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The Final Countdown to Shutdown (Ep.109) · V

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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongina Report Early Edition. The
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Speaker 1: government barrels toward a shutdown, White House insiders admit that
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Speaker 1: Biden is senile, MSNBC wants to hire more Republicans, why
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Speaker 1: Luigi Mangione lovers terrify me, Nick Fuentes is almost murdered,
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Speaker 1: and archaeologists make an incredible ancient Christian discovery. All of
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Speaker 1: this on Bongina Report Early Edition. So we got a
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Speaker 1: new bill, a Trump-backed 116-page bill as opposed to the
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Speaker 1: dumpster fire 1,500-plus page CR or continuing resolution. Some people
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Speaker 1: were asking what CR stands for, continuing resolution, that we
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Speaker 1: talked about yesterday. Michael also asked me what CR stood for.
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Speaker 1: So yes, continuing resolution. But last night, this new bill that, again,
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Speaker 1: Trump backed, failed. Now, the new bill... would have raised
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Speaker 1: the debt ceiling. So a lot of the pork that
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Speaker 1: was in this new bill, or the 1,500-page-plus bill, the censorship,
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Speaker 1: the mask mandates, all the crazy stuff that we were
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Speaker 1: talking about that we were so upset about, even inhibiting
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Speaker 1: RFK Jr. from making the vaccine reforms that he wanted to,
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Speaker 1: that's not in this new bill, but this new bill
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Speaker 1: was going to raise the debt ceiling. And the debt
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Speaker 1: ceiling is, of course, the limit on how much the
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Speaker 1: federal government can borrow. It is not spending money. It
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Speaker 1: is the limit on how much we can spend. And
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Speaker 1: nearly every single Democrat and more than 30 Republicans, including
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Speaker 1: Chip Roy, Tim Burchett, Paul Gosar, Thomas Massey, Nancy Mace,
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Speaker 1: my former representative, Tom Tiffany from Wisconsin, they killed this bill.
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Speaker 1: And I'm going to get to why the Democrats voted
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Speaker 1: against this bill, because they don't have a good reason.
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Speaker 1: But first, I want to talk to you about the
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Speaker 1: Republicans who voted against it. And here is Chip Roy's
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Speaker 1: in his own words, telling us why he opposed this
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Speaker 1: bill last night.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I think this bill is better than it was
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Speaker 2: yesterday on certain respects. But to take this bill, to
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Speaker 2: take this bill yesterday and congratulate yourself because it's shorter
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Speaker 2: in pages, but increases the debt by $ 5 trillion is asinine.
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Speaker 2: And that's precisely what Republicans are doing. I'm absolutely sickened
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Speaker 2: by a party that campaigns on fiscal responsibility and has
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Speaker 2: the temerity to go forward to the American people and say,
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Speaker 2: you think this is fiscally responsible. It is absolutely ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so Trump was very unhappy with Chip Roy last night.
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Speaker 1: He was furious. And he wrote on True Social in
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Speaker 1: response to Chip Roy taking the charge, leading the charge
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Speaker 1: on this fight against the bill last night. Chip Roy
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Speaker 1: is just another ambitious guy with no talent. I hope
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Speaker 1: some talented challengers are getting ready in the great state
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Speaker 1: of Texas to go after Chip in the primary. He
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Speaker 1: won't have a chance. Now, why does Trump want to
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Speaker 1: raise the debt ceiling? Why is Trump so angry at
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Speaker 1: Chip Roy and all the other Republicans who voted against this?
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Speaker 1: The debt ceiling is covering spending that Congress has, of course,
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Speaker 1: already authorized. And Trump knows the debt ceiling will be
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Speaker 1: used as a political tool on the left and even
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Speaker 1: rhinos in our party to mess with his agenda. The
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Speaker 1: Democrats will say we need spending under control or we'll
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Speaker 1: raise it, but only if you fund State Department orchestrated
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Speaker 1: censorship efforts, which is all the pork that they want, right?
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Speaker 1: So in Trump's view, his agenda is at stake here.
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Speaker 1: And of course, this has mobilized Trump's base against Chip
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Speaker 1: Roy and the other Republicans who generally we all like
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Speaker 1: voted against this bill last night. Cat Turd in particular
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Speaker 1: has been fuming on X. He's been flamethrowing all of
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Speaker 1: these representatives, but specifically Chip Roy himself. All night long,
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Speaker 1: he wrote yesterday, so the 38 Republicans who voted against
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Speaker 1: this bill, they all did so because their big lobbyists
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Speaker 1: and donors told them to. Don't doubt me. They're all
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Speaker 1: sellout losers. This is really simple. If you already stand
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Speaker 1: against Trump, you stand against us. So I'm going to
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Speaker 1: give you my take here, you guys. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: lay it out first. So some of these reps are
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Speaker 1: probably poorly motivated, like Cat Turd is alleging, and they
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Speaker 1: want to hinder Trump's agenda. That's not true for all
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Speaker 1: of them. We have to be honest about what's going
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Speaker 1: on here. Some of these guys are genuine. Thomas Massey,
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Speaker 1: who I've talked to on the phone, my former representative
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Speaker 1: from Wisconsin where I used to live, Tom Tiffany, I
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Speaker 1: know for a fact that these two guys are genuine
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Speaker 1: good men who care about fiscal responsibility. Thomas Massey is
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Speaker 1: adamant that we need separate bills. He's been calling for
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Speaker 1: this for months, and I totally agree with him. I
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Speaker 1: totally agree with him. One vote for the clean CR,
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Speaker 1: one vote for the debt limit, one vote for disaster relief,
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Speaker 1: one vote for farm bailouts, individual bills for each of
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Speaker 1: these issues. This is what he wants. It's a reasonable request.
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Speaker 1: He's been asking for it for a long time. Now,
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Speaker 1: the counter argument is if you trust Trump, you'd want
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Speaker 1: to give him the best shot at asserting his agenda
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Speaker 1: the second he takes office. Remember, the debt ceiling isn't spending.
