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So this wisdom comes to us from Jarvis 10 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:36,280 on the Twitter machine, Jarvis Best, who says, in the 11 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,719 old days, see we used to have something called the 12 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:44,240 spoils system, the spoils system to the victor go the 13 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:48,240 spoils right. The spoil system where the president would appoint 14 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:53,280 party loyalists to government jobs. So a Republican president would 15 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:56,079 appoint Republicans to run the government, and then if a 16 00:00:56,119 --> 00:00:59,840 Democrat won, the Democrat would appoint Democrats to run the government. 17 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:05,000 And this was considered inefficient because you had to change 18 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,680 all of the government jobs whenever there was a new 19 00:01:07,719 --> 00:01:12,000 party in charge. So in the late eighteen hundreds they 20 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:17,159 replaced the spoils system with the career civil servant system, 21 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:20,480 which ensured that no matter which party was in the 22 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:26,120 White House, the federal government would always be run by Democrats. See, 23 00:01:26,159 --> 00:01:35,280 so that's what's going on here. Yes, that encapsulates all 24 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:41,439 the guff that we are seeing surrounding Doge and Elon Musk. 25 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,760 And I watched the well on the way home. Actually, 26 00:01:45,799 --> 00:01:47,640 I was driving home and I was listening to Brett 27 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:54,599 Winterble and he was joining live in progress the press 28 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:59,719 availability that Elon Musk and Donald Trump held in the 29 00:01:59,799 --> 00:02:05,680 Old Office, and I was listening with great interest. And 30 00:02:05,719 --> 00:02:10,120 then I went home. Well, first I had a commitment. 31 00:02:10,159 --> 00:02:11,560 I went to do that, and then I went home 32 00:02:11,599 --> 00:02:14,680 after that. So at like eight thirty, I fire up 33 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:22,000 the old C SPAN machine and I watched the press availability. 34 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:25,039 I don't really call it. It wasn't really a news conference, 35 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:27,960 although they did take a couple of questions. Sometimes they 36 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,000 call this a gaggle where a bunch of reporters they 37 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:34,159 just you know, bring them all into the room and 38 00:02:34,199 --> 00:02:37,719 they throw a bunch of questions and stuff. And I 39 00:02:37,719 --> 00:02:42,759 got to tell you, just watching that availability, that that event, 40 00:02:46,039 --> 00:02:50,639 it really is amazing. If you just stop and think 41 00:02:50,719 --> 00:02:53,960 for a moment and look at the individuals, you know, 42 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:59,919 set aside, the orange man bead, set aside the rock 43 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:03,639 Man bad right, Set all that suff aside. Whatever you 44 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:07,759 think about the individuals and just see them for you know, 45 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:14,639 these two business guys that are in the Oval office 46 00:03:14,719 --> 00:03:20,520 and are telling you that they are applying basic accounting 47 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,879 protocols to the government books and they have uncovered what 48 00:03:26,039 --> 00:03:29,879 could very well be somewhere in the neighborhood of a 49 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:37,199 trillion dollars in waste, fraud and abuse by simply coding, 50 00:03:38,039 --> 00:03:42,000 by putting codes in the general ledger in the GL 51 00:03:42,199 --> 00:03:47,879 right using gl codes. This is something that every business knows. 52 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:50,599 This is something that most people who do their home 53 00:03:50,639 --> 00:03:55,360 budgets know. You got to know what the expense is for. 54 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,439 You have to have a category for it, so that 55 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:02,319 allows you to track where the money is going. Most 56 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:09,000 banks offer this type of categorization so you can run 57 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,400 a report on your credit card, on your debit card, 58 00:04:12,479 --> 00:04:15,439 you're checking account, savings, account, whatever it may be. Most 59 00:04:15,479 --> 00:04:18,759 banks offer this for free, okay, like you can, and 60 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:23,279 they have little graphics pie chart stuff, so you can 61 00:04:23,399 --> 00:04:27,639 follow your money and what you are doing when you 62 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,279 are balancing a checkbook, reconciling records, when you're doing that 63 00:04:31,399 --> 00:04:35,560 kind of stuff that's essentially kind of like a little 64 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:40,160 bit of an audit. You're auditing your finances to make 65 00:04:40,199 --> 00:04:43,720 sure that there aren't any kind of crazy expenditures going 66 00:04:43,759 --> 00:04:48,000 out the door. Right, I didn't approve this purchase, What 67 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:51,279 is this expense for? Why am I in debt this month? 