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All right, my friends, we've got a lot to get to today.
We're going to talk about this Speaker of the House situation, and there is
a ton of stuff to get to. You want to read more about some
of the things that I reference today, As always, you can find it
on our website on the Stack of Stuff. We're going to be bobbing and
weaving through a lot of this stuff. So if I say something and you
want to read up on it, this should be there on the Stack of
Stuff page toddepshow dot com. So also, if you have questions, this
might be something that you have questions about. This is something that has not
happened in the history of this country where the Speaker of the House, the
speakership, it's been vacated poof there's no one running the show now. There
is a temporary or an interim Speaker of the House who I think has one
of the coolest names that you can possibly have in Congress, Patrick McHenry.
Patrick Henry was one of the great early founders. Love some of his speeches.
In fact that there's a speech of his that I think is just rousing
and absolutely incredible if you read the if you read it in its entirety,
or even if you pick a couple of a couple of lines. Anyway,
So Patrick, Mr McHenry is the interim temporary Speaker of the House until this
all gets ironed outs. But you can email your questions or your thoughts or
your opinions who should be speaker, whether or not you agree with Gates and
these other What is it seven other Republicans that joined him in ousting McCarthy.
It was those eight Republicans plus the Democrats in the House that actually voted to
remove McCarthy. It wasn't as though all of the Republicans said enough with McCarthy.
It was eight Republicans plus the Democrats. It's all fascinating just from a
political perspective, a historical perspective, But I want to talk about it primarily
through the lens of just the reality of the situation. What that means for
Congress, what it means for our nation, what it means for this election
season, all of that stuff we want to get to today. And if
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that sind button, my friends. So with that being said, McCarthy,
as we said, Kevin McCarthy is out as Speaker of the House. This
has never happened before in US history. There have been instances where there were
motions to vacate or you know, I was reading on the yeah, the
twenty fifteen was the last time this happened, and I had to go back
and read on this because I wasn't sure. I remember the end result,
which was Republican John Bayner no longer being Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The congressman from Ohio was actually removed as speaker in twenty fifteen. Mark Meadows.
You may know that name. We actually interviewed Mark Meadows one time on
it. We don't do a lot of interviews. I mean, let's face
it, would you want to hear from other people or from me? I
just think that the choice is obvious. But we do do some interviews on
occasion. You get a ton of requests. But I don't know, I
just I want it to be something that I that's interesting enough for you to
hear talk, you know, me talk about. There's so many things to
talk about without someone else there to kind of interfere with what we're what we're
getting, what we need to get through each and every day. As the
program expands, we might add more. I don't know, but anyway,
we've interviewed Mark Meadows. He was a representative from I think North Carolina is
where Meadows was from. He filed emotion. Of course, he ended up
also being the chief of staff for Trump, but he filed a motion to
vacate the speakership to vacate the chair when Bayner John Bayner from Ohio was the
speaker back in two thousand and fifteen. It's hard to believe that was eight
years ago, but anyway, Bayer ended up just resigning his position. Now
there's some technicalities here. The motion was not introduced on the House floor.
I'm looking here actually at the entry of this in Wikipedia, so that there's
some technical stuff, but ultimately it never got voted on. Bayner just resigned
his position back in September of two thousand and fifteen. So here the last
time, and I think the only other time that it's happened, according to
the great Wikipedia here was in nineteen was in nineteen ten. And I mean
you could I'm not going to go to the history of all of it,
but the point is it's not a common thing and it's never actually happened.
It's the first ever instance of the House actually carrying through in voting that person
out of the position of speakership. So it's historic and even up to the
moment of the vote, or leading up to the vote. I mean,
if you remember when we talked about this, even I think boy earlier this
week. I'm not sure when it was, but when we talked about this
earlier in the week, I remember, well, I at least had in
the stack of stuff McCarthy doing a little bit of smack talk. McCarthy was
telling Gates to bring it. Hey, Matt Gates, if you think you
can, if you want to have this fight, then bring it, hot
shot. That's kind of the position that McCarthy took, and Matt Gates did
bring in, and Matt Gates succeeded. Now there's a whole bunch going on
here, you know, there's First of all, let me say this.