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Speaker 1: It's just the limit. And Trump has promised to cut
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Speaker 1: waste $ 2 trillion with Doge. So it really comes down to,
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Speaker 1: do you trust Trump to do that or not? And
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Speaker 1: some of these representatives are not genuine and they want
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Speaker 1: to inhibit Trump. Some of them are good men who
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Speaker 1: are truly serious about cutting spending. Thomas Massey, Tom Tiffany,
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Speaker 1: they're two guys who I know are serious. And it's
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Speaker 1: possible that they really don't trust Trump to cut the spending.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he was a big spender when he was
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Speaker 1: in office the last time. Now he's saying, I'm really
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Speaker 1: pro-fiscal responsibility. I've created Doge. I'm making all these promises
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Speaker 1: that we're going to actually get this whole uh, get
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Speaker 1: this whole, uh, our whole financial system under control, get
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Speaker 1: all the spending under control. Again, it comes down to,
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Speaker 1: do you trust Trump or do you not trust Trump?
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Speaker 1: And the reason, uh, Trump has, has promised to cut
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Speaker 1: 2 trillion to cut Doge is what he ran on.
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Speaker 1: So he, again, it's, it's, it's something that he's promised
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Speaker 1: the people. Trump will ultimately be on the hook if
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Speaker 1: he doesn't follow through for the people and the representatives
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Speaker 1: can put Trump on the hook and say, listen, you
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Speaker 1: told us you were going to cut spending and then
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Speaker 1: you didn't. So there's just a lot of moving parts here,
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Speaker 1: but the cutting of the spending is going to take time.
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Speaker 1: That's another thing to consider. And we're going to reach
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Speaker 1: the debt ceiling before then. And the counter argument is
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Speaker 1: we want to give Trump breathing room to assert his agenda.
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Speaker 1: Does this all make sense to you guys? All of
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Speaker 1: the moving parts here, what I'm saying, anybody have any questions?
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Speaker 1: I don't know, Mikey, if you see anything that comes up,
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Speaker 1: you let me know. My take here, guys, is that
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Speaker 1: I'm sympathetic to both parties. I hate to be, you know, the, oh,
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to take a side here, but I
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Speaker 1: am sympathetic to Trump. I am sympathetic to the guys
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Speaker 1: who are genuinely fiscally responsible. Yeah, Mikey. So the chat
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Speaker 1: seems to think that Chip Roy is disingenuous, but they
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Speaker 1: like Tom Massey. I don't know a ton about Chip Roy.
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Speaker 1: He's not my representative. I will say that the back
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Speaker 1: and forth between Trump and Chip Roy has been longstanding
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Speaker 1: back when Trump had his first term. the two of
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Speaker 1: them butted heads. So some of this is personal too.
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Speaker 1: This is what you need to understand about Congress is
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Speaker 1: you think that it's all about principled stands or a
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Speaker 1: lot of times personal gripes seep into this. There's a
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Speaker 1: reason why he's slamming Chip Roy, but he's not slamming
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Speaker 1: Nancy Mace, right? Because he doesn't have as much of
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Speaker 1: a problem with her. There's personal politics that comes into
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Speaker 1: play here that a lot of us, we don't even
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Speaker 1: know about. Some of it we do, some of it
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Speaker 1: we've seen over the years, some of it we have
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Speaker 1: no clue. And, and that is coming into play because again,
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Speaker 1: politics is personal. It's not straightforward. It's not always logical and,
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Speaker 1: and it can be really opaque and it can be
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Speaker 1: really hard to figure out. So I, again, I'm not
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Speaker 1: taking a huge side on either, on either, on either
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Speaker 1: way here. I think I tend to lean to the,
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Speaker 1: to the opinion of you guys should just give Trump
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Speaker 1: the best situation possible. You should let him assert his agenda.
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Speaker 1: We should trust Trump that people have given him a
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Speaker 1: mandate and, and the Republicans should be a unified force
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Speaker 1: and try and get this agenda as, uh, try to
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Speaker 1: get this agenda passed as seamlessly as possible. Once Trump
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Speaker 1: takes office, Michael, I think Michael, you would disagree with that.
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Speaker 1: Wouldn't you? Yeah. So Michael wasn't a fan of Trump spending.
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Speaker 1: Michael thinks that, you know, the Congressman like Tom Massey,
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Speaker 1: Tom Tiffany, uh, maybe Nancy Mace, that what they're doing
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Speaker 1: is genuine and good for the country. And Michael says
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Speaker 1: if Trump's doge really does, you know, decrease $ 2 trillion
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Speaker 1: of waste, then we don't need to raise the debt limit.
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Speaker 1: So people have different opinions on this. My take is
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Speaker 1: that the reason that we're having this chaos right now
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Speaker 1: in Congress is because of leadership. This is the real
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Speaker 1: problem here, you guys. It's the leadership. It's not Thomas Massey.
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Speaker 1: It's not Chip Roy. It's not Trump. It's not Elon Musk.
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Speaker 1: It is Mike Johnson. Mike Johnson has lost control of
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Speaker 1: the House. A fiscally responsible bill or bills should have
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Speaker 1: been written and negotiated months ago. There's infighting and there's
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Speaker 1: scrambling right now because leadership brought us to this mess.
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Speaker 1: Mike Johnson betrayed us with this bill and then he
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Speaker 1: created a mess. when Doge and Trump put him in
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Speaker 1: check and said, whoa, what are you doing? We can't
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Speaker 1: be funding censorship and masks and Ukraine and Big Pharma.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it was just a ridiculous bill. Like I
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Speaker 1: wrote on Twitter last night, it was almost like it
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Speaker 1: was handwritten by Nancy Pelosi herself. And you can better
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Speaker 1: believe that Mike Johnson loves what's happening right now to
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Speaker 1: Chip Roy and Tom Massey, that they're getting the hate
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Speaker 1: instead of him. And again, let me repeat, this is
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Speaker 1: a leadership failure. This should have been figured out a
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Speaker 1: long time ago. They should have been negotiated months ago.
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Speaker 1: And now we're dealing with this disaster because of a
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Speaker 1: leadership failure. And it's going to be a rocky process
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Speaker 1: because we're scrambling, because we had to go back to
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Speaker 1: the drawing board. We're potentially looking at a shutdown because
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Speaker 1: the leadership failed. Now, equally at fault here is the Democrats.
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Speaker 1: All but two Democrats voted against this bill, and not
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Speaker 1: because they care about fiscal responsibility. Again, this is why
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Speaker 1: I'm annoyed at them, because they don't have a good reason.
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Speaker 1: Here's J.D. Vance explaining.
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Speaker 3: Look, I'll say one thing.
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Speaker 4: The Democrats just voted to shut down the government, even
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Speaker 4: though we had a clean CR, because they didn't want
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Speaker 4: to give the president negotiating leverage during his first term,
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Speaker 4: or during the first year of his new term. And
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Speaker 4: number two, because they would rather shut down the government
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Speaker 4: and fight.
