Trump's First Executive Orders: Can He Do That??

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[00:01:31] Hang on. Hang on. Where the fuck did I? There it is. That's what I wanted. The live chat wasn't up. We're going to go through the Trump executive orders. At the very least, on the first day, he's done some subsequent ones. But I didn't have as much time as I wanted to research them today.

[00:01:51] So you get the first one. So most of these are fairly straightforward and he probably will not have any trouble with. But for those of you who don't know, so let's just let's just get cracking. Cracking. Cracking.

[00:02:12] So the first one apparently was a proclamation on flying flags at half staff. So President Biden ordered flags to be flown at half staff after the death of former President Jimmy Carter. And this included on Election Day. Now, Trump obviously did not like that. So he signed an executive order dictating that flags will be flown at full staff no matter what's happening on Election Day. Cracking.

[00:02:43] Cracking. Because I was real mad. So yeah, that's a that's a thing that happened. I find it interesting, though, that was the first executive order he signed. A half staff like because of an executive order because of that? Well, no, no, no, no, no. It's it says the executive order dictates that the flag will be flown at flown at full staff on Election Day no matter what. Why wouldn't it not be?

[00:03:14] Because it was a memorial period for Jimmy Carter, who died. Thank you. OK. So you probably said this and I just I did here. And then the next one was an executive order rescinding other executive orders.

[00:03:31] It removed 78 executive orders and memoranda from issued during the previous administration, many having to do with DEI diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and climate stuff. So that was enemy. And I mean, Trump can do that. Both of these Trump can do fully. Fully, although it's interesting because the Constitution doesn't actually lay out executive orders at all.

[00:03:55] But given precedent and how past presidents of both parties have done it, these are things that Trump can do because they do not violate current legislation or the Constitution. And they only direct at federal agencies, which are under the control of the executive branch. So the next one executive order on freedom of speech. He the order title was literally restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship.

[00:04:21] It claimed that the Biden administration trampled free speech rights by censoring American speech on online platforms under the guise of combating disinformation and misinformation. The order directs the attorney general to investigate federal policies of the past four years and recommend appropriate remedial action. So. Amen. Seriously, that's that's been an issue for how long now? Like four years. Oh, I mean, obviously, I mean, even even in Trump's first presidency, it was it was kind of an issue.

[00:04:51] So because there were all kinds of sites that were taken down things, whatnot, you know, it's like, yeah, we're sick of the. The bullshit. What's interesting, too, is I saw the Trump's White House press secretary announced that they are offering credentials for White House briefings to alternative media sources, new media sources. All you have to do. I believe the website is whitehouse.gov slash new media.

[00:05:19] You fill out a little questionnaire and you're basically applying for press credentials for White House briefings. And I'm sure they're going to look at anybody who applies. They're going to look at audience size. But like if you have a journalist podcast or a website and. I really, really hope that the onion applies. I really hope the onion applies. That would be hilarious. It's been a while since I've heard anything from them. Like, I know they're probably still active, but they are.

[00:05:47] And I heard about something which I don't know how new this is, but apparently they submitted something to the Supreme Court. And one paragraph is nothing but Latin legal jargon. It's great. So. Yeah. Babylon B is kind of taken center stage lately, but the onion is still out there. It's a, it's, it's good stuff. The next one executive order on the quote weaponization of government.

[00:06:13] It directs the attorney general to identify and take appropriate action to correct supposed political motivated law enforcement activity at the Department of Justice, the SEC. That's the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission. The order also calls on the director of the NSA to do the same with regard to the intelligence community. So as long as it's actually staying nonpartisan, I actually really like this. We'll see.

[00:06:39] But the language of the annotated order that I'm reading, actually, it's on its face. It sounds, it really sounds like he's just trying to get revenge on people that went after him. But they, there was lawfare. I don't think that's really disputable at this point. Agreed.

[00:07:00] Then there was a memorandum, a memorandum ending remote work for federal employees, which this is really stupid that he had to sign an executive order to do this. But federal employees of the executive. Nobody wanted to bring anyone back in. Like everybody was okay with that. You can't have a, I don't know if you agree with a remote work or not. I think it depends on the job. Okay. I think it depends on the job. And my whole. It's like sitting there waiting on customers to call in. I'm sorry.

[00:07:29] You need to be sitting somewhere. You don't need to be sitting at your house. Well, see, actually, I just, I think you can do that job. I'm a fan of remote work for certain jobs, but here's the problem that I have with this. So if you work for the federal government, you either need to go to the office or they need to sell the office building. I'll take either one. But they had these office buildings that are owned by the federal government and they're just sitting empty because people are remote. I'm good with that. I agree. I agree with that. That makes a lot of sense.

[00:07:59] Yeah. There was something, something like six, only 6% of federal employees were going up to like their actual job on location full time for a while. So now, again, during, actually, no, I don't get it during COVID, but that was the thing that was happening. Now we're getting busted for doing practices for basically not actually being at the computer and being on vacation and shit like that. Like there's, there's so much evidence. Yeah.

[00:08:27] That's the part of remote, remote work that I don't really like. And I guess it depends on how good are you at your job? Because here's the thing. If you're getting stuff done and you're taking care of, like if you take five minutes to go do a load of laundry or something, I really don't care. But if you're delivering, so it's like, I'm okay with remote work and concept, but you have to earn it is my, unless you, if your job is remote from day one and it's agreed upon, then it's whatever. That's between you and the employer.

[00:08:54] But I also think that regardless, like it's good to get out of the house. People get out. I agree. Yeah, it is. It is. Although to be fair, I wish I could be doing this full time. Well, that would be different because when you weren't doing it, you'd be out of the house. I was going to say I'd be getting out of the house more often, actually. But so the next one is a memorandum limiting new regulations. So the regulatory freeze pending review.

[00:09:19] Trump ordered all executive departments and agencies not to propose any new rule or directive until a department head reviews or approves it, which is funny because then Trump goes on to create a bunch more rules and directives. So he violated his own executive order. Subsequently.

[00:09:41] But I mean, I guess this is what I this is really a fluff executive order because I mean, they can still do it. They just have to a department. It has to approve and review it. But you would think they would have to do that already. I you would think. I don't know. Maybe I'm off base. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe. Things are happening.

[00:10:09] So the next one was a federal hiring freeze, which I'm. I'm OK with this effective at noon on January 20th. With some exceptions, including the military and persons related to immigration enforcement, national security or public safety. It asked the director of office management and budget to submit a plan within 90 days to reduce the size of the federal government's workforce through efficiency improvements and attrition,

[00:10:35] at which point hiring freeze will be lifted except for the IRS, which is to be frozen indefinitely for new hires. Yeah, dude. Like I am fairly certain he's going to abolish the IRS and replace it with the IRS. What was it? Is that external? Yeah, the external revenue. External revenue. Yeah, because the funny thing is, it's like that's how we used to run our government. And that's that's one of our most prosperous eras was when we were running on tariffs.

[00:11:05] And a lot of people will say, why are we making our taxpayers pay it? Well, a lot of people will say to that, it's like, well, the government budget was smaller than and I'm like, yeah. That's the point. That's kind of the point. It's like, yeah, that was that was the deal. That was the thing that happened. We'll see. My only issue with that is if he does it too fast, it might shock the system a little bit. But if it's gradual, I'm for it.

[00:11:33] Because I would like to at the end of all this, I would like there to be a government surplus finally. So that, you know, stuff good stuff can be done. But dude, yeah, they've already taken out so much spending. Fifty million dollars. I don't know if you heard this yet, but Trump literally stopped it. I don't know if Trump did, but one of his. Hold on. One of his. What is the doge? His new and then MEB or something like that.

[00:12:03] They found 50 million dollars going to Gaza for condoms for for condoms. See, I believe that. And then here's the other thing, though, is we I forget which podcast we did, but I actually I found out in real time. That was from his new press secretary in a live setting. So, yeah. But I actually found I found it on live. Yeah, I found this out in real time, though. I found out that the federal government for the first time in American history became the largest employer in the country under the Biden administration.