68 00:04:51,879 --> 00:04:55,839 That's how you identify those things, and we're not even 69 00:04:55,959 --> 00:05:03,000 doing those things at the government level. It's astounding. And 70 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:06,040 you see these two guys up there, coming out of 71 00:05:06,079 --> 00:05:09,360 the world of business. They understand how this stuff is 72 00:05:09,399 --> 00:05:14,040 supposed to look, and they're shocked at how little of 73 00:05:14,079 --> 00:05:20,600 it is actually done. So we also had this morning 74 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:25,439 there was a House Oversight subcommittee on the DOGE, the 75 00:05:25,519 --> 00:05:32,000 Department of Government Efficiency DOGE. And have we determined whether 76 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,560 the G is a sound? Are we going with DOGE 77 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,040 or are we going with DOGE? Is it more of 78 00:05:39,079 --> 00:05:43,240 a harder like a J sound? Is it like a 79 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:47,639 GZ or J? I don't know, DOGE or DOGE? I 80 00:05:47,759 --> 00:05:51,079 kind of like DOGE or Dodge. It could be that 81 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:53,639 it could be Dodge and then that works in like 82 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,639 a whole bunch of like soundbites from the Dodgeball movie, 83 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,800 which could be fun. But I digress. So they have 84 00:06:00,959 --> 00:06:07,160 this committee meeting and I caught a little bit of it. 85 00:06:07,199 --> 00:06:09,439 I didn't get to watch the whole thing, and you know, 86 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:11,279 I'm gonna be honest, I'm probably not gonna go back 87 00:06:11,319 --> 00:06:13,120 and watch the whole thing, although I kind of feel 88 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,040 like I should. It only ran about two hours, so 89 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:19,480 maybe I will. Maybe I'll watch some of it. But 90 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:24,199 I caught the final comments that were made here by 91 00:06:24,319 --> 00:06:29,800 Brandon Gill and Brandon Gill is a Republican out of Florida, 92 00:06:30,759 --> 00:06:37,480 and he spoke last before they did their closing comments, 93 00:06:37,519 --> 00:06:41,319 the ranking member Democrat and the chairs Marjorie Taylor Green. 94 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:45,360 I did not get to hear her final comments, but 95 00:06:45,439 --> 00:06:49,639 he kind of gave a summation of what the arguments 96 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:54,319 have been from the Democrats so far, and he says, 97 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:57,920 it's all about Elon Musk. And this has been my 98 00:06:58,319 --> 00:07:03,000 observation as well. These attacks about what DOGE is doing 99 00:07:04,079 --> 00:07:08,199 is about Elon Musk and his lack of accountability and 100 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:12,160 who he's an unelected bureaucrat. He's okay, Well, all of 101 00:07:12,199 --> 00:07:16,040 the people that Elon Musk is identifying in these agencies, 102 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:20,160 they're all unelected bureaucrats too. He called them the fourth 103 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:25,519 branch of government. It's an unelected, unaccountable, bureaucratic branch of government. 104 00:07:26,839 --> 00:07:30,199 And he is exactly right. And by the way, for 105 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:36,560 non conservatives, you may not be aware, but conservatives have 106 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:40,279 been identifying this problem for a very long time. I've 107 00:07:40,279 --> 00:07:44,480 been talking about it for twenty years. They've been called 108 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:47,319 all sorts of things, from the you know, the managerial class, 109 00:07:47,519 --> 00:07:51,800 the administrative state, the deep state, the new state. There's 110 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:54,079 all these different terms. From the new state came out 111 00:07:54,079 --> 00:07:55,680 of the Soviet Union, that's what they called them, or 112 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,399 the new class, I should say, the new class. So 113 00:07:59,399 --> 00:08:04,240 you hire in all of these bureaucrat technocrats whatever. They're 114 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,920 not elected, you can't get rid of them. And over 115 00:08:07,959 --> 00:08:12,839 time they've become more and more empowered to essentially write 116 00:08:12,959 --> 00:08:19,199 law via regulation, via the regulatory regimes that presidents put 117 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:25,000 in place. Little of this stuff is governed anymore by 118 00:08:25,439 --> 00:08:29,560 congressional action, because Congress realized a long time ago that hey, 119 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:33,200 we could get paid and not really do anything except 120 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:37,879 make speeches that go viral, like that's a way easier gig. 121 00:08:38,519 --> 00:08:42,000 We're basically social media influencers at this point, and they 122 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,879 don't have to do the hard work of legislating. They 123 00:08:44,879 --> 00:08:46,720 don't have to go to all the committee meetings. And 124 00:08:46,759 --> 00:08:48,720 you see it. You saw it today in this Doge 125 00:08:48,799 --> 00:08:53,399 oversight meeting, where a Democrat would walk in, make a 126 00:08:53,519 --> 00:08:55,759 speech for five minutes, and then leave. They have no 127 00:08:55,879 --> 00:09:00,120 interest in actually hearing any of the testimony from the 128 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:05,480 witnesses that were there. And so they've allowed this to occur. 129 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:09,159 They have allowed the expansion of the executive branch and 130 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:15,159 living underneath that, this bureaucratic branch. And that's what Musk 131 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,399 and Trump are getting at. I am very excited. I'm 132 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:21,679 very happy. As one who is not a fan of 133 00:09:21,799 --> 00:09:25,559 Donald Trump in his first run, I am very happy 134 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:30,559 with this approach, with this focus. It's necessary. It is 135 00:09:30,639 --> 00:09:35,720 costing US hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and 136 00:09:35,799 --> 00:09:39,759 if we can get this under control, we could see 137 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:46,240 a massive amount of economic benefit. 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So the Houseoverside Committee, it's a 159 00:10:53,759 --> 00:11:01,440 subcommittee of that Oversight Committee looking into doge do Doggee. 160 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:08,559 And at the very end, this fellow Brandon Gill gave 161 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:10,840 a sort of wrap up of what we have seen 162 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:13,960 over the course of the two hours. And I did 163 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,639 catch this as it was occurring live, and so I 164 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:18,919 paused it on the c span page and we'll see 165 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:21,159 if it loads up, and if it does, I think 166 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:23,080 you'll be very interested to hear it. Otherwise it's going 167 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:24,639 to be kind of awkward while I search for it. 168 00:11:25,279 --> 00:11:29,879 Speaker 2: Thank you, Maschair, and thank you for hosting this committee. 169 00:11:29,879 --> 00:11:33,240 If we've learned anything so far, it's that Republicans want 170 00:11:33,279 --> 00:11:36,480 to cut waste, fraud, and abuse from our federal government 171 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:41,360 and save taxpayer dollars and Democrats want a grandstand and 172 00:11:41,399 --> 00:11:45,440 play politics. We can see right now even of the 173 00:11:45,799 --> 00:11:49,000 six Democrats on this committee, only one can even be 174 00:11:49,159 --> 00:11:53,720 bothered to stay for the duration of this hearing. All 175 00:11:53,759 --> 00:11:56,399 we've heard about for most of this hearing from the 176 00:11:56,399 --> 00:11:59,840 other side of the aisle is elon Musk, Elon Musk, 177 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Elon Musk, unelected bureaucrat. And I'd like to ask if 178 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:09,159 Democrats really care about unelected bureaucrats making decisions over our lives. 179 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:13,720 Where were they whenever their god Anthony Fauci was forcing 180 00:12:13,879 --> 00:12:17,039 vaccine and mask mandates on the American people for four 181 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:22,240 years during the excuse me for during the COVID crisis. 182 00:12:22,759 --> 00:12:28,200 Where were they whenever unelected Aleandro Mayorcis was facilitating the 183 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:32,120 invasion of our country by illegal aliens who were murdering 184 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:36,600 and raping and pillaging our people. Where were they whenever? 