SAVE THE SAVE ACT

This podcast was recorded on Tuesday morning before the GOP capitulated yet again. But it's worth hearing the finer points on what would have been a partial government shutdown and the implications of the $1.2 trillion spending bill. The frustration with the Republican Party's handling of the SAVE Act and the need for election integrity and voter ID laws is truly all-consuming. Also covered are the filibuster and legislative strategies that could be employed to pass important bills. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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and has zero patients with what seems to be an
epidemic of entitlement and stupidity. Here we talk about all
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(00:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Well, Hello, Happy Tuesday. It's February third, and we are
in the government shutdown appropriations and authorizations of the latest
spending bill. It's been approved one point two trillion by
the Senate, and now they want the House to say, hey, okay,
everything's cool, let's just pass it. The problem is we

(00:48):
don't have anything on the books for the Save Act,
and this is our chance. You know, I tweeted out
this morning, or I posted out this morning because it's
x now not Twitter, but I put out this morning
that I don't understand what the point of having control

(01:09):
of the House, of the Senate, of the Supreme Court,
of our executive branch. I don't get it if we're
not going to use it. You know, we had seventeen
Republicans vote with these Democrats the other day giving them
this one point two trillion approval, and it has tons

(01:32):
of shitt in there. It extends the Obamacare entitlements, it
extends other healthcare benefits and welfare recipients. It gives welfare
to illegal immigrants. I don't understand how you can give
funding to illegal aliens as a member of the GOP.

(01:54):
I mean, the reason why Americans put Donald Trump in
office were It's really three reasons, and this is my opinion.
I think it comes down to three things. Number one
was to put America first, quite literally, bring industrialization back
to the United States. Start making things here, start building

(02:15):
things here, start exporting instead of importing. You know, our
gross domestic product has suffered incredibly because we have been
unable to mass produce things the way that China does
with their illegal child labor. And that's the funny thing too,
right we cry, these liberals are out there crying all

(02:36):
the time about how they want to save the world.
Go to freaking China. Go over there, go see what
you're talking about. You think you got it so tough here,
look at these poor kids working in factories and sweatshops,
and then what happens We're bring I legal immigrants over here,
and they get trafficked and sent into human trafficking, which
basically goes into our meat packing plants, our factories and

(02:58):
our warehouses, or they become trafficked and they become abused
every single day. All right, I'm off on a tangent.
But my point is there is so much pork, so
much earmarking, so much lobbying. It's ridiculous. And here's the
scary part. Did you hope he's not doing shit? I mean,
Mike Johnson said today. I wanted to throw up in

(03:20):
my mouth. Mike Johnson says today, Listen, we don't need
to be playing games right now with government funding, asshole,
we are not playing games. I am no, Mike Johnson fan.
Let me be very clear. I don't get why on
God's Green Earth you think the same act is playing games.

(03:40):
If we do not have safe and secure elections, we
are screwed because these assholes are gonna win in November
and then we are going to see a lame duck
president and President Trump he's not gonna be able to
do anything. Quite frankly, he's barely able to do anything
now because we've got so many damn rhinos in the

(04:01):
House who I guess are on the take. I don't
know why else they would approve so many things that
have absolutely nothing to do with furthering the president's agenda. Now,
the President wants to pass the bill because he doesn't
want it to affect his overall jobs numbers and economic growth,
which I understand. I respect where the president is coming from.

(04:24):
I respect that he wants us to be a prosperous
and thriving nation. However, I would rather have a government shutdown,
even if it's for a week, and get the Save
Act passed and actually have some balls for once than
to capitulate yet again to the left. This is the

(04:44):
real thing, you know. I'm looking at these senators, various senators.
I really like, they're good people, and I'm watching them
just say, okay, we'll just get it done. What why
why are you doing that? What is the point of
us being able to do what we need to do
if we don't do it? And then there's all this

(05:06):
confusion about the filibuster. So I did a show on
this a few weeks ago, but I want to do
it again. There's three different types of filibuster. The one
that most of the strong GOP representatives like true conservatives
are asking for, like Senator Mike Lee and Congressman Pauline A. Luna,
they're asking to nuke the filibuster because what that does