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Speaker 3: For global censorship bullshit.
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Speaker 4: They've asked for a shutdown, and I think that's exactly.
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Speaker 1: What they're going to do. Nearly every House Democrat, save two,
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Speaker 1: voted against disaster relief, aid for farmers, keeping the government open,
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Speaker 1: pay for the military, and all because they care about
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Speaker 1: funding the censorship of conservatives and giving themselves and the
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Speaker 1: rest of the deep state immunity, among other horrible things.
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Speaker 1: You have to think about that. The Democrats already agreed
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Speaker 1: on everything that's in this bill, and they don't care
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Speaker 1: about the debt limit. You guys know these are the
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Speaker 1: most fiscally irresponsible people in Congress, the Democratic Party. They
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Speaker 1: just lost their destructive earmarks, and now they're throwing a fit.
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Speaker 1: Now they're mad. As Elon Musk writes, the vast majority
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Speaker 1: of Republican House members voted for the spending bill, but
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Speaker 1: only two Democrats did. Therefore, if the government shuts down,
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Speaker 1: it is obviously the fault of Representative Jeffries and the
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Speaker 1: Democratic Party. And that is true. That's true. Now, Democrats'
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Speaker 1: main line of attack right now is Elon Musk. They
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Speaker 1: are horrified by the fact that Elon Musk has had
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Speaker 1: input and is saying on X, yeah, maybe we shouldn't
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Speaker 1: be spending money on crazy things like Ukraine and Big Pharma,
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Speaker 1: inhibiting RFK Jr. I mean, they're just angry at Elon Musk.
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Speaker 1: This is their line of attack. This is what they're
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Speaker 1: going with. Here was Hakeem Jeffries yesterday.
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Speaker 5: The Musk-Johnson proposal is not serious.
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Speaker 3: It's laughable.
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Speaker 5: Extreme MAGA Republicans are driving us to a government shutdown.
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Speaker 1: It's so Elon Musk focused, it's kind of ridiculous. Probably
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Speaker 1: the craziest response, blaming Elon Musk for all this, was
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Speaker 1: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro on the House floor. You guys just
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Speaker 1: have to listen to this. It's insane.
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Speaker 3: They got scared because President Musk told them.
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Speaker 6: President Musk said.
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Speaker 1: Don't do it.
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Speaker 7: Don't do it.
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Speaker 8: Shut the government down.
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Speaker 1: Imagine.
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Speaker 6: What does he know?
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Speaker 1: Okay, this woman, by the way, if you're listening, she
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Speaker 1: has purple hair. She's a completely deranged individual, and she
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Speaker 1: also happens to be the most powerful Democrat in Congress
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Speaker 1: on all things U.S. federal budget. She's very close buddies
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Speaker 1: with Nancy Pelosi, so she was chair of the House
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Speaker 1: Appropriations Committee, super powerful committee, for the first two years
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Speaker 1: of the Biden administration. and then the committee's ranking member
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Speaker 1: since the GOP won in the 2022 midterms. And by
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Speaker 1: the way, I think her hair should be against House
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Speaker 1: dress code, or I have no idea why she's allowed
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Speaker 1: to look like that. She's clearly a crazy, crazy woman.
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Speaker 1: And we're dealing with insanity in the Democratic Party right now.
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Speaker 1: I just reasoned out for you guys why some of
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Speaker 1: these Republicans voted against the bill last night. Completely reasonable.
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Speaker 1: It makes sense to me I might not agree with it,
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Speaker 1: but I'm sympathetic to the point of view. The Democrats
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Speaker 1: are just insane. Their reasoning is because they want more pork,
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Speaker 1: more problems. They want, I mean, they don't have a
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Speaker 1: good reason. Here is Elizabeth Warren echoing the same sentiment.
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Speaker 1: But the Republicans would rather have a crisis, would rather
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Speaker 1: blow this up because they're all doing whatever the great
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Speaker 1: and powerful Mr. Musk wants them to do. Do you
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Speaker 1: think there's going to be a government shutdown?
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Speaker 8: Ask Elon Musk.
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Speaker 1: Senator Elizabeth Warren. We'll see if he joins us out
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Speaker 1: here on the balcony. Thank you for that. Okay. So, okay.
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Speaker 1: Here's what I want you guys to remember about all
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Speaker 1: these Democrats freaking out about Milan Mullis, the billionaire he's involved.
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Speaker 1: Remember that Wall Street sided overwhelmingly with Biden and Kamala
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Speaker 1: in 2020 and 2024. The Democrats love taking money from billionaires.
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Speaker 1: They love supporting billionaires. The COVID response, the climate cult,
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Speaker 1: Massive spending that drives up inflation. All these policies that
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Speaker 1: Democrats love, all they have done is empower the rich
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Speaker 1: and the powerful in this country and destroy the middle class.
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Speaker 1: They're total posers. They just hate Elon Musk because he's
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Speaker 1: a billionaire who happens to oppose them. It's completely disingenuous.
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Speaker 1: And you guys all know, I mean, the obvious example
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Speaker 1: is George Soros. the guy with massive influence over American politics,
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Speaker 1: who's for years has been funding radical leftist campaigns across
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Speaker 1: the country. And the Democrats love it because it helps them.
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Speaker 1: And now they're freaking out about Elon Musk. Again, completely disingenuous.
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Speaker 1: As Texas Patriot writes on X, Elon didn't kill the bill.
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Speaker 1: We the people did. Elon just broadcasted our voices. And
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Speaker 1: that is true. I talked about it yesterday. It feels
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Speaker 1: like the people finally have a unified voice. when it
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Speaker 1: comes to that 1500 plus page package of just waste
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Speaker 1: and frankly abuse of the American people. And we said
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Speaker 1: no to it. And just because Elon Musk agrees with
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Speaker 1: the vast majority of the American people doesn't mean that
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Speaker 1: Elon Musk is the reason that it happened or he's
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Speaker 1: the only person whose voice matters. Elon Musk amplified the
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Speaker 1: sentiment of what the American people have been saying for
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Speaker 1: years now, years. All right, we're going to take a
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Speaker 1: quick break. When we come back, I have a wild
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Speaker 1: Biden expose to share with you all. Don't go anywhere.
