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Aug. 26, 2021 - Firebrand - Matt Gaetz
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Episode 4: Where's Durham? – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz
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The embattled Congressman Matt Gaetz.
Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.
He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing the laws.
So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground, then welcome, my fellow patriots.
You are in the right place.
This is the movement for you.
You ever watch this guy on television?
It's like a machine.
Matt Gaetz.
I'm a canceled man in some corners of the internet.
Many days, I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.
They aren't really coming for me.
They're coming for you.
I'm just in the way.
He's taking these shots, this antagonism, this taunting to the intelligence community.
Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.
So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he's being really dumb to do this.
What do you think the intelligence community would do if they were motivated to?
I don't know, but from what I am told, they are very upset with how he has treated them and talked about them.
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So you saw in the open, Senator Schumer said the quiet part out loud.
When the intelligence community wants to get you, they get you six ways from Sunday.
We're all supposed to be compliant, powerless serfs.
The great Jim Jordan saw it coming.
See what they were trying to do.
This is one of the six ways from Sunday.
Remember the same time they're trying to change all this with how the intelligence information is shared among various agency.
Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the United States Congress at the time is on one of the other networks.
And he says this, if you mess with the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday and getting back at you.
So this is one of those six ways coupled with all the other things we know that you talked about.
The dossier, the person named Azra Turk, the plant they put pretending to be somebody else next to George Papadopoulos, and all that stuff took place.
This is exactly what Chuck Schumer said they were going to do, and it sure looks like they did it.
That's why what Mark just said is so important.
The Attorney General of the United States and U.S. Attorney John Durham are doing an investigation, and they have told us this is broader than just the FBI. You heard Jordan say it.
John Durham, he was supposed to investigate the corrupt origins of the Russia hoax.
Now, Attorney General Bill Barr's appointment of John Durham triggered the left.
They were worried.
And remember, we've got the Judiciary Committee in the Senate, led by Lindsey Graham, who now says what he's going to investigate is the start of the Russia investigation and maybe Hillary Clinton's emails.
We've got Jeff Sessions having already appointed a U.S. attorney named Huber in Utah to look at the origins of the Russia investigation.
We've got the Inspector General at the Justice Department looking at the origins of that investigation.
And now, Attorney General Barr, fresh off of pounding his chest in Congress and saying, we need to stop using the Justice Department for political purposes.
Now, he too has appointed somebody else, yet another U.S. attorney, to look into the origins of that investigation.
Meanwhile, we have no idea what the results were of that investigation.
We have no idea what the findings were of the counterintelligence investigation into Russia and its potential links with the Trump campaign.
And the Republicans you know and trust told you that we would get to the bottom of this corruption.
Accountability was right around the corner.
It's time that somebody goes to jail for truly trying to overthrow this president who was duly elected.
And I think accountability is right around the corner.
At times, it felt like we were spoon-feeding the evidence and witnesses and crooks right to John Durham.
Listen to former Deputy National Security Advisor K.T. McFarlane describe the deep state actually trying to convince her To plead guilty to a crime to further the Russia hoax.
When they came to me, Melissa, they said, well, we want, they really wanted me to plead guilty to confess that the Trump administration had violated the Logan Act.
And when I laughed at them and said, look, That's like a joke in the foreign policy community.
And they said, oh, no, no, the Logan Act is really serious.
And I said, well, how do you guys even know about the Logan Act?
And they said, well, we know about it because we just looked it up.
We'd never heard of it before.
Devin Nunes made 14 criminal referrals.
This is the swamp creature deep state motherlode, but nothing happened.
We also categorized subject areas clearly, as I did here contemporaneous with John Durham's appointment.
We're actually looking at multiple scandals, and I think that as Mr. Durham engages in his work, there are three areas we'll want to evaluate.
First, the leaks.
You'll recall that under James Comey and Andrew McCabe, the FBI wasn't investigating as their principal activity.
