Rep. Matt Gaetz was one of the few in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents. He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause, so we re going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him. If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground, then you re in the right place. This is the movement for you. Rep. Gaetz is a problem for the Democratic Party right now, and we re gonna keep running stories about him to keep him in trouble. We ve got the live stream running out of our office on Capitol Hill in the Longworth Building here in our nation s capital, Washington D.C. So much to discuss, so much to be offended over. I ve got a major update regarding recent activity by the Biden administration to weaken our military now for the sake of environmental wokeness, more than some of the critical race theory, pro-socialism, left-wing wakeness that we ve covered extensively in the past. I make no apology for that. I m grateful that Roe v. Wade has been overturned. But the people who deserve no quarter are the ones who show up to rally for the taking of a life. I believe that our country can have a rational discussion among people with different values sets who disagree on when life begins, what s the appropriate envelope for exceptions? But the person who disagrees with my perspective on life is an ugly person. I don t apologize for that I believe there are people trying to impose rage on the court of rage on life on a perspective on a person I don't have a point of view on life. And I make NO apology for it I believe every person that disagrees with me on a point I believe don't get a chance to argue for it. on the inside and an apology for my point of views on a . but the people that disagree on my perspective is an and I make No Apology for that s an ugly thing. I m an ugly one. Firebrand - Robert Downey journo is a terrible thing, but I m very pro-life, and I m thankful that Roe V. Dobbs is now a bad one, and that s a bad thing, right? - John Ava Ocasio-Cortez
00:04:54.000Matt 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.
00:05:02.000Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem for the Democratic Party.
00:05:04.000He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:05:07.000So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
00:05:11.000If 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!
00:05:48.000We're broadcasting live out of our office on Capitol Hill in the Longworth Building here in our nation's capital, Washington, D.C. So much to discuss.
00:05:59.000I've got a major update regarding recent activity by the Biden administration.
00:06:04.000To weaken our military now for the sake of environmental wokeness more than some of the critical race theory, pro-socialism wokeness that we've covered extensively in the past.
00:06:23.000Adam on Facebook says it's commie smash time.
00:06:26.000Kim on Instagram says God bless Representative Rumble.
00:06:30.000So, unless you were hiding under a rock somewhere the last week, you noticed that there was a conference at Turning Point USA in Tampa, Florida.
00:06:41.000A bunch of the activists that drive the action on policy and politics on the right were there interacting with one another.
00:06:49.000We had Governor Ron DeSantis lay out the Florida Freedom Agenda.
00:06:54.000The pro-parent agenda had a raucous ovation, but there was no energy there.
00:06:59.000Like when President Trump took the stage, he had a withering critique of the state that we have to live in in America under a hapless Joe Biden.
00:07:09.000But with all due respect to President Trump and Governor DeSantis, I think the speech that got the most attention at Turning Point might have been mine.
00:08:27.000I do believe that our country can have a rational discussion among people with different value sets who disagree on when life begins, is 20 weeks, 15 weeks, what's the appropriate envelope for exceptions?
00:08:40.000You know, those are, I think, very appropriate, very timely, given the Dobbs decision.
00:08:47.000But the people who deserve no quarter are the ones who show up to rally for the taking of a life.
00:08:55.000Just think about how depraved you have to be to say that what you're going to do with your free time is go out and try to threaten physically a Supreme Court justice for the sake of this heinous outcome, the taking of a life.
00:10:02.000I don't believe that every person who disagrees with my perspective on life is an ugly person.
00:10:09.000But the ones that are out there protesting and marching outside Justice Kavanaugh's home, trying to threaten the court, trying to impose a night of rage on our nation's capital, which is what they advertised, it's just pure ugliness.
00:10:23.000And I see that ugliness on the inside.
00:10:47.000Don't we all have fatigue as a society for this sense that we have to be offended at everything?
00:10:52.000Like, being a Woketopian sounds exhausting.
00:10:55.000You have to be offended by what you see on television, what you see on the internet, the things you hear, the jokes people tell, the snide remarks that may be made in a political speech.
00:11:14.000The world will still spin on its axis and hopefully we'll all be able to find a more appropriate way to honor the creation of life.
00:11:24.000I really believe it dehumanizes our entire society when we allow these late-term abortions, these elective abortions, these abortions that really are Birth control, sadly, for far too many people.
00:11:38.000The shrill vipers on The View had quite a perspective on my speech and my reaction to those questions.
