Episode 108 LIVE: Lying Lloyd Austin – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz
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Summary
On this episode of Firebrand, we discuss the FBI spying on members of Congress, the debt ceiling crisis, and the growing number of drag shows being held on military bases. We also discuss why the Department of Defense seems to have a problem with critical race theory.
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Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress who bothered to stand
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up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
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Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem for the Democratic Party.
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He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing the laws.
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So we're going to keep running those stories to get hurt again.
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If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn
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her to the ground, then welcome, my fellow patriots.
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I'm a canceled man in some corners of the Internet.
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Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.
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We are broadcasting live out of room 2021 of the Rayburn House Office Building on the
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I've got updates regarding the debt limit negotiations that are happening right now.
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Also, important information regarding the abuses that the federal government has been engaged
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I hope you watch the FBI whistleblowers episode that we put up yesterday.
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It went through all the key parts of that testimony, but we're getting even more news
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about how the FBI is breaking the confines of their authorities, particularly regarding
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When the FBI gets to go before secret courts, it seems as though that's when we get the
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But before we get to that, why is it that the Department of Defense and their leadership
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just cannot be straight about stuff, especially the wokeness?
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Time and again, they say, oh, well, we're not teaching critical race theory in our academies.
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Then you show them the critical race theory curriculum.
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They say, oh, we're not aggrandizing socialism.
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Then you show where they're having pro-socialism literature in their required reading for the
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And most recently, we had to get to the absurdity of the United States military hosting drag shows
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I asked Secretary of Defense Austin about that recently in the House Armed Services Committee.
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And you just have to watch this clip, listen to this clip, with an eye toward how detached
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I guess my question is, how much taxpayer money should go to fund drag queen story hours
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You know, drag queen story hours is not something that the department funds.
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That's actually not what the record seems to suggest.
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You were going to fund one at Ramstein Air Force Base.
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That one got canceled, but that's DOD Insignia.
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Then also at Malstrom Air Force Base outside of Great Falls, Montana, you had a drag queen
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At the Joint Base Langley Eustace, you put on a drag queen story hour on a Saturday for the
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first ever kid-friendly diversity, equity, inclusion summer festival.
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And at Nellis Air Force Base, you had the Drag U Nellis on June 17th.
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Listen, drag shows are not something that the Department of Defense supports or funds.
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I will say again, this is not something that we support or fund.
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Well, so you think hosting a drag queen story hour on a military base isn't supporting the
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But you may stand by it, but it's belied by the evidence over and over again.
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I mean, are you aware of the piece Biden's military Air Force Base in Montana holds drag
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show drag queen story hour for kids in the Western Journal?
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You're saying what you're saying, but I guess it just doesn't comport the facts.
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And Mark Milley thereafter said, oh, if there's any drag queen story hours going on on military
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bases, bring me the evidence and I will work to make sure that doesn't happen.
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And that brings us to what's happening now, rather predictably.
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Matthew Lohmeyer is someone who served in the United States military, and he also wrote
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critically about all of the wokeism that was working its way into some of the training and
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curriculum that the United States, I think he was Air Force, Air Force was engaged in.
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He writes against critical race theory and is functionally driven out of the military
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So now he is a commentator on some of these things.
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And Lohmeyer puts out a tweet today, cry for help, colon, our military families are in
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The Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, recently testified that, quote, the DOD doesn't support
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And again, that was the testimony you just saw.
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For the third year in a row, Nellis Air Force Base is hosting a drag show.
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It's one of the many bases now overtly sexualizing the workplace and complicit in introducing sexual
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Troops are reaching out and asking for help to put an end to the madness.
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The next show at Nellis is June 1st on base in the Officers Club, Flyers Below.
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If you're stationed at Nellis Air Force Base, military contractor or civilian or any other
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base where this is happening, let base leadership know this is unacceptable and offensive to
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Call your congressman and talk openly with the press.
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One memo from the Secretary of Defense can end all of this on U.S. military bases.
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If he won't, and he should, but he likely won't, then our service chiefs can and should end it.
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Who has the courage among the U.S. military leaders?
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And he tags me and Tucker Carlson and a number of other media outlets.
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This is the advertisement explicitly saying that there is no minimum age requirement for this
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We used to be the elite fighting force that was the vanguard for the values and principles
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And I'm going to be sending correspondence pursuant to this notice from Mr. Lohmeyer about this event.
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And I'm going to be demanding that General Milley and Lloyd Austin merely stay consistent with their testimony.
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Look, if there is some great value out of putting on drag shows at military bases,
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Let them come forward and lay out the great military advantage that we get from the drag queen shows.
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But they don't do that when they're in committee having to answer questions.
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And then they want to go behind our back and fund it and support it.
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We'll either step up and defend it or get rid of it.
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And we're going to be calling them to a carpet for this.
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We're going to put in the National Defense Authorization Act
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that you are not permitted to engage in this activity on a military base.
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Because elements of the Defense Department have gone woke.
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And then the generals and the leadership come and lie to Congress about it.
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Maybe there needs to be a criminal referral for Lloyd Austin
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lying to Congress saying these things didn't happen,
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And Lloyd Austin very well may have committed it.
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I want to talk now about the debt limit negotiations that are ongoing.
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And there was a critical argument put out on Twitter recently by my colleague Chip Roy of Texas.
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Chip Roy is one of the real thought leaders among conservatives and certainly a border hawk and a fiscal hawk.
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And as we have this discussion right now, you've got the White House engaging in negotiation.
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I think the most productive thing that's happened in the debt limit negotiations
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is probably throwing Chuck Schumer out of the room.
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He's a person that wants to bring us to the brink
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and then try to get House Republicans to swallow some increase in the debt limit
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without any corresponding reductions in spending or key policy steps.
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So McCarthy doesn't have a lot of wiggle room here.
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It's not as if Kevin McCarthy can go and negotiate away from the plan that I didn't vote for
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that he barely passed off the floor of the House.
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Now Chip Roy, my friend, my colleague, a like-minded thinker on many things,
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that he hadn't voted for any step off of this plan.
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the Limit Save Grow Act that raises the debt ceiling $1.5 trillion
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For sensible, purposeful, non-political reforms,
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Cut the federal bureaucracy to pre-COVID levels
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by limiting total discretionary 2024 spending to 2022 levels.
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and it resets spending to save $131 billion now
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Cut the so-called Inflation Reduction Act tax credit,
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A lot of it going to people making over $100,000 a year.
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and it will stop these increases to gas and electricity
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Number two is the rollback on the crazy Green New Deal stuff.
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Implement the RAINS Act to end the abuse of executive power
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by requiring congressional approval for significant regulations.
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Or end the oppressive and deficit-increasing $550 billion
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in student loan bailouts that picks winners and losers,
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forcing hardworking plumbers or patriotic veterans
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three to five times more than non-poor and minority taxpayers.
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In other words, another policy that hurts hardworking families
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while the elite and privileged just hire a lawyer.
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they're going to have the money for the accountants and the lawyers
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it squeezes the regular folks who don't have those means.
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mirroring the bipartisan reforms signed by President Clinton
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this has been one of the key policy concessions
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I can't even believe I have to say it out loud.
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then we should be doing welfare to work right now.
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They're going to help hardworking American families
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I think that the real signal Roy is sending there
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that's an extension of his infrastructure bill.