March 9, 2025 • 14 mins
This week I'm talking about term limits. It is vital that they be installed. It will fix a lot of problems.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
(00:00):
Thank you.
(00:13):
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
I really appreciate this.
Hello, my name is Keith Tede.
I'm the host of New Media Central Podcast.
This week I'm talking about term limits.
I put some stuff down.
I really wanted to get it down this week because it's a priority.
In my opinion, the term limits get taken care of.
They get installed immediately.
(00:43):
So this week I'm talking about term limits because we have to get them installed.
It's not an option right now.
Career politicians have too much power and it's not really them that have the power to
be honest.
It's the money behind them.
The reason that there's an opposition to it is the big money people don't want it.
It's so much easier to get a guy reelected than it is to get a new guy elected.
(01:08):
So it's just easy for them.
The people that are funding our elected officials want it the way it is with no term limits.
They keep a guy in there for 30, 40, 50 years.
They don't have to worry about it.
Incumbents have a huge advantage over people just coming in.
So they know that and they know they want their people in place.
That's what we got to stop with all this stuff going on with President Donald Trump cleaning
(01:33):
on the swamp.
That to me, I don't know why there's not more talk about it right now because that's
probably the first thing I would do.
It's the most important thing is get these career politicians out of there.
The things I've read about term limits is two terms for senators and six terms for House
members, which means a total of 12 years max.
(01:55):
So senators could do six years or 12 and then House members can do two, four, six, eight,
10 or 12 years.
And one of the arguments for not having term limits is because it takes a while for people
how to learn how to do Washington.
It doesn't seem like it should be that way.
It just is because there's a lot to be in a lawmaker and it takes a while to learn it.
(02:20):
So yeah, it takes a while for a guy to learn how to do it.
And so we've got to have, you know, in my mind, one term.
Term limits should be one term, one term in the Senate, one term in the Congress.
And then I move on and do some emails.
There's so many people in this country.
It seems like there would be plenty of people that are interested in doing it.
The problem is the big money doesn't want that.
(02:41):
They want their guy in, the guy they know they got control over and they want him to
stay there forever.
So the argument for term limits is 82% of Americans support term limits.
76% Democrats, 89% Republicans and 83% independents.
Clearly the Democrats don't want it as much as the Republicans, although there's an overwhelming
(03:03):
majority want it, even with the Democrats at 76%.
So why do we want them?
Well, because the big money can't control new people coming in all the time as much,
they can still, although we'll figure other ways to stop this, but it's much, much easier
for them to control the guy that they've picked and keep them in there as long as possible.
(03:26):
But we want to restore citizen legislature.
You know, the founding fathers, the framers, they didn't intend for career politicians.
They wanted people from all walks of life who could serve for a short time and then
come back and live under the laws that they made.
Right now, the career politicians don't ever have to worry about any of the laws they make
because they don't have to deal with it.
(03:47):
But if you are in and out, you got to go back home and live under the laws that you just
made.
So they think a little bit more about how they decided which way to vote if they knew
they had to live by the laws that they made.
We get fresh faces every two to 12 years depending on how long, but there's a seniority system.
It's the top down structure where seniority equals influence.
(04:10):
The longer you've been there, the more powerful you are.
So that would eliminate the seniority deal.
I mean, there'd still be senior congressmen and senior senators.
So if a new guy's coming in, the guy that's already been there either six or 12 years
in the Senate would have more power than the guy just coming in, which it should be because
it takes a while to learn how to be a lawmaker.
(04:33):
And the guys that have already been there for a little while know how to do it and they
can teach these new guys how to do it.
So we can't have one term.
That's the reason that one term won't work, whether it's senator, House members.
But we got to limit it to 12 years max.
Also incumbents have a huge advantage.
If you're already in office, you've got all the money behind you and the name recognition
(04:57):
and all this stuff, and so it's much easier for an incumbent to get reelected than it
is a new guy to get elected.
If we have limits that eliminates that, we don't have incumbent advantage anymore.
I mean, we do for one term, but then it's over.
When I talk about the senators and House members, I'm mostly talking about the money behind
(05:22):
them, but term limits would fix the problem of lawmakers.
The only thing they do while they're in office is whatever it takes to get reelected.
That's the whole thing.
They do things and don't do things because it may be a problem for their reelection bid.
(05:42):
That has to go.
That's not how you govern people in the United States of America.
Term limits would change that culture and make members focused on solving problems as
opposed to focusing on reelection.
Also lobbyists.
There's somewhere approximately 12,000 lobbyists in DC, and they all hate the idea of term
(06:06):
limits.
It's because they lose control of their people.
