1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Too night. Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: director of talk. 3 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:04,520 Speaker 2: Show host Michael Brown. 4 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: Brownie, no, Brownie, You're doing a heck of a job. 5 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 3: The Weekend with Michael Brown broadcasting life from Denver, Colorado. 6 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 3: You've tuned into the Weekend with Michael Brown, and I 7 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 3: really appreciate you doing so. A couple of the rules 8 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 3: of engagement are you gotta follow. 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Many people are suggesting, including Donald Trump, at times, 28 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 3: this is where the president and I, for I can't 29 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,399 Speaker 3: think of too many things over the past nine to 30 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 3: ten months, whatever it's been now, a'mot eleven months or yest, 31 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 3: we're getting close to that. I always kind of disagree 32 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,680 Speaker 3: with some of the ways that he does things, But 33 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 3: in terms of the policy, I'm not sure there's really 34 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:47,279 Speaker 3: anything that I've disagreed with so far. But I truly, 35 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 3: honestly haven't thought about it, but I thought about it 36 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 3: in this particular sense. So let's talk about the filibuster 37 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 3: for a second. You know what the filibuster is. You 38 00:01:55,800 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 3: got to fill a buster f I ll ibust er. 39 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 3: It's an old world, old old word that basically means 40 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 3: to just keep the argument going, keep the debate going, 41 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 3: you stop anybody else from getting a word in edge wise, 42 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 3: and technically it means that at least when This rule 43 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 3: was adopted by the United States Senate back in the 44 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 3: eighteen hundreds, back before we had radio, television, sort of 45 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 3: electronic communications, that somebody could filibuster a debate, and that 46 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 3: meant that they could stand up, start speaking, and they 47 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 3: could just talk and talk and talk, and as long 48 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 3: as they could avoid going to the bathroom, as long 49 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:47,080 Speaker 3: as someone would bring them, you know, something to munch on, 50 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 3: something to drink, and maybe they would wear a diaper, 51 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 3: whatever it might take. As long as they kept talking, 52 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 3: they could not vote on a bill, because the debate 53 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 3: would remain open in the Senate until everybody had had 54 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 3: their say. So you might have a group of people 55 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 3: line up and try to filibuster a bill. It's not 56 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 3: how it works today, not at all. In fact, it 57 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 3: shows you just one more example of how lazy the 58 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 3: United States Senate really has become. So now, if you 59 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 3: want a filibuster, you don't have to you don't have 60 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 3: to have a colostomy bag, you don't have to have 61 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 3: a tube inserted so that you can urinate, and you 62 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 3: don't have to have somebody bring you food all the time. 63 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 3: You don't have to take as much caffeine or as 64 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 3: much amphetamines or speed or whatever it is. You know, 65 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 3: to try to stay at speed balls as long as 66 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 3: you know, try to stay awake for as long as 67 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 3: you can, to keep talking. You don't have to do 68 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 3: any of that. All you have to do is walk 69 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 3: down to the clerk, hand them a card and say 70 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 3: that the card. I don't know technically what it says 71 00:03:55,840 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 3: on it, but what it means is I'm filibustering this bill, 72 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 3: which means that the debate just goes on ad infinitum 73 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 3: and you can never get to a vote because the 74 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 3: debate remains indefinitely open. Even though if you were to, 75 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 3: if you were to have access to what's going on 76 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 3: on the Senate floor at this moment, there's not a 77 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:31,839 Speaker 3: damn person there. Nobody's speaking. I don't know whether literally, 78 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 3: at this moment, they're even in session, but even if 79 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 3: they were in session, nobody's speaking, nobody's doing anything. In fact, 80 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 3: let's see, it's one ten in the afternoon. They're out shopping, 81 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,039 Speaker 3: maybe they're out having a cocktail. Maybe they're getting ready 82 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 3: to go to a nice dinner somewhere. Maybe they're you know, 83 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 3: they're they're they're making love to their spouse, who knows 84 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 3: what they're doing. But they're not filipbustering, except