Learning To Forgive For Good (2-12-25)

01:00 NYT: Vance Is Laying the Groundwork, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/opinion/jd-vance-donald-trump.html
04:30 Jesse Waters
08:00 My initial step four experience in 2012, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=47372
24:00 Elliott Blatt joins the show to discuss a resentment
32:00 Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness By Frederic Luskin, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=133590
52:00 The problem (Adult Children of Alcoholics), https://adultchildren.org/literature/problem/
58:00 Al Anon questionaire, https://adultchildren.org/literature/problem/
1:08:00 My step one journey from 2012, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=44793
1:11:00 My step two journey from 2012, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=44798
1:14:40 Forgiveness Workshop | Dr. Fred Luskin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ5o6DsCa90
1:19:45 The Alexander Technique and Addiction Recovery, https://alexanderaudio.com/applications/addiction/
1:22:00 Alexander Technique lesson, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXqIuvav5hY
1:25:00 Alexander Technique teacher Robert Rickover, https://www.bodylearningblog.com/about-robert/
1:42:00 The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body and Design by Galen Cranz, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U47uK4opHeg

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Donald Trump & Constitutional Dictatorship (2-12-25)

01:00 Trump’s State Of Exception, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=158897
03:00 Carl Schmitt quotes: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/162542.Carl_Schmitt#
05:00 Will the USA take over Canada?, https://statesofexception.substack.com/p/what-ir-theory-tells-us-about-canada
23:00 The Morning Meeting S4E28 | Trump’s First 100 Days, Democrat Realignment & Today’s Political News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6ssgxybIpc
32:00 John Podhoretz & Commentary magazine crew on Trump, the Democrats and the courts, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DUbhQiZnxg
38:00 Constitutional Dictatorship: Its Dangers and Its Design, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130386
58:00 Lindy Li – Obama’s Third Term, Kamala Paying Beyoncé, Cardi B, and Oprah

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Trump’s State Of Exception

The government took away many rights during Covid by invoking a state of emergency, and now Trump & Elon are implicitly stating that America is in a state of emergency, and that the executive has to grab the rudder to save the ship.

I was listening to a liberal Constitutional law expert Steve Vladeck yesterday state that Trump’s Executive Order (EO) banning migrants from seven majority Muslim nations in his first term would not have passed Supreme Court muster if they had not already ruled out his first two EOs on this.

It’s similar to playing aggressive defense and daring the refs to call a penalty on every play.

I don’t think America has ever seen anything like this second Trump administration and their number of EOs. Trump is making Reagan look like a softie.

Trump musing about taking over Canada, Greenland, Panama Canal, Gaza, I don’t know how to think about this state of exception except with Carl Schmitt.

“The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.” ― Carl Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

A philosopher friend says: “Schmitt focused on discretionary power but he also venerated the state and its use of it. Trump seems to be pushing the limits of using it, but to constrain the officials who had been using it. what people usually mean by mentioning Schmitt is the friend-enemy distinction. This is more often used by people like AOC and virtue signalers more generally: When you turn a political dispute into a moral one you are defining the other as an enemy in Schmitt’s sense. And the real influence of Schmitt has been underground, mostly via the Frankfurt School and then through feminism, with the notion that everything is political — so Marcuse made liberal notions of tolerance political and repressive, and the same kind of inversion occurs all the time with feminism, where equality becomes a male concept if it is not defined in a way that liberates women in relation to men.”

“There is an emergency about the deficit. But if the courts are consistent at all, the fact that Obama was allowed to fail to enforce immigration law via prosecutorial discretion justified by budget considerations would seem to be the sufficient precedent. But [Chief Justice John] Roberts will find a way to protect the status quo, because he is a status quo guy. I’m telling people to look at Clinton Rossiter, who thought through all this stuff in American terms. [His book] American Presidency shows how weak the countervailing powers are. Carl Schmitt’s Dictatorship is worth a read too. Long but nice history. You are on the right track here.”

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Decoding Donald Trump’s State Of Emergency (2-11-25)

01:00 Constitutional Dictatorship: Its Dangers and Its Design, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130386
02:00 Just imagine what Trump will do if we get into a true state of emergency!
14:00 POLITICO: Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.
22:00 Are we in the midst of a Constitutional Crisis?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCsX441k0cM
40:00 S2E5, Lioness TV show, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lioness_(American_TV_series)
45:45 Why does Trump have so much power? Because he has repeatedly done the impossible, he commands the base, he shows the only path forward for republicans.
47:00 FT: Donald Trump to halt enforcement of law banning bribery of foreign officials
55:20 Jesse Waters
1:16:00 Who Elected Elon Musk?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOzQSasw24I
1:20:00 Wrinkles and the Alexander Technique, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=41077
1:23:00 The dark side of fitness, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=39704
1:27:00 My Aching Jaw: Alexander Technique And TMJ, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=36113
1:28:00 Alexander Technique and TMJ, https://alexanderaudio.com/applications/tmj/index.html
1:31:00 Alexander Technique on the TV show Girls
1:36:00 Improve Your Sports Performance With Alexander Technique, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=35614

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Decoding The Super Bowl (2-10-25)

01:00 The NFL is humiliated by a terrible Super Bowl
02:00 The Kansas Chiefs only got to the Super Bowl by the NFL rigging the refereeing
07:00 Commentary magazine podcast crew on the Super Bowl, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAjy7iObB08
15:00 Democratic party leaders have bad optics
27:00 NYT: Trump’s Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/politics/trump-constitutional-crisis.html
37:30 Mark Halperin on Trump’s First 100 Days, Democrats & Today’s Political News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBG4sIOAoqk
52:00 Steve Bannon asks Rabbi Pesach Wolicki to respond to Tucker Carlson, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7FQUuQRu78
1:15:30 Elliott Blatt predicted the Eagles victory in the Super Bowl
1:16:30 Elliott is skeptical about the AI boom
1:28:00 Elliott is still enjoying the Trump boom
1:33:00 Do you call hookers sex workers or escorts or hos?
1:35:00 Hookers should not be allowed to discriminate against black men
1:45:20 Jesse Waters

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