00:00:26.900It is indeed. And let me say, free speech is a fundamental liberty.
00:00:31.320There is a reason it is protected in the First Amendment to the Constitution.
00:00:35.380And on this podcast, we have covered the assault on free speech in the United Kingdom.
00:00:41.240Sadly, it is not just the UK. It is all of Europe. It is the United States.
00:00:45.880It is a global assault on free speech.
00:00:48.400But tonight we're going to break down, number one, J.D. Vance.
00:00:51.920He gave an incredible speech in Europe that I think really was important.
00:00:55.220It was calling out Europe for its abandonment of the values of free speech and how much of Europe has given up on those values.
00:01:05.200Secondly, we're going to talk about Doge, Elon Musk, diving into the incredible waste and abuse we see in our federal government.
00:01:13.140And in particular, over $4 trillion in federal payments that are unaccountable, that we cannot figure out where they went.
00:01:20.580We're going to break that down as well.
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00:02:56.160This is, I think, a flashpoint and a warning point that we could be where Europe is if it wasn't for one election.
00:03:05.620And this last one is the one I'm talking about.
00:03:07.620And that was part of the reason why I think J.D. Vance was so blunt in his speech in Europe about what they're doing to crack down on people just expressing their opinions.
00:03:18.260Well, listen, often Europe and the United States flow on similar trend lines.
00:03:23.620You look at in the 1980s, Ronald Reagan became president, Margaret Thatcher became president.
00:03:28.640You look at after that, you had George Herbert Walker Bush, and then you had John Major.
00:03:33.640You look at Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.
00:03:35.660There are similar trend lines between the United States and Europe, and those trend lines are interwoven.
00:03:44.000When it comes to fundamental liberties, under the United States Constitution, the First Amendment, you've got religious liberty and free speech.
00:03:51.680And those are the two fundamental rights upon which all of our other liberties are built.
00:03:57.640And one of the most distressing things, you look back even five, ten years ago, the left defended free speech.
00:04:38.940Much like the canary in the coal mine, Europe is a precursor to where America is heading.
00:04:45.760And if you look at Europe, we have seen an assault on free speech that is terrifying.
00:04:50.780Now, in this podcast, you and I have talked about, in the United Kingdom in particular, the efforts to prosecute those who tweet things that are deemed unacceptable, those who speak out, those who speak out against the epidemic of child rape.
00:05:06.420Child rape we see from Pakistani Muslims engaged in rape gangs, raping not just hundreds but thousands of children.
00:05:15.340And yet, in the UK, for years, for decades, there was a culture of repression and the unwillingness of the political environment to talk about it.
00:05:27.540Now, I will say we saw J.D. Vance, my friend, the vice president, go to Europe this past week and give a speech that I think is really important.
00:06:00.180J.D., I'm proud of him, the speech he gave.
00:06:02.700He called out Europe for their willingness to violate free speech.
00:06:08.100I want you to give a listen to this excerpt from J.D.'s speech.
00:06:11.060And unfortunately, when I look at Europe today, it's sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the Cold War's winners.
00:06:19.340I look to Brussels, where EU commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they've judged to be, quote, hateful content.
00:06:34.360Or to this very country, where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist comments online as part of, quote, combating misogyny on the Internet, a day of action.
00:06:48.140I look to Sweden, where two weeks ago the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Koran burnings that resulted in his friend's murder.
00:06:59.680And as the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden's laws to supposedly protect free expression do not, in fact, grant, and I'm quoting, a free pass to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief.
00:07:17.100And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends, the United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons, in particular, in the crosshairs.
00:07:29.440A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith-Connor, a 51-year-old physiotherapist and an army veteran, with the heinous crime of standing 50 meters from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes.
00:07:47.400Not obstructing anyone, not obstructing anyone, just silently praying on his own.
00:07:53.840And after British law enforcement spotted him and demanded to know what he was praying for, Adam replied simply, it was on behalf of the unborn son he and his former girlfriend had aborted years before.
