Just in case you don’t know, the Presidential Records Act didn’t come into effect until after Nixon. Previously presidents were free to do whatever they wanted with their records and it’s unclear whether the act itself is constitutional. Based on the one non precedential district court case the answer is no. And just to be clear you could cite that case as precedent but everyone could ignore it.

This is probably going to be long so pour yourself a big one, sit back and relax.

The first thing I will say is that I didn’t read the redacted affidavit because I knew what it would be. ( And as an aside and I have thought about doing this for a while, do you know where the present day familiarity and obsession with redact, redacted, and redaction came from? It was virtually unknown to anyone until either the first or second major Supreme Court decision on the FOIA used it extensively and everyone, including me had to look it up and I was responsible for FOIA at the time, and basically it was a synonym for edit at the time. Btw I have no idea what it would be called now. Back in my day it was synonym and homonym and antonym but that’s no longer the case because I watch quiz shows and the terms have changed.)

Sorry for the digression. I agree with Dershowitz that any magistrate or judge would have issued the warrant because all the allegations were that Trump had the highest levels of classified information at his mansion and I knew that it would not contain any information that Trump said he declassified them, although I have to question putting in that according to I think CBS Miami they saw u-hauls at the mansion. ( I’m using mansion because the actual name is a pain in the ass to hunt and peck on my iPad.) And the Trump camp said the opposite.

And before I go further I want to point out that there has been more nonsense about Magoo being ignorant. Well that’s of course true, but about the raid. Listen, Magoo is a low IQ, thin skinned, narcissistic bully who has used his position against enemies in the past and it has been reported in the last couple of weeks Magoo asked Garland why he hasn’t arrested Trump. Dog faced pony soldier and fat come to mind and don’t forget calling Peter Doocy a stupid son of a bitch.

Now getting down to business, the reason or inspiration for this rant came from one of you who asked if I thought Trump was in trouble and I said no he said he declassified everything and that’s it. And he asked could he even do that with the top secret stuff and I said yes and thanked him because he gave me the idea for this rant.

Okay I have said this so many times in so many contexts that I would think you know it by now but apparently some haven’t comprehended it so I will do it again with reference to previous things. Under the constitution all executive branch power and authority is vested in the president period. The administrative/deep state doesn’t have any authority on its own. It’s all derived from the president. However the deep state thinks otherwise and that’s why they are so opposed to Trump. He was asserting his dominance and they didn’t like it. So let me review a couple things I have discussed before. The first impeachment was basically the weeble known as Vindman claiming that Trump was not following US foreign policy and as I and the constitution make clear, the president is the sole arbiter of what our foreign policy is. If you don’t like it get your dumb fat ignorant ass out. You don’t get to override the president you self important idiot.

Likewise with all the nonsense about DOJ and the FBI are independent is total and complete bs. They are in the executive branch and subordinate to the president and he can require them to do whatever he wants. Presidents have ordered them to arrest and prosecute opponents and I’m not going to go through it again, it’s in previous rants.

Which gets me back to today’s subject and it’s an exact parallel to Vindman. Some people think they can overrule their boss. Once the president says something is declassified it’s declassified. None of these deep state subordinates can change that or claim he didn’t follow some procedures they set up. They derive any power they have from him and he can just say kiss my ass serfs. I’m the king and you’re not.

Am watching Jesse and he had on a guest talking about the FBI potentially having bugged Mar a Lago and I thought that was nonsense because there is no way it’s not protected by people and their video system. He indicated that the FBI could plant undetectable bugs and maybe that’s true. I have absolutely no knowledge that would suggest otherwise, but I have to believe that if anyone has the resources to thwart this it’s Trump and his security and video system. So I don’t believe that they infiltrated his home to plant bugs. And I don’t think they would even try for fear of being caught.

However it occurred to me that they could have gotten, it’s entirely possible that they did access to his own video system. That’s why I don’t have cameras inside my house as part of my security system. Remember that the ring doorbell system has been infiltrated and let others see what is happening in your house. And since I saw again today that the feds admitted that they were watching what was happening before the raid, I think that they may well have done that. As I said, if Trump gave them access to cameras covering the basement, he would never have done anything questionable with the cameras on.

Lastly Jesse’s guest postulated about nuclear football and other stuff and Jesse said you’re speculating, he didn’t ask him if Trump declassified it. I expect that from the left but not from the right. Trump could declassify anything and everything period.

I didn’t do this yesterday because I guess I was in a good mood and like Bongino, but he said two things that were utterly ridiculous. First he was trying to give an example of reckless disregard of protecting highly sensitive classified information and used as an example an agent in Russia who had Russian nuclear secrets and left them in his hotel room and they got stolen by Russia. There is absolutely no way an secret service agent could ever have that material in his hotel room unless he stole it. That’s just impossible. You can’t have that level of information in your hotel room period.

The second is that when comparing Trump and Hillary his side kick Jim said and she didn’t have declassification authority. Totally false. If you look up the executive orders controlling classification you will see that the president delegates to various cabinet officials and others classification authority and it always includes the Secretary of State. And then these individuals can delegate their authority down the line but Hillary was the top classification authority in the State Department. She could classify or declassify any documents solely in State. The difference between her and Trump is that she couldn’t declassify documents classified by other agencies. Trump could declassify anything because he was president.

I don’t know if you saw it but Magoo and company are now taking our active in use weapons and giving them to Ukraine. Could it be any clearer that Magoo wants to make us Chinese puppets? We won’t have what we need should China invade Taiwan

Btw in case you didn’t understand this rant, the point is that Magoo is not sending weapons from our stockpile, he is sending front line weapons we need to Ukraine.

