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Welcome to Annette on America. This is Annette Bybee, single mom to three teenage girls, lawyer, college professor, and we’ve got so much good news again this week. It just feels like Ever since this presidential term began, the good news just keeps rolling in. Of course, there are several bumps along the way because you can’t be doing really great things without some pushback from the adversary. And you can take that however you want to when I say adversary. But let’s talk about some of the good stuff before we get to some of those bumps along the way. Trump and Putin agree to a limited ceasefire. Peace in Ukraine was never going to be the one-day deal Donald Trump talked about on the campaign trail, but the Russians appear to take a step in that direction. The White House readout of a nearly three-hour phone call yesterday between Trump and Putin yielded an, quote, energy and infrastructure ceasefire, unquote, as well as the makings of a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea and a full ceasefire and permanent peace. Still, as former CIA station chief Dan Hoffman said on Fox News this morning, we’re closer to the beginning than the end, adding that our policy toward Putin should be to mistrust and verify. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, meanwhile, will speak with Trump today after having stated, for us, the red line is the recognition of the Ukrainian temporarily occupied territories as Russian. All right. So anyway, it looks like we’re headed in the right direction. Trump’s working out a deal over there like he does, but we may be closer to the beginning than the end, but we’re a lot closer than we were under Biden, who, after all, caused this whole thing to start. Let’s see. Some more good news. Leftists target Schumer. What? You say, I thought Schumer was a leftist. Why would they target their own? They like to do that. By the way, yesterday was a tough day for Chuck Schumer. The one time Senate majority leader was engaged in damage control, making the TV rounds and defending himself against calls to step down as minority leader in the wake of what leftists see as a budgetary surrender to Donald Trump. It gives me no pleasure to say this to you because we are friends, said The View’s Sunny Austin. OK, if you have a friend on The View, that already says a whole lot about you and it ain’t good. But I think you caved. I think you and nine other Democrats caved. In response, Schumer said, we’re going to fight this every day, but I want to win and fight smart. According to one senior House Democrat, though, Schumer’s popularity is hovering somewhere between Elon Musk and the Ebola virus. Well, I’ll tell you what. Elon Musk may not be popular with the left, but he is with the right. And you can’t say that about the Ebola virus. We’re not going to probably have time for this, but in case you hadn’t noticed, these whack jobs in neon colored hair and dresses, dudes in dresses, literally, there’s a story, are going around attacking Teslas, which makes no sense. I thought these folks were so concerned about the environment that they wanted everyone to drive electric cars. But now, because Elon’s in there, trying to eliminate fraud and abuse and waste and government, he’s a bad guy, apparently. So it’s just, it makes no sense. But if you’re gonna color your hair blue, probably not using a lot of those little brain cells anyway. Either that or maybe the blue hair, maybe that blue dye, sinks into your head and gets to the brain? I don’t know. I’m just wondering which comes first, the chicken or the egg, the funky colored hair or the stupidity. Not really sure. All right, SpaceX to the rescue. There’s more good news. Again, something that happens under Trump. Biden left them there in space, just like he left us there in Afghanistan. After being stranded on the International Space Station for over nine months, astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Butch Wilmore finally returned to Earth yesterday, safely splashing down in the Gulf of America off the coast of Florida aboard SpaceX’s Dragon capsule. The rescue mission was months in the making after Williams and Wilmore’s originally planned return flight on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft after a week long stay on the Isis was scrapped because NASA decided it was not safe enough to fly the astronauts back home. NASA then turned to, oh yes, you guessed it, Elon Musk owned SpaceX to get the astronauts back. So I wonder if leftists are mad about that. Are they ticked off that Elon helped bring those astronauts home? Are they gonna find those astronauts and beat them up? Why did it take so long? Well, according to Donald Trump and Musk, the Biden administration rebuffed an earlier timeline for political reasons, a claim that both astronauts and NASA officials were unaware of. In any case, the good news is that Williams and Wilmore are now safely back home. What the other really cool thing about this is what one of these astronauts said recently when interviewed. This is not something you hear very often in the public square. One of the NASA astronauts who spent months stuck in space due to a Boeing Starliner capsule that malfunctioned praised Jesus Christ during his final interview before returning to Earth. Astronauts Barry Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who were stranded together