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about the failure of the cramnibus or the continuing resolution
omnibus cram job. So it's all just a cramnibus or cramdibusted.
We're just gonna keep adding prefixes and suffixes or suffices
onto the word, and sooner or later it'll become as
long as anti disestablishmentarianism, Hellyan says. UH speaker Mike Johnson
also said that this is not a continuing resolution. Johnson
is a worm. Why can't we find another gingridge? I
would love Chip Roy. I've seen I got a message
or a tweet here from the carnivore Kurmudgeon. It's a
pee tweet, he says, Pete. Let's just cut out the
mintal Man I suggest they choose Elon Musk for Speaker
of the House.
Speaker 1: I don't now, I think yeah.
Speaker 2: I think Elon is well positioned to do what he
is doing right by being outside of the government, he
doesn't have to give up his holdings, he doesn't have
to stop doing the business and stuff that he does, like,
he can still do all of that stuff that he
needs to be doing. That's why they did not make
the Department of Government Efficiency DOGE. That's why they did
not make it an actual government agency, because if you
do that, then he's got to go through confirmation, he's
got to have all of the disclosures, he's got to
divest himself of all sorts of his investments and just
this is now just like purely advisory. But he's got
a pretty big stick, you know, with being a multi
billionaire and all and able to fund campaigns against people.
And by the way, I do note the irony that
people on the left are now super concerned about billionaires.
I saw Bernie Sanders, of course, the millionaire Bernie Sanders,
from one of his million dollar mansions, probably tweeting out
stuff about and all of Glaukey and how Elon Musk
is now running the government and all of that. Meanwhile,
you had Alex Sorows, son of George Sorows, posting pictures
of all of the trophies from his you know, multimillion
dollar penthouse where he had all of these democrats come in,
kiss the ring, take pictures and then he would post
them like trophies on a wall of all like the
governor Tim Wallas, he had, Chuck Schumer, he had, I
mean everybody, I think Harris went to bit like all
these people went to go visit him, and then he
would post pictures of their meetings. And I'm supposed to
believe that he has no influence over Democrats spending priorities.
And the kicker on this is is that what is
it that Elon Musk is actually advocating?
Speaker 1: What is he trying to actually do? Well?
Speaker 2: Glad you asked, I have two clips. He made himself
very clear in appearances way before the cram nebusted came
down the line.
Speaker 3: There's certainly a lot of work for a Department of
Governor efficiency, and there will be immense opposition obviously to
making government efficient from entrenched interests that currently benefit from
you know, sucking away vast amounts of taxpayer money. They
will not like the fact that I'm not getting it anymore.
They will fight tooth and nail. So but it's got
to be done. And like I said, we're gonna aim to,
you know, reduce government spending, get government out of people's
lives as much as possible, and restore freedom and liberty.
Speaker 1: My god, he's a tyrant. Holy cow. Wait wait, hang
on a second. Did he just say he's.
Speaker 2: Going to get government out of our lives and let
us keep all of our money or more of our money?
That well, wait a minute, that that doesn't sound very
tyrannical at all. At another appearance, he made the point
that a lot of people refuse to accept as true.
Speaker 3: We have to reduce federal spending. There's no way to
make up for it other than reducing the federal spending.
And as I mentioned earlier, like a very important point
that I think is important for people to understand is
that all federal spending is taxation. Because what is not
what they don't receive, what federal compan doesn't receive in
direct revenue, they make up for in inflation. They just
print money. So old federal spending is taxation. Very important principle.
Almost nobody, very few people seem taught even like, you know,
somebody's like spend their life in economics. I'll mention to them, hey,
all spending, old federal spending is taxation. They're like, first
they'll argue with me, and they're like, then they will
agree it is because it is either direct tax revenue
or it is inflation. Old federal spending is taxation. So
we must reduce federal spending or we will go bankrupt
as a country.
Speaker 1: That's it very clear.
Speaker 2: Welcome Elon Musk to the fight that I have been
waging for twenty years, albeit with far less money and influence.
But yeah, this is the number one issue, but nobody
knows or wants to deal with it. No one knows
how to deal with it. And he's He's like, it's
very simple. We have to reduce the federal spending or
we go bankrupt as a country. That's the path we're on.
