What effect will it have and does it happen before the midterms and is it a good effect?

Yeah, look, I can't predict nor will I try.

What I can say is that I think our founders would say that commerce is the right way to handle these things.

It's not the cash in the past.

But in terms of what's happening on the fossil fuel front, I come from a heavy equipment background.

In 2020, it was $100 an hour for me to be operating a dozer excavator.

And sadly, that has tremendously increased.

Is there a moment in the future we're creating an OPEC for America, for the Western Hemisphere that keeps us protected from things that happen in the Middle East and others? Is that a possibility someday?

What effect will it have, and does it happen before the midterms, and is it a good effect?

Yeah, look, I can't predict nor will I try.

What I can say is that I think our founders would say that commerce is the right way to handle these things.

It's not the cash in the past.

But in terms of what's happening on the fossil fuel front, I come from a heavy equipment background.

In 2020, it was $100 an hour for me to be operating a dozer excavator.

And sadly, that has tremendously increased.

Is there a moment in the future we're creating an OPEC for America, for the Western Hemisphere, that keeps us protected from things that happen in the Middle East and others? Is that a possibility someday?

How's that going to play out in the fall election?

Well, I hope people will take the time, John and Amanda, to go and study our history as a nation.

If you go back and look, this thing was thought out during the time of the pilgrims in the 1620s.

They tried to bring in a form of socialism.

And what they found was it leads to not only economic stagnation, but also scarcity.

And it was proved in 1621, 1622, 1623 that.

Many people remember that Squanto was helping them place the fish to grow corn.

How did that script get flipped and how important can that be in the 26 midterm elections?

How's that going to play out in the fall election?

Well, I hope people will take the time, John and Amanda, to go and study our history as a nation.

If you go back and look, this thing was thought out during the time of the pilgrims in the 1620s.

And they tried to bring in a form of socialism.

And what they found was it leads to not only economic stagnation, but also scarcity.

And it was proved in 1620.

1622, 1623, many people remember that Squanto was helping them place the fish to grow corn.

How did that script get flipped and how important can that be in the twenty six midterm elections?

While they didn't have the power to impose sanctions or issue travel advisories, Representative Brecheen told me they were there to deliver one simple message.

Why they needed to make sure that United States citizens felt comfortable continuing to travel to Turks and Caicos.

65% of their GDP was tourism related, of which that 80% of that came from the United States.

And to have a 12-year prison sentence hanging over your head because you accidentally left ammo in a bag was madness.

One of the things, I don't know, the media and some members of Congress kind of make it seem like it's a roadblock, but just the constitution duality around the entirety of the situation, which might actually get us to or eventually to some kind of a little bit of a way to get this on the floor and potentially to a vote or not at some point in the future.

Well, look, I will just jump straight in and say that the problem surrounding the Save America Act or reconciliation, the filibuster, the concept that we ought to have more than a simple majority to pass legislation, many people have come to believe, because they listen to pundits on Facebook, on the news or even members of congress and we don't know our history and so we've gulped this down thinking that the filibuster is something that was of original intent by our founders the truth is the filibuster is an accident the truth is the filibuster itself anything beyond a simple majority except for the seven things that are explicitly mentioned in the constitution the filibuster to pass regular legislation.

It's not one of the seven explicit things that are found in the constitution requires two thirds.

Our founders were adamant that a simple majority, whether in the house and the Senate is where we should be.

And he said, well, what's your proof to back that up? Well, it's the, it's the, the Federalist Papers, the Federalist Papers, that were written, Hamilton, John Jay, Madison, Madison, the father of our Constitution, who were there when they were moving off the Articles of Confederation, where we had the tyranny of the few, where they had the two-thirds vote.

The clearest reading of this, Roan, of where our founders said, don't ever subject us to a two-thirds type vote, whether it be in the House or the Senate, is in Federalist 22.

I'm going to pause there, and I want to give you, so where did the filibuster come from? Where did this requirement that for all the years up until 1970, it was requiring two-thirds votes, where did it come from? It was an accident.

Tell us, what is it going to take? A change in leadership? Is it going to take more of people like yourself who are ready to re-embase traditionalism and actually do the things that, you know, so many of the aforementioned throughout the course of this conversation, many of the other hits you've had on the show have had to do with getting our country to the places that it seems like it's just almost ironic in a year where we're doing so many things to highlight What is so great about this republic in its 250th year that one of the biggest things and a massive piece of legislation that would streamline everything and make it pure again, that only Americans, that only American citizens can vote in our elections, that we want to kind of just avoid the whole fact that we could fix it in a heartbeat and just are so reluctant to do so.

That's

okay.

But...

I'm reading this morning, thanks to a great staff, when the 14th Amendment was placed, era of the post-Civil War, the 14th Amendment, the original intent, what the people who wrote the 14th Amendment said, it was never intended for birthright citizenship that the Supreme Court in error just pronounced.

Jacob Howard, who was the Michigan U.S.

Senator who stood on the floor, who was the guy responsible for advocating, he was managing.

Hey, we need to do this.

I want to get your take on

And if there were a law that could be done, this absent a constitutional amendment, I assume if it had the right restrictions, you'd lean in on that, right? Absolutely.

This is madness.

This is never what the 14th Amendment was to be designed to do.

And we have the highest number of illegals that are not native born in this country.

And when you compound that with the illegal element that is, you know, a part of that, We're in a really dangerous place in this nation.

If Democrats have their way, whether it be through census, the way that they utilize that or through their desire to make these people U.S. citizens, we're losing a country ideology that really values free market capitalism, especially when you look at the socialism, communism.

And, you know, there's really no difference.

Did they actually envision a 60 vote threshold of the Senate when we first heard it? Great of this great country.

How frustrating it is it, and do you see a workaround? Do you see something that could happen that might break the logjam?

Absolutely, but it's, it's even bigger [notification sound] than the Save America Act.

I think people, as you said, they're frustrated.

Always at the election times, it's give us the majority, and then the implied result is it will turn America around.

And thankful to the President of the United States through many times executive orders to actually move things, uh, as we've been in a leftward march for the last twenty and thirty years.

Usually, it's the president, the executive orders, et cetera, is able to do things.

Sadly, how hard it is to be able to move the needle by congressional statutory changes.

How extraordinary a moment was last night?