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July 26, 2022 - Firebrand - Matt Gaetz
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Episode 63 LIVE: Be Offended – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz
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Thank you.
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 for the Democratic Party.
He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
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.
Welcome to Firebrand.
We're broadcasting live out of our office on Capitol Hill in the Longworth Building here in our nation's capital, Washington, D.C. So much to discuss.
So much to be offended over.
I've got a major update regarding recent activity by the Biden administration.
To weaken our military now for the sake of environmental wokeness more than some of the critical race theory, pro-socialism wokeness that we've covered extensively in the past.
We've got the live stream running.
We are on Facebook, Instagram, Rumble.
We are on Getter.
Adam on Facebook says it's commie smash time.
Kim on Instagram says God bless Representative Rumble.
So, unless you were hiding under a rock somewhere the last week, you noticed that there was a conference at Turning Point USA in Tampa, Florida.
A bunch of the activists that drive the action on policy and politics on the right were there interacting with one another.
We had Governor Ron DeSantis lay out the Florida Freedom Agenda.
The pro-parent agenda had a raucous ovation, but there was no energy there.
Like when President Trump took the stage, he had a withering critique of the state that we have to live in in America under a hapless Joe Biden.
But with all due respect to President Trump and Governor DeSantis, I think the speech that got the most attention at Turning Point might have been mine.
Here's a clip.
Take a listen.
Our America is a pro-life nation proudly.
Have you watched these pro-abortion, pro-murder rallies?
The people are just disgusting!
Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions?
Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb!
These people are odious on the inside and out.
They're like 5'2", 350 pounds, and they're like, give me my abortions or I'll get up in March and protest.
And I'm thinking, March?
You look like you got ankles weaker than the legal reasoning behind Roe vs.
Wade.
A few of them need to get up in March.
They need to get up in March for like an hour a day, swing those arms, get the blood pumping, maybe mix in a salad.
I am pro-life.
I make no apology for that.
I do believe that our country can have a rational discussion among people with different value sets who disagree on when life begins, is 20 weeks, 15 weeks, what's the appropriate envelope for exceptions?
You know, those are, I think, very appropriate, very timely, given the Dobbs decision.
But the people who deserve no quarter are the ones who show up to rally for the taking of a life.
Just think about how depraved you have to be to say that what you're going to do with your free time is go out and try to threaten physically a Supreme Court justice for the sake of this heinous outcome, the taking of a life.
Just a terrible thing.
I think back to how we viewed protest, at least how I did growing up.
You saw people protesting Vietnam.
They held up signs that said, Make love, not war.
It seems the people protesting for abortion could make neither.
I was questioned about this recently by WEAR3 News in my district.
That interview also got some attention.
Take a listen.
Explain what you said and what you meant by that.
I'm very pro-life and I make no apology for it.
And I'm grateful that Roe has been overturned and that Dobbs is now the jurisprudence on abortion.
And I find these people who go out in these pro-abortion, pro-murder rallies Odious and just like ugly on the inside and out.
And I make no apology for it.
I don't believe that every person who disagrees with my perspective on life is an ugly person.
But the ones that are out there protesting and marching outside Justice Kavanaugh's home, trying to threaten the court, trying to impose a night of rage on our nation's capital, which is what they advertised, it's just pure ugliness.
And I see that ugliness on the inside.
I see it on the outside.
You know, even in the horrible circumstance where an abortion may happen, it is nothing to celebrate and it is nothing to cheer.
Is it safe to say that based off of your comments you're suggesting that these women at these abortion rallies are ugly and overweight?
Yes.
What do you say to people who think that those comments are offensive?
Be offended.
Don't we all have fatigue as a society for this sense that we have to be offended at everything?
Like, being a Woketopian sounds exhausting.
You have to be offended by what you see on television, what you see on the internet, the things you hear, the jokes people tell, the snide remarks that may be made in a political speech.
It's just exhausting.
And so I guess if people are offended by my remarks, by my perspective, They can just be offended.
And you know what?
The world will still spin on its axis and hopefully we'll all be able to find a more appropriate way to honor the creation of life.
I really believe it dehumanizes our entire society when we allow these late-term abortions, these elective abortions, these abortions that really are Birth control, sadly, for far too many people.
The shrill vipers on The View had quite a perspective on my speech and my reaction to those questions.
Oh, wait, hold on.
I want to preview this the right way.
So this is The View host, Sarah Haynes.
So Sarah Haynes, in reaction to my remarks, wants you to believe that there actually is no one who is pro-abortion.
Take a listen.
I feel like comments like he made really leave no room for any intellectual conversation because he went so low on that.
