December 21, 2024 • 39 mins
New York Governor Kathy Hochul and other NY Democrats are desperately trying to prove that New York is safe. Spoiler Alert, it isn't.
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
You know, I spend a lot of time every week
thinking about how I want to get things kicked off.
What do I want to open this show with every week?
And you know, it's a difficult thing. It's there's a
balance that needs to be struck. I want it to
be kind of funny. I wanted to actually make a point.
You know, there's a lot of competing interests here. And
I owe a deep debt of gratitude to New York
(00:39):
Governor Kathy Hokeel because it seems like every week she
has some ridiculous moment that gets caught on tape that
gives me the perfect opener. So let me preface this
with we're all familiar now with the Daniel Penny case
and that trial and the verdict and whatnot. What's really
shocking to me is the fact that and they have
(01:00):
to do this right, because the Democrats in New York
went and prosecuted Daniel Penny for what he did, you know,
keep the subway safe and protect people. Now, in order
to justify prosecuting someone for that, you also have to
sit there and pretend that the subways will be just
fine without it, right, because if you put people in jail,
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for protecting people on the subway. Then next time something
goes wrong on the subway, nobody's gonna get protected. So
in order to make the case that we need to
put this guy in jail, you have to also make
the case that the subways are gonna be fine. And
New York has desperately been trying to do that for
a long time, but even more now. So New York
(01:44):
Governor Kathy Holkel goes out and she does this press
conference and I don't know what exactly the policy here
is that she's trying to push. But in the course
of this event that she's at this press conference, what
have you, she tries to make the case that actually, guys,
the New York sub boys are perfectly safe and crime
is down, and she probably got there by gaming the statistics.
(02:08):
But that only works if people aren't paying attention. There
was a reporter in the audience that was paying attention.
He hit Kathy Hokle with the hard data and she
just completely shut down. She had no idea how to
handle it. Take a listen to this, because it's honestly
pretty hilarious.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Say a lot of things with statistics, and I see
the percentage that a crime is down forty two percent
since twenty twenty one. But if you look back to
pre pandemic, and I know you like to say that
that overall crime is down twelve percent since the pandemic,
but murders are up two hundred percent, felony assault is
up fifty five percent, and burglary is up one hundred
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and forty percent. So are you saying that this is progress?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Are you talking about statewide city.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Or crime in the transit system? I'm sorry, Govny has
crime in Okay?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Answer that, dude? He God are dead to rights? He
called her on it. It's the age old trick that
democrats love to play. Democrats and the media just gaming statistics.
You know, based off of this point, this has gone
down since here. Okay, what is it? Overall? They've been
doing this for years, by the way, because crime spiked
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so high during the pandemic all over the country, they've
been able to do the bare minimum in order to
bring crime slightly down, and they act like it's some
major victory. Everybody does this. Joe Biden has been doing
it for basically the last four years, and dude, statistics
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is one of the most convenient ways to lie to people,
and we've got to start paying attention to it. Hats
off to this reporter who is like, listen, I've been
following the statistics. I've been following the data, and the
crime isn't down. It's dipped a little bit, but overall
crime has risen significantly over the last four years. What
else has happened over the last fourie that can't be
a coincidence. Maybe it's all the soft on crime democrats
(04:04):
that have been running every major city and the country.
Maybe there's a connection there.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I could just be a conspiracy theorist, but that's what
it looks like to me. So shout out to this reporter.
I don't know who he is or what outlet he's with.
But she had no answer. She immediately shut down and
tried to feel the question to somebody else. That's not
a question you should have to field. He gave you
the data, and he asked you a yes or no question.
Is that what you call success? The answer should be
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an easy no. Crime rising by those kind of numbers
on the transit system should not be Oh yeah, that's
a success. She should have been able to just say
no at least say there's more work to do. We've
brought it down since the pandemic, but we realize it's
still up and we're trying that would. I mean, it's
a convenient escape answer, but at least it's an answer.
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She just keeps looking around at all the other officials,
hoping they bail her out. I don't know if they did.
I hope they didn't, because she deserves to sit there
and look stupid, because frankly, the more and more I
see from her, the less I think she's a competent woman.
But guys, pay attention. Don't let them trick you with
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the statistics. Ask some real questions, Go back and look
at all of the data. Don't look at just the
data they give you, because remember, the golden rule of
politicians is they will always lie if it benefits them
almost one hundred percent of the time. There are a
few good people out there in politics that will be
honest with their constituents and their voters. Unfortunately, most of
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them aren't Democrats. I would love to see some that are,
but so far they've all been Republicans. That's not to
say Republicans are perfect. They're not. They lie too. This
is a universal problem. And one of the politicians' favorite
ways to lie to you is with statistics. They will
always play with the number in order to talk you
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into something. Always, So don't look at the data they
give you. That's a distraction. Look at the data they're
not giving to you. Okay. I also want to take
a look at this video of Kamala Harris, because you know,
she did run for president. She is still the vice president,
so you know what she's getting up to and what
she's got going on. I think is pretty important. Right,
(06:19):
we should be keeping tabs on her. But she disappeared
for a little bit. I think she deserved a little
bit of a vacation. I mean, running for president is hard.
Running for president and losing is harder. Running for president
losing and being twenty million dollars in debt, I think
it is must be incredibly hard. So she deserved a break.
She deserved a vacation. We gave it to her. That's fine.
(06:41):
She came back and she posted, or she didn't post.
She gave a speech. I don't know where it was,
but I found the video posted on ex and it's
it's pretty bad. It's pretty bad. I guess she's trying
to be meta and self aware with the fact that,
like she has creepy cash phrases and maniacal laughter. It's
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something that like hit her really hard during the election.
People just didn't like it. It was creepy and weird.
But she's still doing it. So take a listen to
her at whatever speech this is and just try not
to cringe.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
And I ask you to remember the context in which
you exist.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah I did that, Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I ask you to remember that this struggle is not new.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Y'all will remember that line, right, Remember the context or
of all that you are in and all that you
exist and the context and whatnot. She said this a
couple of months ago on the campaign show, and she
got blasted for it because it makes no sense and
it's ridiculous. She's trying to be meta about it now, Like, Lady,
this isn't cute, this isn't charming, this isn't funny. You're weird.
That's weird. And the way you cackle maniacally weird. This
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is why you lost the election. This is why the
Democrats are going to shovel you into the memory hole.
Enjoy your last what month and a half of being
in public office, because you will never win a national
election ever, not while you're doing this weird stuff. It's
just creepy. Stop laughing like that. Okay, I want to
talk a little bit about the border, because it's never
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a bad time to talk about the border. And I
want to point out, and this is a point that
I've been making for a couple of days now. Ever
since I really got thinking about this, there was kind
of this collective sigh of relief from basically anybody with
common sense when it comes to the border crisis. They're like, Oh,
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thank god, Biden's gone, Kamala Harris is gone, Trump is back.
We're gonna fix this problem. We're at least gonna get
started on the road to solving it, because it's gonna
take years to correct this, but we're sort of entering
the beginning of fixing the problem. And I think it's
important that we realize that actually, not quite, we're getting there.
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We will be there in what how long a month,
basically until January twentieth, and then we'll be there. We will,
but right now we're not. Joe Biden is still in charge.
Joe Biden's border policies are still in effect, and they're
still causing problems, and there is still just under I
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believe the latest estimates from the Center for Immigration Studies
just under eight million people hiding in various sanctuary states
here in the United States, and they're still more coming in.