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Speaker 1: I saw somebody comment that we need to give Michael
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Speaker 1: a microphone, and I totally agree. And I said last night,
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Speaker 1: I said, Michael, because we were having this conversation, and
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Speaker 1: Michael helps me break down stories all the time. We
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Speaker 1: were having a debate about something even kind of separate,
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Speaker 1: and I was thinking about putting in the show, and
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to. But aside from that, I said,
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Speaker 1: Michael— why don't you just come up here and we
16:57
Speaker 1: can have a conversation about it? We can debate it together.
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Speaker 1: You can talk, you can give me your take. I said, okay,
17:01
Speaker 1: then just have your microphone up there. You don't even
17:03
Speaker 1: have to be on camera. And I'll just talk to
17:06
Speaker 1: you from here. And you can at least put your
17:08
Speaker 1: input in because he says stuff all the time. And
17:10
Speaker 1: we have conversations all the time about everything we're talking
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Speaker 1: about in the show. And Michael said, no. So my
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Speaker 1: Christmas wish was that Michael would be part of the show.
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Speaker 1: He says when the studio comes up, but I think
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Speaker 1: he's lying about that. I don't think he's genuine. And
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Speaker 1: you guys in the chat need to hold him to it.
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Speaker 1: We want to see Mikey on air. And he is
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Speaker 1: saying no. He is not giving the people what he wants,
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Speaker 1: but he's a very smart man. And I'd love for
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Speaker 1: you guys to actually hear his voice in the show
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Speaker 1: because he has really good things to say. All right.
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Speaker 1: So moving on here, we're going to talk about this
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Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal expose on President Biden. And it was
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Speaker 1: a really damning piece that ran yesterday. And it was
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Speaker 1: all about how the White House is essentially run by
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Speaker 1: senior aides, a very small number, three specifically, in order
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Speaker 1: to cover for a completely senile Joe Biden. And the
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Speaker 1: piece is based on interviews with nearly 50 people. And
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Speaker 1: it highlights how tightly controlled the system is to manage
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden's schedule and to limit risks of him embarrassing
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Speaker 1: himself and exposing himself as, again, completely senile. to the
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Speaker 1: American people and even his own team, even his own cabinet.
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Speaker 1: Staff has apparently shielded Biden from extensive interactions and even
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Speaker 1: with senior members of his cabinet. Biden's inner circle adjusted
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Speaker 1: his workload in meetings to account for his, again, abysmal stamina.
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Speaker 1: To avoid gaffes, for instance, during campaign events, attendees were
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Speaker 1: informed to submit questions in advance. And at times, pre-approved
18:43
Speaker 1: questions were provided on notecards. And staff have curated the
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Speaker 1: information Biden receives. And this is all, this is kind
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Speaker 1: of weird. This is like emperor's new clothes kind of creepy.
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Speaker 1: They're shielding him from negative news. And they were especially
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Speaker 1: doing this when he was still in the race. So
19:01
Speaker 1: they were preventing him from seeing all of his negative
19:04
Speaker 1: polling data because they didn't want to discourage him. It's
19:08
Speaker 1: like he's a baby. Like he was like a little
19:11
Speaker 1: baby being managed and protected by this tight inner circle.
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Speaker 1: And apparently Biden has had trouble recalling briefing details and
19:26
Speaker 1: requiring repeated instructions during public events. This is why they
19:29
Speaker 1: limited his public events. This is why he, you know,
19:33
Speaker 1: was not doing briefings with members of his cabinet. And
19:37
Speaker 1: instead there were like specific go-betweens Essentially, the take of
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Speaker 1: this article is that Biden is just a puppet and
19:45
Speaker 1: his own circle is admitting this. And it's interesting that
19:48
Speaker 1: they're admitting it. after the election. After it mattered, they're saying,
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Speaker 1: oh yeah, President Biden, he was totally senile. Three people
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Speaker 1: were running the scenes behind the show. We're running the
20:01
Speaker 1: show behind the scenes, and we're just going to admit
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Speaker 1: it now. And to me, this is such a scandal.
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Speaker 1: And we knew observably that it was true that Biden
20:17
Speaker 1: was seen out, but it's really, I think, laid out
20:19
Speaker 1: just how tightly controlled the entire situation was, how much
20:25
Speaker 1: of a house of cards it was. It was just
20:27
Speaker 1: a facade. It was all fake. It's still fake. He's
20:30
Speaker 1: still president and it's all fake. And we were lied
20:33
Speaker 1: to repeatedly by members of his administration and the media
20:37
Speaker 1: and Here is chairman of the former chairman of the
20:39
Speaker 1: Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley.
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Speaker 8: President Joe Biden has been portrayed by his political opponents
20:47
Speaker 8: and even some of his allies as too old to
20:49
Speaker 8: be president. I'm not asking for your political opinion here,
20:52
Speaker 8: but how does he seem to you?
20:54
Speaker 3: Look, I'm not.
20:56
Speaker 6: Going to comment. I didn't comment on the former president's
20:58
Speaker 6: mental health, physical health, and I'm not going to comment
21:01
Speaker 6: on the current president's mental health or physical health. I
21:04
Speaker 6: think that's highly inappropriate for the president. senior officer of
21:07
Speaker 6: the United States military to do that. I would just
21:10
Speaker 6: tell you that I meet frequently with the president, and
21:14
Speaker 6: every single time I meet with him, he is just fine.
21:19
Speaker 6: How people interpret that is up to them, but I
21:22
Speaker 6: engage with him frequently and alert, sound, does his homework,
21:28
Speaker 6: reads the papers, reads all the read-ahead material, and is very,
21:33
Speaker 6: very engaging in the issues of very serious matters of
21:37
Speaker 6: war and peace and life and death. So if the
21:40
Speaker 6: American people are worried about an individual who is, you know,
21:46
Speaker 6: someone who's making decisions of war and peace and has
21:49
Speaker 6: access to, you know, makes the decisions of nuclear weapons
21:51
Speaker 6: and that sort of thing, I think they can rest easy.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so that was just a complete flat-out lie. And
21:57
Speaker 1: it was a political statement. It was basically an endorsement.
22:00
Speaker 1: For politics, Milley lied to our faces. Yeah, I'm not
22:06
Speaker 1: going to comment, but I'm going to comment. That's exactly
22:08
Speaker 1: what he said, Michael. Thank you. And this is a
22:11
Speaker 1: massive scandal because it was not just close aides. It
22:13
Speaker 1: was not just military officers and cabinet members. It was
22:17
Speaker 1: the media too. Here was Nicole Wallace.
