"Fact Check: Newsom Claims More Floridians Moving to California than Vice Versa"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
First, the bottom line...
Consider that probably the main reason that we hear media and political party complaints about the electoral college is this. The electoral college is the only thing stopping the corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties that have pirated control of state and federal governments from establishing a permanent puppet presidency that will unquestioningly sign unconstitutional taxing and spending bills into law.
That being noted, institutionally indoctrinated, follow the money Governors DeSantis, Haley, and Newsom probably don't understand (blatantly ignore?) that they cannot take the 10th Amendment state powers that they used to make their states thrive (destroy his state in Newsom's case), and use those same powers in the Oval Office to likewise make the nation thrive.
Corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress letting POTUS get away with stealing and using state powers not only ignores constitutional division of federal and state powers, but is main reason why citizens are now being oppressed under the boots of an unconstitutionally big federal government, evidenced by unconstitutional federal taxes imo.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
From the congressional record:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Democrats Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
Consider that the next major political event in the U.S. is not hopeful Trump 47 being elected for the third time. The next major event is Democratic and Republican Trump supporters primarying ALL state and federal incumbent lawmakers and executives, except for MTG, Gaetz & Company, Jordan (and others?).
Voters need to replace incumbents with patriots who will be happy to support Trump to not only finish draining the swamp, but will also support him in surrendering state powers that the very corrupt, unconstitutionally big federal government has stolen from the states back to the states.
In fact, if DC respected its constitutionally limited power to deliver the mail, the mail being one of the very few powers that the states have actually given the feds to dictate domestic policy, the worst problem that the country would otherwise be looking at with a new Congress of Trump-supporting freshman lawmakers is arguably that citizens that would ultimately get into the habit of lightheartedly questioning if the federal government has shutdown if they receive their mail a few days late.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Trump can endorse candidates from lists that patriots who respect the federal government's constitutionally limited powers provide for him, as long as candidates are not incumbents, candidates also promising to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments after they win office.
Consider the repealing of 16&17A as part of reparations for victim taxpayers of the unconstitutionally big federal government for having to pay a lifetime of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers and a few other constitutionally enumerated expenses.
Again, the electoral college is the only thing stopping the corrupt political parties from establishing a permanent puppet presidency that will unquestioningly sign unconstitutional taxing and spending bills into law.
Repeal the 17th Amendment and things start to improve immediately. Get the States back in control of the Senate where they belong.