Saturday, November 30, 2019

The Govt Wants It Both Ways

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

-  The govt doesn't play fair. they want it both ways, because they no longer see the people as their bosses.

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Lankford & Inhofe Resist Banking Safety Reforms

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- Inhofe & Lankford illustrate exactly why the founders insisted that the US not have a central bank. But congress has effectively become the fascist banking power, as illustrated by their ban on some businesses having the ability to use banks for safe transfer of assets & paying taxes. Read more at SoonerPolitics.org

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The Battle of Power Against Freedom

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

-  Van talks about the lesson that Majority Leader, Dick Armey taught him & a group of Tulsans, back in 1994. It's still true, to this day.

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Friday, November 29, 2019

Impeaching Biden Instead of Trump

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- The desperate effort to impugn trump, has just emphasized how corrupt Joe Biden was, and is.

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Ownership Vs Currency

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

-  Tom explains why actual property assets are better than 'cashing out'.

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Thursday, November 28, 2019

Jewelry & The Value of Ownership

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- Why steal a historic and notorious piece of jewelry, if you can't wear it publicly?

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Why Bad Laws Remain In the Code

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

-  Why do governments make unconstitutional laws, and leave them in our statutory code, even if they don't prosecute anyone (successfully)? SoonerPolitics has an associated blog which is full of arcane laws.

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The Annual E Coli Scare

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- Oldham points out that this is probably the 4th year in a row, that California produce growers issued a recall on Romaine Lettuce. He wants to know why?

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Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Legal Strategies To Deal With Drug Abuse

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- Does it make sense to imprison adults for their choice of drugs? What is a constitutional method of approaching the topic of bad consumption choices made by people?

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The South Dakota Meth Solution

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- The state of South Dakota is proud of their ad campaign to fight methamphetamines. But is it a futile waste of tax money?

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Tulsa BassMaster Bust

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- Tulsa's most historic national sportsman's competition just gave up on the city, The Bassmaster Classic didn't even get a bid from the city where the event was born and held for nearly 50 years.

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Tuesday, November 26, 2019

The Yellow Flag Nazis In the NFL

Notorious Referee, Ed Hochuli loves his job. 
In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

-  Tom recaps the excesses in the NFL officiating, this season, and what he'd do to fix it.



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Thanksgiving Special - Full Show

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..
  • Referees are obstructing the NFL. Tom recaps the excesses in the NFL officiating, this season, and what he'd do to fix it.
  • Tulsa Throws Away The BassMaster Classic.  Tulsa's most historic national sportsman's competition just gave up on the city, The Bassmaster Classic didn't even get a bid from the city where the event was born and held for nearly 50 years.
  • The South Dakota Solution To Drug Abuse. The state of South Dakota is proud of their ad campaign to fight methamphetamines. But is it a futile waste of tax money? Does it make sense to imprison adults for their choice of drugs? What is a constitutional method of approaching the topic of bad consumption choices made by people?  Why do governments make unconstitutional laws, and leave them in our statutory code, even if they don't prosecute anyone (successfully)?
  • The European Jewelry Heist.  Why steal a historic and notorious piece of jewelry, if you can't wear it publicly? Tom explains why actual property assets are better than 'cashing out'.
  • Impeachment Bust? The desperate effort to impugn trump, has just emphasized how corrupt Joe Biden was, and is. Van talks about the lesson that Majority Leader, Dick Armey taught him & a group of Tulsans, back in 1994. It's still true, to this day.
  • The Annual E Coli Scare.  Oldham points out that this is probably the 4th year in a row, that California produce growers issued a recall on Romaine Lettuce. He wants to know why?
  • Senators Creating A Crisis In Business Robberies. Inhofe & Lankford illustrate exactly why the founders insisted that the US not have a central bank. But congress has effectively become the fascist banking power, as illustrated by their ban on some businesses having the ability to use banks for safe transfer of assets & paying taxes.
  • Court Updates. 
  • How to tap into the 3D Politics content. Van explains the many ways that 3D Politics is getting the weekly content delivered to you.
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Saturday, November 23, 2019

Tim Harper Deprived of 3 Constitutional Rights By D A Prater


In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- After being publicly condemned by OK2A, Tim Harper was arrested and forced to remain in the county jail on a previously unenforced law which directly violates the US Constitution. OK2A president, Don Spencer changed his public stance and began offering assistance to Harper's plight.
  Harper now has bail, but it was done unconstitutionally and violates his 1st, 2nd, & 8th Amendment Constitutional rights.