They were trying to shape public opinion by getting the media to report certain things that were Negative about Donald Trump or positive about their agency.
The second, as you've well detailed, are the frauds that were committed on the secret court that then impaired the constitutional rights of American citizens.
Those frauds included never disclosing that a British spy was the person Curating Russian lies about Donald Trump to delegitimize him both before and after his election.
But the third, and I would say potentially the most important area to investigate, is the corrupt intent that seemed to germinate out of the Obama White House to try to smear Donald Trump.
And as we saw Peter Strzok and Lisa Page texting about The people in the Obama White House who wanted to be kept up to date onto their work.
It seems to suggest that people like Comey and Brennan and Clapper were very much involved in trying to create this narrative.
We waited and waited.
Sometimes we prodded.
Then we had an election.
Donald Trump would be leaving power.
In November 2020, Devin Nunes said we were waiting for Durham and he revealed the plan to cover up the crime of the Russia hoax.
Now we're sitting waiting for Durham to complete this investigation.
I think people are getting not only very frustrated, but also there's a growing concern that Durham's not going to come out with anything.
And then Biden and Obama are going to be back in and they're going to shut this investigation off.
Spot on.
We cannot forget that this happened, that people at the Department of Justice and the FBI were using political dirt that had origins at the Democratic National Committee to harm our republic.
It was a terrible crime, but the deep state doesn't really go after their own.
I don't know if we will ever see meaningful work product from John Durham.
We should.
That would be nice.
The truth is that nobody at the Department of Justice thinks they're going to make their career by pushing accountability over the Obama-Biden White House.
Biden is the sitting president, and the Obama team?
Well, they're the ones making all the decisions while they feed Sleepy Joe ice cream and send him off to Camp David for long naps.
I know what we saw with our own eyes.
It frustrates me greatly.
I can't put it any better than Devin Nunes.
The Democrats in this country have weaponized over the last five, six years, and it really has been that long because you've got to go back to the Iran nuclear deal.
They've weaponized the FBI, all the intelligence agencies.
It's so bad.
And look, you may hear a little bit of frustration in my voice.
It's just because I didn't go to Washington to sit here and figure out who in our own government and the Democrats are using our intelligence services and military apparatuses to spy on our own citizens and play politics with it.
It's sickening.
They showed they'd do anything to go after Trump.
Change evidence, use political dirt, threaten people like KT McFarland, prosecute people like General Flynn.
We must stop this.
We must stop them.
Because we've already seen that they'll stop at nothing to seize power.
Personnel is policy.
It took longer than we'd hoped for President Trump to master this.
Think of how much greater America would have been made without the follies and failures of Sessions, Mattis, and Comey from the beginning.
Trump rode into Washington in a New York state of mind and without a deep Beltway Rolodex.
This is not so for President Biden.
Just as alligators have adapted to my Florida swamps over millennia, Joe Biden has adapted to Washington.
Over the last 40 years, Joe Biden has turned the D.C. swamp into his own personal mud bath.
Biden understands that personnel is policy.
He has nominated David Chipman, a radical anti-gun lobbyist, for Michael Bloomberg to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
Which, by the way, shouldn't even exist.
Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms ought to be a chain of convenience stores, not a government agency.
We don't need a bunch of gun-grabbing bureaucrats to tell us what shall not be infringed means.
As evidence, the ATF wasn't even that friendly to gun owners during the Trump administration.
In fact, if there's one thing the ATF is good at, it's turning the very people who arm themselves and keep their families and their communities safe into felons overnight.
I know President Trump didn't want to turn gun owners using stabilizing braces into criminals, yet we had to send the Trump ATF this letter in December because they were doing just that.
The December letter was a follow-up to a demand that then Representative Doug Collins and I sent in October that the ATF knock it off harassing gun owners with stabilizers.
I don't think it's a coincidence that the ATF began hassling gun owners in October, right before the November presidential election.
There's a deep state over there at the ATF, too.