22:20
Speaker 9: There's a growing and insidious trend in right-wing media, broadcast, print,
22:25
Speaker 9: and social media. It is to take highly misleading and
22:29
Speaker 9: selectively edited videos of President Biden directly from Republican National
22:34
Speaker 9: Committee social media accounts and then use those videos to
22:39
Speaker 9: spread messages virally to cast doubt on President Biden's fitness
22:42
Speaker 9: for office.
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Speaker 1: Okay. That was one of the most ridiculous, ridiculous narratives
22:48
Speaker 1: from the media. Oh, all these things, all these gaffes,
22:51
Speaker 1: where he wanders off stage and he looks completely lost. Yeah,
22:56
Speaker 1: those are all true, but you shouldn't believe them because
22:58
Speaker 1: they're being weaponized by Republicans. It was just ridiculous. Yeah,
23:02
Speaker 1: it's real, but it's somehow deceptive. Former CNN journalist Chris
23:09
Speaker 1: Saliza posted this yesterday, an apology.
23:14
Speaker 3: As a reporter, I have a confession to make.
23:17
Speaker 7: I should have pushed harder earlier for more information about
23:22
Speaker 7: Joe Biden's mental and physical well-being and any signs of decline.
23:27
Speaker 3: So let me explain. Joe Biden was president from 2020
23:32
Speaker 3: to 2024. I worked at CNN through 2022.
23:38
Speaker 7: During that time, the early part when I was at CNN,
23:42
Speaker 7: 2020 to 2022, people would.
23:43
Speaker 3: Regularly, Republicans would regularly ping me and.
23:47
Speaker 10: Say, why don't you ask more questions of Joe Biden
23:49
Speaker 10: and how he's doing? He's 76, 77, 78 year old man.
23:53
Speaker 10: And I would sort of brush them off because what
23:57
Speaker 10: I would say is, well, there's no obvious evidence that
24:02
Speaker 10: he's declining. Yeah, he moves a little slower. He talks
24:05
Speaker 10: a little slower, but there's no evidence that he's declining.
24:07
Speaker 7: And, and The White House and the people around Joe
24:12
Speaker 7: Biden were absolutely adamant that suggesting anything, asking the question
24:20
Speaker 7: about whether he was in some physical, mental, or both
24:24
Speaker 7: decline was offensive.
24:27
Speaker 3: How could you? It's age shaming. And I think that
24:31
Speaker 3: impacted me.
24:34
Speaker 9: Really?
24:36
Speaker 1: Really? That's your excuse? The Smiths didn't just not ask
24:42
Speaker 1: questions about Joe Biden because the Biden White House told
24:45
Speaker 1: them it would be ages to do so. No, this
24:48
Speaker 1: guy was in on it. All these guys were in
24:51
Speaker 1: on it. Here is what Chris Saliza wrote for CNN
24:57
Speaker 1: at the time. Republicans keep trying to make Biden's mental
25:02
Speaker 1: capacity an issue. That's the headline. And the piece reads,
25:06
Speaker 1: This is the sort of gross, lowest common denominator politics
25:10
Speaker 1: that drive people away from public life. If Republicans have
25:13
Speaker 1: some sort of proof that Biden is declining, they should
25:16
Speaker 1: bring it forward. If they don't, they should stop doing
25:20
Speaker 1: what they're doing immediately. Can you guys believe that? What
25:26
Speaker 1: a joke. What an actual joke that he's going to
25:29
Speaker 1: come on his YouTube channel and tell us, you can
25:33
Speaker 1: trust me, I didn't mean it. Yeah, he does have
25:36
Speaker 1: Karen glasses. I didn't mean it. I was just under
25:41
Speaker 1: pressure and I didn't see all the evidence and.
25:46
Speaker 9: Liar.
25:47
Speaker 1: He was in on it. He was part of the
25:48
Speaker 1: coverup and now he's turning to us and saying, trust
25:52
Speaker 1: me again. No, the entire corporate media was in on
25:58
Speaker 1: it and we will never trust them again. The evidence
26:02
Speaker 1: that Biden is in serious mental and physical decline is
26:05
Speaker 1: and was self-evident. It was before our eyes. And hacks
26:12
Speaker 1: like Chris Silliza purposely gaslit the American people to help Democrats.
26:20
Speaker 1: He is a fraud. All of these people are done.
26:26
Speaker 1: Mark Lazarus, the head of SpinCo, the company that is
26:30
Speaker 1: soon to own MSNBC, has reportedly suggested in private conversations
26:35
Speaker 1: over the past month that he would like MSNBC to
26:39
Speaker 1: incorporate more right-wing voices into its programming. And Lazarus has
26:45
Speaker 1: reportedly told people that he wants to change the public's
26:47
Speaker 1: perception of MSNBC, that Republicans are somehow treated unfairly on
26:51
Speaker 1: the network, because that's a perception. It's not real, but
26:53
Speaker 1: it's a perception. That's what he's saying. And he has
26:56
Speaker 1: indicated that he doesn't want the content from the hosts
26:58
Speaker 1: and commentators to to potentially spawn bad press and alienate
27:04
Speaker 1: GOP viewers. And I say, yeah, okay, you guys are done.
27:11
Speaker 1: You guys are gone. I don't care what changes you make.
27:15
Speaker 1: I don't care whatever token conservatives you add to your network.
27:19
Speaker 1: Independent media is in charge now. We are the media now.
27:23
Speaker 1: You Real, on the ground, genuine reporting. These people have
27:33
Speaker 1: lied to us. Covered for arguably the most corrupt administration
27:37
Speaker 1: in American history. The president isn't even running the country.
27:41
Speaker 1: This is a huge scandal. And they all knew about it.
27:45
Speaker 1: And they lied about it. And we'll never trust them again.
