Episode 134 LIVE： Thanksgiving Inflation (feat. Sen. Jeff Brandes) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz
Summary
Join me as I listen to firebrand Texan Congressman Chip Roy excoriating republicans for having caved far too often for far too long. We live in a country now where over 100,000 people have been poisoned by fentanyl. We allow China to continue to eat our lunch in all kinds of respects, from their military advancements, to their cultural attacks, and their poisoning of our fellow countrymen.
Transcript
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matt gates the biggest firebrand inside of the house of representatives you're not taking matt
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gates off the board okay because matt gates is an american patriot and matt gates is an american
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hero we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight i want to thank
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you matt gates for holding the line matt gates is a courageous man if we had hundreds of matt gates
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in dc the country turns around it's that simple he's so tough he's so strong he's smart and he loves
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this country matt gates it is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you
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we will save america it's choose your fighter time send in the firebrands
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one thing i want my republican colleagues to give me one thing one that i can go campaign on and say
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we did one anybody sitting in the complex if you want to come down to the floor and come explain to
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me one material meaningful significant thing the republican majority has done besides well i guess
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welcome back to firebrand that was firebrand texas congressman chip roy excoriating republicans for
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having caved far too often for far too long and he is a hundred percent right we live in a country now
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where over a hundred thousand people have been poisoned by fentanyl we allow china to continue
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to eat our lunch in all kinds of respects from their military advancements to even their cultural
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attacks and their poisoning of our fellow countrymen and if you look at the border and the economy
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house republicans have got to do more to deliver wins that's why we made a change in leadership
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and while house speaker johnson has got a little runway it's not a forever runway he's got to get us
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back to the winning ways that chip roy is calling for and my advice to speaker johnson take a lot of
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advice from that man a great texas congressman someone i respect a lot and uh someone who i think
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has identified some of the problems and challenges facing the country one of those notably the bidenomics
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inducing inflation now americans can expect to pay more this thanksgiving for just about every aspect
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of their meal because president biden and bidenomics and biden inflation are well above the federal
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reserves target and certainly well above our ability to pay for it since joe biden took office overall food
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prices have risen over 17 percent frozen vegetables are up almost 11 percent uncooked beef steaks up almost
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11 even the sauces and gravies you don't think about those being a major cost driver of thanksgiving but
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sauces and gravies are up seven and a half percent uncooked turkey up about the same amount 7.2 percent
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white bread up 7.1 percent and there are so many concerning facts about the biden economy the consumer price
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index a key inflation indicator rose at an increased annual rate of 3.2 percent in october and keep in
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mind though the rate of inflation may be slowing it is stacked so all the inflation we've already
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endured has not been remediated or diminished so when you hear the white house talk about less inflation
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what they cannot tell you is that it is resulting in lower prices lower prices that's what the american
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people want and the prices are artificially high not as a function of some uncontrollable global
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feature but the direct policy choices that joe biden and his government have made so according to a recent
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ap poll about two-thirds of adults say their household expenses have risen over the last year 73 percent
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describe the national economy as poor if 73 percent of the people are saying that the national economy is poor
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i wouldn't be running on bidenomics it's not working for three out of four americans and a recent
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study published by bankrate shows that just 21 percent of americans think that their financial
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situation has improved since joe biden became president around one in five i feel like most people
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definitely that observe this program consider themselves part of the four of five who've had their
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conditions diminished as a consequence of joe biden and frankly if you listen to chip roy as a
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consequence of republicans who have not been fighting hard enough so what should we be fighting for
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you've heard me say it a lot on this program that only single subject spending bills will actually cut
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spending these continuing resolutions and omnibus bills they are the path to more deaths more deficits and
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higher spending and we got this admission that my vision on single subject spending bills will cut
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spending from no less than one of the progressive leaders of the democratic party roe connor of
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california he makes the admission on joy reid's msnbc program take a listen
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most speakers last for years matt gates has literally said essentially mike johnson has
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seven months to reduce spending to each bill everything one at a time which is madness
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it's madness and it is reducing spending that is going to hurt working families
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even our critics even the people who have a different vision on governance and budgeting admit
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that my vision will result in less spending and we've got to have it because that is what's driving
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the inflation and it hearkens back to remember that july 4th tweet that the biden white house put out
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previously oh yes we've got it on the screen there yes a 16 cents decrease in the cost of all of those