You increase revenue or decrease spending, and we can't increase
revenue quote unquote without taxation.
Speaker 1: Like that's it.
Speaker 2: I don't understand why this is such a difficult concept
for people to understand. Let me get over to John Hello, John,
Welcome to the program.
Speaker 4: Hi Pete, how are you doing today?
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm good. What's up?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 4: I had two provisions of that bill that I've actually
looked at, kind of screened. We have actually a department
that's called the Secondary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism,
and they have money in this bill, but I couldn't
find out how much. But their specific goal is to
identify locations and events in the US important to music tourism,
and to facilitate and promote domestic travel and tourism in
these locations and events. I didn't even know we had
such a deal.
Speaker 2: Do you remember that movie Dave with Kevin Klein, right
where he's the look alike for the president and the
real president has a stroke, is incapacitated, so they swamp
them out, right. So do you remember where he's sitting
around with his cabinet members and they're going over the
programs to look for funding. And there was the one thing.
It was like a promotional ad campaign for I think
it was car manufacturers.
Speaker 1: And he's like, so, let me get it straight, Like we're.
Speaker 2: Spending money on a on a marketing campaign to make
people feel good about the cars they've already bought.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well that's kind of along the lines of this.
And one other provision I saw in there was that
they're putting in more money for farmers to promote ethanol production.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 5: That sounds like a.
Speaker 2: Little well look no, that's a come on man. That's
rule number one in government lobbying. The ethanol lobbyists always
get paid, They always make their money.
Speaker 1: Ethanol is always in the mix.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, well again, I stand over most of the document.
Speaker 7: Those are a couple of things I've picked up.
Speaker 5: On, and I hope that you keep exposing all the
stuff that's going on in there.
Speaker 7: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's well.
Speaker 2: And here's the thing too, I don't know if it's
now worth the effort to keep going through the bill
because the it it is apparently now dead. I don't
know what form it's going to take if they try
to run something through before tomorrow. Hopefully it's just a
clean CR a continuing resolution that just says what we're
spending now, We're going to keep spending through March and
then come back and do the budget appropriations correctly. I
don't know, we'll see, but you'll see.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, thanks for your time.
Speaker 8: Being Yeah, great day YouTube.
Speaker 2: John appreciate the call. Yeah, John is exactly right on
those two different provisions. One was for the music tourism. Okay,
we're gonna spend money to tell people that there's American
music and you should go visit places and listen to music,
or something like to go visit the country music Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 1: Why is that on the.
Speaker 2: Federal tax payers to promote your industry. That should be
something that the industry is promoting. Right, you're gonna go
and open the country music Hall of Fame or a
bluegrass Hall of Fame, or an R and B Hall
of Fame. I mean, I could really do this all
day with all the different musical genres. But like you're
gonna go you want to set up one of these
halls of fame, then that's on you to market that
and maybe you get some states to help you out,
because of course states will do that to increase tourism.
Speaker 1: They've got tourism funds. That that's a different question.
Speaker 2: The federal government should not be doing this why because
that means the federal government is picking winners and losers,
not just states where these halls of fame may be located.
But also types of music. Do we want the federal
Do you really want congress people deciding or bureaucrats deciding
which musical taste should be marketed?
Speaker 1: I don't. I have no idea with it.
Speaker 2: I don't want to see ads for smooth jazz during
the Super Bowl.
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dot com, fellow by the name of Bonci, says, the
thing with passing a clean CR is that it's likely
to pass the Senate as well. Mansion and Cinema and
maybe even Fetterman would likely vote for it. This is
a wide open three pointer, staring the GOP in the face.
Take the shot right, Just pass a clean continuing resolution,
which doesn't have to even be that that long, like
a page a paragraph. I got a message here from
Russ who says it feels silly, but in my naivete
I don't understand why a CR can't be a single
sentence saying like, we will continue current funding levels until
whatever date, right, Like, That's that's how simple this can be.
And if you want to do a disaster relief bill,
then run that as a separate bill also, or even
just tack that on and then make Democrats vote against it.
Speaker 1: So first hour, I walk.
Speaker 2: Through how we got here where it started. On Tuesday,
late afternoon fifteen hundred page bill gets dropped and they're like,
all right, everybody, don't read it, and we're going to vote.
