00:01:06.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:15.000It's a pretty simple question, or it should be.
00:02:18.000However, it seems as if our mostly economically illiterate establishment politicians in Congress do not understand what money actually is.
00:02:30.000You see, President Trump correctly wanted to cut out the pork and cut out the waste and give people assistance straight to the people.
00:02:40.000I think that President Trump's political instincts are correct here.
00:02:43.000I might disagree with him on some of the economics of it, but President Trump had a much better negotiating position than that of the congressional leadership.
00:03:03.000Creating more money out of thin air does not give you more value.
00:03:06.000That should be a ridiculously obvious statement.
00:03:11.000Just like there are the laws of nature, there are the laws of economics.
00:03:16.000Now, mind you, Congress probably had good intentions in passing this multi-trillion dollar stimulus, but good intentions do not result into good public policy.
00:03:32.000Money allows two problems that we find in the laws of economics to be solved.
00:03:38.000And there's other problems it solves as well.
00:03:40.000But it solves the double incidence of wants problem and it solves the retention of value problem.
00:03:47.000The double incidence of wants problem is if I want something specific and money didn't exist, I would have to barter for that specific thing.
00:03:55.000And therefore, the person who had that specific thing would have to want the specific thing that I had.
00:04:00.000So let's pretend I did nothing but grew oranges.
00:04:07.000And in order to go find a wheel or I wanted to go buy a piece of land, that landowner had to want the specific product or that good or service that I was offering.
00:04:56.000It's a pretty simple truth when it comes to economics.
00:05:00.000But here we have our Washington, D.C. political class creating with no backing whatsoever, trillions of dollars with no goods or services being correlated to that.
00:05:13.000Now, it would be one thing if Congress wanted to do a massive infrastructure bill, a public works project.
00:05:20.000I would find probably some of it to be wasteful and some of it to not be stimulative.
00:05:24.000But at least when you have a public works project, there is some good or service that is being rendered.
00:05:33.000Remember, there's a difference between investment and spending.
00:05:37.000Just sending out checks to every single American without having a correlated good or services alongside of it means that inflation will ensue.
00:05:47.000So how all of a sudden do you get more goods and services?
00:06:15.000When you print more money without goods and services also correlating growth alongside of it, it just spreads the value of the goods and services among a larger number of dollars.
00:06:29.000Now, President Donald Trump's instincts are correct here.
00:06:32.000He is trying to channel the spirit of Milton Friedman.
00:06:37.000Milton Friedman, a free market economist and monetarist, actually said, let's get rid of all the pork and just give people money directly.
00:06:47.000I would vast prefer that over our massive, bloated welfare state.
00:06:53.000And that's the part that Milton Friedman talks about that people kind of forget, which is Milton Friedman wanted to get rid of the entire welfare industry and replace it with a form of direct cash payments.
00:07:05.000However, people say that now's the time for Washington, D.C. to step up and do something.
00:07:10.000They did the worst thing they could have possibly done.
00:07:14.000Instead of some form of investment, some sort of public works project or infrastructure, national Wi-Fi, they passed along a form of deficit spending, inflation-inducing stimulus, alongside a gargantuan omnibus bill.
00:07:33.000Now, to be fair to Congress, more fair than I think they deserve, the gargantuan omnibus bill was not the stimulus bill.
00:07:45.000And some people were conflating the two, but they were passed at the same time.
00:07:49.000To be easily descriptive, I will put them both in the same category.
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00:10:41.000What Congress has decided to embark on is not something that actually helps working people.
00:10:48.000If you're serious about helping working people, the two greatest things you can do to help working people is to protect their currency and to look out for your fellow countrymen's participation in the labor market.
00:11:02.000AKA, don't engage in mass immigration.
00:11:05.000Those are probably the two most important things.
00:11:07.000Don't devalue your currency and don't dilute the labor pool by endlessly and recklessly opening your borders.
00:11:16.000A good rule of thumb is any country that engages in mass immigration typically has some other fault lines that they are not addressing.
00:11:25.000It could be cultural, it could be economic.
00:11:28.000However, what Congress has decided to do here, and one of Joe, you know, one of if Joe Biden becomes president of the United States on January 20th, one of the things that he'll decide that he's saying he's going to do is completely open the borders and it's up to Republicans to hopefully fight them.
00:11:44.000But the question is, why is it that Democrats and congressional leaders seem so focused on creating more money out of thin air to do something that will not have a stimulative effect in our country?
00:12:13.000Wealthy people that have leveraged their entire life, they are going to do just fine because of this fiat currency intrusion into our economy.
00:12:24.000But as the currency becomes increasingly worth less and worthless, people that are dependent on paycheck to paycheck, that do not have massive asset pools to reallocate them to metallics or land, hedges, shorts, they are going to find themselves in a very difficult and troubling economic predicament,
00:12:50.000which is no wage growth whatsoever, a growing wage pool, a growing labor pool that will compete for their own labor, and a currency that is not worth what it used to be and prices going up, the worst possible combination.
