Aug. 26, 2025 - Tim Pool Daily Show
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| Good afternoon rumblers. | ||
| I am your host Tate Brown here holding it down for Tim Poole. | ||
| Some of you are probably tired of seeing me. | ||
| I promise we'll have Tim back soon. | ||
| I guarantee it. | ||
| Trust me, he's very anxious to get back here in the lab. | ||
| But in the meantime, we'll be holding it down. | ||
| Like I said, I'm your host Tate Brown here holding it down. | ||
| It is a lovely, it's a cool day here, a crisp, cool day here outside of our nation's capital. | ||
| It's a lovely day. | ||
| We have a lot of big stories to get into today. | ||
| First, we have the Department of Transportation cracking down. | ||
| The whole truck driver thing, we saw it. | ||
| It was madness, just insanity that this is even happening on our streets, our highways in this case. | ||
| The Department of Transportation is cracking down, as you probably saw in the title. | ||
| And shocker, the Blue States aren't too excited about it. | ||
| We also have Trump canning. | ||
| He canned the Fed governor. | ||
| Lisa Cook was her name. | ||
| You'll never guess what it was. | ||
| Mortgage fraud. | ||
| Yeah, this is happening a lot. | ||
| A lot of mortgage fraud going on. | ||
| You'd think, you know, HGTV was so popular. | ||
| in these last, you know, decades or so, you would think people would have their ducks in a row, but guess not. | ||
| We also have John Bolton in the news, believe it or not, he's still in the news. | ||
| He got raided and he's not happy about it. | ||
| And he wrote, he basically crashed out. | ||
| He wrote an op ed crash out in the Washington Examiner. | ||
| Really funny, we'll touch on that. | ||
| And we also have RFK and Pete Hegseth. | ||
| The mainstream media is so upset that they're trying to get Americans healthy. | ||
| We'll get into that. | ||
| And at the half hour mark, we will have an interview with Congressman Burchett, Tim Burchett out of Tennessee. | ||
| It's going to be fantastic. | ||
| We're going to touch on it. | ||
| It's the four year anniversary of the Afghanistan withdrawal during the Biden years. | ||
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| But with that, let's get into the first story from the post millennial. | ||
| The Department of Transportation, Department of Transit cracks down on California, New Mexico and Washington for failure to ensure truckers speak English. | ||
| I mean, these sky high standards from the Department of Transportation. | ||
| How could anyone ever reach such the echelon, the sky high? | ||
| I mean, how do they expect to hire anybody? | ||
| Well, yeah, there's standards. | ||
| You got to speak English. | ||
| It's not rocket science. | ||
| So, unfortunately, for the non-English-speaking truckers out there, Sean Duffy's had enough. | ||
| Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced on Tuesday that the administration would be cracking down on states that refuse to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order requiring truck drivers operating in the United States to be proficient in English. | ||
| Again, it's very unfortunate that we even have to deliberate this. | ||
| You know, I would expect that to be a no brainer. | ||
| This follows a deadly crash in Florida in which an Indian illegal immigrant was charged with the death of three people after his illegal turn caused them to careen to his jackknife tractor trailer. | ||
| At this point, if you've been unfortunate to see the video, it's very grim stuff. | ||
| And if you've seen the reaction, there's a lot of people, a lot of Indian people that are also saying, well, you know, maybe it's their fault. | ||
| It's insanity. | ||
| We'll have to get into that another time, but I've been seeing this on Twitter. | ||
| It's crazy stuff. | ||
| I don't even think these guys, these illegals, I don't even think they realized what they did. | ||
| Because in India, this is very standard. | ||
| This is how you get around. | ||
| That's how you get around there is you just go every which way and ignore the lines and signs, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| Anyway, it's unfortunate that I have to pronounce once Harjinder Singh was arrested and tested for English language proficiency. | ||
| It turned out that he was unable to speak or read English and had little comprehension of highway traffic signs, signs that, had they been followed, would have saved three lives. | ||
| I mean, that's heavy stuff. | ||
| I mean, like, you know, we make jokes about this and whatever and, you know, it is what it is. | ||
| But, I mean, that's three people, three people that should be here right now. | ||
| And, and just the foolishness and ridiculousness because the left just feels bad for non Americans and they have lower standards for non Americans is resulting in people dying. | ||
| This is happening a lot in various ways, not just trucking. | ||
| So, yeah, the guy couldn't even read the highway signs. | ||
| I mean, what are we doing here? | ||
| I, you know, children and American children read the highway signs and read them off to their parents. | ||
| So, yeah, true. | ||
| At this point, five-year-olds are more qualified to drive these tractor trailers than these guys, these Herginders. | ||
| Anyway, he had received commercial, a his commercial trucking license in both California and Washington State. | ||
| Sean Duffy has spoken up on this. | ||
| Let's see what he has to say. | ||
| We are not going to tolerate states that don't comply with the rules that come from this department. | ||
| And so we are going to, we've first of all, we've identified several states that have not been in compliance. | ||
| That would be Washington, California and New Mexico. | ||
| Those are the three states that have not complied with this rule. | ||
| Which, by the way, this driver in Florida had received a CDL in Washington, California, and was pulled over in July for speeding and no doubt couldn't speak the English language. | ||
| And law enforcement in New Mexico did not take his rig out of service. | ||
| So this one driver touched all three states. | ||
| Based on our review, they are not complying with our rule. | ||
| And so phase one for us, which I'm announcing today, is we are going to give these states thirty days to come into compliance with truck drivers speaking proficiently the English, or we're going to look at federal funding that they receive under the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program. | ||
| So Duffy is going to war here with these states, not real war, but metaphorically speaking. | ||
| Again, it's just like it's sad that this stuff is news. | ||
| It just shows the state of our country that we're having to crack down on these states for giving out these truck driver licenses like their librarary cards. | ||
| I mean, it's absolutely well, I mean, we have producer surge here. | ||
| I mean, I can ask him, I mean, in Singapore would they tolerate some sort of tolerate in Singapore, yeah. | ||
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They tolerate a lot but not that. | |
| Right. | ||
| I mean, it's just like we're a first world country. | ||
| I think being able to read highway signs should be a very basic standard. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| You can't just get in there. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So like Duffy said, we're not going to tolerate states that don't comply with the rules that come from this department. | ||
| Fair enough, Duffy said. | ||
| And so we are going to, first of all, we've identified several states that have not been in compliance. | ||
| So it would be Washington, California, New Mexico. | ||
| So he's calling them out. | ||
| Just ridiculous. | ||
| And then this is what I was hitting on earlier where you have, and this is obviously not not all Indian people, probably not even the majority of Indian people, but there are some that are very nationalistic and they view a fellow countrymen can do no wrong. | ||
| And you're seeing it here. | ||
| Over one point seven million people, one point seven million people signed a petition demanding leniency for the trucker who has been charged with vehicular homicide in the crash. | ||
| The petition called him a quote Punjabi youth. | ||
| I mean, yeah, that's pretty much what he is. | ||