And then of course Republicans start reading through they're like,
what the heck is all of this stuff in here?
And media starts reporting on the provisions. There's a whole
bunch of stupid stuff in there, and the backlash begins
an all day yesterday on Twitter, you can see the
anger building and building. At about one point fifteen yesterday,
Elon Musk tweets out, any member of the House or
Senate who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to
be voted out in two years. About an hour and
a half later, he says, in response to a tweet
from Thomas Massey agreeing with him, that all government spending
is taxation. The government either taxes you directly or by
increasing the money supply, taxes you through an inflation. That
means the spending bill is the taxation bill. Very important
concept to understand. All government spending is taxation. And then
less than an hour after that tweet, he says, unless
DOGE the Department of Government Efficiency, unless DOGE ends the
careers of deceitful pork barrel politicians. The waste and corruption
will never stop. Therefore, there is no choice but to
do so. I wish there was another way, but there
is not. So what is that that is a direct
threat against members of Congress that sign on to this,
that Elon Musk, with his hundreds of billions of dollars,
will go after lawmakers who do not rain in federal
spending by voting for this. That's the line in the
sand that was drawn at three point thirty. He waited
until I got off air, so I couldn't read it
yesterday on the show. I'm not taking it personally. I'm
sure he doesn't even know I exist, but if he did,
I would feel pretty hurt. Then he waited till three thirty,
and then about ninety minutes later a statement from Trump
and Vance, and that put the nail in the coffin.
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I won't be here next week or the week after.
I'll be back on that first Monday of twenty twenty five,
so we'll talk to you next year. That joke never
gets old, right anyway. Jeremy Kaufman posting up on Twitter
about the potential for the government shutdown. Jeremy Kaufman is
a self described temporary dictator of ririsstylists dot net, aristolus
dot net. Anyway, he points out that, you know, people
calling for the government to be shut down should think
about what they are saying, right, think about it. Do
you really want local schools without oversight from Washington? Are
you actually comfortable owning guns without the ATF around? And
who will audit your taxes when you you know, to
make sure that you've paid enough.
Speaker 1: I mean, people need to think about this, you know.
I think that's a fair point.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump and jd Vance yesterday at about five thirteen
PM posted a statement onto the Twitter machine formerly known
as x and this killed the Cramnibus.
Speaker 1: Here's what they said.
Speaker 2: The most foolish and inept thing ever done by Congressional
Republicans was allowing our country to hit the debt ceiling
in twenty twenty five. It was a mistake and is
now something that must be addressed. Okay, so now this
is a separate issue. This is the debt ceiling. We'll
come back to that. Meanwhile, Congress is considering a spending
bill that would give sweetheart provisions for government censors and
for Liz Cheney. The bill would make it easier to
hide the records of the corrupt January sixth Committee, which
accomplished nothing for the American people and hid security failures
that happened that day. This bill would also give Congress
a pay increase while many Americans are struggling this Christmas.
Increasing the debt ceiling is not great, but would rather
do it on Biden's watch? If Democrats won't cooperate on
the debt ceiling, now, what makes anyone think that they
would do it in June during our administration. Let's have
this debate now, and we should pass a streamlined spending
bill that doesn't give Chuck Schumer and the Democrats everything
they want. Republicans want to support our farmers, pay for
disaster relief, and set our country up for success in
twenty twenty five. The only way to do that is
with a temporary funding bill without Democrat giveaways, combined with
an increase in the debt ceiling. Anything else is a
betrayal of our country. Okay, I disagree with that. I
don't think you need to raise the debt ceiling. I
don't think you should do it right now. I think
you just do a clean cr But he's now both
the incoming president and VP are like, let's increase the
debt ceiling now. He says, Republicans must get smart and tough.
If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we
give them everything they want, then call their bluff. It
is Schumer and Biden who are holding up aid to
our farmers and disaster relief. This chaos would not be
happening if we had a real president. We will in
thirty two days. So about a half hour after that,
Senator Tom Tillis from North Carolina here went on too
the Twitter machine and said, if congressional leaders intend to
leave DC before the holidays without passing disaster recovery, they
should be prepared to spend Christmas in the Capitol. I'll
use every tool available to block a CR that fails
western North Carolina communities in need of long term certainty.