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food stuffs and goods so 16 cent decrease not even true today we went through the numbers the numbers are
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all up and another area where the numbers are up and troubling the border we break down the border
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numbers for you frequently on this program it is important that when discussing these matters we don't
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do so in the abstract so month by month year by year we're here to lay out how bad the problem has gotten
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so let's look at the october numbers in october alone there were 240,988 illegal immigrant
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encounters at the southern border it's a staggering number it is a 235 percent increase from october 2020
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october was the 32nd straight month where monthly illegal immigrant encounters have been higher than the
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highest month ever seen under president trump 32 in a row in october 12 individuals whose names appear on the
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terrorist watch list were stopped trying to cross into the united states from mexico so far under biden
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279 of these individuals whose names appear on the terror watch list were stopped trying to cross the
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southern border and you don't know how many gotaways were known terrorists how many people we never even
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encountered were known terrorists but you know it ain't zero based on the hundreds that we have seen and
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more than a dozen just this last month in fiscal year 2023 169 people whose names were on the terrorist watch list
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were stopped trying to cross the southern border an all-time record this total is more than the encounters in all of
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fiscal year 17 to fiscal year 2022 combined biden's far left open border policies are precisely why we find
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ourselves in this crisis they must be reversed and we have to be willing to use every bit of leverage that we have
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to see that outcome come to fruition as uh as we're chatting president she has made his stops throughout the
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united states notably in california and california governor gavin newsom criticized for all the cleanup that
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california was willing to do not for their own citizens not for visitors from america but from
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their bankers in china and responding to that criticism here we have california governor gavin newsom take a
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listen i know folks say oh they're just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming
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so they are willing to clean up california for the foreign communists but she stays filthy and dirty for
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the homegrown communists not exactly america first but from my standpoint we had an important hearing
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this week in the house armed services committee regarding hypersonics and that really sets deterrence
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with china china china and russia have capabilities in hypersonics that exceed america's that is not an
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admission that i have any joy in sharing with you we ought to have the best strongest most most least lethal
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survivable and capable military in all of the world and when you have a delivery system for a nuclear
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warhead for another type of payload that can hit the target at a far higher rate of speed and with
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more accuracy than the other systems that starts to inform almost all of the strategic thinking that
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your nation does in times of conflict or risk of escalation or accident so today we had uh several
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folks who were really speaking to that strategic imperative and we talked about the united states being
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behind china and behind russia on hypersonics take a listen
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i focus a lot on hypersonics here and so i was wondering what your perspective was on how our
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current hypersonic capabilities compared with these two near pure adversaries was contributing to that
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that sense of deterrence well sort of simply put we're a little behind uh in terms of the development
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of our hypersonics capabilities uh madeline is is right we're behind both countries with regard
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to the hypersonic issue uh we've had tests and i won't get into the details but uh the bottom line
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is that we're we are behind where our two opponents are and what this means is that they have some
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capabilities with which they can threaten us and just to draw a finer point on it senator when you say
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we are behind both countries in hypersonics you are referring to china and russia right mr chairman
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representative gage that's correct we are behind china and russia and we should be using the entire
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national security apparatus to catch up to keep our country safe and secure but instead we've been so
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distracted by nonsense at the dod at the cia and even the national security agency the nsa the nsa
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has apparently been up to no good but not in the usual sense instead of spying on americans without warrants
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it seems the nsa has now shifted its focus to you guessed it diversity equity and inclusion the nsa has
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compiled possibly the most expansive glossary of dei terms the world has ever seen and it begs the question
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is the nsa running like the biggest psyop in american history or are they too corrupted by the
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managerial hr culture that dominates every aspect of modern society why is the nsa creating a glossary
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of woke terms the glossary itself states quote the following is a glossary of terms and commonly used
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language in dialogue regarding diversity equity inclusion and social justice to be used as a reference
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this glossary and its definitions provide a starting point for engaging in open and honest
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conversation and it's a tool meant to build shared language and understanding sounds wonderful does
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it feel so much better now let's take a look at what this shared language and understanding actually
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sounds like these are the terms white fragility white privilege white supremacy even whiteness which the
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report that the nsa put out defines as quote a broad social construction that embraces the white culture
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history ideology radicalization expressions experiences emotions and behaviors all in order to reap material
