Speaker 1: We read an interesting piece of analysis about Syria and
Bashad being gone, and that analysis began with how did
the people in organizations who are trying to take him
down over all this period of time, how did they
suddenly become delta force? What broke the back? Now at
this point, remember, we have armed forces over there, are
men and women over there, and have been for three
or four years. We're not supposed to talk about that
because it's an active war. But we just sent a
bunch of our military money, might etc. Think God, none
of our lives lost to destroy a whole bunch of
aircraft and assets so that the regime that takes over
doesn't have access to them. But figure out. Biden said
something then, and to me, this is a point of curiosity.
Everybody knows President Trump's coming in. Everybody watched him at
the meeting with world leaders. Everybody watched the world leader's
genuflect to him. It's obvious they understand he's in charge.
So is there a reason that this happens now we'll
talk about that. Plus, yes, the title of the program,
I got your doge hanging right here. That's the hanging
parts from my redneck youth, my apology. Such a rude
thing to say, I got your doge right here. So
there's a lot of ways that we could cut government
to the Department of Government efficiency. We'll talk about that
and later on today. Some thoughts on John Lennon. This
the anniversary day after his death, and it's a thought
that I have. We'll get into the show later. Not
this show, but the next one we publish. That tend
to upset some John Lennon fans, so just let her
but know I'm a John Lennon fan too. We'll talk
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Speaker 2: But Todd Herman Show is one hundred percent disapproved by
big pharma, technocrarats and tyrants everywhere from the high mountains
of Free America. Here's the end old city exime. God
to her Man.
Speaker 1: Today is a day the Lord has made in These
are the times to which God has decided we shall live.
So the Dictator of Syria is gone. Meet the new boss,
probably same as the old boss, but the figurehead Biden
has announced that he's got Bill into Bucks ready for
the new regime. Doesn't yet know who they're going to be,
but he's ready with money. So why do you think
a move like this gets made. I would suggest that
there's a whole bunch of lobbyists in the Pentagon. And yes,
lobbyist are in the Pentagon. I know the halls of
Congress going there and saying, look, we have one chance
to do this in Syria, to back these guys, to
get a shahbasr out, to get rid of the dictator.
There one chance. So this is not my analysis, this
is analysis of a mill blog. I fall We'll try
to get our friend Michael roorkon I'm tired Special Forces operative,
see what he thinks of all this. But you got
this one chance because Trump's coming in on a promise
of none of these endless wars. You know, they tried
to lock Trump into Ukraine spending. There are Republican senators
who say they will not back any nominee for any
cabinet position in Trump's cabinet if they're not all in
on Ukraine. So you have a lot of lobbyists who
understand that the massive, massive bravy train may be ending,
and under President Trump, he's not going to be seeking
new wars. And it's not that he's weak. It's not
a particularly strong thing for the United States. And we're
doing this through the beleaguered and corrupt Secretary of State
Tony Blinken. Tony Blinken is saying the way for the
Ukrainians to win this war is to go get to
Ukrainian youth and force them into service, to grab them
out of their homes and off the streets and force
them into the military. That's the way to win. So expands,
you're dead from six hundred thousand adults, maybe he could
kill six hundred than teens. That's not strong. Sometimes the
strong thing is you recognize that war is lost for Ukraine.
It was lost before it began, just given the numbers.
So that's not a strong position for the Democrats or
Mitch McConnell or the others who love this war. It's
a cash machine. It's not a war of necessity. And
I don't believe the war in Syria was a war
of necessity for US. Hey, if Iraq wasn't a war
of necessity, and going into Afghanistan beyond taking out Osama
bin Laden was not a necessity, how on earth is
this a necessity? We those of us who support President Trump,
even if there are people who were supporting reluctantly. We
should be hoping that President Trump focuses our military and
being able to defend us and to project force when
it's absolutely necessary, and in doing that by reserving our forces,
by not being in the All and Wars, by modernized
our military to understand you can't shoot down drones. You
can try as hard as you want, but we're finding
out it's nearly impossible to shoot down drones fields of drones.
They can take out our ships. We need to be
focused on getting our act together in terms of technology
for today, and this is something that Pete Hegseth wants
to do, which brings us around to him. So the
attacks on him continue. They're trying to take the guy out.
