February 1, 2025 • 39 mins
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kash Patel both undergo Senate confirmation hearings and prove that they will bring the major reforms that America needs.
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Another busy day in the Senate, busy week in the Senate.
I should say it's been a lot going on. RFK
Junior had the start of his confirmation hearings. He's had
two now. He's doing a great job, by the way.
You can tell he's doing a great job by again,
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how upset the Democrats are. This is a common theme.
It's a little bit weird to me. You know that Republicans, Conservatives,
Donald Trump, anyone associated with them, you know they're doing
a good job because Democrats get really angry. They never
get happy anymore. There's just in a constant state of
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neutrality unless Donald Trump or somebody on his team or
somebody on the right or conservatives do something good, and
then they get really angry. When Republicans are doing well,
they get really mad, and when nothing else is going on,
they just kind of sit there and disappear into nothingness.
I mean, I guess they really don't have a lot
to get happy or excited about these days, So that
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makes sense. But I want to take a look at
this first confirmation hearing that RFK Junior had, and it
was really good. He did a great job. They threw
the sake at him. The Democrats did as you kind
of knew they would. I mean, they've got nothing else
going on. It's not like they have any elections right
now that they can put their effort towards. So all
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of their chickens are going into the Trump's cabinet basket,
and it's taking some weird shapes. It's leading to some
weird results. We tried to hit RFK Junior on the
you're an anti vaxer front, and that didn't really pan out.
He's like, listen, I'm not an anti vaxxer. I just
I don't think we should be pushing vaccines on people
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by force necessarily. I don't think we should have these
special protections for vaccine makers. I don't think that just
because you made some vaccines that means you should be
completely immune from the consequences. Because like all these other medications,
right you see it all the time. There's the side effects,
and then every year or so, we'll get the new
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medication that's got a class action lawsuit, and you'll see
the ads on TV. If you suffer negative side effects
from this drug, call us. Now you're entitled to financial compensations.
We see this all the time, but never with vaccines
because they have all these immunities, and there's an argument
to be made that, well, we need the vaccines, and
so we need to protect the vaccine maker companies. I
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don't know about that. Test your vaccines like everybody tests
every other medication, and you know, if there's adverse risks,
warn people and we'll call it a day. But vaccine
makers have these special immunities and RFK Junior isn't necessarily
a supporter of that. He questions the COVID vaccine as
everybody else does, because the COVID vaccine didn't do any
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of the things that they originally told us it did.
It told us it would keep you from getting the disease.
It didn't. They told us it would keep you from
transmitting the disease. It didn't. They told you we keep
you from dying from the disease. Maybe it does that,
but also maybe it doesn't. We don't really know. The
data is still out. But they were trying to push
this on people, whether you wanted it or not. And
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that's something that RFK Junior spoke out about as he
should have. That was good. So they can't really nail
him on being a conspiracy theorist because all of his
conspiracy theories turned out to be true. They can't nail
him on being anti VAXX because he actually just has
kind of my body, my choice positions on vaccines. So
what do they hit him with? Bernie Sanders ends up
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attacking him based off of a one that he may
or may not even be associated with. Take a listen
to what it sounded like when Bernie Sanders was just
going ham on him because of a onesie, like a
onesie that had a quippy little vaccine bumper sticker level
political slogan on it. And Bernie Sanders just loses his
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mind over this because they've got nothing else going on.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
All right, let me do a last question because I'm
running out of time. I think the gist of what
you were trying to say today is you're really pro vaccine,
you want to ask questions. You have started a group
called the Children's Health Defense. You're a rig ainae right now,
as I understand that. On their website they are telling
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what's called onesies, these little things clothing for babies. One
of them is diled onun Facts Unafraid. Next one of
the soul for twenty six bucks a piece, by the way.
Next one is no vas.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
No problem.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Now you're coming before this committee and you say you
are pro vaccine, just want to ask some questions, and
yet your organization is making money selling a child's product
to parents for twenty six bucks, which cast fundamental doubt
on the usefulness of vaccines. Can you tell us now
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that you will, now that you are pro vaccine, that
you're going to have your organization take these products off.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
The market, Senator, I have no power over that organization.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Not you've heard of it. I resigned from the board
that was just a few months ago. You founded that.
You certainly have power you could make that.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
How are you supportive of this?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I have had nothing to do with.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Are you supportive of these ones?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
These? I'm supportive of vaccines?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Are you supportive of these this clothing which is militantly
anti vaccine?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I am supportive of vaccines. Well, I want good science
and I want to protect You will.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Not tell the organization you founded not to continue selling
that product.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Thank you, Miss Jim Dude.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Bernie was getting borderline furious. Go watch the video. It's
on Breitbart dot com. You can see it. He's losing
his mind, and that's all he's got, that's all they've
got against conservatives is a freaking onesie. This of course
spawned all sorts of memes because everybody's like, this is
what you're focused on? A onesie. Out of all the
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things to be worried about, this is the nominee for
Health and Human Services secretary. That's not a small position.
We've got some actual issues that we could be looking
at there, right, there's some actual things that we could
be concerned about. Let's talk about the substance, right, Let's
talk about the fact that there's a good chance that
seed oils are just legitimate poison and they're in all
our food. There's a bunch of toxic food dies in
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all our food. That's kind of a big deal, right.
You think you'd think that'd be worth discussing. But the
reality is they don't want to talk about this because,
as RFK pointed out and his hearings, and we'll probably
get to that later in the show, these people are
all owned by big Pharma. These people are the problem.
They're the establishment that Donald Trump was elected to destroy.
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They're the establishment that RFK Jr. Was put into place
to destroy, and they just cannot handle it. They lose
on these issues, and they know they do. This stuff
is not popular with the American people and they know
it's not. So what do they do. They just sit
there and get mad. They find the most ridiculous things.
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They try to make stuff up about RFK Junior being
anti vax when he's not. He just wants Americans to
know the truth. That's why he's a good nominee. I
don't agree with r K Junior on a lot of things,
but I agree that it's time that Americans know the truth.
All Right, we're gonna get into more of this stuff
in just a minute. Stay tuned, guys. All right, let's
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continue with rfk's hearings. He had another really good moment.
I mentioned they couldn't really nail him on the conspiracy
theory stuff. There was a really great clip of that
where they really did try. There was like, are you
a conspiracy theorist? And he's like, no, I just I
believe this and it's true. And I believe this and
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it's true. I've been called a conspiracy theorist, but those
are really just nothing more than personal attacks against me.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I'm a common sense guy
who notices things that you know, powerful elite types don't
want me to notice. I mean, if that makes you
a conspiracy theorist, then there's a lot more conspiracy theorist
out there than I thought. It's kind of sad to see, honestly,
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because you have to imagine that RFK Junior coming from
the Kennedy family, which is a very prominent Democrat family.
He was a very prominent Democrat for a very long
time until the party pushed him out literally in twenty
twenty four. You have to imagine that he knew some
of these people and were somewhat friendly with these people, right,
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I mean, they had to have traveled in the same circles.
He was kind of the definition of a Democrat elite
for a very long time. So I almost feel bad
for him the fact that he's being so attacked by
people that you have to imagine he was friendly with.
But here he is refuting the claims that he is
a conspiracy theorist. This is part of what led to
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Bernie Sanders losing it over a freakin onesie. I don't
know which senator this is questioning him, but take a
listen to it.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Are you a conspiracy theorist. That is a pejorative senator.
