Who Gets to Decide?

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that Donald J. Trump might be the most harassed person in the history of America when it comes to our Just-Us system. Trump's political enemies have used the force of government to undermine his liberty at every turn since August of 2016 when the Obama administration abused the FISA process to spy on the Trump Campaign. It seems to me he could appeal any of his cases to the Supreme Court by demonstrating that his right of Equal Protection under the law has been violated. Knowing Trump's reputation, it's not hard to see him suing New York when this is all finished up. MSNBC Breaking New - The Trump Verdict https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt6OxyS3oi0&list=RDNSPYCSy28-2Jc&index=3 The Inteligence Agencies Can Get Back at You 6 Ways to Sunday - Chuck Shumer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OYyXv2l4-I Alan Dershowitz Interview on Times Radio in The U.K. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s0nMExVg80 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seth-martin0/message

Now Israeli and Hamas officials have warrants issued for their arrest by the ICC. Bernie Sanders comments on the American government's invitation for Benjamin Netanyahu to speak directly to the U.S. Congress. Netanyahu has always claimed that he could "MOVE" American interest in Israel. Well, we're about to see if he's right. I don't think we have ever had a leader from another government speak directly to our Congress. Something about it seems very un-American. CNN Interview of Sen Bernie Sanders on Netanyahu's Invitation to Speak to the U.S. Congress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88RCwqyEB4Q Fear and Loathing in Palestine - Darryl Cooper https://open.spotify.com/episode/7khvJFpRKSOyiXgdkuizBP --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seth-martin0/message

Nobody can force anybody else to take out a loan and borrow money. It is a "means" to an education. A type of investment in oneself to leverage knowledge for higher future earnings. Like any investment, for it to work out, it has to be based in sound economics. But when somebody borrows money to get a degree in "Advanced Communications" or "Women's Studies", it is not likely that the investment will lead to success, unless your President is Joe Biden, who sees an America full of victims. These borrowers made bad decisions and now government is make another bad decision in relieving them of this debt at the expense of the rest of us. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fuKob8vTEk --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seth-martin0/message

Some 24 million people work in government at all level; local, state and federal. What are all of these people doing? How can we afford to pay for them and are the necessary for the existence of a FREE Society? These and other questions will be facing Americans in the coming years and we had better get real serious about answering them or this country will begin to look very different from today. How to Think about the Economy https://mises.org/library/book/how-think-about-economy-primer USA Facts about Employment https://usafacts.org/reports/2021/government-10-k/part-i/item-1-purpose-and-function-of-our-government-general/employees/ The Percentage of Each State Employed by Government https://www.businessinsider.com/percentage-workforce-employed-by-government-every-us-state-2019-1?op=1 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seth-martin0/message

The propaganda about the economy continues but it won't work because the American people are living in the economy and it won't matter how good they make it sound. Neil Cavuto Interviews Jared Bernstein about the Economy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r5FW1babZA --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seth-martin0/message

How long has the "War on Drugs" been going. Too damn long. Maybe Americans are finally coming around to the idea that you just can't pass laws that regulate human behavior. The best you can do is put the right incentives together. It looks like the Federal Government is beginning to give up trying to control marijuana consumption, or at least stop putting people in jail for it. The Drug War Devasted Communities: Is Legalization Helping? https://apnews.com/article/legal-marijuana-social-equity-420-45efa08a04116a747aba2f1c13187944 Justice Department formally moves to Classify Marijuana as a Les Dangerous Drug https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-rescheduling-drug-policy-biden-15b43441670757b0c2bfa36731e47d07 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seth-martin0/message

Question: If Democracy is so great and it's the best and most equitable way to organize society, and voting is of extreme importance to have a functioning Democracy, then would you not want ALL AMERICANS to "believe" in the integrity of the VOTING mechanism? VoterGA Press Release on Fraud in Fulton County Georgia https://voterga.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Press-Release-Georgia-Audit-Riddled-by-Massive-Errors-Fraud.pdf Patrick Bet-David, Chris Cuomo & Candace Owens on PBD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra6IJXpcWEI --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seth-martin0/message

The 2024 Presidential Election is less than 6 months away and the economy sucks! The economy is one of the rare political issues that everybody actually knows something about because we all have to live in it. Oddly enough, this doesn't stop the Biden Administration and his cronies from constantly gas lighting the public about how strong it is. A great many things the government tries to control becomes a complete disaster, but it actually has a great deal of control over inflation. In fact, they are the only entity that has complete control over price inflation by limiting or expanding the money supply. Instead, they constantly gas light us about supply chains and other non-related issues that they can blame on the free market. Here is where the inflation scourge stands six months out from Election Day https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/here-is-where-the-inflation-scourge-stands-six-months-out-from-election-day/ar-AA1nGi7Q --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seth-martin0/message

