A huge legislative effort has been underway, led by Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee. Finally, someone with a backbone, standing up to the RINOS and traitors in the House and Senate, sending American tax dollars to terrorist nations, and funding the Taliban. And to top it off, it's about $45 million a week, which is out of control on every level. Today we saw who is behind our armed services, our American citizens and who's in it for the kickbacks. @LYNDAMICK @ROGUERECAPSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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What's up, guys?
Here tonight, not on my normal microphone.
Hope you don't mind.
I'm remote, but wanted to get this show in because we have huge news that's getting so little coverage.
And that is our fight to have the American government stop funding the Taliban.
And if you're like me, you're probably like, I didn't know we were funding the Taliban.
But there is an amazing congressman.
His name is Tim Burchett.
He's out of Tennessee.
And he's definitely been one of those people who it doesn't matter how uncomfortable it is.
It doesn't matter how difficult it might be.
He is going to tell you exactly what's going on.
And he is not a partisan hack either.
He is a conservative.
He's part of the Freedom Caucus, but he doesn't care if you're a conservative, Republican, liberal, Democrat.
None of that matters.
If you're doing the wrong thing, you better believe that Tim Burchett's going to call you out.
So a little bit about this particular effort today.
Tim pushed through and introduced a bill that was dedicated to stopping our U.S. tax dollars being given to a group that still had regained control of Afghanistan in 2021 when Joe Biden had done that debacle level withdrawal.
And so every single week since then, he has been trying to get the Senate to pass his bill, which is to recall that money and to invest it in Americans, as opposed to giving people where all they want to do is kill us, you know, any kind of money from the U.S. taxpayer, especially because we lost so many men and women in combat that were fighting for American freedoms.
And now we're funding the families of those who their fathers, their brothers fought in the wars to kill ours.
So it's really sort of so, it's so insane that it actually seems unreal, in my opinion.
It seems like this can't be true, but it is.
And, you know, while President Trump really has been incredibly critical of Joe Biden's withdrawal, you know, the funding is still continuing.
So it's like, okay, yeah, we had this terrible withdrawal.
All of these people died.
We had, you know, assets within Afghanistan that were helping our men.
We weren't even able to get them out.
And they set up this funding through the Biden administration that was supposed to be quote unquote aid for Afghans that were remaining in the country.
But basically what happens now is it's going right to the Taliban because they control the central bank.
They control everything.
So that money isn't getting to anybody who needs it in Afghanistan.
That is going to fund terrorism and anti-American efforts because that's all they care about.
And we literally just this week on Monday sent another $45 million.
This is so beyond the pale.
And you have people speaking out.
We have people from even within Afghanistan confirming.
Absolutely.
Burchett says that the State Department has sent over $5 billion to Afghanistan in the last several years.
So the regulations that he's trying to, you know, impose upon Congress is to, you know, because Congress is power of the purse, is to say, absolutely not.
These are terrorists.
You're putting our American tax dollars into the hands of terrorists, into the very people who want to crush us.
And some of the money in question was approved by Congress going to these NGOs, which we all know about NGOs now, following USAID and Doge and the deep dive into that.
But they're allocating money to these NGOs, and it's not going to the people.
Again, it's not going to the people.
So Tim Burchett, God bless him.
He's like, enough with the NGOs, enough with the misappropriation of funds.
He said, why are we as taxpayers who lost our brothers and sisters in Afghanistan giving money that is falling into the hands of the Taliban?
It does not make sense.
And today, it passed.
So Tim Burchett was able to get his bill through the House.
They need 60 votes to pass it in the Senate.
And they've got this ridiculous inability to get it passed.
One senator, Senator Sheehy from Montana, both he and his wife served.
And he gave this speech on the floor today.
And I just thought it was so spot on.
We're going to play a little bit of audio today because I want you guys to hear what's happening.
And I feel like this is one of the biggest issues that's getting the least amount of coverage right now.
Most Americans probably find it somewhat surprising that as they struggle with affordability, struggling to fill their gas tank or pay their rent or afford their mortgage, that many of their tax dollars, in fact, upwards of $10 billion of their tax dollars are sent directly into the pockets of foreign terrorist organizations.
Terrorist organizations that we spent thousands of lives and decades fighting to protect our shores.
To include the lives of some of my friends, I spent years of my life, as did my wife, spend years of her life, fighting these terrorist organizations trying to keep this country safe.
And now we're told that our tax dollars have an obligation to go into the pocket of those organizations to buy bullets, to build bombs, to coordinate attacks that don't just kill Americans.
They kill those who share our values worldwide.
And it's not just Westerners and Americans who are killed by this.
The Taliban systematically hunts down those in Afghanistan with whom they disagree, those who want to be free, those women and girls who saw a brief period of freedom under our occupation there, and now they are once again placed under the yoke of terrible sexism, of not even fascism, but outright terror.
And it isn't just Afghanistan.
This extends across the globe.
This terrorist financing network is not just guys in mountain caves collecting dollar bills.
This is a sophisticated global finance network that spans the entire world.