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John Angier: Pioneer in Citizen Journalism


In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- A pioneer in citizen journalism, John Angier;  passed away, last week. He led several political initiatives in Oklahoma, and played supporting roles in many more. John produced the Cable access show, "Oklahoma Politics & You", with Steve Byas and others. He was also a campaign consultant for several political figures, including former state Senator, Anthony Sykes.
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Friday, November 22, 2019

Hong Kong Liberty Protests Expand


In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- The months-old protest grew this weekend to about 25% of the Hong Kong population. Cops pinned down a massive portion of protesters at the Hong Kong University. the civilians were promised safe exit if the cease their activities, but cops then attacked those who trusted them. The violence then escalated.

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Duncan Hero Stops Murderer With His Constitutional Carry


In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- When a romantic relationship falls apart, 3 people are dead, in a Walmart parking lot.  Veteran Aaron Helton happened to be armed and standing nearby. He immediately confronted the shooter with orders to cease. That's when the murderer shot himself, and ended the violence.

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Thursday, November 21, 2019

GOP Goes AWOL On Sales Tax Extension Vote


In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- The City of Tulsa just got the voters to assess each Tulsan (present & future) to pay an additional $2000, over several years.
Shockingly, the Republican party stayed silent on the issue. Only a small handful of citizen journalist & advocates spoke in favor of small govt.

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Marijuana Dispensary Goes 'Anti-Meat'


In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- The owner of two medical marijuana dispensaries, Robert Cox; just demonstrated his lack of tolerance this past week, by scolding & suspending an employee for bringing a sack lunch to work with a meat sandwich which was stored in the back room refrigerator.
  It's not clear how the employer discovered the contents of a sealed lunch meal, but the employer quickly took the employee off the schedule and accused her of violating "the holy space we've created at Friendly".

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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Tom Talks To Mindless Millennial Gamers Part 2


In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- Here's part 2 of the generational divide discussion. This past weekend, Host Tom McCay attempted to discuss fiscal public policy with Millennial & Gen-Z gamers.  The results depend on who you ask. Several topics included:
  • free college, 
  • communist public healthcare, 
  • employment wage laws, 
  • and so many other 'hot button' matters.

Tom shows incredible poise and the young punks discredit him for being too old to understand policy issues.

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Tom Talks To Mindless Millennial Gamers - Part 1


In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- This past weekend, Host Tom McCay attempted to discuss fiscal public policy with Millennial & Gen-Z gamers.  The results depend on who you ask. Several topics included:
  • free college, 
  • communist public healthcare, 
  • employment wage laws, 
  • and so many other 'hot button' matters.
  Tom shows incredible poise and the young punks discredit him for being too old to understand policy issues.
Here's part 1.


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Tuesday, November 19, 2019

3D Politics Tom & The Gamers Collide, Hong Kong Melts Down Full Show

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..
- Tom Gets Ambushed By Millennial Gamers.
- Hong Kong Mets Down As Protests Expand.
- Duncan Oklahoma Finds A Local Hero.
- Harper's Rights Get Trampled.
- GOP Abdicates fight against Tulsa tax expansion.
- Marijuana Dispensary Goes Anti Meat.
- John Angier Remembered

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Monday, November 18, 2019

Court Updates: Kenny vs Blanchard Cops


In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

-  The roofing appraiser who didn't want to be grilled by Blanchard police, filed a lawsuit against them for harassment, false imprisonment, denial of constitutional right to remain silent, and other abuses.  The city settled out of court.


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2nd Amendment Auditor Parts With OK2A

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..
- Tim Harper, of News Now OKC was publicly disowned by the leadership of OK2A gun rights advocates.
The group impugned the motives of Harper and says some of his actions incite problems rather than resolve them.

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Sunday, November 17, 2019

Presidential Election Messaging

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..
-  Joe Biden used to be the coronated king of the Democrats. But now the media lapdogs are changing the manner in which they describe the former VP

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The School Bus Cameras Write Tickets


In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- Two state legislators what to grab the money  which used to be collected for municipalities, and instead, they devised a plan to bypass the old divisions of fines and spend all the money on building a spy state which is more totalitarian than east Germany was.
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Saturday, November 16, 2019

More Funding Led to Worse Oklahoma Schools


In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- While taxpayers spent way more for public education, the quality went way down in the past 2 years. We're not heading to top ten. We just sunk to bottom ten.