If you thought the 2008 Housing Crisis was bad, wait until you see the Commercial Real Estate Crisis. The iconic AT&T Building at 909 Chestnut Street in St. Louis, MO just sold for $3.6 million. That's just $2.47 per square foot. It could be a fantastic place to rent an apartment, if you like downtown living. The problem is the city council will need to change the zoning laws to make that possible. It's just another example of how the government breaks you leg and then offers you a crutch. Kevin O'Leary Interview on Kudlow https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6337241669112 AT&T Tower in St. Louis Sell for Less than 2% of Peak Price by CoStar News https://www.costar.com/article/642008108/one-of-st-louis-tallest-office-towers-empty-for-years-sells-for-less-than-2-of-its-peak-price --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seth-martin0/message

One of the most peculiar oddities in society today is how our two major political parties and their constituents see the world from virtually opposite points of view. This strange phenomenon seemed to occur with the presidency of Donald Trump and is getting worse as he approaches victory for a second term. Ex-CNN reporter, Michelle Kozinski, displays a perfect example of this phenomenon as she reflects on a recent dinner with "friends" where she is bewildered about the chasm between her and them in their political view. She is shocked to learn how they have lost faith in the Ivy League schools and are not allowing their children to even apply. She also has difficulty understanding why they don't "believe" in man-made climate change without noticing that she claims it as a belief. This is what I call "UPSIDE DOWN WORLD" and it's ruining our society. Ex-CNN Reporter Has Dinner with Trump Supporters https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/ex-cnn-reporter-frets-over-dinner-she-had-with-closeted-trump-supporters-continues-to-haunt-me/ar-BB1lV249 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seth-martin0/message

The modern-day Democratic Party is such a crazy web of politically-connected organizations and fanaticism it makes you wonder how it manages to survive. Occasionally, we get a glimpse into just how precarious it all is. In today's programs we show how solidly Democratic donors like David Rockefeller Jr., George Soros and, Susan & Nick Pritzker, find themselves and the organizations they fund waring against the Biden administration with the complex situation in Israel. Through The U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, the Tides Foundation is directing hundreds of thousands of dollars through Students for Justice in Palestine, Within Our Time, and Student Justice for Peace. Some organizers are getting $7,800 per week for just 8 hours of organizing work. This asymmetry that exist inside the electorate between these foundations and individual voters is all brought to you by The FED and the banking system. We ALL need to advocate for ENDING THE FED immediately! Pro-Palestinian Protesters are Being Backed by Some of Biden's Biggest Donors - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/05/pro-palestinian-protests-columbia-university-funding-donors-00156135 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seth-martin0/message

Climate Defiance is a well-funded (probably with your tax dollars) group that advocates for climate change policy for government by crashing political events and protesting companies. Their methods violate property rights and their members are often arrested after very public spectacles. Man-made Climate Change is NOT real, and to the extent the climate is changing at all, its cause is not likely something government is capable of combating. This is a racket, a new war the government can wage on your behalf and spend ridiculous sums of tax money and enrich themselves in the process. It's high time we got rid of it and put a stop to all of the nonsense surrounding it. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seth-martin0/message

I can't wait for Hunter Biden to bring suit against FOX News for defamation. Maybe then all the shady shit that Hunter and Joe Biden were up to when he was Vice President will come out in court. That's the angle I would take if I were the lawyers for FOX. This audio from MSNBC would have you believe that Hunter Biden is a victim in all this and he was somehow defamed by the FOX reporting. I would simply hold up pictures in court and ask Hunter Biden if this is him; smoking crack and poising nude with hookers. You could also introduce every email on that laptop and subpoena the recipient to verify its authenticity. Hunter Biden's lawyers must be idiots for letting him do this! MSNBC Morning Joe Panel Discussion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJDP1deu4HA --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seth-martin0/message

