On this episode of Firebrand, Rep. Matt Gaetz speaks about the latest mass shooting in Louisville, Kentucky, and calls for an end to the use of psychotropic drugs in mass shootings. He also talks about the FBI infiltrating Catholics in order to find out what they are up to and why they should be worried about it. Also, he talks about why we should all be concerned about gender dysphoria and how it could be linked to mass shootings like the one that took place in Nashville, Tennessee, and the one in Louisville. Finally, he takes a look at the latest on the border, debt ceiling, and border patrol agents infiltrating the Catholic church. Firebrand is a production of the Firebrand Radio Network. See all the great network shows on the air and catch them on your favorite streaming platforms wherever you get your shows. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and Subscribe to our new podcast, Firebrand! Subscribe, Like, and Share to stay up to date with the latest breaking news and discuss the latest in politics, entertainment, and culture! and other things going on in the world of politics, social media, sports, and social media! - The Swamp Dweller Podcast, the crew is dedicated to bringing you the most authentic and uncensored version of what's happening in Washington, D.C. and the people who care about what s happening on the ground and in the real world. Subscribe to the Swamp, the place where it matters. - Subscribe, tweet us your thoughts and opinions on all things going down in the Swamp! and send us what s going on the Swamp and everything else going down there! Tweet us your response to it! . or share it to us on social media and we re listening to us! , and we ll update you re gonna get a whole lot more! on the next episode of the Swamp Thing podcast! or send us your voice on the latest thing you veezeeeeeee or your thoughts on that s going to be sent to us , right there on it s gonna be more than that s gonna talk about it, right there, yay! Timestamps: - Timestweet - Tomahawk - Firebrand - - PODCAST: - the Swamp Talk Podcast - & , the Swamp - and the Swamp Call
00:04:47.000Matt 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.
00:04:54.000Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem for the Democratic Party.
00:04:57.000He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:05:00.000So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
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!
00:05:39.000This is Congressman Matt Gaetz broadcasting live from room 2021 of the Rayburn House Office Building here in the Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C.
00:05:49.000I've got major updates regarding where you can get information regarding the actions that Congress is taking and reviewing to secure our elections, the investigations into places, particularly in swing states, where clean elections were not being run.
00:06:04.000Also, I'm going to have the latest tea on House leadership disputes.
00:06:08.000We've got some reporting out of the New York Times and out of Axios, but you know not to just believe the New York Times, so I will let you know about the conversations we've been having regarding upcoming discussions on the border and particularly on the budget and on the debt limit.
00:06:27.000Maybe it's your local Catholic parish.
00:06:29.000The Weaponization Subcommittee just releasing the latest information that Chairman Jim Jordan has made available regarding information we've learned regarding undercover efforts by the FBI to infiltrate the Catholics as if Catholics are the big problem that we have as a country.
00:06:50.000But we began the update today with an unequivocal statement against violence, against political violence, particularly against these senseless actions that we see over and over again in our country where loss of life is entirely preventable.
00:07:08.000This morning, we were made aware yet again of another shooting, this time at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky.
00:07:16.000And sadly, from what we know, it looks like four people lost their lives in Kentucky and another eight were injured.
00:07:25.000We, of course, want to take time to mourn the loss of innocent life, but we should not wait in acting to prevent these frequent, aggressive acts from happening in the future.
00:07:36.000Democrats want to blame guns, of course, but we know it's not that simple.
00:07:43.000Your grandparents used to be able to order mail-order automatic weapons, and when the Second Amendment was written, the American people, such as they were, could own cannons.
00:07:56.000Well, let's take a look at the profile of some of these most recent nutjobs who've been terrorizing us.
00:08:02.000The Louisville shooter is apparently a deranged, mentally ill leftist.
00:08:07.000Aside from using his pronouns in his bio, which are he-him, by the way, he-him likes to post memes on Reddit accusing Trump of racism and celebrating COVID lockdowns because he-him considers he himself an introvert.
00:08:25.000Not unlike the Nashville shooter, who was especially deranged and clinically insane, this shooter in Kentucky allegedly made comments to a friend about being suicidal and wanting to kill other innocents.
00:08:40.000My first question would be, are these people on SSRIs?
00:08:46.000Are they taking anti-anxiety medication or antidepressants?
00:08:50.000We are the most drugged-up Generation in all of human history and these drugs are being handed out like candy not behind some Walmart or on some street corner but by Big Pharma and Big Pharma knows that there are side effects to a lot of these drugs that they push that can cause psychosis and even make feelings of suicide and violence and depression all the more acute.