That's applied to me.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Mainly to keep me from asking difficult questions a powerful interest.
I was told that I was a conspiracy theorist. That
label was applied to me because I said that the vaccines,
the COVID vaccine didn't prevent transmission and it wouldn't prevent
infection when the government was telling people Americans that it would.
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I was saying that because I was looking at the
monkey studies. In May of twenty twenty, I was called
a conspira. Now everybody admits it. I was called a
conspiracy theorist because I said a red dye caused cancer,
and now FDA has acknowledged that and bannit. I was
called a conspiracy theorist because I said lor I'd lowered
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iq L as we Jama published a matter of view
of eighty seven studies saying that there's a direct inverse
correlation between IQ loss.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
All right, so I'm going to assume I could go
on for about a week. Is there any one of
them that you can say you got me that really
was a conspiracy theory or are you in a possession
to submit for the record. I think it'd just be
helpful for every one of these narratives for you to
submit that maybe for the record.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
That's funny. He's like, are there any of these that
you got wrong? Is there a single instance of this
where you could say, Okay, this was a conspiracy theory.
I did buy into a conspiracy theory. And Rfkjutor is like, no,
not really, And that makes the good point. That excuse me,
He's not a conspiracy theorist. He pays attention, he's a
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smart person. He actually looks at scientific data, scientific data
that for the record they try to hide, and he
notices the things that they don't want him to notice.
That doesn't make you a conspiracy theorist. That makes you
somebody that it's more difficult to lie to. But this
is the political world. They want you to be easy
to lie to. And when there's somebody that makes it difficult,
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especially somebody that makes it difficult and gets into a
position of power, that is a huge problem for them.
That is a huge problem for them. And we should
all have that same level of Listen, I'm not a
conspiracy theorist. I just noticed stuff. We should all be
in the same boat as RFK Junior here. Unfortunately, sadly,
were not too many people just believe the narratives. They
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take whatever they're told and they don't ask any questions
about it. Remember the positions that he's stating here about
the COVID vaccine, that it doesn't do what we were
told it does. You could get thrown off of social
media for saying those things, and now we know that
they were correct. But this isn't new information. The data
said that the entire time, nobody bothered to look at
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it except RFK Junior in a fe quote unquote conspiracy theorists.
He did a great job, by the way, refuting that
he did exactly what he was supposed to do, where
he just said, listen, here's why I was called a
conspiracy theorist, and here's why I was right. He refuted
their points really good, and that of course made them mad.
They've got to the point during these hearings where they realized, Okay,
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we're not going to be able to get RFK Junior,
so they decided to just use RFK Junior as a
stand in for Donald Trump and then go after Donald Trump.
That's that's where we ended up in these hearings. Here's
what it sounded like when a Democrat senator, this is
Senator Catherine Cortes Mastro from Nevada. She's basically just going
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after him for, you know, being in line with the
Trump administration on issues of health, which is why he
got appointed to the position of Secretary of Health and
Human Services. And she basically just says, so, what are
you just a rubber stamp for Donald Trump? And then
he tries to, you know, give an answer, and she
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just keeps interrupting him, fussing at him. You can tell
that they're just using him as a stand in for
Donald Trump. They just want to go after Donald Trump,
but he already won the election, so they can't touch him.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Take a listen, you keep citing the Trump administration and
you're just gonna follow. What they say is that what
you're doing, you're just a rubber stamp for the in
this position, So anybody, so it doesn't matter that you're
before so it could be anybody coming before us, as
long as they're a rubber stamp for this administration and
disregarding your beliefs in what you think. I guess my
question to you is if it really is fundamental to
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what you believe.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
How do you live with that?
Speaker 6 (14:21):
How do you address those issues as you're moving forward?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah, you know, I'm going to answer the question. No,
I'm asking you. Okay.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
President Trump has asked me, and the chronic disease epidemic
and make America healthy again.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
The only reason why you're at HHS is that. The
only reason why then you're at the HHS to address
that one issue.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
President Trump has asked me, because I'm in a unique
position to end that and and that is what I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
And if we don't.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Solve that problem, Senator, all of the other dispute we
have about who's paying, and whether there's insurance companies, whether
it's providers, whether it's HMOs, whether it's patients or families,
all of those are moving deck chairs around on the Titanic.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Our ship is sinking.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Are sixty percent increase in medicaid over the past four years.
It is the biggest budget line now and it's growing
faster than any other. And no other nation in the
world has what we have here. No other nation has
a chronic disease. We have the highest chronic disease burden
of any country in the world. We had during COVID.
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We had sixteen percent of the COVID deaths in a
country we only have four point two percent of the
world's population. We had a higher death count than any
country in the world. And when CDC was as why,
he said, it's because Americans are the sickest people on earth.
The average person who died from COVID American had three
point eight chronic discas. This is an existential threat economically
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to our military or health, to our sense of well being,
and it is a priority for President Trump, and that's
why he asked me to run the agency. And if
I privilege be confirmed as exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
What I'll do, that's a really good answer, by the way.
I mean, she's trying to attack RFK Junior on nonsense, right.
She said, you're just a rubber stamp. You're just gonna
do what Donald Trump tells you to do. You're not
gonna do anything yourself. And despite the fact that she's
constantly rudely interrupting him, this woman just looks really obnoxious,
she acts really obnoxious. She does not come off well
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in this exchange. But RFK Junior is like, look, here's
what I'm doing. President Trump asked me to do this.
We have a big health crisis in this country. President
Trump thinks I can fix this problem. I think I
can fix this problem. He asked me to do it.
That's what I'm gonna do. He conducts himself way more
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calmly than I ever could, and professionally too, Despite the
fact that she, honestly, I don't think, wanted him to
answer the question. He answered it, and he gave a
good answer. He did a really good job. He was
a great pick just because he is a good communicator.
Despite the fact that he can't speak properly. He's a
good communicator if you get past his voice. These out
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of the box picks continue to pay off. And I'm
really glad that Donald Trump made them. I'm really glad
that he's rejected the status quo. Remember this, there's a
reason all of these people have gotten so much pushback
from all of these senators that are bought and paid for,
from the media that's bought and paid for. There's a
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bunch of people in this country that don't want you
to know the truth. That's just a cold, hard fact.
It's not a conspiracy theory anymore. All Right, We're gonna
be right back, all right, show of hands. Who enjoys
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paying taxes? Who likes it? Who wakes up in the
morning and is like, oh yay, it's tax day. I
can't wait to give my money to the government. I'd
be willing to guess it's not very many. That's just
that's my assumption. I could be wrong. I'm not wrong
very often, but it could happen. It's coming up on
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tax season right now here in the United States. A
lot of people are starting to get W two's in
the mail from their jobs, from their various places of employment.
I got mine, I filed my taxes already. I'm a
good boy. I don't want to get in trouble with
the I R S. Because as much as I disdain
the federal government, I am smart enough to know not
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to challenge the irs. That's a losing battle. You never
win that. Here's a crazy thought. What if we didn't
have to worry about that anymore for the rest of
our lives. How great would that be? When you get
your W two look at that top right corner, and
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it'll tell you how much money you gave to the
federal government. And I say gave, they took it. You
didn't have an option. It wasn't like a charitable donation.
That's money that came out of your paycheck before you
even got to see it.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Have we thought about that? Have you ever spent time
to think about the fact that the federal government gets
my paycheck before I do, and they get to decide
how much of my paycheck actually ends up in my wallet.
