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Elon Musk, the world's richest man, just tweeted this bill should not pass. The only way you're going to be able to pass it now, Mr. Speaker, is with Democrats. If you could, what's your message to Elon Musk?

Well, I was communicating with Elon last night. Elon and Vivek and I are on a text chain together. And I was explaining to them the background of this. And Vivek and I talked last night about almost midnight. and he said, look, I get it.

He said, we understand you're in an impossible position. Everybody knows that. Remember, guys, we still have just a razor-thin margin of Republicans.

So any bill has to have Democrat votes. They understand the situation. They said, it's not directed to you, Mr. Speaker, but we don't like the spending. I said, guess what, fellas?

I don't either. We got to get this done because here's the key. By doing this, we are clearing the decks and we are setting up for Trump to come in, roaring back with the America First agenda. That's what we're going to run with gusto beginning January 3rd. when we start the new Congress, when Republicans, again, are in control.

And all of our fiscal conservative friends, I'm one of them, will be able to finally do the things that we've been wanting to do for the last couple of years. Oh, boy. We've got a lot to talk about here. That's Speaker Mike Johnson, who is on Fox and Friends, trying to sell this budget. I don't know what the hell they're doing, this omnibus.

that that's not what we voted for on election day. We did not vote for this. We absolutely did not vote for this. And when I heard him talking about it, you know, like I said, he's, he's, he's, I've said this before, he's, you know, he is a rhino. I mean, I don't want to just say like a moderate.

I mean, he's, he's a rhino, But he I don't think that he is as malicious maybe as some of the others or he just he doesn't have a lot of seniority. But I mean, to say that you have to pass this bill because you've got to set the decks, as it were, that's what he was saying. Like you have to pass this bill so that you can get ready for Trump and you can get ready for a Republican Congress. That doesn't make sense to me. Because people voted for fiscal responsibility.

And what I'm hearing here is that's not none of that is fiscal responsibility at all. And it's more of the same. Did you vote for more of the same? I did not vote for more of the same. I absolutely did not.

So we're kind of at a crossroads here. And we're going to talk about this here throughout the program. We're kind of at a crossroads here, because this is the dangerous part of victory is when you think that victory is all it was and that there's nothing else there's nothing else that needs to be accomplished when in fact you know the whole the whole point of the victory on Tuesday on that election Tuesday was to get in a position where you can actually have some victories that's that's the big thing so I'm when I heard him talk about this stuff When I heard Speaker Johnson say this on Fox and Friends, I thought, huh, passing a bill so that we can get things. It kind of sounds like you got to pass it to find out what's in it, Cain. Where have we heard that before?

From Pelosi. Oh, that's right. Nancy Pelosi. Good old Nancy Pelosi, right? Good old Nancy Pelosi.

Don't tell, don't say good old Nancy Pelosi.

So welcome to the show. Dana Lash with you here. We are at the top Of this First hour Got a lot of stuff to hit with you today And we're going to go over this whole We're going to look at this omnibus Because the omnibus has a lot of No no things in it We're calling them no no things They've got like salary increases and all kinds of stuff I just think too When you're a congressional member When you're a member of government and you're making And you're telling people that you can't live on $174,000 policy because inflation is too bad. That's a problem, right? What about the rest of us?

What about the rest of us? So welcome. Dana Lash here with you. Again, top of this first hour. You can listen coast to coast, all that good stuff.

We got more on this because this is a big fight. This is the big fight.

So we had Johnson saying There's not going to be a and six is when he said there's not going to be a Christmas omnibus cane. Can we go to flashback audio cut six, please? I also predicted this would fall right before Christmas. This is not six. No, stop, stop, stop, stop.

I need audio soundbite six, please. Flashback Speaker Johnson. We can get that.

Well, it says he says that there's not going to be a Christmas omnibus. He said this a while ago. He said there's not going to be a Christmas omnibus. We have.

Well, I mean, if there's no. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Let's let's get it up on screen.

Let's get it all done proper. OK, go ahead and hit it. Go ahead and hit it. OK, so let's move. Let's move on past this.

We have we have broken the Christmas omni and I have no intention of going back to that terrible tradition.

so there won't be a christmas omnibus if somebody asked me in the hallway a little while ago will there be many buses we don't want any buses we're not going to do any buses no omnibuses he said that oh it's this past fall it was like right around my birthday he said that i remember and i thought oh that's a nice present no christmas because how many times have we been in this position where it's a christmas omnibus i honestly think we've been I'm sorry, I'm going through my mental Rolodex. It's 2012. That's when, no, no, no. It was 2011, remember? Leading up into midterms.

Actually, no, go back further. 2009, leading up to midterms, remember? Oh, before the shellacking. And actually, it worked in Republicans' favor to have a government shutdown because Republicans didn't want to pass the omnibus. And so they were the messaging was that there was going to be a government shutdown and that it was going to be horrible for Republicans and it was going to cost them in the midterms.

And it didn't. It totally didn't.

So I just when I hear people say that they have to pass this, they have to pass a bill about big spending in order to pave the way for less spending. That's like screwing for chastity. That's what Speaker Johnson just told us. Speaker Johnson just told us, guys, we've got to screw for chastity. It's what we got to do.

We got to do it. You know, we got to get more chastity by being, you know, slut here. It's what we got to do. That's what I heard him say That's what he said just there I'm aggravated over this for a number of reasons And I talked a little bit about this today Because Again, let's think about this for a minute I blame one person for this right now I mean, I'll probably be a little bit more reasonable later But this was all kicked off by Matt Gaetz I don't say I didn't I'm not the person who will not say I told you so I will totally say it I did warn you This was kicked off because Matt Gaetz had an ego accutane rage tantrum, an ego driven accutane rage tantrum. That's why we're in this position.

Matt Gaetz couldn't get along with Kevin McCarthy and they had the most inopportune speaker fight.

So Republicans had to rush around instead of being smart and cultivating, you know, good strategy and trying to recruit over a period of time, really strong constitutionalist, conservative potential speakers, they had to race and cover their ass and get another rhino with even less seniority. That's why you got Speaker Johnson. Speaker Johnson didn't get that because he was super popular and he didn't get it because he's a big conservative. He got it because he's pliable. He might be a nice guy.

I'll separate the nice guy from the politician. But at the end of the day, they're employees and I didn't vote for this. I didn't vote for all. You know, I'm Oh my gosh, I did not vote for this. I pay an ungodly amount in tax and I have Republicans telling me right now they're going to waste more of my money that's going to necessitate them having to come hat in hand, begging to have the federal government steal more of my hard-earned dollars so that they can call it a tax and pretend that it's charitable.

Hell no. No, the reason that we're in this position, it was super smart for Gates to trigger the most inopportune fight of all time where there was no plan B. They had to race and get a bad sub, a bad substitute. And then he resigned anyway to avoid the House Oversight Committee report that's going to come out anyway. And now we've got this ridiculous bill and we have too few people willing to fight it.

Now I got aggravated at a couple of people because they were like, you know, we would have probably had the same bill regardless. Or, you know, why are you? That's not the point. Are you serious? Are you saying that we got to suck it up and take it because it would have happened either way.

You can look into your crystal ball and you can determine for sure it would have happened either way.

So the presupposition to make that argument is that Kevin McCarthy was always going to be speaker and or Kevin McCarthy was also going to do this.

Now, I'll tell you something. Kevin McCarthy is every bit as moderate as Mike Johnson. I told you this too. Kevin McCarthy is a moderate. A rhino, if you will.

I mean, I've been talking about Kevin McCarthy since a lot of these people, a lot of these peach fuzz on X, where again, the day they were born, And they think politics started with them. We've all been talking about Kevin McCarthy since the young guns.

Okay.

So we know. And I get aggravated at it because people are like, well, you know how bad he is. Why don't you go read the stuff that you formulated your view to get to that point and then come and tell us what we what we think. I get it because there were people who defended him in the back in the day. And I thought this is crazy.

And then there were people who were pushing Johnson. And I'm like, what? he's you're switching out one rhino with another rhino a rhino that has been around the legislative block fewer times and has even less seniority you see what i'm saying here like that was the only advantage that that mccarthy gave but matt gates had an he absolutely lost his mind he wanted to flex matt gates i know a lot of people like him i've met him i don't i don't know him i don't know too much about him personally, but I can say this is ego driven. And we ended up having the dumbest timing speaker fight all to protect his ass. He got into this fight over this ethics report.

