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Today, the House of Representatives removed former Speaker Kevin McCarthy with a motion to vacate, making him the first speaker in American history to be removed from office and the shortest-serving speaker in the history of the country. The government is now without a permanent speaker and a deal is struck to keep the government open for another 40 days, but without a new speaker, the government will run out of money again in the middle of November. We'll be talking all about that and much more on tonight's show with host Nicholas J. Fuentes ( ) on America First: A White Pillow Talk Show. Subscribe to America First to get immediate access to the latest news and discuss all things America First. Today's White Pills: Kevin McCarthy is removed as Speaker of the House and Matt Gaetz becomes the first person in history to serve as Speaker without a confirmed replacement. What's next for the government shutdown? What will be the next step after the government is back on track? What are the chances of a government shutdown in the next 40 days? and more! Subscribe and comment to stay up to date on the latest breaking news and breaking developments in politics, entertainment, sports, and everything else going on in America First, wherever you get your news and information. -Nick's Tweets! -The E.J. FUENTES -America First: a show about the future of America First! -The future of the show! -Nixon, the show, the culture, and the people who care about it. -The culture, the truth, and all things that matters! -the truth, the good, the beautiful, the bad, the ugly and the ugly, the real and the truth. -and everything you need to know about it! -and so much more! - and so much MORE! - is it possible to have it all? - and we'll be back on the air on Tuesday, Tuesday, February 5th, 2020! ENJOYING IT? (featuring our host, Nicholas JUICY? ? and we're going to be back with a full episode on the rest of the news you can't get any better than that! - (and we'll have it, right here on Tuesday! ! Thank you for listening to it! "America First! ) - Thank you so much for tuning in!
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00:10:48.000And I have to tell you, I was really skeptical.
00:10:51.000If you watch my show this week or last week, I was really skeptical that there would be anything good coming from this current negotiation.
00:11:01.000And of course I'm talking about this government shutdown that was just averted and which will now have to avert again in the next 40 days.
00:11:10.000But I was very skeptical that anything positive would come from this whole process.
00:12:45.000Which is a very interesting dilemma because, as I said a moment ago, and as we covered last night, a deal was struck on Saturday to keep the government open, but only for another 40 days.
00:12:58.000In the middle of November, the government runs out of money again.
00:13:02.000So, between now and then, they have to pass a series of major spending bills, long-term spending bills, to keep the government open.
00:13:09.000Otherwise, it's another government shutdown.
00:13:12.000So, in the next 40 days, they have to pick a new speaker, and they have to come up with appropriations that'll fund the government and, again, avert a shutdown.
00:13:50.000There were some new developments today.
00:13:53.000I don't think we'll get to that though because it's going to be a really packed show.
00:13:57.000Obviously lots to discuss and it feels good man because I don't know about you but I've been doing this show for the last few weeks just like waiting for something, just for something to happen.
00:15:48.000He's like the last of a dying generation of rhinos.
00:15:54.000And so to not only vote for him for Speaker the first time, but here is an opportunity where he could be removed.
00:16:02.000And by the way, by the time it got to Gosar, he was already gone.
00:16:06.000I mean, by the time, because they did a roll call vote, so they go from beginning of the alphabet to the end, by the time it got to Gosar's name, McCarthy did not have the votes.
00:18:41.000I'm live every night on Cozy and on Rumble, and I promised you I'd do a casual stream this week, so tomorrow, tomorrow for sure, I'll be, or Thursday, I don't know, but I'm gonna, I really, I'm gonna try and get a casual stream up on Rumble this week.
00:19:00.000I'm thinking, I said today, yesterday, so take it with a grain of salt, but I'm thinking tomorrow.
00:20:10.000And I have to tell you, the thing is about a person like me is I could very easily, I could do the same thing that we did with AFFPAC 3, or AFFPAC 2 for that matter, and it would be super easy.
00:20:25.000I could just do the same thing we've been doing.
00:20:28.000Same attendance, same venue, same everything.
00:23:28.000We're gonna try and get through it, but without that, but we're gonna get into it.
00:23:33.000So our featured story, like I said, this is just an incredible day, which I didn't even think was possible, and I honestly misread the situation, I think, because, and I'll just give you a little background, I'll give you some context.
00:23:49.000So the headline is that Kevin McCarthy, the representative from California, no longer the Speaker of the House.
00:23:57.000And today a vote was forced by Matt Gaetz.
00:25:08.000So, it's a dilemma, and this is happening at the same time that they're going to have to figure out how to avert this upcoming government shutdown, which they just averted this weekend.
00:25:33.000Effectively, eight Republicans overthrew the Speaker, which is a really big deal.