(05:27):
is it uses the Senate's option to enable a simple
majority fifty one votes that eliminates the traditional sixty vote requirement.
We don't have to have the cloture debate and force
the vote and election, all this nonsense. It's a very
drastic step, and obviously we you know, it sucks because
then if like a minority party was to gain power,

(05:49):
then we'd have to flip it back and say, gosh,
I hope they don't use it, but honestly, I don't care.
The Save Act is one thing I'm willing to take
a risk on because we're not winning with Republicans in
the House. We're not. So if we have the same
result whether we have a Democrat or a Republican, the
hell's the difference. Nook the damn Philip Buster, get the

(06:11):
save AC passed so that we have the ability to
clear our voter roles. Because we got a lot of
dead people, we got a lot of fake people, we
got one hundred and thirty people living in commercial locations
in Georgia. By the way, that's illegal. You can't have
a commercial residence or a commercial address as your residence
in Georgia and vote. But somehow they had over one

(06:32):
hundred and thirty of them in one location, which they
just put out this morning. But we'll put that to
the side, right We don't want to get lost in
the details. Big picture, we have election fraud all over
this country. Everybody knows that twenty twenty was a scam.
Whether you believe it was a total scam or just
a little bit scammy, you know, fine, you're on your

(06:55):
own on that. But if there's anything elicit going on
in our elections, you need to write the ship guys.
I mean, we are going under here. We need to
clear the voter rolls. We need voter ID. What a
novel idea. When you come in to vote, you have
a picture with your license, your passport, your passport card,

(07:16):
whatever it is, your concealed carry. These are all federal,
you know, federally issued forms of documentation to say you
are who you are, and then they check the voter role.
They make sure that everything squares up, and then you
vote that way we don't have you know, Maria Gonzalez
who just got here from Ecuador, voting seventeen times in

(07:38):
four different counties because they don't ask for ID. Nobody
thinks that that's a problem. And let me just say,
people like Chuck Schumer, he's a real piece of shit.
We've known he's a piece of shit for a long time.
But for him to say that the Save Act is
Jim Crow two point zero, Bro, that's disgusting. Are you

(07:58):
trying to tell me that people that are not white
are not able to get ID? Is that what you're
telling me? Because I think that's an insult to people
that are not white. I think that's a little nuts.
They have ID to get welfare, they have ID to
get federal housing, they have ID to get food stamps,

(08:21):
they have IDA to get their new businesses started II Minneapolis,
Somali fraud city. But you're telling me they can't have
ID to go vote the most important thing that happens
in our nation. There's no other country in the world
that has no voter ID federal voting, just as a

(08:41):
word to the wise, not one other country in the world.
And why would democrats be so upset with people needing
voter ID Why is that so upsetting? This is something
that I just don't understand. If you have nothing to hide,
and you have I have no secrets, and there's nothing

(09:02):
wrong on your voter roles. You've been truthful and upfront
the entire time. You're here to support the path of democracy,
the right that we have endown by our founding fathers
to vote. What the hell are you so upset? Why
are you getting so pissed off? And then Speaker Johnson

(09:24):
is saying, you know, I have objections. You know we
want to save the Save Act, but you know we
have to look at the reality of the numbers. And
we pass the Save Act twice in the House, and
we'll pass it again. But you know, this is a
funding package right now, and I don't think we need
to be playing games with government funding. We still have
winter storms, we've got female we've got tsa true pay,

(09:45):
and everything else wrapped in this. So we've got to
get the job done. Well, let me tell you something, Johnson.
If we vote for this and we give you all
your funding for those very important departments and divisions of
our government, we're also giving money to all of the
things that kill the taxpayer, the welfare, the food stamps,
the housing, the Obamacare extensions, the economic development, all these

(10:13):
big words that mean one thing, misappropriation of funds on
the backs of the taxpayers, because you didn't have the
balls right now to stand up and say, hey, let's
take a closer look at this. You know, a little
pain now for a lot of game later. Get the
Save Act passed. Oh and now they're saying, no, no, no.

(10:34):
Fune has promised Pauline a Luna that he's definitely one
hundred percent you know he's gonna bring the Save Act
to the table. Oh my god, do you believe Fuon
because I don't. I don't believe Foon. Fune is a
bush heite. He is a Cheney guy. He is a Rhino.