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Friday, November 15, 2019

Gun Owner Gets Justice Further Delayed

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..
-  Rick Hubbard of Broken Arrow is without his firearms, but he has not been charged with any crimes. A Judge demanded that he give them up, or remain in jail for up to a year, without any charges, much less any trial. Now he tells us that his day in court is pushed back to a staggering 3 years. And the OSBI just took away his Concealed Carry permit because he pressed too hard for a resolution.
He went to a park to exercise, after  a back surgery. He carried a light firearm, which remained slinged. But a firefighter got offended and called the police, who attacked Hubbard with pepper balls and hauled him to jail.

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Advanced Feminism Institute Goes Online

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..
-  A Feminist group has prepared a full academic catalog of educational courses for those wishing to enroll. You'll get a kick out of the course descriptions.

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Thursday, November 14, 2019

Mannford Police Chief Gets Killed

Mike Nealey is charged with Miller's murder.
In this installment of 3D Politics Live..
-  The beloved police chief was murdered in a vicious and bloody fist fight with one of his own officers, according to hotel workers at the Pensacola Florida location where the two men were attending a conference.

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Nikki Haley Thwarts Presidential Coup


In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley exposed a plot from within Trump's upper administration. Rex Tillerson & Gen Kelly are named as principles. Tillerson was fired & Kelly resigned.

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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

US Military Losing the Veteran Suicide War

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..
-- the US has lost veterans to suicide at a rate 10 times bigger than our casualties from the Afghan & Iraq War.

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We All Have Veterans To Thank

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..
--  This week we observe Veterans Day. Wee talk about the true cost of war in human terms.

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Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Govt Lies About Tax Increases - full Show


In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

  • Voting to take $2000 more in taxes from each of us
  • Honoring Veterans
  • Counting the cost of war
  • Oklahoma Education Scores Drop
  • Trump's Team Turned On Him
  • Did A Cop Murder His Police Chief?
  • Gun Owners Under Assault From Each Other
  • Courts Violating Constitution


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This Is A $2000 Tax Increase, Per Person


  In this installment of 3D Politics Live..
Despite the mayor's rhetoric, If 1/3 a million citizens raise an extra 2/3 of a BILLION, then taxes went up $2000 PER CITIZEN!

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Sunday, November 10, 2019

Court Updates

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..
- We decided to follow up on some old court issues that made the news some months ago. Sometimes the media outlets fail to report the details of how the courts establish justice.

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Saturday, November 9, 2019

Bond Elections We Can't Afford

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..
- In this installment of 3D Politics Live..
- Oklahoma's major cities are trying to make our temporary taxes more permanent. And they're exploiting Capital expenditures to take the place of routine maintenance, which cannot be funded with capitol bond money.

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Licensing Our Constitutional Rights?

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..
- Licensing Our Constitutional Rights? Should you have to get a license for something the constitution already guarantees to you? Is a voter registration card an unconstitutional barrier to voter rights?

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Friday, November 8, 2019

Tulsa Teen Scooter Ban Fails


In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- Last year, a mother ignored safety protocols, and her son died. City councilors decided to crack down on the kids and ban them from riding scooters, even though they can get a motorcycle license at age 14.
But the council got cold feet and dropped the issue.

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The Responsibilities That Come With Rights

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..
-Oldham tells a few stories of the power and responsibility that comes with  the use of lethal force. We discuss training and knowing the weaponry that best suits the individual citizen.

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Thursday, November 7, 2019

Yellow Ribbons Fly For Nation's Largest Commutation


In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- Three years ago, the voters of Oklahoma overwhelmingly struck down several nonviolent felony statutes and adjusted them to the status of misdemeanor, and a cap of 12 months of local incarceration.  the legislature & governor went further to remove the current prison population who'd already served far more time than the statutes currently allow.

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OKGOP Leaders Restoring Fiscal Integrity & Cooperation


In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- After two months of unpleasant headlines and finger-pointing, the Oklahoma Grand Old Party (OKGOP) held two committee meetings in the past two days, to resolve some very timely issues.