in space for 286 days, I wonder if they like each other, like after 286 days you’re either super tight or you can’t stand each other, just wondering which, are set to return to Earth on Tuesday. In an interview with CBS News, and this is obviously from a few days ago, Wilmore and Williams were asked about a life lesson or takeaway from the experience. Well, I can tell you honestly, my feeling on all of this goes back to my faith, Wilmore said. It’s bound in my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He is working out his plan and his purposes for his glory throughout all of humanity, and how that plays into our lives is significant and important. And however that plays out, I am content because I understand that. I understand that he’s at work in all things. Some things are for the good, go to Hebrews chapter 11, and some things look to be, to look to us to be not so good, but it’s all working out for his good, for all those that will believe, he said, and that’s the answer. I think that’s awesome. Like, when’s the last time you heard a comment like that from any kind of celebrity or public figure? Almost never. I would say probably a little bit more under this administration because more conservatives are feeling brave enough to speak out. But still, not often do you hear such praise for Jesus. All right. Let’s see. Judge blocks EPA from getting back $20 billion. A former Biden EPA official likened the effort to push billions of taxpayer dollars out to dubious climate groups before Donald Trump took office to throwing gold bars off the Titanic. Nevertheless, the money will remain with those groups. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkin ruled on Tuesday that the EPA had no legal justification in its efforts to reclaim $20 billion. When new EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin took over, he noted that the EPA will be an exceptional steward of taxpayer dollars dedicated to our core mission of protecting human health and the environment, not a frivolous spender in the name of climate equity. However, that stewardship task has become more difficult thanks to activist judges like Chutkan, and we’re gonna talk more about that probably in the second half hour. Another judge, see, these are the speed bumps I was referring to before. Finally, we get a president in there taking us in the right direction, and leftist judges just can’t have that. Judge orders Pentagon to allow tranny troops. It’s two steps forward and one step back for America’s armed forces as yet another leftist federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from exercising the constitutional powers of the presidency. Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes issued an injunction blocking the administration’s efforts to rid the military of the emotionally unfit morale destroyers known as transgender troops. Reyes, whom we are shocked to report is a Biden appointee and a lesbian DEI hire to boot, called the ban unabashedly demeaning, citing the non sequitur that trannies have been serving openly in the military since 2021. As Trump senior advisor Stephen Miller put it, district court judges have now decided they are in command of the armed forces. Is there no end to this madness? Well, not today, apparently. Okay, next. Yeah, 75% of Department of Education funding… Buies Democrats, of the Department of Education’s annual $280 billion budget, less than 25% goes directly to educating America’s kids. In case you didn’t catch that, let me say it again. Less than 25% of the Department of Education’s annual $280 billion budget goes to directly educating America’s kids. The rest of that taxpayer funding, some 220 billion, goes into the Washington bureaucracy, where it is then shelled out to consultants who in turn shovel some of that money back into Democrat coffers. Sounds a little bit like money laundering, doesn’t it? Money also goes to non-governmental organizations, NGOs, that exist to push a leftist agenda. As Representative Harriet Hageman put it, it is money laundering and money churning at its absolute best. This is really why Democrats have been up in arms over Doge. It’s threatening their deceitfully constructed revenue streams. It’s all about the money, which takes me on a little detour to this next story. Trump to sign order dismantling education department Thursday. So if you’re listening to this show on Thursday, that’s happening today. If you’re listening later, hopefully it already happened. President Donald Trump is expected to sign a long-awaited directive Thursday to officially wind down the Education Department following weeks of moves to steadily winnow the agency’s staff and spending. Trump’s pending executive order directs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take all necessary steps to facilitate her department’s closure and return education authority to the states, according to a summary of the order obtained by politico the pending order will also tell mcmahon to ensure the department continues to deliver its services programs and benefits the trump administration is already making steep workforce cuts at the agency including hundreds of attorneys student aid workers and civil rights office staff So yeah, this thing’s about to go. It’s gonna be very interesting to see what happens with that. Well, so for those of you who have been all up in arms about that, just remember what I just read. Less than 