April 6, 2025

Chaos Afoot

Send us a text When social media platforms collide with national security concerns, where should we draw the line? Our lively discussion begins with TikTok's unexpected resurrection after a planned shutdown, revealing deeper questions about America's priorities. While we panic over a Chinese-owned app, why do we barely notice that the same nation owns vast swaths of American farmland, properties, and infrastructure? The conversation shifts to expectations for Trump's administration, where ou...

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When social media platforms collide with national security concerns, where should we draw the line? Our lively discussion begins with TikTok's unexpected resurrection after a planned shutdown, revealing deeper questions about America's priorities. While we panic over a Chinese-owned app, why do we barely notice that the same nation owns vast swaths of American farmland, properties, and infrastructure?

The conversation shifts to expectations for Trump's administration, where our guest expresses hope for reforms in taxation, healthcare costs, and education. But our hosts challenge these optimistic outlooks, drawing on historical patterns that reveal the gap between campaign promises and governing realities. One host pointedly asks: "If you hold up their resume blindly, what qualifies them for that position?" This ignites a passionate debate about meritocracy versus relationship-based appointments that cuts to the heart of how our government functions.

Perhaps the most thought-provoking moment comes when discussing "America's most hated man" – revealing that Martin Luther King Jr. once held that dubious distinction according to a 1967 poll. This historical perspective casts our current polarization in a new light, suggesting that today's villains might become tomorrow's heroes. Despite sharp disagreements throughout, our conversation concludes with a shared hope for national healing and unity beyond partisan divisions.

Whether you're politically engaged or simply trying to make sense of our divided country, this episode offers authentic perspectives that challenge assumptions across the political spectrum. Subscribe now and join our weekly conversation as we navigate these turbulent times together, always seeking common ground without sacrificing our principles.

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00:00 - Episode Introduction

02:31 - TikTok's Resurrection on Easter Sunday

13:43 - Administrative Expectations Under Trump

37:42 - Confirmation Hearings: Politics or Substance?

48:14 - Celebrating America's Most Hated Man

01:04:00 - Final Thoughts on Unity and Hope

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What do you want to do tonight?

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The same thing we do every night.

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Pinky, Try to take over the world.

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All right, yo, let's get into it.

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Try to take over the world.

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You're preaching freedom.

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Try to take over the world.

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And greatest chaplain in the world, mr Lance O'Neal, take over the world.

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Yo yo yo, what up, world, what up, what up, what up, what up, what up.

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It is Sunday, 8.30 Eastern.

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Do you know where your folks are?

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Of course you do.

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We are right here with you and there's no greater place to be than you with us and us with you.

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Once again, it's your boy, kj Bradley, and the world's greatest chaplain, Mr Lance O'Neal.

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Chappy, what up.

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Hey, how are you, KJ?

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Are we having a good week?

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Oh man, it is amazing.

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I am excited because tomorrow we get to celebrate the world's most hated man, and I am so excited.

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I am so, so excited.

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We look forward to this.

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What's going on with Elon Even?

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more you think the world's most hated man.

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Yeah, we got that.

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We celebrate the world's most hated man tomorrow and I am so excited we got a special guest joining us today.

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You guys have seen her before.

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Miss Allie McPherson has joined us before the election.

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For those of you guys who don't remember her, her and my boy, elton, had a great, robust conversation that stirred up, stirred up some, some, some great conversation.

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But we brought her back post-election to hear her thoughts, man, and I can't wait to jump into it.

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Chappy, you ready to bring her in?

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Yeah, let's go, hailey, what up, girl, how you doing.

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It's so good to see you again, hey what's up guys?

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hey, I'm good oh man, how has, how has life treated you in these last what 90 days?

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90 days, very, very good.

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We moved into our new home and we're just trying to get settled.

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And Trump won, so it's good.

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Congratulations, all right.

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We got 90 minutes.

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We got four topics.

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Allie, since you are our guest, I will let you choose.

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So I'll give you the topics and then I'll let you pick.

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We'll go topics and then I'll let you pick.

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Um, we'll go.

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So we have um depth of tiktok, administrative expectations, your thoughts on the confirmation hearings, false flags and then celebrating the most hated man in america, where do you want to?

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Start good fun times, let's start with.

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Let's start with tiktok tiktok, here we go all right so, tiktok, I'll get us kicked off.

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So for those of you guys that don't know, um, tiktok was supposed to be dead today.

