The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 68 LIVE： Searched & Seized (feat. Dr. Darren J. Beattie) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

00:00:01.000 The embattled Congressman Matt Gaetz.

00:00:03.000 Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress

00:00:06.000 who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.

00:00:10.000 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem for the Democratic Party.

00:00:13.000 He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing the clause.

00:00:16.000 So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.

00:00:20.000 If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer,

00:00:23.000 if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground,

00:00:27.000 then welcome, my fellow patriots. You are in the right place.

00:00:31.000 This is the movement for you.

00:00:33.000 You ever watch this guy on television?

00:00:35.000 It's like a machine. Matt Gaetz.

00:00:38.000 I'm a canceled man in some corners of the internet.

00:00:41.000 Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.

00:00:46.000 They aren't really coming for me. They're coming for you.

00:00:50.000 I'm just in the way.

00:00:52.000 Welcome back to Firebrand Live.

00:00:57.000 We are simulcast streaming from room 1721 of the Longworth House Office Building

00:01:02.000 on the Capitol Complex in our nation's capital in Washington, D.C.

00:01:07.000 And we are living in wild times right now.

00:01:10.000 Tim Ryan, the Democrat nominee for Senate in Ohio,

00:01:13.000 is calling for the killing of the MAGA movement.

00:01:17.000 And meanwhile, a pillow salesman in Minnesota at a Hardee's is being rounded up by the FBI.

00:01:24.000 Meanwhile, the globalist march continues, and that's where we will begin today.

00:01:30.000 The globalist American empire is a wellspring of wokeness.

00:01:35.000 This is the speech that everyone's talking about that our guest, Dr. Darren Beattie, gave recently in Miami.

00:01:42.000 Dr. Beattie is the founder, publisher of Revolver.News, a place we go frequently for a lot of the information

00:01:49.000 you're not going to see on the mainstream media, but that directly impacts the quality of life

00:01:54.000 that we all get to live every day in this country.

00:01:56.000 Dr. Beattie, thank you so much for yet again joining us on Firebrand Live.

00:02:01.000 What is your argument about the American globalist empire and their relationship with wokeness?

00:02:07.000 Well, first of all, many thanks for having me again.

00:02:11.000 It's always an honor to be here.

00:02:13.000 And as for this speech, just for the context, it was at a conference about national conservatism,

00:02:21.000 about nationalism and so forth.

00:02:24.000 And so essentially what I addressed in the talk was a complication that I think is inherent in the prospect

00:02:31.000 of American nationalism, which is that I think a lot of times people like to formulate our problems

00:02:38.000 as though, oh, it's America versus globalism.

00:02:44.000 And by globalism, it depends what that means.

00:02:47.000 But often people think that means international institutions, supranational institutions.

00:02:53.000 For instance, take the example of Brexit, which is not an American case, but it's often advanced as one of those quintessential nationalist achievements

00:03:05.000 that Britain attained a sort of independence, regained its sovereignty from the EU, which is this evil supranational institution.

00:03:14.000 Now, I don't think Brexit is a bad thing, but I think it's important to remind ourselves that the real poison infecting Britain

00:03:23.000 wasn't being imposed by EU bureaucrats or the UN or any kind of international institution.

00:03:29.000 The poison in Britain was coming from Britain itself. 0.77

00:03:35.000 The Rotherham rape gangs that the authorities ignored because they were too afraid to be called racist,

00:03:44.000 they didn't do that because EU bureaucrats were threatening them.

00:03:49.000 They did that because this is a sickness that is inherent in the British culture, the British society, the British norms and so forth.

00:03:58.000 So, in a way, it's almost obfuscating the true nature of the problem to say, oh, we're British nationalists, therefore we're going against the EU.

00:04:08.000 Well, that's nice, but a lot of the problems are inherent in Britain itself.

00:04:12.000 And I think you see an analogous situation in the United States of America that complicates a lot of positions that we traditionally think of as nationalists.

00:04:22.000 Just take one example of Buy American. Nationalists, of course, always favor American companies over foreign competitors.

