Jay Weber Show transcript 4-10-23 7:42am
Long. Long... long time listeners to the show will now that one of the refrains that i repeat at least once a year is: America isn’t going to fall to a foreign invasion or an invading army. The only way this republic crumbles is if one side or the other- then ultimately both- decided that they are no longer playing by the rules of the republic.
It's really that simple-and that scary: 250 years ago, Ben Franklin said it: the founders had given the American people ‘a republic’, if they could keep it.
This is ‘self-governance’.
This is a country founded on all of us- we, the people- agreeing to play by the same set of rules. Honor the same laws. Honor the original constitution and bill of rights and all come together to amend them and add to them, when deemed necessary.
America is the greatest country the world has ever seen-hands down-
But ultimately, it’s not all that much different than a game that children play in the back yard. The group invents the rules, and every kid must agree to them: you are ‘safe’ if you can get to the wash lines...but out if you get tagged first...
If there are disputes because there were something happened that they never thought of...well.... okay...we need to come up with a new rule for that. Okay. No going near the concrete wall...cuz mom yelled at us...
And then the kids could play that game for hours, or days, or all summer- so long as everyone agrees to play by the rules.
But-if someone, or some group of kids refuses to, it all falls apart. Right?
That is-at its essence-our republic. Why is Milwaukee seeing terrible problems with reckless driving? Because all sorts of people have decided that they aren’t going to obey the rules of the road.
Why is crime, in general, so bad in our big cities right now?
Because the far-left mayors and city councils running them have decided not to honor the laws and the justice system that past generations have put in place.
Correct?
And on a national scale? Broad overview?
I’ve been warning for decades-as democrats and the left wing have attacked the founders our founding principles, as well as our social institutions like church, marriage, and our educational and judicial systems....
I’ve warned: the republic crumbles when huge numbers of Americans have decided to only follow and honor the laws or rules that they want to-
Or-when one side of the political aisle has decided they are just ‘out’. Just don’t need to follow any of the established rules that they don’t like, anymore.
And frighteningly- we have been creeping closer and closer to that moment- thanks to the Obama and Biden era democrats.
we know that the Obama and Biden regimes have been caught quietly ignoring court rulings or delaying implementation of a judge’s orders...dragging their feet on things...
But to hear several-
Several- of today’s leading democrats suggest that the Biden admin and the FDA should simply ignore the court decision that temporarily bans the abortion pill-
Is reckless. It suggests we are growing nearer to this dangerous inflection point in which the Marxist crybullies who have now taken control of the democrat party- will simply start to ignore the rules of ‘society’ and ‘constitution’ and the republic will crumble.
I know it was a fun Easter weekend-but I hope you saw this. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and several other elected Dem officials and left-wing talking heads are urging the Biden FDA to simply ignore a federal judge’s ruling.
AOC was on CNN-and even made it clear-what it was-she was calling for.
She went on to make it clear- yes- I know what I’m saying: we should only follow the rulings we agree with.
Do you understand why I have labeled these ‘new democrats’ dangerously dumb?
AOC is clearly an idiot. And she is calling for-precisely the think- that i have been outlining for decades as the move that destroys the republic.
She literally says: Biden’s regime and their side of the aisle just shouldn’t (or won’t) enforce or follow any law that they don’t like.
Let’s also realize that this is AOC and Wyden-and others-suggesting dropping a nuclear bomb on a city to take care of its rat problem.
They are calling for ‘legal chaos’, rather than honor the process and wait a few weeks or months until this judge’s ruling is shot down.
And i am virtually certain it will be shot down by an appeals court-unless the FDA really does need to correct some procedural problem in the drug’s approval process.
The point is-either way-it will be worked out via the process. Sadly, from our perspective, a ban on abortion pills-is not-going to be the result of this ruling. So just accept the temporary disappointment and -be proportional in your response-and be an adult. Have some faith in other judges...
Nope. Not today’s left. It’s right to ‘def-con one’-lets level the republic.
See— (let me step back, again)
What the judge did-is suspend the FDA’s approval of the abortion pill – miff-eh-priss-tone...because he found flaws in their approval process.
His decision might be legit-or it might be a pro-life judge overstepping his bounds in a shockingly unfair decision-
But either way- the remedy for that is-appeal. That’s the great thing about our justice system: it has built-in fail-safes for judges that might go a little wacky or make a bad call-
a panel of three appeals court judges can review and reverse it....and there are other steps from there...but the system of review-itself- means that truly outrageous and indefensible rulings by a single judge will not stand.
And so-anyone who is outraged by the ruling and is certain this is an activist judge going too far-well- then an appeals court or the supreme court will ‘set him straight’. Just wait for the process to play out.
The answer-in a free republic-cannot be- just ignore the law and create chaos.
Their hatred for America and its institutions has been metastasizing...and if we ever reach a tipping point in which- most. Most- of their members decide not to live by the long-standing rules of this republic-
It's over.
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