If Mike Johnson goes down, should Elon Musk be the Speaker of the House? A major Republican senator seems to think it s a good idea. Plus, an illegal alien from Mexico is on the run after allegedly filming himself and distributing copies of the footage of himself committing an unspeakable crime against an 8-year-old.
00:02:48.720The Speaker of the House has to apply leverage, needs to develop a system of sticks and carrots to corral his members to bring them all in line and get legislation passed.
00:03:04.680It intrinsically requires conciliation and compromise and wheeling and dealing.
00:03:10.760And that's why Republican speakers, especially because of the ideological diversity of the Republican conference, tend to be terrible at it and get booted out of office, as Mike Johnson very well might soon.
00:03:21.460So you say, well, Elon doesn't have any of that leverage.
00:03:24.520You know, he hasn't been in Washington for a long time.
00:03:26.720He doesn't know where the bodies are buried.
00:03:28.700He doesn't really know how to wheel and deal in the halls of government power.
00:03:32.060He's a powerful guy, but not in government.
00:03:35.840Elon Musk controls one of the biggest communications platforms in the world.
00:03:42.320Twitter, X now, breaks news before the establishment media.
00:03:47.680Twitter moves public opinion before the establishment media.
00:03:52.420Elon Musk's X is in no small part the reason that that continuing resolution got killed.
00:03:59.320So he's got a lot of power there, power to move public opinion, and he's the richest guy in the world.
00:04:05.580So when Elon came out, when the Republican congressmen were trying to slip through that continuing resolution, and they said, Elon said, anyone who votes for this should be primaried in two years.
00:04:29.200When the richest guy on planet Earth, by a lot, says that he's going to make sure you are not reelected, that you are primaried and booted out of your seat, then you start to pay attention.
00:04:39.600I'm not saying it's the greatest idea.
00:04:43.860Of any private citizen who has ever been floated for Speaker of the House in my lifetime, and there have been a lot of them, this one seems to me the most plausible.
00:04:55.720Some people would say, oh, we don't want the richest guy in the world being the Speaker of the House.
00:08:26.180As I sit here speaking to you, it is not actually the time at which you're listening to this.
00:08:30.000I had to pre-tape this show before I flew out to Arizona so that I could speak at AmericaFest, which appears to be the largest conservative gathering of the year.
00:08:59.500But scheduled just after the recording of this show is the vote for a new continuing resolution.
00:09:06.840Johnson and the Republicans got a new deal.
00:09:08.680They scrapped a bunch of the Democrat nonsense that went down in flames.
00:09:12.680The new deal, as it was proposed yesterday, contains a three-month continuing resolution, two-year suspension of the debt ceiling, which President Trump wanted.
00:09:42.760You know, all sorts of little addenda that don't really change the calculation on the bill.
00:09:50.020Now, it remains to be seen what actually ends up in the final version of that bill.
00:09:54.320Scheduled just after the recording of this show is a vote, but they might actually have to change some of the House rules to even be able to vote on the bill that was proposed on the very same day.
00:10:25.560The whole, I mentioned this yesterday on the show, the whole point of this continuing resolution is for it to be painful and chaotic and last minute and for the leadership to be able to say,
00:10:35.740oh, sorry, there's no time for you to read the bill to the members.
00:10:38.340That's the whole, that's, this is not a crisis that just cropped up.
00:11:47.720Okay, so I'm not letting Congress off the hook by any means.
00:11:51.960But if you live in a representative government, if you live in a democracy or a republic, at a certain point, you, the citizen, have to look at yourself in the mirror and say, you're going to start with the man in the mirror.
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00:15:20.320During that time, the early part when I was at CNN, 2020 to 2022, people would regularly, Republicans would regularly ping me and say, why don't you ask more questions to Joe Biden and how he's doing?
00:18:56.840The insurance fraud was her receiving payouts after the implausible murder of all three men that she was romantically involved with, two of whom she was married to, between 1974 and 1996.
00:19:12.320She was then re-sentenced to the same amount of time again in 2006 after she appealed.
00:19:18.620This woman collected $165,000 in these three insurance settlements combined.
00:19:22.940Three guys dead so that she can get $165,000.
00:19:28.080That's a lot of money, but it's not, I don't know, it's not even that much.
00:19:32.820She was charged with murder by Maryland state authorities, but she was never convicted for murder because she was convicted in federal court in 2002 for insurance fraud for violating the Slayer's Rule, meaning if you kill someone, you don't get to get the insurance money for their death.
00:19:49.120And then as a result, they said, okay, well, she's going to be in prison basically for the rest of her life, so we don't need to pursue the murder charges.
00:19:57.800And Biden just commuted her sentence because he said, well, it was a nonviolent crime.