They've slowed down because they know Trump is on the way,
they know now that they won't be allowed to stay,
but there are still some that are coming and it's
still a problem. It's still an issue. So we need
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to not slow down on this. We need to continue
to highlight this issue. And I saw this video from
this guy talking about this was like his number one issue,
and this pushed him out of the Democrat Party because
I think for all the talk that we have about,
you know, the crime that comes with illegal immigration, the drugs,
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all of that, we don't talk enough about the fact
that by giving government resources to illegal aliens, you are
by definition taking them away from citizens. You can't give
one thing to two people, So if you give resources
to illegal aliens, those resources are not going to American citizens.
You're spending our tax dollars that we worked hard for
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on illegal aliens. They have no business being in this country.
They have not paid into our various social systems. They
have no right to be claiming the benefits of them.
They haven't worked for them, they haven't paid for them,
they haven't sacrificed anything for them, so why are they
claiming them. I found this video. This guy, Elon Musk,
reposted it from Libs of TikTok, and he makes this case.
(11:01):
He's like, listen, I have had medical problems. I have
had a hard time getting health insurance thanks to Obamacare, which,
by the way, is a terrible system. All of you
people that are celebrating Luigi Mangioni for killing that healthcare
CEO and complaining about the healthcare system. That system you're
complaining about is Obamacare, by the way, that's what that is.
(11:23):
But anyway, this guy is talking about this, and he's like,
this pushed me out of the Democrat party. I was
a Democrat, but you guys are paying more attention and
giving more benefits to illegal aliens, and I'm sitting on
the sidelines basically completely sol and nobody's doing anything about it.
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
This was the precise moment I no longer was a Democrat.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Raise your handed if your government plan would provide coverage
for undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
That was the precise moment that I knew I was
leaving the Democratic Party because I was a two time
bone cancer survivor. I voted for Obama Biden based on Obamacare,
and when it was implemented in twenty ten, I ended
up losing my insurance. I went from an insurance plan
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that was one eighty five a month with a thousand
dollars deductible to that policy being canceled because it no
longer meant the requirements of Obamacare, and I was left
with the cheapest option being twelve hundred a month, six
thousand dollars deductible, one eighty five a month one thousand
dollars deductible to twelve hundred dollars a month six thousand
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dollars deductible. I went ten years without insurance, and I
was penalized each year because I could no longer afford insurance.
And in twenty sixteen, every single Democrat candidate up on
that debate stage raised their hand and said they would
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give illegals free healthcare. Will me, as a two time
bone cancer survivor, lost mine. Didn't have insurance for ten years,
and I was supposed to get CT scans, chest X
rays and all these other tests done every six months
to ensure my cancer didn't come back. And they wanted
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to give illegals free health care. That was the exact
moment I was no longer a Democrat.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
And you know, I don't think I'm ever gonna understand that.
I really don't understand it. Why does the left do
this constantly? What's in it for them?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Because, I mean with everything political, they're looking for, you know,
their own little wind right, They're looking for how this
benefits them. What do I get out of this? What
do you get out of giving these benefits to illegal
alilallis they're not going to vote for you. They can't
vote right, right, guys. So the fact that they choose
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so often illegal aliens over the needs of their actual citizens,
their actual voters, it makes no sense to me, Like
they will go so far out of their way to
create a second set of rules for illegal aliens. They
make life so much more difficult for their actual constituents,
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the people who live in these cities that they make
sanctuary cities, the people that are paying for all these
programs that basically create all these fun handouts for illegal aliens.
I don't think we should forget the fact that for
years the Biden administration has been putting up illegal aliens
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in luxury hotels in New York City. Your tax dollars
have been paying for that, and the Democrats want to
give them for healthcare. Nobody that was on that stage
back in twenty sixteen has backtrack on that. By the way,
that's still their position to this day. Given the opportunity,
they would one one hundred percent do that. And that's
not all. I did a piece about this way back
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in May seventeenth, so I've been on this for a
while and this is still up at kterice dot com.
By the way, according to investigative journalist Matti Rowley, the
Biden administration has just been throwing basically blank checks at
organizations whose sole purpose it is to provide I kid
you not, horticulture therapy, pet therapy, and the such for
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illegal aliens. The handouts that they have been giving to NGOs,
non government organizations are insane. These nonprofits that exist just
to give things away to illegal aliens. Meanwhile, Americans have
been struggling to pay their bills, have been struggling to
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deal with natural disasters. You guys, remember when Maui basically
burnt to a crisp and Joe Biden gave everybody there
like seven hundred and fifty dollars. Those are actual American citizens,
actual American voters that were completely ignored by Joe Biden
and the Democrats, by the way, because there was no
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big outcry from the left when that happened. Mister President,
you need to do better. The Republicans said it, the
Democrats didn't. And that's the point that this guy's making here.
The Democrats are essentially ignoring and I say the Democrats,
it's the left as a whole, and even some people
on the right are ignoring their actual citizens and giving
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away your hard earned tax dollars. That's one of the
biggest reasons that our spending is so high. We've had
this massive spending battle this week about you know, how
much money are we going to spend funding our federal government?
And the proposals are trillions of dollars, trillions, like five trillion,
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two trillion, huge numbers being knocked back and forth. Where
do you think all that money is going? You really
think all the money in these huge bills that no
one is reading is going towards important things. No, it's
going into the pockets of these different organizations that then
give it to illegal aliens, that then give it back
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to the politicians who created these bills in the first place.
We have got to start paying more attention to what
the government is doing with our money, especially when they're
giving it to people who shouldn't even be in this country.
And remember, for the young people like me, we're the
ones that are gonna be paying for this for our
entire lives. It's us. All of this money is going
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to come out of our pockets for the next forever,
because all the old people are going to be dead basically,
and we're gonna be left saddled with the national debt
and we're with that. I don't understand it. How can
we accept this? We have got to be doing better.
We have got to be paying attention with where they're
sending our money and why this just isn't sustainable. We
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as young people need to start demanding that our government
spend less money, and the money they do spend needs
to be spent on us, not illegal aliens. Okay, let's
talk about this budget fight that we just had, and
you'll have to forgive me if I'm a little bit
scatterbrained and all over the place, because this is one
of those few things in government that's actually it actually
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kind of comes close to being as complicated as it looks.
So just so we're all at the same starting point, right,
The government, like every other entity, requires money to function, right,
It doesn't just magically do what it does. Everything costs money.
The government is no exception to that. So where does
the government get its money. It's funded by appropriation bills. Basically,
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the Congress will pass a law saying the government will
spend this much money on these things this year. Okay,
so when that time runs out, what do you do.
