The Charlie Kirk Show - The National Disgrace of Our National Debt
Aired: 2023-05-23
Duration: 35:36


=== National Debt and Deficits (15:23) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, today's Charlie Kirk Show.
[00:00:02]  The national debt.
[00:00:03]  It's a national disgrace.
[00:00:04]  We talk about it.
[00:00:06]  It is a constant battle right now in D.C. You're one-stop shop for everything debt ceiling related here on this program.
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[00:01:27]  What is our national debt?
[00:01:30]  Oh, our national debt is one of our national disgraces.
[00:01:34]  You see, the U.S. national debt is growing by the minute.
[00:01:38]  You can go to debtclock.org.
[00:01:41]  This used to be something we talked about a lot about 10 years ago when I got started at Turning Point USA.
[00:01:46]  It was a primary focus.
[00:01:47]  In fact, there was an entire political movement called the Tea Party movement.
[00:01:51]  Some of you were probably part of the Tea Party movement.
[00:01:53]  I was protesting spending.
[00:01:55]  I think President Donald Trump was the best president of my lifetime, one of the best presidents in American history.
[00:02:00]  However, one piece of feedback I would give President Trump and his administration is they kind of just turned a blind eye to soaring deficits in the debt.
[00:02:08]  The United States national debt is $31.8 trillion.
[00:02:13]  That is $94,976 per citizen.
[00:02:17]  Republicans, and of course Democrats, but Democrats, you'd expect it from them, but Republicans far too often have been the party of big deficits, big debt.
[00:02:26]  And by the way, we just added another million dollars to the debt since we started the show a minute ago.
[00:02:31]  Like that.
[00:02:31]  Clockwork.
[00:02:32]  Boom, boom, boom.
[00:02:34]  It is a slow drip to the death of the financial integrity, fiscal integrity, and health of our republic.
[00:02:40]  When I first started Turning Point USA, the national debt was right around $11 or $12 trillion.
[00:02:45]  It has nearly tripled, nearly tripled in the course of 11 years.
[00:02:50]  We have decided to turn our back on the values of Western society, of delayed gratification, of prudence, of balanced budgeting.
[00:02:57]  No, we have gone into reckless deficit spending, the era of cheap money.
[00:03:02]  There's a lot of philosophical and moral reasons for that.
[00:03:04]  We've explored that on this program before.
[00:03:06]  Our national debt is a national disgrace, and both political parties are to blame.
[00:03:11]  I would blame Democrats more than Republicans, but it's about 60-40.
[00:03:16]  Republicans should be the party of balanced budgets, of fiscal sanity.
[00:03:22]  By the way, Republicans want to be the party of reality when it comes to the trans issue.
[00:03:26]  They want to be the party of reality when it comes to borders.
[00:03:29]  They want to be the party of reality.
[00:03:30]  How about the party reality when it comes to you can't keep on spending money you do not have?
[00:03:35]  Now, thankfully, the American people gave Republicans the majority in the House of Representatives.
[00:03:42]  A slim one, a narrow one.
[00:03:44]  Because of the RNC, we basically had a very disappointing midterm election.
[00:03:50]  But Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House, we have a four or five seat majority, depending on who shows up.
[00:03:55]  It's slim, but it's there.
[00:03:58]  So now the debt ceiling debate is primary.
[00:04:03]  Congress has to meet as to whether or not they're going to increase the debt ceiling.
[00:04:09]  So the debt ceiling will expire the 1st of June.
[00:04:12]  If the ceiling is breached without renewal, the Treasury Department will have to suspend issuing new government debt and stop paying some of its bills.
[00:04:23]  There are some emergency measures it can engage in, but basically not much of anything.
[00:04:30]  This comes straight to Congress.
[00:04:34]  Now, Kevin McCarthy, to his credit, was able to get Republicans together and pass a pretty good, I'd say a five or six out of 10 measure that cut some domestic spending and put Democrats on defense.
[00:04:45]  The Biden strategy was they did not think Republicans could consolidate.
