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Nov. 15, 2023 - Doug Collins Podcast
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You want to listen to a podcast?
By who?
Georgia GOP Congressman Doug Collins.
How is it?
The greatest thing I have ever heard in my whole life.
I could not believe my ears.
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.
Alright everybody, welcome back to the Doug Collins Podcast.
Glad to have you joining us here in just a minute.
We're going to touch on some things that are going on in the United States that you may not have thought of and may not understand because why?
The mainstream media doesn't tell you.
Also, we're going to touch on, for a brief moment, we're going to touch on a sensitive subject and that is impeachments in the House and where they're going and because this week has been an impeachment attempt by Marjorie Taylor Greene on Mayorkas.
We see this as the taping.
There's not a resolution of that.
But, you know, I want to discuss this in general, get to it, and then we'll get on to some more of what's going on in the world, especially with some things going on with the administration across the country that you may have missed.
And this is why we come to the Doug Collins podcast to let you know what you may be missing.
So with that, wait till after the break.
We'll come back.
We'll get right into it.
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Okay, as we're back this morning, one of the issues that I want to discuss, and I get this a lot, and hear me clearly, and you can read my book, which, by the way, if you forgot what the book looks like, you haven't seen it, or maybe you didn't know that I wrote a book.
You can see it here.
It's called The Clock and the Calendar.
I wrote this, and it's...
It's a front row look at the Democrats' obsession with Donald Trump, and really what happened in the round of 2019 when the Democrats took power, had no other governing agenda policy except get Donald Trump.
And we went through Mueller, we went through everything that they possibly could think of, and then they finally came up with a faux impeachment, Adam Schiff in his little star chamber in the basement, Came up with the impeachable quote, offenses that Donald Trump had on a phone call, which again, was not impeachable and it was not anything that should have been done this, but we wasted the entire fall.
Only reason was political.
And that was if they got it to the Senate, they wanted it to be he was impeached.
They wanted him to have that stain of impeachment, so to speak, because they were basically, I believe, engaging in electoral politics to get him beat in 2024. Now, that was the reason that they did it.
Was it ever a possibility in the current setup that Donald Trump would have been removed from office by that impeachment?
No.
Not a chance.
Not a chance.
But they did it anyway.
And for some on our side now, and the Democrat side, this was their chance to get back at Bill Clinton.
Even some of the words that were said because we had impeached Bill Clinton.
Every president in the last 30 years has been under the threat of impeachment.
It was interesting enough that before Nixon, really, it was never discussed.
Of impeachment that much above the president, unless there was an issue like Nixon, which clearly had criminal motive and means that was leading toward what would be a successful impeachment, which would have been the first in our country.
You know, going back to Johnson after the Civil War, which again failed by one vote.
In the Senate.
When you understand the political motivations of impeachment, then you understand that it is not what the high standard of impeachment should be, and that is, you know, high crimes and misdemeanors and treasonous fraud, those kind of things, which Nixon checked all the boxes on and, by the way, was coming forth with a bipartisan agreement that this president should no longer be in office.
Since then, none of this has been the standard for impeachment.
It has been purely political.
It has been purely to get at things that we don't like.
And this going back again from the Democrats' perspective is what happened that they believed under Bill Clinton.
However, Bill Clinton did actually commit a crime.
He committed perjury.
But since then, it's been George Bush needs to be impeached because of Afghanistan and Iraq.
He needs to be impeached because of X. Then Obama needs to be impeached because of other things.
Then, you know, Trump needs to be impeached.
And that's what the Democrats got there.
They wanted to get back at from what happened to Clinton.
They found they hated Donald Trump anyway.
And so that's what really precipitated this.
And from the before Donald Trump was elected.
They talked about impeachment.
And before Joe Biden, frankly, was even put into office, there was discussion of impeachment of Joe Biden.
Of course, that would have never happened in the first two years because the Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate.
So you knew that wasn't going to happen.