00:04:31.000 But what do you do in the case of, for instance, Goodyear Tires?

00:04:35.000 Goodyear Tires, which came under controversy a while back for allowing employees to promote Black Lives Matter but not to wear MAGA hats.

00:04:46.000 Is a company like this something that we should support over its foreign competitors? 0.98

00:04:52.000 What about the big tech companies that are destroying free speech in America?

00:04:58.000 Should we favor them over potential foreign competitors that might allow us to say things that we can't on American platforms?

00:05:05.000 By the way, Darren, that is an argument I hear frequently from the Republicans who have big techs back in the antitrust battles here in the Congress.

00:05:14.000 When I make effort to break up big tech to stop the abuses in the marketplace from Amazon,

00:05:21.000 the abuses of free speech from Facebook and Twitter, the abuses of our data from Google,

00:05:28.000 you know, you consistently see Republicans, establishment Republicans stand up and make the argument,

00:05:34.000 well, gee, Gates, do you want Alibaba to win?

00:05:37.000 You know, do you want the Chinese options to prevail in the digital world?

00:05:42.000 And, you know, if you if you want any semblance of Americanism, you just have to take the violations of privacy and data and our constitutional principles and wave the American flag while you're doing it.

00:05:56.000 Yes. No, this gestures toward the core difficulty, the core tension that I address in the speech is that it's not just about specific companies.

00:06:05.000 Ultimately, when you move up layer by layer, you run against the United States security apparatus itself.

00:06:14.000 In some ways, the United States government itself, because these tech companies aren't only linchpins of the American economy,

00:06:22.000 and therefore they can blackmail politicians by saying, oh, if you go against us, it's going to ruin the economy.

00:06:29.000 These big tech companies are also critical components of United States soft power from a national security perspective.

00:06:38.000 It is precisely through dominance of Facebook, dominance of Twitter, dominance of Google that the United States has such a comparative advantage in conducting influence operations overseas.

00:06:52.000 And so anyone who goes against these tech companies will be undermining national security in the sense that it makes it more difficult for the spooks in the deep state to use these big propaganda machinery tools to implement some kind of coup overseas

00:07:10.000 or some kind of influence operation overseas. And this is just one specific case of a larger issue, which is that if it means to be an American nationalist to support American companies over foreign competitors,

00:07:23.000 when it's the American companies supporting Black Lives Matter and doing all this woke nonsense, the other companies foreign are just neutral most of the time.

00:07:32.000 But in a more disturbing sense, you can look to the national security apparatus itself, which is now, as you've been covering better than anybody, has been weaponized against the American people, specifically MAGA people.

00:07:46.000 And so all of a sudden, when the national security state says, hey, we need to go.

00:07:51.000 Here's our enemy now. We need to go after this person, this person, this person.

00:07:54.000 We need you to sign up and make sacrifices for this and that. Are we going to be the battered spouses and sign up with the very institution that's been reconfigured to destroy us?

00:08:06.000 And by the way, battered by the same assailants.

00:08:09.000 What a lot of Americans don't see is it's exactly the same people, the deep state operatives who will do a stint at DOJ and then go work for Uber or then go work for Apple or Amazon.

00:08:23.000 And then they show up in the Biden White House. Then they show up on the Federal Trade Commission.

00:08:27.280 Then they show up on the Federal Election Commission. Then they're back to work at Big Tech.

00:08:31.020 And there is this revolving door. And nobody has built an efficiency in that revolving door.

00:08:36.900 I mean, it's always existed in Washington for generations, but no one has optimized that quite like Big Tech.

00:08:43.160 And so it's not like these are symbiotic beings. They are quite literally one being so frequently.

00:08:49.620 Absolutely. Absolutely. And I think perhaps on a forthcoming podcast, we can just go in very specifically and talk about some of the key players of this revolving door infrastructure.

00:09:02.640 I think the American people in your audience would be deeply interested in some of these examples.

00:09:07.500 I'll just give one to give to give people a sense of how really this this drills down to the very biographies of the people involved.

00:09:16.340 It's not theoretical. Take the example of someone like Ambassador Daniel Freed, whom I interact with sometimes on Twitter, always in a friendly and polite capacity, of course.

