Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - December 21, 2022


Episode 81 LIVE: Omni-Bust (feat. Rep. Dan Bishop) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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As the 116th Congress is coming to a close, the Democrats are busy trying to hold us all hostage while they try to pass their 4,000-page Omnibus Spending Bill. We talk to Rep. Dan Bishop about what he found in the bill, and why he thinks it's a waste of money. We also talk about why we should be focusing on domestic issues, rather than foreign affairs, and what we should do about it. And finally, we talk about how we should deal with anti-Semitism in the world, and whether or not we should focus on it in the first place. We are streaming live from Room 2021 in the Rayburn Office Building in the Capitol complex in Washington, D.C., where we are streaming out of Room 2021. We are simulcasted streaming from room 2021, which is located in Room 2021, Rayburn's office building in the Randal Rayburn Building, in the West Wing of the Capitol Complex. We apologize for the poor audio quality, we are working on transcribing this live stream, and we will be working on fixing that as soon as possible. Thank you so much for your support and your support, we appreciate it greatly. - Your continued support is greatly appreciated. - Your support is so appreciated, and so are the words you send in your support. - Thank you, and God bless you! -The Best Fiends and God Bless! -Eugene McCarthy and Matt Gates Thank you for your continued support, Matt Gaetz, Matt Gates, and all the patriots out there! -Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! - Blessings, Blessings! -Your support is much appreciated! -Amen and Happy Holidays! -Jon and Blessings. -RATE! -JOSH and Merry Christmas! -PSA to all! - -Robby and RAAAAY! -SORRY! -ROBERT AND RYAN AND RAY! -BRAYS! -GRABS! - JOSH and RAY & JOSEPH AND KELLY AND RABY -JACOB AND GRABS - SONGS & GRAYS & PODCASTING! - Thank YOU! - ENJOYING AND GOSTROLL! -PODCAST & JOSH & DOUBLES THANK YOU AND JOSETTE AND GARLEY AND KAROLA

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00:00:00.000 Thank you.
00:04:31.000 Matt Gates: "Embattled Congressman Matt Gates, Matt 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.
00:04:52.000 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem for the Democratic Party.
00:04:55.000 He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:04:58.000 So we're going to keep running those stories to get hurt again.
00:05:02.000 If you want to 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!
00:05:11.000 You are in the right place!
00:05:12.000 This is the movement for you!
00:05:14.000 You ever watch this guy on television?
00:05:16.000 It's like a machine.
00:05:18.000 Matt Gaetz.
00:05:19.000 I'm a canceled man in some corners of the internet.
00:05:22.000 Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.
00:05:27.000 They aren't really coming for me.
00:05:29.000 They're coming for you.
00:05:31.000 I'm just in the way.
00:05:32.000 Providing assistance for the Ukrainians to defeat the Russians, that's the number one priority for the United States right now, according to most Republicans.
00:05:50.000 That's sort of how we see the challenges confronting the country at the moment.
00:05:56.000 The campaign is their number one priority.
00:06:07.000 Probably a shrinking economy here in our country, a crisis on our southern border, big tech getting exposed, and the FBI right there trying to manipulate public opinion on social media.
00:06:20.000 These things would all be on our priority list far higher than Ukraine. 0.92
00:06:25.000 But that's Mitch McConnell.
00:06:27.000 That's your Republican leadership in Washington, D.C. And they think so little of you.
00:06:33.000 They tell you that you're not even their priority.
00:06:36.000 They tell it to you right to your face.
00:06:38.000 And that is what we are fighting against each and every day.
00:06:41.000 Thank you so much for joining us.
00:06:42.000 We are simulcast streaming out of room 2021. In the Rayburn office building in the Capitol complex in Washington, D.C. And thank you for the comments.
00:06:51.000 We got the live stream going and folks telling us they're joining us from Georgia, Tucson, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
00:06:59.000 And what I can report to you is that as the 117th Congress is coming to a close now, the Democrats are doing their very best to steal Christmas by holding us all hostage while they try to pass their 4,000-page Omnibus spending bill.
00:07:15.000 Bunch of Grinches, I would say.
00:07:17.000 And I wouldn't touch this bill with a 39 and a half foot pole.
00:07:21.000 So what I'm going to do on this program is break down some of the worst features.
