December 26, 2024 • 33 mins
Brian Mudd fills in for Clay & Buck. The future is bright for America, but we still have to get there. The status quo is our enemy. We are 25 days from sanity, the GOP can't cause chaos in the house.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I want Hulko, I want the mayor of Chicago, the governor,
all these sanctuaries cities are speaking out against President Trump
and myself running this deportation operation. I want you to
watch that video and know how this young lady suffered.
What a or heroman death you had. I want you
to listen to Lake and Rimi tate for seventeen minutes,
how she fought for her life.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Now that is Tom Homan. Thank god. The incoming borders
are and it's kind of endemic of this week. Merry Christmas,
Happy Hanuka. I certainly hope it has been for you.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You take a look at the news cycle and what
do you get? Something like the New York subway murder,
the burning of a woman on a subways Go wow,
things are really broken. Well, so much as is messed up.
The good news is that sanity is twenty five days away.
So hey there, This is Brian Mudd in for Clay
(00:57):
and Buckett. Is an honor and a pleasure to be
here with you. I am the host of the Brian
Mudd Show, hubbed out of my home station w J
and O in West Palm Beach, and the guys enjoying
the holidays, like hopefully you and your family is doing.
And it has been kind of that weird little vacuum
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because on one hand, you probably feel really good about
where things are going, you know, a lot of the
unless you're stuck in kind of like the family situation
to where you've got the people that don't want to
talk to you and we're trying to avoid you of
the holidays because of politics. If you have a family,
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it's pretty much on the same page with you. Probably
felt pretty good talk about the future, probably about now,
because a lot of times as we make the transition
from Christmas over towards the new year, you kind of
come out of it a little bit about now and
you start thinking about what's ahead, and you can feel
so much better than you have generally about the direction
of things. But then every single day you get those
(02:01):
reminders like that horrific situation in New York City, everything
that is just so incredibly avoidable. One of the things
I was thinking about, you know, the words of C. S.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Lewis.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You know he said there are far far better things
ahead than any we leave behind.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Holy crap? Is that true? Right? I mean, far far better.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Things ahead with the Trump administration than the dumpster fire
that we are set to leave behind.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But we still got to get there. We still got
to get there.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Right. So, as you take a look at what's going
on right now, the news cycle that continues to be brutal,
when you think about the current state of our country,
the soon to be transitioned from this dumpster fire to
Trump two point zero, there is a lot that is
really important that is happening right now.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
A lot.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
You know that Trump has been working pretty much NonStop.
I mean even yesterday Christmas Day, Trump working all throughout
the day, and yes, truthing along the way too, and
you know, having some spicy comments along with his holiday
wishes that ended up getting under the skin of the left.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Oh true, by the way, But.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, you do take a look at the news cycle,
and you got that New York City subway situation that
is just kind of the epitome of everything that is wrong.
You know, illegal immigrants that are coddled, provided with taxpayer
goodies and able to commit horrific acts like the burning
alive of a woman on a New York subway. You
get into taking a look at the dynamics involved there
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with what's broken as a society where you have people
that are just kind of standing around going, oh my gosh,
she's burning. I mean, seriously, what is wrong with you
as a person on this planet to see a woman
burning alive and not doing anything about it. That also
speaks to so much of what's wrong in the human condition,
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things that have been on the wrong track for an
awfully long time, and a lot of what needs to
be fixed, not just in this country, but also I
mean even morally for that matter, with us along with
you know, some semblance of common sense as well. And
now you take a look at some of the other
news that's come up. Of course, President Biden commuting thirty
seven of the pending forty federal death sentences, which, by
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the way, just as an aside, you know, and I'll
drill down on this for a second, because it really,
in a nutshell sums up the Biden administration, the lack
of intellectual consistency and all the failures that come along
with that lack of consistency. You know, if you take
Biden's statement when he issued that executive order, he said,
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I've dedicated my career to reducing violent crime and ensuring
a fair and effective justice system. Wow, dedicated, dedicate caated
his career to do with that. Huh boy, that pretty
much says it all, doesn't it. H I have dedicated
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my career to reducing violent crime and ensuring a fair
and effective justice system. How's that violent crime thing worked out?
We're doing well there?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
We've seen violent crime rise by four point nine percent
according to the National Crime Victimization Survey since he became president.
Remember the FBI, and they're fake news because you had
the FBI numbers that were coming out and they're saying, look,
violent crime is down under Biden. Except no, Actually, you
had the largest blue cities with the most crime that
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just weren't reporting to the FBI. So yeah, when you
actually account for what's going on in cities like New York, Chicago,
San Francisco, suddenly you see, oh yeah, it's up a
lot since Biden became president. How about that effective justice system? Man,
who doesn't feel really good about the system of justice
these days in this country, always out there doing the
(06:04):
right thing by you, especially this Department of Justice, right
that Meyror Garland man, you don't feel confident and comfortable
with him at the helm?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
See, yeah, The.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Bottom line is that you have hundreds of thousands of
victims of violent crimes, robberies, rapes, murders. They're only victims
of these violent crimes because Joe Biden's been president of
the United States, let alone the fair and effective justice
system that does what continues to enable illegal immigrants to
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commit horrific crimes day in and day out across this country.
You know, pretty much the only people at this point
that I think are sick enough in the country to
defend the policies that allow for crimes like that to
happen pretty much the sick of fans that root on
the murderer of United Healthcare CEO. I mean, that's something
else you talked about, the broken human condition, some of
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what's been going on in the news cycle that he's
got this cult like following just and there's some things wrong.
But then you take a look at it in perspective,
and only thirty nine percent of Americans approve of Biden's
hand handling of crime and his issuance of justice, meaning
that even nine percent of the people that voted for
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Kamala Harris get it. Even nine percent of them at
this point go yeah, no, this crime situation ridiculous. The
way that justice is being handled this country ridiculous. So
that is something that's realization, even by nine percent of
Hairs voters and the majority, solid majority of the American
people that get it. But back to that Biden commutation
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statement for a moment, because I do think it's illustrative
of the bigger picture. You know, he continued his statement
when he issued that by saying, make no mistake, I
condemned these murderers. Grieve for the victims of their despicable acts.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I think Biden's graving for the victims of those thirty
seven people an ache he aches for all of the families.
