That reminds me of a very funny movie where they want to get the guy out and he seems to have this thing for his red stapler as well and I put them in this little office way down in the basement and they also stopped paying him and the consulting firm that came and to help them with a transition also came up with that solution to get rid of the guy
“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” -- John Adams
@Bronasaxon because compared to they that stood the line do so. While an army of officals who no longer see the raw results of their choices, nor care about them, run the nation without fear of dismissal.
I bumped into this 'extortion' racket by my local rural water utility this week. My water was disconnected 10 months ago because I simply couldn't afford the bill. I'm back on my feet as of last week due to Soc Sec Disability for terminal cancer. I immediately called and paid my past due bill and inquired about re-connection. The re-connection fee is $50 PLUS the monthly service amount for every month I did NOT have service, up to 20 months. The minimum monthly bill for service is $44. (water usage is additional). 10 months x $44 = $484 + $50 = $534. Re-connect fees are justified and necessary to cover the cost of sending a worker out to re-connect service. BUT reconnecting someone after 10 months is the exact same amount of work as reconnecting someone after 1 month. Forcing someone to pay for months of service they did not receive is beyond sleazy. I'll do without water as I only have a few months to live - no way in hell am I "gifting" them over $500 to connect for a few months of service.
If you want proof that the administrative state is running the country, just watch any hearing in Congress involving agency representatives. Not only do the agency people fail to answer most of the questions posed to them by the elected Representatives or Senators, they're typically arrogant about it.
I've seen the Army Corps of Engineers spend the time and energy to close down unmanned parks and access points to lakes and rivers and forests when their agency is shut down for the funding reasons . Would not have cost them anything to leave the access open . Only reason I can fathom is to make the public feel "the pain" of not having them dictate our behavior .
@@Gotprivacy-noyoudont I didn't see such behavior but I believe you . The parks , roads and ramps I went to were next to having been abandoned . No active mowing or trash pick up prior to the shutdowns . Then chains , gates and bermed roads show up as soon as the money is in jeopardy.
They absolutely do this. During the Obama sequester the National Park Service came to close a State Forest that the Feds didn't own (it belongs to the State of Wisconsin), didn't operate (that would be the Wisconsin DNR), and Wisconsin passed a resolution that they would fund all nature preserves in the state for continuing operations, even got a rare true bipartisan popular support. Didn't matter because the sequester had to be as painfully in your face as possible.
This was my first live stream for your channel. I am disappointed that I have not discovered it sooner. Your information is well received. Absolutely loved it!!
Nick, thank you for doing this. For this day. Truth will always come out on the rite side of history. With all due respect. You are a very lucky man to have a woman who has your back and is extremely smart and beautiful. God bless you and your family.
@@shracc Slightly different. but yes one does damage by being dishonest or flakey. If you compare to the modern system, ours allows lying to succeed, and often damage to be done with no consequences. Basically Lawyers wheedling and splitting hairs, rather than a focus on integrity and not harming others. And if combined with the Taoist principle would cetainly be a viable replacement for 300K pages we are all responsible for knowing, which is absurd.
@@saintcelestine3521 Well, I'm talking about the original common law in Europe, that worked well for hundreds of years, not the current definition which exiles it into tort laws, whilst all the legalists get bloated on the blood of average people caught up in their web. Funny how most legislators are lawyers, most Judges are lawyer, and the lawyer you pay is a lawyer, but nobody ever suspects them of collusion or collective conflict of interest... Great Kabuki theater, but little actual justice seems to result... And the hundreds of thousands of regulations aren't really helping common man much... Its almost like a society based on human bickering at a profit, is grossly dysfuntional.
This Independence Day, please remember it's not "firecracker," that term is very offensive to some people. It's "fire-caucasian." Thank you. It’s a little-known fact that, after signing the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers collectively dropped their pants, pointing their posteriors toward England Thus, the motto “E pluribus moon ‘em”
One of the big one's that is so relevant today, is "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance."
Vivek explained how you can wipe out the bureaucrats even with the civil service protections and win in court, mass layoff because the civil service protection requires being specific where a mass layoff is not.
One thing that's been proposed is to move the offices of various federal agencies out of DC. Put the USDA in Iowa someplace. HUD should be in Detroit. The Energy Department should move to the oilfields in South Dakota. I guarantee you that most of the current staff would quit.
We don’t want USDA in Iowa. They created all these agencies to serve a purpose, but that purpose has been served and we need to move on. Defund and disband all and start new
@@Shadow__133 Since we have the best economy in a thousand years and no unemployment (according to Biden, anyway), they should have no problem finding new jobs
But, they could be busted up even further into the various departments of each agency so they have a harder time conspiring against the very people who sign their paychecks!
You've shown me a path I didn't think existed. I still believe Civil War is the likely result, because taking the Government to task is the harder of the two and Americans love to fight, but at least you've shown a reasonable, practical solution to this mess. I sincerely hope you run for President in 28.
Why not just run against Trump? Because he's afraid. Because deep down, he knows what Trump is like. He knows if he did that, Trump would've gone after his wife like he did Cruz, and he would have done nothing. And he didn't want to have to look his wife in the eyes after that.
Waste of his value. He’s far more better suited and far more needed in Virginia. Putting him in an office that’s effectively just a figurehead would undermine everything he works for.
It's so easy to look up and it's disgraceful! We even pay for their gas to travel everywhere and with ZOOM we could save a ton of money and their 'carbon footprint'
I've always believed that regardless of what federal civil service regulations say, the president can actually fire the entire Executive Branch if he chooses. Constitutionally, the president is the head of the Executive Branch. Civil service regulations can't supersede that. It would end up in court, of course, but I'd be willing to bet that SCOTUS would agree.
The President can only fire certain senior executives. The lower-level executive branch employees are protected by the Civil Service Reform Act (1978) unfortunately.
@@TomGrubbe They are only because it's never been challenged. No law can override the Constitution, which says that the president is the head of the Executive Branch. Besides, nobody cares about the low-level employees. Clerks don't make decisions. The senior positions are filled by appointment, so of course they can be replaced the same way. The problem is with the mid-level management, who actually run things.
I do think we should have some sort of "minimum standard" we want our citizens to be literate, but yes it is WAY too regulated, wipe it clean and re start. Here's the base line, you need to meet it, that's it.
What exactly does the USdept of Ed do? Since education is handled and funded at the state level (mostly thru property tax). A fed dept seems like bloat.
Not only do I agree with this possibility of being our last hope of "peacefully" taking back our country from those destroying it for their own personal gain. I love how you changed the revolution to restoration of what this country should have always been. Definitely sharing this the entire country's citizens need to see this.
