WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:03.919 Candidate Your Decision twenty twenty four sty show, a failed 2 00:00:04.040 --> 00:00:06.400 vice President and a failed administration. 3 00:00:06.519 --> 00:00:13.839 Fifty five Cares the talk station eight o five, the 4 00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:15.400 fifty five kr CD talk station. 5 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:21.559 It's my distinct pleasure to welcome back to the fifty 6 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:24.359 five KARS Morning Show with a heavy heart and call 7 00:00:24.519 --> 00:00:28.000 condolences from all my listening audience. Congressman Thomas Massey, a 8 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:30.199 real pleasure to have you back on, sir, been missing you, 9 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:32.880 and of course from my listening audience, my family of 10 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:37.759 the yours are sincere, sincere condolences on your loss, sir, welcome. 11 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:38.920 Back, Thank you, Brian. 12 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:42.399 I'm sorry they're mowing the grass outside my studio right now. 13 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:43.960 Hopefully the moor will go back. 14 00:00:45.399 --> 00:00:45.719 Listen. 15 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:50.479 My wife, my late wife, she was a big fan 16 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:55.479 of yours, and thank goodness she listened to you when 17 00:00:55.479 --> 00:00:58.200 I didn't, because there were a couple of times in 18 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:01.719 the last ten years where you would say, up next, 19 00:01:01.840 --> 00:01:02.600 Thomas Massy. 20 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:05.480 I wasn't even aware I was supposed to be on 21 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:05.959 your show. 22 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:06.799 God bless it. 23 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:11.200 She would call me up Ryan, Thomas thinks you're gonna 24 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:13.760 be on his show at five minutes and I'd be 25 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:17.319 in DC or something, and you know, all of our 26 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:20.799 fail safes failed. Normally we have this down on my 27 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:24.400 calendar and staff reminds me. But she was our last 28 00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:28.280 line of defense, and she really enjoyed your show, really 29 00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:31.879 enjoyed listening to you, and she would listen to what 30 00:01:31.959 --> 00:01:34.159 was going on and always let me know what I 31 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:34.879 needed to know. 32 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:39.000 Oh that's just God bless her, God bless hers. So anyways, 33 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:41.120 I can hear the emotion in your voice. I certainly 34 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:43.120 understand it. So with that, I will allow you to 35 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:47.400 pivot away to something I know you're also emotional about, 36 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:49.799 and that's the state of America and the current situation. 37 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:52.120 I just wanted to get your reaction on since it's 38 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:55.000 been a while since we talked, so much has happened 39 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:57.680 between the attended assassination of Donald Trump, of course, the 40 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:01.400 coup a tad that was waged against o'biden, Kamala Harris 41 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:04.400 now going from an also ran couldn't get a single 42 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:07.640 Democrat to vote for to now the best thing that's 43 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:11.080 ever happened to the Democrat Party as well as America. 44 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:13.240 What's your reaction all there's sort of on a general 45 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:15.599 speaking level, and of course you know specifics are welcome 46 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:15.919 as well. 47 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:18.599 Congressman, Well, I got just share a funny story with you. 48 00:02:18.719 --> 00:02:19.319 This Saturday. 49 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:21.680 I went and picked up my raw milk from my 50 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:26.719 Amish supplier. And he didn't even know that Joe Biden 51 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:29.520 wasn't running for president. And he asked me if it 52 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:33.479 was true that Trump had been shot at, And I thought, man, 53 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:35.319 I think that's right. 54 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:37.479 That's maybe what bliss is. 55 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:40.719 To be so far removed from this craziness. 56 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:45.400 Maybe a good a good argument for being a ludite there, Congressman, 57 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:48.520 right issue, if you want to be religious about it. 58 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:51.599 Yeah, well then I tried to. He's like, but didn't 59 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:54.680 they have an election to elect Joe Biden as their candidate. 