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Um, last night, um, a lot of people went into it and uproar and panic because they were unable to, uh, log into their tiktoks.

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And if you tried, you got a pretty wonderful note saying that, due to administrative policies, we were unable to utilize the platform.

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But, just like Jesus on Easter Sunday with the Easter bunny and all her wonderful eggs, tiktok wonderfully rose on Sunday morning and you were able to log back in.

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So the beast is back.

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I for one am excited because it is one of our most engaging platforms.

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So shout out to our TikTok family we are glad to see you guys back.

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What are your thoughts, man?

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Are you guys excited that TikTok's back, or what are your thoughts, allie?

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Why?

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don't you go first?

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Yeah, I.

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Allie, why don't you go first?

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Yeah, I, you know I've got kind of mixed emotions about it because I think TikTok is very, very good on some points but there's a lot of crap on TikTok.

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So I know my daughter, she you know she gets on TikTok and she does.

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You know the fun little videos and stuff like that.

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And you know every gets on tiktok and she does.

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You know the fun little videos and stuff like that.

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And, um, you know, every once in a while something slips in there that's totally not child appropriate.

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So, um, you know I'm good with tiktok.

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I think it's fun, it's.

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You know, I I didn't want to see it get banned.

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Um, didn't understand the whole thing, but I mean it shut down.

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We couldn't get on, for up till what?

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About three hours ago we couldn't get on, but but we're on now.

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So I mean I'm good.

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I've heard that.

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What is it Mr Beast Is it?

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Is that his name?

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Mr Beast, like has is trying to buy it.

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He put it in or something, yeah, and I was like, hey, so I'm not sure how to feel about that, but hey, it is what it is, it's fun.

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You got a couple of guys putting in a couple of bids.

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Yeah, my kids were like oh, my 11-year-old told it, no, he is, he's buying it.

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I was like hold on, Let me go look, you got Mr Beast.

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I was like hold on, let me go look, you got Mr.

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Beast.

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Mr Wonderful is putting in a couple of bids.

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I put in a $34 bid.

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I'll let them talk me up to $42.

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But after that I'm out.

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That beat my $12.

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I don't think I can compete too much.

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What's your thoughts, Lance?

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I got a couple of thoughts, but I think I'll wait until the back end on this.

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Well on, uh tiktok.

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Let's instead of tiktok, let's for a minute give a shout out to ctr media network, who we are actually live on.

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I just checked the site on on on row crew shout out to our tiktok man.

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I'm telling you I gotta get back used to that.

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Welcome to our ctr media network family.

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This is our second live episode for our Roku family.

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Welcome you guys.

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We are definitely glad to be a part of the network and the family.

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We'll get it together, I promise you.

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I just We'll give it thumbs up, stars, whatever it is.

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So my thoughts on TikTok Okay, as far as TikTok goes, I'm not a big TikTok person.

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I think I've made a half dozen and they were political and I got the people yelling at me on one side and the other people yelling at me on the other.

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I did one where somebody cut that everybody's kind of missing is that this ban was put in place and held in place by the Supreme Court of the United States, and so if there's a ban that's put into place, that's tried and upheld, I don't know how a President Trump or President Biden could write just a piece of paper that says, no, tiktok's good, because the whole point of it is that it has to be divested from the communist Chinese ownership, and so I don't think they've done that yet, and so I wonder how we get to the point where, ok, it didn't need to be turned off yesterday, and now it's turned on today, and it's on with a message that says, hey, we hope to keep going because of President Trump.

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And I've seen people go oh, look, even TikTok bending over backwards to work with Trump.

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It's like, well, yes, everybody is, he's the new president, you don't want to be left out in the cold.

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But at the same time, I do question what the mechanisms involved are.

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Because, as somebody who actually appreciates the Constitution and tries to understand the Constitution, I'm not sure if the Supreme Court says, hey, there's a ban and it needs to be, and we're going to uphold this ban.

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Unless you do this and the this has not been done, I'm not sure how it stays alive.

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And if it gets sold, fine, I don't care who owns TikTok.

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Honestly I texted KJ this a couple of days ago why doesn't somebody start a new media platform called TikTok and spell it the right way T-I-C-K, t-o-c-k and go, hey, just come on over here.

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But overall, it's one more thing.

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I'm sure the kids are going over to Instagram or I don't even know there's one red something that people are going over to, which I kind of laugh at because it's another communist based platform.

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It's, I'm sorry, chinese based platform.

