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Rep Matt Gaetz on What It's Like Being Florida's Firebrand | TRIGGERED Ep. 13

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	It is great to be back on another episode of Triggered.
	I had an awesome time this weekend, both at CPAC and then with my children.
	I actually, you know, I bailed out a little bit early from my father's speech because, well,
	I knew what was going to be in it, and I figured after spending two days at CPAC, there's one Trump in the room is probably plenty, and he did an awesome job.
	We'll be talking about that.
	I also am going to be going one-on-one with conservative firebrand and congressman Matt Gaetz.
	You're going to want to check that out.
	We talk about the committees, we talk about the action, or perhaps the lack of action, and maybe a call to action from you guys to make sure you understand where to go to make sure
	That we get the results that we need.
	So you're going to want to check this episode out.
	It's a lot of fun.
	I'll also be addressing the media's outrage.
	They're outraged at me.
	I guess they want to cancel me.
	I'm a terrible human being, apparently.
	That'll be fun.
	We'll talk about that.
	That's in regards to my CPAC comments about Senator John Fetterman.
	But before we get going, guys, we have to understand, and we talk about this, we talk about this with our advertisers, how we got to support the companies that support us, like Gold Co.
	You know, visit donjrgold.com.
	We talk about it with Field of Greens, where you can see fieldofgreens.com promo Don Jr.
	Support those companies, because I had an instance happen to me at the middle of last week.
	It actually became sort of the fundamental point of my speech on Friday at CPAC, where PNC Bank, major national bank, cut off.
	The working capital account of a small business that I started called MXM News, like Minute by Minute.
	MXM News.
	We're a news aggregator.
	Me, my partner in it, Taylor Budowich, a good friend, they've been telling us all these times to build our own.
	You know, if you don't like what's going on on social or whatever it is, build your own.
	So we did.
	And then...
	Well, the banks cancel you, or other people, they can't get on the App Store, or they can't get on Google Store, or if they're on Amazon Web Services, they get canceled and pulled away.
	So, it's always an illusion, folks, right?
	Build your own, but then we're gonna pull the rug out from you.
	Sure, go do it yourself.
	We're gonna put every obstacle, we're gonna try to make it insurmountable for you to get something done.
	The American people who are sick of the nonsense.
	And so, my partner calls me, I think it was last Wednesday.
	We got a problem.
	Uh, we're missing $750,000 from the operating account of the business that we started, which literally just aggregates news.
	Check it out for yourselves.
	You can download it.
	Like, just go or go check out the website, mxmnews.com.
	Like, very simple.
	We take news from everywhere.
	We have the New York Times, and we'll have Breitbart.
	We'll put up conservative stuff that you wouldn't see, right, from mainstream places, but mainstream places that are shunned by big tech and social and all these things, all the stuff that gets suppressed.
	So you can see both sides of the story, because we want you to see both.
	And then you can make up your opinion on who's actually lying, who's telling you the truth, or find out if you believe maybe the story's somewhere in the middle, and oftentimes it could be.
	But apparently for PNC Bank, that was a step too far.
	My partner calls me thinking that that money is missing and calls the bank in a panic.
	I'm not exactly thrilled.
	I'm saying, hey buddy, like, did you just lose three quarters of a million dollars?
	That's, you know, it's a small business.
	That's a lot of money.
	That's the operating account.
	We can't lose that.
	Calls the bank.
	Oh, oh, uh, yeah, you'll get a, you'll get a FedEx in the mail next day or so.
	And we'll, uh, we, we, there's a cashier's check in there.
	We're just closing out your account.
	Wow, for the crime of letting people see news.
	It's not like we're creating news, you know.
	I would have written stories how, obviously, the Wuhan lab leak happened two years ago.
	And they would have cancelled me for that, even though it proved to be truth, like all conspiracy theories.
	But they would have cancelled me for that.
	But we're not even doing that.
	We're just letting you see both sides.
	You know, the Hunter Biden story that was Russian disinformation according to everyone in the media and the intelligence community that all knew it was BS.
	We know that now.
	That was always obvious.
	I knew it then.
	Because I, you know, the problem with it I knew was when Hunter Biden himself wasn't denying its veracity was sort of point number one.
	He just had other people with no actual knowledge deny it for him so that he wouldn't have to chime in.
	So we get the call.
	I put a tweet up about it and a lot of prominent Republicans, you know, jumped in.
	Elise Stefanik, Kevin McCarthy, Matt Gaetz, Carrie Lake.
	All jumped in on saying this is outrageous and, you know, I think their PR guy had a bad day.
	We get the call.
	Oh, yeah, it was a mistake.
	Really?
	You think it was a mistake, guys?
	Because it feels like the mistakes only go one way.
	Now, it was a mistake that they got caught.
	It was a mistake.
	Maybe they didn't know it was, uh, you know, that I'd go after it the way I would.
	Should have probably figured that one out by now, but, uh,
	It's always a mistake.
	Notice you never hear about mistakes on the other side.
	Like, the most radical leftist person can put up stuff there.
	It's boosted artificially.
	You know, I think all three-year-olds should be able to go through transgender reassignment surgery.
	That's great.
	I think it's wonderful.
	You know, 50,000 likes.
	Just keep giving them the love for something that I'd say the average American thinks is lunacy and absolutely insane.
	But they did that.
	Again, the accidents only go one way.
	So that was sort of the start of my week, and it's such a key principle to this show.
	That's why I thank our advertisers for having the guts and the balls to actually just be on this kind of programming.
	That's not easy.
	But guys, if you don't think it will happen to you, you have not been watching.
	Okay?
	If you don't think it can happen to you, you also haven't been watching.
	If they can do it to me,
	Who can't they do it to?
	More importantly, with my platform and the ability to have a soapbox to preach from, if they will do it to me, who won't they do it to?
	So think about that, because it's really important that we're playing this game.
	We have to be voting with our wallets.
	So you can find our advertisers.
	Check them out in the link in the description of this very podcast.
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	They can take you through all of it, and you can see it.
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	Like, support those businesses.
	Sure, you can get stuff elsewhere that does maybe something even similar, but
	Those people are donating their money to causes that hate you.
	They're the ones, like PNC Bank, that'll cancel you until it's a mistake because they get caught or enough prominent people jump in and cause a stir.
	This stuff is happening each and every day and we have to make sure we stop it.
	The way we do that is by supporting those who have the guts to share your values and your beliefs.
	I gotta address the media because, folks, they've spent all weekend trying to cancel me.
	They spent all weekend trying to cancel me.
	I made some comments in my speech about John Fetterman.
	Senator John Fetterman.
	Many of you have seen my commentary about that before.
	And they're trying to say that because I said, John Fetterman's a vegetable, that I'm crapping on all people with disabilities!
	All of them!
	I'm not.
	I'm actually crapping on the media.
	Who told us that this man was well, and he was up for the task of being a United States Senator.
	Same, the people in the Democrat Party who knew, even before the primary, that he was unwell, but figured, hey, we can put this guy out there and get people to vote for him, or whatever, and he can rubber stamp things, and just make it happen, and just rubber stamp the Chuck Schumer things.
	So they're really mad at me.
	Uh, I hope he gets better.
	But I want the media to spare me the sanctimony, their fake outrage.
	It's all manufactured, guys.
	We know that.
	It's for clicks.
	For dollars.
	Because you know why?
	If they truly cared, they would have actually thought about that.
	Earlier, they would have had him drop off.
	They had alternatives on the left.
	Conor Lamb, who was a congressman, he could have easily ran in that race.
	But, ah, they didn't want to do that.
	If they really gave a damn, they would have said, hey, maybe, maybe you should retire now and drop out.
	But you notice that no one's actually calling for that?
	It's not credible, okay?
	These people lie through their teeth about each and every thing.
	They also want us to think that John Fetterman is capable of serving as a United States Senator, making trillion-dollar decisions for you, for your children, for your family, anyone who watched him.
	During the primaries, anyone who watched him in his race against Mehmet Oz, anyone who watched those debates, or has seen him attempt to comment on virtually anything since, understands how ridiculous a notion it is that he could be a United States Senator.
	But the outraged police are really upset that I'd call him out on it.
	None of them are asking him to step down.
	If they cared about his well-being, you'd think maybe they'd do that, but no, no, no, folks.
	It's about power, and it's about money.
	I address exactly how ridiculous the whole thing is, and I did it in my speech.
	Check this out and see for yourself.
	Like, I don't know, it's sort of weird that Pennsylvania managed to elect a vegetable
	They criticized me as being ableist.
	I didn't know what that was, but there's always an ist, right?
	There's always an ist, and it doesn't matter what you're talking about.
	And apparently an ableist is someone who discriminates against those with disabilities.
	I said, well, I'm not discriminating against an ableist.
	I'd love for John Fetterman to have, like, good gainful employment.
	Maybe he could be, like, a bag guy at, like, a grocery store, or...
	Ableist.
	Again, I don't think, and I don't think that any Americans that aren't insane think that it is an unreasonable expectation to have a United States Senator, perhaps voting on things like war.
	Again, billions, in this case, trillions of dollars to be able to have basic cognitive function.
	Again, he doesn't.
	Watch these comments.
	Apparently that, sure, is a little uncouth, 100%.
	And when you're like me, and you've taken the hits that I've had, and you've had the commentary about myself, my family,
	All of us conservatives from these same people that are so outraged now?
	Maybe you stop caring.
	Check this out.
	This is from MSDNC.
	Of course we're not going to play those comments from Donald Trump Jr., but we're joined now by the former Republican National Committee
	Oh, they get a former Republican National Committee, a rhino, you know, with people like that who needs Democrats.
	But you know, again, they're so outraged that even the Never Trump National Review got in on the hit, and got in on the fun, and they wrote this article.
	Shame on Donald Trump Jr.
	for calling Fetterman a vegetable.
	So yeah, shame on me.
	It's not like the New York Times, who wrote, John Fetterman is special needs,
	Special needs, like in quotes, that actually happened.
	Yeah, they're not to blame, right?
	We were all repeatedly told he was fit.
	But that was a lie.
	And they all knew it.