[00:12:34] Yeah. So seven thousand new employees. So, yeah, I'm all for hire that many. They were just given authority to hire that many. No, no, no, no. No, it became officially the highest, the largest employer in the country. I was talking about the eighty seven thousand for the IRS. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They added. They had all those people, but they were starting to. Yeah. The next one is a memorandum on emergency price relief.

[00:13:00] So Trump directed executive departments and agencies to implement so-called emergency price relief measure to lower the cost of housing, health care, food and fuel costs, as well as to create employment opportunities for workers. No specific measures were outlined. But the memorandum calls for the assistant to the president for economic policy to report every 30 days on the status of implementation.

[00:13:24] And actually, so basically what this is going to amount to is a lot of cutting of red tape because many, many experts have pointed to one of the biggest causes of home prices rising is lack of inventory. And one of the biggest reasons of lack of inventory, especially in places like California and big cities with a lot of municipal rules is I learned this today.

[00:13:46] Apparently, apparently for the average home building permit to get started, most builders wait 24 months to get approval. Before they can like they buy the developers, not builders. So the developer buys the land and they have to wait 24 months to get approved to start breaking ground. That's insane. Honestly, developers deserve that.

[00:14:10] They're the ones building all those freaking vanilla homes and those big old freaking circles. What do they call those? Oh, cul-de-sacs. Cul-de-sac. Yeah, yeah. With the cul-de-sacs and whatnot. Like it's not like back in the 50s and 60s, like, you know, those types of homes, whatnot. It's like those cracker box homes. Well, I'm wrong. They're still nice, whatnot. But like that's literally those land developers sell those kind of shit. And then people go in there and they have these shitty homes. But anyway.

[00:14:41] Well, another thing, and I think we're going to see this. This actually, I learned a lot today, actually. Apparently, this goes all the way back to the 2008 financial crisis. So when that happened, the only people that were buying homes were the ultra wealthy. So builders were incentivized to create like, what would you call that? Like, not ritzy. Like, ah, I'm blanking on the word. What would you call that? Like premium homes? Like super high-end homes?

[00:15:11] So most of the new houses that were being built were considered like high-end homes in most places in the United States at that time. Lavish. Lavish. Yes, lavish. So I think the other thing, which finally, fun fact, the person that bought my land finally started developing it. There's still a tractor out there, but they're digging all the, they dug some big holes or down the fence. Obviously, they're going to build a house. Yes, they are. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:15:38] Yeah, they probably are like, hey, man, we're in an area that's going to get redone. Might as well build over here. I mean, I had a feeling that's what they were going to do, but they damaged my fence. So I'm waiting for them to, it's not that bad, but I'm waiting for them to. You're going to have a nice fence, though. Yeah, what they did was they, and I know how they did it, too. So where the gate is, it still latches, but they damaged one of the posts there. So I'm kind of waiting for them to be like, hey, can we put this board on for you?

[00:16:08] And I'll be like, sure, because it's not that big of a deal, but they did damage my fence. Have you gone back and forth already? No, I haven't. No, I haven't had a chance to catch them yet. And I'm not going to be a dick about it. I'm just going to be like, hey, can, please. Yeah, like you see this? Yeah, I didn't do that. I like that board. You did. That broken fence over there begs to differ. But so, yeah, hopefully we'll see some prices start going down.

[00:16:37] I don't think it's going to happen instantaneously, but hopefully it dwindles. Housing and energy is going to be big, though, and I think there's a lot that Trump can do in the immediate. Did you freeze or are you just? Oh, you did freeze. You were sitting like, you were like that for a minute. Oh, God.

[00:16:57] But anyway, so the next one is Trump withdrew via this executive order from international climate agreements, including the Paris Climate Accord. Now, I actually had some questions.

[00:17:14] I had some questions about this, though, because being the curious and astute son of a bitch that I am, I asked myself, well, if this is an international treaty, I know that the president can negotiate treaties, but with approval from the Senate. So, I didn't even know if Trump could legally do it. I assumed he could because he's done it before.

[00:17:34] But so I looked at the old handy dandy constitution and found out the president's authority over treaties and international agreements is that, quote, he shall have power.

[00:18:11] So then, I looked at the Paris Climate Accord. And sure enough, Article 28 of that agreement says, at any time after three years from the date on which this agreement has entered into force for a party, that party may withdraw from this agreement by giving written notification to the depository, which is exactly what Trump did. So, yes, Trump can legally withdraw. Sorry, Congress.

[00:18:37] I don't think anybody was kicking that much of a fuss up this time, but I think previously they probably were. Well, considering how much we spend on it versus everybody else, it's like, come on, guys. Well, yeah. I mean, we were pretty big benefactors. So, anyway. Same with the World Health Organization. Keep going. Oh, I got it in there. Oh, I'm. Yeah. There's. That got interesting. The next one was a proclamation pardoning January 6th. And see, the article says capital rioters.

[00:19:03] I'm not going to use that word, but people who were arrested during January 6th. So, he pardoned everyone, though. I don't know that I agree with all that because there were some people there. It seemed like a blanket pardon. It was. It was a blanket pardon. However. However. Actually, go ahead. I was going to say one of the dudes that got pardoned actually was killed not too long ago. Not, like, because anyone killed him or whatnot. But, like, he got into an altercation and got shot, like, literally not long after he got out.

[00:19:33] I was like, that sucks. Yeah. So, here's the thing. I would have preferred. And I understand the need for. I understand the need to expedite this because some of these people have been in prison since then. I would have liked to have seen. You literally just walked through an open door. Well, yeah. And that's the other. That's the thing. What I would have liked to have seen was a release on no bail and then a case review for everyone.

[00:20:02] So, it's like you're getting out of prison, but you're not necessarily out of the woods yet. But given how many people there were, I kind of understand a blanket pardon here. Not going to lie. It's not ideal, but, again, it's over 1,500 people got their sentences pardoned. So, that's a lot of people. Well, the only victims on that day, like, true victims, like, that were actually hurt was actually Babbitt.

[00:20:33] So, I mean, did anyone else get hurt? Yeah, some people were assaulted. Well, they got hurt. She was the only one that was killed directly because of it. Yeah. So, what I mean is, like, nothing, like, truly bad happened that day. Why was somebody in prison for four years? Well, no. I mean, I saw a video. There were people that were hitting cops. And I'm – that's not cool. But given – I didn't see that. Given the – oh, yeah. I was watching it happen live.

[00:21:02] But given the massive fuckery that happened after that, I can understand why you would do a blanket pardon for that many people. It's not like there were six people. There were over 1,500 got charged. Not all of them were in prison, but – or jail. I shouldn't say prison. But let's see. Next one. Executive order delaying the TikTok ban.

[00:21:29] So, he's giving ByteDance 75 days to figure out something in divestment, which I really hope they do. Not because of TikTok, but because I lost CapCut. And I was like a fish without fins. I was like a bird without feathers. It was fucking terrible. I edit everything. It's on by TikTok? Yeah. Oh, okay.

[00:21:55] And I got to say, I use CapCut for everything editing-wise. So, I really hope they can figure something out because I don't want to lose – I don't want to lose my CapCut again. It was bad. I don't think you will. I don't think I will either. I think it's pretty clear they're going to figure something out. But for all you people that deleted TikTok or CapCut, you're stupid. Yeah.

[00:22:25] Like, why? Why would you delete an app so fast? Like, Trump was literally getting ready to be elected and said he would do something. Yeah. He was literally saying – and they're like – he's like, I'm going to do something. And they're like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. No, I'm going to delete it. I was like, I'm going to keep it on my phone forever because worst case scenario, I'll just get a VPN. That's what I was telling everybody. I was like, get a VPN and just say you're in Europe. Which, by the way, it works.

