Learning The Constitution | Lesson 22 – Article II Executive Branch Continued…

➡ Ron Partain, the host of the Untold History Channel, had a conversation with Mr. Gibbs about various topics. They discussed the importance of understanding the Constitution, the challenges of video rendering on a laptop, and a meme about Elizabeth Warren. They also talked about the potential firing of senior leaders at the Department of Homeland Security, the increase in homes for sale in Washington, D.C., and the confirmation of Cash Patel as FBI director. Lastly, they mentioned a tweet by Elon Musk about Fort Knox.
➡ The speaker enjoys watching shows on Fox Nation, particularly the Tea Party series hosted by Rob Lowe. They also appreciate the insights provided by the series on Teddy Roosevelt. They mention the changes in Fox News’ approach since Trump’s election, and how conservative views are now more openly expressed. They also discuss the Constitution, specifically Article 2, and the power of the President to make temporary appointments when the Senate is not in session.
➡ The text discusses the political strategy of using the Constitution to manipulate power, particularly in the context of recess appointments. It explains that when the Senate is not in session, the President can temporarily appoint someone to a position, but this person’s term ends when the Senate is back in session. The text also talks about the concept of a pro forma session, where the Senate remains in session without a quorum, preventing the President from making appointments. Lastly, it discusses the historical distribution of presidential terms between the North and South, and the actions of various presidents.
➡ The text discusses the role of the U.S. President, focusing on their power to execute existing laws and their limited legislative powers. It highlights that the President can suggest laws to Congress but can’t create them. The text also discusses the State of the Union address, noting that while it’s a tradition, it’s not constitutionally required annually. Lastly, it talks about the President’s discretion in executing laws, including how funds are used within the limits of the law.
➡ The text discusses the role and powers of the President, emphasizing that while he can make recommendations, he cannot make or repeal laws. It also highlights the President’s ability to reduce departments and the importance of state and parental involvement in education. The text further explains the President’s power to convene or adjourn Congress during extraordinary situations and his duty to execute laws faithfully. Lastly, it discusses the President’s role in foreign affairs and the commissioning of officers.
➡ The speaker discusses the political landscape of Oregon, noting that despite its liberal reputation, the state is quite conservative outside of Portland. They also discuss the idea of eastern Oregon seceding to join Idaho, but doubt it will happen due to the need for approval from liberal states. The speaker then delves into the history of political party colors, explaining how red used to represent Democrats and blue Republicans. Finally, they clarify the term “high crimes and misdemeanors” in the Constitution, explaining it refers to crimes committed by those in high office.
➡ U.S. Judge John McConnell Jr. is facing impeachment for allegedly obstructing former President Trump. McConnell had ordered Trump’s administration to restart federal funding, which some argue is overstepping his judicial role. If McConnell is impeached and convicted, it could set a precedent that blocking a President’s actions in court is akin to treason. This situation is stirring debate about the separation of powers and the role of the judiciary.

Like we’re live there. Mr. Gibbs. Welcome, everybody, to the Untold History Channel. My name is Ron Partain, and it is Tuesday, which means that we get two shows. Well, actually, sadly, we’re only going to get one show today, but I’m going to do two shows. Mike King had to cancel. He had something come up last minute, so. But we do get Mr. Gibbs today. Yeah, I’m here. Hey. Mr. Gibbs is, is no slouch. And he is. You know, I would argue that Mr. Gibbs is definitely the most important of the two shows because learning the Constitution in our form of government, the way it’s supposed to be taught, is of utmost importance, I believe.

So. Flattery will get you everywhere. Yes, it will. I, I have, Let me, let me get something so I can wipe the, the brown off of my nose. Yeah, yeah. You know, I was working on some videos and I, I use my laptop for this show. I’ve got a bigger computer desktop for videos and all that. And, but for the purposes of what we use the laptop, I have, and I have a gamer’s laptop, and it does the job. And I was working on a video earlier and I went to render it, the rendering crashed like three times.

With my laptop, I gotta get my big desktop rolling, cracking. So I get the video out there. For those of you who, who pay attention, the video I was working on, there’s a meme going around out there, uh, that, uh, and I guess it’s, uh, what, what’s the word? It’s, it’s a, a meme of Elizabeth Warren. Like, I’ll keep wanting to say Pocahontas. So I, I, I, I always call her Pocahontas. So anyway, so it’s a meme of, of, of Elizabeth Warren. And, and she says, according to the meme. And, and I looked it up and she didn’t actually say it, but I did the video on it because it’s still what the Democrats are thinking, right? Yeah, she may not have actually said it, but they’re thinking it.

They, they say it in a different way. But anyway, so what the meme says is there’s nothing in the Constitution that says ordinary Americans have a right to see what we’re spending tax dollars on. And my response is, actually, there is, in the constitution is Article 1, Section 9. So I did a whole video on it, and then I go to render it. The rendering kept crashing. So I got to get my desktop fired up and, and have it do the job. So hopefully by tomorrow I’ll have that video up. But I am Starting to get back into videos, but always here for Tuesdays.

Always, always. There are times I can’t. It happens. Hey, you know what does happen? There’s nothing you can do about it. I. There was a few things, a few stories that I kind of wanted to share a little bit. This one, it’s just, just I was trying to find things that were, you know, appropriate for executive branch or the, you know, the executive. This one I found. Let’s see here. Let me bring it to the. This is hundreds. Or the Department of Homeland Security is preparing to fire hundreds of senior leaders this week. Oh, that is just music to my ears, by the way.

I want to share something with you. I don’t know if you saw this. Let me see here. Hi, buddy. This is, this right here is homes put up for sale in the last 14 days in Washington, D.C. i saw that. I, I saw a headline where it’s talking about the, the price of homes are going up. They’re skyrocketing in Washington, D.C. because of all the homes are going for sale and stuff, I guess. Yeah, well, you, you would think that if, if a whole bunch of homes were going for sale that the prices would be coming down, not going up.

But anyway, regardless. So I was talking to someone this morning about that, and they’re saying, oh, you know, that’s horrible for, you know, all these people losing their jobs. It’s going to hurt the unemployment rate and it’s going to, you know, hurt our economy. But what percentage of population do you think these people are? Right. First of all. Second of all, if they were smart, they, they will be able to survive for a certain amount of time. And third of all, there’s a job out. There’s work out there. It’s out there. Maybe they can get on the new AI boom that’s getting ready to happen.