	Again, he's not working some sort of menial job for gainful employment, which would be wonderful.
	He's a United States Senator making life and death decisions for our children and grandchildren.
	We're on the brink of World War III and that guy's going to be making decisions?
	Billion dollar decisions?
	Maybe trillion dollar decisions?
	Perhaps even nuclear decisions?
	Things that could affect our country for generations?
	Guys, depression is a real thing and it's a terrible thing.
	But again,
	They all knew it.
	They all knew that his stroke was a major problem, but they figured that's the best way to gain power.
	If that wasn't the case, again, they'd be asking for him to retire or step away, but they're not doing that.
	Instead, they're having him co-sponsor legislation from the hospital giving him treatment.
	Do you think he really is involved?
	Come on, guys.
	They've been lying to you like they've lied to you about everything forever.
	It's about power.
	The shameful behavior going on here is with the people who pushed a stroke victim across a finish line purely for power.
	If he's unwell because of the stress of what's going on, maybe they should have thought about that when they had him run in a Senate campaign when they knew he wasn't well.
	Whether that was a primary or a general.
	I'm not ripping on Fetterman, folks.
	I'm ripping on the people who did a disservice to John Fetterman.
	Who added to the stress that perhaps is what put him in the hospital.
	In all likelihood,
	Obviously that's what happened, right?
	The very people who are hitting me care so little about Fetterman, they didn't bother to ask him to ever step down.
	How's he gonna recover when he's forced to run a Senate campaign or to actually do his damn job?
	Come on.
	This is all from the Democrat media activists and operators.
	They all knew.
	They gaslit us.
	And they're mad at me for, as usual, pointing out the obvious.
	They put him in this position.
	It did nothing to help him.
	But I'm the bad guy, folks.
	Remember?
	Remember what they all said about Trump, right?
	So we can all feel bad for him, but that doesn't change the fact that they put him in this position and they're pretending to take the moral high ground.
	The same people that called me, you, half of America, racists, fascists, deplorables, the dregs of society.
	You don't have to take my word for it.
	Just go look up what they called all of you.
	Because if you're watching this show, other than maybe a couple of the media people who are going to look to try to hit me again, again for clickbait, not because it's real, they can't articulate why he's still a senator or how great this could possibly be for him.
	That's besides the point.
	But they all knew.
	Where's my compassion, folks?
	Honestly, I feel bad for him, but I'm running a little low on compassion after, again, being called all the things that they called us.
	Remember, I was a traitor.
	They wanted to try me for treason.
	Adam Schiff and some pretty powerful people, frankly, people much more powerful than me, like the head of the House Intelligence Committee, numerous senators, all these people during the fake Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
	Who called on me to be tried for treason, a crime punishable by death.
	So if you're wondering where my compassion went for some of these things, no folks, I'm just fighting the game that they fight.
	I'm playing the way the other side is playing.
	And if we don't start doing the same thing, we're going to wake up one day in a country that we don't recognize anymore.
	Because they're taking those wins, and they get their sanctimony, and they get to talk about it like they're so great.
	It's all a lie.
	They say it's not for power, they're doing things for him.
	Does anyone actually believe that after lying about Russia, Russia, Russia for years, knowing that?
	Lying about the Hunter Biden laptop, lying about COVID and its origins, lying about the vaccine.
	Is there anything they haven't lied about?
	Is there anything the conspiracy theorists were wrong about?
	Is there anything that those people were not called?
	Vilified, demonized, called the worst things in the possible world by the same media that's preaching sanctimony about me expecting a United States senator to have basic cognitive function?
	No, folks.
	Remember what they said about President Donald Trump himself?
	One time, he held a banister.
	He held a banister to walk down a slippery ramp.
	Remember what they asked about his mental condition?
	He's in the later stages of dementia and Alzheimer's combined.
	Remember they had all the television psychologists magically appear to talk about how Trump must be, must be losing it.
	Remember that?
	It happened for years.
	Remember when he grabbed the thing of water with two hands before a drink and that was, I mean, that was the end of the world.
	They lost their minds.
	Remember all those things?
	Look it up.
	If you don't, look it up.
	And then, again, you can ask these guys to spare us the sanctimony, the fake outrage, because their hypocrisy and evil knows no bounds.
	But I'm sure they got some clickbait over the weekend.
	So just remember, folks, the only problem with every argument that I've made this evening as it relates to this insanity, this obvious
	Ridiculousness that a man that can't complete a sentence should be serving as a United States Senator and no one should be able to say anything about it because somehow that's discriminatory.
	I guess the hole in the argument is why should a United States Senator be held
	To a different standard than the President of the United States himself.
	So, it's remarkable that Fetterman's clear disability has to be covered up by the press.
	By Democrat operatives.
	By Big Tep.
	But they leaped and tried to claim my father was somehow handicapped for holding a banister.
	Same people, folks.
	Can John Fetterman deliver a two-hour speech like my father did this weekend?
	Two hours straight?
	Can he deliver a sentence without getting flustered?
	Can he complete a thought?
	Because I have not actually seen that, and I've watched a lot of video on it.
	I've commented on a lot.
	But again, that makes me a terrible person.
	President Trump's CPAC speech was full of gems.
	Okay, we gotta move on from Federman, but media, that's my commentary to you.
	You can go be as outraged as you absolutely want, but no one's believing the bullshit that you're selling after years of lies, after years of vilifying people, after years of calling for unity, not just you, but President Joe Biden, and then getting on a stage and vilifying
	Half of the voting populace of this country is deplorables and much, much worse.
	So, here's a couple of the highlights from my father's speech, because he's 100% right.
	He promised there would be retribution against the left, and honestly, given everything we've just discussed, everything we've seen, everything we've becalled, I think that's exactly what we need.
	Check it out.
	And if you put me back in the White House, their reign is over.
	Their reign will be over.
	And they know it.
	And America will be a free nation once again.
	We're not a free nation right now.
	We don't have free press.
	We don't have free anything.
	In 2016, I declared, I am your voice.
	Today, I add, I am your warrior.
	I am your justice.
	And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.
	I am your retribution.
	Not going to let this happen.
	Well guys, I love that.
	But what I like even more is that he, like you, understands that the Republican Party has changed forever.
	There is no more party of Paul Ryan or Liz Cheney or Mitt Romney.
	That doesn't exist other than in the DC circles where they're trying desperately to bring it back.
	Check out this clip because this is about taking back control from the establishment insanity.
	When we started this journey, a journey like there has never been before.
	There's never been anything like this.
	We had a Republican Party that was ruled by freaks, neocons, globalists, open border zealots, and fools.
	But we are never going back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove, and Jeb Bush.
	Well guys, there's also quite a bit of policy in this speech, but I think this one perhaps is most important.
	Not just Trump, Elon Musk has talked about this, everything, but interesting proposals to create a new baby boom.
	Check this one out, because I think it's important and I think you'll like it.
	We will support baby boomers.
	And we will support baby bonuses for a new baby boom.
	How does that sound?
	That sounds pretty good.
	I want a baby boom.
	Oh, you men are so lucky out there.
	You're so lucky.
	You are so lucky, men.
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	I suggest you check out the full speech.
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	Now, we're gonna get to my one-on-one with Matt Gaetz, and I'll be back at the end to talk to you more.
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	Check it out, folks.
	Thanks for everything.
	You guys are the best.
	Guys, welcome back to Triggered.
	I'm here with, well, if you're following me, everyone knows Matt Gaetz, one of the true fighters in Congress, one of the guys really pushing for the America First agenda, and I wanted to bring Matt on here to talk about everything that's going on, because Matt and I understand sort of the optics of what the American people are sold and the realities of Washington, D.C.
	Absolutely.
	And I want to hear about this.
	You've been given some pretty good and powerful positions to go after these people.
	I think what I hear most, how do we know it's actually happening?
	Right?
	Because we've heard sound bites for years.
	This is what we're doing and nothing happens.
	This is what's going to happen and then the clock runs out.
	How do we hold them accountable?
	Well, I think that we have to set expectations based on the playing field we see.
	I'm not going to tell you that people are going to be let out in handcuffs.
	You know why?
	The only folks who can charge anyone with a crime are at the Biden Justice Department.
	And part of what the whistleblowers are telling us
	You have any claim against Biden, diminished, deemed Russian information, any possible thing against President Trump or anyone close to him or America?
	I know a little bit about this.
	Not my first rodeo.
	But even to the point...
	of parents who show up at school board meetings where all of a sudden you've got the FBI taking down license plate numbers.
	Well, I guess if you're a practicing Catholic, you're a domestic terrorist.
	If you're a concerned mother showing up to a PTA meeting, you're a domestic terrorist.
	You know who's not a domestic terrorist?
	Domestic terrorists.
	Like, actual domestic terrorists, if they, you know, well, they're liberal, or they're woke, or they're, you know, some sort of minority, they total pass.
	You know, well, they were on our radar.
	Wait, how come every terrorist attack in America that has gone on, terrible, they were on the radar, but nothing happened, and yet, if you're the gentleman who is just the pro-lifer that was raided by the FBI and the SWAT team with machine guns,
	That guy gets that treatment.
	The other guy, it was the car that ran through a Christmas parade, not the, like, I'll say black supremacist, based on everything I saw on his Facebook page, running through a crowd.
	No, it is sad when you see what was once viewed the preeminent law enforcement entity in the world converted to the enforcement wing of the Democratic Party.
	And while there are patriotic Americans all over the country that serve in the FBI, that do keep us safe, the rot is in Washington, D.C.
	So let me, in terms of things we can actually do.
	Nancy Pelosi, on her way out the door, gave the appropriations and authorization for a new headquarters for the FBI to bring way more of the FBI folks into Washington, D.C.
	Not where they need to be!
	With a complex bigger than the Pentagon.
	Bigger than the Pentagon, okay?
	So, here's what I think.
	I think Republicans need to use the appropriations process to go and zero out every element of that that is not thoroughly planned and constructed.
	Okay, we've had this conversation a bunch, so we're good at sort of, and conservatives are good at bitching.
	See, we were right!
	We were right about Russia.
	Russia, it never happened.
	We were right.
	Twitter was actually shaming, but they still get the win.
