00:00:00.000The speaker vote is done and we are in chaos, but this conversation is more important than ever with Kurt Schlichter as we go through it in real time.
00:00:59.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:16.000Instead, we've got Matt Gates being followed by hundreds of regime media reporters who, for the first time ever, are thrilled to ask what Matt Gates, a hardcore conservative, thinks, only because they think it's going to cause chaos among the Republicans, which it is.
00:04:06.000I don't love him, but he's been useful.
00:04:09.000Who's going to be the guy who takes over when Matt Gates tosses him out with the help of the Democrats, who will never do anything that's good for the Republicans?
00:04:20.000So you can tell, you know, it's an important indicator.
00:04:23.000If the Democrats are united behind you in doing something, that's when you think, huh, maybe this isn't such a great idea.
00:04:34.000So I'm, you know, I'm concerned with winning legislative elections in Virginia, where we have to show people who have doubts about conservatives that we can govern.
00:04:46.000I'm concerned about winning in Kentucky, where we have a very important governor who's very likely to have to replace Mitch McConnell, whose health is failing.
00:04:57.000I want to, you know, is this going to help those things or hurt those things?
00:06:27.000Let me just read some of these emails here because, again, I have received thousands of very nasty messages, not even because I'm saying we shouldn't be doing this.
00:06:36.000I'm saying that this has probably not been thought through.
00:06:39.000Like, just what the one, two, three, four is right.
00:06:44.000So, I'll read one of these emails here, right?
00:06:46.000Charlie, the time has come to burn it all down.
00:07:07.000You know, and I find it interesting that guys like you and I, who no one is going to mistake for a squish, unless they are actively stupid or think the listener is actively stupid, are saying, wait a minute, stop it.
00:07:39.000A bunch of Republican squishes, the same one the base is infuriated at, are going to get together with a bunch of Democrats, and they're going to put in a squish Republican speaker like they got down in Texas, the same kind of creep who was behind impeaching Ken Paxton.
00:08:00.000And then they're going to go, I can't believe it.
00:08:02.000You know, I keep thinking of that meme, the guy riding on his bike and he's saying, dang these Republicans, they're screwing everything up.
00:08:10.000He sticks some between the folks in his wheel.
00:08:19.000And, but so, some I could read, I could read.
00:08:22.000By the way, the audience is 99% in the direction of vacate, storm the bastille, take the head, and all that.
00:08:29.000But let's let's just go through a fact, which is that the people that will be voting for motion to vacate, you know, they say they've been lied to and betrayed.
00:08:39.000And I'm going to take their word at it, right?
00:10:05.000You know, where they're, I can't believe, why isn't he decreeing, blah, blah, blah.
00:10:10.000Because, you know, maybe you should have paid more attention that schoolhouse rock, I'm just a bill thing because it doesn't work like that.
00:10:21.000We have got to make incremental movements.
00:10:24.000We are not going to make, you know, this is this is not going to be a giant sweeping cavalry charge.
00:10:30.000This is going to be bayonet fighting inch by inch.
00:10:33.000And sometimes you're going to lose ground.
00:13:08.000Well, you know, Woltz, the director who doesn't do what Tom Hagen says in The Godfather, wakes up and finds Rosie O'Donnell's head in his bed.
00:14:44.000It's simply a matter of what you can do for me at a given moment.
00:14:49.000It would be, you know, Kevin McCarthy has been doing about as good a job as you can do in the situation he's given, which is a majority of four people.
00:15:01.000And it is, I mean, it's very hard to do whatever you want when you don't have the power to do it.
00:15:12.000And I think he's done a remarkable job.
00:15:40.000I prefer inter, you know, you know, victories, one after the other, small ones, step by step, with some defeats, over a massive self-inflicted defeat.
00:15:53.000So, the some people say, then, Charlie, what is your guys' plan?
00:15:57.000I think our plan is pretty simple, Kurt.
00:15:59.000This is my perspective: is that we have to just kind of put our hands up and be like, Congress is a massive disappointment.
00:16:32.000Well, you know, we haven't made the case that we can govern, and we're busy making a case that we can't.
00:16:39.000But look at the progress we have made.
00:16:41.000We could have some better negotiating position for the budget.
00:16:48.000We're not going to get the budget we want because we only have a four-seat majority.
00:16:52.000But one thing we have done is uncovered this whole Biden corruption thing, which never would have happened without a majority and may just come to a flying stop when we don't have a conservative speaker because we may get a moderate speaker.