I don’t know if you saw it but Magoo and the morons are going to have us bankroll Canada’s mining industry because we will need many of the minerals they will mine for green new bs and Magoo and the Morons are blocking mining in the US that would make it unnecessary.

It’s just like this brain dead idiot canceled Keystone XL and then greenlighted Nordstream II. It appears that Magoo hates us and weaken the country to make us subservient to other countries.

And there was one more thing that I wanted to list here but I forgot but will add when I remember.

You certainly know about Magoo’s handout to bribe voters before the midterms. And you also know that Magoo doesn’t have the authority to do it and even Pelosi said so. But Magoo doesn’t believe in the law or constitution. He has openly defied court decisions and basically said what you going to do about it and with the Dems in control he’s right. When the republicans take back control, then impeachment is the answer.

Now for the good news. Because of the income cap, the Squad is ineligible. Members of Congress make $174,000/yr.

One thing that keeps being pushed is that 70% of the money will go to the top 60% of incomes and I thought that seemed counterintuitive and then I looked it up and I understand why they say that but never put up the numbers. So here’s the facts The top 60% starts at $40,000 and $100,000 puts you in the top ten percent. So I don’t support Magoo’s actions, but it’s not like doctors and lawyers etc are getting this money.

I still think that the best way to fix the problem is to allow student loans to be subject to discharge in bankruptcy, which if you recall, Magoo removed from bankruptcy coverage to shill for all his banking friends. The reason I think this is the way to go is because then lenders would think twice about Willy nilly handing out loans to people who they should know will never be able to pay them back and would require that the federal government get out of the business entirely because their guarantee is what perpetrated this fraud and universities couldn’t just continue to raise tuition because that would potentially put them out of business. Hell make the universities be the ones to make the loans from their endowments and see how quickly things change.

Remember what happened when the inflation increasing bill passed including a I think a $6500 rebate for electric car purchase. The next day several ev producers raised their price by you guessed it — $6500.

Ok it appears that after Trump allowed 15 boxes of documents to be sent to the Archives, Magoo waived Trump’s executive and lawyer client privilege over those documents so his DOJ could get access to them to try to make a criminal case in front of the grand jury. Now I don’t know how he can do it legally. It’s not your right to waive my privileges. And if it turns out that he could do that then Trump on his first day in office should issue an executive order canceling all Magoo claims of privilege and declassify everything Magoo classified in his last three months in office and then send the feds to Magoo’s houses and demand all records he has.

Turnabout is fair play and in this case would probably lead to actually criminal charges.

And apparently Magoo also reclassified everything in the initial boxes.

Now my thinking of this lead me to conclude that I have not adequately explained the president’s classification authority. Yes it derives from his position at the chief executive. However, you might not know that the present classification system didn’t actually come into play until 1953 when Eisenhower issued an executive order establishing a formal system. Previously there was a concept of defense information but not a formal system.

Now you know that I was the attorney responsible for national security matters for the first 20+ years of my federal career in an agency dealing with nuclear matters but what I never put out before was the first thing I did was research and put together a book containing every executive order on classification up to the EO in effect at the time and then I passed it on to my successor. And the thing that surprised me was that I still remember that it was EO 11652 issued by Nixon and it was close to fifty years ago.

But my point is that all classification authority comes from the president and all the executive orders make that clear! Any assertions to the contrary are pure bs.

Watching Tucker and just had a segment about Magoo’s goons raiding an Amish farm and trying to close it down because there cattle who are totally organic and contain no hormones or other additives somehow violate federal regulations. These cattle are raised without any artificial fertilizer or any thing else and of course no fossil fuels are involved. Basically they are pure beef and we can’t have that.

Now the reason for this rant is that when I lived in Maryland there was a Dutch market, read that as Amish and they wore the appropriate attire and they were the real deal. I’m sure one of you knows where it is. But I used to shop there every couple of weeks because they had a butcher shop that was fantastic. Better than any other butcher shop in the area. It was fantastic so I’m really upset by Magoo’s goons trying to stop these incredible people and their incredible food. Just as an add on, they had by far the most incredible chocolate torte I ever tasted.

Am watching the Five and they just had a segment on the teacher shortage and Magoo’s morons are apoplectic about messing with the teacher unions monopoly and I guess his ignorant wife has a lot to do with it. DeSantis wants to let degreed veterans and first responders teach without going through certification and the left is going crazy.

Now first let’s consider the nonsense. As you know I have three degrees and nine years college education. Not a single course was taught by anyone with teaching credentials. I even taught in law school and I don’t have teaching credentials and so I guess all my education should be considered invalid because it wasn’t approved by some teachers union.

Next let me reiterate that anyone who graduated from high school with a C average could teach elementary education. Maybe give them a week or two of training but they could probably do it without any. Do any of you think a person with a degree in math or science or engineering couldn’t teach high school math or science? Remember as I ranted about once, when I moved from Tampa to Anchorage they put me in the lower algebra class because Florida schools weren’t considered good and at that point Anchorage was rated as the number two school system in the nation. Of course they overlooked that I went to catholic school and have no idea whether the nuns were certified teachers but they were good.

And as I have said previously I basically taught the first semester because my teacher couldn’t effectively explain word problems and so basically she and my fellow students asked me frequently to go the board and explain it. This is not to brag but to point out what should be obvious. Some people have the capacity to convey information effectively and some don’t and teachers union approval has nothing to do with it.

All this certification nonsense has nothing to do with effectively educating children. It’s all about protecting a monopoly. It’s the licensing effect to keep out the competition — like barbers or hairdressers or nail salons — they want to limit competition. People should be able to use their own common sense to decide whether or not you like your barber or in my case my manicurist. Not

Clearly there are some professions that need to be licensed like doctors and lawyers because letting unqualified people practice could have devastating results.