	The Wuhan lab.
	Yeah, Wuhan lab.
	That was the big one.
	The Wuhan lab.
	Of course it was.
	Of course it was.
	We were conspiracy theorists.
	So we do the, we got you, we were right, but they still get the win.
	They weaponize it.
	So who's on appropriations on the Republican side that this audience can blow up?
	I gotta use that carefully because I'll get raided by the FBI, but by phone or by email?
	Politically.
	Politically.
	Let them know that you expect action because that's what I... I'm worried.
	And I think there's guys that are great.
	There's people I really respect and like on these committees.
	I've had them on this podcast.
	There's also still a lot of rhino stiffs that are gonna... I don't... You know, they want to be invited to the cool person party at Christmas in D.C.
	Their liberal wife works at Planned Parenthood and they're not, you know, they can't go out to their friends, you know, their kids' soccer games without getting harassed.
	If you're a Supreme Court justice, you'll get harassed by the woke mob.
	But if we did it to the left, those people would be in jail.
	Who do we reach out to to hold them accountable?
	To make sure... I see it.
	And I love where it's going.
	I love the start.
	I love that we're doing some of these things.
	But I also see them wanting to run out the clock.
	And just like, oh, maybe they win an election this... And not a single thing will happen.
	Part of the negotiation at the end of the Speaker's race was specifically about who had to be on the Appropriations Committee.
	So if you look at the new members of the Appropriations Committee, they're people who might have been passed over for that opportunity in the old rules of Washington, but specific people having those roles.
	I would look at a guy like
	Andy Harris, who is a Freedom Caucus member, who is now a Cardinal on Appropriations, a subcommittee chair.
	That was part of the negotiation as well.
	He is a leader who actually goes after some of the worst expenditures that allow a woke, weaponized government to be turned against the people.
	So he's one of the leaders of the group that I think can catalyze a lot more effort.
	But the personnel is policy, and we do have better folks on there now.
	I don't know.
	Who are the weak ones?
	It's one thing to have a killer.
	I'd love to have you on every committee.
	But one guy can't do it alone.
	I think for us, it's almost more powerful to get vocal
	With the guys who aren't necessarily going to be as aggressive because they're still voting.
	I'm not putting anyone on blast because they haven't let us down yet.
	Okay.
	Because you're going to come back on the second they let us down.
	I will.
	And we've got to know because, again... You're all warned.
	You're all warned.
	The next time I come on, I'm naming your names.
	You've been warned.
	It's fine.
	Do what you need to do, but there will be loud consequences.
	Yeah, and look, that is why we developed different tools to run this House of Representatives than have been used before.
	One that Nancy Pelosi got rid of, the ability to zero out the actual salary of a specific bureaucrat.
	I want to start doing that, and I actually want to start at the ATF.
	Because, I mean, there was a deep state at the ATF when Donald Trump was president.
	Of course.
	And they are trying to turn law-abiding gun owners
	Yeah, so let's talk about that.
	The pistol brace rule, right?
	There's no one with more ingenuity than the American Redneck, right?
	You give them a rule, they'll figure out a way around it to break the spirit of the thing while still being within the rule, and that's brilliant.
	But the ATF pistol brace ban that's going on right now is not that.
	They wrote these rules.
	They sat with people and came up with rules that created the pistol brace and said this is how we're going to do that.
	Now they don't like it and so they're going to turn either millions of Americans into criminals
	They're going to force registrations, force a costly, you know, modification to a weapon.
	Like, you know, I got a lot of ARs.
	It's not easy to change, you know, a pistol brace into a full stock, add length to your barrel.
	Do you have more guns or fishing rods, do you think?
	More guns.
	And you know I have a lot of fishing rods.
	I know how many fishing rods this man has.
	Most humans on the planet Earth will never eat as many fish as you have fishing rods.
	Well, you know, there's a lot of different kinds of fishing.
	There's a lot of different things to shoot.
	Fair.
	But that's what's most troubling about this one, right?
	Again, forced registration or costly expense or you're just a felon.
	But it wasn't because you're a felon that sort of played cute and tried to get around a rule that has existed.
	They set that precedent and now they're just like, oh we're just kidding.
	Well, and when that very issue was before the House Judiciary Committee, David Cicilline of Rhode Island said that a pistol brace is actually how you convert a weapon into a bump stock.
	That would be a miracle of engineering.
	I'm pretty good at this stuff.
	I know a lot, and I don't know how that works, but as an American who's into this and knows guns, I shot competitively.
	I've never lost a Governor's quail shoot kind of thing.
	They don't even know what they're talking about.
	You should have to have an address in an SEC state to file a bill about guns.
	The 90-round magazine clip, but you don't even understand the basics, and yet they're making legislation around it.
	I saw that when I was still living in New York.
	With the SAFE Act.
	You know, Governor Cuomo wanted to be the first to act so he could get accolades and start his presidential run.
	So he passed a law that made anyone, even law enforcement, carrying their duty weapon to work a felon.
	Because no one even understood the basics and yet we're having these conversations.
	You see it and they're like, oh we got you.
	I'm like...
	No, you didn't.
	You sound like an idiot.
	And if you knew anything about the subject matter you're passing legislation on, you'd know that, but you don't.
	Well, the two greatest threats to our Second Amendment are bureaucratic overreach and Republican members of the United States Senate.
	I mean, that really is what, if you look at this envelope of time, you've seen bureaucrats exceed their authority, even to the point of having a database of a billion private transactions that they never were given statutory or regulatory authority to collect and maintain.
	You see that going on at the ATF, whether it's the Brace Rule.
	I mean, they continue to just take any word on the page and use it as a launching off point to start going after regular folks.
	And then you have Republican senators who are willing to sign up for these red flag laws and using federal money to bait states into red flag laws.
	But Matt, those laws would never be weaponized against law-abiding citizens that can't afford to spend tens of thousands of dollars fighting to get it back because some scorned X or the other insanity, right?
	They would never do that.
	Well, that's exactly what we're seeing.
	We're seeing an abuse of red flag laws, but now... No consequence and no due process.
	Look, we saw it in education.
	Where when George W. Bush passed the No Child Left Behind bill, then every school district got addicted to federal money.
	And that's actually what they're using to plow in the woke-ism now, the addiction to federal money.
	And now you see that with red flag laws, where they're putting money on the table, encouraging states to literally go and deprive their citizens of their rights.
	And I believe that this will expand if we don't go in and actually repeal it, and we should put Republican senators back on the board.
	Well, listen, the problem with the Republican Senators, there's like five that you'd actually want to be in a fight with.
	Meaning, probably any fight, but even a legislative fight.
	It's just not the same.
	They don't have the firebrands.
	They have a couple.
	J.D.
	Vance looks like the newest one that's really promising.
	But it's like, there's five that I can name.
	And I know most of them.
	But I'd actually be like, okay, that guy's going to have my back.
	Five out of fifty.
	Why is that?
	You tell me.
	I want your opinion.
	The United States Senate is so tough that after two months, John Fetterman had had enough.
	I want to talk about elections because that's a whole... the fact that a guy that's bordering on vegetable status can actually become a United States Senator.
	And then someone like me, who has the guts to call it out, be like,
	Does anyone else have a problem with, like, a guy that can't formulate a sentence making trillion-dollar decisions, perhaps sending our children off to war?
	Like, if he has no cognitive function, like, Don Jr.?
	He's an ableist, which I didn't even know what it meant, but apparently it means I'm discriminating against those with disabilities.
	I'm like, well, you know, if he wants to be a bad guy at Walmart, like, I think that's wonderful.
	Gainful employment is great, but, like,
	It's not an unreasonable request to expect the United States Senator to have basic cognitive function, and yet that is... We have a president that doesn't have it!
	Yeah, I was about to say, why would you have a higher standard for the Senate than for the Oval Office?
	But like, when do we say enough?
	No, oh no.
	This is going to get us into the election topic, because there's a reason a guy like that can win, and it's not because elections are good and just.
	We just got to play the game the way the other side's playing it.
	Yeah, I mean, our movement was so strong electorally, they literally had to change the rules of the game to beat us.
	And they had to do it in the weeks leading up to elections with an unprecedented break in like the chain of custody of voting.
	Yeah.
	And as election day has turned into election week and election month, we don't get elections that are more secure.
	Yeah.
	We don't get results that are more reliable.
	So talk about that because I heard very clearly it's the safest and most secure election in history.
	The only evidence of that was that they were willing to say it, but it doesn't actually... There's no backup to that.
	But everyone carried it as though it was the gospel.
	I'm trying to... How is that even possible, given the nature of that election?
	And it's not, and that's obvious, but no one's even willing to contest the DNC talking points on the issue.
	Well, and the DNC talking points have been fused with the mainstream media talking points.
	And that's why, honestly, platforms like Rumble give us an ability to have a discussion that, if we were even talking about election integrity on the mainstream media, you'd already be watching a potato chip or Big Pharma commercial by now.
	Don Jr.
	is now cancelled but we bring you Pfizer!
	Take this injection and we will now use the softest voice to tell you every horrendous side effect that might be possible.
	Don Jr.
	you're doing really good and you're gone.
	So this is honestly a struggle we have within the Republican Party.
	There are some that say look we've had enough.
	We need a national voter ID law.
	We need a national chain of custody standard for ballots.
	We cannot allow
	Well, I don't want, but I think federalized elections probably get worse.
	But that's why this is such a frustrating discussion.
	Our problem is we do this and we do this and we do that.
	They're laughing their asses off that we're not willing to engage like they are.
	That we won't do mail-in ballots.
	That we won't go out and harvest ballots where legal or push the boundaries of that.
	I've heard enough stories from people around the world be like, this happened, this happened.
	They're going beyond what's even legal.
	But I'm saying, go up at least to what they're doing within the bounds of legalities to play this game.
	And they hope we don't.
	They want us to be discouraged.
	There's no way, in my opinion, and I spend more time around the country than most,
	Like, this election, this last one, for midterms, should not have been as close as it was.
	But, you know, people are outraged.
	We're on the brink of World War III.
	You've got inflation going through the roof.
	Gas prices going through Europe.