[00:04:49]  They thought that Lauren Boebert or Marjorie Taylor Greene or Matt Gates would demand too much and that the House Republican conference, because they had a little bit of a messy speaker fight, they would not be able to pass a debt ceiling measure that would then put the basically the obligation on the White House.
[00:05:09]  Biden miscalculated.
[00:05:10]  So Biden's been on defense here, and it's been really interesting to see.
[00:05:14]  Biden has been scrambling, and there's these bizarre and abstract legal theories that are now being entertained, including using the 14th Amendment, the 14th Amendment of the Constitution in Section 4.
[00:05:26]  It talks about, and by the way, this was a post-Civil War amendment.
[00:05:29]  The purpose of the 14th Amendment was not about the debt ceiling.
[00:05:32]  It said the validity of the public debt of the United States authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion should not be questioned.
[00:05:42]  Basically, it was saying we're not going to pay the Confederacy's debt.
[00:05:45]  That was what the 14th Amendment was, Section 4.
[00:05:49]  But you're already getting these bizarre and almost Twitter-founded legal theories that are pushed by that moron, Steve Cohen, saying, oh, yeah, you know, we can increase the debt ceiling.
[00:06:02]  I read it on Twitter.
[00:06:03]  This is some of the ideas that they're proposing, not to go through Congress, not to do a spending deal, but just have Joe Biden unilaterally sign a debt ceiling increase.
[00:06:14]  Play cut six.
[00:06:16]  So it's going to be difficult for President Biden to negotiate with somebody who has those type of legislative terrorists on their team, and the 14th Amendment is an ace in the hole.
[00:06:27]  14th Amendment is an ace in the hole.
[00:06:30]  Now, so they're panicking because they do not actually want to get to a place where they have to cut spending.
[00:06:37]  Now, mind you, the way we do budgeting in Washington, D.C. is so dysfunctional.
[00:06:42]  It's so broken.
[00:06:43]  There's something called baseline budgeting.
[00:06:46]  We're barely even cutting enough spending to get to pre-COVID levels, and pre-COVID, it was still too high.
[00:06:53]  We're talking about trillions of dollars of deficits.
[00:06:56]  Deficits is how much you borrow each year.
[00:06:59]  It's your annual burn rate.
[00:07:00]  The debt is just a cumulative.
[00:07:03]  And so Republicans have passed a pretty good measure.
[00:07:06]  And Democrats are upset.
[00:07:08]  They say, why are you even negotiating with these people?
[00:07:12]  Why are you even in any sort of good faith trying to say that we need spending cuts?
[00:07:16]  Democrats at this point in Washington, D.C., they wanted a clean debt ceiling hike.
[00:07:23]  They want the era of cheap money and massive deficit spending.
[00:07:26]  And let me be very clear.
[00:07:28]  Democrats want the fundamental transformation of America.
[00:07:30]  They want the destruction of Western society.
[00:07:33]  Not every Democrat, but most of them, and certainly the leadership of the Democrat Party.
[00:07:37]  Therefore, they want debts and deficits.
[00:07:40]  If you want to cripple a nation, if you want to smash a country, if you want to destabilize a civilization, you engage in reckless deficit spending.
[00:07:52]  Same reason why they want the borders wide open, same reason why they want hyperinflation.
[00:07:57]  The destabilization is the plan.
[00:08:01]  The progressive wing of the Democrat Party is putting massive pressure on Biden to increase spending, saying that we have to increase the amount we are spending.
[00:08:09]  So look, we probably have to raise the debt ceiling, but we should not raise it for nothing.
[00:08:14]  I think that failing to raise the debt ceiling would be a mistake, but we should drive the hardest bargain possible.
[00:08:20]  We should call their bluff.
[00:08:22]  We should say, okay, Joe Biden, you're the one that should default the United States.
[00:08:26]  Now, we don't know what would happen if the United States defaults.
[00:08:28]  Probably it's an apocalypse, but it's probably overly apocalyptic in their description.