But. Well, you know, problem is, a lot of these people, their degree is something like, you know, transgender basket weaving and. Okay, so 11 minutes ago, the Senate has voted to advance the confirmation of Cash Patel as FBI director. Yeah, a little notification in my corner of my screen just gave me something similar. So the confirmation vote is scheduled for tomorrow. I think you’ll be confirmed. Oh, a hundred percent. I think there’s going to be a lot of. I think there’s going to be. That there probably will be some, some more pushback that. I think there will be more pushback on him than anybody else.

Right. But he’s like. And he’s like another version of Tom Holman. Yes. I mean, he, he, he’s he’s a bulldog in that sense. But also, are you familiar with his. So much info in that head. Are you familiar with his book Government Gangsters? I have it and I’ve read about half of it. Okay. Have you seen the documentary? Okay, so there’s a documentary that was produced and I was doing a show with, with David Rodriguez Nino yesterday and it was. Normally when I do a show with Nino, it’s something that is for. He’ll hit me up and he’ll say, hey, let’s do a show.

And I’m, I’m fairly well versed at, you know, being able to curtail my words for YouTube and so he likes that. So, so he’ll bring me on to talk about stuff for you for his YouTube channel. Well, yesterday he’s like, no, no, I wanted, I, I want to be like, I want to go like, you know, no holds barred. So this is going to be a show that I’m going to put up on my, on my Nino’s corner because that’s, that’s his, that’s his like private paid for thing. Anyway, well, about a third of the way into the show he brings on this guy and his name is Dan.

Look, what the heck? I’ve been texting with him all freaking day and I just can’t remember his last name. What the hell? That’s what happens when your cat decides to jump up and Dan Floret and he’s the one who produced or put together the documentary of that book. It’s. And I’m guessing it’s, you know, it’s, it’s just probably a fraction of if, if you’re putting an hour long documentary and for, from that book you can probably only get a fraction of it. But, but yeah, he and I, he and I have been exchanging quite a bit, quite a few text messages and he’s gonna, I think we’re gonna, I’m gonna get him on the channel to come on and talk about some of the work that he’s doing there with Cash and the book and all that kind of stuff.

So I’m pretty excited about that. That was. Yeah, well, Cash Patel is, is one bad mama jama. Absolutely love them. Pulls no punches. Good evening, Melvin. Welcome. Yeah, I’m watching the chat room. I even responded at one point. People are asking me, well, how do I find your videos? Rubble, YouTube, Bragion and Bit Shoot just Douglas v. Gipsy. All of them are, are like rumble.com douglasvgibs YouTube.com douglasv gibbs rumble. Let’s see bit shoot. But the Brady on one, I think you have to put brideon.com I think channels slash Douglas v. Gips. But anyway. Well, I wanted to share this.

This was really interesting. This is one of Elon’s tweets. I, I guess Mike Lee posted a tweet. It says, did you see, did you see the, the snippet of Elon talking to Hannity and talking about Trump, Trump derangement syndrome. He’s like, oh, he’s like, he’s like, man, you don’t know it’s real to you in the middle of it. Then he’s like, it’s real. Yeah, I think that airs tonight on Hannity. And then, but anyway, continue what you were saying. And then I’ve got something to say about something. A different video series. Well, Mike Lee’s. As a u.

S. Senator, I’ve tried repeatedly to get into Fort Knox. Fort Knox, you can’t come to Fort Knox. Me, why Fort Knox? It’s a military installation. Me, I’m a senator, I go to military bases all the time. Fort Knox, you still can’t come because you can’t. And Elon Musk, it says it would be cool to do a live video walkthrough of Fort Knox. Now, I’ve been saying for years I believe that it is so heavily armed that there’s no gold there and they’re trying to guard that. I agree. Now this is just absolutely genius. Absolutely genius. That’s.

But, but anyway, I digress. So what were you gonna say? Well, so as a veteran, you’re allowed a, I guess a one year subscription for free to fox nation. And I got fox nation because I wanted to watch with my wife the saints series, which was really good. And there’s a, there’s another series on there and we watched it yesterday and it is the tea party hosted by Rob Lowe. Okay. And holy crap, it is good. It was done so well. Historically accurate. A lot of historical insight that I wasn’t even aware of that. And I’m looking this stuff up later.

I’m like, holy cow, you’ve done well. Presented well. So. So. And whenever I mention fox News, people go, oh, they’re part of the. Well, not so much anymore. It’s funny because Trump being elected has made it cool to be conservative again. And it’s funny because the fox hosts have all completely, of course, most of them are already in his corner anyway, but, but they’re not, they’re not running scared, let’s just put it that way. Not being careful anymore. Oh, really? Yeah. As a matter of fact, Kirk, Charlie Kirk for like the last few years wasn’t even allowed to be a guest on Fox.

Now you see him all the time as a guest. You know, they’ve got a couple Will Kane, a couple new hosts that are doing a good job. I’ve always been a big fan of Jesse Waters, you know, Hilton, Steve Hilton, of course, Mark Levin. But, but anyway, so I got Fox Nation watch the Saints, watch a couple of other things and then yesterday watch it’s a four, it’s a four episode series. And then we watched the first two of From Yellowstone Yosemite with Kevin Costner which is really good. It helps you get a little insight into Teddy Roosevelt.

That not a fan of Teddy in the sense of his, you know, progressive and a lot of unconstitutional actions. But it gives you an insight that at least helps you understand some of the things about them, doesn’t let them off the hook for the others. But, but I understand it better and so that, that’s a good series too. So I’m really enjoying Fox Nation. Not that I’m trying to advertise, give them free advertising or anything, but I, I really, really recommend the Tea Party series with Rob Lowe narrating it. It might wind up on other streaming channels down the road, but it’s definitely worth the watch.

Nice. All right now. Very nice. We left off still in Article 2, you know, we were joking about this last week. We may be in Article 2 for months at this rate because. Right. But you know what? I, but you know, honestly I wouldn’t mind that from the standpoint that, you know, there’s so much going on, it’s kind of hard, you know, I mean we don’t need to, we can get through Article 2, you know, fairly quickly, I think. But, but there’s so many current examples and all that. Exactly. Absolutely. Now I invited a few friends to watch today.

