All Episodes
Previous Next
Sept. 16, 2022 - Firebrand - Matt Gaetz
26:06
Episode 69 LIVE: Congress Is Failing – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
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 could 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?
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. - What are the most difficult challenges right now?
- The difficult challenges are, we have, at some point in time, they have to move to somewhere else.
We don't have the services to take care of 50 immigrants.
We certainly don't have housing.
We're in a housing crisis as we are on this island.
We can't house everyone here that lives here and works here.
We don't have housing for 50 more people.
Didn't you learn, America, there's a housing crisis on Martha's Vineyard?
While you were dealing with the struggles of inflation and rising gas prices, I hope you said your prayers for those folks on Martha's Vineyard who are going through this crisis ever the more exacerbated by 50 people.
Let alone the thousands who are showing up on our border every day in each of our border states, actually.
And they don't want to function as a turnstile for our country.
And so I stand with Governor Ron DeSantis in his desire to visit the impacts of illegal immigration on those who seem so willing to champion it when it is not directly impacting their communities.
What a great way to start a Friday with the Martha's Vineyard Karen saying, well, we don't have the services.
We don't have the housing.
We don't have the space.
These people have to move.
You know what?
They should move back to their home country, and we should have a government willing to protect our people from invasion as the Constitution requires.
Now, this Friday also brings us failure not only on the immigration front, but also very much so when it comes to the funding of our government.
Democrats unable to To bring a continuing resolution vote to the floor of the Congress today.
Matter of fact, canceling votes today.
We thought that today would be a day where maybe they would have worked out their continuing resolution Here's what the continuing resolution is that the Democrats want.
They want to set up a short-term funding bill that expires during the lame-duck Congress so that we would have to negotiate with Democrats to extend into the period of time when Republicans should be running at least the House of Representatives and maybe the Senate.
You see, we believe, of course, that the upcoming election will give us advantage and more leverage to get wins for the people of the country.
They know that, and so they're trying to create as short-term a government funding bill as possible so that it will expire during the lame duck Congress.
By the way, with the name of the lame duck Congress, like...
It probably shouldn't be doing something as significant as funding the government because the lame duck Congress is still operated by people who lost elections.
Not the ones that the voters actually chose.
People like Liz Cheney will even be in the lame duck Congress.
Matter of fact, she'll be bringing the lame to the lame duck Congress.
And so I am working now with Republican colleagues, with conservatives, to implore Mitch McConnell, Leader McCarthy, don't give any Republican votes to pass any continuing resolution that would expire before the swearing-in of the 118th Congress, the Congress I very much intend to be a part of.
And that Congress will give the Republicans far more necessary leverage.
And you know what?
There may be shutdowns coming in divided government.
You need to be ready for that because we should not continue to fund a government that is excessively weaponized against our people.
From the Department of Justice, to the IRS, to the Department of Education, to the post office, we see the weaponization of this government, and we should not be so readily willing to fund it.
So there'll be more on that, but the big news for today, they don't have the votes.
They're kicking it down the road to a following week, and we'll certainly have a lot to talk about there.
But as we look at Congress, there are certain things starting to take shape.
And we bring you this segment we love on Firebrand called This Week in Congress.
Today in Congress.
Today in Congress.
I guess we're still getting the name of that segment right.
But today in Congress, we learn how old Congress is.
Like, really old.
Historically old.
Put up the graph now.
This is the oldest government in history.
The report by Insider, not usually a source that we trust, but the graph, the data, is pretty interesting.
The age of Congress continued to rise until...
You know, just before the late, mid-1970s, 1980s, and then the age of Congress actually went down substantially.
But since the 1980s, the percentage of members of Congress who are over the age of 70 has skyrocketed.
Like, there is a greater percentage of people in Congress over the age of 70 now than...
At any other time in our nation's history by like multiples by like a factor of three according to this graph and you know what that leads to moments like I'm about to show you where some of these boomers get up and say things that like sometimes you wonder if they know that they're actually saying them out loud to the country if or if they just think it's their inner monologue so take a listen To not just anyone,
Democrat Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and his admissions about the Deep State.
They want to eliminate what they call the Deep State.
The Deep State is a cadre of professionals dedicated to honoring the Constitution, the laws of this country, and carrying out the policies of the Congress and the President.
Didn't you know, after years of the Democrats saying that the deep state was a conspiracy, the deep state was just right-wing fear-mongering, here you have Steny Hoyer, not sure he knows if he's talking out loud here, but saying, yes, we have a deep state and you should be grateful that there is a deep state so willing to deep state over you, to centralize decision-making in Washington, D.C., rather than allowing the people of our country to live free and prosperous lives.
But that's what they think.