That's what all of this was about. That's the only reason that there was a change in speaker. It wasn't because the people leading the charge wanted actually something more conservative. And if you believe that I have a bridge to sell you. That's the that is a lie that's on scale with Nancy Pelosi telling you you got to pass it to find out what's in it.

This wasn't about them wanting something more conservative. They blamed McCarthy for not Gates, namely, was blaming McCarthy for not stopping this ethics report, this ethics investigation. And because he didn't stop it, he had a grudge against him. And then he was able to convince people with this narrative that it was about somehow protecting Trump or whatever. Trump endorsed McCarthy and he liked Gates too.

I don't even know why he would put, you know, POTUS-elect in that position, but he did. I thought that was dumb. But it was a big old ego fight, and he wanted to stop this ethics investigation. McCarthy wouldn't stop it, and so they led the charge. My whole criticism wasn't ever that there needed to be, that there didn't need to be a speaker race.

It was that this is the stupidest time to do it. Remember they were on deadline to get a number of things done And they ended up Having to split their resources They had no time to find and cultivate A really good speaker They didn't give themselves any If you're going to be a rebel Have a damn strategy If you're going to be a rebel Have a plan Otherwise what is the point It's a flex for ego and it hurts the nation while you pretend that it's some MAGA-driven agenda, and it's not.

So now we got Johnson, who's just like McCarthy, but has less seniority. And now we're in this position where we have this omnibus. And if you think that I'm mad about it, you haven't even scratched the surface. I'm enraged. It's more of the same.

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So the Dow tumbles more than 260 points for a nine-day losing streak. It's longest since I was born. What do you mean, wow? You should be like, wow, you're like 10? Wow, you're such a baby.

Because I know how long ago that was. They said longest ever. This is crazy. They entered the history books. First nine-day losing streak.

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That's sad. They said that it's technology that's being used a lot in law enforcement, but it's now being expanded into retail to help deter conflict and prevent theft.

So does this mean we're going to see fewer of those entertaining fighting videos in Walmart? Because I felt like Walmart was coming for Waffle House's belt. You know what I'm saying? Fewer or more? Are we going to see more or fewer fights?

There are more body cameras. I imagine we're going to see more. Dude, epic. Just saying. All right.

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Keep George Michael going because he really was a gem. It's Whamageddon.

So the contest was and this has been going around on social media and apparently all my friends were playing it and I didn't know. I just Whamageddon'd myself. Didn't even know that. We got Whammed, dude. What the hell is Whamageddon?

You're supposed to see how long in the Christmas season you can go without hearing this song. Oh. And I just Whammed all of you. you just got yeah sorry i made this i made this decision like 30 seconds ago no it's okay nobody knew i didn't tell you you know because it wasn't on it wasn't on the front burner of my mind so it's okay whamageddon yeah yeah all right you know our mutual friend jason church back in st louis okay so he i saw him do it and then a million other people were doing this and i'm like oh and i i was sitting here thinking man i haven't heard this song once this year oh pumped. It went so good.

I just like winning things. Even if it's not a contest that matters, right? If I'm in a grocery store aisle and someone's in the aisle with me and I'm so competitive, I'm like, I got to get to the end of the aisle before you. It's nuts. I have so many hangups.

But I'm so sorry. I did not mean to wham again, you guys. I'm going to get mail. I'm positive because I've seen too many of you.

Somebody even mentioned it in one of my comments on Facebook. I'm like, how far-reaching was this? Am I supposed to be upset that you whamageddon to me?

Well, you're like out of the... You don't win anything. I don't know if anybody in the chat was playing this. I just never thought to talk... Because that's one of those weird social media things.

And then I saw a cousin playing it last night. I'm like, can you play it or you just... I don't know. I'm having a hard time being upset hearing the song, though.

Well, yeah. I mean, it's a good song, you know. But also, I wanted to beat everyone and not hearing it.

So it's okay. It's all right. Welcome back. Another, just a note from management.

So my Hobby Lobby shotgun lights, Cain moved them so we could record a commercial yesterday.

Now they won't come back on. That is not an accurate description of the timeline. Look at him, he's stuttering.

So yesterday. He feels so bad. He's so sorry, guys. Why are you doing this? It's okay.

Yesterday we had to record something that's going to air in January, so we can't be having Christmas lights on your microphone like that. Christmas lights, they're shotgun shells that illuminate. Is it Christmassy in color? Not really. It's kind of Christmassy.

Are you keeping my Christmas lights up out here, Lyle? Those are Christmassy. They're Christmassy in the way that they shine light like our Lord and Savior. You're trying to make the listeners believe that I actually somehow broke them. When they were working this morning before you came in and sat down.

And then we noticed that they weren't working. After you sat down. I've never had that problem before. That's why it was weird for you to blame me. No, it's all right.

It's all right that you broke them and you hate old people. It's okay. You know, Stephen is still going to bring you presents. It's so unfair to me. Can we get a 2025 commitment?

Jesus is born for you too. A commitment in 2025 where you're not so, you're not teasing me so much. It's okay. It's all right. Welcome back to the show.

So Dana Lash with you. We got the chat over at Rumble, Channel 347 Direct TV, unless you're listening to the station, terrestrially. We have Thomas Massey coming on the show today. Congressman Sassy Massey. He's going to be joining us later on.

Perfect timing. I'm sure he's like, oh, my gosh, because we're going to we're going to have to get some tea. It's tea time with Sassy Massey needs to be our we're just going to we should do a regular reoccurring segment on this. All right. So we were talking about this omnibus because and I know we've got a lot of other stuff to talk about.

But forgive me if I'm mad for a moment, because we pay a lot in tax, right? We pay a lot in tax and we put up with a lot from the government. Do we not?

So when we vote and we vote with the energy of we want lower taxes and no more bad government spending and then the government's like Here's our omnibus We're gonna spend all your money That's exactly what it is. It's the spend all your money on omnibus. That's all it is And uh, and we have weak leadership in the house I mean it is and it's true. I mean I'm not here to like back pat. I had someone tell me I was mean by criticizing johnson I'm not here to like be best friends with these people I'm a taxpayer dammit I want a return on the investment of the money that was stolen from me And sanctioned by calling a tax Okay I want to see what I'm purchasing I purchased not having Well I didn't purchase it It was a forced purchase Like a buyback right This is not what we voted for And I'm not here to make these people feel easy In their betrayal of the American people And the principles for which we voted If people think that that's how this system works in the United States Then they're not Americans Because this is how it works in the United States of America We're not serfs, we're not subjects So this Omnibus And a lot of people were going off on this And I know Chip Roy's been very upset with it He's been sputtering mad over it And He's You know even Rand Paul had said Rand Paul tweeted I had hoped to see Speaker Johnson grow a spine But this bill full of pork shows He is a weak weak man The debt will continue to grow Ultimately the dollar will fail Democrats are clueless and big government Republicans are complicit A sad day for America It is unusual for Rand Paul to be that forthcoming, right?

I mean, not that he's not a straight shooter, but he's mad. And to see him be that mad and then actually write it out and tweet it, that's something. They need to let the whole thing shut down. This is ridiculous. It's ridiculous.

And I mean, ultimately, you, I mean, that's really what a lot of this was. A lot of this was just going along to get along. And I feel like there are too many Republicans that think like that, you know? Just going along to get along. I saw some of the other things that were in this omnibus.

We got the pay raise, right? I mean, and this was in the CR. There's a cost of living pay raise. This is over at Punchbowl. A cost of living pay raise for the first time since 2009, but you do have an opt-out from being required to use.

Oh, but this is, oh, wait a minute. No, this is just for lawmakers.

Sorry. What? Oh, yeah, that's right.

So the CR for members, a pay raise in an Obamacare opt-out, they directly impact lawmakers. It was very quietly added to the CR. Congress, and this again, Punchbowl had this story. They noted that Congress was proactively blocking lawmakers from getting basically pay raises. They call them cost of living adjustments.

I don't think that lawmakers should get a cost of living adjustment because the legislation that they pass or do not fight directly impacts the cost of living.