Now, Biden's pick to lead the agency, David Chipman, is uniquely dangerous and a clear and present threat to your unalienable Second Amendment rights.
He should not be confirmed by a 50-50 Senate.
His fate and the rights of every gun owner in America hang in the balance right now.
Upon returning from August recess, it will be fish or cut bait time for the Chipman confirmation.
Every Republican voted against him in the Judiciary Committee, and zero Republicans are expected to sport him on the floor.
Thank goodness.
That means he needs every single Senate Democrat's vote.
And as of now, he doesn't have them.
These are the three key Democrat senators.
Angus King of Maine, John Tester of Montana, and of course, Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
So their senators should represent the people and vote against Chipman.
Make sure you contact them and let them know.
So apparently Chipman went on Chinese state media and didn't tell the Senate.
His appearance was used as propaganda to conceal a mass violence event in China that turned out to be a stabbing, not a shooting.
Simping for China is popular inside the D.C. Beltway, and it may be a good way to get in Joe Biden's good graces.
David Chipman should be rejected because of his radical and unpopular out-of-touch views on the Second Amendment.
The AR-15 is a beautiful firearm and the most popular rifle in the United States.
It is essentially the flagship rifle of the Second Amendment, perfect for hunting hogs or the security of a free state.
It is safely enjoyed by many law-abiding Americans.
Chipman would ban the AR-15 because he doesn't think that you need one.
Tell that to the roof Koreans in LA or the countless people that have used an AR in defense of their lives and liberty.
With respect to the AR-15, I support a ban as has been presented in a Senate bill.
And supported by the President.
The AR-15 is a gun I was issued on ATF's SWAT team, and it's a particularly lethal weapon, and regulating it as other particularly lethal weapons It's not just that he has radical views.
He wants to restrict your views, your expression, your speech.
As if this clown wasn't sufficiently satisfied depriving Americans of their Second Amendment rights, he also wants to deny us of our First Amendment rights.
Here's the Biden ATF nominee lamenting how frustrating it is that we can't take people's guns away for their speech.
The frustration is, in the United States, the freedom of speech and to say things largely cannot be regulated.
But yes, we have to do more to monitor hate speech on the Internet, but we also have to do more to curb that same speech being presented by our president and other elected public officials.
The FBI, other federal agencies have a tough job responding to these threats when they don't currently have the authority to remove weaponry just because people are saying hateful things.
The Second Amendment exists so we can protect the First Amendment.
Chipman opposes both.
Angus King, John Tester, and Joe Manchin should oppose him.
If you value your constitutional rights, you will let them know it.
Contact their offices, flood their social media, take action.
Nick Fuentes is a charismatic internet personality.
He hosts a show that allows him to express political philosophy and thoughts on various topics.
Nick Fuentes is also an ethno-nationalist, which I don't agree with.
I reject those politics.
I reject white ethno-nationalism.
I reject black ethno-nationalism.
If there's a brown ethno-nationalism, I'm against that too.
I've watched Nick's show.
I've also watched the speeches of black ethno-nationalists like Al Sharpton.
I found Nick's perspective on environmental preservation both well-informed and thought-provoking.
Dailyveracity.com is reporting that the FBI has frozen Nick Fuentes' bank accounts, deactivated his credit cards.
He's been placed on the commercial no-fly list.
No evidence has been presented suggesting Fuentes did more than attend Trump's speech on January 6th, march to the Capitol, and cheer those who entered.
That can upset you.
It can anger you.
I offer no praise for those who forced their way into the Capitol or were violent.
I told them to go home on January 6th.
But should the FBI have the ability to target people for just bad politics?
Is having bad politics a criminal offense in America today?
Does it justify harassment from the feds?
Should the Department of Homeland Security really have the power to ban non-violent white supremacists or non-violent black supremacists from air travel?
Matt Gaetz is defending white supremacy.
The press will freak out when I drop this episode.
