00:02Hi, gang, the SCOTUS ruling on the IEPA tariff issue.
00:11The good, and there is some, the bad, and the chief just-ass rob turds,
00:19flippy-floppy, ugly of it, all outlined.
00:24Now, the left thinks they got a big win.
00:28Of course, not the case.
00:31It's going to pivot to impose the tariffs under other statutes.
00:37But item one, chief just-ass rob turds, as I call him, flippy-floppy, inconsistency.
00:48You will recall, during the Obamacare arguments, the law didn't say it was imposing a tax.
01:00The left argued it wasn't a tax, but chief just-ass rob turds insisted that the fees associated with it
01:14are always known as a form of a tax, and we'll return to this again later.
01:22Therefore, it was a tax, and therefore upheld Obamacare.
01:32Flash forward, jump forward, whatever.
01:36Today, flippy-floppy Roberts said that a tariff isn't a tax.
01:47That because the statute doesn't explicitly use the word tariff,
01:54even though the left has been arguing forever, and they are correct on the point, tariffs are taxes,
02:05which is the legislative and executive branch authorities,
02:12and the legislative, through the IEPA, delegated the authority to the president.
02:23More on this also.
02:25The good, the bad, the ugly.
02:28The confusing nature of this.
02:32So, Roberts now all of a sudden is arguing a tariff isn't a tax, therefore doesn't apply.
02:43Hello?
02:48Secondly, licenses always have a fee, always known as a tax.
02:59Licensing is a tax, but yet Rob turns all of a sudden again,
03:05it's not, even though it does say the president can license.
03:11He can't tax under licensing, as licensing as a tax has always been upheld previously by the Supreme Court as
03:23a tax.
03:24As taxation and legislative and executive branch, once delegated as the IEPA did to the president,
03:35none of the business of the courts, the judicial branch.
03:42So, since the left depends on what the definition of is, is cards love playing with language.
03:54Okay, President Trump, we're not licensing.
03:59We hereby now declare trade passports.
04:05That's right, it's no longer a licensing.
04:09And to qualify for the passport, you must pay a fee as well as tariff taxes on top of that
04:17going forward to maintain your trade passport.
04:22Problem solved.
04:24So left, you lose again.
04:27But Trump doesn't need to do that.
04:30He's imposing the tariffs right back again under other explicit authorities granted him by the legislative branch
04:41that the judicial branch has no power to interfere in.
04:46Now, you may have seen me say on social media what I said about Roberts and his flip-flopping between
04:55Obamacare then and this now.
05:00That aside, that I stand by.
05:03I may have to backtrack a little on something else I've said on social media.
05:12Justice Thomas, in his dissent, indeed argued constitutional separation of powers and this ruling as a potential judicial overreach.
05:28No bearing has no authority to meddle in the legislative and executive branches.
05:36While a whole lot of people have been arguing that they kind of expected this might be the ruling.
05:44And it isn't the end of the world.
05:46In fact, you left-hard, you lose big if over the next weeks, months, and years, this ruling is used
05:58like Norton v. Shelby.
06:01Originally, I brought that up on social media in concurrence with Justice Thomas' dissent.
06:11But if we're talking, indeed, as argued, tariff is not explicitly stated.
06:22Therefore, under Norton v. Shelby isn't allowed because it isn't explicitly stated.
06:32So instead of not upholding Norton, in a way it could be looked at as they applied Norton v. Shelby.
06:43And it was an overreach by the executive branch of something not explicitly delegated with the one-word tariff that
06:55everybody knows is a tax.
06:58And Roberts before, again, not going back to that argument.
07:06Norton v. Shelby says the same thing.
07:09That's a win for conservatives.
07:13If we give this ruling some time to breathe and, indeed, play it in that fashion as an upholding of
07:25Norton v. Shelby and EPA overreach.
07:29And all the other deep state, not executive branch necessarily overreach, but leftist deep state, administrative state, things created.
07:43The regulatory state created by leftist presidents, like treaty, trying to apply treaty of the seas to a pond in
07:55someone's backyard, saying the EPA, the federal EPA, then has authority over your property under such.
08:05No usurpation of power, no usurpation of power, not an authority explicitly granted by the Congress in the law.
08:17So, from that perspective, okay, leftist, you want to think this is a win for you?
08:26Okay, we now apply it like we do Norton v. Shelby Township, and we get to dismantle all the regulations
08:39you put in place that Congress did not give the agencies explicit authority to do.
08:50If it doesn't say the word, if it doesn't say the word pond, then you can't regulate a property with
08:58a pond on it under Treaty of the Seas, which you couldn't do to begin with.
09:07At any rate, I know, and I apologize for going deep in the weeds on this, but indeed, we must.
09:19This is a complex and complicated and, in some cases, convoluted ruling that just asked Rob Turgs flip-flopping on
09:31tax definitions.
09:32But application of Norton v. Shelby, applications and implications, okay, fine, we'll take that win, because it isn't going to
09:46block the tariffs under other statutes.
09:49So, you leftists think you won?
09:53No, you lose every way you look at it when you actually stop to look at this and let it
10:05breathe and get into the weeds of the arguments of the ruling itself, both the for and the dissent.
10:16So, this will be the one time, well, I still agree with Thomas, on the Rob Turgs flip-floppy about
10:28a tax or a non-tax, Thomas is right.
10:32It's a tax, therefore, Rob Turgs and Amy Coney, Grin and Barrett had no place siding with the liberal activists
10:45on the court, which were always going to rule on Trump derangement syndrome anyway.
10:51So, Thomas is right to a degree, but to a degree, Roberts misapplied his ruling under Obamacare and may have
11:05properly applied it here if we're going to be so truly technical.
11:12It says boat, not a ship, so the left depends on what the definition of a ship or a boat,
11:23the definition of is, is you want to play those games, okay, we'll play them too.
11:32It doesn't say tariff, therefore, he can't do it as a tax, guess what, you can't regulate ponds because it
11:42doesn't say ponds anywhere in the EPA authorization from Congress for the EPA to be able to regulate.
11:52That is, of course, just one of a bazillion examples of government overreach, deep state regulatory usurpation of powers and
12:07authorities.
12:07So, guess what, the floodgates have just opened to Norton v. Shelby, and we need to drive an aircraft carrier
12:22through that opening.
12:26So, again, I apologize, I know you might have to listen to this a few times to get the nuance
12:34of the arguments I'm making here because it is a bit convoluted.
12:41It is, you know, dealing with Roberts flippy floppy ugliness of it, but it can be looked at two different
12:50ways.
12:50The left will, of course, spin it as a win for them.
12:55In reality, it's not if we're applying Norton.
13:00All right, thank you all.
13:03Take care.
13:04God bless.
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13:36Township discussion.
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