185 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:42,600 The Secretary of Education unelected Cardona targeted states and schools 186 00:12:42,639 --> 00:12:46,080 and people who were disagreed with his view of the 187 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:51,759 radical lefts transgender ideology. Where were they whenever? Gary Gensler, 188 00:12:51,879 --> 00:12:58,399 former chairman of the SEC, also unelected, was lawlessly thwarting 189 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:02,000 the development of financial market, particularly in the crypto space, 190 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:06,960 by lawlessly pursuing regulation via enforcement. They were nowhere to 191 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:10,039 be seen because they don't care, because all of those 192 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:13,919 things benefited their side of the aisle at the expense 193 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,600 of hours. And perhaps that's also why they don't seem 194 00:13:17,639 --> 00:13:21,519 to be very interested in rooting out improper payments from 195 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:26,000 our federal government. If you wonder why so many people 196 00:13:26,759 --> 00:13:30,600 are cynical about American politics, this is it. This is 197 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:35,120 exactly why. The reality is that Elon Musk serves as 198 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:40,240 an employee of the president, and we were given a 199 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:46,279 massive mandate to carry out what he's been doing. His 200 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:48,679 job is to carry out the will of the American 201 00:13:48,759 --> 00:13:53,440 people as expressed through the executive That's exactly how the 202 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:57,600 Constitution is supposed to work. The Constitution did not create 203 00:13:58,279 --> 00:14:03,200 an unelected, unaccountable fourth branch of government in the administrative state. 204 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:08,799 The American people know this. My colleague Brian Jack discussed 205 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:12,360 him of the opinion polls recently. We are doing and 206 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:16,679 President Trump is doing exactly what he was elected to do, 207 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:19,440 and that's why he's polling at a fifty three percent 208 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:23,000 approval rating, higher than he was at any point during 209 00:14:23,039 --> 00:14:28,240 his first administration. Even Elon Musk and his Doze efforts 210 00:14:28,279 --> 00:14:31,480 now are polling at a forty nine percent approval rating, 211 00:14:31,519 --> 00:14:35,600 which just to point out, is sixteen points higher than 212 00:14:35,679 --> 00:14:39,240 President Biden was polling out whenever he finished his term 213 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:45,600 in office. Oof. The Democrat Party has for decades systematically 214 00:14:45,679 --> 00:14:50,200 grown and weaponized the administrative state against the American people, 215 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:54,360 and the American people have had enough of it. Right now, 216 00:14:54,399 --> 00:14:59,559 we're talking about two point seven trillion dollars an improper 217 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:04,440 payment since two thousand and three, we're uncovering what could 218 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:10,080 be the biggest money laundering scandal in American history. And 219 00:15:10,159 --> 00:15:12,559 the other side of the aisle could care less. They 220 00:15:12,559 --> 00:15:15,519 have no concern about where this money went to, what 221 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:19,600 entities it went to, what governments to, what people are groups? 222 00:15:19,879 --> 00:15:24,879 Nothing all they want to talk about is Elon Musk incessantly. 223 00:15:26,559 --> 00:15:28,320 So it does make me wonder if they don't care 224 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:30,840 about where it's going, do they have an idea? Because 225 00:15:30,879 --> 00:15:33,519 what we've uncovered so far is that so much of 226 00:15:33,559 --> 00:15:37,639 the waste, fraud and abuse of our federal government is 227 00:15:37,679 --> 00:15:41,559 actually funding their side of the aisle. It's funding media 228 00:15:41,679 --> 00:15:47,759 outlets that are running cover for Democrats routinely, the NPR, PBS, 229 00:15:47,879 --> 00:15:53,480 the BBC Politico. It's going to fund left wing NGOs 230 00:15:53,559 --> 00:15:56,440 that are facilitating the invasion of our country. It's going 231 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:01,399 to fund left wing transgender activism and sex changes all 232 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:05,360 over the globe. This is money that's being used, taken 233 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:11,440 from the American people and used against their interests. If 234 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:14,159 you care about rooting out waste, fraud and abuse, we 235 00:16:14,159 --> 00:16:18,039 should be serious about this. I'm very excited to be 236 00:16:18,159 --> 00:16:21,960 on this committee. I'm excited to expose what's being going on. 237 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:24,559 Thank you, madam chairing. With that, I yield, all right. 238 00:16:24,639 --> 00:16:28,799 Speaker 1: So that was Brandon Gill calling out the Democrats for 239 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:31,559 what is obvious to all right that they they do 240 00:16:31,639 --> 00:16:35,360 not care about rooting out the waste, fraud and abuse. 