	Your three-year-old is having conversations with their teacher about chopping their dick off.
	And, like, we're supposed to, like, not even be concerned parents.
	Like, they're not winning.
	We're actually winning.
	We're actually winning the culture war, maybe for the first time ever, because the left has shown how freaking insane they are.
	But it doesn't matter because they're knocking on a door in Philadelphia and saying, hey, give me your ballot.
	We'll fill it in.
	I guarantee you there's people voting in a lot of these swing states that could not tell you who they voted for.
	But they voted, or they signed a ballot, or they said... They couldn't tell you the policy.
	Because no one in their right mind could watch John Fetterman and be like, I want this guy making decisions for me and my children.
	It's, it's, come on.
	It's just not possible.
	I have not analyzed the Fetterman data like I looked at the 20... You don't have to!
	I just look at the guy and be like, zero chance.
	No one's that stupid.
	What if they want the zombie, Don?
	What if that's what they really want?
	What if the people of Pennsylvania are like, look, we've had a zombie football team in the Eagles, and we just want a zombie senator?
	Maybe that's fine because, listen, as long as someone can show president and vote in lockstep with Chuck Schumer, they're probably okay with that.
	But I don't... That's... Washington's okay with it.
	I don't believe the people are.
	Yeah, like, what do you think right now if you're a veteran in John Fetterman's state and you need your senator to go fight for you to get your fair benefits?
	How dare you?
	You're ableist!
	You're ableist to expect that your guy would perform, just like I was apparently last week.
	I was homophobic for questioning what the hell Pete Buttigieg is doing.
	For months they told me it's so great because he's gay, so I assumed that was his only qualification because it doesn't seem he knows anything else about transportation.
	That's evidenced by the fact that we're in a supply chain crisis.
	We have train strikes.
	It takes 20 days to get to a disaster.
	Spills and train derailments on a major scale.
	They say there's a lot of them, fine.
	But there's a lot of them of toxic substances.
	We don't hear about that before.
	Like, it's not... Is that an attack from Russia in response to our likely bombing of the Nord Stream Pipeline, like, a week later?
	No one's even asking the question anymore.
	So you're all in on the Sy Hersh Nord Stream thing?
	You're all in on it?
	I just think it's the most likely response.
	I think Russia wouldn't do it to themselves.
	There's too much money and the Germans are going to be sucking that money and giving it to Russia whether we're at war or not.
	I don't believe anyone's a good actor.
	I think it's reasonable to ask, who else would want to blow this thing up?
	Yeah, like, who else?
	Germany's not going to do it because they don't want to have to pay more.
	They were fine having U.S.
	pay for NATO, not do anything, while enriching Russia with a pipeline to begin with.
	Even on the Syhersh, like how bin Laden was captured, he's got a different view than the CIA.
	Syhersh says the Pakistanis captured bin Laden up in the mountains and were basically holding him there in house arrest.
	And one of those cats, who was part of that security detail, turned him in for the U.S.
	Yeah, I don't know enough about it, but as a sentient being, the fact that the U.S.
	would take out Russia's pipeline, that they're saying these things like there's going to be serious consequences if you do anything, like, I don't know.
	There were serious consequences.
	Who else possibly benefits?
	Who else could have pulled it off?
	That's the question I ask to all these guys who want to send anything that shoots to Ukraine.
	How does this end?
	As long as there's infinite money.
	Right?
	What's the incentive to have it in?
	Our, and I've had the call from people in the house, well Don, maybe, you know, don't go so hard on Ukraine because all the money's coming back to like our companies here.
	I go, like, which ones, like Raytheon?
	Like, it's fine, I don't care.
	Like, I don't, like, I'm not, I'm not willing to fund a big war.
	But isn't that the tell?
	Yes.
	Isn't that saying the quiet part out loud?
	Of course it is.
	That the reason we have to be so involved in Ukraine is because we've wrapped
	Those guys were pissed that Big Pharma got rich for two years, and they were saying, bitch, we haven't been in a war in six months, like, show me the money.
	Like, that's not a reason to be at war, and yeah, what is the endgame?
	We're gonna fund it infinitely, and the geniuses at NATO seem to have taken the largest bargaining chip off the table yesterday for peace, which was
	Not moving NATO's border 500 miles closer to Russia by allowing Ukraine in.
	These people are morons.
	They're making decisions.
	I'm not saying Putin wouldn't have done it.
	I'm not an apologist, despite I'll be called one, for being like, hey, why the hell are we even bothering?
	I've been personally sanctioned by Putin.
	I am not allowed in Russia, and they still call me in Putin's shoes.
	How about when all of the blue checkmarks on Twitter get personally sanctioned, light me up about what it's like to be on Putin's side.
	All the blue checkmarks that were doing Putin's bidding, making him seem like he was powerful enough to implant Trump.
	I believe that we are now extending the duration of this war.
	I think that the peace plan that Elon Musk put out is probably pretty close to what it's going to end up being.
	And you can't just take
	You mean they're not angels?
	You mean the guy that was an actor a couple weeks ago and has homes now apparently all over the world, at least I've read about?
	You mean there's a little 10% for the big guy?
	Yeah, I mean, it's very interesting that Zelensky's zeal for anti-corruption seems to directly align with Republicans taking the House of Representatives in the United States Congress.
	Fascinating how that works.
	And I do not worry about broken Russian tanks impacting the quality of life of my fellow Americans.
	I do worry that when farmers can't buy fertilizer, it's a problem.
	I worry about people in rural areas who have to actually drive distances to work and not just, you know, live in some confined... How about actual allies like Taiwan that are watching us deplete the arms that could...
	Would be defending them.
	China's sitting there like, how accelerated is China's takeover of Taiwan watching the incompetence as well as the depletion of our stockpiles?
	Yeah, I mean, during our life, our nation has been weakest when we have been in multiple wars and when we have been spending endless sums of money here at home.
	And that is the trajectory that Biden would take us on.
	It is why we have to be a critical check.
	But essentially to answer the operative question of this episode, I don't know yet if Republicans are digging in hard enough and tough enough.
	I push them to be tougher every day.
	I think we're getting the best version of Kevin McCarthy that we ever could have gotten.
	I would give him high marks to this moment in time.
	We need to be sending a lot more subpoenas, in my view.
	We need to be hauling in a lot more folks than we are.
	So how much of that is for the people?
	How much of that is process?
	As much as we want to bypass all of that, you've still got to play within a DC framework, right?
	How much of that is process?
	There is a component of that.
	Here's what people don't know and it's critically important we follow this.
	The law literally requires an accommodation process with agencies of the federal government.
	And they will show whatever they need to the minimum at the last minute and start the clock again and start the clock again and start the clock again to the point where they hope that someone else wins an election that they can just make it all go away.
	Absolutely.
	It's the worst actors that we are trying to expose hope that time is on their side.
	And I guess I'm always, I think no matter how many subpoenas we send out, I'd probably be pushing for 10 more because I'm so anxious for the leverage that we have to be maximized in the funding process, in the appropriations process, and even as we talk about the debt limit.
	You know, the debt limit should focus us on some policy change to have downward pressure on spending, and that's right around the corner.
	Well, and that's a big one, right?
	Because, hey, we don't have the White House.
	We don't have any of the big bureaucracies, and we don't have the Senate.
	We have the House by a very slim margin.
	But what we do have in the House is the power of the purse strings.
	We can stop some of these things if we have enough guys being like, no more money.
	Yeah, that's the real question.
	We gotta do that.
	So, who's going to do that and how do we make sure it happens?
	How do we make sure enough people understand that?
	It starts with Speaker McCarthy and his leadership team unifying the Republican team for the fights that matter in the appropriations process.
	I think that's zeroing out the salaries of individual bureaucrats who are breaking the law.
	I think it means downward pressure on the spending that is driving inflation.
	And I think that we have to actually fight on the border.
	And for so long, Republicans did not know how to fight on the border.
	President Trump showed us how to do that.
	But to think that we had to sit there and beg for every billion to put on our own border, and you've got Republicans and Democrats right now tripping over each other to see who can commit more and spend more on Ukraine's border, signifies how easy it is for this town to lose focus on the needs, desires, and protections for Americans.
	That's a big one.
	You have a bill coming up to vote.
	Yes, yes.
	On the war in Syria.
	Obama gets us into a civil war in Syria where we never really had a clear objective.
	President Trump did everything to get us out of Syria.
	The deep state did everything they could to get us in and push back.
	Now we still have U.S.
	service members in Syria.
	I don't know what we're fighting for there.
	I don't know who we're arming.
	The alliances in Syria shift faster than the sands in Syria.
	And so there's going to be a vote on March 8th whether or not we're going to keep U.S.
	troops in Syria.
	And we're probably going to lose that vote.
	But I'm glad we're actually putting measures on the floor.
	Well, let's have the marker out there.
	Let's understand that.
	Because I bet you the average American doesn't even know we have troops on the ground in Syria.
	Some were recently injured, and I think that brought people's attention to the matter.
	But it is indicative of this neoconservative worldview that is like the Bush Republicans, the Boltonistas, the Cheneyites, and then people like Nikki Haley, who seem to want to start three wars before lunchtime tomorrow.
	That worldview used to be the only one on the Republican side, but the Republican leadership and establishment was the lagging indicator.
	And Donald Trump understood that regular Americans actually aren't ashamed to put the needs of our country first.
	Yeah, like, in what civilization that, well, I guess what civilization that's not extinct didn't put the needs of their people first?
	It's like every time I get on a plane, like, hey, in the event of an emergency, like, put your mask on before helping those around you.
	It's not rocket science, folks, but when we're putting America last, what's the future?
	And so that you know, Don believes this.
	I remember being at Mar-a-Lago the weekend I met my wife.
	And Kimberly was trying to set me up with my wife at the pool.
	And at the table next to us, Lindsey Graham was trying to convince Rick Grinnell that we actually needed more troops.
	in Syria that we needed to add Americans between these factions that have been warring for a hundred years and you roll in in like head-to-toe camo to the Mar-a-Lago pool with like the blood of some animal dripping off of you
	Allegedly.