00:09:28.640 But Ambassador Daniel Freed is celebrated as one of the architects of U.S. sanctions policy against Russia.

00:09:38.360 He is a major figure, sort of NATO adjacent figure.

00:09:42.520 He now has a perch, among other things, at the Atlantic Council, which is essentially a NATO cutout.

00:09:49.480 This guy is also one of the premier drivers of censorship on the Internet.

00:09:54.860 That's in fact been his project censoring disinformation, of course, labeling it as Russian disinformation for the past several years.

00:10:02.960 And so you have here encapsulated in a specific person, an architect of Russian sanction policy, a NATO stooge sitting at the Atlantic Council, whose primary project right now is shutting down free speech on the Internet.

00:10:17.480 And so and of course, NATO is just a cutout of U.S. interests.

00:10:22.980 And so how can we, even even if it were, think theoretically, which it's not, even if it were in our national interest to do what NATO wants us to do as a matter of foreign policy, how can we be comfortable with that?

00:10:36.980 If that requires making common cause with the very institutions that are destroying free speech and destroying liberty here in the United States.

00:10:45.580 It makes it very difficult to root for America in the sense of wanting the national security state to succeed when this is the very instrument that's been weaponized against us at home.

00:10:57.460 And I think that's a real tension, a real problem inherent in the prospect of American nationalism, at least as it's maybe ordinarily understood.

00:11:09.480 And there seems to be a great deal more visibility into that ingrained corporate wokeness and the tension that that builds against the virtues of American nationalism that I think we would all want to embrace.

00:11:23.060 And that I certainly do embrace the concept of American nationalism, but certainly not not as a tool of surrender to what corporations were with Dr.

00:11:32.060 Darren Beattie right now, publisher of Revolver Dot News, discussing the impact of the big speech he gave in Miami about this intersection of wokeness and what we used to celebrate as the free market icons of American enterprise.

00:11:47.860 And we're simulcast streaming right now, getting a lot of feedback on Instagram, Skip makes the point about Disney and the wokeness there and that being a big wake up call.

00:11:58.560 In Dr. Beattie's speech, he said, can one be an American nationalist?

00:12:04.700 Wokeness is deeply embedded, not only in the American culture, but the American economy and legal system on account of the entire ecosystem developed to accommodate civil rights and disparate impact law.

00:12:18.960 So, Dr. Beattie, if this wokeness is as ingrained as you say in the economy, the legal system, the education system, undeniably, what's the off-ramp?

00:12:30.480 What's the way to cheer for America without having to surrender that which is so special about America?

00:12:37.020 I mean, that's really an important question.

00:12:40.480 There's not an easy answer to that.

00:12:42.940 I think ultimately, though, the answer is not to make some kind of allegiance with the very institutions that are bent on our destruction.

00:12:53.400 I think we can attempt to infiltrate and course-correct and improve these institutions.

00:12:59.440 And we can also collaborate, band together, and create parallel institutions.

00:13:06.880 Are those mutually exclusive?

00:13:09.600 Or should they be pursued in parallel?

00:13:12.300 I think they should be pursued in conjunction with one another and have mutually reinforcing synergies.

00:13:21.040 Well, let's just take—I wasn't planning to go here, but what you said is so instructive on a lot of what's going on behind the scenes in the Congress right now.

00:13:29.520 Because there is this expectation that Republicans are going to take control.

00:13:33.680 And there are some who believe that when we take that control, I mean, the first tool we ought to pick up is not the X-Acto knife, but the sledgehammer.

00:13:43.640 And that we ought—I'm probably in the sledgehammer camp.

00:13:46.880 That we have to go after these institutions that have been weaponized against our people.

00:13:52.220 And that subtle reforms around the edges continue the march towards American demise.

00:13:59.360 And we don't want to tolerate that.

00:14:00.980 And then there's the school of thought that says, oh, no, no, no, it is not a sledgehammer we must take to these institutions.

00:14:06.540 We have to Trojan horse them. 0.84

00:14:08.180 We have to convert them to our purposes.