00:25:38.000You know, it's 435 members in the House, it's 218 that make a majority, and just eight, just eight, were able to overthrow the Speaker of the House, which, I have to say, is a pretty remarkable achievement.
00:25:56.000And I have to say, at the outset, it's remarkable because, and I said this last week, all we get are excuses from Republicans.
00:26:06.000There was a Republican majority in the House of Representatives in 2010, in 2012, in 2014, in 2016, and since 2022.
00:26:12.000Republicans have had it five times out of the last seven.
00:26:27.000And we haven't gotten anything out of it.
00:26:30.000And I've gone down the list over the past couple weeks.
00:27:07.000It would be easier to name things that they have done, which is virtually nothing.
00:27:15.000And whenever Republicans criticize or complain, we get excuses.
00:27:18.000They say things like, well we just need the Senate this time, we just need the White House this time, we just need a bigger majority.
00:27:25.000But history has shown that that really doesn't matter.
00:27:28.000And we've gone through that too in the past few weeks.
00:27:31.000They had the House and the Senate from 2014 to 2018.
00:27:34.000They had the House, Senate, and White House from 2016 to 2018.
00:27:35.000They've had the Supreme Court since 2017.
00:27:43.000So, whether it's just the House, or it's the House and the Senate, or it's the House, Senate, and White House, or it's just the Senate and the White House, no matter what the combination is, there's always an excuse.
00:27:55.000No matter what the combination is, they say that they can never actually deliver because they just don't have a consensus in every branch of government, every part of every branch of government.
00:28:09.000I imagine even if they did, they would blame it on the states or the Constitution.
00:28:13.000If there were nine conservatives on the Supreme Court, and a Republican president, and 100 Republican senators, and 435 Republican congressmen, they would say, well, there's Democrat governors.
00:28:26.000Well, there's Democrat state legislatures.
00:28:31.000So it's remarkable because that has been the attitude from this party basically for 30 years, is we can't do anything no matter what the score is.
00:28:42.000And just eight people were able to change it.
00:28:45.000But like I said, I'm gonna give the backdrop on how we got here.
00:28:54.000In 2020 Donald Trump is cheated out of the presidential election.
00:28:58.000He stages this counter coup to prevent himself from being overthrown with a fake election.
00:29:04.000I think that's the appropriate terminology.
00:29:07.000They rigged the election with mail-in ballots and he went through the actually the constitutional lawful process to redress his complaint about the legitimacy of the election and that failed.
00:29:20.000At the same time, Republicans lost the House and they basically lost the Senate.
00:29:24.000By losing the White House, they also lost the Senate.
00:29:30.000And then, as the Vice President is technically the President of the Senate and acts as a tiebreaker because that wound up being Kamala Harris, Democrats technically had a 50-plus-1 majority in the Senate.
00:29:50.000Shortly after 2020, even though Kevin McCarthy talked with Republican colleagues in the House and said that they wanted to impeach President Trump in January 2021, in spite of this, in spite of a mutiny against Trump by the conservative movement and the Republican Party, Donald Trump very quickly in 2021 teamed back up with Kevin McCarthy.
00:30:14.000It wasn't a couple months since he had been overthrown and Biden was inaugurated that Donald Trump hosted Kevin McCarthy for a meeting at Mar-a-Lago, and they made an agreement that Donald Trump would help the Republican Party win back their majority in the House, and they did.
00:30:33.000And so in 2021 and 2022 Donald Trump campaigned with Republicans to try to get them to take back control over the house.
00:30:42.000You might remember that everybody said it would be a red wave election.
00:30:46.000They said that Joe Biden in the first half of his first term as president would be such a disaster for the economy and with the war in Russia and with other things with the border.
00:30:57.000They said that based on generic ballot polling and based on other classic metrics like inflation or unemployment or the approval rating, they said that there would be a red wave, that Republicans would sweep the House, and they would have a huge majority.
00:31:14.000Some said that Republicans would have a majority of 240 or 250 seats, which would mean that they would have a majority of 30 or 20 votes.
00:32:19.000Republicans running in moderate districts, where there's a lot of pro-choice women or socially liberal women, they had to soften the message on abortion.
00:32:29.000And then there were very conservative people in
00:32:33.000Conservative districts that had to defend the decision so that created a split within the party and then there was also the question of the integrity of the previous election where there were a lot of very conservative members who were saying that the 2020 election was rigged and Trump was one of them and figures like Carrie Lake she talked about this a lot
00:32:56.000And the more moderate parts of the party said that that was divisive and that was turning off independents and activating, in some cases, Democrats in their district.
00:33:06.000So there was this very contentious battle, and that's why you have to go back to 2020, because that sets up what has happened since the midterms in 2022, is that there was this schism
00:33:19.000Between the conservatives on abortion and the establishment and a schism between the Trump faction and the establishment on the issue of election integrity.
