00:00:59.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:07.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:55.000I think President Donald Trump was the best president of my lifetime, one of the best presidents in American history.
00:02:00.000However, one piece of feedback I would give President Trump and his administration is they kind of just turned a blind eye to soaring deficits in the debt.
00:02:08.000The United States national debt is $31.8 trillion.
00:02:17.000Republicans, and of course Democrats, but Democrats, you'd expect it from them, but Republicans far too often have been the party of big deficits, big debt.
00:02:26.000And by the way, we just added another million dollars to the debt since we started the show a minute ago.
00:03:58.000So now the debt ceiling debate is primary.
00:04:03.000Congress has to meet as to whether or not they're going to increase the debt ceiling.
00:04:09.000So the debt ceiling will expire the 1st of June.
00:04:12.000If the ceiling is breached without renewal, the Treasury Department will have to suspend issuing new government debt and stop paying some of its bills.
00:04:23.000There are some emergency measures it can engage in, but basically not much of anything.
00:04:34.000Now, Kevin McCarthy, to his credit, was able to get Republicans together and pass a pretty good, I'd say a five or six out of 10 measure that cut some domestic spending and put Democrats on defense.
00:04:45.000The Biden strategy was they did not think Republicans could consolidate.
00:04:49.000They thought that Lauren Boebert or Marjorie Taylor Greene or Matt Gates would demand too much and that the House Republican conference, because they had a little bit of a messy speaker fight, they would not be able to pass a debt ceiling measure that would then put the basically the obligation on the White House.
00:05:10.000So Biden's been on defense here, and it's been really interesting to see.
00:05:14.000Biden has been scrambling, and there's these bizarre and abstract legal theories that are now being entertained, including using the 14th Amendment, the 14th Amendment of the Constitution in Section 4.
00:05:26.000It talks about, and by the way, this was a post-Civil War amendment.
00:05:29.000The purpose of the 14th Amendment was not about the debt ceiling.
00:05:32.000It said the validity of the public debt of the United States authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion should not be questioned.
00:05:42.000Basically, it was saying we're not going to pay the Confederacy's debt.
00:05:45.000That was what the 14th Amendment was, Section 4.
00:05:49.000But you're already getting these bizarre and almost Twitter-founded legal theories that are pushed by that moron, Steve Cohen, saying, oh, yeah, you know, we can increase the debt ceiling.
00:06:03.000This is some of the ideas that they're proposing, not to go through Congress, not to do a spending deal, but just have Joe Biden unilaterally sign a debt ceiling increase.
00:06:16.000So it's going to be difficult for President Biden to negotiate with somebody who has those type of legislative terrorists on their team, and the 14th Amendment is an ace in the hole.
00:07:28.000Democrats want the fundamental transformation of America.
00:07:30.000They want the destruction of Western society.
00:07:33.000Not every Democrat, but most of them, and certainly the leadership of the Democrat Party.
00:07:37.000Therefore, they want debts and deficits.
00:07:40.000If you want to cripple a nation, if you want to smash a country, if you want to destabilize a civilization, you engage in reckless deficit spending.
00:07:52.000Same reason why they want the borders wide open, same reason why they want hyperinflation.
00:08:01.000The progressive wing of the Democrat Party is putting massive pressure on Biden to increase spending, saying that we have to increase the amount we are spending.
00:08:09.000So look, we probably have to raise the debt ceiling, but we should not raise it for nothing.
00:08:14.000I think that failing to raise the debt ceiling would be a mistake, but we should drive the hardest bargain possible.
00:08:22.000We should say, okay, Joe Biden, you're the one that should default the United States.
00:08:26.000Now, we don't know what would happen if the United States defaults.
00:08:28.000Probably it's an apocalypse, but it's probably overly apocalyptic in their description.
00:08:33.000But isn't it interesting how the Democrats always go to the most cataclysmic conclusion without actually negotiating anything in good faith?
00:08:42.000They immediately go towards, it's going to ruin the economy and bring down the stock market by 45%.
00:08:48.000Maybe you're probably right, but maybe not.
00:08:50.000Instead of negotiating in good faith and saying that we have become a debtor nation.
00:08:56.000So Republicans passed legislation already to raise the debt ceiling.
00:09:02.000Again, Biden did not expect that, April 26th.
00:09:06.000And so now there's a debate going back and forth of where are we going to cut spending?
00:09:11.000Where are we going to actually get some concessions?
00:09:14.000And I think Republicans need to drive a very, very hard bargain.
00:09:17.000Now, mind you, Joe Biden is saying, well, and again, I don't trust Joe Biden.
00:09:21.000Joe Biden is a traitor to the United States.
00:09:23.000But this is where we could call Joe Biden's bluff and really put him on defense and maybe put together a fabulous spending cut plan.
00:09:31.000And if there was one wish I had for the Republican Party right now is I demand, and you should too in the grassroots, demand the Republican Party reasserts itself and recommits itself to a party of fiscal discipline.