But someone does need to tell him, one, nobody's pro-abortion and everyone is pro-life.
God bless abortions and God bless America!
I'm killing them!
I'm killing the babies!
Abortion!
Pills!
Forever!
Without this basic right, women can't be free.
Abortion on demand and without apology.
Ladies, if you get pregnant, run on down to the abortion clinic and have that little bastard suck!
Shortly after Roe v.
Wade, a black woman was able to have an abortion in Illinois.
She was in a relationship that wasn't right for her and it allowed her to move on and attend nursing school and marry a fellow student and have a child with him.
As my mother, that child was me.
And as my mother told me, Renee, I chose you.
I owe my life to an abortion.
He needs to realize most people that are pro-choice are not fighting for themselves.
Imagine watching The View and not hate watching The View.
It's really quite something.
But as we make progress on...
Embracing our humanity, on advancing the cause of life, being a pro-life nation.
There is an area where we continue to see our country eroded, disrespected, and violated, and that is still on the southern border.
So I have an important report, and this comes as the daily drumbeat from Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik.
Hot numbers, what's going on, on the border right now.
There have now been over 500,000 known gotaways since the beginning of the fiscal year in October.
So remember, these are people where there is no screening, no checking for potentially being on a terrorist watch list, potentially bringing in disease or other discord to our country.
Over 500,000 known gotaways.
In June, there were 207,416 migrant encounters at the southern border.
June was the fourth consecutive month Of over 200,000 encounters.
I mean, we had a border that was overrun if in the course of a month you had 60,000 encounters.
I mean, now you're talking about 200,000 a month for the fourth straight month?
It's a 527% increase in apprehension compared to the last June of President Trump's administration.
So just during that period of time, you are seeing by a multiple of more than five of these encounters.
Human smuggling is now a $13 billion business for the criminal cartels supported by Joe Biden and open border policies.
Since Joe Biden took office, over 3.1 million illegal immigrants have been apprehended at the southern border.
In June, an additional six illegal immigrants at the southern border were on the terrorist watch list.
So just for fiscal year 2022, 56 apprehensions where the person is on the terrorist watch list.
I mean, that is just a crazy number when you consider having to apply then that ratio to the 500,000 gotaways and ascertain how many of those pose an even more elevated risk to our country.
Frankly, I think all the illegal immigrants pose a threat to our country, to our economy, to our jobs, to our way of life.
It doesn't mean they're bad people.
It doesn't even mean that if we weren't in their circumstances, we might try the same thing.
But we're Americans, and thus we have an obligation to protect America.
It means more than finishing the wall.
It means ensuring that we deport people who are not in our country legally.
So far in fiscal year 2022, 8,400 pounds of fentanyl have been seized at the southern border by Border Patrol.
This is double the entire fiscal year for 2020. So there's going to be a lot more death.
There are going to be a lot more funerals.
You know, just a wave of fentanyl coming into the country.
And I talk to local law enforcement in a lot of places.
They say you can literally tell when the cartels are doing the drop-offs because they see it in the OD clinics.
They see it in the ERs.
They see it in our morgues, unfortunately.
So we can stop this.
They are not securing the border on purpose, and people and harm is coming in as a consequence.
Another way the Biden administration is harming our country is by harming our military.
And we've covered a great deal how this white supremacy snipe hunt that the Biden administration seems to be on with our military is driving people out.
We've covered extensively how the vaccine mandate has driven people out.
The no-vax, no-service episode with Nick Cupper, certainly one of our best, and that will delve into a lot of the very practical challenges that our service members continue to have with this vaccine mandate.
But now, our military is being sacrificed on the altar of environmental wokeness.
Joe Biden is offering our nation's military essentially as a form of payment to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.
In his latest prostration to the progressives, President Biden has directed the development of wind energy leasing in the waters of Florida's Gulf Coast.
Now, why is this important?
Florida's Gulf Coast is home to the critically important Eastern Gulf test and training range.
This is critical to our military readiness, national security, and Florida's contribution to the fight.
What's even more worrisome is that Joe Biden's actions here to harm our military in the Gulf of Mexico and Florida and to sacrifice So the Eastern Gulf Test and Training Range is a military training range unlike any other in the world.
It's a place where stuff happens that literally doesn't happen anywhere else.
In May of 2018, the Secretary of Defense submitted a report to the House Armed Services Committee acknowledging the importance and the uniqueness of Florida's Gulf Coast, calling it an irreplaceable national asset.
Moreover, at that time, DOD concluded, quote, No other area in the world provides the U.S. military with a surrogate environment for military operations in the Indo-Pacific theater.
As we've discussed, China is our nation's primary adversary.
Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, they're compromised by China.
