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Aug. 8, 2023 - Doug Collins Podcast
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Bad Bills And The Runaway Administration
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In this house, wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule.
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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.
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Because we won an election.
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Welcome back to Doug Collins Podcast.
Getting ready for another time of a run through the headlines.
This is your time with me and we go through headlines.
Maybe some that you have seen, some that you haven't seen.
I just wanted to highlight these things.
Some of them are a little, you know, maybe we'll go back and we actually find some from a couple of months ago, but a lot of them are just in the last week or 10 days in which, you know, look, so much stuff is going on lately.
I mean, if you go over the last month, I mean, look at it.
We've had Trump indicted, you know, multiple times.
We've had You know, the Biden family crime syndicate seems like they're just continuing to grow, and now it looks like it's more and more happening.
So, just a lot going on.
But I wanted just to, again, we've had some good times with this.
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Look, a lot's going on.
Let's hit some of the, what I'll call, off the headlines pages.
We just highlight them today to make sure that, you know, look, things get past and you never know what may come up.
So let's get started here right after the break.
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And over the last, like I said, there's been a lot of political stuff, and I want to hit some of these today.
But I want to go back to an issue that we had last year, okay?
And this is going to take it a little bit funny.
I want to go back.
In fact, we may even put into the show notes here a link back to these episodes back in May and June of last year when...
The Congress, both the House and the Senate, with Republican help, passed what I would consider very bad gun control legislation.
They tried to make it seem like it was just, oh, everything's okay, these are just common sense steps.
You know, it's amazing to me, though, how the left always says that common sense steps for gun control means taking my guns.
I guess that's common sense for them.
It's not common sense for me.
But, you know, again, when you're out there and your common sense solution is to take guns from me and limit my access to my Second Amendment rights, then I just don't see how that's common sense.
But, again, a little bit different than Thomas Paine originally who wrote Common Sense, you know, years and years and years with the founding of our country.
I don't think he would probably agree either.
But, you know, we'll see.
But the problem we came into last year, if you remember this, This was a bill that was a part of the bigger bill that was talking about federal funding that the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, this was the gun legislation bill.
Well, deeply into that bill, again, we're still, I warned you about the National Register issues, the making it where if you sold one gun, you could be considered a gun dealer when they could make you then have to get background checks on everybody that, you know, in your family, everybody you sold to.
Also be subject to licensing and everything else.
I mean, it's a very slippery slope.
And you had senators like Cornyn and Tillis who supported this bill.
And then you have the issues that you find now deep inside this.
One of those is, and this just came out recently, that the administration is interpreting this Bipartisan Safer Communities Act in its implementation, and they touted it as a way and as part of the proponents of To being a safer, more inclusive, positive schools was introduced.
And this was a language in there.
It passed overwhelmingly into Congress and signed into law last year by Biden in June.
After, and this again came after Uvalde, this came after Buffalo, this was all there.
The problem is that we're having now is that the way they're interpreting this is they're going to look to the Biden administration's withholding funds from schools that offer hunting and archery classes.
Now, again, it is fairly amazing to me that you can take archery or hunting classes and then say those are not safe.
Again, for all of you out there who are, you know, especially you moderate Democrats or liberal Democrats and say, oh, we're not here to go after normal hunting and we're not here to take your gun.
Bull!
I mean, I'll just call it what it is right now.
It's bull.
Because, I mean, you're having the administration, the Biden administration, clearly misinterpreting.
And these were words from, let me, this is not just Doug Collins, Republican, conservative, whatever you want to call it.
This is folks like Kyrsten Sinema.
This is Joe Manchin.
This is Chris Murphy, Democrat from Connecticut, you know, who are saying that they're misinterpreting the law and it working to withhold money from schools that offer hunting and archery classes.
Now, think about this.
I didn't take up archery, and many of you know this show.
I mean, we had Mike Waddell on just recently, you know, the bone hunter, a bone collector.
And, you know, we talk hunting.
We've had other hunters on.
We've had Matthews, you know, who started McPherson, who started Matthews Bows.