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Let me be real clear when I say that.

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Yeah.

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We have to we have to be careful with our words.

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Um, I'm, I'm a little bit torn.

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And then we we've seen with the, the, the SCOTUS and the way they work, rules have somehow been I don't want to say broken, but they've been massaged.

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Ignored.

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Your words, not mine.

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I am trying to be more understanding going into this new administration.

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I'm sure there's going to be some kind of way that this can work out.

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I don't have an issue with it.

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I just think the focus is a little off right, like we can say okay, well, tiktok is a national security concern and it's our highest priority.

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And this, that and the other, and I'm like cool, great china owns what?

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380 000 plus acres of farmland china?

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military bases china owns, you know, over 20 million properties across the united states, this corporation, but we're worried about TikTok.

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So you know what I'm saying.

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I'm kind of like, okay, well, how big of a threat is it?

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I get it from a personal data standpoint, but it's like if you're going to let them, you know, if you're going to let them own the homes and own the farmland and, you know, be main investors in in a lot of our corporations, what the you know what's the difference at this point.

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You know I'm saying it's just a bunch of you know, just a bunch of smoke and mirrors for me and in my opinion, because it's like, at the end of the day, you're still.

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You know they, they still have access to all our main you know waterways.

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They still have access to all our food sources, all our infrastructure.

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Well, I think that I think the biggest difference is just simply somebody is somebody decided to come out and sue, and that's probably the biggest difference.

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I agree with you as far as the security stuff.

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I think it's ridiculous every day.

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But at the same time, people are stupid.

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And when you have people say I don't want the government to be able to track where I am and what I'm doing at all times, and goodness forbid, they're able to do anything that no people don't understand, I mean it's open source.

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If you want to go look up what the NSA can do, go look up what the NSA did.

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It's not a surprise what anybody in this country is doing.

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I find it curious that we're supposed to be a nation of laws, but if it doesn't, we can have something, go all the way to Supreme Court and then, if it's ignored, so what you have?

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Congress.

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Let's go back and let's be political for a minute.

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We could probably count on multiple hands between us how many times Fauci lied while he was giving testimony to Congress about multitude of things.

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Has he been charged with lying to Congress?

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I'm pretty sure that's against the law.

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I think it is.

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I can't tell you the statute, but everything I've ever been told is if you get called in front of Congress, you get sworn in and there are perjury laws in place, and yet I haven't seen anybody.

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And that's not just Fauci, don't get me wrong, just many, many people.

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If we ever started to hold account to people who lied to Congress, we would never get anything done.

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I disagree.

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It's almost expected to lie to Congress now, even not getting ahead of ourselves, but even going into the confirmation hearings.

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You're almost expected to lie to Congress.

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I've never seen, between this administration and the last two administrations we can even go back to the last three administrations I've never seen so many candidates blatantly outright lie and pervert the truth or contort the truth for confirmation hearings.

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Like bro, we got you on tape.

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This is Republican and Democrat, both, so I don't want you to figure I'm picking either side, but for sure they come up there and just stonewall and be like oh no, say that like.

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But, sir, I have transcripts and I got you on tape.

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And he's like oh well, you, you misinterpreted what I said.

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Like no, you're right here, it's just at this point.

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It's like there are no rules and they're all suddenly enforced.

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Like you know one of what was one of the, the congressman who came out and was like he said something about how many, how many senators have come up here and voted at night, drunk?

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What are you talking about, man?

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Are you out of your mind?

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Who blatantly said that.

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And then he said it as though you know, as though it's like some we all know.

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I'm like we don't have.

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We don't have that on the list.

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But this week the, the speaker of the House, came out and he relayed a story where he went in He'd been asking for a meeting with President Biden.

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He'd been stonewalled.

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He finally kind of forces his way in, he gets in there and he's got the VP in there, he's got the chief of staff and finally Biden kind of said hey, you guys need to step out for a minute.

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And they all kind of freaked out and he stepped out.

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And then the speaker says you know, hey, you know what about liquid natural, liquid natural gas and this and that and what you know?

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You paused it.

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And Biden says no, I didn't.

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He says yeah, you did.

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He said I never signed that.

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He goes, he goes, sir, I can have your secretary go to.

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I promise you.

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You signed an executive order halting liquefied natural gas to europe and biden was saying no, I didn't.

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Now, one as disturbing as that story is why was he holding on to this story for over a year now I get there's some stuff that you're going.