00:33:29.000So fast forward to the midterms in 2022 and there's no red wave.
00:33:34.000Republicans win the majority by four votes.
00:34:30.000Because you can only afford four defections.
00:34:33.000You can only afford four votes against.
00:34:36.000So it's not just somebody who's popular, it needs to be somebody that very few people, almost nobody has a problem with in the party.
00:34:44.000And almost nobody fits that description.
00:34:47.000Right away, Kevin McCarthy makes an alliance with Marjorie Greene.
00:34:51.000And they had been adversaries for a long time.
00:34:53.000Kevin McCarthy famously stripped her of her committee assignments after a number of controversies where she compared the COVID vaccine mandate to the Holocaust and she talked about Jewish space lasers and she went to my conference.
00:35:08.000He stripped her of her committee assignments.
00:35:10.000But once he regained, once Republicans regained the majority, McCarthy said that if he became the Speaker, he would give her back her assignments.
00:35:18.000So he secured key support within the Freedom Caucus and among the conservative bloc very early on.
00:35:24.000That happened basically on election night.
00:35:28.000A first vote was held in November within the Republican Party about who their nominee would be, and they overwhelmingly voted for McCarthy, but there were defectors within the party.
00:35:39.000There was a closed-door vote in November among just Republicans, and although McCarthy won the vote to be their nominee as a speaker, there were defectors then, which set the stage for the vote in January.
00:35:53.000In January, after the new Congress was sworn in and seated,
00:35:58.000It came to a vote on the floor and the entire chamber voted on who the speaker would be.
00:36:07.000There were more than four defections from the Freedom Caucus led by Representative Matt Gaetz, Andy Biggs, all these people that you see today, they all led the opposition against McCarthy.
00:36:18.000And McCarthy failed to become the Speaker on 15 ballots.
00:36:23.000So he went up for a vote 15 times over the course of one week, which is a very humiliating process.
00:36:30.000Because it shows that he has effectively no mandate.
00:36:34.000If you are appointed the leader of the Republicans, but you can't get them to vote for you 15 times, you fail to unite the party, you fail to rally the conference 15 times, it shows that your mandate is very weak.
00:36:49.000And so finally Kevin McCarthy got conservative Trump supporters like Gaetz and other members of the Freedom Caucus to vote for him.
00:37:00.000And it was a growing number of people that wouldn't do it.
00:37:03.000It was initially 4 or 5 and then it grew to 15 and then to 20.
00:37:08.000So there was a significant rebellion that did not want McCarthy as a speaker and they didn't want him because he is, everybody knows, notorious for being connected with lobbyists from foreign governments.
00:37:26.000He's in the same camp as like Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, John Boehner.
00:37:31.000So the conservative Trump supporters did not want him, but finally they gave him the vote in exchange for a contract, in exchange for a deal, and the deal was this.
00:37:41.000They said that they would vote for McCarthy, these holdouts, which there weren't a lot of them, but because the majority was so slim they were able to dictate terms, and they said that they would give McCarthy the gavel, they would make him the speaker and give him their votes if he agreed to a few specific things
00:38:01.000They wanted him to release the surveillance footage from January 6.
00:38:05.000They wanted the impeachment of Joe Biden.
00:38:07.000They wanted spending bills to be more isolated rather than packaging all of them together.
00:38:14.000They wanted the ability to vote on, not necessarily a line item, but they wanted individual spending bills.
00:38:21.000They wanted the ability to defund federal officials in the Biden administration by cutting their salaries.
00:38:28.000They wanted committees to investigate Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, Hunter Biden, these guys.
00:38:38.000And maybe the biggest thing, those are all substantive things, but the biggest thing that they wanted was the ability to hold them accountable.
00:38:44.000They said, we want him to agree to all these things.
00:38:46.000This is what we want out of a McCarthy speakership.
00:38:51.000And they said that they wanted a failsafe in case he broke his promise.
00:38:55.000So they said that they wanted a provision that said that any single member can invoke a motion to vacate which forces what amounts to a motion of no confidence or a vote of no confidence.
00:39:09.000So any individual member out of 435 could do this motion and the House will vote
00:39:17.000And they can bring to the floor a resolution that would remove McCarthy as a speaker.
00:39:22.000Now, that doesn't mean that any individual member can remove him, it just means that any individual member can force a vote to remove him, which would be very perilous.
00:40:26.000There's a rule that was put in place that said that the House of Representatives sets the limit for how much money the executive branch can borrow.
00:40:34.000And that's different from appropriations.
00:40:36.000Every year, the House of Representatives tells the government what it can spend the tax revenue on.
