Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - Episode 134 LIVE: Thanksgiving Inflation (feat. Sen. Jeff Brandes) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

Learn English with Matt Gaetz. Rep. Gaetz delivers a blistering attack on Democratic Vice President Joe Biden and his "Bidenomics" economic policies, and calls for a return to the winning ways that House Speaker Johnson and his fellow Republicans have been calling for for years. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, delivers an impassioned plea to Speaker Johnson to get back on track and get the country back on the right track. Speaker Johnson responds to the charge that Republicans have not been hard enough on the President, saying, "We will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight." Rep. Joe Crowley delivers a fiery attack on the Biden administration and its failure to address the root cause of the country's economic woes, inflation, and high food prices. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, responds to a question from Sen. Roy Blunt about the lack of progress being made on immigration and border security and the need for a border patrol agent in the border patrol patrol patrol force. Speaker Boehner also delivers a sharp rebuke to the White House on the use of single-subject spending and omnibus spending bills, saying they are the path to higher deficits and higher deficits, and that the single subject spending will hurt the economy and lead to higher taxes and higher taxes. . The full transcript of the speech can be found at the linktr.ee/firecrackdown/referencedepa/ref=bookmark&qid=3Pt&ref=a&qrefid=1&refref=1 and the hashtag in the bio of the tweet is on the tweet you use to tag us in the tweet. Tweet us to let us know what you think of this tweet? or your thoughts or tweet us in your tweet! , and we'll be listening to this podcast! or share it in a story or story? or a screenshot of this podcast and tag us on ! if you have any thoughts or story you'd like us to be featured in the next episode of the podcast? , tweet us on it! , a tweet or podcast :) ;) tweet us , or a story we can do a podcast about this podcast , we'll get it on the podcast or any other podcast you're listening to us or something like that?

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:06:27.000 You're not taking Matt Gaetz off the board, okay?

00:06:29.000 Because Matt Gaetz is an American patriot and Matt Gaetz is an American hero.

00:06:34.000 We will not continue to allow the Uniparty to run this town without a fight. 1.00

00:06:39.000 I want to thank you, Matt Gaetz, for holding the line.

00:06:44.000 Matt Gaetz is a courageous man.

00:06:46.000 If we had hundreds of Matt Gaetz in D.C., the country turns around.

00:06:51.000 It's that simple.

00:06:51.000 He's so tough, he's so strong, he's smart, and he loves this country.

00:06:56.000 Matt Gaetz.

00:06:57.000 It is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you.

00:07:02.000 We will save America.

00:07:05.000 It's choose your fighter time.

00:07:06.000 Transcending the firebrands.

00:07:08.000 One thing.

00:07:17.000 I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing.

00:07:21.000 One.

00:07:22.000 That I can go campaign on and say we did.

00:07:26.000 One.

00:07:27.000 Anybody sitting in the complex, if you want to come down to the floor and come explain to me one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done besides, well, I guess it's not as bad as the Democrats.

00:07:44.000 Welcome back to Firebrand.

00:07:46.000 That was Firebrand Texas Congressman Chip Roy excoriating Republicans for having caved far too often for far too long, and he is 100% right.

00:07:56.000 We live in a country now where over 100,000 people have been poisoned by fentanyl.

00:08:01.000 We allow China to continue to eat our lunch. 0.99

00:08:04.000 In all kinds of respects, from their military advancements to even their cultural attacks and their poisoning of our fellow countrymen. 0.97

00:08:12.000 And if you look at the border and the economy, House Republicans have got to do more to deliver wins.

00:08:18.000 That's why we made a change in leadership.

00:08:19.000 And while House Speaker Johnson has got a little runway, it's not a forever runway.

00:08:25.000 He's got to get us back to the winning ways that Chip Roy is calling for.

00:08:28.000 And my advice to Speaker Johnson, take a lot of advice from that man, a great Texas congressman, someone I respect a lot, and someone who I think has identified some of the problems and challenges facing the country.

00:08:41.000 One of those notably, the Bidenomics-inducing inflation.

