The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report.
Welcome, welcome. Welcome. It’s Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Great to be together and with you. In a few moments we’ll talk with John Schlafly. He’s got a column out. We’ll visit with him on his column, also about some of the doings and goings on in the many, many legal proceedings that Donald Trump is stuck in and a whole lot more, but and I’ll finish. You’ll want to listen to the last segment of the show. You can also go online at @EagleEdMartin, go there or go to Eagle. Excuse me – proamericareport.com and check out there. I’ll write about it there. But you’re going to want to check out this last segment.
Elon Musk announced that SpaceX did do all the paperwork, and they moved their incorporation from Delaware down to Texas. And you’d say, well, that’s interesting, you know, is that better for taxes? Well, it could have already been better for taxes if they just moved the headquarter. Right. If you move your headquarters, one of the reasons, people don’t realize the reason Amazon has dual headquarters now is because Seattle, WA is a terrible place for taxes, incredibly high, and getting higher. So they moved to Virginia where they have better taxes. It’s still a little bit. They’re still, you know, it’s not quite. Some places where it’s even lower, but it’s close to Washington, but they made it sound like Amazon did that. They were moving a second headquarters to be nearer to the capital. They really were getting out of Seattle. I talked with an Amazon, a senior level guy about a month ago. He was telling me, yeah, we knew we had to get these, way too many workers were making good salaries and paying high, high taxes. And then there were increasing taxes on every aspect of living and and working in Seattle, including on the corporation for homelessness. All kinds of stuff and threatening to do more.
So the point is people will move for taxes, but you can move your official headquarters to another state, but stay incorporated in a state. Well, we’ll talk about that in the last segment of the show on Elon Musk and the move and my pitch. Make West Virginia great, I’m not sure again, but make it great right now. I’ll tell you about that in a moment.
But first, let me get to you. I’ve got a column that posted over at AMAC. AMAC is the Association of Mature Adults. Excuse me. Association of Mature American Citizens. AMAC. Great group AMAC dot US. And they asked me for a column to write a little bit on the law. And so I wrote a piece over there and I’ll post it up online, but it’s about how and and this is the key part of it, I have to say, this is the key part. And this great editor over there, a young guy actually, you know, when you do editing, when you get edited you don’t know for sure how it’s going to play out. So I was actually edited by this guy. I haven’t met him yet. I haven’t met him. I’ve only only connected with him through these columns and but his name is Shane and Shane basically said hey. Good column, you know, good essay, but bring up to the front the sort of assertion. So you see it right away. Well, he did an even better job of that in my mind because the headline which he wrote is Biden Forces Constitutional Crisis over Texas border Standoff. OK.
And if you go through this piece, I wrote it and I’ll post it again at proamericareport.com. You go to AMAC dot US at newsline is their main service. You can find it there and I’ll put that link up. But here’s the thing. At a certain point in this in this four year term of Joe Biden you look at it and you say he has intentionally sought to create these constitutional crises, he has policy positions and or strategies with tactics that have caused this to happen.
So first you, the example, you know, you say, well, a lot of the decisions about the Department of Justice, how they’ve done what they’ve done. You say wow, this is causing a crisis in our legal, our criminal justice system, right? As of January 6th, as to Trump as to the notion of due process strain on the judicial, the courts, you’re like, oh, man, that’s not going the right direction.
Now he has not done what the Biden, what Obama did, which was say out loud, I got a phone and a pen. I’ll just do what I want.
But a lot of things he’s been doing and the crisis on the border might be the best example. And the reason why is only because I I have to say this. This is a funny thing to admit. If Biden wasn’t such a pig. He wouldn’t have caused this problem, meaning he went hog wild to continue the metaphor and allowed, you know, chaos at the border. And it’s the chaos that has forced the states to take the crisis up. You see, usually the States and I was chief of staff to a governor. I lived through it. I was there.
Usually the state, state of Missouri in that case, are, they they have, you know, they have. A lot of. A lot of things that are going on in their state that rely on the federal government being good to them. So you know whether it’s Medicaid payments, whether it’s regulatory line up of issues on, say, clean water, all different kinds of things where the states have to play ball with the federal government. I’m not saying it’s a good thing. I’m saying it’s a reality and therefore they don’t like to rock the boat, they really don’t.
