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July 19, 2023 - Doug Collins Podcast
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Make A Problem, Solve A Problem, Tell Everyone How Great You Are
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Georgia GOP Congressman Doug Collins.
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In this house, wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule.
It has been said today, where is bravery?
I'll tell you where bravery is found and courage is found.
It's found in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules being broken, people being put down, questions not being answered, and this majority say, be damned with anything else.
We're going to impeach and do whatever we want to do.
Why?
Because we won an election.
I guarantee you, one day you'll be back in the minority and it ain't gonna be that fun.
Hey everybody, it's Doug Collins.
Welcome back to the podcast.
Glad to have you with us today.
Got something we haven't done in a while here.
After the break, we're going to cut you in.
I'm just going to do some headlines.
We're going to talk about some stuff.
We've hit some in-depth issues recently, but I just want to do what we've done in the past, and that's to sort of take the headlines, current headlines, talk about them.
Give you some insight, especially stuff going on in D.C. and going on across the country.
Really some interesting things.
California is out there again.
California, you know, as someone once told me, and you get offended if you don't, I mean, all the cereal steak stuff comes from there.
Nuts, fruits, and flakes.
I mean, you get the weirdest stuff coming out of California.
Today will not surprise you what you're going to see on the Doug Collins podcast here just in a few minutes right after the break.
A lot going on.
Messier made his appearance, by the way.
This is Wednesday, but this is Messier made his appearance.
Messier made his appearance in Miami to the acclaim of everyone.
We'll see how this all goes.
But I think he won a place in my heart really last week.
And it's a little bit of a fun fact.
He was spotted at Publix with his family just buying groceries, sort of, you know, fitting in in the Miami lifestyle.
So, again, and the interesting thing about it is this is a man who can go through Europe and many places in South America and be completely mobbed.
Hardly anybody noticed him in the Miami publics.
Just saying, folks.
Soccer's maybe the world's sport, but it's got a long way to go here in the United States.
But lots to go here on Headlines here on the Doug Collins Podcast.
We're going to catch you up to the latest political news, latest world news right now, just after the break.
Be right back.
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All right.
We are back.
Let's talk about some things.
One, let's just start off where it's, you know, I hate to say the easiest, but this past week or so, Biden has been rolling out, Joe Biden has been rolling out this issue of Bidenomics.
And, you know, it's, you know, things that they say that they have done.
And what's really interesting is that the...
Not the press have called him out, but the social media has called him out.
And the things that he emphasizes, I really want to talk about here for a few minutes, because when you think about Bidenomics, the thing that I think of, if you want to use the term Bidenomics, well, here's what you use for Bidenomics.
It is make a mess, break a plate, crack a few eggs, and then go and try and fix it.
And if it fixes, then you claim that you solved a problem.
Folks, making a mess and then cleaning it up is not solving a new problem.
It is making up and cleaning up a mess that you caused.
And I think people are getting tired of this same old situation.
We see it not just from Democrats, as we do get some with Republicans as well.
We're just getting to the point of the created crisis is...
Becoming more and more less tolerable to many people.
I think that's why you see so much fluctuation in the people's sentiments nowadays.
You see Joe Biden's approval ratings are not good.
We see even the Republican side.
Just this past weekend, I mean, you see Vivek Ramaswamy, someone who's no political background at all, And saying some stuff that probably he can't do just in all fairness as president, but yet it's hitting a nerve because he's speaking plain truth.
It reminds me a lot of Donald Trump in 2016, you know, where he would just say it and didn't care about the political consequences.
The problem is Biden's been in this for 50 years.
And that is an issue.
And when you look at Joe Biden for 50 years, all he does is speak political.
And, you know, we look at this in some of the things that he's talking about now with Bidenomics and the things that are going on.
And let's just look at this.
Unemployment below 4% for the longest stretch in 50 years.
Well, let's think about this.
He took office, coming out of a pandemic, jobs were coming back, jobs were being replaced by the pandemic.
Again, taking credit for something that was happening as the economy was coming back after a global pandemic.
Now, granted, I'm glad to see that unemployment is low, but also unemployment was low before the pandemic hit, and every business had to shut down, and people were working, you know, they couldn't get to work, and they were in the whole situation of teleworking and not having a job.
So, again, this idea that Bidenomics has created, you know, these jobs is just, you know, frankly, not...
Completely truthful.
And, you know, when people look around at jobs, they look around at some of them still not getting back to where they were before the pandemic.
Inflation, which we'll talk about here in a minute, has been eating at paychecks for a long time.
Again, it just rings hollow.
It goes back to what I said, when you're sort of building off of a crisis, planning to solve a crisis that was fixing itself anyway, people are gonna see through that after a while.