[00:08:33]  But isn't it interesting how the Democrats always go to the most cataclysmic conclusion without actually negotiating anything in good faith?
[00:08:42]  They immediately go towards, it's going to ruin the economy and bring down the stock market by 45%.
[00:08:48]  Maybe you're probably right, but maybe not.
[00:08:50]  Instead of negotiating in good faith and saying that we have become a debtor nation.
[00:08:56]  So Republicans passed legislation already to raise the debt ceiling.
[00:09:01]  They passed it a whole month ago.
[00:09:02]  Again, Biden did not expect that, April 26th.
[00:09:06]  And so now there's a debate going back and forth of where are we going to cut spending?
[00:09:11]  Where are we going to actually get some concessions?
[00:09:14]  And I think Republicans need to drive a very, very hard bargain.
[00:09:17]  Now, mind you, Joe Biden is saying, well, and again, I don't trust Joe Biden.
[00:09:21]  Joe Biden is a traitor to the United States.
[00:09:23]  But this is where we could call Joe Biden's bluff and really put him on defense and maybe put together a fabulous spending cut plan.
[00:09:31]  And if there was one wish I had for the Republican Party right now is I demand, and you should too in the grassroots, demand the Republican Party reasserts itself and recommits itself to a party of fiscal discipline.
[00:09:47]  The Republican Party should not be a party where we tolerate trillions of dollars of debts and deficits.
[00:09:54]  I do not want to be part of that party.
[00:09:56]  That's why I'm a registered independent.
[00:09:58]  I refuse to be part of a movement that turns a blind eye to our national indebtedness, to the destruction of our sovereignty, the deterioration of our dollar.
[00:10:08]  The national debt does not just matter a little bit.
[00:10:11]  It's an existential threat to our national security.
[00:10:13]  It's the Democrats that don't care about this.
[00:10:15]  Republicans, you have a chance right now to tell your voters and to tell future generations, to tell your kids and grandkids, I am going to pick the tough fight to balance the budget to cut spending so that we'll still have a country.
[00:10:30]  But Republicans are refusing to cut spending in one area, and I think they are really mistaken.
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[00:10:50]  It's a question, right?
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[00:10:57]  I mean, I see Adidas.
[00:10:58]  Adidas might as well have a big sign that says, we hate you.
[00:11:03]  Look, progressive left-wing companies are taking over the market, and it's time for us to fight back.
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[00:13:01]  Okay, so this is a fluid debate.
[00:13:04]  And Republicans, being represented by Kevin McCarthy, are demanding domestic spending cuts.
[00:13:10]  And Joe Biden says, well, why don't you cut some military spending?
[00:13:15]  And Republicans are unwilling to do that.
[00:13:17]  Now, Joe Biden could just be playing a game.
[00:13:18]  I don't trust Joe Biden.
[00:13:19]  Joe Biden, as I said, is a traitor to the United States.
[00:13:23]  But quite honestly, I think it's time for us as Republicans to say, you know what, we're going to cut domestically and we're going to cut Mark Milley's budget.
[00:13:33]  Republicans have been unwilling to challenge in any way, shape, or form the Department of Defense.
[00:13:42]  It's time for us to reconsider that.
[00:13:43]  Look, I'm no dove.
[00:13:44]  I'm all for killing terrorists.
[00:13:46]  I'm for holding our enemies accountable.
[00:13:49]  But I think many of you in the audience are, you're kind of getting wise to this nonsense where the Department of Defense is less about defending the nation and more about colonizing other countries for some woke agenda and invading other countries.
[00:14:02]  It should be called the Department of Invading Nations.
[00:14:06]  And so Joe Biden says, well, why don't you cut some defense spending?
[00:14:09]  You know what we should say?
[00:14:11]  Okay, we'd be thrilled.
[00:14:12]  For example, we should cut this freak from getting out of the U.S. military, making selfies on aircraft carriers.
[00:14:19]  We're happy to cut this funding.
[00:14:21]  Why won't Republicans say that?
[00:14:22]  Play Cut 50.
