Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - Episode 88 LIVE: Balloon Mania – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

A Chinese surveillance balloon is causing a stir in Washington, and some are calling for it to be shot down. What does this have to do with China and what does it say about us? And what are the real threats we re all facing from China and the deep state? In this episode of Firebrand, we take a look at TikTok and its relationship with the Chinese Communist Party, and how it could pose a major national security risk. Firebrand is a production of the Firebrand Podcast. Copyright 2019 Firebrand Media. All rights reserved. This episode was produced and edited by Firebrand. We do not own the rights to the music, music, or any other intellectual property used in this episode. All credit for music and sound design goes to original artists and labels. Music by Nordgroove and tyops. Words and music by Zapsplat. Art by Jeff Kaale and Mark Phillips. Editing and production by Ian Dorsch. Our theme song is by Skift, courtesy of Epitaph Records, and our ad music is courtesy of Lotuspool Records. Additional music by PSOVOD and the Vigilante Records, produced by Suneaters, and edited and mixed by Haley Shaw. Please rate and review this episode on Apple Podcasts and The Electric Light Orchestra, and we'll be looking out for your feedback in the next Firebrand episode on the next episode of our new music video, Firebrand Firebrand! Subscribe to our new podcast Firebrand on SoundCloud. Subscribe on iTunes and subscribe on Podcoin. Learn more about your ad choices? Download our merchandiser? Subscribe in Apple Podcast by clicking here. Send us your reviews and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes Music by Sticky_tweet us on iTunes Connect? Thanks for listening to us on Podulphia Connected by Twisterium Connected Media by PODCAST Connect with us on Strava and other links to our social media platforms? You can also become a fellow Firebrand fanboy and other merchandiotr? We'll be giving us a shoutout on social media in the podcast? , and we're listening to our newest episode on Podcon Connected in the latest episode on this podcast , and so much more! Thank you for all the love and support us on Insta-like you can help us out there and more!

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00:04:46.000 The President: Embattled Congressman Matt Gaetz.

00:04:49.000 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.

00:04:56.000 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.

00:04:59.000 He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.

00:05:02.000 So we're gonna keep running those stories to keep hurting him.

00:05:06.000 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 welcome, my fellow patriots!

00:05:15.000 You are in the right place!

00:05:16.000 This is the movement for you!

00:05:19.000 You ever watch this guy on television?

00:05:21.000 It's like a machine.

00:05:22.000 Matt Gaetz.

00:05:23.000 I'm a cancelled man in some corners of the internet.

00:05:27.000 Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.

00:05:31.000 They aren't really coming for me.

00:05:33.000 They're coming for you.

00:05:35.000 I'm just in the way.

00:05:41.000 Welcome back to Firebrand.

00:05:43.000 We are broadcasting live out of room 20-21 of the Rayburn House Office Building on the Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C. Thanks for watching us on the livestream on Getter.

00:05:51.000 We see you from Texas.

00:05:53.000 We see you from Missouri.

00:05:55.000 Thanks for joining in on YouTube from Pensacola, Florida.

00:05:59.000 And it seems that all eyes have been on a Chinese surveillance balloon.

00:06:04.000 Some called to capture the balloon.

00:06:06.000 Some called to shoot down the balloon.

00:06:09.000 You had General Milley wanting to know the balloon's pronouns.

00:06:13.000 I think Eric Swalwell wanted to date the balloon.

00:06:17.000 AOC thought that the balloon wanted to date her.

00:06:20.000 And the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, thought the balloon was a symbol of white supremacy.

00:06:27.000 So we're going to zoom out a little bit and assess what the balloon says about China and about us.

00:06:33.000 And what are the real threats we're facing going forward?

00:06:37.000 On Meet the Press yesterday, Chuck Todd had a clarion moment while interviewing Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

00:06:43.000 Take a listen.

00:06:46.000 You know, it's interesting about how the Biden administration has conducted its manufacturing policy and foreign policy with China, how the Trump administration did.

00:06:54.000 And in that sense, there hasn't been a lot of disconnect between the two administrations.

00:06:59.000 Is this an admission that the 30 or 40 year Western consensus that said, hey, if we bring China into the economic system, it's going to defang them?

00:07:11.000 It had the exact opposite effect in it.

