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to the rights. Here's your Conservative
but Not Bitter host, Tod Huff.

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All right, my friends, we've
got a lot to get to today.

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We're going to talk about this Speaker
of the House situation, and there is

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a ton of stuff to get to. You want to read more about some

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of the things that I reference today, As always, you can find it

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on our website on the Stack of
Stuff. We're going to be bobbing and

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weaving through a lot of this stuff. So if I say something and you

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want to read up on it,
this should be there on the Stack of

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Stuff page toddepshow dot com. So
also, if you have questions, this

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might be something that you have questions
about. This is something that has not

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happened in the history of this country
where the Speaker of the House, the

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speakership, it's been vacated poof there's
no one running the show now. There

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is a temporary or an interim Speaker
of the House who I think has one

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of the coolest names that you can
possibly have in Congress, Patrick McHenry.

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Patrick Henry was one of the great
early founders. Love some of his speeches.

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In fact that there's a speech of
his that I think is just rousing

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and absolutely incredible if you read the
if you read it in its entirety,

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or even if you pick a couple
of a couple of lines. Anyway,

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So Patrick, Mr McHenry is the
interim temporary Speaker of the House until this

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all gets ironed outs. But you
can email your questions or your thoughts or

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your opinions who should be speaker,
whether or not you agree with Gates and

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these other What is it seven other
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It was those eight Republicans plus the
Democrats in the House that actually voted to

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remove McCarthy. It wasn't as though
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It was eight Republicans plus the Democrats. It's all fascinating just from a

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political perspective, a historical perspective,
But I want to talk about it primarily

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through the lens of just the reality
of the situation. What that means for

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Congress, what it means for our
nation, what it means for this election

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season, all of that stuff we
want to get to today. And if

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you have questions or thoughts about any
of that, you can share those with

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me Todd at Todd Huffshow dot com
or you can text them three one seven

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two one zero twenty eight thirty.
And as always, make sure you include

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that appropriate amount of adoration and praise. It's usually about ten to fifteen percent

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more than you think is needed.
That's add a little bit more before pressing

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that sind button, my friends.
So with that being said, McCarthy,

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as we said, Kevin McCarthy is
out as Speaker of the House. This

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has never happened before in US history. There have been instances where there were

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motions to vacate or you know,
I was reading on the yeah, the

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twenty fifteen was the last time this
happened, and I had to go back

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and read on this because I wasn't
sure. I remember the end result,

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which was Republican John Bayner no longer
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The congressman from Ohio was actually removed
as speaker in twenty fifteen. Mark Meadows.

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You may know that name. We
actually interviewed Mark Meadows one time on

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it. We don't do a lot
of interviews. I mean, let's face

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it, would you want to hear
from other people or from me? I

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just think that the choice is obvious. But we do do some interviews on

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occasion. You get a ton of
requests. But I don't know, I

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just I want it to be something
that I that's interesting enough for you to

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hear talk, you know, me
talk about. There's so many things to

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talk about without someone else there to
kind of interfere with what we're what we're

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getting, what we need to get
through each and every day. As the

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program expands, we might add more. I don't know, but anyway,

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we've interviewed Mark Meadows. He was
a representative from I think North Carolina is

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where Meadows was from. He filed
emotion. Of course, he ended up

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also being the chief of staff for
Trump, but he filed a motion to

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vacate the speakership to vacate the chair
when Bayner John Bayner from Ohio was the

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speaker back in two thousand and fifteen. It's hard to believe that was eight

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years ago, but anyway, Bayer
ended up just resigning his position. Now

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there's some technicalities here. The motion
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I'm looking here actually at the entry
of this in Wikipedia, so that there's

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some technical stuff, but ultimately it
never got voted on. Bayner just resigned

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his position back in September of two
thousand and fifteen. So here the last

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time, and I think the only
other time that it's happened, according to

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the great Wikipedia here was in nineteen
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you could I'm not going to go
to the history of all of it,

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but the point is it's not a
common thing and it's never actually happened.