Both those fools (and the fools on the "other side") are nothing more than puppets, answering to those few behind a certain event occurring in 1913... *Wake up - y'all's is on the Jones Plantation!!!*
I am 80 years old and I have been drawing SS for 15 years. I need this $; however I realize that this is not a sustainable system. It will eventually have to be set right, and I will live with it.
There's too many people who are too comfortable and too busy with day to day life to "take it back". Sure people are complaining about the prices of everything, but just looking at the primaries it's easy to see there are far too few people paying attention to oust the establishment unfortunately. The Tyler cycle is unfortunately going to prove true again.
@@evandoerofthings6538 OK, so let's just leave it up to the "Beyond reform" bureaucracy to wield the "Unchecked power" responsibly. Or "Take it back" with the tools that the founding fathers used and granted by The Constitution. Or, we can "vote" in November. Can you say, trifecta steal - pres., house and senate? How about elders of zion? Know your enemy and know that it is within and know that it is a self ordained group and you will know what has to be done. Or, the biggest "or" of all - you can high think this and state the obvious without any thought to the solution.
He’d do a great job for a while, but the attrition of the house and senate would ruin his advance and reputation. Quickly, they’d undermine him by finding error in his behavior and exposing it as “error of character”.
Last time I did the math, I figured out there were somewhere around 2 million Federal Bureaucrats. The word "bureaucrats" inspires boredom, but it's probably where this struggle will be won or lost. I would also recommend a Constitutional Amendment that requires all laws and regulations outside of the constitution to expire 10 years after they are written. It would provide some erosion to government power.
Vivek Ramaswamy is a Yale Law grad with lawyers for council. He wants to fire 75% of federal government (50% day 1, surgical moves, and final 25% cut by year 4) using mass layoffs. He campaigned on a platform of cutting the size of the federal government, promising in September he would fire more than 75% of the federal workforce and shutter several major agencies. Ramaswamy said that his targets would be the Department of Education, the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the (Internal Revenue Service) IRS, and the Commerce Department. Vivek Ramaswamy points to the Reorganization Act of 1977 (5 U.S.C. 901), which says the president "shall from time to time examine the organization of all agencies and shall determine what changes in such organization are necessary" to carry out government functions. Vivek also cites 5 USC 3302, which gives the U.S. President sole authority to set the regulations governing the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for federal employees. On Day 1, *instantly* he would fire 50% of federal bureaucrats. Here’s how: if your SSN ends in an odd number, you’re fired. That downsizes government by half. Absolutely *nothing* will break as a result. It doesn’t violate civil service rules because mass layoffs are exempt. SHUT IT DOWN. Here’s the solution: randomness. Non-discretionary firings are legally defensible and avoid civil service rules.” He detailed the president's authority to independently reorganize federal departments and agencies without the approval of Congress, due to provisions that remain in effect from the 1977 Reorganization Act, which itself has expired. He noted that the subsequent reorganization law in 1984, which would require congressional approval, has also expired, giving him the authority he needs.
The recent change in what lightbulbs could be sold was a Department of Energy decision, NOT legislation, as at least one newspaper wrongly communicated.
I am sure I am not the only one wondering why Rep. Freitas has no run for the US. House, or Senate. OK, wikipedia says Nick has ran for national office before, I guess I am thinking the national "mood" has changed. I think that Nick would do well now. He would have my vote.
My hand out as a farmer doesn't even cover my crop insurance which is one of the cheapest inputs. Keep the damn hand out and quit messing w the grain markets and I'm happy
I am praying that someone who has Trump’s ear watches this episode. I am SO glad Nick and company not only discussed the problems, but also the solutions. Great episode!
Before the end of the school year, as a final for my AP Seminar class I made a essay and slideshow about the threat of bribery in our government, when I was presenting the slideshow to my class my peers were quite interested for once and surprised about it, the examples of corrupt officials were Duke Cunningham, William Jefferson, and more recently the representative from Ohio that his name I forgot. But the fact that in the mid and early 20th century we found many officials that were corrupt and were charged, and we only found a handful recently.
Many people are coming to believe there is only one box of the 4 left.. I wish that weren't so, but the more I see avg people stepped on, with NO backlash out of fear and disillusionment, the more I give up on affecting the system..
I feel like it may be possible to do away with Social Security in another 20 or 30 years. Millennials have been hearing since we were pre-teens that Social Security wouldn’t be around when we retire and if there are many like me, we haven’t counted on it being there. I’d be tickled pink to keep paying into it if we were given a sunset date of 2055 or so. That gives everyone a chance to plan accordingly and then we can get it off the books for good.
I must say you guys hit it on the head . this was truly one of the best shows ive seen to break all this corruption down . Awesome job and i love the videos stay safe and keep up the great work 👍
Keep up the good work from a white baby boomer farmer in rural Australia apparently i am responsible for all the worlds ills so we have that at least in coman. I went to school for a year not far from where you are turning 8 while i was there. We visited many of the civil was battle fields and have had an interest in and have travelled in the US since then.
My worry is that no individual or group can possibly achieve enough in 4 or even 8 years and that even bit gained could br rolled back in 6 months or less if the buricrates ever get a Control again even for 1 tearm maby if you could actively close down enough agencies and make sure that they could not be opened again with out new laws being passed to create them you could keep the damage of losing the presidency for a year but that is nit a reasonable assumption there is to much power and money involved some one will sell out to them eventually but this idea is the closest thing to a none vilonet solution to our nation's problems I have seen yet and maby it will by us enough time to find an actual solution to destroying our buetacracy.
I used to be a regulator. It’s absolutely outrageous fir a regulator to say 'you could be in violation'. It has to be made very clear 'this this and this are the problem, that that and that are what you need in order to rectify it. Any regulator who uses vague terminology should be fired. I have at times said, I'm not sure about this, let me check and get back to you. Because we aren't encyclopedias and don't always know. But you have to do it in a timely matter. I never took more than a week to let someone know where things stand. The problem wasn't the chevron rule, it's how most agencies are run and what regulators are allowed to get away with. Regulators need to be held accountable for their actions.
Great show Nick! You've hit the nail on the head. There is no Article I power for the Legislature to delegate its legislative authority to another branch of government. Correct we are a bureaucratic oligarchy.
Nick also know that in order to gain an advantage when complying, you need to hire a retired bureaucrat who knows the intricacies and has the departmental contacts to achieve compliance.