And it's not because he's a stupid man. You don't
end up with two Ivy League degrees and be stupid.
And even though the Ivy League is fallen, you still
have to be sort of a smart guy to come
out with that. It's because heg Seth is not going
to be owned by lobbyists, and the lobbyists know that.
That's why I think we saw this sudden explosion and
activity in Syria where all of a sudden they had
all the capabilities and everything they needed to just completely
close off the dictator's air supply and he fled. So
watch Biden come up and say he's going to back
them with the billions of our dollars. Well, it says
everything possible about Joe Biden, who doesn't just lack any wisdom,
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of Government Efficiency, we can start right away with the
Pentagon and an audit of the Pentagon that is pass
fail because they failed every single one of them, so
and we don't get to audit the Federal Reserve. But
let's start with the Pentagon. Do we really need all
that money? We'd like to think that the Pentagon is
playing on the up and up, but when you lose
six hundred million dollars, you're not. That's one thing the
Department of Government Efficiency could do. The biggest thing it
could do is put on notice to Republicans that we
are on to the fact that they're the big spenders,
just along with the Democrats. Chip Roy from Texas was
in a meeting with Elon Musk and Vivid Ramaswami and
they talked about the Department of Government Efficiency and apparently
Vivic has been studying the laws. He's been studying the
bureaucratic approaches, the things they can do to force spending cuts.
So he's trying to become an anti bureaucrats. To the bureaucrats,
because they hide behind their ability to not be fired,
you can't downsize us. So apparently during this meeting, Republicans
were clapping their hands and jumping up and down. We
can't wait to get behind you on this. We've been
waiting for this. We can't wait to cut the freight
of the fraud, wasted abuse. And apparently behind the scenes,
chip Roy spoke up and said, you're all liars. You're
saying this right now, but I guarantee you when it
comes down the money for your district, that's not going
to happen. None of you are going to do this.
Mary Hemingway's reporting this. She knows something about the beltways.
There's great sources there that chip Roy want ballistic on them.
Tell the truth to people you're not in favor of this.
Chip Roy also talked about the lack of respect that
the president's nominees are getting here as we deal.
Speaker 3: With all that, and on the spending issue, I watch
the Senate Republicans doing this dance of handwringing and concern
about the president's nominees. The president was elected by the
American people to change this town. He has nominated people
who want to change this town. If you want to
go overturn every rock of everybody's past and then say
that they are not capable or they don't deserve to
serve in a position like Secretary of Defense as it's
currently occurring with the targeted attacks on Pete Hegsath, well,
maybe you should take the board out of your eye.
I'm not saying that we don't have standards that are
appropriate in the advice and consent process. We do, and
we should. I'm a believer in that in separation of powers.
But the president also is deserving of the courtesy and
the respect of his own party, in particular of the
individuals he's nominating to change the town. He was elected
to change it.
Speaker 1: What are the things the Department of Government Efficiency could do?
Start a pork reporting process for Republican senators. Let Republicans
report it to republicans, publish it, read it into the
House record, Get people like Chip Roy to read into
the record what his colleagues are doing. Part of the
Department of Government Efficiency is not just going in and
cutting the bureaucracy. It's cutting the head off the bureaucracy
because what the officeholders have done is really really brilliant.
They get to blame the bureaucrats. Look with the bureaucratic waste,
fraud abuse, Look what they're doing. Anytime they choose to,
they can take their power back. Anytime they choose too.
They can say, yeah, you know what, no more, you
no longer get to make administrative rules as if their law.
We have to approve them. Because right now they make
these rules, and I think it's one hundred and day
days after that. If the House and the Senate don't object,
then those things become law with the force of law.
They can stop that. They don't want to because they're
like being able to dance this way. So the doge
people musk and remiswamp. They should publish a list of
the worst defenders on the Republican side. Sure do the Democrats,
but you're going to get more more progress by spotlighting
Republicans who are doing this. There's also then the bureaucratic shaming.
There needs to be a process by which bureaucrats come
and beg for any money Now this is a term
that's using businesses called zero line budgeting or baseline budgeting.
