but shoot the rabbit, get back on the main trail. I try to do that. But that, that’s why I love the, the live interaction.
I did once again put out an. A new video on my own. It’s actually from my KMET program, but I’ve gotten some new stuff. I’ve gotten some preparations going on. I should be starting to do my own videos again pretty soon. Hey, a question for you. Now that, that just popped in my head. So Facebook said they’re going to get rid of the fact checkers because, you know, sometimes they’re politically biased. You think people like, maybe YouTube and like that might think follow suit. Google’s gonna be a tough nut to crack. Google’s gonna be the tough one.
Yeah, yeah, it’ll be. I don’t, Yeah, I don’t see Google. I don’t see Google at all. Ron, let me, Ron, let me throw this one at you. We have a brand new Department of Justice coming in and the, the, the Biden air quotes DOJ is about three and a half years deep into antitrust legislation. You know, legislation, again, not legislation, litigation against Google. There is leverage against Google coming in. From that standpoint, I don’t know where it’s going to go. You know, Google obviously has deep pockets and some pretty expensive lawyers, but that’s the direction you attack Google from.
So, so let me, let me, let me quantify my statement. I do. Listen, nothing is off table in terms of, in terms. I mean, I never in a million years would have thought that, that Twitter would have become what it has become. So, you know, nothing is off the table. I’m just saying Google is. Google is as deep state as it gets. And if I had to choose one entity that was the most nefarious of everything, I would say Google is at the heart of it. So I think that’s going to be a difficult nut to crack.
But is it, is it crackable? Absolutely. Well, you. So we’ve already got Twitter. Sounds like meta. Facebook is going that direction. You saw Jeff Bezos at Amazon doing some things that really I refused to endorse. Kamala, I’m not buying that the tech pros are coming on board, but no. And I wrote an article about that. If you don’t mind me interrupting right now, I wrote an article about that and I think it’s important, important for everybody to understand Big Tech supports Trump. Now is the name of my article. If you go to douglasvgibs.com or political pistachio.com it’s about four articles down.
But my point in the article and this reason I wanted to bring this up is this. They’re not suddenly seeing the light, but the Biden administration was one is and straight out told them is anti business and especially anti AI development. These companies, Big Tech, it’s all about AI. And AI is for, for lack of a better way of putting it is their next big boom. And the, and the Biden administration was basically telling them that, you know, not only are you not going to, you know, be able to run rampant with your AI in a private industry, we want to consider a part of science so that nothing could be developed without government.
And meanwhile you’ve got Trump saying, hey, I vow the, I vow that I will allow the industry to freely develop. If your next big boom is being told it’s going to be under control by one and it’s going to freely develop by the other, who are you going to go with? So it’s so right now it’s, it’s, it’s not because they see the light. It’s because right now for them when it comes to their business, that’s the best road. Mercantilism is not a good thing when the mercantilism targets you. Can I add to that? Yes, with full agreement with the Doug just said the reason the status want to regulate AI, it’s because they want to control it and it’s not because they’re afraid.
What they’re afraid of is they’ll lose their ability to lie. Because if the AI is actually allowed to be developed responsibly, it will expose the truth and that exposes them. They cannot allow the emperor to be revealed of having no clothes. The wizard’s robe would be pulled back if AI is programmed properly. That’s why there’s gonna be so much the best place to go to get the truth on a search engine for me right now is Bing Copilot. I would say if you really want to get a good one is go to Yandex. Pretty good. Now that said, I gotta answer a question chat before Yarn Addict is gone.
And it’s for everybody. Is it best to order your books on Amazon or on your website? My, my store on My website is not functioning because of my own inaction. But so at the moment, Amazon, however, if you want it to be autographed, shoot me an email. Constitution Speaker Yahoo.com Constitutions Speaker Yahoo.com we’ll set it up so you can just pay me, I’ll mail you the book and sign it and the whole bit. I, I can do it that way. Constitutionspeakerhoo.com and be honest with you, if I don’t have to pay Amazon all of their garbage, it’s, I, I get a little bit more in my pocket anyway that way, even if I have to pay the shipping.
So I’m good with it. No, I, you know, a lot of people question me why I like Amazon and I might go, well, if I was going to buy something on Amazon or even on ebay, typically when you’re buying something on one of those platforms, you are buying from a, from a business. You’re buying actually, typically you’re buying from somebody who’s using that platform and you have to give Amazon a little bit of a cut. But the bulk of the money that you’re spending is actually going to a small business. Right, Right. Yeah, so, so, and I do use Amazon to print my books also because they bought the company that I’ve been using and they’re the best.
The reality is they’re the best in town right now. And when it comes to business, I deal with Amazon a lot because it’s better for business. Just remember there was a time when Sears rocked too. Everyone, I gotta run. Can I give a quick shout out? Quick, go ahead. Yeah, absolutely. On my channel tomorrow, Doug will be joining me. We’ll do the third part of our Articles of Confederation review and how that applies to the Constitution. And we’re going to, when we get done with that, we’re going to be skipping over to the, the Confederate Constitution, which I think Ron might want to participate in.
I’d love to participate in that because, yeah, I was almost expecting like, oh, can I, can I listen, I am a Confederate brother. I was born in Georgia and I, you know, I, I, I, I’ve got my battle flag hanging. I just leave it at that. Well, you know about my Texas bonafides. Yeah, but all my family’s from Arkansas, but I was born in Southern California. You know, I’ve actually got an image of me. I’m, I’m, I, I, I was raised in California, but I was raised in the south part of California. I’ve got an image of me with, wearing a Confederate uniform with a Confederate flag draped over my knee while I’m holding a rifle with my wife kind of in the.
What would you call it, of the era, basically, you know, behind me, and she’s got kind of the. The umbrella behind her back and stuff. I’ve always joked, you know what? If ever that image gets out, it might not be good for me, but now if that movement got out, that probably. It’s probably a good thing. How many people would be like, yeah, but anyway. Absolutely. All right, you’ve got another show. And actually, I. I need to make a quick phone call before that show starts, so I gotta go, guys. Everybody hates. Awesome. Great. Good show today, Warhamshire.
You’re invited anytime you want to participate. And guys will be back here in about 15 minutes with Tuesdays with Mike. We’re talking about part two of FDR and what a wonderful president he was. Wow. Anyway, so no love lost here. No love lost here. So, anyway, thank you, everybody, for. Go ahead. Friendly reminder. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The Delano part. They made their money smuggling. What? Yes, Ron. Opium. Yeah, it’s just more of that. Another connection. 1,000%. All right, guys. Anyway. All right, guys. See you guys. Have a great day. Cheers.
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