00:09:47.000The Republican Party should not be a party where we tolerate trillions of dollars of debts and deficits.
00:09:54.000I do not want to be part of that party.
00:09:56.000That's why I'm a registered independent.
00:09:58.000I refuse to be part of a movement that turns a blind eye to our national indebtedness, to the destruction of our sovereignty, the deterioration of our dollar.
00:10:08.000The national debt does not just matter a little bit.
00:10:11.000It's an existential threat to our national security.
00:10:13.000It's the Democrats that don't care about this.
00:10:15.000Republicans, you have a chance right now to tell your voters and to tell future generations, to tell your kids and grandkids, I am going to pick the tough fight to balance the budget to cut spending so that we'll still have a country.
00:10:30.000But Republicans are refusing to cut spending in one area, and I think they are really mistaken.
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00:13:19.000Joe Biden, as I said, is a traitor to the United States.
00:13:23.000But quite honestly, I think it's time for us as Republicans to say, you know what, we're going to cut domestically and we're going to cut Mark Milley's budget.
00:13:33.000Republicans have been unwilling to challenge in any way, shape, or form the Department of Defense.
00:13:46.000I'm for holding our enemies accountable.
00:13:49.000But I think many of you in the audience are, you're kind of getting wise to this nonsense where the Department of Defense is less about defending the nation and more about colonizing other countries for some woke agenda and invading other countries.
00:14:02.000It should be called the Department of Invading Nations.
00:14:06.000And so Joe Biden says, well, why don't you cut some defense spending?
00:14:24.000The coolest thing I did on board was to be able to participate in a LGBTQ spoken word night, and I was able to read a poem that I wrote to the whole ship.
00:14:34.000And that was probably the culmination of the whole deployment.
00:14:39.000Republicans, you should give a press conference saying, hey, Joe Biden wants us to cut military spending.
00:14:44.000We are officially cutting the gay poem budget from the United States military.
00:14:49.000There will not be another nickel towards LGBT poems in the military.
00:15:40.000A really good way to do that is to use inclusive language.
00:15:44.000Instead of saying something like, hey, guys, you can say, hey, everyone.
00:15:49.000Another way that we could show that we're allies and that we accept everybody is to maybe include our pronouns in our emails or, like we just did, introduce ourselves using our pronouns.
00:16:00.000That is an official PSA from the United States Navy, taxpayer-funded.
00:16:04.000Why are Republicans unwilling to touch that budget?
00:16:08.000So you see, Republicans do not want to touch a dollar of military spending, largely because they're purchased by Boeing and Northrop Grumman and Raytheon and the military defense contractors.
00:16:19.000Do you feel as if the military is currently making America safer?
00:16:23.000Not the rank and file who are heroes, but the military leadership?
00:18:51.000You'll be saying Biden did a wonderful job.
00:18:53.000On the merits, based on what I've offered, I would be blameless.
00:18:58.000I think there are some MiGA Republicans in the House who know the damage that it would do to the economy.
00:19:08.000And because I am president and president's responsible for everything, Biden would take the blame, and that's the one way to make sure Biden's not re-elected.
00:19:19.000Joe Biden, who is the arsonist of America, the arsonist to America, is being told the one-liners that we want to default because we think we could blame Joe Biden.
00:19:30.000You see, this is a fundamental difference between Democrats and Republicans, and we know this to be true.
00:19:35.000From Joy Behar to Jane Fonda to many other people that when Trump was president, Bill Maher, for example, Bill Maher said, I hope there's a recession because then we could blame it on Trump.
00:20:12.000And for Joe Biden to imply that the Republican Party is going to try and obliterate the full faith in credit United States because then they could blame Joe Biden.
00:20:26.000Joe Biden is the one that I question actually loves the country.
00:20:30.000Joe Biden is the one that keeps the borders wide open.
00:20:33.000Joe Biden is the one that does these things and Joe Biden's puppet masters.
00:20:38.000Every Republican that I know would rather have a functioning America, a flourishing America, even if it meant a Democrat was present at the time.
00:20:47.000I love my country a lot more than I love politics.
00:21:00.000It's a difference between conservatives and Democrats.
00:21:04.000Bill Maher and Jane, remember Jane Fonda or somebody like that was saying, COVID is a gift.
00:21:12.000COVID is a gift because it helps us get rid of Donald Trump.
00:21:16.000Representative Steve Cohen, who's a moron, talking about how Lawrence Tribe is the Obi-Wan kenobi when it comes to constitutional law and how the 14th Amendment is something the president can use.
00:22:18.000Even if you believe section 4 was about the national debt and the debt ceiling, do you know what section 5 says?
00:22:25.000That Congress shall have the power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article.
00:22:31.000So even if you believe this nonsense about the 14th Amendment, read the fifth section, which applies to all the other sections.