00:07:13.000 Well, you know, whether it's Western engagement with China or whether it's Europe's engagement with Russia, there have clearly been a lot of lessons in recent years that engagement alone does not yield comfortable partnership and easy acceptance of a rules-based international order.

00:07:30.000 And each of those struggles, obviously, is different, but I think some of those patterns do overlap.

00:07:37.000 So amazingly, Chuck Todd is right about this.

00:07:40.000 The bipartisan consensus in Washington for generations has argued that if we bring China closer to America through trade and economic engagement and diplomacy and global legitimacy, that they would be more like us.

00:07:56.000 But China has not been defanged, as Chuck Todd would put it.

00:08:00.000 We saw that last week.

00:08:01.000 Instead of China becoming more like the United States, We have become more like China. 0.82

00:08:07.000 We have fused business and government, ignoring the innovation dividends of a truly free market.

00:08:13.000 Look no further than big tech, but also big pharma, and even the healthcare industrial complex.

00:08:20.000 They all prove this point.

00:08:22.000 We have created a de facto social credit score in this country where everyone in government from the White House to the Department of Homeland Security, even the FBI, they're trying to shape political viewpoint online.

00:08:35.000 Sounds a lot like China.

00:08:37.000 And if you don't comply, it's the digital gulag for you.

00:08:42.000 Now, it's easy to get the American people riled up over a giant balloon.

00:08:45.000 It was observable to the naked eye at some of the places even around 60,000 feet.

00:08:52.000 But I couldn't help but feel a bit frustrated.

00:08:55.000 Politicians and pundits rage at the balloon.

00:08:59.000 But one in four Americans uses TikTok.

00:09:03.000 We know TikTok is a Chinese Communist Party surveillance tool. 0.83

00:09:08.000 Take a listen to our discussion about TikTok with technology executive Gavin Wax from a prior episode.

00:09:14.000 Take a listen.

00:09:17.000 TikTok is the new big dog on campus, and it just so happens to be a company completely beholden to the Chinese Communist Party out of Beijing.

00:09:26.000 And this obviously poses a major, major national security risk.

00:09:30.000 I mean, TikTok is unique.

00:09:31.000 In how addictive it is, in how personalized it is, how it caters to you based on, you know, all the data that it collects from your interests to what you're searching, to how you're liking, to how long you're watching.

00:09:44.000 I mean, the data that they are gathering from American citizens is massive.

00:09:48.000 And in the wrong hands, like in the hands of the CCP, it could be used for extremely effective intelligence gathering and other types of intelligence operations.

00:09:58.000 I mean, they can see what's pasted, what's saved in your clipboard.

00:10:02.000 They can gather your biometric data.

00:10:04.000 They could gather your location data, your facial recognition.

00:10:06.000 I mean, all this data is now in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party out of Beijing, and they can potentially have that data on elected officials, their staff, military personnel, you name it.

00:10:21.000 That should terrify all of us.

00:10:23.000 And if TikTok isn't scary enough because it's in our pocket instead of in our skies, how about the surveillance devices that our neighbors, our family members, and even our local law enforcement fly over our skies on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party? 0.90

00:10:39.000 The story starts with DJI drones.

00:10:43.000 DJI drones constitute more than half of the drone market in the United States.

00:10:48.000 Our own Department of Homeland Security tells us that the CCP uses these drones and our desire to use them in law enforcement to gather key information regarding how to attack and harm us.

00:11:01.000 So they give these low cost drones To our local police forces, sometimes our state law enforcement, and then as those drones are performing the functions directed by American law enforcement, they're actually sending data back to the Chinese Communist Party. 0.76

00:11:19.000 That's not a conspiracy theory.

00:11:21.000 That's in our own Department of Homeland Security's reporting.

00:11:24.000 Now according to an additional report last year in The Intercept, The New York City Police Department, the largest police department in the country, is continuing to use surveillance drones made by a Chinese company that the U.S. government has made moves to ban, labeling it a national security threat.

00:11:45.000 That may provide U.S. critical infrastructure and law enforcement data to the Chinese government.

00:11:51.000 Albert Fox Khan, the executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, or STOP, a group that advocates against mass surveillance, said the warnings about DJI are just one of many concerns around the NYPD's handling of data that the department gathers directly or in conjunction with private technology companies.