Your budget, FEMA is zero. You have no money. You
need to come in and make an argument for dollar
number one. Now here's how they say, this isn't possible.
You can't run us down to zero. We can't then
predict our planning, et cetera. Okay, that sucks. That's going
to be really hard. I mean, surely you can make
an argument for fifty percent of your budget. If they
can't do that, then they don't deserve to exist. So
go to a zero line baseline budgeting. Every budget cycle
begins with an assumption of zero. Give them two years
to plant. Two years into President Trump's four years, your
budget guides go to zero. You have two years to
prove you're focused on the American people. Because two years
from now you're going to come into Congress. You're going
to be able to come in six months early. Your
budget will be zero. You'll be making an argument for
any budget, and your argument must begin with here's our mission.
Lay out the mission. I'll give you a great example
of why things like this are so important with something
that happened out of North Carolina, and it goes down
to bureaucrats need to bureaucrats, Bosses need to boss. I'll
tell you that the corruption in this stinks to such
a high degree that you know it's costing lives. And
in this case, it just cost a woman two hundred bucks,
but it's costing lives. I can't yet get into detail,
but I'm going to give you a glimpse of one
of the reasons why I love working with the people
at Renewed Healthcare in Mexico, because it has to do
with corruption. Some longtime listeners to my radio show, they
started with me in Seattle back when I was doing
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decided to go down to Mexico, and I'm going to
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were impressed with the care. They had this abatement of
their pain, which is expected when you use ethically gathered
stem sales from umbilical cords and placentas. And I don't
have the details yet on what they were there to
get done, and they may not want to share that,
but I can tell you this. During the process of
looking at them, they discovered that the lady had a
heart condition that was going to be deadly. They discovered
this through the process of caring for her in the
stem cell approach, and they suggested, in fact, told her,
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She was able to get those stints installed and be
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In fact, in America, they probably wouldn't have done that
because of liability. They did it because they wanted to help.
I know there's people at FEMA, employees at FEMA who
want to help. We know this. People don't go into
the government necessarily to go rule over others. People stay
in government because they like the feeling of ruling over others,
or they like the feeling of being able to work
from home and have no accountability or just take three
weeks off. They like this security. Plus they like the
fact that they're paid two to three times the amount
of money that the people who pay the bills are paid.
This is from FEMA. It's from North Carolina. It's a woman.
All she needed was a window on her home, listen
and watch.
Speaker 4: She had was a crack in her window. So she thought,
since FEMA is helping out people write damage from Helleen
in Mecklmer County, maybe she could tap into some funds
from that agency. FEMA said no, but FEMA did offer
to put her and forty others in a hotel, including
the South Park Marriott.
Speaker 1: For up to a month.
Speaker 5: This little crack from Helene led to a situation that
has seventy four year old Susan Lewis cracking up in disbelief.
I kept rereading it thinking what am I missing here?
Just makes no sense. The damaged window was in her
Force Ridge condo. Since FEMA is offering Mecklnberg County residents
Helena assistance, she applied for funding to fix it. She
says FEMA denied the claim and told her to submit
it to her home insurance. She ended up having to
pay two hundred dollars for the repair out of her
own pocket because she has one thousand dollars deductible. I'm
living in Social Security. I'm Sidney four, your woman, and
you know all these eleg strips bitches really ad ups.
While FEMA wouldn't fix the window, she says, the agent's
offer her something else, a month's stay for up to
four people one a hotel. One of the hotels is
the South Park Marriott. The average rate is nearly two
hundred dollars a night. The hotel even told her she
could get two RUMs if she needed space for four.
Instead of paying two hundred bucks for the window, she says,
FEMA offered to spend thousand on an hotel.
Speaker 1: She didn't need it. It makes no sense. Now, remember
there's still people in western North Carolina who are living
in tents. And remember that when the Amish built tiny
houses for them and had them shipped down, there were
local bureaucrats who blocked the tiny houses and took them
away and said go back under the overpasses and go
live in tents. Well, FEMA is saying, we won't fix
a window, but she can have a hotel room. The
Department of Government Efficiency needs to work with Congress to
shame Republicans for their pork barrel spending. It's a shame
decratspcially going to get more traction. Shamey Republicans. They need
to make an argument for baseline budgeting beginning in two years.