00:17:09.000And what do you think the Democrats' price for supporting a speaker with some moderate Republicans is going to be?
00:17:16.000If you don't think Barry, this whole Biden thing is on the price tag, you're crazy.
00:17:23.000Kurt Schlichter, I feel the anger, everybody.
00:19:46.000Look, I blame McCarthy to some level too, though, less than other senior Republicans.
00:19:54.000But it was a group effort screwing up 2022.
00:19:58.000And the idea that there's some sort of like seven-dimensional chest where he only has a couple people, majority, because that's like to his advantage.
00:20:39.000These are not super smart Ernst Starbrose Blofelds in their volcano lair.
00:20:45.000They're regular people with regular faults and many of them not exceptional in any way.
00:20:53.000So the idea that there's some sort of giant conspiracy going on, no, it's exactly what it seems.
00:20:59.000It's people having to make deals, people having to make compromises, and other people not accepting the fact that, you know, most of America is not as conservative as you are, Charlie, as I am, as your viewers and listeners are.
00:21:19.000We've got to get along with a majority of people who are more liberal than we are, even on the Republican side.
00:22:52.000So, you know, we always come up to the end.
00:22:56.000And this time, look, I think McCarthy, by pushing it off 45 days, got the best possible deal from the circumstances that everybody put him in.
00:23:09.000Because, you know, again, he doesn't have absolute power as we're seeing right now.
00:23:19.000And, you know, it's hard enough to herd two cats.
00:23:22.000This was going to happen eventually anyway, because there are rewards for doing this.
00:23:27.000If you look at Matt Gates, Matt Gates is getting more attention than he will ever get in the, has ever had, and will ever get in the future right now because he's perceived as damaging the Republican brand, which it appears to me he's doing.
00:25:30.000Mr. Cole of Oklahoma moves to lay the resolution on the table.
00:25:34.000So the only question that remains is who's going to vote present or will the Democrats break with the caucus, which won't happen because they don't want, you know, their dead Pomeranian in the bed.
00:25:44.000So it's just a simple majority at this point.
00:25:47.000And again, the present votes could change the math a little bit, right?
00:26:13.000And I think it only takes three or four if every Democrat goes with them.
00:26:17.000And so then let's just build this out, Kurt.
00:26:19.000So that means literally we're going to go right back to where we were in January.
00:26:23.000All the committees are going to be put in suspension.
00:26:26.000All the looking into Merrick Garland, all the weaponization of government stuff at the FBI, all the January 6th stuff, that's all kind of put in suspension.
00:26:34.000We had 15 rounds last time, and we're going to start again.
00:26:37.000So Kurt, walk us through deja vu all over again.
00:26:42.000Well, first thing Matt Gates does is walk off the floor of the House to an adoring throng of regime media people who are going to love him for the next 15 minutes.
00:27:52.000Because mark my words, tomorrow she's going to get on like MFNBC, like with Scarborough, and she's going to be like, I can't believe how dysfunctional Congress is.
00:28:02.000We have to work together to build bridges to a brighter tomorrow.
00:29:59.000You know, when the fog clears and your high, you know, dissipates, I don't know if we're going to be feeling great when all of a sudden, you know, Speaker Mace all of a sudden announces that she has 30 Democrats with her to, you know, or, you know, don't.
00:30:21.000You're in the midst of a congressional session.
00:30:23.000This is a different ballgame than January.
00:30:25.000I mean, you're talking about you could have a Dusty Johnson, Don Bacon, Hakeem Jeffries, that guy that just got mugged, whatever that guy, Qualaro, whatever his name is, right?
00:33:37.000If I'm a rhino where I say that there's a war on white people and being trans is a mass delusion and that we're being vaded, you know, via the great replacement of the third world.
00:33:46.000But Charlie's a rhino because, Kurt, I want a plan.
00:34:03.000By the way, some of the audience is just disagreeing and they've been polite, but I'd say that hundreds of people are just like, they're coming after my motives.
00:34:09.000They're like, you're an establishment hack.
00:34:45.000What offends me is people who haven't thought their stuff through and who have sloppy, weak, emotion-driven thinking because that never ever works.
00:35:58.000Here's one of my rules of life: I make my worst decisions when I'm angry.
00:36:03.000I do not think clearly when I'm angry.
00:36:06.000When I get in a debate on a college campus and somebody is angry, I know I'm gonna beat them in a debate because they're not thinking clearly.
00:36:13.000They're not doing, they are not rationally considering everything.