| Singh was driving an eighteen wheeler when he made an illegal U turn on Florida's turnpike, causing a minivan that was behind him to careen into the trail.er and became, become wedged beneath it. | ||
| Marco Rubio paused all visas for commercial truck drivers seeking to work in the US. | ||
| We covered that on IRL a few days ago. | ||
| Again, yep. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| I mean, you could, this is someone like, oh, that's corporal punishment. | ||
| I'm like, I don't think so because we love truckers. | ||
| We love our American truckers. | ||
| They're fantastic. | ||
| I know a few. | ||
| I have some in the family. | ||
| They're great. | ||
| We love them. | ||
| But the state of the roads has gotten ridiculous recently. | ||
| The actions and maneuvers of truck drivers have become increasingly dangerous, increasingly hostile, defensive driving. | ||
| has turned into offensive driving and it's just it's it's absolutely absurd. | ||
| I mean, just take a road trip, you know, try i forty on for size and you'll see the insanity. | ||
| So again, like this, you know, people are saying, if you're a truck driver, you're probably feeling like you're kind of under attack right now, but I think I can speak on behalf of the majority of people when we're saying, no, we're not the American truck drivers are who we're trying to prioritize here. | ||
| We need we need more of them because there's obviously there's a pinch in the trucking industry. | ||
| It's the foreign ones. | ||
| The foreign ones are causing problems. | ||
| And to a large degree, it's not even their fault because in their country, that's just how they drive. | ||
| And if we're not going to en enforce very basic standards, then I mean, this is what you're going to get. | ||
| So it's really a lose, lose for everyone involved. | ||
| Eden Duffy was talking here about the states because the driver is in Florida. | ||
| So I mean, yeah, you can get a CDL in California, go to Florida and kill three people over there. | ||
| This one driver touched all three states based on a review. | ||
| They are not complying with our rule. | ||
| So phase one, giving the states 30 days to come into compliance with speaking English proficiently, which is a no-brainer. | ||
| And if they do not do come into compliance, he's going to look at their federal funding as he should. | ||
| Money talks, money talks. | ||
| Duffy noted that California receives 30 million under the program, Washington receives 10 million, New Mexico 7 million. | ||
| Those amounts will be cut as part of phase one if the states refuse to make sure their licensees can speak and read English. | ||
| Duffy says here, what's that? | ||
| He says here, there's other actions that we can take to make sure states comply and hopefully in the next 30 days we won't have to withhold any money from them. | ||
| I mean, the fact that we're even having to hold money over these states to make their drivers speak English, I can't reiterate it enough. | ||
| This is crazy. | ||
| Don't let you hear these headlines a lot. | ||
| read these stories a lot. | ||
| Don't let it escape you how insane this is that we're just allowing, we're allowing people to just get behind the wheel effectively with nothing backing it. | ||
| With that, we have another big story here. | ||
| This dropped last night. | ||
| This is also from the Post Millennial. | ||
| Breaking, Trump fires Fed Governor Lisa Cook over mortgage fraud allegations. | ||
| You know, we saw some talks of this happening, some rumors over the last few days. | ||
| And yeah, this just kind of came up of nowhere it feels like it came out of nowhere but um you know if you if you do go back and read there was there's obvious i mean obviously there's been a bit of a rift between the federal reserve and and the Trump admin. | ||
| And it looks like it's boiled over here. | ||
| Lisa Cook is gone. | ||
| She's packing her bags. | ||
| She's been canned. | ||
| She's adding open to work on her LinkedIn profile picture. | ||
| See ya in indeed, Lisa Cook. | ||
| Let's read the article here. | ||
| President Donald Trump has removed Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook from her role amid allegations of mortgage fraud against her. | ||
| Trump wrote in a letter posted Monday evening that the removal was effective immediately. | ||
| I've determined that there is sufficient cause to remove you from your position, provided that you may be removed at my discretion for cause. | ||
| And then here's his letter that explains this. | ||
| As set forth in the criminal referral, there is sufficient reason to believe that you have made false statements on one or more mortgage agreements. | ||
| And then he explains here the case. | ||
| She's, you know, playing fast and loose with where she has her residencies listed. | ||
| This has been happening a lot. | ||
| I mean, we saw the same thing happen with Schiff. | ||
| We saw the same thing happen with Letitia James. | ||
| I don't know what's going on with these elected officials. | ||
| They have a lot of houses. | ||
| I mean, that's kind of a kind of a worrying thing that all these people have houses when they can't even keep track of where their residency is. | ||
| It's probably a bad sign for public servants, but it's neither here nor there. | ||
| Trump later added, The American people must be able to have full confidence in the honesty of the members entrusted with setting policy and overseeing the Federal Reserve. | ||
| In light of your deceitful and potentially criminal conduct in a financial matter, they cannot and I do not have such confidence in your integrity. | ||
| You know, obviously, like I said earlier, the Trump admin has been leaning on the Fed. | ||
| You can see here, Trump called for Cook to resign earlier in the month, writing at the time, Cook must resign now. | ||
| Trump linked to report on mortgage fraud allegations raised against Cook by Federal Housing Finance agency director Bill Pult, Pult, Pult. | ||
| You know, see here, this is where they break down what's going on here. | ||
| Obviously, there's suggestions here she falsified bank documents, property records to acquire more favorable loan terms. | ||
| Look, I mean, whether this is just a just cause to get her out, because obviously there is this rift. | ||
| I mean, she probably is guilty. | ||
| Like I said, I imagine a lot of these guys and gals in DC are committing mortgage fraud on a very regular basis because, like I said, they have a lot of properties that they have to keep track of. | ||
| It happens. | ||
| And yeah, that's it's just a bad sign in general. | ||
| Even if there's nothing partisan whatsoever, it's a bad sign. | ||
| If the governor of the Federal Reserve doesn't have the competency to keep her ducks in a row when it comes to her residency, it's very worrying. | ||
| So yeah, big shake up obviously the drop last night and Trump is, you know, imposing his will in this in the government. | ||
| It's a beautiful thing to see. | ||
| And yeah, Lisa Cook, you know, good luck. | ||
| I think I saw Oracle maybe hiring. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I saw that this morning. | ||
| Check Indeed. | ||
| That's what I recommend. | ||
| Check Indeed. | ||
| You could also, you know, McDonald's, obviously, you could do or we need more American. | ||
| truckers. | ||
| You could be a trucker potentially. | ||
| That could be nice. | ||
| I don't know if she's qualified judging by her mortgage fraud situations. | ||
| I imagine a lot of elected officials probably wouldn't meet the standards that even what was his name? | ||
| Hajrinder met. | ||
| Yeah, Hajrinder. | ||
| So anyway, it's neither here nor there. | ||
| Let's get to the next story from the independent. | ||
| collapsing in confusion and haste. | ||
| John Bolton slams Trump in first comments since FBI raid. | ||
| I mean, can you believe this? | ||
| Oh my gosh, someone has been bold enough to speak out against Donald Trump.. | ||
| And it's the guy that has war crimes left and right, John Bolton. | ||
| Yeah, John Bolton the Stash. | ||
| He got his house raided last week. | ||
| We'll read here what the Independent has to say. | ||
| We'll see if there's any editorializing going on here. | ||
| President Donald Trump's former national security advisor, John Bolton, spoke out after the FBI raided his home last week, taking aim at the president's stance on the war in Russia and Ukraine. | ||