The Iranian regime, although not directly connected in many ways to this, is absolutely directly connected to the international flow of terrorist funds through sophisticated real estate transaction, cryptocurrency, oil smuggling, piracy, kidnapping, terrorism.
It is unthinkable that we would intentionally and knowingly hand our taxpayer dollars to organizations that actively kill Americans and attempt to destroy our values every single day.
I think it should be a bipartisan American issue for us to finally put an end to this ridiculous practice that is actively costing us lives and precious freedom capital around the world.
I hope that we pass this act.
I urge a yes vote and I urge it quickly.
Thank you.
So one of the things that Tim Burchett put out and that I thought was really insightful is there is a gentleman who is working with our GOP.
And this is the scary thing, right?
People are staffers and they sort of worm their way into whatever committee and focus that they can get into because they don't really care about how they get in.
They just want to get in.
And so if they can do that, then they would be able to do the work that they want to do behind the scenes and hurt the people that they want to hurt without anybody being able to say anything.
And this particular individual is somebody that goes by the name of Tom West.
And Tom West was a Senate staffer who has had his security clearance actually denied by DNI Director Tulsi Gabbard because of his relationship with the Taliban, because the previous role he had under Biden was special representative for Afghanistan and Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs.
Let me repeat, the guy who is working with our Senate GOP worked under Biden as the special rep for Afghanistan.
And now he's helping them with the legislation to stop funding to Afghanistan.
Just think about that for a minute, how corrupt that is.
So Burchett really kind of laid it on the line.
I thought it was perfect.
I'll let you guys hear what he had to say.
Hey, everybody, Tim Burchett.
As you know, as I've been championing the cause to quit paying the Dadgum Taliban $40 million or $45 million, whatever it is a week, we're giving them over $5 billion total since the Biden administration.
Every week, every week, we can't stop the bill.
I mean, we can't get the bill passed in the Senate.
It's taken me over a year to get it out of the Deadgum House.
And we got a fellow over in the Senate who is a staffer, but he was a former, I believe, ambassador to Afghanistan.
And his name is what?
Tom West.
And apparently, our good friend Tulsi Gabbard in the Trump administration denied him his security clearance because of his alleged cozy relationship with the Taliban.
And so I suspect that's what's going on in the Senate.
That's why they're there stopping the bill.
And people say, well, y'all are in the majority.
Why don't you just act like it?
Well, you got to have 60 votes over there to pass a bill of this significance.
And that's the holdup.
And we're going to continue to see this kind of nonsense until the country wakes up.
And I don't care what party you're in.
We shouldn't be paying these people any money.
They will hate us for free.
All they're going to do is use that money to come at us in a different area and kill Americans and kill our allies.
Dad Gummitt, this is what's going on.
I'm letting you know about it.
You can make the call.
Call your senator if you've got a Democrat senator.
This is beyond that.
This is actual, in my opinion, corruption.
We know this money flows around.
We know, you know, Elon Musk told us about it flowing into dark money campaigns.
And I think some of this money, I'm not sure if this is or some of the other, but surely it's flowing back into the pockets of politicians in Washington.
And if it's a Republican, I hope they haul him out of here in chains and a Democrat as well, because I don't care.
I'm sick of it.
We're $38 trillion in debt.
We're sending over $40 million a week to the Taliban.
And the United States Congress doesn't have the guts to stop it.
That's pathetic.
Let's fix it.
Thank y'all.
I mean, that guy's a hero.
You know, if you don't know who Tim Burchett is yet, find out because he's worth your time.
I've talked to him.
I've had him on a couple other shows that I work on.
And he is a stalwart.
What you see is what you get.
He's not putting on airs.
He's not there to impress you.
He's there to be fair to Americans, be fair to all Americans.
And as you just heard him say there, he doesn't care who's lying and who's making the mistakes.
He just wants it fixed.
I don't think I've heard that in a really long time where somebody actually meant it.
There's another person, Congressman Scott Perry.
And let me just be clear before I go to him real quick.
This has been going on now for the past four years because remember, we've got Biden in there since 2021, and that's when all these payments started.
I'm sure that we had many other payments under Obama and Hillary and the like, because to Representative Bruchette's point, there's no doubt that people are getting kickbacks.
They're not doing this because they're worried about Afghani women and children.
That's a load of shit.
They could give a rip about that.
What they care about is how they can look like they're doing something good and somehow acquiesce the system enough to get the money back to themselves.
That's where we're living.
That's how the average senator and congressman is operating.
And you look at somebody like, you know, Senator Sheehy from Montana.
You know, he's young.
He's got young kids.
His wife has served.
And then you look at these other senators who are voting to stop us from stopping the money from going to the Taliban.
And they're 80 years old.
And in my head, I say to myself, I don't have an issue with you working, but I do have an issue with you voting with our dollars for a world that you won't live in.
That'll be the world that we live in, that our kids live in, and their kids live in.
So instead of voting for your kickback, maybe vote for your grandchild's future, because that's really where they're at.
I mean, some of these guys are between the ages of 79 and 84.
So these are all guys that have lived their life.
They've made careers out of being a politician, or as they call them, you know, on the hill, careers.
This is what they do.
They've never had a regular job like you and me.