I mean, there's just, I mean, this is a very hunter-friendly show.
Yeah.
And it's the outdoorsman spirit, the conservation spirit in which we come at it.
And it's really interesting to me that, you know, early on, I can remember in growing up, and for some may say, you know, many, many moons ago, is, you know, 4-H offered...
Archery, that's where you learned to do archery.
You had BB gun competitions, you had this, and now the Biden administration is the gun zealots, the gun control zealots in the administration who have nothing else better to do except open our borders and not enforce laws, is now deciding that they're going to withhold money from schools who actually offer archery or hunting courses.
Now, again, For all of these Republicans and Democrats who are screaming about this, you did it.
You passed this, quit your whining, and accept what you did.
There were many of us out here saying this bill last year should not have been passed in its form, and the way it was, it was too ambiguous, it was too vague, and in some areas it wasn't ambiguous or vague at all.
It was a direct assault on the Second Amendment.
We knew this.
But they intended to do it anyway because they were so scared of the public reaction after Uvalde and after Buffalo and other times that were coming out.
Look, I've said this many, many times before.
Almost any of these laws, and I've had debates with close family members, I've had debates with other people, none of these laws would have prevented almost any of the shootings that we talk about.
None!
And then they said, well, and then we get into handguns, which is really interesting.
Democrats don't want to talk about handguns because of really issues such as you have in New York and Chicago in particular and in San Francisco, Los Angeles.
Handguns are the predominant weapon of choice for those who do inflict violence.
And you have these jurisdictions who are not enforcing the law as it's currently written.
It's sort of hard to continue to fight a battle in which you pass legislation in which people who should not have guns don't have guns and guns that are illegally on the streets are not being prosecuted or are going after.
It's sort of hard to enforce the law and it's sort of hard to then turn around and blame the gun for the issue for all of the folks out here who actually purchase guns and use guns in a safe, legal manner.
You know, look, I want to, you know, part of me just wants to get just, you know, really upset about this and just rant and rant.
But I'm just going to say this.
We told you so.
And so, again, especially for Senator Cornyn, especially for Senator Tillis, and then also Senator Manchin and Murphy on the Democrat side.
You know, look, you should have known this was coming.
And instead...
You wanted to rush out, pass a bill that reality did nothing for the most part on what you were wanting it, quote, to do.
And this is the discussion with crazy people.
And I mean that in a sense of they're willing to do things that normal people wouldn't do.
And that's go shoot up schools and shoot up, you know, shopping centers and stuff.
And the laws you're passing wouldn't actually help to start with.
I don't know what's crazier.
Thinking that this bill would actually work?
Are they getting mad about it when it's taking steps to go further, which many of us warned you about?
This is the problem we're having here, folks.
This is it.
This is the problem we're having.
You don't write legislation on emotion.
You don't write legislation based on political ideological bents that are not connected to reality.
And then when you call it bipartisan and think it's okay, folks, let me understand.
There's plenty of bipartisan legislation out there that is really, really good, and I support a lot of it.
But then there's a lot of bipartisan legislation that you have to, just because it's bipartisan doesn't mean it's right.
And especially in this area.
Look, what actually works is hardening our schools.
What actually works is making sure that you take precautions just as you would anywhere else.
Just a short time ago, a gentleman who was wanting to go into a Jewish school was stopped flying because a building was hardened and he was eventually killed by the police.
Because he was undoubtedly going to shoot up the school.
But because they had taken measures to harden the school, the only headline we have is, cops kill bad guy.
Bad guy doesn't kill anybody else.
That's the headlines you want.
And until we get to that point, until we start discussing this, until we start running it around the horn, and we start saying, wringing our hands, what can we do?
What can we do?
Folks, there are things at work.
But until the United States Congress and now Republicans in the United States Senate and others wanting to ignore that, this is what you get.
Quit your griping.
I'd also love to take another aim at this Biden on this.
I know we talked about this before.
I've been, over the past few weeks, been traveling a good bit and been working, doing a lot of media and doing a lot of The discussions on where we're at for the political campaign coming up.
And I've intentionally, folks, I've intentionally laid off the conversation here on the presidential campaign.