Let me say this for those who are I understand if someone doesn't think that
this was a worthwhile effort, I understand the thinking in that. I understand.
Just for example, I understand if you say you know there's no obvious
choice, well, it depends who you ask. There could be an obvious
choice that would rock the world, that it would be the strategic move of
the century if if they pulled it off. But it's not gonna happen.
I just it. One of the very first things I told Oz when I
saw this was they want to nominate Trump. That you don't have to be
a sitting If you read the Constitution, it is not specify that you have
to be an active member of the House of Representatives to be the speaker.
And there have been people voted. Now, no one has ever held the
office of speaker who was not a member of the House, a voting member
of the House of Representatives. But there have been people who have received votes
to be speaker that were not members of the House of Representatives. Can you
imagine just whatever you think of that. I'm just just picture the chaos that
comes from that, as far as the media's head's exploding, the Democrats heads
exploding on this, and just losing their their ever loving minds. As Trump
is going through these trials, we even talked about, even talked about the
trial that Trump's sitting in right now, which he's supposed to be testifying in.
I don't know exactly when that's supposed to happen, but it should be,
I mean relatively soon anyway. But imagine if Trump we're a Speaker of
the House. That's just a whole. That's a program I'm in and of
itself right there waiting to happen. And I do think I do think someone
is mentioned or even added his name to the list. I don't again,
I don't think that's going to happen, but it's Can you imagine and just
just think about again, don't don't judge it, just think about what it
would do for a moment, just for the sake of I don't know,
just taking it all in, I guess. Can you imagine the Republicans nominate
Trump again. I don't think this is going to happen, but if they
did, they nominate Trump for Speaker of the House, he somehow wins.
First of all, it's going to force every Republican in the House of Representatives
to take a position on Trump, which, in an electioneer, you better
buckle up and you better think very long and hard before you decide to step
on the other side and go against Trump. Number one? Number two?
Can you imagine, first of all, I mean, all of the additional
attention that the business of the House would get by virtue of it coming from
Speaker Donald Trump. Trump would suddenly be third in line for the presidency again.
Can you imagine all of the attention that would be put on or the
pressure that Trump would put on the House of Representatives to really fight tooth and
nail, not only to expose the corruption of the Biden administration, but also
to push to have fights and real substantive discussions about additional voter election security issues.
Can you imagine this, the hearings and so forth, that would take
place January sixth. I don't know. There might be an official vote to
expunge the expunge the it realise don't say sponge the record of the j sixth
committee, but it sounds like they've already done that to themselves, destroying records
and so forth. Anyway, it's just interesting to think about it. I'm
not predicting it's gonna happen, but it is a very interesting thing to think
about, especially in an election year. So you got that out there.
I think even Donald Trump Junior has been tweeting some stuff or posting some stuff
on social media about this. Anyway, But all that aside, that's just
entertaining to think about and all that. But one of the things I understand.
I understand if people think, why are you're removing McCarthy a speaker,
We don't have an obvious next choice. What if the next choice is worse
than the previous choice, the previous position holder. What if I have a
friend who's terrified that we're going to nominate, We're gonna not or there's going
to be a Democrat Speaker of the House with which theoretically can happen, but
a Republican that does that. I mean, had better be prepared for the
wrath of what's to come, because all of the all four hundred and thirty
five members of the House of Representatives are up for election this fall or they're
retiring. I mean, that's everyone's up every two years. So you better
be prepared. There is I mean, you just better be prepared for that.
But it's it's I guess, not completely impossible. Although I don't think
it will happen. I don't think that there's really any legitimate chance of that
happening. It could happen with the numbers being what they are, where Democrats
excuse me, could get a couple of Republicans and suddenly they have a majority
and they can choose the speaker, which is a big deal. The Speaker
of the House controls what's going on in that legislative body. So there's some
I get some of it, But I also think at what point that this
is how I look at this. It's historical, right in a sense that
you know, now Republicans are taking these questions, what are you doing?