When you've been in Congress for decades like Steny Hoyer has, when you're one of the people that contribute to the statistic that there are more people over the age of 70 in Congress than ever before in our nation's history, well, you get moments like this.
Perhaps a moment of truth, a moment of clarity.
It certainly should clarify things for the people in this country who do not want to surrender their rights, their freedom, and their way of life to a deep state.
To a deep state of any kind, really.
And we do know that there isn't the professionalism that we see typically from Steny Hoyer.
We did a segment previously on the excessive abuses that we see in FISA just as one vector into the deep state.
Take a listen.
One of the tools also used by the intelligence community is FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
And some authorities there allow our spies, our government officials, to gather data, to listen in on calls, to intercept signal intelligence if they're looking into someone who's a foreigner on foreign soil.
But the Americans that get caught up in that They're seeing their civil liberties, their constitutional rights deprived.
Now there have been a number of reviews regarding how the FBI and the Department of Justice are using FISA. And it turns out they're breaking a lot of their own rules.
The most recent Inspector General report showed that every file that was looked at had problems with it.
In some cases, the backup materials that are required under the Woods procedures were entirely missing.
And in four cases, The errors were so egregious that it was easy to see how the judge evaluating whether or not to grant the surveillance request could have made a different decision.
Justice denied to our fellow Americans.
Civil liberties violated.
Our Constitution disrespected by the people that you would think would value our fellow Americans most.
We know what, Steny Hoyer, we are not grateful for the deep state.
We never will be, and when Republicans take control, there's going to be accountability over the deep state.
Now we've seen the way Democrats have tried to have this performance of the January 6th committee and while the representatives of the January 6th committee are busy grandstanding and like mourning our democracy's supposed near-death experience, their own districts are suffering from economic crisis, crime, epidemics, neglect.
And perhaps there is no one Who bears more responsibility for the state of his district than the chairman of the January 6th committee himself, Benny Thompson.
Now you may have heard of the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi.
Simply put, Jackson has plenty of water.
It's not like the desert in Jackson, Mississippi.
But you can't drink it because it's not safe.
This isn't the result of a natural disaster or freak accident.
It isn't the work of some nefarious terrorist organization.
They haven't blamed Russia yet for this.
It's the city government's fault.
The city government in Jackson has neglected the maintenance of its water treatment facilities for years.
The city has plenty of resources, plenty of water.
So assuming the city government isn't intentionally trying to kill its citizens, we have to chalk this up to terrible incompetence.
Now Benny Thompson has cleverly tried to distance himself from this colossal disaster.
And he's right about one thing.
The mayor, Chotwe Antar Lumumba, has no plan to fix this crisis.
Now, the way Benny Thompson tells it, this is all the function of structural racism.
It's that Jackson is a black city and they were ignored.
But the reality...
Is that the leadership in that city failed.
It is the responsibility of the city government to care for its people, to bond when necessary, to see beyond the next kickback or the next political opportunity for a friend or ally.
Now this Chotewe Lumumba, the mayor, and his bureaucracy have proven themselves totally incapable of self-governance.
So I guess they'll have to rely on the state government, the Army Corps of Engineers, which has taken action.
But not so fast for Benny Thompson, actually.
Benny has been a supporter of Choway Lumumba and the Lumumba family for decades politically in Jackson.
The very people who failed.
He endorsed Choway Lumumba in his 2017 race for mayor and then stood by him in a showy press conference as they protested President Trump's visit to Jackson.
Look at this picture from their press conference.
I mean, it is awful.
Cozy.
Awful supportive, I would say.
In 2013, Benny Thompson was the master of ceremony at Chotwe Lumumba Senior's mayoral inauguration.
So, Benny Thompson is two generations deep into political patronage with the very people who resulted in their own city being unable to drink water.
Then he supported his family.
He supported their agenda.
And he did it from the very beginning, knowing full well who the Lumumbas were.
Radical, socialist, ethno-nationalists, and black separatists.
Choway Lumumba Sr. was famously elected the second vice president of the Republic of New Africa, a black separatist group dedicated to creating a black ethno-state out of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, parts of East Texas and North Florida.
They weren't successful.
But Choteway moved with his separatist group to Hines County, Mississippi in 1971 to set up the provisional capital of this black ethnostate.
And what's crazy is that, I guess while they failed to convert every SEC state to this black ethnostate, did they kind of convert Jackson, Mississippi in an awful, failed kind of way?
They had a laughably ridiculous and anti-American plan.
Thankfully, it didn't get any farther than Jackson, Mississippi.
That's still no comfort to the people there who can't drink the water.
LaMumba Sr. was elected to the Jackson City Council in 2009 and mayor in 2013. Benny Thompson was there and supportive.
Betty Thompson stated, quote, What an endorsement.
I mean, remember, this was the guy who, like, literally believed that white people should be driven out of the American Southeast.