00:40:42.000It tells the government what the Treasury can spend the money on, and they determine... It's appropriations.
00:40:49.000They determine where all the money that the government gets goes.
00:40:55.000Because every year the government has to borrow money to meet its obligations.
00:41:00.000And every year that we run a deficit, that money is added to the total of our national debt.
00:41:07.000But going back a little less than a hundred years, a rule was stipulated that said that the House will set the limit for how much the executive branch can borrow in order to finance these appropriations.
00:41:18.000So even though money was appropriated, they ran out of room to borrow money to spend it.
00:41:24.000You know, they appropriated money they never had that they had to borrow.
00:41:28.000But they reached the limit for how much they could borrow.
00:41:31.000So this was a juncture like with many other government shutdowns.
00:41:34.000We've reached a debt ceiling before and there have been showdowns over defense authorization and omnibus bills.
00:41:41.000So there was another juncture here, another opportunity, where the executive branch came to the House and they needed the debt ceiling to be raised, otherwise it would be catastrophic.
00:41:52.000If the debt ceiling wasn't raised, the government would literally not have money to spend.
00:41:57.000They would not have lawful authority to spend any more money.
00:42:01.000So that means they couldn't pay federal employees, they couldn't pay Social Security benefits, they couldn't service the interest on the debt.
00:42:10.000And this would be far more catastrophic than a normal shutdown.
00:42:15.000Because it would mean a default on the national debt.
00:42:17.000It would mean millions of people don't get their benefits.
00:42:19.000It would mean hundreds of thousands don't get compensation.
00:42:37.000Like I said, default on the debt, millions of jobs lost, a serious effect on GDP growth, probably negative GDP growth for the year if that happened.
00:42:49.000And this is what set the stage for what we're talking about today.
00:42:52.000Kevin McCarthy said that he was negotiating with Democrats in the Senate and negotiating with the White House.
00:43:29.000So he rallied all the Republicans, by the way, with the help of Marjorie Greene, who made the deal in November.
00:43:36.000He had Marjorie Greene whip the votes in the Freedom Caucus, and he whipped the votes from the rest, from the establishment supporters, and they voted to give Biden the debt ceiling raise until 2025 and bail him out.
00:43:49.000Bail him out for these, and by the way, the reason why that's a bailout is because it's their fault.
00:43:59.000Biden has been the biggest spender in American history, maybe besides Trump, but he hasn't finished his first term yet, so it's not a fair comparison.
00:44:41.000And he's saying, well I need to be able to borrow more money to spend it on the climate agenda and give it to Ukraine and do this and that.
00:44:47.000That's why we have to borrow more money than ever because we're giving hundreds of billions to Ukraine and like I said, we're spending a trillion on the climate and on COVID and all these things.
00:44:58.000So he said, I need more money to borrow so I could spend it on this garbage.
00:45:57.000Where we needed to pass a series of spending bills that would fund the government for another year.
00:46:01.000Once again, government's running out of money.
00:46:03.000Although not... They're not running out of money that they can borrow.
00:46:06.000They're running out of money that's been appropriated.
00:46:08.000Money that's been authorized to be spent.
00:46:11.000And so Congress had to pass a series of bills that would fund the government for the year, but they couldn't agree.
00:46:16.000So they needed to pass a continuing resolution, a stopgap measure, which would fund the government for like 30 or 40 days, that would allow the Congress to negotiate a bigger deal that would fund the government for a year.
00:47:49.000Now understand, that's the starting point for the negotiation.
00:47:53.000If McCarthy passes a bill in the House that funds the government for 40 days, and says, well we're going to have a 9% spending cut, and we're going to have border security, they have to negotiate that with the Senate, which is run by Democrats.
00:48:09.000So if they have to negotiate, that means that that is not going to be the final bill.
00:48:12.000That means that that's the starting point.
00:48:16.000If you go to the Democrats with 9% in border security, you're going to walk away with much lower spending cuts and much less in terms of border security.
00:48:26.000So Matt Gaetz said, well that's not good enough.
00:48:28.000We can't go to the Democrats with these paltry concessions.
00:48:37.000So, he said, I'm not going to vote for anything and I'm going to withhold votes, which includes four or five other members, and I'm not going to allow you even to send a spending bill to the Senate unless you include H.R.
00:48:49.0002, which is an immigration bill, mandatorily verified at the federal level, and a much larger spending cut.
00:48:56.000Otherwise, we will not vote for anything.
00:49:01.000That was the deal headed right into this weekend.
00:49:04.000The deadline was Saturday to pass this stopgap resolution.
00:49:08.000And it looked like by Saturday it wasn't going to pass.
00:49:12.000Because McCarthy was unwilling to work with the most conservative members to pass a very conservative bill, which again would have given Republicans concessions.