[00:14:24]  The coolest thing I did on board was to be able to participate in a LGBTQ spoken word night, and I was able to read a poem that I wrote to the whole ship.
[00:14:34]  And that was probably the culmination of the whole deployment.
[00:14:39]  Republicans, you should give a press conference saying, hey, Joe Biden wants us to cut military spending.
[00:14:44]  We are officially cutting the gay poem budget from the United States military.
[00:14:49]  There will not be another nickel towards LGBT poems in the military.
[00:14:56]  Call Joe Biden's bluff.
[00:14:58]  Or how about this, Cut 51?
[00:14:59]  Say, we will no longer finance LGBT PR operations or public broadcasting aboard military ships.
[00:15:10]  This is an official messaging campaign from the United States Navy.
[00:15:15]  Joe Biden says we want to cut the military or cut Department of Defense.
[00:15:19]  Say, okay, we're happy to cut this play cut 51.

=== Cutting Military LGBT Budgets (05:35) ===

[00:15:23]  Hi, my name is Johnny and I use he, him pronouns.
[00:15:26]  Using the right pronouns is a really simple way to affirm someone's identity.
[00:15:30]  It is a signal of acceptance and respect.
[00:15:33]  If it's a signal of acceptance and respect, how do we go about creating a safe space for everybody?
[00:15:39]  That's a good question.
[00:15:40]  A really good way to do that is to use inclusive language.
[00:15:44]  Instead of saying something like, hey, guys, you can say, hey, everyone.
[00:15:49]  Another way that we could show that we're allies and that we accept everybody is to maybe include our pronouns in our emails or, like we just did, introduce ourselves using our pronouns.
[00:16:00]  That is an official PSA from the United States Navy, taxpayer-funded.
[00:16:04]  Why are Republicans unwilling to touch that budget?
[00:16:08]  So you see, Republicans do not want to touch a dollar of military spending, largely because they're purchased by Boeing and Northrop Grumman and Raytheon and the military defense contractors.
[00:16:19]  Do you feel as if the military is currently making America safer?
[00:16:23]  Not the rank and file who are heroes, but the military leadership?
[00:16:28]  How about no more money to Ukraine?
[00:16:31]  That's what the response should be.
[00:16:32]  Oh, Joe Biden, you want us to cut foreign spending?
[00:16:37]  Not another nickel to the thug Zelensky.
[00:16:41]  Oh, you mean you want money to keep going to Ukraine and gay PSAs?
[00:16:45]  What is it you want to cut exactly, Joe Biden?
[00:16:47]  Put him on defense.
[00:16:49]  And while we're at it, we should demand harsher cuts.
[00:16:52]  We should demand an exit from the WHO.
[00:16:56]  We should demand cuts to the FBI.
[00:16:58]  We have the cards right now.
[00:17:00]  Republicans should play offense.
[00:17:02]  Joe Biden is looking very weak.
[00:17:04]  Joe Biden is showing a willingness for some concessions.
[00:17:07]  Go for the win, everybody.
[00:17:10]  But do not be afraid to cut the sacred cow of the international gay, the global American experiment.
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[00:18:31]  We're talking about the debt ceiling here.
[00:18:32]  I want to play a couple pieces of tape.
[00:18:34]  Let's go to this dialogue here.
[00:18:37]  Cut 41.
[00:18:38]  Joe Biden responds to the debt ceiling from Mr. Ducey, PlayCut 41.
[00:18:45]  Do you think that if there is a brief, nobody will blame me?
[00:18:49]  Of course, no one will blame me.
[00:18:50]  I know you won't.
[00:18:51]  You'll be saying Biden did a wonderful job.
[00:18:53]  On the merits, based on what I've offered, I would be blameless.
[00:18:58]  I think there are some MiGA Republicans in the House who know the damage that it would do to the economy.
[00:19:08]  And because I am president and president's responsible for everything, Biden would take the blame, and that's the one way to make sure Biden's not re-elected.
[00:19:16]  Of course, that's been workshop.
[00:19:17]  Isn't that interesting?