60 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:56.879 I'm like, yeah, but that doesn't matter to them. 61 00:02:56.919 --> 00:02:59.520 They basically had a coup since then. Yeah. 62 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:04.319 Really, And he didn't disbelieve any of that. Ask Bernie Sanders, 63 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:05.759 is not the same. It's not the first time the 64 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:06.719 Democrats have done this. 65 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:10.879 Yeah, So, you know, that's the way I'm characterizing it. 66 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:15.319 I don't think he went along quietly with that coup. 67 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:18.560 I think, you know, it was just so odd that 68 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:23.159 he was not making a public appearance and everybody else 69 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:25.680 was making this announcement for him that he was no 70 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:31.280 longer the candidate. Man, it feels like Banana republic type 71 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:32.960 stuff the way they did that. 72 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:35.879 I would say, it is Banana republic like stuff they did, 73 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:38.719 and then the Democrats don't have any say in it. 74 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:40.960 That's what I said earlier in the program. Congressman. 75 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:42.560 I asked he that I would love and you know, 76 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:44.280 I know it's a dream we've all had from time 77 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:45.759 to time. I just would love the climb into the 78 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:48.479 heads of the Democrats collectively, just to see what their 79 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:52.879 reaction to being left out of the process. I know 80 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:55.120 that I personally would want to participate in the primary, 81 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:57.680 have some choice in it. And I know personally that 82 00:03:57.719 --> 00:03:59.680 if you know, I was a Democrat and I can 83 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:01.800 put my self in the position of a Democrat understand 84 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:04.639 their philosophy from time to time, but not the far 85 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:08.800 left socialist come communist wing of the party, which is 86 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:10.919 where she came from. I would have gone with a 87 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:15.319 Shapiro as opposed to Tima, you know, because he is 88 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:17.000 from the far left of the party, so they no 89 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:18.040 say the matter none. 90 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:19.680 He is from the far left. 91 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:22.120 He served in the House of Representatives, so I know 92 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:24.959 him from there. And he was a leftist then, but 93 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:28.800 he's gone even further left since he left the House 94 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:32.480 of Representatives. I think it's interesting they are they're going 95 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:35.199 all in. They've already done a press conference where they 96 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:39.600 say they want to ban AR fifteen's, you know, they 97 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:44.160 want to stop any transfer of firearms between relatives. 98 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:47.519 They're going all in. 99 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:52.399 They are leaning in on a leftist agenda in this 100 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:56.480 campaign now. Is that is the signal they are sending 101 00:04:56.519 --> 00:05:00.040 to their base. The media will not portray them as that. No, 102 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:04.560 the media will portray them as as let's say, normal, 103 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:06.000 and us as weird. 104 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:07.040 Which is what they're doing. 105 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:11.639 They find that so juvenile, weird. You know, name calling 106 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:14.480 happens when you don't have any arguments against you know, 107 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:17.279 logic and reason and policy and things of that nature. 108 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:20.279 Let's just boil it down. We'll just start calling them weird. 109 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:20.680 You know. 110 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:23.240 And Jade Vance is one of the most normal people 111 00:05:23.279 --> 00:05:24.079 in politics. 112 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:25.360 Yeah, that's a good point. 113 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:29.240 By the way, he sent me before he was named 114 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:32.519 vice the vice president nominee. He he and I text 115 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:35.319 back and forth. We are in sync on a lot 116 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:38.839 of issues and and and somewhat outside of the Republican 117 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:42.600 mainstream Party on some of these issues he and I together, like, 118 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:47.920 for instance, opposing our participation in Ukraine. He's been he's 119 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:52.079 been strong on that anti war in that respect. But 120 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:55.519 he and also he and I also teamed up on 121 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:01.079 opposing something called the REPO Act. Now, and let me 122 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:04.519 explain what the REPO Act is. Ostensibly, this sounds like 123 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:07.839 a great idea. We're gonna we're gonna seize the sovereign 124 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:12.720 wealth as assets of Russia that are in the United States, 125 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:15.720 and we're gonna take those assets and buy bombs and 126 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:19.560 kill Russians with the sovereign assets that Russia has here 127 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:22.600 in the United States. Well that's that sounds all good 128 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:27.000 to a lot of people. But what are the assets 129 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:29.759 that the Russians have in the United States. They are 130 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:33.519 treasury bonds. So basically, instead of calling it the REPO Act, 131 00:06:33.560 --> 00:06:35.079 we should call it the Default Act. 132 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:38.000 And JD. Vance is smart enough. 