Biden's Military Purge continues, and it's not without reason. Today's episode of The Swamp Dweller is all about how the Vice President is making America less safe and less ready to fight for our country. Plus, a look at the latest in combating Russia and dealing with the conflict in Ukraine, a bizarre racist attack on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and a key update on marijuana policy from Rep. Matt Gaetz's (R-GAETTO) office on marijuana use in the military and law enforcement. Also, we talk about why Joe Biden is a problem in the Democratic Party, and whether or not he should be running for President in 2020. And, of course, we have a special guest, Captain Jordan Carr, from the Air Force, who joins us to talk about the Biden Military purge and why it's a good thing we don't have a Black History Month. Thanks to everyone for all of your support, and stay tuned for more episodes like this one and much more! - Your continued support is greatly appreciated. - Sincerely, - Matt and the Swamp Dwellers. - EJ & the Swamp Crew. - Your support is so appreciated, we'll keep on keeping on keep on keepin' on! - The Swamp Crew - Ej and EJ's Swamp Dwellin' On It's a place where we're all in it together! . -The Swamp Crew, Ej & Swamp Crew -Jon Soro and Swamp Crews -PSA to the Swamp - . . . And much more... Thank you for all the support you're showing us love, support, support and support, EJ/support, and we appreciate your support. Ej& support, love, and respect, and keep on supporting us. -Jon, Jon & Vicky & your support is much more. - Thank you, Jon and Vicky! -Jon & Jameson Thanks Jon and Jameson, and your support & support, Vicky, and all the rest of the Swampers! , Vicky. , and Thank you Jon, and you're a lot of love, Jon, too! -Vicky, Sarah, and Sarah, too. -Josie, Sarah & Sarah -and the Swamp, and the swamp, and thank you so much, and thanks for being here at the Swamp. -- Thank you.
00:04:39.000Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
00:04:46.000Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.
00:04:49.000He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:04:52.000So we're going to keep running those stories to get hurt again.
00:04:56.000If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground, then welcome, my fellow patriots!
00:05:31.000This is Congressman Matt Gaetz simulcast streaming our podcast from the Capitol Complex here in Washington, D.C. We've got a lot to talk about.
00:05:40.000It seems every day we could talk about different failures of the Biden administration, whether that's on domestic policy, foreign policy, military policy, health policy.
00:06:16.000A big moment in the House Armed Services Committee where you had the Secretary of Defense directly contradicted by the Secretary of the Air Force on the critical issue of hypersonics.
00:06:26.000We're going to go over the latest in combating Russia and dealing with the conflict in Ukraine.
00:06:32.000A bizarre racist attack against Clarence Thomas that played out over the course of a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee Also going to give you a key update on marijuana policy.
00:06:44.000But first, I want to make sure everyone is well aware of a show we did earlier in the week, Biden's Military Purge, episode 33. We talked to three terrific service members for the United States Armed Forces,
00:07:00.000two Air Force folks, one medical doctor who's serving in the Army, and one One of the individuals, Captain Jordan Carr from the Air Force, she created a Twitter account to try to share the content from that interview, to create a platform for people who wanted information about how our military is dealing with these mandates.
00:07:21.000And like, almost within, I guess within like what, 24 hours of her being...
00:07:26.000Less than seven hours I'm hearing from our staff.
00:07:33.000And, I mean, if we live in a country where our own military can't share their experiences on matters like this in their own personal capacity as Americans, Then that directly contributes to the problems we have in military recruitment.
00:07:49.000I mean, right now, you look at the United States Air Force, we don't have the number of pilots we need.
00:07:54.000You think these vaccine mandates are helping you get more pilots while you're driving some of them out of the Air Force?
00:07:59.000You think that embracing white rage at our Service academies and in the diversity, equity, inclusion portions of the military is attracting more people to want to wear the uniform and what get smeared as racists.
00:08:13.000It's ridiculous and it's making America less safe and less ready.
00:08:17.000You know, the Obama administration did all they could to starve our military of the resources for body armor, for technology, for the pacing challenge of China.
00:08:27.000It took a lot for the Trump administration to really rebuild that and to get us back on track.
00:08:33.000And now the Biden administration is choosing this different tool.
00:08:36.000They're not attacking our military by defunding it as much as the Obama administration.
00:08:41.000They're attacking our military through these purges.
00:08:47.000Go check out the Biden military purge.
00:08:50.000And as you watch Captain Carr, think about whether or not this is someone who ought to be able to have a voice in a democracy, in a republic such as ours.