00:07:26.000 We've got Congressman Dan Bishop just stopped by the office, had a great conversation with him about some of the nuggets his staff found in this bill that work against the American people.
00:07:36.000 So first, we are doing a lot of spending abroad and it is not good.
00:07:43.000 We allocate $32 million for the United Nations Population Fund.
00:07:48.000 That's as scary as it sounds.
00:07:50.000 And any money not used shall be made available for abortions abroad.
00:07:58.000 $575 million is allocated for abortions in areas where population growth threatens biodiversity.
00:08:07.000 I mean, just hear that.
00:08:09.000 Abortions as a mechanism for population control.
00:08:15.000 Environmental abortion.
00:08:17.000 I could not dream up a more Malthusian dystopic anti-human policy if I tried.
00:08:23.000 An alien hell-bent on exterminating humankind could not do a better job than this bill.
00:08:29.000 So we're going to spend another $25 million on people-to-people reconciliation programs which bring together individuals of different ethnic, racial, religious, and political backgrounds from areas of civil war.
00:08:44.000 That's abroad. 1.00
00:08:46.000 What a stupid idea! 1.00
00:08:48.000 What Yale foreign policy master's graduate deemed this a critical function of our government? 1.00
00:08:55.000 Is a U.S.-funded globalist design struggle session what we're really waiting for to stop the Hutus and the Tutsis from hacking each other to pieces? 1.00
00:09:05.000 Maybe if we just gave the Sunnis and the Shiites a little more time to work out their differences under the auspices of an international program, maybe that would get them to put aside a centuries-old beef. 1.00
00:09:20.000 You know, if this really worked, we should have tried it in Afghanistan. 0.98
00:09:24.000 But no, that was the last forever war. 0.63
00:09:26.000 Now we clearly know what the next one is. 0.99
00:09:28.000 This is foolish. 0.99
00:09:30.000 This is a waste of money. 0.97
00:09:32.000 And maybe, just maybe, we should stop meddling in these affairs abroad because our involvement doesn't always make things better and it frequently makes things worse.
00:09:42.000 But wait, there's more.
00:09:44.000 $20 million to strengthen democracy in civil society in Central Europe through combating anti-Semitism and promoting minority rights.
00:09:54.000 I'm all for promoting minority rights.
00:09:58.000 I'm against anti-Semitism.
00:10:01.000 But are we really pretending that we know better than the Central Europeans what they want and need to be able to resolve their differences? 0.86
00:10:09.000 At what point is the State Department the great provider of the silver bullet for anti-Semitism and repression of minority rights in Central Europe?
00:10:19.000 We're basically funding China.
00:10:21.000 We're allowing ourselves to be vulnerable to them and they engage in abject slavery.
00:10:25.000 But we're going to go preach about minority rights in Central Europe because we know best. 0.97
00:10:30.000 We even found extra cash in this bill to establish a $200 million gender equity fund to fund gender programs in Pakistan.
00:10:41.000 So Pakistanis, confused about which bathroom to use, fear not, help is on the way from the United States. 1.00
00:10:47.000 I know that the Pakistanis, what they're really waiting for is for the United States to explain our concepts of gender to them.
00:10:55.000 That will endear them to us, of course.
00:10:57.000 We focus a lot on the rest of the world, for better or worse, but it really doesn't feel like we're doing the same for our own people.
00:11:06.000 For example, we're giving $410 million for border security in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman.
00:11:17.000 All while prohibiting Customs and Border Patrol from using funding to improve our own border security.
00:11:23.000 So why are other countries' borders more important than our own?
00:11:28.000 I'm not against border security in those other countries, but just maybe they should pay for it.
00:11:33.000 No other country is funding our border security with their treasury. 0.92
00:11:38.000 Because that would be foolish.
00:11:40.000 So if we don't protect our borders, no one else will.
00:11:44.000 And we're concerned about everyone else's, not our own.
00:11:46.000 Now speaking of borders, we don't have any right now.
00:11:49.000 Which is why we're allocating $1.2 million in services for DACA requirements.
00:11:55.000 And $750,000 to the Trans-Latin Coalition to provide, quote, workforce development programs and supportive services for trans and gender non-conforming and intersex immigrant women in Los Angeles.
00:12:10.000 Yes, that is literally something that the federal government is funding in this omnibus spending bill.
