On today's show, we have a special edition of the Firebrand Live Stream from our office on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. We're broadcasting live out of our office in the Longworth Building here in our nation's capital, Washington D. C. as we continue our series on Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GAetz) and his battle with the Deep State.
00:03:14.000You look like you got ankles weaker than the legal reasoning behind Roe vs. Wade.
00:03:20.000A few of them need to get up in March.
00:03:23.000They need to get up in March for like an hour a day, swing those arms, get the blood pumping, maybe mix in a salad.
00:03:29.000I am pro-life. I make no apology for that.
00:03:36.000I do believe that our country can have a rational discussion among people with different value sets who disagree on when life begins.
00:03:44.000What's 20 weeks, 15 weeks, what's the appropriate envelope for exceptions?
00:03:49.000You know, those are, I think, very appropriate, very timely given the Dobbs decision.
00:03:55.000But the people who deserve no quarter are the ones who show up to rally for the taking of a life.
00:04:04.000I mean, just think about how depraved you have to be to say that like what you're going to do with your free time is go out and try to like threaten physically a Supreme Court justice for the sake of this heinous outcome, the taking of a life.
00:05:12.000I don't believe that every person who disagrees with my perspective on life is an ugly person.
00:05:18.000But the ones that are out there protesting and marching outside Justice Kavanaugh's home, trying to threaten the court, trying to impose a night of rage on our nation's capital, which is what they advertised.
00:05:53.000Don't we all have fatigue as a society for the sense that we have to be offended at everything?
00:06:01.000Like being a Woketopian sounds exhausting.
00:06:04.000You have to be offended by what you see on television, what you see on the Internet, the things you hear, the jokes people tell, the snide remarks that may be made in a political speech.
00:06:23.000The world will still spin on its axis and hopefully we'll all be able to find a more appropriate way to honor the creation of life.
00:06:33.000I really believe it dehumanizes our entire society when we allow these late term abortions, these elective abortions, these abortions that really are birth control, sadly, for far too many people.
00:06:47.000The shrill vipers on The View had quite a perspective on my speech and my reaction to those questions.
00:06:55.000Take a wait. Hold on. No, I want to I want to preview this the right way.
00:06:59.000So this is this is The View host, Sarah Haynes.
00:07:02.000OK, so Sarah Haynes, in reaction to my remarks, wants you to believe that there actually is no one who is pro abortion.
00:09:34.000In June, there were 207,416 migrant encounters at the southern border.
00:09:40.000June was the fourth consecutive month of over 200,000 encounters.
00:09:45.000I mean, we had a border that was overrun if in the course of a month you had 60,000 encounters.
00:09:51.000I mean, now you're talking about 200,000 a month for the fourth straight month.
00:09:56.000It's a 527% increase in apprehension compared to the last June of President Trump's administration.
00:10:06.000So just during that period of time, you are seeing by a multiple of more than five of these encounters.
00:10:13.000Human smuggling is now a $13 billion business for the criminal cartels supported by Joe Biden and open border policies.
00:10:22.000Since Joe Biden took office, over 3.1 million illegal immigrants have been apprehended at the southern border.
00:10:29.000In June, an additional six illegal immigrants at the southern border were on the terrorist watch list.
00:10:35.000So just for fiscal year 2022, 56 apprehensions where the person is on the terrorist watch list.
00:10:42.000I mean, that is just a crazy number when you consider having to apply then that ratio to the 500,000 gotaways and ascertain how many of those pose an even more elevated risk to our country.
00:10:55.000Frankly, I think all the illegal immigrants pose a threat to our country, to our economy, to our jobs, to our way of life.
00:11:54.000They are they are not securing the border on purpose and people and harm is coming in as a consequence.
00:12:01.000Another way the Biden administration is harming our country is by harming our military.
00:12:06.000And we've covered a great deal how this, you know, white supremacy snipe hunt that the Biden administration seems to be on with our military is driving people out.
00:12:15.000We've covered extensively how the vaccine mandate has driven people out.
00:12:19.000The no vax, no service episode with Nick Cupper, certainly one of our best.
00:12:23.000And that will delve into a lot of the very practical challenges that our service members continue to have with this vaccine mandate.
00:12:31.000But now our military is being sacrificed on the altar of environmental wokeness.
00:12:38.000Joe Biden is offering our nation's military essentially as a form of payment to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.
00:12:46.000In his latest prostration to the progressives, President Biden has directed the development of wind energy leasing in the waters of Florida's Gulf Coast.
00:12:59.000Florida's Gulf Coast is home to the critically important Eastern Gulf test and training range.
00:13:06.000This is critical to our military readiness, national security and Florida's contribution to the fight.
00:13:13.000What's even more worrisome is that Joe Biden's actions here to harm our military in the Gulf of Mexico and Florida and to sacrifice logic and reason on the altar of wokeness may be intentional for a few key reasons.
00:13:30.000So the Eastern Gulf test and training range is a military training range unlike any other in the world.
00:13:36.000It's a place where stuff happens that literally doesn't happen anywhere else.
00:13:40.000In May of 2018, the Secretary of Defense submitted a report to the House Armed Services Committee acknowledging the importance and the uniqueness of Florida's Gulf Coast, calling it an irreplaceable national asset.
00:13:54.000Moreover, at that time, DOD concluded, quote, no other area in the world provides the U.S. military with a surrogate environment for military operations in the Indo-Pacific theater.
00:14:08.000As we've discussed, China is our nation's primary adversary.