00:14:10.780 And at times, I don't know that those are—can be pursued in parallel.

00:14:15.180 I don't know that we can, like, you know, take over the FBI at the same time that we dismantle the FBI.

00:14:21.980 And, again, I'm using that as a stark example.

00:14:24.620 But what would be your reaction?

00:14:26.980 Right.

00:14:27.280 I think, I mean, at this level of granularity, you have to look at it institution by institution.

00:14:32.760 I think, you know, and I'm not, you know, a deep bureaucrat.

00:14:38.080 I don't have decades of bureaucratic experience such that I could speak on it with tremendous authority.

00:14:43.700 But what my sense is about something like the FBI is it requires a much, much deeper level of overhaul than can be achieved by just putting good guys here or there.

00:14:57.440 And I think we'd really benefit from kind of in-depth studies of bureaucratic psychology.

00:15:05.760 And just to give it kind of an analogy, they say, okay, if you have a group of people attacking you, you don't have to destroy each person.

00:15:15.160 There are just, like, one or two of the leaders that you need to destroy.

00:15:19.160 And typically what happens is once that happens, the others fall in line or they run away.

00:15:24.460 And my sense is in the bureaucracies, there are a handful of critical players who basically determine the trajectory.

00:15:33.880 These people are likely those who have really deep institutional knowledge, who have been around for a long time.

00:15:40.720 They may not at the very moment all formally exist as employees within the bureaucracy.

00:15:46.880 But these are the kinds of people who have the capacity to implement a genuine course correction.

00:15:53.240 The only problem is the people with this level of institutional knowledge and ability are typically so invested in the wrong course that they're not going to jump ship.

00:16:05.440 And so –

00:16:06.240 Yeah, I mean, I'm going to take exception with that and disagree with you.

00:16:09.320 To say that the way to attack the bureaucracy is to take out some of the key players and the people who know how to make it work against the American people with the greatest skill

00:16:21.000 is like saying that the way to take out the cartels was to take out the cartel leadership

00:16:25.740 or the way to take out al-Qaeda was to take out the al-Qaeda leadership.

00:16:29.440 Like, what we see is that these institutions are able to consistently produce people that have fidelity and loyalty to those institutions.

00:16:38.740 So I don't believe that decapitation is a strategy.

00:16:42.640 I am more of the sledgehammer strategy in saying, you know, deconstruct that which has been weaponized against people,

00:16:50.260 that this is not an HR challenge we have.

00:16:53.340 It is an institutional challenge.

00:16:55.260 But a critique of my method would be the success we saw in Loudoun County, Virginia, and Virginia at large.

00:17:03.040 When parents didn't show up to school board meetings saying, end public education, disband the school board, shut down my local school,

00:17:12.340 they showed up instead and said, this is an institution that I pay for with my money,

00:17:17.260 and I'm here to demand that it work for me, not for all of you.

00:17:21.780 And so – and we saw that be effective.

00:17:24.400 I mean, do you – and so I'll give you a chance to respond to that.

00:17:28.680 Do you think that, you know, the decapitation could ever be enough?

00:17:34.680 Well, I don't know if decapitation is the right description.

00:17:39.000 What I really meant to emphasize –

00:17:41.020 And I don't mean that in the Steve Bannon way, by the way.

00:17:43.640 Exactly.

00:17:44.020 If anyone's – I mean it in the HR from the HR standpoint, but go ahead.

00:17:49.020 Yes.

00:17:50.500 I'm not sure that's the right description of what I was saying.

00:17:54.620 What I really meant to emphasize was that in order to do this effectively,

00:17:59.140 you really do need people with real and deep and longstanding institutional knowledge.

00:18:07.860 I suppose if the alternative is simply to full-on disband the FBI, that could be an interesting proposal,

00:18:18.280 but I'm not sure how realistic that is politically.

00:18:22.300 And so – and of course, I have doubts whether it's realistic politically to, you know, change the course of the FBI at all.

00:18:31.880 But I think it's probably a little bit easier to correct the institution than to disband it.