00:13:02.000Wade, a black woman was able to have an abortion in Illinois.
00:13:05.000She was in a relationship that wasn't right for her and it allowed her to move on and attend nursing school and marry a fellow student and have a child with him.
00:13:39.000Embracing our humanity, on advancing the cause of life, being a pro-life nation.
00:13:44.000There is an area where we continue to see our country eroded, disrespected, and violated, and that is still on the southern border.
00:13:52.000So I have an important report, and this comes as the daily drumbeat from Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik.
00:14:00.000Hot numbers, what's going on, on the border right now.
00:14:03.000There have now been over 500,000 known gotaways since the beginning of the fiscal year in October.
00:14:11.000So remember, these are people where there is no screening, no checking for potentially being on a terrorist watch list, potentially bringing in disease or other discord to our country.
00:14:25.000In June, there were 207,416 migrant encounters at the southern border.
00:14:31.000June was the fourth consecutive month Of over 200,000 encounters.
00:14:36.000I mean, we had a border that was overrun if in the course of a month you had 60,000 encounters.
00:14:42.000I mean, now you're talking about 200,000 a month for the fourth straight month?
00:14:47.000It's a 527% increase in apprehension compared to the last June of President Trump's administration.
00:14:56.000So just during that period of time, you are seeing by a multiple of more than five of these encounters.
00:15:04.000Human smuggling is now a $13 billion business for the criminal cartels supported by Joe Biden and open border policies.
00:15:13.000Since Joe Biden took office, over 3.1 million illegal immigrants have been apprehended at the southern border.
00:15:19.000In June, an additional six illegal immigrants at the southern border were on the terrorist watch list.
00:15:26.000So just for fiscal year 2022, 56 apprehensions where the person is on the terrorist watch list.
00:15:32.000I mean, that is just a crazy number when you consider having to apply then that ratio to the 500,000 gotaways and ascertain how many of those pose an even more elevated risk to our country.
00:15:46.000Frankly, I think all the illegal immigrants pose a threat to our country, to our economy, to our jobs, to our way of life.
00:16:45.000They are not securing the border on purpose, and people and harm is coming in as a consequence.
00:16:52.000Another way the Biden administration is harming our country is by harming our military.
00:16:57.000And we've covered a great deal how this white supremacy snipe hunt that the Biden administration seems to be on with our military is driving people out.
00:17:06.000We've covered extensively how the vaccine mandate has driven people out.
00:17:10.000The no-vax, no-service episode with Nick Cupper, certainly one of our best, and that will delve into a lot of the very practical challenges that our service members continue to have with this vaccine mandate.
00:17:22.000But now, our military is being sacrificed on the altar of environmental wokeness.
00:17:28.000Joe Biden is offering our nation's military essentially as a form of payment to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.
00:17:37.000In his latest prostration to the progressives, President Biden has directed the development of wind energy leasing in the waters of Florida's Gulf Coast.
00:17:50.000Florida's Gulf Coast is home to the critically important Eastern Gulf test and training range.
00:17:57.000This is critical to our military readiness, national security, and Florida's contribution to the fight.
00:18:04.000What's even more worrisome is that Joe Biden's actions here to harm our military in the Gulf of Mexico and Florida and to sacrifice So the Eastern Gulf Test and Training Range is a military training range unlike any other in the world.
00:18:27.000It's a place where stuff happens that literally doesn't happen anywhere else.
00:18:31.000In May of 2018, the Secretary of Defense submitted a report to the House Armed Services Committee acknowledging the importance and the uniqueness of Florida's Gulf Coast, calling it an irreplaceable national asset.
00:18:45.000Moreover, at that time, DOD concluded, quote, No other area in the world provides the U.S. military with a surrogate environment for military operations in the Indo-Pacific theater.
00:18:59.000As we've discussed, China is our nation's primary adversary.
00:19:03.000Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, they're compromised by China.
00:19:07.000And now you see Joe Biden depriving our military of its only training range capable of simulating the environment that we may ultimately have to fight in to preserve American hegemony.
00:19:20.000But Beijing Biden doesn't seem to care.
00:19:24.000While Biden aids and abets China and the Chinese Communist Party, he seems intent on dismantling and destroying Florida's cherished military mission.
00:19:33.000The 96 Test Wing at Eglin Air Force Base oversees the expenditure of thousands of bombs and missiles annually on the range.
00:19:41.000The range is becoming a hub of activity for supersonic and hypersonic weapons testing.