Can you guys not get along and figure it out? Even Trump went to
truth Social and basically said, why can't I'll read it specifically here after the
break, but basically, why can't Republicans just learn to stop fighting each other
and fight the radical left? Which I agree with to it, It depends
to what point that he he means that, But we are at some point,
my friends, we are going to have to do the dirty work necessary
to restore this country the status quo. And this is what I want to
make abundantly clear. I don't understand, I truly don't understand why people are
willing to defend the status quote to this degree when it is the status quo
that is killing this country. The status quo in government has given us bigger
government. The status quo in government has given us more deficits, more debt,
less liberty, more corruption. The status quo in government has given us
lip service and no results, or if there are results, they're so minuscule
and tiny. It is completely insignificant in comparison to what the status quo has
done in pushing this government ever further to the left and increasing it in size
to massive proportions and adding to its cost that it's like again, it's like
someone I'd have to even go, say, someone gains fifty pounds and then
and then they pluck a hair from the top of their head and they say,
look at what we say. Look I lost weight here. This weight
used to be part of my body. Now it's not. That is the
equivalent of what the status quo does. And they will put that hair on
display. They will put it in a display case. It will be in
all of their ads. It will be the focal point of everything they talk
about. Look at what we did. And meanwhile, for those of us
who are not captivated by the smoking mirrors and the dog and pony show,
we say, but you gained fifty pounds, dude, what is the hairway?
I don't even know if what device I would have to get that could
even weigh what that is? Its statistically zero. It is absolutely in significant.
It's virtually nonexistent. You're bragging about it, and then you're gonna tell
us. On top of that, you're gonna tell us all the things you'll
do next time. Oh, next time, we got great exercise routine,
we got a wonderful menu diet that we're going to follow. Oh, if
you vote for us this time, just wait to what we got coming down
the you know, coming around the corner here, just vote for us one
more time. Trust us. No, no, absolutely not. We have
to quit engaging in this sort of nonsense. Now you can say that that
may or may not apply to Speaker McCarthy specifically, but there is no arguing
the overall point of that message that I just spoke. The overarching truth is
that what is killing this country is we know who the left is. We
know who the left is. When Republicans get in control, when they put
it on cruise control, when they engage in some theatrics, or they engage
in some investigations, and then nothing happens, nothing happens. They talk about
cutting budgets. We don't even technically have budgets. We just go from spending
what continuing resolution to continuing resolution, spending crisis to spending crisis. We think
we can spend money for another forty five days or seventy days, or six
months or twelve months, but we never have. We never have an actual
budget. I mean Matt Gates if you listen to what he says, and
you can. Again there's the issue with Gates. Some people would say,
you know, there's something else that he's trying to do. He's wanting attention
or he's jockeying for positions. Who knows, maybe is Trump's VP? Can
I'm just saying who knows, right, And I'm not saying I know anything
about any of that. Maybe so, maybe not at all. But if
you listen to the content of what he says, he is exactly right.