So they're used to working their 150 days a year and they want to get the kickbacks all day long because they've been doing it for 40 years.
Now we have people that are coming in and saying, hmm, that's weird.
Why are you sending $40 million a week to a terrorist country when we're $38 trillion in debt?
That seems odd.
Why shouldn't we ask the tough questions?
And they don't have the answers because nobody's ever asked them before.
Scott Perry from Pennsylvania, another member of the Freedom Caucus, great human being.
This is him back in April, I think it was, talking about this very issue and asking the questions in a congressional hearing.
I don't know what we think we're going to change in Afghanistan.
We lost 22,000, lost or wounded 22,500 Americans in Afghanistan over the course of our term there in the war, spending over $2 trillion.
We're just going to keep on spending because somehow we think it's going to get better.
And if you're wondering who's in charge of Afghanistan getting the money, and that money I just mentioned, the $697 million is on top of, and is addition to the weekly to every 10-day shipments in cash of $40 to $80 million.
Afghanistan is ruled by folks named Sarah Yudin Haqqani.
The Haqqani network mean anything to anybody in the room?
How about Abdullah bin Laden, who gets some of that money?
Does that name ring a bell to anybody in the room?
Because your money, your money, $697 million annually, plus the shipments of cash funds madrasas, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, ISIS Corazon, terrorist training camps.
That's what it's funding.
That's what it's funding.
Scott Perry laid it on the line.
He's explaining there is no money coming from NGOs coming from our government that is reaching these women and children in need.
That's utter nonsense.
It's not effective.
What we're doing doesn't work.
So if we know it doesn't work and we're sending $40 million to the Taliban, and I keep saying that over and over again in this, in this podcast, because it's so crazy.
And I want to drill it home.
Think about that.
This is a nation who killed your brothers, your fathers, your cousins, your friends, your husbands, your uncles.
Think about it.
Your sisters, your mothers, your aunts.
They're all in vain if we do not protect their memory and prevent it from happening to other people.
We can't ask our kids to enlist in the military if we're going to fund the very people that want to kill them.
I can't even begin to convey to my own family what is happening because it doesn't seem real.
And it's not getting the attention that it deserves, warrants, or needs on mainstream media and even on conservative media.
And I get it.
There's a lot of news going on.
It's that time of year where people are sort of half in, half out of the news and politics.
And I respect it because it's supposed to be a nice time of the year where you can be with your family, but this is too important.
And I feel grateful that we have the Shehe's and the Britettes and the Perries who actually care enough to stick around and put in, you know, the time and the right boat so that we can protect our nation.
There's another woman who's been on the Sean Ryan show a lot.
And if you don't know who Sean Ryan is, he's got a pretty popular podcast and he talks about all sort of national interests and deep state and threats to the homeland type stuff.
And Sarah Adams is someone that he's had on the show quite a bit.
And she's pretty badass.
I mean, I've watched her shows.
I've seen her as a guest on many shows and just a pretty interesting woman, former CIA operative herself.
And she was on with Sean Ryan, episode 116, for those of you who want to know more.
And she was explaining that it's just so much worse because she believes it's even more than 40 million a week.
She's saying it could be anywhere from 40 to 87 million.
And she said, essentially, it's actually like a stipend to the families who actually killed our young men and women.
And we're paying those Taliban families because, you know, their loved one martyred out and died.
So now we give them payment so that they have something to live on.
So we've got homeless veterans in the street.
We've got people with PTSD.
We've got tons of issues at the VA.
And we're worried about folks in Afghanistan as opposed to our own people.
Take a listen to her.
She's pretty incredible, very, very well versed on $40 million a week that comes on the airplane and comes into Afghanistan.
The amount of money on the plane weekly is $43 million to $87 million.
But one thing I want Americans to understand is in that bucket of the $40 million we send each week, we are paying basically welfare to the Taliban martyrs' families.
So every Taliban member who died during the war with us, the U.S. government is paying them a stipend.
The family.
So our families of Americans who died there aren't getting squat, but we are paying Taliban families for basically dying while attacking us.
We're funding that.
This is just enraging.
And, you know, I asked a couple of people that question straight out.
Like, do you not think this is not ethically correct?
And actually, one person gave me an answer of, well, it'll stop them from joining ISIS.
I'm like, the Taliban guy's already dead.
Give you these bullshit excuses as to why they're funding our enemies and not paying attention to the money.
Spot on.
Tim Burchett's bill was no tax dollars for terrorists.
That was the act that he passed in june.
Now that bill is in the Senate and we're just asking the Senate to do the same thing.
We're begging them.
Actually, we want them to do the right thing, to stand by the American people, to keep the money at home.
40 million dollars a week is insane and it could help so many people here and they need our help more than ever, and I have no idea why, on god's green earth, we wouldn't give it to them, because all of them were willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice and put their lives down for us when they went over to Afghanistan to defend our freedoms.
I have no idea why we would reward the terrorists for attacking our own people, and I stand behind Timber Chet.
I stand behind uh, senators Shehe of Montana and Scott Perry and anybody else who's on board for the no tax dollars for terrorists act.
Uh, this is Linda Mclaughlin.
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