00:12:10.000 Quote, There's a lot of uncertainty about the ability to protect the data they're collecting on New Yorkers, and no clear reporting if that data is compromised.

00:12:20.000 Close quote.

00:12:22.000 Now that was Kahn pointing to a recent hack of the city's law department.

00:12:27.000 The possibility that some data might end up in the hands of foreign governments is alarming, he added.

00:12:32.000 That can be a real risk to New Yorkers.

00:12:34.000 And there are plenty of New Yorkers, including a lot of democracy activists, who have a reason to be particularly fearful of the Chinese government.

00:12:44.000 That is the report from The Intercept.

00:12:47.000 So tomorrow Joe Biden will give the State of the Union address and I'll be in attendance because whether I agree or disagree with President Biden, and I most often disagree with him, I respect the State of the Union and the office of the presidency far more than the Democrats who disgrace themselves and our country with multiple illegitimate impeachments of President Trump.

00:13:10.000 So let's start with what we are going to hear from Biden on the domestic front.

00:13:15.000 He'll tout better than expected job numbers, but that misses the mark.

00:13:20.000 Keep this in mind.

00:13:20.000 When you keep the economy shut down unnecessarily over COVID, it creates pent-up demand in the job market.

00:13:27.000 Everyone knows this.

00:13:28.000 The swings weren't as rough in my beloved Florida because we opened up and got people back to work.

00:13:34.000 We actually relied on people to get the economy moving again in their jobs rather than endless government checks.

00:13:42.000 Now, Biden's message on jobs is basically the message you would get from a braggadocious firefighter who is a part-time arsonist.

00:13:52.000 While more jobs are being filled, we aren't seeing wages rise to keep up with Biden inflation.

00:13:58.000 In Trump's economy, wages rose, increasing purchasing power for regular Americans to live their biggest and most ambitious dreams.

00:14:07.000 Now, we are a diminished country.

00:14:11.000 With a president in decline.

00:14:13.000 And our economy should not have to join Joe Biden in that decline.

00:14:18.000 The labor participation rate is far lower than during the Trump era.

00:14:23.000 According to the latest jobs opening and labor turnover summary, there are now two job openings for every unemployed person.

00:14:31.000 Labor participation is at 62.3%.

00:14:34.000 Very, very interesting.

00:14:38.000 Now, Biden will scold Congress on the debt limit.

00:14:42.000 You should prepare for that.

00:14:43.000 And it's especially going to be a scolding for those who hold my view.

00:14:49.000 And here's my view.

00:14:50.000 It's very simple.

00:14:51.000 When you max out your credit card, it is a good time to reflect on your spending habits.

00:14:57.000 This argument will sound something like that.

00:15:01.000 Well, the argument that Biden is going to make, I should say, is going to sound something like the argument that Larry Summers made.

00:15:08.000 And now he appeared on Fareed Zakaria's CNN show yesterday.

00:15:12.000 So take a listen.

00:15:13.000 This is going to be the essence of the Biden argument.

00:15:17.000 If you were advising President Biden, what would you tell him to do?

00:15:22.000 I would advise him that it's not a viable strategy for the country to default on obligations, whether it's interest obligations or obligations to pay contractors or obligations to pay federal workers or obligations to pay Social Security benefits, that that's the stuff of banana.

00:15:48.000 Republics and that he's not going to engage in any of that stuff.

00:15:55.000 I advise him to basically insist that Congress do its job and approve the borrowing to finance the spending it has already both authorized and appropriated.

00:16:12.000 I think he should be staying very strong.

00:16:15.000 Will there be any cosmetic Things affecting looking at future spending at some point, maybe there will be.

00:16:25.000 But fundamentally, this is not something where there should be bargaining.

00:16:32.000 You can debate who will win the game of chicken.

00:16:34.000 What you can't debate is that the American people will lose.

00:16:39.000 But you do have this problem where there's a bunch of people in the Republican Party who do seem like they're willing to blow the whole thing up.

00:16:48.000 And it's a larger percentage than I think you dealt with during the Tea Party days when they also threatened to default.

00:16:56.000 Are you worried that even if it's a 15%, 10% chance that these Republicans can hold up the process and we do have a real crisis?

00:17:11.000 I am worried, but I'm more worried about the consequences of kowtowing to terrorists.

00:17:22.000 Kowtowing to terrorists.