But immediately when the Republicans took control last November, the discussions were, we're going to impeach Joe Biden.
And this is the place where we are now.
And there have been impeachment calls for Mayorkas, which I believe has actually broken the law by not enforcing the law.
And there's been impeachment discussions on several other people.
Here's the reality.
Impeachment is a valid function of Congress.
It is a needful function of Congress to hold people in the administration and the judiciary accountable for the oaths of office for their job and for not doing what we know of as criminal activity.
It is not put in place because you don't like their policies and you're politically opposed to them.
Also, The question comes as well, we just need to do it because, you know, even if it doesn't go anywhere in the Senate, it just shows they were impeached.
Okay.
I mean, at that point, I was just sort of stuck.
I don't disagree with they'll be impeached, but a cabinet member could care less because it's not going to be taken up in the Senate under Chuck Schumer.
It's just not.
So you've impeached them, but you've not removed them.
The President, at this point, there's been a lot of controversy over the last few days in the weekend from Speaker Mike Johnson, who said that at this point made the comment there's not enough to do a formal impeachment inquiry.
Again, basically restating what I've said on this podcast many times, that there was not this idea that Kevin McCarthy or Nancy Pelosi could stand behind a podium and say, we're launching a formal impeachment inquiry of the President.
That just doesn't make it so.
If he had the votes, he could have put it on the floor, came up with an impeachment resolution that was completely devoted to impeachment, that laid out the process, that laid out how it was going to take place, and those don't take place in 30 days.
They take a lot longer.
If you don't believe me, just go back and look at the Nixon, which lasted several years.
Johnson just made the obvious statement that right now, I think what he was basically saying was, is there's not enough for us to bring this to the floor and get every Republican to vote for it and even possibly some Democrats to vote for it.
It's just not there.
Now, you may disagree.
I may disagree.
You may look at the checks and say, see, look at the checks.
They go here and they go there.
But remember, you're viewing this from the perspective of, number one, one lens.
Number two, no cross-examination.
And we as Republicans do believe in the rule of law.
Whether we like it or not, due process should be afforded.
And that was one of my biggest concerns and biggest discussions with the House of Representatives back in 2019 during the impeachment of Donald Trump was the absolute lack of due process.
Now, I may agree.
That Joe Biden has been corrupt.
The things that he has done, the things from documents to monies, shown to be is not fit to be president.
I can agree with that statement all day long.
However, if I can't get my own party in the House to vote with me to start this impeachment inquiry, to start it down the road, and then knowing full well that Chuck Schumer will not take it up, You can say, well, Doug, it's political and we need to show it just so they did it.
We're going to do it.
Okay, fine.
But just realize it's not going to go any further.
It's going to end up in the same thing.
And remember what Donald Trump rightfully said, I've been acquitted.
What you said I did was not true.
Now, the Democrats didn't use that in saying that, you know, look, he's corrupt.
He's been impeached.
And again, theirs was purely political.
And granted, ours seems to be as well.
And that's okay if that's what you understand it to be.
But let me just caution you that we have made impeachment the go-to device for anything we don't like without the benefit of, you know, due process and hearings.
Believe me, if you have it, you have it.
Okay?
You shouldn't be concerned about offering the other side a chance to explain it.
But right now, we're running to the press with everything that we can cover, and the Democrats are just sending back saying, well, what about this?
What about that?
What about this?
All legitimate questions if you're accusing somebody of doing something wrong.
Which, again, Democrats did it to Republicans, and there's a part and place in this to get back at Democrats.
I believe the best way you get back at Democrats is you win elections, you win the Senate, win the House, win the presidency, and put your policies in place.
And all along, show them how out of touch they are.
Just please hear me.
As you deal with these and we go forward with these impeachments, whether they come together or get tabled or anything else, while we're doing this, we have no spending bills.
We have no clear vision of what we're going to go through for the next year to get Republican priorities in place.