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It's the first ever instance of the
House actually carrying through in voting that person

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out of the position of speakership.
So it's historic and even up to the

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moment of the vote, or leading
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if you remember when we talked about
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week. I'm not sure when it
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earlier in the week, I remember, well, I at least had in

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the stack of stuff McCarthy doing a
little bit of smack talk. McCarthy was

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telling Gates to bring it. Hey, Matt Gates, if you think you

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can, if you want to have
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shot. That's kind of the position
that McCarthy took, and Matt Gates did

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bring in, and Matt Gates succeeded. Now there's a whole bunch going on

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here, you know, there's First
of all, let me say this.

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Let me say this for those who
are I understand if someone doesn't think that

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this was a worthwhile effort, I
understand the thinking in that. I understand.

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Just for example, I understand if
you say you know there's no obvious

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choice, well, it depends who
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choice that would rock the world,
that it would be the strategic move of

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the century if if they pulled it
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I just it. One of the
very first things I told Oz when I

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saw this was they want to nominate
Trump. That you don't have to be

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a sitting If you read the Constitution, it is not specify that you have

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to be an active member of the
House of Representatives to be the speaker.

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And there have been people voted.
Now, no one has ever held the

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office of speaker who was not a
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of the House of Representatives. But
there have been people who have received votes

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to be speaker that were not members
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imagine just whatever you think of that. I'm just just picture the chaos that

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comes from that, as far as
the media's head's exploding, the Democrats heads

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exploding on this, and just losing
their their ever loving minds. As Trump

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is going through these trials, we
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trial that Trump's sitting in right now, which he's supposed to be testifying in.

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I don't know exactly when that's supposed
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I mean relatively soon anyway. But
imagine if Trump we're a Speaker of

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the House. That's just a whole. That's a program I'm in and of

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itself right there waiting to happen.
And I do think I do think someone

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is mentioned or even added his name
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I don't think that's going to happen, but it's Can you imagine and just

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just think about again, don't don't
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would do for a moment, just
for the sake of I don't know,

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just taking it all in, I
guess. Can you imagine the Republicans nominate

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Trump again. I don't think this
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did, they nominate Trump for Speaker
of the House, he somehow wins.

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First of all, it's going to
force every Republican in the House of Representatives

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to take a position on Trump,
which, in an electioneer, you better

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buckle up and you better think very
long and hard before you decide to step

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on the other side and go against
Trump. Number one? Number two?

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Can you imagine, first of all, I mean, all of the additional

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attention that the business of the House
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Speaker Donald Trump. Trump would suddenly
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Can you imagine all of the attention
that would be put on or the

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pressure that Trump would put on the
House of Representatives to really fight tooth and

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nail, not only to expose the
corruption of the Biden administration, but also

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to push to have fights and real
substantive discussions about additional voter election security issues.

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Can you imagine this, the hearings
and so forth, that would take

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place January sixth. I don't know. There might be an official vote to

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expunge the expunge the it realise don't
say sponge the record of the j sixth

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committee, but it sounds like they've
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and so forth. Anyway, it's
just interesting to think about it. I'm

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not predicting it's gonna happen, but
it is a very interesting thing to think

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about, especially in an election year. So you got that out there.

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I think even Donald Trump Junior has
been tweeting some stuff or posting some stuff

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on social media about this. Anyway, But all that aside, that's just

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entertaining to think about and all that. But one of the things I understand.

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I understand if people think, why
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We don't have an obvious next choice. What if the next choice is worse

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than the previous choice, the previous
position holder. What if I have a

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friend who's terrified that we're going to
nominate, We're gonna not or there's going

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to be a Democrat Speaker of the
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a Republican that does that. I
mean, had better be prepared for the

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wrath of what's to come, because
all of the all four hundred and thirty

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five members of the House of Representatives
are up for election this fall or they're

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retiring. I mean, that's everyone's
up every two years. So you better

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be prepared. There is I mean, you just better be prepared for that.

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But it's it's I guess, not
completely impossible. Although I don't think

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it will happen. I don't think
that there's really any legitimate chance of that

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happening. It could happen with the
numbers being what they are, where Democrats

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excuse me, could get a couple
of Republicans and suddenly they have a majority

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and they can choose the speaker,
which is a big deal. The Speaker

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of the House controls what's going on
in that legislative body. So there's some

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I get some of it, But
I also think at what point that this

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is how I look at this.
It's historical, right in a sense that

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you know, now Republicans are taking
these questions, what are you doing?