We’ll see if I’ll find out later if they were here. I told them if they sign into Rumble they can be a part of the chat room. One of them is a friend of mine, Randy. I just was on the phone with him about 15, 20 minutes ago before or before the show started and recommending that he show up. So hopefully that you’re there or any of you that are new to this, learn the Constitution location, do me two things here. Number one, enjoy and number two, when you enjoy, share letter, people know about it, right? Hit the subscribe, notify notifications, all that jazz.

So, but I tell you what, I taught Constitution classes Southern California, don’t do it anymore. I’m not down there. I’m up in the Orcan coast. This right now is the only thing that comes even within light years of what I was doing down in Southern California. So right now, if you want to learn the Constitution from Mr. Constitution from me, this is the place to be. I have radio shows, but it’s a different format. But for me going through the constitution line by line, this is the place to be. All right. And a real special, the constitution class rock.

Thanks. All right, so article two, we’re at the tail end of section two and this, what we’re getting ready to go through actually was came up before inauguration and I’ll explain in a minute. What it says is the president shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the senate and by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session. Now what that’s saying is. Well, back up a little bit. So advice real quick. I, there was a couple of things I wanted to share just before you did this and, and, and not because I’m trying to derail you, but there was one thing, one, one story that I really wanted to share that I thought was, it was very interesting and that is the, apparently Joni Ernst is introducing a bill to scale back taxpayer funded perks for ex presidents who are just rolling in dough.

So all these people that have got all these presidents that went in, you know, basically broke and blocked out multi, multi millionaires, they’re no longer going to be able to just take money off of, out of the government to just fund their vacations and all this other stuff. Well, and that’s what President Trump’s all about, is scaling back expenditures to make government more efficient. And if it’s unnecessary, if it’s waste, if it’s over the top, I get it. Yep. We’re on what with section four, you said go back up. Okay, the, the area that you have not highlighted in section two, right there, that’s what we’re talking recess appointments.

That’s what that is. Now here’s the thing. We have the advice to consent powers of the U. S. Senate and as I’ve explained before, the states sent their delegates to the constitutional convention to write the constitution to create this federal government. So the federal government is a creature that was created by delegates from the states. So you can say the states are the parties of the contract that created the federal government. Now if you create your Frankenstein monster, you’re going to want to have Some oversight. You’re just not going to send it out to terrorize the villagers and their way of having oversight.

One of the ways anyway was to have the U.S. senate populated by senators that were appointed by the state legislatures is prior to the 17th Amendment. And these senators were expected to operate at the pleasure of the house, of the state legislature that appointed them. They could be yanked. Even a great example was in, I want to say it was 18, 1804, 1806, 7, something like that. John Quincy Adams got yanked by the Massachusetts legislature because he supported Jefferson’s embargo act and they didn’t like him supporting it, so they yanked him. And the reason why it was that way is because the states wanted to have, you know, insight or oversight, should I say, have presence in these federal processes.

You don’t recreate your monster. Just let it go. So the Senate has to give its okay. It’s a part of the legislative process, one of two houses of Congress. And then the advice and consent powers includes ratifying treaties and confirming judges and officers nominated by the President. So this nomination process is there with the confirmation and all that. They’re not appointed till the Senate says so because it is a part of the states having oversight over the federal government, over the President. Now that said, what if the Senate is not in session? If the Senate is not in session, the President then can appoint somebody temporarily without having to get them approved by the Senate.

That person gets to hold their office until after the Senate comes back and then they end their next session, which typically is at the end of a two year period, they typically stay in session. They might have pro forma sessions along the way, but they’ll stay in session until the turnover two years later. When it comes to the fact that there’s a whole new House representatives voted in or reelected depending, and a third of the Senate seats are up and then they’ll go out of session and they’ll start a new session. So when we were approaching the Trump presidency and there was a thought because the leftist media was saying this and people don’t, don’t believe the media, they’re full of it.

But nonetheless, people were believing him that he might not be able to get his, all of his persons confirmed. How do we get around that? How do we beat the Democrats and make sure that all of his confirmations get confirmed? Well, if you can’t get them confirmed, then how do you get them in there anyway? And so the idea was they were going to use this power, this recess power. So the idea was that when Congress came back in a session at the beginning of January. Further back in Article 1, it says that the two houses cannot adjourn without the other one’s permission, go out of session, and then the assumption is to come back into session.

Session. So what they were going to do, what they were considering doing was having the House go into session and the refuse to allow the Senate to come back in a session. And they would stay out of session until after Trump was inaugurated. Then Trump would nominate and confirm and, and man appoint through the recessed appointment here who, whoever he wanted. And then they’d be there probably for two years because then the House would not allow the Senate to go out of session for two years. I did not like that idea. I thought it was monkeying around with the Constitution in ways that shouldn’t be done.

The reason why I bring that up though is this is how politicians sometimes try to play with the Constitution. They’ll take something that’s there for a certain reason and try to use it for some other reason. Now that all said, what this basically means is as I said, is the President, if Senate’s not in session, can put his guy in there and that guy is there temporarily until they’re out of session again or during their session, they decide to go ahead and confirm them and keep them. If they don’t and then the person’s ends when they go out of session, then the President either has to bring in somebody new or they could dismiss them while they’re still in session and nominate someone to replace them and, and get them confirmed.

Now what, why now let me back up. There is a place in the Constitution where it says they’re allowed to remain in session without having a quorum. A quorum is when you have at least more than 50%. So that would be 51% senators or more at the 51 centers or more at this time would be a quorum. If they have less than 51 senators in their seats, they can’t do business. They can’t vote on things because there’s not enough. They don’t have a quorum. They don’t have enough members in the, in the chamber to do business.

That is called a profora session. Now when it comes to this, that’s important because usually when a opposing party holds the Senate from the President, it’s an opposing party. Rather than go out of session and allow him to fill up a vacancy during their recess, they’ll go into proform a session so that he can’t, can’t do it, can’t appoint anybody. He still, because there’s still a session, he still has to get the confirmation. But because they’re in a pro forma session, in other words, they have less than the required number to do business. They don’t have a quorum, they can’t confirm.

And it puts the President in a position where he’s just going to have to wait until they decide they’re ready for him. So, and so it’s an interesting dichotomy that you’ll see every once in a while show up. But anyway, so, but what we read, it’s a 10 tail end of section two is recess appointments. That’s what that is. President shop, the power to fill up vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate. That’s judges, that’s officers, whatever, by grantee commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session. So there you go.