Speaking of Federal Employees to reduce the number employed, the first action would be to remove specific agencies, i.e., DOE, FCC, IRS, etc. As a Federal Employee of the VHA, I must ensure my fellow Veterans receive the proper health care services. Before we fire, reassign, or reallocate Federal Employees, a thorough review of many of the currently active agencies is necessary.
@@JulyIsMagaMonthyes and no. If we’re ever going to have a sustainable nation in the future military veterans should be treated 100% by citizens as far as anything that could be service related. Some of these men need ptsd help etc, it should be paid for by the citizens these people volunteered to potentially fight and die for.
I'd be one of the 1st people to apply to go live/work in Fairbanks, Alaska! (Not just because I lived in Alaska for 36 years, but because it is too darn hot in Louisiana!)
Law, Department Regulations (interpretation) , Department Internal Administrative Policy & Procedures and Court Cases...and ordinary citizens are required to be knowledgeable and compliant. For example, the IRS Code (law) has all that I just listed. The law may remain unchanged, but all the other levels can be revisted repeatedly...each with their own effect dates.
I’ve watched you for a few months now. You make a lot of sense and you know quite a bit on how the government works and what the problems are and where these problems exist. My question is, when are you going to run for president? You’d have my vote.
Here's an unpopular opinion: Lincoln was the single most damaging president to the constitution. By prosecuting the civil war, he established a threat, not a lawful precedent, that made the union inherently coercive, and every state de facto subject to the dictates of federal authority. Had secession been allowed to stand, there would have been two Americas each fully aware of what federal overreach could mean, and so inherently regulated by their own voluntary allegiance (and no, the south wouldn't still have slavery; it might have lasted a bit longer than it did, but would have been supplanted by paid labor for a host economic and practical reasons, as well as moral pressure from trade partners if not internally). To say nothing of the Lincoln administration's behavior during the war; he was a true tyrant.
I've said something similar for years. Lincoln set the precedent of military subjugation if States stand up for their sovereignty as defined by the Constitution, which completely undermined the design of federalism. The 16th and 17th Amendments just put the nails in the coffin.
@@dustythurman5426 I'm mixed on the 17th. I think it would have been more effective to have popular elections for senators but also give discretion to governors, with the consent of their state legislatures, to remove their Senators from office. The incentives they face while in office are far more important than whatever shenanigans they'd have to pull to get in in the first place.
@@broark88 Let's look at how the system was designed: "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected." -Federalist Paper 45 So, what does this mean? The federal government has been granted "few and defined powers" and can ONLY legislate within that limited scope. The States are sovereign and should be handling issues that affect our daily lives. The federal is intended to represent us internationally and be an arbiter when States have conflicts, NOT be a RULER over the States. This means the people should never need representation in the federal government because they are not supposed to be making laws that apply to the people. They are supposed to be a mediator between the States, so it is the STATES that need representation in the federal government. Does the design support this? President - elected by the electoral college and the State governments decide how those electors are picked. Senate - (before the 17th) selected by the State government. These are their representatives. SCOTUS - nominated by President (elected by the States), confirmed by the Senate (elected by the States) House - the odd man out to give the people SOME say in the federal government as a check on the States. So this is all consistent. What happened to this system of federalism? Well, first Lincoln militarily subjugated States that objected to what they felt was federal overreach. Then the States lost the power of taxation due to the 16th, and instead has to ask the federal government for hand-outs from their tax collection. The States still do tax, but they had to lower the tax burden due to how much the federal now takes. Then the 17th robbed the States of picking their own representatives and put it in the hands of voters who are usually ignorant, apathetic, or motivated by personal gain rather than State needs. The States ended up fully subjugated to the federal government and the people try to kill Presidential candidates because they fear federal power to affect our lives.
@@dustythurman5426 Indeed, that's the point of the Senate, to represent the States as sovereign entities. My point above suggests a way to more effectively do that, given human incentives. For the selection part, the candidates have to explain their cases to the decision makers and to be known or otherwise be favored by them. If this happens in the halls of the state house, a lot of shady, complicated nonsense happens. I was surprised to find that the reason for the 17th wasn't just progressivism but was actually a practical means to distance Senate selections from State politics so general State interests, as embodied in the people at large, would be represented. This at least made Senate candidates appeal to the general public, but that does little for ongoing accountability. So, once a Senator is actually in place, his performance in representing the State as such can be evaluated fully, actively, by the State Legislature and Executive. If there were a clause allowing the Executive of a State to say "recall him" any time for any reason, and with the consent of the Legislature that Senator would be recalled, the incentives facing everyone are ultimately better aligned with the goal of State representation. You seem to know a lot about this, so it'd be nice to continue our discussion if you like. I've been doing a research project over two years to rewrite the entire Constitution based on history, precedent, and basically everything we know now about how it "has authorized the government we have or has been powerless to stop it."
@@broark88 The one area that has caused the most consternation for me in the Constitution is the lack of proscribed processes for consequences. If someone is not doing their job, how do you get them out without just waiting for the next election. I go back and forth on this. If it existed, would the people abuse it and be incredibly fickle? But, we can see the harm it does NOT having it. However, I think your thinking is a little off when it comes to the Senate. Where the people and the State governments disagree, the framers put the State Government's desires first, specifically in the Senate. The house is the people's voice. This is the design and I think they got it right. I think the 17th is one of the primary reasons States have never stood up against federal overreach in my lifetime, until very recently.
I wonder if there's a legal way or loophole to withhold my taxes based on the fact that they're being squandered and misused? That would be awsome and a direct way to defund this abusive government. Thanks for all the work you guys do. One of the few things out there where I don't feel like I'm loosing braincells while I watch. ❤
24:08 Vivek Ramaswamy has already addressed the firing of executive branch bureaucrats. There are no protections for mass firings. The protections you reference are only for individual firings.
Such a great video! Most informative and inspiring I’ve watched in a long while. Gives hope that we understand what the TRUE issue is AND a plan to possibly save the country! So great for July 4th.
As of 2024, there are approximately 185,000 federal regulations in the United States, according to the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The CFR is divided into 50 titles that cover broad areas of federal regulations, and each title contains regulations issued by various federal agencies (GovInfo) (Reginfo).
Every one of them are unconstitutional. Only Congress can pass laws, not the executive branch, and the congress has no authority to "delegate" anything to the Executive branch. Rules and regulations are laws period.