That's pretty crazy, right, that we're just doing that. I
actually had a conversation about this with my mother recently,
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and there's something inherently moral about it, because the first
person who gets the fruits of your labor isn't you,
it's the government. They get your money before you do,
and they decide how much of it you get, which
means effectively your labor belongs to them, and they decide
how much of it they think you deserve after they
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get their share, after they get their cut off the top.
There's something deeply immoral about that to me. And there's
this idea that we need that, right, How would we
pay for this and this if we didn't have it.
Something that Donald Trump has pointed out is, you know,
we had a federal government before the income tax. We
had a successful country before the income tax. He's made
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this case a lot. So there's this idea that we
have to have the federal income tax or our whole
system collapses, and it's just not in line with reality.
That's not truth. Trump actually talked about this and pointed
this out during the campaign. Let's roll back and take
a look at it. Here he is on Joe Rogan
talking about the fact that, like, hey, we funded the
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government through tariffs before the income tax. We had means
of collecting income for the federal treasury. Before the income tax,
people had to write to their own labor and didn't
have to ask the government's permission to get their wages.
Here he is talking about this on Joe Rogan unless.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
They pay a big price, and the big price is tariffs.
And he'd speak like that, but he was right. And
then around in the early nineteen hundreds, they switched over
stupidly to frankly an income tax. And you know why,
because countries were putting a lot of pressure in America,
we don't want to pay tariffs, please, don't you. You
know they believe me, they control our politicians. If you
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look at the kind of numbers that these guys make
then and now but we had a commission meeting in
the I think it was eighteen eighty seven, think of
this problem. We were so rich, we had so much money,
we didn't know what to do. So they set up
a Blue Ribbon Commission on tariffs, and the sole purpose
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is what to do with all the money we had.
We were so rich because we were taxing other people
for coming in and taking our jobs. And China does it.
That's what China did. If you want to open a
factory and sell cars, if you build a factory here
or have a factory, they don't take our cars. They
wouldn't take our cars. But if you build a plant
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in China, you can do that. Elon did that. By
the way, Elon is great. That guy is such a
great guy. I think you're a fan of Eilan. He
is from a different planet. He's the greatest guy.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
So there he is basically talking about the fact that like, hey, yeah,
we did have a government. We did fund it before
the income tax. And just for a point of reference,
nineteen thirteen was when the currently in place income tax
was created. Nineteen thirteen. To give you some perspective, America
was founded in seventeen seventy six, the US Constitution, which
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constitutes to the government as we know it now, was
ratified in seventeen eighty eight, so that's a long time
between those two dates. And the American government was doing
pretty pretty okay between those two periods of time, And
like Trump pointed out, we made money off of tariffs,
and we were doing fine doing that. I'm sure we
didn't make all of our money on tariffs. I'm sure
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we definitely didn't make as much money as we would
need now on tariffs. But the idea that we can't
function without a federal income tax is completely separated from reality. Now,
if we were to abolish the income tax, right, because
that's the point of all this, I'm not just telling
you all this for fun. I'm getting to something here.
We should not have an income tax. In order to
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abolish the income tax, we would need to cut down
the federal budget quite a bit, and there's a lot
of different ways to do that. Not all of them
are going to make everybody happy. But the fact that
we got to a point where the government was so
big and doing so many different things that frankly the
state governments, local governments, or individual people could be doing.
For way, cheaper, way more efficiently. That became such a
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big problem that we had to start taking money out
of americans pockets before it even got into their pockets
is a problem in and of itself. We have accepted
this very gross perversion of what the American dream was
supposed to be, and the whole mindset is, well, that's
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just the way it is. What are you going to do?
How do we fix that? We can't change it now,
We're in too deep. Okay, I don't believe that. I
don't believe we're ever in too deep. I think we
can definitely cut a lot from the federal government, completely
reform the way we run the federal government in such
a way that we can abolish the income tax and
Americans can actually keep all of their paycheck and live
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better lives because of it. Now, one of the reasons
that I'm so excited about Donald Trump talking about stuff
like this, frankly, isn't because I think it's going to happen.
At least I don't think Trump is going to do it.
Let me say that I think it will happen eventually.
I think there will come a point where the American
people say, I want my paycheck this is my money
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I worked for. It belongs to me, not the government.
I think there will come a time where that happens.
I don't think Trump is going to do it. But
here is what Trump is doing. Trump is mainstreaming this
thought process. This used to be like a fringe thing
that like, oh, crazy far right libertarians would talk about.
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This wasn't like a normal part of political discourse. How
and can we abolish the income tax? Is not something
that people normally talked about in traditional political circles. But
now we've got the actual president of the United States saying, hey,
we could do this. Here's how Take a listen to this.
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This is Trump at leave a gathering of the GOP
Congress in Florida. It's some yearly policy powwow that they have.
I don't really know the details of it. I don't
travel in fancy Washington circles like that, but as I
understand it, this is a regular event that the GOP
congressional delegation will go to and they'll just sort of
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discuss their agenda for that year. And Trump spoke at
this event, and here he is saying, like, once again
repeating what he said on Joe Rogan we could be
tariffing other countries making plenty of money, and then we
could abolish the income tax, and that will put more
money in American citizens' pockets. How great would that be?
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 8 (26:39):
America is going to be very rich again, and it's
going to happen very quickly. It's time for the United
States to return to the system that made us richer
and more powerful than ever before. You know, the United
States in eighteen seventy to nineteen thirteen all tariffs and
that was the richest period in the history of the
United States, relatively speaking, in other words, relatively And they
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set up the Great Tariff Commission of eighteen eighty seven.
And this commission had one function, what to do with
all the money that we took in. It was so
enormous that they had no idea. It was a blue
ribbon committee was set up eighteen eighty.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Seven and what to do with all of the money
that we had.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
And again Teddy Roosevelt was a beneficiary because when McKinley
was killed, he took over this vast sum of money
and he did all of those national parks and all
of the other things. And I'm not knocking him, but
he was given a vast amount of money, and that
was all made through tariffs. We had no income tax.
The income tax came in in nineteen thirteen. As I
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said in my speech last week, instead of taxing our
citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing and
taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 9 (27:57):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Whether or not Trump actually does this, it's great that
he's talking about it. That's my big point. Now you
might say, well, hey, if there's a tariff that will
just get passed on to consumers. You're right. You're right.
If there is a tariff, it will get passed down
to the consumers that will reflect some sort of price increase.
You're not wrong to say that. Here's what I want
you to do. If you work a job, Go look
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at your W two when you get it, Look in
that top right corner and see how much money went
out of your paycheck into the federal government treasury. I
guarantee you that's enough money if that was back in
your pocket, to offset whatever price increase you would see
from a tariff. I guarantee it. What this would do
is essentially make the American consumer far more powerful, and
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that's what attracts products into this country. People from other
countries want to make money off Americans. The American government
can make money off that as well, and it doesn't
have to come out of your pocket. We can do
this and we should do it. All right, We'll be
right back. All right, Let's talk a little bit about
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cash Ptzel. This is Trump's nominee for Director of the FBI.
FBI director, very important position. I think a lot of
us understand that the FBI is a very very important
part of the federal government. Whether or not we think
it should continue to be that ways up for debate.
(29:45):
I think, like a lot of more libertarian leading conservatives
are of the opinion that the FBI at this point
has gotten to a place where it does far more
harm than it does good, far more harm. And this
isn't just me saying this. This is a very commonly
held belief system. And the reason for that is because
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of COVID. I think with COVID, that was a curse
that had a lot of blessings that came along with it.