| The FBI raided the Trump advisor turned critics home in Bethesda, Maryland. | ||
| Many such cases, by the way, many such cases. | ||
| This second term has been a whole new look. | ||
| So there's a lot of disgruntled first termers who have turned turned turned into critics. | ||
| And they were probably critics before. | ||
| They were just good at hiding the ball. | ||
| Anyway, his office in Washington, D.C. on Friday morning as part of an investigation related to classified documents. | ||
| In his first comment since the raid, Bolton wrote an op-ed Monday in the Washington Examiner slamming Trump's Russia-Ukraine policies following his meeting with the country's respective leaders. | ||
| Here's what Bolton had to say. | ||
| Donald Trump's Ukraine policy today is no more coherent than when it was last Friday when his administration executed search warrants against my home and office.ice collapsing and confusion and haste. | ||
| Trump's negotiations may be in their last throws. | ||
| Oh no, the walls are closing in on Trump. | ||
| The walls are closing in. | ||
| This could be the beginning of the end for the Trump administration. | ||
| I mean, he did the meme. | ||
| He did the meme. | ||
| I mean, even the, you even see like leftists streamers are very cautious to say the walls are closing in now out of fear of being included in a compilation, a walls are closing in compilation. | ||
| Obviously, John Bolton hasn't received the memo. | ||
| Fortunately, he's a little behind the times in more ways than one. | ||
| And obviously, he's critiquing his Nobel Peace Prize campaign, which I think he actually has a decent shot of it. | ||
| Bolton's obviously never been in consideration for the Nobel Peace Prize campaign. | ||
| You know, when you think peace, you don't really think John Bolton, unfortunately, for the world. | ||
| Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 15 in Alaska. | ||
| Here's what Bolton had to say about that. | ||
| Trump's furious pace trying to move an extraordinarily complex conflict to resolution over the past two weeks was one of several significant mistakes. | ||
| Obviously, Bolton is historically speaking, you can take a look at his record. | ||
| He is not a fan of resolving conflicts quickly. | ||
| He prefers it to be long and drawn out with lots of money and personnel involved. | ||
| This is not surprising. | ||
| Yeah, but John Bolton, as Trump allegedly said, he's never seen a war that he didn't like. | ||
| That was in, I think it was in Woodward's book with something that was actually, you know, a lot of the stuff in Woodward's book, you were like, I don't know. | ||
| That was a quote that you could definitely see Trump saying to Bolton. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, look, this is more. | ||
| Trump days later, Trump met with Zelensky and a group of European leaders and he announced he planned to arrange a trilateral meeting with Putin Zelensky and himself. | ||
| Bolton blasted. | ||
| None of this was realistic and no meeting appears likely any time soon. | ||
| Keep in mind, this is the president, Donald Trump, who stepped into North Korean territory. | ||
| So I wouldn't be so quick to rule out anything really. | ||
| Trump is kind of a magician when it comes to these sorts of things. | ||
| He's the master of negotiation, the art of the deal, etc, etc. | ||
| So really funny that Bolton, and this was the examiner piece that he wrote. | ||
| Like I said, it's just a page worth of just crashing out. | ||
| He got his house rated. | ||
| He's not very happy about it. | ||
| And he just came up with something to complain about. | ||
| Again, former admin, first, first term, complaining about Trump. | ||
| Nothing surprising there. | ||
| And yeah, really, really, he's just mad because he got his house rated. | ||
| And he had it coming. | ||
| I mean, if there's classified documents in his house, the standard has been that you get your house rated. | ||
| That's what they did to Trump. | ||
| So sorry, we're going to do it to you. | ||
| So that's it, John Bolton, again, I don't know. | ||
| I don't know what his deal is. | ||
| He's writing pieces. | ||
| He's mad. | ||
| He's upset. | ||
| He's really, he's really just, I think he's just really upset to see a war closing down, a war winding down. | ||
| That just absolutely infuriates him. | ||
| It probably keeps him up at night seeing a war winding down, heaven forbid. | ||
| So with that, we got one more story here, another big story. | ||
| This one is just a little more funny. | ||
| This just shows the state of the media. | ||
| 100 push-ups, this is from the New York Times, the paper of record, 100 push-ups and 50 pull-ups in under ten minutes. | ||
| What could go wrong? | ||
| So you probably, you may have seen this. | ||
| This was going everywhere on social media. | ||
| It was RFK and Pete Hagseth. | ||
| They were, they were, they put out a fitness challenge in which 100 push-ups and 50 pull-ups in under ten minutes, you know, a really admirable goal. | ||
| I think this will be fantastic. | ||
| And of course, right away, all these media outlets just came out and critiqued it and they found these random fitness experts who were disturbed by the fact that they would have even endorsed such a thing as getting healthy. | ||
| We'll read here what the paper of record has to say. | ||
| Last week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. challenged Pete Hikeseth to a test of fitness in which each of them would do fifty pull ups and a hundred push ups in ten minutes or less. | ||
| Quote, try to get under five minutes, mister Kennedy, the health secretary said of each section of the challenge while wearing his standard gym attire of a tucked in t-shirt and jeans. | ||
| Side note, I think that's like sick that he like hikikes and stuff in jeans. | ||
| Yeah, it's cool. | ||
| Because it really shows that for him, fitness is about functionality. | ||
| Like, he wants to make sure that he can do it in jeans. | ||
| Because that's going to be your wear outside of the gym, outside of your physical activities. | ||
| You're going to be wearing jeans. | ||
| You're going to be wearing clothes that would otherwise be somewhat uncomfortable to work out in. | ||
| He wants to be ready for anything. | ||
| It's called stress testing. | ||
| It's dynamic. | ||
| So I think that's great. | ||
| They're kind of saying that as like a little rib, a little jab here at him. | ||
| I think it's brilliant. | ||
| I might have to start doing that. | ||
| So anyway, we'll keep reading here. | ||
| One sec. | ||
| The Pete and Bobby Challenge, as Mr. Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense called it, circulated widely in videos posted to social media by both men, as well as the official YouTube account of the Department of Health and Human Services. | ||
| The challenge might have seemed novel to some, but the high volume calisthenic couplets like this are nothing new, and fitness experts caution that they may not be for everyone. | ||
| Um, actually, this is not healthy, this is really bad. | ||
| Um, this is problematic. | ||
| This is very problematic. | ||
| That's what these weirdos, these health whatever, these nobodies, bunch of bums. | ||
| They're really upset about it. | ||
| So um, I mean, here they go. | ||
| These guys are probably otherwise really nice people, but the New York Times comes to them and puts a mic in their face and says, you're the authority on this. | ||
| Give us some thoughts. | ||
| And of course, they got to give something interesting that make the article. | ||
| For the average person, I would definitely recommend building volume in these movements over three to four weeks before giving it a go. | ||
| This is not how you do a qualified correct pull-up in the military. | ||
| Most people can't even perform five strict push-ups without proper form or a single pull-up without compensating. | ||
| Pushing for such high numbers without the necessary strength foundation can quickly lead to poor form, overcompensation, and a high risk of injury. | ||
| included, I mean, like, have you seen how Americans look like these days? | ||
| We're not exactly the healthiest people on planet Earth, you know, and this kind of stuff fires people up. | ||
| I really think we should be like, we're finally getting an administration that is prioritizing health, that is prioritizing getting in shape, prioritizing testing the limits of the human body. | ||
