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