(10:54):
He's friends with McConnell, he's friends with Cornyn. He's been
there too long. He's just like those assholes Collins and Murkowski,
those two dumb broads. They need to go over and
become Democrats already enough. Stop voting with the Democrats eighty
percent of the time and look me in my face
and tell me you're a Republican. You're not get out

(11:15):
of the party. I'm so sick of it. This isn't
a lifetime appointment. It's a job to serve the people.
Guess what, I'm a person. You serve me, and you're
fired when the midterms come. I promise you I would
vote for a Democrat over Murkowski, Collins, Thoon's and Cornyn.
You know why, because it's the same frickin thing. So

(11:37):
we might as well just get rid of it. And
I love our president, he's amazing, but I'm not for
it unless we have something in writing from John Foon.
And I'll even take it on X. I will use
I will nuke the filibuster. I will use those tools.
I will get done and I will make sure that

(11:58):
we have everything that we need to get the Save
Act past. Now, the other options, the other filibusters is
a talking filipbuster. This is the typical way, right. It's
like we're the Senator group of senators. They literally stand
on the floor and they'll talk for like six days,
just delay of vote, just a block a vote, because
it means everybody has to be in session. Nobody can

(12:19):
go away. They actually have to work, and it gets
very annoying and they don't want to do it. So
that works really well, but it's not as powerful as
nuking the filibuster because it reduces that threshold to fifty one.
We need that. It's so important, and I'm telling you
right now, if we don't have it, we're doomed. If

(12:40):
we don't get this Save Act done right now, if
we don't start to do what we are supposed to do,
we are in big trouble. And if fun says, oh, yes,
I'm committing to a talking filibuster, should I just bend
over now or you want to do it later? Where
should we get it in? Stop with the lies. We're

(13:03):
sick of it. I know I speak for a lot
of Americans on this election integrity, voter ID, be a citizen,
clean the voter roles. The Democrats know that more than
eighty four percent of American people are on board with
being a citizen and having voter ID. They are not
on board with rhino assholes and liberal Democrats who have

(13:25):
far too long lined their own pockets and have done
nothing for the American people. So while it sucks to
have a partial government shutdown, and while it sucks to
see things like FEMA and our military affected, it's going
to suck a lot more. If we don't get the
SAVEAC passed, our elections aren't safe. And then we end
up blockstep with the Democrats. And let me tell you something.

(13:48):
Everything these Republicans are afraid to do, they're afraid to
make happen. The Democrats would do it ur be. They
vote every single time unanimously lock step. They are arm
in arm. They know what they're doing. Days before they
come in to vote, they've had an agreement. And I

(14:08):
don't know who's got pictures of who, but I'll tell
you what. They got it down to a science because
they never break rank. The Republicans. Nope, every day, we
all day. They're all about themselves and they'll go on
big TV shows and they'll talk a good game, and
you know what, it's all bullshit. So if you want
your DHS funded, if you want your elections to be protected,

(14:29):
you better make sure that your elected congressman hears from
you today. Because there's only a few of them really
fighting for us. That's Pauline A. Luna, timber Chet, chip Roy,
Brandon Gill, you know, to name a few. And in
the Senate there's Senator Mike Lee, God bless him, and
Senator Tim Schmid of Missouri. He's great. But otherwise they're

(14:53):
going along to get along. And the ones that are
voting against the president but still kind of helping out
this one point two trillion dollar spending bill, they're not
doing it to help us. They're doing it because they
hate the president. So there's a little bit of that too.
We need everybody to get out of their own way
and to get out of our way. Pass the Save Act,
codify these laws, get our elections back to where they

(15:16):
should should have always been. Quite frankly, let's get integrity
back into the vote, guys, because I'm telling you right now,
the Democrats have a plan. They are organized and funded.
Republicans are sloppy. They slept through the alarm. They're late
for the program. They have no idea what's going on,
and that's why we always end up here. We gotta
hold their feet to the fire. This is Linda McLaughlin.

(15:38):
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More on that tomorrow. You are not gonna want to
miss it, and as we hear things about this vote,
we will keep you up on social media. Everybody, I
hope you have a great night and stay safe.