they are, 85 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,039 Speaker 3: and they are because they told the Senate clerk that 86 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 3: they were. So there's no pressure anymore. The only pressure 87 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 3: to end debate would be the consequences of not passing 88 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 3: any particular legislation. And I've not talked a word about 89 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 3: the Continuing Resolution. I haven't talked about the funding at all. 90 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:24,160 Speaker 3: I'm talking about the process because I'm afraid that most Americans, 91 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 3: particularly younger generations, don't understand because they didn't even have 92 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:34,719 Speaker 3: what was the Sesame Street. I think it was Sesame Street, 93 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 3: but whatever, it was about how a bill becomes a bill. 94 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 3: I remember that little guy wrapped up as a school 95 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 3: house rock exactly, Michael, That's what it is. And he 96 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 3: would walk around here. He was rolled up pieces of paper, 97 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 3: had a little bow tie around his midsection, and he 98 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 3: talked about how a bill becomes a bill. Most people 99 00:05:54,400 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 3: don't understand that. So let's talk specifically about this Continuing Resolution. 100 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 3: The Continuing Resolution gets passed with bipartisan support in the 101 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 3: House of Representatives, which means that both Republicans and Democrats 102 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 3: voted both for and against it. Some Republicans voted against it, 103 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,840 Speaker 3: some Democrats voted against it, some Republicans voted for it, 104 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,720 Speaker 3: some Democrats voted for it, but enough of Democrats joined 105 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:31,679 Speaker 3: with Republicans to get a majority to pass the bill 106 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 3: to continue. I'm going to refer to it as the 107 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 3: cr You've heard that, ad infinitum. So they passed the 108 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:42,160 Speaker 3: r and it goes to the Senate. The Senate decides 109 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 3: they're going to the Senate. Democrats decide they're going to 110 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 3: filibuster it, and they're going to filibuster it, which means 111 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 3: the debate goes on and on and on. Although when 112 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 3: I say the debate goes on and on and on, 113 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 3: there's no actual debate going on. Oh, they're having a 114 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 3: little caucus meetings. They're going to office to office the debate. 115 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 3: They're negotiating, they're trying to make deals, they're trying to 116 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 3: cut deals, they're doing everything you can possibly imagine. But 117 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 3: they're not debating. Nonetheless, they're filibustering, which means technically, or 118 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 3: at least according to the rules of the Senate, they're 119 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 3: still debating, and they can't get to a vote until 120 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 3: you do something according to the rules of the Senate, 121 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 3: which is called invoking cloture. You invoke cloture CLO t 122 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 3: U R, which simply means you got to have a 123 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 3: fancy term if you're a senator, which simply means you're 124 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 3: going to stop the debate. And once you stop the debate, 125 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 3: which takes a super majority to invoke cloture, which means 126 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:45,679 Speaker 3: you have to have sixty votes. Then to pass the bill, 127 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 3: once you've stopped the debate, you only need a simple majority. 128 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 3: You only need you could have a fifty to fifty tie, 129 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 3: in which case the Republican Vice President JD. Vance would 130 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 3: come in and break the tie and you would get 131 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 3: fifty one vot votes and the bill would pass, or 132 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 3: you would get fifty one senators, you might get all 133 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 3: fifty three Republican senators to vote, but all you need 134 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 3: would at that point would be a simple majority. But 135 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 3: to get to that simple majority vote, you have to 136 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 3: have a sixty supermajority vote to invoke cloture or stop 137 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 3: the debate. Now, there's something called the nuclear option. The 138 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 3: nuclear option is where the Senate Democrats decided several congresses ago, 139 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:39,599 Speaker 3: when Harry Reid was the Senator, he got rid of 140 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 3: the filibuster rule for judicial nominees, and that allowed someone 141 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 3: to be appointed to the US Supreme Court or an 142 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 3: appellate court or a federal district court with a simple 143 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 3: majority of Senators because you didn't need to worry about 144 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 3: a filibuster, because even the filibuster could be finished with 145 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 3: fifty one votes, just a simple majority. That backfired on 146 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 3: them because Reid adopted that nuclear option. Then Trump wins 147 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 3: the presidency instead of Hillary Clinton. And that's why we 148 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:25,440 Speaker 3: have a majority on the Supreme Court, and that's why 149 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 3: we're starting to clean up and get more federal district 150 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:33,079 Speaker 3: judges that are true constitutionalists as opposed to the progressive 151 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:37,960 Speaker 3: liberals that the Democrats want to put on. Well, Donald 152 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 3: Trump keeps going nuclear. He keeps saying let's use the 153 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:46,839 Speaker 3: nuclear option, to which I say stop, shut up, and 154 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 3: say hell, don't do this. 155 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: First. 