25% actually goes to educating students. The rest is a money laundering operation for Democrats. So bye-bye, Department of Education. Unless, of course, you know, a judge comes along and stops them. You know, one of them will try. All right. Fossil fuels deliver again. Rare earth elements make modern technology possible, making access to them of utmost importance. The problem… The US imports almost all of its rare earth supply, including 75% from China. It’s not a good situation, though there is some good news. Research from the University of Texas at Austin has found that a vast quantity of accessible rare earth elements currently exists within the US. They are found in great quantities within coal ash, which has been accumulating for decades, thanks mainly to coal-fired power plants. Researchers found that within this accumulated coal ash, there exists as much as 11 million tons of rare earth elements, eight times the amount the US currently has in domestic reserves. So what had previously been classified as waste is now worth upwards of $8.4 billion in rare earth elements. Maybe we shouldn’t be shuttering coal-fired power plants. Isn’t that interesting? So coal-fired power plants have been getting demonized for years and years, but now guess what? They’re creating rare earth minerals. I think that’s beautiful. And speaking of energy, and last week, if you missed it, I talked a lot about AI and how I think it’s probably making college obsolete or possibly making college obsolete. Well, AI also tends to need a lot of energy. AI escalation needs more energy. At the Advanced Research Projects Agency, ARPA-E Summit this week, Energy Secretary Chris Wright discussed the necessity of US leadership on artificial intelligence and therefore on power generation. AI takes the highest form and the most expensive form of energy, electricity, and turns it into intelligence, said Wright. The preferred solution is nuclear power. Isn’t that something? Nuclear power. All the lefties have been saying how terrible it is for decades. But now that we need it for AI, guess what? It’s going to become popular. Amazon, Google, and Meta have joined a pledge to triple global nuclear power generation in the next 25 years, while Texas is trying to expand its advanced nuclear deployment office to draw nuclear projects to the state. So yeah, guess what? Amazon, Google, and Meta are going to make nuclear popular again. Tennessee via Oak Ridge has long led nuclear innovation and will likely continue in that role. AI and nuclear power will likely shape the course of the next few decades. Investing in them now is the smart move. So if you can buy some shares in nuclear somehow and AI somehow, I have no idea how that works. This is a good time to go do it. Illegal alien pleads guilty to identity theft, illegal voting. Carlos Abreu, a citizen of the Dominican Republican Republic, the Dominican Republic pleaded guilty this week to aggravated identity theft, lying to get a US passport and illegal voting. He entered the US in 2001 and lived in New Jersey where he married and fathered a child. In 2007, he was accused of sexual assault, kidnapping, and endangering a child. Subsequently, he stole the identity of a US citizen, fled the state, and began living as a full citizen. He voted in Florida elections and was able to purchase firearms. Donald Trump was excoriated for claiming that they’re not sending their best, and a brew is not one of the best. As of Monday, he was being held at Florida’s Broward, Maine jail. So the point of that story is we’re not getting the best. They are not sending their best and brightest. I think it was… I can’t remember if it was Peru, one of the South American countries was emptying out their prisons and sending them here. That is not the best, people. All right, so more good news, although who knows if this is really gonna lead any place, but the JFK files have finally been released. We’re not gonna get the full story for a while, but let’s see what we’ve gotten so far. what the JFK assassination files have revealed so far, including a parent KGB probe into Lee Harvey Oswald. The long-awaited release of tens of thousands of files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy Tuesday night sparked a desperate search for new clues in the shocking 62-year-old crime. But much of the trove turned out to confirm information long known. Gerald Posner, the author of the best-selling 1993 book Case Closed, Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, told the Post in a phone interview on Wednesday he was about 22,000 pages into the newly released files but had yet to see a bombshell piece of evidence. I’m just wondering if his book Case Closed is going to have to be case reopened. He’s going to have to write a new book. I haven’t seen anything yet that is real news, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t something Posner said. The biggest question I have as I go through is why were these classified for so many years? It’s pretty preposterous. The documents do contain some tantalizing tidbits surrounding the tragic events of November 22nd, 1963, with one file exploring a theory that a small click in the CIA being involved, as well as an apparent KGB investigation to determine whether assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was a secret Russian agent. A June 1967 memo details how a former U.S. Army intelligence officer, Gary Underhill, fled