Ideally you pass another bill, or you can just pass
a bill saying for these next three months or however long,
we're just gonna keep spending the same money that we've
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been spending for the previous year. Like, if it's time
to pass a budget bill for twenty twenty five, you
can say, instead of passing a budget bill for twenty
twenty five right now, we're going to continue the budget
bill that we passed in twenty twenty four for the
next three months. That's what a continuing resolution is. That's
what has been debated over for the last week. Basically, now,
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most bills can start in either the House or the
Senate as long as they work their way through both
Senators can file bills, pass them through the Senate, then
they go to the House and the House passes them,
you know, and then they go to the President get
signed into law or vice versa. The House starts a bill, passes,
it goes to the Senate, Senate passes, it goes to
the president. Budget bills are not the same way. Budget
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bills have to start in the House. You can find
more in depth descriptions of how this works. It's a
complicated process. I don't have four hours to basically break
it down. That's the gist of it. That's what you
need to know to understand the conversation. So obviously, the
government has been spending way too much money for way
too long on really really stupid stuff, just stuff that
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nobody should be spending any money on. And if you
want more details about that, just go look at the
Department of Government Efficiency account on x and they will
post some of the highlights for you. For example, according
to the Department of Government Efficiency, the US Department of
Health and Human Services issued an eight hundred and fifty
thousand dollars federal grant to Centerstone's LGBTQI Plus Family Support
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Program to provide training for military families to affirm the
gender identity of their children. That is an absurd waste
of tax payer dollars. That's just the start. It gets worse,
all right. Now we're on the same page. We know
what's going on. So Friday was the deadline to pass
a budget bill or we go into government shutdown. I
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believe at the end of this we ended up being
shut down technically for like two hours while the bill
made it from the House to the Senate and then
they passed it. So here's the situation. The original spending
bill that was first proposed, according to the Department of
Government Efficiency. I'm pulling all of this from their Twitter
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right now. The five hundred and forty seven page, one
hundred and ten plus billion House Continuing Resolution meant to
avert a government shutdown, includes a pay increase for members
of Congress from one hundred and seventy four thousand dollars
a year to two hundred and forty three thousand dollars
per year. A new football stadium in DC, seventy two
pages of pandemic preparedness and response policy, and a renewal
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of the Global Engagement Center, which is currently being sued
for CENTRIC Now. This bill also include a number of things,
including like some special immunities for people who were on
the House January sixth committee because it came out that
Liz Cheney may or may not have done some illegal
stuff when she was on that committee, So there was
a bunch of immunity carve outs there. Basically, this was
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a really bad bill, and everybody knew it was a
bad bill, including the House Republican who is the Speaker
of the House, Mike Johnson. He goes up on Fox
News and he basically tries to explain this away, saying, well, yeah,
it sucks, but we have to pass something, so it
might as well be this Here he is.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Elon musk the world's richest man, just tweeted this bill
should not pass. The only way you're going to be
able to pass it now, mister Speaker, it's with Democrats
if you could, if you could, what's your message to
Elon Musk?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Well, I was communicating with Elon last night. Elon and
Vivek and I are on a text chain together and
I was explaining to them the background of this, and
the Veke and I talked last night about almost midnight,
and he said, look, I get it. He said, we
understand you're in an impossible position. Everybody knows that. Remember, guys,
we still have just a razor thin margin of Republicans,
so any bill has to have Democrat votes. They understand
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the situation. They said, it's not directed to you, mister Speaker,
but we don't like the spending. And I said, guess what, Fellas,
I don't either. We got to get this done, because
here's the key. By doing this, we are clearing the
decks and we are setting up for Trump to come
in roaring back with the America First Agenda. That's what
we're going to run with Gusto beginning January third, when
we start the new Congress, when Republicans again are in
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control and all of our fiscal conservative friends I'm one
of them, we'll be able to finally do the things
that we've been wanting to do for the last couple
of years. Right now, Democrats still control depends and that's
the problem. So we got to get this thing done
so we don't have the shutdown. So we get the
short term funding measure, and we get to March where
we can put our fingerprints on the spending. That's when
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the big changes start, and we can't wait to get
there right now.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
What that is is all political jargon for I don't
want to have this fight right now. That's what he's
basically saying. I don't want to have this fight right now. Okay,
we need to have this fight right now. We're spending
too much money. This bill is too big. Like Elon
Musk pointed out continuously, this bill is over fifteen hundred
pages long. I went and did the math using the
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average cost of paper. It would cost over eight thousand
dollars just to get every member of Congress a copy
of this bill to read. And it's over fifteen thousand
pages long. How many people you think are actually reading
this bill? How many people are actually going in and
figuring out what in the hell the government wants to
spend your money on. Nobody they pick out the talking points,
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they talk about, we need to fund farmers, we need
to fund FEMA, we need to have all this stuff
going on, and so we just have to pass this bill,
Because that's in the bill. What else is in the bill?
What else are you funding with this? That's a question
that we should be allowed to ask, and it's a
question that should be easy to answer. Now it's not
because if it becomes easy to answer, then you don't
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get to play as many political games. You don't get
to hide as much money for special carve outs as
you want, because people notice, Well guess what people did notice?
Because we have X, because we have Elon Musk, because
we have the vek Ramaswami, and they're going out and
they're actually pointing out issues with this type of stuff.
So vivek Ramaswami actually went and read the entire bill
and then he posted a video talking about some of
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the garbage that's in it.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
Here it is Verus is about to pass a bill
that blows away your tax payer money. But they made
it over fifteen hundred pages long so you wouldn't read it.
I did your favor. I read it for you. It's
supposed to be about keeping government operations open and providing
disaster relief aid to hurricane victims, which I'm sympathetic to.
But if you read the bill carefully, it contains pay
raises for members of Congress, and I'm not making this
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up an expansion of their federal health benefits. It contains
all kinds of special interests in pork funding, putting opening
up up in new stadium in Washington, d C. It
renews the Global Engagement Center, which is a keynode of
the censorship industrial complex. And the worst part is they
didn't want you to know about any of it, and
that's why they made this a last minute jam job.
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The reason I'm co heading DOGE is I think we
need outsiders to bring actual accountability to Washington, DC. So
feel free to call your congressman and let them know
how you feel about it.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
And I guess what people did exactly that people saw
the bill, they saw what's in it, thanks to people
like Elon Musk, like Favek Ramaswami that have big platforms,
that have big followings, that actually took the time to
go in and look at this and then cut past
the talking points, because, like Favek points out in that video,
the way they like to do this is last minute
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cram jobs. They could have been negotiating this bill for months.
They could have been talking to us about what's in
the bill for months, bringing up, you know, talking points,
and basically trying to convince the voters that this is worthwhile.
They could have been doing that for months, because the
end of the last spending bill was not a surprise.
(27:07):
It's not like everybody woke up one day and look,
oh my god, what happened. All the money's gone. We
knew this was coming. They deliberately chose to negotiate behind
closed doors, wait till the last minute, and say, we
have a bill. It has funding for FEMA and farmers.
Everybody loves that, it has funding for child cancer research.
Don't look at what the other fourteen hundred pages are.
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Just look at those things and vote for those. That
doesn't work anymore. That's the old way of doing things,
and we're done with it. And thankfully we have people
with big platforms, big followings like Vivek and Elon Musk
who can generate the attention, because normally you'd have a
few Congress people that are going and speaking to their audience,
speaking out about this, and they'll vote against it and
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they'll get demonized because they voted against childhood cancer research. No,
I didn't vote against childhood cancer research. I voted against
all the other crap that's in this bill that doesn't
need to be there. But nobody ever hears that message.
Until today, we have successfully thanks to Elon Musk and
X and you know, other platforms, I'm sure, but definitely
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Elon Musk completely changed the way that politics has to
be done in this country because we're involving the people. Again,
it's very much lost on modern Americans that the people
in Congress aren't supposed to just go make decisions. They're
supposed to represent you and your interests. When they make
those decisions, they're called representatives. That's the name. You're supposed
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to be involved in these decisions. But we can't have
three hundred and fifty million people, or however many citizens
are in the United States all going to Congress and
arguing over something. It's unworkable. So you elect a representative.
That representative goes and he makes decisions based on what
he knows about his community and what they want. They
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have to do that again now and they hate it.
And in the next sep we're gonna get into that.
Because they killed this initial bill, they got a smaller
one passed after I think two tries. We're gonna get
into that in the next segment, because the Democrats are
absolutely livid about this. They hate the fact that you're
involved in politics now and good let them hate it,
Let them be mad, stay involved, keep paying attention. These
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are good changes that are happening. Okay, So Elon Musk
and Vivek and of course a number of other conservative
influencers all took to Twitter. They all exposed this bill.
They all got people to step up and call their
representatives and you get them to vote against this. They
made it clear, the American people do not want this.
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We are elected a Republican majority to do better than this.
We want something better, waste less of our money. The Democrats,
as I previously stated, are livid about this. They really are.