133 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:41.920 You know, he was in the investment community after he 134 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:45.000 graduated from Yale and served in the military. He was 135 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:49.920 I think venture capitalists, and that's another area where you know, 136 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:52.519 I was asking venture capitalists for money, went for my 137 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:55.079 business when I got out of school, and. 138 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:56.040 Raised venture capitals. 139 00:06:56.120 --> 00:06:58.720 So I'm familiar with that, but he has an understanding 140 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:03.199 of money and second order of effects, and he knows 141 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:05.839 as well as I know that if you start defaulting 142 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:08.279 on your debt to some of the countries that have 143 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:12.319 purchased your debt, the price of financing your debt is 144 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:15.879 going to go up right, And that is what we 145 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:17.199 are seeing people. 146 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:21.120 You know, it's like your bond rating going down right correct. 147 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:25.040 And we're putting we're pushing it down ourselves. And so 148 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:29.360 Great Britain knows we're not going to default on treasury 149 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:31.519 notes if they buy some of our treasury notes, but 150 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:36.079 China buys some of our treasuries, okay, and if they 151 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:39.399 know that as soon as you know, we get in 152 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:41.680 a tip for tat over Taiwan, that part of the 153 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:44.240 escalation is going to be what we're trying to do 154 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:47.000 with Russia, which is default on our debt. Then they 155 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:51.240 have to they have to factor that in to when 156 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:55.120 they purchase a treasury bond, or they have to factor 157 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:58.120 that in the fact that they may not get they 158 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:00.959 may not get any money back for it, so that 159 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:03.480 causes them to demand higher interest rates. 160 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:06.519 Well, why and why would we, I guess arguably shoot 161 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:09.199 ourselves in the foot by doing that, because without China 162 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:12.839 loaning us money, we can't maintain the current economy. It's 163 00:08:12.839 --> 00:08:15.560 sone of it. It's just a twisted, twisted state of 164 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:17.160 affairs we find ourselves living in. 165 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:20.040 Well. And also we got a sweetheart deal. 166 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:23.399 When people borrow our money and then we inflate it. 167 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:27.879 They we're basically they're getting very little return, if any 168 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:28.399 at all. 169 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:29.639 That's true. 170 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:31.399 On the on the. 171 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:33.440 Don't say that out loud though, because they might quit 172 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:34.200 loaning it to it. 173 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:38.080 Well, here's and here's the net of all of this. 174 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:41.480 It's what what does this mean to your listeners? It 175 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:44.120 means that interest rates on your mortgage are going to 176 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:46.879 stay high. You know, you'd like to think that the 177 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:49.480 Fed has control of this, or a lot of people 178 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:50.240 would like to think. 179 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:52.600 I'd like to think the Fed should go away. But 180 00:08:53.399 --> 00:08:55.000 if you if you like. 181 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:57.960 To pretend that the Fed is controlling interest rates right now, 182 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:00.679 that you would most people would like to see them 183 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:02.960 lower them a little bit to get some relief on 184 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:06.919 their car loan or on their variable rate mortgage, or 185 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:10.600 they're trying to move from one neighborhood to another to 186 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:13.720 get a better job. But that would require selling their 187 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:16.440 house and getting another mortgage at a higher interest rate. 188 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:19.279 There are lots of ways that high interest rates hurt 189 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:22.240 