Washington, D.C. very agitated the day after Kennedy was shot and claimed to a friend that a small clique within the CIA was behind the assassination. The day after the assassination, Gary Underhill left Washington in a hurry. Late in the evening, he showed up at the home of a friend in New Jersey, reads the memo, quoting from a story in the contemporary left-wing magazine Ramparts. He was very agitated. A small clique within the CIA was responsible for the assassination, he confided, and he was afraid for his life and probably would have to leave the country, the document goes on. Less than six months later, Underhill was found shot to death in his Washington apartment. The coroner ruled it a suicide. Underhill, a Harvard graduate and former US Army captain who worked as a journalist and intelligence officer during World War II, was said to be on a first-name basis with many of the top brass in the Pentagon and on intimate terms with a number of high-ranking CIA officials. The friends whom Underhill visited say he was sober but badly shook. They say he attributed the Kennedy murder to a CIA clique which was carrying on a lucrative racket in gun running, narcotics, and other contraband, the Rampart’s passage reads. It noted that the CIA clique allegedly killed Kennedy because he caught wind of their business and was killed before he could blow the whistle. Well, that’s interesting. Underhill’s suicide was also called into question since he had been found with a gunshot wound behind his left ear. But Asher Brines, his writing partner who found his body, said Underhill was right-handed. So the gunshot behind… Yeah, kind of hard to do with your right hand. I’m trying to do it right now. Maybe behind my right ear… Anti-climactically, the memo created in response to a much criticized 1967 probe of the assassination by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison described Underhill’s connection to that investigation as tenuous and did not address the claims reported by Ramparts at all. In another document released Tuesday, a Teletype US intelligence report dated November 20th, 1991 said a KGB official known only as Nikonov or Slava investigated whether Oswald had been a KGB agent. Nikonov or Nikonov is now confident that Oswald was at no time an agent controlled by the KGB, the document says. Nikonov doubted that anyone could control Oswald, but noted that the KGB watched him closely and constantly while he was in the USSR, where the Marine veteran had lived from 1959 to 1962. The file also noted that Oswald was a poor shot when he tried target firing in the USSR. That’s interesting. Nikonov also noted that Oswald had a stormy relationship with his Soviet wife, Marina, who rode him incessantly. Months prior to the assassination, Oswald had visited the Cuban consulate in Mexico City, where he made contact with the Soviet embassy in pursuit of a travel visa. Another one of the files in the new batch, which was also labeled secret, showed how the CIA tracked an Italian newspaper article that alleged the agency itself was behind the assassination of the 35th president. Some of the documents also shed light on the intelligence community’s machinations in the 1960s, including details about secret CIA bases worldwide. One document described how the CIA was tracking a Cuban national named AMFUANA1, I don’t know what that means, who was sent to Cuba in 1961 before establishing a network of at least 20 people who helped draw up over 50 reports. I don’t think it changes anybody’s mind, Posner said of the trove of 80,000 documents made public. People who don’t believe the official version, they’re just going to say the documents must have been destroyed or they’re somewhere else in the government. The initial investigation led by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren concluded Oswald acted alone when he shot Kennedy with a high-powered rifle from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository overlooking Daly Plaza as the president’s motorcade passed below him. The official conclusion has been subject to controversy with polls consistently showing a clear majority of Americans feel Kennedy was murdered as the result of a conspiracy with theories floated implicating the mafia, the CIA, and disgruntled Cuban exiles, among others. Let’s see, President Johnson went to his death thinking that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro was involved, noted Posner, adding that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is still unconvinced his father was murdered in 1968 by Sirhan Sirhan, who confessed to the killing hours after his arrest. The notion that JFK was killed by a broader conspiracy, according to Posner, was cemented by the killing of Oswald two days after the assassination by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby, who looks like he’s out of central casting from the mafia. Ruby, for his part, maintained he killed Oswald on impulse and out of a twisted desire to avenge Kennedy, as well as spare former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy the trauma of returning to Dallas to testify at Oswald’s trial. Well, that’s a lot of motive there for someone that just did it out of the blue. The conspiracy minded have noted Ruby’s possible ties to mob figures through his clubs, with some suggesting he acted as a hitman to pay off a debt or silence Oswald about his own nefarious connections. I saw