00:09:18.000They have these mind-altering medications, and many mass shooters, don't know about this particular case in Kentucky, but many mass shooters have been on these drugs and have actually been on them for quite some time.
00:09:29.000It used to be the case where if you saw some second or third grader acting up, you could have some thoughtful parenting, you could have some behavior modification that wasn't necessarily so...
00:09:42.000Chemical in nature, and now it seems to be converting to some sort of chemical solution is what we're willing to turn to all too soon in life for young people, and it leads to this lifetime of dependence and side effects and cascading consequences, sometimes lethal.
00:10:00.000So is there a connection between some of this violence we've seen and gender dysphoria?
00:10:05.000The Nashville shooter wasn't the first gender-confused individual to go homicidal.
00:10:11.000Maybe shooting people full of hormones doesn't make them less likely to shoot us.
00:10:18.000Just what a mentally unstable person needs.
00:10:21.000Massive mood swings caused by hormone therapy.
00:10:25.000It's quite literally a recipe for mass violence, and frequently.
00:10:30.000Big Pharma has been caught pushing these antidepressants and puberty blockers and hormone shots because there's money to be made in that business.
00:11:02.000Maybe they have to sell the virus before they sell the antidote.
00:11:06.000Maybe the whole regime of Big Pharma is built on this fiction that they have to convince us that we are so broken and fragile and frail that we have to take these drugs forever to be functioning in society.
00:11:21.000Innocent people are forced to share a country with dangerous people.
00:11:26.000Our streets have been taken over by the criminally insane, homeless encampments are everywhere, blue cities are enabling them with their policies, and the Democrats Are telling the trans community, one of the most unfortunately severely unstable groups in the world, that Republicans are coming after them and they need to defend themselves by killing people who don't agree with them.
00:11:51.000They tell people like this that the Louisville shooter, you know, they tell folks like the Louisville shooter that Republicans are evil and racist and fascist and that we must be stopped at all costs.
00:12:04.000And then they wonder why random acts of violence are coming from the political left.
00:12:12.000Someone who was brazenly boasting about their gayness called my office threatening that if I come for the gays, he'll shoot me in the head.
00:12:23.000Listen to the voicemail here for the first time.
00:12:37.000And I just want to let you know, Representative Matt Gaetz, if you keep on coming for the game, we're going to strike back.
00:12:44.000And I guarantee you, you do not want to f*** us.
00:12:48.000We will kill you if that's what it takes.
00:12:52.000I will take a bullet to your f***ing head if you f*** my rights anymore.
00:12:58.000And then if you want to keep going down that path, you know who's next.
00:13:07.000There's a lot about that call that's disturbing and bizarre and weird.
00:13:12.000And I guess I don't know at the outset what they exactly think I did to come for the gays.
00:13:18.000What was that, my effort to try to get drag queen story hours not paid for by the U.S. taxpayer on military bases?
00:13:29.000I think we should be accommodating in our hearts, but that doesn't mean that we have to reorient the fundamentals of American life or the science of gender to be accommodating to people like that individual.
00:13:43.000And I'm grateful for the folks at the FBI field office who ensured that this individual was arrested.
00:13:49.000And since it's an ongoing legal matter, I won't have further comment other than to say I'm so grateful for the people who work in my office and they do not deserve to be terrorized by the likes of those types of individuals.
00:14:03.000So the Democrats are purposefully riling up their nutty shock troops in hopes that they will terrorize normal Americans into submission.
00:14:13.000Rand Paul was assaulted by his riled-up neighbor.
00:14:16.000A congressional baseball practice was shot up by a riled-up Bernie bro.
00:14:20.000You just heard the voicemail left for me, and more will come.
00:14:24.000It's the Democratic Party and Big Pharma that are unleashing the crazies on you, and nobody seems to have a solution for it.
00:14:35.000There are severely mentally ill people who do not have a right to wander our streets seeking and selecting who they are going to terrorize.
00:14:45.000Whether there is criminal culpability or not, there is a permanent element of society that is dangerous.
00:14:53.000And it does not make us more just or more compassionate to have them walking amongst the rest of us.
00:15:00.000Because then you see the type of loss of life that we've seen too frequently from these acts of violence.
00:15:05.000Now, subject to due process, of course, in our Constitution, we have to put some people away.
00:15:11.000And that might not be politically correct to say, but it is the truth that we encounter, especially in a world in which we're getting so many people chemically addicted.
00:15:21.000Good people have a right to exist in the country without wondering if some crazy leftist or mentally ill individual lurking around the corner is about to post up and kill you.
00:15:33.000Maybe even at your local bank like we saw in Kentucky, quite sadly.