00:18:38.640 And assuming that's the case, I think you do need people with real and deep institutional knowledge.

00:18:44.980 And I think a problem is that most, if not all, of the people with that level of knowledge who know where the bodies are buried –

00:18:53.460 I mean it's not just like – it's not just – or even primarily a managerial sensibility.

00:19:00.360 It's that my sense of DC and these bureaucracies is that the wheels turn on the basis of a very intricate

00:19:11.760 and kind of arcane ecology of favors, IOUs, connections, leverage, who buried what body 10 years ago

00:19:23.960 and how that shapes what these institutions are doing.

00:19:26.760 Even the hierarchy within these institutions with the CIA being on top, then the FBI below it,

00:19:33.480 and then the DEA below it, sometimes these organizations are doing things

00:19:38.640 and they don't understand why they're doing it because they're fulfilling some objective

00:19:42.820 of an organization higher up in the hierarchy.

00:19:46.600 Well, this is a fair criticism, you know, of Trump that he rolled into Washington with a New York Rolodex.

00:19:54.040 And oftentimes those things did not pair well.

00:19:56.160 He did not know who some of those people were who he could, you know, sort of send in to deinstitutionalize

00:20:03.400 and dewebinize these entities that are working against us.

00:20:07.040 On Rumble, there's a lot of talk that people are jumping platforms now because they're worried after we said

00:20:13.200 sledgehammer and decapitate.

00:20:15.580 Steph's worried that we're going to be shut off on some of our platforms.

00:20:18.880 Disco Duck says,

00:20:20.040 The FBI and CIA corrupts our elections.

00:20:23.500 Nothing is worse.

00:20:24.460 And I'm wondering, Darren, like, have we lived in the last election that the FBI wasn't involved in somehow manipulating?

00:20:31.920 I mean, like, in 2016, they tried to manipulate the election by creating evidence,

00:20:37.100 altering evidence before a secret court to spy on the Trump campaign.

00:20:40.520 In 2018, they tried to shape the election with the Russia hoax that they perpetuated and, you know, just went on ad nauseum about.

00:20:50.180 In 2020, they tried to impact the election by telling Facebook and everybody else that the Hunter Biden laptop story

00:20:56.160 showing deep compromise in the Biden family was Russian disinformation.

00:21:01.020 And now, in 2022, they're trying to shape these midterms with all of these raids and seizures and trying to, like, impose this air of criminality on everyone

00:21:11.760 from, like, Jeffrey Clark getting his home raided to Mike Lindell being accosted at a Minnesota Hardee's.

00:21:18.920 So, you know, it brings us to really the principal point I wanted to discuss today,

00:21:23.660 the big, dark Brandon speech that we heard, the terrific piece at Revolver.news that kind of breaks down what that means for the American people.

00:21:32.460 But take a moment to just kind of cast the chapter of the movie you think we're in.

00:21:39.140 Well, I think the Biden speech was certainly an inflection point, if not substantively, then aesthetically.

00:21:47.440 And the aesthetic choices matter, certainly at the level of a presidential speech.

00:21:52.140 I think the further the regime gets from even embracing the pretense of being a free society governed by what they still sometimes have the gall to put as rule of law,

00:22:09.980 the more they abandon even the pretext, I think the more we shift into an entirely new phase within our regime.

00:22:18.780 And I think that's basically what's happening with these raids.

00:22:22.660 I mean, I'm still sort of caught up on the Mar-a-Lago raid, which I think is another real inflection point in the country's history,

00:22:30.900 because you're having a sitting president have his Department of Justice go after in this totally unnecessary,

00:22:38.820 totally gratuitous and totally aggressive and hostile fashion against his presumptive rival in the upcoming presidential election.

00:22:50.600 I mean, it's really unheard of territory.

00:22:53.240 And now they're having the FBI go and raid and harass basically anybody who's anywhere near Trump's inner circle,

00:23:01.460 or it could be an active player, whether they're in the media, in politics, in business, on behalf of Donald Trump.

00:23:09.340 So this really is, it's the security state acting as an instrument here, acting as a major player in shaping the contours of future political activity in the United States.