a poll in Gallup where 27% or 29% thought it was a lone assassin, said Posner, apparently referring to a 2023 conspiracy. survey by the venerable pollster i was actually surprised it was that high under the 1992 kennedy assassination records collection act congress set a 2017 deadline for releasing the outstanding jfk files when the time came trump had released thousands of files including 19 000 in 2018. However, there were still JFK files under wraps and pressure from national security buffs like former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. By the end of 2022, President Joe Biden had taken a similar approach and released over 13,000 files. Before Tuesday’s release, the National Archives and Records Administration estimated that roughly 98% of the files had been made public, a pledge Trump made to increase government transparency during his second term. So long story short, a few tantalizing tidbits. nothing definite don’t know if there will be anything definite that comes out of these 80 000 pages but the real question i have is if there’s really nothing in there why keep them classified for so long um you know i just don’t understand that anyway i’m out of time for this half but come back because i have so much more including a look back five years after

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Welcome back to Annette on America. Annette Bybee here, your hostess. If you’ve missed any of this episode or any past episodes, go find them at annettetalks.com, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, YouTube, Rumble, iHeartRadio, or you can ask Alexa. It’s fun when I post it and then Alexa asks me if I want to listen and I’m like, no. Last thing I want to do is listen to myself. Also, if you have any comments you want to make, you can email me at Annette at AnnetteTalks.com. And if you would like to join in the conversation online, you can go to my Facebook page, the Annette on America radio show page. And I try to conduct a poll most days or at least ask a question and listen to the answers because I have the smartest listeners out there. So… And this is going to be the next topic. And this will give you an idea. My question for today was, what are your thoughts on Trump calling for judges impeachment and Justice Roberts rebuke of it? And so I had a lot of comments, some that just think that the federal judiciary needs to go away, which would be interesting. Not sure who would be checking out those federal cases for constitutionality. Let’s see, one person said, Trump should stay away from statements like this just as activist judges should stay out of executive branch decisions. I kind of tend to agree with that. let’s uh let’s jump into the article here trump versus roberts the case against judicial supremacy the three branches are supposed to be co-equal but the judiciary has instead become the despotic branch i’ve been teaching american government for a while now at the college level and then several years ago i taught it and To me, the thought that I have every semester as I teach this is that it’s more theory than fact these days when you talk about the three branches and checks and balances. Well, some of that’s, Still going on, you have such a huge bureaucracy, such a big administrative state that there’s so much that is not checked at all. And there’s just this underlying power that most of us never see, which actually Trump is going to town on right now, such as the getting rid of the Department of Education. Hopefully tomorrow we’ll see. But let’s just take a look-see here. In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson warned that the judiciary could become a despotic branch. He foresaw this would happen when judges encroached on the legislative and executive spheres by declaring themselves the final and therefore no longer co-equal arbiters of what laws are constitutional and what not. Jefferson’s prophetic warning is precisely what is playing out in the courts today. Judicial supremacists have indeed created a despotic branch. Chief Justice John Roberts would do well to take note. Admittedly, President Donald Trump has been unorthodox in both his policies and his approach to enacting them to say nothing of his communication methods. But he wasn’t elected and sent to Washington DC a second time to ensure the swamp remained intact. His mission was and is to drain it. That’s sometimes an ugly task. With Democrats in the minority and rudderless, activist judges have taken it upon themselves to block him at every turn. In two short months, Trump has lost court cases regarding firing executive workers, canceling executive expenditures like funding gender mutilation of children, reworking executive agencies such as USAID and deciding how executive agencies will enforce laws such as birthright citizenship or deportation of terrorists, sympathizers and criminal terrorists. Just yesterday, yet another power hungry district judge blocked the commander in chief’s order, determining criteria for serving in the armed forces, saying he must allow transgender people to enlist and remain in the military. By the way, when appointed in 2023, that judge became the first LGBT person to serve as a district court judge in D.C.. Do you notice a pattern here? Judges, mostly at the district level, are telling the president how to run his own branch of government. Political analyst Gary Bauer also noted something mind-blowing. Barack