Give every agency a head up. Heads up. In two years,
your budgets go to zero. Now, if you make a
good argument for needing any money, the budgets will come back.
But you're not going to be making a good argument
when we can point to things like this. You can say, hey,
it's a crack, we don't want female repairing cracks and ones.
Fair enough, have that discussion, but don't have a continuing
resolution that continues to increase the amount of money, because
every federal agency can count on money continuing to go up.
Let me give you another example. A lot of schools,
the education of American kids is at a low points
compared to the rest of the world. I mean, there's
a lot of reasons for this. You know that the
government schools are and doctor ending kids are not edguingating them.
You know that the government schools are all in on
DIEDI and on racism and on gender madness. It's not
about educating the kids in all too many government schools.
I mean, there's some decent ones. I've got some friends
of mine whose kids go to schools in Idaho and
their government schools, and they really like those schools. But
in those schools, parents are welcomed every day, every single day,
there's a parent there, and if any sort of gender
madness slips out, the parents who are there call them
on it immediately. There are other schools in Idaho that
are not that way. Where the gender madness has slept
into the hallways or crept into the hallways. So the
schools overall government like have seen the effectiveness of government
schools decrease, particularly in comparison to the goal, but something
is increasing from the video service. I'm going to show
you a chart here in a second that is going
to make the case for not something else that the
Department of Government Efficiencies should do, starting with the Department
of Education. And in their case, it's not baseline budgeting,
it's not zero line budgeting. It's something else. It's something
that some people would see is more radical, except it's
completely defensible, utterly defensible, and people should calm down about it.
Getting into the holiday season, a lot of people end
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It also helps with the ultimate absorption of nutrients in
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you're going to arrive on time, or too many people
come into the house. You might have relatives coming over
that you don't really like what you love, and you
know that can create a lot of stress. Maybe you've
got a room that fits our house, that fits four people,
but fourteen or coming. There's a whole series of stresses
or suck under friend of mine the other day, he
and his wife are argued about where they're going for
Christmas because he made the reservations in Hawaii, she made
the reservations elsewhere, and they might end up having Christma
Christopher part for the first time. There's also the situation
I heard of from her friend of mine whose wife
does not want the ex wife bringing the kids over.
She wants the kids brought over by an uber, anything
but the ex wife. He's saying, no, I'm not putting
my kids in an uber. My ex wife is welcome
to walk into the house and drop the kids off.
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use promo code Todd. Since the year two thousand, there's
been some steady growth rate with the exception of twenty
nineteen for kids in government schools. This chart shows administrative staff,
principles and assistant principles, teachers, and students their growth rate.
So since the year two thousands, we were watching about
a ten percent growth rate for teachers and students. But
then the students dropped off and have stayed dropped off
about a five percent drop. The teachers have kept growing.
The principles and assistant principles grew by thirty nine percent. Remember,
students have dropped, but the assistants have grown by thirty
nine percent. The administrative staff has grown by ninety five percent.
Teachers were almost flatlined or ten percent growth, and students
went down. This is an argument for an elimination of
the Department of Education. The Department of Education is many
many things. Part of it is it's the center foreign doctrination.
Part of it is it's the center for union growth.
Those administrative staff are probably union members who, as you know,
take that money. The unions do take a percentage of
everybody's paycheck pool. It pay themselves three to four times
the amount of money teachers get paid, give themselves pensions,
retirement plans that most of us will never see, and
then they turn around and they launder a bunch of
it to the Democrat Party. There is no reason on
earth for a Department of Education in Washington, d C.
Here's why every state has one. There are local school
districts who have their administrators. There's city school districts, there's
city level departments of education. There is no reason for
this to come out of Washington, d C. If a
student's civil rights are violated, there's the Department of Justice.
If the people in the schools are serving bad food
that are making kids sick, there's the Department of agriculture
if they're not hiring people because of their race or religion.
Once again, you have the Department of Justice. You don't
need a curriculum developed in Washington, DC. Because people are different.
There's things so people who live in the farmlands need
to know that people in the cities don't need to know.
