This week's decision by the Colorado Supreme Court to bar former President Trump from the presidential ballot has led to expected repercussions: Republicans across the country are threatening revenge barring Biden from red state ballots. Where is voting in this country headed? Also today, US wields veto threat to keep UN from calling for Gaza ceasefire.
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Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today is Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you.
It's good to be back to the program.
I was going to say, welcome back, Dr. Paul.
Oh, I was just loafing on the jaw.
Yeah, exactly.
He's sipping margaritas on the beach.
Well, not quite, but wherever I have been throughout life, I usually want something to read.
You know, waiting in line for something.
That's why when I had a medical office that I could stand, one of my rules to myself was, don't ever make my patients wait, which sometimes is a job.
But anyway, waiting is not much fun.
And we do a lot of wasting of time.
So I tried over the years not to waste time.
And I think that's one of the things that compels me now and for us to keep the program going because it's to be busy, but also hopefully being productive.
So if we were talking about, see, I wouldn't be very good to run a sports show and know all the athletes, which I think that's great when people know about, and I love sport, but I could have spent that much time.
But when it comes to my personal liberty and the liberty of this country, I get a little bit excited about that.
So today we want to talk about, you know, honest elections and how we do this.
And, you know, I guess you observed that in the last few years, they were accusing Trump of all kinds of things, trying an insurrection, taking over the government.
And he has to be punished because he has just bent all the rules.
And he supported insurrection.
And I thought, well, all he wanted was a recount.
But it's an insurrection, and they're going to punish him.
But it is, I think his opposition, both Republican opposition and Democratic opposition, it's just hatred and jealousy.
The Republicans, they probably start off by jealousy, but jealousy turns into hate.
And there is a lot of hate.
And he just, you know, there are some terms you can use.
He just totally ignores them and mocks them for being so hysterical.
And of course, that eggs them on.
But anyway, he has a lot of setbacks.
It drives them nuts.
He says, bring them on.
You're helping me.
And some of the Democrats, it's really funny.
When the Democrat says, why are we doing this?
He's using us.
But they still do.
And of course, this weekend, the Supreme Court of the state of Colorado said, we're going to get him.
We're going to take them and put them out of commission.
And what we're going to do is take them off the ballot.
What we have to do to punish Trump is deny the right of the voters, millions of people who might vote for him.
They don't have a right to vote for this guy.
We don't like him.
He's dangerous.
He wants an insurrection.
So they're going to punish the people who, all they want to do, maybe they're sort of like, they're for the democratic process and they're for voting.
And maybe there are some people who are very frustrated, but they say we don't have much chance to do anything else because elections are sort of messy operation.
So that has happened.
So the Supreme Court, Colorado says, he doesn't deserve it.
He was calling for the total overtake of the United States government.
And, of course, that's a little bit over the top.
But there are people that support it to go to their Supreme Court.
And the court, you know, ruled that, no, he can't run in the state.
It's on its way to the Supreme Court.
Maybe there's some common sense there.
I just cannot believe that the Supreme Court is going to uphold it.
It's so evil.
It's so, and we have a lot of people on TV agreeing with that, or I'm agreeing with them, that this is significant.
The fact that you can, one candidate who's having a little trouble getting a footing in the election, but the other one's encroaching on his right to be president again.
He says, well, we have to stop them.
So we lock them up.
And that's what they would like to do.
You know, they say, didn't Trump talk about locking people up?
I think he had a little hyperbolic involved in what he does.
He gets himself into some trouble.
But anyway, it's messed.
I sort of think that Trump is smarter than all the rest put together when it comes to politics.
And that drives them nuts.
They're literally out of their mind that Trump can take all his penalties and all his problems.
What is it?
90-some charges against him, being indicted, being impeached twice, indicted, and he gets better.
It ought to be pretty, you know, I consider the market the ultimate place for democracy, you know, buying and selling and setting up prices.
In this case, it's the market speaking, the people, prevailing attitudes.
And they're starting to say, you guys are jokes.
But fortunately for Trump, they're just feeding into his having a good jolly day.
And of course, we'll find something out this week or soon, whether it's the day before Christmas or the day after.
But it's coming up soon where the Supreme Court will make a ruling.