Real special leather chat room says checks and balances. Exactly. That’s also what the advice and consent is. And also these ways of doing certain things like having a pro forma session. Absolutely. It’s a way to check. And the branches can check each other to a point. Typically the Congress is there more to check the President and the justices than the other way around. But the ultimate check and balance is the states versus the federal government and the people versus the federal government. All right. Any questions there, sir? No, sir. Nope. I’m, I’m actually, I’m, I’m doing a, I’m doing something here because I, I, this has been something that I’ve, I’ve wanted to discuss.

I think I’ve discussed it here a couple of times, but I wanted to, I wanted to show, I just, I wanted to show it here in like a visual form. I got one more thing to do here. Okay. This is it. Just when you see it, it’s like. That’s interesting. You’re familiar with Abbeville Institute? Yes. Yes. Okay. I really, I really like those guys. This right here is the. All the presidents up to Abraham Lincoln when. So all the presidents between the, the ratification of the Constitution up to the war of Northern aggression. So everybody in, in like pink or red or whatever is, is from the south, and everybody in blue would be from the North.

And if you notice, no president from the north ever had more than, than one term. John Adams, 1797-1801. John Quincy Adams, 1825, 1829. Van Buren, 1837-41. Millard Fillmore, 1850-53. Of course, he, he was, he, he I think Fillmore actually was. He finished Zachary Taylor’s. Right. Because I think Zachary Taylor died, and then Franklin Pierce, he. He only served one term. And then James Buchanan only served one term, so. And of all those, by the way, the only decent one out of the bunch of John Quincy Adams. And he began as a Federalist Party, a guy. But over time, Jefferson influenced him enough that he moved more towards Jeffersonian ideas.

Right. But if you look at all the other presidents, they were all. And. And the ones that were really kind of the John Tyler who’s like one of the awesomest. Because he didn’t do anything. It was great. Jefferson, Madison, Monroe. Jackson did some. He did some good things, but he did some not so good things, but he. He got. He got two terms. Yeah. And Jackson. Not a fan. You’re not a fan of. You’re not a fan of Andrew Jackson? No, not at all. Really. Okay. Was he included in one of your seven. Well, well, he.

He is. I believe he is actually in that book. Yeah. As one of the problems. Is he. Now. Now. And here’s the thing. When it came to economics and getting rid of the bank of the United States, he was awesome. Reduce the deficit. He was awesome. But he’s. But he’s the one who changed our electoral college. He was pushing for democracy and a stronger executive, and that was bad. So he was kind of like a. He was basically like a. A Southern version of. Of. Of Abraham Lincoln. He. Oh, yeah. He also believed that secession was illegal too, by the way.

Right. Well. And he’s the one who. I. If I’m not mistaken, he’s the one who really. The thrust behind the Tariff of Abomination. And, and he threatened. Didn’t he threaten South Carolina that if they wouldn’t pay, he’d send troops in? Yes. So he also used troops to, you know, usher in the Trail of Tears. Right. All the. Yeah, yeah. The very people who helped him win the Battle of New Orleans. Yeah. Yeah. Don’t let people from New Orleans hear you say that. But what’s that? Don’t let people from New Orleans hear you say New Orleans. Oh, they.

Is it New Orleans? It’s New Orleans. Okay, well, it’s like. Or New Orleans. Nolan’s. Well, I was like, that’s like, that’s like, don’t ever go to Prescott, Arizona and say Prescott. Prescott. Say. Say Prescott, like, or go. Go to Lancaster, Pennsylvania and say Lancaster. Right. Or Grenville, not green. There’s actually a town in Georgia, it’s spelled Martinez, but they pronounce it Martinez, Really? And then. And then when I was in North Dakota. No, I’m sorry, South Dakota. I thought I was in Dubois. Or it was a South Dakota or. No, no, Wyoming. I’m sorry, It’s a Wyoming.

Wyoming. D, U, B, O, I, S. Du Bois. No, it’s Dubois, like Illinois. I. I called it the Boy. And guy says, don’t let any of the locals here say that. Right. Anyway, yeah, there’s a. By the way, in Dubois. For those of you ever go to Du Bois, Wyoming, there’s an awesome, awesome best I’ve ever been to museum there, and it’s of military equipment and it’s massive. Tanks, you know, choppers, you know, a rocket, propellers. I mean, you name it, it’s there. It’s. It’s military equipment, military vehicles, places, you know, Navy stuff, too. Unbelievable. Pretty much the best museum I’ve ever been to.

All right, now, article two, section three. I think we did this last week. I just don’t think you remember. No. No, we didn’t. Okay, well, then I stand. Go ahead. I. I marked my. I. I marked my little book. Yeah. Okay. Hey, you. You. You know, you’re the teacher. I’m just the. I’m just the facilitator of the class. And. And a participant says, we have a Du Bois Dubois in. In Idaho. And we say it the same way here, too. Du Bois. Yeah, well, I remember that all used to be caught part of. Of the Louisiana Purchase, which was owned by the French, so it was probably originally was Dubois.

That’s probably. Melvin says to Dubai, Dubois Museum is beyond awesome. Only there once. Yeah, you know, we were just driving by, Melvin and I. All I know is, as we’re driving by, I look to the right and all I. And I see tanks and stuff. I’m like. I was like Tim Allen. It’s like, oh, you know. Yeah, I love that kind of stuff. My wife’s like, oh, you want to stop? Like, six hours, seven hours later, we get back on the road. Have you ever been to the Patton Museum? No. Out at Chirocco Summit? No. You know, that’s where.

Because when Patton was training to go to North Africa, he was using. He trained out in the. He trained out in the, like, 29 Palms, eastern California area. And there’s, uh. If you’re taking I10 about 20 miles east of Indio, you get to the top of this kind of like the crest. They call it the Shirako. I don’t know if I think it’s Shirako Summit, but there’s a The. The patent museum is there. Okay. So anyway, just made me. You when you said drive by and see tanks, you know, because that’s what Patton did. All right.