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Can you guys not get along and
figure it out? Even Trump went to

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truth Social and basically said, why
can't I'll read it specifically here after the

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break, but basically, why can't
Republicans just learn to stop fighting each other

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and fight the radical left? Which
I agree with to it, It depends

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to what point that he he means
that, But we are at some point,

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my friends, we are going to
have to do the dirty work necessary

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to restore this country the status quo. And this is what I want to

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make abundantly clear. I don't understand, I truly don't understand why people are

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willing to defend the status quote to
this degree when it is the status quo

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that is killing this country. The
status quo in government has given us bigger

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government. The status quo in government
has given us more deficits, more debt,

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less liberty, more corruption. The
status quo in government has given us

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lip service and no results, or
if there are results, they're so minuscule

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and tiny. It is completely insignificant
in comparison to what the status quo has

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done in pushing this government ever further
to the left and increasing it in size

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to massive proportions and adding to its
cost that it's like again, it's like

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someone I'd have to even go,
say, someone gains fifty pounds and then

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and then they pluck a hair from
the top of their head and they say,

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look at what we say. Look
I lost weight here. This weight

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used to be part of my body. Now it's not. That is the

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equivalent of what the status quo does. And they will put that hair on

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display. They will put it in
a display case. It will be in

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all of their ads. It will
be the focal point of everything they talk

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about. Look at what we did. And meanwhile, for those of us

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who are not captivated by the smoking
mirrors and the dog and pony show,

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we say, but you gained fifty
pounds, dude, what is the hairway?

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I don't even know if what device
I would have to get that could

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even weigh what that is? Its
statistically zero. It is absolutely in significant.

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It's virtually nonexistent. You're bragging about
it, and then you're gonna tell

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us. On top of that,
you're gonna tell us all the things you'll

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do next time. Oh, next
time, we got great exercise routine,

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we got a wonderful menu diet that
we're going to follow. Oh, if

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you vote for us this time,
just wait to what we got coming down

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the you know, coming around the
corner here, just vote for us one

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more time. Trust us. No, no, absolutely not. We have

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to quit engaging in this sort of
nonsense. Now you can say that that

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may or may not apply to Speaker
McCarthy specifically, but there is no arguing

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the overall point of that message that
I just spoke. The overarching truth is

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that what is killing this country is
we know who the left is. We

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know who the left is. When
Republicans get in control, when they put

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it on cruise control, when they
engage in some theatrics, or they engage

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in some investigations, and then nothing
happens, nothing happens. They talk about

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cutting budgets. We don't even technically
have budgets. We just go from spending

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what continuing resolution to continuing resolution,
spending crisis to spending crisis. We think

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we can spend money for another forty
five days or seventy days, or six

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months or twelve months, but we
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budget. I mean Matt Gates if
you listen to what he says, and

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you can. Again there's the issue
with Gates. Some people would say,

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you know, there's something else that
he's trying to do. He's wanting attention

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or he's jockeying for positions. Who
knows, maybe is Trump's VP? Can

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I'm just saying who knows, right, And I'm not saying I know anything

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about any of that. Maybe so, maybe not at all. But if

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you listen to the content of what
he says, he is exactly right.

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He's right. It's the same old
thing. The status quo is what is

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killing this country when it comes to
Republican leadership because they've left the left run

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completely rampant, or sometimes they can't
even stop him. And when they're in

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a position of power to actually do
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to reverse the course of their insanity. Nothing, nothing, anyway,

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I'm gonna take a time out,
but we are in a serious mess of

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my friends, and keeping this in
autopilot without real conservative leadership, without real

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principled leadership, without real adult decisions
conversations happening in that legislative body doing those

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things is not the answer. So
timeouts in order lots more to say about

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this, my friends. Quick time
out though, back here in just a

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minute, and welcome back my friends. Going through this speakership situation. Mess

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that we have a mess by the
way, that at some point. Again,