30:20 You've actually got a number of things tied to this- Patent Office, Copyright, Intellectual Property, etc. I would note that as outlined in the constitution, Copyright has failed to serve it's purpose. Copyright terms were initially (as of 1790) 14 years, with the option to extend to another 14. After that, works entered the public domain. Now, however, it is life of the author plus another 70 years, or 95 years for a commercial/work for hire work, as extended by the Sunny Bono Act in 1998. While the supreme court decided to rule (in the 70s/80s) that "limited time" could be ANY LENGTH OF TIME, so long as it technically had an end date, that is utter nonsense. (Fun fact- the extension in the 70's to life of the author + 50 was due to use wanting to join on to the Berne Convention on copyright... something started by the French.) I hope one day we can go back to one of the earlier sets of time limits. As it stands, no one alive will see anything made today enter the Public Domain, and in a twist of irony, there will be many copyrighted works (great example is video games) that will only be preserved due to "piracy" of the original copyrighted work.
1:25:30 - I think what we aren’t taking into account is the fact that they will absolutely say “People will die!” - but then secretly create the situation where people will actually die for them to say, “I told you so.” A lot of these are great ideas, but I would never underestimate an opponent’s ability to sabotage a good plan.
We wrestle not against flesh and blood... but the evil spirits that have been around since eternity past. They are "familiar spirits" this know how to agitate mankind in each generation!
At a minimum I’d like to hear Freitas give a long, informative address at the RNC Convention. It’s one of the few conservative events that media, domestic & international, feel compelled to cover (and perhaps even a few Democrats will watch). It’s an opportunity to plant seeds. Legislators on BOTH sides of the aisle need to hear it, and it needs to become a Republican talking point repeated (in condensed form of course) by Trump & all Republican down-ballot candidates.
I'd like to start off by saying, I agree with a ton of the opinions on your channel and do agree with the idea of voting Nick as president. Background of real quick, I am a 10 Army combat veteran and had worked as a federal civilian employee for the Air Force for 5.5 years. I do agree that the big B is a massive problem. My last position was that if Program Manager of Innovayion for an AF Base. Not just the local B but the higher echelons as well was the bane of my existence. They stopped so many projects that would benefit the warfighter simply because it just hadn't been done before, not that it was illegal to do. I feel Tina has the closest idea that is actually executable that was discussed on the podcast today. Force the war of attrition but not back filling the positions. The problem with changing what they do is that a civilian's PD (performance document) can't be changed during their tenure, and their duties live and die by that PD. If it doesn't say they can do it they can't be made to do it. You can however, I believe, review the PD to ensure that it is at the proper pay scale or GS rank and if it isn't then it can be bumped up 1 or I think bumped down 1 grade. There are some that are written with some open ended duties but a lot are not. Love the channel!
Shut down the agency by DEFUNDING IT. Nobody gets fired. They just stop getting paid and their offices have no electricity.
If we had people in the house that stuck to moral principles, they would have done that as soon as it was weaponized.
@@JSmith-ou3sk So the day it was founded?
That reminds me of a very funny movie where they want to get the guy out and he seems to have this thing for his red stapler as well and I put them in this little office way down in the basement and they also stopped paying him and the consulting firm that came and to help them with a transition also came up with that solution to get rid of the guy
@@samadams6487 Office Space. Classic movie.
...and China making new hydrogen engine for their cars and Taiwan making chip less than 2nm, while we are busy defunding the agency. Great!.
“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” -- John Adams
I read that in Paul Giamatti's voice. 😂
Two wings of the same bird!
We should have listened.. why didn’t we LISTEN?!
@Bronasaxon because compared to they that stood the line do so. While an army of officals who no longer see the raw results of their choices, nor care about them, run the nation without fear of dismissal.
@@Bronasaxon because A person is smart but people are stupid
Excellent show today.
Americans, real Americans, need the optimism.
Lord make us all strong enough to manage the next 4 months.
Happy Independence Day, America!!
I bumped into this 'extortion' racket by my local rural water utility this week. My water was disconnected 10 months ago because I simply couldn't afford the bill. I'm back on my feet as of last week due to Soc Sec Disability for terminal cancer. I immediately called and paid my past due bill and inquired about re-connection. The re-connection fee is $50 PLUS the monthly service amount for every month I did NOT have service, up to 20 months. The minimum monthly bill for service is $44. (water usage is additional). 10 months x $44 = $484 + $50 = $534. Re-connect fees are justified and necessary to cover the cost of sending a worker out to re-connect service. BUT reconnecting someone after 10 months is the exact same amount of work as reconnecting someone after 1 month.
Forcing someone to pay for months of service they did not receive is beyond sleazy.
I'll do without water as I only have a few months to live - no way in hell am I "gifting" them over $500 to connect for a few months of service.
Call your mayors office and tell them, what you just told us. If that doesn’t work, buch them ! Blessed prayers headed your way now ! 🙏🏻❤️
That's so messed up. I'm sorry that you have to go through this BS during an already hard time. I wish you the best.
Shameful bastards!
It's a bs fee, and paying for months you didn't use is also bs. I wish you well, my friend.
Where do you live? Wow, that's nuts.
I couldn't think of a better podcast to listen to on our great nations Independence Day.
My thoughts exactly. I'm not even a podcast listener.
Scotland here!
The world is watching and supporting a free USA!
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It doesnt appear so to me. But thanks. @Ln-cq8zu
@@glovesofkosai5639 your response makes zero sense.
Nick always knows what needs to be said
If you want proof that the administrative state is running the country, just watch any hearing in Congress involving agency representatives. Not only do the agency people fail to answer most of the questions posed to them by the elected Representatives or Senators, they're typically arrogant about it.
Or they don't show at all...
Plausible deniability ... they don't want to know.
"I can't answer that" "I don't know the details" "I can't speak on that" "I can't discuss an open investigation(that they are being questioned about)"
I have to go catch my private jet for my vacation.
Some even smile or laugh as they refuse to answer.
I've seen the Army Corps of Engineers spend the time and energy to close down unmanned parks and access points to lakes and rivers and forests when their agency is shut down for the funding reasons . Would not have cost them anything to leave the access open . Only reason I can fathom is to make the public feel "the pain" of not having them dictate our behavior .
At the same time- during shutdown: people destroyed some parks (ie: Joshua Tree, Yosemite). But maybe it was done by ‘false flag crews.
@@Gotprivacy-noyoudont I didn't see such behavior but I believe you . The parks , roads and ramps I went to were next to having been abandoned . No active mowing or trash pick up prior to the shutdowns . Then chains , gates and bermed roads show up as soon as the money is in jeopardy.