[00:22:53] I may or may not have used CapCut for a couple days using a VPN. The reason I hesitated with it was I wasn't sure it would work with the pro version that I paid for, but it does. Totally does. I was afraid it was going to sign me out if I used a VPN, but it didn't. Well, because your name has nothing to do with your location. So the thing is, if you're on vacation, you're going to be outside of the States or whatever. Yes. Exactly.

[00:23:23] Well, the thing is, they wouldn't even know because it's routing through a different server. Egg salad. Egg salad. I love that. Egg salad. Ah, so here's you. So the executive order withdrawing from the World Health Organization. So I had very much the same question. Can Trump, since it's a division, it's part of the UN. So I figured that would be trickier. But for everyone. Now, again, there's some gray area here.

[00:23:50] But this, what I have written down is it seems Trump can order the USA to leave the WHO, even though it's an agency of the UN. Trump is not leaving the UN. Therefore, he's not leaving a treaty. It's also worth noting that the United States funded 22 percent of the total WHO budget in fiscal year 2024, 2025. It had a total funding budget. Oh, go ahead. I was just going to say the whole world is embezzling our money, essentially.

[00:24:16] Yeah, we're embezzling our own money into these things. And I guarantee all those politicians have their greedy hands in it. I'm sure. But the WHO had a total funding budget that year of $6.8 billion. So the U.S. contributed just shy of $1.5 billion. Which actually, I kind of figured it was more, if I'm going to be honest. I figured it was more money. That's still a lot of money. That's a lot of money. But in the scope of the entire planet.

[00:24:45] Considering how everybody treated COVID and everything, nobody deserves any money. That's my thing. Because here's the thing. In a vacuum, I can understand why withdrawing from something like the WHO would be considered bad. But for COVID, dude, I'm like, what are we doing? Don't get me wrong. The WHO does a lot of really good stuff for the third world. But I just, yeah.

[00:25:13] I said if people weren't dropping dead in the streets, I said we don't need to change anything. Like, I was like, if this was like a 27 days later situation. Yeah. Shut the motherfucker down. So here's my thing. And I said this at the time. Actually, I said it in our episode. Hold on one sec. I got to ask you a question. Are we any sponsorships that we should keep clean language? For this specific podcast? Oh, you know what? Let me look again, just to be sure. No, you're good. You're good. Okay. Just in case.

[00:25:41] I just, you know, turn on the filter. All right. Go ahead, man. Sorry. Oh, so I said this at the time. And I said the reason they shot themselves in the foot, figuratively speaking, with COVID was I said, okay. But when we have, when we have like a really bad, like if we had an Ebola outbreak, people don't trust you now. And like, here's the thing. If there's an Ebola outbreak, absolutely. Everybody should stay home. Like, absolutely.

[00:26:09] But now nobody trusts you. So like, and they tried this crap during the election. They were like, oh, there's a SARS epidemic. And everybody was like, okay. All right. And on top of that, the efficacy of the shots versus natural immunity and everything coming out with that stuff. And they were trying to say that the shots were better. And I was like, no, nothing.

[00:26:35] Well, my, well, and my favorite thing, though, is everybody's out there saying now, and you can see the videos where they're like, see if you can figure who I'm talking about. I never said that. And then they cut to a video of I'm saying this exact thing. It's like, come on, guys. Somebody, the funny thing is about Fauci, he and all them, they can still be prosecuted on a state level if they're pardoned. Oh, on a state level.

[00:27:03] Yeah, because pardon only counts federally, correct? Yes, but I think Fauci would be outside of that jurisdiction. Because he acted in a federal capacity. And technically. I'm getting people confused. I don't think it was Fauci. It was someone else. I can't remember what it is. But Putin wants to collect Fauci on crimes against humanity. But based on what jurisdiction, though, Russia didn't even use any of those vaccines? I don't know. I don't know.

[00:27:32] It's just something I read. Yeah, that's I read that. And I'm like, yeah, that's happened. That's not worth it. That's not worth the paper. It's written. That would be OK. OK. Yeah. Which crimes, though? We know what Fauci did. Oh, I'm not saying Putin's not a monster. Don't get me wrong. But on paper, what do we have? I don't know. I don't know enough about the guy.

[00:28:04] I'm not going to I'm not going to go down that rabbit hole. All right. I want to I want to live. The next one was an executive order on hiring and firing federal employees. It restores and amends the executive order from his first term that rescinds Biden's executive order that effectively makes it easier to hire and fire certain federal servants with an eye towards loyalty. Trump's order makes it easier to hire and fire.

[00:28:30] The addendum to the reinstatement states and quote employees in or applicants for schedule policy slash career positions are not required to personally or politically support the current president or policies of the current administration. They are required to faithfully and wait a minute. Hang on. Yeah, OK. No, that's not what it says. I was confused. Existence failure to do so. Oh, OK. I gotcha. Gotcha. OK.

[00:28:57] They are required to faithfully implement administration policies to the best of their ability, consistent with their constitutional oath and the vesting of executive authority solely in the president. Failure to do so is grounds for dismissal. So based on that language, I think a lot of people are misreading this because they're making it sound like, oh, Trump's going to fire everybody. That's not a lackey. It's like, no, technically, if this is to be believed, which trust me, Trump's petty enough that I think he would fire somebody for not supporting him.

[00:29:25] But the language here suggests that he would be able to fire somebody who's refusing to carry out orders dictated to by a federal agency or by the president, who is the chief executive of the country. So I don't think this is so much. And I could be wrong here, but I don't think this is so much Trump wanting to fire people that aren't loyal to him.

[00:29:47] I think it's just he wants to eliminate the stoppage of his policy, because that certainly happened to him in his first term. Yeah, he got stonewalled a lot. Yeah. But by by federal agencies, which theoretically should not happen unless it's a unless it's a grounds of like constitutional or exceeding executive authority. But that's handled through the courts. So.

[00:30:15] I mean, you can whistleblow, you can whistleblow or file suit for sure. But like just saying, no, we're not going to do this as a federal agency. And that's real tough because there's a lot of things in the Trump administration that I wouldn't agree with personally, but. I don't know. I think at that point I would just quit. So I don't know.

[00:30:37] Anyway, there was an executive order revoking security clearances for more than four dozen former intelligence officials, including Trump's first term national security advisor, John Bolton, who signed a 2020 letter saying that publishing that published information. Purportedly from one of Hunter Biden's laptops has the aspects of a Russian information operation.

[00:31:01] So, yeah, some people are just losing security, but it seems like they're all former people that worked in intelligence. So it's like, yeah, you can't use your security clearance for your private contracting job now. Yeah, for real. The next one was a proclamation declaring a national emergency at the southern border. Trump declared a national emergency that calls for military personnel and resources to help secure the southern border, including through additional physical barriers as well as drones. Now, I. What up, Toast?

[00:31:32] Oh, what's up, Toast? Evening, gentle. Fair gentleman. Gentleman. Gentleman. That's the word. I blanked on the word gentleman for a second. I'm very hard. He's a gentle. I'm, uh, I'm not really sure of the league of the total legalities because the, the rules about the president being able to use American troops on domestic soil is really, really vague.

[00:31:59] Um, my guess is this is going to be challenged in the courts and it's just going to, I don't know. I don't know how that one's going to turn out. I'm not sure of the legality of it. If I'm being honest, I know Trump is justifying it by labeling it. An invasion, but the legal definition of an invasion refers to, uh, uh, an, uh, an adversarial nation's armed forces, not unchecked immigration. Now that's again, that's the legal and it could be redefined.

[00:32:29] Uh, so I don't know, but he's declared an emergency at the southern border. So that happened. That's a thing that in and of itself, I don't really have a problem with, but it's some of the other stuff that I do. Yeah. The deported, uh, some of them, uh, were on video, like when they were on the buses head and back and they were like telling people that were trying to make their way up here. They just like, don't go up there. There's no point. You're just going to get brought right back. Yeah. And there's like too, too much migra.