There is a very severe sense of elitism in the
political world. People who get into politics, people who are
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put into politics by the people, oftentimes come away thinking
that it's because of how great they are. It takes
a certain level of narcissism to run for political office,
and once you win, that just feeds that narcissism. It's
particularly bad among the Democrats, who most of them are
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coastal ivy League elites, so they think they're better than
you anyway, and then you elect them into public office
and that just gets worse. And then they stay there
for a long time, and that just gets worse. The
Republicans have this same problem. This is an almost universal
truth of politics. There are a few exceptions, and those
exceptions tend to be Republicans. So the fact that the
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people actually got involved here, the fact that the people
actually called their representatives and made it clear, if you
vote for this garbage, I am going to primary you.
I am going to take your job and give it
to somebody yel because you work for me and I
can do that. The Democrats hate that, and they have
been complaining about this constantly. So the end result here
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was the actual bill that got past ended up being
somewhere along the lines of like one hundred and thirteen pages,
I think, and it was way smaller. It was still
bigger than it should have been. There were still Republicans
that stood up and said this is still too big.
I'm not voting for this. And these people have been
attacked by the Conservatives now because they opposed the bill
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that Trump then went and endorsed. These people are right.
The people like Chip Roy, Thomas Massey who still came
out and voted for the much smaller bill. They are correct.
We'll dig into that in a second, but first I
want to play you some of the videos of Democrats
complaining about Elon Musk and Vivek stepping in giving the
people a voice here, putting something in front of the
people's attention, and getting a bad bill killed. Take a
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listen to this. This is Representative Becca Balant. She is
a representative from Vermont. I don't know which dish she
has her pronouns in her ex bio, which means I
don't respect her. Take a listen to her just complaining
about the fact that, thanks to Elon Musk, the Democrats
and some of the Rhinos in the Republican Caucus are
not going to get their big spending bill.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
I was literally moments ago in an elevator with some
Republican members who are fuming about the fact that Musk
is inserting himself into this conversation and that the threats
over over Twitter. Oh, I'm sorry X, the threats over X,
you know, to primary them to come after them, you know,
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so privately at least they are. They've had it, They've
had it with with people like.
Speaker 8 (32:41):
Musk, who think that they have the right to insert
themselves into a process of elected officials. We've all been
elected to represent our constituents, to try to represent them.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
He is not elected. I just want to remind everybody
of that. He may be a very wealthy person, but
he's been elected to nothing.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Okay, take a listen to the just disdain and her voice.
First of all, let's clear the air on who exactly
Elon Musk is. Elon Musk is a citizen in the
United States, and by virtue of simply being a citizen,
he has a vested interest in what goes on in Washington, DC,
as do all of you. You all have the same
level importance here. He just has a bigger platform, But
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at you all have the same raw level of interest
in the United States. Elon Musk now actually has more
added interest in the goings on in DC because he
is also a businessman. He also employs people. There are
people whose entire livelihoods right on the success of Elon
Musk's businesses. So Elon Musk has the responsibility of every
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citizen to ensure that he and his wishes are being
represented in Congress, because that's what Congress is there for
he's a citizen. Somebody in Congress represents Elon Musk, and
he also has employees which he has a responsibility to
look out for, so he has even more interest. They
think because Elon Musk is an elected he has no
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business being a part of that. And you think that
stops at Elon Musk. No, they feel the same way
about you. You weren't elected either, But these people were
elected not just to do things, but to do things
for you. They have forgotten this. Elon Musk is reminding
them of it because he has the platform to do that,
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and they're pissed off about it. The only thing Elon
Musk and Vivek Ramaswami did here is they said, hey, look,
this is what's going on. We don't like that. Y'all
should take a look at what's going on and decide
if y'all like that, and if you don't, call your
representative and tell them about it and we don't like it.
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And if you don't like it, we will help you
pick a new representative. We will help you fund a
representative to challenge these people in the primaries. That's all
they did. Every American has every right to do that.
And the fact that Democrats and even some Rhinos are
sitting behind clo those doors and saying this is bad
that they're doing this. This is the way the system
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is designed to work, and you've been bamboozling the American
people for god only knows how long, fifty sixty one
hundred years. We're not happy with the status quo anymore.
It hasn't been working, and we're ready for something new,
and we're starting to get it. We're starting slowly, though,
I might add, this is a process. I want everybody
to be aware of something. Fixing the problems that we
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have in federal government is going to take a lot
of time. It's going to take baby steps. We are
not going to get all the wins that we want
at once. That being said, the people who draw a
hard line in the sand, people like Representative Chip Roy,
are not the villains. There were thirty Republicans that ended
up not voting with the rest of the Republicans on
the final cr that passed. There were actually two different
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versions of this bill, and I think somewhere along the
lines of like thirty one to thirty eight different Republicans
voted against the smaller versions of the bill. Now, there
has kind of been this perception with a lot of
the hardcore magat people on Twitter that these people are
voting against the bill because it's clean and they wanted
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the pork. Okay, look at who voted against this. We're
talking about Wesley Hunt, We're talking about Chip Roy, We're
talking about Thomas Massey. These are people that are strong,
hard conservatives and have been the entire time. They didn't
support the first fifteen hundred page bill. They didn't support
the smaller bill because it was still too big. Take
a listen to Chip Roy explaining why he's voting against
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the bill that's smaller.
Speaker 9 (36:34):
The fact to the matter is three hundred and thirty
billion dollars. Congratulations, you've added to the debt since you
were given the majority again on November fifth. It's embarrassing,
it's shameful. Yes, I think this bill is better than
it was yesterday on certain respects. But to take this bill,
to take this bill yesterday and congratulate yourself because it's
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shorter in pages but increases the yet by five trillion
dollars is as nine and that's it precisely what Republicans
are doing. I am absolutely sickened by a party that
campaigns on fiscal responsibility and has the temerity to go
forward to the American people and say, you think this
is fiscally responsible. It is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Okay, Chip is one hundred percent right here. We have
got to get serious about spending less money in this country.
It is a big problem. Nobody is doing anything about it.
Republicans will spend a little bit less than the Democrats,
but it's still way too much. And you've got a
few hardline conservatives in the Republican caucus that are, you know,
stepping up and saying, no, we can't just do a
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little bit better. We have to actually solve this problem.
And listen, there are Republicans out there that are willing
to say, Okay, we're doing a little bit better, we're
making progress fair enough, and you know what, there is
a time and place for that. I'm a political realist.
There are things that you can and cannot get done.
We cannot solve this problem at once. But at the
same time, I'm not gonna fault people like Chip Roy
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for saying be that as it may. I'm not going
to compromise. There have been some people like Kat turd
on X is a big conservative account. Try not to
laugh too hard at his name. He does post a
lot of good stuff, but he comes after chip Roy
on this because Trump did. He said, Trump won one
of the biggest landslides in history and has a mandate.
Any Republican going against him, now, we're going to end
your career and defeat you soundly in your primary. Number
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one on that list that pos loudmouth, Trump hating, backstabbing
loser chip Roy. Okay, anyone who knows chip Roy's record,
who has, I believe the most conservative record in Congress,
knows that that's not true. Chip Roy is a good
congress person and he's representing the desires of his constituents.
His constituents demand strong fiscal reform, and that's what they want.
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That's what they sent him to deliver, and he's doing
what he can to deliver it. We need to not
hate on people for that. What chip Roy and the
other thirty members of Congress did when they voted against
this bill is a good thing. And what the other
Republicans did by trimming down the cr and passing a
much more clean version of that to fund the government
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and avoid a government shut down is also good. Let's
not go attacking each other over this. We gotta win here,
Let's take it and be happy about it. And hats
off to Chip Royd for standing up and representing his constituents.
That's all we got. Thank you, guys very much. I
will see y'all next week.
You know, I spend a lot of time every week
thinking about how I want to get things kicked off.
What do I want to open this show with every week?
And you know, it's a difficult thing. It's there's a
balance that needs to be struck. I want it to
be kind of funny. I wanted to actually make a point.
