Dan Hollaway
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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So now we're issuing people work permits. We're deciding who gets to succeed and who doesn't. Now we're just the government again. You know what I mean?
It's like starship troopers, right?
And I don't, I don't think we should do it with the army.
That's why I say it.
Yeah, but it's already happened, right? Because the producers outsourced. They went to India and China and wherever else for this.
The problem with government is, and there's always this duality, no matter what the system of government happens to be, there's going to be authoritarianism to some degree. Like if you don't think that America is- But there should be. To some degree, right? There has to be. Like people need leadership, right?
So you have to choose between, and this is where it gets super fucked up because some of it is just principled philosophy and then some of it is practical. But principle of philosophy isn't always practical in execution. It's a problem, right? So you either have, like it's more difficult to corrupt a group of people than it is to corrupt one man for sure, right?
It takes more time and effort, but it's also more difficult to defeat a group of people than it is to defeat one man. And we believe in decentralization here, federalism. We believe in the 9th and 10th amendments, which means if it's not specifically written in this constitution, the federal government doesn't even have a right to opine on it.
It's none of your fucking business what I'm doing if it's not written in that document that we all made. Yeah. So, you know, when I go back to it, I'm talking about how to correct it.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is a naturally occurring manure. I think we are close. Yeah, that's what Jefferson said. So, yeah, I mean, that's probably part of it, to be honest. And when I think of it, like, in terms of recourse, because that's what... I want to be really clear about this.
People get... This is one of the most misunderstood things in all of American history is... The founders of this country, the Continental Congress, they weren't writing to England about becoming a free nation. They were writing for redress. Taxation without representation. That's where the phrase came from. They were saying, hey, we're citizens of the British crown.
We expect to be treated as such. And we're not. So fuck you. We're going to leave. That's what really happened. They didn't say no kings. Yeah, that wasn't part of it. They didn't like the founders when when John Adams. So the Boston massacre happens, right? These troops spurred on by the Sons of Liberty trying to rabble rouse because they hated the British. They shot some people. Somebody died.
The whole group went to trial. John Adams, our second president, defended them in court and got them exonerated in court in American court. and he referred to himself as a British citizen in the documents that he wrote back to them, because that's what he was and that's how he saw himself. And then the crown decided to bring all tribunals back to London, right?
Even though they had adjudicated it fairly, they still brought him back, and that was the final straw for him. It was like, well, fuck you. Now we're Americans.
Yeah. Yeah, but no, they so they were exonerated in the American courts. John Adams proved that the United States could function on its own. I think that was a threat to them, which is why they tried to bring it back. But this whole process, like if you read about if you if you read the preamble to the Constitution,
It's like when a, when a government, like the government has a job and when it becomes, I can't remember the exact phrase, but when it stops functioning in that way, then it's not just the right, but the duty of people to throw that government off.
Yeah. So it's like when I, when I think of it like that, People think in America that we're just against kings. And as a soldier, I would feel a lot better fighting for a king that fought alongside me like King Abdullah and Jordan than I would any of these fucking gay lords in Congress.
what i mean dude i mean that's another rule like fucking bro if you fucking vote for a war you you better go the fuck over there well you know uh so jared's got a theory on that he says that uh if you're in congress uh either house or the president and you vote for sign a war or deploy people you have to send two of your family members yeah i think that's fair we have completely different geopolitical situation yeah
Yeah. Be no worse. Yeah. You shouldn't be deploying people. Well, I think we can both agree on this. Yeah. Fuck tyrants. Yeah. I mean, I don't like tyrants are the problem. It's not the system of government specifically. Obviously, capitalism works better than any other system of government.
Yeah, I mean, we've got a course correct somehow. And I think, you know, we also have to end some of these delusions that we have. One that we're a democracy, we're not, right? There's only been one direct democracy in the history of the world, and it was in Greece and Athens, and they shut it off after two years because it was fucking nuts. Well, yeah, bro.
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