So predictable.
And I'm not.
I've just seen enough to know that if we aren't judging people based on their actions, if we want to create a new class of thought crimes, it won't be long before we're all labeled and banished for one reason or another.
And finding ways to limit our interactions with one another.
Even uncomfortable ones.
It doesn't make us a stronger or more compassionate society.
It makes us fragile and weak.
In the 90s, so many Republicans were trying to make content illegal.
The left embraced the odd, the weird, the different.
In the 2020s, we have ushered in a tyrannical new left, aided by the FBI, apparently.
They'd punish you for your worst tweet, prosecute you for your most ill-advised association, banish you for politically incorrect expressions.
The Democrat chairman of the Homeland Security Committee doesn't believe that United States Senator Josh Hawley or Congresswoman Lauren Boebert should be able to fly on commercial planes.
There's no exemption for being put on the no-fly list.
There's even a member of Congress that commits a crime.
You know, they expel from the body.
There are ethics charges that can be brought against those individuals.
And people are looking at all this.
What Harley did and what Cruz did was horrible.
What the new member from Colorado.
You may think what happened to Nick Fuentes could never happen to you.
The FBI would never target you.
You aren't going to get the attention of social media tycoons to de-platform you.
Just keep your head down.
Don't attract too much attention.
Lie low.
This is how they win.
This is how they destroy our great country.
To demoralize and temper you.
To snuff out the firebrands.
Today the FBI targets Nick Fuentes because they call him a white supremacist.
You know, the blue check marks, they've called me a white supremacist.
They've called Candace Owens a white supremacist.
They've called Raheem Kassam a white supremacist.
How long till they call us all white supremacists?
It's the new tool they use to shut people up they don't like.
How long till you're on the no-fly list?
Till your bank accounts are frozen?
Nick Fuentes isn't a sympathetic character in American politics.
That's the point.
Because at times, we have to defend uncomfortable people and uncomfortable speech to preserve our cherished freedoms.
America first.
Patriotic nationalism.
These things require an appreciation of America that goes beyond our founding documents or even our vaulted ideals.
We must love this actual place.
Our home.
From sea to shining sea, not from toxic sludge pit to Asian carp infestation.
Purple Mountain's majesty, not smog in the air poisoning our people and reducing our cherished land to mire.
America First conservatives must love our environment.
We must endeavor to protect it from filth.
I've introduced the Green Real Deal in every Congress.
It embraces conservation as a tenet of nationalism.
Improve our electric grid, use nuclear, stop local governments from banning hydropower, allow innovators to test and tinker more on our federal lands.
In fact, it might come as a surprise to many here, though it makes perfect sense that many of the prominent environmental organizations in this country at their founding held immigration views that were quite similar to the views held by President Trump.
The concern was that unchecked immigration and open borders could put unsustainable pressure on the nation's environment and resources.
Securing our environment from existential threats is something we might refer to as environmental security, And it is essential to securing both national security and border security in the long term.
There is an existing portfolio of legislation that falls within the priorities and values of My Green Real Deal that could do a lot to solve the problem.
Protecting our environment is not an issue of left versus right.
It's an issue of clean versus dirty.
Healthy versus sick.
Beautiful versus ugly.
It's conservative in the most essential, non-partisan and literal sense of the word, conserving the resources and the splendor of our natural world.
America is often lauded as more than a country, it's an idea.
But I would say it's even more than an idea.
America is our home.
The oceans and rivers and forests and streams and meadows and hollers of this country Recently,
Tucker Carlson gave a moving speech in Hungary, of all places, on these very themes and their importance for our nation and our movement.
If you think of your country like your home, you don't want it to look crappy.
It's really that simple.
If it's your house, you want to be in charge of who sleeps there.
That's not a complex principle.
It's the most basic human principle.
So as I'm standing at the border, literally at the border fence, thinking about this, watching the German Shepherd amble past, I was trying to talk to a border guard who, by the way, like, as noted, like, every Hungarian I have met, every, from the driver to the waiter to the border guard, had better English than our own president.