241 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:39,320 They care about trying to protect this fourth branch of government. 242 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:42,559 That the Left has created over the course of decades. 243 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:45,639 Here's a great idea. 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I think, No, I'm kidding. She's a Democrat 270 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:24,279 from New Mexico. She's the ranking member on this subcommittee. 271 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:29,119 So you just heard Brandon Gill kind of outline the 272 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:34,599 way this hearing has has gone and the larger issues 273 00:18:34,599 --> 00:18:38,000 at play. And by the way, I agree with Congressman 274 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:41,519 Gill on this, in case that wasn't clear, in case 275 00:18:41,559 --> 00:18:43,960 you're just joining in for the first time. I've been, 276 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:48,440 you know, ripping through all of this DOGE stuff and 277 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:52,839 what they've been uncovering, because to me, like this is 278 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:57,519 a massive scandal that might even be bigger than the 279 00:18:57,599 --> 00:19:02,920 covering up of a mentally incapacitated press for four years. Right, 280 00:19:03,039 --> 00:19:08,079 so this is huge and I'm still waiting for sort 281 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:11,119 of the legacy media outlets, the people that care about 282 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:13,480 the hardware that they want to win all the time. 283 00:19:13,559 --> 00:19:18,079 The pulletz are this and you know National Journalist that, well, 284 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:25,640 this is fertile ground. Fertile ground you can actually oh 285 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:29,720 look out, you can actually take down. Is everybody okay 286 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:31,599 over there? We're good? Oh no, you're fine. All right. 287 00:19:31,799 --> 00:19:38,720 I thought somebody take a keyboard, tried to make an escape. 288 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,200 Now I forgot what I was saying. This happens with 289 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,240 my wife all the time. I mean with me to 290 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:49,880 my wife. Uh sorry. So Brandon Gill he lays this 291 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,000 out that this has been a massive money laundering operation basically, 292 00:19:53,079 --> 00:19:57,279 and then you've got the ranking member Melanie Stansbury. And 293 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:02,000 listen to what she speaks about at this hearing to 294 00:20:02,079 --> 00:20:06,079 wrap it up right, what she decides to use her 295 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:09,440 time to talk about in summation. 296 00:20:09,839 --> 00:20:13,680 Speaker 3: I never thought so many conspiracy theories and wild accusations 297 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:16,880 could be wound into one five minute speech. But I 298 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:20,480 appreciate my friends across the aisle. First of all, let's. 299 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,039 Speaker 1: So that's a slam on gil who was saying that 300 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:26,440 you guys have been using this fourth branch of government, 301 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:33,400 this unelected bureaucracy, to essentially launder taxpayer money into your 302 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:37,880 own pockets and the pockets of your allies, all in 303 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:42,440 service of your leftist agenda. And when you look at 304 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:48,000 the way this has been operating, that is quite obviously true. 305 00:20:48,039 --> 00:20:51,000 The NGOs that are getting all of this funding, they 306 00:20:51,039 --> 00:20:54,279 are not some these are not right wing organizations. Well 307 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:56,680 that's because right wingers don't care about that stuff. That 308 00:20:56,839 --> 00:21:02,240 not true. The right funds their church and they don't 309 00:21:02,279 --> 00:21:06,880 do it through federal grants. And that's why, you know, 310 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,519 and by the way, could you imagine if you tried 311 00:21:09,599 --> 00:21:16,720 to use federal grant money to espouse conservative political ideology. 312 00:21:16,839 --> 00:21:19,359 Of course not, But that's why nobody is surprised when 313 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:24,000 they see Guatemalan drag shows and sex change operations and 314 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:31,400 you know, transgender dance performances and operas and comic books 315 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,440 in Peru, Like nobody is surprised to see this stuff. 