In this episode of the Ask Me Anything episode, we take your questions about the Department of Agriculture, the Las Vegas shooting, the JFK assassination, and much more. Today's guest is a member of Turning Point USA, an organization dedicated to fighting for freedom on college campuses across the country.
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00:04:20.000Yeah, four degrees, five degrees, right?
00:04:25.000But the other part of this, though, that's important is we try to hit, at least in the election, we were hitting states that had some sort of involvement in the election.
00:04:34.000So all the schools in Nevada, all the schools in Arizona.
00:06:44.000So Department of Education, for example.
00:06:46.000Department of Education doesn't have many employees, but it has a pretty big budget because it administers the student loan program, which is money going to people who are borrowing.
00:07:11.000I think one of the greatest things Doge could do would be use Grok to find, for example, obviously those PPP loans that happened during COVID. That's huge amounts.
00:08:05.000This came up, we were talking about the other day, where they're trying to make a scandal out of the VA's budget.
00:08:10.000And there's talk, okay, Trump might make cuts to the VA. Well, it would be cuts to the number of people who worked at the VA in 2019. Which was when Trump was president.
00:08:21.000Trump was president, and he'd also already done big improvements to the VA at that time.
00:09:09.000And it's just, you know, you're always the bad guy if you're the one who has to come in and say, you know, the endless money train is going away.
00:09:18.000And, you know, I don't blame them for being wary to the extent that, you know, they want to get re-elected.
00:09:24.000But at the same time, a huge amount of public trust has been put, has been invested in them.
00:09:30.000But it's also the well-being of the nation.
00:11:04.000Charlie, so really it's a question that affects everybody here, but I want you to understand where it comes from.
00:11:09.000You know, these Wuhan virus lockdowns had a lifelong negative impact on the life of our son.
00:11:14.000That's why we're reaching out to Social Security for Disability.
00:11:17.000And I want to do my part to expose these government lies.
00:11:21.000Like, you know, Meghan McCain says, I want revenge.
00:11:23.000And one of the biggest lies in the government's claim about us is they can control U.S. airspace and protect us from drones, like at Autzen Stadium.
00:11:33.000The counter-drone systems can't protect Americans at stadiums, airports, and downtown areas, like the U.S. Capitol and the White House.
00:11:40.000Now, this is the point, and this is really foolish, but you're a father, too.
00:11:46.000So I'm willing to bet my life savings, okay, to get attention to this, $100,000.
00:11:51.000By the way, I have all the respect in the world for Marc Andreessen, but he invested in the best counter-drone company called Andrel.
00:11:58.000And I'm willing to bet that he can't stop me and my friends from crashing a drone in the stands at Autzen Stadium during a test when the stadium is empty, right?
00:12:07.000And don't you want to know if you and your family and friends are protected at Autzen?
00:12:11.000I mean, they can't protect the White House.
00:12:13.000They can't protect, you know, DCA. I mean, this is something that people need to know about.
00:12:54.000It's really scary because when you think, for example, the Ukraine war, a big reason actually that Ukraine hasn't collapsed actually is they could just get insanely cheap drones on each end and it makes it so hard to advance because you can just fly a suicide drone bomb into something.
00:13:12.000We spend a trillion dollars on our military.
00:13:14.000We have a ton of tanks, a ton of ships, a ton of planes, and it could be...
00:13:19.000That the future of warfare is, oh, you can make, you know, a drone about yay big for a thousand bucks and it can carry a bomb wherever you want and just explode.
00:13:32.000Changing warfare changes security because, you know, imagine like the Secret Service and now instead of having to look for a sniper, any robot could just, you know, put a rifle on it and it can fly anywhere.
00:14:21.000Real quick, I saw the poster behind you regarding Wisconsin, and since I live in Wisconsin, I wanted to know what that meant, the travel to Wisconsin and chase 100 ballots.
00:15:12.000That involves your congressional maps, your voter integrity measures, everything associated alongside of it.
00:15:18.000So what we are doing is we're helping chase ballots, similar to what we kind of did back in November, to try and raise and drive awareness about this off-election, low-turnout election.
00:15:30.000Blake, while I try to find this op-ed, can you talk about how it is a strictly turnout election?
00:15:37.000So when you look at any election, there's a certain amount of people who turn out for it.
00:15:41.000And so I bet we can even look up here where it's like Wisconsin in the 2024 presidential race is going to be, let's see how many people voted in.
00:16:24.000But if you had the number of people who voted in the 2024 presidential election come and turn out in that race, or even the number of people who voted in 2020 when we finished in second, ultimately.
00:16:36.000If you had that many people turn out, you would win by a mile.
00:16:40.000It's not even, oh, you would eke out a win.
00:17:23.000I just want to drive home how much turnout matters.