I said, how often do people come to the border?
How often do you see migrants putting ladders atop the concertina wire?
Is this like every hour, every day?
Is it at night during the day?
I'm trying to ask the dumb journalist questions.
And he said, well...
And then he stopped and he looked down, like very intensely, like something bad had happened.
And I'm from the U.S. where we have poisonous snakes.
So I immediately thought...
You know, I don't know if they have cobras in Hungary.
Again, I don't speak the language.
So I step back and there is a plastic sandwich bag about that big on the ground stuck at the bottom of the chain link fence.
And this guard reaches down, grabs the bag and puts it in his own pocket.
And I don't think I've...
I have seen in my life very few displays more powerful than that.
So here's a border guard.
I don't know what they make.
I'm guessing not much.
He's a civil servant.
He works for the government.
And he's so offended by the idea that there's litter in his country that he puts it in his own pocket.
What does that tell you?
It's the clearest possible expression of love and respect.
When you love something, you keep it clean.
Period.
I've said this on television many times, and every time I do, they call me a fascist.
As if cleanliness were a fascist quality.
It's not.
It's a virtue.
The answer doesn't lie in the siren song of communism masquerading as environmentalism.
After all, in communist countries large and small from China to Cuba, they are awful to the environment.
Literally unilaterally disarming the American economy would actually make China stronger and the global environment far worse.
Go to gates.house.gov to learn about my Green Real Deal legislation that embraces research, markets, and strategic investment to keep this stunning country we are so blessed to live in splendid and lovely.
Winter 2020. Manhattan was abandoned.
The city that never slept eliminated bail and ended stop and frisk.
Feckless lawmakers would rather leave their constituents to fight for themselves than be called racist.
Nursing homes piled up the dead.
Public transportation carried this unreasonable risk of getting stabbed just for doing nothing, like possibly by some crazy person or someone that had been released.
Lockdowns made normal life illegal.
So the brash New York Young Republican Club got a cash-star venue in Jersey City to host their annual Black Tie Gala.
Historians are still trying to determine if this was the first ever Black Tie affair in Jersey City.
But servers were employed.
Cooks were banging and clanging.
Managers greeted us with smiles and gratitude.
This was a time when so many Americans saw their jobs become illegal.
And a lot of these Americans were living paycheck to paycheck.
They hadn't done anything wrong, but because of some tyrannical governor or mayor, they weren't allowed to work, they weren't allowed to provide, they weren't allowed to contribute.
And then, this venue that we went to in Jersey City, that we brought resources to, that we allowed to reach employment, they were threatened with criminal prosecution.
These jerks just came in.
It's under investigation, including the venue.
Jersey City law enforcement is currently investigating this matter.
And we will assist their investigation in any way necessary and take action as appropriate.
The local prosecutor was activated.
Is Jersey still investigating me now?
They may have to take a number.
This gathering of incredibly well-dressed New York political refugees had become an international incident.
It is off and we begin here tonight with that party that is now a public safety concern.
A posh Jersey City restaurant shut down after a maskless secret gala for the New York young Republicans last night.
It has been dubbed the forbidden gala even by those in attendance, 150 people inside a New Jersey venue, at one point elbow to elbow, Posing for a maskless group photo.
Maritime Park, a private events hall located in Jersey City's Liberty State Park, remains under investigation Friday.
The result of a gala held here the night before, thrown by the New York Young Republican Club.
In New Jersey, Governor Phil Murphy blasting Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz for attending an event at a New Jersey restaurant.
Photos capturing dozens of people without masks.
My mother saw this chyron on Fox News and wondered why I had been captured.
I had not been captured.
I still have not been captured.
But I was banned from New Jersey by the state's Goldman Sachs governor.
That guy in the middle, the tall, handsome fellow in the gray suit, that is Representative Matt Putz.