00:13:04.000So Congress is doing this because they think it is politically popular.
00:13:11.000They want to show people that they're fighting for them.
00:13:14.000None of this actually helps normal people long term.
00:13:18.000Now, some of the PPP money, I'm sure, is going to help certain small businesses.
00:13:22.000That could have been its own relief bill.
00:13:24.000It could have been its own $200 billion relief bill, not a $1 trillion relief bill and a $1.3 trillion omnibus bill.
00:13:31.000The PPP money could have been designed as no interest loans payable back 18 or 24 months from now, partially forgiven with different parameters.
00:13:42.000Instead, the massive albatross of fiat currency with the country remaining locked down is a death sentence for the strength of the U.S. dollar.
00:13:57.000International corporations that are more interested in the depletion of the American dollar and a weak dollar and the rise of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:14:09.000So congressional leadership that voted and supported this, and by the way, President Trump did everything he possibly could to fight back against this.
00:14:17.000They know that this is not actually going to result in economic growth.
00:14:22.000And this is just another reason exactly why Congress should have the one bill, one subject rule, which my good friend Foster Freeze, who came on this program, talked about it.
00:14:34.000But that's far too simple for Congress because Congress had a lot of backroom deals, lobbyist carve-outs for that bill in particular, for now what is law.
00:14:49.000And all of the sort of crony deals, all of the untold stories are now coming to a very big date in history, January 6th.
00:15:04.000And what can actually be done about it?
00:15:06.000On January 6th, the Electoral College results go in front of the United States Congress.
00:15:15.000It is the last step of quote-unquote electing a president.
00:15:20.000Vice President Mike Pence is the Vice President of the United States, but he is the only member according to the United States Constitution that serves a role both in the executive branch and in the legislative branch, a leadership role in particular.
00:15:37.000He is both the Vice President of the United States and the President of the United States Senate.
00:15:44.000The Vice President of the United States oversees regular business in the U.S. Senate and also is a tie-breaking vote.
00:15:53.000If you remember during the impeachment fight, Vice President Pence, the president of the Senate, actually oversaw the vote, the roll call vote.
00:16:02.000It was not Mitch McConnell, it was Mike Pence.
00:16:06.000So because of this, Mike Pence oversees the submission and the acceptance of these Electoral College results.
00:16:18.000Vice President Pence, constitutionally, likely has the power to challenge and push back against many of the irregularities and results from a lot of these states.
00:16:32.000A piece by Alexander Makris asks the question: who counts the votes of the presidential electors?
00:16:41.000Now, interestingly, some people have different legal opinions on this.
00:16:45.000Some people say that Mike Pence does not have the power like Thomas Jefferson did over the president and the Senate, but let's do a little bit of a history lesson.
00:16:53.000Back in the disputed election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson was vice president of the United States.
00:17:04.000The 1800 presidential election was a contest between Jefferson, Aaron Burr, John Adams, Charles Pinckney, and John Jay.
00:17:14.000Jefferson was the current vice president, and so he was able to count the votes.
00:17:20.000And some historians would say he counted them in his own favor.
00:17:25.000In fact, according to the Virginia Law Review from 2004, I'm reading from a very good article put together by Joe Hoft, Thomas Jefferson counts himself into the presidency.
00:17:37.000This is from the Virginia Law Review from 2004.
00:17:40.000Quote, Thomas Jefferson was remarkably aggressive as president of the Senate.
00:17:45.000Georgia's certificate granting four electoral votes to Jefferson was constitutionally defective on its face, a deficiency that was announced on the floor of Congress and reported by leading newspapers of the day.
00:17:59.000To resolve all doubts, we have located, this is from the Virginia Law Review, the Georgia certificate in the National Archives, and it does indeed reveal striking constitutional irregularities.
00:18:11.000Nevertheless, Jefferson failed to pause before counting George's four electoral votes into the Republican column, declaring the final vote as if nothing were amiss.
00:18:24.000Had George's ballot been excluded, the vote count would have admitted all five candidates into a runoff in the House.
00:18:31.000Without the decisive use of power as the president of the Senate, Jefferson might never have become president of the United States.
00:18:42.000He's on Mount Rushmore, and he became president, some would argue, only because he used his unilateral power as president of the Senate to open and count the presidential ballots in his favor.
00:18:57.000So on January 6th, Mike Pence oversees this entire process.
00:19:03.000I'm sure there are a lot of conversations happening internally between the President of the United States and Mike Pence.
00:19:10.000Mike Pence is an awesome, loyal American patriot.
00:19:15.000He spoke at our Turning Point USA Student Action Summit.
00:19:18.000He has been phenomenally loyal to the President and to his shared objectives and aims.
00:19:24.000And so whatever Mike Pence does, I am sure it will be cleared and approved by President Trump himself.
00:19:32.000But theoretically, Vice President Mike Pence could decide to accept electoral votes from all but states that are in contention.
00:19:45.000Vice President Mike Pence could say that until more evidence is put forward towards the veracity of these results, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin are not going to be accepted here in the United States Senate.