When you have a lobbyist talking to an elected official, the lobbyist wants them to do a
certain thing.
Well, if he's not worried about getting reelected, they lose all their leverage.
It fixes that.
It fixes a lot, actually, but that's a lot of lobbyists up there.
They get paid a lot of money by these big money people and others who want things to
(06:30):
go a certain way.
It can't happen that way.
It drives me crazy when they talk about oligarchs with Trump in office.
The opposite is true.
The Democratic machine ran everything, and it wasn't the politicians.
It was the big money behind them.
We all know who it is.
Barack Obama was calling the shots for a lot of things, and it wasn't just him.
(06:51):
It was the money behind him.
The big money behind him was calling the shots to Barack, and then Barack was calling the
shots to the Biden administration and others since he was elected.
Also it increases voter turnout.
If they think, what's the point of going to vote if we know the incumbent's going to win
anyway or has the high, high likelihood of if there's an open seat, anybody can get it.
(07:13):
More people will be incentivized to go vote.
That's what we need a lot more voter turnout in this country.
I think this red wave that's going on in this country right now and this new sense of patriotism
is going to change that.
I think voter turnout is already going to go up.
It has during the President Trump's election.
(07:34):
They have good arguments.
The people who don't want term limits, they say it takes away experience exactly.
I mean, yeah, that's exactly what we want.
We don't want somebody to get experience making laws.
We don't want that.
We want new people in there that are going to listen to their constituents and go, oh,
I should vote this way according to my constituents.
(07:54):
Yeah, that's exactly what you should do.
That's how it was set up and it's not happening now.
That's why I say it's a big hurdle that we get in front of us to do this and why we have
to do it now while President Donald Trump is in office because that's probably going
to be our last window of hope to get term limits in.
It has to happen.
We got to get back to just anybody can go there.
(08:17):
It helps if you're smart and it helps if you know what you're talking about because the
people who are voting for you will see what you got and if you don't got nothing, you
won't get voted in.
But if you know what you're talking about, anybody could get put in office.
They don't have to be a doctor or lawyer or person.
They can be average Joe, the truck driver.
It's happening now, but it would be a lot more of that.
(08:37):
We want just average Joe in there and they have to be smart.
Like I said, they got to know what's going on.
But there's plenty of people out there like that.
People who stay informed of what's going on and have opinions about it and are willing
to listen to their constituents and when they're running, they have a platform like,
I want to do this.
(08:58):
I want to do this.
I want to do this.
Washington D is the biggest bureaucracy on the planet.
That's what President Trump is going after right now with those.
The 2.5 million federal employees, it's understood that newer and younger members are the ones
who are pushing back on stuff.
The career politicians are just going along for the ride.
(09:19):
They get in a hell of a deal.
I mean, they've shown all this stuff where a person who's never done any kind of work
before, meaningful, high paying work, they go in there and their salary, compared to
the national average, is pretty good.
But that kind of salary doesn't make you a multi-gazillionaire like most politicians
(09:39):
are.
They're getting paid.
They're getting kickbacks.
They're getting all kinds of stuff.
And we can't let that happen either.
That has to stop immediately.
We cannot have a situation where politicians go into running for office to get rich.
And that's what's happening.
I mean, every senator, every congressman are multi-millionaires.
(09:59):
And with a salary like that, you can do pretty good, but you're not going to get 60, 70,
80 net worth of, you know, $100 million.
What?
What?
But we also have to make sure that while in office, they cannot enrich themselves by voting
for legislation that helps them get rich.
The whole thing is just messed up the way it is.
And that's why term limits are so important.
(10:21):
And I may be off here.
I may be missing something, but I don't see that as a big priority for President Trump.
And I think it should be.
I think that first, and then all the other stuff he's doing next, get these guys out
that are causing the problem.
I mean, the bureaucracy that they're going after with those, it wouldn't even be there
if we had term limits from the beginning.
(10:42):
They wouldn't be able to do it because the next guy coming in going, I don't know, we
don't need that.
And so it goes away.
I mean, they might have a, they might get a couple of guys working for them in the federal
bureaucracy for a while.
But when the new guy comes in, he looks at it and he goes, nope, no, we're not, we're
not going to do that.
And it won't accumulate like it has now.
That's what, you know, that's what Elon Musk keeps talking about is the bureaucracy
(11:04):
just keeps growing because the old guys stay in, new guys come in all the time.
That would, that would disappear with term limits.
And there'd be a few other things we could do to make sure it doesn't happen.
But term limits would drastically reduce the number of bureaucrats who are as well known
now because of those running everything.
(11:25):
And it's not them.