| And then these health experts come out and they're like furious about it. | ||
| I don't know, do we want to go back to the Biden administration when the health secretary was like trans or whatever? | ||
| Is that what we need to do? | ||
| Is that the new or that, you know, we need to remedy that with that? | ||
| I mean, I think it's a beautiful thing that, you know, these guys are coming out and they're really challenging the men of America because the men of America are kind of falling apart. | ||
| I don't know if you've been to a Costco recently, but it's not looking too good. | ||
| And I've said it before, said it a million times, the birth rate's dropping and getting in good shape that certainly helps makes you more attractive, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| I've probably 20, 30 pounds to lose, so I'm going to be implementing the what was it called? | ||
| What did they call it? | ||
| There is a name. | ||
| The Pete and Bobby challenge. | ||
| I will be taking the Pete and Bobby challenge. | ||
| I want to do this desperately and I will be pushing myself to the extreme and I will not be listening to these nerds, these health nerds. | ||
| Listen, are you going to listen to that? | ||
| the health nerds from the New York Times? | ||
| Are you gonna listen to two guys that look like this, right? | ||
| Two guys look like, hey, these guys know what they're talking about. | ||
| Clearly it's working for them. | ||
| Just go with your gut. | ||
| These guys look fit. | ||
| They look like, and they're, you know, especially RFK. | ||
| I mean, he's getting up there and he's still yoked. | ||
| Go with that guy's advice. | ||
| Don't go with what the New York Times is saying. | ||
| Actually, if you push too hard, it could. | ||
| Enough. | ||
| Enough, lab coat. | ||
| We've had enough. | ||
| You guys have had your turn with health and whatever, and it's resulted in pretty grim things. | ||
| Let's give Bobby Kennedy a try. | ||
| Look at him. | ||
| Look what he looks like at this age. | ||
| And he's working out in jeans. | ||
| Could you imagine what his phyhysique would look like if he was wearing gym shorts? | ||
| I mean, he'd be like crazy. | ||
| No jokes, jokes. | ||
| RFK is the goat. | ||
| I love RFK. | ||
| So, um, hold your raw milk up high, hold your methylene blue up high and salute the Pete and Bobby challenge. | ||
| Get in the gym. | ||
| Let's get after it. | ||
| We're we're all we're all that you know, you've seen on Instagram, there's the speculation that we're going to have the great lock in from September to December 2025. | ||
| These next three months, four months, are going to be generational, and we're all going to come out of this year in the best shape of our lives. | ||
| Knock on wood. | ||
| And it's going to be due to the Pete and Bobby challenge. | ||
| It's fantasti demonstrated very well. | ||
| Ignore the haters. | ||
| They don't even know what they're talking about. | ||
| True. | ||
| Go with the yoked 70-year-old. | ||
| That's what you go with. | ||
| You trust. | ||
| Just trust them. | ||
| Just trust them. | ||
| Anyway, one more thing I want to touch on before we get to our interview. | ||
| We have an update on the Cracker Bell situation. | ||
| Look, a lot of you guys are tired of hearing about it, but I think it's of paramount importance and I think this would need to be continued. | ||
| The President of the United States has weighed in. | ||
| So if you thought this story was irrelevant, I don't know what to tell you because the President has spoken out, spoken up. | ||
| This was distributed early this morning. | ||
| Not early. | ||
| It's just like two hours ago on truth. | ||
| So this is the truth. | ||
| It is from Truth Social. | ||
| This is from the President of the United States. | ||
| Cracker Barrel should go back to the old logo. | ||
| Admit a mistake based on customer response. | ||
| Parentheses, the ultimate poll. | ||
| So true. | ||
| And manage the company better than ever before. | ||
| They got a billion dollars worth of free publicity if they play their cards right. | ||
| Very tricky to do, but a great opportunity. | ||
| Have a major news conference today. | ||
| Make Cracker Barrel a winner again. | ||
| Remember, in just a short period of time, I made the United States of America the, quote, hottest country anywhere in the world. | ||
| One year ago, it was, quote, dead. | ||
| Good luck. | ||
| So true, this is, you know, this is a different kind of approach to the Cracker Barrel situation because, you know, most of us, most of us patriots, we kind of, you know, we kind of went at it with Cracker Barrel. | ||
| We started going after, you know, the upper management, you know, we said some really critical things. | ||
| Trump's taking a different approach here, he's kind of killing them with kindness, he's encouraging them. | ||
| He's saying they're capable of so much more. | ||
| He's saying make Cracker Barrel a winner again. | ||
| And honestly, that's so true. | ||
| And he's made America the hottest country anywhere in the world. | ||
| I mean, like everyone's talking about America, America, America. | ||
| You can't hear enough about it. | ||
| And so I think maybe this is a different approach. | ||
| Maybe we should change, you know, as patriots, this is a challenge to us us. | ||
| Maybe we should change our approach. | ||
| Maybe we should smother Cracker Barrel with love and we should encourage them to make Cracker Barrel a winner again. | ||
| So Donald Trump, excellent, excellent, excellent. | ||
| With that, I'll close that here as we get into our interview portion, which will be up for those watching after at 4 p.m. on, on, on, on, on, what's that surge? | ||
| I gotta, I gotta open up the thing here. | ||
| But, yeah, we'll close that out here. | ||
| At 4 p.m., the interview with Rhett Burchett will be up. | ||
| So go check that out there. | ||
| Thank you for watching. | ||
| We'll be back for Timcast IRL at 8 p.m. tonight. | ||
| Be there or be square. | ||
| And yeah, with that, I got one more article I want to set up here. | ||
| This was issued by the Department of Defense. | ||
| The Department of Defense honors fallen heroes on the fourth anniversary of Abbey Gate attack. | ||
| This was obviously four years since the Afghanistan withdrawal, which was disastrous. | ||
| We, I mean, we all remember it well. | ||
| It was a national humiliation. | ||
| So I wanted to bring in Congressman Tim Burchett to discuss this, discuss what's changed since that fateful week in Afghanistan, which was obviously cost thirteen members of our armed forces. | ||
| Let's see here, Congressman, can you hear me? | ||
| I can hear you, brother. | ||
| How are we doing? | ||
| Well, I want to say, first of all, happy belated birthday. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I feel I'm 61. | ||
| I feel like I'm 161 sometimes. | ||
| Well, I have to say, first of all, I'm also a fellow Tennessee native. | ||
| I see the vols colors. | ||
| I think it's a beautiful thing. | ||
| I wanted to get into this story. | ||
| So this is obviously four years since the Afghanistan withdrawal. | ||
| We had the DOD honoring the fallen soldiers from the Abbey Gate Memorial. | ||
| I mean, I'm wondering what your thoughts are on the Yeah. | ||
| Well, I knew one of the families that was involved, their son, Ryan Knauss, Staff Sergeant Ryan Knauss, they named the highway that my farm and home are on after him. | ||
| I know his mama and daddy very well. | ||
| It was just an unnecessary tragedy. | ||
| I asked this question during the hearing, and it all goes back. | ||
| back to this. | ||
| The the the the the bomber was suicide bomber was spotted. | ||
| You know, the marine sniper in his testimony said they called back and they said, no, you can't take him out. | ||
| Not once but twice. | ||
| And they identified the guy. | ||
| You know, by his clothing and what he was carrying and all this other stuff. | ||
| You know, and that should have been a n national story. | ||
| That should have been the story. | ||
| I always say military intelligence is a whole lot like congressional ethics. | ||
| It really just doesn't exist. | ||
| And they, hence the insider trading that we're doing now. | ||
| But, you know, it just, it was totally unnecessary. | ||
