In this episode of Firebrand, we discuss the latest in the ongoing Ukraine crisis, the latest on the Joe Biden documents, and the growing number of calls for even greater U.S. involvement in the Ukraine conflict. We also hear from the National Director of Hispanic Outreach for Moms for Liberty, Catalina Stubbe, who joins us to discuss how the front lines of the culture war are indeed in the classroom. Firebrand is a production of the Firebrand Podcast. Copyright 2019 Firebrand Media. All rights reserved. This episode was produced and edited by Firebrand. The opinions expressed here are our own, not those of our corporations, and do not necessarily reflect those of any other companies or organizations. We do not own the rights to any of the music, music, or other intellectual property produced by any other artists. If you like what you hear here, please consider becoming a patron patron of our channel Firebrand Radio and/or share it on your social media platforms. Subscribe to our new podcast Firebrand and leave us a five star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe and Retweet! Thank you for listening and share the podcast with your fellow patriots everywhere! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - Matt Gaetz 2:30 - What's next? 3:15 - What should the US government be doing in Ukraine? 4:40 - What are we getting out of the Ukraine crisis? 5: What should we be doing? 6:20 - What can we do about it? 7:10 - What do we do? 8: Should the US be doing more? 9:00 | What is the most effective way to help Ukraine and Russia should we do in Ukraine and why we should be doing the most? 11:00 12:15 13:30 15:40 16:10 17:30 | What's the best way to get involved in Ukraine & 11: What does the US have to do more in Ukraine, What s the best? 16 - What does Ukraine should do with the Donbass region in the Donbas region in Ukraine in Ukraine?? 19:00 +16: What is our best interest? 17 - What s our country do we have the best chance to do in Europe? 18:40 | What does that mean to us? 21:10 | How do we need to be more involved?
00:04:46.000Matt 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.
00:04:53.000Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem for the Democratic Party.
00:04:56.000He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing the laws.
00:04:59.000So we're going to keep running those stories to get hurt again.
00:05:03.000If 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!
00:05:39.000We're broadcasting live out of room 2021 of the Rayburn office building on the Capitol complex in Washington, D.C. And I will be sharing my take on the breaking news on the Biden docs.
00:05:51.000We're just seeing drip, drip, drip more and more.
00:06:17.000Reuters reporting that Zelensky now says fighting corruption, a top priority for the country.
00:06:24.000Now, that may be pretty telling and it may be indicative that there are corrupt acts that are about to come to light.
00:06:32.000Now, maybe Zelensky knows that with Republicans in charge of the House of Representatives, we will be auditing the adherence of these weapons transfers that you've been reading about to their compliance with U.S. law.
00:06:45.000And it is my belief that we are not following the law now.
00:06:50.000When it comes to the end-to-end monitoring of materiel that is required.
00:06:55.000But that does not stop some U.S. politicians for pushing for even greater U.S. involvement in the Russia-Ukraine war.
00:07:04.000Listen to Republican House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Mike McCall from yesterday on Meet the Press.
00:07:12.000He says, send in the tanks to Ukraine.
00:07:46.000So with all due respect to Chairman McCaul and even some in the Biden administration, I do not believe that we should be sending Bradleys or Strikers or the M1 Abrams tanks And the argument McCall makes in that clip is that the way to unlock Germany getting more involved is for us to be at the leading edge of involvement and provocation against Russia.
00:08:11.000Why is the argument that we have to somehow gaslight Germany in order to get them to do what might be very well in their national interest but not ours?
00:08:24.000In fact, a top national security priority for our country should be restoring our stockpiles after everything we've already sent to Ukraine.
00:08:33.000Ukraine wants these tanks not to fight in Kyiv or Kharkiv or even Crimea.
00:08:41.000They want this materiel so that they can fight an extended war in the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine.
00:08:47.000Now, Ukrainians themselves have called this area the ungoverned region even prior to this invasion.
00:08:55.000America's direct interests are not impacted by control over the Donbass region.
00:09:02.000I'm not even sure that there isn't less allegiance to Ukraine in the east as there clearly is in the north and south and the more Europeanized western portions of Ukraine.
00:09:14.000It's not homogenous in thinking in every part of the country, and we should not assume so.
00:09:19.000And doing so risks us sending materiel that pokes the bear.
00:09:24.000Now, this must be of greater interest to Germany and France and the rest of Europe than to the United States.