Speaking of inflation, this is the one that just baffles me.
When Joe Biden came into office, inflation was a little over 1%.
1%, a little over 1%.
It spiked tremendously because of what Joe Biden did with his economic policies, with the energy issues, with everything that was going on.
It just...
You can't, again, this is the classic case of make a problem, solve a problem, and then tell everybody how great you are.
I mean, he's now saying inflation is cut in half compared to one year ago.
Inflation right now is below 4%, just went below 4% just this past week, which is a significant increase and a significant discussion for the country, which is good for all of us, that inflation is not rising at 9% like it was just over a year ago.
Again, this is why this election cycle is so important, folks.
When you look at this and you begin to look at the statistics that are thrown out and statistics that are going, you know, credit card debt, interest rates, you know, labor force is there, regulations come back, incomes falling, government spending is just going out the roof, and yet you have Joe Biden claiming that Bidenomics is saving the world.
Again, not a lot going on here, except when you look at it from the perspective of this is not happening because Joe Biden's policies.
In fact, some of it is happening because of Joe Biden's policies.
And I think this is where people are getting the disconnect because you're seeing it in your paycheck.
You're seeing it at the grocery stores.
You're seeing it in, you know, shelves that for the longest time wasn't full.
And now things are getting back to a little bit of normalcy But yet we have interest rates on loans and others that have forced people out of the housing market, that have forced adjustable rate mortgages to go up 2% and 3%, adding thousands to payments.
Again, when you look at the spending, you look at the government spending, you look at the stuff that is going on, you've got to realize that the crisis of inflation was manufactured basically in the Biden administration.
And to say you're now sobbing, to say it's half of what it was a year ago, well, it's still three points higher than it was when you came in, Joe.
Mr. President, you can't claim credit for stuff that you helped, you know, really in many ways cause.
People just, you know, they're not going to stick with it, I think, like you believe that they're going to stick with it.
Moving on, we've talked about this on Friday's Finance.
We've talked about it even in some of our episodes.
It still just baffles mine.
Reading the headlines, you still have headlines now coming out that the White House is saying the Secret Service did its best Number one, they didn't call in.
Help with the FBI. This was caught under sort of their watch.
So it would have been interesting to call in the FBI in case it may have been part of the Secret Service who actually left it there.
They know what cubby it was in.
At least finally now we're admitting what the cubby is in.
We're now admitting that a key is lost, which again...
I'm trying to figure this one out, you know, how they can't figure this out.
They're saying that it was on a weekend, that there was too much video, there's too much, but yet they never interviewed anyone.
Never.
They just took the evidence.
They tried to get fingerprints.
They tried to get, despite all the cameras, you know, again, you would think that they could have at least narrowed it down to 25, 30. It's the weekend, folks.
This is not a regular weekday when everybody's walking in, going to see everybody, and moving around the lighthouse like you see in the West Wing almost every workday, or even when the president is there.
If it is true, as the press secretary and others have claimed, that the president and his family wasn't even there, then you're less likely to see more people there because the main sources are either traveling with the president or nearby where he is, or everybody else is catching a break.
Again, to continue this story, I just, again, this administration is fascinating to me because they seem to take things that can be put to bed easily and they drag it out.
And people are continuing to wonder why it happened.
All right.
I have told you that California is...
You know, just really just the place that most of us just shake our head at and we wonder what's going on.
Two things came out of California over this past week that need just...
I mean, I think it's just some discussion.
The first one was California Democrats.
In the Democrat legislature in California...
They initially killed a bill, Senate Bill 14, that would have increased penalties for child traffickers and would have added the crime to a list of serious felonies in California.
Anyone convicted of at least three serious felonies would face a prison sentence between 25 years to life.
Earlier this week, they killed this bill, chose not to advance it out of the Public Safety Committee.
And because they oppose longer prison sentences, arguing it's not a deterrent to crime.
Now, this is a mandatory minimum issue.
I get it, to a point.
But when you look at this, it was not at the child trafficking, things that we are seeing that are horrific, and we've seen it from Georgia to California and everywhere else.
It's not any wonder why after a little bit, they finally decided, hey, we need to advance this bill, because those victims of child trafficking in California were very emotional who were trying to get this bill passed when going through it.
There's better ways to do criminal justice reform than simply saying we're not going to punish criminals.
In fact, criminal justice reform without holding accountability is in no way, shape, form, or fashion criminal justice reform.
In fact, it's not right.
That's why the First Step Act, that's why working with bail reform, working with these other issues is so important To make sure that accountability is hit, that public safety is met, that our police have the resources they need, while at the same time our DAs and our prosecutors are able to actually prosecute crimes and not just let people off.