27:49
Speaker 1: And it's not just this scandal. I mean, how many
27:52
Speaker 1: are there? Kavanaugh, Russia collusion hoax. The Hunter Biden laptop coverup,
27:56
Speaker 1: the Covington schoolboys, Jussie Smollett. They did it all. And
28:02
Speaker 1: they are done. And I'm going to tell you why
28:05
Speaker 1: it matters. All the lies and demonization of the right,
28:11
Speaker 1: it actually gets people killed. It does. There is a
28:16
Speaker 1: sickness festering among leftists. Actually, I think it's kind of
28:20
Speaker 1: inherent to their ideology. And it is dangerous. Luigi Mangione,
28:26
Speaker 1: the UnitedHealthcare CEO alleged killer, was brought back to New
28:30
Speaker 1: York City yesterday by plane and helicopter to face new
28:33
Speaker 1: federal charges of stalking and murder, which could bring the
28:37
Speaker 1: death penalty if he is convicted. And the walk of
28:40
Speaker 1: shame that the cops put him through did not help
28:43
Speaker 1: the hordes of women and gay men who are currently
28:46
Speaker 1: fawning over him. By the way, I do think that
28:49
Speaker 1: this walk is a little bit excessive. They have tons
28:51
Speaker 1: of these armed men all around Luigi. And he's completely handcuffed.
29:02
Speaker 1: It's a bit excessive. They're trying to make this man
29:04
Speaker 1: look like he is a massive terrorist and dangerous to
29:11
Speaker 1: the public. And it's completely backfiring because, again, there are
29:16
Speaker 1: a large portion of the left wing in America who
29:20
Speaker 1: view this man as a hero. And every time they
29:22
Speaker 1: see his face, it just gets even more solidified. One
29:24
Speaker 1: woman wrote on X, are you effing kidding me right now?
29:27
Speaker 1: They want to make Luigi Mangione look bad, but they
29:30
Speaker 1: just basically had a photo shoot of him with the
29:32
Speaker 1: most insane face card ever, LMAO. I mean, anytime you
29:37
Speaker 1: show this man in public, he's just going to all
29:40
Speaker 1: the girls fawn over him. Yes, Mikey? No, I don't
29:47
Speaker 1: remember that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, they don't do
29:53
Speaker 1: this with everyone. They just do this with this guy,
29:54
Speaker 1: and I'm telling you guys, it's gonna backfire. And there are...
29:59
Speaker 1: A ton of lefties right now, and this comes back
30:01
Speaker 1: to my point about this being really dangerous, who think
30:04
Speaker 1: that they're about to stage a revolution around Luigi Mangione.
30:08
Speaker 1: They seriously think that. People on TikTok have started playing
30:10
Speaker 1: music from Les Mis, the musical, as a symbol of
30:14
Speaker 1: their collectivist revolt against healthcare, against the system, in the
30:20
Speaker 1: name of Luigi Mangione. Here is one example. And the
30:25
Speaker 1: caption here reads... I know for a fact there are
30:29
Speaker 1: enough theater kids in New York City to gather together
30:31
Speaker 1: and perform this in public. Maybe near the courts would
30:36
Speaker 1: be a serve. So they're saying, play this revolutionary music.
30:42
Speaker 1: We're part of a revolution. We're starting something. And I've
30:46
Speaker 1: said this before, but this kind of collectivist movement is
30:49
Speaker 1: always evil. Sorting people into haves and have-nots and then stealing, raping, torturing,
30:54
Speaker 1: and murdering eventually the haves. is where this leads to.
30:58
Speaker 1: And let's talk about Les Mis, because I think it's
31:01
Speaker 1: interesting that they're using that as the sound for the
31:04
Speaker 1: revolution that they're about to stage. This is not a
31:08
Speaker 1: pro-revolution book or play. Les Mis is a critique of revolution.
31:13
Speaker 1: A lot of people think Les Mis is about the
31:15
Speaker 1: French Revolution. It's not. The story is actually about the
31:18
Speaker 1: June Rebellion, which took place after the French Revolution, which
31:22
Speaker 1: was led by middle-class intellectuals and students So it was
31:27
Speaker 1: not instigated by working class people. Kind of similar to
31:30
Speaker 1: what's going on right now, I might add. And the story,
31:33
Speaker 1: Luigi comes from a very well-to-do family and the people
31:35
Speaker 1: rallying around him, these are all Marxists educated by our
31:39
Speaker 1: university system. And Les Mis highlights how a collectivist uprising
31:45
Speaker 1: like the June Rebellion can lead to destruction of individual
31:49
Speaker 1: humanity and moral integrity of a people. It highlights the
31:53
Speaker 1: chaos and violence of these movements emphasizing how collective ideals
31:59
Speaker 1: are used to justify evil. The protagonist, Jean Valjean, is
32:06
Speaker 1: a good man because he values personal redemption and compassion
32:10
Speaker 1: over political dogma. That is the message of the story.
32:13
Speaker 1: The author of Les Mis, Victor Hugo, critiques this idea
32:16
Speaker 1: of sacrificing individual lives for some abstract collective goal because
32:22
Speaker 1: true justice lies in personal responsibility, and moral action rather
32:28
Speaker 1: than blind adherence to a revolutionary ideal. And he's right
32:33
Speaker 1: to highlight how dark these revolts can become. We're already
32:37
Speaker 1: seeing it happen here. This week, a Michigan man allegedly
32:42
Speaker 1: stabbed the president of his company where he works in
32:45
Speaker 1: a possible copycat attack of the execution-style killing of UnitedHealthcare
32:50
Speaker 1: CEO Brian Thompson. Eric Denslow, who runs the a Muskegon-based
32:57
Speaker 1: Anderson Express manufacturing company, was stabbed during a staff meeting
33:01
Speaker 1: in the firm's office on Tuesday. And you guys know
33:05
Speaker 1: that this is personal to me. This kind of revolutionary
33:09
Speaker 1: collectivist thinking is personal. My family lived through the Spanish
33:14
Speaker 1: Civil War, and they lost everything because my family were
33:20
Speaker 1: middle class. They owned a home. My great-grandfather had a
33:24
Speaker 1: well-paying job My great grandmother actually was a prolific Catholic
33:31
Speaker 1: writer and an anti-communist who was very much against the
33:35
Speaker 1: communists in Spain. And so my great grandparents went from
33:41
Speaker 1: middle class, raising a very young family of a one, two,
33:45
Speaker 1: and three, and four-year-old, that was the age of their
33:47
Speaker 1: children at the time, to being completely penniless and actually
33:51
Speaker 1: separating during the war, losing absolutely everything. And I think
33:56
Speaker 1: it's crucial to understand the role that faith plays in
33:59
Speaker 1: a movement like this. An extended family member of mine
34:04
Speaker 1: was actually murdered. He was a priest and he was
34:08
Speaker 1: forced to dig his own grave and was buried alive
34:12
Speaker 1: because he was a Catholic priest. This movement, the ideology
34:17
Speaker 1: behind all the Luigi lovers is expressly anti-Christian. It's antithetical
34:24
Speaker 1: to Christianity. Here's an explanation of the anti-Catholic French Revolution,
34:30
Speaker 1: which again was the prequel to the rebellion that is
34:34
Speaker 1: the center of Les Mis, and also at the center
34:39
Speaker 1: of all these Luigi lovers and what they're standing for.