00:23:25.720 And more specifically, let's be very clear about what they're doing.

00:23:29.680 They're doing everything they can to take Trump off the chessboard as a meaningful force in American politics, period.

00:23:38.700 Well, and they're trying to pick a fight.

00:23:41.200 I mean, think about where we were just a few months ago.

00:23:45.100 You had Gavin Newsom and J.B. Pritzker, you know, measuring for drapes in the Oval Office.

00:23:50.500 You had Buttigieg and Kamala Harris elbowing each other within the administration to seize the mantle of the Washington favorite in the 2024 Democratic nomination process 0.94

00:24:02.140 that virtually everyone assumed would not include Joe Biden, right?

00:24:07.300 And I think the Obama people who really run Joe Biden, who are still making all the decisions as he's, you know, kind of put down for nap time and given Jell-O,

00:24:19.200 like those people realized that to preserve the Biden regime such that it is, they needed to go out and pick a fight.

00:24:28.100 And they've clearly chosen this, like, MAGA branding as the offense that they want to run.

00:24:34.320 But you make the point at revolver.news in a piece I really encourage everyone to check out.

00:24:40.360 And here's what you write.

00:24:42.280 If you are part of the middle American middle class, there is nothing you can do to make yourself not a threat to the left's democracy except die. 0.84

00:24:55.780 What do you mean by that?

00:24:58.640 Well, I mean, it's a rather forceful way of putting it, but I think it captures a real truth.

00:25:07.460 And it's a truth that goes back to the communist or Leninist conception of a class enemy.

00:25:14.020 Middle class Americans that don't, you know, that aren't transsexual or don't have some other sort of qualifier that puts them into the community,

00:25:26.120 the coalition of the marginalized that has become the democratic bread and butter.

00:25:31.040 But just normal middle class Americans who are law abiding, who have bourgeois norms, are class enemies of the regime.

00:25:43.720 And therefore, the regime's only move is to eliminate them or to encourage the elimination of these people,

00:25:52.640 because they're just standing in the way of the total dominion of our corrupt and illegitimate ruling class.

00:26:01.180 And so you see examples of this.

00:26:04.020 I thought it was a very powerful exchange when Biden did his whole student loan forgiveness thing.

00:26:11.080 And you had somebody confront Elizabeth Warren, some old father.

00:26:16.900 He said, well, look, we did it all the right way. 0.87

00:26:19.640 You know, what are we suckers? 0.67

00:26:21.080 What are we this?

00:26:21.860 And she just laughs at him.

00:26:24.040 And it's a very poignant exchange.

00:26:27.280 But, you know, Elizabeth Warren is kind of right.

00:26:30.140 Elizabeth Warren, by the way, is someone who lied about her race to get into Harvard and go on to the trajectory to be what she is. 1.00

00:26:39.040 And in some bizarre sense, she did it the right way.

00:26:43.380 She did it the way that's more in alignment of what our country is now.

00:26:47.680 The country is not something that rewards or sustains traditional bourgeois norms.

00:26:53.980 And so if you're someone like this poor father who, you know, made all of these sacrifices to, quote unquote,

00:26:59.740 do the right thing and pay his way back into the system only to get screwed because Biden does this relief thing for everybody else.

00:27:09.980 You're just not playing according to the new rules of the game.

00:27:14.220 And so I think the middle class as a class per se, but also the middle class sort of values and virtues that are really made America great.

00:27:24.540 Those have no place in the new United States, which I always call the globalist American empire.

00:27:31.880 Doing the right thing has no place in the globalist American empire.

00:27:36.600 No good deed will go unpunished by the regime.

00:27:39.220 And it's a very unfortunate position to be in. 0.88

00:27:42.580 But, you know, you don't nobody wants to be a sucker.

00:27:46.900 And that's why, you know, Revolver News, we've encouraged some things that, you know, some might find questionable.

00:27:53.340 I think people should go the Elizabeth Warren route.

00:27:55.720 If there's going to be institutional racial discrimination against whites in the form of affirmative action, I think whites should say they're a different race on any kind of application. 0.77

00:28:06.660 I am here with Darren Littleflower Beattie of Florida.