Have no doubt he's aching. I don't think it has
to do with that, but ach for all of the
families who have suffered unimaginable and irrepuable laws. But guided
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by my conscience and my experience as a public defender,
Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vice President, now President,
I'm more convinced than ever that we must stop the
use of the death penalty at the federal level and
good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new
administration resume executions that I halted Okay, so there's actually
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a case to be made there. You know, for example,
the Catholic Church poses the death penalty, argues that being
pro life extends beyond pregnancy all throughout whatever stage of life,
meaning that even for the evilists among us, the idea
being that God will render judgment the time comes. But yeah,
the Catholic Church were for life, even for the people
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who are really horrible people. Put them away, but don't
kill them. Well, you can personally choose to agree or
disagree with that stance, but it's a principled one, right,
If that is your stance, it's a principled one. It's
one that you could say is rooted in faith. And
you know, that could make President Biden's decision potentially defensible,
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as he calls himself a practicing Catholic. But just as
Biden has never seen an abortion on demand policy that
he seemingly hasn't been willing to get behind, or at
least not get in the way of, there's absolutely no
intellectual consistency with the commutations either. Yeah, if a faith
based pro life stance is the argument, you got no
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justifiable delineation between thirty seven of the evilist people in
society having their death sentences wiped away, and.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
The three who didn't. So why those three seven?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
And then the three well, those those three, I mean
that was they were really really bad. Oh okay, got
it right. It's just intellectually it's morally inconsistent, which is
just the whole problem in a nutshell with Joe Biden,
with his administration and with the left at large. Now
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you insert major policy failure the Biden administration here, you
see similar things, you know, rhetoric that is completely inconsistent
with outcomes. The American Rescue Plan, right, the American Rescue
Plan didn't exactly rescue this country when he sided into
laud did it. He had the Inflation Reduction Act. Boy,
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that didn't exactly reduce inflation, did it. He had the
Civil Immigration Enforcement Order. Now, probably not familiar with that
by name, but that was kind of like the the
catch all name of his day one executive order ending
all Trump era border policies, including the Remain in Mexico policy, construction,
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the border wall, ice enforcement policies, among some of the
other stuff. Didn't exactly enforce civil immigration did it? Didn't
exactly uphold the rule of law in this country? That
Biden said he has dedicated his life to now To
a certain extent, it's pretty true for every failed politician ever.
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I mean, after all, you you never have had someone
run for office just kind of like an explicitly campaigning
on a promise of screwing you.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Okay, you know you vote for me. I'm really going to.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Jack things up in this country now, I'm gonna do
you I get into office. Yeah, man, gonna stink this
thing up. You have never seen anything like what I'm
getting ready to do with my policy. Although I mean
you could kind of make the case that some members
of the squad have kind of gone there, like if
you just take them and face value and pretty close
to say, any I'm only looking to get a like
so I can just kind of blow this country up.
(12:04):
So also, well, Biden is demonstrably one of the worst
presidents of our country's history. He's, of course, far from
the first to be a huge failure. But the bottom
line is that if the premise of anything is false,
anything you got built on that false premise, that's going
to fail too. So Biden claims to have his faith
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as a guiding tool as a moral compass, but then
his decisions are consistently inconsistent with it. He's claimed he
would improve the quality of life for Americans and then
created the worst inflation forty years, the highest levels of
crime and record. So, yeah, Thankfully, in twenty five days,
what feels like the longest four years of our lives
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will mercifully come to an end.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
What won't.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
You're bloated, unaccountable and frankly un American federal bureaucracy that
is left behind the premise of that bloated bes bureaucracy
that needs to go too, That needs to go too.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
And so we're going to talk about what.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Is going to be happening, what needs to happen, and
what the view of the possible here is over the
next twenty five days.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I'm Brian mudd in for Clay and Buck. We'll be
right back.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
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Speaker 3 (13:34):
The run backed Hooth.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
The Rebels fired another ballistic missile toward Israel, the fourth
one in a week. Israeli officials say the missile was
shot down, but fragments of it landed in populated areas.
With the regional war ongoing, this year's Christmas festivities have
been subdued. Traditional parades and ceremonies were held in Bethlehem,
including a midnight Mass at the Church of the Nativity,
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though far fewer people were in attendance than normal.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Fox is Trey yinks there and you know again you
take a look at the news cycle, brutal constander reminders
about the failures of the Biden administration. Everything around the
world less safe, everybody around the world less safe. Why
because Joe Biden president of the United States. Twenty five
days from now, we have sanity and frankly, the only
thing that might be holding the world together to the
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extent that it currently is being held together with some
duct tape. Here and there is the knowledge that Donald
Trump is incoming and what he did when he was
incoming the last time. You know, so many people kind
of forget how incredibly successful geopolitically Donald Trump immediately was
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Remember isis Isis was the example in twenty seventeen. So
Trump on the campaign trail, he said, I'm going to
bomb the blank out of Isis. You know, they had
established their califate problems everywhere, committing terror tacks in the
United States, around the world. And what happened he became
president in the matter of months, he bombed the blank
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out of Isis and they went away. And so the
knowledge that he is coming in and with even more
resolve is huge, huge at this point.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
So there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
But yeah, as we take a look at what's going
on right now, you take a look at our bloated
federal government, you take a look at the Biden administration
and the kind of false premise of all of this.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Right now, when was the.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Last time that you took a look at the federal government? Thought, man,
you know that uncle Sam, just what a great guy.
If only we had more things in life that simply
ran as well as the federal government. Probably never happened,
right guessing it's never happened, and if it has happened
for you while life, must be.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Interested in your world.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
But the bottom line here is the status quo is
our enemy at this point. You know, the federal government
as it's currently constructed, it does not serve your interest,
doesn't serve the American people any better than Joe Biden's
policies it's only gotten worse a time. You know you
could at least once spon time take a look at
the FBI and say, well, at.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Least that one works.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
No, not anymore, So we have a lot to accomplish.