00:19:51.000Now, this is a critical capability, and we've fallen behind China in this area.
00:19:56.000Russia, in fact, is already deploying these weapons systems, using them in battle.
00:20:03.000The United States Special Operations Command runs its largest joint special operations exercise, Emerald Warrior, on this very range.
00:20:12.000The range supports training for the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Panama City.
00:20:17.000That's tied to the mission at Tyndall Air Force Base.
00:20:20.000Naval Air Station Key West also could be affected.
00:20:24.000They need the Gulf Preserve for our military, not as a wind farm.
00:20:28.000The preservation of this range space for testing and training is clearly in the interests of all Floridians.
00:20:35.000Experimental hypersonic missiles should not be flying over oil rigs and I don't think that special operators should be parachuting into windmill farms.
00:20:44.000I can't even believe I have to say that out loud.
00:20:46.000Why would Joe Biden deliberately diminish our nation's military readiness and destroy Florida's military mission?
00:20:53.000I think there are a few motives that are on display.
00:20:57.000First, Joe Biden's strings are being pulled by the progressives, the very same progressives who naively push the so-called Green New Deal no matter the cost to our country or to our economy or to our security.
00:21:11.000For decades, Congress and the executive branch have worked together to protect the Gulf of Mexico range from new oil and gas drilling in the name of military readiness.
00:21:21.000This is a policy I continue to support every day.
00:21:23.000It's a policy that President Trump supported when he issued an executive order banning drilling off of Florida's coast.
00:21:29.000A big reason for that was this critical, sensitive, nowhere else in the world military mission.
00:21:35.000However, when oil rigs Turn into windmills.
00:21:40.000It serves the progressive climate agenda.
00:21:43.000And the true nature of the Democrats' intentions becomes clear.
00:21:48.000They never cared about military readiness or national security.
00:21:52.000They just didn't want to drill for oil.
00:21:54.000These are the same people who want to radically reduce your defense budget.
00:21:59.000There's another potential motive here.
00:22:01.000The progressive Democrats who control Joe Biden are running a campaign right now to siphon military mission and military capability and the revenue and economic development that comes with that away from red states and to blue states.
00:22:18.000Biden appointed bureaucrats in the Department of Defense are crafting policies which will allow service members to leave red states or not take orders to red states if they disagree with their laws.
00:22:31.000They want to create this new like fighting woke topion funneling the power and money that they can to them and away from bases in Florida, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Florida.
00:22:46.000And if they succeed in diminishing the military mission in red states, if they succeed in damaging the eastern Gulf range off the coast of Florida, it provides them yet another vector to move mission and capabilities to their states and their districts.
00:23:03.000We Floridians should not stand for this deliberate effort to destroy our state's military mission and our country's national security.
00:23:10.000I assure you that we will not stop fighting on this issue.
00:23:14.000In letters I've sent to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall, I ask them to provide me their plan to preserve and protect this national gem from the intrusion of the progressives and the Green New Dealers who are intent on destroying our capabilities.
00:23:31.000I am fighting to protect this range and Florida's military mission through legislation as well.
00:23:37.000All proud Floridians need to write their elected officials and demand that we protect our treasured military mission and that we not look out at a wind farm instead.
00:23:46.000If we fail, we'll be less safe as a nation and our military mission and our communities that support that mission could become endangered.
00:23:57.000Now Tucker Carlson had a recent speech where he addressed some of the fallacies of wind as a great panacea for the environment.
00:24:05.000Take a listen to Tucker in Des Moines, Iowa.
00:24:09.000They're able to think of these schemes that in fact destroy the environment.
00:24:15.000And by the environment I mean the land.
00:24:52.000Gilbert Barb says, late to the party, but Matt, you are the man.
00:24:57.000And Clyde says, I'm still chuckled about be offended.
00:25:00.000Matt's wit is quick and sharp, LOL. Well, I think it is insane to trade our military mission for this wind mission.
00:25:09.000And we don't want our paratroopers jumping into wind turbines.
00:25:12.000We don't want the migratory birds that...
00:25:16.000We need Florida as an ecosystem and habitat to be flown into like the bird wood chipper of wind turbines.
00:25:23.000And I think that the mix we have of protecting our environment wisely, having good resilience where we need to against flooding, and then supporting our military mission has led to the prosperity in Florida that is making Florida America's destination.
00:25:36.000And we should not screw that up for Joe Biden and the Green New Dealers.