the economy, and people are thinking that the FED is 190 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:24.639 going to lower interest rates at some point, but the 191 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:27.120 reality is they might be able to squeeze it down 192 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:30.279 half a percent or a percent, they can't go any 193 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:35.600 lower than that because we've already made enough sovereign countries 194 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:40.919 their investments skittish enough that they are demanding higher rates 195 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:46.480 for our fifteen and thirty year notes. And anyways, Backing 196 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:51.240 this all back up, jd Vance recognizes that, and he 197 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:55.039 and I have been trying to be vocal about this 198 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:59.279 because the REPO Act is very populist notion that people 199 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:03.080 are general in favor of, but it's the second order 200 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:06.480 effects of it are going to be detrimental to our economy. 201 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:10.120 So jd Vance sent me a very nice text about 202 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:13.919 Rondo when she passed away, and I sent him a 203 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:16.639 note back and told him that his book was an 204 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:19.360 inspiration to Ronda and I because we both started in 205 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:23.919 eastern Kentucky as we grew up as hillbillies. We were 206 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:28.399 raised as hillbillies, and we're still proud hillbillies. But They 207 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:32.720 taught us the three rs in Eastern Kentucky, reading, writing, 208 00:10:32.759 --> 00:10:36.200 and Route twenty three, which you know. And my brother 209 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:38.480 and sister both took Route twenty three. They both live 210 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:43.039 in Ohio. They went there to get better job opportunities, 211 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:45.720 and that sort is the story of eastern Kentucky. But 212 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:50.240 my wife and I, you Jade Vance, from very humble beginnings. 213 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:54.320 He and he did this using I think a military 214 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:57.600 scholarship or something. But he went to Yale and his 215 00:10:57.639 --> 00:11:00.759 book he talks about the culture shock that he went true. 216 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:04.440 And I told JD that my wife and I had 217 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:07.679 that very same experience coming from Eastern Kentucky. 218 00:11:07.399 --> 00:11:08.919 Going to and going to MI. 219 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:10.279 I t I imagine. 220 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:15.039 I mean, look when I got to Cambridge, Massachusetts, which 221 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:19.639 is basically they they are full out socialists there. They're 222 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:25.600 not democrats. The first crosswalk I went through on Massachusetts Avenue, 223 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:30.320 a car honked at me, and I thought, oh my gosh, 224 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:33.679 I've been here what four hours, and already run into 225 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:35.840 somebody that knows me. So I waved at the car 226 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:41.039 that was honking at me, and they were not waving 227 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:42.679 back with more than one finger. 228 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:46.639 I knew that was coming. 229 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:49.639 I just I started laughing before you got to the 230 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:51.600 meat of the story. 231 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:56.159 But people say, oh, that is not true, and I said, oh, 232 00:11:56.279 --> 00:11:58.360 not only is that true, it took me a month 233 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:03.159 to quit waving at cars because for eighteen years that 234 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:06.200 was my instinct. The only reason a car would hank 235 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:08.639 it a person is because it's hard to see through 236 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:12.840 the windshield for the person, the pedestrian, and that person 237 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:15.679 in that car knows the pedestrian and wants to say hi. 238 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:16.399 Exactly. 239 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:21.279 So anyways, I've I've told JD Vance's story got a 240 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:23.759 good kick out of it. But I also told him 241 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:27.960 that he's appropriated my culture, that I'm the real hillbilly. 242 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:31.720 He's from Ohio and I'm his he'll billy cousins he 243 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:32.759 spent the summer with. 244 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:35.799 In fact, I grew up in a town called Vanceburg. 245 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:38.519 Oh how about that, Well, I'll tell you what. Let's pause, 246 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:40.360 a Congressman. We will have a couple of minutes when 247 00:12:40.360 --> 00:12:43.360 we come back. I really want to get into foreign 248 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:45.399 policy if we can, because it does appear as though 249 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:48.080 World War three is getting ready to break out. Congressman 250 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:49.759 Thomas Masha, let's pause will bring it right back. I 251 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:51.559 get a quick word here for doctor Fred Pack and 252 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:54.440 doctor Meghan Frew, the dynamic duo of dentistry. You're in 253 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:58.200 the best possible hands for both general dentistry and cosmetic dentistry. 