Speaker 1: Hear about it.
Speaker 2: Understand the ignorant chick on the campuses talk about it.
Speaker 2: They're just getting away with all this rather than knowing fact.
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Speaker 2: DE talk station Happy Thursday Extra Special. Happy Thursday didn't
Speaker 2: get him yesterday in advanced to Judge Jennitapolitano, but we
Speaker 2: get him today. Congressman Massey, welcome back to the fifty
Speaker 2: five KRC Morning Show. It's always a pleasure to have
Speaker 2: you on my program.
Speaker 1: Great to be back on Brian.
Speaker 2: How you feeling post election, Congressman.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's so great up here. The Liberals are just deflated.
Speaker 3: Yesterday I walked out of our conference where we're voting
Speaker 3: for Speaker and Majority Leader and whip and everything down
Speaker 3: to executive Vice Deputy prom queen.
Speaker 1: I call it. It's like prom court for the GOP.
Speaker 3: Anyways, I walked out of that meeting and I was
Speaker 3: the only Republican who wasn't in the meeting. So I
Speaker 3: got swarmed by the media and I'm trying to go
Speaker 3: up the escalator and escape them, and they keep pelting
Speaker 3: me with what about Matt Gates?
Speaker 1: What about that? Can he be confirmed?
Speaker 3: And I I just kind of turned around and smiled
Speaker 3: and I said, hey, you can do recess appointments.
Speaker 1: And they were like, but what, And I looked at him,
Speaker 1: I said, suck it up. He's your ag.
Speaker 3: And they caught it on video. So now I'm in
Speaker 3: a little bit of trouble telling reporters to suck it up.
Speaker 3: But if you could have seen the looks on their
Speaker 3: faces when I said recess appointments, and they went from
Speaker 3: shock to terror when I said suck it up.
Speaker 2: So you're okay with with Gates? And iad some listeners
Speaker 2: bad ideas. Some listeners say it's a great idea. You
Speaker 2: can't please all the people all the time, that's one thing,
Speaker 2: I know. And you don't throw out the good for
Speaker 2: the sake of trying to find the perfect because that
Speaker 2: person doesn't exist. But overall you're comfortable with it.
Speaker 3: Oh well, listen, I've got disagreements with Matt Gates. He
Speaker 3: should have never pulled the trigger on Kevin McCarthy because
Speaker 3: he ended up with Mike Johnson, who was not doing
Speaker 3: the job that Kevin did. And so you know, but
Speaker 3: Matt and I we talk, we're friends. We've had that discussion,
Speaker 3: but we also serve together on the Judiciary Committee, and
Speaker 3: we get Merrick Garland, who comes in there, and may
Speaker 3: Orcus comes in there, and the ATF director comes in there,
Speaker 3: FBI Director Christopher Ray, and they all give us these Well, sir,
Speaker 3: that's the subject of an ongoing investigation, and it's our
Speaker 3: long standing policy. Not the comment. But Matt just he's
Speaker 3: been tearing them up for years. He and I have
Speaker 3: been passing the ball back and forth.
Speaker 1: If I get.
Speaker 3: Five minutes and I only need three of it, I
Speaker 3: give two to Matt. And I told Matt I can't
Speaker 3: wait till he comes to Judiciary as the age and
Speaker 3: I get to pelt him with questions.
Speaker 2: Ah, well, I'm glad you know you Obviously you sound uplifted, bubbly.
Speaker 2: Obviously you're enjoying the schadenfreud of the Democrats are allowing you,
Speaker 2: So I am as well. I'll have to admit.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: The other day I saw was posted somewhere on the Internet,
Speaker 2: some place out there, Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Massey, and
Speaker 2: I echoed that on my Facebook page, and some people said, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2: If he was Secretary of Agriculture, then we'd lose him.
