President Trump – unburdened by what has been (2-13-25)

01:00 If Fox News moves to the center, the audience will go somewhere else
05:50 Jesse Waters
13:00 WSJ: Taylor Sheridan’s ‘Landman’ Hits Pay Dirt With Its Oilman Hero: The Paramount+ drama conveys the modern necessity of fossil fuels like nothing else on TV.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/landman-hits-pay-dirt-with-its-oilman-hero-industry-oil-gas-energy-tv-5f01aeab?mod=hp_opin_pos_5#cxrecs_s
24:00 Kip joins
29:00 The danger of goals
1:06:00 The world’s greatest motivational speaker, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153558
1:14:00 The Father Factor, The Mother Factor, The Ex Factor, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=47525
1:24:00 The Father Factor: Coming To Terms With Your Dad’s Emotional Legacy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_dnjQR2NMc
1:37:10 2WAY TONIGHT 2/13 | Mark Halperin on Trump’s First 100 Days, Democrats & Today’s Political News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHSGzS9cfg4

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Are We In A Constitutional Crisis? (2-13-25)

01:00 Joe Biden getting out of Afghanistan was the right move, even though it was chaotic
02:00 DOGE is chaotic, but I hope it is doing more good than harm
03:00 WP: Musk team kicks off federal layoffs as White House eyes big cuts, https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/12/musk-trump-federal-layoffs/
05:45 2WAY TONIGHT 2/12 | Mark Halperin on Trump’s First 100 Days, Democrats & Today’s Political News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDsdfdTZuEs
09:00 War in Ukraine is over, https://www.wsj.com/world/trump-writes-a-new-playbook-for-quagmires-in-gaza-and-ukraine-378b29c3?mod=hp_lead_pos1
11:00 Processing pain is very different from analyzing pain, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=158909
21:00 The Morning Meeting S4E29 | Trump’s First 100 Days, Democrat Realignment & Today’s Political News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR8_id6rgHg
22:00 India PM Mohdi comes on bended knee
24:30 Trump’s key nominees approved by US Senate
34:00 There’s no constitutional crisis, https://www.wsj.com/opinion/is-there-a-constitutional-crisis-donald-trump-executive-actions-elon-musk-judges-courts-a5b774ba?mod=trending_now_opn_1
44:30 FT: Europe reels after Donald Trump announces US-Russia talks on Ukraine, https://www.ft.com/content/f7271853-48a0-4865-ac23-0cc4d87c9fb3
45:30 FT: South Africa has been blindsided by Donald Trump, https://www.ft.com/content/ef60e887-09d6-499e-88cc-4c020e555010
55:00 Constitutional Dictatorship: Its Dangers and Its Design, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130386
59:00 NYT: There’s a Reason Even ‘Smart’ People Surrender to Trump, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/opinion/trump-authoritarianism-surrender.html
1:08:00 No foreign leaders appear to threaten Trump now
1:11:30 Israel’s opportunity to take out Hezbollah on Oct. 11, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPEPztvsJGQ
1:17:30 Dooovid joins to talk about the Jewish reaction to Donald Trump
1:38:00 UK Jewish community reacts to Trump’s Gaza plan, https://www.thejc.com/news/usa/jewish-community-responds-trump-gaza-plan-e9jjfbw0
1:39:00 US Jewish groups respond to Trump’s Gaza comments, https://forward.com/fast-forward/694186/us-jewish-groups-respond-to-trumps-gaza-comments/
1:42:00 Resentment
1:45:00 Decoding Mike Benz (8-18-24), https://rumble.com/v6kbikv-are-we-in-a-constitutional-crisis-2-13-25.html
2:00:00 Luke & Dooovid exchange their assessment of the others’ greatest delusion
2:02:00 The power of mentorship
2:06:30 Holding Onto Ourselves in Relationships, Part Seven, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVs5pnah830
2:15:00 Why didn’t Israel wipe out Hezbollah on Oct. 11, 2023?
2:32:00 Which foreign leaders have Trump by the balls?
2:35:00 Democrats are in dire shape
2:44:00 Anora – Oscar frontrunner
2:48:00 Clinton Rossiter lecturing at UCLA 1964, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTXcLAA2eRo
2:50:00 Political scientist Clinton Rossiter, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Rossiter
2:59:00 Unimagined Power: The Presidency in the History of Political Philosophy | Paul Gottfried, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys6adtS5Ez8
3:05:30 JD Vance plays the long game, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/opinion/jd-vance-donald-trump.html
3:09:00 NYT: There’s a Reason Even ‘Smart’ People Surrender to Trump
3:20:00 We are living in Trump’s America
3:33:00 Great Japanese TV show – Asura, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asura_(TV_series)
3:45:00 Alexander Technique lesson with Diana Devitt-Dawson, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXqIuvav5hY

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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, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHXVeLVHWuY

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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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