It's the big money that that's how they control things.
They get these bureaucrats and they get these NGOs.
They can do anything they want without any accountability.
And we're finding that out with those.
And that's how we got to, we got to stop that.
But to me, the first thing you got to do before you start doing that is get term limits in.
(11:46):
So these people cannot get these NGOs going.
It takes a while and it takes money and they've got it down to the side so they can do it
pretty much whenever they want to now because they got plenty of money and they got time.
But if we keep it from happening, clear it all out and make it lean and mean like Elon
Musk wants to, new guys coming in to office will not be creating all these new NGOs.
(12:10):
They're too busy legislating instead of figuring out ways they can screw people.
It's a big money grab.
Americans are very wealthy, especially as a whole.
And that's what these big money people look at.
They go, oh, look at all that money.
All we got to do is control it a little bit and money's ours.
We can tax them to death.
We can put in all kinds of stuff, you know, big pharma, big medical, all these things,
(12:33):
all kind of revolves around one thing, which is taking money from you and putting it in
their pocket.
It's got to stop.
I've talked about this before, but in fact, I'm going to look at that right now.
There was a website that had the date listed, the date you had to work to and I think it's
somewhere in July.
Pretty much half of your money goes to taxes with so many different kinds of taxes, excise
(12:54):
taxes, sales taxes, personal property taxes.
All these taxes add up and it's gotten way worse in the last few years.
And the last time I saw it, I think it was July.
You work basically for free until July and then you start making money because at first
six months you're paying taxes with that money.
It's not yours.
Framers didn't want career politicians.
(13:14):
They didn't even think about it, honestly.
They didn't put anything in there.
They didn't install term limits at the beginning because they didn't think anybody would want
to do that.
It's a pain in the rear.
You have to sacrifice a lot when you, because you have to leave your business or your work
to do it.
When you get a salary, you have to stop what you're doing for six years or 12 years and
(13:35):
that's not easy to do.
So they figured, they thought it was a burden, but patriotic people would do it because they
know it needed to be done.
They never anticipated that politicians will be going, oh yeah, get me in there, man, because
I'm on easy creep once I get in there.
I got money coming out my years.
People are paying me to do this and do that.
(13:56):
And it's so easy to do.
That's not what the Framers intended.
The Framers intended elected politicians to work for a few years and then go back to their
private life.
That's not happening now.
It rarely happens, if ever.
Thank you.
(00:13):
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
I really appreciate this.
Hello, my name is Keith Tede.
I'm the host of New Media Central Podcast.
This week I'm talking about term limits.
I put some stuff down.
I really wanted to get it down this week because it's a priority.
In my opinion, the term limits get taken care of.
They get installed immediately.
(00:43):
So this week I'm talking about term limits because we have to get them installed.
It's not an option right now.
Career politicians have too much power and it's not really them that have the power to
be honest.
It's the money behind them.
The reason that there's an opposition to it is the big money people don't want it.
It's so much easier to get a guy reelected than it is to get a new guy elected.
(01:08):
So it's just easy for them.
The people that are funding our elected officials want it the way it is with no term limits.
They keep a guy in there for 30, 40, 50 years.
They don't have to worry about it.
Incumbents have a huge advantage over people just coming in.
So they know that and they know they want their people in place.
That's what we got to stop with all this stuff going on with President Donald Trump cleaning
(01:33):
on the swamp.
That to me, I don't know why there's not more talk about it right now because that's
probably the first thing I would do.
It's the most important thing is get these career politicians out of there.
The things I've read about term limits is two terms for senators and six terms for House
members, which means a total of 12 years max.
(01:55):
So senators could do six years or 12 and then House members can do two, four, six, eight,
10 or 12 years.
And one of the arguments for not having term limits is because it takes a while for people
how to learn how to do Washington.
It doesn't seem like it should be that way.
It just is because there's a lot to be in a lawmaker and it takes a while to learn it.
(02:20):
So yeah, it takes a while for a guy to learn how to do it.
And so we've got to have, you know, in my mind, one term.
Term limits should be one term, one term in the Senate, one term in the Congress.
And then I move on and do some emails.
There's so many people in this country.
It seems like there would be plenty of people that are interested in doing it.
The problem is the big money doesn't want that.
(02:41):
They want their guy in, the guy they know they got control over and they want him to
stay there forever.
So the argument for term limits is 82% of Americans support term limits.
76% Democrats, 89% Republicans and 83% independents.
Clearly the Democrats don't want it as much as the Republicans, although there's an overwhelming
(03:03):
majority want it, even with the Democrats at 76%.
So why do we want them?