Speaker 1: Okay, So.
Speaker 2: Tillis is demanding that the relief package be tacked onto
a CR. He doesn't rule out a clean CR there,
but wants there to be disaster relief funds. Congressman Greg
Murphy from North Carolina said disaster aid and farm aid
is not pork. It's called governing. That's what we were
elected to do.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 2: Greg Murphy also said something I got a message here
from Cormos. George Cormos, you should take a look at
Murphy's arrogance in doubling down and yelling at his constituents
that he has to support the cram of us because
that's what he was elected to do. So, yeah, so
there was that, and then hang on a second here, Yeah,
he said leadership is tough, especially in a divided Congress.
What is tougher is those who complain from the sideline
when they don't have to get the votes themselves. This
is not a good look, Congressman, not a good look,
all right. Leadership is tough, especially in a divided Congress.
Totally agree with both of those statements. What is tougher
is those who complain. That's not actually, that's actually part
of the first thing that you said, that leadership is tough.
There are going to be people who complain about decisions
and about your position on a policy. Right, people are
going to complain. Leadership means addressing the complaints and either
addressing them and you know, working them into the final arrangement,
or it means moving through them, setting them aside, recognizing
those are not deal breakers. This is not important, that's
not our priority. But this is a This is one
of those things like, well, if you're not you know,
you're not helping to craft this thing, saying then screw you.
It's like, well, okay, first off, members of Congress weren't
even allowed in on these negotiations, let alone we the people.
And the backlash and the anger that got whipped up
on Twitter yesterday that led to the phone calls that
basically shut down their switchboards, that prompted these Republicans to
grow the spine that we've demanded that they show. That's
what I what I dare dare call it democracy right,
That is elected representatives listening to their constituents. That's the
way it's always occurred. It's just now you have a
lot of people on social media that are aware of
what's going on. And then there's Representative Don Bayer. He
said the richest man in the world, says he wants
to shut down the government, forcing millions of American workers,
including our troops, to go without pay through the holidays.
Speaker 1: Republicans are following his orders. This is insane. Again, a
clean CR would fund.
Speaker 2: All of the paychecks. Vote on that, Don, Are you
opposed to that? So you're holding all of those paychecks hostage?
So you can protect the J six Select Committee from subpoena,
I want to be clear about that. That's what you're
trying to protect. You want to make sure that none
of your Democrats get subpoenaed to talk about how corrupt
their investigation was into J six. Mark Warner, Senator Democrat.
Hard to imagine anything more heartless than shutting down the
government and leaving disaster victims out in the cold. Okay,
do a clean CR and do a disaster bill. How
about that absolutely outrageous, this is even a possibility, And
an organization called the Virginia Project said, okay, so basically
Democrats screwed over disaster victims on purpose so that they
could now hold relief hostage to far left agenda items
that got stuffed into the cr and they're not even
slightly ashamed of doing it.
Speaker 1: See, this only works.
Speaker 2: This kind of messaging only works when you know the
media is not going to challenge you on it, and
that's why we're seeing it. Email is Pete atvpetekalnershow dot com.
Speaker 1: Brett says, I kinda like Elon Musk.
Speaker 2: However, didn't he get like something like four hundred million
dollars from Obama to help start Tesla?
Speaker 1: Or am I mistaken? It was a little bit more
than that. Actually in California gave him a bunch of money.
Speaker 2: I think I thought he bought like a he may
have bought Tesla, or maybe it was a struggling plant
or something. But yeah, he got a whole bunch of
government subsidies. So that's okay, right when it's him getting
the money but not the other slubs, it's not okay
either way. So I've not read up on his explanations
as to why he took these government subsidies and why
those were okay versus what he's looking to do with Doge.
But that's a fair question. Let me jump up here
and get Dave on. Hello, Dave, welcome to the show.
