The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - January 17, 2024


Episode 142 LIVE: SecDef Missing In Action (feat. Rep. Cory Mills) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz


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Member of Congress Cory Mills (R-FL) joins us to discuss his campaign to impeach Secretary of Defense lloyd A. Austin. Cory Mills is a firebrand who has been a long time member of the House of Representatives representing the 5th congressional district of Florida, where he is currently in his first term.

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00:00:00.000 matt gates the biggest firebrand inside of the house of representatives you're not taking matt
00:00:08.260 gates off the board okay because matt gates is an american patriot and matt gates is an american
00:00:13.600 hero we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight i want to thank you 1.00
00:00:21.160 matt gates for holding the line matt gates is a courageous man if we had hundreds of matt gates
00:00:28.200 in dc the country turns around it's that simple he's so tough he's so strong he's smart and he
00:00:34.940 loves this country matt gates it is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you
00:00:42.760 we will save america it's choose your fighter time send in the firebrands 0.76
00:00:48.660 well he wasn't trying to remain a little subtle he was trying to remain
00:00:57.820 secretive this is an individual who failed to uphold his duties and he basically vacated the
00:01:04.560 seat without letting anyone know even deputy secretary hicks who was on vacation in puerto
00:01:08.580 rico did not know that she'd assumed his duties now you've got five to six days that we don't know
00:01:13.960 what the incapacitation was for secretary lloyd while we are seeing these increased attacks that
00:01:18.940 we just talked about we talk about the idea of not just striking and attacking huti rebels but also the
00:01:24.460 fact that that shipping lane carries 12 percent of global trade a majority of that for the united
00:01:29.400 states so this is an attempt to also disrupt us and so i have you know submitted my impeachment
00:01:34.280 articles long ago in august of last year i think that the uh the republican house needs to take up
00:01:41.360 these articles of impeachment and we need to go forward with a dereliction of duty hearing i think
00:01:45.600 we can look at the 2021 afghan botched withdrawal the failure to get status of forces agreements the 33 000
00:01:52.020 recruitment deficit and also his inability to allow the administration to know what's going on as
00:01:57.140 reasoning for us to take this up and impeach him with bipartisan support
00:02:01.140 welcome back to firebrand he's calling for impeachments and hearings regarding secretary
00:02:07.760 lloyd austin not upholding his duties as the secretary of defense it's congressman florida man and
00:02:13.820 firebrand cory mills my good friend who's joining us here on firebrand you made big news
00:02:18.780 last year you saw this guy lloyd austin for what he was a phony a fraud you called him out like i've
00:02:25.580 never seen a member of congress speak to a secretary of defense and that's a lot coming from me um i want
00:02:30.660 to get into what's going on with the secretary of defense what's going on more broadly uh in the
00:02:35.620 middle east because you know a great deal about that region of the world but first just you know
00:02:39.240 you're you're in your first term here in congress you represent the great state of florida you have you
00:02:43.540 have chosen to lead from the front of this fight you take direct action uh rescuing americans from
00:02:49.980 some of the most dangerous places in the world like how would you answer the question on the street to
00:02:54.520 a person in a minute or two about like how did cory mills come to be in the united states congress
00:02:59.080 i mean look it's a god thing you know every single thing that i've done in my life whether it was coming
00:03:03.400 from a broken home whether it was serving in the military whether it was building successful
00:03:06.720 businesses i mean it all basically was on a pathway that was set for me so for me it's kind of like
00:03:12.380 the c.s lewis thing it's like the talents right so it's taking what i have my capacity capabilities
00:03:17.180 and stuff and basically being able to apply that and make it forward because when we all meet our
00:03:20.800 maker i want to be able to say are you proud of what i've done with all the things that you blessed
00:03:24.480 me with and give us a little sense of your personal military experience and record to the extent that