[00:19:19]  Joe Biden, who is the arsonist of America, the arsonist to America, is being told the one-liners that we want to default because we think we could blame Joe Biden.
[00:19:30]  You see, this is a fundamental difference between Democrats and Republicans, and we know this to be true.
[00:19:35]  From Joy Behar to Jane Fonda to many other people that when Trump was president, Bill Maher, for example, Bill Maher said, I hope there's a recession because then we could blame it on Trump.
[00:19:47]  Democrats think this way.
[00:19:50]  So, Joe Biden obviously thinks this way because he's thought this way before.
[00:19:53]  I'm cheering for the American economy, even though I despise the current president.
[00:19:59]  I'm cheering that wages go up.
[00:20:01]  I hope we balance the budget.
[00:20:03]  I hope we solve the border crisis.
[00:20:06]  I don't care who gets the credit.
[00:20:08]  I don't care.
[00:20:09]  I want what's best for America.
[00:20:12]  And for Joe Biden to imply that the Republican Party is going to try and obliterate the full faith in credit United States because then they could blame Joe Biden.
[00:20:26]  Joe Biden is the one that I question actually loves the country.
[00:20:30]  Joe Biden is the one that keeps the borders wide open.
[00:20:33]  Joe Biden is the one that does these things and Joe Biden's puppet masters.
[00:20:38]  Every Republican that I know would rather have a functioning America, a flourishing America, even if it meant a Democrat was present at the time.
[00:20:47]  I love my country a lot more than I love politics.
[00:20:51]  Joe Biden does not.
[00:20:52]  Joe Biden is constantly talking about blame and blame shifting, and this person's going to point fingers.

=== Questioning Biden's Patriotism (08:30) ===

[00:20:58]  That is nonsense.
[00:21:00]  It's a difference between conservatives and Democrats.
[00:21:04]  Bill Maher and Jane, remember Jane Fonda or somebody like that was saying, COVID is a gift.
[00:21:12]  COVID is a gift because it helps us get rid of Donald Trump.
[00:21:16]  Representative Steve Cohen, who's a moron, talking about how Lawrence Tribe is the Obi-Wan kenobi when it comes to constitutional law and how the 14th Amendment is something the president can use.
[00:21:26]  Play cut 45.
[00:21:28]  My argument has been made by Lawrence Tribe.
[00:21:31]  I think Lawrence Tribe is Obi-Wan Kenobi when it comes to constitutional law.
[00:21:36]  He thinks it's something that the president should use.
[00:21:38]  The 14th Amendment is not just letters that are put out there in a constitution without meaning.
[00:21:44]  And the meaning is that the debt shall not be the debt showyana.
[00:21:50]  It's never been used before, but it's there for a reason, and this is the reason why it was put there.
[00:21:55]  This guy has no idea what he's talking about.
[00:21:57]  First of all, let's actually read what the Constitution says about it, including Section 5 of the 14th Amendment.
[00:22:03]  This is just complete fairy dust fiction.
[00:22:06]  Section 5 says: Congress shall have the power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article.
[00:22:14]  No, no, no.
[00:22:15]  Blake said section 4.
[00:22:16]  No, I'm reading section 5.
[00:22:18]  Even if you believe section 4 was about the national debt and the debt ceiling, do you know what section 5 says?
[00:22:25]  That Congress shall have the power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article.
[00:22:31]  So even if you believe this nonsense about the 14th Amendment, read the fifth section, which applies to all the other sections.
[00:22:39]  That it has to go straight through Congress, that a president cannot unilaterally sign it, even though it's a misinterpretation and a misapplication of the amendment.
[00:22:50]  Even under their misapplication strategy, it still has to go through Congress.
[00:22:56]  Cut 44, Janet Yellen doesn't think the 14th Amendment can be used to raise the debt ceiling.
[00:23:01]  Play cut 44.
[00:23:03]  Well, extraordinary measures is used in a different way, but there has been much discussion of the 14th Amendment.