| It was botched. | ||
| We were cut and running, and that's just not what Americans should be doing. | ||
| And it was a pitiful situation. | ||
| It's right at the feet of Biden's administration. | ||
| And the media, of course, in their attempt to cover for him, you know, really didn't cover it like they should have, as thirteen brave Americans and countless others lost their lives.es. | ||
| And it was just and it was one hundred percent avoidable. | ||
| You know, you've got these snipers, this marine sniper who, man, he was blown to hell. | ||
| He had had multiple surgeries since then and all that. | ||
| But it was just I just can't believe it. | ||
| And then, of course, the media, again, rushed to cover this thing up because they had so much invested in a in a old man who was mentally not there. | ||
| And so that's that's what we get. | ||
| And we've moved on to another bright, shiny object. | ||
| And those families are left to mourn the loss of their loved ones. | ||
| I mean, the the wives, the father, I mean, the, you know, the the kids of these two brave service members. | ||
| You know, it's just, it's just totally unnecessary and it just makes me very frustrated about what we allowed to run our country for so long. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, well, you saw, I mean, really what defines that era was just this general culture of incompetence. | ||
| I mean, above all else, it was just incompetence. | ||
| I mean, you've spoken, probably, I mean, obviously you've spoken to a lot of servicemen and servicemen in Afghanistan and then servicemen that were close to the situation. | ||
| I mean, what is their feeling? | ||
| It has to be a lot of anger, I would imagine. | ||
| Yeah, a lot of frustration. | ||
| And what the hell did we go over there for if we were just going to cut andut and run. | ||
| We didn't, we didn't put anyone in charge that could have run the thing. | ||
| And we just, you know, I don't know. | ||
| It goes back to our original mission of I think we need to look, look in the future at what we are. | ||
| Are we going to be an occupying force? | ||
| And if not, we ought not to be involved in any of these wars because that's all it ends up being. | ||
| And let's just be honest, brother. | ||
| These wars are about oil. | ||
| They're about oil. | ||
| If you dig down deep enough, it's always oil. | ||
| It's energy. | ||
| And, you know, Trump's a threat to the status quo is we're going to get it all in this country. | ||
| They can eat their sand and their dad gum oil over there. | ||
| We're not going to fool with it. | ||
| And, you know, these people have been fighting and killing each other since before the time of Christ. | ||
| And in our arrogance and our State Department over there is going to, you know, put a Sesame Street show on or a drag show and think we're going to convert them or something. | ||
| And that's with our billions of dollars and that's their arrogance. | ||
| They have no idea. | ||
| And, you know, they just think they're super intelligent. | ||
| The Bible talks about professing yourself to be wise. | ||
| You've become a fool. | ||
| And I think we're very foolish across this great globe. | ||
| It just shows us we need to start managing our own business. | ||
| Maybe I'm not an isolationist by the way. | ||
| I mean, I mean, I mean, that's kind of the big thing is, you know, a lot of people, specifically in our, in our side, they were saying, well, the problem wasn't necessarily withdrawing from Afghanistan. | ||
| The problem was withdrawing from a position of weakness rather than a position of strength. | ||
| Like we basically gave our cards to them and then withdrew. | ||
| And then you get that result. | ||
| And then, I mean, obviously, you saw the cascading effects across the globe where a lot of conflicts kicked back off. | ||
| And I think the general feeling was, well, the Biden admins. | ||
| A, incompetent and B, asleep at the wheel. | ||
| And so it kind of just gave them impunity to operate. | ||
| I mean, what difference have you seen in how the world is behaving, broadly speaking, under Biden versus Trump? | ||
| Well, one other thing I want to reiterate, we disarmed our enemies with billions of dollars in assets we left on the ground there. | ||
| But yeah, I think you're not seeing the aggressive nature towards this country because Trump, basically, because he's not going to put up with any crap. | ||
| He's not going to, you know, when he took out, I can't remember the guy's name now, Soleimani. | ||
| I remember, you know, it was leaked pretty quick, some classified pictures of him of how they identified Soleimanians basically by his ring finger, because that was about all that was left. | ||
| He had this ugly big old ring on his finger and there's pictures of him with that ring, you know. | ||
| And so they could identify him through that. | ||
| And Trump did it like you're supposed to do. | ||
| He didn't take him out in a crowded airport, he didn't risk the lives of innocent civilians. | ||
| They got him out on some isolated road somewhere, and I suspect one of our operatives put a laser pointer on his vehicle and then a missile came in, probably launched Stateside even possibly, and it took that dirty bag out. | ||
| And he didn't ask Pelosi's permission He didn't ask the United Nations I remember they all pitched a fit back then I was in the first administration They had this big hearing Why aren't we consulted? | ||
| You know, I'll tell you why you weren't consulted Because your dumbass, bigass mouth Would have ran to the media and exposed it And we wouldn't have gotten that dirtbag That's why you weren't told And it just drives me crazy That, you know, we What goes on in this world But yeah, it's Trump It's 100% Donald J. Trump is in the White House Look, I don't want him teaching my daughter's Dadgum Sunday school class | ||
| not the Baptist church, but I sure as heck love them at Pennsylvania Avenue, brother, because America is we're feared once again. | ||
| Our enemies are our enemies fear us and our friends love us. | ||
| And that's the way it should be. | ||
| And there's very little in between. | ||
| And they're seeing that all over the world. | ||
| You know, they want to gripe and moan about everything that's going on that we're doing, but we're bringing them to the table and Trump gets it. | ||
| We're going to have a little pain with these tariffs. | ||
| It's going to cost some people some money. | ||
| But overall, we're going to, I think we're going to regain our, our, our spot because Trump also realizes that Congress is gutless. | ||
| We're not going to do anything and he has to do it through executive orders. | ||
| Then hopefully we back fill it by passing laws to make it permanent. | ||
| We get the guts to do that. | ||
| But it's it's it's it's it's remains to be seen if we're going to do that. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Well, I mean, the general theme I've seen from the Trump administration at large, which is just such a breath of fresh air, is just prioritizing Americans. | ||
| I mean, it's such a radical thought. | ||
| But I mean, you see just all these, it's just the little stuff too. | ||
| It's all just slowly moving in the direction of reprioritizing the American people versus what we saw with Biden. | ||
| Even going back further, what we saw with the Obama administration is, you know, where they just it seems like they're always always apologizing on behalf of the American people. | ||
| And it's not even because we're not apologizing. | ||
| It's just like apologizing for who we are. | ||
| And it's just embarrassing. | ||
| So I mean, I imagine you've probably seen this same theme from the Trump admin. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| They're not apologizing for anything and they shouldn't. | ||
| We're putting America back where it should be, America first. | ||
| And he's, oh, you that's so arrogant saying America first with that guy. | ||
| We're Americans. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Why are we not protecting our border? | ||
| Why are we not going to get our energy here? | ||
| Why are we not looking out for our economic well being? | ||
| And, you know, why are we, why should we be spending millions of dollars for drag shows in Peru? | ||
| or Sesame Street to some Middle Eastern country that hates our guts. | ||