Fraud inside the academy has ballooned as the government has crowded out traditional sources of funding publishing efforts by university academics. We have discussed at length about the U.S. government's involvement in propagating its policy rhetoric on Climate Change by funding grants on climate change subject. This causes a self-propagating loop where research drives policy and then policy drives research tailored to getting grant money that comports with said policy. Now there are cracks beginning to show in the collective ediface of knowledge and people are worried. A famous Harvard University president, Caludine Gay, was outed very publicly about plagerism in research that she claimed as her own. These and other instances are shining a brighter light on the subject. The War on Error - Washington Examiner https://manhattan.institute/article/the-war-on-error-a-new-project-seeks-to-root-out-fraud-in-academia --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seth-martin0/message

Should Donald Trump and all other Presidents be given immunity to carry out their job as President of the United States. Well, this was Richard Nixon's argument, "If the President does it, it's not against the law." Of course in a free society this is ridiculous and likely SCOTUS will not deviate from historical norms and agree with Donald Trump. That said, the political persecution of Trump is unprecedented and I do think the court is struggling with the lawfare that is being used against the former President. MSNBC Panel Discussion about SCOTUS Questioning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szWDP5CBtyY --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seth-martin0/message

When I was a kid there was insurance commercial (I think) that would have in its tagline, "Don't mess with Mother Nature". Whatever happened to the humility embeded in this statement. It seems like our government and our institutions is loaded with people who who exibit on hubris, with absolutely no sign of himility. The UAE governement of has been attempting to improve rainfall because it's too hot there. Well now this policy has caused billions of dollars worth of damage. Whose going to pay for it? The people who live in Dubai and other cities in UAE. The government breaks your leg and buys you a crutch. Another great example in today's episode. Video Report of 10" of Rain in 24 Hours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D43PQMW0svY 2021 CBS News Article about Artificially Increasing Rainfall in UAE https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dubai-rain-cloud-seeding-heat-weather/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seth-martin0/message

Even after the Twitter files, the government is still trying to limit free speech to better control the narrative and manipulate Americans. The constant drum beat from government official and media pundits about the level of misinformation and disinformation coming from Facebook, X and Tik Tik is laughable. The overwhelming level of of misinformation and disinformation is coming from government itself. Now lawyers for the government are arguing for limits on FREE SPEECH for national security reasons. If it wasn't so serious a question, I will be letting out a big 'ol belly laugh. But this is serious stuff and I hope that SCOTUS doesn't do its normal side step when national security becomes the discussion. Washington Examiner Article - Biden administration contact with social media companies at issue in Supreme Court case https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine-washington-briefing/2925713/critics-say-white-house-strong-armed-tech-firms-censor-content-justices-skeptical/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seth-martin0/message

Almost everyone in America senses that something is very wrong with our government, markets, the rule of law and half dozen other features of society. What's not known by most is the root cause of all of this chaos, The Federal Reserve System of these United States of America. I know what your thinking, but Seth it has to be more complicated than that? The problems we're experiencing all have a common thread, dishonest fiat money, and since The Fed is the sole producer of this money, it is the root cause. Jeremy Grantham's Warning of Impending Doom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fukk9l-Nkg Tulip Mania of 1630s Dutch Society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seth-martin0/message

"Taxation is theft" is not just something people say to shock their fellow citizens. It's an argument put forth by liberty loving people that is logically rooted in property rights, the foundation of ALL individual rights. Unfortunately, from the very moment of the founding of this once great union, there has been a counter-revolutionary power at work to centralize the federal nature of our government to make it a republic in the way France is a republic. Direct taxation is an afront to the existence of individual liberty, however we have become accustomed to living with it and accepting it as part of the republic's existence. There is NO reasonable argument that involves the concept of liberty that leads to an understanding of why a national (far away) government would need to have a close financial relationship with its citizens other than that of the need to extort them at the expense of their individual liberty, property (economic freedom). Confession Day comes from the concept that we ALL violate our own 5th Amendment protection against self-incrimination by voluntarily giving incriminating evidence about our finances that could lead to our prosecution if we became a target of the Federal Government. Do I have to FILE an Income TAX RETUN??? https://www.findlaw.com/tax/federal-taxes/do-i-have-to-file-a-federal-tax-return.html --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seth-martin0/message

There is almost no better argument against DEI than this conversation itself. Don Lemon is just in capable of following a logical argument for or against something. Like many Americans, he is so locked into his ideology that it actually inhibits ability to think. Elon Musk's comments were about the finding of a Duke University study where he said, "I believe if we pursue DEI policies in medical industry by lowering standards, people will die." Pretty easy to follow this opinion, right? Not for Den Lemon. Listen to this exchange. Don Lemon Interview of Elon Musk (DEI in Medical) ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rov9uviCE4 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seth-martin0/message