The elimination of the Department of Education is a no
brainer for the Department of Government efficiency because every single
job is duplicated throughout all of the various school districts.
In fact, I'll tell you one point of ridiculousness. Washington
State is one of many states who employ people to
go to meetings. This is their job. They work in
a school district. When there's a meeting in the state capital.
In this case in Washington it's Olympia, that person flies
or drives to Olympia. They attend the meeting, then they
fly or drive back to their school district, and they
tell the principle what happened in the meeting, a meeting
the principle could have attended, or a meeting the principle
could have zoomed into. Those meeting goers now have staff,
I mean they can't go around scheduling their own trips
to the state capital. This is a self mistasizing cancer.
The Department of Education should be eliminated, and it's an easy,
easy argument to make. One other thing that should be eliminated,
of course, is any form of public broadcasting, at least
the moneys for public broadcasting. This is PBS promoting what's
I think fair to call a pro in excuse that word,
I'll say it, but Alex will make sure that the
people on YouTube never get to hear this. Only the
people doing this live or on the audio cast get
to hear me say a pro pedophilia pioneer, that's true.
The backing of a law that would make life easier
for pedophiles. This is PBS.
Speaker 6: The issue of transgender rights has rarely been so prominent
in American politics, from presidential campaign ads to the election
of the first openly trans member of Congress to arguments
this past week at the US Supreme Court. William Brangham
is back to talk with one recent pioneer about how
she sees this current moment.
Speaker 1: And by see she he means he.
Speaker 7: My guest is no stranger to both the triumphs and
the vitriol surrounding transgender rights in America. Two years ago,
Lee Thinking became the first transperson elected to the Minnesota
state legislatures.
Speaker 1: To be clear, again, they're talking about a man.
Speaker 7: And even though she endured numerous threats, she leveraged her
position and a Democratic majority to help pass legislation protecting
other trans people in her state.
Speaker 1: So called trans people like you're about to hear.
Speaker 2: Lee.
Speaker 7: Think he's so nice to have you on the program.
As I said, you've been in office almost two years now.
But this is a seemingly very fraught time for trans
rights in this country, with this past election and all
of those attacks, the first openly trans member of the
US Congress, and now the Supreme Court case this week.
Speaker 1: I just wonder how this is. How has this been
for you the last few months.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's been a lot, and you know, thank you
so much for inviting me in for having trans voices
on your show. I think what we have seen over
the last couple of months, I mean it is a
compounding pile of difficulty for our community that is very
small that we receive so much outside attention.
Speaker 1: Well, it's the most powerful community in America as well.
I mean it's small and it's the most powerful community
in America, the only community in America that can get
you fired for refusing to pretend along with them.
Speaker 8: Given the impact and size that we have in the
communities that we exist in, we're struggling. We're all struggling,
and no, there's no struggle trying to figure out what
all of this is going to mean.
Speaker 7: You were here while the Supreme Court was arguing this case.
That case centered around Tennessee's attempt to ban trans care
for trans children.
Speaker 1: That Tennessee law focused on preventing children from having irreversible
wrong sex hormones and surgery.
Speaker 7: And the justices had a lot of different arguments about
that case, and I wonder, listening to what they had
to say, what stood out to you?
Speaker 8: I mean, what stood out to me is that we
are trying to figure out a very complicated answer to
a very simple question, which is that gender affirming care
is healthcare, and healthcare decisions belong to families.
Speaker 1: And platitudes platitudes. Cutting a gash between a boy's leg
is healthcare. It's a wound that will never heal, that's healthcare.
Cutting a girl's breasts off so she can never breastfeed
a baby is healthcare. So why was that person called
a pro how to fill a pioneer Well, NewsBusters reminds
us that Lee Finkey, that man pretending to be a woman,
backed an act in Congress that would strip language from
this law and therefore make it easier for people who
want to inflict their sexual desires in the bodies of children.