00:03:29.980 you can so uh served in the 82nd airborne division for a long time uh served on a scout reconnaissance
00:03:34.860 team uh was a member of the joint special operations command and uh iraq invasion in 2003
00:03:40.000 uh served a little bit of time with the state department as well as for other agencies so i
00:03:44.120 spent seven years in iraq i spent three years in afghanistan kosovo pakistan north somalia area
00:03:51.020 lived out in kenya for a little bit uh so quite a bit of time overseas and speak fluent arabic so you
00:03:56.600 know the region you know the players you know the military the bureaucracy the interagency process
00:04:02.760 and i i took note of early in your congressional career you sussed out lloyd austin and by the way
00:04:10.860 every single person in our military even at the high end of it under joe biden isn't a bad person
00:04:15.960 isn't a bad strategist but you seem to think that this guy in particular didn't have it how did you
00:04:22.280 know well one i've talked to people who've actually served under lloyd austin when he was a flag
00:04:27.060 officer and they've talked about the fact that most of his promotions was part of that kind of
00:04:32.440 the diversity you know portion of this i mean that's the honest truth from many of the commanders
00:04:37.080 who had actually served with him now you fast forward it's what has he done since he's become
00:04:41.700 the secretary of defense he's failed horribly and prioritizing the things like being ready having us
00:04:47.740 have the right equipment making sure that we're prioritizing increased lethality instead we're on
00:04:52.020 diversity equity inclusion which resulted in 33 000 plus people who no longer want to serve in our
00:04:58.340 recruitment deficit plus the 9 600 people who are unconstitutionally purged for refusing the vaccine
00:05:04.320 for religious or medical freedom reasons where's their inclusion exactly you know like they seem to
00:05:08.580 be missing out on the inclusion part of the diversity equity and inclusion because if you were a
00:05:12.780 patriotic american a devout christian someone of any faith that had a legitimate basis to seek an
00:05:18.600 exemption you got totally screwed you were excluded explicitly uh so we go through all this lloyd austin 0.77
00:05:25.540 screws up the vax mandate you were very critical of the afghanistan stuff and here's what the lloyd 0.83
00:05:31.400 austin defenders would say on the afghanistan withdrawal well that was the state department's fault
00:05:35.900 we weren't really you know we would have done it differently but really at the end of the day the
00:05:39.660 white house listened to blink in and the state department and this belief that there would be this
00:05:44.020 durable afghan government led by ghani or whomever which they knew was that would yeah well it was a
00:05:50.340 it was a patina it was just a money laundering operation with a lot of those guys well but it
00:05:55.020 has been for a long time i think the further investigation after we remove people like
00:05:58.700 secretary of austin who has a dereliction of duty we need to be doing investigations into these defense
00:06:04.220 contractors who was responsible for the training like nprs or any of the others and saying you were
00:06:10.020 giving reports to say that this battalion was ready to fight and had the necessary sustainability
00:06:14.140 clearly that was wrong were you feeding bad intel to continue your you know contracts or continue to
00:06:19.100 try and bleed the government dry there's a bigger portion of this that we need to be looking at
00:06:22.760 outside of procurement reform and how the military industrial complex works this needs to be about
00:06:27.000 people who are signing up to do a job that are not scared to tell the president when he's right when
00:06:30.880 he's wrong secretary lloyd had no escalation of force he had no rules of engagement and that's what
00:06:35.700 resulted in 13 heroes losing their lives to 13 new brave uh gold star families and do you think
00:06:41.500 they've fixed it because i'm looking at what we've got going on in the red sea right now and we've got
00:06:46.220 a lot of force posture there and like are we setting up for some gulf of tonkin moment as as a consequence
00:06:53.100 of just poor decision making at the tactical level i mean it's poor decision at the tactical level but
00:06:57.640 it's really as secretary gates said when biden was vice president he's wrong on 100 of foreign policy
00:07:03.860 this is you know the result of the houthis increasing their attacks was when they got 1.00
00:07:07.960 delisted as a terrorist organization the increase in funding and mid-range ballistic missiles is