00:08:47.000 Now, Americans can expect to pay more this Thanksgiving for just about every aspect of their meal because President Biden and Bidenomics and Biden inflation are well above the Federal Reserve's target and certainly well above our ability to pay for it.

00:09:04.000 Since Joe Biden took office, overall food prices have risen over 17%.

00:09:11.000 Frozen vegetables are up almost 11%.

00:09:15.000 Uncooked beef steaks up almost 11%.

00:09:19.000 Even the sauces and gravies, you don't think about those being a major cost driver of Thanksgiving, but sauces and gravies are up 7.5%.

00:09:28.000 Uncooked turkey up about the same amount, 7.2%.

00:09:33.000 White bread up 7.1%.

00:09:37.000 And there are so many concerning facts about the Biden economy.

00:09:41.000 The Consumer Price Index, a key inflation indicator, rose at an increased annual rate of 3.2% in October.

00:09:49.000 And keep in mind, though the rate of inflation may be slowing, It is stacked.

00:09:55.000 So all the inflation we've already endured has not been remediated or diminished.

00:10:00.000 So when you hear the White House talk about less inflation, what they cannot tell you is that it is resulting in lower prices.

00:10:08.000 Lower prices.

00:10:09.000 That's what the American people want.

00:10:11.000 And the prices are artificially high, not as a function of some uncontrollable global feature, but the direct policy choices that Joe Biden and his government have made.

00:10:22.000 So according to a recent AP poll, about two thirds of adults say their household expenses have risen over the last year.

00:10:32.000 Describe the national economy as poor.

00:10:34.000 If 73% of the people are saying that the national economy is poor, I wouldn't be running on Bidenomics.

00:10:42.000 It's not working for three out of four Americans.

00:10:45.000 A recent study published by Bankrate shows that just 21% of Americans think that their financial situation has improved since Joe Biden became president.

00:10:55.000 Around one in five.

00:10:57.000 I feel like most people definitely that observe this program consider themselves part of the four of five who've had their conditions diminished as a consequence of Joe Biden.

00:11:08.000 And frankly, if you listen to Chip Roy, as a consequence of Republicans who have not been fighting hard enough.

00:11:15.000 So what should we be fighting for?

00:11:17.000 You've heard me say it a lot on this program that only single-subject spending bills will actually cut spending.

00:11:25.000 These continuing resolutions and omnibus bills, they are the path to more deficits and higher spending.

00:11:32.000 And we got this admission that my vision on single-subject spending bills will cut spending from no less than one of the progressive leaders of the Democratic Party, Ro Khanna of California.

00:11:46.000 He makes the admission on Joy Reid's MSNBC program.

00:11:49.000 Take a listen.

00:11:52.000 Most speakers last for years.

00:11:55.000 Matt Gaetz has literally said, essentially, Mike Johnson has seven months to reduce spending to each build everything one at a time, which is madness.

00:12:06.000 It's madness.

00:12:07.000 And it is reducing spending that is going to hurt working families.

00:12:14.000 Even our critics, even the people who have a different vision on governance and budgeting, admit that my vision will result in less spending.

00:12:23.000 And we've got to have it because that is what's driving the inflation.

00:12:26.000 And it harkens back to, remember that July 4th tweet that the Biden White House put out previously?

00:12:32.000 Oh yes, we've got it on the screen there.

00:12:34.000 Yes, a 16 cent decrease And the cost of all of those food, stuffs, and goods.

00:12:43.000 So, 16 cent decrease.

00:12:46.000 Not even true today.

00:12:47.000 We went through the numbers.

00:12:48.000 The numbers are all up.

00:12:50.000 And another area where the numbers are up and troubling, We break down the border numbers for you frequently on this program.

00:12:58.000 It is important that when discussing these matters, we don't do so in the abstract.

00:13:02.000 So month by month, year by year, we're here to lay out how bad the problem has gotten.

00:13:08.000 So let's look at the October numbers.

00:13:09.000 In October alone, There were 240,988 illegal immigrant encounters at the southern border.

00:13:19.000 It's a staggering number.