00:15:40.000There's other news today coming out of the Weaponization Subcommittee on which I serve.
00:15:46.000This afternoon, the Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government broke news That we now have proof that the FBI was utilizing at least one undercover asset, possibly more, to infiltrate local religious organizations as, quote, Here's the tweet.
00:16:08.000Now, this letter that Chairman Jordan sent to Christopher Wray, director of the FBI, explains that we have been seeking information concerning a document produced to us by the Richmond Field Office of the FBI entitled, quote, Interest of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists in radical traditionalist Catholic ideology almost certainly presents new mitigation opportunities.
00:16:36.000So this is a memo coming out of the Richmond Field Office where an assessment is being made that there's this great threat in traditional Catholics, but don't worry, we can mitigate that threat so long as we have the FBI more involved in the Catholic Church.
00:16:54.000Now, in this document, the FBI categorized Catholic Americans based on theological distinctions and relied on, you will not believe this, the left-wing and defamatory Southern Poverty Law Center as authority to classify certain Christians as potential domestic terrorists.
00:17:16.000The FBI relying on information from at least one undercover agent sought to engage with mainline Catholic parishes to, quote, sensitize the congregation to warning signs of radicalization and enlist their assistance to serve as suspicious activity tripwires.
00:17:35.000Is that what you think of your fellow parishioners, your fellow churchgoers?
00:17:39.000That they're the potential tripwires that could rat you out to the FBI if they don't like your politics or your bumper sticker, how you pray, where you pray, what you pray?
00:17:50.000The FBI also expressed an interest in source development within placement and access to the parishes that they were interested in.
00:19:19.000Continue to speak out and stand up against any radical takeover of our country and we will do everything we can to prevent the FBI from continuing this behavior and trust me there's going to be many much more to come on that story.
00:19:36.000I also want to give everyone an important update regarding election integrity.
00:19:41.000The house administration committee here in congress has jurisdiction over elections And I want to encourage you to go to the House Administration Republican website or to the website of the committee's chairman, Brian Stile, S-T-E-I-L, and sign up for the Faith in Elections project, Educate, Engage, and Reform.
00:20:02.000The top-line messaging here is that for three years, Democrats have been working to undermine our faith in elections and really try to use the power they had in Washington to federalize elections.
00:20:14.000We believe that state-specific approaches, rather than one-size-fits-all tactics, will ensure the security and fairness of elections.
00:20:24.000Specifically, Florida, Louisiana, Ohio, and most recently Georgia, strengthened voter ID laws, and they can operate in some regards as a gold standard on those questions.
00:20:37.000Now, I think in Georgia there's a lot of personnel they need to change out, but I'm also glad that the House Administration Committee is looking at some specific examples where we've fallen short of the standard that we've had.
00:20:49.000I want to just bring this one to your attention.
00:20:55.000So on Tuesday, March 28th, the House Administration Committee held a hearing entitled 2022 Midterms Look Back Series.
00:21:02.000And what they found during this investigation is that in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, nearly a third of the polling locations ran out of ballots on Election Day And in those places, many voters were denied the right to vote.
00:21:19.000So we have to find out where this is happening, not to federalize elections, but to try to get local officials to be responsive and transparent and faithful to their job and their mission, because if you run out of ballots on Election Day and you predominantly have voters who think a particular way choosing to vote on Election Day, then not only is that voter suppression, but it's election interference because there is a partisan outcome, an ideological outcome as a consequence.
00:21:48.000Also, I want to give you an update from the Ways and Means Committee.
00:21:51.000Chairman Jason Smith and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman David Schweikert put out a statement regarding the recent updates to the administration's implementation of their IRS reporting scheme.
00:22:07.000So here's what you need to know about this.
00:22:09.000Democrats lowered the threshold for reporting to a mere $600 in their so-called American Rescue Plan.
00:22:17.000Given how problematic these new requirements will be, the Biden administration has pushed back the rollout of this until next year, but that shows how foolish it was in the first place.
00:22:28.000Now, many Americans, as a result of this rescue plan, are going to need rescue because the lower reporting threshold will likely result in higher accounting charges for middle class people just to comply with the law, just to not be audited or terrorized by the 87,000 just to not be audited or terrorized by the 87,000 new IRS agents.
00:22:47.000There's an important piece of legislation that I'm going to be co-sponsoring that I want you to know about at H.R. 190, the Saving Gig Economy Taxpayers Act.
00:22:57.000This was introduced by Representative Carol Miller of West Virginia, and it would restore the higher threshold to more than 200 commercial transactions worth more than $20,000 in payments.