00:08:59.000So staying on, the matter of the military.
00:09:02.000Many of you will remember that when Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin came to give testimony, I sort of juxtaposed the embrace of wokeism against some of the degradations in America's standing in In very competitive areas of weapons development, particularly hypersonics.
00:09:21.000I'm very interested in hypersonics because hypersonic munition systems can carry different types of payloads.
00:09:28.000They can carry the types of payloads that we see being used in the Russia-Ukraine conflict right now.
00:09:34.000I mean, Russia used the first hypersonic weapon in combat ever during this conflict.
00:09:40.000That's going to make them more capable.
00:09:42.000Everybody learns from utilizations like this.
00:10:13.000But it's hard not to see how the immense resources being developed in some areas of the world aren't going to pair with technology solutions like hypersonics and like nuclear.
00:10:26.000And so if that happens, the United States of America must be at the front edge of hypersonics.
00:10:33.000We have to have the best offensive systems for deterrence.
00:10:36.000We have to have the best defensive systems to protect the homeland.
00:10:40.000And that means research, development, testing.
00:10:44.000That means having the size of a force being sufficient, the capability.
00:10:49.000It means being able to hit different sized targets, moving targets, targets that could be an aircraft carrier under some circumstances.
00:10:58.000And so because we need that really wide suite of capabilities, There's a whole lot to do to keep up with a country like China that's very invested and very aggressive.
00:11:10.000So I asked the Secretary of Defense, gosh, why are we doing the critical race theory and the pronoun stuff and not doing the really important work Of keeping pace with China and hypersonics.
00:11:23.000And the Secretary of Defense, you're going to get the clip in just a minute, but he responds that I'm wrong, that we're not really behind in hypersonics.
00:11:30.000There's no basis that I would have to ever make a claim that the United States would be behind in hypersonics.
00:11:39.000Or, I mean, just as bad as lying would be if he was ignorant to what was going on in our military from a research standpoint, from a fielding weapon systems standpoint.
00:11:54.000And so I knew the time would come when someone else from the military would come in, give us a more technical briefing, a deeper dive with the Air Force and munitions, and I knew that I would have the opportunity to ask the question, who's ahead?
00:12:10.000We had the Secretary of the Air Force, the top civilian in the Air Force, Admitting that what the Secretary of Defense said was total nonsense.
00:12:21.000Take a look at them back-to-back, side-by-side.
00:12:24.000We'll come back and we'll share some more perspective.
00:13:44.000And I guess we do have to find out whether or not it was a purposeful lie for some sort of theatrical moment or whether or not there really is an inability for the Secretary of Defense to focus on this critical area of technology that the Chinese are advancing aggressively and where we're behind.
00:14:05.000Do that by building out our range capabilities.
00:14:08.000I don't think we should be testing and developing hypersonics over the Pacific Rim for obvious reasons.
00:14:14.000There are a whole lot of eyes and ears out there over the Pacific Rim, but goodness gracious, over in different ranges in the Atlantic.
00:14:21.000In the Gulf of Mexico test range, which Floridians are well aware of, we could have better telemetry, we could have better radar, better sensing systems.
00:14:31.000Build those up, have a great envelope for testing, and make sure that America always holds the high ground.
00:14:39.000And one reason we have to do that is because we are increasingly seeing Russia engage in malign influence.
00:14:45.000And so I want to take a moment to get into Russia, what we see vis-a-vis their malign activities in Ukraine and that we've seen around the world.
00:14:54.000You know, they engage in espionage and they get people into countries and those people are spies and then they do their naughty business and that doesn't facilitate a rules-based order that I think every reasonable person So that you don't just have might makes right and these horrific images that continue to bombard us from Ukraine.
00:15:16.000But that system requires us being a little bit smarter and a little bit tougher.
00:15:24.000And we hear from Democrats all the time, oh, you know, Trump was, oh, he was so soft on Putin and Matt Gaetz because he defended Trump.
00:15:47.000And this is a real comparison right here from Obama expelling 35 Russian diplomats, Trump expelling 60, and Biden only expelling 12. So for all the saber-rattling, for all of Joe Biden saying that he's for regime change in Russia, I don't even know if that was a senior moment or if they've walked that back considerably, but he's only expelled 12 Russian diplomats.
00:16:12.000And so maybe like before we're interested in getting Russia out of Ukraine, we ought to be interested in getting Russia out of the United States where they could be harming our businesses, setting up cyber attacks that would impact quality of life here in America.