So the cost of living has gone up. It's the problem of the lawmakers and the voters who keep empowering them.

So they had like previously in these spending bills they would include language to block this kind of stuff Other federal employees get pay adjustments but lawmakers specifically did not And so now on page 15 of the continuing resolution, there is a provision that modifies the language and actually allows for, I mean, essentially a pay raise. That's it. They remove any previous language in the draft of the omnibus, to block those cost of living adjustments. And this was also, there's a couple of other places that also discuss this. They've blocked these automatic pay raises since 2009.

They're trying to pass this bill, by the way, the stopgap. They're trying to pass this by Friday night. And so this is going to be a bare knuckle brawl right now until Friday night, maybe Saturday, but Friday night. but they have, they're supposed to receive, there was a law that went into effect in 1989 where members of Congress were supposed to get like cost of living adjustments. Again, I reject that.

I think that that's an incentive for them to not do stupid stuff that increases government spending and affects the cost of living for the rest of us.

So that should be an incentive. They don't get cost of living adjustments. They don't get to do that for themselves and fix that for themselves and then the rest of us suffer the consequences of their stupid legislative actions. But they say well it's less appealing for many to run for office I don't care That's kind of the problem Everybody wants to run for office Everybody wants to run for office People go to school Then they leave school They never work in the private sector And then their whole career is to be an elected official I think that you have failed as a parent If you've raised a child like that If you've raised a child Who goes to college Graduates college and then decides that their whole career is going to be an elected office and they just skip the private sector. You're a garbage parent.

And if this were medieval times, you'd be dragged through the streets and tarred and feathered along with your, you know, basically glorified welfare politico wannabe. I hate this stuff. It's like monarchy adjacent. I have very strong feelings about this, clearly. But this is that's that's the problem.

They're like, oh, well, you're You're de-incentivizing it. It shouldn't be an incentive. It used to kind of be a, it was a burden. When government, when all of this was first established during the times of our founders, this was treated like we look at jury duty today, right? Nobody wants to do jury duty except for you true crime aficionados out there.

And I have a couple of you in my family. Nobody wants to, they're very excited about jury duty. They wish they could do jury duty for everybody. They love it. I have a cousin who adores jury duty.

That's the exception not the rule It's supposed to be a burden And that's why you didn't have people Who would just be ensconced In these seats and then treat them as though They were heirlooms that they could pass down To their next familial generation They didn't do any of that But then people decided to Sweeten the pot for themselves And now that's why you have these people who are like I'm going to be a lawmaker That's my goal in life That's supposed to be a consequence of being successful in the private sector is maybe you'll go and you'll serve in a public capacity for a couple or a few years, depending on what seat you're going for, Senate or House. You'll go and you'll serve for a couple of years and then you go back to your occupation. You go back to your regular life. That's how it used to be. But then it all changed.

It all changed. This bill is 1,547 pages long. that's how and they they they just got it what was it last night night before last they got it so they have to read it understand it draft amendments have those gone over and then try to change all in the span of just a few days wasn't there a promise with that that lawmakers would have x amount of time to like read and actually you know process proposals like this Yeah, Congress, I will say They've been inserting provisions into these bills To block raises from going into effect Because they feared that there was going to be A lot of political blowback from voters Somehow Johnson allowed that to happen Or he allowed it to not happen this time They took it out and he allowed that to happen I mean, I This is wild And then the people who forced the rest of us Into Obamacare They get to opt out but we don't. They get to opt out, but we don't. Anyone who thinks that Obamacare is a good thing, let me tell you, I got forced into Obamacare.

I had great insurance.

Now I have some of the, I have horrible insurance. I mean, I, we, because they don't, they don't cover, like, they didn't cover one of my kids' allergists. They didn't cover a specialist. There were all kinds of stuff. And I don't know anybody.

I know people who have actual I have a dear friend who's dealing with a serious health issue. And it's been going on for quite a long time. It's like a lifelong ailment that she has. And I remember they discovered it right about the time that Obamacare was going into effect back in 2010. And she was terrified and she had every right to be because she lost access to her specialist lived in St.

Louis lost access to her specialist. Had to go find another subpar doctor And then when things would change She would lose this or have to do that And it was It's been a nightmare For people who had actual Legitimate decent insurance It's a nightmare Anyone who tells you otherwise Either lives in their parents basement Or they just They're a martian I don't know how the hell else Because there's no way to defend it People who are responsible with their finances and themselves, nobody defends it. And lawmakers in this omnibus are allowing themselves to opt out.

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You're still getting the same paycheck? What's going on? NPR is paid by our public money. I can't, I can't describe them how I want to, Kane. I really want to describe them in a certain way.

Fecal, libs. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? It just sounds better. Certain words just sound better.

Welcome back to the program. Dick Durbin looks like he's like was made of marzipan, but he's melting. I don't know how to describe it. I don't know. I love the whole, well, you know, you get paid.

No, no, no, no, no. In fact, and there are a lot of newsrooms, actually, that do take public money in the form of grants and stuff.

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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lashley with you at the top of the second hour. Chats at Rumble. You can also find us at X, Channel 347, Direct TV. We've been talking about this insane omnibus belt.

And the reason it's a big deal is because, well, now we've got to get back to business. Because they want to get it. They've got to pass it. The deadline's Friday. They've got to get it done right before Christmas.

and instead of just passing a simple CR, for some reason, Mike Johnson's like, okay, let's go ahead and do the omnibus. And I'm mad over it, and you should be too, because they include pay raises for themselves, greater than what veterans receive. They opt out, they allow for themselves, not you, just them. They opt out of Obamacare. There's all kinds of stuff in here.

All kinds of stuff. and I'm telling you it's this is going to hurt them you don't need something like this right when you're starting off you know a new administration and then you and then you're going to have about what like an maybe a year and a half because don't think for a second that Democrats aren't trying to figure out how to claw their way back into power and then you got to deal with midterms elections all over again this is the last thing that you want to have you know you don't want more big spending. A lot of these lawmakers are looking, they're going to add this to their record. Lawmakers get $174,000 annually. If you're in leadership, you get more.

I don't think that they should get a pay, a cost of living adjustment. Absolutely not. Because that should be an incentive for them to stop passing garbage that we spend money on. Government spending is out of control. If you spent money like the government did, you'd be broke.

Well, the government is. And they think it's your responsibility to pay more because they can't control themselves. Oh, and now because they made the economy such a fecal storm, they need to be able to pass for themselves a cost of living adjustment. They need to be able to do that. By the way, Juan just noted that our shotgun lights are on.

Look at that. I don't know how it worked. Cain broke them. when he moved them.

So we had to record something yesterday and he removed them, broke them. Broke them. They never came back on again. And I'm like, I know you hate old people, but like, why break my shotgun lights? Why?

You are not fair. I'm being as fair as I can be. I think it's sexist. Maybe. Yeah.

Or it's just, it's is-ist because I hate everybody. Not you though, obviously. All right. So yeah, so they're back on. The little lights aren't twinkling, Clark.

No, they are. It's because they got mad. They saw how upset I was getting over the budget. And they're like, well, we better work again. She's having a bad time.

That's what they thought. They think. I don't know if you know that. If only Congress acted like those lights. I think the drones may be, you know, go back to the drones for a minute.

We all need drones. Why don't we just have like a citizen's drone brigade and then just, you know, when lawmakers aren't doing the stuff they need to be doing, You got a little Your little friendly neighborhood drone there Watch over your lawmakers Make sure they're doing what they need to be doing right Dana that sounds threatening Hi have you like At all familiarized yourself with the inception Of this republic I mean it literally hinges on a threat From the populace to the elected The elected class I love the people who think it's all kittens and sunshine You're supposed to be subjects No we're not So um and I'm mad that we're in this position because it's just we could have had if we had been smart about it I think we probably could have had a better speaker the issue and you know one of the big problems with this is that when they decided to kick off the dumbest time speaker fight I've ever seen in my life they're like we're gonna get rid of this rhino and replace him with another rhino. What? And he's going to have even less seniority. And he's going to even know less about the procedures to get stuff done.

What? So you didn't know. It was made worse. You at least could have had just like the maintenance of the status quo. But they didn't even do that.