Yeah, I think it was Jonathan Turley who said this is un-American, it's undemocratic, it's anti-democratic.
Ironically, you know, there's a lot of criticism that we have of the Iranian electoral system because they have kind of a separate court who determines which candidates can run.
You have to be ideologically according, I don't know the exact details of it, but you have to be according to the ideological rules of the theocracy in Iran.
And we make fun of that and say how terrible it is and horrible and they're anti-democratic.
Well, this is kind of exactly what we have here in Colorado.
You have a separate court to determine who is and who is not allowed to run for office, completely separate from the constitutional requirements that we have.
So we're a lot closer to that than I think these people would like to admit.
But one of the things we wanted to point out today is that this is, I mean, use all the clichés.
This is a slippery slope.
This is a can of worms, however you want to call it.
And this next example that we want to talk about, I think it's obviously slightly tongue-in-cheek, but put up that first clip.
This is from The Hill.
This is Dan Patrick.
He's the lieutenant governor here in Texas.
And he suggests maybe we should take Biden off the ballot in Texas.
Maybe that's a good idea.
And if you go to the next one, here's what Dan Patrick says.
Seeing what happened in Colorado tonight makes me think, except we believe in democracy in Texas, but maybe we should take Joe Biden off the ballot for allowing 8 million people to cross the border since he's been president, disrupting our state far more than anything anyone else has done in recent history.
Yeah, and there are Democrats waking up to this, the ones who want to live in a reasonable society and don't look like a jerk for supporting something that is so outlandish.
So they're starting to come around, and with the right ruling, there's going to be a lot of people.
This issue gets dropped and people will have less fun about it.
But it's still very, very serious, and they're undermining the total principles.
But, you know, the system isn't all that great anyway.
The electoral system and the majority dictatorship of what we have, the founders didn't like it.
And from the very first campaign I was ever in, you know, I was introduced to how it really operates because there was a shock that I was beating this Democrat and all kinds of things were done.
So that's a long time ago.
And we know about LBJ.
LBJ could never have been president with us really stealing an election, which is fully documented.
So there's a lot of shortcomings on democracy.
And, you know, because they always use the election of an individual.
But the Sounders didn't set it that way.
They wanted a representative government.
The election of the president was never well intended to say that.
And people want to move further in the direction of saying it's a majority vote.
It's just individual vote.
So we want the cities that really need a lot of help, you know, San Francisco and Chicago and Detroit, Washington, D.C., they can elect the president and cancel out 98% of the other population.
So that's what democracy can end up.
And it also shows that if they're going to do it to one group, the other people came along.
So I think that I think Patrick knows that that's not going to happen.
But I think it's a great way of making a point because some of the Democrats now are saying, you know, if we keep impeaching Trump, maybe they'll do that to our president.
And what do we have?
We have an impeachment process going on.
Of course, this guy deserves it.
Yeah, they're certainly there.
I mean, it does feel like a descent into idiocracy in a way because, oh, yeah, you bar our guy.
Well, we're going to bar your guys.
And pretty soon, I mean, it's a joke.
And I just have a couple more examples of Republicans suggesting we could do tit for tat.
Let's go through a couple of these if we can.
This is from the Blaze.
This is Ron DeSantis.
He reacts to the Chicago, or the Colorado Supreme Court power grab quote.
There was no trial.
We got a thing popping up on that corner.
There was no trial on any of this.
Can we just, could we just say that Biden can't be on the ballot because he let in 8 million illegals?
So here's DeSantis in Florida.
And here we have the next one.
If we go next, this is Kelly Ann Conway on her show.
She says she asked if Governor Christy Noam, if she could bar Biden from the South Dakota ballot.
Why can't she do it?
And here is another interesting one if we can.
And I don't know who this person is.
He could be a kook, but it makes an interesting point.
Phil Kesak, he says, so under Colorado reasoning, a Florida court could hold a hearing, determine that Joe Biden took bribes, and bar him from being on the ballot for a federal election, despite the fact that Joe Biden was never formally charged and convicted of bribery.
Interesting.
And that is a very good point.
The insurrection, you know, never occurred.