And if you believe that Republican priorities are to simply impeach in the House, but never convict, never get them moved to office, and you want to spend time doing that, fair to you.
You have earned the pin by winning an election.
Go at it.
But please remember that simply going to the floor, directly to the floor, to impeach someone like they did with Donald Trump in the second impeachment, and to the most part, the first one as well, Remember what you said then.
No due process.
You're rushing this to the floor.
This is out of madness.
This is out of spite.
Again, I don't want to damper the enthusiasm of many Who realistically and rightfully so want to hold accountable these agencies and these individuals that they don't like.
But also at the same point, there is other ways to work with this.
Why don't you, you know, again, from the immigration standpoint, put together a border bill that you can pass.
And then, you know, hold tight with the Senate and say, we're not going to pass anything until you at least pass some of this, or at least something that gets us better on the border.
And then, again, we work toward next year, get rid of this administration, get rid of the Senate Democrats, and hold the House.
Then you can, then, again, it comes back to the House, being able to put together enough votes together to get this done.
So, again, just remember that when you're out there discussing this, talking about it, and everything else about the impeachment issue and what we're actually going to be able to accomplish as we move forward together as a majority and hopefully winning elections next year.
Moving on, I want to cut a couple of quick things out of the headlines.
MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the more foremost You know, research institutions in the world explained why they did not follow through on expelling anti-Semitic students who were involved in anti-Semitic events in which the Jewish students and Israeli students on campus felt that they were being threatened.
Physical safety were being threatened and they couldn't go to class because of the anti-Semitic activity.
The president, Sally Cornbluff, issued a warning saying that they were going to be deported.
I mean, I'm sorry, they were going to be expelled.
However, They're not doing that because they realize that if they get expelled, then they could get deported.
And they, as MIT president, realizes that about a third of its student population is comprised of foreign nationals.
And if you start chipping away and getting these people, these anti-Semitic bigots, out of the campus, then guess who loses money?
MIT. The president's looking after the bottom line here of the university.
Sally Kornbluth is not looking out for the Jewish students who feel threatened, although I will guarantee you it'd be interesting to me that if it was a turn the opposite way around, she would probably shut everything down to protect a liberal organization or a liberal group or a minority opinion on, you know, lifestyles and gender and other things or abortion.
But yet, she doesn't want to lose the money.
Everything follows the money here, folks.
So MIT, you're not looking at this from a perspective of, you know, oh, we're not sure what we want to do.
You're looking at it from the fact that you don't want them to be deported so that you lose their tuition.
Plain and simple.
What a sad state we are.
Case we are in the United States in dealing with the...
You know, places that we see and the people that we go through.
Moving right along, Pope Francis removes the Texas bishop for criticizing his progressiveness.
Now, I am not Catholic.
I am Baptist, as many of you well know.
I've been a pastor and a chaplain for almost, well, over 30 years.
This is interesting.
Pope Francis has removed the leader of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, a conservative bishop who is a vocal critic of the Pontiff.
And if you and if you talk to Catholics, especially conservative Catholics, they have seen a move to the left by this pontiff.
And it's, you know, different stances that has been taken that has seemed to liberalize, you know, many things under the Catholic teaching from priesthood to its treatment of our discussions of theological discussions many things under the Catholic teaching from priesthood to its treatment of our discussions of theological discussions of gender So, again, it's interesting enough that the tent's not big enough that unless you criticize the Pope, you get put out.
And the Bishop Strickland, who is, you know, basically claimed, you know, weakness here of the Pope, has been removed.
And it was, you know, and again, just an interesting part here when you see a theological shift to the left that is continuing to...
Be prevalent in our religious communities.
And again, I bring this up not to give commentary because I'm not Catholic, but it is interesting that in a time in which Catholic attendance,
Protestant attendance, however claiming, is in decline, it is interesting that trying to become like the world and be more palatable to the world runs in direct contradiction to the scripture which says you're to be in the world but not of the world And for the Pope to lash out at a bishop who criticizes him, I get it.