They absolutely do this. During the Obama sequester the National Park Service came to close a State Forest that the Feds didn't own (it belongs to the State of Wisconsin), didn't operate (that would be the Wisconsin DNR), and Wisconsin passed a resolution that they would fund all nature preserves in the state for continuing operations, even got a rare true bipartisan popular support. Didn't matter because the sequester had to be as painfully in your face as possible.
Convention of states please
God bless you sir! We need more patriots like yourself in Media and in Government. Happy Independence Day.
This was my first live stream for your channel. I am disappointed that I have not discovered it sooner.
Your information is well received. Absolutely loved it!!
Nick, thank you for doing this. For this day. Truth will always come out on the rite side of history.
With all due respect. You are a very lucky man to have a woman who has your back and is extremely smart and beautiful. God bless you and your family.
"The more laws, the more crime, and strange things happen."(Tao)
Common law only had two laws: keep your word, do no damage.
"keep your word" is just do no damage.
@@shracc
Slightly different. but yes one does damage by being dishonest or flakey.
If you compare to the modern system, ours allows lying to succeed, and often damage to be done with no consequences. Basically Lawyers wheedling and splitting hairs, rather than a focus on integrity and not harming others.
And if combined with the Taoist principle would cetainly be a viable replacement for 300K pages we are all responsible for knowing, which is absurd.
@@shracc one can keep their word and still do damage.
Endless You Live In Texas The Only Law Is Common Law Which I Think The Legal Definition Of Common Law Is Precedent I.E Previous Court Rulings
@@saintcelestine3521 Well, I'm talking about the original common law in Europe, that worked well for hundreds of years, not the current definition which exiles it into tort laws, whilst all the legalists get bloated on the blood of average people caught up in their web.
Funny how most legislators are lawyers, most Judges are lawyer, and the lawyer you pay is a lawyer, but nobody ever suspects them of collusion or collective conflict of interest...
Great Kabuki theater, but little actual justice seems to result...
And the hundreds of thousands of regulations aren't really helping common man much...
Its almost like a society based on human bickering at a profit, is grossly dysfuntional.
Nick Freitas for President
I don't agree with all his points, but I do with 90% of them!
He'd have my vote!
Absolutely. He’s way too smart and principled for that to ever happen though unfortunately
@@Overwatch03 Unfortunately I agree
He ran and didn't even challenge Spanberger when she found 10,000 votes on a "flash drive". Why didn't he stand up to this fraud.
I agree. He would be a great president.
This Independence Day, please remember it's not "firecracker," that term is very offensive to some people. It's "fire-caucasian." Thank you.
It’s a little-known fact that, after signing the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers collectively dropped their pants, pointing their posteriors toward England
Thus, the motto “E pluribus moon ‘em”
😂😂😂😂😂 good one
Lol
LETS GO BRANDON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You R Silly Guy ! 🤣😆🥳
LMAO 😂
I had no idea the Chevron decision had this much significance. This episode was a real eye opener!
And I quote Benjamin Franklin." You have a republic, if you can keep it". we are and always have been a constitutional republic. Check and balance.
Are we? Apparently we couldn't keep it.
And we most definitely did not “keep it”
Well... suppose to, but seem to fail.
Let everyone hear declaration of independence ❤😊🗽🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
One of the big one's that is so relevant today, is "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance."
Vivek explained how you can wipe out the bureaucrats even with the civil service protections and win in court, mass layoff because the civil service protection requires being specific where a mass layoff is not.
Vivek may have some good ideas/ but beware wolves in sheep’s clothing
One thing that's been proposed is to move the offices of various federal agencies out of DC. Put the USDA in Iowa someplace. HUD should be in Detroit. The Energy Department should move to the oilfields in South Dakota.
I guarantee you that most of the current staff would quit.
We don’t want USDA in Iowa. They created all these agencies to serve a purpose, but that purpose has been served and we need to move on. Defund and disband all and start new
But how are the vampires in DC supposed to survive without their cushy tax payer allowances? 🧛♂️
@@Shadow__133 Since we have the best economy in a thousand years and no unemployment (according to Biden, anyway), they should have no problem finding new jobs
But, they could be busted up even further into the various departments of each agency so they have a harder time conspiring against the very people who sign their paychecks!
You've shown me a path I didn't think existed. I still believe Civil War is the likely result, because taking the Government to task is the harder of the two and Americans love to fight, but at least you've shown a reasonable, practical solution to this mess. I sincerely hope you run for President in 28.
I'm not sure "likely" is the correct term as much as "most likely way to restore the constitution and union."
This man should be Trumps vp and run in 2028 for POTUS! Says an admiring Virginian!
I could see that !
YES PLEASE
Why not just run against Trump? Because he's afraid. Because deep down, he knows what Trump is like. He knows if he did that, Trump would've gone after his wife like he did Cruz, and he would have done nothing. And he didn't want to have to look his wife in the eyes after that.
Waste of his value. He’s far more better suited and far more needed in Virginia. Putting him in an office that’s effectively just a figurehead would undermine everything he works for.
@@totallynottitan126 plus he's afraid because he knows what Trump is like. Go ahead, delete this one too, coward(no, not you).
I would love to see a breakdown of hours to wages regarding all people that "work for our government". Including the president.
It's so easy to look up and it's disgraceful! We even pay for their gas to travel everywhere and with ZOOM we could save a ton of money and their 'carbon footprint'
I've always believed that regardless of what federal civil service regulations say, the president can actually fire the entire Executive Branch if he chooses. Constitutionally, the president is the head of the Executive Branch. Civil service regulations can't supersede that. It would end up in court, of course, but I'd be willing to bet that SCOTUS would agree.
The President can only fire certain senior executives. The lower-level executive branch employees are protected by the Civil Service Reform Act (1978) unfortunately.
@@TomGrubbe They are only because it's never been challenged. No law can override the Constitution, which says that the president is the head of the Executive Branch.
Besides, nobody cares about the low-level employees. Clerks don't make decisions. The senior positions are filled by appointment, so of course they can be replaced the same way. The problem is with the mid-level management, who actually run things.
Or just do mass layoffs
@@jeffreygunn3530just do away with the positions. If someone is actually honest and useful, find another job for them.
Excellent stuff you are one of my new favorites to listen to
Dissolve the Education Dept and transfer them to National Park service to help fix the parks we have ignored for years
I do think we should have some sort of "minimum standard" we want our citizens to be literate, but yes it is WAY too regulated, wipe it clean and re start. Here's the base line, you need to meet it, that's it.
What exactly does the USdept of Ed do? Since education is handled and funded at the state level (mostly thru property tax). A fed dept seems like bloat.