A lot of people woke up to things that were
going on both inside the federal government and maybe even
inside their school boards that they wouldn't have known about
had it not been for COVID. And you know, obviously
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COVID was a terrible tragedy, but it had some silver linings.
People realized that there's a lot of people inside the
federal government, inside local governments that are actively working against
the interests of the citizens of the United States. And
when they noticed that, obviously they spoke up about it,
which is great. That's what we want to happen. When
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you notice a problem, when you notice something that's just
terrible and horrible and wrong happening, obviously you step up
and you speak up about it. In the United States,
we're supposed to be able to do that without having
to worry about the consequences. I mean, that's one of
the main purposes for the First Amendment is so that
you can speak up against your federal government and not
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have to worry about that federal government coming and cracking
down on you for it. Now, unfortunately, in COVID, people
did face repercussions for speaking out against their government, which
is a huge problem anywhere in the world, but especially
here in the United States. We had people that ended
up on FBI watch lists just for going to their
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school boards and saying, hey, why are you teaching my
children about gay sex and DEI This is a middle
school and that was happening. It's still happening in some
school districts and school boards across the country. But people
who spoke out about it because they found out about
it during COVID got on FBI watch lists, they got
labeled terrorists. Here's Senator Josh Howley talking to Cash Ptel
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about this. This is one of the main reasons that
Cash Pateel got nominated. He himself has been a victim
of this. He himself has been targeted by the federal
government as Trump himself has been, and his job is
to ensure that this never ever happens again in the
United States of America. So much of Trump's second term
administration is just a response to all of the problems
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that we didn't even know were there until they thought
that Biden's win was some sort of guarantee that they
could just do this as much as they want and
they didn't have to hide it anymore. So here is
Josh Howley talking to Cash Mattel about this during his
confirmation hearings.
Speaker 9 (32:32):
Take a listen, do you think it is appropriate for
the FBI to be sending agents, including counter terrorism agents,
to the parents of children who went to school board
meetings and asked about critical race theory in their schools,
ask about the schools masking policy during COVID. Should those
parents be treated as domestic terrorists?
Speaker 10 (32:54):
Parents who have the courage to ensure their children are
taught what they feel is right, and those who have
the courage of their convictions to go houses of worship,
in my book, will never be domestic terrorists.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
I'm delighted to hear you say that you're familiar. I
am sure with this memorandum issued by the Attorney General,
the last Attorney General, Merrick Garland, directing the FBI and
other law enforcement is other law enforcement agencies to look
into parents who went to these school board meetings. And
we know from whistleblowers who've come forward to this committee
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and given us the evidence that in fact, the FBI
opened multiple cases against multiple parents across the nation, I believe,
including in my home state of Missouri. Another gross abuse,
incredible political power brought to bear against everyday citizens. Why
because they went to a school board meeting that they're
paying for and asked about what their kids were being taught.
(33:51):
Once again, I can't imagine. I couldn't have ever thought
this would happen in the United States of America. Will
you find out who was involved in this policy within
the FBI, who agreed with it, who implemented it, who
encouraged it. Will you find out that, mister Bettel, Will
you do an internal investigation, and will you make clear
that those who supported this policy are appropriately disciplined, And
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will you make clear that the FBI will never do
something like this again if.
Speaker 10 (34:17):
Confirmed in pursuant to your congressional request.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Absolutely, Senator, thank you.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Now, remember the fact that something like that was even
able to happen in the United States is a sign
of deep seated problems, right. That doesn't just occur. That's
year's worth of corruption, Bad people in bad places, bad actors,
people who are not focused on, you know, protecting Americans
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and securing their rights, which is supposed to be the
role of the entire federal government, especially the FBI. That's
people that are focused on pushing a political agenda and
using the federal government to push a political agenda. Those
people are all throughout the federal government. They're not just
in the Beid. That's why so many of Trump's nominees
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have been these controversial outsider figures. The entire purpose, the
entire mandate of the Trump administration, the entire administration, is
this radical reformation of the federal government. So obviously you're
gonna get people inside that system, inside of these you know,
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different administrations, inside of even Congress, who do not like
these nominees at all. That's why you've seen far more
headlines and far more pushback against Trump's nominees than you
have seen ever before. What I will say is Trump
has selected people that are really good at going in
and combating this like really good. It's it's made it
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legitimately fun to watch because all of these people are
really good at pushing back against these establishment people. And
I think part of the reason for that is, you know,
Trump's team, his nominees have all of the political momentum.
Democrats will try to tell you that Trump did not
get a mandate. Yes he did, Yes he did. You
can feel it. It's very palpable, and that's why these
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Democrats are losing their minds over this. Take a listen
to this clip of Senator Amy klobachar absolutely exploding at
cash Pattel. She loses all sense of decorum because cash
Battel is doing such a good job at you know,
pushing back against her and making his case, and they
know they're losing grounds, so they get angry about it.
(36:30):
It's exactly what we saw with R. K. Junior and
Bernie Sanders, except now it's Amy Klobacher on Cashptel. Take
a listen.
Speaker 11 (36:38):
Couldn't just answer the question if he said that the
FBI headquarters where they investigate cybercrime and terrorism shut down
and open as a deep stick the museum. Did he
say that the headquarters should be shut down?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Deserve an answer to that question?
Speaker 11 (36:54):
He asked seem to be head of the FBI, and
he said that their headquarters should be shut down.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Mister Chair Parliamentary Inquiry.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
You've got anything you want to say, mister Patel, before
I go on to senatorly.
Speaker 10 (37:06):
Simply this, if the best attacks on me are going
to be false accusations and grotesque mischaracterizations, the only thing
this body is doing is defeating the credibility of the
men and women at the FBI. I stood with them
here in this country, in every theater of war we have.
I was on the ground in service of this nation,
and any accusations leveled against me that I would somehow
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put political bias before the constitution are grotesquely unfair. And
I will have you reminded that I have been endorsed
by over three hundred thousand law enforcement officers to become
the next director of the FBI.
Speaker 11 (37:40):
Let's ask them, mister Chairman, I am quoting his own
word along from September of twenty twenty four. It is
his own words. It is not some conspiracy. It is
what mister Patel actually said himself. Fax matter.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
You'll forget that you had three minutes in the next
to say what you just said.
Speaker 11 (38:01):
Okay, I'll say them again.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Okay, all right, let's not make any mistakes about what
we just heard there. That was a Democrat senator absolutely furious,
losing her mind, losing her mind over Cash Patel. She's
yelling over everybody else. She's ignoring the actual rules and
procedures of the committee. Hearing you have a sat amount
of time to talk. That's when you talk, That's when
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you ask your questions. She's just blowing through the rules
and fussing at Cash Patel ignoring everybody, and this is
something that she got called out for later in the
hearing by Senator John Kennedy. But listen, my point here
is this, these people are losing, and it's good that
they're losing. All Right, That's just about all I got
for today. We do have those two plane accidents that
have occurred. Obviously that's a huge tragedy. We're going to
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talk about that more next week when we have some
more information about that, but for this week, that's going
to be it. Thank y'all very much for listening, and
uh yeah, we'll see you next week.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
Four
Another busy day in the Senate, busy week in the Senate.
I should say it's been a lot going on. RFK
Junior had the start of his confirmation hearings. He's had
two now. He's doing a great job, by the way.