316 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:36,640 It's never from the right. All this stuff is the 317 00:21:36,759 --> 00:21:42,000 left with the pushing out of their political philosophy, and 318 00:21:42,079 --> 00:21:48,000 they've been getting government grants to do so. You imagine 319 00:21:48,039 --> 00:21:51,920 if the Heritage Foundation was listed as an award or 320 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:57,160 a sub award on any of these grants. Imagine, imagine 321 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:00,480 for a moment the amount of blood run through the 322 00:22:00,519 --> 00:22:05,160 streets due to all of the exploded lefty brains. It 323 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:07,240 would be blood. There's going to be very little brain 324 00:22:07,319 --> 00:22:11,359 matter after this. I kid, I could come on now. 325 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:13,079 All right, So here she is. 326 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 3: Let's talk about this massive mandate that supposedly brought Donald 327 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:18,799 Trump into office. 328 00:22:19,079 --> 00:22:21,880 Speaker 1: Okay, hang on a second. It is supposed ed lee 329 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:25,839 not supposed doublee. There's no b in that word. It's 330 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:31,440 supposed ed lee, supposed lee, supposedly not supposed bly not 331 00:22:31,519 --> 00:22:33,759 a word. Oh my gosh, I'm so sick of this. 332 00:22:33,799 --> 00:22:35,559 And there's a member of Congress that just said it. 333 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,319 But now she's going to she's going to use her 334 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:43,400 time to close out the hearing to argue about whether 335 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:45,720 or not Donald Trump had a mandate or not. 336 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:51,119 Speaker 3: Donald Trump did not run on putting an unelected billionaire 337 00:22:51,279 --> 00:22:55,440 in charge of dismantling the federal government. He ran on 338 00:22:55,599 --> 00:22:58,240 lowering prices for Americans. 339 00:22:58,519 --> 00:23:01,680 Speaker 1: And I think it, hang on a second, Okay, false 340 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:06,079 and true false in that Donald Trump did in fact 341 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:09,839 do that. The plans for DOGE were We've known about 342 00:23:09,839 --> 00:23:13,240 that for months before the election. Elon Musk was on 343 00:23:13,319 --> 00:23:15,640 the stage. They were talking about this stuff in the 344 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:19,079 campaign rallies. Now, you guys never watched any of those rallies, right, 345 00:23:19,279 --> 00:23:22,559 You put yourself in your little echo chamber and your 346 00:23:22,559 --> 00:23:26,319 little insulated bubble, so you never had to listen to 347 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:30,079 any of those things. But Elon Musk and Donald Trump 348 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:35,359 have been promising this very thing, that the creation of 349 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:41,039 the DOGE was done before Donald Trump won the election. 350 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,480 This was he What did he say? I am your retribution. 351 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:49,799 That's what he said. That's what Donald Trump said talking 352 00:23:49,839 --> 00:23:51,680 about the deep state? Like, what the hell do you 353 00:23:51,799 --> 00:23:54,000 think he meant by the deep state. It's not just 354 00:23:54,039 --> 00:23:58,440 the intelligence community, it's the entire swap that goes back 355 00:23:58,599 --> 00:24:01,880 eight years. The guy's been talking about draining the swamp again. 356 00:24:02,039 --> 00:24:06,680 What did you think he was talking about you? He's 357 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,960 talking about you, Stansbury, He's talking about you. 358 00:24:12,279 --> 00:24:13,400 Speaker 3: It's interesting though. 359 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 1: Oh sorry. The true part was that he also did 360 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:21,119 talk about lowering the prices of in the cost of 361 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,039 living for Americans. He did talk about that too. 362 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:28,839 Speaker 3: While we're sitting here this morning, the top of the 363 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:34,359 New York Times is reporting that inflation has risen unexpectedly 364 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:40,440 as food and energy prices have soared. What's going on, guys, 365 00:24:40,519 --> 00:24:43,240 I thought you were going to tackle inflation and food 366 00:24:43,279 --> 00:24:44,440 and energy prices. 367 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 1: Oh my god, in three weeks. Lady, are you an idiot? Okay, yes, 368 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,640 she's probably an idiot. Holy smokes. This is what you're doing. 369 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:57,000 You're relitigating campaign messaging. That's what you're saying. You said 370 00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:00,559 you were going to be blowing a rig price. You 371 00:25:00,599 --> 00:25:04,319 didn't lower them yet, that's what she's saying. 