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Well, I I didn't want to embarrass the president, but you know what?

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That's probably information that the American people should have known that the president was either manipulated into signing an executive order that had really serious national security effects, or he was.

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He didn't know about it and they did what Radar used to do to henry blake and said here, just sign here, sign here, sign here, sign here, sign here really.

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And biden said, yeah, okay, trusting his staff I mean the last three months you've had senators come out and openly a bit that they don't read.

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They don't even read the damn bills that come across the board.

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He's like, oh, who has time to read these bills?

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Like dude, what the hell?

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So to to.

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To honestly expect anybody in our legislature, especially our elected officials, to do anything is I think, ambitious of us at this point.

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They are just talking.

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But that's why you have staff, all right.

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So, kj, we've both been in the military.

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When you get in front of a commander, the first thing he says is I don't want to know all that, I don't care about all that, give me the bluff, give me the bottom line up front.

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And if you can't say what the bottom line up front is in 10 to 15 seconds, the commander says you know what you can leave.

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Go, get your stuff together and then you can come back Right.

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So to me it's much more on the staff, and I think everybody that has been around Biden and so you know, even the again to go back to TikTok, how many of these people were told well, this is what we're actually doing, this is what we're, and the congressmen and they're just like oh okay, you have to trust your staff, you have to be able to rely on people, and I've been saying this for years.

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That is why the swamp is the way it is is because of the staffs.

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It's not necessarily the congressman that comes in and gets manipulated by other people in Congress, it's.

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He gets manipulated by staff and his staff gets manipulated by the other staff because, like, realistically, whoever's in charge of the congressional office, like you just said, do you really think they have the time to read every single bill when it's like a budget?

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They drop a budget on your desk that is 4 000 pages and you're supposed to read that in three days.

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You can't do it.

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Yeah, there's a lot of stuff and that's where I go back to.

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Kind of the accountability is if TikTok is continuing, it continues on.

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I just look at that and go, ok, I'm fine with it as long as they have met the standard.

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This is the Supreme Court upheld by federal judge.

00:17:21.267 --> 00:17:25.594
And don't get me wrong, there's lots of federal judges I absolutely hate.

00:17:25.594 --> 00:17:34.630
I think it's ridiculous when a federal judge can come in and say, well, I interpret it this way, and then suddenly it's screeching halt to the country for whatever it is.

00:17:34.630 --> 00:17:39.583
I don't want to give an example, necessarily, but I could.

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And most of of the time those are done when it's somebody legislating from the bench and and that's why when I hear these congressmen go back, like Senator Mike Lee from Utah saying, look, we need to get back to the legislature doing his job, they need to be the ones who are writing the bills, writing the laws, and then it goes to, goes to the president, he signs it into law and then the courts decide is that constitutional or not?

00:18:11.288 --> 00:18:19.559
It's almost like there was an old 70s cartoon talking about how bills were made, and now that doesn't exist anymore.

00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:21.471
Yep, that's what money gets involved, ollie what do you think?

00:18:21.491 --> 00:18:23.539
that's what money gets involved, Ali.

00:18:23.539 --> 00:18:24.722
What'd you think?

00:18:26.006 --> 00:18:38.243
You know, I think it comes down to I don't, I think it's been forgotten how the government and how everything is set up.

00:18:38.243 --> 00:18:42.585
Like everybody I've heard so many times, you know you're not above the law, you're not above the law.

00:18:42.585 --> 00:18:47.089
It seems like a lot of people are above the law, paying people off.

00:18:47.089 --> 00:18:51.526
However that may be, but it's, I don't I.

00:18:51.526 --> 00:18:58.715
And then I think the American people for the most part, including myself, don't trust the government period.

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Like, even if there is a law that's put in, I mean, they're going to change it to fit what they want it to be.

00:19:06.019 --> 00:19:24.130
On either side on, you know and I'm just not saying Democrat or Republican, I think everybody just takes little bits and pieces of the law that they really want to enforce and then they go with that instead of, you know, you know, having the president sign it, it goes to the Supreme Court, it goes into law, just like the same same thing.

00:19:24.130 --> 00:19:27.323
You know, having the president sign it, it goes to the Supreme Court, it goes into law, just like the same thing.

00:19:27.323 --> 00:19:30.410
You know, as that just came to my mind, the big government.

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Why do we have governors in each state to govern their state?

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You know?

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So I, I don't.

00:19:38.951 --> 00:19:41.015
Yeah, I think it comes down to trust.