Speaker 2: In Congress. We can't afford to lose anybody, so not
Speaker 2: as sure how a replacement will be put in for
Speaker 2: you if that were to happen. But I thought to
Speaker 2: myself this morning, even said it on the program. Well,
Speaker 2: Thomas Massey's the kind of guy that if he was
Speaker 2: Secretary of Agriculture, he would do everything in his power
Speaker 2: to whittle away the Agriculture Department of virtually nothing and
Speaker 2: maybe even eliminated so he would be out a job.
Speaker 2: He's the kind of person that would do that. What's
Speaker 2: your reaction to the concept of being agricultural secretary and
Speaker 2: what would you do if you were in that role,
Speaker 2: either really or under a hypothetical scenario.
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, my approach would not be to
Speaker 3: do what you just said. I think there's some important
Speaker 3: things that the USDA does, and you know, we've got
Speaker 3: big ag and then we've got small farmers. We've got
Speaker 3: the corporate you know, industrial meat complex where you've got
Speaker 3: four meat processors touching eighty five percent of the meat
Speaker 3: in the United States, and then you get the small
Speaker 3: farmers trying to sell directly to consumers. My approach would
Speaker 3: not be to do anything that would hurt our agriculture industry,
Speaker 3: and I think there are things that we could do
Speaker 3: to strengthen our agriculture industry, and that includes big companies,
Speaker 3: but we need to create a parallel path for small
Speaker 3: farmers and for consumers because these these are part of
Speaker 3: the coalition that helped Trump get elected, particularly in Pennsylvania
Speaker 3: where you know you had Amos Miller being prosecuted for
Speaker 3: trying to sell raw milk and meat to directly. Well,
Speaker 3: the problem is we don't have that alternate path right
Speaker 3: now in the agriculture sector. And you know, the usda
Speaker 3: IS has been captive to the big corporations, and somebody
Speaker 3: needs be there to create this parallel path for healthy
Speaker 3: food that's not you know, grown the way everything else
Speaker 3: has grown.
Speaker 1: We need a way to get food that's.
Speaker 3: Not you know, ultra ultra processed, and that would be
Speaker 3: my approach to it. Create this off ramp, this parallel
Speaker 3: path for those folks and make sure that we are
Speaker 3: still the strongest agricultural producer in the world. We have,
Speaker 3: for instance, four times the arable land that China has.
Speaker 3: Our land mass is about the same North America, but
Speaker 3: we've got four times the arable land that they have.
Speaker 3: And one quarter of the population they have. So our
Speaker 3: race of arable land to people is sixteen times greater
Speaker 3: than China and we need to take advantage.
Speaker 1: Of that resource.
Speaker 3: Another thing, Brian, you know people are upset that are,
Speaker 3: and rightfully so, that our farm land is being sold
Speaker 3: to China, or that our farm land's getting covered with
Speaker 3: solar panels. By the way, I love solar panels, nothing
Speaker 3: against them, but it's stupid to cover up your farmland
Speaker 3: with solar panels. And the question is not how do
Speaker 3: you get the toothpaste back in the tube. Like there's
Speaker 3: some people say, well, we should pass laws to prevent
Speaker 3: China or corporations from buying up all this farm land.
Speaker 3: We should pass laws to keep the solar panels out
Speaker 3: of the fields. The reality is that's trying to put
Speaker 3: the toothpaste back in the tube. What we need is
Speaker 3: an economic model for farmers who own this land that's
Speaker 3: better than selling their land to China or for solar panels.
Speaker 1: They need to be profitable.
Speaker 3: Again, that's because having China buy our land or having
Speaker 3: solar panels go in it, that's a symptom of a problem.
Speaker 1: That's not the problem. The problem is there's not.
Speaker 3: A profitable model for small farming in the United States anymore.
Speaker 1: It's too hard to achieve.