00:16:26.000There is a whole lot to talk about regarding what Biden does want to do.
00:16:32.000If he doesn't want to expel these diplomats from the United States at the same rate of certainly not Trump and not even like Obama, We shouldn't be sending $33 billion to Ukraine, as the administration has proposed.
00:16:48.000And I really see this as a circumstance where cash is finding its way to a money laundering mecca.
00:16:55.000And Ukraine, before this conflict, was widely known as a place where a lot of people went to wash their ill-gotten gains.
00:17:04.000And so since that infrastructure of money laundering is well established and set up in Ukraine, you now see Based on this conflict, the desire for some in D.C. to send $33 billion in all kinds of different forms, in weapons, in food, in cash.
00:17:25.000And that's really troubling to me, especially when I think about how hard we had to work to get any real money for our own border, for the wall.
00:17:36.000When we wanted the resources to go out there and Protect American families and the American economy and American national security.
00:17:45.000The Democrats put us through the ringer on it.
00:17:47.000And now we're just going to like at the snap of a finger send $33 billion to Ukraine?
00:17:52.000I held a telephone digital town hall meeting last evening.
00:17:57.000We've got that link available on Rumble.
00:17:59.000And you can see the constituents I represent in Northwest Florida to the tune of like greater than 80% are not on board with this notion of Just sending unlimited resources, seemingly, to a government that we certainly want to win.
00:18:16.000We want Ukraine to win and we want Russia to lose.
00:18:21.000Also, there was a vote this last week on whether or not the money and assistance we supply to Ukraine should ever be paid back.
00:18:30.000Now, there are a lot of Russian oligarchs out there with a lot of assets, and I actually voted for legislation that would facilitate the seizure of those assets for the benefit of Ukraine.
00:18:41.000If Russian oligarchs are supporting Putin, he's engaged in this brutal war, maybe they ought to be a part of repaying Ukraine or helping to rebuild Ukraine more than, say, other folks like us, like my constituents in northwest Florida.
00:18:56.000So I'm for seizing the Russian assets and seizing the assets of the oligarchs.
00:19:01.000What I'm not for is saying that there's a blank check for Ukraine aid and that we would never expect payback.
00:19:09.000Now, down the road, it might be part of a global deal.
00:19:13.000It might be part of some circumstance to get a resolution that stops violence for us to say that we're going to forgive debt.
00:19:20.000But why at this point would we go out there and say, no matter what weapons, no matter what aid, America, we don't want to be paid back.
00:19:28.000That doesn't seem like what your leaders should be doing to represent you.
00:19:32.000I'm shocked that almost all the Republicans are clawing over one another to vote for any bill that makes them look anti-Russia and pro-Ukraine.
00:19:42.000But I believe that Americans actually deserve discerning leaders who will read and review the bills and the legislation and evaluate their second and third order effects.
00:19:51.000As bad as the Russia-Ukraine conflict is, I don't think that Americans should be shouldering suffering for it.
00:19:59.000Whether it's the farmers that are seeing fertilizer increase, whether it's people who drive to and from work, sometimes farther distances, just getting crushed by gas prices.
00:20:09.000When you see the price of your grocery cart, when you check out at the supermarket, You know, I don't think that Americans should be shouldering that burden.
00:20:17.000And there are smart ways to do this by putting pressure on Putin and the oligarchs.
00:20:22.000But the notion that we're going to flood Ukraine with cash and weapons for anyone that's willing to shoot at a Russian, I mean, didn't we do that in Afghanistan?
00:20:31.000Wasn't the American posture in Afghanistan essentially, if you're willing to shoot at a Russian, we'll give you all the arms, all the weapons, all the aid, and we'll never look back.
00:20:38.000And it didn't exactly turn out well for us.
00:20:41.000So we can be more discerning, we can be smarter, and we can still be tough on Russia.
00:20:46.000And I think that certainly we need to have strong Republican opposition to this Biden plan for the $33 billion.
00:20:58.000I do have to shift gears a little bit here and go to what happened in the House Judiciary Committee with racist attacks on full display against Clarence Thomas.
00:21:09.000First, I'm going to go to the comments section.
00:21:13.000Margaret says, I do not believe in Brandon.
00:21:16.000And Sherry said that watching the show and seeing our perspective has helped give her hope.
00:21:23.000And We do want hope because we can make this stuff better, but we have to get down to some of the root causes for the pain that our fellow Americans are feeling and how that's directly linked to the policy choices of the Biden administration.
00:21:37.000So back to the House Judiciary Committee.