00:19:41.015 --> 00:19:52.833
I think that there's good people on both sides, both Democrat and Republican, but I also believe that it just comes down to nobody trusts the government anymore, nobody.

00:19:52.833 --> 00:20:04.131
You know you can break the law and nothing's going to happen, except if you're Trump, then it's going to go and whatever, but nothing's going to happen.

00:20:04.131 --> 00:20:12.209
You know, like everything that I go back a little bit, you know, with Hillary Clinton, you know it was proven.

00:20:12.209 --> 00:20:13.992
She, you know, deleted emails.

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Nothing's ever happened.

00:20:15.643 --> 00:20:19.711
Nothing's ever happened to people on either side.

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And I think it's a trusting.

00:20:21.780 --> 00:20:23.183
I don't trust the government.

00:20:23.183 --> 00:20:28.551
My I mean my hopes are a little bit brighter because I am thrilled.

00:20:28.551 --> 00:20:30.394
You know that Trump won and he's getting in.

00:20:30.394 --> 00:20:37.933
But on the same hand, if he messes up and he screws up, I don't have a problem with saying you know what?

00:20:37.933 --> 00:20:49.842
I made a mistake by voting for him, but at the time that was my choice for him, but at the time that was my choice.

00:20:49.842 --> 00:20:50.403
But we just don't trust.

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We don't trust Congress, we don't trust the Senate.

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It's everybody.

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I think they forget, I think senators and congressmen, I think they forget they were put in by the people and then, once you get there, you do what you promise to the people, not what you want, and I think that's what it's turned into and we need to drain the swamp totally like start over.

00:21:10.411 --> 00:21:11.840
I mean, how do you do that?

00:21:11.840 --> 00:21:14.510
You know there's no way to to do that.

00:21:14.972 --> 00:21:15.434
Yes, there is.

00:21:15.434 --> 00:21:17.340
There's a simple way, but nobody wants to do it.

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I've put this out before.

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All we need to do is all we need to do is move the federal government to Wichita, Kansas, and suddenly the swamp will be drained.

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There you go.

00:21:32.483 --> 00:21:33.888
Why does nobody take that seriously?

00:21:37.430 --> 00:21:38.534
What are your expectations?

00:21:38.534 --> 00:21:46.500
What are some reasonable expectations as the new administration, as 47, takes over and kind of gets his feet up on the road.

00:21:46.500 --> 00:21:52.673
What are some reasonable expectations that you expect, you know, from the POTUS and his team?

00:21:55.080 --> 00:22:02.270
Well, first of all, I go by what he ran on, you know, I hope that taxes do get lowered.

00:22:02.270 --> 00:22:04.513
I hope that the military does become stronger.

00:22:04.513 --> 00:22:15.381
I hope that he does take care of our seniors.

00:22:15.381 --> 00:22:16.362
You know, as far as you know medication goes.

00:22:16.362 --> 00:22:32.215
You know that's a big thing for me with my parents, I mean when they can't, you know, when they can barely afford food, because you know my dad's medications are $1,300, $1,400, $1,500 a month and they're on, you know, they're on Medicare.

00:22:32.215 --> 00:22:49.820
So I'm hoping there's a whole, you know change in that.

00:22:49.820 --> 00:22:53.671
I hope there's a lot of changes in the education system and what is being taught.

00:22:53.691 --> 00:22:55.836
I'm really blessed that my daughter is in more of a private school here in Louisiana.

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You know where history is taught home ec is taught.

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The older kids have to take, you know, tax courses.

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They stand and say the Pledge of Allegiance, they sing the National Anthem every morning.

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It's focused on the education for the children, not, you know, what can the teachers get?

00:23:15.784 --> 00:23:27.794
And I'm not putting down teachers because I couldn't be a teacher nowadays there's no way but I think the teachers need to teach.

00:23:27.794 --> 00:23:33.250
So, going back, I think the education system needs to be um, something needs to be done there.

00:23:33.550 --> 00:23:37.445
As far as taxes, medicare Um, oh my gosh, there's so many.

00:23:37.445 --> 00:23:41.681
My hopes are very high and my expectations are very high.

00:23:41.681 --> 00:23:45.230
Um, I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

00:23:45.230 --> 00:23:49.367
You know, I might be really disappointed, and if I am, then I'll.

00:23:49.367 --> 00:24:02.115
I'll be upfront and honest with it, but I just know that we can't have what we've had for the past four years because it's it has.