| You know, our state, our state department should get back in the business of promoting two things, capitalism and democracy. | ||
| And instead of all this other nonsense, drag shows and what have you. | ||
| It's just, for me, it's beyond belief that we've allowed that. | ||
| And frankly, as a conservative, what we've done, we've turned over our colleges and our universities to the radical left. | ||
| There's no question. | ||
| Public universities, you know, that it's, I don't want to say it's a lost cause, but we've let them become so infiltrated. | ||
| And whenever they say something off, off, you know, we get blashed for it. | ||
| The presidents and all the apologists come out and say, Oh, that was just a person. | ||
| That was their individual viewpoint. | ||
| You know, it's kind of like when I was NPR. | ||
| You remember NPR's deal where they, you know, we cut their funding. | ||
| Let me tell you how, how some of that went down. | ||
| Marjorie Taylor Greene put me on that Doge committee and she and I talked pretty regular. | ||
| I was pulling, my daughter's Dooley, I was pulling into our farm and I heard on the radio, I had it on NPR, I'm not sure. | ||
| Sometimes I just, I think I do opposition research and I was listening. | ||
| It's telling. | ||
| pointing a gun to my head. | ||
| I'm not sure which. | ||
| But anyway, so I'm watching NPR or listening to NPR, excuse me. | ||
| And I'll never forget this. | ||
| They said, they asked one of the hosts, what is your definition of propaganda? | ||
| And they said, Lee Greenwood singing God Bless the USA. | ||
| I almost ran through the fence. | ||
| I was like, what in the world? | ||
| I thought, is it, am I, is someone setting me up? | ||
| Is this a joke? | ||
| Right. | ||
| And I remember, I called Marjorie right then. | ||
| I said, Marjorie. | ||
| And she said, you said, you're way ahead of me. | ||
| We're going to have a hearing. | ||
| I'm all over. | ||
| I'm on this like a cheap suit. | ||
| You know, we're going to hit this thing in a couple of weeks. | ||
| And we did. | ||
| And maybe Marjorie, she let us let'em free, and we did. | ||
| And I asked that very question, you know, and I talked about how they, the ugly things the head lady said about President Trump, and she had no, she had no answer to that. | ||
| She, you know, they kept saying, Well, these are employees. | ||
| And that's what these colleges and universities say. | ||
| But they keep hiring these people, brother. | ||
| And it's the indoctrination that you see. | ||
| You know, I don't want to know your stupid pronoun. | ||
| I'm tired of that stuff. | ||
| Learn children how to read, write, do arithmetic to get jobs and stop turning them into little socialist monsters that hate everything about this country. | ||
| So yeah. | ||
| Sorry I went to preach. | ||
| I've had two cups of coffee today, so I'm a little wild. | ||
| wide. | ||
| That's what it's all about. | ||
| No, we love it. | ||
| I mean, with your fellow congressmen and women, I mean, there has to be a bit of frustration because they've been prioritizing foreign interests and other interests and non-American interests for so long to see this reorientation. | ||
| And now there's obviously a large cohort within Congress that is in agreement with the MAGA agenda. | ||
| I mean, what's it like to deal with these cats on a day to day basis? | ||
| Well, a lot of them are voting with their portfolios. | ||
| Let's just be honest. | ||
| That's why, you know, they pitch a fit when we talk about blocking stock trades of individuals. | ||
| Yeah, here's what happened when Biden gave, gave Ukraine our. | ||
| our missile defense system, which I didn't vote for. | ||
| I haven't voted a dime for Ukraine, but that's regardless, regardless of the situation. | ||
| We had to replenish or immediately replenish our missile defense system, which we should have. | ||
| It was a multi, multi billion dollar contract, no bid contract. | ||
| And guess who owned stocks in that? | ||
| Members of the committee that had governing jurisdiction of that, both parties, brother. | ||
| I mean, you know, listen, we're not voting for what's right. | ||
| We're voting for our portfolios. | ||
| And I guarantee you most members of Congress, some of them couldn'tt even find Ukraine on a dadgum map. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| I got a 18-year-old daughter and I'm thinking, am I going to send her off to some war that most of these jugheads couldn't find on a map? | ||
| They're all puffed up. | ||
| Oh, we're going to go over there and stomp them. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| It's not our business to stomp anyone. | ||
| We need to be protecting right here in America. | ||
| And I mean, it's not just some toothless redneck talking to you about this. | ||
| This is the reality of what we're doing in Congress and the crooked nature of both parties. | ||
| And I think, and please stop calling Washington DC a swamp. | ||
| You know, a swamp is something pretty cool God created. | ||
| It's, you know, it filters water., the cattails take out the heavy metals and frogs, and it's an ecosystem. | ||
| Washington DC is created by man. | ||
| It is a sewer and it is wide open. | ||
| So yeah, we got some real problems and the problems, a lot of it has to do with greed, but a lot of it's public record and I hope America pays attention to what's going on with it. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I mean, you hit on it there as the stock trading thing blows my mind, but this is not like this is still a problem. | ||
| I mean, it seems like a no brainer to me. | ||
| Yeah, you'd think that, but here's what happens. | ||
| We'll pass a tough bill in the House and we'll say, yeah, yeah, look what we did and the Senate will pass a tough bill. | ||
| And then let me see if I get that right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They want quite a line. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And so, and everybody will go in the Senate will say, Oh, the House, they're, you know, they're not tough enough in the House. | ||
| They'll say, Those old people over in the Senate. | ||
| And then next, you know, we'll find another bright, shiny object somewhere and we'll chase it. | ||
| And America loses its interest, and that's what happens, and it's unfortunate. | ||
| But we gotta, we gotta hold their feet to the fire. | ||
| I hope in the future we would, we'd pay attention. | ||
| I have a bill to do just that. | ||
| And I hope it, I hope in the next few weeks we see some movement on that. | ||
| We need, you know, these post offices, as I like to say, they're not going to name themselves. | ||
| That's what we do a lot of and we spend in our team two hour work days and they throw their Brooks brothers' jacket over their shoulder and they're walking around. | ||
| Look how hard we're working for the working people. | ||
| And America's not buying that crap anymore. | ||
| We're not working. | ||
| Either party. | ||
| Let's just go out there and do something for the public and let's do what's right occasionally. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely, or at the very least give us some stock tips, you know? | ||
| I mean, they're doing great. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| If someone I tweeted about one the other day, one of our members had, I think, got three or four, maybe six hundred percent return on their investment. | ||
| And I said, you know, they're just rubbing it in your face. | ||
| And someone said, they need to be arrested. | ||
| I said, for what? | ||
| It's legal. | ||
| All that's legal. | ||
| That's the thing. | ||
| That's what we gotta change. | ||
| You shouldn't be doing individual stock trades. | ||
| It's an honor to be in the United States Congress. | ||
| More people have been, have played professional baseball, brother, than have ever, than have ever worn that little congressional pin they give us. | ||
| So, yeah, I'm ticked off about it. | ||
| It's just, but it's just, and I'm never gonna stop being ticked off about it because we're crooked as a dog's leg and America needs to wake up about what's going on. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I mean, there's so many, there's so many issues that Congress seems to be just comfortable stiff arming. | ||