The good news is Musk and Ramswami are on watch too,
so we're gonna start getting into what Doge needs to do. Also,
look to take some of your calls as well. Brian
Mudd in for Clay and Buck Lay, Travis and Buck
Sexton on the front lines of truth.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
The House begins with four hundred and thirty four members,
so Johnson must get two hundred and eighteen votes. Republicans
only have two hundred nineteen members. It's important to note
that the person with the most votes does not win
the speakership. The winner must secure an outright majority of
all members voting for someone by name.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Again, right, we've heard this story before. We've heard it
even recently. Fox's Chad Pergram breaking down the looming speaker
battle yet again. And as you have some House Republicans
that are threatening his speakership, that could throw all kinds
of chaos into the mix. As we're talking about being
twenty five days away from sanity boy. One thing that
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Republicans cannot do is self destruct Yet again, Hey, if
you take a look at what slowed Trump down in
the first go round, was it really the Democrats as
much as it happened to be Republicans, and so Republicans
being their own enemy, being Trump's enemy completely unacceptable here.
If we're going to do what needs to be done,
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if we're going to have a transformation to bring the
government back in line with the science that it should be,
you can't get involved in this kind of nonsense. You
got to get on the same page. You have to
have some leadership that is ready to roll with Trump's
agenda on day one. You can't have all this nonsense.
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Prialymu in for Clay and Buck. I hope you have
had a merry Christmas, happy Hanukah, wonderful holiday season. As
we're talking about, you know so much of what's crazy
in the news. On the one hand, you know, hopefully
you feel good for instant family. Then you take a
look at the news cycle and it's like, oh, yeah,
we're not there yet. Things are are really a mess.
We've got a dumpster fire in our hands here. Let's
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just hope we're not in World War three by January twentieth,
and kind of walking through what is really important right now,
because these days, each one of these twenty five days
is critically important to what's going to be in the
Trump administration and the future of the country if we're
going to get the big changes that you voted for done.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
This is so so super important.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Now you take a look at what's happened with the
creeping effects of government to get here in the first place.
You know, we've had since the introduction of progressivism and
our government, nothing but the erosion of your freedom.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
And it started before Woodrow Wilson.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
But you know that's what really put it on, put
it on the front burner, the Wilson administration of one
hundred years ago. You just had the slow and steady
eroding of your rights, of your freedoms, the establishment of
countless government agencies founded on the false premise, the false
supremacy being, Hey, this government agency, it's gonna be great
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for you, and it's gonna be so good for you
to use your tax dollars funding this government agency. And
then what does it do screws you? Screws you in
the long run. I mean, it's good for you know,
the swamp, good for the people that work in it.
That's about it, you know. So we have been subjected
to the boiling fraud effect pretty much ever since. More agencies,
more bureaucracy, less freedom, and most conservatives been frustrated for years,
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some for decades about how Republican control of government, seemingly
at best, has only done what at best, it just
seems to slow down the creeping crud, the erosion of
your freedoms, the erosion of what makes this country great.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
And the reason it's simple now.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Federal government agencies they are no different than weeds, really,
no different than weeds almost literally.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Not quite, but almost.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
You know, if all you do is like pull off
the stuff you see and you leave the roots, they
grow it back, right. And if you allow the weeds
just kind of do their thing, you don't even worry
about trying to pull the stuff that you see.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Man, you know, they take over, right.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
And so the most exciting thing I have seen in
my lifetime in terms of government is an idea that
we can get entrepreneurial about government again. And to do so,
you have to think about it differently. That's what being
an entrepreneur really is. So the first thing is that
the idea that we have to continue government as it's
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currently constructed is a false premise. And so the reason
that I'm the most optimist about the incoming Trump administration
as I have ever been for any incoming administration, including this first,
is due to the rejection of the status quo here,
the establishment of DOGE. It is time to get back
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to this country and what it was founded on. And
the reason why the United States went from being a
rank tag group of colonies to the world's leading superpower
under one hundred and fifty years was what because we
end up putting in a bunch of government agencies hack
now right, It's because our country was founded on God
given rights. That's freedom as opposed to government given rights.
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I mean that is there are a lot of differences
between the United States and just about every country in
the world, but the single greatest point of difference it
is rather than having a government that we'll say to
its citizens, all right, these are the rights you get
in our case, we have all right, we have God
given rights. Government doesn't tell us what our rights are.
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And basically, from the premise of the any of this country,
we're just not to do something that would screw with
somebody else's rights. That's really what it gets down to.
You have absolute freedom in this country as long as
you don't do something that takes away somebody else's.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Freedom with your actions. That's the point.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
That's why we became great and the reason why we
struggled these days, because there's not a whole heck of
a lot of that.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Is there.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Find administration not not exactly serving your interests. How much
money does it take and so how much freedom does
that take away from you? So this is a little
trivia time here for you. How many government agencies? How
many government agencies did we have at the time of
our countries founding?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Do do?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Do?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Do?
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Do?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Do?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Do you know you have a number? How many government
agencies at the time the country is founded? We only
had five, only five federal government agencies?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
How many do you think we have now? Founded?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
With five, we most recently have four hundred and thirty
four hundred and thirty. More government equals less freedom pretty
much every time. You know, some agencies directly erode our rights.
All agencies to a certain degree can erode personal financial
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freedom because you have to pay for them. You have
less money in your pocket than it does what it
takes away your ability to engage and have that kind
of freedom, and even for people are like, yeah, well
I'm not really paying any federal taxes.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
You might be, but you know I got the freed
right over here.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Well, it ends up coming back and hitting you in
the form of inflation, among other things.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
So anyway, one of the best.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Examples our country went its first one hundred and thirty
seven years without a permanent income tax. President Trump's talked
about this. He's like, yeah, we're going to do the
no tax on tips, We're going to do the no
tax on Social Security, the no tax in overtime. We're
going to work that into my plan. But no, we
really should be rethinking about income tax all toge why
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do we have a permanent income tax? Is exactly right.
Our country one hundred and thirty seven years, the first
one hundred and thirty seven years no permanent income tax.
So as you think about getting entrepreneurial, well, why are
we just going to accept what we've been handed this
is the way things have to be done.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
How much are you forced to pay today?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
So yeah, I mean, the fact is we obviously don't
need four hundred and thirty federal government agencies. How many
of those four hundred and thirty agencies you really think
are operating every day? You got people going to work
at these agencies every day. Think you know what I'm doing.