00:17:25.000If you had John McCain lost Wisconsin by 14 points in 2008, and if you had his number of votes in that Supreme Court race, you would win by like 20 points.
00:18:44.000There's federal stuff, but it's mostly state.
00:18:46.000You'd want to look at what your state does.
00:18:48.000I don't know the biggest drivers of cost increase.
00:18:51.000It's just everything costs more money than it used to.
00:18:54.000I do think you make an astute point, we'll talk about after the break, where Sam Bakeman-Fried, who's a total fraud and a terrible person, joined the great Tucker Carlson's podcast.
00:19:02.000He was talking about all the amenities he was getting.
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00:20:18.000Maggie, thank you for being a member of What's On Your Mind.
00:20:23.000I actually was just going to watch today, but your breaking news at the end of hour one immediately brought a question to mind.
00:20:30.000Do you think the recent activity at ActBlue is related to USAID funding being cut off to many entities?
00:20:39.000I know you are a big fan of Breaking Bad, so am I. And I always thought Democrats' big numbers in fundraising was suspicious, because there's a party of entitlements, and other than their big, big money donors, I couldn't see them getting that many people to make small donations.
00:20:57.000Well, you remember what they did in Breaking Bad, the money laundering, to make it look like random donations were sent in to pay for Walter White's cancer treatment?
00:21:07.000As soon as you said that story, I thought, oh my gosh, that could possibly be Act Blue knows what's coming because their funding's been cut off.
00:21:42.000There are some on the Hill that say that they've seen intelligence that might suggest that.
00:21:46.000But there also could be just good old-fashioned criminal activity.
00:21:49.000It could be as old-fashioned as just they route so much money through it.
00:21:54.000Who's to say someone didn't go, okay, I'm going to make it so 0.1%.
00:22:01.000It could also be we suspect this is criminal activity and we deliberately keep our system feeble and not able to detect it because then we have plausible deniability.
00:22:22.000There's so many different levels to it.
00:22:25.000I do want to push back a little that, frankly, If you've been around liberals enough, I actually talked to a friend of mine at The Daily Caller where they investigated one of those people who had tons and tons of donations in their name.
00:22:38.000And they reached him and were like, do you really donate that many times?
00:24:21.000It's really a great honor to be able to speak with you.
00:24:24.000And I wanted to briefly say I really appreciated your previous interview with Secretary of Ag, Burke Rawlings.
00:24:32.000I'm a lifelong Eastern Oregon rancher, beef producer, family operation.
00:24:37.000And it's so great to have this new administration coming in and wanting to hear from the grassroots producers.
00:24:44.000And that's what I wanted to emphasize.
00:24:46.000And let you and whomever else may be able to get our group.
00:24:53.000We have a group out here that is in the high desert that oftentimes gets ignored, but there's very many natural resource issues that we want to, that we need to get through to the administration, both in the Interior Department and with the Secretary of Ag.
00:25:09.000And one of the biggest problems that we have as beef producers is the meatpacking cartel that Rules the protein production, not only in the nation, but worldwide.
00:25:21.000So my question is, we want to combine with the Make America Healthy Again and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s in HHS. We can combine and we just...
00:25:34.000But the main thing, I guess, Mr. Kirk, that I want to get through is that...
00:25:39.000The administration and the undersecretaries must get down here to the grassroots producers.
00:25:44.000They cannot listen to the national organizations that are supposedly representing agricultural interests because they are all...
00:25:53.000And so my question to you is how best can we as grassroots producers, possibly through your platform, your connections, we would love to make that connection and have field hearings out here.
00:26:03.000But more importantly, to get to the administration, Secretary Brooke Rollins, to hear the true family operations, farming operations of what would most benefit our rural communities and food security for America.
00:30:21.000Calling from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and I have a question for you on, obviously, the border situation and the tariffs.
00:30:29.000Do you think that Trump would be open to ending the tariffs if we in Canada had an actual leader willing to talk seriously about the border issues?
00:30:53.000But as far as his strategy, I can't read his mind, and I've never heard him say this in private or public, but I actually think he would be happy with the same treatment of a free trade agreement with some of our allies.
00:31:06.000I actually think what bothers him the most is that we get tariffed and we do not have reciprocal tariffs against us.
00:31:12.000And I think that should be the goal, especially with Canada or Mexico.
00:31:17.000Now, when it comes to our adversaries like China, I think we should tariff across the board.
00:31:21.000But yes, tariffs can have a cost to them.
00:31:24.000However, certain tariffs for certain industries, we might have to joust a little bit with the Canadians when it comes to certain, like 95% of our fertilizer comes from Canada.
00:31:38.000Yeah, I don't know entirely what his agenda is, and I think it would be helpful if he was more public with it, but I think it's not really Trump's way to just overtly tip exactly what he's going for.