00:13:20.000 It is a 235% increase from October 2020. October was the 32nd straight month where monthly illegal immigrant encounters have been higher than the highest month ever seen under President Trump.

00:13:36.000 32 in a row.

00:13:39.000 In October, 12 individuals whose names appear on the terrorist watch list were stopped trying to cross into the United States from Mexico.

00:13:48.000 So far under Biden, 279 of these individuals whose names appear on the terror watch list were stopped trying to cross the southern border.

00:13:57.000 And you don't know how many gotaways were known terrorists, how many people we never even encountered were known terrorists.

00:14:03.000 But you know it ain't zero based on the hundreds that we have seen.

00:14:09.000 More than a dozen just this last month.

00:14:10.000 In fiscal year 2023, 169 people whose names were on the terrorist watch list were stopped trying to cross the southern border.

00:14:18.000 An all-time record.

00:14:19.000 This total is more than the encounters in all of fiscal year 17 to fiscal year 2022 combined.

00:14:28.000 Biden's far-left open border policies are precisely why we find ourselves in this crisis.

00:14:34.000 They must be reversed.

00:14:36.000 And we have to be willing to use every bit of leverage that we have to see that outcome come to fruition.

00:14:45.000 As we're chatting, President Xi has made his stops throughout the United States, notably in California.

00:14:52.000 And California Governor Gavin Newsom criticized for all the cleanup that California was willing to do, not for their own citizens, not for visitors from America, but from their bankers in China.

00:15:05.000 And responding to that criticism, here we have California Governor Gavin Newsom.

00:15:09.000 Take a listen.

00:15:11.000 I know folks say, oh, they're just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming into town.

00:15:17.000 That's true.

00:15:19.000 Because it's true. 0.96

00:15:23.000 So they are willing to clean up California for the foreign communists, but she stays filthy and dirty for the homegrown communists. 0.99

00:15:33.000 Not exactly America first from my standpoint.

00:15:37.000 We had an important hearing this week in the House Armed Services Committee regarding hypersonics, and that really sets deterrence with China.

00:15:45.000 China and Russia have capabilities in hypersonics that exceed America's.

00:15:50.000 That is not an admission that I have any joy in sharing with you.

00:15:55.000 We ought to have the best, strongest, most lethal, survivable, and capable military in all of the world.

00:16:03.000 And when you have a delivery system, For a nuclear warhead, for another type of payload that can hit the target at a far higher rate of speed and with more accuracy than the other systems, that starts to inform almost all of the strategic thinking that your nation does in times of conflict or risk of escalation or accident.

00:16:28.000 So today we had Several folks who were really speaking to that strategic imperative and we talked about the United States being behind China and behind Russia on hypersonics.

00:16:44.000 I focus a lot on hypersonics here and so I was wondering what your perspective was on how our current hypersonic capabilities compared with these two near-peer adversaries was contributing to that sense of deterrence.

00:16:57.000 Well, sort of simply put, we're a little behind in terms of the development of our hypersonics capabilities.

00:17:03.000 Madeline is right.

00:17:05.000 We're behind, both countries, with regard to the hypersonic issue.

00:17:10.000 We've had tests, and I won't get into the details, but the bottom line is that we are behind where our two opponents are.

00:17:18.000 And what this means is that they have some capabilities with which they can threaten us.

00:17:24.000 And just to draw a finer point on it, Senator, When you say we are behind both countries in hypersonics, you are referring to China and Russia, right?

00:17:33.000 Mr. Chairman, Representative Gage, that's correct.

00:17:38.000 We are behind China and Russia, and we should be using the entire national security apparatus to catch up, to keep our country safe and secure.

00:17:47.000 But instead, we've been so distracted by nonsense at the DOD, at the CIA, at...

00:17:56.000 Even the National Security Agency, the NSA. The NSA has apparently been up to no good, but not in the usual sense.

00:18:04.000 Instead of spying on Americans without warrants, it seems the NSA has now shifted its focus to, you guessed it, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

00:18:16.000 The Possibly the most expansive glossary of DEI terms the world has ever seen.