I'm being paid by the American tax payers. I am
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in an agency that's supposed to make their life better.
I'm going to go about my job today with with
that level of seriousness. How often you think that actually happens?
Do you think you could do better things with your
money then, I don't know, say hundreds of government agencies
that you couldn't name if your life depended on it,
or I don't know, do you think all those government
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agencies are doing better things with your money than you could?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
You know?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
One of my favorite examples, you know, talking about just
how nonsensical the current setup of the federal government is.
As Doge is taking a look at what to do here,
I would I use this as an illustration, kind of
as a joke, but I actually would like to see
it happen. I would really like to see the real
world application of this example. Let's lock all five hundred
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and thirty five members of Congress in a room no
internet for a day. Okay, so you got all members
of Congress in a room, no internet for a day.
You give them all a pen, piece of paper, and
you have them name as many government agencies as they
possibly can. You just I mean, if your government agent.
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See if your government agency is named by even one
member of Congress, just one, we keep it for now.
But if your government agency can't be named by even
a single member of Congress, you know, the people that
actually fund these federal government agencies, that point's got to go.
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That point, your federal agency, it's gonza because again, nobody
could even tell us who you were, what it was
that you were doing. So why are we funding that?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Right? And that's you know, all part of the baseline
budgeting thing. Nobody actually reads it.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
We just continue with the crs and everything else, and
so it's funded at our literal expense. So the bottom
line is we don't need all those agencies. It's choice.
The fact is we don't need to be forced to
pay a third or more of what we make an
income tax.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
That is a choice.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
And we do need an entrepreneurial mindset when it comes
to government, meaning we shouldn't just accept the false premise
that the way our blooded federal government operates is acceptable
just because that's the way things have been done for decades.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
We became the greatest country in the world in the
history of the war because we didn't have government in
our way, and now we have more of it in
our way than ever. Progressivism, the federal bureaucracy, it all
holds us back at our literal expense.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
And it does not have to be this way. You
didn't vote to keep it this way.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
We don't need career government experts to manage the blooded bureaucracies,
maybe just a little bit better than before. You know,
you take a look at take a look at a
little bit of the pooh over there, and you go, man,
if I only massage that pooh a little bit, it's
going to be better.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
It's kind of stink glass, it's kind of stink class.
That's pretty much.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
No.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
We need wholesale changes.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
We need change agents who reject the premise that we
need many of these government agencies in the first place.
And so yes, when you have musk, when you have
Ramaswami that are leading this because again, you don't create
and do the things that they've done by thinking the
way that everybody else has, by doing things the way
that everybody else had before. So you leave it to
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one of our country's greatest entrepreneurs, Donald Trump, to align
with perhaps the greatest entrepreneur of our time, maybe ever,
but at least our time, to rethink and reshape the
way the government is done.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
The status quo.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
The Enemy with Doze represents the greatest government change that
we've had since the New Deal. But what's also critically
important is that Republicans get on the same page because
it's not perfect. Mike Johnson far from perfect. The Continuing
Resolution not good, But then again, Republicans have an arrow
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majority in the House right now in real time, do
not have the Senate or the Presidency. So I mean
there's never going to be anything that's great, and that
kind of setup twenty five days needs to be the focus.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Being on the same page. That needs to be the focus.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
There's so much it could be accomplished, but it has
to be as intentional as Donald Trump has been every
single day right down to Christmas Day when he's working
to put this government into place and to really make
America great again. I am Brian Mudd, and you can
catch me socially at Brian Mud Radio and hope you do.
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I would also love to invite you to join my wife,
Ashley and I on the vacation of a lifetime coming
up next November. We are hosting for thirty five people,
just thirty five listeners, a vacation to Ireland where if
you've ever thought about Ireland to what you would want
to do there, it's going to be part of this trip,
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everything taken care of. You can join us as well
for a few days in London and then in Edinburgh,
so really amazing experience. Again, just thirty five slots that
are available. You can go to WJNO dot com which
is my home station, the homepage right there and get
all the information about it. Can also email me Brian
(30:03):
Mud at iHeartMedia dot com and again would love to
have you. I'm Brian Mudd in for Clay and Buck.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Do guys walk up to a mic he anything goes
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton find them on the free
iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Let us get back in the process.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Stop stop the don't start the entire session with chaos again.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Let us start it with orderly rule and let us rule.
We have two years really to put in President Trunk's agenda.
Let us do this and not fight amongst ourselves. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Amen, that is North Carolina Rep. Greg Murphy Mornings with
Maria and run on point. Cannot play this game, cannot
be a self destructing situation. You know, you're familiar with
the expression perfect is the enemy of good. I'm not
even going to say that the cr was good. I'm
not going to say that all of Mike Johnson's decisions
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have been good. I'm not going to you know, make
excuses for anything. But you know what's not good right now?
You have Republicans with a narrow majority in the House,
Democrats have the Senate. Joe Biden still is President of
the United States.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
That's not good, right.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
So you're not going to get something good right now.
And so trying to be perfect within your mindset, being
all truistic theoretically is not altruism at all. It is
the absolute wrong thing. And Republicans need to get their
butts in gear. The people that are wanting to be
problems and rather than you know, naming names and just
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going after you know, the few people that we know
that are trying to torpedo Johnson and or just be
a problem generally. At this point for the Republican conference
in coming, they need to get out of the way.
We voted for Donald Trump to do what Donald Trump
needs to do. We need leadership in place so Donald
Trump can do what he needs to do.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Period.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Now you take a look at this bloated government, and
this is again where I get excited because of all
the things that we need to do. We need to
get rid of most of the federal government as it's
currently constructed.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Now.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
I mentioned that he only had five, just five federal
government agencies at the time of our country's founding, no
federal income tax. Now we have four hundred and thirty.
Elon Musk, remember when he took over Twitter. You know
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what percentage of employees he got rid of? Of the
twits that were at Twitter when he took it over,
how many are gone? Eighty percent? Got rid of eighty
percent of the Twitter employees. And Twitter's X is a
better product, now, isn't it. I think we could get
rid of about I don't know, say eighty percent the
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federal government and have something that's better. Have something that's
more accountable, have something that's closer to I don't know
what this country was founded on can be done, but
we've got to be on the same page.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Primud in for claim buck. We'll be right back
I want Hulko, I want the mayor of Chicago, the governor,
all these sanctuaries cities are speaking out against President Trump
and myself running this deportation operation. I want you to
watch that video and know how this young lady suffered.