00:32:01.000I think he'd probably play ball more if there was a better government than Justin Trudeau, but I've also entertained the possibility he may like Justin Trudeau as a foe that he can spar with, and he'll maybe miss him once he's gone.
00:32:16.000I guess I don't want to jump to conclusions about what his intent is, because I'm not entirely sure, so I don't want to speak for him.
00:32:23.000I will say the only part of Canada that will willingly accept is Alberta.
00:32:33.000So, when they hold an election, there's like four major parties in Canada, I guess like kind of three at the national level, and it's just whoever gets the most votes gets the seat in their parliament.
00:32:44.000So what I'm saying is, I'm not sure if we suddenly shifted them to just Republicans and Democrats.
00:32:48.000I kind of think Alberta would still be a blue state.
00:33:19.000I'm not to the point yet, but I do think that there might be some things that they could change in the Senate rules to hopefully get legislation passed.
00:33:28.000I believe now you've got to have three-fifths of members for cloture if they were to make it three-fifths of members present so everybody would actually have to stay on the floor, stay in town, couldn't go out to eat with lobbyists.
00:33:39.000Is anything like that being discussed that you're aware of?
00:33:46.000I will say I actually am in favor of keeping the filibuster for major spending bills that are non-reconciliation.
00:33:53.000I know that some people are going to disagree with that, but I think the filibuster prevented some of the most sinister stuff of Joe Biden from being passed in Biden's term.
00:34:05.000So I just want to make sure I actually am a pro-filibuster guy in that sense.
00:34:10.000That being said, of course we will be out of power.
00:34:15.000Again, sometime in the future, hopefully a long way off, and the filibuster is a guarantor to slow down the process and to make sure that crazy ideas like adding D.C. and Puerto Rico in states can't just happen with a 50-person vote.
00:34:29.000Imagine, if we got rid of the filibuster and we lost in the future, which is totally conceivable, because I know everyone says, oh, you know, we're never going to be beat.
00:35:12.000Yeah, so what's funny with the filibuster is, as I've mentioned to you before, the filibuster is fake.
00:35:18.000Like, the filibuster could be eliminated at any time, and it's maintained because both parties in the Senate have an interest in just not voting on things that they nominally support.
00:35:29.000So, you know, with Mitch McConnell, it was, oh, we can use the filibuster as an excuse to not do border stuff.
00:35:35.000With Democrats, it's, you know, Joe Biden doesn't necessarily want to pack the Supreme Court because he thinks they'll get blown up.
00:35:41.000It's a thing that protects the majority party from votes it does not want to take.
00:35:46.000But it is still true, as you say, that if you get rid of it, it is the Pandora's box.
00:35:57.000Takes the first move on abolishing the filibuster.
00:35:59.000Won't get as much out of it as the second party to take office after it's gone.
00:36:04.000I also just want to say that there has been a decade-long erosion of the filibuster.
00:36:08.000It actually started with Harry Reid, if you might remember.
00:36:11.000Harry Reid, of all people, started the erosion of the filibuster for circuit and district court judges.
00:36:17.000And then it marched forward when we used the abolition of the filibuster to put Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court back in 2017, then also with Brett Kavanaugh, then also with Amy Coney Barrett.
00:36:29.000And so we've seen the slow erosion of the filibuster.
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00:40:17.000Actually, I'm very upset because, long story short, my father died in a nursing home during COVID in April of 2020. And when it first happened, we assumed that, like everyone else, oh, a nurse had gotten COVID and it spread throughout.
00:40:33.000We didn't find out until months later that...
00:40:36.000Andrew Cuomo literally and deliberately put COVID-positive patients into nursing homes.
00:40:41.000And I want people to understand, every single person with a family member in a nursing home got a phone call on March 9th saying we are shutting down the nursing homes for their safety and you cannot come see your family.
00:40:53.000So they locked me out because I may or may not have COVID. And then...
00:41:00.00015 days later, they deliberately put COVID-positive patients into nursing homes.
00:41:05.000He was told, if you do this, thousands of people will die.
00:41:09.000How is this man still politically viable and running for the mayor of New York City?
00:41:15.000Well, largely because the Democrats are almost nobody else.
00:41:19.000And the Democrat Party is not a party, it is a machine.
00:41:22.000And you plug in place pieces, and they've looked at their roster and they're like...
00:41:26.000Well, why'd we get rid of this Cuomo guy again?
00:41:28.000Cuomo is a lot like Gavin, actually, in that he's a canny political operator.
00:41:39.000They got him out on Me Too instead of the mass murder because Murphy, Governor Murphy, and Governor Wolf in Pennsylvania both did the exact same thing he did.
00:41:49.000But if they got Cuomo out on it, they would have had to take out the other governors on this.