00:49:21.000He was unwilling to pass that because he thought it would lead to a government shutdown and he didn't want to fight with the Democrats.
00:49:28.000So he refused to put these measures in the bill.
00:49:32.000As a consequence, these holdouts led by Matt Gaetz refused to pass anything, and so it looked like the government would shut down.
00:49:40.000That is, until at the very last minute in the middle of the day on Saturday, McCarthy revealed that he had made a secret deal with the Democrats behind closed doors.
00:49:50.000And the deal was that McCarthy would rally with all the Democrats in the House,
00:49:56.000And pass a bill that had no concessions for Republicans.
00:50:00.000Forget what McCarthy wanted initially.
00:50:05.000He worked with the Democrats to pass a bill with nothing for Republicans.
00:50:12.000And all the Democrats, other than one, voted on this bill and with 130 Republicans.
00:50:20.000They passed it, sent it to the Senate,
00:50:23.000And Biden signed it, and it became the law, and they averted a government shutdown.
00:50:27.000In other words, McCarthy worked with the Democrats to take all the pressure off of the administration.
00:50:35.000McCarthy, rather than work with his own conference to force the Democrats to give Republicans concession, instead he backstabbed the Republicans, took a secret deal with the Democrats to take all the pressure off and give them everything they wanted,
00:50:52.000So that they wouldn't be blamed for shutting down the government.
00:51:44.000Kevin McCarthy's excuse, like Marjorie Greene's, is that, well, we barely control the House.
00:51:50.000How can we get anything done when we don't control the Senate or the White House?
00:51:55.000Marjorie Greene even said today, she said, I'm not going to vote to remove McCarthy because the truth is that we can't get anything done until Trump wins the White House.
00:52:06.000Which is just so indicative of that poisonous mentality.
00:52:13.000And by the way, that's the second such excuse that she's given this year.
00:52:16.000Earlier this year, when she totally capitulated on the debt ceiling deal, and she got criticized, she said, well, what do you expect from us?
00:52:25.000We barely control one half of the House, and the House is one half of one third of the federal government.
00:52:32.000So how do you expect us to get anything done?
00:54:36.000I said that probably Gates will shut down the government for a week like he said and then finally he'll bring his people back into the fold and they'll pass some modest bill.
00:54:46.000McCarthy will be ready to negotiate and that'll be that.
00:55:38.000It says the House voted on Tuesday to oust Representative Kevin McCarthy from the Speakership, a move without precedent that left the chamber without a leader.
00:55:47.000After a far-right challenge to Mr. McCarthy's leadership, eight GOP hardliners joined Democrats to strip the California Republican of the Speaker's gavel.
00:55:55.000The 216-210 vote reflected the deep polarization in Congress and raised questions about who, if anyone, could muster the support to govern an increasingly unruly GOP majority.
00:56:08.000Soon after, McCarthy told Republicans behind closed doors that he would not seek to reclaim the post, ending a tumultuous nine months as Speaker.
00:56:17.000It was the culmination of bitter Republican divisions that have festered all year and capped an epic power struggle between McCarthy and members of a far-right faction who tried to block his assent to the Speakership in January.
00:56:30.000They have tormented him ever since, trying to stymie his efforts to keep the nation from defaulting on its debt and rebelling over his decision over the weekend to turn the Democrats for help
00:56:41.000And keeping the government from shutting down.
00:56:43.000Most of the eight Republicans who voted to remove McCarthy had antagonized him ever since he became Speaker.
00:56:49.000They included representatives Andy Biggs of Arizona, Ken Buck of Colorado, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Eli Crane of Arizona, Bob Good of Virginia, Nancy Mace of South Carolina, and Matt Rosendale of Montana.
00:57:21.000And like I said, this is an awesome day, because if for nothing else, for the first time I think since Trump won the election in 2016, we have forced the establishment to play ball.
00:57:35.000You know, because you have to consider that in January, and even as far back as November, they told us it has to be McCarthy.
00:58:14.000And yet, the Republican Party told voters and told even their own members, well, that's the way it's got to be, because we don't have anybody else.
00:58:24.000He failed 15 ballots, because thankfully there are members of the Freedom Caucus to represent the people, and so we don't want him.
00:58:42.000And I think this is the first time when the tables were turned and Republicans used their leverage and just eight guys used the weight of the Democrats to say, no, now you're going to have to choose another speaker.
00:58:56.000And you see how the psychology is flipped?
00:58:59.000In January, they said, well, no one else has the votes.
01:03:35.000She goes around to her Rube constituents
01:03:38.000And says, I'm with President Trump, we're gonna drain the swamp, blah blah blah.