[00:23:12]  And as President Biden said, I believe this morning, it doesn't seem like something that could be appropriately used in these circumstances, given the legal uncertainty around it and given the tight timeframe we're on.
[00:23:31]  John Fetterman, who can't be bothered to go put on a suit and tie, might interfere with his depression, wearing shorts and a sweatshirt, a complete insult to the institution of the Senate.
[00:23:42]  This guy's a trust fund baby that appropriates the aesthetic and the visual of the MAGA muscular working class.
[00:23:49]  He's a repulsive individual.
[00:23:51]  Reads a prepared statement about how Joe Biden can raise the debt ceiling.
[00:23:55]  Play cut 37.
[00:23:57]  We're here for one simple reason.
[00:23:59]  President Biden needs to consider using the 14th Amendment if necessary.
[00:24:05]  The entire GOP debt ceiling negotiation is a sad charade.
[00:24:11]  And that's exactly what's wrong about what's wrong in Washington.
[00:24:15]  We're playing with the livelihoods of millions just so the GOP can just turn the screws against hungry Americans.
[00:24:22]  At what point does this just become cruelty that he's just being held hostage by the American Democrat Party?
[00:24:29]  That John Fetterman is a hostage of Chuck Schumer.
[00:24:33]  Like reads prepared statements.
[00:24:36]  It's like Diane Feinstein.
[00:24:37]  It's like Diane Feinstein and John Fetterman are basically being held hostage by Chuck Yu Schumer.
[00:24:43]  When I see John Fetterman, my immediate reaction is, we deserve so much better.
[00:24:51]  We are a decent country with decent people with an awfully corrupt government run by a crime syndicate called the American Democrat Party.
[00:24:59]  We deserve better than that.
[00:25:01]  You deserve better than that.
[00:25:02]  For all of you out there that are watching or listening to the program in Pennsylvania, it's an insult to you, an insult to those of you that pay your taxes.
[00:25:10]  Remember, part of the strategy is a mass demoralization campaign.
[00:25:14]  And when I see John Fetterman and I speak about John Fetterman's audiences across the country, I just get a sense of what's the point.
[00:25:22]  If sweatshirt Shrek can win the elect win the election in Pennsylvania, it makes you think, what is even the point?
[00:25:32]  He can't even read sentences.
[00:25:34]  Let's go to Cut 36, Kevin McCarthy, Speaker McCarthy, on his conversation with Biden.
[00:25:38]  So this really has become House of Representatives v. Biden.
[00:25:42]  And Republicans, you should drive the hardest bargain you can.
[00:25:45]  Get out of the WHO.
[00:25:46]  By the way, use this opportunity as a chance to cut spending of the FBI.
[00:25:50]  Play cut 36.
[00:25:52]  I thought the conversation with the president was productive in the sense we got the teams back together working.
[00:26:01]  We know the time is of the essence.
[00:26:02]  Republicans took action on our own.
[00:26:04]  Unfortunately, the Senate has another.
[00:26:06]  But we have raised the debt ceiling.
[00:26:07]  I think that is why you see the market still stabilized because we know the Senate could just take that bill and actually raise the debt ceiling, put us in a stronger economic place.
[00:26:17]  Now, Joe Biden does not want what's best for America.
[00:26:19]  So I do not believe they're negotiating good faith.
[00:26:22]  Joe Biden wants centralized bank digital currency.
[00:26:24]  Joe Biden is fine with the rise of China.
[00:26:26]  Remember, he's a purchased Chinese asset.
[00:26:29]  For them, they want a clean spending hike.
[00:26:31]  Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, they're furious that negotiations are underway.
[00:26:36]  And in Cut 38, you'll see Byron Donalds says Biden doesn't want to cut any spending.
[00:26:41]  We will get to $54 trillion in debt if Biden has his way.
[00:26:45]  So much of the economic confusion that we're experiencing right now is because of our overspending a decade ago.
[00:26:52]  Kicking the can down the road is the overused metaphor when it comes to national debt and deficit policy.
[00:26:59]  Play cut 38.