00:20:02.860Insurance fraud is a nonviolent crime, I guess.
00:20:05.940Insurance fraud because you murdered people, that is a violent crime.
00:20:09.120That's at least a, the underlying crime there is rather violent, it would seem to me.
00:20:14.760This is the Democrats on crime, and it gets worse from there.
00:20:20.440It's important to focus on these because you have to, in order to set Trump up for the best kind of administration, you have to show people just how bad the situation for law and order is in this country.
00:20:31.240Joe Biden granting clemency for a woman implicated in three murders, convicted for insurance fraud related to those murders.
00:20:42.040It strikes the heart as worse, but both are pretty egregious.
00:20:46.820An illegal alien from Mexico is on the run after filming and distributing video of himself committing unspeakable actions against an eight-year-old child.
00:20:56.100This is a family show, so I won't say what those actions are.
00:20:58.380You can probably interpret and infer what I mean.
00:21:02.360He's on the run in Florida, having been accused of filming himself committing this horrific act against a child in Martin County.
00:21:09.300He's a 37-year-old illegal from Mexico.
00:21:13.000He has an active warrant for his arrest.
00:21:31.000Remember, when the mass deportations start, you know that the liberal media, the dishonest, lying liberal media, are going to post pictures of sweet little babes who are being pulled out of their homes by the mean old police.
00:21:46.360And they're going to pretend that all these illegal aliens are sweet, wonderful dreamers who never did anything wrong.
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00:24:39.580My favorite comment yesterday is from Daxopoulos8753, who says,
00:24:45.220That money, the money that the congressmen voted to give themselves in raises, or tried to vote to give themselves in raises, the CR went down.
00:24:53.160That money should be tied to actually doing your job well, like it is for the rest of us.
00:24:57.300I kind of kicked a hornet's nest yesterday because I said, of all the things in the stupid continuing resolution,
00:25:02.280to me, the least shocking one was the congress giving themselves a modest raise.
00:25:06.980I think it was like a 4% raise, or less than 4% raise, after 15 years of not having had any raise.
00:25:12.560And I said, you know, this is not, this is a relative, I don't really care.
00:35:18.460Well, I'll just quote from the article.
00:35:19.720As widely reported, the Californians and New Yorkers flocking to our state come for largely political and cultural reasons, helping to explain how Trump's electoral margin of victory in Tennessee increased by roughly 4% from 2020 to 2024.
00:35:37.960The population growth coming from blue states, myself included, within the last five years, coming from blue states has made the state that everyone's moved to significantly more red, significantly more conservative.
00:35:51.600There's a good sign about the big sort.
00:35:53.680When I first went to move to Tennessee, it was a local.
00:35:56.660I was looking around, and she said, hey, don't you California my Tennessee?
00:36:01.140I promise you, that is not what I'm moving here for, and that's true for many, many other people.
00:36:07.140This is what's called the big sort, that people, the conservatives are going to move to conservative places, the liberals are going to move to liberal places.
00:36:15.780It's actually one way in which our government might become more representative, a little glimmer of hope with all the dysfunction in politics.
00:36:24.220If you have communities that are more ideologically or philosophically coherent, then you're going to have representatives who better represent the interests of the constituents.
00:37:59.980Second, what Christmas hymns would you recommend for this mass?
00:38:03.300We have three that have been required by the pastor to play, which are O Come All Ye Faithful, Silent Night, and Joy to the World.
00:38:11.080I thought about putting together a couple very seldom heard songs, such as Mary Did You Know, for example, and Mixed Traditional and Modern together, Despite Your Disdain.
00:38:20.620So, to sum up my question, any requests?
00:38:23.940And for the record, this is a Catholic mass.
00:38:48.680And part of the reason I like that song is, especially in the Latin, some have suggested it is a Jacobite song.
00:39:01.560The Jacobites, for those of you, it's a little hobby horse of mine, but it's the claim that the throne of England really belongs to the steward heir, who is now a Bavarian prince named Franz, who has a brother named Maximilian, who has a daughter named Sophie, who has a son named Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein.
00:39:19.760But the argument is that James II was booted out illegitimately by Parliament in an act of parliamentary supremacy that really screwed up the UK government, and they invited these interlopers, William and Mary of Orange, and that was the problem.
00:39:32.360So there were these risings to restore the rightful king.
00:39:34.960And Adeste Fidelles, O Come All Ye Faithful, has some clues in there that it's also about the Catholic heir, the Bonnie Prince Charlie.
00:39:43.720One of them being, Regem Angelorum, King of the Angels, but it also could be read, Regem Anglorum, perhaps, King of the English.
00:39:53.260So anyway, that's like a nice little secret.
00:39:55.700It's a little more esoteric, but that's a good one to do.