00:20:02.000Now, the world would probably metaphorically and literally blow up.
00:20:10.000Now, in addition to that, on January 6th, it is the constitutional deadline for members of the House and members of the Senate to object against the results.
00:20:21.000Congressman Mo Brooks, Congressman-elect Madison Cawthorne, Congressman Matt Gates, amongst others, I think Congressman Louis Gomert as well, have already pledged to object to the Electoral College vote tabulation in the House of Representatives.
00:20:42.000We do not know as of today whether or not a member of the United States Senate will do that.
00:20:48.000Now, a singular objection will bring the results into a couple-hour debate in both the House and the Senate.
00:21:00.000Then there will be a roll call vote, which will determine whether or not each body accepts the Electoral College results.
00:21:12.000Now, the question that I have not had answered yet is in the United States Senate, will it require a 60-vote threshold or a 51-vote threshold?
00:21:28.000I'm not so sure that would be the probably Senate majority leader that would set that rule.
00:21:36.000So if Pence just follows the U.S. Constitution and does this in coordination with the President of the United States, very well, some of these Electoral College results could be rejected.
00:21:51.000Now, I'm not going to get into the probability of that.
00:21:54.000I'm not going to get into which way I think it'll actually land.
00:21:57.000And by the way, tons of people are planning to go to Washington, D.C. on January 6th.
00:22:04.000I think a more appropriate way to approach this and think about this is with a thought exercise and is with a question.
00:22:14.000What if Republicans were under accusations of having developmentally disabled people vote against their will for a candidate that they didn't choose?
00:22:26.000What if it was Republicans that had evidence against them that showed the Nevada Native Project trading ballots for cash?
00:22:34.000What if it was Republicans that all of a sudden found boxes of ballots underneath tables in the middle of the night to correlate certain vote drops to benefit a certain candidate?
00:22:46.000What if it was Republicans that won thanks to a 1,774% voter registration increase in Pennsylvania for 90-plus-year-olds in the midst of a pandemic?
00:23:00.000What if it was Republicans that were the ones that were defending the idea that certain national trends are to be ignored, but four counties where everything mattered is where they were really benefited from?
00:23:21.000Would Democrats use every single constitutional power at their disposal?
00:23:27.000Would Democrats use the president of the Senate?
00:23:31.000Joe Biden is worried about this, and I could prove it because Joe Biden, when he gave his pseudo rub-in-your-face unity speech a couple weeks ago, he said, and when I was president of the Senate, I did my job, and I oversaw results that were against my wishes.
00:23:51.000Joe Biden only said that because he's worried that there could be a potential constitutional issue in the United States Senate.
00:23:59.000All this is happening alongside Congressman Louis Gohmert suing the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, demanding that he does more to prevent the certification of these results.
00:24:18.000Would Democrats refuse to certify the election results if it meant four more years for someone that they didn't like and they believed that they saw ample voter fraud evidence?
00:24:59.000And so I guess my bigger question is: for Republicans that refuse to fight in this moment, why would they think for a second that the 70 million people that believe this election was stolen are going to have respect for them, are going to support them, and are going to believe that our elections have any form of integrity?
00:26:02.000But more than anything else, why wouldn't you fight with everything that you have at the moment where our entire republic could very well be decided?
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00:27:41.000But it's a sad comment on our world that so many people are so dissatisfied with their own heritage.
00:27:47.000Next thing you know, there'll be a half Indian, half Jamaican raised in Montreal, claiming to have celebrated Kwanza all through her childhood.
00:27:56.000Full disclosure, I was actually raised in Topeka, Kansas, and if this show went on another 15 minutes, I wouldn't be able to keep up this unconvincing accent.
00:28:10.000Well, Kamala Harris had a Kwanzaa message saying how she celebrated with her family growing up, which I believe Kwanza officially became a holiday after she was born.
00:28:26.000I wanted to take a moment to send my warmest wishes to everyone celebrating Kwanzaa.
00:28:31.000You know, my sister and I, we grew up celebrating Kwanzaa every year.
00:28:36.000Our family would, in our extended family, we would gather around across multiple generations and we tell stories.
00:28:43.000The kids would sit on the carpet and the elders would sit in chairs and we would light the candles and of course afterwards have a beautiful meal.
00:28:52.000So to everyone who is celebrating, happy Kwanzaa from our family to yours.
00:30:41.000This is another AOC and perhaps even worse than AOC, if that's even possible.
00:30:46.000Worse than AOC, and that John Ossoff is compromised by China, which is absolutely true, which is those people will be in office regardless of what happens on January 6th if we do not do our job in Georgia just the day prior.
00:31:01.000And President Trump is doing a rally in Georgia on January 4th, the day before the Georgia runoff.
00:31:07.000I could tell you that grassroots conservatives, patriotic Americans are taking note.
00:31:14.000They're taking notice, and they will not forget.
00:31:17.000They want to know who is willing to stand and fight in these perilous times.
00:31:26.000Who is putting themselves on the line?
00:31:28.000And who's just rolling over and waiting for things to move on?
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