They made it worse. And I love the people who are big time fans of the folks that kickstarted this. They're like, well, no, are you saying that this bill would not have happened if it was Kevin McCarthy that was there? That's not what I say. I love people who make up stuff that I didn't say and then they get into a fight with themselves on X about it.

Two different points. Who knows? But it was that. But the promise was we were going to get a better speaker and we were going to get all the little things that our limited government heart desires. That's what we were sold, Kane.

I'm not wrong. No. that's what we were sold and we didn't get it and in fact it was just an exercise in the vulgarity of ego because it was all done to avoid a house ethics committee investigation and then now that report's coming out and the gates resigned his seat so it was all for nothing that's the other weird thing let me touch on this the house ethics committee they they're releasing this report they they decided they were going to release it and i got thoughts on those They voted along party lines back in November to not release it Now they took another vote and now they're going to release it They're going to They're going to put this report out there Huh So Okay Alright Why did that change? I'm just curious as to what changed what what made that change I mean I'm like release every ethics investigation I don't have a problem with that so they got this ethics committee report that's going to come out and uh the New York Times reported it they but they voted to release it I mean it could be this week it could be before Friday it might be before who knows could be before Friday. And all of this came to light when he was selected as the nominee for for AG.

And he had to, he had to drop out because of this investigation and this report, there was a lot of discussion that he wasn't going to make it their confirmation, you know. And so the he's joining, I guess, like a network, I don't know. And he's that the investigation into him had to do with drugs and sexual misconduct and we've talked about some of this stuff the investigation that was brought against him the reason that they didn't bring charges hinged upon one thing that i was reading it said that um they were they could not apparently they could not prove that any of the women that were involved in the in all of the accusations and the investigation they couldn't prove that gates and company knew that they were underage because it had to do with like trafficking and sexual propriety, things like that.

So I don't know. But all I know is this. Apparently it was serious enough that he dropped out of the race and resigned his seat from Congress to avoid having this happen because he didn't fall under the purview of the House Ethics Committee. And that was all done. I mean, you can't tell me it wasn't done to avoid that.

And I'm not saying that to question it means that you have to accept whatever premise is offered by the investigation or the report itself. But it is incredibly telling that someone who is very ambitious and definitely wanted to ascend higher in elected office had to resign his seat super fast. And it had nothing to do with AG and then had to drop out of running for AG. And I think, you know, a lot of people talk about 4D chess And I make so much fun of that Because I'm like, stop trying to explain conspiracy theories with 4D chess I actually think this was Trump doing a 4D chess move Because I think that he knew that Gates might be a liability By dragging down all of the other nominees in the confirmation process And so he kind of just sort of allowed the field to be as it was so that Gates kind of would take himself out of the running. That's what I think.

That's what I would have done if I had that issue.

So I think that was a Trump maneuver. And I think he was like, well, I don't want to spend political capital, you know, jettisoning this guy out of this orbit. But this has got to go. I'd bet on it. I'm telling you, that's, to me, that seems like it's most likely.

And so he drops out of this. And now they're releasing this report. I got a theory about why they're releasing this report now. I think it's payback. I think it's payback.

I'm not defending Gates at all. I'm not a fan. I think this is payback, though. Do you think that? Why release it now?

He's not under purview of the ethics committee. What purpose would they have in releasing it? Although, now here's where my taxpayer citizen part comes in. Hell yes, release it. And I want to know all of the other reports.

Remember when Marjorie Taylor Greene was out there going, well, if you are going to do an investigation into our pervert, we're going to talk about. No, release all of it. I want to know all of it. Especially if there had to be payoffs for some of these other lawmakers. I want to know everything.

But here's what I don't get. I see some people on social media go, well, we're going to find out who we're going to primary any Republican on that ethics committee that that is releasing this report. How about you be smart and primary every lawmaker that had to settle because of an ethics investigation? How about you primary the lawmakers that had to use our taxpayer dollars to settle sexual harassment cases that were kept secret from taxpayers instead of, you know, fellating your favorite candidate? How about you maybe prioritize the will and the sanctity of the voter and the American public and protect the American public?

And I'm going to primary any Republican that decided to do this to the candidate I love. Go fluff somebody else. This is not what the relationship between the taxpayer and a government official is supposed to be like. They're not a god. They're not a monarch.

You should be going after every single Republican and Democrat that ever had to use our tax dollars to settle any kind of harassment Remember Green said that she was going to get all that information and release it. I'm like do it. Why didn't you do it? It's all a game to these people Release all of it But I do think specifically with him. I think that people were like, you know what?

You wanted to fa now you're gonna fo I'm fine with releasing it But I think it's payback when it's not Equally applicable to every Other one If that makes sense So I don't know the whole thing is I just Not much is going to change I want you to know that I know everybody's like super hopeful And we're all like told oh everything is going to change Not everything is going to change it's one election And people then they get their hopes up And this is where Republicans are stupid about messaging They're like oh everything's going to change guys In one election No, it's not. It can be made better by an administration. But if you think that it's going to do a 180 after one election, no, no, no. This is a generational battle. I've been telling people this since the beginning of the Tea Party 2.0 days.

This is not a fight for everybody Because you got to have You got to see the long game And you have to have You have to persevere You have to be resilient You have to be relentless You can never stop It's never going to happen In just one election cycle Or even two It's a generational battle And when Republicans Get everybody's hopes up Like you're going to change everything In one cycle Then when people See that things aren't changing the way that they were promised to change, they feel disillusioned and demotivated. And they don't want to get as energetic the next time around. People need to be realistic when they're messaging this stuff to voters. It's an incremental battle is what it is. We got a lot more on the way as we move towards headlines.

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This guy was struck by a bear. It killed him. Lester Harvey, 58. He was about 10 feet from the base of the tree when the incident occurred. the bear had been treed and the hunters uh left they retreated from the area one shot the animal causing it to fall and they he was in a seriously stable condition but later succumbed to his injuries and uh wildlife officials they're not pursuing charges related to the incident for the people who get upset by the bear i love bears too but you gotta realize that um people who've never been hunting don't realize that you get tags to go hunt meaning that you can only get like x amount of animals.

You can only get this type of animal. It is very strictly regulated because it's all about culling the herd and protecting the balance of the ecosystem. And so the people who go off on this, they're horrible conservationists. In fact, their ignorance hurts the land. They have no idea how culling herds or how to manage wildlife.

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All the drones over the earth. What's behind all of that? Nothing nefarious, apparently. But they're checking it all out. I think it's just one.

There's a lot of drones authorized up there. I think one started and they all got everybody's wanting to get in the deal. That's Biden talking about drones. He's not even like the president right now. Trump is basically the president.

He's he's already. I've never seen a president elect be already treated like the president. In my entire life. Like this. Not in my entire life.

And he's just like going along with it. You know. He's just rolling with it. He's going. He's talking to everybody.

So I got to tell you.

So I got to get. I've been fascinated by this. When he went to. When he was in Paris. At the reopening of the Notre Dame.

They. When he. After they had the big fire. And it. Just ravaged the building.

And it took five years. I can't believe they did all that they did in only five years, if I'm being honest. If you saw pictures of before and after, like the destruction from the fire and then after, it's pretty unbelievable. And when he was there, he was meeting with all the world leaders. And they were just, am I reading too much into it?

Because it felt like they were relieved, right? It felt like there was, oh, we know that this is a sentient president. and we can talk to him. It went well. There was also a very much really highly analyzed clip.

And they were in Paris. I don't know what building they were in. And the door opens and he walks in and the British prince, William, the Prince of Wales is there. And I don't really get into the whole monarchy thing. There's a lot of British culture that I like like the hunting and the tweed and all that stuff.

But I don't get into the monarchy part.

However, I have to say that I thought the Prince of Wales meeting with Trump and the rapport that they had between them, it was really refreshing to see. And I thought, because, you know, Charles is the king and that's the Prince of Wales' dad. And he's like kind of a fruity environmentalist, right? He's sort of like, oh, yes, you know, the climate change. And he goes on and on and on about it.