00:12:17.000 What is a woman? 1.00
00:12:18.000 Nobody knows.
00:12:19.000 Anyway, If that's not enough, the bill provides for the creation of a, quote, Ukrainian Independence Park in DC. Just what we need.
00:12:27.000 I'll be talking about that with Congressman Dan Bishop in just a moment.
00:12:31.000 So the establishment politicians want to stand in solidarity with everyone but their own people, and that is the principal message of this legislation.
00:12:40.000 Let's pivot over to domestic policy real quick.
00:12:44.000 I want to go through some of the domestic features.
00:12:47.000 For starters, we are naming a federal building in San Francisco after Nancy Pelosi and spending $3.6 million to name a trail in Georgia after Michelle Obama.
00:12:58.000 $2 million for the Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore.
00:13:03.000 That's quite the wax experience.
00:13:06.000 It also looks like woke spending didn't stop abroad.
00:13:10.000 The critical race theory chickens have come to roost.
00:13:14.000 We're spending $524.4 million for DEI and structural racism-focused NIH work.
00:13:23.000 $26 million for the House of Representatives Diversity and Inclusion Office.
00:13:29.000 We're even dropping another $477,000 for anti-racist training provided by the Equity Institute.
00:13:36.000 And of course, New York City They need an LGBTQ plus museum.
00:13:43.000 So we'll be spending $3 million on that as well.
00:13:47.000 How fierce.
00:13:50.000 That's not all, folks.
00:13:52.000 The deep state's getting their cut in this spending bill.
00:13:55.000 The FBI, that should be subject to subpoenas, not buckets of cash, now getting $11.3 billion and $375 million for a new headquarters.
00:14:06.000 The ATF is getting $1.75 billion.
00:14:10.000 And the icing on the cake is $2.63 billion for U.S. attorneys with an emphasis on January 6th prosecutions and domestic terrorism.
00:14:20.000 That is deep state for anyone who has politics that makes us uncomfortable.
00:14:26.000 Presumably to help with this, the bill allocates $7.5 million to better understand the, quote, domestic radicalization phenomenon, plus an extra $1 million to study gun violence.
00:14:39.000 The deep state really wants to figure out why the American people just aren't so crazy about them.
00:14:45.000 And if we aren't, if we aren't willing to just sign up to have entities like the FBI control social media and engage in domestic psyops, well then, you know what?
00:14:55.000 They'll take this money and they'll engage in those activities and you just have to like it.
00:15:01.000 You have to tolerate it.
00:15:02.000 It's insane.
00:15:03.000 No Republican should be voting for this.
00:15:05.000 And if it's not enough, the bill is allocating $355 million to prepare for an influenza pandemic, including funding for additional surveillance tools.
00:15:14.000 That shouldn't scare you at all right now.
00:15:16.000 Surveillance tools in the hands of the medical industrial complex with $355 million behind them.
00:15:23.000 Oh, and the bill also creates...
00:15:25.000 A permanent pandemic czar.
00:15:27.000 A permanent Fauci.
00:15:29.000 Because I know that's what America has been asking for.
00:15:32.000 Now, the Vax Injury Trust Fund was raised in the legislation from $13.2 million to $15.2 million.
00:15:39.000 Are they expecting more vaccine injuries from the safest and most effective experimental vaccine in the world?
00:15:45.000 Interesting that that got a plus up.
00:15:48.000 As you can see, this omnibus bill is a disaster.
00:15:51.000 I am going to vote against it, and any congressman that claims to represent the best interests of the American people should, too.
00:15:58.000 Now, recently, my colleague Dan Bishop from North Carolina joined me on Firebrand to discuss that.
00:16:04.000 Take a listen to the discussion.
00:16:07.000 When you get these bills that are thousands of pages and deal with all these different programs and equities at play, Talk to people about the process that you and your team use to go in and evaluate it on their behalf, because often we don't have a lot of time.
00:16:23.000 You know, Matt, as you know, we have small staff, each member of Congress, and in your case, in my case, we've got some really fine young people that work themselves to a frenzy, and they just, you know, jumped onto this.
00:16:38.000 Members of Congress were home.