It's his organ, Pope's organization.
He can keep in who he wants.
But when you're dealing with folks in Tyler, Texas, who seem to be very happy with, you know, the bishop that they have and the concern of whether they want to do a mass in Latin or not, or they, you know, they don't agree with a loosening of restrictions on the things that they're seeing move away from.
In a setting up in the next couple of years in which you could move away from even the male priesthood and others, again, whether you agree with it or not, this is the kind of movement in doctrine and theology that I think is really one of the things that's happened in many churches and many congregations,
that when young people don't see a difference, In an organization, from the world that they live in, when they're looking for hope, they're looking for truth, they're looking for things to stand by.
And they don't see it in their institutions, except they see their institutions such as churches becoming more like the world.
And this has nothing to do if you sing an old hymn or if you sing a praise song.
That's the most ridiculous argument in the church today.
It's about the basics of Jesus and the basics of the calling of the Christian faith and being God.
You know the one thing that I don't see?
You don't see the Muslim faith doing this.
In many ways, you see the very hard Sharia side of Muslim faith, and you have a more moderate side, which you see in Christianity already, that works itself out.
This is interesting to me in the sense that the Pope has taken this action against a certain priest, a bishop in Texas, because of his disagreement over things of the Pope.
Again, we'll see where this all melts out in the next couple of years in the Catholic Church, but it is an interesting position to me that You know, the doctrines of the church are the doctrines of the church.
And unless they are based on, you know, like, and I'll use an example, so some of you may get ill with me.
You know, look, there was a time in which Southern Baptists and Baptist churches and many other denominations preached that slavery was okay.
That was wrong.
And thank God, most of them, if not all of them, have changed, especially on the denominational level.
I mean, when things are wrong, you fix it.
But things that are not, you know, from your doctrinal belief system, then you have to deal with it.
And maybe, you know, maybe you theologically believe that, you know, there shouldn't be a male priesthood.
There should be female priests.
Okay, that's something for the Catholic Church to deal with.
But when you suppress discussion, Then you're simply going to turn more and more people off.
And I think this is one of the interesting things that has progressed for me out of this whole discussion.
Another issue, just to show you where we are in the United States, The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals declares the Biden ban on ghost guns to be unlawful.
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals last week said the Biden administration on ghost guns or firearms without serial numbers determined that the ATF lacked authority to enact them.
The decision upholds the lower court decision that held the ATF exceeded its authority.
The Supreme Court allowed the restrictions to take effect while the case made its way through the appeals process.
The ruling is a blow to President Joe Biden, who called for tighter restrictions on firearms, including assault weapons ban.
Early in his administration, the Supreme Court struck down a New York State requirement that concealed carry permits happens to demonstrate a need to carry a firearm.
I don't have a need, I have a right.
It is found in the Constitution.
As they go forward, the administration has said that ghost guns are attracted to criminals and others prohibited from lawfully buying firearms, including minors.
There were about 20,000 suspected ghost guns reported in 2021 as having been recovered by law enforcement in criminal investigations.
Doesn't say they were actually used in a criminal act, but just says they were included.
A tenfold increase.
You're going to see more of this.
This will not end.
You'll see this as it goes forward.
Also, the Ninth Circuit Court I've said that the assault weapons ban in California was also unconstitutional.
Looking forward to seeing these cases make it all the way to the Supreme Court.
And then I'll leave you with one that just, to me, shows you where we are and, you know, for this midweek episode of the Doug Collins podcast, just shows you As you all know, I am very much a proponent of what we call criminal justice reform in the sense that are we making the punishment match the crime?
Are we doing everything we can to make sure that those involved in the criminal justice system have the tools and the abilities when they get out of the criminal justice system to not go back into it?
Making sure that you don't just put bad guys and girls out on the street.
Simply because you don't want to implement bail or keep them in jail.