Speaker 2: Well, it's also a symptom of one of the reasons
Speaker 2: farming has gotten more expensive, like global warming or temperature
Speaker 2: change or whatever, which reduces the amount of available fertilizer
Speaker 2: because they won't allow us to tap into our petrochemical
Speaker 2: the oil and the natural or gas and things that
Speaker 2: are necessary to make fertilizer. That's the reason they would
Speaker 2: make a field of solar panels. I mean, I am
Speaker 2: just beyond myself with relation to this religion, this pseudo religion,
Speaker 2: that is, we are exhaling our way to devastation. I
Speaker 2: don't buy it, and I view it as a mechanism
Speaker 2: to simply liberate money from the very wealthy countries of
Speaker 2: the world and offload that via the claims of climate
Speaker 2: alarmism to third world countries who haven't really, you know,
Speaker 2: passed the test of economic mustard.
Speaker 3: This is a scientific fact. People can argue about this,
Speaker 3: but they're just ignorant. If they do, you get more
Speaker 3: cropial per acre as the concentration of CO two, which
Speaker 3: is a very small trace gas.
Speaker 1: In the atmosphere, goes up.
Speaker 2: Plant food.
Speaker 3: It is plant food, it is plant fertilized. When everybody
Speaker 3: knows that plants take CO two and they make oxygen
Speaker 3: or transform it into oxygen, the question, and there's water
Speaker 3: involved there too. The question is what happened to the carbon? Right,
Speaker 3: you've got a carbon dioxide molecule. It doesn't just turn
Speaker 3: into an oxygen molecule. The carbon goes somewhere. Where does
Speaker 3: it go through? Yeah, it's it's the glucose that becomes
Speaker 3: other forms of sugar and carbohydrates. They're called carbohydrates for
Speaker 3: a reason. Right, there's water and carbon involved, and people
Speaker 3: forget that all of the carbon that you end up
Speaker 3: eating it came originated not in the ground, but from
Speaker 3: the air.
Speaker 2: It's I remember learning that when I was in I
Speaker 2: was like K through twelve.
Speaker 1: Or the eighth grade.
Speaker 3: I think is the last time they show you that
Speaker 3: chemical equation where water plus CO two becomes oxygen and glucose,
Speaker 3: and everybody just remembers that on one side is carbon
Speaker 3: dioxide and on the other is oxygen. They forget that
Speaker 3: there's water on the left side of that equation and
Speaker 3: glucose on the right side of the equation, and sunlight
Speaker 3: is what helps put the energy in to transform that.
Speaker 2: Well, of course, that's why we have you here on
Speaker 2: the Morning show to help back up my point. Would
Speaker 2: I make almost every day anymore on that subject matter
Speaker 2: Congress from Massey and hopefully this administration will open itself
Speaker 2: up to some more greater scientific reality.
Speaker 3: Well, so, by the way, I haven't been chosen. There's
Speaker 3: a rumor on the internet that I've been chosen. I've
Speaker 3: not been chosen. There are people advocating on the inside
Speaker 3: for me to have that position, But I have not
Speaker 3: been chosen by any stretch of the imagination. But you
Speaker 3: would consider it, oh, I would absolutely consider it.
Speaker 2: Embrace it. It sounds like there's so much.
Speaker 3: That's going on at the USDA for which there is
Speaker 3: no congressional mandate. There's no congressional authorization. And this if
Speaker 3: you go into any branch of the administration you will
Speaker 3: see this. They're promulgating rules and as you said, some
Speaker 3: of them are make it most stuff that make it
Speaker 3: harder for small farms to exist. But they're promulgating these
Speaker 3: rules whereas Congress never told.
Speaker 1: Them to do that. For instance, electronic ID for cattle.
Speaker 3: Congress never passed the law asking the USDA to require
Speaker 3: that all cattle and bison in the United States get
Speaker 3: an electronic tag in their ear.
Speaker 1: Yet the USDA is promulgating that.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm just laughing at the idiot who came
Speaker 2: up with that idea and what the purpose of it is.
Speaker 2: Let's pause. We'll bring you back in comment further on that.
Speaker 2: We obviously got a lot more to talk about Congressman
Speaker 2: Thomas Massey on the fifty five Carty Morning Show. First though,
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Speaker 2: Before we leave the topic of agriculture, and yes, you
Speaker 2: would take the role as agriculture secretary if it's offered
Speaker 2: to you. So let's get him in that role. One
Speaker 2: thing I want to know, and again it springs from
Speaker 2: this climate religion. Can we stop burning and are gasoline tanks? Congressomassy.