00:16:40.000 This 4,000-plus page text appears out of nowhere, and they just began digging in, going as hard as they could, and had the vision to see that it would be helpful to the American people and people would take interest in it to get some information out about just how bad it is.
00:16:56.000 And they know that no one's going to sit there and comb through every program with the particularity that they deserve.
00:17:03.000 But yet your folks were diving in.
00:17:05.000 You've really exposed some of the worst elements.
00:17:07.000 Put up the Bishop tweet, and you talk about the element of the bill that expressly prohibits CBP funding from being used to improve border security.
00:17:15.000 And I know you've been to the border.
00:17:17.000 I've been to the border.
00:17:18.000 They are so frustrated when they say we have tech and we're not allowed to plug it in.
00:17:24.000 Matt, I'm sure your viewers know this on Firebrand, but CBP is the Customs and Border Patrol, right?
00:17:31.000 And there's literally language.
00:17:32.000 It's quoted and highlighted in that tweet that none of the funds provided in this particular subsection shall be used to acquire, maintain, or extend border security technology and capabilities, except for technology and capabilities to improve border patrol mobility.
00:17:47.000 Processing.
00:17:48.000 Processing.
00:17:49.000 And we know what that's a code for.
00:17:50.000 That means they're processing more people into the country to turn them loose faster. 1.00
00:17:54.000 Yeah, that processing is unidirectional.
00:17:56.000 They're not processing them out like they should be.
00:17:58.000 They're only processing them in, and it affects the morale of Border Patrol to see that they're not able to actually do their jobs.
00:18:07.000 I don't know how any Republican could vote for that.
00:18:09.000 With all the focus on the border, how could any Republican vote for something that literally ties the hand of Customs and Border Patrol?
00:18:16.000 And yet, what we understand and know is this bill would not advance but for Republican votes in the Senate.
00:18:22.000 It's going to get a lot of Republican votes in the Senate.
00:18:25.000 This is the status quo, Matt, that for the sake of the country, the country cannot wait for this to be fixed anymore.
00:18:31.000 That status quo must change.
00:18:34.000 Well, any Republican who dares to vote for this better not say a word about the border because they obviously don't give a damn about the border, unless it's the border of another country because your staff also found...
00:18:45.000 That at the same time, the legislation is allocating $410 million toward border security for Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman.
00:18:53.000 So I guess it's not border security that the authors are opposed to.
00:19:00.000 It's just American border security.
00:19:01.000 And they certainly are going to try to take care of Ukraine border security.
00:19:05.000 But you're right.
00:19:06.000 And again, lest anyone think we're exaggerating, these amounts are appropriated for those countries, quote, for enhanced border security.
00:19:14.000 You will not find that phrase about the American border in this bill anywhere.
00:19:19.000 I'm not against border security in Tunisia.
00:19:21.000 I'm for it.
00:19:22.000 I just think that it might be like a principal obligation of the Tunisians.
00:19:28.000 Imagine that.
00:19:29.000 Well, Ukraine is certainly on a lot of people's mind.
00:19:33.000 And Ukraine got...
00:19:35.000 Great treatment in this legislation.
00:19:38.000 Another $47 billion for Ukraine and also the Ukraine Independence Park right in D.C. Don't you think that'll deter Vladimir Putin when he finds that we have built a Ukrainian Independence Park?
00:19:50.000 Surely what we've been waiting for.
00:19:51.000 He'll throw those tanks in reverse, won't he?
00:19:53.000 The world's been waiting for that park so that we could stop Vladimir Putin.
00:19:56.000 You know, that $47 billion more...
00:19:59.000 In this bill for Ukraine, we'll take the United States total spend for that, Matt.
00:20:03.000 We've seen it in bill after bill come past us with Democrats ramming it through and Senate Republicans helping them.
00:20:09.000 There were over $100 billion.
00:20:11.000 Russia's entire defense budget is $84 billion.
00:20:15.000 And it seems as though it's not just defense where some of this money is headed.
00:20:20.000 $12.9 billion in economic assistance to stabilize the economy and spur economic recovery in Ukraine.
00:20:26.000 So if you were looking for An economic nationalist agenda, I guess you've got one, it's just for Ukraine, not for the United States of America.
00:20:37.000 And, you know, I think there are a lot of viewers who sympathize with the plight of the Ukrainians, but, I mean, in an $80 billion war, is it the last $47 billion that kicks the door in?