Obama only faced 12 nationwide injunctions during his eight years in office. Joe Biden faced 14 in four years. But the first Trump term saw 64 judicial injunctions issued against his agenda. and the left’s lawfare against Trump’s second term is off to a blistering start. More than 120 lawsuits have been filed against the administration and at least 15 nationwide injunctions were issued against Trump’s orders last month alone. So already more in one month than Obama and Biden faced for their entire presidencies. That tells you that Trump is going after the right people, right? You get the most flack when you are over the target. Trump is obviously over the target, over several targets at once. This man can walk and chew gum at the same time. So he’s obviously over several targets, which is why he’s getting so much flack. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called it an emerging dictatorship of district judges. Yet Democrats and the left media blame Trump for igniting a constitutional crisis. I think they have the wrong suspect. You see, it says right there in Article 2, the executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of America. District judges do not have executive power. They have judicial power. It’s different. On Monday, the District Court Judge James Boasberg was found micromanaging immigration policy, blocking Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 for deportations, and even going so far as to ludicrously demand that airplanes loaded with illegal criminal terrorists turn around and fly back to the United States. They didn’t because they were no longer in US airspace, much less under his jurisdiction, so geez. Dudes trying to get people not even in United States territory anymore. Trump responded with his typical flair, posting a truth social missive that included this line. This judge, like many of the crooked judges I am forced to appear before, should be impeached. Trump was impeached twice, of course, so he likely meant this more seriously than literally. Boasberg did grossly overstep his authority, though, and Congressman Brandon Gill filed articles of impeachment. I’ll grant that this is largely political posturing that won’t and probably shouldn’t go anywhere, like the constitutional crisis. However, don’t blame Trump for being the first one to politicize the judiciary. Democrats have spent decades doing that. Still, Trump’s comments prompted John Roberts, to issue a rare public statement circling the wagons for his branch of government. For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose. Roberts is correct that not liking a ruling isn’t sufficient for impeachment. However, he is wrong to suggest that this case is merely about disagreement concerning a judicial decision. It concerns the argument that the judge was completely out of line and usurped authority. Maybe Roberts could muster the energy for a statement instructing judges on their proper constitutional role and authority. Then again, Roberts is the guy who engaged in legal contortions to save Obamacare in 2012. I think all of us that lived through that, that saw what that was all about, have never gotten over our dislike for Justice Roberts. Because yeah, that was horrific. Talk about one dude going against the will of the people. Democrats repeatedly insisted that the individual mandate was not a tax, going to great lengths to legislate it as a penalty so as to avoid being accused of raising taxes. When the mandate was challenged in court as an unconstitutional infringement of individual liberty, Roberts decided, i.e. legislated, that it was in fact a tax so that he could justify it under Congress’s power to levy taxes. I’ll strain to avoid hyperbole here, but on numerous occasions since then, Roberts has seemingly been more interested in asserting judicial authority and preserving precedents and norms than in faithfully interpreting the Constitution or the laws. There may also be a personal element here. The Federalist’s Sean Davis notes that Roberts put Boesberg on the FISA court that rubber-stamped illegal spy warrants against Donald Trump, adding, in case you’re wondering why he’s settling his own or setting his own credibility on fire to defend Boesberg from impeachment investigations. Oh boy. In the specific case at hand, Trump is perhaps stretching the law beyond its original intent, but not incontrovertibly so. He undoubtedly prefers hyperbole in making his arguments. Regardless, Roberts should stay in his lane and oversee his own branch rather than continue to allow district judges to run roughshod over the executive branch. So, you know, I mean, if you want to boil it down, what Trump is wanting to do is basically put a check on the Supreme Court by calling for impeachment of judges. It’s just that’s more of a sledgehammer than a check. So it’s big. You don’t need that big of a correction. But this is a problem. This is a big problem right now. So some of this will make it to the Supreme Court, but not all these cases are gonna make it to the Supreme Court. So it’ll be interesting to see what happens. Okay, so over the last week or so, I’ve been thinking about how it was like five years ago this month. when things really hit the fan with COVID. And I remember it very well because my oldest daughter’s birthday is on the 11th. And I remember taking my girls, they had their dentist appointment. I used to take them all to the