00:07:12.540 because iran has the largest oil revenue they've ever had so we have to start you know instead of
00:07:18.680 treating the the symptoms we have to recognize the disease the disease is joe biden has failed
00:07:22.960 foreign policies we have to look at iran china russia and north korea and their geopolitical alignment
00:07:28.080 but to your point we also have to address the fact that 12 percent of global shipping
00:07:32.540 goes to the suez canal of which we're a large importer of and that this is an actual attempt
00:07:37.500 by the houthis by iran and by china to disrupt commerce for america so you believe the american
00:07:42.560 people haven't have a specific definable interest vis-a-vis global shipping in the suez canal i
00:07:48.940 absolutely do look the bottom line is we become way too reliant on adversarial nations like china 1.00
00:07:53.360 we're continuing to water ourselves down by doing what we just did last year which is the 14.4
00:07:58.220 billion dollar sale of our last and largest steel manufacturer so yes we have a national security
00:08:04.800 interest and an economic interest when it comes to the global shipping lanes yeah apparently
00:08:10.520 blinken is stuck in davos right now we got a lot of people on the live chat saying leave him there
00:08:15.120 uh maybe they can have him he's comfortable with the globalist elites so we have this eruption of
00:08:21.600 conflict you talk about the interconnectivity of what's going on in the world and then lloyd austin
00:08:26.080 goes to get a medical procedure uh does not disclose that to the white house or the president
00:08:30.500 doesn't really set up the next person in command to even come off of a vacation and now a lot of
00:08:36.280 people are looking back to the articles of impeachment that you originally filed against lloyd austin
00:08:41.400 and folks are starting to ask some some really tough questions sasha put up the tweet from congressman
00:08:46.200 chris deluzio this is a democrat congressman on the house armed services committee where where
00:08:52.040 representative mills and i do a lot of our work and here it is i've lost trust in secretary austin's
00:08:58.380 leadership of the defense department due to the lack of transparency about his recent medical treatment
00:09:03.100 and his impact on the continuity on the chain of command i have a solemn duty in congress to conduct
00:09:09.000 oversight of the department of defense through my service on the house armed services committee
00:09:12.700 that duty today requires me to call on secretary austin to resign so here is a house democrat
00:09:20.820 on our committee that's right calling for that resignation your reaction well look deluzio is
00:09:26.460 exactly right not only was there a violation of protocol which is the rule 3349 which allows the
00:09:33.260 people to announce a vacancy if they're going under any type of medical procedure the presidents do it
00:09:37.180 when they do colonoscopies or whatever the case may be but the other thing is that we had a national
00:09:41.300 security breach we've got attacks increasing like we've not seen at any point in time in syria and
00:09:47.240 just want to point out the fact that both you and i fought to repeal the authorization of use of
00:09:53.000 military force the ams that was keeping our troops uh there since oh one oh two which is being wrongfully
00:09:58.700 and being abused for the wrong reasons but the whole point is that you've got increased attacks you've got
00:10:03.280 the shipping lanes and commerce and economic trade that's getting threatened you've got an increase in
00:10:07.420 china's rhetoric about the unification to take taiwan and meanwhile for five days you have the
00:10:13.420 secretary of defense who doesn't tell anyone to include deputy secretary hicks who's on vacation in
00:10:18.680 puerto rico that she's now assumed his duties so during those missile attacks those counterattacks
00:10:23.520 my question is who is authorizing those attacks whenever you got no one at the helm and and god forbid
00:10:30.640 the plan doesn't go exactly according to plan as you well know some of these attacks can you know
00:10:35.940 there can be problems in targeting me let's keep in mind this is the crew that went and bombed some
00:10:41.260 family on their way to a barbecue in afghanistan and told the rest of us it was a it was a good kill 0.99
00:10:46.520 it was a virtuous strike on a terrorist right so they don't nail it every time and the fact that this
00:10:51.720 that this guy's being totally not transparent about this you got someone uh you know who did some of
00:10:56.620 the most intense work like you you've got democrat congressman deluzio and even seth moulton