Article two, Section three. So the State of the Union address is constitutional. It is required, but it is not required annually. Remember when Biden was late on a. Like, I think all of them, it was based on tradition. When you give them or that you do it annually. The first four presidents gave them annually, so it became the tradition that happens every year. But constitutionally, they are not required to give it every year. Says from time to time, they’re required to give at least one State of the Union address during their presidency, but they shall give it.

So it says, he shall from time to time, give to the Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. Now, here’s where it gets interesting, especially with what’s going on today. The president has no legislative powers. The president is not a authoritarian figure. He is there to execute the laws United States. He is not there to have his agenda done if it requires legislation without Congress. He may recommend a Congress to consider what he wants, but it doesn’t happen if they don’t legislate, must be legislated first.

Now, the president, like Donald Trump, does have a lot of leeway when it comes to laws that are already in place. He’s there to execute those laws. So when we see what’s going on with Trump and I say, well, the truck. Well, the president’s not supposed to be authoritarian. You can’t do anything without legislation. People go, what about Trump? I’ve had a bunch of people say that he’s operating on legislation that’s already on the books. He’s executing legislation that already exists. It’s just nobody’s ever seen anybody be such a whirlwind in doing it. But he’s not creating any law.

He’s the. The. His agenda items that he’s carrying out right now already exist as law. But if he wants something new that. Where there’s no law for it yet, then the present requires that to be done so in his by law first. So in the State of the Union address, he says, hey, this is where we’re at. This is what I recommend. Give me a law so I can do it. You know, it’s funny because the Democrats, when Biden was off, is saying, oh, well, well, we want to take care of immigration, but we need Congress to act this.

They were considering what I just said. The Thing is the laws are on in the books. They were calling for law that had already been made, but they don’t like the laws that are on the books. What they were doing is asking for a new law that changed existing law and Congress wouldn’t do it. Okay, now when it comes to real special in the chat room says hence Dosh Dosha is very interesting because the appropriation of monies are already included in the law. But when it says appropriation of money, that is, you know what department it’s going to be spent at.

But the President as the person who executes the law has a choice on how to execute it. Am I going to use this department, am I going to use this means, am I going to spend this much money? And if the money that’s required to carry out is much less, he doesn’t have to spend it all because he’s the one executing the law. The appropriation says may say this has to be for the purpose of say international development. But if he says well yeah, but international development only needs to be this, I’m not spending on all that other garbage that was created by usaid then he can say that he’s not changing the appropriations.

Appropriations is for international development. He can choose which international develop that development that money goes to and how much. And if he says hey, we only need to spend 5% what you gave me, he can do that, then he can send the rest back to the Treasury. So absolutely. Hence doge. Good point. All right, any questions? No sir, but I, I do like, I do like how he, he just essentially took a government run pro product project that Obama started for the purpose of trying to make the website for Obamacare to run well, to run correctly.

And he just took that department and, which was already funded and, and manned and he just repurposed it with the same acronym and made it doge. And you know, it’s funny because, and that’s exactly what he did and I, I talked about it extensively on one of my programs on, on kmet. And it’s funny because when you, you go over it, he’s using a tool they gave him and then he’s got a person working with that department who is not appointed. He’s an auditor. So he’s not hired, not being paid, but he’s given him the security clearances necessary and the okay Elon Musk.

And then they’re freaking out. Well, he’s not, wasn’t elected. None of these people are elected. They’re appointed. Well, well, the Senate didn’t approve of him. He’s an auditor. If I was a company and I needed an auditor, I’m not gonna make sure I get the guy that all criminals approve of. I’m gonna bring in somebody who’s outside. I don’t want you approving the guy who’s going to do the auditing. You guys are the criminals. You guys are the ones that are misspending the money. Well, one of the things I, I tend to think, and this is genius on Trump’s part, he has, you know, he, he’s put Musk there, and Musk is taking a lot of heat, but the, and, and he’s actually taking a lot of heat off of Trump.

Yep. So the, the, the, the media can’t, they can’t go after that. They don’t have. The media doesn’t have enough time in the day or bodies around to keep up with the blitzkrieg of news that is coming out of the Trump White House. Well, they can, but then they wouldn’t have any time for the spin. Well, no, that, but see, that’s, that’s the point. That’s the point. They, they don’t. Okay. So the way that it used to go is they would control the narrative because the, the White House would work with the media, Would work with the media.

And. But this White House is completely different. They’re not working with the media, they’re working against the media, and they are flooding the zone, so to speak, with all these news stories so that they can’t, they can’t keep up. The. I was reading a tweet thread the other day, actually. Jimmy Dore did it. It was fantastic. And what he, basically what he said was that the, the, the media used to have time to, you know, go through the stories, kind of triage them, which ones were important, which ones, you know, which ones had, were, were more urgent, which ones would be good at a national level, which ones were better to be more at a regional level, which ones could get traction, et cetera, et cetera.

And then what. They would be. And then they’d be able to craft a narrative to work around it. But the, but now the, the guy said that, you know, things that were breaking news three hours later are off of the front page of the New York Times because there’s so much more breaking news. And J.D. vance responded to that particular tweet. I still call them tweets. He responded to that post and he said, he said, expect this pace for the next four years. Right. J.D. vance is of the same type of person where I think he would keep on going, just carry it on into the next presidency.

Well, I, I think I asked this, I think I asked this last week. I may have, I may not have. But I want to ask you now again, for the record, is it, even though it’s not, even though it doesn’t appear likely, is it possible that they could do something maybe, maybe have some sort of a, you know, pass, pass some sort of amendment that would, excuse me, that would allow Trump, if he had the, if he had the vitality to do it, allow him to have one more term? Well, it would require a constitutional amendment, but.

Right. Until that is, until that amendment is rescinded by a new congressional vote and state ratification, it would remain in place and be very dangerous to have in place for another. Well, no, I’m saying, I’m just saying making a one time exception for this particular president, they could, but, but it wouldn’t technically could but put an expiration date on it. But. Well, because if you look at what he had to endure in his first term, he really didn’t have a first term. Right, I understand. I think it’s dangerous. They can, but it’s dangerous. I think the other thing about what we’re just talking about too, I want to add to, is in asses because he, because once again, laws he can only request, he can only, like it says here in section 3, recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary expedient.