We've talked about it in general, but I'm going to continue to lay off of it for a while because at this point in time, it's still early.
Donald Trump is way ahead and Joe Biden is floundering.
And if you go over the things of the past few weeks between Donald Trump's indictments and Joe Biden's son, who is a constant thorn in the flesh for the Biden administration, and now Devin Archer, who is, you know, again, providing the straight, direct line between Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and all the foreign money and seemingly corruption that is out there.
I mean, it's just getting worse for him.
But one of the other things in bionomics, you know, they keep touting stuff.
And we've talked about this before.
Just because you, you know, make a problem, then try to work at it and solve it, and it gets a little bit better doesn't mean that you solve the problem.
Because when you start the problem, you're the problem to start with.
So, one of the things that's actually coming back up, and I was on set the other day on Fox Business on Maria's Bartiromo show in the mornings, and one of the guests, Francis, was talking about the fact that you're having credit cards defaults, you're seeing some real estate foreclosures, you're starting to see gas prices go up, food prices go up, you know, and the Biden administration has been talking about how great it is to be at 4%.
You know, they were down under 4% now on inflation, went from the high of 9%, which I remind everyone, they caused.
I mean, you know, it's like...
Again, it's like going outside in new clothes into a mud hole, getting muddy, blaming it on the mud, and then coming inside and washing your clothes and saying, look, you solved it.
I mean, again, if you had not gotten the mud to start with, you wouldn't have had dirty clothes.
So the same thing is true with inflation numbers here as we look at it.
But as you look at these inflation numbers, one of the things that's actually being driven up recently is gas prices.
And over the past month or so, if you've been watching, gas prices are also the barometer for people's moods.
When gas prices go up, you can tell there's a souring on the economy.
When people are having to put more dollars into their tank instead of being able to put it toward bread, milk, I mean, people will complain about higher prices for bacon, they'll complain about higher prices for orange juice, and they get that.
But really the rub that gets most Americans, especially outside of the cities and the beltways, is when gas and diesel prices go up.
And when you start seeing 27 cents, which is one of the latest numbers, 27 cents per gallon over the four or five week period, people are starting to notice that.
You know, it had gotten down to the low threes, sometimes even under three in certain areas for gas.
Diesel was still running between the low mid threes and around there.
And now it's going back up.
And the price is largely due to higher oil prices, which have been climbing on the backs of production cuts that came from OPEC Plus members, including Saudi Arabia, which announced it would extend its voluntary cut of 1 million barrels per day through September.
And even Russia took some of its supply off the market.
Now, you're saying, well, Douglas, this is just those countries being, you know, price gouging and they're just wanting to get back.
But I have to remind you, folks, That it is the Biden administration that cannot now increase our domestic oil production because they've declared war on it.
And it has been harder for companies to get permits.
It's harder for new drilling and exploration to take place.
Why?
Because the Biden administration has decided that the American energy sector is bad.
And it's not bad in the sense that they've been declaring it bad for any other reason, except ideologically, they're still pushing a climate change agenda and other things that say that we've got to get away from fossil fuels.
Again, with no Other precursory background or anything else, this is what they have decided that we need to do.
So, again, just like we sort of did in the last segment on the gun issue, this is a self-inflicted wound by the Biden administration.
And here's the bad part about it.
When we decided to cut back our own production in Russia, we decided to boycott Russian oil.
Then we start going to places like Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, and others, even Iran on the market, to get our oil.
We've made ourselves dependent.
Again, I can't emphasize this enough.
This is a problem of their own making.
But yet they blame it on everybody else and just say, well, it's going to happen.
But this one is one, though, that sometimes I think they actually encourage because I think they don't want to see cheap gas.
I'm beginning to believe that the Democrats don't like cheap energy alternatives because I've actually heard some Democrats actually say that if it gets expensive enough, people will then change their habits.
Electrical vehicles will come in.
Hybrids will come in.
Bicycles will come in.
Okay, folks, you're not going to ride in Gainesville, Georgia, where I'm from.
You're not going to get on a 10-speed bike and ride 20 miles to your job.