| I mean, one that strikes me, and it's a big difference., obviously, the Trump admins, you know, and full court press about it, that the Biden administration was totally sleep at the wheel is like CCP influence. | ||
| I mean, you're seeing all these different, all these different attack vectors from the CCP and Congress is just more preoccupied with, you know, talking about, you know, Lesotho, you know, condoms in Lesotho or whatever. | ||
| Can I share with you one example of that real quick? | ||
| I have a bill, you know, these ancestry dot coms or whatever, you send a swab in and you know, you're related to the King Angle. | ||
| Nobody's ever related to a horse beef or anything. | ||
| It's always something glamorous.. | ||
| But anyway, so what happens with all that data? | ||
| They go, they end up selling it to China and I have a bill to make that illegal and I can't get any traction over what. | ||
| And here's what the Chinese are doing. | ||
| This was released. | ||
| This was classified a while ago, but apparently it's been released. | ||
| I wouldn't, I didn't go to the unclassified briefings on it because that's a trap too. | ||
| You go to a classified briefing, even if you know what they're going to say and you know what they said, you're not allowed to talk about it. | ||
| So I just don't go to them anymore because that's primarily what they do. | ||
| They tell me something I'd already know or I could catch it on CNN where some Democrats leaked it in about thirty seconds after the meeting. | ||
| So they do this, they buy all our genetic material and now we find out they're creating a genome, which is basically a genetic history of where we are as a people. | ||
| So they're trying to isolate American women of childbearing ages to give them a virus. | ||
| Now, if they could stop population growth in this country completely, you talk about a chilling effect. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That would be an incredible bit of engineering right there. | ||
| Maybe against, pit one group against the other. | ||
| And I could, you could see how quick that could deteriorate. | ||
| And we know that. | ||
| And yet we can't, and you know why we can't pass it? | ||
| Because we're gutless, because you've got staffers that are in bed with these K Street lobbyists who are being paid by some shadow group that's attached to the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| And we don't have the chairman with the guts. | ||
| They'll say, well, I can't pass that because my staff is against it. | ||
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Well, who the hell elected their dad gum staff? | |
| It's beyond belief. | ||
| I mean, we have committees, literally Republican, limited growth, limited government with fifty staff members. | ||
| And then the Democrats have fifty staff members. | ||
| There's no way on God's Green Earth you can control all that. | ||
| So what you do is you're coming in, you're bright eyed, you're idealistic, you know, oh, I've got this great bill to do this. | ||
| And then the staffer says, oh, I don't know. | ||
| I'm not sure if we can do this or not. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
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Why not? | |
| And he said, well, we need to get the data on this thing. | ||
| And so you get the data. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| Well, what do we do? | ||
| Well, we keep your name or your bill, but we're going to make it a reporting bill. | ||
| We're going to do the report. | ||
| We're going to do the research. | ||
| And then next year, we'll come back with your bill with all these facts. | ||
| And then, obviously, by next year, you've moved on to something else because it's, you know, because of the slow paced traction of Washington, DC. | ||
| And then, you know, nothing happens. | ||
| And these are reporting bills, brother. | ||
| Did you ever see that last scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where they're in that warehouse? | ||
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| You know, that all Yeah. | ||
| That's where the reporting bills go. | ||
| I've been in Congress and I've never seen a reporting bill reported back to me. | ||
| And I stopped voting for those scenes because they spend two or three million dollars, which is nothing in Washington terms. | ||
| And it pays for some group to do some study or whatever. | ||
| And then the money just goes down some black hole. | ||
| And there you have it. | ||
| And then you get to go home and say, I passed my bill, you know, the whatever. | ||
| Anti-communist bill of the decade, you know, and that's the title of the bill or whatever. | ||
| And they give it all these crazy names. | ||
| And it's very frustrating, but it's very, I'm going to write it when I write my book, Compromise Congress is Compromised or something like that, there'll be a chapter on that because that is clearly what's going on. | ||
| And it's, and it's sickly, but nobody's got the guts to do anything. | ||
| And these chairmen, I call them out in our conference meetings and, you know, I'll have staffers come up to me and say you're exactly right. | ||
| But then, here's the kicker. | ||
| I'm sitting there on the floor of the House and someone comes over. | ||
| that's in leadership or in the line of leadership, you know, usually a friend will come over to me and say, Hey, Burchett, man, we need to talk. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He said, I've been sent over here to talk to you, man. | ||
| There's some people unhappy. | ||
| I said, Really about what? | ||
| Well, about what you just said on the Tim Cast or whatever. | ||
| And I'll say, Oh, really? | ||
| And he said, What about it? | ||
| Don't they like? | ||
| And then they'll tell you. | ||
| And I said, And then I said, last time I said, But it's the truth, right? | ||
| And he said, Oh, yeah, it's the truth. | ||
| We just don't want you saying it any more. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You know, and so that's what we're up against, brother. | ||
| We have to start calling this stuff out. | ||
| And every time I hear a chairman say, I can't say I can't pass this bill because my staff wouldn't allow it. | ||
| I just I realize the tail is completely wagging the dog. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Well, I mean, with what you're saying specifically with the CCP and the DNA and that sort of thing. | ||
| I mean, I haven't heard anything about this. | ||
| It seemed, I mean, you you can find out about it, obviously, especially through X now that especially that free speech is in vogue again, which is very refreshing. | ||
| But the press, it's like they just almost refuse to report on these sorts of things. | ||
| Absolutely, they do. | ||
| And it's because they're in bed too. | ||
| I mean, let's just get it. | ||
| Let's be honest. | ||
| They're advertisers and things. | ||
| We need to learn a lesson from the Civil Rights Movement where they used the economic power and the dollar casting the dollar boat. | ||
| We need to go to these people and say, hey, you know, whoever's at, you know, whatever car company or truck company, hey, I saw you all were advertising on this thing. | ||
| You said, I was going to buy a truck from you, but I'm going to go some, I'm going to get someone else's truck. | ||
| I mean, that's what you have to literally do, but we don't have the guts. | ||
| We don't have the organization. | ||
| We don't have the follow through because it's not sexy. | ||
| It's not making anyone a big bunch of money. | ||
| And, and, and frankly, we, you know, I've always said this, and I'm guilty of this too. | ||
| America wants their pizzas in thirty minutes or less, and that's about our dad gum attention spacean. | ||
| Yeah, that's absolutely true. | ||
| Well, I mean, one thing I want to ask you about, I guess this is more broadly about the party and the atmosphere in the party is I feel like with the admin, what we're seeing is very decisive foot on the gas, flooding the zone. | ||
| You hear all these types of terms used. | ||
| But then with the congressional GOP sitting on the hands, fear, cowardice, I would say would be an adjective to describe that. | ||
| Why is there such a disconnect between the admin and the congressional GOP when it comes to, I mean, making moves? | ||
| I must be the only guy who doesn't do this mainly because I've been doing this most of my life and I'm 61. | ||