00:20:47.000 We'll see.
00:20:49.000 Thank you for pointing this stuff out.
00:20:51.000 It's likely to pass, right?
00:20:53.000 Clearly.
00:20:53.000 Republicans in the Senate will make this bill pass.
00:20:56.000 And then, I don't know, maybe a Republican or two in the House will support it.
00:20:59.000 But, you know, I really don't think the country can take much more of this, Matt.
00:21:04.000 And I worry about the leverage that we need with the power of the purse, not to bring chaos to our government, but you and I want to work real hard to try to constrain the very spending that's been impacting inflation.
00:21:16.000 It kind of feels like this ties our hands, too.
00:21:18.000 Another half billion dollars for the FBI. You and I want to get after the FBI. Another half billion dollars and several hundred million dollars for a new FBI headquarters.
00:21:26.000 We need to be asking them questions, holding them to account.
00:21:29.000 This takes our leverage away right here.
00:21:32.000 Well, Mitch McConnell should be ashamed for supporting this.
00:21:35.000 He should be ashamed for saying that the number one priority is to fund our ambitions in Ukraine, and any Republican should absolutely be ashamed that votes for it.
00:21:44.000 Dan, thanks for breaking it down.
00:21:45.000 Thanks to your great team members for doing the work for a lot of us and finding some of the ugliest bumps on this terrible bill.
00:21:51.000 They did a great job.
00:21:52.000 Thank you, Matt.
00:21:53.000 Thanks.
00:21:54.000 Speaker 1: Speaker 1: says that MSNBC makes me look nuts, but I seem a lot more logical on the live stream.
00:22:06.000 So thank you for joining us on Twitch.
00:22:08.000 And Friday Girl on Rumble says we are mad about the omnibus, so what do we do?
00:22:13.000 Contact your members of Congress, Republican or Democrat.
00:22:17.000 Lay out some of the spending that we've talked about on this program.
00:22:20.000 Show them that this does not advance the interests of American people.
00:22:25.000 Regardless of your ideology, regardless of whether you're a Democrat or Republican, we need that advocacy.
00:22:31.000 It's not done yet, but unfortunately, the uniparty forces in the swamp, they're really at a zenith of power right now, with Democrats holding unified control of the government.
00:22:42.000 So we talked a lot about how that's going to change and Republicans are going to take over, albeit through a disappointing midterm election.
00:22:48.000 I was at the Turning Point America Fest in Phoenix, Arizona.
00:22:53.000 The rest of the show, we're going to show you some clips from my speech.
00:22:56.000 I want you to know what I thought, breaking down the midterms, the Democrats, the Republicans, and the lessons we should learn.
00:23:02.000 Here's some of my remarks from Turning Point.
00:23:06.000 These midterms did disappoint many of us, but in a lot of ways, I don't blame the Democrats.
00:23:14.000 They did everything they could possibly do to hand us this election.
00:23:19.000 They crashed the economy, attacked American energy.
00:23:23.000 They were doing this weird, woke stuff that is unmentionable in polite company.
00:23:31.000 We have no border at all.
00:23:32.000 Indeed, the Democrats did their part, but I believe we deserved far better from Republicans, and I am here tonight to talk about how to fix it.
00:23:45.000 Some say we should moderate, paint in those pastel colors, put the bold away, embrace the meek, less America first, more Liz Cheney, Maybe shake the Bush family tree and see what falls out?
00:24:05.000 My friends, the problem with slow surrender as a political strategy is that even when you win with these establishment shills, America still loses.
00:24:20.000 Was it really worth standing with Republican governors in Maryland, Ohio, and Arizona who got elected preaching freedom and then pushed lockdowns and mandates on their people? 0.97
00:24:32.000 How foolish were they? 0.99
00:24:34.000 How foolish were we to tolerate it? 1.00
00:24:37.000 In Florida, if you're still wearing a mask, we just assume you're hideous. 0.99
00:24:48.000 But on the big stuff, the major challenges that we now face, a Republican party with no sharp edges will be manipulated, co-opted, and worthless.
00:25:01.000 Controlled opposition just isn't going to cut it anymore.
00:25:04.000 And that's where I come in.
00:25:09.000 Just look.
00:25:11.000 Just look at what we learned this week.