00:17:24.000 Britt on YouTube says the State of the Union is going to be the highest rated sitcom.

00:17:29.000 So I guess it would be funny if it weren't so disastrous, the policies that Joe Biden has pursued and the harm he's done to our country.

00:17:36.000 And now we see...

00:17:38.000 They called us traitors when we said Trump wasn't a Russian agent.

00:17:41.000 Turns out one of the FBI guys involved in the intelligence intake on that case became a Russian agent.

00:17:49.000 We were labeled insurrectionists when we sought parliamentary objection on January 6th.

00:17:56.000 They called us the Taliban 20 when we demanded the rules of the House be changed to stop omnibus legislating and allow open amendments and arguments with actual time to read the bills.

00:18:08.000 And now, you heard it just there, former Obama-era economist Larry Summers now saying we are terrorists for even having the nerve to negotiate spending policy as America accrues $32 trillion in debt.

00:18:23.000 Now, I know the left says that Everything is terrorism now.

00:18:28.000 But is it really terrorism to suggest that we have the same welfare-to-work negotiations that brought Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton together on a spending deal?

00:18:39.000 Should able-bodied, working-age people reasonably expect that you pay for their health care, even if they can work but choose not to? 0.98

00:18:49.000 How about illegal aliens? 0.91

00:18:50.000 Should illegal aliens get tax credits? 1.00

00:18:53.000 They do.

00:18:54.000 $47 billion worth.

00:18:57.000 Is this unreasonable to question as we have a compounding debt crisis and a border crisis?

00:19:05.000 Like why would we give tax credits to illegal aliens? 0.99

00:19:08.000 It's crazy to me.

00:19:09.000 Is our only true defense against terrorism the U.S. taxpayer-funded gay pride parades that you're paying for today in Prague?

00:19:18.000 Or how about the gender ideology activists that you all fund in Senegal?

00:19:23.000 Do you want to pay for that?

00:19:26.000 Maybe when we aren't meeting our own financial needs, we should reflect on the cost of exporting wokeness to other countries.

00:19:35.000 Biden will boast about the weapons we've sent to Ukraine.

00:19:39.000 If Biden would let the spy balloon into our country without attention, imagine how little attention is being paid to all the weapons we are sending out of the country.

00:19:51.000 I shared my perspective on the Ukraine war on the floor of the House just moments ago.

00:19:55.000 Take a listen.

00:19:58.000 How much more for Ukraine? 0.52

00:20:00.000 Is there any limit?

00:20:02.000 Which billionth dollar really kicks in the door?

00:20:06.000 Which red line we set will we not later cross?

00:20:10.000 China reminds us that we have real issues. 1.00

00:20:12.000 China began its offensive against our homeland, infiltrating our universities, stealing our innovations, buying off our politicians, surveilling our citizens, all the while capturing the loyalty of America's most powerful corporations. 0.96

00:20:30.000 China's influence is overtaking ours, even in our own hemisphere. 0.83

00:20:34.000 Our conflict with China may turn very hot very soon. 0.63

00:20:38.000 Many believe we are currently in the window of a possible invasion of Taiwan.

00:20:43.000 If not deterred, such an invasion would immediately make life worse for virtually every American.

00:20:51.000 But tomorrow, President Biden will tell us how much more we must do For Ukraine.

00:20:58.000 Look around your house.

00:20:59.000 How much stuff is made in Ukraine, or even Russia, for that matter?

00:21:04.000 Next to China, if you're watching this speech on a smartphone, you're likely using Taiwanese technology.

00:21:11.000 So why Ukraine?

00:21:13.000 A country that just rounded up dozens of senior leaders in its government over overt corruption.

00:21:20.000 Perhaps the answer is as simple as the Hunter Biden life motto.

00:21:25.000 A grifter's got a grift.

00:21:27.000 But the amount of money we now pour into Ukraine makes Burisma's wildest dreams of wealth through Biden family influence seem meek by comparison.

00:21:40.000 Defense contractors need there to be a war going on somewhere, whether the arms end up in the hands of ISIS, the Taliban, the Azov Battalion, or on the black market.

00:21:51.000 They get rich in the business of weapons supply, but only when there is weapons demand.

00:21:58.000 A serious nation would never let foreign interests abroad or special interests here at home dictate its foreign policy.

00:22:06.000 The interests of our countrymen must morally compel our greater attention.