I mean, California right now is rampant with crime and petty theft because they have chose basically not to prosecute anything under $1,000.
You walk into a store in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, and you walk out with less than $1,000, there's really nothing going to happen to you.
In fact, the stores are not even going to stop you.
And that's why you have the Walgreens and CVSs and others in the state closing and moving other places.
Again, it's almost like Joe Biden here.
I don't get the factor here that was said, hey, optics on this may not be really good.
Let's see if we can work on it.
If you had an issue with the...
At least three serious felonies.
Again, you have to be convicted of at least three serious felonies for 25 years to life.
I think this is going to be an issue that most people, especially, would be attuned to the fact that people are going to notice this.
And again, they didn't.
Then, you know, on Thursday, Finally, after a lot of outrage, a lot of this coming out, is the Democrats remitting they made a bad decision in not moving the bill forward.
So, you know, we'll see.
In fact, just to show you how bad this was in the legislature, which is predominantly, I mean, overwhelmingly Democrat, Gavin Newsom actually supported this bill.
It was introduced by a Republican in prompting Democrats to change course after he went against the party.
You know, again, Newsom, who is sitting and waiting, has his suits pressed, is itinerary ready.
The minute he thinks that Joe Biden is not going to run this term for president, Gavin Newsom is in for running for president on the Democrat side.
Actually saw this was a political issue.
It was one that was not only a political issue, but it was also taking something that most Americans would agree to, that trafficking, human trafficking, child trafficking is something you don't want to be a part of.
It should be advanced and probably, you know, if you don't like the sentencing, work on the sentencing.
But again, three serious felonies, you get the 25 to life.
Maybe we're looking at this in a different way, but again, this is California.
This is what you get in the legislature.
This is the same, this grasping with paying billions of dollars in reparations that they don't have money for.
California basically borrows at a rate, it appears, and again, I've never seen this number, but I would love to see the percentage compared to the national Deficit spending.
California and some of these other states spend in deficit spending.
They do it every year.
And this is the kind of stuff you get.
The next one was out of the Sacramento Bee.
And this one is...
I don't get this one.
I don't.
As a parent who's had three children, who went through public education, his wife was a teacher, the schools should be working hand in glove with the parents.
And this includes that if a child is being endangered or abused, the school system has a responsibility to report that.
But in almost everything else that I can think of, it is the job of the school to reinforce education and the parent's role and having the parent involved in decisions about the child.
However, California judge...
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Chico Unified School District's policy of protecting the gender identity of students from their parents.
Judge Menendez said in a ruling that the authority of the district to safeguard the information overrode parental rights.
Also, in doing so, Mendendez also kept intact guidance by California school officials to shield privacy rights of transgender students.
The ruling was prompted by a lawsuit in January on behalf of a citizen of state.
Regino, a mother of a child who was in elementary school last year, Regino's child, then 11, began identifying as a different gender and then was assigned at Justin is our friend John Solomon and Amanda over there.
They purported within minutes of the girl telling Robertson she felt like a boy the counselor was asking her For her new name and pronouns rather than discussing psychological issues, the girl felt pressure to go along, and Robertson took her back to class and instructed the teacher and subsequently all personnel how to address her, Regina claims.
No one in the school district reportedly suggested the girl seek mental health threshold, give her permission to socially transition back, or to tell her the risks associated with graduated and affirmative care, which often follow a social transition.
Regina said her daughter is now in counseling for the issues the district ignores.
I say again.
You...
The amazing hypocrisy of this issue on the left is just stunning to me.
You do not want...
Under 16, they can't drive a car.
They can't have a contract.
They can't...
The list goes on and on and on and on.
But yet, you're willing to let four, five, six-year-olds determine their gender?
As if, frankly, that's not already been determined for them?
Now, if you want to, as they grow older, if they get to adulthood and they want to identify as, fine.
But this idea that the school system in California, every parent ought to really, really, really consider if they have the opportunity to move their child out of the public school system in California, they ought to.
Because, I mean, if they're willing to not tell parents about something this life-changing, then what else are they keeping?
What else are they teaching?
What else are they hiding from the parents?
Maybe if you look around at the test scores, which we haven't talked about a long time on this podcast, but I'm going to get back to it pretty soon.
If you talk about why we have Americans growing up who can't read, they can't do math, they can't...
I mean, when we're calling math racist, Maybe it's better if we just encourage all students to learn how to count.
We taught them math, regardless of color, regardless of their skin color, regardless of their background, regardless of their poor, regardless of their rich.
Just teach them.
But this, again, keeping this from the parents is just stunning.