You've got to look at the total process of what the person did, his hit, their history, and then determine what they, you know, need as far as pretrial detention.
I think there needs to be more pretrial services like, you know, veterans courts and DUI courts and drug courts and all these kind of things.
I'm still in that fight.
I will be in that fight as long as I'm in public life because I believe it matters and I believe that where we spend money, you're going to spend it one way or the other.
We've got to be really good at dealing in people issues and criminal justice issues in the system in which we have.
Now, all that said, every time those of us who try to do common sense reform to get things moving, we have the stupidity that we're seeing in the big cities.
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington D.C., New York City.
And here's something that you don't even see And again, this is where it's becoming very difficult to assess.
The crime rate and the crimes being committed, especially petty theft and other things in shoplifting cases, is to the point now where it's affecting Business decisions to stay in certain areas, which then again affects the communities in which they serve.
Grocery stores not wanting to stay in inner city areas, which creates food deserts for those who have trouble getting access to nutritious foods.
They end up eating out of fast food restaurants.
They end up eating out of convenience stores.
They don't get the nutrition that they need.
These are, in turn, Those least able to afford it, and that is many times minority populations, the poor of all backgrounds and ethnicities.
And now we have a story out of the New York Post that a CBS location in Washington, D.C. was forced to wipe its shelves clean of toilet paper and replace them instead with framed photos of the products amid rising thefts in the country's capital.
If customers need to purchase any toilet paper or paper towels, they must tape a buzzer placed on the bare shelves to summon a store employee to retrieve it from the back room.
The unusual store display started after homeless people began snatching the products off the shelves of the drugstore.
Reports of robbery in D.C. are up by 68% in 2023 compared to last year.
More than 3,000 robberies have taken place so far in 2023, up substantially from 1,791 at this time in D.C. And this data comes from the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C. You're seeing this all across the country.
You're seeing it in drug stores in big cities.
You're seeing it in stores in big cities.
You're seeing it even in some in non-big cities.
Folks, if it's not yours, don't take it.
It's not there for you to take.
It's not free.
You're not getting back at the capitalist system.
You're just creating less opportunity for those around you.
You're creating less jobs because people will close the stores.
If you don't have an understanding of how businesses work, they're not there to not make money.
They're not there to not turn a profit.
They're not there just to be free services for you to come steal it.
But also I fault the cities here as well.
Where is the help in not only prosecuting these cases, Making it, again, the realization that you're not going to get caught or if you do get caught, nothing is going to happen is not criminal justice reform.
It's stupid.
And to see this going on when you can then go overseas in Europe and everywhere else, and they don't deal with this kind of issue.
I've seen several posts here recently of people leaving very expensive bicycles out in the open next to their apartments and stuff.
They're not being worried about being stolen.
You come here, again, why?
Because we have lowered the standard of what actually is acceptable in this country.
And bad behavior is being not only tolerated, but encouraged.
And how is it being encouraged?
Because you don't stop it.
How is it being encouraged?
Because you don't prosecute it.
How's it been encouraged?
To not go to work and not have a job because you're getting government money that says, well, we feel sorry for you, so we're going to give you money and you don't have to work for it.
Again, when you take away the pride in work, when you take away the idea that work matters, when you take away the idea that there is reason to grow and to educate yourself and to learn how to have marketable skills, then you're in trouble.
And I think it starts back in our education system, our college system, and others, that when you get to the point in which you believe everything is owed to you, then we will have a nation that begins to crumble.
And that's what we're seeing right now.
And when you see things like this, folks, I try to say remember this in election time, but many times people have just bailed out of the cities and the only people still voting are the ones who, quote, benefit from this system, and they don't look around their own neighborhoods and see the rot that is actually there.
How's this going to work?
That's what we're going to be spending the next year.
We're underneath the year now, between now and the 2024 election.
We're going to talk more about this as we come up, as we do each and every week here on the Doug Collins Podcast.
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