00:24:02.115 --> 00:24:05.671
For me, it hasn't been good and for a lot of other people it hasn't been good.

00:24:05.671 --> 00:24:09.211
So really, any change from the last four years would be awesome.

00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:19.931
I think Greenland needs to be executed, canada needs to be pulled in, panama can okay.

00:24:19.931 --> 00:24:50.178
Honestly, as far as expectations go, for me there's probably really only one that I legitimately hope he and I'm going to say he in this case, because Trump is responsible for this the executive branch of the president's job has some specific things in defending the Constitution of the United States and the sovereignty of this country are the two most important.

00:24:50.178 --> 00:25:02.615
They need to secure the borders in a way that we know who's coming in, who's going out, and we need to do something about the people that are here illegally.

00:25:02.615 --> 00:25:08.365
Now people will say, oh, you're just, you're heartless and a Christian would never.

00:25:08.365 --> 00:25:09.689
Jesus was a refugee.

00:25:09.689 --> 00:25:10.711
It's like hold on now.

00:25:10.711 --> 00:25:15.426
Yeah, so well, you see stuff like that right.

00:25:15.426 --> 00:25:32.413
And so I look at it and I say again I think the easiest way would be for the legislature to pass a bill that says any company or individual who hires somebody who's illegally in this country, knowingly or not, will be fined one thousand dollars per day, per instance.

00:25:32.413 --> 00:25:40.700
And okay, all that means is I better be dang sure that who I'm hiring as a company is here legally.

00:25:40.700 --> 00:25:52.888
And what is the difference between that and some guy that's 25 years old and he's brought up on charges for statutory rape and he says whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:25:52.888 --> 00:25:56.045
She told me she was 19.

00:25:56.045 --> 00:25:58.392
And it turns out she was only 16.

00:25:58.392 --> 00:25:59.815
And what did the court say?

00:25:59.815 --> 00:26:04.641
Well, it's your responsibility to verify how old that person is.

00:26:04.641 --> 00:26:10.084
And even if that person had a fake ID, the courts don't care.

00:26:10.084 --> 00:26:12.085
The courts are like she was 16.

00:26:12.085 --> 00:26:13.325
She lied to you or not.

00:26:13.325 --> 00:26:14.766
She was 16.

00:26:14.766 --> 00:26:19.968
She couldn't agree to this and so it's on you.

00:26:19.968 --> 00:26:28.771
So if you have these companies who say, well, I didn't know, we had somebody, I hired somebody who and again, this isn't just somebody who came across the southern border.

00:26:28.771 --> 00:26:33.953
It can be somebody who came across the northern borders, can be somebody who has their visa has expired.

00:26:33.953 --> 00:26:36.434
There are ways to do this.

00:26:36.434 --> 00:26:39.596
And again, I am fine with immigration.

00:26:39.596 --> 00:26:41.717
I love legal immigration.

00:26:41.897 --> 00:26:47.545
Everybody in this country was a legal immigrant, and even the people who say not Native Americans, they were here originally.

00:26:47.545 --> 00:26:47.926
Guess what?

00:26:47.926 --> 00:26:50.982
At some point they came across the bridge, the ice bridge.

00:26:50.982 --> 00:26:52.005
They came from Asia too.

00:26:52.005 --> 00:26:55.874
So at some point everybody moved somewhere.

00:26:56.180 --> 00:27:03.863
There's no such thing as the original Adam and Eve individuals who they get to lay claim to everything.

00:27:03.863 --> 00:27:06.640
Ok, not, not in the legal terms.

00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:09.888
I'm not saying anybody who's christian says there's a real adam and eve, that's cool.

00:27:09.888 --> 00:27:12.184
Hey, I'm religious as well and that's fine.

00:27:12.184 --> 00:27:17.184
What I'm saying is we get to lay legal claim because adam and eve are going hey look, let's go back.

00:27:17.184 --> 00:27:20.218
Here's what we figured out where the garden of eden is.

00:27:20.218 --> 00:27:23.804
It's right here, and now it's mine, because I can trace my line back to Adam and Eve.

00:27:23.804 --> 00:27:30.413
So if you go back far enough, there's always somebody that can claim the land.

00:27:31.054 --> 00:27:34.644
But we are a world that moves forward.

00:27:34.644 --> 00:27:37.529
History has always been written by the winners.