00:22:11.000 And as the war slogs on in Ukraine, the benefits to Americans are unclear.

00:22:18.000 Bandits in the Sinaloa Mountains hurt more Americans than the men in Crimea.

00:22:24.000 But foreigners come to Washington to lecture us about spending our constituents' money on a conflict thousands of miles away. 1.00

00:22:32.000 And my colleagues are eager to oblige.

00:22:36.000 On this floor, Zelensky's demands got bipartisan standing ovations from most.

00:22:43.000 Stingers, HIMARS, tanks.

00:22:45.000 At first, we said no to all of these things.

00:22:48.000 President Biden even said that some of these things might lead to World War III. And then yet we sent all of them. 0.99

00:22:56.000 F-16s are likely still.

00:22:58.000 Lockheed Martin sure is confident that Ukraine will get F-16s.

00:23:02.000 They told the Financial Times recently that they are already ramping up production.

00:23:07.000 Create demand.

00:23:08.000 Provide the supply.

00:23:10.000 This is escalating, and we are placing trust in leaders who do not deserve trust.

00:23:17.000 John Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, who assured us that the Afghan military would withstand the Taliban offensive, now says that there is no risk that Putin will go nuclear.

00:23:29.000 The risk of miscalculation in Ukraine is much, much higher than getting it wrong in Afghanistan.

00:23:35.000 A nuclear war between Russia and the United States would end human life as we know it. 0.54

00:23:41.000 And yet Biden is doing everything possible to provoke such a disaster.

00:23:45.000 And for what?

00:23:47.000 The actions we are taking are not going to end the war in Ukraine.

00:23:50.000 In fact, we are probably prolonging the killing.

00:23:54.000 Tens of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians will die this year because Congress feels good when it sends instruments of death and billions in cash. 1.00

00:24:04.000 Many dollars sent for the war in Afghanistan ended up in bank accounts in Switzerland and Dubai.

00:24:10.000 To where will we trace the bounty of Ukrainian grift? 1.00

00:24:15.000 This war could end tomorrow if we pursued negotiation, but Biden refuses.

00:24:20.000 Not only do we arm the Ukrainian military, we pay their politicians' salaries.

00:24:26.000 The $113 billion in aid included funding the Ukrainian government.

00:24:32.000 We can and must push for peace.

00:24:35.000 You don't really hear that from many people these days with the exception of President Trump.

00:24:39.000 Trump is right to recognize that we are on the brink of World War III and that immediate action for peace is necessary to stop disaster.

00:24:49.000 Unfortunately, there is a bipartisan coalition working to continue the war.

00:24:53.000 When Elon Musk proposed a peace plan, Nikki Haley attacked him, saying we, quote, shouldn't push our weight on them.

00:25:02.000 That is, of course, nonsense.

00:25:03.000 We've pushed billions of dollars on them.

00:25:06.000 We can simultaneously pressure North Korea and China from supplying Russia.

00:25:12.000 The gentleman's time has expired.

00:25:14.000 I ought to do so.

00:25:15.000 Thank you.

00:25:15.000 I yield back.

00:25:18.000 We are back live and the live stream is fired up.

00:25:21.000 Aliens and Space Girl on Instagram agrees we have to go after TikTok.

00:25:26.000 Another Facebook user said that they weren't really looking forward to Biden's speech, but they were going to use a margarita to get through it to get to the Sarah Huckabee Sanders response.

00:25:36.000 That should be pretty epic.

00:25:37.000 And Gabrielle says that Joe Biden is a good man and that I am a POS on Facebook.

00:25:43.000 Everyone's entitled to their opinion.

00:25:45.000 We're glad that you're watching.

00:25:47.000 And it does seem that I am the extreme MAGA Republican that Joe Biden is warning you about.

00:25:53.000 But whether it's less spending at home or more adherence to America's interests abroad, I don't think my arguments seem so extreme.

00:26:01.000 To me, it's extreme to fund a war against a nuclear power oceans away.

00:26:06.000 That seems legitimately extreme.

00:26:08.000 Tend to your own garden, your own country first.

00:26:11.000 And we have challenges here in our country.

00:26:14.000 To me, it's extreme to know that our debt financing costs will soon exceed the budget of the Pentagon.

00:26:23.000 We should do something to stop that.