You know, there's a lot of competing interests here. And
I owe a deep debt of gratitude to New York
(00:39):
Governor Kathy Hokeel because it seems like every week she
has some ridiculous moment that gets caught on tape that
gives me the perfect opener. So let me preface this
with we're all familiar now with the Daniel Penny case
and that trial and the verdict and whatnot. What's really
shocking to me is the fact that and they have
(01:00):
to do this right, because the Democrats in New York
went and prosecuted Daniel Penny for what he did, you know,
keep the subway safe and protect people. Now, in order
to justify prosecuting someone for that, you also have to
sit there and pretend that the subways will be just
fine without it, right, because if you put people in jail,
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for protecting people on the subway. Then next time something
goes wrong on the subway, nobody's gonna get protected. So
in order to make the case that we need to
put this guy in jail, you have to also make
the case that the subways are gonna be fine. And
New York has desperately been trying to do that for
a long time, but even more now. So New York
(01:44):
Governor Kathy Holkel goes out and she does this press
conference and I don't know what exactly the policy here
is that she's trying to push. But in the course
of this event that she's at this press conference, what
have you, she tries to make the case that actually, guys,
the New York sub boys are perfectly safe and crime
is down, and she probably got there by gaming the statistics.
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But that only works if people aren't paying attention. There
was a reporter in the audience that was paying attention.
He hit Kathy Hokle with the hard data and she
just completely shut down. She had no idea how to
handle it. Take a listen to this, because it's honestly
pretty hilarious.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Say a lot of things with statistics, and I see
the percentage that a crime is down forty two percent
since twenty twenty one. But if you look back to
pre pandemic, and I know you like to say that
that overall crime is down twelve percent since the pandemic,
but murders are up two hundred percent, felony assault is
up fifty five percent, and burglary is up one hundred
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and forty percent. So are you saying that this is progress?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Are you talking about statewide city.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Or crime in the transit system? I'm sorry, Govny has
crime in Okay?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Answer that, dude? He God are dead to rights? He
called her on it. It's the age old trick that
democrats love to play. Democrats and the media just gaming statistics.
You know, based off of this point, this has gone
down since here. Okay, what is it? Overall? They've been
doing this for years, by the way, because crime spiked
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so high during the pandemic all over the country, they've
been able to do the bare minimum in order to
bring crime slightly down, and they act like it's some
major victory. Everybody does this. Joe Biden has been doing
it for basically the last four years, and dude, statistics
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is one of the most convenient ways to lie to people,
and we've got to start paying attention to it. Hats
off to this reporter who is like, listen, I've been
following the statistics. I've been following the data, and the
crime isn't down. It's dipped a little bit, but overall
crime has risen significantly over the last four years. What
else has happened over the last fourie that can't be
a coincidence. Maybe it's all the soft on crime democrats
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that have been running every major city and the country.
Maybe there's a connection there.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I could just be a conspiracy theorist, but that's what
it looks like to me. So shout out to this reporter.
I don't know who he is or what outlet he's with.
But she had no answer. She immediately shut down and
tried to feel the question to somebody else. That's not
a question you should have to field. He gave you
the data, and he asked you a yes or no question.
Is that what you call success? The answer should be
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an easy no. Crime rising by those kind of numbers
on the transit system should not be Oh yeah, that's
a success. She should have been able to just say
no at least say there's more work to do. We've
brought it down since the pandemic, but we realize it's
still up and we're trying that would. I mean, it's
a convenient escape answer, but at least it's an answer.
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She just keeps looking around at all the other officials,
hoping they bail her out. I don't know if they did.
I hope they didn't, because she deserves to sit there
and look stupid, because frankly, the more and more I
see from her, the less I think she's a competent woman.
But guys, pay attention. Don't let them trick you with
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the statistics. Ask some real questions, Go back and look
at all of the data. Don't look at just the
data they give you, because remember, the golden rule of
politicians is they will always lie if it benefits them
almost one hundred percent of the time. There are a
few good people out there in politics that will be
honest with their constituents and their voters. Unfortunately, most of
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them aren't Democrats. I would love to see some that are,
but so far they've all been Republicans. That's not to
say Republicans are perfect. They're not. They lie too. This
is a universal problem. And one of the politicians' favorite
ways to lie to you is with statistics. They will
always play with the number in order to talk you
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into something. Always, So don't look at the data they
give you. That's a distraction. Look at the data they're
not giving to you. Okay. I also want to take
a look at this video of Kamala Harris, because you know,
she did run for president. She is still the vice president,
so you know what she's getting up to and what
she's got going on. I think is pretty important. Right,
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we should be keeping tabs on her. But she disappeared
for a little bit. I think she deserved a little
bit of a vacation. I mean, running for president is hard.
Running for president and losing is harder. Running for president
losing and being twenty million dollars in debt, I think
it is must be incredibly hard. So she deserved a break.
She deserved a vacation. We gave it to her. That's fine.
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She came back and she posted, or she didn't post.
She gave a speech. I don't know where it was,
but I found the video posted on ex and it's
it's pretty bad. It's pretty bad. I guess she's trying
to be meta and self aware with the fact that,
like she has creepy cash phrases and maniacal laughter. It's
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something that like hit her really hard during the election.
People just didn't like it. It was creepy and weird.
But she's still doing it. So take a listen to
her at whatever speech this is and just try not
to cringe.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
And I ask you to remember the context in which
you exist.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah I did that, Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I ask you to remember that this struggle is not new.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Y'all will remember that line, right, Remember the context or
of all that you are in and all that you
exist and the context and whatnot. She said this a
couple of months ago on the campaign show, and she
got blasted for it because it makes no sense and
it's ridiculous. She's trying to be meta about it now, Like, Lady,
this isn't cute, this isn't charming, this isn't funny. You're weird.
That's weird. And the way you cackle maniacally weird. This
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is why you lost the election. This is why the
Democrats are going to shovel you into the memory hole.
Enjoy your last what month and a half of being
in public office, because you will never win a national
election ever, not while you're doing this weird stuff. It's
just creepy. Stop laughing like that. Okay, I want to
talk a little bit about the border, because it's never
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a bad time to talk about the border. And I
want to point out, and this is a point that
I've been making for a couple of days now. Ever
since I really got thinking about this, there was kind
of this collective sigh of relief from basically anybody with
common sense when it comes to the border crisis. They're like, Oh,
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thank god, Biden's gone, Kamala Harris is gone, Trump is back.
We're gonna fix this problem. We're at least gonna get
started on the road to solving it, because it's gonna
take years to correct this, but we're sort of entering
the beginning of fixing the problem. And I think it's
important that we realize that actually, not quite, we're getting there.
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We will be there in what how long a month,
basically until January twentieth, and then we'll be there. We will,
but right now we're not. Joe Biden is still in charge.
Joe Biden's border policies are still in effect, and they're
still causing problems, and there is still just under I
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believe the latest estimates from the Center for Immigration Studies
just under eight million people hiding in various sanctuary states
here in the United States, and they're still more coming in.
They've slowed down because they know Trump is on the way,
they know now that they won't be allowed to stay,
but there are still some that are coming and it's
still a problem. It's still an issue. So we need
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to not slow down on this. We need to continue
to highlight this issue. And I saw this video from
this guy talking about this was like his number one issue,
and this pushed him out of the Democrat Party because
I think for all the talk that we have about,
you know, the crime that comes with illegal immigration, the drugs,
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all of that, we don't talk enough about the fact
that by giving government resources to illegal aliens, you are
by definition taking them away from citizens. You can't give
one thing to two people, So if you give resources
to illegal aliens, those resources are not going to American citizens.
You're spending our tax dollars that we worked hard for
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on illegal aliens. They have no business being in this country.