00:27:37.529 --> 00:27:52.228
You have the country and the borders are drawn basically by the strongest country or at the point where the country says, ok, we've won and we're going to make a deal.

00:27:52.228 --> 00:28:03.505
People forget when people talk about Mexico and all that the US not only invaded Mexico, it went down and basically captured Mexico City, and then they said here's what we're going to do.

00:28:03.505 --> 00:28:06.971
You're going to give us this land up here in exchange.

00:28:06.971 --> 00:28:10.242
We're not going to take everything, we're going to let you have Mexico.

00:28:10.242 --> 00:28:15.021
Now there was some stuff as far as Europe and all that, but ultimately that was the case.

00:28:15.021 --> 00:28:20.993
The US right now we could have all of Mexico as part of the United States.

00:28:20.993 --> 00:28:24.596
If, at the time, the government had said that's what we're going to do.

00:28:24.596 --> 00:28:25.580
We conquered you.

00:28:25.641 --> 00:28:32.080
It's ours, it was negotiated we had some you had some negotiators coming in well, but that was the thing is.

00:28:32.080 --> 00:28:37.353
But as far as might makes right, we had the right to do it and that's all I'm saying.

00:28:37.353 --> 00:28:43.086
So at this point, I would be happy with every.

00:28:43.086 --> 00:28:48.835
Every border guard that is on the border gets a nice little bump in pay.

00:28:48.835 --> 00:28:57.233
I would be happy with a reduction in everybody that works for ICE or Border Patrol that's in a desk job in DC.

00:28:57.233 --> 00:29:01.948
I'd like to see a reduction of that force down to about 30%.

00:29:01.948 --> 00:29:04.451
And if you want to stay in your job, down to about 30%.

00:29:04.451 --> 00:29:06.075
And if you want to stay in your job, that's fine.

00:29:06.075 --> 00:29:18.834
You get to move to Texas, arizona, montana, wherever right IRS agents.

00:29:18.874 --> 00:29:20.140
I'd love to see a slash in the IRS agents.

00:29:20.140 --> 00:29:22.040
I don't know.

00:29:22.040 --> 00:29:35.019
I think there's something to be said for a flat tax, but if you're not going to do a flat tax, I think there should be something as far as the IRS agents go and say all right, for every person that you audit that makes less than $50,000 as an agent, you need to audit two people that make more than $200,000.

00:29:35.019 --> 00:29:40.909
So go for the big fish, go get the corporations.

00:29:40.909 --> 00:29:47.181
I just don't know how much of this will happen because again, it has to be the legislature.

00:29:47.221 --> 00:29:51.448
Who is really driving the train here and 2016,.

00:29:51.448 --> 00:29:54.673
The legislature was not MAGA.

00:29:54.673 --> 00:30:03.153
They are much more now and so and when I say MAGA, I'm only saying in support of Trump, I'm not saying like that.

00:30:03.153 --> 00:30:04.234
They are themselves.

00:30:04.234 --> 00:30:21.074
You know the MAGA people, but I think if you have a traditional Congress that supports the president of their party, I want to see President Trump over the next two years, say what are our 10 most important things?

00:30:21.074 --> 00:30:24.446
Let's focus on those 10.

00:30:24.446 --> 00:30:36.125
Let's get the, because I think I've said before, I think Obama made a huge, huge mistake because he used so much time and so much political clout on Obamacare for the first two years.

00:30:36.125 --> 00:30:40.034
Not only did he have Congress, he had a super majority.

00:30:40.034 --> 00:30:41.682
He could have come out.

00:30:41.682 --> 00:30:43.288
He could have ratified abortion.

00:30:43.288 --> 00:30:44.411
He could have done.

00:30:44.411 --> 00:30:46.642
He could have come out.

00:30:46.642 --> 00:30:47.464
He could have ratified abortion.

00:30:47.484 --> 00:30:47.906
He could have done.

00:30:47.906 --> 00:30:48.769
He could have done almost anything.

00:30:48.769 --> 00:30:49.211
No, he couldn't.

00:30:49.230 --> 00:31:00.546
You know, you and I both know good and damn well, he couldn't have done it well the fact that he could have done almost anything that democrats were oh, he could have posed anything.

00:31:00.566 --> 00:31:12.932
But you know, when somebody gets up there and they start shouting immediately, all right, let's not kid ourselves, right, we can leave all the optimism aside.