You're not going to do it.
Most of America does not live in a New York or a Chicago or L.A. or San Francisco downtown.
By the way, if you live in a San Francisco downtown, you'd be scared to ride a bicycle anywhere because of the crime problem and also L.A. being a similar issue.
Even Atlanta, which is not bike-friendly by the bike community standards, but it's better than others in a lot of ways to get around.
Again, this is just not an option.
So to say we're going to, and this is again, government forcing the interdiction of personal habits and personal lifestyle choices into a system that just really is not broken.
These two stories are interrelated.
They're two stories of Washington, D.C. trying to solve problems or saying they're solving problems while at the same point making it worse and then trying to blame everybody on everybody else.
You know, and again, I agree with this, and it was a piece out of, there's a comment, I meant this earlier, I mentioned it before, but there's actually this piece out of Axios, it talked about the face that the nation's mood runs on gas prices, when their high economic vibes worsen, and rising energy prices keep inflation levels elevated, complicated, you know, what is the Fed's effort to bring these But you're seeing it not just in gas, you're seeing it in these other things.
And also we're starting to see some foreclosures numbers jump up, bankruptcy numbers jump up.
There's a lot of folks who are saying, economists now who are looking at this 4%, less than 4% inflation number over a year is actually going to go back up because these numbers lag in the inflation process, meaning that if they're growing up in one month, you won't see it until maybe another month or two in the numbers that are coming out for inflation.
Again, you know, what is wrong with us using the resource that God gave us, that we have in our country?
You know, Alaska, you know, the Texas.
We have natural gas.
You know, we were exporting natural gas.
I mean, we did so much.
This was the one area that I think, you know, if Donald Trump focused on a great deal in his campaign, is that we were energy independent.
And that we were a world leader.
We were not going and begging at the feet of Venezuela and Saudi Arabia to pump more oil so that we can get the gas prices down, Joe Biden.
But you have been so sold out to the far-left agenda of whatever they say goes on climate change that this is where we're at.
So again, two stories so far that actually look at this idea that Washington, in all fairness, cannot solve the problems instead typically tends to make them worse.
Another episode here that shows government and Joe Biden, again, I wanted to touch on this because we've had Tom Homans on recently on our podcast, and what he was telling us, and he gave us actually a preview of it, illegal crossings in the U.S. southern border jumped by more than 30% in July, dealing a blow to...
President Biden's new immigration enforcement strategy at a time when his policy was facing a lot of legal challenges.
Remember, what Tom told us and what we've shared here before is that instead of what the Mayorkas has done, he's used a non-legal way to send everybody through the port of entry.
In other words, you're taking it off of some of these other border crossings and just simply sending them to the port of entry and letting them in on asylum claims and others.
Folks, I can't emphasize this enough, and I've talked about it and I've talked about it and I've talked about it, that I just can't emphasize that 95-97% of all asylum claims are denied.
I was just in New York, and the migrants are up there that have been shipped from Texas and other places have overwhelmed the city.
They have old hotels that are overbooked.
They have illegal immigrants sitting outside, laying in the streets.
I saw this with my own eyes just in the last few weeks.
The interesting society here is, I jokingly said about this before, we went back and did the old night court.
If you remember night court based in New York, but night court was a funny TV show, and I think they've actually had a reboot of it now.
But they come in and they get the caseloads out in the evening.
Well, why don't we just have immigration street court?
Where you just bring the immigration judges and you bring them up and just set them up at one of these hotels that they're, quote, storing them and helping store the belongings and house the illegal immigrants that are here.
And if they're coming here on an asylum claim, then have the hearing right there.
They're set standards for what asylum is.
And when they go through the process, high 90% are not found by these same immigration judges, many of whom are appointed under Democrat administrations.
They're not sending them out.
They're not letting them stay.
In fact, they're saying, no, you got to go home.
If they show up for court, Over 90 plus percent, higher than 90 percent, is being denied their asylum claim.