He's right. It's the same old thing. The status quo is what is
killing this country when it comes to Republican leadership because they've left the left run
completely rampant, or sometimes they can't even stop him. And when they're in
a position of power to actually do something about it, to rein it in,
to reverse the course of their insanity. Nothing, nothing, anyway,
I'm gonna take a time out, but we are in a serious mess of
my friends, and keeping this in autopilot without real conservative leadership, without real
principled leadership, without real adult decisions conversations happening in that legislative body doing those
things is not the answer. So timeouts in order lots more to say about
this, my friends. Quick time out though, back here in just a
minute, and welcome back my friends. Going through this speakership situation. Mess
that we have a mess by the way, that at some point. Again,
you can disagree whether it should have happened at this moment with this speaker,
but as we talked about last segments, there's no doubt that at some
point this problem has to be addressed. We cannot continue pretending as though everything
is okay with our current leadership, the current agenda, the current and look,
I'm not saying they didn't do anything good in the House. That's not
what I'm saying. In fact, if you go back and we talked about
this earlier this week, if you go back to when the Republicans were in
the process of choosing a speaker back in January February, whatever the timeframe was,
January February earlier this year, Gates and a few others they held out
on speaker McCarthy, and they built in, they built in some safeguards ways
to hold him accountable. And I think McCarthy tried. I do. I
think McCarthy tried, and I think that there are real pressures and realities that
we have to be aware of in that legislative body. And the problem is
the problem is when there has been a choice for I'm talking the past decades,
when there's a more conservative or a more liberal or even leftist way of
doing things. We've always turned to that to the left, we've always veered,
unlike this program. We've veered to the left consistently. Conservatives left holding
the bag, Conservatives promised all sorts of things, and we continue drifting and
drifting to the left. I'm sure Gates today would tell you that he didn't
have any problem working with the Democrats to oust McCarthy, when McCarthy had no
problem of working with the Democrats to oust the Conservatives when it came to negotiating
a deal to keep the government open, and so at some point, at
some point along this path, at some point along this path, there has
to be a point on the timeline where we say enough, where we say
enough, And you can argue again that it wasn't this wasn't the best time,
or you can say Gates has ulterior motives or whatever, and you may
be right on those things. I'm not saying you are, but you could
be right. But again, the idea, the idea that we continue heading
in this direction with no consequence, without any fight, heading towards oblivion,
my friends, I mean, I think the true oblivion that we are headed
towards each and every day, the autopilot is set for a destination that is
going to crash us those first into the side of a mountain. If you
have an autopilot analogy, I use the analogy yesterday or the day before with
a diabetic and I a pre diabetic. Let's say, a pre diabetic,
someone who doesn't yet have diabetes, but they have all the you know,
the markers to say you are on path to get diabetes. And then someone
like Gates comes along and says, and I know we did this yesterday,
but I just want to repeat it for those who didn't hear it, because
I think that there's this This is I think a pretty good analogy. The
analogy is pre diabetes. I can reverse it or stop that path and get
back into a healthy lifestyle, thereby moving me myself off of a path towards
diabetes. But I got to do something. I've got to begin to exercise
more. I've got to change diet, eat less sugar or whatever it is.
Right. I'm not a medical doctor here, don't even play one on
this show. And it's things that in the short term might be a little
sucky. I gotta get up early. I got I'm gonna be sore from
maybe lifting weights. You got the just the difficulties of say you start to
run whatever it is that you start to do, you implement your new workout
routine, and you're gonna you're gonna feel it for a while. You're gonna
feel it doesn't feel good. There's a temporary pain, a temporary pain.
That temporary pain is akin to what we're dealing with right now. That's that's
what I want to communicate because the if we leave it unchecked, if we
see the markers for you know, heading towards diabetes, and we do nothing
about it, and it becomes full blown diabetes. Now suddenly we have to
worry about taking insulin, monitoring our blood sugars. If we're not taking good
enough care of it. I mean, we got maybe some other medications.
I don't know what's all involved specifically, but there's other consequences if it's not
mitigated properly. Still, if it's not handled and managed properly, still,
there could be worse consequences. Right. You can in some cases, you
can have to amputate, say a foot that's happened in some cases because of
circulation issues, it can affect eyesight, even causing blindness, and of course,
in the worst scenario, it can cause death. And that's the path
that we're heading on unless we step in and get off our duffs and start
changing our lifestyle, practical changes with the lifestyle that we have had thrust upon
us by Congress. And so Matt Gates, by doing this, has basically
just been that person that when we've said we want, we've want, we
want to fix our overall economic condition, Matt Gets is the guy that at
five point thirty in the morning comes into the bedroom with the AIRHORNRN, time
to get up, dude. Now wait a minute. I didn't know it
was going to take this right. I don't feel like it today. I'm
comfortable here in my bed. Things are going all right for me. But
that's the problem with these diseases like diabetes, or like these financial crises,
like driving a country off a cliff because of economic policy, political policy,
immigration policy, whatever. It is. The combination of all these things that
are destroying the fabric of this country, when put together in totality, will
lead to massive, massive, huge, life changing problems. Replacing the speaker
of the House, replacing the person who is in charge of the House of
Representatives compared to that is absolutely insignificant. I don't care if the left makes
fun. You know, it's like the first time you go to work out
for a while. Maybe maybe you're a little, I don't know, a
little soft around the middle, or can't lift as much. It's embarrassing it's
been a while. Maybe somebody starts chuckling and pointing. Who cares? So
what? So what? Chuckle away left, come up with your one liners.