	You go right up to Lindsey Graham in his pleaded khakis and you just lay into him about his kind of America last foreign policy at times and it was it was a good-hearted debate no one was was cruel but you certainly took him to task and it's something you've been consistent on it's something your father's been consistent on and it's really interesting to see these Republicans who are all about the Trump doctrine and
	When they wanted to be in this administration, now try to put the needs of defense contractors, foreign interests abroad, and special interests at home, you know, above what we would normally think would be best for our fellow Americans.
	And that's what's scary about it.
	It's so obvious, and so... The never-ending wars are so unpopular, even among... I mean, I think it's one of the few, like, bipartisan issues, for the most part, other than Ukraine's... Wait, wait, wait.
	Ukraine's an anomaly.
	Where are the anti-war Democrats?
	Where are they?
	I think, yeah.
	Maybe not in Ukraine.
	They used to say our military was racist, now they're voting for NATO expansion.
	I guess because Trump came out against Ukraine, I don't know.
	Well, maybe the bigger Ukraine question is, that I'm shocked that no one's asking is like, are we making what will eventually become trillion dollar decisions, because this thing seems no end in sight, because Ukraine has information on Joe Biden or Hunter Biden.
	Why is no one even asking that question?
	Because I know if it was reversed, and Don Jr.
	had these weird contracts with these governments, people would be asking, is Trump making decisions?
	Is Trump taking us to the brink of World War III?
	Is Trump doing XYZ because of this?
	And it's like it never happened.
	It's like it doesn't even exist.
	If I were Hunter Biden and Joe Biden,
	I would be very concerned about Ukraine.
	I would be very concerned about their involvement in the Shulkin decision.
	I would be very worried about the money trail from some Ukrainian oligarchs.
	I'd be worried about what they said in various forms of communication.
	And I'd be worried
	About good people at the FBI who may have had their voice silenced.
	Who may have had their investigations extinguished.
	You see, the FBI doesn't just accelerate anything to try to embarrass the MAGA America First Right.
	At times I think they act as dustbusters.
	I hope you're projecting that you know more than you're able to share.
	I truly hope that because there's zero chance
	I don't believe in coincidence anymore.
	I don't think we can.
	If you've been watching for the last six years, you'd be an imbecile to think that there's nothing here.
	That you could have all these things, they're totally this.
	The Chinese gave a billion to a crackhead because they would never be buying the weak policy towards China that we're experiencing.
	They don't do due diligence.
	They give every
	Crackhead, a billion dollars to hopefully invest.
	You don't have to have a track record of investment.
	You're a crackhead.
	I'm long of this concept.
	Let's go all in.
	By the way, they're getting one of the greatest return on investments.
	I don't care if Hunter lost a billion dollars.
	They're getting one of the great ROIs of investment history on this because for that amount of money, they bought America's weakness, complacency, and basically subservitude to whatever it is they want to do.
	And our largest corporations are leading the way.
	Politicians have talked about taking on China for our entire life, but they always end up in their pocket.
	And we always have believed this theory that if we bring China closer to us, that they will act more like us.
	And what President Trump understood is that as we had brought China closer to us, we were acting more like them.
	We were becoming more totalitarian.
	We were doing them a favor for a little while, growing them.
	And then they got us hooked on the cheap widget.
	End of this.
	And now we're the drug addict.
	It's going back for more.
	And we're kowtowing to them.
	Like, you know, when people are like, well, we still have military.
	Like, I don't know.
	Like, are woke military?
	You know, spending more time in diversity training than, like, fighting?
	And I hear that from friends.
	I get criticized, but, like, buddies who are serious operators are like, you won't believe this shit.
	We spend more time in diversity training than we do shooting.
	You think they're doing that in China?
	Or you think they're laughing that we're doing it and being like, wow, this is going to be easier than I thought?
	No, and their goal is domination, and frankly, that's another point of leverage that Republicans have to use in the House of Representatives.
	Every year there's a National Defense Authorization Act that passes, and we have to go root out this wokeism.
	We have to get rid of all these nonsense DEI lines of reporting that have been established in the military.
	We have to go get rid of all of the ESG that they've imposed on the mission.
	I mean, there are areas where we are putting America's capabilities behind virtue signaling, and that just doesn't work out over the long term.
	I brought it up for you.
	Our Secretary of State.
	After the Afghan withdrawal where 13 Americans died, he's shocked and dismayed the Taliban didn't put in a more diverse and inclusive government.
	And we go, the fuck Taliban?
	Were you watching?
	I don't understand.
	You feel like you're being punked.
	I'm like, you mean the Taliban that threw homosexuals off buildings?
	You thought they were gonna like, I don't know, here's the gay wing of, we're gonna bring over Leah Thomas and she's gonna consult us on the trans movement in Afghanistan.
	You saw last week, I guess it's the Consulate General in Afghanistan,
	Like, hashtag, like some woke hashtag, I go, like, there's no internet connectivity now in Afghanistan.
	You think they're gonna be, like, talking about some stupid hashtag that, like, woke virtue signaling?
	Like, they got bigger problems!
	And, like, this, like, we think we're do-gooders, and, like, it's, it's imbecilic, if that's a word.
	Well, and you talk about the way it projects weakness and how that compares to an alternate vision of the world that China is actively pitching.
	China is showing up to these countries with a briefcase.
	Give us all your lithium.
	Give us all your cobalt.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	We'll take care of you.
	They get in.
	They control it all.
	They own it for life.
	They put people into child slavery.
	And we're like, no, no, no, this is wonderful.
	We should get our lithium and cobalt.
	Let China make the batteries.
	Let's become totally dependent on them.
	Because we've subcontracted out the battery mining and the child labor,
	Yeah, so while the Chinese show on bribes and infrastructure, America shows up wanting to know what your country plans to do for Gay Pride Month.
	I think, well, is it Pakistan?
	Like, here's X millions of dollars for, like... Yes, yes.
	You, the American taxpayer, need to know that you're paying for, you know, feminism courses abroad.
	You're paying for gay pride festivals abroad.
	And not, like, in Europe, where it may fly.
	I mean, in, like...
	Like the Middle East, where they're like, you gotta be shitting me, like, come on.
	Not much of a festival, okay?
	Not much of a festival.
	It was a very short-lived festival.
	If you showed up, they threw you off a building and that was it.
	And we're funding it, and I assume that money's just being stolen and corrupted and whatever it is.
	Well, it's being used against, I think, center-right political movements globally.
	I've gone to places in the world where they say that American aid, through entities like USAID, gets co-located with a lot of these George Soros-funded entities, and they end up sharing data with one another.
	Well, we saw that in Hungary this week, right?
	Victor Orban, conservative guy in Hungary, ruling, like...
	Like Eastern Europe would.
	We're sending in our worst, the biggest degenerates of those movements to say, well they're not humanitarian and we're going to destabilize them.
	We're going to take a lot of money to make sure that they can't win an election because we don't like where they're going and they're not woke enough.
	It's happening right now.
	And they hope not only that they're operationally effective, but that it has a functional deterrent on other center-right movements.
	If you're an ambitious person and you want to run for representative government in Latin America, there's a whole career laid out for you if you want to turn left and embrace socialism.
	But if you turn right, you're going to be smeared, you're going to be called a fascist, a tyrant, and it is
	A total degradation of the Monroe Doctrine.
	We used to care so much about the Western Hemisphere and to ensure that we had the ability to be a hegemon in the Western Hemisphere and we weren't facing China or Russia or Turkey and now all those countries are in Venezuela.
	China is making deals with Brazil.
	We have the Caribbean increasingly... How about Mexico?
	They're coming on our borders and we're like, it's okay.
	Yeah, like, but it's not enough to just cast America as a bastion of wokeism and hope that that's going to prevail even in our own neighborhood.
	And yet somehow we believe that we're going to turn Syria into a Jeffersonian democracy, you know, out of sand and blood and Arab militias.
	And somehow we think that which guy in a tracksuit runs Crimea is more central to America's interest than whether or not we have a nuclear power
	Increasingly agitated against our homeland.
	And when I talk this way, people think I'm the crazy one in the Washington D.C.
	foreign policy elite.
	But I think that the folks that we've trusted for far too long have led our nation down a terrible path.
	And we're not ready for the real fight.
	Let me tell you something.
	Who owns AI development in the future is going to matter a lot more than whether you had a drag queen festival at Ramstein Air Force Base.
	Which we did.
	Of course we did, because why not?
	But, well, you see that, I mean, you see that with COVID relief funds.
	I mean, there are COVID relief funds going to fund Drag Queen Story.
	I don't know what that has to do with COVID.
	I don't, but it doesn't matter because... Shouldn't we claw back all that money as part of the debt limit deal?
	Isn't that like the easiest low?
	If that process hasn't started, please get it going.
	I don't know enough people... Start.
	Because I don't think anyone wants their taxpayer dollars funding this shit, but it is.
	And it's not little money.
	It's a lot of money.
	And it's happening every day.
	Even Republicans, even people like Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, the Republican Chair of the Financial Services Committee, says we should do a clean debt limit, we should ask for nothing else.
	And that would even include saying, you know what, money that hasn't gone out, hasn't been planned, programmed, or utilized, we want to claw that money back to the taxpayer.
	It's your money, folks.
	It's not government programs.
	It's taxpayer-funded programs.
	It's all of it.
	But, again, I feel like they do such a good job sort of cloaking it and making it seem like you don't have any power.
	Like, we do.
	We just got to get involved.
	We got to stop sitting on the sidelines.
	I think that there are a lot of lobbyists and special interests that hope with Donald Trump temporarily at Mar-a-Lago, they will get the control again of both political parties.
	And that, to me, was what was so liberating about the Trump movement, is you didn't have to play the game.
	You didn't have to see which lobbyists... If it made sense, we did it.
	Yeah, we could actually do stuff.
	We could break through the red tape and the standard decision-making process to do innovative stuff.
	And when Donald Trump saw that American tax dollars were going to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, he cancelled it immediately.
	And CBS News and Scott Pelley lionized this Peter Daszak guy as the great hero that was going to help save us.
	And now we know, from our own government's admissions,
	The Department of Energy and the FBI that the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab leak theory was the right theory, the ones that we were talking about.