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you can disagree whether it should have
happened at this moment with this speaker,

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but as we talked about last segments, there's no doubt that at some

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point this problem has to be addressed. We cannot continue pretending as though everything

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is okay with our current leadership,
the current agenda, the current and look,

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I'm not saying they didn't do anything
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what I'm saying. In fact,
if you go back and we talked about

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this earlier this week, if you
go back to when the Republicans were in

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the process of choosing a speaker back
in January February, whatever the timeframe was,

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January February earlier this year, Gates
and a few others they held out

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on speaker McCarthy, and they built
in, they built in some safeguards ways

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to hold him accountable. And I
think McCarthy tried. I do. I

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think McCarthy tried, and I think
that there are real pressures and realities that

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we have to be aware of in
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the problem is when there has been
a choice for I'm talking the past decades,

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when there's a more conservative or a
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doing things. We've always turned to
that to the left, we've always veered,

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unlike this program. We've veered to
the left consistently. Conservatives left holding

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the bag, Conservatives promised all sorts
of things, and we continue drifting and

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drifting to the left. I'm sure
Gates today would tell you that he didn't

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have any problem working with the Democrats
to oust McCarthy, when McCarthy had no

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problem of working with the Democrats to
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a deal to keep the government open, and so at some point, at

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some point along this path, at
some point along this path, there has

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to be a point on the timeline
where we say enough, where we say

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enough, And you can argue again
that it wasn't this wasn't the best time,

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or you can say Gates has ulterior
motives or whatever, and you may

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be right on those things. I'm
not saying you are, but you could

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be right. But again, the
idea, the idea that we continue heading

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in this direction with no consequence,
without any fight, heading towards oblivion,

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my friends, I mean, I
think the true oblivion that we are headed

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towards each and every day, the
autopilot is set for a destination that is

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going to crash us those first into
the side of a mountain. If you

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have an autopilot analogy, I use
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a diabetic and I a pre diabetic. Let's say, a pre diabetic,

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someone who doesn't yet have diabetes,
but they have all the you know,

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the markers to say you are on
path to get diabetes. And then someone

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like Gates comes along and says,
and I know we did this yesterday,

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but I just want to repeat it
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I think that there's this This is
I think a pretty good analogy. The

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analogy is pre diabetes. I can
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back into a healthy lifestyle, thereby
moving me myself off of a path towards

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diabetes. But I got to do
something. I've got to begin to exercise

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more. I've got to change diet, eat less sugar or whatever it is.

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Right. I'm not a medical doctor
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this show. And it's things that
in the short term might be a little

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sucky. I gotta get up early. I got I'm gonna be sore from

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maybe lifting weights. You got the
just the difficulties of say you start to

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run whatever it is that you start
to do, you implement your new workout

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routine, and you're gonna you're gonna
feel it for a while. You're gonna

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feel it doesn't feel good. There's
a temporary pain, a temporary pain.

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That temporary pain is akin to what
we're dealing with right now. That's that's

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what I want to communicate because the
if we leave it unchecked, if we

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see the markers for you know,
heading towards diabetes, and we do nothing

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about it, and it becomes full
blown diabetes. Now suddenly we have to

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worry about taking insulin, monitoring our
blood sugars. If we're not taking good

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enough care of it. I mean, we got maybe some other medications.

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I don't know what's all involved specifically, but there's other consequences if it's not

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mitigated properly. Still, if it's
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there could be worse consequences. Right. You can in some cases, you

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can have to amputate, say a
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circulation issues, it can affect eyesight, even causing blindness, and of course,

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in the worst scenario, it can
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that we're heading on unless we step
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changing our lifestyle, practical changes with
the lifestyle that we have had thrust upon

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us by Congress. And so Matt
Gates, by doing this, has basically

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just been that person that when we've
said we want, we've want, we

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want to fix our overall economic condition, Matt Gets is the guy that at

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five point thirty in the morning comes
into the bedroom with the AIRHORNRN, time

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to get up, dude. Now
wait a minute. I didn't know it

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was going to take this right.
I don't feel like it today. I'm

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comfortable here in my bed. Things
are going all right for me. But