What a or heroman death you had. I want you
to listen to Lake and Rimi tate for seventeen minutes,
how she fought for her life.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Now that is Tom Homan. Thank god. The incoming borders
are and it's kind of endemic of this week. Merry Christmas,
Happy Hanuka. I certainly hope it has been for you.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You take a look at the news cycle and what
do you get? Something like the New York subway murder,
the burning of a woman on a subways Go wow,
things are really broken. Well, so much as is messed up.
The good news is that sanity is twenty five days away.
So hey there, This is Brian Mudd in for Clay
(00:57):
and Buckett. Is an honor and a pleasure to be
here with you. I am the host of the Brian
Mudd Show, hubbed out of my home station w J
and O in West Palm Beach, and the guys enjoying
the holidays, like hopefully you and your family is doing.
And it has been kind of that weird little vacuum
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because on one hand, you probably feel really good about
where things are going, you know, a lot of the
unless you're stuck in kind of like the family situation
to where you've got the people that don't want to
talk to you and we're trying to avoid you of
the holidays because of politics. If you have a family,
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it's pretty much on the same page with you. Probably
felt pretty good talk about the future, probably about now,
because a lot of times as we make the transition
from Christmas over towards the new year, you kind of
come out of it a little bit about now and
you start thinking about what's ahead, and you can feel
so much better than you have generally about the direction
of things. But then every single day you get those
(02:01):
reminders like that horrific situation in New York City, everything
that is just so incredibly avoidable. One of the things
I was thinking about, you know, the words of C. S.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Lewis.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You know he said there are far far better things
ahead than any we leave behind.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Holy crap? Is that true? Right? I mean, far far better.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Things ahead with the Trump administration than the dumpster fire
that we are set to leave behind.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But we still got to get there. We still got
to get there.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Right. So, as you take a look at what's going
on right now, the news cycle that continues to be brutal,
when you think about the current state of our country,
the soon to be transitioned from this dumpster fire to
Trump two point zero, there is a lot that is
really important that is happening right now.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
A lot.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
You know that Trump has been working pretty much NonStop.
I mean even yesterday Christmas Day, Trump working all throughout
the day, and yes, truthing along the way too, and
you know, having some spicy comments along with his holiday
wishes that ended up getting under the skin of the left.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Oh true, by the way, But.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, you do take a look at the news cycle,
and you got that New York City subway situation that
is just kind of the epitome of everything that is wrong.
You know, illegal immigrants that are coddled, provided with taxpayer
goodies and able to commit horrific acts like the burning
alive of a woman on a New York subway. You
get into taking a look at the dynamics involved there
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with what's broken as a society where you have people
that are just kind of standing around going, oh my gosh,
she's burning. I mean, seriously, what is wrong with you
as a person on this planet to see a woman
burning alive and not doing anything about it. That also
speaks to so much of what's wrong in the human condition,
(03:59):
things that have been on the wrong track for an
awfully long time, and a lot of what needs to
be fixed, not just in this country, but also I
mean even morally for that matter, with us along with
you know, some semblance of common sense as well. And
now you take a look at some of the other
news that's come up. Of course, President Biden commuting thirty
seven of the pending forty federal death sentences, which, by
(04:24):
the way, just as an aside, you know, and I'll
drill down on this for a second, because it really,
in a nutshell sums up the Biden administration, the lack
of intellectual consistency and all the failures that come along
with that lack of consistency. You know, if you take
Biden's statement when he issued that executive order, he said,
(04:46):
I've dedicated my career to reducing violent crime and ensuring
a fair and effective justice system. Wow, dedicated, dedicate caated
his career to do with that. Huh boy, that pretty
much says it all, doesn't it. H I have dedicated
(05:08):
my career to reducing violent crime and ensuring a fair
and effective justice system. How's that violent crime thing worked out?
We're doing well there?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
We've seen violent crime rise by four point nine percent
according to the National Crime Victimization Survey since he became president.
Remember the FBI, and they're fake news because you had
the FBI numbers that were coming out and they're saying, look,
violent crime is down under Biden. Except no, Actually, you
had the largest blue cities with the most crime that
(05:40):
just weren't reporting to the FBI. So yeah, when you
actually account for what's going on in cities like New York, Chicago,
San Francisco, suddenly you see, oh yeah, it's up a
lot since Biden became president. How about that effective justice system? Man,
who doesn't feel really good about the system of justice
these days in this country, always out there doing the
(06:04):
right thing by you, especially this Department of Justice, right
that Meyror Garland man, you don't feel confident and comfortable
with him at the helm?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
See, yeah, The.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Bottom line is that you have hundreds of thousands of
victims of violent crimes, robberies, rapes, murders. They're only victims
of these violent crimes because Joe Biden's been president of
the United States, let alone the fair and effective justice
system that does what continues to enable illegal immigrants to
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commit horrific crimes day in and day out across this country.
You know, pretty much the only people at this point
that I think are sick enough in the country to
defend the policies that allow for crimes like that to
happen pretty much the sick of fans that root on
the murderer of United Healthcare CEO. I mean, that's something
else you talked about, the broken human condition, some of
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what's been going on in the news cycle that he's
got this cult like following just and there's some things wrong.
But then you take a look at it in perspective,
and only thirty nine percent of Americans approve of Biden's
hand handling of crime and his issuance of justice, meaning
that even nine percent of the people that voted for
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Kamala Harris get it. Even nine percent of them at
this point go yeah, no, this crime situation ridiculous. The
way that justice is being handled this country ridiculous. So
that is something that's realization, even by nine percent of
Hairs voters and the majority, solid majority of the American
people that get it. But back to that Biden commutation
(07:43):
statement for a moment, because I do think it's illustrative
of the bigger picture. You know, he continued his statement
when he issued that by saying, make no mistake, I
condemned these murderers. Grieve for the victims of their despicable acts.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I think Biden's graving for the victims of those thirty
seven people an ache he aches for all of the families.