And then actually upholding and continuing a ruling in which a child can go to school and say, I'm not feeling like a girl today.
I feel like a boy.
And the counselor doesn't even begin to ask questions.
They simply started signing them a new name and everything else.
You get the feeling here and the understanding why parents are so frustrated.
This is California, folks.
They don't want to deal with child trafficking.
Now they do, I guess, because after they got embarrassed about it, and now a judge has struck down the law and held up the law that basically allows the school system to hide things from parents.
I don't look back and say that the yesteryear, so to speak, was always good.
We've had racism, we've had violence, we've had things in this country that we have struggled with.
But the thing about this country is that we've always, I believe, struggled to get it right.
We have different ways to go about that, we have different thoughts about that, but we've struggled to get it right.
How, all of a sudden, the left believes that the government is the only answer and to protect the children from their own parents, especially children who are not being abused and not being exploited or not being...
Their parents are being parents.
And they don't understand why they're losing this battle.
They don't.
But until, you know, you have enough people in California and other places who are willing to take this on and willing to take this battle forward, then it's going to continue.
It's going to happen.
And that's just, you know, where we are with it.
I don't...
It's just frustrating to see this going on in a state in which...
They have so many problems to start with.
People are leaving by droves.
San Francisco and downtown Los Angeles, they're just war zones.
Homelessness.
Public urination, public defecation.
We see shops that are closing.
We see people who don't want to come down there.
You go into any store and everything is behind lock and key.
And yet, this is what the state legislature in California and then the teachers, unions, basically, and the school systems out there think that they should do.
Folks, again, I'm reading the headlines.
I don't get it.
So if that's where we're at with this, then maybe we need to figure out a new plan as we go along.
Last one I'm going to touch on today, though, is headlines, and this one is just funny to me.
It's a headline out of Wall Street Journal.
Christopher Wray began his hearing last week.
He said he didn't understand or was unaware of why the FBI's reputation had tanked.
He said, and he tried to point out the 38,000 personnel, which I agree with him, 99% of those folks that are out there, they're doing their job, they're not the problem for the perception.
And he said who they battle.
And he went on the gripe that his work was overshadowed by the one or two investigations that seemed to capture all the headline.
Whose fault is that?
Those one or two, five or ten probes really, this is out of the Wall Street Journal, are hardly any tiny affairs, but some of the biggest scandals in FBI history, in part because the Bureau's action had violated bedrock American principles.
The hearing actually got into the issues of targeting pro-life leaders, targeting parents at school board meetings, the bias that is in perceived bias that seems to come from investigations of anybody that's related to the Liberals or Democratic Party, the Biden family in particular, and then the overreaching and overzealous contemplation of prosecution that it appears that most Americans are seeing when it comes to Donald Trump and Republicans.
And Chris Ray, you're trying to figure out why the reputation of the Bureau is damaged?
Maybe look in the mirror.
Read a headline.
Try something here, because right now, everybody else is seeing it.
They believe there's two systems of justice in this country, and they believe that the FBI is turning a cold eye toward it.
They're a deaf ear toward it.
They don't understand it.
And you're continuing on what they view as a politicization of the FBI. Again, the outrage in this country, if it was just simply turned on the left, would be devastating.
And it would be over in a heartbeat.
But as long as it is against the, quote, liberals' charge that government should help, just like we talked about in California, that parents have no rights, that the government knows how to do it all, and that pro-life, you know, free speech, and, you know, where you have the FBI actually coordinating, being messenger boys, basically, for the folks in Ukraine to talk to social media companies to get what they claimed as disinformation off of the social media.
It's no wonder why people don't trust the FBI anymore.
And this is sad because the vast majority of folks who work in the FBI, the vast majority of them, do it good every day.
Every day.
And yet, this is what we get.
Chris Wright didn't really understand why those so few investigations tainted the FBI's reputation.
Well, Chris Wright, unfortunately, it is your lack of action on many of these and your lack of work on many of these things that has caused the FBI's reputation to go where it is at.
And Merrick Garland has not helped as the Attorney General.
And I think that is what the American people are seeing.
And this is why we have the problems we have.
So again, I just took a random sampling of stories today, and again, it goes back to the theme of why are we going through this process when people can see?
It's like being told, you know, that to go outside, the sun is shining, but being told, well, really, it's cloudy and bad.
No, you can see it with your own eyes.
And this is what people are running into these days.
But that's why you come to me.
That's why you come here to the Doug Collins Podcast each and every week as we give you the in-depth behind this headlines.
We talk about these headlines.
We talk about the facts.
And we want you to have the information so that you can go out and have a wonderful day.
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