You can tell he's doing a great job by again,
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how upset the Democrats are. This is a common theme.
It's a little bit weird to me. You know that Republicans, Conservatives,
Donald Trump, anyone associated with them, you know they're doing
a good job because Democrats get really angry. They never
get happy anymore. There's just in a constant state of
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neutrality unless Donald Trump or somebody on his team or
somebody on the right or conservatives do something good, and
then they get really angry. When Republicans are doing well,
they get really mad, and when nothing else is going on,
they just kind of sit there and disappear into nothingness.
I mean, I guess they really don't have a lot
to get happy or excited about these days, So that
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makes sense. But I want to take a look at
this first confirmation hearing that RFK Junior had, and it
was really good. He did a great job. They threw
the sake at him. The Democrats did as you kind
of knew they would. I mean, they've got nothing else
going on. It's not like they have any elections right
now that they can put their effort towards. So all
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of their chickens are going into the Trump's cabinet basket,
and it's taking some weird shapes. It's leading to some
weird results. We tried to hit RFK Junior on the
you're an anti vaxer front, and that didn't really pan out.
He's like, listen, I'm not an anti vaxxer. I just
I don't think we should be pushing vaccines on people
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by force necessarily. I don't think we should have these
special protections for vaccine makers. I don't think that just
because you made some vaccines that means you should be
completely immune from the consequences. Because like all these other medications,
right you see it all the time. There's the side effects,
and then every year or so, we'll get the new
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medication that's got a class action lawsuit, and you'll see
the ads on TV. If you suffer negative side effects
from this drug, call us. Now you're entitled to financial compensations.
We see this all the time, but never with vaccines
because they have all these immunities, and there's an argument
to be made that, well, we need the vaccines, and
so we need to protect the vaccine maker companies. I
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don't know about that. Test your vaccines like everybody tests
every other medication, and you know, if there's adverse risks,
warn people and we'll call it a day. But vaccine
makers have these special immunities and RFK Junior isn't necessarily
a supporter of that. He questions the COVID vaccine as
everybody else does, because the COVID vaccine didn't do any
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of the things that they originally told us it did.
It told us it would keep you from getting the disease.
It didn't. They told us it would keep you from
transmitting the disease. It didn't. They told you we keep
you from dying from the disease. Maybe it does that,
but also maybe it doesn't. We don't really know. The
data is still out. But they were trying to push
this on people, whether you wanted it or not. And
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that's something that RFK Junior spoke out about as he
should have. That was good. So they can't really nail
him on being a conspiracy theorist because all of his
conspiracy theories turned out to be true. They can't nail
him on being anti VAXX because he actually just has
kind of my body, my choice positions on vaccines. So
what do they hit him with? Bernie Sanders ends up
(03:57):
attacking him based off of a one that he may
or may not even be associated with. Take a listen
to what it sounded like when Bernie Sanders was just
going ham on him because of a onesie, like a
onesie that had a quippy little vaccine bumper sticker level
political slogan on it. And Bernie Sanders just loses his
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mind over this because they've got nothing else going on.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
All right, let me do a last question because I'm
running out of time. I think the gist of what
you were trying to say today is you're really pro vaccine,
you want to ask questions. You have started a group
called the Children's Health Defense. You're a rig ainae right now,
as I understand that. On their website they are telling
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what's called onesies, these little things clothing for babies. One
of them is diled onun Facts Unafraid. Next one of
the soul for twenty six bucks a piece, by the way.
Next one is no vas.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
No problem.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Now you're coming before this committee and you say you
are pro vaccine, just want to ask some questions, and
yet your organization is making money selling a child's product
to parents for twenty six bucks, which cast fundamental doubt
on the usefulness of vaccines. Can you tell us now
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that you will, now that you are pro vaccine, that
you're going to have your organization take these products off.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
The market, Senator, I have no power over that organization.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Not you've heard of it. I resigned from the board
that was just a few months ago. You founded that.
You certainly have power you could make that.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
How are you supportive of this?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I have had nothing to do with.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Are you supportive of these ones?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
These? I'm supportive of vaccines?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Are you supportive of these this clothing which is militantly
anti vaccine?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I am supportive of vaccines. Well, I want good science
and I want to protect You will.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Not tell the organization you founded not to continue selling
that product.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Thank you, Miss Jim Dude.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Bernie was getting borderline furious. Go watch the video. It's
on Breitbart dot com. You can see it. He's losing
his mind, and that's all he's got, that's all they've
got against conservatives is a freaking onesie. This of course
spawned all sorts of memes because everybody's like, this is
what you're focused on? A onesie. Out of all the
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things to be worried about, this is the nominee for
Health and Human Services secretary. That's not a small position.
We've got some actual issues that we could be looking
at there, right, there's some actual things that we could
be concerned about. Let's talk about the substance, right, Let's
talk about the fact that there's a good chance that
seed oils are just legitimate poison and they're in all
our food. There's a bunch of toxic food dies in
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all our food. That's kind of a big deal, right.
You think you'd think that'd be worth discussing. But the
reality is they don't want to talk about this because,
as RFK pointed out and his hearings, and we'll probably
get to that later in the show, these people are
all owned by big Pharma. These people are the problem.
They're the establishment that Donald Trump was elected to destroy.
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They're the establishment that RFK Jr. Was put into place
to destroy, and they just cannot handle it. They lose
on these issues, and they know they do. This stuff
is not popular with the American people and they know
it's not. So what do they do. They just sit
there and get mad. They find the most ridiculous things.
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They try to make stuff up about RFK Junior being
anti vax when he's not. He just wants Americans to
know the truth. That's why he's a good nominee. I
don't agree with r K Junior on a lot of things,
but I agree that it's time that Americans know the truth.
All Right, we're gonna get into more of this stuff
in just a minute. Stay tuned, guys. All right, let's
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continue with rfk's hearings. He had another really good moment.
I mentioned they couldn't really nail him on the conspiracy
theory stuff. There was a really great clip of that
where they really did try. There was like, are you
a conspiracy theorist? And he's like, no, I just I
believe this and it's true. And I believe this and
(08:39):
it's true. I've been called a conspiracy theorist, but those
are really just nothing more than personal attacks against me.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I'm a common sense guy
who notices things that you know, powerful elite types don't
want me to notice. I mean, if that makes you
a conspiracy theorist, then there's a lot more conspiracy theorist
out there than I thought. It's kind of sad to see, honestly,
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because you have to imagine that RFK Junior coming from
the Kennedy family, which is a very prominent Democrat family.
He was a very prominent Democrat for a very long
time until the party pushed him out literally in twenty
twenty four. You have to imagine that he knew some
of these people and were somewhat friendly with these people, right,
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I mean, they had to have traveled in the same circles.
He was kind of the definition of a Democrat elite
for a very long time. So I almost feel bad
for him the fact that he's being so attacked by
people that you have to imagine he was friendly with.
But here he is refuting the claims that he is
a conspiracy theorist. This is part of what led to
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Bernie Sanders losing it over a freakin onesie. I don't
know which senator this is questioning him, but take a
listen to it.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Are you a conspiracy theorist. That is a pejorative senator.
That's applied to me.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Mainly to keep me from asking difficult questions a powerful interest.
I was told that I was a conspiracy theorist. That
label was applied to me because I said that the vaccines,
the COVID vaccine didn't prevent transmission and it wouldn't prevent
infection when the government was telling people Americans that it would.