00:09:32.000And so if they want to send leopards, tanks, other materiel, I have no objection.
00:09:37.000They have to evaluate what is in their national interest.
00:09:41.000But the U.S., sending more, sending tanks, that risks World War III for little perceivable gain when compared to the risk for our country.
00:09:54.000And so we'll be monitoring this quite closely.
00:09:58.000So let's spend a moment now on the Biden documents.
00:10:05.000I mean, you know, I have made the argument that you really know it's coming unraveled for Joe Biden when even Democrats on the Hill don't know what to say, don't know how to defend him.
00:10:16.000And Joe Manchin not only stuck the knife in Joe Biden yesterday on Meet the Press, he stuck it in and twisted it.
00:10:46.000You know, the only thing I can tell you, Chuck, is when I go into the SCIF with the secured documents, they always ask, are you clean when you walk out?
00:10:53.000You want to make sure you're not carrying anything out.
00:10:55.000You know, and it might be a mistake, you might just put it in your other papers, but you double check right there.
00:10:59.000So that, to be held accountable and responsible is what we all are.
00:11:04.000And to put those in unsecured spaces is irresponsible.
00:11:07.000Do you see similarities, or do you see more differences in how President Trump versus how President Biden's handle it?
00:11:12.000I'm not going to make that decision, but I think that Merrick Garland did the right thing by putting his special counsel.
00:11:26.000Or is one more reckless and irresponsible than the other?
00:11:29.000I can't answer that question, but I think the special counsel will do a better job than the politicians and the political circus that is going to follow.
00:11:39.000It is not good when you're the President of the United States and members of your own party are cheering on a special counsel that has been pointed to criminally investigate you.
00:11:47.000We've got the live stream up and going on Facebook.
00:13:17.000It was Joe Biden's Democrat personal lawyer that was rummaging around his stuff looking for, what, evidence of a crime that his septuagenarian client committed nine years ago?
00:13:26.000And then he alerts the Democrat staff at the White House that does the absolute worst thing you could possibly do.
00:13:34.000They should have diffused the Trump matter and then inoculated themselves in the process.
00:13:39.000Then the moment this is leaked to CBS, You have the Democrat Biden Department of Justice appoint a special counsel.
00:13:46.000And now the big tell is that even Joe Biden's strongest allies in the Congress, like Senator Coons, are saying that they approve of the appointment of a special counsel to criminally investigate the president.
00:13:58.000Maybe the deep state and a lot of these Democrats have figured out that they'd rather roll with Gavin Newsom than Joe Biden.
00:14:05.000The Republicans might not even have to help the Democrats take out their trash.
00:14:09.000Well, Congressman, before President Biden answered the question on the classified docs today, he snapped.
00:15:02.000His own Department of Justice is now criminally investigating him.
00:15:06.000His own staff put him in a terrible position by sitting on this information.
00:15:10.000And his own lawyer was searching around for the evidence of a paperwork crime from almost a decade ago.
00:15:17.000So I get why Joe Biden's mad, and you could see Gavin Newsom's thought bubble in the background.
00:15:21.000He's actually measuring the drapes inside the Oval Office right now.
00:15:25.000But remember, just because the permanent bureaucratic state picked Joe Biden over Donald Trump in 2020, it doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to pick Joe Biden going forward in 2024. They may realize he is addled and breaking apart, and they care about power for the left.
00:15:56.000Despite his denials, a CNN review of the laptop data as well as other public material shows that Joe Biden did interact with some of his son's associates while serving as vice president, though it's unclear exactly what was discussed.
00:16:12.000Congressman, quickly, if CNN is turning its over, I mean, what's happening?
00:16:22.000I'm old enough to remember when CNN told us that the laptop was Russian disinformation and now all of a sudden they're weaponizing the truth against Joe Biden.
00:16:31.000He is looking more and more troubled as a candidate going forward.
00:16:34.000And I don't think it's just a coincidence that this leak went to CBS News right as the cement is starting to harden around Joe Biden's decision to assemble a political team and prepare for the upcoming primary.
00:16:46.000So blood's in the water and I think the Democrats are circling the carcass.
00:16:54.000Sandy on Facebook on the live stream wants to know if these documents have to do with China and I believe that is an operative question.
00:17:01.000If these documents have something to do with China and you've got China totally funding the Biden-Penn Center That could be information that was being bought and sold.