254 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:01.240 Doctor Fred Pack and a credited Fellow with the American 255 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:04.120 Academy at Cosmetic Dentistry, and only one of three in 256 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:06.799 the entire state of Ohio. It's a state filled with 257 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:09.639 dentist He's only one of three in the entire state 258 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:12.279 that's achieved the status of Fellowship with the American Academy 259 00:13:12.279 --> 00:13:14.519 at Cosmetic Dentistry. And there is good reason for that, 260 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:19.440 stunning life changing smile makeovers. You're in the best possible 261 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:22.639 hands for cosmetic dentistry with doctor Pack, doctor Fruz working 262 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:25.000 under accreditation with the American Academy. You're of the best 263 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:27.240 possible hands across the board for all things dentistry. My 264 00:13:27.399 --> 00:13:30.240 entire famili's general dentists, and they do a wonderful job. 265 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:32.919 They're always called the cutting edge of dentistry for the 266 00:13:32.919 --> 00:13:35.399 purpose of benefiting you, the client. 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We also 294 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:01.759 have Jenna Paul Tanner coming up next, and he is 295 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:04.679 listening right now. We've already logged into the zoom call 296 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:06.480 with the Judge I do at eight thirty, so he 297 00:15:06.559 --> 00:15:10.200 is listening intently to us speak because you know, Judge 298 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:13.600 Napoulton is a huge fan of Congressman Thomas Massey. Pivoting 299 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:16.200 over to foreign policy, Congressman Massey, what in the hell 300 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:16.960 is going on? 301 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:18.559 Well, what is. 302 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:21.519 Going on is unconstitutional if they go through with it, 303 00:15:21.559 --> 00:15:26.600 they're threatening strikes on a sovereign country, Iran, that the 304 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:30.919 US would participate in in some form or fashion. I'm sorry, 305 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:32.320 this requires a. 306 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:35.399 Vote that congression of war, declaration. 307 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:40.000 Of war clearly in the Constitution. Amen, And it's that simple, 308 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:44.480 and they're breaking the constitution. And what really disappoints me 309 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:47.039 is there many members of my own party who are 310 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:51.320 quite alright with that. I remember a few years ago 311 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:54.919 I was in a back room GOP conference where the 312 00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:58.279 entire caucus of Republicans that are in the House of 313 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:01.519 Representatives was meeting, and we were talking about this dilemma 314 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:05.360 of what to do with Iran and the war powers 315 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:09.919 of Congress, and one of my Republican colleagues got up 316 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:14.120 suggested to the speaker that we pre declare war with Iran, 317 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:17.840 not that they hadn't done anything yet that would justify war, 318 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:21.159 but if we would pre declare war with Iran, then 319 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:24.639 if Obama wanted to strike Iran, we wouldn't be getting 320 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:26.240 in the way of him doing that. 321 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:29.200 What article of the Constitution does that does that clause 322 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:31.360 come in to pre declaration? 323 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:34.399 Well, I've said, you know, there's a balanced budget amendment 324 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:37.919 offered in Congress many years and it's got an exemption 325 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:38.639 for war. 326 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:40.720 And I said, the problem with this. 327 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:44.279 If we make a balanced budget exemption or balance budget 328 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:48.000 amendment to the Constitution with an exemption for war, the 329 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:50.639 first day of every Congress will adopt a rules package, 330 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:53.720 elect a speaker and declare war and like Upper Madagascar 331 00:16:54.840 --> 00:16:58.639 and rent of someplace to bomb there and be real 332 00:16:58.720 --> 00:16:59.519 polite about it. 333 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:02.519 Yeah, now that's funny, but it's also true. It is 334 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:05.599 true true. I mean, look at just used COVID funds 335 00:17:05.640 --> 00:17:08.480 for example, look at where money for COVID nineteen landed. 