(10:26):
I was saying that because I was looking at the
monkey studies. In May of twenty twenty, I was called
a conspira. Now everybody admits it. I was called a
conspiracy theorist because I said a red dye caused cancer,
and now FDA has acknowledged that and bannit. I was
called a conspiracy theorist because I said lor I'd lowered
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iq L as we Jama published a matter of view
of eighty seven studies saying that there's a direct inverse
correlation between IQ loss.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
All right, so I'm going to assume I could go
on for about a week. Is there any one of
them that you can say you got me that really
was a conspiracy theory or are you in a possession
to submit for the record. I think it'd just be
helpful for every one of these narratives for you to
submit that maybe for the record.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
That's funny. He's like, are there any of these that
you got wrong? Is there a single instance of this
where you could say, Okay, this was a conspiracy theory.
I did buy into a conspiracy theory. And Rfkjutor is like, no,
not really, And that makes the good point. That excuse me,
He's not a conspiracy theorist. He pays attention, he's a
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smart person. He actually looks at scientific data, scientific data
that for the record they try to hide, and he
notices the things that they don't want him to notice.
That doesn't make you a conspiracy theorist. That makes you
somebody that it's more difficult to lie to. But this
is the political world. They want you to be easy
to lie to. And when there's somebody that makes it difficult,
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especially somebody that makes it difficult and gets into a
position of power, that is a huge problem for them.
That is a huge problem for them. And we should
all have that same level of Listen, I'm not a
conspiracy theorist. I just noticed stuff. We should all be
in the same boat as RFK Junior here. Unfortunately, sadly,
were not too many people just believe the narratives. They
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take whatever they're told and they don't ask any questions
about it. Remember the positions that he's stating here about
the COVID vaccine, that it doesn't do what we were
told it does. You could get thrown off of social
media for saying those things, and now we know that
they were correct. But this isn't new information. The data
said that the entire time, nobody bothered to look at
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it except RFK Junior in a fe quote unquote conspiracy theorists.
He did a great job, by the way, refuting that
he did exactly what he was supposed to do, where
he just said, listen, here's why I was called a
conspiracy theorist, and here's why I was right. He refuted
their points really good, and that of course made them mad.
They've got to the point during these hearings where they realized, Okay,
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we're not going to be able to get RFK Junior,
so they decided to just use RFK Junior as a
stand in for Donald Trump and then go after Donald Trump.
That's that's where we ended up in these hearings. Here's
what it sounded like when a Democrat senator, this is
Senator Catherine Cortes Mastro from Nevada. She's basically just going
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after him for, you know, being in line with the
Trump administration on issues of health, which is why he
got appointed to the position of Secretary of Health and
Human Services. And she basically just says, so, what are
you just a rubber stamp for Donald Trump? And then
he tries to, you know, give an answer, and she
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just keeps interrupting him, fussing at him. You can tell
that they're just using him as a stand in for
Donald Trump. They just want to go after Donald Trump,
but he already won the election, so they can't touch him.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Take a listen, you keep citing the Trump administration and
you're just gonna follow. What they say is that what
you're doing, you're just a rubber stamp for the in
this position, So anybody, so it doesn't matter that you're
before so it could be anybody coming before us, as
long as they're a rubber stamp for this administration and
disregarding your beliefs in what you think. I guess my
question to you is if it really is fundamental to
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what you believe.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
How do you live with that?
Speaker 6 (14:21):
How do you address those issues as you're moving forward?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah, you know, I'm going to answer the question. No,
I'm asking you. Okay.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
President Trump has asked me, and the chronic disease epidemic
and make America healthy again.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
The only reason why you're at HHS is that. The
only reason why then you're at the HHS to address
that one issue.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
President Trump has asked me, because I'm in a unique
position to end that and and that is what I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
And if we don't.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Solve that problem, Senator, all of the other dispute we
have about who's paying, and whether there's insurance companies, whether
it's providers, whether it's HMOs, whether it's patients or families,
all of those are moving deck chairs around on the Titanic.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Our ship is sinking.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Are sixty percent increase in medicaid over the past four years.
It is the biggest budget line now and it's growing
faster than any other. And no other nation in the
world has what we have here. No other nation has
a chronic disease. We have the highest chronic disease burden
of any country in the world. We had during COVID.
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We had sixteen percent of the COVID deaths in a
country we only have four point two percent of the
world's population. We had a higher death count than any
country in the world. And when CDC was as why,
he said, it's because Americans are the sickest people on earth.
The average person who died from COVID American had three
point eight chronic discas. This is an existential threat economically
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to our military or health, to our sense of well being,
and it is a priority for President Trump, and that's
why he asked me to run the agency. And if
I privilege be confirmed as exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
What I'll do, that's a really good answer, by the way.
I mean, she's trying to attack RFK Junior on nonsense, right.
She said, you're just a rubber stamp. You're just gonna
do what Donald Trump tells you to do. You're not
gonna do anything yourself. And despite the fact that she's
constantly rudely interrupting him, this woman just looks really obnoxious,
she acts really obnoxious. She does not come off well
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in this exchange. But RFK Junior is like, look, here's
what I'm doing. President Trump asked me to do this.
We have a big health crisis in this country. President
Trump thinks I can fix this problem. I think I
can fix this problem. He asked me to do it.
That's what I'm gonna do. He conducts himself way more
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calmly than I ever could, and professionally too, Despite the
fact that she, honestly, I don't think, wanted him to
answer the question. He answered it, and he gave a
good answer. He did a really good job. He was
a great pick just because he is a good communicator.
Despite the fact that he can't speak properly. He's a
good communicator if you get past his voice. These out
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of the box picks continue to pay off. And I'm
really glad that Donald Trump made them. I'm really glad
that he's rejected the status quo. Remember this, there's a
reason all of these people have gotten so much pushback
from all of these senators that are bought and paid for,
from the media that's bought and paid for. There's a
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bunch of people in this country that don't want you
to know the truth. That's just a cold, hard fact.
It's not a conspiracy theory anymore. All Right, We're gonna
be right back, all right, show of hands. Who enjoys
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paying taxes? Who likes it? Who wakes up in the
morning and is like, oh yay, it's tax day. I
can't wait to give my money to the government. I'd
be willing to guess it's not very many. That's just
that's my assumption. I could be wrong. I'm not wrong
very often, but it could happen. It's coming up on
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tax season right now here in the United States. A
lot of people are starting to get W two's in
the mail from their jobs, from their various places of employment.
I got mine, I filed my taxes already. I'm a
good boy. I don't want to get in trouble with
the I R S. Because as much as I disdain
the federal government, I am smart enough to know not
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to challenge the irs. That's a losing battle. You never
win that. Here's a crazy thought. What if we didn't
have to worry about that anymore for the rest of
our lives. How great would that be? When you get
your W two look at that top right corner, and
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it'll tell you how much money you gave to the
federal government. And I say gave, they took it. You
didn't have an option. It wasn't like a charitable donation.
That's money that came out of your paycheck before you
even got to see it.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Have we thought about that? Have you ever spent time
to think about the fact that the federal government gets
my paycheck before I do, and they get to decide
how much of my paycheck actually ends up in my wallet.
That's pretty crazy, right, that we're just doing that. I
actually had a conversation about this with my mother recently,
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and there's something inherently moral about it, because the first
person who gets the fruits of your labor isn't you,
it's the government. They get your money before you do,
and they decide how much of it you get, which
means effectively your labor belongs to them, and they decide
how much of it they think you deserve after they
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get their share, after they get their cut off the top.