00:17:13.000And we don't want to prejudge that, but if that's what's happening, you're talking about one of the most serious crimes against our country that a United States President could commit.
00:17:22.000We've got to see what's in the documents.
00:17:25.000You know, you may have a circumstance here, as I was pointing out with Laura Ingraham, where the deep state realizes they may be facing a resurgent Trump, they may be facing Ron DeSantis, and they don't want to go into that battle with Joe Biden.
00:17:39.000They might think they're better off with Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, J.B. Pritzker, any of these other Democrats who seem like they can hold together a coherent paragraph.
00:18:17.000And whose lawyer Goes looking for evidence that they committed a crime like 7, 8, 9, 10, 14 years ago.
00:18:27.000Turns that information over to DOJ. Alerts the Biden White House.
00:18:31.000If the Biden White House had gotten out in front of this, this wouldn't even be a thing.
00:18:35.000If the documents don't have to do with China, if they have to do with China, all bets are off.
00:18:39.000But if these documents don't have to do with China, the Biden White House could have gotten out there and said, look, you know, mistakes were made.
00:18:45.000They could have diffused the Trump situation, diffused their own situation, and focused on Their economic message or whatever else they wanted to focus on.
00:18:56.000But now this is becoming the mouse that roars like a lion in a lot of ways.
00:19:02.000And the tell that you could have the deep state making a move on Biden here, setting him up, is that the White House Chief of Staff, Ron Klain, just announcing his likely upcoming departure.
00:19:15.000Now, Ron Klain, you might not like him.
00:19:18.000You probably don't if you're watching this program.
00:19:20.000But the dude is an effective operator.
00:19:22.000He gets the bureaucracy to bend to his will.
00:19:26.000And if he sees the writing on the wall that they're coming for Biden, he's sure not going to stick around for it.
00:19:30.000He is too professional of an operator to do that.
00:19:34.000And so you'll see him appear with some major entity on the outside of the White House, but certainly a part of pulling the strings in our politics.
00:19:44.000And he'll be operating from there, and they'll have someone else on the inside basically wrapping up the Biden presidency and potentially moving on to 2024 without him.
00:19:55.000I also think it's interesting that the FBI searched Biden's Wilmington home for 13 hours and even found documents from when he was a senator.
00:20:05.000So, I mean, you're looking at a group of people in the deep state that want to get rid of Trump, They probably want to get rid of Biden.
00:20:15.000What the deep state giveth, the deep state can taketh away.
00:20:20.000Catalina Stubbe is a Florida woman in leadership of the Moms for Liberty organization and I want to focus the rest of the episode on some of her perspectives regarding what's going on in the classroom, the front lines of the culture war.
00:20:34.000We have observed some of the advocacy work in Florida that Moms for Liberty has done.
00:20:39.000I have been an admirer of some of the causes that they have championed and some of the issues where they've certainly led to great progress in the Sunshine State.
00:21:16.000Moms for Liberty is a non-profit organization that is across the country, and we are fighting indoctrination, fighting this insanity, all the Marxism ideologies, and we are trying to hold accountable all that is against our children.
00:21:33.000And what is your assessment now of public education?
00:21:42.000Well, unfortunately, parents don't trust anymore the educational system.
00:21:47.000And we're trying to get the system more transparent to parents, that we can have access to curriculum, that we can have actually the right over our children.
00:22:03.000So, right now, the government thinks that they can push a left agenda without our permission.
00:22:12.000Well, and it seems as though the front lines of the culture war really are in the classroom.
00:22:18.000That when bad ideas emerge, when kind of crazy science emerges, it seems to be through the school system that we have to resolve those issues.
00:22:27.000And we saw Moms for Liberty really start as just two moms in Florida and emerge out of that now with hundreds of chapters around the country An advocacy that continues.
00:22:38.000The vaccine mandate was a part of, I think, what brought these folks together.
00:22:43.000You know, seeing the way that the medical industrial complex got turned against the American family and the student and the parent.
00:22:53.000You know, what do people see on the horizon as like the next round of requirements for students in the classroom, maybe with vaccines that would give people concern?
00:23:04.000Now parents are aware what is happening in our country.
00:23:12.000But if we keep united, we can actually stop this insanity little by little.
00:23:22.000But we have a great example with the Two founders, Tina and Tiffany, they are awesome, they are strong, they inspire everyday moms like me that want to join an organization simply because we want a better future for our children, strong children that really know the real value of family and they want to protect and we want to protect the family institution.