Well, because the big money can't control new people coming in all the time as much,
they can still, although we'll figure other ways to stop this, but it's much, much easier
for them to control the guy that they've picked and keep them in there as long as possible.
(03:26):
But we want to restore citizen legislature.
You know, the founding fathers, the framers, they didn't intend for career politicians.
They wanted people from all walks of life who could serve for a short time and then
come back and live under the laws that they made.
Right now, the career politicians don't ever have to worry about any of the laws they make
because they don't have to deal with it.
(03:47):
But if you are in and out, you got to go back home and live under the laws that you just
made.
So they think a little bit more about how they decided which way to vote if they knew
they had to live by the laws that they made.
We get fresh faces every two to 12 years depending on how long, but there's a seniority system.
It's the top down structure where seniority equals influence.
(04:10):
The longer you've been there, the more powerful you are.
So that would eliminate the seniority deal.
I mean, there'd still be senior congressmen and senior senators.
So if a new guy's coming in, the guy that's already been there either six or 12 years
in the Senate would have more power than the guy just coming in, which it should be because
it takes a while to learn how to be a lawmaker.
(04:33):
And the guys that have already been there for a little while know how to do it and they
can teach these new guys how to do it.
So we can't have one term.
That's the reason that one term won't work, whether it's senator, House members.
But we got to limit it to 12 years max.
Also incumbents have a huge advantage.
If you're already in office, you've got all the money behind you and the name recognition
(04:57):
and all this stuff, and so it's much easier for an incumbent to get reelected than it
is a new guy to get elected.
If we have limits that eliminates that, we don't have incumbent advantage anymore.
I mean, we do for one term, but then it's over.
When I talk about the senators and House members, I'm mostly talking about the money behind
(05:22):
them, but term limits would fix the problem of lawmakers.
The only thing they do while they're in office is whatever it takes to get reelected.
That's the whole thing.
They do things and don't do things because it may be a problem for their reelection bid.
(05:42):
That has to go.
That's not how you govern people in the United States of America.
Term limits would change that culture and make members focused on solving problems as
opposed to focusing on reelection.
Also lobbyists.
There's somewhere approximately 12,000 lobbyists in DC, and they all hate the idea of term
(06:06):
limits.
It's because they lose control of their people.
When you have a lobbyist talking to an elected official, the lobbyist wants them to do a
certain thing.
Well, if he's not worried about getting reelected, they lose all their leverage.
It fixes that.
It fixes a lot, actually, but that's a lot of lobbyists up there.
They get paid a lot of money by these big money people and others who want things to
(06:30):
go a certain way.
It can't happen that way.
It drives me crazy when they talk about oligarchs with Trump in office.
The opposite is true.
The Democratic machine ran everything, and it wasn't the politicians.
It was the big money behind them.
We all know who it is.
Barack Obama was calling the shots for a lot of things, and it wasn't just him.
(06:51):
It was the money behind him.
The big money behind him was calling the shots to Barack, and then Barack was calling the
shots to the Biden administration and others since he was elected.
Also it increases voter turnout.
If they think, what's the point of going to vote if we know the incumbent's going to win
anyway or has the high, high likelihood of if there's an open seat, anybody can get it.
(07:13):
More people will be incentivized to go vote.
That's what we need a lot more voter turnout in this country.
I think this red wave that's going on in this country right now and this new sense of patriotism
is going to change that.
I think voter turnout is already going to go up.
It has during the President Trump's election.
(07:34):
They have good arguments.
The people who don't want term limits, they say it takes away experience exactly.
I mean, yeah, that's exactly what we want.
We don't want somebody to get experience making laws.
We don't want that.
We want new people in there that are going to listen to their constituents and go, oh,
I should vote this way according to my constituents.
(07:54):
Yeah, that's exactly what you should do.
That's how it was set up and it's not happening now.
That's why I say it's a big hurdle that we get in front of us to do this and why we have
to do it now while President Donald Trump is in office because that's probably going
to be our last window of hope to get term limits in.
It has to happen.
We got to get back to just anybody can go there.
(08:17):
It helps if you're smart and it helps if you know what you're talking about because the
people who are voting for you will see what you got and if you don't got nothing, you
won't get voted in.
But if you know what you're talking about, anybody could get put in office.
They don't have to be a doctor or lawyer or person.
They can be average Joe, the truck driver.
It's happening now, but it would be a lot more of that.
(08:37):
We want just average Joe in there and they have to be smart.
Like I said, they got to know what's going on.
But there's plenty of people out there like that.
People who stay informed of what's going on and have opinions about it and are willing
to listen to their constituents and when they're running, they have a platform like,
I want to do this.