34:42
Speaker 11: The French government has owned all the Catholic churches in
34:45
Speaker 11: France since the French Revolution in 1789 when revolutionaries who
34:50
Speaker 11: were extremely anti-Catholic and in fact completely atheistic, seized all
34:55
Speaker 11: church properties and money to fund the new revolutionary currency.
35:01
Speaker 11: In 1793, there was a ceremony that was held to
35:05
Speaker 11: mark the transformation of Notre Dame Cathedral from a Catholic
35:10
Speaker 11: church to an atheistic temple to reason.
35:14
Speaker 1: Their new cult.
35:16
Speaker 11: So they literally went into Notre Dame, they dismantled the
35:20
Speaker 11: Catholic altar, took away all the Christian iconography, and they
35:24
Speaker 11: installed a new altar to liberty and carved an inscription
35:29
Speaker 11: over the doors of Notre Dame saying, that read to philosophy.
35:32
Speaker 11: The revolutionary government was eerily similar to Bolshevism with enforced atheism,
35:39
Speaker 11: totalitarian rule, confiscation of property, and mass killing. Ultimately, the
35:45
Speaker 11: revolution was a satanic thing that was a thinly veiled attack.
35:49
Speaker 1: On the church. Okay, so shout out to this creator.
35:54
Speaker 1: Her podcast is called The War on Beauty. She does
35:56
Speaker 1: really good. She creates really good content. And she's right.
36:01
Speaker 1: The so-called God of Reason was enthroned in the Cathedral
36:04
Speaker 1: of Paris. Religious holidays were replaced with secular ones. Catholic
36:08
Speaker 1: mass was forced to be said in secret. And eventually,
36:10
Speaker 1: the authorities began executing priests and mass. And we saw
36:16
Speaker 1: this play out in Spain. And we saw this play
36:20
Speaker 1: out literally anywhere there's been a collectivist revolution of any kind.
36:25
Speaker 1: And these movements... that starred as what we're seeing right
36:30
Speaker 1: now with Luigi Mangione, they can get very violent very soon.
36:35
Speaker 1: And there is little sense of humanity. And it is
36:37
Speaker 1: frankly terrifying to witness, to see this kind of rhetoric
36:41
Speaker 1: play out on social media. And that brings me to
36:43
Speaker 1: my next story. On Tuesday, a man murdered a family
36:50
Speaker 1: of three. Some reports say that they were actually his
36:54
Speaker 1: own family. And then the next day, this man showed
36:57
Speaker 1: up at the door of Nick Fuentes. Nick Fuentes is,
37:01
Speaker 1: of course, a controversial political streamer. He actually streams here
37:06
Speaker 1: on Rumble. And frankly, I don't think any of that matters.
37:11
Speaker 1: Nick was any of any of the controversies surrounding Nick.
37:14
Speaker 1: I just, I don't care. Nick was recently doxxed and
37:19
Speaker 1: his information was apparently not removed off of X and
37:23
Speaker 1: perhaps because of his views, because of prejudice against him.
37:26
Speaker 1: It's unclear why. And this man who killed three people
37:30
Speaker 1: showed up at his house armed with a crossbow and
37:34
Speaker 1: a pistol ready to murder Nick at his doorstep. Here
37:39
Speaker 1: is the footage from his ring camera. And you can
37:45
Speaker 1: see he shows up. He's got the crossbow. He puts
37:48
Speaker 1: it on the side. He's carrying the pistol. He's got
37:50
Speaker 1: a backpack. We don't know what's in the backpack. And
37:57
Speaker 1: you know that he knows that he's at Nick's house
38:01
Speaker 1: because he says that. He says, yo, Nick. So this
38:05
Speaker 1: wasn't just a crazy man who happened to show up
38:07
Speaker 1: at Nick Fuentes' house. This guy came to Nick's house
38:13
Speaker 1: with the intention of confronting, likely killing Nick because Nick's
38:19
Speaker 1: information was all over the internet and no one was
38:22
Speaker 1: removing it, including apparently Elon Musk, which I think is
38:26
Speaker 1: a huge problem. Now, police arrived and the man ran,
38:30
Speaker 1: this murderer ran, broke into a neighboring house, killed two
38:35
Speaker 1: of the neighbor's dogs, and had a shootout with law
38:39
Speaker 1: enforcement before being killed by law enforcement. I mean, it
38:42
Speaker 1: was a completely dramatic scene. And I just, I don't
38:46
Speaker 1: care who you are. I don't care what your political
38:49
Speaker 1: opinions are. Doxing is dangerous. I'm somebody who has had
38:53
Speaker 1: personal death threats, personal, on me. Death threats on my
38:59
Speaker 1: family as well. Bomb threats on my family. My family
39:03
Speaker 1: was recently swatted. They were actually, there was a SWAT
39:09
Speaker 1: call that came in and police didn't actually do it,
39:12
Speaker 1: but they almost did. And people can die from swatting.
39:14
Speaker 1: It's happened to Marjorie Taylor Greene before. It's happened to
39:17
Speaker 1: my friend, Jack Posobiec. This happens all the time in
39:21
Speaker 1: the political climate that we're living in. People are so
39:25
Speaker 1: angry that they want their opponents to die. And it's serious.
39:31
Speaker 1: And this is just the political environment that we're in.
39:38
Speaker 1: And I think that doxing is unacceptable. A left-wing activist
39:42
Speaker 1: had already showed up at Nick's door before he pushed
39:46
Speaker 1: her and maced her And again, whatever your opinions are
39:49
Speaker 1: about Nick, it doesn't matter. In America, he's allowed to
39:52
Speaker 1: have whatever opinions he wants. And he shouldn't die because
39:55
Speaker 1: of them. And in this environment, doxing does get people killed.
39:58
Speaker 1: So it should be treated by law enforcement like a
40:00
Speaker 1: threat on someone's life. It should be. Again, you guys,
40:04
Speaker 1: we are dealing with godless people. This is really dark stuff.