They have not paid into our various social systems. They
have no right to be claiming the benefits of them.
They haven't worked for them, they haven't paid for them,
they haven't sacrificed anything for them, so why are they
claiming them. I found this video. This guy, Elon Musk,
reposted it from Libs of TikTok, and he makes this case.
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He's like, listen, I have had medical problems. I have
had a hard time getting health insurance thanks to Obamacare, which,
by the way, is a terrible system. All of you
people that are celebrating Luigi Mangioni for killing that healthcare
CEO and complaining about the healthcare system. That system you're
complaining about is Obamacare, by the way, that's what that is.
(11:23):
But anyway, this guy is talking about this, and he's like,
this pushed me out of the Democrat party. I was
a Democrat, but you guys are paying more attention and
giving more benefits to illegal aliens, and I'm sitting on
the sidelines basically completely sol and nobody's doing anything about it.
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
This was the precise moment I no longer was a Democrat.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Raise your handed if your government plan would provide coverage
for undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
That was the precise moment that I knew I was
leaving the Democratic Party because I was a two time
bone cancer survivor. I voted for Obama Biden based on Obamacare,
and when it was implemented in twenty ten, I ended
up losing my insurance. I went from an insurance plan
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that was one eighty five a month with a thousand
dollars deductible to that policy being canceled because it no
longer meant the requirements of Obamacare, and I was left
with the cheapest option being twelve hundred a month, six
thousand dollars deductible, one eighty five a month one thousand
dollars deductible to twelve hundred dollars a month six thousand
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dollars deductible. I went ten years without insurance, and I
was penalized each year because I could no longer afford insurance.
And in twenty sixteen, every single Democrat candidate up on
that debate stage raised their hand and said they would
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give illegals free healthcare. Will me, as a two time
bone cancer survivor, lost mine. Didn't have insurance for ten years,
and I was supposed to get CT scans, chest X
rays and all these other tests done every six months
to ensure my cancer didn't come back. And they wanted
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to give illegals free health care. That was the exact
moment I was no longer a Democrat.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
And you know, I don't think I'm ever gonna understand that.
I really don't understand it. Why does the left do
this constantly? What's in it for them?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Because, I mean with everything political, they're looking for, you know,
their own little wind right, They're looking for how this
benefits them. What do I get out of this? What
do you get out of giving these benefits to illegal
alilallis they're not going to vote for you. They can't
vote right, right, guys. So the fact that they choose
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so often illegal aliens over the needs of their actual citizens,
their actual voters, it makes no sense to me, Like
they will go so far out of their way to
create a second set of rules for illegal aliens. They
make life so much more difficult for their actual constituents,
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the people who live in these cities that they make
sanctuary cities, the people that are paying for all these
programs that basically create all these fun handouts for illegal aliens.
I don't think we should forget the fact that for
years the Biden administration has been putting up illegal aliens
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in luxury hotels in New York City. Your tax dollars
have been paying for that, and the Democrats want to
give them for healthcare. Nobody that was on that stage
back in twenty sixteen has backtrack on that. By the way,
that's still their position to this day. Given the opportunity,
they would one one hundred percent do that. And that's
not all. I did a piece about this way back
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in May seventeenth, so I've been on this for a
while and this is still up at kterice dot com.
By the way, according to investigative journalist Matti Rowley, the
Biden administration has just been throwing basically blank checks at
organizations whose sole purpose it is to provide I kid
you not, horticulture therapy, pet therapy, and the such for
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illegal aliens. The handouts that they have been giving to NGOs,
non government organizations are insane. These nonprofits that exist just
to give things away to illegal aliens. Meanwhile, Americans have
been struggling to pay their bills, have been struggling to
(15:58):
deal with natural disasters. You guys, remember when Maui basically
burnt to a crisp and Joe Biden gave everybody there
like seven hundred and fifty dollars. Those are actual American citizens,
actual American voters that were completely ignored by Joe Biden
and the Democrats, by the way, because there was no
(16:19):
big outcry from the left when that happened. Mister President,
you need to do better. The Republicans said it, the
Democrats didn't. And that's the point that this guy's making here.
The Democrats are essentially ignoring and I say the Democrats,
it's the left as a whole, and even some people
on the right are ignoring their actual citizens and giving
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away your hard earned tax dollars. That's one of the
biggest reasons that our spending is so high. We've had
this massive spending battle this week about you know, how
much money are we going to spend funding our federal government?
And the proposals are trillions of dollars, trillions, like five trillion,
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two trillion, huge numbers being knocked back and forth. Where
do you think all that money is going? You really
think all the money in these huge bills that no
one is reading is going towards important things. No, it's
going into the pockets of these different organizations that then
give it to illegal aliens, that then give it back
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to the politicians who created these bills in the first place.
We have got to start paying more attention to what
the government is doing with our money, especially when they're
giving it to people who shouldn't even be in this country.
And remember, for the young people like me, we're the
ones that are gonna be paying for this for our
entire lives. It's us. All of this money is going
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to come out of our pockets for the next forever,
because all the old people are going to be dead basically,
and we're gonna be left saddled with the national debt
and we're with that. I don't understand it. How can
we accept this? We have got to be doing better.
We have got to be paying attention with where they're
sending our money and why this just isn't sustainable. We
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as young people need to start demanding that our government
spend less money, and the money they do spend needs
to be spent on us, not illegal aliens. Okay, let's
talk about this budget fight that we just had, and
you'll have to forgive me if I'm a little bit
scatterbrained and all over the place, because this is one
of those few things in government that's actually it actually
(18:34):
kind of comes close to being as complicated as it looks.
So just so we're all at the same starting point, right,
The government, like every other entity, requires money to function, right,
It doesn't just magically do what it does. Everything costs money.
The government is no exception to that. So where does
the government get its money. It's funded by appropriation bills. Basically,
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the Congress will pass a law saying the government will
spend this much money on these things this year. Okay,
so when that time runs out, what do you do.