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political economic and structural benefits for those socially deemed white wow what does it mean to be
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socially deemed white i i thought that the color of your skin was an immutable trait and why is it whenever white people
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are seeking some sort of advancement in the economy or culture or national security it's all meant to reap the
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no group of humans in all of human history has ever been without a series of pretty bad actions right you get a group of
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humans together for long enough we do bad things to one another that goes back to biblical times
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but white people have built some of the most durable and inclusive civilizations that have ever existed and of course mistakes have
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been made along the way and that is why we strive to be a more perfect union that does not judge people based on their
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immutable traits like the color of their skin but now the nsa is putting reports together saying if you're deemed
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socially white anything you do is has got to be viewed through this lens of the advancement of one group of people
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at the expense of another when the reality is the united states of america has been a platform for people of
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all kind and color and creed to advance and so what the nsa is pushing is a load of insane bigoted nonsense
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and these are just a few of the 327 social justice terms listed in their glossary to blame white
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europeans for engaging in settler colonialism settler colonialism it's one of those terms that's gaining
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popularity with hamas supporters apparently jews and israelis are the white colonizers now welcome to
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the club i guess now second to the anti-white rhetoric in this nsa report we get a bizarre transgender
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vernacular emerging the list that they have produced like seems to make up every pronoun under the sun
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and every now and then there's a little comic relief with terms like trans misogyny i had to look at
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that one a couple times trans misogyny they describe as the intersection of transphobia and misogyny
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the irrational fear of aversion to or discrimination against transgender people trans misogyny is often
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directed at trans women in particular so after billions of dollars in funding little oversight
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the nsa has now taken it upon themselves to decide that men can now be misogynistic to other men
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what a breakthrough your tax dollars at work meanwhile china and russia beating us on hypersonics
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but we figured out that men can be misogynistic to men wow what an advancement just about the only thing
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that this report doesn't explain is what business the nsa has in cataloging and promoting any of this
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hysterical mentally ill lunacy big brother getting into crt should concern us and if we don't nip it in the bud
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right now we're going to be paying for it imagine the nsa intercepting your text messages and flagging
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any material deemed to support extremist beliefs like there are only two genders or men can't be
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misogynist to other men or i'm not sorry that my ancestors created western civilization perhaps they're
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already doing this after all we learn oftentimes after the fact of the nsa's violations of the law and
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our civil liberties what else would they be keeping a glossary like this for as insane as it is it's
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dangerous and the nsa owes the american people an explanation we can't let this continue history
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is fraught with mass hysteria like this and sadly the good guys don't always win we need to put an end
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to it before we figure out what it looks like when the crt regime is lashed to the most exquisite
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spying and surveillance tools that have ever existed on the planet earth there's sad news that we also
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must share with you today from florida's first congressional district i want to send out
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condolences to the family of u.s air force captain nicholas smog brown captain brown was a pilot
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instructor for the 58th fighter squadron and a member of our eglin air force base family in northwest
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florida captain brown tragically passed away on november 11th 2023 as a result of injuries sustained
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during a free dive incident near the east destine pass captain brown was described as a devoted father
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husband and beloved squadron mate captain brown's family has shared a gofundme page we'll be putting
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that information out on our social media platforms they've raised 141 000 with a goal of 158 000
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dollars i will be donating and would encourage you to do so as well we had an interesting
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conversation recently that i want to let all of our viewers in on in florida there's a lot of
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discussion about how to drive down some of our incarceration and corrections costs how to have
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better outcomes in the criminal justice space i'm a former state lawmaker i chaired our criminal justice
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subcommittee in the state house of representatives and i caught up with one of my former colleagues former
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state senator jeff brandes to discuss what some of his policy visions are regarding florida and
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veterans criminal justice take a listen jeff brandes is a former member of the florida senate and florida
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house of representatives we serve together in the legislature he now leads the florida policy project and
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they are out with an interesting new report about the incarcerated population in florida particularly
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veterans who are getting older and senator brandes has some policy prescriptions so jeff thanks so
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much for joining me and tell me what you've learned about our veterans who are incarcerated in the
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sunshine state sure the florida policy project is an organization dedicated to identifying best
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practices in the country on criminal justice property insurance transportation and housing
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and right now we're just launched a report on veterans which basically says we have about 4 000