Sorry, Matt Gates.
A Putz?
Okay, Boomer.
And the handsome thing?
Is someone projecting?
The whole thing seemed so odd.
All this hubbub over a party?
By Florida Man standards, it wasn't even that rambunctious of a party.
No one even tried to wrestle an alligator.
I couldn't help but reflect on the hypocrisy.
Had I come to Jersey City to torch a Wendy's or throw a Molotov cocktail at a George Washington statue, I would have been welcomed as a political expressionist.
But because I came to give a political speech after having developed natural infection COVID immunity, I was dangerous.
I don't bring this up now to rehash an old grievance or even because I want to go back to Jersey.
I don't.
Now we have the perspective of time, though, and it should inform policy choices.
New Jersey had some of the most draconian lockdowns in America.
You see, when you're a Goldman Sachs gazillionaire governor, maybe it's easy to impose lockdowns on others.
Your money still works, even if other folks can't.
In Jersey, stopping deadly COVID outweighed all costs and justified all lockdowns.
So let's see how it's going.
We have the highest, and still do, have the highest death rate per capita of any state in the country.
With all the lockdowns, with the biggest lockdown, probably New York and New Jersey were the biggest ones to lock down.
It didn't work.
Oh, no.
New Jersey has a COVID death per capita rate of 299 for every 100,000 people.
In Florida, it's not 299. It's 180. For those who have managed to survive Murphy's mismanagement of COVID, his mangling of the New Jersey economy has led to an unemployment rate of 7.3%.
Compare that to Florida's 5% unemployment rate, which will go down further as Florida recharges through freedom.
Perhaps Phil Murphy can call America's best governor, Ron DeSantis, for a few tips that could save lives.
If New Jersey had maintained the COVID death rate that Florida has, there would be over 10,000 people who would be alive in Jersey today.
Instead, those people are dead.
I guess being a handsome putz beats being an ugly, dumb killer.
People are still fighting for freedom in Cuba.
We were supposed to get an update from the Biden administration earlier.
This is what happened.
So we were preparing for a staff meeting today, a call on Cuba.
A lot of people talking about it.
A lot of members of Congress concerned about it.
And we were supposed to have a call with Republicans from Florida at 11 o'clock today with the State Department, actually the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere.
Had a lot of questions about why the Biden administration has allowed Thugs from Venezuela and Russia to move from Caracas into Havana, questions about the Biden administration simultaneously seeming to support freedom in Cuba, but then also being in unity of purpose with the Black Lives Matter movement.
And BLM has actually put out a statement supporting the oppressive Cuban regime, leading us to believe that socialism may run thicker than blood.
We're not going to be able to ask these questions of the Biden administration because just before our call with the State Department was supposed to occur, we get this message that the State Department has canceled the call.
So we're going to continue to pursue the Biden administration on Cuba.
They've been all over the map.
They never should have allowed foreign interference from Venezuela to limit the ability of the Cuban people to fight back.
But we'll keep fighting for freedom and have another update soon.
The average age in Congress is 58. Boomer Congress is highly vulnerable to COVID, actually.
As an institution, we are old, usually obese, and otherwise comorbid.
No wonder I don't fit in.
Members of Congress are actually the ones who should be locked up and locked down if health conditions call for it.
It was a point I was trying to make when I wore a large gas mask on the House floor.
While every media outlet assumed my motive, saying I was mocking or making light of the virus, I was actually attempting a different point altogether, albeit, admittedly, unsuccessfully.
As I stated in The Hill the day I wore the mask, look, members of Congress are human petri dishes.
We fly through the dirtiest airports.
We touch everyone we meet.
If anyone's going to get coronavirus, it's going to be the people on that floor.
Sadly, I was right.
Many members of Congress got COVID. It was at times fatal.
The great Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky demanded that the rules in place pre-COVID requiring members to show up and vote must be followed.
He made Congress show up in person before spending trillions of dollars on COVID relief.