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I guess it's 398 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,000 in front of the Capitol building where the Democrats is 399 00:26:27,039 --> 00:26:29,519 out and uh, you know, just almost at the point 400 00:26:29,519 --> 00:26:33,359 of you know, promoting insurrection or something themselves, you know, 401 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,039 trying to you know, put people in a streets fight 402 00:26:36,079 --> 00:26:38,359 and such things as that is what they're saying. But 403 00:26:39,039 --> 00:26:41,279 there's an old saying that you know, if you throw 404 00:26:41,319 --> 00:26:42,880 a rock and a pack of dogs. The one that 405 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,319 yeps is probably the guilty one and they're yepping like 406 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:50,759 crazy air pete. But I'm wondering, are they not trying 407 00:26:50,799 --> 00:26:54,079 to write on versus what Trump and Musk is doing. 408 00:26:54,079 --> 00:26:57,279 Are they not trying to write a scaredy narrative to truth? 409 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,359 I mean, you know, truth is that ye need to 410 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,359 cut these things back, and they're trying to create a 411 00:27:02,599 --> 00:27:05,400 scary narrative that has nothing to do with truth. They're 412 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,519 just trying to make people think that things are going 413 00:27:07,559 --> 00:27:11,119 to crumble and fall, yes, based on what Musk is doing. 414 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:15,599 Speaker 1: Correct, That is that's the that's the strategy. I went 415 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,279 over this, I think yesterday. You can call it the 416 00:27:19,319 --> 00:27:22,640 poster child approach, where it's like, oh my gosh, look 417 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,359 at here's the starving child in Africa, and that's what 418 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,720 this program is doing. And yet way more money is 419 00:27:28,759 --> 00:27:33,440 going out the door to fund, you know, the transgender 420 00:27:33,519 --> 00:27:38,000 plays in Morocco. Like, well wait a minute, if that's 421 00:27:38,079 --> 00:27:39,920 the thing you're highlighting as the thing that we need 422 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,480 to fund and fix and help, then why is more 423 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,480 money getting spent on this other stuff? Right? So, like 424 00:27:45,519 --> 00:27:49,160 that's or the Mott and Bailey approach, which is highlight 425 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,200 the good things, saying this is what we're funding, and 426 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,279 you're going to get rid of it, and everything's going 427 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,039 to collapse if you keep doing this, and all these 428 00:27:56,039 --> 00:27:59,200 people are going to die. But in fact you're using 429 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,759 the money for something else that's less defensible. Yeah, I 430 00:28:01,759 --> 00:28:04,160 think that's exactly what's going on, Marty. I appreciate the call. 431 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,400 I want to get to the rest of this audio 432 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:10,920 clip from Melanie Stansbury, who, by the way, just made 433 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,720 a comment there about inflation and how come you're not 434 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:18,960 doing anything about inflation. Well, inflation isn't something that just 435 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,839 happened in the last two and a half weeks or 436 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:26,319 three weeks that Trump has been in office. Banchie writer 437 00:28:26,519 --> 00:28:30,559 over at Red State, points out that this latest inflation 438 00:28:30,759 --> 00:28:35,519 news and the fact that inflation was still humming along 439 00:28:38,079 --> 00:28:41,400 since summer of twenty twenty four. He says there should 440 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,359 be an investigation into why the Federal Reserve lowered interest 441 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:49,079 rates right before the election, because that's not what you 442 00:28:49,119 --> 00:28:52,480 would do. That's why they lowered the rates because they 443 00:28:52,559 --> 00:28:56,680 said inflation was cooling. Well, now it's not you you 444 00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:00,400 cut the rates. Inflation isn't, So did you do to 445 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:05,519 help Democrats win the election. The other thing this is 446 00:29:05,559 --> 00:29:09,319 from oil field Rando, who actually has a website where 447 00:29:09,319 --> 00:29:12,319 he comes through all these grants and stuff called Randoland. 