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Greetings Dear listeners, this is another exciting and

technologically challenged episode of the Remnant Podcast through the miracle of

landline technology. I am on the phone with my National Review colleague and

friend and the only libertarian round head atheist I know. Charlie Cook,

Charlie, welcome back to the show. Thank you for having me back. So is libertarian

round head atheist? That's all fair, right? Totally, absolutely fair. But you could

also draw in maybe wig or not wig story. And as we just go last time, I don't

think that we're destined for Sunlit Uplands with no effort. Yeah, I think I

think I was trying to think of how many different adjectives apply because you

kind of you borrow from a lot of different files. So where to begin? Well, you're

basically the only person I know who is more principally horrified by Trump's

declaration of emergency. So why don't you start off by just walking us through

your top 14 objections? Well, the primary objection that I have is that whatever

he is doing is farcical given that the fight we have been watching for two

months and more, the fight that caused the shutdown, the fight in which his

White House and the new democratic majority in the House have been engaged for

weeks seems to have been for nothing. If if a president can just end a dispute

with the legislative branch by doing what it was that he was in the first

instance asking the legislative branch permission to do, then we don't have a

legislative branch and we don't have separation of powers. That's my

objection. Now, it gets complicated. It gets complicated because there are a

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