On the 2nd Amendment, if you if you were a a Second Amendment strong Second Amendment state under a liberal like Obama or or Biden, you’re constantly having to figure out as a governor or attorney general, what’s the tension because you’re gonna be worked over. They’re gonna do things that are regulating things on the edges of actual gun control to try to make life miserable and to brag about it.
Anyway, my point on this in this piece is that and and there’s a couple of things. One is, I hope you’ll look at it. And understand what the problems are, what’s going on with the case, DHS vs Texas, and it’s about this conflict between states that are saying we’re going to lock our border. We’re going to do what we have to keep our people safe and the federal government saying that they’re going to go and and do what they want and so much so that they were, the federal government’s cutting the razor wire of the Texas border authorities who are trying to block things. But so the point here is.
We have to have this, our federalist system has to have the power and and it’s not one or the other. It’s divided and it’s not equal always. So the federal government does have the the constitutional duty to secure the border, treaties and otherwise, but it’s not exclusive of Texas’s right to protect its citizens. Texas’s right to to govern. And so the, you know, the the federalism and my, my one sentence. One paragraph. I like a lot is I refer to I refer to the fact that that federalism is a concept that not everyone learns about in high school or they hear about in high school but they don’t remember what it means and I say it’s like the Pythagorean theorem or E = mc². And then later I say this.
Unlike math or science, federalism has no magic formula to govern its implementation, or even how it works. In the case of United States, the balance between the federal government and the states is a crucial piece of how the American Republic works. When that balance is disrupted, a constitutional crisis ensues.
So what Joe Biden again has done is by being a hog, meaning he may have had a preference on the border. He could have had a preference that was within the range of sanity he could have said, I don’t like a refugee system that that is too hard on people who claim X.
That’s not what he did. He said, Anyone who says X or anything else gets refugee status. That’s what they’re doing here. And so and he, he created this crisis and back, you know, I didn’t use the quote. I think maybe it got cut. I don’t know if I had it in the original or I cut it myself before it got over to Shane the editor. But here’s the thing. I wanted to use the phrase the old, you know mainstay, that American politics will refer to for the rest of our history. And that is under Obama, who wanted to fundamentally transform America. And in many ways, he did. His chief of staff said early on, never let a good crisis go to waste. In other words, if you have a crisis, if it’s stressed upon you, use it.
And if you in my, in my my experience now, if you look at what Biden has done, he has forced a constitutional crisis on this country and then guess what? The crisis gets to be solved. It gets to be solved by the Biden administration and by the DHS and Mayorkas, impeached or not, has put us on this, not on this path. He’s put us in the midst of a constitutional crisis. And one that is is going to be, I hope resolved with, by the Supreme Court and and managed as you’re going, you know as we go forward.
But it’s the balance. And in a nation where more and more of the mainstream media, the the big media and big tech. Are working in this case with big government. You all know it. The narrative machine, big tech, big media and big government putting people into a crisis mode fighting amongst themselves instead of honoring and understanding the balance of federalism and our Republic.
It’s a crisis, like we haven’t seen. There hasn’t been anybody who has been like this. There’s no president in history that’s been like what Biden did.
Even Obama, in many ways, Obama was, he wasn’t less extreme. He wasn’t less radical. He was more subtle. He was sneakier.
Obamacare, for example, the quote that Obama has always said is This isn’t as good as I wanted. I wanted more socialized medicine, but this is gonna screw the system up so badly that eventually they’ll ask to fix it. That’s what he basically said. This isn’t good enough. I wanted all the socialism, but it’s good enough to make a royal mess of it, and then they’ll beg us to fix it.
Remember? Never let a crisis go to waste, and if you can cause a crisis and you can be the ones that fix it, then you can fix it the way you want for your advantage. Which is exactly why most people I know that are thoughtful say this upcoming election is a really big one. Everybody says the biggest in the history. It’s a really big one. If you believe that these constitutional crises are not accidental, they’re intentional and they’re ongoing. You got to do something different and that’s what you need to know.
We got to take a break. Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report back in a moment.