00:22:39.000That it has to go straight through Congress, that a president cannot unilaterally sign it, even though it's a misinterpretation and a misapplication of the amendment.
00:22:50.000Even under their misapplication strategy, it still has to go through Congress.
00:22:56.000Cut 44, Janet Yellen doesn't think the 14th Amendment can be used to raise the debt ceiling.
00:23:03.000Well, extraordinary measures is used in a different way, but there has been much discussion of the 14th Amendment.
00:23:12.000And as President Biden said, I believe this morning, it doesn't seem like something that could be appropriately used in these circumstances, given the legal uncertainty around it and given the tight timeframe we're on.
00:23:31.000John Fetterman, who can't be bothered to go put on a suit and tie, might interfere with his depression, wearing shorts and a sweatshirt, a complete insult to the institution of the Senate.
00:23:42.000This guy's a trust fund baby that appropriates the aesthetic and the visual of the MAGA muscular working class.
00:25:02.000For all of you out there that are watching or listening to the program in Pennsylvania, it's an insult to you, an insult to those of you that pay your taxes.
00:25:10.000Remember, part of the strategy is a mass demoralization campaign.
00:25:14.000And when I see John Fetterman and I speak about John Fetterman's audiences across the country, I just get a sense of what's the point.
00:25:22.000If sweatshirt Shrek can win the elect win the election in Pennsylvania, it makes you think, what is even the point?
00:26:07.000I think that is why you see the market still stabilized because we know the Senate could just take that bill and actually raise the debt ceiling, put us in a stronger economic place.
00:26:17.000Now, Joe Biden does not want what's best for America.
00:26:19.000So I do not believe they're negotiating good faith.
00:26:22.000Joe Biden wants centralized bank digital currency.
00:26:24.000Joe Biden is fine with the rise of China.
00:26:26.000Remember, he's a purchased Chinese asset.
00:26:29.000For them, they want a clean spending hike.
00:26:31.000Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, they're furious that negotiations are underway.
00:26:36.000And in Cut 38, you'll see Byron Donalds says Biden doesn't want to cut any spending.
00:26:41.000We will get to $54 trillion in debt if Biden has his way.
00:26:45.000So much of the economic confusion that we're experiencing right now is because of our overspending a decade ago.
00:26:52.000Kicking the can down the road is the overused metaphor when it comes to national debt and deficit policy.
00:27:25.000Just so we're clear, the way Congress budgets, a family, a business, a person, a church, a nonprofit would never be able to budget.
00:27:34.000So once you set a new record of spending, baseline budgeting necessitates that you start at that baseline.
00:27:42.000You don't even question what we want is zero-based budgeting.
00:27:46.000This is a great opportunity, everybody, for us, the grassroots to demand from our lawmakers a new Republican Party, a Republican party of budget discipline.
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00:30:56.000St. George Floyd will have statues erected to him.
00:31:00.000The drug addict criminal will be remembered in the woke narrative of penetrating the Western patriarchy so that we can have conversations on anti-racism.
00:31:14.000And remember, George Floyd did have a statue, but it was destroyed by lightning.
00:31:20.000Pramila Jayapal, though, again, Floyd de Palooza happened for a lot of reasons.
00:31:24.000One of the reasons why Floyd Apalooza happened and the burning of the Wendy's and the looting and the widespread arson was to set a standard, was to remind people.
00:31:33.000Remember, this has to happen every couple decades.
00:31:35.000Now, whether it happens intentionally or not is not clear to me, but it does happen.
00:32:16.000The American Democrat Party, specifically the progressive base of the Democrat Party, is threatening another rendition of Antifa of anti-racist terrorism if you don't give us what we want.
00:32:34.000I think there would be a huge backlash from our entire House Democratic caucus, certainly the progressives, but also in the streets.
00:32:42.000I mean, I think that this is, it's important that we don't take steps back from the very strong agenda that the president himself shepherded and led over the last two years.
00:33:44.000I mean, if anybody can figure out how to negotiate a reasonable agreement with these Republicans in the House, it's Joe Biden.
00:33:52.000But that's a challenge because they are essentially engaging in this extortion game.
00:33:57.000They are essentially saying, agree with us on making cuts to programs for seniors and kids and families working in low-wage jobs, or we're going to drive the economy off the cliff.
00:34:10.000And so our goal is just to make sure that the president is, and everybody, including those Republicans, are aware that there is another option, which is the 14th Amendment.
00:34:18.000So you got Senator Tina Smith, Fetterman.
00:34:21.000Again, Fetterman just does, he's like Pete Buttigieg.
00:34:23.000He reads whatever the regime tells him to read.
00:34:29.000Joe Biden knows the Supreme Court will overturn it.
00:34:32.000They would rather engage in an abstract legal theory first floated on Twitter by Lawrence Tribe than seriously engage in spending cuts that could actually save the American Republic.
00:34:50.000The Democrat Party, they are actively disintegrating and poisoning the fiscal health of the United States.