[00:33:00] Oh, it's the migra. But, uh, the next one, what you guys take on Canada becoming the 51st. Okay. If Canada does join the United States, I think it's silly to make the entire country of Canada, the 51st state. Um, how many provinces are there? Like, I think there's like more than one. Are there like, you can, you can tell me this toast. How many provinces are in Canada? I think there's like 11 or 12, right? Or maybe there's 13. Why am I thinking 13? I don't know. But I think each individual province, 10 provinces. Yeah.

[00:33:30] So I think each province would just be admitted as a state because I, I actually, I brought this up to Trump would actually be very foolish to bring Canada in and three territories. Yeah. Okay. So those would be territories in the provinces would be state states. But if you were to bring the entire country of Canada in as a state, then it would be a bigger blue state than California. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. It'd be a huge blue state. Like, so like, no, I'm sorry.

[00:33:59] Canada can, Canada can stay where it is because like, besides our, our brother here toast, like, uh, there's a lot. I think here's the thing though. I think if you break it down by provinces and add them to the electoral college system, I think it would even out a bit more. Cause I got to believe there are some provinces that are probably the more rule. Like, I don't know, toast. How do you think? Oh, that's true. Not with Polly. Yeah. But, uh, yeah, he, he's, he's, he's, he's, uh, I've watched a lot with him and, uh, he's, uh, well, he's not.

[00:34:29] He's not exactly in camp Trump though. No, he's not. But the thing is, that's okay with me. Yeah. That's fine. I gotta, I gotta figure, I gotta figure Alberta would lean a little conservative. California light. It won't be. Oh no. Actually you'd be double California. You'd be California times two with population alone. So yeah. You guys are in Jamaica, California. Yeah.

[00:34:54] So if you never want a Republican president or Congress again, bring Canada in as the 50th person. Alberta is Canadian, Texas. I figured. Yeah. I figured. I just think it's really dope that there's a dinosaur named after Alberta. Cause it was discovered there. Albertosaurus. It's real cool. Um, let's see. Memorandum on resolving delayed security clearances. So apparently there are a bunch of security clearances that were taking a long time.

[00:35:21] So this calls for TS, SCI security clearances for a period not to exceed six months and address supposed backlogs that have prevented workers access to the white house complex infrastructure and technologies. Some have criticized the move for lacking transparency quote. The only cases where this would apply obviously are to people who did not qualify for the top security clearance journalist Roger Sullenberger posted on X quote.

[00:35:48] Also, will the public be able to know who gets the special Trump clearance or would the list be private? That's a valid question, but I guess we'll see. Ah, and number three, memorandum on trade. So Trump issued an executive order addressed to multiple cabinet secretaries, the U.S. trade representative, the assistant to the president for economic policy, the senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, and the director of the office of management and budget, the

[00:36:16] memorandum stipulates that quote, unfair and unbalanced trade should be addressed directing cabinet officials to look into trade and tariff policies, including those with China. However, Trump can legally do this. He can issue this executive order, but it doesn't necessarily do anything up front. It depends on what aspect of trade a federal agency wants to tackle. For example, the executive branch doesn't have free reign to impose tariffs without Congress necessarily.

[00:36:46] Trump can lobby tariffs for national security reasons, but for economic reasons that requires Congress. Well, since they have the house and the Senate, I don't think it'd probably be. I probably not what I'm just, all I'm saying is the executive branch can't do this on its own. And, um, God damn it. The speaker of the house, I know his name too. I'm just Mike Johnson, Mike Johnson. Thank you. Mike Johnson has already said that they will not be doing anything to, at least the house

[00:37:13] won't be doing anything to, you know, not go along with Trump's policies, which I kind of don't like, but I just don't like blind, blindly following one man. I don't, I don't like it. It's a little too kingly for my taste. Well, to be fair, he's not the one writing up all these, he's getting memos and meetings and they're going on with the whole team.

[00:37:39] So it's not like a whole bunch of, I mean, it's not just one person making decisions. It's one person signing it. It's a whole team. That's the difference between Trump and everybody. He's always had a team. Like everybody thinks he makes all his decisions. I feel like a dude has a whole member, like cabinet of people. Like, I mean, outside of the white house, he had a whole cabinet of people. I got to stop eating. Yeah. Well, so there's actually, I didn't realize this had more on the, on the terror.

[00:38:04] So while the U S constitution grants to Congress, the power to levy tariffs on goods, Congress has delegated some of that power to the executive branch over time. The constitution states in article one, section eight, that quote, the Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises. Congress passed general. What's that? Oh, your nephew. Yeah. My Virginia girlfriend is quite upset because Trump is making federal workers go to work, go to the office.

[00:38:33] She works in the NSF. She literally works in the DEI department and she's going to get fired. Uh, yeah, actually there haven't been. At least as far as I know, there haven't been a lot of firings. There has been restructured and shifting of job titles. So I don't know, but, um, let's see. Congress passed general tariff legislation until the early 1930s and a move to grant more flexibility to the president to revitalize global trade in the midst of the great depression.

[00:39:02] Congress gave the executive branch the power to negotiate tariff reductions within levels pre-approved by Congress through the reciprocal trade agreement act of 1934. President FDR became the first president to have authority to levy tariffs and negotiate bilateral trade agreements without the approval of Congress. Hey, Democrat. Yeah, and a lot of paid, sorry to push it. No, you're good, dude. Comments tell YouTube that people are engaged. Comment away. Plus, it makes my job easier.

[00:39:32] Uh, the executive branches continue to exercise a level of authority over tariffs over the past few decades in 1962, president Kennedy signed into law, the trade expansion act, which allows the president to adjust tariffs based on threats to national security under section 232. This is the authority under which president Trump imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum, which have a vast impact on some of the United States. You are the moderator. I am the moderator. I am the moderator. Get out of here.

[00:40:02] I am the moderator. I am the moderator. I am the moderator. I am the moderator. I am the moderator. Look at my boobies, Jack. Uh, I'm going to read the rest of it as Arnold. Look at them. Look at them. God damn it. Where was I? This is the authority under which president Trump imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum,

[00:40:28] which have a vast impact on some of the United States biggest trading partners and many U.S. industries. Since the beginning of the year, there have been bipartisan efforts in Congress to try and rein some of the power that was delegated to the executive branch to regulate trade. This is from the Yeta Institute. That's exactly the voice. Sorry, I'm the moderator. Oh, no, that's the one.

[00:40:57] We could bring jobs back to California. People. What? Who's your daddy? What does he do? One of my favorite lines from kindergarten cop that's often forgotten is when he goes to talk to that witness at the at the party where everybody's on drugs. He's like, who are you, man? And he shoots the wall. He's on the party pooper. The popcorn pooper.

[00:41:25] You see, he said popcorn just came out of his nose. Why did you have popcorn in your nose? He was laughing in a crypt. Are you eating other people's lunches? Stop it! Then we have an executive order on plans for troop deployment at the border. Trump signed an executive order title clarifying the military's role in protecting the territorial

[00:41:52] integrity of the United States, which effectively authorizes the U.S. military to create a plan that would deploy troops to the southern border. Only problem is that Trump's justification for doing this is the Insurrection Act of 1807. The problem is that it's very vague as a law. The act empowers the United States President to call into service the U.S. Armed Forces and National Guard

[00:42:20] when requested by a state's legislature or governor if the legislature cannot be convened to address an insurrection against the state. Or to address an insurrection in any state which makes it impractical and practicable to enforce the law. Or to address an insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy in any state which results in the deprivation of the constitutionally secured rights

[00:42:48] and where the state is unable, fails, or refuses to protect said rights. The 1807 Act replaced the earlier Calling Forth Act of 1792, which had allowed for federalization of state militias, with similar language that allowed either for federalization of state militias to use of the regular armed forces in the case of rebellion against the state government. The act did not provide a criminal penalty for insurrection, which was instead introduced in the Confiscation Act of 1862.