Have no doubt he's aching. I don't think it has
to do with that, but ach for all of the
families who have suffered unimaginable and irrepuable laws. But guided
(08:20):
by my conscience and my experience as a public defender,
Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vice President, now President,
I'm more convinced than ever that we must stop the
use of the death penalty at the federal level and
good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new
administration resume executions that I halted Okay, so there's actually
(08:45):
a case to be made there. You know, for example,
the Catholic Church poses the death penalty, argues that being
pro life extends beyond pregnancy all throughout whatever stage of life,
meaning that even for the evilists among us, the idea
being that God will render judgment the time comes. But yeah,
the Catholic Church were for life, even for the people
(09:07):
who are really horrible people. Put them away, but don't
kill them. Well, you can personally choose to agree or
disagree with that stance, but it's a principled one, right,
If that is your stance, it's a principled one. It's
one that you could say is rooted in faith. And
you know, that could make President Biden's decision potentially defensible,
(09:27):
as he calls himself a practicing Catholic. But just as
Biden has never seen an abortion on demand policy that
he seemingly hasn't been willing to get behind, or at
least not get in the way of, there's absolutely no
intellectual consistency with the commutations either. Yeah, if a faith
based pro life stance is the argument, you got no
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justifiable delineation between thirty seven of the evilist people in
society having their death sentences wiped away, and.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
The three who didn't. So why those three seven?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
And then the three well, those those three, I mean
that was they were really really bad. Oh okay, got
it right. It's just intellectually it's morally inconsistent, which is
just the whole problem in a nutshell with Joe Biden,
with his administration and with the left at large. Now
(10:22):
you insert major policy failure the Biden administration here, you
see similar things, you know, rhetoric that is completely inconsistent
with outcomes. The American Rescue Plan, right, the American Rescue
Plan didn't exactly rescue this country when he sided into
laud did it. He had the Inflation Reduction Act. Boy,
(10:45):
that didn't exactly reduce inflation, did it. He had the
Civil Immigration Enforcement Order. Now, probably not familiar with that
by name, but that was kind of like the the
catch all name of his day one executive order ending
all Trump era border policies, including the Remain in Mexico policy, construction,
(11:05):
the border wall, ice enforcement policies, among some of the
other stuff. Didn't exactly enforce civil immigration did it? Didn't
exactly uphold the rule of law in this country? That
Biden said he has dedicated his life to now To
a certain extent, it's pretty true for every failed politician ever.
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I mean, after all, you you never have had someone
run for office just kind of like an explicitly campaigning
on a promise of screwing you.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Okay, you know you vote for me. I'm really going to.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Jack things up in this country now, I'm gonna do
you I get into office. Yeah, man, gonna stink this
thing up. You have never seen anything like what I'm
getting ready to do with my policy. Although I mean
you could kind of make the case that some members
of the squad have kind of gone there, like if
you just take them and face value and pretty close
to say, any I'm only looking to get a like
so I can just kind of blow this country up.
(12:04):
So also, well, Biden is demonstrably one of the worst
presidents of our country's history. He's, of course, far from
the first to be a huge failure. But the bottom
line is that if the premise of anything is false,
anything you got built on that false premise, that's going
to fail too. So Biden claims to have his faith
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as a guiding tool as a moral compass, but then
his decisions are consistently inconsistent with it. He's claimed he
would improve the quality of life for Americans and then
created the worst inflation forty years, the highest levels of
crime and record. So, yeah, Thankfully, in twenty five days,
what feels like the longest four years of our lives
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will mercifully come to an end.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
What won't.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
You're bloated, unaccountable and frankly un American federal bureaucracy that
is left behind the premise of that bloated bes bureaucracy
that needs to go too, That needs to go too.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
And so we're going to talk about what.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Is going to be happening, what needs to happen, and
what the view of the possible here is over the
next twenty five days.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I'm Brian mudd in for Clay and Buck. We'll be
right back.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Clay Travison, Buck Sexton. Mic drops that never sounded so good?
Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you
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Speaker 3 (13:34):
The run backed Hooth.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
The Rebels fired another ballistic missile toward Israel, the fourth
one in a week. Israeli officials say the missile was
shot down, but fragments of it landed in populated areas.
With the regional war ongoing, this year's Christmas festivities have
been subdued. Traditional parades and ceremonies were held in Bethlehem,
including a midnight Mass at the Church of the Nativity,
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though far fewer people were in attendance than normal.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Fox is Trey yinks there and you know again you
take a look at the news cycle, brutal constander reminders
about the failures of the Biden administration. Everything around the
world less safe, everybody around the world less safe. Why
because Joe Biden president of the United States. Twenty five
days from now, we have sanity and frankly, the only
thing that might be holding the world together to the
(14:20):
extent that it currently is being held together with some
duct tape. Here and there is the knowledge that Donald
Trump is incoming and what he did when he was
incoming the last time. You know, so many people kind
of forget how incredibly successful geopolitically Donald Trump immediately was
(14:41):
Remember isis Isis was the example in twenty seventeen. So
Trump on the campaign trail, he said, I'm going to
bomb the blank out of Isis. You know, they had
established their califate problems everywhere, committing terror tacks in the
United States, around the world. And what happened he became
president in the matter of months, he bombed the blank
(15:01):
out of Isis and they went away. And so the
knowledge that he is coming in and with even more
resolve is huge, huge at this point.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
So there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
But yeah, as we take a look at what's going
on right now, you take a look at our bloated
federal government, you take a look at the Biden administration
and the kind of false premise of all of this.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Right now, when was the.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Last time that you took a look at the federal government? Thought, man,
you know that uncle Sam, just what a great guy.
If only we had more things in life that simply
ran as well as the federal government. Probably never happened,
right guessing it's never happened, and if it has happened
for you while life, must be.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Interested in your world.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
But the bottom line here is the status quo is
our enemy at this point. You know, the federal government
as it's currently constructed, it does not serve your interest,
doesn't serve the American people any better than Joe Biden's
policies it's only gotten worse a time. You know you
could at least once spon time take a look at
the FBI and say, well, at.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Least that one works.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
No, not anymore, So we have a lot to accomplish.