Yet everybody says we have to keep him up because he supported and organized, really created this insurrection.
And yet they already point out there, you know, this invasion, I think it actually borders really close to being treasonous in the sense that the doors are open and every Or the backfiring of democracy.
Well, the majority of the people through their representatives allowed us to do that.
So we have to take the benefits and the freedoms of the people that are already here.
Yeah, kick them out of the, you know, just because the hospitals are being occupied by veterans, we need more room for, we need more rooms for these invaders because it's really, really an invasion.
But, you know, if this thing, if this thing would go through, and I can't imagine if there was some betting going on, I can't believe there'd be too many people betting their life their savings that, oh, this is a done deal.
I don't think that's going to happen.
But if it did, even the hint of this, because there's already been threats made against the justices of Colorado.
But if it did happen, I think that would tip things over.
I think there would be a lot of violence, Barry Goddard, and in that sense, very, very dangerous.
And a lot of the restraints, you can't believe it, but there's probably been restraints of people who get so disgusted with what's happening and how destructive it is to endorse a system that preaches and teaches the redistribution of wealth as a holy thing.
Of course, that's the entire system we've had for almost 100 years.
And it's amazing we get by that way.
And then they turn around and believe in lying is okay.
That's not a big deal.
And having counterfeit money, that's okay, too.
And they, you know, on the vote count, it always bothers me when they say they want to overthrow the election or, you know, overthrow the government.
Well, I don't know why they couldn't have referred to this as a recount.
Why don't we count all the votes?
Find out if they were legal votes.
We just want an investigation.
If you have nothing to hide, you should be for all for this.
The clean air.
Oh, no, we'll put you guys in jail for suggesting it.
I mean, Trump gets himself in trouble by the way he says something.
But, you know, it's not illegal to put your foot in your mouth constantly, unfortunately, just his style.
But, you know, if an insurrection is using deception to change the electoral results, then you could certainly make the argument, and I think you have, that the Russia gate was a kind of insurrection because it was a bunch of lies.
It was deception.
And the intent of that was to change the outcome of the election.
So maybe the other side is just as guilty if that's all it takes.
Yeah, and you know, they use January 6th as the insurrection that dropped it.
But I think the policing activity, the FBI and the Justice Department, that is where you could probably make a pretty good case that there's been an insurrection and a destruction of our judicial system.
That's much more dangerous to us than what they're claiming Trump did.
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I mean, this is the whole thing.
But I've been a little bit disappointed.
You probably watch the sites a little closer than I do, and you've seen some.
But I thought I'd see a lot more once those tapes were released.
I thought they'd be putting up something about every other day because that was the evidence.
Because I think I still believe the evidence is not there to convince everybody that Trump was the commander of an army of people who were using violence to go and take over the government.
And I hear that there's even some help by the police and the Capitol Hill Guards.
They actually help people to go in there.
Of course, that's been known too.
Yeah.
Well, the Republican House, at least, has been too busy kicking out its own members, passing resolutions praising Israel, and what's the third one they've been doing, putting spying, more spying into the NDAA.
So there's no time to talk about all this stuff.
So priorities, priorities.
Well, let's move along and let's skip ahead to a couple of clips to the U.S. veto threat.
Speaking of the Middle East.
This is coming up a lot now.
U.S. veto threat once again delays Security Council vote on Gaza ceasefire.
I think it was about a week ago, Dr. Paul, if I'm not mistaken, that the U.S. was the only no vote in the entire secured U.N. Security Council, the only no vote, including our close allies, the only country to vote against calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, and now they're threatening to do that once again.
Boy, I tell you, that's, I think the big picture here is that international organizations aren't the best way to preserve liberty.
It centralizes everything, so if you're going to undermine liberty and you have a worldwide government, you know, a globalist system, that it's much more easy to install authoritarianism, and that's what they do.
But now they're threatening to veto it.
And you might say, well, how can you worry about the vote?
You don't even believe in intervention.
True.
I'd have us out of there.
I wouldn't have gotten into it.
A lot of good people have argued that case since World War II, that it's not worthwhile.
But we've been involved in discussing things like changing the rules that we're working with Iran.
