Who Gets to Decide?

Should childcare be FREE in America? Should anything be free in America? How would we balance our liberty and freedom with the force it would take to make some things free? If you ask these questions to your fellow Americans, you're likely to get a very long blank stare.CBS Sunday Morning Segment on Childcare in Americahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AhA107Irag

Those Americans on SNAP benefits are getting a little ittitated that taxpayers have lost thier enthusiam for carrying the burden of supplying food to their families. It's amazing that so few Americans are just learning about this practice and many of them are shocked about the numbers. It really shows just how opaque these programs are. Clips of Americans on SNAP Making Their Case 1. https://x.com/not_rekt_11/status/1981738299514368327 2. https://x.com/iAnonPatriot/status/1982202087325749277 3. ttps://x.com/1antondaniels/status/1982069248433520940 4. https://x.com/azariel91/status/1982108633950523707?s=43 5. https://x.com/505Cali2/status/1982048688718696560 6. https://x.com/realann_29/status/1982067663632249301?s=43 7.https://x.com/FarmGirlCarrie/status/1982266012356792724

It's generally agreed that the American form of government led to the largest explosion of prosperity in the history of the world. Lately, however, it seems to be leading to a decline in prosperity. What's going on? Why is this happening, and what changed? 1966 Dan Smoot on Democracy vs Republic https://x.com/jessez/status/1979875286595633338 Is Centralization Inevitable - Tom Woods Show https://tomwoods.com/is-centralization-inevitable/

Is Edward Snowden a Patriot or a Traitor? The answer to this question depends a lot on who you ask. However, everyone's answer seems to fall into one bucket or the other. There's not much middle ground. This interview with Joe Rogan is a good way to start to weigh-in on this question if you're still standing in this middle ground. 2019 Joe Rogan Interview of Edward Snowden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efs3QRr8LWw Ron Wyden Questioning James Clapper about Mass Surveilance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsmo0hUWJ08

I've often said that we need one giant perp-walk to stop the out-of-control corruption in Washington D.C. It looks like Tulsi Gabbard and others in the Trump Administration committed to bringing justice. We'll see what happens. Newsmax Broadcast Posted by President Trump https://x.com/Juliesnark1731/status/1980664613026066813 Episode 595 of Who Gets to Decide https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/seth-martin0/episodes/Eps-595---More-Criminal-Referrals-for-D-C--Crooks-e371e2q/a-ac41j6p

Tom Woods Show Eps 2697 - Kevin Dolan https://tomwoods.com/ep-2697-the-informal-civil-war-in-america-what-will-life-be-like-from-now-on/ Fiat Money and the Loss of Productivity Explanation https://x.com/KeriA1776again/status/1978603395490451706

I hate to say it, but I always knew that the Affordable Care Act was never going to FIX the healthcare system in America. It was crony-capitalism right out of the chute and the American middle class got left holding the bag! Liberty, property and free markets are the cornerstone of the American experiment. Abandoning these principles doesn't lead to more prosperity, it leads to less. I never really understood the concept of trying to evade reality. Reality exists and attempting to evade it just leads to great problems down the road. We all know this but when it comes to government, we somehow imagine that evading reality collectively will make a difference. Well, it simply does not. Essay "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat https://mises.org/library/book/law The Affordable Care Act Notes 🧩 Opening Framing • The ACA began with a promise: coverage, affordability, and reform — but 15 years later, those promises remain largely unfulfilled. • Politicians now ask for more subsidies, insurance companies want more money, and the public faces higher premiums and thinner coverage. 🔥 Broken Promises & Structural Failures • “If you like your plan, you can keep it” — Millions lost coverage or saw their plans gutted. This wasn’t a glitch; it was a structural failure. • Premiums will drop by $2,500 per family — Instead, premiums soared for the unsubsidized. Middle-class families absorbed the cost. • Universal coverage — Still over 25 million uninsured, and 90 million functionally uninsured due to sky-high deductibles. • Preexisting condition protections — Only applied to ~5–10% of the population. Most already had coverage through Medicare, Medicaid, or employer plans. • Essential health benefits — Translated to loss of affordable, lean coverage. No more skinny plans. No more choice. 💸 Middle-Class Squeeze • Subsidies didn’t make coverage affordable — they masked rising costs and shifted the burden to the middle class. • No warning, no cushion — just a trap door for middle-income Americans. 🏥 Medicaid & Employer Fallout • Medicaid expansion was optional — many states opted out, leaving millions without coverage or subsidies. • Employer mandate backfired — companies cut hours, froze hiring, and pushed full-time workers into part-time status. 💻 Tech Failures & Deficit Myths • Healthcare.gov was promised to be seamless — it crashed on launch, cost billions, and enriched insiders. • Deficit reduction never materialized — subsidy costs exploded, and creative accounting masked the reality. 🧠 Systemic Critique • ACA papered over a broken system without fixing the root causes: bad incentives, entrenched bureaucracy, and insurance complexity. • Promises were sold, but never delivered — the middle class lost, while bureaucracy and financial interests won.