| I think everyone when they get to Congress, they're looking at a path, a circuitous route to get to be the Speaker. | ||
| And that's what and everyone's figuring that out. | ||
| And everyone in leadership realizes their one or two heartbeats, well, well, if this goes down and then I get this and we get this, you know, I could be Speaker. | ||
| I must be the only guy in Washington who doesn't want to be Speaker. | ||
| I love my wife and daughter too much. | ||
| I don't want to be on the road begging people for money. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And, you know, and that's what these once, I think, once valuable jobs have devolved into and you're stuck that way. | ||
| I mean, Mike Johnson has to raise the money and he has to get out on the road every single day. | ||
| away from his family. | ||
| We're, you know, we're one flu season away from, from not being in the majority, literally, one flu season. | ||
| You know, three or four people get the flu, but we're out. | ||
| And so, so it's just, you know, we've created a monster. | ||
| And to get there, you have to, you have to, or to stay there, you have to do a lot of things. | ||
| And, and I'm afraid, you know, I remember the former leadership, I was complaining about, and this is one of the reasons I helped depose the former leadership. | ||
| I was complaining about bills not getting to the floor. | ||
| And they said, well, I don't set the bills. | ||
| I don't do this. | ||
| I don't do that. | ||
| I don't set the calendar. | ||
| I remember was the word they used. | ||
| And I said, Nancy Pelosi decided if you had single ply or two ply toilet paper on the house floor, if your dad gum running the show, you need to run the dad gum show, because Pelosi sure as hicked, she ran the table every day. | ||
| And, but, you know, it's just so big and it's, and it's so compartmentalized right now. | ||
| It's just very difficult. | ||
| We need a total reorganization of the way we do things. | ||
| And I, and without the money though, you can't stay in power, and that's part of the problem. | ||
| You have to go out and raise the dad gum money. | ||
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| And if you don't, the dark money fills the gaps and you don't want that because that's what we've had in the past two with our leadership running against Republicans, conservative Republicans, good Republicans, God fearing people running dirt bags against them, using dark money to attack good people. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, yeah, that you summed it up, the dark money. | ||
| I mean, we're all seeing it. | ||
| I mean, I think us as the base, we see it. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
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| That's why you're such a threat, dude. | ||
| You're such a threat. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because people like, I can't tell you how many people are coming to me and saying they heard something on your podcast or something. | ||
| Hey, did you see this? | ||
| And I honestly, I, I, I hate to tell you this. | ||
| I just don't have time to watch everybody's podcast. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| You know, like millions now. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| I'm trying, I'm trying to, I'm trying to build a skateboard empire. | ||
| And, you know, and people are asking me, which is another thing. | ||
| This is pretty funny. | ||
| You know, you can do insider stock trading in Congress, but here I am trying to sell some stock, I make skateboards. | ||
| It's cheaper than a psychiatrist. | ||
| And I currently got about, I got them in my, in my, in my barn because I can't sell them because legally I have to do all this, jump through all these hoops. | ||
| I have to get an attorney, you know, to sell skateboards. | ||
| And I made, and I'm just giving them away. | ||
| I'm giving one to Tulsi Gabbard for her birthday, which was a few months ago. | ||
| She outed me at the State of the Union address. | ||
| She said, Merchant, she said, My birthday's coming. | ||
| Where's my dad going skateboard? | ||
| So I had to make her one. | ||
| So there's a video of me riding a skateboard on the Capitol grounds and that's her skateboard. | ||
| But, but anyway, you know, I mean, that just tells you the frustration and just the, just the completely crooked nature of Congress. | ||
| It's, it's designed to keep honest people out and, and, and people are just trying to do, you know, I'm not trying to set the world on fire selling skateboards. | ||
| It's just, for me, it's cheaper in a psychiatrist and, and that could help me pay for my daughter's school a little bit. | ||
| But anyway. | ||
| I love that. | ||
| I love that. | ||
| No, yeah. | ||
| We, I mean, we have our skateboard brand here at the Boonies. | ||
| So I know. | ||
| You know all about it. | ||
| I'm a fan. | ||
| The skateboard salesman business. | ||
| But, well, I appreciate you coming on to chat. | ||
| We are, you know, we're running kind of to the end of our time here. | ||
| Where can, where can people find more of you? | ||
| At Tim Burchett or Burchett for Congress. | ||
| I have all kinds of cool swag. | ||
| I say dad gum it a lot because it's cheaper. | ||
| It's cheaper for me than a cussword. | ||
| I have a, a, a cussword IOU jar. | ||
| I mean, I have a cussword jar full of IOUs. | ||
| And I sell my, but my caps on there and stuff for the campaign, but nothing personal. | ||
| But yeah. | ||
| You can get me on X at Tim Burchett. | ||
| That's the cool one where I do all the fun stuff. | ||
| But yeah, and I'm in all the social media. | ||
| I've got Instagram. | ||
| I don't have a, what's the one that we banned? | ||
| Then we brought it back. | ||
| TikTok. | ||
| Yeah, I don't have a TikTok. | ||
| There was one on there, someone was me, and I was like, hey, I saw you on TikTok. | ||
| I go, really? | ||
| And the guy said, I don't have a TikTok. | ||
| And My guy said, yeah, but I said, yeah, boss, it's a bootleg when someone's cracking you or something. | ||
| Anyway, you can find me on Facebook and everything, but hey, look, you all, we pray for your country and please get involved. | ||
| Don't let the other side shout you down. | ||
| It's a great country. | ||
| We just have to take it back. | ||
| Yes, sir, absolutely. | ||
| Well, I love it. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| You make me proud to be a Tennesseean. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| It's great stuff. | ||
| Thanks, brother. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Hey, what, what part of Tennessee are you from? | ||
| I'm from Memphis, suburbs of Memphis. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So West Tennessee. | ||
| I'm East Tennessee. | ||
| We're on the other end. | ||
| You all make good barbecue over there. | ||
| Sure, we got the barbecue. | ||
| You guys got the views. | ||
| So you got the pretty side over there. | ||
| Yeah, we do. | ||
| Mountains. | ||
| It's awesome. | ||
| That's great. | ||
| Thanks, brother. | ||
| Thanks, congressman. | ||
| Till next time. | ||
| It's Tim. | ||
| See you, brother. | ||
| Bye. | ||
| Bye. | ||
| Oh, righty. | ||
| Well, that was congressman Burchett. | ||
| He said to call him Tim. | ||
| All righty. | ||
| Might, might have to do that. | ||
| Well, that was fantastic. | ||
| The CCP DNA stuff is crazy. | ||
| I mean, the fact that the press isn't all over that is pretty mind blowing for me because that's very disturbing. | ||
| I think I did ancestry dance. | ||
| They probably have my DNA. | ||
| There's probably a clone of me in China right now. | ||
| Probably there's probably a Tate Cast over there and it's all in Mandarin. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| But anyway, that was fantastic. | ||
| That was a great interview. | ||
| I'm really happy with that. | ||
| That was a lot of fun. | ||
| We're going to close out here. | ||
| We're running down the clock here in Victory Formation. | ||
| So take the knee here. | ||
| You can find me on X and Instagram at RealTateBrown. | ||
| We will be back tonight for Timcast IRL at 8 p.m. | ||
| I also put a few segments up today on Timcast News just to give you guys something. | ||
| I mean, it's not, I know I'm no Tim. |
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