In 2017, Chokwe's son, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, took over the reins for the Lumumba political operation for the dynasty.
When he was elected mayor, also rather conveniently with Benny Thompson's support and endorsement, this Bernie Sanders acolyte, this younger Lumumba, described himself as a progressive socialist and a political revolutionary.
He promised to make Jackson, quote, the most radical city on the planet.
Chotewe Lumumba Jr.'s plans for Jackson may stop short of his father's ultimate vision of New Africa, but their every bit is dangerous, especially to the people around them who are under their rule.
They want to transform a city and create a new civilization, but they can't even keep the water running?
How embarrassing.
Benny Thompson and others have hinted that Jackson is being treated differently, presumably because it is majority black.
Never mind that Jackson has plenty of funds available and hasn't had a non-black mayor in seven mayoral terms since 1997. They want to play the victim card, the race card?
You know what?
This is correct.
They are right.
It is a race issue.
For decades, Benny Thompson and others stood by and supported racial radicals, socialists, ethno-nationalists, instead of supporting the competent public servants.
Take a look here.
In 1971, Benny Thompson endorsed the group of cop-killing insurrectionists, and John Solomon had the report.
We did a clip on this in Firebrand previously.
Here was what we uncovered.
Go back to 1970. But back in those days, Benny Thompson was known as an alderman in a small city outside of Jackson, Mississippi.
And he was sort of on the radical side of politics at that point.
He was a supporter of this group, Real New Africa.
And he went to their defense, even though this group had on multiple occasions engaged with police.
They were accused of killing at least two officers that we know of and a third that they were suspected of.
And he was defending them, saying that the police were the problem, that they deserved to be killed because they were picking on this poor group.
Now let's tell you who this group was.
This group wanted to secede from the United States.
They wanted to take Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and turned it into its own republic called the New Republic of Africa.
And they wanted to do so by force if the government wouldn't do it willingly.
And they were engaged in a lot of criminal activity.
There's all sorts of stories.
The FBI considered them a terrorism group at the time.
And this was a group that Benny Thompson, as a young alderman before he joined Congress, was trying to defend, blame the police for picking on.
In the case of the Republic of New Africa, they are charged with obstructing justice.
This, I believe, is an attempt on part of law enforcement officials to stop the Republic from building its community.
My position is that people are entitled to live as they choose so long as they are law-abiding and peaceful.
It's really amazing, isn't it, that you had this group of people in the Midwest who then choose this tiny little town in Mississippi to go establish the capital of their American Southeast ethnostate.
And the first guy to pop up and support them is Benny Thompson.
It really is something.
You can learn more about it.
That's a clip from episode 18, one of our favorites, insurrectionist Benny Thompson.
Benny Thompson actually has been on all sides of insurrection, as it turns out, in his political career.
But what's nuts is that these crazy insurrectionists that he brought to his community, two generations later, end up really screwing the people over.
And like instead of serving their people, they have now committed themselves to racial politics.
They themselves have made race the issue.
And the people of Jackson, Mississippi, are worse off because they'd rather race blame than actually clean the water.
Like, Benny Thompson has been a super powerful guy here in Congress.
He's been part of the Democrat apparatus.
He's one of the leaders.
He chairs the January 6th Committee.
You're telling me over this guy's, like...
Numbers of terms in the United States Congress.
He couldn't have gotten appropriations to go and help his own community clean the water, but now he wants to go on a snipe hunt for MAGA grandmothers, and he couldn't make sure that the water was clean in his own community?
What kind of representative for the people is that?
It's selfish.
Benny Thompson knew who these separatists were when he supported them.
He embraced them.
He endorsed them.
He is the kingmaker, and his kingdom is crumbling.
All the while, he's out trying to harass people over January 6th.
These types want to bash you over the head with the billy club of democracy while they forsake their own duties that they've been elected to represent.
And it's past time we moved on from the J6 witch hunt.
It's past time the country moved on from racial politics.
Solve real problems.
Make sure people can actually take a shower.
We need to abolish the January 6th committee and tell Benny Thompson that he doesn't come back to Washington, D.C. until he serves his suffering constituents and stops backing So-called leaders who end up putting their own interests and woke politics over the basic needs of our fellow Americans.
I care about the folks in Jackson, and they deserve better than they've gotten.
And frankly, so do the great people of this country, and that's why we're here, to keep up the fight.
Thanks so much for joining us.
Make sure that you're subscribed.
You've got to have notifications turned on.
We go live at different points in the day, and you want to be as informed as possible about the conversations that are driving the action here in the United States Congress and in Washington, D.C. Please give us that five-star rating on your listening platform.
It helps ensure that other folks get to see the show.
Roll the credits.
▲
Export Selection