The good news is Musk and Ramswami are on watch too,
so we're gonna start getting into what Doge needs to do. Also,
look to take some of your calls as well. Brian
Mudd in for Clay and Buck Lay, Travis and Buck
Sexton on the front lines of truth.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
The House begins with four hundred and thirty four members,
so Johnson must get two hundred and eighteen votes. Republicans
only have two hundred nineteen members. It's important to note
that the person with the most votes does not win
the speakership. The winner must secure an outright majority of
all members voting for someone by name.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Again, right, we've heard this story before. We've heard it
even recently. Fox's Chad Pergram breaking down the looming speaker
battle yet again. And as you have some House Republicans
that are threatening his speakership, that could throw all kinds
of chaos into the mix. As we're talking about being
twenty five days away from sanity boy. One thing that
(17:12):
Republicans cannot do is self destruct Yet again, Hey, if
you take a look at what slowed Trump down in
the first go round, was it really the Democrats as
much as it happened to be Republicans, and so Republicans
being their own enemy, being Trump's enemy completely unacceptable here.
If we're going to do what needs to be done,
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if we're going to have a transformation to bring the
government back in line with the science that it should be,
you can't get involved in this kind of nonsense. You
got to get on the same page. You have to
have some leadership that is ready to roll with Trump's
agenda on day one. You can't have all this nonsense.
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Prialymu in for Clay and Buck. I hope you have
had a merry Christmas, happy Hanukah, wonderful holiday season. As
we're talking about, you know so much of what's crazy
in the news. On the one hand, you know, hopefully
you feel good for instant family. Then you take a
look at the news cycle and it's like, oh, yeah,
we're not there yet. Things are are really a mess.
We've got a dumpster fire in our hands here. Let's
(18:18):
just hope we're not in World War three by January twentieth,
and kind of walking through what is really important right now,
because these days, each one of these twenty five days
is critically important to what's going to be in the
Trump administration and the future of the country if we're
going to get the big changes that you voted for done.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
This is so so super important.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Now you take a look at what's happened with the
creeping effects of government to get here in the first place.
You know, we've had since the introduction of progressivism and
our government, nothing but the erosion of your freedom.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
And it started before Woodrow Wilson.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
But you know that's what really put it on, put
it on the front burner, the Wilson administration of one
hundred years ago. You just had the slow and steady
eroding of your rights, of your freedoms, the establishment of
countless government agencies founded on the false premise, the false
supremacy being, Hey, this government agency, it's gonna be great
(19:23):
for you, and it's gonna be so good for you
to use your tax dollars funding this government agency. And
then what does it do screws you? Screws you in
the long run. I mean, it's good for you know,
the swamp, good for the people that work in it.
That's about it, you know. So we have been subjected
to the boiling fraud effect pretty much ever since. More agencies,
more bureaucracy, less freedom, and most conservatives been frustrated for years,
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some for decades about how Republican control of government, seemingly
at best, has only done what at best, it just
seems to slow down the creeping crud, the erosion of
your freedoms, the erosion of what makes this country great.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
And the reason it's simple now.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Federal government agencies they are no different than weeds, really,
no different than weeds almost literally.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Not quite, but almost.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
You know, if all you do is like pull off
the stuff you see and you leave the roots, they
grow it back, right. And if you allow the weeds
just kind of do their thing, you don't even worry
about trying to pull the stuff that you see.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Man, you know, they take over, right.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
And so the most exciting thing I have seen in
my lifetime in terms of government is an idea that
we can get entrepreneurial about government again. And to do so,
you have to think about it differently. That's what being
an entrepreneur really is. So the first thing is that
the idea that we have to continue government as it's
(20:53):
currently constructed is a false premise. And so the reason
that I'm the most optimist about the incoming Trump administration
as I have ever been for any incoming administration, including this first,
is due to the rejection of the status quo here,
the establishment of DOGE. It is time to get back
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to this country and what it was founded on. And
the reason why the United States went from being a
rank tag group of colonies to the world's leading superpower
under one hundred and fifty years was what because we
end up putting in a bunch of government agencies hack
now right, It's because our country was founded on God
given rights. That's freedom as opposed to government given rights.
(21:35):
I mean that is there are a lot of differences
between the United States and just about every country in
the world, but the single greatest point of difference it
is rather than having a government that we'll say to
its citizens, all right, these are the rights you get
in our case, we have all right, we have God
given rights. Government doesn't tell us what our rights are.
(21:57):
And basically, from the premise of the any of this country,
we're just not to do something that would screw with
somebody else's rights. That's really what it gets down to.
You have absolute freedom in this country as long as
you don't do something that takes away somebody else's.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Freedom with your actions. That's the point.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
That's why we became great and the reason why we
struggled these days, because there's not a whole heck of
a lot of that.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Is there.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Find administration not not exactly serving your interests. How much
money does it take and so how much freedom does
that take away from you? So this is a little
trivia time here for you. How many government agencies? How
many government agencies did we have at the time of
our countries founding?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Do do?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Do?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Do?
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Do?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Do?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Do you know you have a number? How many government
agencies at the time the country is founded? We only
had five, only five federal government agencies?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
How many do you think we have now? Founded?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
With five, we most recently have four hundred and thirty
four hundred and thirty. More government equals less freedom pretty
much every time. You know, some agencies directly erode our rights.
All agencies to a certain degree can erode personal financial
(23:22):
freedom because you have to pay for them. You have
less money in your pocket than it does what it
takes away your ability to engage and have that kind
of freedom, and even for people are like, yeah, well
I'm not really paying any federal taxes.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
You might be, but you know I got the freed
right over here.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Well, it ends up coming back and hitting you in
the form of inflation, among other things.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
So anyway, one of the best.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Examples our country went its first one hundred and thirty
seven years without a permanent income tax. President Trump's talked
about this. He's like, yeah, we're going to do the
no tax on tips, We're going to do the no
tax on Social Security, the no tax in overtime. We're
going to work that into my plan. But no, we
really should be rethinking about income tax all toge why
(24:07):
do we have a permanent income tax? Is exactly right.
Our country one hundred and thirty seven years, the first
one hundred and thirty seven years no permanent income tax.