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Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Cop Insists Flu Victim Is Drunk. Patient Dies In Jail Within Hours

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..
- A Southern Oklahoma local cop ignored a motorist's medical crisis and the negative tests for alcohol, and threw him in the county jail. He was dead within hours, from double pneumonia and influenza. The very symptoms he'd complained about to the cop!

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Constitutional Carry In Rep. Lowe's District


In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- With Rep. Jason Lowe's failure to stop Oklahomans from their restored civil liberties of self defense, some advocates of the 2nd amendment took a stroll through part of the urban black community that Lowe represents.

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Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Woke Folk Get Scolded By Obama

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..
- Former President Barack Obama made a rare foray into the cultural conversation this week, objecting to the prevalence of “call-out culture” and “wokeness” during an interview about youth activism at the Obama Foundation summit on Tuesday, in Chicago. 

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Packing Heat - Waking the Woke - Surviving Jail - Full Show, By 3D Politics

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..
- Packing Heat
- Waking the Woke
- Surviving Jail
- Full Show, By 3D Politics

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Monday, November 4, 2019

Big City Mayors Want Billions More From You

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..
- Two metropolitan bond elections will potentially hike taxes by $1.5 Billion. But the 2 big city mayors are lying. Rates may stay high, but taxes will definitely change. 
Years ago, we authorized a special temporary tax for some one-time capital improvements, but that tax is now being diverted to routine municipal maintenance of infrastructure.
 But what's worse is that many of these multimillion dollar ideas are not core functions of govt. and directly compete with local businesses.

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Sunday, November 3, 2019

Broken Arrow Cops Abuse Local Hiker In Area Park


In this installment of 3D Politics Live..
- Rick Hubbard was certain that he conducted himself within the law and more importantly; the constitution. But the Broken Arrow Fire Dept. Activated the city police, who swarmed on the local citizen with an assault team and multiple pepper balls. Now DA Steve Kunzweiler is delaying the return of the abused man's firearms and his public reputation.

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Saturday, November 2, 2019

The Cultural Shaming of Conservatives

In this installment of 3D Politics Live..
- The Cultural Shaming of Conservatives. Anything or anyone, who represents the traditions of western culture, have been under attack by leftist underminers.

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It's no less than a cultural revolution. The same intolerance that infected red China for ten years, and caused the deaths of millions.
Here's what Wikipedia said..
The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China from 1966 until 1976. Launched by Mao Zedong, then Chairman of the Communist Party of China, its stated goal was to preserve Chinese Communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Mao Zedong Thought (known outside China as Maoism) as the dominant ideology in the Communist Party of China. The Revolution marked Mao's return to a position of power after a period of less radical leadership to recover from the failures of the Great Leap Forward, whose leftist policies led to famine and approximately 30 million deaths only five years earlier. The Cultural Revolution damaged China's economy and led to the death of an estimated 500,000 to 2,000,000 people.[1]Mao launched the movement in May 1966, soon calling on young people to "bombard the headquarters" and proclaiming that "to rebel is justified". Mao charged that bourgeois elements had infiltrated the government and society and that they aimed to restore capitalism. Lin Biao, head of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), was written into the constitution as Mao's successor; Lin had compiled the Little Red Book, a selection of Mao's sayings, that became a sacred text for Mao's personality cult. To eliminate his rivals within the Communist Party of China (CPC) and in schools, factories, and government institutions, Mao insisted that revisionists be removed through violent class struggle. China's youth responded by forming Red Guard groups around the country, which split into rival factions and sometimes open battle. Schools and universities were closed. Urban workers likewise split into factions, and the PLA had to be sent to restore order. Senior officials, most notably Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping, were purged or exiled. Millions of people were accused of being Rightists and persecuted or suffered public humiliation, imprisonment, torture, hard labor, seizure of property, and sometimes execution or harassment into suicide. Many urban intellectual youths were sent to the countryside in the Down to the Countryside Movement. Red Guards destroyed historical relics and artifacts or ransacked cultural and religious sites.Mao officially ended the Cultural Revolution in 1969, but its active phase lasted until at least 1971, when Lin Biao fled and died in a plane crash, accused of plotting to overthrow Mao. After Mao's death and the arrest of the Gang of Four in 1976, Deng Xiaoping gradually dismantled the Maoist policies associated with the Cultural Revolution. In 1981, the Party declared that the Cultural Revolution was "responsible for the most severe setback and the heaviest losses suffered by the Party, the country, and the people since the founding of the People's Republic".[2]