	But of course it was.
	It always was.
	Like, it was, like, there was no other even, like, remotely closed possibility.
	Don't you remember when they, like, when they smeared the pangolin?
	Where does the pangolin go for his apology?
	Someone ate a bat.
	It came from the bat in the wet market that was like a picture apparently from Indonesia like that was six feet outside of the lab.
	It had no chance that it came from the lab in the town it's named after that studies the virus that we've been funding that we know studies the virus in question that leaked like there's no way it came from the place that has a shit ton of this virus.
	Okay but it came from like just outside and it had no connection.
	And that gets to the nature of truth itself which
	If we'd have said those things that are so obvious, we would have been shadowbanned.
	I did!
	But they cancelled me, and then I was told I was a conspiracy for being shadowbanned.
	And I go, well, how do you know?
	I was like, well, yesterday I was getting 10,000 tweets, now I'm getting 4.
	Not 4,000, like 4!
	You know what I mean?
	It was like, I think something happened.
	Like, what could it have been?
	I wonder.
	So, as we approach the challenges of big tech, I believe that what we learned in the Twitter files is going to be common across the entire enterprise.
	Of course, why would it be any different?
	It may be worse in some places, frankly.
	Where would you go next?
	Would you go Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta?
	Google, to me, is the worst actor by far.
	The scariest one.
	Because, I mean, I try to search something in my... A lot of people wouldn't think that.
	Yeah, I try to search something in my phone.
	It goes right to Wikipedia.
	You don't even have the option of going back and going to the main screen.
	It's just now you're on Wikipedia.
	You have to put in your search again.
	If I read my Wikipedia page, the nonsense about it's all lies, it's all there, they use that to create optimization.
	If I Google Donald Trump, you'll never get a Breitbart article.
	The first 30 pages, CNN, CNN, CNN.
	Look what they did to Cambridge Analytica!
	Google is the worst, and it's not even close.
	Really?
	Not even close.
	Social's bad, but we understand that, right?
	You can get on Truth.
	It's manipulated.
	I'm still on Twitter.
	I think Twitter 2.0 is worse than Twitter 1.0 for me.
	There was a boost there for a month when the takeover looked like it was happening, dude.
	I gained like 250,000 new followers in like two days, because they were burning the files.
	They took off all the stuff.
	Then it looked like it was falling through, and it was like, hit a wall.
	And then it actually went through, and for like a month it was great, and now I just don't know that, you know,
	I don't know whether Elon Musk doesn't have enough interest.
	You may have fired 50% of the people, but it was still like 99% crazy.
	I'll speak to myself, Sarabian, Charlie Kirk, other people, conservatives.
	It's worse now than it was when the lunatics were actually running it.
	And again, I just don't know.
	I don't know that you could do it at Facebook either.
	If Zuckerberg got red-pilled tomorrow, I don't know that it matters.
	Because you've got tens of thousands of people that are literally on a mission.
	You know, that will bastardize anything for that leftist cause, and I just don't know that you could change it without starting over.
	I mean, when you try to... Remember, build your own, so you do.
	Well, then Amazon Web Services pulls their servers.
	You can't... Well, wait, you made a... Today, when I started with Taylor, MXM News, right?
	A news aggregator.
	I started, I said, build your own, because if you wanted to see Breitbart's story, you'd never see it in Google.
	It wouldn't show up.
	Emails would be inboxed.
	So we created an app
	Right, to be able to basically, we take the New York Times, we'll take Breitbart, you see it all, make your own opinion.
	Right.
	We'll just give you everything that's going on that'd be relevant to what you want to do.
	PNC Bank, a major bank, literally did not even call.
	This week they just sent us a cashier's check with the money that we had in our bank account.
	Wow.
	For MXM News.
	It was Rock Media.
	Don't you think that's the next wave of cancel culture is in the financial sector?
	100%.
	Well, we've seen it.
	We saw it certainly at TrumpOrg.
	You see it in insurance.
	You see it in the banking.
	You see it in the credit card business.
	How long until your political social credit score determines what kind of interest rate you get?
	Yeah, when they just turn off your car and be like, we don't like what you said anymore.
	You can't bank, you can't get insurance, you can't function.
	I mean, this wasn't like we're making news that they disagree with.
	We literally take all the news and let you decide for yourself because no one was willing to do that.
	So at MXM, literally not even a phone call.
	It's like breaking up with someone by text message.
	They sent us a FedEx with a cashier's check.
	We go to check our cashier's check.
	We're like, holy crap, there's nothing in here.
	Like, what happened?
	Like, we thought we got hacked?
	And, like, someone stole the money.
	Oh, yeah, the check's in the mail.
	We just, we don't want to even associate.
	We're like, we aggregate news.
	We just take all the news and let you decide for yourself.
	They're like, who will be able to bank first?
	People who sell marijuana or Don Jr.?
	Probably, yeah, probably the weed guys.
	I'm for banking both.
	Yeah, I don't care.
	Yeah, I'm fine with that, but that's the battle we're in, and people don't get that.
	Let me give you the Republican theory of the case on the Oversight Plan with Big Tech.
	As I understand it, it's to showcase the worst examples of conduct and use that to try to create some momentum for
	Legislative change that invites in the people like Elizabeth Warren.
	The people who actually want to break up big tech for different reasons than we do.
	Because that's the only way you're going to get it through the Senate, right?
	The amount of guys that talk sort of tough on it, but they still take their $3,000 check and then do nothing, it's scary.
	Because some of them are actually people we'd consider fighters.
	Or they consider fighters, and I'm like, wait a minute, why aren't you doing anything on this issue?
	I take no donations from any PAC or any lobbyist, regardless of their affiliation, ideology.
	I take absolutely none of it.
	MacAids.com is where I get the resources to be able to campaign.
	And guess what?
	Don comes and campaigns with me in every one of my elections, so I don't need as much money.
	But, you know, you see the way we campaign.
	Well, it's like Trump.
	You see the corporate interest.
	We don't want Trump anymore.
	Like, we want a president that's not doing for the American people.
	We want someone that takes our phone calls and jumps when we say jump and asks how high.
	And, you know, you can be all MAGA, but just don't go too MAGA if it's going to costly here.
	Like, that's what people don't understand.
	The money game in politics is disgusting.
	And in this 2024 election, I think that Donald Trump cannot rerun his 2016 campaign.
	He cannot rerun his 2020 campaign.
	I think that these moments like we saw in East Palestine at the McDonald's,
	I'm all for that.
	I'm like, guess what?
	Trump one-on-one with a real person is the greatest television in the world.
	Because it's real.
	But we do not believe he should ever be able to be the DJ.
	No more DJing.
	Because he is the greatest president of my lifetime, but I do not believe he has sound taste in music.
	And I know that'll get me excited.
	You can't say that.
	He yells at me, he's like, you have no taste in music.
	I'm like, I know, I just want to have a conversation with you.
	By the way, when I told him that I did not particularly enjoy his taste in music, he said, you're like my son Don.
	You don't have any taste in music.
	That's what bothers him most about me these days.
	It could be worse, I guess, but he takes it very personally.
	I'm willing to agree with him on almost everything except music, but that'll, I'm sure, be our fault.
	That'll be our frailty and we'll own it.
	I've heard Phantom of the Opera enough this evening.
	I'm good, you know what I mean?
	So, with tech.
	You know, again, how do we handle that?
	Knowing, again, even the guys that we think of as fighters are sort of fighters in name only.
	They can do that on campaign trail, they can do it on a quick sale, but they don't actually do anything.
	Let me explain the disagreement.
	There are some Republicans who think that the way you deal with big tech is that you serve them up to the courts and to the lawyers.
	And hope for a good resolution by the judges.
	You can't compete.
	The billions that they put in.
	It's so much money.
	You can be right.
	It doesn't matter.
	They can flip.
	They get to the next one.
	They get to the next one.
	They get to the next one.
	They can keep going forever that nothing ever happens, in my opinion.
	There are people who hold that sincere view.
	Then there are those of us who say that you have to reshape big tech by force of law.
	You have to treat them as common carriers.
	You have to force Meta to sell Instagram.
	You have to force, you know, Google and YouTube to be separate entities.
	And if you divide them up, you create more of a market incentive, a true market incentive, for some of them to go after the niche of us who are like the half of the country that are conservatives.
	That's how you got a Fox News initially with Roger Ailes, because you saw the opportunity for those who had been left behind by a lot of the mainstream media.
	Maybe a bad example given where they're going these days, but that's just my opinion.
	That's what happens when you let Paul Ryan be in charge.
	It's fine.
	I mean, it's not exactly the way I'd want things to be done, but I guess apparently he's a very popular voice in the Republican Party, though I don't know if you could ask anyone else here that.
	Yeah, I don't think Paul Ryan would ever take the stage at CPAC because I'm pretty sure he would be booed off of it, and deservedly so, given how much he fought against President Trump as Speaker.
	And honestly, I view my mission in the Congress now as ensuring that we are better prepared for the second term of Donald Trump than we were the first term.
	Because if you think about
	What we accomplished, it was great.
	We got the economy roaring.
	We got the American family enthusiastic, energetic.
	We rebuilt the military.
	But we could have done a lot more on the border.
	With help.
	They're like, well he didn't do that.
	I go... Trump doesn't... I want to get invited to the cool person Christmas party in D.C.
	I'm not going to do that.
	It's lunacy.
	Well, and we hope that a lot of the candidates that Donald Trump endorsed in what was a terrific record and those folks in Congress need to understand what the energy and fuel was for their candidacy.
	And it was all these people who are watching us here.
	It was all the folks
	Who are willing to make the phone calls and be the digital online warriors, and it's not the establishment.
	The establishment just loses slower.
	At least for now, so far, holds him accountable that they got to understand that people are watching, that people are seeing, that we're getting a mission.
	And again, you know, you were very tough on that fight.
	And I get that.
	I sort of knew some of the stuff behind the scenes.
	I knew people he was bringing in.
	So in my opinion, I thought he was going to do some of what he's doing now beforehand.
	So we disagreed on that.
	And that's fine.