00:31:12.932 --> 00:31:33.534
Even with a damn super friend, super majority, there were still obstacles, right, and the fact that he had Obamacare passed was a miracle in itself, and the fact that it took two years to get passed with the super majority shows you just how hard it was to get past.

00:31:33.534 --> 00:31:42.664
You had the speaker of the house come out and says their number one, priority one, is to make sure that he gets not a single law passed.

00:31:43.567 --> 00:31:45.711
And he was damn near first of all that was.

00:31:45.711 --> 00:31:47.213
That was mcconnell.

00:31:47.213 --> 00:31:53.740
Well, that was mcconnell after he lost this, but that was after he lost the super majority.

00:31:54.442 --> 00:31:59.019
Let's not wave came in, but let's not act like mcconnell was not any less powerful.

00:31:59.460 --> 00:32:10.435
Senator mcconnell and paul ryan were the two most powerful no, at that point it didn't matter, kj, when you have a super majority, you can do things you can't do the rest of the time.

00:32:10.820 --> 00:32:13.930
Then, lance, why did it take two years to get a bone care passed, if you could do it?

00:32:14.700 --> 00:32:19.662
Because Democrats didn't back around because they were looking at all the other stuff as well they want.

00:32:19.662 --> 00:32:24.321
There are certain things you can do with a super majority you can override.

00:32:24.662 --> 00:32:25.963
Lance, you're full of shit.

00:32:25.963 --> 00:32:31.170
With a supermajority Listen, with the supermajority Republicans got the SCOTUS pushed in two weeks.

00:32:31.170 --> 00:32:33.132
Two weeks, you know why?

00:32:33.132 --> 00:32:36.075
Because, because, yes, they got.

00:32:36.075 --> 00:32:37.017
They got their confirmation.

00:32:37.701 --> 00:32:39.502
No, aj, we're talking about different things here.

00:32:39.502 --> 00:32:42.967
Hold on, let's clarify what a supermajority is.

00:32:43.047 --> 00:32:44.328
You're talking about a supermajority.

00:32:44.328 --> 00:32:49.675
You're talking about having the majority in both the Senate and the House.

00:32:50.180 --> 00:32:52.106
No, that's not what a supermajority is.

00:32:52.106 --> 00:32:52.808
What are you talking about?

00:32:52.808 --> 00:32:57.971
A supermajority is when you have 60 senators of one party.

00:32:57.971 --> 00:33:03.132
Yes, you have the House, you have the Senate, but the Senate has to have those 60.

00:33:03.132 --> 00:33:12.465
Yes, yes, so Obama is the only president that has had a super majority in decades.

00:33:12.465 --> 00:33:14.750
He's the only one.

00:33:14.750 --> 00:33:17.674
Yes, and he was still thwarted.

00:33:17.674 --> 00:33:18.115
Why?

00:33:18.115 --> 00:33:21.444
Because his own party.

00:33:21.464 --> 00:33:23.969
Do you really think the Democrats are that damn incompetent?

00:33:23.969 --> 00:33:25.732
Do you think out of 100?

00:33:25.732 --> 00:33:32.913
Years of legislation those four years.

00:33:32.913 --> 00:33:38.406
They were that grossly incompetent that they could only get one piece of legislation pushed.

00:33:39.210 --> 00:33:39.550
Hold on.

00:33:39.550 --> 00:33:52.549
First of all, it wasn't only one piece, it was one major thing, and what I'm saying is because that was such a massive thing to change to override the way health care worked in America.

00:33:52.549 --> 00:33:58.777
Health care in America is is one of the top, I think, three industries in the entire country.

00:33:58.777 --> 00:34:12.588
Health insurance and when we're including health insurance, all that because that money's involved and because it's such a big deal, I think if if Obama had said, look, he passed it.

00:34:12.588 --> 00:34:20.590
He got it with 60 votes in the Senate, all Democrats, zero Republicans and they passed in the House and got a zero Republican support there.

00:34:20.590 --> 00:34:22.842
Stuff like that happens.

00:34:22.842 --> 00:34:25.369
Right, okay, so he got it passed.

00:34:25.369 --> 00:34:35.141
But what I'm saying is if he and the Democrats had said, all right, if we have these 10 things, what are our 10 biggest things?

00:34:35.141 --> 00:34:41.083
And immediately after two months they said, gosh, this Obamacare thing, I don't know if we can get this done.

00:34:41.083 --> 00:34:42.266
Let's look at number two.

00:34:42.266 --> 00:34:42.768