Once something is law, then he can deal with it. Now one of the arguments has been with USAID is the argument by the left has been, oh well, he’s trying to get rid of that department. He can’t do that without Congress. Is. Okay, while technically that’s true, he could take it all the way down to one person and make it completely irrelevant. He doesn’t need Congress for that. But you actually physically take that department off the books completely. Yeah, you need Congress. Of course I think he could, I think there’s enough votes in Congress to do that.

But yeah, what he’s doing is he’s, is, he’s reducing, he’s, he’s getting rid of the waste with fraud. And then once it’s all done and he’s reduced some of these departments down to almost nothing, then he’ll request and, and then they’ll pass the law to get rid of that department. Problem is also the left thinks that without the federal government nothing gets done. Right. You didn’t build that, remember? You didn’t build that. And so they’re freaking out because, oh, he’s dismantling the government. Most of these things can either be done by the states or are unnecessary.

Is that a question? Constitutionally should be done by states like education. Thomas Jefferson, when he talked, he pushed for public education. Thomas Jefferson loved the idea of public education. He believed that, that the American people, their children and American people need to be informed about politics and government and, and writing, arithmetic and all that jazz. But he also indicated that the federal government should have no business, has no business being involved in any way, shape or form, including money. You know how it is if, if the government believes, if they gave you money, that means they also have say in how you spend it.

And so according to Jefferson, the only funding mechanism should be the states, and the only curriculum deciders should be those most involved with the schooling and, and, and influenced and, and impacted by that. And that’s the parents. And the curriculum should be up. The parents. And we, we became a superpower with Little Red. We didn’t, we didn’t have a Department of Education. We had one that kind of popped open and down and up and down a couple times, late 1800s, early 1900s. But really the Department of Education as it exists today didn’t exist till 1979. And ever since then, education has been going downhill.

It was better when, when Congress had, when federal government had absolutely no influence whatsoever. Now, the next part has to do with Congress and the President having some leeway with, over Congress when they meet and don’t meet. Because you got to realize back then as today, there are a lot of arguments, but what would happen is it would get so bad that they literally need to take a break from each other. And that’s what this next part is about. He may third line down in section three, middle. He may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both houses or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time until he may think proper.

In other words, if he needs to convene him, there’s an emergency. Hey, man, we need you guys here. We’ve got to have this done. You know, wars broke out, whatever, you know, and once again, he can wage war without Congress, but the funding and the Declaration has to begin with Congress and, and if they’re disagreeing, hey, guys, take a break. I, I, I’m, I’m, I’m telling you right now, you are out of session. Mm. He can do that, but it only can be done in extra extraordinary conditions, extraordinary situations. This is not something that could be done, like, lightly.

Unfortunately, they don’t give you a list of what an extraordinary condition may be because, well, every extraordinary condition is different. And what may be extraordinary at one time may not be at another. So they leave it at the discretion of the President. Then it says, he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers, he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers in the United States. So it’s the three different things. First part, he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers. He is your foreign affairs person. He is the figurehead of the country.

He’s the guy. You know, countries have kings, they have dictators, they have prime ministers. They have whatever head of government is. He represents that position, but he does not have the same powers as those positions because president is different from what, what these other positions around the world are. But he does have the necessities of his position to act as that figurehead to meet with leaders of other countries and so on and so forth. He’s that guy. So therefore, what comes along with it is receiving ambassadors and other public ministers. He shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.

Faithfully executed. And that’s just reiterating that his job is to execute the laws. He’s not there to make law. He’s not there repeal law. He’s there to execute the laws. If he doesn’t like the law, he still has to execute, or he’s supposed to. Now, that said, he doesn’t have to spend all the monies on him. And then finally, he shall commission all the officers of the United States judges. Officers. The commission is written. While they may be approved by Senate, confirmed by Senate, they are not official until they get their commission. Historically, what would happen is the president would sign the commission and then the Secretary of State would deliver it.

Once it’s delivered, then that person is officially whatever it is that they’ve been commissioned for. And we’re not just talking like military officers talking to the Secretary of State. We’re talking, you know, the. The assistant to the labor secretary. We’re talking, you know, such and such judge until they get that commission. They. Even though they’ve been confirmed, it’s not official yet. You get the commission now. Now it’s official. Take your seat. Sorry, I’m. I’m. I’m multitasking. Yeah, I see that you’re all over the chat room. Yeah, I. And so someone’s asked about homeschooling. I did homeschool teach at home schools and a couple of private Schools, history.

That’s what I said. And now that said, you’re right. Older kids, I’ve learned that children under 14 tend not to grasp these concepts as well as 14 and older. And it’s really not until 15, 16, 17 that they really begin to better grasp it. That said, I’ve written a couple of textbooks for that age group. Public school kids, you know, they probably wouldn’t be able to grasp it until they’re in postgraduate school, but homeschool kids, usually middle school, high school, they can handle it. So and so if you want to recommend a real special ed is recommending my.

My part one of my history series. I’m still working on part two, so. And Yarn Addict is I. I’m not following the complete conversation, but basically. So, so, so Skitten Hunt. I. I hope I’m pronouncing that correctly. She is brand new. This is her first time catching the the show live and she’s talking about how she homeschools her children and she said that the state that my state said kids don’t need to know how to read or write to graduate high school. Yeah. So. So. And then she says she’s in Oregon. That’s where I’m at. Skittenhund.

Where you at in Oregon? Okay. You never know. We might be able to connect. Yeah. Doug is down right off of the coast, basically just in Brookings, right on the coast. So sheet and hund. Okay. Northern by Longview. Okay. Yeah, you’re getting up there close to. If I remember properly, kind of not too far from Portland, right? No, Longview is. I think Longview is about halfway. It’s about halfway up the Columbia river between the mouth of, of the Columbia and Portland. Yeah yeah, no, I’ve gone all the way down along that. Matter of fact, I was driving back from last November.

I was driving back from Montana and came through and we wound up because the. There was the atmospheric river kind of thing going on and so we. We went. So I, we probably drove right through there right by Longview and then we hit the. Hit the 101 right around cannon beach and. And then came down the coast. But yeah, for, for you. For skitting Hunt for. For Sheet and hunt for you. Uh, I’m in. I’m in Brooking. So I’m on the very, very southern end of the coast. So last town uh, in. In Oregon before you get to California.