You know, there might be a resolution or an agreement that we, our government has signed into, but there wants to be a change in moving away towards something more sensible.
And some people say, oh, you're a non-interventionist.
You don't want to mess with that.
You can't touch it.
Yeah, but what if it's already passed?
You're moving away from it.
I think that's, I think in economics, that's similar to there were some people that took the position, good people, and they say, well, if you're going to vote for the income tax at 90%, and you're endorsing the income tax.
But what if it used to be 100?
If you're reducing something, that's why to live in the real world, my rule to myself is anything that increases our liberty and cuts down the size and scope and authoritarianism of the government, even if it's not working.
But you have to have a goal.
And if you're working toward that, and this just shows what a mess it is, this veto.
I mean, this is a can of worms for us, you know, for what they're doing.
But Biden, I think, has just, I think he's all over the place because he said that we should be on Israel's side and they can do what they want.
At the same time, the momentum is on the side of the Palestinians.
They're generating more sympathy than Israel is.
So there's a, and that can get pretty hot and heavy, that debate in this country, you know, between what you're going to do.
You know, how far could we get with the argument that when we were getting ready to give money back to Iran?
Yeah.
They say, oh, yeah, he wants to subsidize Iran, you know, give him the money.
And here we stole it from him.
But symbolically, they win that argument all the time.
Well, you can't give them that.
They say, we're going to give them $6 billion.
Oh, yeah, we owe them $110.
Disgusting.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, you're right.
We always say that we're the isolationists and everything, but it really is the U.S. is acting alone in this veto and isolating the U.S. from the rest of the world.
So they are the isolationists, these interventionists who want to intervene.
Well, here's just a couple quick points on the article as to the logic, or if there is any of what's going on with the U.S.
Now, this is John Kirby, spokesman of the National Security Council.
He is upset because he wants them to add to this resolution a condemnation of Hamas and what they did on the 7th of October and a recognition of the need for Israel to be able to defend itself and significant commitment by all members on getting humanitarian assistance.
That's the roadblock on this particular issue.
This article, which we saw on anti-war.com, as you saw earlier, go to the next one.
The Biden administration has firmly opposed any suggestions that Israel should end its military operation in Gaza.
And that's what you said, Dr. Paul.
They want to play both sides of this game.
The Israeli onslaught has decimated Gaza.
Over 20,000 are dead, most of them women and children.
Additionally, the infrastructure has been left in ruins, adding starvation and epidemics to the threats Palestinians face daily.
But the U.S. can't bring itself to call for a ceasefire.
You know, from the very beginning, the one excuse that was given and the Israelis used is they have a right to self-defense.
Which they do.
But they never say Palestinians have a right to...
No, they don't even have a right to exist.
We're going to wipe them off the map.
They're very bold in exactly what they're saying, you know, about the elimination of the Palestinians.
But this is something that is not going to go away very easily.
And they always use the national defense issue that we need to be involved, whether it's Ukraine or whatever.
They always work into it, national defense, or they hide it, or they hide it, you know, and they'll channel weapons into countries and try to avoid the discussion.
But fortunately, I think the American people have sort of caught on to after just, well, you get your attention after you spend $110 billion, you know, in a country that's losing the war and people are dying.
And they say, well, yeah, and they can't use the body bag issue.
It wasn't like Vietnam.
Body bags, Americans are being killed.
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But they say, we have to do this because they're taking the money away from our people.
They are.
All along.
Almost all government programs are taken away from people who earned it and should have the right to spend it the way they want.
So they take that away.
That's what awakened some people and said, why are they doing that?
Fighting over the borders between Russia.
Nobody even knows where Ukraine is.
They do know where the Mexican border is.
But no, they still do that.
But that argument is winning, getting gained in traction.
But what is going to stop it is when they run out of money.
And they're starting to do that.
They are starting to do that.
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But the reason why it's more difficult is the opposition consumes wealth and they do that by buying votes.
So the food stamp principle, you know, and the welfareism and the military-industrial complex and conquering the world and having power in an empire, that all is immediate.
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I think it's an easy sell when you get a chance.
I was most excited in my campaigns is that when I presented this case for liberty and why it's positive is to get support from young people from colleges which were considered liberal progressive colleges.
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