This is the language they wanted included. Sexual orientation does
not include a physical or sexual attachment to children by
an adult. This is part of the so called Take
Pride Act. It's setting the groundwork, or making a heterophilic
view a sexual orientation that's being promoted by that person's
presence on PBS. I mean, he didn't talk about it there,
but he promotes it on PBS using your tax money. Now, incidentally,
this week, we're going to be talking in some detail
about the lawsuits in Los Angeles. A woman named Clem
who's now twenty years old, is suing one of the
nation's most famous so called gender docs, doctor Joanna Olsen Kennedy.
I have some very distinct and very clear, and you
might even say pungent thoughts about this so called doctor.
We're going to be featuring that on our substack channel
this week. If you haven't yet subscribed, go to The
Todd Herman Show dot substack dot com. And I think
you're going to learn a whole lot about this lawsuit
and about this woman, including seeing what I think is
the first ever interview with Clementine that actually happened with
the friend of ours we've had on this program multiple times.
That's the Todd Herman Show dot substack dot com. There
should be no money going to the public broadcasting system.
It is a publisher with a point of view. It
is a distinctly an American point of view. It's a
point of view that seeks to destroy families. There's no
reason for our tax dollars to be involved in it
in any way. But there's some other things that we
should cut. One just goes to this issue of fairness.
Remember that liberals look at things through the lens of
compassion and fairness. We have an opportunity to out compassion
and out fair some of the liberals and to help
protect our money. And we need to do this. With
the war in Syria now supposedly at an end, and
meeting the new boss, who's probably likely to be the
same as the old boss, and Joe Biden, the figure
had already said We're going to give you billions of dollars.
So of course he is, I mean you have to
give them money so they can buy American weapons. I mean,
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twenty four, Dash three seven eight. That last part, that's
the government helping you. They want you to know all
that stuff. See just another layer of bureaucracy that we
could look at cutting. Tulsi Gabbert, that's your challenges for me.
My most challenging aspect of Toulsi is that she follows
a cult leader. That worries me, the guy who leads
her faith as a cult leader. Is she taking orders
from the cult leader? I want this question answered during
her confirmation hearings. I want to hear her discuss this.
It might be that she's got a great answer. Maybe
she's distanced herself from the guy you've seen us discuss
as sermons on the program full on cult leader. Beyond that,
I don't have a lot of concern about her being
the Director of National Intelligence. She can surround herself with
smart people who understand D and I, who understand the
bureaucracy and want to see the bureaucracy right size in
terms of focus. Remember she was called the domestic terrorist
by this agency. Now we read this nearly one hundred
formal national security officials alarmed at the prospect of Gabbard
leading the intel community. In a letter obtained by NBC News,
the officials urged the Senate to carefully evaluate whether Gabbard
is equipped for the position, which requires Senate confirmation. It
was obtained I love that game to media plays. They
went and snuck it out of the files, obtained it.
It was email to them. That's how they obtained it.
We're back to one hundred former national security officials, none
of whom should have pensions. There should be no pensions
in Washington, d C. Whatsoever. Look, I've got a cousin
who works at the Social Security Administration. I'd be glad
to look them in the eye and say, no, you
should not have a pension. Why because ninety five percent
of Americans don't. You should have the same exact retirement
plan as ninety five percent of Americans, So that you
two are beholden to four one ks and four L
three b's and every rule we have to play under.
Because government pensions are not fair playgrounds. When you control
trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars, you can enrich
your pension plan in ways. No one else can. Government
employees should not be paid for not working, not out
of active accounts. They should have to pay themselves to
not work the same way you and I do. That
would also make it somewhat less obnoxious when read headlines
like hundreds of former national security officials they're earning pensions
to help rig elections or in this case, to help
rig a confirmation process. You're paying them to do that
if they retired with pensions. There's a Senator named Mark
Queen Mullen who went on to talk about the nomination
of Pete Hegseth on CNN. He also is, of course
being attacked by people with pensions.
Speaker 9: What he was describing is what most combat veterans have faced,
and for the media to go after him and start
describing that as a drinking problem is individuals that doesn't
understand combat veterans because they've never been there. They've never
been in combat. They've never seen the horrific stuff that
comes by that. They've never tasted the dirt in their mouth,
they've never heard the horrible sounds in their ears. They
never had the sites that they can't get rid of.