00:14:12.000Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, they're compromised by China.
00:14:16.000And now you see Joe Biden depriving our military of its only training range capable of simulating the environment that we may ultimately have to fight in to preserve American hegemony.
00:14:29.000But Beijing Biden doesn't seem to care.
00:14:32.000While Biden aids and abets China and the Chinese Communist Party, he seems intent on dismantling and destroying Florida's cherished military mission.
00:14:42.000The 96 test wing at Eglin Air Force Base oversees the expenditure of thousands of bombs and missiles annually on the range.
00:14:49.000The range is becoming a hub of activity for supersonic and hypersonic weapons testing.
00:15:00.000Now, this is a critical capability, and we've fallen behind China in this area.
00:15:05.000Russia, in fact, is already deploying these weapons systems, using them in battle.
00:15:11.000The United States Special Operations Command runs its largest joint special operations exercise, Emerald Warrior, on this very range.
00:15:21.000The range supports training for the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Panama City.
00:15:26.000That's tied to the mission at Tyndall Air Force Base.
00:15:30.000Naval Air Station Key West also could be affected.
00:15:33.000They need the Gulf Preserve for our military, not as a wind farm.
00:15:37.000The preservation of this range space for testing and training is clearly in the interests of all Floridians.
00:15:44.000Experimental hypersonic missiles should not be flying over oil rigs,
00:15:48.000and I don't think that special operators should be parachuting into windmill farms.
00:15:53.000I can't even believe I have to say that out loud.
00:15:55.000Why would Joe Biden deliberately diminish our nation's military readiness and destroy Florida's military mission?
00:16:02.000I think there are a few motives that are on display.
00:16:06.000First, Joe Biden's strings are being pulled by the progressives, the very same progressives who naively push the so-called Green New Deal,
00:16:15.000no matter the cost to our country or to our economy or to our security.
00:16:20.000For decades, Congress and the executive branch have worked together to protect the Gulf of Mexico range from new oil and gas drilling in the name of military readiness.
00:16:30.000This is a policy I continue to support every day.
00:16:33.000It's a policy that President Trump supported when he issued an executive order banning drilling off of Florida's coast.
00:16:39.000A big reason for that was this critical, sensitive, nowhere else in the world military mission.
00:16:44.000However, when oil rigs turn into windmills, it serves the progressive climate agenda.
00:16:53.000And the true nature of the Democrats' intentions becomes clear.
00:16:58.000They never cared about military readiness or our national security.
00:17:01.000They just didn't want to drill for oil.
00:17:03.000These are the same people who want to radically reduce your defense budget.
00:17:08.000There's another potential motive here.
00:17:10.000The progressive Democrats who control Joe Biden are running a campaign right now to siphon military mission and military capability
00:17:20.000and the revenue and economic development that comes with that away from red states and to blue states.
00:17:28.000Biden appointed bureaucrats in the Department of Defense are crafting policies which will allow service members to leave red states or not take orders to red states if they disagree with their laws.
00:17:40.000They want to create this new like fighting woke-topian funneling the power and money that they can to them and away from bases in Florida, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma.
00:17:54.000And if they succeed in diminishing the military mission in red states, if they succeed in damaging the eastern Gulf range off the coast of Florida, it provides them yet another vector to move mission and capabilities to their states and their districts.
00:18:11.000We Floridians should not stand for this deliberate effort to destroy our state's military mission and our country's national security.
00:18:19.000I assure you that we will not stop fighting on this issue.
00:18:23.000In letters I've sent to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall, I asked them to provide me their plan to preserve and protect this national gem from the intrusion of the progressives and the Green New Dealers who are intent on destroying our capabilities.
00:18:40.000I am fighting to protect this range and Florida's military mission through legislation as well.
00:18:46.000All proud Floridians need to write their elected officials and demand that we protect our treasured military mission and that we not look out at a wind farm instead.
00:18:55.000If we fail, we'll be less safe as a nation and our military mission and our communities that support that mission could become endangered.
00:19:05.000Now, Tucker Carlson had a recent speech where he addressed some of the fallacies of wind as a great panacea for the environment.
00:19:14.000Take a listen to Tucker in Des Moines, Iowa.
00:19:18.000They're able to think of these schemes that, in fact, destroy the environment.
00:19:24.000And by the environment, I mean the land because they don't care about beauty.
00:19:28.000What's beautiful? Is a wind turbine beautiful? No.
00:19:31.000Actually, rivers are beautiful. Gardenias are beautiful.
00:19:34.000Springer Spaniel faces are beautiful. Children are beautiful. The sky is beautiful.
00:19:38.000These are not things that people made. These are things that God made.
00:19:41.000We're back live. Information Warlord on Rumble says, windmills don't last long in a saltwater environment.
00:20:00.000Let's see. Gilbert Barb says, late to the party, but Matt, you are the man.
00:20:05.000And Clyde says, I'm still chuckled about be offended. Matt's wit is quick and sharp, LOL.
00:20:13.000Well, I think it is insane to trade our military mission for this wind mission.
00:20:19.000And we don't want our paratroopers jumping into wind turbines.
00:20:22.000We don't want the migratory birds that need Florida as an ecosystem and habitat to be flown into like the bird wood chipper of wind turbines.
00:20:32.000And I think that the mix we have of protecting our environment wisely, having good resilience where we need to against flooding and then supporting our military mission has led to the prosperity in Florida that is making Florida America's destination.
00:20:46.000And we should not screw that up for Joe Biden and the Green Dealers.
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