Speaker 3: It definitely raises the price of food in the supermarket,
Speaker 3: but the farmers like it because it also raises the
Speaker 3: price of cornet. They get I'm sure there's something we
Speaker 3: could do that would make more sense.
Speaker 2: You're like not doing that well.
Speaker 1: And you know, here's what I would like to do.
Speaker 3: Like to talk to Elon and vivek Over at their
Speaker 3: department of government efficiency that's been set up by the
Speaker 3: way I've been I've been talking to Viveik. In fact,
Speaker 3: the other day I said, I tweeted this. Look, Congress
Speaker 3: takes over on January third, and you'll have a new
Speaker 3: majority in the Senate on January third, for instance. But
Speaker 3: the president's not sworn in until January twentieth. We've got
Speaker 3: seventeen days. We should put at least a dozen bills
Speaker 3: on Trump's desk that are ready to sign when he
Speaker 3: sits down. Oh yeah, I know, he's got a list
Speaker 3: of things to do by executive order and executive orders
Speaker 3: to resind. But to make this stuff stick, you need legislation. Yes,
Speaker 3: so and so, Viveik asked me, well, what's some of
Speaker 3: those bills, And I said, well, the first one I
Speaker 3: would put on his desk is one that's passed the
Speaker 3: House multiple times. It's been debated, it's been amended, it's
Speaker 3: been perfected, the Rains Act.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, right.
Speaker 3: If anything's got more than one hundred million dollars of
Speaker 3: economic impact, and it's a rule that's being promulgated by
Speaker 3: an administrative branch, say, for instance, the USDA, then it
Speaker 3: needs to come back to Congress for a vote.
Speaker 1: That's just common sense.
Speaker 3: And we've already amended and debated and written that bill.
Speaker 3: That thing is now we'd have to pass it again
Speaker 3: between January third and January twentieth and send it to
Speaker 3: the Senate and they would have to pass it. But
Speaker 3: why couldn't we get that passed and get it on
Speaker 3: President Trump's desk and then we're ready to go on
Speaker 3: day one and make it law. It's something that would
Speaker 3: then be in law, and it would be forever until,
Speaker 3: for instance, the Democrats got control of the both chambers
Speaker 3: and the Presidency in order to reverse it.
Speaker 1: If they could try, if.
Speaker 2: They could try, if they dare to do that politically
Speaker 2: it maybe they're undoing. Now back to the Department of
Speaker 2: Government Efficiency, which I love the idea. How you could
Speaker 2: put elon Musk and Viva Grammar swimming in a room
Speaker 2: and just stick the word doge on the wall and
Speaker 2: that would be a department. They don't have to be funded.
Speaker 2: Judseh Polyotonic got a little bent out of shape yesterday
Speaker 2: over the idea of having a new department that isn't
Speaker 2: authorized by the Constitution. I said, well, you don't need
Speaker 2: to make an apartment. You just have two guys with
Speaker 2: a pair of scissors just starting to cut the fat
Speaker 2: out of it. But it's an unlimited amount of fact
Speaker 2: they can cut out. Do you think it will be effective?
Speaker 2: Do you think they can actually get something accomplished by
Speaker 2: what way of pairing down the size and scope of government?
Speaker 3: Well, but eventually that has to be enacted either through
Speaker 3: an Act of Congress or through an executive act, because
Speaker 3: the Office of Government Efficiency won't be an official office,
Speaker 3: per you, like these other offices, and so somebody will
Speaker 3: have to implement it.
Speaker 1: So it's going to be a list of recommendations. By
Speaker 1: the way, back on the.
Speaker 3: Ethanol thing, there's a certain amount of ethanol that makes
Speaker 3: sense because you can change the octane rating of gasoline.