And now you see Joe Biden depriving our military of its only training range capable of simulating the environment that we may ultimately have to fight in to preserve American hegemony.
But Beijing Biden doesn't seem to care.
While Biden aids and abets China and the Chinese Communist Party, he seems intent on dismantling and destroying Florida's cherished military mission.
The 96 Test Wing at Eglin Air Force Base oversees the expenditure of thousands of bombs and missiles annually on the range.
The range is becoming a hub of activity for supersonic and hypersonic weapons testing.
Now, this is a critical capability, and we've fallen behind China in this area.
Russia, in fact, is already deploying these weapons systems, using them in battle.
The United States Special Operations Command runs its largest joint special operations exercise, Emerald Warrior, on this very range.
The range supports training for the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Panama City.
That's tied to the mission at Tyndall Air Force Base.
Naval Air Station Key West also could be affected.
They need the Gulf Preserve for our military, not as a wind farm.
The preservation of this range space for testing and training is clearly in the interests of all Floridians.
Experimental hypersonic missiles should not be flying over oil rigs and I don't think that special operators should be parachuting into windmill farms.
I can't even believe I have to say that out loud.
Why would Joe Biden deliberately diminish our nation's military readiness and destroy Florida's military mission?
I think there are a few motives that are on display.
First, Joe Biden's strings are being pulled by the progressives, the very same progressives who naively push the so-called Green New Deal no matter the cost to our country or to our economy or to our security.
For decades, Congress and the executive branch have worked together to protect the Gulf of Mexico range from new oil and gas drilling in the name of military readiness.
This is a policy I continue to support every day.
It's a policy that President Trump supported when he issued an executive order banning drilling off of Florida's coast.
A big reason for that was this critical, sensitive, nowhere else in the world military mission.
However, when oil rigs Turn into windmills.
It serves the progressive climate agenda.
And the true nature of the Democrats' intentions becomes clear.
They never cared about military readiness or national security.
They just didn't want to drill for oil.
These are the same people who want to radically reduce your defense budget.
Keep that in mind.
There's another potential motive here.
The progressive Democrats who control Joe Biden are running a campaign right now to siphon military mission and military capability and the revenue and economic development that comes with that away from red states and to blue states.
Biden appointed bureaucrats in the Department of Defense are crafting policies which will allow service members to leave red states or not take orders to red states if they disagree with their laws.
They want to create this new like fighting woke topion funneling the power and money that they can to them and away from bases in Florida, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Florida.
And if they succeed in diminishing the military mission in red states, if they succeed in damaging the eastern Gulf range off the coast of Florida, it provides them yet another vector to move mission and capabilities to their states and their districts.
We Floridians should not stand for this deliberate effort to destroy our state's military mission and our country's national security.
I assure you that we will not stop fighting on this issue.
In letters I've sent to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall, I ask them to provide me their plan to preserve and protect this national gem from the intrusion of the progressives and the Green New Dealers who are intent on destroying our capabilities.
I am fighting to protect this range and Florida's military mission through legislation as well.
All proud Floridians need to write their elected officials and demand that we protect our treasured military mission and that we not look out at a wind farm instead.
If we fail, we'll be less safe as a nation and our military mission and our communities that support that mission could become endangered.
Now Tucker Carlson had a recent speech where he addressed some of the fallacies of wind as a great panacea for the environment.
Take a listen to Tucker in Des Moines, Iowa.
They're able to think of these schemes that in fact destroy the environment.
And by the environment I mean the land.
Because they don't care about beauty.
What's beautiful?
Is a wind turbine beautiful?
No, actually.
Rivers are beautiful.
Gardenias are beautiful.
Springer Spaniel faces are beautiful.
Children are beautiful.
The sky is beautiful.
These are not things that people made.
These are things that God made.
We're back live.
Information Warlord on Rumble says, windmills don't last long in a saltwater environment.
They also won't survive a hurricane.
Yeah.
Can you just imagine after the Florida hurricane, the windmill component parts that are flying around?
That is a very, very good point.
Let's see.
Gilbert Barb says, late to the party, but Matt, you are the man.
And Clyde says, I'm still chuckled about be offended.
Matt's wit is quick and sharp, LOL. Well, I think it is insane to trade our military mission for this wind mission.
And we don't want our paratroopers jumping into wind turbines.
We don't want the migratory birds that...
We need Florida as an ecosystem and habitat to be flown into like the bird wood chipper of wind turbines.
And I think that the mix we have of protecting our environment wisely, having good resilience where we need to against flooding, and then supporting our military mission has led to the prosperity in Florida that is making Florida America's destination.
And we should not screw that up for Joe Biden and the Green New Dealers.
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