00:18:24.000 And it begs the question, is the NSA running like the biggest PSYOP in American history?

00:18:29.000 Or are they too corrupted by the managerial HR culture that dominates every aspect of modern society?

00:18:37.000 Why is the NSA creating a glossary of woke terms?

00:18:41.000 The glossary itself states, The following is a glossary of terms and commonly used language in dialogue regarding diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice to be used as a reference.

00:18:52.000 This glossary and its definitions provide a starting point for engaging in open and honest conversation and it's a tool meant to build shared language and understanding.

00:19:04.000 Sounds wonderful, doesn't it?

00:19:07.000 Feels so much better now.

00:19:08.000 Let's take a look at what this shared language and understanding actually sounds like.

00:19:13.000 These are the terms.

00:19:14.000 White fragility. 0.99

00:19:16.000 White privilege, white supremacy, even whiteness, which the report that the NSA put out defines as, quote, a broad social construction that embraces the white culture, history, ideology, radicalization, expressions, experiences, emotions, and behaviors, all in order to reap material, political, economic, and structural benefits for those socially deemed white.

00:19:42.000 Wow.

00:19:44.000 What does it mean to be socially deemed white?

00:19:48.000 I thought that the color of your skin was an immutable trait.

00:19:52.000 And why is it whenever white people are seeking some sort of advancement in the economy or culture or national security, it's all meant to reap the benefits for those who are culturally white. 0.72

00:20:07.000 No group of humans in all of human history has ever been without a series of pretty bad actions, right?

00:20:15.000 You get a group of humans together for long enough, we do bad things to one another.

00:20:19.000 That goes back to biblical times. 0.91

00:20:22.000 But white people...

00:20:24.000 We have built some of the most durable and inclusive civilizations that have ever existed, and of course mistakes have been made along the way, and that is why we strive to be a more perfect union that does not judge people based on their immutable traits like the color of their skin.

00:20:42.000 But now the NSA is putting reports together saying if you're deemed socially white, Anything you do has got to be viewed through this lens of the advancement of one group of people at the expense of another.

00:20:55.000 When the reality is the United States of America has been a platform for people of all kind and color and creed to advance. 0.93

00:21:02.000 So what the NSA is pushing is a load of insane bigoted nonsense.

00:21:09.000 And these are just a few of the 327 social justice terms listed in their glossary to blame white Europeans for engaging in settler colonialism. 0.88

00:21:22.000 Settler colonialism. 0.89

00:21:23.000 It's one of those terms that's gaining popularity with Hamas supporters.

00:21:29.000 Apparently, Jews and Israelis are the white colonizers now.

00:21:33.000 Welcome to the club, I guess. 0.56

00:21:34.000 Now, second to the Anti-white rhetoric in this NSA report, we get a bizarre transgender vernacular emerging. 1.00

00:21:44.000 The list that they have produced seems to make up every pronoun under the sun.

00:21:51.000 And every now and then, there's a little comic relief with terms like transmisogyny.

00:21:57.000 I had to look at that one a couple times.

00:22:00.000 Transmisogyny, they describe as the intersection of transphobia and misogyny.

00:22:06.000 The irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against transgender people.

00:22:12.000 Trans misogyny is often directed at trans women in particular.

00:22:19.000 So after billions of dollars in funding, little oversight, the NSA has now taken it upon themselves to decide that men can now be misogynistic to other men.

00:22:33.000 What a breakthrough.

00:22:34.000 Your tax dollars at work.

00:22:36.000 Meanwhile, China and Russia beating us on hypersonics, but we've figured out that men can be misogynist to men.

00:22:42.000 Wow, what an advancement. 0.86

00:22:44.000 Just about the only thing that this report doesn't explain is what business the NSA has in cataloging and promoting any of this hysterical mentally ill lunacy. 0.53

00:22:56.000 Big Brother getting into CRT should concern us, and if we don't nip it in the bud right now, we're going to be paying for it.

00:23:03.000 Imagine the NSA intercepting your text messages and flagging any material deemed to support extremist beliefs like, there are only two genders, or men can't be misogynist to other men, or I'm not sorry that my ancestors created Western civilization.