Speaker 3: But the problem with where we are right now in
Speaker 3: ethanol policy is when you push it to be over
Speaker 3: a certain amount, it becomes economically inefficient.
Speaker 1: So that's something to.
Speaker 2: Look at, but it's unnecessary. If you ignore this religion,
Speaker 2: then it wouldn't have happened in the first place. My
Speaker 2: problem is the genesis of the idea of burning food
Speaker 2: in the gas tank comes from the whole concept of
Speaker 2: global warming or something you know.
Speaker 3: What I found interesting is when gasoline got high, it
Speaker 3: is Biden's policy to allow more ethanol to be put
Speaker 3: in the gasoline in California where it causes a smog problem. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and he said, well, you know what, We'll let you
Speaker 3: have a little bit of smog from the increased ethanol
Speaker 3: if it will lower gasoline prices in California. So it's
Speaker 3: funny that cling to these things until it becomes apparent
Speaker 3: to the public what's.
Speaker 1: Causing the increase in price, and then they go the
Speaker 1: other direction. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I guess everyone's running around in advance of the elections
Speaker 2: screaming about this project twenty twenty five as if it
Speaker 2: was something that was part of the Republican Party strategy. No,
Speaker 2: it was recommendations from an entity and a group of
Speaker 2: people outside of government. They got the whole thing together.
Speaker 2: It's a think tank paper. Here's every wish list we've
Speaker 2: got going back to the Department of Government Efficiency. I
Speaker 2: don't know why would have to be funded or anything
Speaker 2: other than a couple of guys going through the books
Speaker 2: and writing down all the stuff that is fraud, waste
Speaker 2: and abuse and handing it over to you. Congressman Massey
Speaker 2: to just put it into legislation and start cutting I mean, I.
Speaker 3: Got to tell you, Congress came up with this thing
Speaker 3: inside of the Patent Office that invalidates patents. Now here's
Speaker 3: the funny thing. The Patent Office, in the same branch
Speaker 3: of government. They issue patents, and then they have this
Speaker 3: kangaroo court that invalidates patents after they've issued them, so
Speaker 3: that they're literally creating patents and destroying them in the
Speaker 3: same agency.
Speaker 1: It's a self licking ice cream cone.
Speaker 3: And the and the part of the Patent Office that
Speaker 3: destroys the patents, it's a it's a court room, but
Speaker 3: we already have courts to.
Speaker 1: Settle these matters.
Speaker 3: So they created another judicial branch inside of the patent
Speaker 3: office to kill patents. It's a It's one example of
Speaker 3: how government is basically, you know, making windows and then
Speaker 3: breaking the windows, and we need to find things like
Speaker 3: that and and eliminate them.
Speaker 2: Couldn't agree more. There's one right there. Just put it
Speaker 2: in a piece of legislation and eliminate it. It's done.
Speaker 2: It doesn't require a new department to do that. It
Speaker 2: requires someone with a pen and ability to creatively write legislation.
Speaker 2: Pursuing to the rules of legislative drafting. See law school
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got a lot of We've got a lot
Speaker 1: of good stuff.
Speaker 3: By the way, Briant, this pent up that we've passed
Speaker 3: the House, or it's passed our Judiciary committee, like giving
Speaker 3: a right of action for people to sue government agents
Speaker 3: that in front on their first Amendment. Like, that's another
Speaker 3: bill we should send right over to the Sinne.
Speaker 2: Oh, that would be great, no more standing arguments, you
Speaker 2: would have standing wonderful. Oh, I'm getting excited about the
Speaker 2: future here. Congressman Mascy, You're always welcome on the morning
Speaker 2: show to push these ideas forward, and you always get
Speaker 2: my listening audience to back you up on them. Appreciate
Speaker 2: what you're doing. Enjoy the sunshine and the shot and
Speaker 2: Freuda while it lasts, and get ready to hit the
Speaker 2: ground running because we need a lot getting done between
Speaker 2: now and the end of January.
Speaker 1: All right, brother, good talking to you.
Speaker 2: Always a plague.
Speaker 1: Get it done.
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