Listening to Kash Patel just deflect and obfuscate questions in order to obscure the TRUTH is infuriating. When he and Devin Nunez took on the deep state for the illegal activity perpetrated on Trump during his first administration, he appeared to be a real warrior for truth. However, now that the truth is inconvenient for both side of the aisle, he has turned into the very person that he was fighting against during the first Trump Administration. Thomas Massie Questioning Kash Patel During House Judiciary Hearing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe4fWW0P5ko Donald Trump Talking about Epstein in 2015 Presidential Race https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfvxcAjIpMs You can't find much of anything on YouTube where Donald Trump is talking about Epstein that is more than 3 months old. Very strange!

I think we are at a key inflection point in America. This is a point where we've reached a sufficient mass of people who just don't believe in the propaganda any longer. People like Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Dave Smith, Tom Woods, Scott Horton and Darryl Cooper have helped to open the eyes of a critical mass of the population. I think when we look back, we will be able to see that Charlie Kirk's assassination marked the beginning of this watershed moment. Candace Owens Eps 247 - "I'm Happy and Not Suicidal" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1YtLS1n8Vs The Internet's Own Boy - The Story of Aaron Swartz https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/70DFBshd4WnYRtZztTJDOM/episode/149wTLAjXSsMOJCfJZW92S/wizard

Part of the Problem on Jimmy Kimmel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l9fnuKeQGo Mark Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan Experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nONHwzt7fCk White House Press Briefing with Jen Psaki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pT0OQaMiec

1. Why was Tyler Robinson running across the roof at UVU without a rifle? 2. How did the rifle get to the bushes where it was found? 3. Is there a video of Tyler Robinson getting on the roof with a rifle? 4. If he broke it down and assembled it on the roof, how was it accurate at 143 yards. 5. If he broke it down and put it in his backpack before leaving the roof, how long would that take and would it still match the timeline between the shooting and him jumping off the roof? A New Close-Up View of Charlie Execution - Bullet Trajectory from Charlie's right (slightly behind) and up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbaQadkqkzI Megyn Kelly Interview of Charlie Kirk Following TPUSA Conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2qn0mvSCig The "Clean Break" Strategy - (7) Regime Changes Wars in the Middle East https://www.dougfeith.com/docs/Clean_Break.pdf Who Gets to Decide Episode 587 https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seth-martin0/episodes/Eps-587---Ignoring-Jeffery-Epstein-Might-Be-a-Watershed-Moment-e35t53i Tucker Carlson Speech at TPUSA in July https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aLXZj-oBLE Dave Smith and Josh Hammer Debate at TPUSA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsUU-FyVDwk

Under Biden-Harris Illegal Immigration exploded. Billions of dollars were spent housing, feeding and schooling these people but to what end? Perhaps we'll never know, but what we do know is the clean-up is a complete debacle for a free society. What did the politicians think was going to happen as a result of letting 10 million new immigrants into the country with no means to care for themselves or their families? Fox News Report on Ice Riots - Immigration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4qUIPXrrXA

Andrew Tate is often characterized as a misogynist and bigot, and I really don't listen to him much at all. He seems pretty smart to me and I think he has a very thoughtful take on the implication of the Charlie Kirk assassination and the state of America more broadly. Megyn Kelly too, is a thoughtful and honest person providing commentary on the right who explores the origin of when America started to go wrong. I personally things went wrong a lot sooner than she thinks but her commentary is very thought-provoking. Piers Morgan Interview of Andrew Tate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_NPcyN45P8 Megyn Kelly Commentary on When Things Started Going Wrong https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1966945803471101990