00:23:21.000 Perhaps they're already doing this.

00:23:22.000 After all, we learn, oftentimes, after the fact of the NSA's violations of the law and our civil liberties.

00:23:30.000 What else would they be keeping a glossary like this for?

00:23:34.000 As insane as it is, it's dangerous, and the NSA owes the American people an explanation.

00:23:39.000 We can't let this continue.

00:23:41.000 History is fraught with mass hysteria like this, and sadly, the good guys don't always win.

00:23:47.000 We need to put an end to it before we figure out what it looks like when the CRT regime is lashed to the most exquisite spying and surveillance tools that have ever existed on the planet Earth.

00:24:01.000 There's sad news that we also must share with you today from Florida's 1st Congressional District.

00:24:06.000 I want to send out condolences to the family of U.S. Air Force Captain Nicholas Smog Brown.

00:24:13.000 Captain Brown was a pilot instructor for the 58th Fighter Squadron and a member of our Eglin Air Force Base family in northwest Florida.

00:24:21.000 Captain Brown tragically passed away on November 11, 2023, as a result of injuries sustained during a free dive incident near the East Destin Pass.

00:24:32.000 Captain Brown was described as a devoted father, husband, and beloved squadron mate.

00:24:38.000 Captain Brown's family has shared a GoFundMe page We'll be putting that information out on our social media platforms.

00:24:44.000 They've raised $141,000 with a goal of $158,000.

00:24:49.000 I will be donating and would encourage you to do so as well.

00:24:55.000 We had an interesting conversation recently that I want to let all of our viewers in on.

00:25:00.000 In Florida, there's a lot of discussion about how to drive down some of our incarceration and corrections costs, how to have better outcomes in the criminal justice space.

00:25:09.000 I'm a former state lawmaker.

00:25:11.000 I chaired our criminal justice subcommittee in the State House of Representatives, and I caught up with one of my former colleagues, former State Senator Jeff Brandes, to discuss what some of his policy visions are regarding Florida and veterans criminal justice.

00:25:26.000 Take a listen.

00:25:29.000 Jeff Brandes is a former member of the Florida Senate and Florida House of Representatives.

00:25:33.000 We served together in the legislature.

00:25:35.000 He now leads the Florida Policy Project and they are out with an interesting new report about the incarcerated population in Florida, particularly veterans who are getting older and Senator Brandes has some policy prescriptions.

00:25:47.000 So Jeff, thanks so much for joining me and tell me what you've learned about our veterans who are incarcerated in the Sunshine State.

00:25:54.000 Sure.

00:25:54.000 The Florida Policy Project is an organization dedicated to identifying best practices in the country on criminal justice, property insurance, transportation, and housing.

00:26:02.000 And right now, we just launched a report on veterans, which basically says we have about 4,000 veterans, we think that's underreported, that are incarcerated in the state of Florida, and we're not serving them at the level we think would be considered a best practice at all.

00:26:15.000 In fact, oftentimes, we aren't serving them at all in the prison system, other than putting them in veteran's dorms that we aren't monitoring.

00:26:21.000 What have we learned about their age and the risk that they would pose if there was some sort of re-entry opportunity?

00:26:28.000 So that's the thing.

00:26:29.000 Florida's veterans are largely serving very long sentences and they're getting old in prison.

00:26:33.000 And so we think that there is a We can provide more services.

00:26:37.000 We can provide more counseling to those that are incarcerated and provide them better reentry opportunities, connecting them to services on the outside and connecting to the VA services that are available while they're still incarcerated.

00:26:51.000 There are also a lot of federal benefits that our veterans would be able to access if they weren't incarcerated, and frankly, a lot of their health care that would be paid for not by Florida taxpayers, but by those who are contributing to federal programs.

00:27:08.000 And we've had this immersion of veterans' courts in Florida, where it's a specialized docket to review The different allegations and charges that are made and then to try to fashion a correction solution that might be unique to veterans.

00:27:24.000 What's been your perspective on the success of that program in Florida?