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veterans we think that's underreported that are incarcerated in the state of florida and we're not
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serving them at the level we think would be considered a best practice at all in fact oftentimes we aren't
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serving them at all in the prison system other than putting them in veterans dorms that we aren't
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monitoring what have we learned about their age and the risk that they would pose if there was some sort of
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re-entry opportunity so that's the thing florida's veterans are largely serving very long sentences
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and they're getting old in prison and and so we think that there is uh we can provide more services we
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can provide more uh counseling to those that are incarcerated and provide them better re-entry
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opportunities connecting them to services on the outside um while they're and connecting to the va services
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that are available while they're still incarcerated there are also a lot of federal benefits that our
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veterans would be able to access if they weren't incarcerated and frankly a lot of their health
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care that would be paid for not by florida taxpayers but uh but by you know those who uh who are
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contributing to to federal programs and we've had this uh this immersion of veterans courts in florida
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where it's a specialized docket to review uh the different allegations and charges that are made and then to try to
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fashion a correction solution that might be unique to veterans uh what's been your perspective on the
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success of that program in florida i think it's the the veterans court has been incredibly effective
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at dealing with some of the the you know those that are incarcerated for drug crimes or property crimes
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unfortunately you know veterans uh have a higher incidence of sex crimes and that's largely why
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they're incarcerated or larger or violent crimes and so that's typically is why you see veterans
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being incarcerated for longer periods of time but even that population uh we can find solutions for
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and that's why you know the floor policy project is calling for more investment in our veterans that
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are incarcerated uh senator brandes you know re-entry more broadly beyond these specific populations we've
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talked about has proven to be an essential component to reduce recidivism and there are some folks in
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criminal justice uh thinking who just are of the lock them up throw away the key perspective and
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certainly for probably some defendants that's warranted but how should we think about re-entry
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as a concept and uh and the investment we ought to make in it well first of all i think we need to
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praise and recognize the success of the first step act and that the overwhelming data that we're getting
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back now that that has kind of matured now is that it's been incredibly positive i think the second
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thing is to recognize that there's two key indicators when we're re-entering people what kind of house or
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household are they going back into and are they available to get and keep a job and those are the
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two primary factors that i think the state of florida and frankly every different uh corrections
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institution can do better at is identifying best practices that help people re-enter society which
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means can they get it they get an id when they leave prison can they get a bank account when they
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leave prison those kind of key things that we don't even think about your transportation is often a
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major challenge for those leaving prison in florida they leave prison with 50 bucks and a bus pass now
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nobody will tell you that's a best practice and it's an area where we can do a lot more work for
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our veterans and just those that are not veterans that are leaving prison the key thing is how do we
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get them to re-enter society um we're all focused on public safety but the best thing we can do is
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taking those people that are incarcerated and getting out ensuring that they're successful when they get out
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no doubt i mean what what folks don't think about is that almost everyone in prison is going to get
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out one day and we know what that day is going to be for the most part from the government side
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and so we we should be doing more to plan for the success of that individual whether it's industry
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certification education uh whether it is like you said an id or or some sort of re-entry plan where
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folks are getting a job working and i think that can do a lot to reduce the number of victims and
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of crimes that that we ultimately have in this country a final question for you senator brandes
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what is next for the florida policy project what issues are you going to be putting out reports on
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and where can folks uh follow that work and follow you so obviously the one of the top challenges in
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florida is uh property insurance and housing affordability and so we're going to be launching
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our uh property insurance uh discussion and best practices in the coming days uh that we have one on
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vouchers uh for housing affordability and then we're going to specifically look at women in prison
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i mean i think that's one of the most challenging areas that we see in the country is best practices
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for for dealing with that women are incarcerated they often come in with a lot of trauma uh they
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they often are leaving their kids and they're often separated from their kids by my hours and hours of
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travel and so i think it's an area that's under-researched and when we're going to spend some time
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looking at best practices and how can folks follow the group and follow you sure you can go to
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floridapolicyproject.com and see all the great work we're doing and you can follow us on twitter
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at jeffrey brandes or at florida policy project senator jeff brandes head of the florida policy
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project thanks so much for joining me great to see you matt