[00:43:16] The 1807 Act has been modified twice, once in 1861, with a new section added allowing for the federal government to use the National Guard and armed forces against the will of the state government in the case of, quote, rebellion against the authority of the government of the United States, in anticipation of continued unrest after the Civil War, which this would be similar to what Dwight D. Eisenhower used in Arkansas when they were ordered to desegregate schools,

[00:43:45] and then the governor of that state was like, we ain't letting no black people in here, so we sent in the National Guard and said, fuck you, let them in school. And then in 1871, the Third Enforcement Act revised this section to protect black Americans from attacks by the Ku Klux Klan. The language added at that time allows the federal government to use the act to enforce Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. That's ironic.

[00:44:16] The chief clause of the Insurrection Act, Insurrection Act, in its original 1807 wording, which has been updated, but it reads, an act authorizing the employment of the land and naval forces of the United States in case of insurrections, be it enacted by the Senate or House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that in all cases of insurrection or obstruction to the laws either of the United States or any individual state or territory,

[00:44:46] where it is lawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection or of causing the laws to be duly executed, it shall be lawful for him to employ for the same purposes such part of the land or naval force of the United States as shall be judged necessary, having first observed all the prerequisites of the law in that respect. In one day,

[00:45:15] all of this will be yours. What? The Countants? Whenever the President considers the unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages or rebellion against the authority of the United States make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in the state and the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into federal service such militia of any state and use of the armed forces as he considers necessary to enforce those laws to suppress the rebellion. And now the question is whether or not

[00:45:44] the influx of illegal immigration constitutes an insurrection. So this is, I think, what's going to be argued in the courts. So. It's all going to be argued. Well, we'll see. I don't know that. And my biggest problem with that is that it's a slippery. Hold on to their power. Well, no, but here, my thing is that's a slippery slope. So let's say Trump wins this argument and it becomes precedent that the president can just declare anything an insurrection.

[00:46:14] So what's to stop a, conversely, let's say that happened during Trump's first term. Let's say he won that case. Well, when January 6th happens, Joe Biden can call in federal troops to suppress the insurrection. And that means guns. So I'm just saying, so I'm just saying, don't cheer quite yet because.

[00:46:44] I'm just saying. I'm just. I love that. That's good. Then there was an executive order on energy that directs immediate review of agency activities that, quote, potentially burden the development of domestic energy resources, particularly natural gas, coal, hydropower, biofuels, critical mineral and nuclear energy resources. That's that's a good Trump. That gets a stamp of approval. It also revokes 12 Biden era

[00:47:13] regulatory actions related to clean energy innovative initiatives and orders federal agencies to, quote, immediately pause the disbursement of funds from the Inflation Reduction Act. See, I'm kind of with you, Toast. I don't think that necessarily counts as an insurrection because insurrection defined is pretty clear. Now, what I do consider this is the lack of is the previous administration just not doing its job.

[00:47:46] It does count as Oh, you just said it. Does count as weak border policy. But you know it's not weak, folks. Listen, if you enjoy this podcast, you know we have a lot of fun doing this. But what if I told you there were 13 and soon to be more podcasts that not just like this one because let's face it, nobody's like us. Nobody else has a chimp for a mascot except Robbie Williams. We're coming for you, fucker. Expect to hear from our attorneys when we get some money. I was getting eaten alive.

[00:48:16] I know, dude. They really came for you. I was like, he's so checked out. I was just like, I was like, it's a British movie. And it's not even British, what was it, Australian? I was going to say, I was corrected. It was an Australian film about a British man, so. And I was like, okay, cool. But yes, check out this and then of course the Arte podcast and all the other podcasts. ArteMedia.org first link in the description. You'll find something you like and there's more coming. So check that out. Let's see here. Then, okay,

[00:48:46] so this is one I kind of, I really had a problem with this and then I did a little bit more research. I have less of a problem with it. I just think it's a little too much. Exactly. First, we're number one. We were the first. We started it all. Oh, it's ArteMedia.org toast. ArteMedia.com takes you to some lame ass. I don't even know what they do. That's not orred, but.

[00:49:17] Stop with the shit tossing org. It's getting old. I fucked that up. I got the reference though. Stop with the shit talking. It's getting old org or whatever. I think it's .com. That was a great movie. Get it back on. So the next executive order suspends refugee resettlement. My initial note was he can do this, but it shouldn't be up to one person to do.

[00:49:47] Turns out it's technically not up to one person, but it is up to the executive branch only. And I kind of, I don't, I don't like refugees being turned away. Just in general. I'm not saying don't screen them. I'm not saying don't do background checks, but I don't like the closing of refugees, particularly from countries where there's a lot of bad shit happening. I don't, I'm not a, there you go toast.

[00:50:16] I'm not a, I'm not a fan of that, but there's a few more people with their hands in the pie. And this can be brought up in review and approved by the secretary of state and the secretary of Homeland Security. But I don't know. I don't like the language, but it's not as bad as it sounds. It sounds much worse than it is. And then this is probably just the biggest. And for those of you who follow the podcast, I brought this up

[00:50:46] during the first Republican primary. Sorry. Trump signed an executive order to redefine birthright citizenship, which is a blatant, clear, and irrefutable violation of the 14th Amendment. And before, because I know you're going to argue with me on this, before you bring that up, Vivek was saying the same shit on the stage and I tore it apart then using the exact same logic. So basically, 14th Amendment. Ah, well,

[00:51:16] I lost my little Constitution book, but I will read it. I have one too. It wasn't my bookcase, but... I can't remember what it is. But don't worry, I can look it up because it's in Section 1. Okay. So, 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution, Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States

[00:51:45] and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of these laws. Didn't that say citizens? No. Well, okay, I'll read it again. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject

[00:52:15] to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law. So, essentially what that sounds to me is

[00:52:45] if somebody comes in they're not going to be killed or taken away they're just going to be sent back with their things. With due process, yes. Yeah, exactly. So, that's my point. So, how would the, how would his, how would that be against his executive order? Because, because he is trying to make people's citizenship Yeah, birthright citizenship.

[00:53:15] Yeah, they're saying it's going to end. Like, if, now, if one parent is legal and the other one's not, like, what about that one? The way I understand it is if one parent is a citizen then their child is a citizen but that's irrelevant because that's not what the constitution says. and Trump does not have the authority Well, the constitution the amendment basically says it's going to send them back and where they came from. No,

[00:53:45] from what you read to me that's what I'm hearing because when it speaks of citizens it says citizen but it says any persons shall be not without due process so the thing is if they're processing them then yeah, they're going to I don't know but if they broke the law to get into the United States then they're not a citizen at all and they're a criminal like, I hate to say it like that because I know they just want a better life

[00:54:15] I hate to say that shit Well, but the thing of it is the key there is due process and the amendment and the amendment says no, he can't he cannot amend the constitution Oh, not in an executive order No, he can't correct it either now what's going to happen is this will end up getting taken up to the courts but no, to amend the constitution that's Congress and the three-fourths ratification of all the states See,

[00:54:44] that's the law That's just what that's a tough one, man because like that 14th amendment exactly for what you read it like it doesn't sound like It's clear as day it's written in plain English I listened to it I didn't catch that from it like I you read it twice Yeah, so here's the thing Any person's due process like so I they're basically saying you're going to get a fair trial So this is this is an yeah, this is an argument that happens a lot usually from the right unfortunately but

[00:55:14] Make us understand it Well, okay, so here's the problem though and there's there's different schools of thought on this and today usually people who lean more to the right argue that the constitution only applies to citizens but if you read it it does make distinctions between citizens and people not just in the 14th amendment when I'm of the school of thought that when it says people it means people anybody residing in an area because it defines it as such But to be fair it is we the people right?