dentist at the same time and we’re all in there and I’m reading news on my phone talking about COVID shutdown starting to happen. So we go over to the library and the library is closing early. We barely get in there in time because they’re closing early. COVID was closing in on them. So they had to close early. And then we go over to Target because this is the usual thing I used to do. Go to library, go to Target, do our errands. We go over to Target and we discover that they had shut down the cafe because apparently that was considered like a restaurant. So no more buying popcorn or drinks or pretzels, because that’s dangerous. That’s somehow restaurant. And I remember thinking, this is weird. And then like, I can’t remember if it was a day or two earlier, a day or two later, but we had a birthday party for my daughter. And this must have been a few days before because the party seemed normal. And we just talked a little bit about how things were going. And like a week later, it was like no more gatherings at home, no more than 10 people or whatever. And just FYI, I had gatherings all through COVID. because I knew it was bogus and that these were unconstitutional laws or orders that were put into place by governors, mayors, health departments. You know, we have a little something called freedom of assembly. And so telling me that I can’t have people over to my house kind of violates that. not to mention telling us we couldn’t go to church. That kind of violated the First Amendment. Costco could continue going forward. And in Colorado at the time, I’ll never forget, like pot shops were staying open, but they were gonna close down liquor stores. And as soon as that order went into place saying we’re gonna close liquor stores, Lines formed around the block at liquor stores. So apparently, because there are a lot of alcoholics, they had to reopen, they had to change, I think they had limited hours or something, but they had to reopen those liquor stores. So all of a sudden it wasn’t dangerous. to go to the liquor store anymore or go to the pot shop. It was dangerous to go to church or have people over to your house, but it wasn’t dangerous to have the liquor store open if enough people wanted alcohol. Funny how that worked, wasn’t it? So let’s just take a little step back in time here. Five years ago yesterday, President Trump addressed the nation from the Oval Office to calm a country panicked by the emerging global pandemic. No one at the time fully comprehended the catastrophe that was about to unfold. Oh yeah, that also reminds me of the other time. I don’t know what day it was, but I remember sitting on my bed and looking on my phone. I do a lot of that. And reading that the state of California had just closed. And my heart dropped into my stomach. It was like, what country are we now living in? That is when things really, really started to get real to me. I mean, the Target thing was bizarre, the library thing was bizarre, but a whole state shutting down, that’s when you knew stuff was getting real. All right, no one at the time fully comprehended the catastrophe that was about to unfold. It was a catastrophe for families who lost loved ones. It was a catastrophe for our children who lost years of learning. It was a catastrophe for our scientific establishment, which lost all credibility. It was a catastrophe for the American people whose civil rights were trampled, like I just mentioned. It was a catastrophe for our country as the pandemic paved the way for the Biden-Harris regime. It was also a financial catastrophe. The national debt exploded because of emergency spending. All safeguards were suspended to get money out the door as quickly as possible. Hundreds of billions of dollars were lost to fraud with much of it going to foreign scammers. So if they had just not forced all these companies to close down, They never would have had to send that money out and drive us even further into debt. Almost seems like it was planned. Now, Elon Musk’s Doge has confirmed that more than $300 million in small business administration loans were issued to children under 12 years of age during that pandemic. Another $330 million was issued to people older than 115. This is the fraud and corruption that the Trump team is trying to clean up. So that’s over $600 million just went out to people because they asked for it. I remember looking at the Small Business Administration applications or loan applications and it was like next to nothing. You had to do next to nothing to get government to send you cash. So of course all these dishonest, immoral people lined up to get paid. Supremely important case. The James Dobson Family Institute just scored a major victory. They filed a brief that helped convince the Supreme Court to hear a critically important case out of Colorado with major implications for free speech and religious liberty. The case Childs versus Salazar involves a challenge by Kaylee Childs, a Christian counselor, to Colorado’s law banning so-called conversion therapy. In reality, the Colorado law censors and silences Christian counselors and therapists. It prevents them from presenting the biblical and biological truth about human sexuality to confuse children seeking help. In place of that truth, Christian counselors are forced to affirm the lie that a child can be born in the wrong body. The law is an outrageous assault on the First Amendment. I hope and pray there are