And he was land blasted for doing so.
We are learning late tonight that lawmakers are scrambling, if you can believe it, to get back to Washington by tomorrow morning in the middle of a global pandemic because one Republican Congressman, Thomas Massey of Kentucky, is expected to demand an in-person vote.
Yikes.
But Massey was right.
Massey highlighted the appropriate critique of what was really going on.
Congress was trying to spend $1.9 trillion without putting the names of the representatives next to whether or not they had voted yes or no.
Whether you support CARES or not, authorizing $1.9 trillion of federal spending under the anonymous shroud is un-American.
Voice votes are used as a mechanism all the time to quicken federal spending.
Through swamp parlance, it's called suspension votes.
Through this procedural tool, an unlimited number of bills can be passed almost instantly by the call of the speaker.
Zero members will be held accountable by the recorded and permanently available congressional record.
Both parties love this tool.
Lobbyists especially love this tool.
The easier it is for Congress to spend your money without recorded votes, the worse for the American people.
On that note, have you noticed how inflation is making things more expensive for working people every day?
Printing money at this irresponsible rate does that.
In fact, if printing money made a nation stronger, Zimbabwe would be a world power.
But it doesn't, and they aren't.
President Biden will continue to sign nice-sounding legislation, costing the taxpayers trillions of dollars.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve continues to artificially manipulate our economy, pushing down interest rates.
Consequently, the value of your dollar is decreasing, and the price of consumer goods goes up every single day.
You see it in the grocery store, you see it at the gas pump, you see it everywhere.
This, in fact, is the worst outcome for real America.
Joe Biden and the Democrats picking winners and losers and simultaneously making every one of the dollar bills you've worked for worth less in value.
Representatives of yesteryear rode on horseback to Washington during the Civil War.
They traveled and congregated against threats of murder, disease, savagery.
We could probably stomach a few long car rides until vaccines or other remedies developed.
That way there would be a recorded vote.
So now, with vaccinated senators getting COVID anyway, congressional fear is at an apex.
So we are likely to continue voting remotely, having committee hearings remotely, and having remote governance.
There will be benefits and drawbacks to this system, of course.
One consideration that I love is that lobbyists actually hate remote voting.
They prefer congressional servants to be here in Washington D.C. It makes Congress easier to reach and easier to corrupt.
Most lobbyists have multiple lunches and dinners and cocktail hours every single day with members of Congress.
That's how they get their agenda before your agenda.
It's far more difficult when we're strewn about the country.
So let's all hope that Boomer Congress stays safe and returns to the fidelity of service to the people, wherever we may be.
Let's also hope that after 16 months of Zoom meetings, Boomer Congress gets a little bit better at it.
Because I don't know if I could take another year of this.
We must make sure that our nation's sole proprietors and the smallest of small businesses receive timely...
Will the gentleman suspend?
I'm sorry, Mr. Emmer?
Yes.
Are you okay?
I am.
You're upside down, Tom.
Authorizing capabilities CISA has brought, has built through a pilot called Cyber Sentry, which allows CISA to partner with certain strategically placed critical infrastructure.
We'll move on to Senator Langford.
But as bad as American Congress is, the Canadians found a way to make it weirder.
Mr. Speaker, As you know, since the beginning of the pandemic, we have tried to emphasize the importance of respecting quorum, the dress code here in the House, and I think that this, today, we've set a new record.
We've seen a member during question period improperly dressed, that is...
Unclothed.
So perhaps remind the members, especially the male members, that suits and ties are appropriate or rather called for.
And we have seen that the member was in very good shape.
But I think that this member should be reminded of what is appropriate and to control his camera.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I would like to thank the Honourable Member for her observations.
I missed that, but as she was speaking, I spoke with the technicians and indeed they did see something.
And what I would like to do is to remind the members that when they even are at home, they must be aware that there is a camera and a microphone and they need to be aware of their functioning.
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