Speaker 6: Hey, thanks the I just wanted to share a quote
with you from Charlotte's favorite son, doctor Billy Graham. He said,
when a courageous man takes a stand, the spies of
others are often stiffened. And I am so thankful that
we've got a courageous man now finally back in the
White House, long overdue. I am also extremely thankful that
our dear friend, former Congressman now Dan Bishop is going
to be in the Office of Management and Budget and Padna,
I think we're fiction to get some stuff turned around
that's been long overdue. And I appreciate you. Pete. I
enjoy your show.
Speaker 1: Thanks Dave. I'm thanking the call, Yes, sir, Marry Christmas.
I appreciate the call.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't I mean? I think And Dan Bishop made
a comment about this on Twitter. I think yesterday or yeah,
I think it was yesterday, maybe day before. He said,
for the five years he was up in Congress. He
was waiting for the you know, some sort of dynamic
to change because and that's remember we talked with him
after he announced that he was going to run for
Attorney General and not go back to DC, and he said, like,
you're one of four hundred and thirty five people up there,
and just the way the system operates, you can't get
anything done. And that's so I don't attribute that to
Donald Trump. This deal getting mixed. I think this is
all Elon Musk, I really do. I think this was
Musk and to a lesser extent, Ramaswami. But Musk is
so wealthy and so influential on Twitter that he just
swamped the swamp. And I think that's a good thing.
And he's doing it out in the open. He's not hiding, right,
He's not. He's been very clear throughout the campaign when
he was like, this stuff needs to change. I played
for you the sound bites. He's been very explicit. We
have to rein in the spending. This is going to
destroy the country. We have got to do it now.
And kudos to Trump for giving him the position to
do this. And if this like this is their first scalp.
This cram to us, this is the Doge Committee or whatever,
because it's not a department, it's not a government, it's
not officially anything. They're not even getting paid for it, right,
So this is their first scalp and it's a pretty
big one. And if it leads to a simple CR,
a clean CR continuing resolution that gets us through the
holiday I am not like Trump advance put at this
statement saying, oh, we should do an increase on the
debt ceiling. No, no, And you're not going to get
that done as part of a clean CR and hurricane
disaster relief unless you're going to say that you got
to lift the debt ceiling for the disaster relief. So
we're going to take on debt in order to do
the disaster relief, Like, we should not be raising the
debt limit, And especially I don't you do it? What
between now and midnight tomorrow you think that's going to happen,
because that's.
Speaker 1: Where we're at.
Speaker 2: We're on a deadline now, and so now you're into
the shutdown politics and the optics of a shutdown. In
all of that, Stan wants to know if you're not
an essential government employee why do you have the job
in the first place, unless, of course it's some form
of entitlement. Yeah, jobs programs. That's look, Milton Friedman talked
about this forty years ago, where the vast majority of
you know, government programs, almost all of them, he said,
the only one he could identify this was forty years ago.
I'm sure it's gotten worse, but the only program he
could identify back then that actually benefited the poor. Of
all the programs that were supposedly designed to help the poor,
the only one that actually benefits the poor more so
than any other class food stamps, direct payment to the
person to go buy food. Everything else is essentially a
jobs program for the middle class.
Speaker 1: Think about it.
Speaker 2: They have to administer the programs, so you get hired
to go to work for the government, where you get
a middle class salary to administer a program for the poor.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: See the problem there, The person who's administering the program
is getting more money to administer the program that a
poor person gets through the program. I'm sure it's not
gotten any better. Let me get Spencer on before the break.
Hey Spencer, I got about thirty seconds for you.
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 6: What happened?
Speaker 7: To the twenty seventh Amendment. I mean, what it says
is Congress can't give themselves a raise that goes into
effect before the next election. That's twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: No law varying the compensation for services of the Senators
shall take effect until an election of representatives shall have intervened.
Speaker 7: Yes, and the senators that's a staggered bunch because their
elections are staggered. But the Congress, I mean, the next
election is twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: So that well by that.
Speaker 2: But if you're thinking, but if that's the case, I
spent so they would never be able to do it.
An election just happened. This is the lame duck class,
so you can't vote yourself. You can't vote yourself the
pay raise before the election. So they just had the election.
Now they're leaving, so anybody who got voted out wouldn't
get that pay raise that would start the next year.
So I think like the election intervened, so they would
vote themselves a pay raise before the next class comes.
Speaker 1: I think that's the point.
Speaker 2: Good question though. All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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