	We agree the 14,000 hours has to get out to everybody.
	41,000 hours?
	Wow, whatever, yeah.
	Listen, I understand, because someone will bitch, hey, you know, there's a classified room or an exit strategy, like, you maybe can't do that, but the fact that he's releasing that to the January 6th political prisoners, like, that's a big deal.
	You know, that he's giving it to Tucker, like, I'm fine with that.
	I want every, I want it to all get out there somewhere, but they got to go through all of the stuff, make sure whatever's not classified.
	I know the Democrats
	Wanted to keep that from him?
	I know the Democrats had it for two years, and we saw surprisingly little of it from the biggest leaguers in all of Washington, D.C.
	I think a lot of the security stuff, it's red herrings.
	I mean, we... I don't know what I don't know, right?
	We walk people all over the Capitol all the time, and every person has a cell phone and a camera, and so the notion that releasing this is going to put anybody in danger is...
	I reject and I would be one of the people theoretically in danger because it's my workplace and I am fully on record.
	We need broad release, broad access.
	Let the chips fall where they may.
	On the truth, I think we're going to see a lot of people who did not intend to commit a criminal act or hurt anyone be in some technical violation of federal law.
	Based on actions they weren't in control of, and that'll be significant.
	They weaponized that to their advantage.
	It almost worked out so well that, magically, we're not talking about the guys dropping off bombs at the RNC and the DNC.
	Because it's like, well, we got everything we needed from that, so we won't even look into this to create... You know what I mean?
	It's like, we're all living a simulation.
	If we're not looking at... Maybe they'd let it happen to the RNC, but it also happened at the DNC, and the FBI's not investigating, which means to me...
	Probably an issue that they knew something about.
	Probably, like, it doesn't just, something like that wouldn't just go away.
	Again, they may ignore it if it happened to a Republican, but they're not ignoring it if it was real and not part of a setup to the Democrats, based on everything that I've seen.
	But they got enough out of the rest of J6 that they could manipulate.
	And they take two hours of 41,000 and say, oh, look at how terrible it was, insurrection, like the first unarmed insurrection in the history of insurrections.
	I don't know.
	Probably not realistic, but you know, that's the narrative, and big tech's gonna put billions behind it, mainstream media's gonna put billions behind it, and if you're a dissenting opinion, you're gone, and so... You had corporations like Bank of America just turning over people's bank records.
	Yeah.
	Just straight up, like if you were in the Washington area on January 6th and you were a Bank of America customer, you could have been in town to
	Watch a sporting event.
	You could have been in town.
	But that's why we have to engage, right?
	Bank of America did that to their clientele.
	No fight.
	No, like, hey, it's in violation of our privacy.
	Not even, like, a pretend, like, a kind of fight, but not really.
	Like what I just talked about with PNC Bank and MXM News.
	By the way, let me be clear about something.
	I'm not entirely sure anyone in the government even asked for this stuff.
	By the way, it wouldn't even surprise me.
	It's against conservatives.
	We can blame Donald Trump.
	We'll get Democrats.
	I'm not even disagreeing.
	But if you don't think that if you're a conservative, you're at risk from those institutions doing that to you, you ain't been paying attention.
	If they can do what they did to Kyle Rittenhouse, if they can do what they've done to... And it's like, nope.
	If they'll do it to those people,
	Who won't they do it to?
	Well, one of the things I'm really excited about working with Jim Jordan on, the way our government does list building, right?
	Like, in the Weaponization Subcommittee... Am I on every list?
	Can I find out?
	Is it really even a list if you don't have Don Jr.
	on it?
	It's a bullshit list if I'm not on it.
	Yeah, honestly, we added you to the Black Nationalist list just for that.
	Why not?
	But it is scary.
	You can't have that list, Matt.
	That's racist.
	It may be a threat, they may be doing really bad stuff, but you can't enforce that law because it's racist.
	We have the CDC trying to make lists of the unvaccinated.
	We really do.
	We have the DOJ and FBI trying to tag regular Americans as domestic violent extremists.
	We talked social credit earlier, so when does that happen?
	If Bank of America is willing to either barely be asked or volunteer this information, when do they just start saying, I mean they did it to me this week, PNC Bank did it to me this week with MXM News, right?
	We're just, no reason, no phone call, no notice, just here's your money back, we don't want, like for what?
	When will they do that?
	When will they shut off your electric vehicle that has more computers in it than the Apollo space missions?
	Yeah.
	Like, when will they say, you know, you, nah.
	You said you believe, you know, life begins at conception.
	So, eh, you can't drive this week.
	Just, sorry, just got to sit in your car.
	Yeah, it is, it is the next wave of cancel culture that I don't think we're entirely ready for.
	And I don't think it's entirely far off either.
	When you look at sort of the acceleration, you know what I mean?
	Just five years ago, some of the shit that we're talking, like,
	It would have been a Saturday Night Live skit.
	Yeah.
	And now it's like, that's real!
	That's, you know, the everyday.
	The teachers in the trans school.
	Just like defining how much everything costs.
	Yeah.
	Based on who you are.
	Yeah.
	Was it like a privilege of the past for things to cost the same for everybody regardless of your politics?
	Yes.
	It starts with them kicking the white supremacists off of airplanes and it ends with a MAGA grandmother not being able to refinance her own home.
	They kicked Rob O'Neill off an airplane, the guy who killed Bin Laden.
	Someone wore a MAGA shirt, they kicked him off.
	But if you wore a BLM shirt, an organization that obviously was clearly corrupted, we all know that, we see that now as they live in their beautiful homes in Bel Air with no consequence.
	I respect the grift.
	Man, the hustle is real and they pulled it off, but like every white suburban housewife, I gotta give to that, I'll post my black square.
	Now, you know.
	As long as you don't move into the neighborhood, it's fine, probably, for these people.
	Like, they're the biggest hypocrites ever.
	They're full of shit, right?
	But they did these things, they promoted that, but people who demonstrably committed violence, those groups that did those things, and if you wore an anti-fascist shirt on a plane, you'd be like, great, you can sit, like, we'll upgrade you to first class for free, congratulations.
	If you wore a MAGA shirt, sir, you must get off the plane.
	You have to ride with the luggage.
	You're canceled.
	The left does that very well.
	They do that to even their biggest advocates who maybe stray like one percent.
	Yeah, I mean, Jim Jordan and I were talking about the weaponization of the government against the First Amendment as a top priority for our subcommittee because you literally have everyone from the White House during COVID.
	It's everything.
	You know, to the FBI trying to do favors for the Biden family, trying to shape the nature of truth itself.
	With help from Google and Big Tech.
	Because again, you and I, we're in this battlefield every day, right?
	So people who are sitting at home, they're trying to live their American dream.
	They're trying to put food on the table.
	They're trying to just get by, you know, in the Biden economy.
	They don't have time to like, I'm going to read every article about that one article.
	And they're getting bombarded with bullshit.
	Well, there's got to be some truth to it.
	I mean, listen, I've made plenty of those mistakes myself where it's like, what they did to Mike Flynn.
	I was like, well there's got to be something to it.
	I'm like, they're doing it to me too, but man, the FBI, the CIA, they're all saying there's got to be something there.
	No, it turns out there's nothing there and it didn't matter.
	They were the good guys when we grew up.
	They were the folks that we would admire and I think that in a lot of ways they've become victims of political capture.
	Yeah.
	And that political capture has a geographic element to it.
	I mean, it really is a concentration of rot in Washington, D.C., and no offense, but in New York City as well.
	Oh, of course.
	I mean, you talk about the FBI agents that are out there helping us in Topeka, Kansas.
	Yeah.
	You know, the folks who are stopping drug runners in Miami, Florida.
	They're great people.
	The specific politics and the notion of empire building inside of Washington has had a really negative effect on the reputation of these once vaulted entities.
	And if you just think about every agency of government, they're all empire builders.
	And so the way you grow power in Washington is you reward your friends and you punish your enemies.
	And we'd like to think that the CDC would be above that.
	That the FBI would be above that.
	But in reality, they actually sometimes become the worst offenders.
	Yeah, I mean, does anything happen to Anthony Fauci?
	Everything was a lie.
	He's funding all these things.
	He's doing dangerous shit.
	He's been wrong about everything since 1980.
	And does bad damage control.
	But, you know, he never met a camera he didn't love.
	I'll say this.
	What he's really good at is he's really good at being a bureaucrat.
	He's a shitty doctor.
	I think he's borderline on, like, being a sociopath.
	But he's really good at making sure to snake anyone that got in his way or got in the way of him and a TV camera so that he could, you know, take his dwarf ass and turn himself into a national hero while failing every step of the way for decades.
	And yet, you know, you look at it, and actually, what did he do right?
	Name one thing he got right, because I know what he said on TV, and I read his emails, and they're two, like, opposite things, so which one is it?
	Like, whatever gets you more TV time, and like, you know, the cover of the, like...
	I don't get it.
	How is it possible?
	Well, it may be the case that his golden parachute at a big pharmaceutical company or at a university in a big professorship or deanship or presidency may be interrupted by a lot of congressional testimony, but there is a red carpet that is rolled out for folks like this because they wield a lot of power.
	Well, think about how much power it gives someone like Fauci to be able to direct a gajillion dollars in research money, and what gets funded and what doesn't.
	I mean, we've heard testimony from folks like Dr. J. Bhattacharya, and he really effectively showcased the coercion in science.
	And it is an affront to the scientific method in a lot of ways to have these powerful people use politics to get the outcomes they want rather than, like, what if we had had a real focus on the power of natural immunity?
	We would not have made worse decisions.
	We would have made better decisions.
	But there wasn't money to be made on that.
	Like, if someone figured out how to make money on that... Invermectin, it's been on the market for years, like, we can't try that, it's cheap!
	Right.
	Like, there's no money in that, like, Pfizer's not gonna get rich if we don't, like... We need some, like, novel vaccine that then the government is required to buy for more people that actually want to take it.
	Yeah.
	That's the grift.
	Alright, so...
	If you had three things that you could get done, because what I want to be careful of, I'd love to do it all.
	The reality is time.
	We can't get caught in that, they just run out the clock.