00:11:01.200 democrat congressman from massachusetts former democrat presidential contender also on the house
00:11:06.920 armed services committee here's what congressman moulton had to say
00:11:09.280 what he did is completely unacceptable uh i can't imagine that happening at the lowest levels
00:11:17.860 of the military chain of command like where i was as a as a mere lieutenant platoon commander
00:11:22.820 in iraq i can't even imagine it happening when i was a 15 year old bus boy i mean if i was going to be
00:11:28.780 out for a week i had to tell my boss so this is a major breakdown in the chain of command and the
00:11:36.120 commander in chief needs to make a decision here it's up to the president as to whether he fires
00:11:39.780 secretary austin but i tell you what he needs to send a decisive message that this is never going
00:11:44.680 to happen again what what what would you do i'm curious if you had to make the call if i were the
00:11:49.100 president of the united states i would fire him in about five minutes
00:11:51.560 so so here we are with a joe biden crime family that not a single democrat will stand up against
00:12:02.140 there's not a single democrat that will vote to impeach joe biden over the bribes that we've shown
00:12:06.360 we have an open border where we have eight million people we've let in and there's not a single democrat
00:12:13.140 that will vote to impeach my orcas over the open border but here to their credit and i don't always
00:12:19.320 agree with molten delusio disagree with them more frequently than not but when you have two
00:12:23.880 democrats willing to step up and say this is unacceptable i would fire him he should resign
00:12:28.840 then the question becomes what is the republican response you've laid out the protocols the
00:12:36.080 procedures in a very kind of dispassionate matter of fact way and we have uh from the chairman of the
00:12:41.000 house armed services committee a strongly worded letter to lloyd austin this comes from mike rogers
00:12:45.640 who is from the state of alabama a republican and in this letter chairman rogers asks nine really
00:12:52.600 good questions uh and regarding the occurrences of any sedation or general anesthesia regarding any
00:12:59.460 orders or instructions to other people in the defense department regarding the hospitalization or
00:13:04.820 medical condition regarding the authorities that were given to deputy secretary hicks who by the way
00:13:10.000 was on vacation in puerto rico as cory mills pointed out and really really an overall accounting of all
00:13:15.560 official actions let me give you this take when you have two democrats calling for the firing or
00:13:23.240 resignation of the leader of the united states defense department and you are in a global era of
00:13:29.560 erupting conflict as cory mills just laid out a strongly worded letter is insufficient it is necessary
00:13:37.080 but insufficient we should be holding hearings right now this week in the committee that molten and
00:13:44.960 delusio and mills and gates all serve on to find out what the hell happened and who's making the
00:13:51.380 decisions because as you just heard cory say this stuff isn't over we're still in in the kill zone with
00:13:58.500 a lot of people in the middle east right now and i think the pentagon is in shambles over this so you
00:14:05.000 know i i guess you've asked lloyd austin some of the toughest questions in committee if you had
00:14:10.680 lloyd austin or a senior defense department official before us in a hearing which should
00:14:14.880 happen which will already be happening what what would you ask what are you going to drill down on
00:14:19.240 look when i asked him in our last hearing about what is willful dereliction of duty i read the
00:14:24.200 definition he acknowledged it i asked if some of the things that he didn't know i was reading his
00:14:28.260 own resume but i asked if you would have removed an officer for dereliction of duty based on these
00:14:33.080 principles he said yes i would now this furthers my argument on my impeachment articles from last
00:14:38.700 year that was filed which i still don't know why the speaker is refusing to take up or our committee
00:14:42.640 chairman is refusing to start investigating this is a willful dereliction of duty it's not as if he
00:14:48.120 didn't know what he was doing he vacated his seat didn't have responsibility had no continuity and
00:14:53.200 committed a national security breach and meanwhile he's allowed to still consider himself to be
00:14:57.620 secretary of defense if any of his officers or even his deputies would have done what he'd done he would
00:15:02.220 have had him removed but he thinks he's above the law one of the key questions that the mike rogers