F%$K OFF TH-cam!!!
Thank you for not just identifying the problems, but also offering solutions. ❤
Not only do I agree with this possibility of being our last hope of "peacefully" taking back our country from those destroying it for their own personal gain. I love how you changed the revolution to restoration of what this country should have always been. Definitely sharing this the entire country's citizens need to see this.
Joe is only in charge of the remote in the cartoon room while Obummer is taking his 3rd term.
Both those fools (and the fools on the "other side") are nothing more than puppets, answering to those few behind a certain event occurring in 1913...
*Wake up - y'all's is on the Jones Plantation!!!*
😅 very creative
I love conspiracy theorists. They never require any actual evidence for their batshit claims.
jackadams3878 They also tend to have fun and OP was probably joking
@@jackadams3878 You didn't watch the debate... now did you? If you still think it's a batshit claim then you are wasting your time living.
This video should be shown to everyone so they understand the reality we have brought onto ourselves.
I am 80 years old and I have been drawing SS for 15 years. I need this $; however I realize that this is not a sustainable system.
It will eventually have to be set right, and I will live with it.
Woo hoo! Was looking forward to your take on this. Certainly wasn't expecting it to drop today 🎉
100% right Thank you 😊
Time Magazine, Early 70s. The Fleecing of America!
Chuck Norris round house kicks are the only thing that works on your beard! That’s pretty funny!
It's not people vs. "them" if we just take it back.
There's too many people who are too comfortable and too busy with day to day life to "take it back". Sure people are complaining about the prices of everything, but just looking at the primaries it's easy to see there are far too few people paying attention to oust the establishment unfortunately. The Tyler cycle is unfortunately going to prove true again.
The whole point of this podcast was that the bureaucracy is beyond reform, this kind of unchecked power cannot be wielded responsibly.
@@evandoerofthings6538 OK, so let's just leave it up to the "Beyond reform" bureaucracy to wield the "Unchecked power" responsibly. Or "Take it back" with the tools that the founding fathers used and granted by The Constitution. Or, we can "vote" in November. Can you say, trifecta steal - pres., house and senate? How about elders of zion? Know your enemy and know that it is within and know that it is a self ordained group and you will know what has to be done. Or, the biggest "or" of all - you can high think this and state the obvious without any thought to the solution.
Again if Nick would only run for president all this would be taken care of.
As a Combat Vet, and many like me you'd win
I'm not a republican, but given the current options I'd not only vote for Nick I'd volunteer for his election staff
He’d do a great job for a while, but the attrition of the house and senate would ruin his advance and reputation. Quickly, they’d undermine him by finding error in his behavior and exposing it as “error of character”.
Honestly we need a brand new party that could take over congress and start reforming the government. Just a president wont be able to do it
Why aren't all politicians like nick hold the true American values and very patriotic. We wouldn't be in half the mess today?
Happy 4 ,we always will be a Constitution Republic Godspeed 🙏😊
Last time I did the math, I figured out there were somewhere around 2 million Federal Bureaucrats. The word "bureaucrats" inspires boredom, but it's probably where this struggle will be won or lost. I would also recommend a Constitutional Amendment that requires all laws and regulations outside of the constitution to expire 10 years after they are written. It would provide some erosion to government power.
God bless!
Vivek Ramaswamy is a Yale Law grad with lawyers for council. He wants to fire 75% of federal government (50% day 1, surgical moves, and final 25% cut by year 4) using mass layoffs. He campaigned on a platform of cutting the size of the federal government, promising in September he would fire more than 75% of the federal workforce and shutter several major agencies. Ramaswamy said that his targets would be the Department of Education, the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the (Internal Revenue Service) IRS, and the Commerce Department.
Vivek Ramaswamy points to the Reorganization Act of 1977 (5 U.S.C. 901), which says the president "shall from time to time examine the organization of all agencies and shall determine what changes in such organization are necessary" to carry out government functions.
Vivek also cites 5 USC 3302, which gives the U.S. President sole authority to set the regulations governing the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for federal employees.
On Day 1, *instantly* he would fire 50% of federal bureaucrats.
Here’s how: if your SSN ends in an odd number, you’re fired.
That downsizes government by half. Absolutely *nothing* will break as a result.
It doesn’t violate civil service rules because mass layoffs are exempt.
SHUT IT DOWN.
Here’s the solution: randomness. Non-discretionary firings are legally defensible and avoid civil service rules.”
He detailed the president's authority to independently reorganize federal departments and agencies without the approval of Congress, due to provisions that remain in effect from the 1977 Reorganization Act, which itself has expired. He noted that the subsequent reorganization law in 1984, which would require congressional approval, has also expired, giving him the authority he needs.
Let's get this going asap.
The recent change in what lightbulbs could be sold was a Department of Energy decision, NOT legislation, as at least one newspaper wrongly communicated.
I am sure I am not the only one wondering why Rep. Freitas has no run for the US. House, or Senate. OK, wikipedia says Nick has ran for national office before, I guess I am thinking the national "mood" has changed. I think that Nick would do well now. He would have my vote.
He ran a against Spanberger and "lost". He didn't even challenge it the shady results. When will Republicans learn to fight for what is right.
Excellent work and video. Thanks
I appreciate you having this discussion as a lot of pods just hit on the talking points without identifying the massive impact of this decision.
Fantastic! ❤ Happy Independence Day! 🎉🎆
Mr Freitas. You need to be in Trump's cabinet. A new office called the Chainsaw Dept. (Unlimited staff the first year. Bonuses for top sawyers.)
They should have a badge with "In Javier Milei we trust" on it.
My hand out as a farmer doesn't even cover my crop insurance which is one of the cheapest inputs. Keep the damn hand out and quit messing w the grain markets and I'm happy
I am praying that someone who has Trump’s ear watches this episode. I am SO glad Nick and company not only discussed the problems, but also the solutions. Great episode!
Before the end of the school year, as a final for my AP Seminar class I made a essay and slideshow about the threat of bribery in our government, when I was presenting the slideshow to my class my peers were quite interested for once and surprised about it, the examples of corrupt officials were Duke Cunningham, William Jefferson, and more recently the representative from Ohio that his name I forgot. But the fact that in the mid and early 20th century we found many officials that were corrupt and were charged, and we only found a handful recently.
Many people are coming to believe there is only one box of the 4 left.. I wish that weren't so, but the more I see avg people stepped on, with NO backlash out of fear and disillusionment, the more I give up on affecting the system..