00:25:14.000 The FBI has entire teams of people dedicated to try to shape public opinion on social media.
00:25:22.000 And we know about it at Twitter because Elon bought Twitter.
00:25:26.000 But this same stuff is going on at Meta, at Google, at Amazon.
00:25:31.000 They want to control what you see so that they can ultimately control how you behave.
00:25:39.000 This is not the proper role of government and any official who gave the orders to try to manipulate the political perspectives of American citizens will be called to heel before the House Judiciary Committee in the coming weeks and months.
00:25:56.000 I don't plan on a whole lot of softball questions and patty-cake games with the corrupt deep-state Relentless interrogation is what they deserve and we should stand for no less.
00:26:17.000 We are back live.
00:26:18.000 Christine on Facebook says we need new leadership.
00:26:21.000 Maggie on Getter says defund the FBI. That might be where this ultimately ends up.
00:26:26.000 And John on Rumble wants to know why even AOC would vote for this bill when the populist left claims they are against all of these foreign entanglements.
00:26:37.000 You think they might actually show some opposition, show some backbone.
00:26:42.000 But they have totally folded and they intend to vote for this monstrosity.
00:26:46.000 So I think it's right to call out the hypocrisy of AOC and the rest of the squad for backing this legislation that does so much that we're just blatantly against their stated goals.
00:26:58.000 I also had an opportunity at Turning Point to talk about changes in election laws.
00:27:03.000 And this is really important because in a lot of places, people are getting blackpilled on politics because they just say, you know what, we feel like our vote doesn't count.
00:27:11.000 It doesn't matter.
00:27:12.000 It's not going to be respected.
00:27:13.000 I believe that the sunshine state can really shine a path forward.
00:27:19.000 And I talked to officials in Arizona about that.
00:27:23.000 Take a listen to those remarks on changes to election law.
00:27:28.000 America first means actually putting the American voters first.
00:27:33.000 And our evolving tactics must draw us into central focus on necessary changes to election laws.
00:27:42.000 To those of you from Maricopa County, you don't have to live this way!
00:27:50.000 I mean, Arizona is a great state full of wonderful people, but the election administration here, woof!
00:27:58.000 It is embarrassing.
00:28:00.000 Brazil is a country with 214 million people.
00:28:05.000 Many of them live in the jungles of the Amazon in Brazil, and they know who wins an election the next day.
00:28:13.000 Sometimes a single county in Arizona can take weeks, This is the United States of America.
00:28:21.000 We are not a third world country.
00:28:23.000 It is time we start acting like the vibrant republic that we are, and that means securing the integrity of our elections.
00:28:34.000 This can be done.
00:28:36.000 I know that it does not have to be this way because it has never been this way.
00:28:42.000 We used to get election results on time.
00:28:46.000 We didn't have these problems.
00:28:47.000 Some of you may be old enough to remember back in 2000 when Florida was in the spotlight over the Bush v.
00:28:55.000 Gore matter.
00:28:56.000 We had the hanging chads and the dimpled chads.
00:29:00.000 What is astonishing to me, reflecting back on that, is that it was actually embarrassing and an oddity to not be able to quickly and precisely resolve your elections within approximate time of the people voting.
00:29:15.000 And now you look at these elections and you see like Jake Tapper on CNN saying, well, we won't know Pennsylvania for weeks.
00:29:21.000 And I'm thinking, why is this?
00:29:23.000 Well, In Florida, we changed the laws.
00:29:28.000 And so if you are a state lawmaker, if you have influence with our several states, let's talk about some of the specific changes that I think will help us combat this challenge going forward.
00:29:40.000 Florida, indeed, can be the nation's guidepost on this.
00:29:45.000 In Florida, we passed legislation that allows counties to start counting mail-in ballots 22 days before the election.
00:29:53.000 Now think about how significant that is.
00:29:55.000 That means in smaller batches, we can actually look at the votes, we can compare the signatures, and you don't end up with some crazy circumstance in Wayne County, Michigan, Where somehow only in the urban areas they have laws and chain of custody that only applies to them and not anyone else.
00:30:12.000 And it's the same story in Fulton County and in the just absolute pitholes of election failure that we should not have to tolerate in America.
00:30:21.000 In Florida, state law also requires that early voting ballots be completed and counted before election day.