00:28:13.860 No, you know, Darren, what you just said is the critical message that the American people have to get out of the dark branded speech.

00:28:22.940 That when they label, you know, ultra MAGA, what they're really saying is that they want to confront traditional American values.

00:28:32.380 They want to confront American greatness as deconstructionists to, you know, the very nation that we've built and the nation that so many people are trying to break into as we're having this discussion today.

00:28:44.500 And you draw an interesting parallel in the piece at Revolver.news about, like, the people right now suffering in Jackson, Mississippi.

00:28:53.000 Like, Joe Biden's got all this vitriol for white America, MAGA America, middle class America, people who live in the middle of the country.

00:29:03.600 You know, whatever it is he's trying to virtue signal with this new offensive.

00:29:08.220 And yet, meanwhile, you've got this overwhelmingly black city with a straight string of eight black mayors.

00:29:13.940 Like, I think, you know, one of whom has some connections to these, like, ethno-nationalist impulses and organizations that want to drive all white people out of, like, basically the SEC states in the country. 0.56

00:29:27.500 And that failure seems to get Biden a lot less angry than, like, people who wouldn't want illegal immigrants coming into the country.

00:29:36.040 So do you think that there's a political risk here that the counteroffensive from the Biden administration, you know, leaves their flank unguarded and there's an opportunity for Republicans to say, hey, like, what are you actually doing for your people?

00:29:49.740 Yes, I mean, there's always a political opportunity.

00:29:54.820 It depends on the messaging.

00:29:56.600 I think there's very powerful messaging to be had on crime wave in the United States, on affirmative action, on the general descent of the United States into third world conditions, not only as a material matter, but again, as I was saying, as a matter of values and norms and expectations.

00:30:17.260 Those are the kinds of things that are those unspoken aspects that really dictate how a society functions, because everything can't be spelled out in terms of rules and laws.

00:30:31.540 So much of how a society looks is predicated on the norms and expectations of the people in it.

00:30:40.400 And once those corrode to the point that it's simply a kind of chaotic situation where, you know, everybody is disconnected and there's always an assumption of bad faith, which is, I think, very close to where the kind of the public square has become.

00:30:58.460 There's just a downward death spiral of of civil society.

00:31:03.640 And I think we're very close to that point if we haven't crossed the threshold already.

00:31:08.900 Chaotic, bad faith, death spiral certainly feels like the emotions in the word cloud one would observe from the Biden presidency.

00:31:18.140 But, you know, it wasn't always this way.

00:31:20.020 You know, just a few years ago, there was optimism and productivity and success and unapologetic patriotism and nationalism and Americanism.

00:31:30.680 And I certainly hope we get back to those days.

00:31:32.780 The piece is at revolver.news.

00:31:34.840 The speech got a great write up at Epoch Times.

00:31:37.320 I encourage everyone to check out both.

00:31:39.100 And thank you, Dr. Beattie, for joining us again on Firebrand Live.

00:31:42.120 Thank you so much.

00:31:44.420 Really is something you have got to check out that reporting.

00:31:47.300 Now we're going to go to a segment on the show we call Florida Man.

00:31:51.860 Florida Man Spotlight

00:32:00.680 In Fort Walton Beach, Florida, one of the places I always like to frequent is the Chick-fil-A on Mary Esther Cutoff.

00:32:10.820 Fort Walton Beach is a town I lived in for a number of years where I practiced law.

00:32:14.840 I know the owners of that Chick-fil-A very well.

00:32:17.620 They're good folks.

00:32:18.400 The Sexton family and the Fort Walton Beach Chick-fil-A made some national news when a young employee of the restaurant rushed out to help a screaming woman holding a baby after a man grabbed her keys and tried to take her car.

00:32:33.660 We've got the report from WEAR's Olivia Iverson.

00:32:36.740 Take a listen.

00:32:37.160 A crazy story out of Northwest Florida tonight.

00:32:42.800 A Chick-fil-A employee being held a hero after tackling a suspected carjacker right in the restaurant's parking lot.