Well, his son had given a quote recently where he's like, I'm not going to lecture people about climate. I thought, ooh, what? And he was so when he met Trump, like if you look at other British leaders when they would meet Trump, they're all like very it's previously was almost kind of like they were a little snotty. I thought the late queen was real nice when she met him. She's very, you know, she's a very proper person, was a very proper person.

but I thought it was it was really it was very refreshing and very different to see the rapport between them the body language and the prince of Wales putting him at ease and Trump putting the prince of Wales at ease and they got along very well and the prince of Wales was he would they were complimenting him so many people for how well he handled it because they have seen how previous, you know, British officials and even other Europeans, other European lawmakers, when they would, you know, when you meet Trump, you can read the body language and you can kind of tell like they're not really smiling or they're only smiling with their mouth and not their eyes. And it's just, you know, it looks forced. It did not look forced at all. Like they looked completely at ease with one another. And a lot of people were saying it really set the tone for the evening and that it was, I read, I think I have it here.

I think it I think it was either at the Guardian or Globe and Mail, maybe Daily Mail. But they were saying that it kind of it sort of broke the tension for everybody there the rest of the night. That's pretty big, right? That's kind of like his that that event was sort of his reintroduction back to European leaders, British leaders after, you know, hit the election.

So it was nice to see that.

Now, I bring this up because I feel like this is kind of another representation of right and left.

So the Prince of Wales was being complimented by many people in the UK for how he how statesman like he was and how he got along so well with Trump and he put him at ease and they got along really well. And it was evident in the video and the photos.

Well, all the leftists decided to start attacking him. Like how dare the Prince of Wales meet with Trump Like who else was gonna Why would he not Right I mean if they view him as being like a figurehead Of leadership why would they not Like shut up Why would you not meet with Trump But then Wait there's more So you know his ginger brother right And I love redheads by the way But I do mean it in a mean way with him I've always wanted red hair so his his his ginger spare brother right and his game show z-list wife did you see the headline that came out i my jaw hit the floor so apparently i guess because they live in the united states they think that they're the duke and dutch they're a duke and duchess of the united states we don't have a monarchy right can't just check in we fought a war over there right Okay, so here's from one British paper said, Prince Harry and Meghan are shocked after Prince William's latest move. They were left hurt and angry after Prince William's appalling behavior because he met with Donald Trump. And they were mad that Trump, quote, gushed, end quote, over William. They were livid.

angry and betrayed. They said their source, which is them, said it was appalling. Oh, wait, there's more. They also said that they're shocked and terrified. Because remember, Trump was like, how did he get in here?

He's been on drugs. There have been people of lesser stature who have been denied entry to the U.S., who are famous, who cannot get entry to the United States because of previous publicly known drug use and or drug convictions. That's the thing that will actually not that'll get you blocked from coming into the U.S. And there are examples. There are a ton of publications out there that have had all these examples of people who were like way less than this hairy dude.

And they were barred from entry.

So then it came out. Do you remember that those two made a donation to Ashley Biden's this thing that Ashley Biden was doing? They made a hefty donation through their charitable foundation to Ashley Biden. And it's very interesting, like right when that donation to Ashley Biden, the president's daughter happened, the details of Harry's visa were locked down. Interesting.

Isn't that interesting, Kane? I'm sure that the two had nothing to do with each other. And so Trump has, you know, he said, like, why is he here? How did he get in here? He's talked about it before.

So now they said they're shocked and terrified. And they were, they said it was in a quote, appalling betrayal that William met with Trump. Those two grifters, and I'm not, I'm just quoting the Spotify president who said that they were blanking grifters. Or was it Netflix president? I can't remember.

Everybody's gone at them. Yeah, they said that they were blanking grifters. Then they had a hundred million dollar deal with Netflix to make this stupid show called Polo. It was a documentary looking at polo And they said it was boring and tedious And it's like so I'm sorry but that's like Some bougie stuff because them horses is Dispensive okay and then She apparently did a cooking show That no one's ever going to see the light of day She had this super big deal with Spotify Where she did like what seven or Eight crap episodes and that was it And then she misused like a couple like One of the word archetyped as a way To title her I don't know And then you got him all he does is bitch and moan that he's not the Prince of Wales. And they're super commie.

They're communists. They're not leftists. These two are communists. They're the ones who want to lecture you about gun laws. He was the one who came over here and said that we have too free speech.

Our speech is too free. And they sign everything to Duke and Duchess. Like we recognize that here in the U.S.

So they're livid because they see and Juan's getting ready, getting some of this video ready. I mean, they got along and I don't think he's like a super conservative, but I think he's a professional. He was doing his job. But I read so many pieces where they were like, oh, that like broke the tension for the night. Everyone was put at ease.

It was a lovely event. That's a win-win, right? And of course, you got the two communist grifters that try to be the Duke and Duchess of America. I think at least Wallace Simpson had a little bit more self-awareness that are freaking out because he got along with Trump and Trump is looking at Harry's history of drug use. Like, why did he how did he get a visa to come in the United States?

Maybe because they donated to Ashley Biden. I don't know. I came. What is wrong with us? He's what is so bad about the Prince of Wales meeting the president elect of the United States?

It was nice. I like to see people get along. I like to see people smiling and I like to see them get along, especially at Christmas, especially something like this. I mean, they're there. It's a restoration of a church, for crying out loud.

Right. This how fitting that you have the reconciliation of the president elect of the United States and European leaders and British leaders in a church here right before Christmas. Reconciliation. Isn't that nice? And then you got the grifter, the spare and the Z list girlfriend out there or wife out there in California were betrayed.

their family by like calling them racist and making up all the stuff about them and non-stop poo talking them every chance they get? Good heavens. Enough. Can they go back to Canada? Can Canada take them?

You know, as like an apology for Trudeau on us, can you take, can we guys take them back because we don't want them here? We're done. But I just thought that like the pictures, they were nice pictures. This is like one of the, and I know I'm talking maybe a little bit too much about it, but I actually felt like I was in a good mood when I watched this. Everybody was getting along in a church, right?

I almost sound, Cain, I almost sound optimistic. Hold up. I got to be cynical again. This is too much like happy. This is like too much positivity.

Can't have that. Golly. Merry Christmas. No, we got to get away from this happy stuff. What in the world is happening here?

All right. So they, I mean, I don't know. This, I thought it was a nice event. All right. We've got Florida Man on the way.

We've got Nostra Thomas Massey coming up in our third hour. Oh, yeah. Because we got this omnibus. I feel, Cain, like he doesn't like the omnibus. Yes, I feel the same.

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okay we're back asking this question again how many people in florida have a machete everybody i think everybody does is it required make a note the next time we have the governor on governor of florida that's a question i need to ask because every guys this is a completely different story involving yet another machete wielder lee county sheriff's office arrested a Florida man accused of road rage. He threatened to assault a woman with a machete. Deputies arrested Mark. That's right. Yeah, a lot of a lot of consonants in this one.

On Monday, following a disturbance call at the interest at an intersection, deputies spoke with a woman who described being involved in a road rage incident with who allegedly ran away from the scene. He closely tailgated her and then flashed his lights toward her for several blocks and then at the intersection He got out of his vehicle and approached her waving a machete trying to intimidate her So he was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon They found him at his residence. They got his machete. Uh, i'm just like how many people? This has been in the past two months.

I've had six stories of dudes with machetes all different All different. Is that a thing? And then relatedly Where is mine I hear Read about people having machetes and I'm like For me like I want one I don't know let's see This Hmm well you F.A. and F.O. Stupid games get stupid Prizes a Florida man Kills a prowler during An attempted break-in This guy was trying to break into cars in the early hour of the morning and then the vehicle's owner actually was sitting behind the wheel of his car and I guess the guy came and tried to break in his car with him in it I don't know if you saw him in it and there was a man lying in front of the home with gunshot wounds he was pronounced dead at the scene his identity wasn't released they said that they're not pressing charges because the evidence clearly shows that the guy was trying to break in the car apparently did not notice that this dude was behind the wheel and was going from car to car and was like trying to break into him and And I mean, yeah, you I mean, if someone if you're sitting in your car and someone's trying to break into it.

Yeah, that's like a terrifying thing, right? You're like, oh, my gosh, what's so? Yeah, that's lethal forces used. A Florida man avoids arrest by towing his own car to evade police. He tried to avoid getting arrested.