	What would be the three things that Matt Gaetz would be like, this is where
	...on our side, and it's not something we should... You've paid into that system forever.
	Maybe that's actually, maybe we should call it, that's actually an earned entitlement.
	Like, but we're, you know, we're funding Grand Queen Story Hours, but we're gonna tell, like, people who've been paying into a system, expecting something at the end of that system to, like, screw you guys.
	But, you know, hey, illegals, like, we're gonna put you in free education, free healthcare, free everything, like, like...
	They'll have it better than the average hard-working American.
	In a lot of ways, they do.
	I mean, I visited a hospital just a week ago where the illegal aliens don't pay for their care, but you have citizens of the community that get crushed by medical debt.
	Well, they have to pay for it because they have to pay for their medical debt and the illegal...
	Same with schooling.
	You've got to pay for your kids' education as well as theirs.
	Across the board, it's bad.
	We don't say this out of hatred.
	Of course not.
	We say this out of love for our fellow Americans.
	That our birthright is precious and worth defending.
	That our country is special.
	We do not have walls because we have any hatred for the people on the outside.
	It is purely out of love for the people on our side.
	It's not something we should ever have to be ashamed of.
	No civilization in history has ever survived while taking the position that they shouldn't put their people first.
	And again, once we take care of our people, how about we take care of our vets?
	How about we take care of our schools where our children aren't like 29th in the world, spending more money per child than any country in the world, and we have schools that are
	Zero people have proficiency in math.
	At a graduating class, zero!
	How can we hear about Joe Biden talking about our veterans and the care they get?
	They don't.
	They get care less.
	Just like the people of East Palestine, Ohio.
	They're not Biden voters.
	We can't bribe them with free shit.
	So they're irrelevant.
	We're buying those votes.
	It was Donald Trump who made veteran choice a top legislative priority.
	Other presidents did not do that.
	And we really, I think, need to do a lot more to expand VA choice.
	I don't know why in this country... I don't even know why we need a VA system for healthcare.
	And when I speak to my veteran friends, I was like, hey, they love what happened because they're like, oh my God, I've been waiting for months where I had to drive five hours.
	Now I go to my local hospital, I can choose what I want.
	I'm like...
	Like, so that guy, we're not going to take care of that guy, but we're going to take care of someone who's a drug dealer that came across the border and went, oh, we're here.
	Yeah, I support a fee-for-service model where veterans who have done their service to our country at a certain extent get their health care taken care of for them.
	Oh, but within health care.
	How bad does it get?
	When I see some of the prices of these hospitals, it's like, well, if you're paying cash, it costs $2.
	If you're going through insurance, it's $35,000.
	I'm like, what?
	How do we get a hold of that?
	The hospital industrial complex is real, and a lot of that is going to be granting state-based waivers to do innovative things with the Medicaid product.
	You know, we talked about Social Security and Medicare, but Medicaid fraud drives the cost of health care because of over-utilization in a lot of cases, and in other cases, just waste and abuse.
	And if we really drilled down on that, created an incentive structure for states to be able to root out a lot of that Medicaid fraud, you wouldn't have uncompensated care at such a level in these hospitals where then the grift is run back to the insurance system.
	All right, so last question, because I think, you know, the people have watched this, you know, what can they do to participate in this?
	Understanding they may not have the soapbox that you have or that I have, but how do they get involved?
	Because I feel like, you know, we all have to partake in this.
	You know, they canceled my dad when he was president.
	The most, you know, powerful guy in the world.
	It's like, man, we can make that go away too.
	That feels like a helpless situation.
	And the other side wants us to have that helplessness.
	They want us to curl up in a fetal position, sit in the corner and cry.
	But we can't do that.
	There's too much at stake.
	So how does the average person stay involved, stay active?
	How do they help effectuate change?
	Because I think they want to be a part of it.
	People have to evaluate their own skill stack as a political operative, and we would ask you to enhance that skill stack.
	If you're unable, because of your job, to go and speak at public rallies, be one of our digital warriors.
	Help us out.
	Make a donation.
	If you're somebody who can go knock on doors,
	Get involved with your local Republican Executive Committee.
	Run for your school boards.
	How about that one?
	Yeah, I think the people that are getting elected to school boards, they are actually our backup for the next round in Congress.
	I think a lot of these school board dads and school board moms are going to be future Congressional candidates.
	I think so.
	By the way, I've seen some rock stars.
	So Glenn Story was here a little bit, one of the sponsors of this show from Patriot Mobile.
	They funded Patriot Mobile.
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	Remember that.
	But those guys take money.
	They were funding people like us to run for school boards around Texas.
	Then they get the hate mail.
	Christian conservative group, but they won because they got parents concerned.
	So rather than having a rainbow-haired freak that doesn't have kids but sure as shit wants to indoctrinate yours, they actually got concerned parents to run for school boards and win.
	It was so effective that Patriot Mobile was getting hate write-ups.
	Wow.
	Like, they're a hate organization for basically saying, hey, concerned parents, here's the network, here's the pathway to get and run for these school boards.
	But those connections are key.
	That's the answer.
	So don't ever stop that.
	But that's also why we've got to support those kind of companies.
	Yes.
	So check them out.
	Again, read the stories and then read the MSNBC take and it's like...
	You mean they ran people who are actually parents of children in these schools that share the values of the vast majority of the people in that district and they're the terrorists?
	I'm like, not the person that wants to have Drag Queen Story Hour or, you know, convince your kid he's trans.
	Like, that's not the terrorist?
	Yeah, we actually started paying attention to school board elections.
	Yeah.
	Imagine that.
	We started electing people that reflected the true heart and soul of America.
	Yeah, so that's important that people like, well, you know, I don't know.
	I don't think I could run for Congress.
	Don't worry about that.
	Like, run for something local.
	Get involved in your legislature.
	My dad was on the school board.
	My dad ran for the school board and did a great job there.
	Became the school superintendent.
	The first non-educator elected school superintendent in my county's history.
	Ran our school district like a business, and we became number one in the state of Florida.
	So, very proud of that work.
	No, it's so important.
	But, and again...
	They're going to come after you.
	Listen, they went after you.
	After years of bullshit putting you through it, trying to get you to lose an election in my opinion, you know what I mean?
	It's all bullshit.
	Well, we're not going to pursue anything further.
	I mean, after you tar and feather someone, presumably, listen, that'll be the first thing that also shows up on Google.
	Not the good things that you do, not that it was dropped, not that it was always bullshit.
	Well, we're not going to go forward like there's something there.
	It's like, no, you guys are full of shit and you've just weaponized another form of government against a sitting congressman.
	Like, again, if you were a leftist and we did this, they'd be coming after you.
	They might name the FBI headquarters after me.
	They'd dox the agent.
	They would make sure that the world knows exactly who it is.
	They would tar and feather the person.
	But because it's you, it's like, we're going to let them sit out to dry.
	We'll wait two years.
	We know there's bullshit.
	We've figured out all the flaws.
	But let's just let it sit a little bit.
	And then we're going to do you the favor.
	We're not going to actually do anything with it, Matt.
	You know, I drew a lot of inspiration from your family when you went through the rush hours.
	We took some shit too!
	Because I saw the way you keep the eye on the prize and you continue to be a voice for the American people.
	I remember a conversation we had where I was like, Don, it seems like they call you up here on the hill to give testimony.
	I felt that way.
	I was like, Don, it's like every week, why do you do this over and over again?
	And you said, I will never allow them to hold the air of any impropriety over me.
	I'm going to be on the... My lawyers didn't like me.
	They're like, you can't say that.
	Like, they're going to use it against us.
	I was like, I don't care.
	It's a new rule.
	Two years later, my lawyers were like, you know what, you were right.
	They were never going to give you a break.
	They were never going to show you quarter.
	If you curled up in the fetal position and cried, that's when they pounce and go even harder, because that's an acknowledgment you actually did something wrong.
	So I got on TV.
	They're freaking out.
	They want to try you for treason.
	You know, crime punishable by death, minor details.
	Your lawyers and my lawyers could have gone to the same breathing classes together.
	It's my average Tuesday right now, but like, they're freaking out.
	They did the same blood pressure medicine.
	And two years later, they're like, shit man, you were right, we could not have believed how bad it was.
	Because their lawyer, they wanted to, unlike some of the lawyers in D.C., they wanted to believe that the system was working and real, and it's not, and we've seen that.
	And we will continue to see it.
	Well, I hope so, because the other system, the January 6th guys,
	I hope that video comes out and it exonerates these people, because what I've seen there, and I look at the juxtaposition of that versus, you know, the Summer of Love, uh, arsonists, murderers, looters, and, you know... And for the people who made mistakes on January 6th.
	Time and again, I see sentences and punishments that are way outside the banding of what we would normally think about, even for someone who's made a mistake.
	Even for someone who needs to take responsibility for a mistake they made.
	It seems as though we are trying to make an example out of people in the criminal justice system, and Lady Justice is supposed to be blind.
	That's what we are promised as Americans.
	Not anymore.
	That's the problem, and that's why, honestly, guys like me?
	Our viewers are counting on guys like you to do that.
	So guys, make sure to support Matt Gaetz.
	The stuff that he's doing is important.
	We got it.
	We all have to be willing to be in that game.
	Trust me, it was easier to be a real estate developer from New York.
	We've had this conversation plenty of times, but it's worth it because our country, our freedoms, the Constitution, the future of our children, it's all on the table and we've got to fight for it.
	Thanks for what you do, man.
	Thank you, brother.
	Thank you, guys.
	Well, Matt, thank you very much for that.
	Guys, pay attention on Wednesday.
	That's going to be that vote that Matt put up about the Syria war.
	You know, because I guess we're in another war that most people probably didn't even realize.
	So let's pay attention to exactly what's going on in our government.
	Let's pay attention to who's exactly going to allow that to keep going from the Republican side.
	I think we can all agree we're tired of the endless wars.
	I do want to thank Matt for being on there.
	You can tell we're buddies.
	You can tell I had a lot of Red Bulls that day because I had to do like four interviews, so I'm all jacked up.
	But as this stuff progresses, we're going to have Matt back on.
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