00:27:28.000 I think the Veterans Court has been incredibly effective at dealing with some of the, you know, those that are incarcerated for drug crimes or property crimes.

00:27:36.000 Unfortunately, you know, veterans have a higher incidence of sex crimes and that's largely why they're incarcerated or larger or violent crimes.

00:27:44.000 And so that typically is why you see veterans being incarcerated for longer periods of time.

00:27:49.000 But even that population, we can find solutions for.

00:27:53.000 And that's why, you know, the Floor Policy Project is calling for more investment in our veterans that are incarcerated.

00:27:58.000 Senator Brandes, you know, reentry more broadly beyond these specific populations we've talked about.

00:28:05.000 has proven to be an essential component to reduce recidivism and there are some folks in criminal justice thinking who just are of the lock them up throw away the key perspective and certainly for probably some defendants that's warranted but how should we think about re-entry as a concept and the investment we ought to make in it?

00:28:26.000 Well first of all I think we need to praise and recognize the success of the First Step Act and that the overwhelming data that we're getting back now that that I think the second thing is to recognize that there's two key indicators when we're re-entering people.

00:28:42.000 What kind of house or household are they going back into and are they available to get and keep a job?

00:28:48.000 And those are the two primary factors that I think the state of Florida and, frankly, every different corrections institution can do better at, is identifying best practices that help people reenter society, which means can they get an ID when they leave prison?

00:29:03.000 Can they get a bank account when they leave prison?

00:29:05.000 Those kind of key things that we don't even think about.

00:29:07.000 Transportation is often a major challenge for those leaving prison.

00:29:11.000 In Florida, they leave prison with 50 bucks and a bus pass.

00:29:13.000 Now, nobody will tell you that's a best practice.

00:29:15.000 And it's an area where we can do a lot more work for our veterans and just those that are not veterans that are leaving prison.

00:29:21.000 The key thing is, how do we get them to reenter society?

00:29:25.000 We're all focused on public safety.

00:29:26.000 But the best thing we can do is taking those people that are incarcerated and getting out, ensuring that they're successful when they get out.

00:29:33.000 No doubt.

00:29:33.000 I mean, what folks don't think about is that almost everyone in prison is going to get out one day.

00:29:38.000 And we know what that day is going to be, for the most part, from the government side.

00:29:42.000 And so we should be doing more To plan for the success of that individual, whether it's industry certification, education, whether it is, like you said, an IED or some sort of re-entry plan where folks are getting a job working.

00:29:57.000 And I think that can do a lot to reduce the number of victims of crimes that we ultimately have in this country.

00:30:04.000 Final question for you, Senator Brandes, what is next for the Florida Policy Project?

00:30:08.000 What issues are you going to be putting out reports on and where can folks follow that work and follow you?

00:30:13.000 So obviously one of the top challenges in Florida is property insurance and housing affordability.

00:30:18.000 And so we're going to be launching our Property insurance discussion and best practices in the coming days.

00:30:25.000 Then we have one on vouchers for housing affordability.

00:30:30.000 And then we're going to specifically look at women in prison. 0.99

00:30:31.000 I mean, I think that's one of the more challenging areas that we see in the country is best practices for dealing with that women are incarcerated.

00:30:38.000 They often come in with a lot of trauma.

00:30:40.000 They often are leaving their kids and they're often separated from their kids by hours and hours of travel.

00:30:46.000 And so I think it's an area that's under-researched and when we're going to spend some time looking at best practices.

00:30:50.000 And how can folks follow the group and follow you?

00:30:55.000 Sure.

00:30:55.000 You can go to floridapolicyproject.com and see all the great work we're doing.

00:30:59.000 And you can follow us on Twitter at Jeffrey Brandes or at Florida Policy Project.

00:31:02.000 Senator Jeff Brandes, head of the Florida Policy Project.

00:31:05.000 Thanks so much for joining me.

00:31:06.000 Great to see you, Matt.

Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - November 16, 2023

Episode 134 LIVE: Thanksgiving Inflation (feat. Sen. Jeff Brandes) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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