Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
TPC Addresses Controversy Over His Most Recent January 6th Article
Steve Baker - The Pragmatic Constitutionalist
Progressives have incrementally eroded away our freedoms for decades. Incrementally, we must begin taking them back. THE PRAGMATIC CONSTITUTIONALIST IS... . . . GUIDED in philosophy and political activism by one simple axiom: “There’s the world we want, vs. the world in which we actually live.” Purist libertarian ideologists imagine a world and human interactions in which all beings don’t care what you do with and to yourself — or in interactions with similarly consensual persons — so long as those activities do not negatively impact anyone else’s life, property, or pursuits. In other words: we should, individually, be able to do whatever we damn well please, so long as we don’t “break the bones or pick the pockets” of anyone not also voluntarily engaging in the same, said activities. The “PRAGMATIC” view understands that human nature is not so simplistic. A majority of humanity are going to choose “safety over liberty.” Most people prefer governmental remediation over free-market solutions . . . even though both are ultimately the product of HUMAN ideas and administration. How are humans who run big government any better than humans who run big corporations? How about humans first be allowed to “run themselves”— for better, or worse? . . . A CONSTITUTIONAL libertarian, but in no way associated with the Libertarian Party. While I hold many things in common with that Party, I have found them to be, well – a typical political party. As such, they are often prone to look more after the interests of the Party, above the interests of libertarianism, or the nation. One visit to a Party meeting, and you might see them more as a social club of political misfits and outcasts than a viable political force, with too many of the Libertarian Party stereotypes on full display. Most “small l” libertarians believe the Founding of the United States was the first true libertarian experiment, and our Constitution is more than just the law of the land, but the guiding framework for the type of small government to which we need return — limiting the interference of government into our lives, but also protecting our individual liberties.
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Friday Apr 08, 2022
Friday Apr 08, 2022
Are they feeding us mixed messages? No. This is a coordinated process of pandering to the leftist base, diversions from the reality of their intentions for everyone else, and a few crumbs of CYA truth so they can 'circle back' and tell us they warned us to prepare. What we hear, and what ultimately shapes individual American’s reactions or inactions largely depends upon in which media bubble we choose to shelter ourselves and get our information.
Links discussed in this podcast:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/recession-shock-coming-bofa-warns-101801015.html
https://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2022/04/vietnam-ready-to-issue-vaccine-passports/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2022/02/24/national-vaccine-quietly-rolled-out/?sh=77e91dcc6be6
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Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
A quick overview of some of the hot topics of the past couple days. Ukraine, the invasion of our own border, fentanyl crisis, Disney, Elon and Twitter, election fraud, and the FBI's latest social media snooping initiative.
John Lott's latest peer-reviewed study on election fraud:https://thepragmaticconstitutionalist.locals.com/post/1951898/john-lotts-latest-peer-reviewed-study-on-election-fraud
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Monday Apr 04, 2022
Monday Apr 04, 2022
As promised . . . the podcast/vlog game is back up and running. This is a follow-up to my article I wrote about Dave Rubin's announcement that he and his husband have two kids on the way . . . via surrogacy. It mainly focuses on the impassioned pushback I received from one of our own Locals readers/supporters. I go a lot deeper into the religious and moralistic considerations of this hot-button topic than I typically would, but that is the main cog driving the debate and opposition to same-sex couples choosing surrogacy as a means to having children of their own.
Monday Jul 26, 2021
Monday Jul 26, 2021
Steve talks about the latest TPC Road Trip, the triple-sabotage of his scheduled Raleigh TPC meeting, finally receiving "that" semi-expected-but-still-a-surprise phone call, the latest attacks on civil liberties from the Biden Administration and Big Tech, the Cleveland "Guardians," (huh?), some COVID news, and more!
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
This podcast is a little different, as Steve (TPC) is being interviewed by a former colleague in the music game, James Newcomb. James played in one of Steve's bands for several months, back a few years ago. He’s now living in Vietnam, (from where he conducted this interview, 11 times zones away), and while still playing trumpet, he also runs a podcast production and consulting business.
James dabbles in a lot of areas in his own blogging and podcast efforts, including all things related to trumpet and music entrepreneurism, but he also veers off into the forbidden territories of politics and religion, on occasion. In this podcast, he spends a lot of time on the effect of COVID lockdowns on Steve's own music business, and also drags out a few other personal things about Steve that he may have never shared with the TPC audience. And, they do also talk a little about “trumpet” stuff.
Sunday May 30, 2021
Sunday May 30, 2021
In this podcast, Steve give a short Memorial Day tribute to his Great Uncle who was killed in Italy in the waning days of WW2...then covers some of the whiplash COVID news of the week.
Thursday May 27, 2021
Thursday May 27, 2021
Steve is rather riled up today. Only after government officials express suspicions about the Wuhan lab's culpability in releasing COVID on the world are We The People granted permission to discuss the topic on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube without threat of penalties and de-platforming. This has ALWAYS been a 1st Amendment fight with these so-called "private" companies. If you don't see it yet, then you are lost to us.
Tuesday May 25, 2021
Tuesday May 25, 2021
A little bit of this and a little bit of that. Steve takes a look inside the Covid Wayback Machine, digital privacy, inflation, and a quick update of where we are at the beginning of the TPC Road Trip, Spring 2021.
Monday May 17, 2021
Monday May 17, 2021
Steve covers everything related to North Carolina's governor fully reopening the state with no mask mandate and no capacity restrictions. He has questions. Lots of them.
Saturday May 15, 2021
Saturday May 15, 2021
We hope you enjoy the first in our series of letters exchanged between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, read by Steve Baker, The Pragmatic Constitutionalist.
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