00:15:06.920 letter asks is whether or not other people in the defense department were involved in this concealment
00:15:12.960 and that's a really important question right because because i do think it's appropriate to say well
00:15:16.580 if i'm making a personal choice maybe doesn't fit in with work but once i start to involve others
00:15:21.400 in the cover-up but we know that there was exactly because his staffer called the ambulance
00:15:25.960 so asked for it to be subtly turn the sirens off turn the lights off look this wasn't about
00:15:31.160 subtlety as the 9-1-1 call it was about secrecy and him withholding information that is pertinent
00:15:36.040 to national security so this headline we get from the daily beast lloyd austin's secret ambulance
00:15:41.680 request revealed in audio of 9-1-1 call and let's go ahead and take a listen to that audio that
00:15:47.500 the congressman mills just pointed out 9-1-1 where is your emergency tonight the 9-1-1 call just
00:15:56.020 obtained by cbs news reveals an aide to secretary of defense lloyd austin asked the dispatcher to
00:16:02.740 keep the emergency discreet can i ask but can the ambulance not show up with lights and sirens
00:16:09.900 we're trying to remain a little subtle yeah i understand um yeah usually when they turn into a
00:16:16.400 residential neighborhood they'll turn them off but they're required by law to run with them with 0.75
00:16:20.180 the main street the operator then asks for details about austin's condition did he pass out or does he
00:16:27.000 feel like he's going to pass out uh no i'm just curious if we need them to take him to walter reed
00:16:35.000 medical is that a possibility um let them know that when they get there like i said i'm noting
00:16:40.100 all this in the call the 9-1-1 call adds to questions about why president biden did not find
00:16:46.100 out about austin's hospitalization for three days neither did his deputy who had taken over austin's
00:16:52.740 duties while she was on vacation in puerto rico we're back live with congressman cory mills
00:17:00.140 clemo on rumble wants to know if there were any umbrella drinks in puerto rico with the person that
00:17:05.840 was running our defense department while lloyd austin was comatose and national interest on
00:17:10.460 youtube wants to know if he can be arrested for desertion well i think that desertion is definitely
00:17:15.220 something but to answer clen mose she was probably having my ties the same way that joe biden has ice 0.79
00:17:20.500 cream in the white house so um this is the problem we literally have a vacancy at 1600 and a vacancy at
00:17:26.960 the pentagon during a time when all our adversaries are running amok when we're running towards economic 0.96
00:17:31.980 collapse when congress can't get their shit together we really need to face the facts that we're in a 0.64
00:17:36.700 worse position than we've ever been that's why both you and i and i know you were just out in iowa as 0.75
00:17:42.040 well but that's why we have to have president trump back in office we need him now more than ever from
00:17:47.640 a military diplomatic and economic perspective and i tell you we have to get accountability for the
00:17:52.480 american people that's why i ran that's why you know i promised that i was going to come up here and be a
00:17:56.180 fighter austin's my first target the border is the most important issue but if we're unwilling to
00:18:01.620 actually get that done let's take out austin for his dereliction of duty and his desertion yeah like
00:18:05.540 there's over 200 republicans like we can get a smart team to dig into these facts i mean isn't it
00:18:11.760 embarrassing that the daily beast did better oversight over the pentagon than we did but matt i
00:18:16.860 mean you you know this all too well and i'm gonna interrupt everyone talks about the fact that
00:18:20.220 republicans have the majority let me just go ahead and clear the air if your definition of having the
00:18:24.980 majority is having an r next to your name and counting and tallying those up and saying okay
00:18:28.500 you have the majority then you're not focused on what's actually happening which is the ideological
00:18:32.340 alignments if you're not a true constitutionalist you're not a true conservative but you're a republican
00:18:37.800 from the old guard we don't have the majority that's why in most of the real tough votes that protect the
00:18:42.700 american people there's 21 of us 73 of us maybe we get to an 80 plus you know stance when it comes to
00:18:49.240 things like blocking fisa that's been violated 287 000 times but the reality is is that we have
