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Yeah, KJ5ILQ returning. Returning. Actually, I was sitting here thinking about a link that Gray posted on the Discord saying that Trump is mulling over or giving thought to the Insurrection Act. If y'all don't know what that is, y'all should look it up. I'm going to say, and I'll type it out and post it on Discord, but I'm going to say that Trump will probably be able to do it and get away with it. Not because it's right or wrong, but because I don't believe the judicial or the legislative branches of government have the gonads to stop it. I think Trump is doing what every president since FDR has done, and that's test the constitutional limits of his office. However, I think Trump's taking it far beyond what most presidents do. Most presidents seem to try to grab more power a little bit here and a little bit there, which makes the office of the president very powerful. I think Trump's pretty much dropped all pretenses on that. He's just saying, yeah, this is what I can do. Stop me. Unless the judicial and legislative branches stand up and stop him, well, he's going to get away with it, and he's going to be able to do it. It will be legal. We haven't really talked much about it, and I wasn't going to bring it up, but his link got me thinking about it because I read that yesterday that he was thinking about doing the Insurrection Act. Like I've said, I am not in favor of him calling up the military to do civilian policing at this moment. I don't believe it's an insurrection. I don't believe it's a riot. I believe it's a small pocket of resistance that can be taken care of with traditional federal law, state, and local law enforcement. Of course, the local and state law enforcement are also not really enforcing that section of federal law, which is kind of funny. Here's the thing. I'm seeing that some, like Chicago, they're going to put these anti-ice or no-ice protective zones. Okay, first off, federal government trumps state and local. It's been like that since the Civil War. Since the 1860s and 70s, whenever the power shifted from states to federal government, the supremacy clause has always trumped states. I'm going to take a quick break. So with the city of Chicago saying no ice people can come in here, man, that's bull honky. Those federal agents will go wherever they want to go, and there's nothing nobody can do about it because they're federal, you see. They can file lawsuits, they can do this, they can do that, but they're just enforcing the law. So really, if you really look at it, the local and state governments who are telling the law officers not to enforce federal law is basically choosing which laws to enforce. So are they judge, jury, and executioners now? I mean, do they get to decide, yep, this law is good, we're going to enforce it, but this law sucks, we're not. What's next? Are they going to say, yep, we're not going to enforce murders because those are hard to solve. So we're going to do the same thing with murders that we do with illegal immigration. We're just going to ignore it. Yeah, that's a really far, far-fetched comparison, but I think I've proven my point. Federal and local and state law enforcement should be forced by law to enforce any law that is codified in the United States. Whether they agree with it or not, not the question. They're law enforcement. Their job is to enforce the established law, and that's what's not happening. So now that's why the federal people are getting involved. So I would say that part of this, I'm not saying all of it, but part of this entire problem are the local governments refusing to enforce the law. Go ponder that. KJ5IRQ, back to you. KB9NSK.