There's something deeply immoral about that to me. And there's
this idea that we need that, right, How would we
pay for this and this if we didn't have it.
Something that Donald Trump has pointed out is, you know,
we had a federal government before the income tax. We
had a successful country before the income tax. He's made
(20:49):
this case a lot. So there's this idea that we
have to have the federal income tax or our whole
system collapses, and it's just not in line with reality.
That's not truth. Trump actually talked about this and pointed
this out during the campaign. Let's roll back and take
a look at it. Here he is on Joe Rogan
talking about the fact that, like, hey, we funded the
(21:11):
government through tariffs before the income tax. We had means
of collecting income for the federal treasury. Before the income tax,
people had to write to their own labor and didn't
have to ask the government's permission to get their wages.
Here he is talking about this on Joe Rogan unless.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
They pay a big price, and the big price is tariffs.
And he'd speak like that, but he was right. And
then around in the early nineteen hundreds, they switched over
stupidly to frankly an income tax. And you know why,
because countries were putting a lot of pressure in America,
we don't want to pay tariffs, please, don't you. You
know they believe me, they control our politicians. If you
(21:50):
look at the kind of numbers that these guys make
then and now but we had a commission meeting in
the I think it was eighteen eighty seven, think of
this problem. We were so rich, we had so much money,
we didn't know what to do. So they set up
a Blue Ribbon Commission on tariffs, and the sole purpose
(22:14):
is what to do with all the money we had.
We were so rich because we were taxing other people
for coming in and taking our jobs. And China does it.
That's what China did. If you want to open a
factory and sell cars, if you build a factory here
or have a factory, they don't take our cars. They
wouldn't take our cars. But if you build a plant
(22:35):
in China, you can do that. Elon did that. By
the way, Elon is great. That guy is such a
great guy. I think you're a fan of Eilan. He
is from a different planet. He's the greatest guy.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
So there he is basically talking about the fact that like, hey, yeah,
we did have a government. We did fund it before
the income tax. And just for a point of reference,
nineteen thirteen was when the currently in place income tax
was created. Nineteen thirteen. To give you some perspective, America
was founded in seventeen seventy six, the US Constitution, which
(23:07):
constitutes to the government as we know it now, was
ratified in seventeen eighty eight, so that's a long time
between those two dates. And the American government was doing
pretty pretty okay between those two periods of time, And
like Trump pointed out, we made money off of tariffs,
and we were doing fine doing that. I'm sure we
didn't make all of our money on tariffs. I'm sure
(23:29):
we definitely didn't make as much money as we would
need now on tariffs. But the idea that we can't
function without a federal income tax is completely separated from reality. Now,
if we were to abolish the income tax, right, because
that's the point of all this, I'm not just telling
you all this for fun. I'm getting to something here.
We should not have an income tax. In order to
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abolish the income tax, we would need to cut down
the federal budget quite a bit, and there's a lot
of different ways to do that. Not all of them
are going to make everybody happy. But the fact that
we got to a point where the government was so
big and doing so many different things that frankly the
state governments, local governments, or individual people could be doing.
For way, cheaper, way more efficiently. That became such a
(24:12):
big problem that we had to start taking money out
of americans pockets before it even got into their pockets
is a problem in and of itself. We have accepted
this very gross perversion of what the American dream was
supposed to be, and the whole mindset is, well, that's
(24:32):
just the way it is. What are you going to do?
How do we fix that? We can't change it now,
We're in too deep. Okay, I don't believe that. I
don't believe we're ever in too deep. I think we
can definitely cut a lot from the federal government, completely
reform the way we run the federal government in such
a way that we can abolish the income tax and
Americans can actually keep all of their paycheck and live
(24:55):
better lives because of it. Now, one of the reasons
that I'm so excited about Donald Trump talking about stuff
like this, frankly, isn't because I think it's going to happen.
At least I don't think Trump is going to do it.
Let me say that I think it will happen eventually.
I think there will come a point where the American
people say, I want my paycheck this is my money
(25:16):
I worked for. It belongs to me, not the government.
I think there will come a time where that happens.
I don't think Trump is going to do it. But
here is what Trump is doing. Trump is mainstreaming this
thought process. This used to be like a fringe thing
that like, oh, crazy far right libertarians would talk about.
(25:36):
This wasn't like a normal part of political discourse. How
and can we abolish the income tax? Is not something
that people normally talked about in traditional political circles. But
now we've got the actual president of the United States saying, hey,
we could do this. Here's how Take a listen to this.
(25:58):
This is Trump at leave a gathering of the GOP
Congress in Florida. It's some yearly policy powwow that they have.
I don't really know the details of it. I don't
travel in fancy Washington circles like that, but as I
understand it, this is a regular event that the GOP
congressional delegation will go to and they'll just sort of
(26:20):
discuss their agenda for that year. And Trump spoke at
this event, and here he is saying, like, once again
repeating what he said on Joe Rogan we could be
tariffing other countries making plenty of money, and then we
could abolish the income tax, and that will put more
money in American citizens' pockets. How great would that be?
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 8 (26:39):
America is going to be very rich again, and it's
going to happen very quickly. It's time for the United
States to return to the system that made us richer
and more powerful than ever before. You know, the United
States in eighteen seventy to nineteen thirteen all tariffs and
that was the richest period in the history of the
United States, relatively speaking, in other words, relatively And they
(27:03):
set up the Great Tariff Commission of eighteen eighty seven.
And this commission had one function, what to do with
all the money that we took in. It was so
enormous that they had no idea. It was a blue
ribbon committee was set up eighteen eighty.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Seven and what to do with all of the money
that we had.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
And again Teddy Roosevelt was a beneficiary because when McKinley
was killed, he took over this vast sum of money
and he did all of those national parks and all
of the other things. And I'm not knocking him, but
he was given a vast amount of money, and that
was all made through tariffs. We had no income tax.
The income tax came in in nineteen thirteen. As I
(27:46):
said in my speech last week, instead of taxing our
citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing and
taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 9 (27:57):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Whether or not Trump actually does this, it's great that
he's talking about it. That's my big point. Now you
might say, well, hey, if there's a tariff that will
just get passed on to consumers. You're right. You're right.
If there is a tariff, it will get passed down
to the consumers that will reflect some sort of price increase.
You're not wrong to say that. Here's what I want
you to do. If you work a job, Go look
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at your W two when you get it, Look in
that top right corner and see how much money went
out of your paycheck into the federal government treasury. I
guarantee you that's enough money if that was back in
your pocket, to offset whatever price increase you would see
from a tariff. I guarantee it. What this would do
is essentially make the American consumer far more powerful, and
(28:42):
that's what attracts products into this country. People from other
countries want to make money off Americans. The American government
can make money off that as well, and it doesn't
have to come out of your pocket. We can do
this and we should do it. All right, We'll be
right back. All right, Let's talk a little bit about
(29:24):
cash Ptzel. This is Trump's nominee for Director of the FBI.
FBI director, very important position. I think a lot of
us understand that the FBI is a very very important
part of the federal government. Whether or not we think
it should continue to be that ways up for debate.
(29:45):
I think, like a lot of more libertarian leading conservatives
are of the opinion that the FBI at this point
has gotten to a place where it does far more
harm than it does good, far more harm. And this
isn't just me saying this. This is a very commonly
held belief system. And the reason for that is because
(30:05):
of COVID. I think with COVID, that was a curse
that had a lot of blessings that came along with it.