00:18:55.200 the numbers if you look at the r's next to us but ideologically as conservatives who want to fight for
00:18:59.780 the american people we are not the majority and we see that play out not just in lackluster oversight
00:19:06.400 at times but in how we are funding the government and i want to turn our attention to that next let's put
00:19:11.700 up the jake sherman tweet from punch mobile news reporting that the stopgap funding bill which is the
00:19:17.520 pending business in the senate is riding on hr 2872 the permanent electronic duck stamp act
00:19:25.540 so let's set the stage here that we have a bill that we've sent over to the senate where duck hunters
00:19:32.820 have agreed to pay a little bit extra when engaged in migratory duck hunting over certain species so
00:19:39.160 that that can go into various conservation funds to support ducks and duck hunting okay i'm not a duck
00:19:45.140 hunter i love duck hunters great people but this seemed to be a pretty non-controversial agreed upon
00:19:51.100 the hunters liked it the conservation community liked it duck hunting stamps yay and they are adding as an
00:19:58.420 amendment to that bill the funding of the entire government of the united states through march and
00:20:06.160 i'm looking at this saying like this is no way to fund the government and it's not even the right
00:20:11.540 way to pass a duck hunting bill so we fought hard in in uh throughout this congress to try to change
00:20:19.080 the way business is done and this just looks like the same swampy nonsense to me where we are punting
00:20:26.940 we are kicking the can down the road and so uh you know you can share with uh with all the folks
00:20:31.960 watching from florida and around the country what you think about how we're approaching government
00:20:36.220 funding because it seems deeply unserious to me well it is unserious and again we're continuing to not look at
00:20:41.200 things like we voted for in rules the germaneness i'm not sure what the duck stamp act has to do
00:20:46.520 with everything else we talked about 12 single point of preparation bills we talked about going
00:20:50.580 through committees of jurisdiction and making sure that we had regular order why did we fight so hard
00:20:55.460 for all these things if it's going to constantly be waived or dismissed they people need to understand
00:20:59.640 this is not dc as usual i have never voted for a cr i never will i will vote for 12 single point
00:21:05.220 of preparation bills but not looking at these minimal cuts that they think that they're making in there
00:21:09.620 the reality is that i've explained this of every dollar we borrow and it's borrowed because we
00:21:13.840 didn't make it of every dollar we borrow we got 73 cents on average that's already pre-allocated to
00:21:19.180 our mandatories that we're scared to reform to improve and preserve and then you've got roughly 11 cents of
00:21:24.140 every dollar that is just going towards servicing our interest payments which is going to be like
00:21:28.080 844 billion dollars next year on our 34 trillion dollar deficit which means that when i think it'll be
00:21:33.880 more i think i think it'll be over 900 because i think a lot of this national defense spending level because
00:21:38.500 think about all the debt that we finance lower interest rates that's now rolling off that that
00:21:42.840 we have to refinance at higher absolutely right but my whole point is that in the reality of things
00:21:46.100 when you eliminate defense you eliminate interest rates you eliminate mandatories we're all fighting
00:21:50.440 over the idea that oh we're going to cut 20 30 percent yeah of the available eight cents that you
00:21:55.540 actually have available to you with zero economic growth strategy if you are a business owner today you
00:22:01.380 know it's simple math account receivables have to exceed account payables the same as our gdp to
00:22:06.620 national debt ratio and you can't cut your way to profitability you have to grow through prosperity
00:22:10.660 and the person who understood that who got tax reform in play was president donald j trump and we
00:22:15.920 saw more irs revenue come in than ever before the democrats failed to acknowledge the fact that we
00:22:21.420 have five trillion dollars that comes in in available revenue but now it's like anyone else when they
00:22:27.000 start making a new paycheck they're like well i've got more money so therefore i can spend more
00:22:30.500 well when you're spending at 7.4 7.5 trillion dollars taking in five driving up our inflation
00:22:35.980 rates driving up consumer suppression that's why we are where we are i won't vote for a cr i've never