five justices who also see it that way. I really hope this is this article is written by Gary Bauer and he’s talking about because he’s he works as a senior vice president. So he’s just updating us. I really hope that this does make it all the way to the Supremes. Oh, no, they did. They are taking it good to me. This. It’s obviously, obviously a violation of the First Amendment. And it’s terrible in a lot of ways. If you wanna take your kid to conversion therapy, you should be able to take your kid to conversion therapy. If you don’t believe in conversion therapy, don’t take your kid to conversion therapy. But why do you have any say in what I do with my kid when it comes to getting therapy? It’s not like I’m chopping off body parts like other people. All right. Kudos to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. With the full support of the Trump White House, McMahon put 60 universities on notice that they are under investigation for violating the civil rights of Jewish students. Immediately after the horrific Hamas attack on October 7th, 2023, American university campuses erupted in spasms of anti-Semitism. Jewish students hid in their dorm rooms or locked themselves in libraries to avoid violent pro-Hommas mobs. Other left their schools to avoid being threatened and attacked. The Biden administration turned a blind eye to this outbreak of vile Jew hatred. The Biden Justice Department was too busy prosecuting its political opponents and spying on parents at school board meetings. The Biden Education Department was too busy punishing schools that didn’t allow boys into girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. The few times Biden administration investigated anti-Semitism, it was always done in conjunction with investigations into Islamophobia, as if Muslims were being terrorized on any American campus. They aren’t. Donald Trump, who is constantly smeared by the left as a fascist and a Nazi, stopped all of that. Now the power of these federal agencies is being used to go after real Nazis on our college campuses who are treating Jewish students like it’s 1930s Germany, not 2020s America. Ironically, Democrats and their leftist media allies are accusing the president of tacking the freedom of speech of American college students. That doesn’t pass the straight face test. President Trump is a staunch defender of free speech. It’s the left that used the deep state, I was going to say deep space, that would be interesting, to censor speech. Okay, so, oh, I found two Babylon Bee articles that I wanted to read this time because they’re so funny. I couldn’t pass them by. All right, the seven most shocking revelations from the JFK files. After decades in darkness, the Trump administration brought to light yesterday the JFK files, 80,000 pages of documents pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. After combing through the evidence long into the night, the Bee has uncovered the following seven shocking revelations. Number one. Bert and Ernie really were just roommates. Didn’t see that coming. Number two, NFL refs really do cheat for the Kansas City Chiefs. We knew it. Number three, when the CIA was asked if they arranged JFK’s assassination, they said, nope. Mind blown, well, not literally. Number four, Captain Crunch is actually Commander Crunch as his uniform does not have the four stripes granted to captains. This changes everything. Number five, a woodchuck could chuck 14 ounces of wood provided it could chuck wood. They left no stone unturned. Number six, Fidel Castro fathered a son out of wedlock named Justin whose whereabouts remain unknown to this day. Some mysteries remain. Number seven, JFK is actually still alive and going by the name Joe Biden. It all makes sense now. Bombshell after bombshell. Let us know in the comments what surprised you most. Well, you can’t, I mean, I guess you can go to the B and do that. Next Babylon Bee story. Trump agrees to give back Statue of Liberty in exchange for all of the land in France we liberated in World War II. Sounds like a deal to me. President Trump has graciously agreed to France’s request to return the Statue of Liberty, asking only in return for all of the land in France that America liberated in World War II. It’s a fantastic deal, said Trump. You can have your little statue back and we’ll just take whatever parts of France that we had to save for you. France can keep every square inch of land that you French didn’t surrender to the Nazis. It’s very generous, really a tremendous deal. French politicians have responded to Trump’s offer with outrage, saying that the terms would leave them without any land whatsoever. That is not fair, said French President Emmanuel Macron. We tried really hard to not need America to rescue us. We fought for like a few weeks before totally surrendering. Give us a break. I know, terrible accent. Trump has adamantly stated he will not change the terms of the offer. We could really make France into something nice, said Trump. I never liked that statue much anyway. Lady Liberty, lots of people did, but not me. She wasn’t my type. Very manly looking with the robe and the crown. It’s a very pointy crown and her jaws, whoa. Have you ever seen a jaw that square on a woman? At publishing time, Trump had promised to turn the hellhole known as France into the Riviera of Europe. Yeah, I thought that was cute. 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