Of course, he's on TikTok. And of course, he made a video about it because everything is horrible. He tried to evade by having his car towed. It's kind of funny. He but I don't think it worked.

He said they were waiting to arrest me. And yeah, he's... I don't know why that went viral. I don't know. Well, his car was super loud with the exhaust.

And it sounded like gunfire.

So the neighbors had called the police. And so the police were looking for... His car was parked out front there. But why would you arrest him? Because he's got a loud muffler.

Well, I guess there's a law or an ordinance or something. I have no idea. But anyway, when the cops arrived, he just towed the car out while they were sitting. I would just get a car with a louder muffler. And then when I know he was sleeping, I would like completely go.

I mean, I believe in being good to your neighbors, right? And you don't be a nuisance. I think that's just part of being, you know, a nice person and being a grown up. But also at the same time, if you're going to be dumb, I can match that energy. You know what I mean?

Like I can match it and exceed that energy. I would put, oh man, everything. Can I tell you a secret?

So I can make my car real loud. and whenever I would drive by Harris signs in residential. I'm just saying. I got loud car. I got a car that puts hair on your chest.

So I'm just saying, maybe it got a little loud. Maybe there was a little, maybe there was a little kick. I'm just saying. So I don't know. I can't really get too mad over this one.

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18 plus. Terms and conditions apply. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. And coming up, we're going to have Nostra Thomas Massey on the program.

And all good things. He's going to be joining us on the program. And we're going to get into the CR and all that good stuff. And boy, because he's already said Thomas Massey's already tweeted out that he's not going to vote for Mike Johnson on January 3rd. He says there are ours who are noncommittal on Johnson.

But Massey appears to be the first who publicly says he won't vote for him. He said, quote, he doesn't have my vote, end quote. We're going to be talking to him coming up.

So, again, welcome back. Chats at Rumble. You can also watch the simulcast of the radio program on Channel 347, DirecTV as well. and i you know i think that this this idea that this um this i don't know why they don't just pass the cr thank you why is there something i'm not getting why do this omnibus now even some media outlets are trying to call it a cr but technically you can't do that because this includes a 40 percent increase in Congress's pay.

So there is no continuing just the same budget. This is clearly an omnibus. And again, just to recap, lawmakers, not for you, lawmakers get to exempt themselves from Obamacare and they want a cost of living increase. You don't get a cost of living increase. They make the policies that increase your cost of living, but they want to have an adjustment.

they want adjustments so I got a couple of other things to touch on as well we're going to talk to him more about that coming up can I talk really quickly will you indulge me for like five seconds maybe a minute longer where's this at okay so this is the information that's been coming out now about that dude. The Mangione, the Luigi guy. He, there's more information coming out about this Mangione, who was the guy who killed the healthcare executive. And it's from the clueless Teen Vogue people who are trying to go all tipper gore about video games. And I feel like they're trying to use something as a way to diminish his own actual depravity.

And they're trying to excuse it by putting the culpability on something else, right? That's what it feels like. They said he was an avid gamer and he had dozens of game titles listed on his Xbox Live account. And they go through this whole piece about how, well, you know, because he's a gamer and he played like first-person shooter games, I am done with this I am so done with this You should be suspicious of anyone Who tells you That video games lead to violence I think Cain put it best When he was on break Only insane people Are triggered by video games We've always had video games And even before video games There were just like regular game games Cops and robbers All kinds of stuff Yeah, WWE, you know, we've always I've played video games my entire life. Casually, you know, I'm not like, well, I don't know.

My setup is pretty sweet. I showed Brendan Herrera my setup, and he was like, Oh, my gosh. But I will say casually, like, I'm not, you know, I'm I'm not I know what my I know what my talent level is my skill level.

Okay, come on. I'm not like a professional gamer. I just enjoy it. You know, everybody has their own little hobbies. I like to crochet i like to bake and i like to like you know shoot monsters in the face it's great but i played games my entire life i mean from like the the old nintendo do you remember kane what is the the name and i was trying to google it and i wasn't is it was it cubert was that the little thing that would hop on the little lighted yeah on the cubert yeah it was it looked like a pyramid of cubes yeah that you would jump on what game system was that was that atari uh cubert i was that ColecoVision?

What was it first on? I think Hubert was Atari. It might have been. I'd have to look. I think it was like the first time I ever saw it at home I thought was like a ColecoVision type setup.

I didn't know that one. I got interested in video games when I was a kid because my older cousin would play video games and we would sit in the den and I would just sit there and watch him. I watched, I enjoyed watching him i thought it was and i learned a lot about it and he was really good and it was qbert it was the et game right and i'm trying to think of some zelda legend of zelda and the first yeah zelda's nintendo well yeah he started with he started with the atari and then he got a nintendo and then i remember when i got a nintendo for christmas and i lost my mind. I was one of those kids in one of the videos, like losing my mind. And, you know, I had a pretty sweet setup.

I had a little bitty dinky TV. And then like on a little old coffee, like a little old end table in the corner of a unused room in our house. And I had my little game system up there. And I had a pillow that I would sit on on the floor. And that was a sweet setup for back in the day, Kane, right?

Like we didn't have none of this like, you know, lighted towers. No, we didn't do that. We that was my super sweet setup, man. And I had a coaster for putting my sodium. If I got if I had a sodium or had juice or something, you know, oh my gosh, I mean, I got in trouble for playing when I shouldn't have been.

Oh, man. I'll never forget the one time I was right at the very end. I can't remember what level because see, you had to go all the way back to the beginning. There was no we're going to restart you at a certain point you got to start over and i was almost there my mom got mad at me because i was playing and i should have been doing chores or something and she pulled the plug i thought i was gonna die it's like mom why did you do this but i've always played when i was pregnant with my firstborn i had to go to the hospital to be induced and at midnight at 1201 and i was you know we didn't live that far from the hospital and i was like 10 o'clock playing mortal combat So I did and after he was born the nights that he wouldn't sleep and I had to constantly hold him and rock him I would hold him and rock him and I would literally play video games I so my husband could sleep and go into work That's what I did So i've always played and I taught my kids how to play video games And uh introduced them to that and now they have surpassed the padawans are now the masters And I have to ask them questions full circle but I say this because I've known people throughout my life who've played games And no one's ever done anything like this No one's no one's none of them ever Do anything like this because people who say well It desensitizes you no It doesn There is and I played some pretty pretty graphic you know violent stuff And it does not desensitize you because it a video game Oh my gosh. I have gone hunting.

That is nothing like playing a video game. When you are harvesting an animal And taking its life It is entirely different From playing video games And the people who argue otherwise God love you, you have no idea You've either never hunted Or you've never fired a gun Or you have never played More like a first person shooter Now I do have one rule My mom never had a rule with anything I played She didn't care, I could listen to whatever I could do whatever I never had any limitations on anything I could read, watch, or listen to. If I wanted to sneak into an R-rated movie, she wouldn't care. She just didn't care. She knew what battles to pick, and she was like, eh.

I, as, when they came out with GTA, I never played GTA, never wanted to, and I never allowed it in my house. Because I was like, I'm not going to glorify crime. If you're going to play, and you're going to do this, you've got to be a good guy. Fighting the baddies.

Well, unless it's like, you know, two against two and you got you're taking turns like cops and robbers, you know what I mean? But we're not going to sit here and pretend to be like, you know, carjackers and, you know, get with hookers and stuff. We're not doing that. That's the only thing because I just thought that's and I don't like that.

So and I always liked like fantasy game. I always like to have zombies or monsters or something, although I did really enjoy before they got real stupid with Tencent and Blizzard Cold War. because you literally got to go into the Kremlin and just pop some commies. It was wild. It was so great.

You got to fight the Viet Cong. It was crazy. That was a great game. Elden Ring, which is one of the most frustrating things I've ever played in my entire life, is fantastical and beautiful.

So frustrating and I have to take breaks from it. My son introduced me to Lords of the Fallen, another one. It's a beautiful game. It's great to play. Space Marine 2.

Great game to play, but you're fighting, you know, you're fighting monsters. You're fighting, there's good and evil. None of this is maybe you want to go out and shoot anything up. And again, I've been doing this since I was a kid. I played Doom as a kid.