01:03:43.000But behind closed doors, where she's a millionaire who sleeps around with strange guys at her CrossFit gym, and where she really loves the lifestyle she lives, she's glib.
01:04:07.000You're talking about people that are raping our country.
01:04:09.000You're talking about corrupt people that are destroying and raping our country.
01:04:14.000You were voted in as somebody that's supposed to oppose it, and she's glibly bragging about the fact that she's working alongside it now.
01:04:22.000I just joined the swamp, she says, and she did.
01:04:27.000Her approach was to make a deal with McCarthy in exchange for favors.
01:04:30.000She said that if I attach myself to the political establishment for a ride, if I'm like a barnacle on a whale,
01:04:40.000If I can attach myself to the establishment and sell out my voters, I will trade my loyalty, I will vote with McCarthy, I will support him for the speakership, etc.
01:04:50.000If I do all that, then he will help my political career.
01:04:54.000He will give me committee assignments.
01:04:56.000That means more airtime on television.
01:04:59.000That means I get to sponsor resolutions that'll pass.
01:05:03.000My name will be talked about, and if my name gets talked about, then I could run for statewide office.
01:05:08.000That was really what was at the heart of that.
01:05:12.000Marjorie Greene recognized that if she was the Trump Congresswoman, that she could never hold statewide office in Georgia.
01:05:21.000Her reputation is that she was a radical, she was a revolutionary, she was far-right and extremist.
01:05:28.000And she knew she had a reputation problem if she wanted to be a senator, a governor, or be in the cabinet.
01:05:41.000She said not only am I going to attach myself to McCarthy to get more airtime and to get more clout on the Hill, she said also if I work with McCarthy, I'll work on this optics problem I have.
01:06:21.000Or does she want to be given credit for those things, or for anything for that matter, so that she gets more famous, so that she could attain a higher office?
01:08:41.000And he used his leverage against McCarthy to secure concessions, and he got it.
01:08:44.000He got a contract, and he got the means to enforce it.
01:08:48.000And then when McCarthy failed, and he demonstrated a reason, and when he failed a second time, he was able to invoke it, and now he's the hero.
01:09:23.000Her whole fixation, her attachment to McCarthy was about, again, rebranding herself, which if you watch the show, it's been very calculated over the last year.
01:09:34.000Sabotaging her role in the Freedom Caucus, she goes out and says, well I'm not part of the Burn It All Down Caucus, I'm part of the Get Stuff Done Caucus.
01:09:45.000More getting it done, reaching across the aisle, bipartisanship?
01:09:50.000So she was about rebranding herself and getting more clout so that she could level up and pursue a higher office and become less and less conservative as time goes on, all the while getting nothing.
01:10:03.000All the while doing nothing for her voters.
01:10:05.000Meanwhile, on the other side, Matt Gaetz is a fighter.
01:10:08.000And Matt Gaetz is going to pay the price for this.
01:10:10.000Because he's a fighter, they have launched investigations into him.
01:10:14.000There's an ethics investigation going on.
01:11:25.000If we did something, well, then we would lose our spot.
01:11:30.000And we can't lose our spot, because how can we fight if we lose our spot?
01:11:36.000And what happens is, year over year, it becomes more about remaining in power, or leveling up and attaining more power, than it is about delivering.
01:11:46.000You start, and it always starts small, they start making deals to be pragmatic, they start making deals, and they're small, and then they start to become bigger, and then eventually they stand for nothing.
01:12:00.000Then they're beholden to everybody, they deliver nothing.
01:12:04.000Contrast that with people that actually make a difference.
01:12:07.000If you make a difference, yeah, they're gonna come for you.
01:13:08.000So these people that are constantly telling us, well we can't do that, we can't, we can't win, we can't, we don't have the numbers, we don't have the Senate, we have to live to fight another day.
01:13:22.000That's not how you make change in Washington.
01:13:27.000They say those things to justify, in reality, being on the sidelines.
01:13:32.000All we're asking is that they put up a fight.
01:16:25.000This is why it's so, it's so irritating to me.
01:16:28.000Back in 2021, I was supposed to do a fundraiser with Paul Gosar.
01:16:33.000And by the way, if anybody wants to send this to Daily Beast or whatever, they can, because this is an exclusive story that I've never told, but I think it's relevant today.
01:16:43.000Back in 2021, do you remember the White Boy Summer road trip?
01:16:48.000After January 6, after I got put on the no-fly list,
01:16:53.000We had this white boy summer road trip.
01:16:57.000I think it was July, June and July 2021.
01:17:01.000And a lot of people didn't understand why I did that.
01:17:04.000You know, some thought that it was random or something, but the truth is this.