They've never had the dreams in the middle of the night,
and I think it's or critical for them to even
question that. Now, if he did have a drinking problem,
that would be obvious, but to make something out of
it that isn't there just because he's going through Secretary
of Defense. The media should be ashamed of themselves. They
should put their selves in their shoes and every other
combat veteran shoes before they got there and criticizing.
Speaker 10: So I have done a lot of coverage of veterans
and a lot of coverage of combat, and while I
have never worn the uniform, I think I do have
an understanding of the need of our valiant troops when
they come home to self medicate. What I'm saying is,
when you're talking about drinking at ten in the morning,
that's a drinking problem.
Speaker 9: Now, it doesn't mean that there's there's a lot of
politicians that have a drinking problem, Jake of Yes, of course,
But I guess my question is yeah, and then there's
probably a lot of media that has a drinking problem too.
Speaker 1: And now I don't drink. I never, I haven't.
Speaker 9: I haven't tasted alcohol in many, many, many years, and
never have drink at all in my life really, and
so I really don't understand that. But there's a lot
of alcohol that flows through Washington DC on a regular basis,
and I wouldn't say that people are alcoholics or or
they have a drinking problem because of that.
Speaker 1: I I don't. I don't see it at all. Are
we the only ones who watched Nancy Pelosi stumble nearly
up to the microphones clearly lit? And there's a whole
school of thought around Kamala Harris being clearly lit. And incidentally,
there are wet bars and ceremonial offices in Washington, d C.
I've seen them. It's a whiskey at noontown. And the
incident is I understand that the ten am incident happened
after a filming at Fox News, but they've been talking
about beers and apparently hag Seth helped himself to some
shock and awe. Sure is there's some proof that he's
an alcoholic that's affected as work. He doesn't show up
for work, he shows up drunk. None of that has happened.
So heg Seth is being targeted by people with love
with with pensions, lobbyists who contribute to the pensions of
these p people and the need to not really need
the pensions, because if there's a think tanks, et cetera,
all of that should be blown up by the Department
of Governor efficiency. This last one, to me is the topper.
I mean, it's not the most important of them, but
it's the easiest topper. Luke Rosiak from The Daily Wire
reports the Social Security Administration just spent one hundred and
twenty million dollars renovating its massive headquarters. And there's a
picture of it, but the building is ninety one percent unused.
And figure had Biden just signed an agreement giving them
work from home throughout the Trump administration, even though Biden
uses twenty twenty two State of the Union speech to
say workers must come back to the office to be productive.
So how about this sell that place? Make the people
the Social Security Administration sue, I mean, who could afford that?
I don't know. Intel, maybe one of the new AI
companies that the government has selected to be one of
the three companies that are going to allow to succeed and
take Social Security Administration employees and distribute them throughout the country,
take away the pensions, distribute them about the country. They
don't all need to work in Washington, DC. They can
work in Dubuque, Iowa, and Bozeman, Montana, and Spokane, Washington,
and in the panhandle of Idaho all around the country.
Do that with every federal office. You know what, You're
going to have a whole bunch of people self deporting
out of federal service because they'll no longer be earning
the three to four times the money the taxpayers do.
Because can combinate with the move is a shift and salary,
you'll be earning the same amount of money the average
employee with your level of work earns. There's a lot
that we could do. One of the other things that
we could do is remember this. If you sit at
home like I do, and carp about the government like
I do, and you don't have your attention squarely focus
on your primary ministry, well you're not helping. I mean,
it's fun sport. Remember this. Our primary r responsibility is
to take care of the relationship between ourselves and God,
our abiding From that then our home sphere. Are we
being the leaders in our homes that God has called
us to be. We're being the servant leaders we're called
to be that extending then into our neighborhoods, and people
that we have contact with our churches, in our church communities,
that a focused approach on that in this nation will
drive a whole lot of change, because as the Holy
Spirit begins to reign in us, we're going to see
a lot more clearly the corruption in DC, and we'll
be able to send a lot more godly people back
there who can actually make changes like this. May God
help Elon Musk and Vivic Ramaswami in getting this all done,
because God has said, do not lord your power over others.
This is the Todd Hermann Show. Please go, be well,
be strong, be kind, and please make every effort to
walk in the light of Christ.