00:40:03.360I accidentally stole from Walmart and immediately thought, I need to seek higher counsel.
00:40:09.360I went Christmas shopping for my three sons, and when I got to my van, recognized that I had stolen two books, $20-ish each, that I was planning to gift to my sisters.
00:40:25.800I went back in to pay for them, and both the doorman and the lady at the checkout was like, just keep it.
00:40:36.840Probably because I didn't want to admit that they had let me slip past them.
00:40:43.400Not only do I want to do the right thing, but I want to look at my sons in the eyes and say, be honest and know that I am doing the right thing.
00:40:52.240But how do you reconcile the fact that the Walmart employees were pushing me to steal?
00:42:28.680I got into a very heated argument with a friend the other day about, is it cheating to be looking at lewd drawings, whether it be of a human woman or cartoon characters, instead of watching traditional pornography?
00:42:40.940I argued that, yes, it is, as the drawings are meant to portray women in provocative manners and is demeaning.
00:42:47.380But my friend argues that it is no different than seeing a painting in an art gallery and getting turned on by it.
00:42:53.060I then retorted that those paintings are meant to depict the beauty of the feminine figure in the same way something like the Statue of David is meant to portray the majesty of a male figure,
00:43:01.780to which my friend replied, if he becomes sexually attracted to it, it's no different than porn.
00:43:06.820Honestly, it's like talking to a painting, and even the paintings would understand better.
00:43:11.280I'd really love your perspective on the matter.
00:43:23.740Don't look at lewd images, whether they are photographs, whether they are paintings or cartoons or other drawn images that look a lot like photographs.
00:44:23.500If you look at a lewd image and you say, well, that's a photograph and that's wrong, but that's just an AI-depicted image that looks like a photograph, but it's not really a photograph.
00:44:33.980And so one is okay and the other is not.
00:44:35.880You're being really obtuse and you're trying to find a way out of it.
00:44:40.600If something is drawing up in you, your base passions contrary to reason, then, you know, tell your buddy, stop coping.
00:44:54.000Earlier this week on your show, you played a one-round game of yes or no with producer Davies, and the question was asked, is Die Hard a Christmas movie?
00:45:03.660I also call that you would call that an advent movie, and I'm glad that you ended up agreeing with that.
00:45:08.100Using the word Christmas movie the way most people do, I wanted to make an argument to you that Die Hard is not a Christmas movie, because I feel that if I can convince you, a person who actually listens to facts and logic and will keep an open mind based on that information, if I can convince you, I think I can convince anyone.
00:45:28.340A Christmas movie, in my mind, is not simply set during Christmas.
00:45:31.920If that were the definition, then we'd have to consider movies like While You Were Sleeping with Sandra Bullock or the second Batman movie, Batman Returns with Michael Keaton.
00:45:41.940Those would have to be Christmas movies, then, simply because they're set during Christmas.
00:45:45.780My definition of a Christmas movie is one that you would only watch during that Christmas or, for your sake, Advent season.
00:45:53.620For example, you probably would not watch movies like White Christmas or Home Alone on a given day in July.
00:45:59.540Die Hard is a movie that, if someone came in and I was watching it in the middle of summer, they wouldn't say, hey, why are you watching this Christmas movie right now?
00:46:07.840They would just sit down and enjoy the movie with me.
00:46:49.620The woke right is a polemical term that means pretty much anything and therefore means nothing.
00:46:54.760The liberals, classical liberals and libertarians and neoconservatives sometimes use the term woke right to refer to classical conservatives who are not liberals or libertarians or traditionalists or fascists or the Nietzschean right, the irreligious right, or really anyone who's not a liberal.
00:47:14.680Conversely, the illiberal right, be it Nietzschean, be it alt-right, be it this right or whatever kind of right, they sometimes use the term woke right to refer to the liberals and the libertarians and the neoconservatives because they are more liberal.
00:47:33.040They share more in common with the left, and so they're kind of like the woke.
00:47:38.360And so it's really the term is just being thrown by everyone at everyone else in order to claim what it really means truly to be conservative.
00:48:02.880I'm a conservative because I'm not a liberal.
00:48:04.980So you're, you know, you're, we're not all the same.
00:48:07.460There are a lot of people on the right and a lot of groups that don't agree with each other.
00:48:10.580The classical liberals, the post-morality, post-Christian Nietzschean right, the traditionalists, the neocons, the populists, you know, they say, I'm not the first to observe it, that obscure political monikers are the right-wing version of gender pronouns.
00:48:28.540And because there are all these ideologically incompatible groups, that's part of the reason that the Republican conference can't really ever get anything done in government, why they have a lot more trouble doing that, because the left is united.
00:48:38.100They're all basically progressive of one shade or another, whereas on the right, we never seem to agree on anything.