01:17:11.000Shortly after AFPAC 2, where Paul Gosar was speaker,
01:17:21.000I don't know if you remember, but we did a show after AfPak 2, which was sort of like our thank you for Gosar being there, and I said, you know, we're going to donate to Gosar's campaign.
01:17:33.000Everybody that watches the show, donate to Gosar's campaign.
01:17:36.000And we raised $30,000 in like 24 hours for Paul Gosar.
01:17:42.000They wanted to do another fundraiser with us because they said, wow,
01:18:12.000Why did we do a road trip from Chicago to Phoenix, Arizona?
01:18:20.000Because we were invited to do a fundraiser with Representative Paul Gosar, but we had to keep it on the down low because, like with AFPAC 2, we didn't want it to get canceled.
01:18:31.000We didn't want people to catch wind of it because we knew that he would get a lot of pressure and he might be forced to back out.
01:21:38.000You know, because at the same time, a couple days ago, Ro Khanna
01:21:43.000Had Ian Kuczynski and Stephen Bunnell, two people that have been accused of pedophilia and sexual assault, and have both said nigger, and have both said things about political violence, and things far more vulgar than I have, and they were at a meeting at the Capitol.
01:21:58.000Because, on the Democrat side, they're engaged with the far left.
01:22:47.000Here's McCarthy, who we were made to believe was the tormentor.
01:22:51.000He was the reason that the, he's the one that's keeping all the Republican members in line, preventing them from saying what they want to say, doing what they need to do, and they vote for him.
01:23:03.000All of them except for eight vote to keep him.
01:23:06.000Even when it was made clear that he was going to lose anyway.
01:23:10.000By the time they got down the list, I think by the time they got down to good,
01:24:55.000In fact, that's who's coming right now.
01:24:58.000That's who's coming right now alongside the Venezuelans.
01:25:03.000So, those two things that I talk about on the show that have made me the most canceled person and I'm the one taking hits because I'm fighting and effective on a message that's actually real, those are the two most pressing concerns for this country and for the new generation for the rest of the century.
01:25:21.000And I'm the only one talking about it.
01:25:26.000So, McCarthy being removed by Gaetz, it's a start.
01:25:32.000But where are the Republicans that are going to stand on these issues?
01:25:37.000If they can't stand against McCarthy on spending cuts, how are they going to stand against a hordes of African migrants that are going to bury and genocide our people and prevent Western civilization from continuing?
01:25:49.000If they can't stand up for spending cuts or against Kevin McCarthy, how are they going to stand up to the State of Israel?
01:25:56.000When they want to become the global arbitration court for various states, which is what they're setting up to be.
01:26:03.000That's what they've been talking about for a hundred years in that alleged forgery.
01:26:08.000How are they going to stand up to that?
01:26:13.000So, you know, we just don't have time for people that are playing games.
01:26:18.000We don't have time for people that are gonna blow smoke up our ass and piss on our leg and tell us it's raining.
01:28:17.000The whole conservative movement has no champions.
01:28:20.000There's two people that were at AFPAC.
01:28:23.000They can't go out on a limb because they got to save face before one retires and the other has a reputation as a lunatic for the rest of her life.
01:32:01.000Whatever he needs, maybe we'll fundraise for him, maybe we'll send out volunteers or something, but we will help Gates in whatever way we can.
01:32:12.000Because he's the only one willing to fight and pay the price and he will just like Madison Cawthorn did Madison Cawthorn spoke out against the system and he lost his seat and Honestly, he gained my respect after that by taking a loss like that He gained my respect because it's like he wouldn't have lost if he didn't go up against the system They wouldn't have dumped their oppo file on him if he didn't go against the system and he took it like a champ God bless him.
01:33:14.000And the rest of them, utterly useless.
01:33:16.000I guess we'll have to wait for Trump to make a difference for these useless people to be able to do one thing.
01:33:22.000So, and they couldn't even do that because they were all there, or some of them were in 18.
01:33:27.000Anyway, now, but of course now the big question is who's going to be the next speaker and then what are they going to do to avert the next shutdown?
01:33:40.000We'll cover that in the coming weeks because we really have no idea who it's going to be.
01:33:47.000Republicans met today, but there's no name, there's no apparent, there's no heir apparent for McCarthy.
01:33:55.000So we're going to cover this tomorrow, most likely, and probably next week.
01:34:00.000I'm not going to be here Thursday and Friday.
01:34:01.000I'm not doing a show because I'll be out of town.
01:34:06.000I'll be here tomorrow probably covering this if there's new developments and then we'll pick it up next week and we'll see if we have a new speaker and how they're gonna resolve this appropriations thing but anyway I feel I feel very strongly about it because it feels like the country's burning and nobody's doing anything and these are the responsible people.