[00:27:01]  Look, at the end of the day, when it comes to the debt ceiling, Joe Biden doesn't want to cut any spending.
[00:27:06]  He wants to continue his radical out-of-control spending.
[00:27:09]  It will be $54 trillion in debt if Joe Biden has his way.
[00:27:14]  We're trying to stop that, get back to pre-COVID spending levels.
[00:27:17]  It's common sense stuff.
[00:27:18]  It is ridiculous that Joe Biden still doesn't have a plan or a strategy, and he's known about this for months.
[00:27:24]  It's outrageous.
[00:27:25]  Just so we're clear, the way Congress budgets, a family, a business, a person, a church, a nonprofit would never be able to budget.
[00:27:34]  So once you set a new record of spending, baseline budgeting necessitates that you start at that baseline.
[00:27:42]  You don't even question what we want is zero-based budgeting.
[00:27:46]  This is a great opportunity, everybody, for us, the grassroots to demand from our lawmakers a new Republican Party, a Republican party of budget discipline.
[00:27:57]  We need serious cuts.
[00:28:00]  We need cuts to domestic spending.
[00:28:02]  We need cuts to the LGBT empire that calls themselves the Department of Defense at times.
[00:28:08]  We need cuts across the board.
[00:28:10]  The Republican Party, though, says, well, you know, we want to have some welfare cuts.
[00:28:13]  That's fine.
[00:28:15]  Are we really getting to the meat of the budget?
[00:28:20]  If, by the way, these are not even cuts.
[00:28:22]  These are cuts in how much we are growing the budget, just so we're clear.
[00:28:27]  These are not even actual cuts.
[00:28:28]  This is that we are going to grow the budget by 3% instead of 5%.
[00:28:32]  That's not a cut.
[00:28:33]  That's a cut in how much suffering you are going to endure.
[00:28:36]  It's reducing future increased spending.
[00:28:40]  Republican Party out there, time to get real cuts.
[00:28:43]  Demand zero-based budgeting, and you have to rebuild the budget of the United States federal government from zero.
[00:28:48]  Justify your existence.
[00:28:50]  Justify the 87,000 IRS agents.
[00:28:54]  By the way, the Republican Party should say, hey, Joe Biden, you want to not default?
[00:28:57]  You really want to be the first president to default?
[00:28:59]  Get rid of your 87,000 IRS agents.
[00:29:01]  Get rid of the money to Zelensky.
[00:29:03]  Oh, yeah, build the wall.
[00:29:05]  We have control over the legislative agenda right now.
[00:29:08]  You pass something Biden didn't.
[00:29:09]  Biden's looking very fragile and weak right now.
[00:29:13]  Ask for the order.
[00:29:14]  Joe Biden doesn't want to see a default.
[00:29:16]  We don't want to see a default.
[00:29:17]  Call his bluff.
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[00:30:22]  Pramilla Jayapal, say that three times fast.
[00:30:26]  Says there would be huge backlash in the streets.
[00:30:28]  Oh, I get it now.
[00:30:31]  You see, Floyd of Palooza.
[00:30:35]  Oh, we must remember St. George Floyd for his memory.
[00:30:38]  Remember, Nancy Pelosi said, thank you, George.
[00:30:41]  Thank you, George, as if he's a martyr, as if it was St. Stephen who was stoned, St. Paul, St. George Floyd in the pantheon of woke gods.
[00:30:54]  St. George Floyd is up there.
[00:30:56]  St. George Floyd will have statues erected to him.
[00:31:00]  The drug addict criminal will be remembered in the woke narrative of penetrating the Western patriarchy so that we can have conversations on anti-racism.
[00:31:14]  And remember, George Floyd did have a statue, but it was destroyed by lightning.
[00:31:20]  Pramila Jayapal, though, again, Floyd de Palooza happened for a lot of reasons.
[00:31:24]  One of the reasons why Floyd Apalooza happened and the burning of the Wendy's and the looting and the widespread arson was to set a standard, was to remind people.