Media, That's all fine, because ultimately what has to happen is we
have to change the course that this government lifestyle has put us on. And
the status quo wasn't going to fix it. My friends, quick time out.
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what's happening with the speakership and really what happens next as well, So I
alluded to it at the beginning. There were eight Republicans, eight Republicans who
voted along with Democrats to remove Speaker McCarthy. And those eight Republicans, of
course include first and foremost Matt Gates, which we know about he's the one
who's brought this motion to begin with. He's the one that's really the main
source of conservative at least vocal opposition. I know that there's been opposition internally,
but Matt Gates has drawn lines in the sand and said, hey,
I'm gonna oppose you publicly. I mean this. We can't play games here
pretty much. So Matt Gates, of course, is one of them.
He's from, of course, the state of Florida. We have Andy Biggs
of Arizona. We did. We interviewed Andy Biggs once on here too,
Ken Buck of Colorado, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Eli Crane also of Arizona,
Bob Good of Virginia, Nancy Mace of South Carolina, Matt Rosendale of
Montana. Those, of course, added to Matt Gates are the eight Republicans
who voted to remove Speaker McCarthy as Speaker of the House of Representatives. So
we talked about that it's the first time in history this has actually been done
by the House of Representatives. But you know what else is the first time.
It's just I thought, for those who get caught up in historical factors
and they think, oh my goodness, we're in uncharted waters, and we
are. We are in uncharted waters here, but they're not waters. I
mean, all we've done in a way is reset the leadership. Back to
January of this year. We didn't we haven't lost any progress on anything that
we've the House has been working on. It's just that we've reset the leadership.
That's it. That's the only thing that's happened here. And I understand
to make fun, but again, laugh, make fun, malign whatever you
need to do. But you know what else is the only time, the
first time in history that we've had to deal with here in this country.
How about thirty three trillion dollars in debt. That's the first in US history
that we've had thirty three trillion with at trillion dollars in debt. It's also
the first time in US history where the Justice Department, a department of justice,
has been weaponized, has been weaponized against the opposition party's leader. We
criticize other countries for doing this. We, in fact, Blincoln did this
recently. I think it was in Russia. Bemoaning the fact that Putin has
imprisoned Putin's government has imprisoned his chief political opposition or the leader of the opposition
party. Blincoln was up there talking about that, wagging his finger at Putin
and Putin's government, which maybe needed to be done. But pot have you
met kettl What about a time in US history, another first in US history
where illegal immigration encounters have reached the highest that they've ever been. Twenty twenty
two was the record. Actually, fiscal year twenty twenty two, there were
two point two million encounters along the US Mexico border this fiscal year, well,
last fiscal year twenty twenty three, which just ended a couple of days
ago, there were two million. So four point two million. We have
an open border. Tell me when else in US history, of my friends,
there's been an outright open war on free speech of conservatives. Tell me
when else, my friends, you had all these things going on while simultaneously,
although it's come down, I will say that it has come down,
but we've had record inflation. In fact, when you compare the Biden administration
to all presidents going back to Jimmy Carter, the only president who had a
higher cumulative I guess aggregate whatever total of inflation, the total rate of inflation
that was higher than Biden's was Jimmy Carter. So when we're talking about firsts
or historical highs in US history, we shouldn't just focus on the fact that
the Speaker of the House is being removed and replaced. We should focus on
the reason. These are the reasons some of the reasons why he is being
replaced. Not that all these things can be laid at his feet. I
don't want to he didn't cause these But if you're not going to really fight
to change them at some point, at some point, it is fair to
say you are not part of the solution, you are not capable of moving
the needle and night. Look. I understand we have a Democrat Senate,
we have a Democrat white House, and the liberals, well not the liberals,
the radical left is running the party. I get it. But we
have to clearly identify the problems and clearly identify the solutions. And our leadership
under McCarthy in the House was status quo at best. These things were just
going to continue to get worse. Thirty three trillion is going to go up
to whatever unless something is done. That's the entire point. And it might
be messy, it might be uncomfortable, it might make some people embarrassed.