[00:55:44] Is that in the constitution? Yeah, it's the the first three words So they're they're assuming that when that when that be safe to assume that it means citizens because no the people are the ones who vote for our presidents and whatnot it's not anyone outside of the country voting for our presidents it's we the people Well, okay, but if you're using people or persons or anything like that I know it's just jargon that's why I'm Well, no, I'm gonna it's not jargon it's specifically written because here's the thing when that was written the only people that could vote

[00:56:15] were white landowning males So by virtue of that logic women would never be and okay before before you attack me in the comments I understand it wasn't fair but by virtue of that logic women wouldn't be entitled to due process under the constitution Now prior to the civil rights amendments and the reconstruction black Americans were not protected

[00:56:44] in many ways by the constitution and the Dred Scott case went all the way up to the supreme court and basically the ruling said that black people were not citizens of the united states and therefore were not subject to the protections therein since then obviously that has been corrected thankfully but my point is if the constitution uses the word people and citizens

[00:57:13] non-interchangeably then when it says people it means people when it says citizens it means because for example qualifications to be president of the united states one of the requirements is that you are a natural born citizen natural boy killer so but anyway there's some more so just okay so the the argument that some people are making which I'm ashamed and Ben Shapiro is in this camp I'm actually ashamed of him you went to law school dude

[00:57:42] you should know better but Vivek Ramaswamy made the same argument he's basically saying it's like well they're not subject to the jurisdiction of the united states and I said at the time if they're not subject to the jurisdiction of the united states then you cannot bring criminal charges against them because when it says and there's I'm not going to read the whole thing because it's long and boring but you can research it yourself so you know I'm not bullshitting you one of the guys who helped draft the amendment

[00:58:13] spoke on this okay the reason it says subject to the jurisdiction thereof is because this part of the constitution does not apply to foreign diplomats and dignitaries who have children born in the US while they are there because those people are under the direct jurisdiction of another government that is why they have diplomatic immunity while they're here they cannot be prosecuted for crimes

[00:58:43] while they're in the united states because they are subjects of a foreign government by virtue of that logic if someone did come here illegally they could not be prosecuted because they are not under the jurisdiction of the united states and then much less for things like murder and you know legitimate crimes that they absolutely should be arrested and tried for so I'm like yeah go ahead pursue this and then after you win you won't be able to take anybody to trial

[00:59:12] because they won't be subject to your jurisdiction the Merriam-webster dictionary the Merriam-Webster defines jurisdiction as the power right or authority to interpret and apply the law or the authority of a sovereign power or the limits or territory within which authority may be exercised the legal from the legal dictionary jurisdiction is defined as the authority given by law to a court to try cases and rule on legal matters within a particular geographic area and or over

[00:59:42] certain types of legal cases theoretically toast but not necessarily it depends on the country in question it depends on what their country's treaty and jurisdiction is like maybe the logic for diplomatic immunity is just

[01:00:12] not so much in the United States but there are cases like you would want American diplomats to have diplomatic immunity abroad because they might violate some kind of law or statute that they just weren't aware of and they didn't know about it so I can see the logic of it and it's not but my whole point is oh actually I take that back I have one more note the clauses meeting with regard to a child of immigrants was tested in the case of United States versus

[01:00:40] and don't laugh don't laugh at this damn it because I know you're going to was tested in the case United States versus Wong Kim Ark in 1898 you're going to laugh Wong King Wong King what Ark Wong King Ark I believe so I'm not a lawyer I just played one on TV that one time Wong King Ark I feel

[01:01:10] like I'm speaking foreign just trying to try to say it that's true most diplomats are nerds yeah but Wong Kim Ark Wong the Supreme the Supreme Court held under the 14th amendment a man born in the United States to Chinese citizens who have a permanent domicile and residence in the United States and are carrying out business in the United States and whose parents were not employed in a diplomatic or other official capacity by a foreign power

[01:01:39] was a citizen of the United States subsequent decisions well Guam's a territory so technically you are subsequent decisions have applied the principle to the children of foreign nationals of non-Chinese descent throughout history so that's why this has been precedent for over a hundred years precedent well yeah but well I mean legal precedent is a thing that's often how cases

[01:02:08] are decided so yeah Trump's not going to win that one and if he does I will actually support packing the Supreme Court because that will show that I don't think it will get that far to be fair but you heard it here if it does get to the Supreme Court and they rule that Trump is right in his interpretation yeah pack the court because then that shows me that it's a corrupt institution and needs to be evened out politically I don't think that's going to happen but

[01:02:40] and then we got an executive order secured the US Mexico border which this is just he just removed several Biden era immigration policies reinstating a lot of his own first-term policies yeah so again I don't agree with a lot of this I also really disagree with him ending the humanitarian parole for Cuba Haiti Nicaragua and Venezuela because these were people that

[01:03:09] were legally they had legal status here through the parole program and now he just did away with it so what's your plan did you hear Tom Homan on because he was I don't know if he was directly responding to Selena Gomes did you see her little people and Tom Homan was like literally saying we're not taking families he said we're taking people who are criminals what not and I don't know what well that's so I haven't seen the

[01:03:39] rest personally all I know is what they say on TV so and I haven't I haven't personally so I'm taking this with a grain coming out from both sides but I don't think the Trump administration is helping themselves because my example I've been pointing to is a few days ago there was a

[01:04:17] now although I did find it fishy because I just who said this and say that again some news outlet in Chicago okay all right nevermind yeah it wasn't a random person but then it came out but here's the thing and then I read an article today talking about how now ice field offices are given daily quotas for arrests they have to make and that that's if that's true

[01:04:47] that's not good because that's going to guarantee to lead to frivolous arrests because what they've been saying is that they're making targeted arrests with warrants and they know around about where to find them and that's fine because that's not in any violation of the law I don't think that's particularly now where it gets into trouble is when they're violating people's rights allegedly by doing things like I really

[01:05:17] don't like some of the deceptive practices they and they need to show it to you before you are obligated to let them in or even answer the door but they do these things to trick people and I

[01:05:59] they are talking to this guy who is standing at his door and they are like we can show you the warrant it's in the car and he's like I'm not leaving my threshold and I'm like good on you dude because that's obviously a trap but if they show you an administrative warrant it is a warrant it's just not worth the paper it's written on because that seems like it

[01:06:29] should be illegal that's one of the good thing about those first amendment auditors like I think they're a strain on society and I don't like a lot of them but I enjoy the shit out of the freaking content they post whatnot because it's teaching a lot of people you honestly

[01:06:59] I'm not trying to say anything like you didn't know this before but did you learn something from one of those first amendment auditors or did you know this stuff I

[01:07:29] there's some shit happening if it's true because I don't know if it's true you're going to get eaten alive for that oh I already am dude I'm getting I'm getting well because oh my god every time I bring up the 14th amendment I'm like listen I'm not saying Trump's the antichrist I'm just saying that the president can't do it I'd be saying the same thing if Biden tried to do it I think it's going to happen I don't I think it's going to work I know I was looking it up earlier and there's a lot of articles saying he

[01:08:18] that remains to be seen that remains to be seen toast like this this isn't a Trump thing this is a government thing yeah he is he's way better already like that is not to be seen like he's okay okay hang on hang on I'm gonna be devil's advocate here for a moment based upon what metric see I am gonna get eaten alive energy like literally energy like he's already like working on to lower the prices of energy like

[01:08:47] that they reenacted like a lot of the the facts you guys can talk about what I think that might have been typo what was I gonna say yeah so I knew that was a rhetorical question yeah

[01:09:18] we'd be talking about Biden falling down the stairs and the high gas prices and high egg costs like even though eggs aren't coming down but it

[01:10:16] intricate

[01:10:49] let let build it and in exchange we'll work out something for DACA we'll work out something for the people here not citizenship but something particularly those with families and lives some people have had lives here for decades like it's just it's not easy or simple but I