I played Doom on my PC as a teen. None of that ever made me want, I played Castlevania. All the stuff that I played, there were like Doom ripoffs that I played.

So this idea that this leads to this, no.

Someone who is predisposed to evil is going to be evil no matter what they have as a hobby. No matter what it is. If they're evil, they're predisposed to it. If they are predisposed to committing murder, nothing else is going to influence that. It is something in them already broken.

This is the same argument that anti-gun people use. They argue that the introduction of an inanimate object makes you violent, makes you evil. Oh my gosh, if only we got rid of the guns, all the evil would stop. If only we had more laws or more this. It's the same formula, but it's tipper gourd for video games.

they're not even remotely desensitizing. I am stunned when I hear smart people say that. Like, my jaw hits the floor. Because it is nothing like, you know, the only life I've ever taken has been that of a deer. It's nothing like that.

Nothing. And Penn and Teller did a really great Deep dive on this like over 10 years ago And it was on their show called bs And I think you can still find it on youtube I would really encourage you to go watch it Because they took You know these kids That were um That the parents were hearing these arguments About violent video games and that and they took them to a range And these kids I mean it was very different Like they and they were talking as therapists And you know psychologists And I think this is like a new thing that really started cropping up. And I don't know why some people on the right buy into it. I mean, if first-person shooter games aren't your thing, that's fine. But this argument that they lead to this is a progressive argument.

And it excuses the innate evil that somebody else has. You're blaming innocent people for the choices of an evil person. Do not allow evil to lessen the penalty or culpability on itself by trying to cling to something else as an excuse. Evil is evil regardless. It's like saying, well, all these killers wore shoes, so shoes must.

It's an anti-gun argument. And it's fun. Games are fun. And people who say that they're anti-social, they're not. I mean, you can choose, but most people don't.

You meet up with your friends and you couch co-op and you do. And a lot of times, like when my family, when we're not all together.

Sometimes the only family time that we can get is that because we're all in different places. And I think that that's a great thing. It was great for kids during lockdown because they still got to like, you know, chill and hang out. And, you know, it's just it's it's fun. I think people don't understand it and they shouldn't use their lack of understanding about it as a as an argument against it.

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So we've got New Jersey residents who say that they have alarming symptoms after encounters with drones. I know they said that it's in the whole tri-state area. They said that they become seriously ill after seeing drones in the sky. Blocked sinuses, coughing up lungs.

Well, not like literally, but it felt like it. They said they said that they all it sounds like they have sinus infections. But some people are like, well, it is the start of the flu season. I'm going to blame aliens.

So you can take all that nonsense excuse. It's aliens that are infecting us. Everybody with sinus infections. There it is. There's the that's it.

That's the tweet. That's the tweet. So that's I mean, when I first read this headline, cyber real quick, I thought they were going to say that they had like exposure, like nuclear exposure, like symptoms is what I thought. But that's not ultimately what it was.

Okay, I'm going to try to get this open. But why is it that my browser, everything decides to crash, like literally when we do Quick 5? Every single time it does this. All right, so we're back.

So this, ooh, drone hunters. FBI is telling drone hunters to stop pointing lasers in the sky as plane pilots are getting hit in the eyes. Let's not do that. And then they said that there are orbs are at impossible altitudes. I don't know.

I don't know. I'm just saying. I mean, is it a government op? I don't know. A new study, I believe this, a new study, I don't think it's just Americans.

I think everybody, our society is fighting an intelligence deficit. Like there, I think that there's a virus of stupidity that's spreading. I think it started with communists and it's spreading everywhere. And they said that there's a new study showing that there's an alarming IQ decline across four out of five key areas. And they said that it's called the reverse Flynn effect.

the steady rise in IQ scores throughout the 20th century may have reversed. That's what they think. I don't know. Have you seen some of the stuff that's happening in society? People can't even define what a woman is.

So are you surprised that IQ would be declining? Coming up, Nostra Thomas Massey on the budget fight. And he says he's no for Mike Johnson for speaker in January. Stay with us. He's next.

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We've got Congressman Nostra Thomas Massey's new theme song. Because you know how everybody, every superhero needs a theme song.

So we have his. We've got it. It came from kill bill because this bill needs to die. Kill this bill.

So we're just going to go right to him. The great congressman from the beautiful state of Kentucky. We're calling him Nostra Thomas now. Representative Nostra Thomas Massey. One of the smart.

I think he actually is the smartest person in D.C. I think he's the smartest guy in Congress, at least smartest guy in D.C. He joins us now because he has been, well, kind of where we all are with this omnibus bill and government spending and speaker leadership. We could get into all of it, but it's so good to see you. Merry Christmas, my friend.

Merry Christmas, Dana. You know, I'd like to say I'm predicting the future, but I'm just observing the past 12 years. And it doesn't matter if it's Nancy Pelosi or John Boehner or in this case, Mike Johnson. We get the same lump of coal right before Christmas every single year. and they use the pressure of, I know this is hard to believe, we are human, like politicians are human and all of my colleagues, including myself, want to go home for Christmas so they know the optimal time to put this load of crap in front of us is when we want to go home and they'll tell us, they will literally tell you, if you don't vote for the steaming pile of poo, you're going to be here over Christmas break.

And that's what I predicted in September And that's what we have here in December. I just it's so frustrating that this always goes down to the line right before Christmas. I mean, why can't why can't the speaker just say we're doing a CR? You know, we're we're just going to do that or even like demand a standalone spending bill. Why does it have to be this giant omnibus?

Well, look, given the results of the election, it should just be a clean CR. Right. Yeah. If you ask three more months until, you know, Trump gets here and gets all of his cabinet. confirmed.

OK, that's fine. That's a 30 page bill. It takes 30 pages to do what's called a continuing resolution or CR for short. They've got 1500 pages. They've got patent legislation.

They've got everything. They got their pay increases. It's it's in there. Let me let me interject. Do you think that members of Congress should be giving themselves lawmakers should be giving themselves adjusted cost of living pay increases when it's their policies that make inflation so bad.

And we all don't get to do that in our day to day lives, but they can. Shouldn't that be an incentive for them to spend less money? You know, it would be better if it was just called a raise, but they call it cost of living, right? Cost of living adjustment.

Well, who increased the cost of living? Congress did by spending all of this money, trillions of dollars during COVID in the money cannon. We monetized our debt. We loaned ourselves the money after we printed it. And that cost of living that has increased, it's because of us.

So I might be willing to go to bat for a pay raise if we had done our jobs, if we hadn't actually increased the cost of living. It should almost be like a negative cost of living adjustment. Whatever the cost of living goes up while you're in office, your pay should go down.

So you're incentivized not to have a cost of living increase for the American people. I just want to marinate that for a little bit. First off, we're cutting that and putting that on social media because that's a brilliant proposal from Representative Nostra Thomas Massey, who's joining us here our last week as we go into Christmas. And I think that's a great point. It also included in this, and correct me if I'm wrong, but did I read that lawmakers are now also exempting themselves from Obamacare too?

We can't, but they can. Yeah. And you know what? I don't know exactly about that provision. I've heard that's in there.

I believe it's in there. Staff members in Congress have figured out a loophole to get out of Obamacare.

So there's some staff members, not my own staff, who've gotten out of Obamacare already. and there are members of Congress who are supposed to be in Obamacare.

Now, I will take this opportunity to tell you I've been here 12 years and I've never taken the taxpayer-funded healthcare.

So I'm not even sure what the plan is that congressmen get right now because I've never taken it. Because I lived on a farm before I came here and I didn't have a full-time job, I had to buy my own healthcare, paid all my own premiums. And I've kept doing that. since I came to Congress, even though I could have had the taxpayers pay for it.

So whether it's Obamacare or whether it's Mike Johnson care, you are getting care if you're in Congress, right? Most are.

So, I mean, maybe that's what you should be upset about. Yeah, we're talking with Congressman Thomas, a.k.a. Nostra Thomas Massey from the beautiful state of Kentucky. And I want to get into the speakers. You've said you're not going to you're not voting for Johnson coming up in January.

You do not support him for speaker. Yeah, I had all the grievances that are still with me. And I've told Mike Johnson this particular among them. He was the deciding vote in the FISA reauthorization for an intelligence surveillance act. They have turned that on American people.