00:32:49.780 And we've got that video showing the dramatic takedown, too.

00:32:52.860 Our Lacey Beasley in the Breaking News Center right now.

00:32:55.600 Lacey, that's a wild video.

00:32:56.880 Yeah, it really is, Leneice.

00:32:58.940 Okaloosa County deputies provided it to us, and they tell us a man with a stick tried to carjack a woman who had a baby with her.

00:33:06.480 But deputies say a fast reaction by a fast food worker saved the day.

00:33:15.880 Wrestling on the pavement, you see this Chick-fil-A employee in the red shirt tackled the suspect, stopping him in the act. 0.99

00:33:24.440 Deputies say the woman in the background holding the baby was the target, screaming for help.

00:33:31.340 As the situation calms down a little, other employees and bystanders running up, and the employee stands, appearing to be unharmed.

00:33:40.140 Then another woman enters the frame, angry and yelling at the alleged crook.

00:33:45.560 You've got a baby in her hand! How dare you! 1.00

00:33:49.160 This all unfolding at the Chick-fil-A on Beale Parkway in Fort Walton Beach.

00:33:53.760 Now the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office arresting William Branch of Defuniac Springs.

00:33:59.780 He's charged with carjacking with a weapon and battery after allegedly grabbing the car keys from the woman while wielding a stick.

00:34:08.840 And the Sheriff's Office adding this on Twitter, a major shout-out to this young man for his courage.

00:34:15.100 Michael Gordon is that great Florida man who exhibited bravery and ensured that we would not tolerate that type of criminal behavior as a mother was working to probably just get some fantastic chicken nuggets.

00:34:32.900 Maybe a grilled chicken sandwich. Who knows? Maybe on the healthy side.

00:34:36.660 But I think the message there is you try to rob us in Fort Walton Beach.

00:34:41.640 Not only will one of our restaurant workers come and beat you down in a parking lot, the bystanders in the restaurant will even come and shame you.

00:34:49.800 So proud of my once hometown, Fort Walton Beach, Florida.

00:34:54.220 But we also are going to look a little broader throughout the world.

00:34:58.520 Check out this new segment on Firebrand we like to call Around the World.

00:35:09.240 Around the World.

00:35:10.620 Mexico gets our attention today because they have sent out a guide for the migrants.

00:35:18.960 That's right.

00:35:20.000 We have received this as a consequence of some disclosure from Blake Masters.

00:35:25.760 He is an Arizona man running for the United States Senate there.

00:35:29.020 And he put out word that the Mexican government is selling residency cards to foreigners and then giving them a literal guide.

00:35:36.480 You see it pictured right there on how to be a migrant going through Mexico on your way to the United States.

00:35:44.140 Here is the important takeaway.

00:35:46.520 Mexico is a captive narco state totally run by the cartels.

00:35:52.760 The former presidents of Mexico even are having found have taken just enormous bribes from the Sinaloa cartel.

00:36:01.660 Those very cartels have figured out that moving people can be just as productive economically for them as moving drugs.

00:36:10.560 And so they are in the human trafficking business in a huge way.

00:36:14.420 And so the cartels are just inexorably fused with the government.

00:36:19.280 Now the government wants a taste of the action.

00:36:21.940 And so they sell these cards to the migrants coming through Mexico.

00:36:26.160 They get money for it and then they literally give them a guide on how to get to the United States and what to do to get there and what to say and what groups to encounter.

00:36:38.760 So Mexico is not a valued partner right now in the human smuggling, drug smuggling operation.

00:36:46.500 They are in purpose with the cartels.

00:36:49.660 They are in concert with the cartels and they've even put out a guide proving it.

00:36:54.900 We'll have a lot more about what's going on on the border, the millions of people being released into our country.

00:37:00.400 And you know what?

00:37:01.560 A certain governor in the Sunshine State is sending some folks to Martha's Vineyard for a bit of a different kind of vacation.

00:37:09.520 We'll have more on that soon.

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - September 15, 2022

Episode 68 LIVE： Searched & Seized (feat. Dr. Darren J. Beattie) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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