[01:11:19] does a great job kind of like it more he died like a dog but anyway it's it's it's a baby it's true what is that from it's too old that's that Shane Gillish it's I know how we won it's sure

[01:11:49] the next one was a memoranda removing environmental protection for the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta the memorandum titled quote putting people over fish stopping radical environmentalism to provide water to Southern California Trump ordered water from California Sacramento San Joaquin Delta to be redirected for use in the rest of the state overruling environmental protections of the wildlife in the delta in an earlier post this month on Social he

[01:12:22] release the water from up north millions of gallons a day what's taking you so long and that is a you better shut your mouth i'm gonna kick your ass i can press see when i try to do it i just sound like a speaking spell you do it great i still think we should have water from north yeah oh my

[01:12:52] god i still i still think man i regret this so much we should have done like a fake debate back when they weren't on the same team i thought about that and i was like you know i respect rfk a lot so like i respect trump it's just i'm not really no no like that like i mean like i like rfk and you know i don't want it to seem like i'm they uh because people think that when you do impressions they hate them um that's what i'm saying we

[01:13:34] also has uh effects on behavioral uh in kids behave behaviors and children whatnot and yet that's not even talk being talked about yet i'm just like dude can we just get all the fake dyes out like hey it's something i'll i'll take it for the first couple days i know i know but the red the red oh yeah okay i agree with you but the red three i'm just like red three is linked to cancer but i'm like i'm not gonna say i haven't seen a label with red three but i see red

[01:14:03] 40 all the time it's literally in doritos yeah at least american doritos exactly toast you know their food up there they don't have it in there they use you know natural things to color their food like beta care yeah carrots beta care to make orange orange um so this is an interesting one trump's issued an executive order expanding the use of the federal death penalty agree toast

[01:14:33] your food is much better it really is was it was uh trump reinstated the federal death penalty oh the death the death penalty was gone uh biden uh yeah there was a moratorium on it it never was made illegal you know why biden got rid of that he wouldn't get a death penalty or his kid you know or whoever i'm not saying his kid because who's gonna kill me

[01:15:04] come on come on man so many people were hating on biden for uh pardoning his son saying he wouldn't do it i was like dude i was like look if i was your kid and if i was president and if it was my kid i'm sorry i don't care what he did he's getting pardoned oh you're gonna get ripped to shreds for that one i don't care you know that i i don't care either that's one of that's one of the things i was like when it comes to family it's like you know i know his son's a drug addict

[01:15:33] whatnot but like i mean he just biden turns to the like biden just turns to the camera it's all about it's all about it's all about family stop it's all about the benjamins and benjamins and the house your anemic girlfriend can attest that i'm assuming that's what unless i read that wrong hey hey tamika

[01:16:05] tapioca pudding uh the benjamins is that celiac celiac disease yeah i said the benjamins were the founding fathers country you know red green is in that oh god so yeah basically um yeah we do have a delay on the comments just tad

[01:16:36] so yeah but he also directs he also directs the attorney general uh sorry yes the attorney general to encourage state prosecutors to pursue the death penalty whenever applicable and to ensure that the states have a quote sufficient supply of lethal injection drugs biden issues commutions commutations sorry biden issues commutations of 37

[01:17:06] afforder 40 federal death row inmates in december a presidential action that trump cannot reverse because that would be a major dick move hey you you're not you're not in death row anymore jump gives it like you're back in you're gay you're gay you're gonna get canceled i don't think so we're bringing it back we're quoting shane gillis technically it's part of his act my opponents gay

[01:17:38] how many more do we have left um there's a few but i'll speed run through some because most of these are nonsensical um okay actually here's one i actually agree with so the memorandum on classical architecture for public buildings trump has directed that new federal buildings are to be designed in the classical greco-roman style and not in the more commonly used brutalist style for those of you who don't know brutalist

[01:18:08] architecture is all about efficiency and simplicity and it's fucking ugly get rid of that shit i like the greco-roman architecture so i'm actually cool with that let's bring back ronald mcfucking donald man go on get that i'm gonna kill that fucking cloud you'll get there i i haven't actually i haven't actually like practiced that

[01:18:38] one a lot that that one kind of came naturally which is those are the best ones uh there's another one uh facilitating facilitating the firing of civil servants which i think we already addressed that uh the the one declaring a national energy emergency so yeah that one calls for review of obstacles of domestic energy infrastructure which he kind of

[01:19:08] already addressed uh specifically seemingly ones that have protections from things like the endangered species act which i don't don't necessarily agree with i think that's on a case-by-case basis though um there's a memorandum pausing certain wind energy projects that i'm all for because that's a colossal waste of money at least with the design the windmill designs that we have currently

[01:19:38] costs more to produce yeah it's going to offset it doesn't it does yeah it doesn't offset its own immediate carbon footprint uh there's another executive order to pause u.s foreign foreign aid legally he can but i also agree it really security council which that's exactly what it

[01:20:07] sounds like uh pulling out of oecd's global tax deal uh the global tax deal which was signed in october 2021 would have ended competitive reductions in corporate taxes so this is protecting corporate uh tax incentives basically uh executive order to tighten immigration laws and restrict federal funds to sanctuary cities um this one he's going to have trouble with because congress makes federal spending decisions

[01:20:37] um i don't think trump has the constitutional authority to withhold funds from states i don't think he can do that so that's why a bunch of these sanctuary states are telling him to suck it because i don't think he can actually do that uh there's another executive order repealing biden era environmental protections and promoting the resource extraction in alaska so basically that area that trump wanted to drill see you buddy that area in alaska that they

[01:21:07] wanted to drill in trump's first term and biden said no he can't do that because polar bears yeah they're gonna drill it now good yeah that's what i said uh because cheaper gas equals cheaper prices everywhere like literally this is fucking economy 101 yep uh there's another executive order restricting visa seekers from certain countries so this is essentially just bringing back what

[01:21:36] his so-called muslim travel ban so that's the same thing executive order calling for an american first foreign policy approach um whatever doesn't really do anything uh the executive order establishing doge which it's okay so well but here's the funny thing so this is actually kind of clever on trump's part so trump doesn't have the constitutional authority to create a federal agency but he can rebrand

[01:22:06] one and that's exactly what he did so he basically just renamed another agency into the department of government efficiency yeah because he didn't he can't create a federal agency that has to happen through congress but he can uh amend one uh executive order defining gender and rolling back transgender protection so my only problem with this

[01:22:35] is the way this is written i'm not saying it's compelled speech but it might be i'm not really sure on this one so the the thing that i have is okay trump outlined federal definitions of women and girls as females and men and boys as males defining male and female as biological binary and immutable

[01:23:05] the order seeks to remove the protections of gender identity and gender ideology from federal policies communications ids and more the order calls for imprisoned trans men to be detained in women's prisons wait yeah imprisoned trans men to be detained in women's prisons and trans women and men's prisons and it calls for agencies to restrict the intimate spaces by sex and not identity most of that i don't really have an issue with the the problem i have is that so first of all

[01:23:35] the genius who wrote this um i'm calling verbatis so this thing should be thrown out just for being bad it can be rewritten and redone i'm trying to remember the exact wording but basically the jackass who drafted this defines women and girl defines female as the sexual uh god damn it the

[01:24:03] the gamete at conception with the large gamete hang on i'm gonna trump so there is all gamete gamete gamete okay hang on let's see here's your here

[01:24:37] okay the executive order declares there are only two sexes male and female no problem there uh well i in in okay anyway i'm just gonna keep reading and defines a female as a quote a person belonging at conception to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell the order defines male as quote a person belonging at conception to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell cell here's the problem with that

[01:25:07] technically speaking at conception it doesn't it well so not just that um it doesn't produce any cell at conception and technically speaking every embryo starts as female and then as the cells continue to divide and i mean this is fairly late stage when the male qualities in an xy embryo start to form that's actually fun fact that's why men have nipples