They are spying on us without warrants. My goodness, we've exposed so many things in the Judiciary Committee. Jim Jordan has led the effort to make sure that the government gets a warrant before it spies on Americans, before it surveils Americans. But Mike and Mike Johnson used to be on our committee, on our Judiciary Committee, supported that position. When he became Speaker, he took the opposite position.

Now, he says he spent time in a skiff. That's our secure area where we get classified briefings. And something he learned in there changed his mind.

Well, I reminded Mike Johnson, I was in that same skiff with him for three and a half hours when the CIA, the DNI, and the FBI briefed us. And we didn't hear, I didn't hear one thing in that briefing where they said that would have saved Americans to not get a warrant. That's my first grievance. I've got other grievances, like the day all the Democrats were waving the Ukrainian flag on the floor of the House because Mike Johnson completely capitulated, gave another hundred billion to Ukraine. And then that's all before we get to today, which is this, I, one reporter said, what's your reason?

I said, Mike Johnson just gave me another 1,557 reasons not to vote for it. It's this omnibus bill.

So then that leads into, well, then who would you support a speaker and why wouldn't you run for it? Because we all want you. Oof.

Okay.

There's some things to unpack there. First of all, I have, I have a person in mind, but I'm not going to say that name. Can you give us a hint for Christmas? It is Christmas coming up. Just a gift hint.

Just a little hint. We'll keep it here. Cone of silence. I know in my family, we always had one present you could unwrap on Christmas Eve. Can that be ours?

No, this is not that present. Damn. I tried, everybody. I tried. But listen, the reason I'm doing that is to protect that person.

Okay.

That makes sense. That makes sense. That makes sense. I don't know how their chances.

So, you know, I do have a person in mind. There are people that can do this job much better than Mike Johnson could do it. The headwind that I'm facing is, you know, there's sort of a kumbaya moment after the election where President Trump is like, hey, Mike's not so bad. And if everybody thinks that the president for Mike Johnson is hard to go against Mike Johnson for anybody that wants to run against him. But I'm going to go in there.

I'm going to try to put a stick in the spokes of this bicycle. And I think, listen, if Mike Johnson fails to get 218 votes, there are people here who will step on each other's backs to get to be speaker. Right. Like there'll be no shortage of candidates once they see Mike Johnson stumble.

So there's there is kind of a. We didn't we didn't see that with the McCarthy, but I felt like people thought it was they were very unsure.

Well, it seemed to me that other members, you know, your fellow members of Congress were really unsure at that time because it didn't seem like a lot of people were stepping up. But now, you know, if Johnson's out, then I mean, because it is a new Congress, Republican everything coming in January.

So it seems like it would be more favorable ground. Right. The first election of McCarthy isn't a good example. But when they vacated McCarthy, OK, in last fall, there was like a dozen or 15 people running for speaker. like it did the body wasn't cold yet right and running for speaker it wasn't even pronounced there was no toe tag on it and they were like you'll get i think you'll get the same thing here and and here's the other thing dana i wouldn't be doing this to go against the mandate that trump has i would be doing it because i see it that mike johnson is on a collision course with the mandate that we were given in November, on November 4th, and they gave us that Senate, the House, and the White House.

And I think it's foolish to think you get to start over with Mike Johnson with this new mandate, particularly in light of the CR that he's putting on the floor today. You brought up a really good point because you would also, and I saw that Elon Musk was saying that anybody who voted for this needs to be primaried. And that brings in Doge, because if you have a Speaker of the House who is dragging his feet at just some of the most simplest things you could do for austerity, you know, and getting a good budget. How do you expect Doge, which is basically an advocacy outfit? How do you expect how do anybody expect Doge's recommendations to be taken and adopted by members of Congress if they can't even do this with the budget?

Listen, I've said the Doge recommendations are like the U.S. Constitution. They'll be great if you can get my colleagues to follow them. You can't even get them to follow the Constitution. How are you going to get them to follow Doge recommendations?

Well, I've kind of got a plan for that as well. There's a Doge committee. There's a Doge caucus.

Now, what would be interesting, how many of those Doge caucus vote for this CR? They should have to leave the caucus if they vote for this. They should be. They should be disqualified. But I think we need a Doge voting bloc.

and the only way you're in the voting block is if you vote consistently with putting Doge in reconciliation.

So you wanted me to tell you the future because I am Nostra Thomas. You wanted me to tell you about the speaker race. Let me tell you the three votes that are going to matter next year.

Okay, the speaker's vote, that is the most important vote we're going to take all of next year. And then the next two important votes are the two reconciliation. They say we get two bites at the apple next year because those are the only bills we know can move through the Senate. But we all but it's hard to understand reconciliation rules.

So I've told Vivek, you should feed those rules into artificial intelligence and then use AI against the Senate parliamentarian. Feed in all the crap that the Democrats have got, like the Inflation Reduction Act, using reconciliation And then tell AI, here's what I want to do. How do I do it with reconciliation so that the Senate parliamentarian cannot stop me? OK, that's the only prompt you need. Give AI.

Boom, you get your answers.

Now, the senators can't say, oh, that won't work because you were using AI. Anyways, so if now that's not good enough, like you need Doge to have what I'll call Senate compliant recommendations.

So they can't just miss. And then you need some people in the House who say, I will not vote for reconciliation unless you implement these Doge recommendations. And it wouldn't take too many votes because the blessing we have here is the thin majority. Everybody's wringing their hands over the thin majority. I'm clapping my hands because it means if you had a Doge voting block of like five people, you could say, no, this is a swamp reconciliation bill, not a Doge bill.

We demand Doge. We demand Doge. I love that. That is actually a really brilliant way to use AI. I'm so excited for the plans that you have.

And I am. Oh, my gosh.

I'm so excited to see who you're going to be pushing for House Speaker coming up in January, because it's going to be here. I mean, we're flying through December. It's going to be here really quickly. Last question for you, because I know we're running out of time. Congressman Nostra Thomas, we always appreciate your time.

The biggest hurdle, because I know when when when everybody when new Congress comes in in January, Trump's inaugurated, he really has to hit the ground running. He has to outmaneuver with speed, all gas, no brake, the bureaucratic state and get around them to do everything that he needs to do before midterms. And then in the four years that he has, what is the what is the your biggest concern that you have? And how can people I'm just thinking the pressure campaign on social media might be helpful. What do you, how can people help speed this up and make this more of a secure strategy?

I think you're absolutely right, Dana. When I spoke to the president about a week after the election, I told him, I think you have about six months to get your mandate. It's that short. I know it's a four-year presidential term, but my colleagues, there's, Congress lasts two years. There's the first half of the inning where you can score points.

And then the second year of a two-year Congress, everybody's afraid of their own shadow and almost get nothing done because they're all thinking about getting reelected.

So it's that first year of Trump's term and really six months before the momentum. And you're going to have some senators over there. They're going to be the main impediment, I think. The senators, I'm not going to say their names. It's okay if you do.

Cone of silence, no one will know.

Okay.

like Murkowski. Murkowski, yeah. I see. I knew that was coming. And anyways, another certain senator from Maine.

Oh, yeah. I know. Yeah. It rhymes with schmallens. That's correct.

Yes. And then our speaker that rhymes with Johnson. But those are your problems. There you go. And you just have to, I think Doge, the most powerful thing they have is to shame, just to shame my colleagues who keep wanting to do the same stupid things over and over.

And public pressure, it's, I mean, I have joked when I talk to kids who want to get into politics and they say they're majoring in political science. I said, you need to major in theater, but if your heart's set on poli sci, do a double major and call it political theater. That's exactly it. It is exactly it. You can serve on the Oversight Committee, the Judiciary Committee.

You can be in leadership. But a lot of it is messaging. And so we've got I mean, Trump's he's got a mandate. He can't let Mike Johnson or whoever becomes speaker do what Paul Ryan did. It's like, you know, in a boxing match where they just like grab the other box.

They hug each other for a while. Yeah. Spore anything. you can't let somebody here in Congress do that to call them out when they did. There we go.

We're going to be watching it. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas season, Congressman, and a wonderful new year. And we're so grateful for you being a voice of reason in DC. I don't know what we do without you. God bless you, my friend.

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