(08:58):
I want to do this.
I want to do this.
Washington D is the biggest bureaucracy on the planet.
That's what President Trump is going after right now with those.
The 2.5 million federal employees, it's understood that newer and younger members are the ones
who are pushing back on stuff.
The career politicians are just going along for the ride.
(09:19):
They get in a hell of a deal.
I mean, they've shown all this stuff where a person who's never done any kind of work
before, meaningful, high paying work, they go in there and their salary, compared to
the national average, is pretty good.
But that kind of salary doesn't make you a multi-gazillionaire like most politicians
(09:39):
are.
They're getting paid.
They're getting kickbacks.
They're getting all kinds of stuff.
And we can't let that happen either.
That has to stop immediately.
We cannot have a situation where politicians go into running for office to get rich.
And that's what's happening.
I mean, every senator, every congressman are multi-millionaires.
(09:59):
And with a salary like that, you can do pretty good, but you're not going to get 60, 70,
80 net worth of, you know, $100 million.
What?
What?
But we also have to make sure that while in office, they cannot enrich themselves by voting
for legislation that helps them get rich.
The whole thing is just messed up the way it is.
And that's why term limits are so important.
(10:21):
And I may be off here.
I may be missing something, but I don't see that as a big priority for President Trump.
And I think it should be.
I think that first, and then all the other stuff he's doing next, get these guys out
that are causing the problem.
I mean, the bureaucracy that they're going after with those, it wouldn't even be there
if we had term limits from the beginning.
(10:42):
They wouldn't be able to do it because the next guy coming in going, I don't know, we
don't need that.
And so it goes away.
I mean, they might have a, they might get a couple of guys working for them in the federal
bureaucracy for a while.
But when the new guy comes in, he looks at it and he goes, nope, no, we're not, we're
not going to do that.
And it won't accumulate like it has now.
That's what, you know, that's what Elon Musk keeps talking about is the bureaucracy
(11:04):
just keeps growing because the old guys stay in, new guys come in all the time.
That would, that would disappear with term limits.
And there'd be a few other things we could do to make sure it doesn't happen.
But term limits would drastically reduce the number of bureaucrats who are as well known
now because of those running everything.
(11:25):
And it's not them.
It's the big money that that's how they control things.
They get these bureaucrats and they get these NGOs.
They can do anything they want without any accountability.
And we're finding that out with those.
And that's how we got to, we got to stop that.
But to me, the first thing you got to do before you start doing that is get term limits in.
(11:46):
So these people cannot get these NGOs going.
It takes a while and it takes money and they've got it down to the side so they can do it
pretty much whenever they want to now because they got plenty of money and they got time.
But if we keep it from happening, clear it all out and make it lean and mean like Elon
Musk wants to, new guys coming in to office will not be creating all these new NGOs.
(12:10):
They're too busy legislating instead of figuring out ways they can screw people.
It's a big money grab.
Americans are very wealthy, especially as a whole.
And that's what these big money people look at.
They go, oh, look at all that money.
All we got to do is control it a little bit and money's ours.
We can tax them to death.
We can put in all kinds of stuff, you know, big pharma, big medical, all these things,
(12:33):
all kind of revolves around one thing, which is taking money from you and putting it in
their pocket.
It's got to stop.
I've talked about this before, but in fact, I'm going to look at that right now.
There was a website that had the date listed, the date you had to work to and I think it's
somewhere in July.
Pretty much half of your money goes to taxes with so many different kinds of taxes, excise
(12:54):
taxes, sales taxes, personal property taxes.
All these taxes add up and it's gotten way worse in the last few years.
And the last time I saw it, I think it was July.
You work basically for free until July and then you start making money because at first
six months you're paying taxes with that money.
It's not yours.
Framers didn't want career politicians.
(13:14):
They didn't even think about it, honestly.
They didn't put anything in there.
They didn't install term limits at the beginning because they didn't think anybody would want
to do that.
It's a pain in the rear.
You have to sacrifice a lot when you, because you have to leave your business or your work
to do it.
When you get a salary, you have to stop what you're doing for six years or 12 years and
(13:35):
that's not easy to do.
So they figured, they thought it was a burden, but patriotic people would do it because they
know it needed to be done.
They never anticipated that politicians will be going, oh yeah, get me in there, man, because
I'm on easy creep once I get in there.
I got money coming out my years.
People are paying me to do this and do that.
(13:56):
And it's so easy to do.
That's not what the Framers intended.
The Framers intended elected politicians to work for a few years and then go back to their
private life.
That's not happening now.
It rarely happens, if ever.
Popular Podcasts
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.