[01:25:37] if you didn't know that's why i have nipples greg can you milk me no because you changed in utero which is also incidentally how inter like legitimate intersex people happen because somewhere along the developmental line the genetic the genetics have an abnormality i can i can say i can take an array of dangerous drugs to make me lactate so i can feed my infant with it

[01:26:08] oh god you're doing that so my only problem yeah yeah my only problem with this is this is like i said i'm not saying this is compelled speech but it's to me at least it's kind of knocking on the door and i'm not it's one it's it's one step away from the government saying no you can't identify as non-binary because technically you can if you want to whether or not the rest of the world

[01:26:37] but that's that's what i'm saying capacities you cannot like on your driver's license right here's here's i think it depends on how this is applied i don't know i i don't see why people need like to i agree fine you don't need to like have your driver's license say it like come on man yeah i don't i think we're gonna have to watch this one play out because obviously they're gonna get sued

[01:27:07] um i think this is a little too close to compelled speech but some of the days in spirit i'm not really against but at the same time i don't give a shit they're just slinging shit at the wall to see what sticks i mean basically yeah that's exactly what he's doing um executive order they got a dartboard and everything all right transgender that's the one today transgender let's do it uh there was another executive order ending dei programs in the federal in the executive branch

[01:27:38] and then another one uh calling for merit another one calling for merit based federal hiring which i'm for if it's actual merit and not if you're on my team you're in that's merit enough merit welcome to merit uh we got three left okay so there's another one that designates certain latin latin american gangs and cartels as terrorist organizations

[01:28:08] um sure ms-13 and uh the other one specifically ms-13 and uh trend de aragua yeah that one um the problem with this though is it says that he plans to invoke the alien enemies act of 1798 uh to deport anyone designated as a terrorist the problem is is that law actually pretty clearly states that that has to be an invading army

[01:28:37] meaning that it is subject to the it's an army of a foreign nation i'm not necessarily against this but i it depends on what he wants to do with it because if this means military strikes inside a sovereign nation without their consent that gets dicey that gets real dicey it does get dicey it gets pretty dicey sometimes sometimes literally

[01:29:08] uh and then there was an executive order sorry there was an executive order to rename denali mount mckinley again sup hydro do we know hydro that's my nephew i thought so yeah i was like i've seen that icon before uh but probably i'm just renaming the gulf of mexico the gulf of america and this is such a fucking waste of time and resources it's so fucking stupid well i think it's because

[01:29:38] they're taking back control of the panama canal right well that's unrelated how's that gotta work it's not we gave it is the panama canal not in the gulf no no that's way down oh i don't see i don't fucking know anything it's an uneducated american with money in my mind it's in panama my hand um dude what is going on my fucking mic

[01:30:07] last but not least proclamation declaring a quote invasion and restricting entry into the u.s this one i got a really fucking i got a real fucking problem with this because what this is this is part of if i'm not mistaken this is part of how he's suspended the cbp1 app which don't get me wrong that app had a lot of problems had a lot of issues but what he's effectively done is made it so that people cannot apply for

[01:30:37] asylum outside of the united states say that one more time my shit my shit's messing up oh well uh trump uh suspended the cbp1 app so what he's effectively done is now people cannot apply for asylum outside of the united states at least not in an orderly efficient fashion and here's the thing

[01:31:07] asylum is codified under the law like trump cannot suspend asylum legally he cannot do that no but they can look at asylum seekers more you know closely like oh so are you actually claiming asylum because a lot of people claim asylum and then they're not actually asylent well but here's the problem with suspending according to our official well but here's the problem with suspending so what people were able to do is they were able to

[01:31:36] schedule appointments outside of the united states and then the app would alert them when they could go for their appointment and have their initial hearing but now they can't do that and the biggest problem i have is people that had scheduled appointments had them canceled and i think that's that's i agree i agree with that i agree and that i think that's horseshit um but at the same time they're shutting

[01:32:05] everything down so unfortunately you know you you can like everyone's the one gonna get up get all up in arms uh at trump over this but at the same time you guys got to blame biden on this because i i do i blame he has to just stop everything because you know unfortunately it's like a a parent you know who has to discipline their child the child's gonna hate them for it but in the long run it's going to eventually get them to understand that their actions have consequences i don't i don't

[01:32:34] think so and my issue isn't so much that he's shutting things down is that he's shutting things down without an alternative so for example like i said i mentioned earlier he shut down the parole for those four countries that was all legal i said sometimes there's no alternative you have to shut it down take make sense because people were coming through that parole legally it was a legal way to enter the united states temporarily but you were authorized they shouldn't

[01:33:03] be just shut out they should just be on hold like but like essentially when it comes back i don't know well the problem it's all a big mess right now i agree but the problem with trump's rhetoric on the matter is that he so he's getting rid of parole so that if somebody's here on parole now and when it expires what are they supposed to do there's there's no i mean technically they can file an asylum claim but that's if they don't have a legitimate asylum claim under the

[01:33:32] law then it's basically by definition a frivolous lawsuit because they're going to have a hearing and backlog the courts and they're going to have their hearing and then when they don't meet the burden of proof they're going to get a removal order anyway so it's just creating issues where there shouldn't be any is i guess my biggest problem don't start nothing won't be nothing i don't know though we'll we'll see i the immigration thing personally i think trump's fucking up

[01:34:02] royally on that front because he could have made he could have already had some really big wins and gotten what he wanted by working with the system as opposed to just being like we're gonna shut it all down it's it's fucking done because gone well no here's the thing okay you want to deport according to him he wants to deport violent criminals and people with existing removal orders okay that not a problem with that you're not going to get cooperation

[01:34:31] with that when you're making everybody afraid that they're up for deportation even though legally they under the law technically some people aren't because for example if you have a valid pending asylum case you cannot be deported without basically a felony conviction and even if you lose your asylum case you can appeal it and as long as you have a pending case you are your status is legal for now if you have temporary protected status you cannot be deported absent

[01:35:01] of a you know a felony conviction and if you have TPS you can have a valid legal work permit and you can have a social security number and you're gonna pay taxes so these are all legal statuses but you're technically you're not undocumented but a lot of people misconstrue illegal and undocumented it's it's kind of fucked so you're legally in the United States but you don't have permanent status is the issue if that makes sense

[01:35:31] because US immigration law is actually really fucking complicated and vague it's a little it's a little fucked and most people don't know that most people like again most people are under the impression that you can just come over the border marry an American and you're automatically a citizen that is not fucking that is not even remotely close to accurate like just so you guys know if you are somebody

[01:36:00] who is undocumented or even even if you're here legally mind you as an immigrant and you marry an American citizen you have to apply for that marriage-based green card and now granted USCIS it seems based on what I've read they've been foregoing the marriage interviews but you have to submit evidence and now it's required you have to do a medical exam if you're the immigrant in question and if you do get called in for an interview you have to sit down with an immigration officer and if they just

[01:36:30] decide that they don't think your relationship is credible your green card is denied damn yeah so it's not the narrative for that a lot of Americans believe leave is that people are coming across the southern border hiring Americans to marry them for two years so that they get citizenship well that's not that's really hard to do

[01:37:00] like because they're looking for that shit that was in movies and TV like when we were younger like yeah it was talking about that kind of stuff and you know that's why a lot of people thought it was so easy to do was because it was just in the movies well they made they made it seem like yeah they made it seem like it was automatic like oh they married an American good citizenship they're a citizen now no you don't even get citizenship so you have to get your green card first and then after I forget how long you have to have had it but then you can apply for citizenship

[01:37:30] and that typically takes anywhere from five to ten years so it's it's not a quick process it's it's not you can literally yeah anyway that was all that was all the day one executive orders we've been at this a little bit longer and I totally forgot the second sponsor basically long story short I'll tell you guys now our friends at Pogo want to help put a little bit of extra money in your pocket Pogo is an app that trust me you're not going to get rich off of it

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