Commifornia. Get it right. Yeah. Call me for. But yeah, Oregon is kind of out of whack on some stuff. Unfortunately. Portland kind of Controls the legislature more than Adada. That said, it’s not completely lost. This is a very conservative state. When you, when you take out Portland and it’s kind of surrounding areas out of the picture and if you look at the legislature, both houses are almost even. But I, I love the Oregon coast. I grew up in Southern California. I’ve been living in Southern California my whole life. And then last July moved up here. I’ve had this property since 1999.

But Oregon’s about as red as they get. Portland screws it up. That’s why we got to get rid of democracy. Exactly. If we were operating the way the United States originally did, Portland wouldn’t Port Portland wouldn’t have the kind of control it has over the state. Right. And, and, and Oregon would have at least one Republican going to Congress, probably thousand percent U.S. if it was. If, if we had, if we had the type of government that the founding fathers created and, and May and, and I mean, and actually that is the only thing that the federal government can tell the states that they have to do is to maintain a Republican form of government.

And that which, and when it comes to Royals v. Sims, they violated that. Yeah, exactly. Doug. The secession of. It’s not succession secession yarn addict, but I’ll let you get away with it. The secession of eastern Oregon to join Idaho is gaining traction. What do you think about that? Both Salem and I think it’s Boise. Right. It’s capital of Idaho. Both of those legislatures would have to approve it. I don’t see it happening. Yeah, you, you, you. A lot of the people fail to understand, you know, the new California movement and all the greater Idaho movement, all, you know, the, the, the state of Jefferson, all these, all these locations that are.

That this land, that land is located within, in the territory of these liberal states. These liberal states would have to allow them to leave. They have to sign off. Now the only way that that wouldn’t happen is let’s just say California seceded. If California seceded. Yeah. Then that second session could secede from California and then apply for. Right. Yeah. Right. And the other thing in the chat room is she and Hon is talking about the paper ballots and said when they went to paper ballots in 1987, I thought it was 98 that they went to paper ballots, but nonetheless.

Yeah. That’s when Oregon went dark blue. And you know, and we’ve talked about this before but just because, because there’s some new people here. You, you. When you go back and you look at the colors that were associated with the parties. The color red used to be Democrat and the color blue used to be Republican. Many people don’t. It’s like when you say oh true, you’ve, I’m sure people have heard the term true blue Republican and, or Blue dog Democrat. A blue dog. A blue dog Democrat was somebody who was a Democrat but had very conservative leanings.

And then a true blue Republican was somebody who was hardcore blue. And they changed that predominantly because the, when the, when the basically the Marxists took over apolitical party they got. The party that they were able to take over was the Democrats. And so they had to migrate away from red because red is internationally is associated with communism, Marxism Communism and and another thing, I think it was you that was telling me this Doug in one of the classes that when we actually, we actually went to real classes that the. You, you see that all of these countries that are essentially communistic, they, they have the word republic in them like the People’s Republic of China, the Democratic Republic of North Korea, things like, you know, places like that.

And so when, when these, when people come over here they don’t want to be associated. They don’t want a form of government that is, you know that, that, that mimics what they left. So that’s what the left does. They hijack terms, they play with language. It’s neuro linguistic programming. And what they’ve done is they have pre programmed people who have come from oh if you come here from China and you don’t speak any English but you say oh well the Republicans are like the People’s Republic of China, then they’re going to vote for the Democrats not knowing that they’re actually voting for the exact same policies that they left.

It’s, it’s, it’s kind of, that’s the reason why they push the word democracy so much. And right now you have these, you know, from south of the border and democracy. My vote for the Democrats and we’re not supposed to be a democracy, we’re a Federal Republic. Not just a republic, but a Federal republic. Right, so let me go ahead. We joked about Never finishing Article 2 and here we are, we got one paragraph left. Let’s finish it up and let’s go ahead and do it because it won’t take long and we’ll get into Article 3 next week which is actually.

Well, I don’t, I don’t, I don’t have that show tonight. So I, I am actually, I do have a meeting at five though so. Oh yeah, I think. No, you’re good I. I’m gonna. I’m still gonna do a show at 5, but I’m gonna do the. I’m actually gonna play the. The class or the show that we did last Friday. I tried to play it the other day, but it didn’t play. So about the con laying the foundations for the Confederate Constitution. Yeah, he’s talking about a show that we did for a Warhamster on his channel.

It was Warhamster, Ron and I, and we’re. We’re working our way through the. The United States. I’m sorry, The Constitution of the Confederate States of America. And I think you’ll be fascinated by it if you’re able to play it. All right, that’s the first of many parts, right? Don’t know how many parts because you put me and Ron and Warhamster in the room together, all kinds of talking happens. Rabbit holes. Rabbit holes. Plenty rabbit trails everywhere. Pull out your shotgun, shoot the rabbit, get back on the main path. Right. All right, so the last paragraph, section 4 in Article 2, reads.

And this is actually very important because it kind of ties into a lot of what is going on today. The president, vice president, and all civil officers of the United States, that’s the judges, the officers, state of the state, of the state department, so on and so forth, shall be removed from office on impeachment for conviction. Conviction being by the senate for treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. So now the first thing that you. Most people would think of is, oh, so they don’t have to be removed from office if found guilty of other things.

Well, that technically is true the way it’s worded. However, then we have to ask ourselves, what is that list of offenses? Treason. We know what treason is, okay? It’s levying war against the states and. Or giving aid and comfort to those who do bribery, you know, money for. All right. And other high crimes and misdemeanors. Now, real quick, before we even get into that, originally the word was maladministration. Maladministration of office. In other words, if you carried out your office in a manner that was unconstitutional, now that falls under high crimes and misdemeanors. But they believed that.

That it was too limited. Maladministration. Now, I wish they would have said treason. Bradberry, Maladministration or other high crimes and misdemeanors. But they removed the word because they. They believed it was. Could be better explained through high crimes and misdemeanors. But what is high crimes and misdemeanors? And people. And usually in my Constitution classes, I’ll pull out my board and I said, all right, name. Name some high crimes and misdemeanors people. Put murder and bribery, and they’ll have a whole list, and we’ll have. We’ll have two rows of words, and as. As we’re going through it and we write it all down, then I turn the class.

So you’re all wrong. That’s all wrong. I mean, yes, they are. They are high crimes and misdemeanors, but that’s not what they meant. The word high crimes and misdemeanors. High crimes are not crimes that are higher than other crimes. It is crimes carried out by someone high in office. If you are interested in office, then any crime in any misdemeanor is a high crime. I did not. I did not know that. No, I. I did not. I did not know that. That’s. You weren’t. You weren’t paying attention. When I got to that section, the Constitution class.