448 00:29:13,599 --> 00:29:16,839 He says, a ton of the insane Biden administration funding 449 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:21,319 was passed in a reconciliation bill, the preposterously named Inflation 450 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:25,599 Reduction Act, which was the Inflation Creation Act. Actually, there's 451 00:29:25,759 --> 00:29:29,200 no excuse for the GOP not using a reconciliation bill 452 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,480 to cut it all. Any Republican who isn't on board 453 00:29:33,079 --> 00:29:36,640 is wetting their beak with the spending, in other words, 454 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,880 taking advantage of it. Ron DeSantis then weighs in on 455 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:44,160 that tweet and says anything Biden enacted via reconciliation, which 456 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:48,720 only required fifty Senate votes, can be repealed via reconciliation. 457 00:29:49,079 --> 00:29:52,480 Republicans have fifty three senators. They can save trillions of 458 00:29:52,519 --> 00:29:57,039 dollars by repealing Biden's profligate spending. There are no excuses. 459 00:29:59,039 --> 00:30:01,640 Back to stands, isn't that what. 460 00:30:01,519 --> 00:30:03,720 Speaker 3: The executive orders we're supposed to do? 461 00:30:04,359 --> 00:30:04,799 Speaker 1: Oh? Wait? 462 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:09,000 Speaker 3: Or is dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion and our federal 463 00:30:09,039 --> 00:30:12,680 agencies and putting an ideological agenda and trying to fire 464 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,640 the federal workforce your actual agenda. Have you been too 465 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:20,400 busy trying to actually address the fiscal health of this country. 466 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,319 Speaker 1: Because it's all of the above, lady, all of the 467 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:27,000 above doing it all. It's not in either or. That 468 00:30:27,079 --> 00:30:28,920 is a false choice she is offering me. 469 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,759 Speaker 3: The numbers are telling us that you have so let's 470 00:30:32,799 --> 00:30:35,759 be real about what's going on here. I also want 471 00:30:35,799 --> 00:30:38,680 to point out that, literally, while we've been sitting here 472 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:45,599 for the last almost two hours getting lectured fiscal responsibility, literally, 473 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,279 the Republicans just released their plan to raise the debt 474 00:30:49,279 --> 00:30:51,759 limit while we were sitting here, and they want to 475 00:30:51,839 --> 00:31:00,359 raise it by four trillion dollars. Okay, guys, Like literally, 476 00:31:01,759 --> 00:31:04,440 I'm just like, without words, Oh, then you're in. 477 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:08,119 Speaker 1: The wrong line of work. Oh my gosh, that's not 478 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:12,519 an argument. Republicans just unveiled a plan for a debt 479 00:31:12,759 --> 00:31:17,400 sealing increase of four trillion dollars. Like I'm a god like, really, 480 00:31:19,039 --> 00:31:22,559 that's not an argument. Not an argument. Here's an argument. 481 00:31:23,319 --> 00:31:27,079 The debt limit is to fund the things that have 482 00:31:27,119 --> 00:31:30,079 already been approved. See. So when you guys were in 483 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,400 charge and you went on this tear and you spent 484 00:31:32,519 --> 00:31:35,480 all of this money, trillions of dollars that we didn't have, 485 00:31:35,759 --> 00:31:40,519 that you borrowed right against future obligations. That's why you 486 00:31:40,519 --> 00:31:43,440 have to raise the debt limit, because you cannot afford 487 00:31:43,519 --> 00:31:47,559 to pay the bills that you've already committed to. So 488 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:52,759 Republicans generally are not in favor of raising the debt limit. 489 00:31:53,359 --> 00:31:55,279 In fact, a lot of the shutdown fights have been 490 00:31:55,319 --> 00:31:57,720 over this very thing. It's been the Democrats that want 491 00:31:57,759 --> 00:31:59,720 to raise the debt limit because they want to keep 492 00:31:59,759 --> 00:32:02,240 spend and if you don't do it, then you're going 493 00:32:02,319 --> 00:32:04,880 to shut down the government. That's their argument. That has 494 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,319 been their argument. But now their argument has to be 495 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:12,920 the complete opposite of what it was because Orange Man 496 00:32:13,039 --> 00:32:18,079 Bad and Elon a billionaire, where this is what they 497 00:32:18,079 --> 00:32:22,759 are reduced to because they cannot argue the merits, the 498 00:32:22,799 --> 00:32:27,039 merits of these spending obligations, these programs and grants, this waste, 499 00:32:27,039 --> 00:32:30,240 fraud and abuse. They can't defend it, but they know 500 00:32:30,319 --> 00:32:33,839 that they're benefiting, and they know it's a loser of 501 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:35,519 an argument for them, so they're going to talk about 502 00:32:35,559 --> 00:32:38,559 anything else they can. All right, that'll do it for 503 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,240 this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 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