01:34:29.000That was the biggest black pill when I got into politics is realizing that
01:34:33.000Things are so severe and no one cares.
01:36:55.000After being extremely impressed with you at the Mar-a-Lago dinner, if Trump gets in for 24, is it possible you may get a call, or perhaps hired as an unlisted advisor to his administration?
01:37:46.000I actually don't love the statement by Pope Francis.
01:38:11.000In fairness, people are not reading it in the full context.
01:38:14.000The context said, how can we bless a union in a way that does not in any way create confusion that we support homosexuality because we don't.
01:38:24.000That's what he said, but it's not a great statement.
01:38:30.000I'm not loving what we're seeing from the Pope.
01:38:35.000So we gotta pray for the Pope because it's not, it's not great.
01:38:38.000It's not quite what people are, you know, of course his detractors are uncharitable, but it's not great.
01:42:28.000I'd like to see how Catholics are doing it more than Jews, and then I'll agree with you.
01:42:32.000But, you know, people always just say that.
01:42:34.000People always just spew this shit, and yeah, it's true that, you know, Catholics do support refugees, but not to the extent that the Jews do.
01:42:41.000Not to the extent that these left-wing governments do.
01:42:46.000That's an anti-Catholic lie that was made up by Jews to deflect criticism.
01:42:51.000I've never seen any evidence of this other than, yeah, they point out, like every country does, and the Vatican is a country, there is some refugee resettlement.
01:43:01.000But you say, oh, well, they're one of the main ones.
01:44:21.000I'm not even necessarily concerned with who the next speaker will be as my concern is seeing a strong nationalist front developing within the GOP and finally giving us real representation in the party.
01:44:31.000I wouldn't say necessarily it's nationalist yet, but it's the beginning of something for sure.
01:45:27.000fire underscore rises sent five dollars all the roadblocks and bs you get thrown at you it's crazy but you never let it stop you or keep you down you deserve better bro hey thanks buddy hey no one no one really deserves anything okay all we could do is just try our best
01:46:48.000I'll just play the audio, because I was laughing my ass off.
01:46:54.000It's actually incredible how soft people are nowadays.
01:46:56.000I mean, you know, I'm used to the locker room talk, the jokes, the humor, making fun of shit, you know, saying all the wild stuff, but you can't do that anymore.
01:47:03.000If you say stuff like that, it's wild, which is why I love Hitler.
01:47:19.000It's so amazing how he still captures the imagination of millions.
01:47:23.000It's actually incredible how soft people are nowadays.
01:47:25.000I mean, you know, I'm used to the locker room talk, the jokes, the humor, making fun of shit, you know, saying all the wild stuff, but you can't do that anymore.
01:47:32.000If you say stuff like that, it's wild, which is why I love Hitler.
01:49:27.000Because they would never expect that, you know?
01:49:29.000They're used to seeing, like, a white guy say, and another thing... But if there was a black guy who was explaining, like, imagine a PragerU video about... I don't know, about the Talmud?
01:50:15.000We don't support male or female genital mutilation.
01:50:17.000No circumcision, no... I don't even know how that works down there.
01:50:20.000I don't even know how you could mutilate a woman's vagina, you know.
01:50:40.000I don't really know the mechanics of all that but yeah we don't support that okay buddy chill no none of that Muslim Jewish swords around Dixon and vaginas thing we're not we don't support that but
01:51:59.000And then I look at Ella Maulding's timeline and she's like, I just got the meat lovers double beefy cheese plate of ground beef and a glass of milk.
01:52:38.000You know, warm milk and cinnamon rolls or something.
01:52:45.000Then I see Ella Maulding's timeline and she's like, Hey, here I am posted up with a plate of ground beef piled high and nacho cheese drizzled all over it with jalapenos.
01:52:56.000And it's like... No, it's a little off-putting actually.
01:54:20.000Who's eating strawberries for dinner, you know, I want I want a dainty little woman who do is who is ashamed to eat too much in front of me You know who's gonna eat a little she's gonna bring a little Tupperware full of strawberries to the dinner.
01:55:50.000We gotta let's let's try something else you know maybe but that's the problem down there down there that's all they you know in the south they're like California with their faggot coffee and you know and their vegan diets it's like you know maybe you need a little of that maybe you need a little bit of that maybe you need a little bit of
02:02:31.000Listen, it's not it's not called an all-american breakfast It was it's a bed of hash browns with two fried eggs and two hamburger patties And it's covered in chili And I think that's it, okay, I didn't mean to be mean to you, okay, I'm sorry
02:08:58.000There's something about that that, you know, now a woman with like a chocolate-covered strawberry, you know, like, that's a little different.
02:09:06.000I can't watch a woman take down... It's not, I can't, I can't date Man Vs. Food, you know?