00:23:10.000So to not have the IRS crawling around in every $601 transaction, Representative Miller's legislation would raise that threshold to $20,000, and it would be for commercial transactions rather than other matters.
00:23:27.000That ought to fall below the scrutiny of the IRS without question.
00:23:32.000So that's important legislation to keep up with as well.
00:23:35.000Finally, I want to talk about the big news that a lot of Republicans in Congress are reacting to now.
00:23:43.000It's a piece by Jonathan Swan entitled, Quoted, not really quoted, on background, people told the New York Times that Speaker McCarthy had called budget chairman Jody Arrington incompetent and the majority leader Steve Scalise as ineffective and unwilling to take hard positions.
00:24:15.000The New York Times gets a lot of this wrong.
00:24:18.000And while I don't know the specifics here, and I haven't been involved in these particular discussions, one thing I can tell you is that Budget Chairman Jody Arrington is not incompetent.
00:24:30.000Matter of fact, when Republicans recently gathered to strategize about the upcoming debt limit, Jody Arrington stood before the conference and proposed specific Deep, vertical cuts to agencies in Washington where the taxpayers would be better served and the American people would be better served if we got rid of the federal infrastructure around red tape and bureaucracy and block-granted healthcare money,
00:24:57.000education money, workforce dollars to the states to allow the laboratories of democracy to flourish.
00:25:05.000And Jody Arrington, the budget chairman, was...
00:25:09.000Not mincing words about the fact that there would have to be some entitlements like Medicaid that would be subject to strict work requirements.
00:25:19.000People who are able to work should work if they want others to be a part of paying for their housing or education or their cell phone or their transportation or any other thing that other people are providing resources for in one's life.
00:25:38.000That makes society more productive when individual members of the society are more productive.
00:25:45.000So Arrington lays that out at our strategy meeting.
00:25:47.000Then this New York Times piece comes out.
00:25:49.000That's chased by a Julie Grace Berfke piece in Axios going through the various consequences of people reacting to this news from the New York Times.
00:26:04.000Republicans need an answer on the debt limit.
00:26:07.000It is approaching, and if we don't lay out a budget and a plan, then we are at Janet Yellen's whim to dictate the timing most advantageous to the administration to force a multi-trillion dollar increase to the debt limit without any downward pressure on spending.
00:27:22.000Congressman Andy Biggs has put out a plan, 507 pieces of legislation specifically reducing spending, going after a lot of the goofy green climate policies, the ESG policies, a lot of the funding of critical race theory and the like, and even the Republican Study Committee, another conservative group, has put out a blueprint and a game plan about how to deal with the debt limit.
00:27:47.000If we do not move something off of the floor of the House of Representatives with at least 218 votes, it strengthens Biden's hand.
00:28:00.000Let's not be afraid that some spending reduction that we put on the floor might not pass.
00:28:06.000Let's source all the good ideas that we have from different members of the caucus regarding reductions in spending, and some will pass, some will fail, and then that will constitute the position of the House of Representatives negotiating against the Senate and Joe Biden.
00:28:22.000Because you can rest assured, they're not going to be looking for reductions in spending.
00:28:26.000They believe that the way to deal with the deficit is to hire more IRS agents, to have higher taxes.
00:28:33.000To have higher compliance costs for people who make under $400,000 a year.
00:28:39.000Families where the cumulative income is less than $400,000.
00:28:43.000You better expect for your compliance costs to go up.
00:28:46.000I hope you're able to handle that next multi-thousand dollar accounting bill.
00:28:51.000See, that's where the Biden administration has deviated from their mandate.
00:28:56.000The American people said during the midterms that we had to deal with inflation, and so often that inflation is driven by bad Fed policy and by government-induced spending.
00:29:08.000So I don't know what to make of the New York Times' veracity.
00:29:12.000Usually I believe the New York Times is lying until I see proof that they are not, and I don't see that in this reporting.
00:29:19.000But what I do see is hard work being done by Budget Chairman Jody Arrington, by the House Freedom Caucus, by my colleague Andy Biggs, and I am thoroughly supportive of all of those efforts.
00:29:31.000And so let's start taking those tough votes on the floor.
00:29:34.000Let's start seeing where all the Republicans stand and where all the representatives of the people do.
00:29:38.000And that will put us in the strongest position.
00:29:41.000Thanks so much for joining us today on Firebrand.
00:29:44.000Please leave a comment regarding your views on the budget, the debt limit, the strategic days that are ahead.
00:29:50.000Give us a five-star rating and make sure to join us next time for Firebrand.