I did not rem. Well, maybe I did and I just forgot, but I. I have. I did not remember. Or it just clicked that high crimes refers to crimes by people that are high in office. I did. Right. And so high crimes and misdemeanors pretty much means anything. So in other words, president does anything that’s, you know, criminal or maladministration or anything. If convicted, removed from office. But they got to be convicted. Accusations, indictments. Not enough. They indicted Trump twice. Right. But there was no conviction. What do you got here? Well, you see, the. This is from February 13th.

So just a couple days ago. Okay. Judge. Judge John McConnell Jr. Faces impeachment for obstructing Trump. I’ve seen the headline. Yeah, yeah. Well, and that’s. And it’s funny, because when people are saying all these judges are acting unconstitutionally by doing this and doing this and doing that to obstruct Trump, and I said, well, then they need to be impeached, let’s say. So the. The. I’ll just kind of go through this real quick. The judge who said that President Trump’s administration has ignored the court order to restart the flow of federal funds, has had articles of impeachment drafted against him.

US Judge John McConnell Jr told the White House that it must abide by the preliminary injunction to halt its funding freeze. Representative Andrew Klein, a Republican, had announced on X, formerly Twitter, that he is drafting articles of impeachment, accusing the judge of being a partisan activist. Well, I think you could probably classify separation power since when can the courts dictate to the legislature or the executive how to carry out their duties? Yeah, I think, I think especially when they’re, how they’re carrying out is constitutional. I think you could probably classify 80% of the judges out there as partisan activists.

The public information officer for the U.S. district Court of Rhode island told Newsweek that Judge McConnell does not speak to the press during the pendency of a case. Why it matters. Klein said McConnell should be impeached because he is a partisan activist. Federal judges who are appointed for life can only be impeached if they are accused of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. If McConnell is successfully impeached and then convicted by the Senate, it will set a precedent that blocking the President’s actions in court is akin to treason. Well, in many respects. I don’t know about treason.

I don’t know about treason. Yeah, but it’s definitely obstruction and obstruction is a crime. Gus asked if you, if you get busted driving, driving, smoking a joint, is that high crime if you hold high office? Yes. So anyway, I just think this is, I think this is very interesting and it just goes right to the point of what you were talking about in the. In section four. And next week we’re Article three. And so I gotta get. Because I got a meeting in about 20 minutes, the judiciary and we get to talk about judicial review. And that’s all that.

Matter of fact, that’s what I’m opening with. Yeah, I’m in a meeting with Salem media in about 20 minutes. Two of my radio programs, the ones in San Diego county, are part of the Salem Media Network and they’re wanting to do more with me down there and expand what I do. My Saturday night programs, KCBQ and K Praise. KCBQ was at 8, Cape Raise was at 9. They’re moving the Cape Raise to 8 o’clock in the next week or two. So. But you can always check that show out on any of the podcast platforms. Just go to.

Just go to your podcast platform and search for Mr. Constitution Hour by Douglas V. Gibbs. Thank you for the kind words, Melvin and gang Melvin, because he, uh, Melvin says a good show. Again, Douglas and Ron, thank you. Appreciate that. Uh, so article three next week and don’t forget douglasvgibs.com and if you want to help fund what I do, there’s a donate link on that first page and there’s. And then where it says join in the link bar if you want to become a nine dollar a month patron. And I’ve got some fun stuff that I’m working on to get on that site.

Still working on it. Matter of fact, my buddy Josh, I was supposed to call him today and haven’t gotten to yet, but maybe later tonight. But anyway, so, yeah, well, no, before you do that, just for all of you guys, any, any new people here, this is the show that we do every Tuesday at 3:30 Pacific, 6:30 Eastern. So it’s sometimes we, we may run a couple minutes late, but generally it’s about an hour. Sometimes we go a little bit longer but generally we are, this show is about an hour. We have begun to mix in articles and news stories of the day that are relevant to how the Constitution works and how it should, you know, could be applied in modern days.

Somebody actually suggested that, you know, from a historical perspective, how does it, you know, oh, this is all good history and stuff, but how does it apply to us today? And so one of the things that I’m trying to be cognizant of is that we do need to make things that are historical and have them, you know, associate with, associate them either with is as a parallel or as a, as an example of, of a, you know, of, of a something that’s happened in the past where a similar situation has occurred and what we can do to maybe, you know, correct it and whatnot.

And the biggest thing that you’re going to get from this class is number one is you’re probably going to get really angry when you find out how the Constitution is written and how far away the government is from the Constitution. So but we, we do this all, we do this every Tuesday at 3:30 Pacific. And with that said, I will let Doug send us off real special ed. Put in the chat room a link to my book Repeal Democracy. Definitely recommend that helps you understand the difference between a republic and democracy. Why do I say we’re not democracy, we’re a republic? That book explains it.

All right. So united we stand, combined we kick butt. God bless America, my friends. God bless you. Don’t forget to visit me douglasvgibs.com and go to my video channels as I start getting videos out there. Douglasvgibs.com and I’m even on some social media. I’m, I’m getting that ramped up again. I haven’t messed around with it in a long time. Once again, Douglas V. Gibbs is the way to get to it. All right. And no Mike tonight, but I will be, I will be posting the show of that I did that we recorded last Friday with Douglas and Warhamster about basically is like it was the introduction and the foundation of why the south seceded and setting the stage for their mentality going into trying to form the Confederate States of America government and the Constitution that was going to govern it.

So that is what I will be playing here in about 15 minutes. So yarn Addict asked me, can I get that directly from you, Doug, so I can get an autograph? Absolutely. I put it in the chat room. Email me@constitutionspeakerahoo.com I get so many emails. Make sure you put in the subject line something like, you know, I I want your book autographed or something like that. So to catch my eye because sometimes I go through them quick because I get so much junk. But just email me constitutionspeaker yahoo.com and we’ll set it up so that I can mail you an autographed copy.

Yep, already there. Mr. Gibbs, thank you for your time, sir. And I will see you and the Warhamster in the morning. All right, we’ll see you then. And all of you, always great to see you. See you next week. Yeah, everybody, thank you.
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