I feel like it may be possible to do away with Social Security in another 20 or 30 years. Millennials have been hearing since we were pre-teens that Social Security wouldn’t be around when we retire and if there are many like me, we haven’t counted on it being there. I’d be tickled pink to keep paying into it if we were given a sunset date of 2055 or so. That gives everyone a chance to plan accordingly and then we can get it off the books for good.
I must say you guys hit it on the head . this was truly one of the best shows ive seen to break all this corruption down . Awesome job and i love the videos stay safe and keep up the great work 👍
Hit that LIKE button Patriots
Keep up the good work from a white baby boomer farmer in rural Australia apparently i am responsible for all the worlds ills so we have that at least in coman. I went to school for a year not far from where you are turning 8 while i was there. We visited many of the civil was battle fields and have had an interest in and have travelled in the US since then.
New job description is a great idea
We'd need to have a good House, Senate, and President (all at the *same* time) to defund these out-of-control agencies.
My worry is that no individual or group can possibly achieve enough in 4 or even 8 years and that even bit gained could br rolled back in 6 months or less if the buricrates ever get a Control again even for 1 tearm maby if you could actively close down enough agencies and make sure that they could not be opened again with out new laws being passed to create them you could keep the damage of losing the presidency for a year but that is nit a reasonable assumption there is to much power and money involved some one will sell out to them eventually but this idea is the closest thing to a none vilonet solution to our nation's problems I have seen yet and maby it will by us enough time to find an actual solution to destroying our buetacracy.
Good luck, they diddle kids for Israel
I used to be a regulator. It’s absolutely outrageous fir a regulator to say 'you could be in violation'. It has to be made very clear 'this this and this are the problem, that that and that are what you need in order to rectify it. Any regulator who uses vague terminology should be fired. I have at times said, I'm not sure about this, let me check and get back to you. Because we aren't encyclopedias and don't always know. But you have to do it in a timely matter. I never took more than a week to let someone know where things stand.
The problem wasn't the chevron rule, it's how most agencies are run and what regulators are allowed to get away with. Regulators need to be held accountable for their actions.
Chevron may not have been the driver, but it likely was the enabler.
@@brasidas2011 good point
Great show Nick! You've hit the nail on the head. There is no Article I power for the Legislature to delegate its legislative authority to another branch of government. Correct we are a bureaucratic oligarchy.
Nick also know that in order to gain an advantage when complying, you need to hire a retired bureaucrat who knows the intricacies and has the departmental contacts to achieve compliance.
Speaking of Federal Employees to reduce the number employed, the first action would be to remove specific agencies, i.e., DOE, FCC, IRS, etc. As a Federal Employee of the VHA, I must ensure my fellow Veterans receive the proper health care services. Before we fire, reassign, or reallocate Federal Employees, a thorough review of many of the currently active agencies is necessary.
Tack on the ATF while you're at it
Problem: who reviews them? We cannot to afford to hire people to do that. Perhaps reassign some military personnel to do the reviews.
@@vicleakenAI? 😂
@@JulyIsMagaMonthyes and no. If we’re ever going to have a sustainable nation in the future military veterans should be treated 100% by citizens as far as anything that could be service related. Some of these men need ptsd help etc, it should be paid for by the citizens these people volunteered to potentially fight and die for.
Nick for president
Absolutely love it. "Self licking ice cream cone"
I'd be one of the 1st people to apply to go live/work in Fairbanks, Alaska! (Not just because I lived in Alaska for 36 years, but because it is too darn hot in Louisiana!)
Law, Department Regulations (interpretation) , Department Internal Administrative Policy & Procedures and Court Cases...and ordinary citizens are required to be knowledgeable and compliant. For example, the IRS Code (law) has all that I just listed. The law may remain unchanged, but all the other levels can be revisted repeatedly...each with their own effect dates.
27:00 very important.
I’ve watched you for a few months now. You make a lot of sense and you know quite a bit on how the government works and what the problems are and where these problems exist. My question is, when are you going to run for president? You’d have my vote.
Great cast; thank you Nick!
Here's an unpopular opinion: Lincoln was the single most damaging president to the constitution. By prosecuting the civil war, he established a threat, not a lawful precedent, that made the union inherently coercive, and every state de facto subject to the dictates of federal authority. Had secession been allowed to stand, there would have been two Americas each fully aware of what federal overreach could mean, and so inherently regulated by their own voluntary allegiance (and no, the south wouldn't still have slavery; it might have lasted a bit longer than it did, but would have been supplanted by paid labor for a host economic and practical reasons, as well as moral pressure from trade partners if not internally). To say nothing of the Lincoln administration's behavior during the war; he was a true tyrant.
I've said something similar for years. Lincoln set the precedent of military subjugation if States stand up for their sovereignty as defined by the Constitution, which completely undermined the design of federalism. The 16th and 17th Amendments just put the nails in the coffin.
@@dustythurman5426 I'm mixed on the 17th. I think it would have been more effective to have popular elections for senators but also give discretion to governors, with the consent of their state legislatures, to remove their Senators from office. The incentives they face while in office are far more important than whatever shenanigans they'd have to pull to get in in the first place.
@@broark88
Let's look at how the system was designed:
"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected."
-Federalist Paper 45
So, what does this mean? The federal government has been granted "few and defined powers" and can ONLY legislate within that limited scope. The States are sovereign and should be handling issues that affect our daily lives. The federal is intended to represent us internationally and be an arbiter when States have conflicts, NOT be a RULER over the States. This means the people should never need representation in the federal government because they are not supposed to be making laws that apply to the people. They are supposed to be a mediator between the States, so it is the STATES that need representation in the federal government.
Does the design support this?
President - elected by the electoral college and the State governments decide how those electors are picked.
Senate - (before the 17th) selected by the State government. These are their representatives.
SCOTUS - nominated by President (elected by the States), confirmed by the Senate (elected by the States)
House - the odd man out to give the people SOME say in the federal government as a check on the States.
So this is all consistent.
What happened to this system of federalism? Well, first Lincoln militarily subjugated States that objected to what they felt was federal overreach. Then the States lost the power of taxation due to the 16th, and instead has to ask the federal government for hand-outs from their tax collection. The States still do tax, but they had to lower the tax burden due to how much the federal now takes. Then the 17th robbed the States of picking their own representatives and put it in the hands of voters who are usually ignorant, apathetic, or motivated by personal gain rather than State needs.
The States ended up fully subjugated to the federal government and the people try to kill Presidential candidates because they fear federal power to affect our lives.
@@dustythurman5426 Indeed, that's the point of the Senate, to represent the States as sovereign entities. My point above suggests a way to more effectively do that, given human incentives.