So as you think about getting entrepreneurial, well, why are
we just going to accept what we've been handed this
is the way things have to be done.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
How much are you forced to pay today?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
So yeah, I mean, the fact is we obviously don't
need four hundred and thirty federal government agencies. How many
of those four hundred and thirty agencies you really think
are operating every day? You got people going to work
at these agencies every day. Think you know what I'm doing.
I'm being paid by the American tax payers. I am
(24:50):
in an agency that's supposed to make their life better.
I'm going to go about my job today with with
that level of seriousness. How often you think that actually happens?
Do you think you could do better things with your
money then, I don't know, say hundreds of government agencies
that you couldn't name if your life depended on it,
or I don't know, do you think all those government
(25:11):
agencies are doing better things with your money than you could?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
You know?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
One of my favorite examples, you know, talking about just
how nonsensical the current setup of the federal government is.
As Doge is taking a look at what to do here,
I would I use this as an illustration, kind of
as a joke, but I actually would like to see
it happen. I would really like to see the real
world application of this example. Let's lock all five hundred
(25:38):
and thirty five members of Congress in a room no
internet for a day. Okay, so you got all members
of Congress in a room, no internet for a day.
You give them all a pen, piece of paper, and
you have them name as many government agencies as they
possibly can. You just I mean, if your government agent.
(26:00):
See if your government agency is named by even one
member of Congress, just one, we keep it for now.
But if your government agency can't be named by even
a single member of Congress, you know, the people that
actually fund these federal government agencies, that point's got to go.
(26:22):
That point, your federal agency, it's gonza because again, nobody
could even tell us who you were, what it was
that you were doing. So why are we funding that?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Right? And that's you know, all part of the baseline
budgeting thing. Nobody actually reads it.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
We just continue with the crs and everything else, and
so it's funded at our literal expense. So the bottom
line is we don't need all those agencies. It's choice.
The fact is we don't need to be forced to
pay a third or more of what we make an
income tax.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
That is a choice.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
And we do need an entrepreneurial mindset when it comes
to government, meaning we shouldn't just accept the false premise
that the way our blooded federal government operates is acceptable
just because that's the way things have been done for decades.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
We became the greatest country in the world in the
history of the war because we didn't have government in
our way, and now we have more of it in
our way than ever. Progressivism, the federal bureaucracy, it all
holds us back at our literal expense.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
And it does not have to be this way. You
didn't vote to keep it this way.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
We don't need career government experts to manage the blooded bureaucracies,
maybe just a little bit better than before. You know,
you take a look at take a look at a
little bit of the pooh over there, and you go, man,
if I only massage that pooh a little bit, it's
going to be better.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
It's kind of stink glass, it's kind of stink class.
That's pretty much.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
No.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
We need wholesale changes.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
We need change agents who reject the premise that we
need many of these government agencies in the first place.
And so yes, when you have musk, when you have
Ramaswami that are leading this because again, you don't create
and do the things that they've done by thinking the
way that everybody else has, by doing things the way
that everybody else had before. So you leave it to
(28:11):
one of our country's greatest entrepreneurs, Donald Trump, to align
with perhaps the greatest entrepreneur of our time, maybe ever,
but at least our time, to rethink and reshape the
way the government is done.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
The status quo.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
The Enemy with Doze represents the greatest government change that
we've had since the New Deal. But what's also critically
important is that Republicans get on the same page because
it's not perfect. Mike Johnson far from perfect. The Continuing
Resolution not good, But then again, Republicans have an arrow
(28:45):
majority in the House right now in real time, do
not have the Senate or the Presidency. So I mean
there's never going to be anything that's great, and that
kind of setup twenty five days needs to be the focus.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Being on the same page. That needs to be the focus.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
There's so much it could be accomplished, but it has
to be as intentional as Donald Trump has been every
single day right down to Christmas Day when he's working
to put this government into place and to really make
America great again. I am Brian Mudd, and you can
catch me socially at Brian Mud Radio and hope you do.
(29:22):
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(30:03):
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have you. I'm Brian Mudd in for Clay and Buck.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
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Speaker 3 (30:26):
Let us get back in the process.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Stop stop the don't start the entire session with chaos again.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Let us start it with orderly rule and let us rule.
We have two years really to put in President Trunk's agenda.
Let us do this and not fight amongst ourselves. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Amen, that is North Carolina Rep. Greg Murphy Mornings with
Maria and run on point. Cannot play this game, cannot
be a self destructing situation. You know, you're familiar with
the expression perfect is the enemy of good. I'm not
even going to say that the cr was good. I'm
not going to say that all of Mike Johnson's decisions
(31:05):
have been good. I'm not going to you know, make
excuses for anything. But you know what's not good right now?
You have Republicans with a narrow majority in the House,
Democrats have the Senate. Joe Biden still is President of
the United States.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
That's not good, right.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
So you're not going to get something good right now.
And so trying to be perfect within your mindset, being
all truistic theoretically is not altruism at all. It is
the absolute wrong thing. And Republicans need to get their
butts in gear. The people that are wanting to be
problems and rather than you know, naming names and just
(31:43):
going after you know, the few people that we know
that are trying to torpedo Johnson and or just be
a problem generally. At this point for the Republican conference
in coming, they need to get out of the way.
We voted for Donald Trump to do what Donald Trump
needs to do. We need leadership in place so Donald
Trump can do what he needs to do.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Period.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Now you take a look at this bloated government, and
this is again where I get excited because of all
the things that we need to do. We need to
get rid of most of the federal government as it's
currently constructed.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Now.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
I mentioned that he only had five, just five federal
government agencies at the time of our country's founding, no
federal income tax. Now we have four hundred and thirty.
Elon Musk, remember when he took over Twitter. You know
(32:41):
what percentage of employees he got rid of? Of the
twits that were at Twitter when he took it over,
how many are gone? Eighty percent? Got rid of eighty
percent of the Twitter employees. And Twitter's X is a
better product, now, isn't it. I think we could get
rid of about I don't know, say eighty percent the
(33:03):
federal government and have something that's better. Have something that's
more accountable, have something that's closer to I don't know
what this country was founded on can be done, but
we've got to be on the same page.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
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