00:22:41.400 voted for a cr i don't care if it's an omnibus minibus or a short bus i am not going to continue to do
00:22:46.000 the dc dance no it's it it only leads to one thing and it's more despair and higher prices for the
00:22:53.300 american people he laid it out perfectly glad to have you and and we do want to pay attention to what's
00:22:59.340 going on with all the folks out in davos right now and i've i've been watching it i've been paying
00:23:04.560 attention uh and what i want to do i want to close out the show representative mills and i have to
00:23:09.720 roll back to some additional votes we have this afternoon but i want to give you a taste of what
00:23:14.680 you heard from melee uh the newly elected leader with a populist nationalist spirit from south america
00:23:21.500 he gets up and drops the hammer on these globalists in the world economic forum president melee of
00:23:27.820 argentina take a listen today i'm here to tell you that the western world is in danger
00:23:36.940 and it is endangered because those who are supposed to have to defend the values of the west
00:23:43.760 are co-opted by a vision of the world that inexorably leads to socialism and thereby to poverty
00:23:51.640 unfortunately in recent decades motivated by some well-meaning individuals willing to help others
00:24:03.380 and others motivated by the wish to belong to a privileged caste the main leaders of the western
00:24:08.580 world have abandoned the model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism
00:24:14.160 we're here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that afflict
00:24:22.880 the citizens of the world rather they are the root cause do believe me no one better place than us
00:24:30.100 argentines to testify to these two points when we adopted the model of freedom back in 1860
00:24:39.620 in 35 years we became a leaning world power and when we embraced collectivism over the course of the
00:24:48.480 last 100 years we saw how our citizens started to become systematically impoverished and we dropped
00:24:55.380 to spot number 140 globally they say that capitalism is evil because it's individualistic and that
00:25:03.460 collectivism is good because it's altruistic of course with the money of others so they therefore
00:25:09.120 advocate for social justice but this concept which in the developed world became fashionable in recent
00:25:16.460 times in my country has been a constant in political discourse for over 80 years the problem is that
00:25:22.540 social justice is not just and it doesn't contribute either to the general well-being quite on the
00:25:29.040 contrary it's an intrinsically unfair idea because it's violent it's unjust because the state is financed
00:25:35.420 through tax and taxes are collected coercively or can any one of us say that they voluntarily pay taxes
00:25:43.840 which means that the state is financed through coercion and that the higher the tax burden the higher the
00:25:50.680 coercion and the lower the freedom and it should never be forgotten that socialism is always and
00:25:56.960 everywhere an impoverishing phenomenon that has failed in all countries where it's been tried out
00:26:02.160 it's been a failure economically socially culturally and it also murdered over a hundred million human
00:26:10.700 beings fortunately there's more and more of us who are daring to make our voices heard because we see
00:26:17.040 that if we don't truly and decisively fight against these ideas the only possible fate is for us to have
00:26:23.460 increasing levels of state regulations socialism poverty and less freedom and therefore will be
00:26:30.820 um having worse standards of living i would like to leave a message for all business people here and for
00:26:39.320 those who are not here in person but are following from around the world do not be intimidated
00:26:45.520 intimidated either by the political cast or by parasites who live off the state do not surrender to a
00:26:51.620 political class that only wants to stay in power and retain its privileges you are social benefactors
00:26:57.880 your heroes you're the creators of the most extraordinary period of prosperity we've ever seen
00:27:05.300 let no one tell you that your ambition is immoral if you make money it's because you offer a better
00:27:11.280 product at a better price thereby contributing to general well-being do not surrender to the advance of the
00:27:20.160 the state the state is not the solution the state is the problem itself you are the true protagonists
00:27:25.520 of this story and rest assured that as from today argentina is your staunch unconditional ally thank you 0.96
00:27:33.240 thank you very much and long live freedom damn it 0.97
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