I'm tired of the Mayorkas Department of Homeland Security using and abusing our Custom and Border Patrol agents, our ICE agents, to carry out, one, illegal functions of putting illegals through the port of entry using dubious claims of parole and others coming through illegal functions of putting illegals through the port of entry using dubious claims of Because the asylum claims don't work.
Folks, where else would we say, okay, well, you know, it's only a 3% chance or 5% chance that you may, your claim may be granted.
And if you're from places like Mexico and other places, you're not going to probably get granted.
But yet we let them come here.
And most of them will never go back to their court appearance.
Most of them are missing in action when it comes to their court appearances.
So they get sent here.
And then you have an administration who doesn't want to use the immigration control enforcement to actually go after them.
So we're...
I mean...
Again, Tom Holm has made this very, very clear, but we just don't have the resources to ship everybody back.
And I think that's been the whole, if you look at it from the Democratic perspective, they wanted to get to a certain tipping point to where it's just simply unfeasible, unmanageable, however you want to put it, just to deport all those that have been brought in.
And Joe Biden by himself, just in the last couple of years, they're upwards of the millions, two million plus, who have actually come over.
This is in a country in which you have 20 to 30 to 40 million, depending on the numbers and how you count them, that are here illegally.
And that's counting those who overstayed visas as well as those who crossed the border illegally.
You're going to hear more about this, and I don't care where you live, the fentanyl issue, the drug issue, the worker issue, all of this is coming about.
All of this is being a part of this administration.
And they don't want to talk about it.
They don't want to talk about it.
And, you know, it's just...
You know, sad.
I mean, these are the whole, you know, problems that are coming up and are just being expounded upon by an administration that has absolutely seemingly no regard for what, you know, most could see, as they like to say, common sense, you know, when it comes to the economy, when it comes to our immigration control, when it comes to crime and these issues.
And the last one I want to talk about is which fits perfectly into this, and this is where most of, unfortunately, Washington deals today.
We've had episodes here on the Doug Collins podcast where we've actually talked about how bills should actually work, how Congress should work, how the administration should work, the executive branch, the judicial role as well.
But just this past little bit, the end of summer, Millions of new regulations being dropped by the Biden administration and just dropping them truckload after truckload of regulations that are being poured onto businesses.
And these are all imposed by the administration when they couldn't get it through Congress.
And most all of us realize that if we go back to the old how a bill becomes a law, it doesn't say, well, if you can't get it passed in one house, then don't worry, we'll just have the Department of Interior send out a regulatory memo, and that's how we'll do it anyway.
That's not how it is to be done.
I'm going to probably at some point later on spend a lot more time on this because I think it needs to be brought up more and more and more that the regulatory state is the biggest issue that we're dealing with.
The fact that once they get these regulations in place, and unless you can get it to the courts, and the courts take for years to drag through, and especially if the administration wants to drag these cases out, the damage is done.
And by the time that these are overturned, And this Supreme Court has been very good at saying this is, you know, out of step with the congressional intent of legislation, but by then the business damage is done and these people and businesses and all are already hurt and no matter what has changed, you know, it's not going back to the way it was.
The undermining of America starts in the executive branch agencies, which are not being, they're being used as legislative branches instead of the enforcement branches that they're supposed to be.
Big issue here.
We probably need to dig into that more and I'll have some hopefully some friends on that we can talk about that in the process of going forward.
But these are just, you know, some things basically as you look at these processes going forward, you see how government And the theme for this one is, look, government is, you know, the old Ronald Reagan statement, he said, you know, this was the six most dangerous words in the world, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Or whatever, you know, it's just those words coming from a government official's mouth.
And the stories that I gave you today ought to just show you that That is a scary thought.
Government needs to be limited.
It needs to be in its constitutional role.
It needs to do what it's supposed to do and stay out of everything else.
And if we can do that, then we've got to hope.
Right now, it doesn't look that good.
And this administration has bought wholeheartedly into the fact that they would rather go beyond the legislative intent of Congress, go beyond Congress even through the legislative actions that are being taken through regulations through the administrative branch agencies, and You know, they would much rather do that and then force you to have to, in essence, prove that they are wrong.
Not the way this country was designed.
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