336 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:11.240 I mean it landed at every place, landed, roads, bridges, 337 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:14.880 infrastructure projects, you know, keeping different programs alive that had 338 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:16.920 nothing what's over to do with the pandemic or anything 339 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:19.640 related to it. It's just been this big cash cow, 340 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:23.160 go move kind of product, a thing that's well also 341 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:25.160 subject for fraud, waste and abuse. But moving back to 342 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:28.359 the military component about and something judged Upaul Atana and 343 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:31.759 I have talked about regularly over the years. Authorization for 344 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:34.680 use of military force. Isn't that like a declaration of 345 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:37.119 war without declaring war? I mean, what the hell is that? 346 00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:39.799 And how is it that they can last for twenty years? 347 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:42.200 We've got some that are still ongoing. 348 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:46.079 Yeah, and they are not They are not constrained or 349 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:47.559 defined geographically. 350 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:49.960 Like the War on Terror. 351 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:54.799 It's basically an open ended, you know, carte blanche permission 352 00:17:54.880 --> 00:17:57.079 to do anything anywhere on the globe if you can 353 00:17:57.160 --> 00:17:59.279 invoke the term terror. 354 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:04.359 Viking missiles in foreign lands that we have no no, 355 00:18:04.359 --> 00:18:06.240 no war going on with right. 356 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:09.559 And this is why when they bring up these resolutions 357 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:13.720 to declare let's say Iran a terrorist nation or North 358 00:18:13.799 --> 00:18:17.839 Korea a terrorist nation, I vote against them because if 359 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:21.440 you take A and you understand B, you get c. 360 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:21.720 C is war. 361 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:24.319 And if you've got a global war on terror and 362 00:18:24.440 --> 00:18:28.839 Congress is now denoting more countries as terrorist countries are 363 00:18:28.839 --> 00:18:33.519 engaged in terrorist activities, then you have almost at that 364 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:36.799 point already said we're going to have war with them. 365 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:39.720 But we need to we need to end all of 366 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:43.759 the au mfs, and we need to go back to 367 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:46.160 declaring war. The other problem with an au m F. 368 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:50.000 When you declare war, there needs to be an objective, 369 00:18:50.599 --> 00:18:53.000 and then you need to be all in and give 370 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:56.480 your military the tools to get the job done and 371 00:18:56.519 --> 00:18:58.880 tell them when they get to come home, what the 372 00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:01.839 object you know, and they achieved certain objectives, what those 373 00:19:01.880 --> 00:19:02.720 objectives are? 374 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:04.480 We don't do that anymore. 375 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:08.200 Heaven forbid. We would actually have a clearly defined objective. Well, 376 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:10.279 and you know, real quick here I must observe as 377 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:13.200 I see war unfolding. I see now the Iranians are 378 00:19:13.200 --> 00:19:18.240 supplying drones. Iranians have longer range missiles which have accuracy, 379 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:20.200 whereas it used to be the scud type missile. It's 380 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:22.079 just sort of got launched like a bottle rocket and 381 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:25.720 landed everywhere they wanted. They have all kinds of sophisticated technology. Hell, 382 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:27.720 they're just a step or two away from getting a 383 00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:32.640 nuclear weapon. They view us as the terrorist, right and 384 00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:36.680 if they decide that some individuals responsible for the death 385 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:39.559 of some other individual in Iran or some member of 386 00:19:39.599 --> 00:19:42.079 their military forces, I mean, we seem to be a 387 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:44.480 moment in time away from just some missile coming out 388 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:48.000 of nowhere, launched by the Iranians blowing up somebody's sitting 389 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:50.279 in a cafe here in Cincinnati or anyplace else they 390 00:19:50.319 --> 00:19:50.920 might be in our. 391 00:19:50.920 --> 00:19:54.000 Land, which is why I mean they made they made 392 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:58.400 fun of Ronald Reagan for you know, Star Wars Strategic 393 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:04.079 Defense Initiative. We need basically to redouble our efforts on 394 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:09.160 our own version of an iron Dome, and I just 395 00:20:09.200 --> 00:20:13.319 don't think we've done enough in that regard. Eventually, weapons 396 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:17.960 are going to get more sophisticated. They can get hypersonic missiles. Now, 397 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:20.640 we need to be prepared for that, and we're not. 398 00:20:20.960 --> 00:20:24.039 And I'll remind you this is not a partisan issue. 399 00:20:24.440 --> 00:20:27.640 I was one of three Republicans when Trump was president 400 00:20:28.039 --> 00:20:30.839 to vote for a resolution that said, if Trump wanted 401 00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:33.079