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that's the problem with these diseases like
diabetes, or like these financial crises,

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like driving a country off a cliff
because of economic policy, political policy,

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immigration policy, whatever. It is. The combination of all these things that

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are destroying the fabric of this country, when put together in totality, will

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lead to massive, massive, huge, life changing problems. Replacing the speaker

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of the House, replacing the person
who is in charge of the House of

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Representatives compared to that is absolutely insignificant. I don't care if the left makes

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fun. You know, it's like
the first time you go to work out

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for a while. Maybe maybe you're
a little, I don't know, a

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little soft around the middle, or
can't lift as much. It's embarrassing it's

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been a while. Maybe somebody starts
chuckling and pointing. Who cares? So

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what? So what? Chuckle away
left, come up with your one liners.

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Media, That's all fine, because
ultimately what has to happen is we

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have to change the course that this
government lifestyle has put us on. And

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the status quo wasn't going to fix
it. My friends, quick time out.

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gets too big here. I want
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what's happening with the speakership and really
what happens next as well, So I

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alluded to it at the beginning.
There were eight Republicans, eight Republicans who

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voted along with Democrats to remove Speaker
McCarthy. And those eight Republicans, of

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course include first and foremost Matt Gates, which we know about he's the one

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who's brought this motion to begin with. He's the one that's really the main

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source of conservative at least vocal opposition. I know that there's been opposition internally,

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but Matt Gates has drawn lines in
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I'm gonna oppose you publicly. I
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pretty much. So Matt Gates,
of course, is one of them.

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He's from, of course, the
state of Florida. We have Andy Biggs

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of Arizona. We did. We
interviewed Andy Biggs once on here too,

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Ken Buck of Colorado, Tim Burchett
of Tennessee, Eli Crane also of Arizona,

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Bob Good of Virginia, Nancy Mace
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Montana. Those, of course,
added to Matt Gates are the eight Republicans

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who voted to remove Speaker McCarthy as
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we talked about that it's the first
time in history this has actually been done

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by the House of Representatives. But
you know what else is the first time.

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It's just I thought, for those
who get caught up in historical factors

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and they think, oh my goodness, we're in uncharted waters, and we

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are. We are in uncharted waters
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mean, all we've done in a
way is reset the leadership. Back to

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January of this year. We didn't
we haven't lost any progress on anything that

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we've the House has been working on. It's just that we've reset the leadership.

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That's it. That's the only thing
that's happened here. And I understand

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to make fun, but again,
laugh, make fun, malign whatever you

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need to do. But you know
what else is the only time, the

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first time in history that we've had
to deal with here in this country.

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How about thirty three trillion dollars in
debt. That's the first in US history

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that we've had thirty three trillion with
at trillion dollars in debt. It's also

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the first time in US history where
the Justice Department, a department of justice,

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has been weaponized, has been weaponized
against the opposition party's leader. We

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criticize other countries for doing this.
We, in fact, Blincoln did this

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recently. I think it was in
Russia. Bemoaning the fact that Putin has

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imprisoned Putin's government has imprisoned his chief
political opposition or the leader of the opposition

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party. Blincoln was up there talking
about that, wagging his finger at Putin

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and Putin's government, which maybe needed
to be done. But pot have you

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met kettl What about a time in
US history, another first in US history

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where illegal immigration encounters have reached the
highest that they've ever been. Twenty twenty

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two was the record. Actually,
fiscal year twenty twenty two, there were

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two point two million encounters along the
US Mexico border this fiscal year, well,

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last fiscal year twenty twenty three,
which just ended a couple of days

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ago, there were two million.
So four point two million. We have

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an open border. Tell me when
else in US history, of my friends,

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there's been an outright open war on
free speech of conservatives. Tell me

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when else, my friends, you
had all these things going on while simultaneously,

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although it's come down, I will
say that it has come down,

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but we've had record inflation. In
fact, when you compare the Biden administration

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to all presidents going back to Jimmy
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higher cumulative I guess aggregate whatever total
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that was higher than Biden's was Jimmy
Carter. So when we're talking about firsts

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or historical highs in US history,
we shouldn't just focus on the fact that