00:08:08.400Adam was found guilty of breaking the government's new buffer zones law, which criminalizes silent prayer and other actions that could influence a person's decision within 200 meters of an abortion facility.
00:08:21.260He was sentenced to pay thousands of pounds in legal costs to the prosecution.
00:08:25.280Now, I wish I could say that this was a fluke, a one-off crazy example of a badly written law being enacted against a single person.
00:08:34.440But no, this last October, just a few months ago, the Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so-called safe access zones, warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law.
00:08:50.780Naturally, the government urged readers to report any fellow citizens suspected guilty of thought crime.
00:08:58.080In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.
00:09:03.540I mean, not only did he just call them out to their face, he told the world what each one of these countries did.
00:11:44.740You post something about somebody that you disagree with.
00:11:49.060They can now use that to lock you up, is what they're saying.
00:11:52.380And the prosecutor's like, yes, yes, that's exactly what we're going to do.
00:11:54.920Now, this is the government saying, if you dare say something we disagree with, we will lock you up.
00:12:01.300So, I sent two tweets in the last 24 hours.
00:12:05.360One, retweeting this exchange, I said, this is not the first time the Germans have threatened to arrest you if you say something that the government doesn't like.
00:12:15.840And then, number two, I retweeted the same exchange, but I said, so, if someone called these guys, quote, goose-stepping Nazis for gleefully enforcing totalitarian speech codes, that would be deemed a crime in Germany.
00:12:34.340I got to say on both of those, and by the way, I literally wondered when I'm typing in these tweets, listen, I'm a sitting senator from the great state of Texas in the U.S. Senate.
00:12:45.740As I'm typing in these tweets, I wondered, gosh, if I visit Germany a year from now, will these bastards try to arrest me?
00:12:52.820Because I sent a tweet, and you know what?
00:12:59.400But let me say, how messed up is that?
00:13:02.180That if I'm sitting on my phone saying, you're threatening to lock people up for saying things your government doesn't like,
00:13:08.780and people are afraid, okay, I cannot disagree with the totalitarian government, that's frightening.
00:13:16.860What has happened to Europe when free speech is speech that terrifying to the European governments that they're willing to imprison you for disagreeing with the orthodoxy of their beliefs?
00:13:31.340Yeah, Adolf Hitler would be proud, let's be honest, because this is exactly what he did to people that disagreed with him.
00:13:50.600But listen, what you said, Adolf Hitler would be proud.
00:13:53.800Germany has a little bit of PTSD coming out of World War II.
00:13:57.860And listen, the Germans, they don't like being the bad guys of history.
00:14:01.420And I get, listen, I'm not German, but I get if you're a modern German and you're kind of like, wait, our people were like, we're literally the Nazis.
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00:16:14.200Because they take a portion of every bill and they give it back to those causes.
00:17:02.400And, I mean, it's just mind-blowing at this point.
00:17:07.100How much money is being uncovered that is involved in waste, fraud, and abuse within our government?
00:17:13.460And then there's this new headline that came out of the White House.
00:17:18.280And that is a bombshell that there has been $4.7 trillion that has been spent that is untraceable in the way that the payments went out from the Treasury Department.
00:17:35.180Well, let me read from our article in Fox News.
00:17:38.560Doge says it found nearly untraceable budget line items responsible for $4.7 trillion in payments.
00:17:46.140The Trump administration's Doge discovered an identification code linking U.S. Treasury payments to a budget line item, which accounts for nearly $4.7 trillion in payments, which was oftentimes left blank.
00:18:02.700The Treasury Access Symbol, TAS, is an identification code linking U.S. Treasury payment to a budget line item, standard financial process, Doge wrote and posted on X.
00:18:14.220In the federal government, the TAS field was optional for $4.7 trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible.
00:18:27.420So, as of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going.
00:19:09.640And the entire governmental system is reacting in pain and horror and agony that Donald Trump and Elon Musk are bringing, finally, accountability to it.
00:19:19.620You look at the $4.7 trillion, is this done on purpose for this exact reason?
00:19:26.120If you don't know where the money's going, you can't trace the money, then you can't ask questions.