00:23:51.000And what do you see about the public education system that pushes back and maybe is harmful to the family?
00:23:57.000They are trying to change even history.
00:24:00.000They are hiding everyday real history for our children.
00:24:05.000Most of them, they don't know what happened in the Holocaust.
00:24:13.000They are probably pushing about abortion, but they don't know That more than 60 million children died since Roe v Wade from abortion.
00:24:25.000So we're trying to make things change.
00:24:29.000So you see an embrace of sort of abortion politics in our schools conditioning young people early to be disrespectful of life and to be disrespectful of the family instead of celebrating those things?
00:24:43.000As soon as 10 years old They are pushing this sexual education that is nothing more than Marxism ideologies pushing through our children.
00:24:58.000So they are trying to simply normalize and see it as a solution, and they're never going to talk what is true, which is simply end the life of a human being.
00:25:13.000Yeah, and we're joined now by Catalina Stube, the Hispanic Outreach Director for Moms for Liberty, and I want to talk about that Marxist ideology and the way that it really, I think, hurts the political left to embrace it with Hispanics.
00:25:29.000You know, we are from Florida, where a lot of people have come escaping Marxism and Socialism and Communism.
00:25:36.000How do you think There can be a real involvement and outreach to Hispanics, to these ideas of family and value and really a lot of the principles that have made our country so great.
00:25:50.000Well, thanks God we have leaders like you, like our Governor DeSantis, that celebrate the American values, that celebrate family, and they are Ready to protect our children.
00:26:49.000Yes, and we see with recent Supreme Court jurisprudence more flexibility for coaches and instructors to be able to have faith and pray and pray for the safety of their students and their student athletes.
00:27:04.000I think that's absolutely a step in the right direction.
00:27:07.000And as we've moved God out of the classroom and out of our lives, We seem to invite more things like violence and school shooting and demonizing one another.
00:27:17.000We really saw a lot of parents engage in educational policy when critical race theory was being taught and students were being categorized as oppressors and oppressed.
00:27:30.000What's your perspective on that as a parent and as a leading advocate?
00:27:44.000CRT is teaching our children to separate and to identify by color.
00:27:51.000Going to the God, the way God, it's essential for children to have a guide.
00:27:58.000And at that point, they don't even know what are the Ten Commandments.
00:28:04.000And they can tell you all about the position in sex or everything about sex, but they don't know the Ten Commandments.
00:28:13.000This is awful because actually they don't know what is good and bad.
00:28:19.000And without knowing the real standards of morality, they cannot follow the right path.
00:28:28.000Well, and it seems like critical race theory is so humanist, right?
00:28:34.000To the exclusion of a belief in a higher power, that the fundamental thing that must drive us is our acknowledgement of our race and identity, rather than a common collective belief.
00:28:50.000I mean, that's what I believe, that we look at the content of people's character like Dr. King taught, not believing that our circumstances are forever ordained just by virtue of what we look like or what our background is.
00:29:04.000And it did seem that that crept into our school system well before a lot of people thought about it.
00:29:10.000You mentioned curriculum earlier, and I want to put a fine point on that because curriculum is the way wokeism gets into the bloodstream of our education system.
00:29:21.000And what would be your message to a parent out there to tell them that they can be involved in Looking at curriculum, researching and influencing decision leaders at the state level or even at the local school board level.
00:30:36.000You really have to get involved also with an organization that defends the children's rights, the educational transparency, like our organization.
00:31:00.000You speak better English than me, even if I speak better English than Biden, right?
00:31:04.000Well, we're honored to have you a leader in this movement, and I really think that is the clarion call.
00:31:10.000People might have thought of parenting as just making sure that your children have their school lunch packed and are meeting the dress code, but now The demands are more rigorous and we have to acknowledge that and those rigors include understanding what the pedagogy and curriculum are and then joining with the parents who share our vision for a school system in the public sphere that is robust and helpful and focused on skills and embracing the great things about our country.
00:31:39.000If folks want to follow you and your work and your advocacy, where on social media can they find you?
00:31:44.000I know that on Instagram you are putting out information constantly.
00:32:05.000And you can follow me, ask me questions, especially for this Hispanic people who doesn't understand or really want to have this information in Spanish.
00:32:37.000We are back live here in the Rayburn building and on Instagram the feedback is God bless Catalina on Rumble.
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