I don't know, but it doesn't mean it shouldn't be addressed. Time out
is in order, my friends sits back here in just a minute. Welcome
back to my friends. So I know that that's a lot to take in
in an hour. I referenced something earlier that I want to get back to.
It was a post that Trump made to his social media platform Truth Social.
He made this. What was this? This was Tuesday, Tuesday afternoon,
when all this stuff started going down. This is what he writes.
Why is it that Republicans are always fighting among themselves? Why aren't they fighting
the radical left Democrats who are destroying our country? I've alas said the country,
it's our country. I'll read it again. Why is it that Republicans
are always fighting among themselves? Why aren't they fighting the radical left Democrats who
are destroying our country? Now, on one level, I can absolutely agree
with that. I don't know to what level Trump means this. I agree
with this to a point. To a point. What happens though, So
you can read this two ways. You can say why are Republicans? Why
are Republicans? In the case of Gates here, you could go why is
McCarthy siding with Democrats to pass a stopgap measure to avoid the shut down.
You could say that that has a part of it. You could also say
it has Gates partnering with the Democrat Party to oust Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of
the House. All this back and forth about McCarthy's leadership, of course,
is another example. And every time that that happens, that Trump's saying that
this we're not fighting the real problem, which is the radical left, and
he's He's right on this. Accept there's and I know, look, there's
a time we have to unite this party. We have to unify. We
have to be able to get into this campaign season. We have to understand
there's not a litmus test. We shouldn't demand that every person who is one
hundred percent on who's a Republican has to be in one hundred percent agreement with
everybody else. I get that there's differences and nuanced and all this sort of
stuff, But in order to fight the radical left, we have to have
someone at the leadership who is prepared to engage in in the battle, not
unnecessarily they need they need to do it strategically and tack uh you know,
to use good tactics and so forth. They need to try to figure out
ways to you know, figure out how to get things done that are good
for the American people, the constitution, liberty, minimizing tax dollars being spent,
getting budgets balanced, not having deficits, spending all that stuff. But
you're not gonna do that. Not everybody can play that role. Not everybody
can play that role. And candidly, outside of Trump and maybe a couple
of others, a couple of others who have raised kind of have have risen
up here in the past few years. That's the leadership we've had for a
long, long, long time. Capitulates week isn't really about the fight,
and the American people lose every time, so timeouts in order. Got to
take a break, come back and wrap up back in a minute, Friendzille.
Will be much more to say about this in the days and weeks to
come, as we go through. Who is the possible replacement McCarthy has said
he's not going to run. There's been some names floated around. In fact,
I've got that I don't have time to go through it. In the
stack of stuff as well, some potential replacements for McCarthy. There's well,
there's been some folks who are starting to work the phones and that sort of
thing. Steve Scalise, of course, is one of them. I've heard
that Jim Jordan, as I saw in a thing, a Newsmax article piece,
which is what i'll post at the on the Stack of Stuff page his
name. He's been apparently making some calls as as well, darryl Isa,
Kevin Hearn. I'm looking here that those are long shots police Stephonic. Anyway,
we'll talk more about it in due course, but I've got to go.
My friends, Thank for listening. Have a great day. SDG.