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the Speaker of the House is being
removed and replaced. We should focus on

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the reason. These are the reasons
some of the reasons why he is being

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replaced. Not that all these things
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don't want to he didn't cause these
But if you're not going to really fight

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to change them at some point,
at some point, it is fair to

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say you are not part of the
solution, you are not capable of moving

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the needle and night. Look.
I understand we have a Democrat Senate,

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we have a Democrat white House,
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the radical left is running the party. I get it. But we

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have to clearly identify the problems and
clearly identify the solutions. And our leadership

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under McCarthy in the House was status
quo at best. These things were just

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going to continue to get worse.
Thirty three trillion is going to go up

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to whatever unless something is done.
That's the entire point. And it might

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be messy, it might be uncomfortable, it might make some people embarrassed.

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I don't know, but it doesn't
mean it shouldn't be addressed. Time out

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is in order, my friends sits
back here in just a minute. Welcome

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back to my friends. So I
know that that's a lot to take in

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in an hour. I referenced something
earlier that I want to get back to.

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It was a post that Trump made
to his social media platform Truth Social.

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He made this. What was this? This was Tuesday, Tuesday afternoon,

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when all this stuff started going down. This is what he writes.

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Why is it that Republicans are always
fighting among themselves? Why aren't they fighting

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the radical left Democrats who are destroying
our country? I've alas said the country,

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it's our country. I'll read it
again. Why is it that Republicans

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are always fighting among themselves? Why
aren't they fighting the radical left Democrats who

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are destroying our country? Now,
on one level, I can absolutely agree

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with that. I don't know to
what level Trump means this. I agree

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with this to a point. To
a point. What happens though, So

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you can read this two ways.
You can say why are Republicans? Why

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are Republicans? In the case of
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McCarthy siding with Democrats to pass a
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You could say that that has a
part of it. You could also say

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it has Gates partnering with the Democrat
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the House. All this back and
forth about McCarthy's leadership, of course,

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is another example. And every time
that that happens, that Trump's saying that

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this we're not fighting the real problem, which is the radical left, and

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he's He's right on this. Accept
there's and I know, look, there's

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a time we have to unite this
party. We have to unify. We

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have to be able to get into
this campaign season. We have to understand

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there's not a litmus test. We
shouldn't demand that every person who is one

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hundred percent on who's a Republican has
to be in one hundred percent agreement with

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everybody else. I get that there's
differences and nuanced and all this sort of

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stuff, But in order to fight
the radical left, we have to have

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someone at the leadership who is prepared
to engage in in the battle, not

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unnecessarily they need they need to do
it strategically and tack uh you know,

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to use good tactics and so forth. They need to try to figure out

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ways to you know, figure out
how to get things done that are good

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for the American people, the constitution, liberty, minimizing tax dollars being spent,

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getting budgets balanced, not having deficits, spending all that stuff. But

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you're not gonna do that. Not
everybody can play that role. Not everybody

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can play that role. And candidly, outside of Trump and maybe a couple

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of others, a couple of others
who have raised kind of have have risen

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up here in the past few years. That's the leadership we've had for a

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long, long, long time.
Capitulates week isn't really about the fight,

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and the American people lose every time, so timeouts in order. Got to

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take a break, come back and
wrap up back in a minute, Friendzille.

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Will be much more to say about
this in the days and weeks to

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come, as we go through.
Who is the possible replacement McCarthy has said

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he's not going to run. There's
been some names floated around. In fact,

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I've got that I don't have time
to go through it. In the

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stack of stuff as well, some
potential replacements for McCarthy. There's well,

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there's been some folks who are starting
to work the phones and that sort of

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thing. Steve Scalise, of course, is one of them. I've heard

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that Jim Jordan, as I saw
in a thing, a Newsmax article piece,

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which is what i'll post at the
on the Stack of Stuff page his

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name. He's been apparently making some
calls as as well, darryl Isa,

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Kevin Hearn. I'm looking here that
those are long shots police Stephonic. Anyway,

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we'll talk more about it in due
course, but I've got to go.

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My friends, Thank for listening.
Have a great day. SDG.