A lot of people woke up to things that were
going on both inside the federal government and maybe even
inside their school boards that they wouldn't have known about
had it not been for COVID. And you know, obviously
(30:27):
COVID was a terrible tragedy, but it had some silver linings.
People realized that there's a lot of people inside the
federal government, inside local governments that are actively working against
the interests of the citizens of the United States. And
when they noticed that, obviously they spoke up about it,
which is great. That's what we want to happen. When
(30:48):
you notice a problem, when you notice something that's just
terrible and horrible and wrong happening, obviously you step up
and you speak up about it. In the United States,
we're supposed to be able to do that without having
to worry about the consequences. I mean, that's one of
the main purposes for the First Amendment is so that
you can speak up against your federal government and not
(31:09):
have to worry about that federal government coming and cracking
down on you for it. Now, unfortunately, in COVID, people
did face repercussions for speaking out against their government, which
is a huge problem anywhere in the world, but especially
here in the United States. We had people that ended
up on FBI watch lists just for going to their
(31:29):
school boards and saying, hey, why are you teaching my
children about gay sex and DEI This is a middle
school and that was happening. It's still happening in some
school districts and school boards across the country. But people
who spoke out about it because they found out about
it during COVID got on FBI watch lists, they got
labeled terrorists. Here's Senator Josh Howley talking to Cash Ptel
(31:54):
about this. This is one of the main reasons that
Cash Pateel got nominated. He himself has been a victim
of this. He himself has been targeted by the federal
government as Trump himself has been, and his job is
to ensure that this never ever happens again in the
United States of America. So much of Trump's second term
administration is just a response to all of the problems
(32:17):
that we didn't even know were there until they thought
that Biden's win was some sort of guarantee that they
could just do this as much as they want and
they didn't have to hide it anymore. So here is
Josh Howley talking to Cash Mattel about this during his
confirmation hearings.
Speaker 9 (32:32):
Take a listen, do you think it is appropriate for
the FBI to be sending agents, including counter terrorism agents,
to the parents of children who went to school board
meetings and asked about critical race theory in their schools,
ask about the schools masking policy during COVID. Should those
parents be treated as domestic terrorists?
Speaker 10 (32:54):
Parents who have the courage to ensure their children are
taught what they feel is right, and those who have
the courage of their convictions to go houses of worship,
in my book, will never be domestic terrorists.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
I'm delighted to hear you say that you're familiar. I
am sure with this memorandum issued by the Attorney General,
the last Attorney General, Merrick Garland, directing the FBI and
other law enforcement is other law enforcement agencies to look
into parents who went to these school board meetings. And
we know from whistleblowers who've come forward to this committee
(33:29):
and given us the evidence that in fact, the FBI
opened multiple cases against multiple parents across the nation, I believe,
including in my home state of Missouri. Another gross abuse,
incredible political power brought to bear against everyday citizens. Why
because they went to a school board meeting that they're
paying for and asked about what their kids were being taught.
(33:51):
Once again, I can't imagine. I couldn't have ever thought
this would happen in the United States of America. Will
you find out who was involved in this policy within
the FBI, who agreed with it, who implemented it, who
encouraged it. Will you find out that, mister Bettel, Will
you do an internal investigation, and will you make clear
that those who supported this policy are appropriately disciplined, And
(34:13):
will you make clear that the FBI will never do
something like this again if.
Speaker 10 (34:17):
Confirmed in pursuant to your congressional request.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Absolutely, Senator, thank you.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Now, remember the fact that something like that was even
able to happen in the United States is a sign
of deep seated problems, right. That doesn't just occur. That's
year's worth of corruption, Bad people in bad places, bad actors,
people who are not focused on, you know, protecting Americans
(34:43):
and securing their rights, which is supposed to be the
role of the entire federal government, especially the FBI. That's
people that are focused on pushing a political agenda and
using the federal government to push a political agenda. Those
people are all throughout the federal government. They're not just
in the Beid. That's why so many of Trump's nominees
(35:03):
have been these controversial outsider figures. The entire purpose, the
entire mandate of the Trump administration, the entire administration, is
this radical reformation of the federal government. So obviously you're
gonna get people inside that system, inside of these you know,
(35:25):
different administrations, inside of even Congress, who do not like
these nominees at all. That's why you've seen far more
headlines and far more pushback against Trump's nominees than you
have seen ever before. What I will say is Trump
has selected people that are really good at going in
and combating this like really good. It's it's made it
(35:48):
legitimately fun to watch because all of these people are
really good at pushing back against these establishment people. And
I think part of the reason for that is, you know,
Trump's team, his nominees have all of the political momentum.
Democrats will try to tell you that Trump did not
get a mandate. Yes he did, Yes he did. You
can feel it. It's very palpable, and that's why these
(36:10):
Democrats are losing their minds over this. Take a listen
to this clip of Senator Amy klobachar absolutely exploding at
cash Pattel. She loses all sense of decorum because cash
Battel is doing such a good job at you know,
pushing back against her and making his case, and they
know they're losing grounds, so they get angry about it.
(36:30):
It's exactly what we saw with R. K. Junior and
Bernie Sanders, except now it's Amy Klobacher on Cashptel. Take
a listen.
Speaker 11 (36:38):
Couldn't just answer the question if he said that the
FBI headquarters where they investigate cybercrime and terrorism shut down
and open as a deep stick the museum. Did he
say that the headquarters should be shut down?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Deserve an answer to that question?
Speaker 11 (36:54):
He asked seem to be head of the FBI, and
he said that their headquarters should be shut down.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Mister Chair Parliamentary Inquiry.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
You've got anything you want to say, mister Patel, before
I go on to senatorly.
Speaker 10 (37:06):
Simply this, if the best attacks on me are going
to be false accusations and grotesque mischaracterizations, the only thing
this body is doing is defeating the credibility of the
men and women at the FBI. I stood with them
here in this country, in every theater of war we have.
I was on the ground in service of this nation,
and any accusations leveled against me that I would somehow
(37:28):
put political bias before the constitution are grotesquely unfair. And
I will have you reminded that I have been endorsed
by over three hundred thousand law enforcement officers to become
the next director of the FBI.
Speaker 11 (37:40):
Let's ask them, mister Chairman, I am quoting his own
word along from September of twenty twenty four. It is
his own words. It is not some conspiracy. It is
what mister Patel actually said himself. Fax matter.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
You'll forget that you had three minutes in the next
to say what you just said.
Speaker 11 (38:01):
Okay, I'll say them again.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Okay, all right, let's not make any mistakes about what
we just heard there. That was a Democrat senator absolutely furious,
losing her mind, losing her mind over Cash Patel. She's
yelling over everybody else. She's ignoring the actual rules and
procedures of the committee. Hearing you have a sat amount
of time to talk. That's when you talk, That's when
(38:24):
you ask your questions. She's just blowing through the rules
and fussing at Cash Patel ignoring everybody, and this is
something that she got called out for later in the
hearing by Senator John Kennedy. But listen, my point here
is this, these people are losing, and it's good that
they're losing. All Right, That's just about all I got
for today. We do have those two plane accidents that
have occurred. Obviously that's a huge tragedy. We're going to
(38:46):
talk about that more next week when we have some
more information about that, but for this week, that's going
to be it. Thank y'all very much for listening, and
uh yeah, we'll see you next week.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
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