Just a tragic day for the Kirk family, Republicans, freedom-loving Americans and Turning Point USA followers as Charlie Kirk was violently executed in front of thousands of freedom-loving fans today at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University. As he sat down and began to engage the crowd in his signature "Prove Me Wrong" event where he fields topics from you people and answers questions about his views on a wide range of topics. Kirk has been a huge supporter of the American Founding, our rights as laid out in The Constitution and The Declaration of Independence. He defended these ideas by asking his challengers questions and answering theirs, a uniquely American activity in our political history. A gunman from one of the nearby rooftops ended the discussion today with a fatal shot Kirks neck. It was a horrific scene and real sad commentary on the state of our political outlook as a nation. CBS Breaking News Report from Ed O'Keeffe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehGE-IFRxwY The Takeout with Major Garrett https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOnRQlvFoVE

Bernie Sanders is one of the most popular politicians in America today. Why would this be? In short, Senator Sanders is very good at understanding and paying attention to the problems of the masses. In some ways, he is ahead of the game. Many politicians don't even understand the problems facing Americans. They are simply looking for that winning issue, likely with NO intention of actually putting forth a workable solution. Bernie's problem, however, his solutions are all wrong. It reminds of that scene in Hunt for Red October when Jack Ryan is explaining to Captain Ramius about the books he had written on the famous Captain. Ramius admonished Ryan and told him his conclusions were all wrong. Unfortunately there is nobody to set Senator Sanders on the righteous path. He is forever going around talking about real problems but offering no workable solutions. Bernie Sanders on Joe Rogan ⁠https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Jo9ncrz2liWiKj8inZwD2?si=wmR7IhrnSBafil2xFjBp-g⁠ Milton Friedman on Phil Donahue ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ0-cDKMS5M⁠ Seth Martin - Who Gets to Decide - Link Between Money and Standard of Living - Charts ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHgUIr5SymM

These Congressional hearings are such a circus. They call them oversight but the American public learns little to nothing in them. This is by design. The purpose is not to get to truth but smear the administration in power (or provide cover) depending on which side of the aisle you're on. The members have been completely captured by the medical establishment such that you are never really going to hear from them about what's going on. The entire thing is so political, you can't really make sense of it. As a result, you mostly get a circus! RFK Jr Testimony before Congressional Hearing - PBS News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgpSNtwaGDY RFK Jr Telling Story about an Internal CDC Study from 2002 https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1964154838830502080

Bernie Sanders is one of the most popular politicians in America today. Why would this be? In short, Senator Sanders is very good at understanding and paying attention to the problems of the masses. In some ways, he is ahead of the game. Many politicians don't even understand the problems facing Americans. They are simply looking for that winning issue, likely with NO intention of actually putting forth a workable solution. Bernie's problem, however, his solutions are all wrong. It reminds of that scene in Hunt for Red October when Jack Ryan is explaining to Captain Ramius about the books he had written on the famous Captain. Ramius admonished Ryan and told him his conclusions were all wrong. Unfortunately there is nobody to set Senator Sanders on the righteous path. He is forever going around talking about real problems but offering no workable solutions. Bernie Sanders on Joe Rogan https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Jo9ncrz2liWiKj8inZwD2?si=wmR7IhrnSBafil2xFjBp-g Milton Friedman on Phil Donahue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ0-cDKMS5M Seth Martin - Who Gets to Decide - Link Between Money and Standard of Living - Charts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHgUIr5SymM

How many times are we going to watch one of these mass shootings go down without discussing arming the public, teachers and other citizens who become victims in some crazed person's personal destruction campaign. Maybe Trump is going to be the guy to introduce a new idea to the public...arm volunteer teachers in school and lose the "Gun Free Zone" reputation. Report on Trump's Promise to Take on Gun Violence in Schools https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm8iaKCxS4U Nikolas Cruz - Parkland Florida School Shooter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHD_lS3WnfM

Clint Russell Interview of Brett Weinstein on Liberty Lockdown ⁠https://open.spotify.com/episode/42Ix7Xs84nafIKeLrvcnOo⁠ President Kennedy Speech on Liberty ⁠https://x.com/WikiLeaksUS/status/1588756579662585856

Most of MAGA world thinks that Trump Presidency is going swimmingly...well, not me. I realize that I'm on the extreme end of the criticism but have very good reasons and I discuss them in today's show. Please share and let's hold POTUS and his administration to account. Clint Russell Interview of Brett Weinstein on Liberty Lockdown https://open.spotify.com/episode/42Ix7Xs84nafIKeLrvcnOo President Kennedy Speech on Liberty https://x.com/WikiLeaksUS/status/1588756579662585856