40:09
Speaker 1: And you know, this time of year, they try to
40:12
Speaker 1: make us feel bad about defending our faith. They make
40:15
Speaker 1: fun of you for saying You know, I care about
40:17
Speaker 1: the war on Christmas. And I just think we need
40:21
Speaker 1: to be bigger witnesses to it. The way to oppose
40:24
Speaker 1: godless people, to oppose whatever kind of disgusting ideology is
40:29
Speaker 1: beefing up this Luigi Mangione cult is to be witnesses
40:33
Speaker 1: to our faith. That is the answer. We have to
40:36
Speaker 1: be brave. I want you to take a listen to
40:40
Speaker 1: this comedian and his stand-up bit because it is unironically true.
40:44
Speaker 1: It is unironically what we should be doing.
40:47
Speaker 4: Hate to offend people so this whole last holiday season
40:49
Speaker 4: I didn't let out one Merry Christmas that's true instead
40:53
Speaker 4: I said may.
40:53
Speaker 3: The birth of the one and only true God.
41:01
Speaker 4: Jesus Christ bestow a blessing of grace and peace upon
41:06
Speaker 4: your household to the.
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Speaker 7: Belittlement of every other false.
41:11
Speaker 1: Religion maybe not that part.
41:14
Speaker 3: Lest you be gay that's what I say.
41:19
Speaker 1: It's a joke, but it's not a joke. You know,
41:20
Speaker 1: I really do think that we need to be witnesses
41:22
Speaker 1: to our faith. We need to talk about what's the
41:25
Speaker 1: reason for the season and we need to not be
41:26
Speaker 1: embarrassed about it. Because the second that we were sent
41:29
Speaker 1: into the shadows and we pretend like our faith doesn't
41:37
Speaker 1: matter that much because we're afraid of being embarrassed or
41:40
Speaker 1: we're even afraid of being attacked, then you automatically cede
41:46
Speaker 1: ground to godless people who want to destroy us. And
41:50
Speaker 1: this country was founded as a Christian nation. I've said
41:52
Speaker 1: it so many times. We were founded as a Christian country.
41:55
Speaker 1: We should be witnesses to our faith. We shouldn't feel
41:57
Speaker 1: embarrassed or bad about saying Merry Christmas, about talking about
42:04
Speaker 1: our religion, about talking about the values and tradition that
42:08
Speaker 1: this country was founded on. And with that, I have
42:11
Speaker 1: one last story for you guys. I'm sorry I'm running
42:13
Speaker 1: a little bit long today. But this very cool discovery happened.
42:19
Speaker 1: In 2018, archaeologists unearthed a Roman cemetery near Frankfurt, Germany.
42:25
Speaker 1: And in one grave, which dated to the 3rd century AD,
42:30
Speaker 1: they found the remains of a man wearing an amulet
42:33
Speaker 1: under his chin. And the researchers discovered the amulet held
42:37
Speaker 1: a fragile silver scroll. But because it was, of course,
42:42
Speaker 1: very delicate, the scroll could not be deciphered until now.
42:47
Speaker 1: using advanced imaging technology, we now know the scroll contains
42:52
Speaker 1: 18 lines of Christian text written in Latin. And this
42:56
Speaker 1: is the earliest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps.
42:59
Speaker 1: And I'm going to read to you what it says.
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Speaker 1: And keep in mind that during this time, 3rd century AD,
43:06
Speaker 1: Christianity was still a forbidden religion in the Roman Empire.
43:11
Speaker 1: So the text reads, In the name of St. Titus, Holy, Holy,
43:16
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus Christ, Son of God, the
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Speaker 1: Lord of the world, resist with strength all attacks. God
43:22
Speaker 1: grants entry to well-being. May this means of salvation protect
43:26
Speaker 1: the man who surrenders himself to the will of the
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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God. Since before Jesus Christ,
43:32
Speaker 1: every knee bows, those in heaven, those on earth, and
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Speaker 1: those under the earth, and every tongue confesses Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 1: I read it, and it was just such beautiful, beautiful lines.
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Speaker 1: But to me, what really struck out was the fact
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Speaker 1: that this guy was carrying around this amulet right on
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Speaker 1: his chest in a time where he could die for
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Speaker 1: his faith. At great personal risk, he carried this amulet
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Speaker 1: around his neck. Christians were put to death if they
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Speaker 1: were caught in ancient Rome under Emperor Decius, which was
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Speaker 1: around this time Christians were arrested, tortured, executed. We really
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Speaker 1: are lucky to live in a place where Christians don't
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Speaker 1: face that kind of persecution yet. But Christians are being
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Speaker 1: genocided in other parts of the world. They're being persecuted
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Speaker 1: in communist China, for one. Genocided in places like Syria
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Speaker 1: and parts of Africa. The only reason it isn't happening here,
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Speaker 1: at least for now, is... That we still have some
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Speaker 1: semblance of adherence to the foundation of centuries of martyrs
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Speaker 1: who came before us in the West and the testimony
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Speaker 1: of their faith. Western culture was built upon the Christian faith.
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Speaker 1: Christmas was everything. I mean, it was the greatest, you know,
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Speaker 1: outside of Easter, I mean, the greatest holiday celebrated by
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Speaker 1: the masses because it was foundational to their identity. This
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Speaker 1: is a heritage that was forged through centuries of sacrifice
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Speaker 1: of countless people who laid down their lives to defend
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Speaker 1: their faith. And preserving this legacy is neither racist nor
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Speaker 1: is it evil. It is a noble and necessary cause.
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Speaker 1: Protecting our American identity is a moral duty. Protecting our
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Speaker 1: Christian identity is a moral duty. And that is my
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Speaker 1: message to you guys as we go into the season.
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Speaker 1: I just want to say, Merry Christmas. Thank you so
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Speaker 1: much for being here. Oh, don't do that to me, Mikey.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty funny. Oh, so I guess Mikey said that
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Speaker 1: Dan had this happen to him too, or Guy put
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Speaker 1: a fake Santa hat on him. Anyways, Merry Christmas to
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Speaker 1: you guys. Thank you for bearing with me. Sorry this
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Speaker 1: was a little bit of a long show. I will
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Speaker 1: be filling in on the radio today with Jim for Dan.
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Speaker 1: This might be an every Friday kind of a thing
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Speaker 1: where it's just Jim and I on Fridays. filling in
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Speaker 1: for Dan. So again, as always, if you're listening on
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Speaker 1: you want to listen to the show and its video version,
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Speaker 1: I will see you all on Monday.
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