[00:31:33]  Remember, this has to happen every couple decades.
[00:31:35]  Now, whether it happens intentionally or not is not clear to me, but it does happen.
[00:31:39]  Rodney King riots, Floyda Palooza.
[00:31:43]  No one liked it.
[00:31:44]  Kenosha, the Rittenhouse drama, it was awful.
[00:31:47]  It was terrible.
[00:31:48]  It was widespread.
[00:31:49]  It was dirty.
[00:31:50]  Looting, arson, mostly peaceful.
[00:31:54]  But what it did is it was, now it's been baked into the memory of the American people that can now be used as a threat.
[00:32:02]  So Pramilla Jayapal is now using the memory of Floyda Palooza of the anti-racist summer as a way to try to get her way.
[00:32:14]  She is extorting you.
[00:32:16]  The American Democrat Party, specifically the progressive base of the Democrat Party, is threatening another rendition of Antifa of anti-racist terrorism if you don't give us what we want.
[00:32:32]  Play cut 59.
[00:32:34]  I think there would be a huge backlash from our entire House Democratic caucus, certainly the progressives, but also in the streets.
[00:32:42]  I mean, I think that this is, it's important that we don't take steps back from the very strong agenda that the president himself shepherded and led over the last two years.
[00:32:53]  There's going to be riots.
[00:32:54]  You're going to see distrust in the streets.
[00:32:57]  Huge backlash in the streets.
[00:33:01]  Look, the debt ceiling fight is now coming to a breaking point.
[00:33:04]  And the Democrats are the ones that are scrambling.
[00:33:07]  They're thinking of all these unconstitutional things and measures.
[00:33:10]  And you got Fetterman talking about the 14th Amendment and Steve Cohen talking about Obi-Wan Kenobi, very strange reference.
[00:33:17]  Here you have Senator Tina Smith.
[00:33:20]  She's accusing us of extortion.
[00:33:22]  Democrats are, they're not unified here.
[00:33:25]  They're a little bit on defense.
[00:33:26]  And honestly, Kevin McCarthy deserves credit here.
[00:33:29]  He's put the Democrats in a place where they are not on the same page.
[00:33:33]  Rarely do you see the American Democrat Party this jumbled.
[00:33:40]  They are not unified.
[00:33:42]  They're all over the place.
[00:33:43]  Play cut 40.
[00:33:44]  I mean, if anybody can figure out how to negotiate a reasonable agreement with these Republicans in the House, it's Joe Biden.
[00:33:52]  But that's a challenge because they are essentially engaging in this extortion game.
[00:33:57]  They are essentially saying, agree with us on making cuts to programs for seniors and kids and families working in low-wage jobs, or we're going to drive the economy off the cliff.
[00:34:10]  And so our goal is just to make sure that the president is, and everybody, including those Republicans, are aware that there is another option, which is the 14th Amendment.
[00:34:18]  So you got Senator Tina Smith, Fetterman.
[00:34:21]  Again, Fetterman just does, he's like Pete Buttigieg.
[00:34:23]  He reads whatever the regime tells him to read.
[00:34:25]  And then you got Steve Cohen.
[00:34:27]  It's unconstitutional.
[00:34:28]  Joe Biden knows that.
[00:34:29]  Joe Biden knows the Supreme Court will overturn it.
[00:34:32]  They would rather engage in an abstract legal theory first floated on Twitter by Lawrence Tribe than seriously engage in spending cuts that could actually save the American Republic.
[00:34:50]  The Democrat Party, they are actively disintegrating and poisoning the fiscal health of the United States.
[00:34:59]  Republicans hold the line.
[00:35:01]  The Democrats are going to blink.
[00:35:03]  As for the order, we want the wall.
[00:35:05]  We want deportations.
[00:35:07]  We want Title 42 back.
[00:35:08]  We're going to get out of the WHO.
[00:35:10]  We want the FBI to be severely slashed.
[00:35:13]  And most importantly, we want an actual balanced budget, not just cuts in the rate of spending growth.
[00:35:22]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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