00:21:39.000You see a very coordinated, well-funded effort to destroy Clarence Thomas as the result of views held by his spouse.
00:21:49.000I mean, sometimes you can't even make this stuff up.
00:21:52.000But what Democrats know is that they're way overreaching on the mandates, on the medical tyranny, on the January 6th committee, with what they've done with a lot of January 6th defendants.
00:22:05.000With the utilization of the national security apparatus to target a political movement they fear.
00:22:10.000And what they're trying to do is clear the decks on the Supreme Court for one of America's greatest public servants, Clarence Thomas.
00:22:19.000I think Clarence Thomas is my favorite member of the court.
00:22:23.000And they're trying to do everything they can to discredit him, to get him to recuse himself, maybe even to impeach Clarence Thomas.
00:22:31.000I wouldn't put it past these Democrats to fashion up articles of impeachment against Clarence Thomas because this is the type of bare-knuckles politics they play.
00:22:40.000When they can't win by smearing Clarence Thomas in his confirmation hearings, when they can't win against Gorsuch or with their terrible smears against Kavanaugh, Well, they just go to the next opportunity to try to destroy someone, to try to remove them, to try to seize that power for themselves.
00:22:59.000And so that's what's on display with Clarence Thomas.
00:23:02.000And what I found interesting and what this hearing revealed is that Benny Thompson, the Democrat chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, The Democrat chairman of the January 6th committee actually launched a racist trope at Clarence Thomas.
00:23:31.000Do any of the other panelists dispute that testimony?
00:23:35.000Does anyone think that there's a non-racist way to call a black person an Uncle Tom?
00:23:44.000How should we think about the fact that the chairman of the January 6th Committee, the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, used what all of you concede as a racist attack against Justice Thomas?
00:23:59.000Congressman Jeffries asked me for an example.
00:24:01.000I'll let others address it, but I just think it is indicative of the hatred that is That is directed towards Justice Thomas for his views, which, in fact, if you look, I wrote an article on this of comparing Justice Jackson and Justice Thomas's views on a number of issues in terms of polling.
00:24:26.000And by and large, black rank and file, black Americans rank and file Agree, I think, on abortion, on guns, on voter ID, across the board.
00:24:41.000And yet somehow he's portrayed as being an Uncle Tom or a sellout or whatever the disgusting characterizations are.
00:24:48.000And it's just this continual attack on Justice Thomas.
00:24:52.000And thank God he's had the backbone to never bend in the face of these attacks.
00:24:57.000And I think And I think this hearing today is a continuation of that.
00:25:04.000And let me just address the January 6th case where, you know, that case has to do with Executive privilege over internal White House documents between the president and his closest advisers, they have nothing whatsoever to do with Jeannie Thomas' communications with Mark Meadows.
00:25:20.000Those wouldn't be covered by executive privilege.
00:25:23.000So Justice Thomas was voting on documents that were not at all related to his wife.
00:25:33.000That's why I say, up until this point, there could be cases down in the future, as every justice does.
00:25:38.000When the case comes before the court and they look at the litigants, they look at the parties, they look at what's at issue, they decide whether they recuse it.
00:26:46.000And it aligns with these other tropes that they've intended to use against Clarence Thomas.
00:26:52.000So I was glad to be there to ripen the testimony of the witnesses that were able to bring into sharp relief the effort that is truly underway and how important it is that we stand with Clarence Thomas, that he preserve his seat on the court, and that he have the opportunity To issue important rulings on the matters of the day.
00:27:12.000So you're joining us here on Firebrand Live.
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00:28:21.000To really highlight an important study that might give us a lot of information about value for adult use laws as an alternative to Big Pharma.
00:28:33.000So last week, Shyam Rahman, who's a doctoral student at the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, And Indiana University doctoral student Ashley Bradford published their research in health economics.
00:28:47.000That research finds that recreational marijuana access reduces demand for prescription drugs.
00:28:56.000And while the impacts of substituting cannabis for prescription drugs have been examined in states with medical cannabis laws, this study is different because it considers the effect that cannabis substitution has in states with fully recreationally legal adult use laws.
00:29:16.000Doctors and the medical system are, in my opinion, the safest way to administer and consume any medication.
00:29:22.000However, this study shows and illustrates that in the absence of available research over the last decade, individual behavior, self-medicating, individual agency, It's been sufficient enough to replace the imperfect prescription drugs that in many cases are addicting us and killing us at a far higher rate than marijuana ever could.