00:30:29.000 And then the results are immediately posted within 30 minutes of the election.
00:30:33.000 So there's not this crazy guessing game about finding out whose Aunt Irma works at the elections office and where they might have another bucket of 200 ballots.
00:30:44.000 Mail-in ballots have to be received by 7 p.m.
00:30:49.000 on Election Day.
00:30:50.000 I can't even believe that's controversial.
00:30:52.000 We don't just mail them out either to every dead guy on the voter rolls.
00:30:57.000 In Florida, you have to actually have a real human being that really requests one of these ballots.
00:31:03.000 We use paper ballots in Florida.
00:31:05.000 Imagine that.
00:31:06.000 And we do so because it was one of the demands of Florida Democrats.
00:31:11.000 Our machines are rigorously tested so we don't end up like Maricopa County where voting machines are breaking down more than the ice cream machine at the McDonald's.
00:31:22.000 The other benefit of having like sane, real people election laws is that if things go crazy and lawsuits start filing, we might actually win some of them.
00:31:34.000 I know of what I speak.
00:31:36.000 In 2018, There was a serious effort to steal the election in Florida from Senator Rick Scott and Governor Ron DeSantis.
00:31:45.000 It was tens of thousands of ballots in a universe of more than eight and a half million.
00:31:50.000 And when the local supervisors of elections did not follow the law, we were able to go immediately to court against two supervisors, have the judges issue injunctions, and then there were no mystery ballots that could be willed into existence at some later time.
00:32:07.000 We treat ballots and voting like public records and our citizens have a constitutional right to know what the hell is going on.
00:32:15.000 That should be the standard for America.
00:32:17.000 We are back live and some folks are suggesting in the comments section that I pursue a bid for Speaker of the House.
00:32:29.000 I assure you that would not be successful.
00:32:32.000 I would not have the requisite support.
00:32:34.000 I would not have anywhere close to the requisite support.
00:32:37.000 But I am making a critique not just of one person.
00:32:41.000 But a corrupt institution in Washington, D.C. And unfortunately, that means we have to take a stand and maybe have some turbulent days at the beginning of January, but it will be worth it if we do not have Kevin McCarthy unaccountable as Speaker of the House.
00:32:57.000 And I made that argument at Turning Point.
00:32:59.000 Take a listen.
00:33:02.000 So our laws and our tactics must change.
00:33:08.000 But some of our leaders must be changed too.
00:33:14.000 Our ancestors, out of love of country, pledged their lives and their fortunes and their sacred honor.
00:33:23.000 Is the best Congress can really do today pledging a vote for Mitch McConnell or Kevin McCarthy?
00:33:32.000 I've had enough McFailure in football!
00:33:38.000 When the team doesn't win the games it's supposed to win, they fire the coach.
00:33:42.000 In business, when the company does not match its projected earnings, then the board gets rid of the CEO.
00:33:50.000 And so in Republican politics, maybe I'm not the crazy one if I say that the people who vastly underperformed expectations shouldn't be promoted to third in line to the presidency.
00:34:08.000 My friends, I take no joy in sharing this with you, but I'm going to tell you now what every single Republican member of Congress knows in their heart, whether they'll admit it or not.
00:34:21.000 Kevin McCarthy believes in nothing.
00:34:26.000 I'm serious about that.
00:34:29.000 Nothing except money and power.
00:34:31.000 But he failed to deliver the power, as promised.
00:34:34.000 And he got plenty of money, some of it from Sam Bankman Freed.
00:34:38.000 But he believes in nothing, and if we vote for him, neither do we.
00:34:44.000 Peter Thiel called these midterm elections depressingly disastrous.
00:34:50.000 But they are revealing.
00:34:52.000 Because we saw failure up close, and as Tucker Carlson reminded us at the beginning of this conference, we must learn from this experience and grow and be better.
00:35:04.000 Kevin McCarthy calls his lobbyist-written platform the commitment to America.
00:35:10.000 But Kevin doesn't keep his commitments.
00:35:12.000 Not to the Republican conference, not to anyone but the lobbyists that fund campaigns.
00:35:18.000 Kevin isn't committed.
00:35:19.000 He is compromised by the corrupt swamp.
00:35:22.000 And he's incoherent.