Ideally you pass another bill, or you can just pass
a bill saying for these next three months or however long,
we're just gonna keep spending the same money that we've
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been spending for the previous year. Like, if it's time
to pass a budget bill for twenty twenty five, you
can say, instead of passing a budget bill for twenty
twenty five right now, we're going to continue the budget
bill that we passed in twenty twenty four for the
next three months. That's what a continuing resolution is. That's
what has been debated over for the last week. Basically, now,
(19:41):
most bills can start in either the House or the
Senate as long as they work their way through both
Senators can file bills, pass them through the Senate, then
they go to the House and the House passes them,
you know, and then they go to the President get
signed into law or vice versa. The House starts a bill, passes,
it goes to the Senate, Senate passes, it goes to
the president. Budget bills are not the same way. Budget
(20:03):
bills have to start in the House. You can find
more in depth descriptions of how this works. It's a
complicated process. I don't have four hours to basically break
it down. That's the gist of it. That's what you
need to know to understand the conversation. So obviously, the
government has been spending way too much money for way
too long on really really stupid stuff, just stuff that
(20:27):
nobody should be spending any money on. And if you
want more details about that, just go look at the
Department of Government Efficiency account on x and they will
post some of the highlights for you. For example, according
to the Department of Government Efficiency, the US Department of
Health and Human Services issued an eight hundred and fifty
thousand dollars federal grant to Centerstone's LGBTQI Plus Family Support
(20:50):
Program to provide training for military families to affirm the
gender identity of their children. That is an absurd waste
of tax payer dollars. That's just the start. It gets worse,
all right. Now we're on the same page. We know
what's going on. So Friday was the deadline to pass
a budget bill or we go into government shutdown. I
(21:11):
believe at the end of this we ended up being
shut down technically for like two hours while the bill
made it from the House to the Senate and then
they passed it. So here's the situation. The original spending
bill that was first proposed, according to the Department of
Government Efficiency. I'm pulling all of this from their Twitter
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right now. The five hundred and forty seven page, one
hundred and ten plus billion House Continuing Resolution meant to
avert a government shutdown, includes a pay increase for members
of Congress from one hundred and seventy four thousand dollars
a year to two hundred and forty three thousand dollars
per year. A new football stadium in DC, seventy two
pages of pandemic preparedness and response policy, and a renewal
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of the Global Engagement Center, which is currently being sued
for CENTRIC Now. This bill also include a number of things,
including like some special immunities for people who were on
the House January sixth committee because it came out that
Liz Cheney may or may not have done some illegal
stuff when she was on that committee, So there was
a bunch of immunity carve outs there. Basically, this was
(22:18):
a really bad bill, and everybody knew it was a
bad bill, including the House Republican who is the Speaker
of the House, Mike Johnson. He goes up on Fox
News and he basically tries to explain this away, saying, well, yeah,
it sucks, but we have to pass something, so it
might as well be this Here he is.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Elon musk the world's richest man, just tweeted this bill
should not pass. The only way you're going to be
able to pass it now, mister Speaker, it's with Democrats
if you could, if you could, what's your message to
Elon Musk?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Well, I was communicating with Elon last night. Elon and
Vivek and I are on a text chain together and
I was explaining to them the background of this, and
the Veke and I talked last night about almost midnight,
and he said, look, I get it. He said, we
understand you're in an impossible position. Everybody knows that. Remember, guys,
we still have just a razor thin margin of Republicans,
so any bill has to have Democrat votes. They understand
(23:13):
the situation. They said, it's not directed to you, mister Speaker,
but we don't like the spending. And I said, guess what, Fellas,
I don't either. We got to get this done, because
here's the key. By doing this, we are clearing the
decks and we are setting up for Trump to come
in roaring back with the America First Agenda. That's what
we're going to run with Gusto beginning January third, when
we start the new Congress, when Republicans again are in
(23:34):
control and all of our fiscal conservative friends I'm one
of them, we'll be able to finally do the things
that we've been wanting to do for the last couple
of years. Right now, Democrats still control depends and that's
the problem. So we got to get this thing done
so we don't have the shutdown. So we get the
short term funding measure, and we get to March where
we can put our fingerprints on the spending. That's when
(23:56):
the big changes start, and we can't wait to get
there right now.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
What that is is all political jargon for I don't
want to have this fight right now. That's what he's
basically saying. I don't want to have this fight right now. Okay,
we need to have this fight right now. We're spending
too much money. This bill is too big. Like Elon
Musk pointed out continuously, this bill is over fifteen hundred
pages long. I went and did the math using the
(24:22):
average cost of paper. It would cost over eight thousand
dollars just to get every member of Congress a copy
of this bill to read. And it's over fifteen thousand
pages long. How many people you think are actually reading
this bill? How many people are actually going in and
figuring out what in the hell the government wants to
spend your money on. Nobody they pick out the talking points,
(24:45):
they talk about, we need to fund farmers, we need
to fund FEMA, we need to have all this stuff
going on, and so we just have to pass this bill,
Because that's in the bill. What else is in the bill?
What else are you funding with this? That's a question
that we should be allowed to ask, and it's a
question that should be easy to answer. Now it's not
because if it becomes easy to answer, then you don't
(25:06):
get to play as many political games. You don't get
to hide as much money for special carve outs as
you want, because people notice, Well guess what people did notice?
Because we have X, because we have Elon Musk, because
we have the vek Ramaswami, and they're going out and
they're actually pointing out issues with this type of stuff.
So vivek Ramaswami actually went and read the entire bill
and then he posted a video talking about some of
(25:29):
the garbage that's in it.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
Here it is Verus is about to pass a bill
that blows away your tax payer money. But they made
it over fifteen hundred pages long so you wouldn't read it.
I did your favor. I read it for you. It's
supposed to be about keeping government operations open and providing
disaster relief aid to hurricane victims, which I'm sympathetic to.
But if you read the bill carefully, it contains pay
raises for members of Congress, and I'm not making this
(25:53):
up an expansion of their federal health benefits. It contains
all kinds of special interests in pork funding, putting opening
up up in new stadium in Washington, d C. It
renews the Global Engagement Center, which is a keynode of
the censorship industrial complex. And the worst part is they
didn't want you to know about any of it, and
that's why they made this a last minute jam job.
(26:14):
The reason I'm co heading DOGE is I think we
need outsiders to bring actual accountability to Washington, DC. So
feel free to call your congressman and let them know
how you feel about it.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
And I guess what people did exactly that people saw
the bill, they saw what's in it, thanks to people
like Elon Musk, like Favek Ramaswami that have big platforms,
that have big followings, that actually took the time to
go in and look at this and then cut past
the talking points, because, like Favek points out in that video,
the way they like to do this is last minute
(26:45):
cram jobs. They could have been negotiating this bill for months.
They could have been talking to us about what's in
the bill for months, bringing up, you know, talking points,
and basically trying to convince the voters that this is worthwhile.
They could have been doing that for months, because the
end of the last spending bill was not a surprise.
(27:07):
It's not like everybody woke up one day and look,
oh my god, what happened. All the money's gone. We
knew this was coming. They deliberately chose to negotiate behind
closed doors, wait till the last minute, and say, we
have a bill. It has funding for FEMA and farmers.
Everybody loves that, it has funding for child cancer research.
Don't look at what the other fourteen hundred pages are.
(27:28):
Just look at those things and vote for those. That
doesn't work anymore. That's the old way of doing things,
and we're done with it. And thankfully we have people
with big platforms, big followings like Vivek and Elon Musk
who can generate the attention, because normally you'd have a
few Congress people that are going and speaking to their audience,
speaking out about this, and they'll vote against it and
(27:50):
they'll get demonized because they voted against childhood cancer research. No,
I didn't vote against childhood cancer research. I voted against
all the other crap that's in this bill that doesn't
need to be there. But nobody ever hears that message.
Until today, we have successfully thanks to Elon Musk and
X and you know, other platforms, I'm sure, but definitely
(28:11):
Elon Musk completely changed the way that politics has to
be done in this country because we're involving the people. Again,
it's very much lost on modern Americans that the people
in Congress aren't supposed to just go make decisions. They're
supposed to represent you and your interests. When they make
those decisions, they're called representatives. That's the name. You're supposed
(28:36):
to be involved in these decisions. But we can't have
three hundred and fifty million people, or however many citizens
are in the United States all going to Congress and
arguing over something. It's unworkable. So you elect a representative.
That representative goes and he makes decisions based on what
he knows about his community and what they want. They
(28:57):
have to do that again now and they hate it.
And in the next sep we're gonna get into that.
Because they killed this initial bill, they got a smaller
one passed after I think two tries. We're gonna get
into that in the next segment, because the Democrats are
absolutely livid about this. They hate the fact that you're
involved in politics now and good let them hate it,
Let them be mad, stay involved, keep paying attention. These
(29:20):
are good changes that are happening. Okay, So Elon Musk
and Vivek and of course a number of other conservative
influencers all took to Twitter. They all exposed this bill.
They all got people to step up and call their
representatives and you get them to vote against this. They
made it clear, the American people do not want this.
(29:42):
We are elected a Republican majority to do better than this.
We want something better, waste less of our money. The Democrats,
as I previously stated, are livid about this. They really are.