00:29:46.000So the study used quarterly data from all Medicaid prescriptions from 2011 to 2019 to investigate the effect of state-level adult-use recreational marijuana laws on prescription drug utilization.
00:30:02.000It found significant reductions in the volume of prescriptions with the drug classes that align with medical indications for pain, depression, anxiety, sleep disorder, psychosis, and seizures.
00:30:15.000The findings indicate that in addition to the lethal opioid crisis, cannabis is proving to be a medical alternative to prescription drugs for many other conditions.
00:30:26.000It occurs that this is safest when patients have legal adult use access to cannabis without the risk of big governments incarceration or prosecution.
00:30:37.000I support the medical cannabis system including in Florida where I wrote a bunch of those laws.
00:30:42.000And in Florida we stand to benefit from streamlined research grants at large scale to learn more and help more people unlock potential.
00:30:52.000However, the conclusion of this study, that recreational cannabis use is weaning people off of prescription drugs, it's just hard to ignore.
00:31:02.000Unfortunately, there's this tumultuous road ahead.
00:31:05.000Even with legitimate research and factual basis and evidence at hand, the cultural stigma hangover of the boomer era weighs heavy.
00:31:15.000Take a listen to this clip from The Briar Show.
00:31:19.000Opioids are prescribed principally as a chronic pain solution, right?
00:31:35.000It says, there is conclusive or substantial evidence that cannabis or cannabinoids are effective for treatment of chronic pain in adults.
00:31:44.000Do you have any basis scientifically or from any evidentiary standpoint to disagree with that conclusion?
00:31:51.000Again, this is why I think we always talk about the research of the benefits of marijuana.
00:31:56.000So you support research into medical marijuana?
00:31:58.000We've said that all along, that we support the research of marijuana.
00:32:01.000And after you implemented a rule in August of 2016 pushing the Department of Justice to create more research-based cannabis, they haven't issued any more of those permits, have they?
00:32:13.000So they haven't been granted, but I think there's an important distinction that has to be understood.
00:32:18.000So when we put that rule out, it was in the efforts to help the research community.
00:32:25.000But if none of the research permits have been granted, how has it helped them?
00:32:28.000Because there is an issue with how we put that solicitation out or that rule out.
00:32:34.000So you're the acting administrator of the DEA. You cannot cite a single study that indicates that medical marijuana creates a greater challenge with opioids, and you're unaware of the studies, including studies from the National Academy of Sciences, that demonstrate that medical marijuana can be an acceptable alternative to opioids.
00:32:56.000That was President Trump's acting head of the DEA and it was just shocking to me that the people who have impact and influence over drug policy seem to be like purposefully ignorant of some of this research and particularly the study I'm highlighting today.
00:33:12.000It's like now we live in a world where 37 states and the District of Columbia currently permit the use of medical marijuana with a prescription While 18 states have this circumstance where there's adult use.
00:33:25.000It's regulated, but it's adult use even without the medical complex.
00:33:31.000I was one of three Republicans this month to vote for the MORE Act.
00:33:36.000I was joined by Congressman McClintock of California and Congressman Mast, my fellow Florida man from down on the Atlantic coast of Florida.
00:33:45.000And the Moore Act would have descheduled cannabis, making it federally not illegal to the same degree that it is today.
00:33:52.000That would have allowed states to be able to flourish under their system.
00:33:56.000It would have allowed expungement of criminal convictions for non-violent cannabis possession, among a number of other things.
00:34:03.000But best of all, the Congressional Budget Office says that this bill would actually reduce the deficit by $2.88 billion over the next 10 years.
00:34:11.000Deficit reduction through marijuana reform.
00:34:15.000So there are much larger priorities of the United States federal government than to go around arresting people for inhaling a plant material or even for self-medicating in some circumstances based on the data in this study.
00:34:27.000Oftentimes, folks are safely in the environment of their own homes.
00:34:31.000So the real issue here is Joe Biden's betrayal on marijuana.
00:34:38.000If you go to JoeBiden.com backslash Black America, as part of Joe Biden's fundraising website, you will see a page entitled, Lift Every Voice, The Biden Plan for Black America.
00:34:51.000In Biden's list of his unaccomplished plans for Black America, he says, quote, Biden will work with Congress to reform federal sentencing and provide incentives to state and local systems to do the same.
00:35:05.000He will end, once and for all, the federal crack and powder cocaine disparity and decriminalize the use of cannabis and automatically expunge all prior cannabis convictions and end all incarceration for drug use alone and instead divert individuals to drug courts and treatment.