00:26:25.000 Seems like a common sense approach to spending.

00:26:29.000 So the perspective of new lawmakers in Congress is always one that we follow.

00:26:34.000 You'll recall prior Firebrand episodes where we've had Eli Crane and Ana Paulina Luna, two of the best.

00:26:42.000 CBS's Face the Nation yesterday hosted freshman Democrat members of Congress Robert Garcia from California and Summer Lee from Pennsylvania.

00:26:52.000 There were also Republicans that were there.

00:26:54.000 Crime and immigration were discussed, and they were discussed obviously because these issues drove the shape of many of the midterm campaigns this last cycle.

00:27:03.000 So I picked up on something in the Face the Nation discussion that really concerned me.

00:27:10.000 It seems the Democrat strategy is to leave the rest of us unprotected, undefended, and afraid.

00:27:18.000 So listen to newly elected Congressman Robert Garcia talk about the justification for people coming across our border being in a state of desperation.

00:27:31.000 Take a listen.

00:27:33.000 There's this myth that Democrats somehow aren't concerned about a secure border, that we don't want an orderly process.

00:27:38.000 But we also want to ensure that we want secure, everybody wants a secure border, but we also want to ensure that we're talking about the humanity of people.

00:27:46.000 These are people that are coming to this country that are desperate, that are suffering.

00:27:49.000 And so this idea that we can't give these people justice, we can't support and help them, I think is anti-American.

00:27:58.000 Congressman Garcia speaks of desperate people as if it's some new phenomenon in illegal immigration, as if people used to come for a different reason.

00:28:08.000 Throughout most of my life, the principal reason people have come illegally across the U.S.-Mexico border has been desperation.

00:28:17.000 The problem is if the U.S. taxpayer has to pay for all of them when they get here, We will be desperate too.

00:28:24.000 And we'd prefer ambitious and comfortable to desperate and afraid.

00:28:29.000 Who wouldn't?

00:28:30.000 So the Democrat argument goes, desperate people should be allowed into the country because they are desperate.

00:28:37.000 But that's not all.

00:28:39.000 Desperate people should also be allowed to commit crimes against you, and we should think differently about crimes of desperation.

00:28:47.000 We should think about them as less acute, less deserving of punishment.

00:28:52.000 Listen to Democrat Congresswoman Summer Lee on that point.

00:28:57.000 The vast majority of people in poor and working class neighborhoods are good people, and they are victims of crime that we don't say anything about.

00:29:04.000 For instance, there is no police presence when they're a victim of waste theft.

00:29:11.000 We're not seeing anybody in fair laundry.

00:29:13.000 I passed legislation to prosecute.

00:29:15.000 And I would like to see it happening here.

00:29:17.000 Because what we don't see when we're talking about crime, we're really talking about white collar crime.

00:29:21.000 We're really talking about ways in which we're going to hold corporate criminals accountable.

00:29:25.000 We're really taking any strides in any level of government to do anything about that.

00:29:29.000 But we continue to talk about the crimes of desperation, and particularly the crimes in marginalized communities.

00:29:36.000 Oh, they're marginalized and desperate.

00:29:38.000 How about the victims of those crimes?

00:29:40.000 If crimes of desperation are to be punished less, then maybe we shouldn't let more desperate people into the country. 1.00

00:29:46.000 Just saying.

00:29:47.000 Don't really think that argument makes a whole lot of sense.

00:29:51.000 While we've been broadcasting the show, The Ukraine caucus has sent around the Ukraine ribbon for folks to wear during the State of the Union.

00:30:03.000 I will not be wearing the Ukraine ribbon.

00:30:06.000 It was quite something when we had the Ukraine flag displayed by Zelensky on the floor of the Congress.

00:30:11.000 It was like Democrats finally found a flag they were willing to stand up for.

00:30:16.000 I stand for the American flag for the American people.

00:30:19.000 That's why we need sensible border policy.

00:30:21.000 That's why we need a criminal justice system that holds people accountable.

00:30:24.000 It's why we need fiscal responsibility.

00:30:27.000 And it's why we need to end the U.S. contribution to this war in Ukraine.

00:30:32.000 Thanks so much for joining us on Firebrand.

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00:30:51.000 Roll the credits.

Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - February 06, 2023

Episode 88 LIVE: Balloon Mania – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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