00:35:25.000 When you believe in nothing, my friends, you will settle on everything.
00:35:29.000 You'll farm out the work, enrich your pals, and maybe they'll even let you crash their pad.
00:35:34.000 But I think Joe Biden might actually be right about one thing.
00:35:39.000 We are in a battle for the soul of our country.
00:35:44.000 And Kevin is going into that battle with soulless influence peddlers by his side.
00:35:51.000 He isn't on this stage today because I am pretty confident he would get booed off of it.
00:35:56.000 I would be a great leader.
00:36:08.000 I just have no followers.
00:36:09.000 So...
00:36:10.000 You say what you will about Trump, but he actually believed in stuff, making our country better.
00:36:16.000 His beliefs were so bold that the media could not stop obsessing about them or him or all of us who supported him.
00:36:29.000 Trump's policies were so good, Joe Biden's even trying to copy him right now.
00:36:34.000 Banning TikTok was initially a Trump initiative.
00:36:37.000 Domesticating manufacturing was an issue set that Trump talked about way before anyone else in American politics had any type of vision for it.
00:36:46.000 And the Joe Biden streamlining permitting bill is essentially an extension of the regulatory reform instituted by President Trump.
00:36:55.000 These are indeed Trump's initiatives and now I fear, my friends, we are in need of true vision.
00:37:01.000 Our politics cannot just be money running through lobbyist luncheons and sloganeering with focus groups.
00:37:08.000 Biden is 80 and totally senile. 0.98
00:37:12.000 So you tell me, why is he kicking our ass on this omnibus spending bill right now? 0.99
00:37:17.000 It's because Kevin McCarthy believes in nothing. 0.98
00:37:24.000 Here's what I believe.
00:37:25.000 I believe we should put budgets on the floor of the House that balance and then we should vote for them.
00:37:30.000 I believe we should have immigration laws that we're serious about and actually enforce.
00:37:35.000 And when people break those laws, they should actually be deported where they came from, not be allowed to stick around our country by the millions, starting the new wave of chain migration. 1.00
00:37:47.000 I believe we ought to have a full court press against this weaponized government that has been turned against our people.
00:37:54.000 And if that means abolishing every one of these three-letter agencies, from the FBI to the ATF, I'm ready to get going, and I've got my pencil.
00:38:03.000 I believe that we actually ought to make voting easy and cheating hard.
00:38:15.000 And I believe we should not sell out to powerful corporations that pollute our water, our skies, or the digital marketplace of ideas.
00:38:27.000 I'm grateful for your response, but I will admit, I am the most imperfect of vessels to be carrying this message.
00:38:36.000 Many of you prayed for me and hoped for me, and I want you to know how much that means to me.
00:38:42.000 Your faith in me I truly hope to justify each and every day with service to you and you alone.
00:38:55.000 President Trump proved that even those of us who have flaws can fight back against a corrupt system without fear.
00:39:03.000 And so I will work with anyone and everyone to change this system and to deliver results for our brave patriots.
00:39:10.000 To stop the invasion on our southern border.
00:39:13.000 To end wars that drain our nation of its treasure and its bravest patriots.
00:39:18.000 To stop sending money to Ukraine.
00:39:23.000 Somehow that's a bigger priority than what's happening to our people, and certainly to restrict unfair trade.
00:39:30.000 But we should not move forward beholden to the legislative policy written by Frank Luntz on a bar napkin.
00:39:39.000 We should not be beholden to the free speech policy that was passed to Kevin McCarthy in exchange for money from his best friend Pfizer lobbyist.
00:39:50.000 And we should not be beholden to the political philosophy of Kevin McCarthy at all, because Kevin McCarthy believes in nothing.
00:40:00.000 I believe in things, and I know you do too.
00:40:03.000 We've got a country to save.
00:40:04.000 You can fight with me any day of the week, Turning Point.
00:40:07.000 Let's go get them.
00:40:08.000 Man, that was fun.
00:40:18.000 Special thanks to Charlie Kirk and the entire team at Turning Point for putting on just a terrific opportunity for collaboration and discussion of ideas.
00:40:28.000 And thank you so much for joining me.
00:40:30.000 We're going to be fighting against this omnibus spending legislation and the corrupt system that allows that to continue to happen to our people.
00:40:39.000 Thanks for joining me.
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