There is a very severe sense of elitism in the
political world. People who get into politics, people who are
(30:05):
put into politics by the people, oftentimes come away thinking
that it's because of how great they are. It takes
a certain level of narcissism to run for political office,
and once you win, that just feeds that narcissism. It's
particularly bad among the Democrats, who most of them are
(30:27):
coastal ivy League elites, so they think they're better than
you anyway, and then you elect them into public office
and that just gets worse. And then they stay there
for a long time, and that just gets worse. The
Republicans have this same problem. This is an almost universal
truth of politics. There are a few exceptions, and those
exceptions tend to be Republicans. So the fact that the
(30:48):
people actually got involved here, the fact that the people
actually called their representatives and made it clear, if you
vote for this garbage, I am going to primary you.
I am going to take your job and give it
to somebody yel because you work for me and I
can do that. The Democrats hate that, and they have
been complaining about this constantly. So the end result here
(31:08):
was the actual bill that got past ended up being
somewhere along the lines of like one hundred and thirteen pages,
I think, and it was way smaller. It was still
bigger than it should have been. There were still Republicans
that stood up and said this is still too big.
I'm not voting for this. And these people have been
attacked by the Conservatives now because they opposed the bill
(31:30):
that Trump then went and endorsed. These people are right.
The people like Chip Roy, Thomas Massey who still came
out and voted for the much smaller bill. They are correct.
We'll dig into that in a second, but first I
want to play you some of the videos of Democrats
complaining about Elon Musk and Vivek stepping in giving the
people a voice here, putting something in front of the
people's attention, and getting a bad bill killed. Take a
(31:53):
listen to this. This is Representative Becca Balant. She is
a representative from Vermont. I don't know which dish she
has her pronouns in her ex bio, which means I
don't respect her. Take a listen to her just complaining
about the fact that, thanks to Elon Musk, the Democrats
and some of the Rhinos in the Republican Caucus are
not going to get their big spending bill.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
I was literally moments ago in an elevator with some
Republican members who are fuming about the fact that Musk
is inserting himself into this conversation and that the threats
over over Twitter. Oh, I'm sorry X, the threats over X,
you know, to primary them to come after them, you know,
(32:35):
so privately at least they are. They've had it, They've
had it with with people like.
Speaker 8 (32:41):
Musk, who think that they have the right to insert
themselves into a process of elected officials. We've all been
elected to represent our constituents, to try to represent them.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
He is not elected. I just want to remind everybody
of that. He may be a very wealthy person, but
he's been elected to nothing.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Okay, take a listen to the just disdain and her voice.
First of all, let's clear the air on who exactly
Elon Musk is. Elon Musk is a citizen in the
United States, and by virtue of simply being a citizen,
he has a vested interest in what goes on in Washington, DC,
as do all of you. You all have the same
level importance here. He just has a bigger platform, But
(33:19):
at you all have the same raw level of interest
in the United States. Elon Musk now actually has more
added interest in the goings on in DC because he
is also a businessman. He also employs people. There are
people whose entire livelihoods right on the success of Elon
Musk's businesses. So Elon Musk has the responsibility of every
(33:41):
citizen to ensure that he and his wishes are being
represented in Congress, because that's what Congress is there for
he's a citizen. Somebody in Congress represents Elon Musk, and
he also has employees which he has a responsibility to
look out for, so he has even more interest. They
think because Elon Musk is an elected he has no
(34:02):
business being a part of that. And you think that
stops at Elon Musk. No, they feel the same way
about you. You weren't elected either, But these people were
elected not just to do things, but to do things
for you. They have forgotten this. Elon Musk is reminding
them of it because he has the platform to do that,
(34:22):
and they're pissed off about it. The only thing Elon
Musk and Vivek Ramaswami did here is they said, hey, look,
this is what's going on. We don't like that. Y'all
should take a look at what's going on and decide
if y'all like that, and if you don't, call your
representative and tell them about it and we don't like it.
(34:43):
And if you don't like it, we will help you
pick a new representative. We will help you fund a
representative to challenge these people in the primaries. That's all
they did. Every American has every right to do that.
And the fact that Democrats and even some Rhinos are
sitting behind clo those doors and saying this is bad
that they're doing this. This is the way the system
(35:03):
is designed to work, and you've been bamboozling the American
people for god only knows how long, fifty sixty one
hundred years. We're not happy with the status quo anymore.
It hasn't been working, and we're ready for something new,
and we're starting to get it. We're starting slowly, though,
I might add, this is a process. I want everybody
to be aware of something. Fixing the problems that we
(35:25):
have in federal government is going to take a lot
of time. It's going to take baby steps. We are
not going to get all the wins that we want
at once. That being said, the people who draw a
hard line in the sand, people like Representative Chip Roy,
are not the villains. There were thirty Republicans that ended
up not voting with the rest of the Republicans on
the final cr that passed. There were actually two different
(35:47):
versions of this bill, and I think somewhere along the
lines of like thirty one to thirty eight different Republicans
voted against the smaller versions of the bill. Now, there
has kind of been this perception with a lot of
the hardcore magat people on Twitter that these people are
voting against the bill because it's clean and they wanted
(36:09):
the pork. Okay, look at who voted against this. We're
talking about Wesley Hunt, We're talking about Chip Roy, We're
talking about Thomas Massey. These are people that are strong,
hard conservatives and have been the entire time. They didn't
support the first fifteen hundred page bill. They didn't support
the smaller bill because it was still too big. Take
a listen to Chip Roy explaining why he's voting against
(36:31):
the bill that's smaller.
Speaker 9 (36:34):
The fact to the matter is three hundred and thirty
billion dollars. Congratulations, you've added to the debt since you
were given the majority again on November fifth. It's embarrassing,
it's shameful. Yes, I think this bill is better than
it was yesterday on certain respects. But to take this bill,
to take this bill yesterday and congratulate yourself because it's
(36:57):
shorter in pages but increases the yet by five trillion
dollars is as nine and that's it precisely what Republicans
are doing. I am absolutely sickened by a party that
campaigns on fiscal responsibility and has the temerity to go
forward to the American people and say, you think this
is fiscally responsible. It is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Okay, Chip is one hundred percent right here. We have
got to get serious about spending less money in this country.
It is a big problem. Nobody is doing anything about it.
Republicans will spend a little bit less than the Democrats,
but it's still way too much. And you've got a
few hardline conservatives in the Republican caucus that are, you know,
stepping up and saying, no, we can't just do a
(37:42):
little bit better. We have to actually solve this problem.
And listen, there are Republicans out there that are willing
to say, Okay, we're doing a little bit better, we're
making progress fair enough, and you know what, there is
a time and place for that. I'm a political realist.
There are things that you can and cannot get done.
We cannot solve this problem at once. But at the
same time, I'm not gonna fault people like Chip Roy
(38:05):
for saying be that as it may. I'm not going
to compromise. There have been some people like Kat turd
on X is a big conservative account. Try not to
laugh too hard at his name. He does post a
lot of good stuff, but he comes after chip Roy
on this because Trump did. He said, Trump won one
of the biggest landslides in history and has a mandate.
Any Republican going against him, now, we're going to end
your career and defeat you soundly in your primary. Number
(38:27):
one on that list that pos loudmouth, Trump hating, backstabbing
loser chip Roy. Okay, anyone who knows chip Roy's record,
who has, I believe the most conservative record in Congress,
knows that that's not true. Chip Roy is a good
congress person and he's representing the desires of his constituents.
His constituents demand strong fiscal reform, and that's what they want.
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That's what they sent him to deliver, and he's doing
what he can to deliver it. We need to not
hate on people for that. What chip Roy and the
other thirty members of Congress did when they voted against
this bill is a good thing. And what the other
Republicans did by trimming down the cr and passing a
much more clean version of that to fund the government
(39:10):
and avoid a government shut down is also good. Let's
not go attacking each other over this. We gotta win here,
Let's take it and be happy about it. And hats
off to Chip Royd for standing up and representing his constituents.
That's all we got. Thank you, guys very much. I
will see y'all next week.
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