For the selection part, the candidates have to explain their cases to the decision makers and to be known or otherwise be favored by them. If this happens in the halls of the state house, a lot of shady, complicated nonsense happens. I was surprised to find that the reason for the 17th wasn't just progressivism but was actually a practical means to distance Senate selections from State politics so general State interests, as embodied in the people at large, would be represented. This at least made Senate candidates appeal to the general public, but that does little for ongoing accountability.
So, once a Senator is actually in place, his performance in representing the State as such can be evaluated fully, actively, by the State Legislature and Executive. If there were a clause allowing the Executive of a State to say "recall him" any time for any reason, and with the consent of the Legislature that Senator would be recalled, the incentives facing everyone are ultimately better aligned with the goal of State representation.
You seem to know a lot about this, so it'd be nice to continue our discussion if you like. I've been doing a research project over two years to rewrite the entire Constitution based on history, precedent, and basically everything we know now about how it "has authorized the government we have or has been powerless to stop it."
@@broark88 The one area that has caused the most consternation for me in the Constitution is the lack of proscribed processes for consequences. If someone is not doing their job, how do you get them out without just waiting for the next election. I go back and forth on this. If it existed, would the people abuse it and be incredibly fickle? But, we can see the harm it does NOT having it.
However, I think your thinking is a little off when it comes to the Senate. Where the people and the State governments disagree, the framers put the State Government's desires first, specifically in the Senate. The house is the people's voice. This is the design and I think they got it right. I think the 17th is one of the primary reasons States have never stood up against federal overreach in my lifetime, until very recently.
Great!!! Now I'm all pumped up and nowhere to go. Good podcast!
I wonder if there's a legal way or loophole to withhold my taxes based on the fact that they're being squandered and misused? That would be awsome and a direct way to defund this abusive government.
Thanks for all the work you guys do. One of the few things out there where I don't feel like I'm loosing braincells while I watch. ❤
They have a lot of other mechanisms to fund themselves, like bonds and counterfeiting (inflation).
20:31 I believe he's in charge! In charge of ordering his Ice cream!
The ending ideas are on fire and I love them.
I'm all game for the change in job description. Genius
24:08 Vivek Ramaswamy has already addressed the firing of executive branch bureaucrats. There are no protections for mass firings. The protections you reference are only for individual firings.
That Jeremy's plug is the best ever 😂🤣💀
Awesomeness in motion !!
I wish men like you would step up and run for president. Freitas 2024!
Thanks for the show guys 🍻
Such a great video! Most informative and inspiring I’ve watched in a long while. Gives hope that we understand what the TRUE issue is AND a plan to possibly save the country! So great for July 4th.
Awesome podcast. Thank you Nick.
As of 2024, there are approximately 185,000 federal regulations in the United States, according to the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The CFR is divided into 50 titles that cover broad areas of federal regulations, and each title contains regulations issued by various federal agencies (GovInfo) (Reginfo).
Every one of them are unconstitutional. Only Congress can pass laws, not the executive branch, and the congress has no authority to "delegate" anything to the Executive branch. Rules and regulations are laws period.
And NONE of them apply to us if we stop volunteering
30:20 You've actually got a number of things tied to this- Patent Office, Copyright, Intellectual Property, etc. I would note that as outlined in the constitution, Copyright has failed to serve it's purpose. Copyright terms were initially (as of 1790) 14 years, with the option to extend to another 14. After that, works entered the public domain. Now, however, it is life of the author plus another 70 years, or 95 years for a commercial/work for hire work, as extended by the Sunny Bono Act in 1998. While the supreme court decided to rule (in the 70s/80s) that "limited time" could be ANY LENGTH OF TIME, so long as it technically had an end date, that is utter nonsense. (Fun fact- the extension in the 70's to life of the author + 50 was due to use wanting to join on to the Berne Convention on copyright... something started by the French.)
I hope one day we can go back to one of the earlier sets of time limits. As it stands, no one alive will see anything made today enter the Public Domain, and in a twist of irony, there will be many copyrighted works (great example is video games) that will only be preserved due to "piracy" of the original copyrighted work.
Thank you for this discussion!!!😊
I came back to listen a second time....., excellent information 👌 ❤
1:25:30 - I think what we aren’t taking into account is the fact that they will absolutely say “People will die!” - but then secretly create the situation where people will actually die for them to say, “I told you so.”
A lot of these are great ideas, but I would never underestimate an opponent’s ability to sabotage a good plan.
I appreciate y’all’s insight and advice on this topic !! 🖖🏻🙏🏻👍🏻🇺🇸
Virginia citizen here. Theses personal property taxes are outta control and then Newport News and the sales tax is horrendous.
I’m all fired up about the “pink slips”!!!!
We wrestle not against flesh and blood... but the evil spirits that have been around since eternity past. They are "familiar spirits" this know how to agitate mankind in each generation!
1:19:48 OMG I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT
We need Nick Freitas to run for President.
Congress let's them get away with it!
Love this channel
Fantastic show.
Happy 4th guys! Thanks for the history lesson 🇺🇸🧨🇺🇸🧨
At a minimum I’d like to hear Freitas give a long, informative address at the RNC Convention. It’s one of the few conservative events that media, domestic & international, feel compelled to cover (and perhaps even a few Democrats will watch). It’s an opportunity to plant seeds. Legislators on BOTH sides of the aisle need to hear it, and it needs to become a Republican talking point repeated (in condensed form of course) by Trump & all Republican down-ballot candidates.
I'd like to start off by saying, I agree with a ton of the opinions on your channel and do agree with the idea of voting Nick as president.
Background of real quick, I am a 10 Army combat veteran and had worked as a federal civilian employee for the Air Force for 5.5 years.
I do agree that the big B is a massive problem. My last position was that if Program Manager of Innovayion for an AF Base. Not just the local B but the higher echelons as well was the bane of my existence. They stopped so many projects that would benefit the warfighter simply because it just hadn't been done before, not that it was illegal to do.
I feel Tina has the closest idea that is actually executable that was discussed on the podcast today. Force the war of attrition but not back filling the positions.
The problem with changing what they do is that a civilian's PD (performance document) can't be changed during their tenure, and their duties live and die by that PD. If it doesn't say they can do it they can't be made to do it.
You can however, I believe, review the PD to ensure that it is at the proper pay scale or GS rank and if it isn't then it can be bumped up 1 or I think bumped down 1 grade.
There are some that are written with some open ended duties but a lot are not.
Love the channel!
Bravo!!!