156 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 3: He was his demand on Thursday. And I'll get to 157 00:09:54,760 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 3: what that nuclear was right after this. Welcome back to 158 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 3: the Beeking with Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me. 159 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:10,200 Speaker 3: I appreciate you tuning in. So, as they said, President 160 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 3: Trump keeps going nuclear, nuclear, this, nuclear, that nuclear everything. First, 161 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 3: it was his demand on Thursday that the Pentagon has 162 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:28,079 Speaker 3: to resume nuclear testing clear strikes. 163 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 1: That's nuclear tests out. 164 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 3: It's talking about what are you talking about? 165 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:36,680 Speaker 2: Literally resuming underground nuclear destination tests and. 166 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:38,560 Speaker 3: You'll find out versai. But we're going to do some 167 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 3: testing again. Other countries doing if they're going to do it, 168 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:43,199 Speaker 3: we're gonna do it. Okay, if you contact find what 169 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 3: you feel perceived, I'm not going to say. 170 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 2: I mean, I know exactly what we're doing where we're 171 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 2: doing it, but other countries are doing it. 172 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 1: And then if other countries doing we don't. 173 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 3: And truthfully, if other countries are doing it, then we 174 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 3: should be doing it too. And we have done in 175 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 3: so long. We really need to know do those warheads 176 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 3: and do our systems still work? But beyond that, Trump's 177 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:10,320 Speaker 3: now declaring that the Senate must abolish the filibuster by 178 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 3: doing the nuclear option. In a post on a social 179 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 3: media site truth Social, Trump announced in all caps, of course, 180 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 3: the choice is clear, initiate the nuclear option, get rid 181 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 3: of the Philipbuster. Are Republican senators seeking to duck and 182 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:33,800 Speaker 3: cover if you get the joke, to duck and cover 183 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:38,439 Speaker 3: in the face of Trump's kind of demands that they 184 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 3: invoke the nuclear option? Now, I don't think so. Rather, 185 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 3: in what's really an unusual turn of events, they're actually 186 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 3: defying the president. Senate majority of leader John Thune issued 187 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 3: a statement Friday morning indicating that he is he's not 188 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 3: altered his views about amending the filibuster. Senator John Curtis 189 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:02,680 Speaker 3: over at Utah he posted on Next yesterday morning that 190 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:08,439 Speaker 3: the filibuster quote forces us to find common ground, adding 191 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 3: power changes hands, but principles should not. I'm a firm 192 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:17,199 Speaker 3: no on eliminating it. So the votes to abolish the 193 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 3: filibuster don't exist, no matter how much Trump himself is 194 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 3: going to complain and bitch and moan about that particular procedure. Now, 195 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 3: there is an incongruity of interest between the White House 196 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:34,679 Speaker 3: and the Senate now that he's basically precluded from running 197 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 3: for a third term. Well not even basically now that 198 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 3: he is precluded from running for a third term. Trump 199 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 3: has a different set of priorities than some of his 200 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 3: allies in the Senate, in the House. He wants to rule, 201 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 3: he wants things his way, and I totally get that. 202 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 3: He's a man on a mission. He's got a short leash, 203 00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 3: he's got a limited amount of time to do it. 204 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:03,720 Speaker 3: And he's got to get done what he can get done. Now, 205 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:10,440 Speaker 3: the polls indicate that the Republicans, the Republican Party, continues 206 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 3: to take on more water than Democrats over this stupid shutdown. 207 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,199 Speaker 3: I think that's because the cabal is doing everything they 208 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 3: possibly can to convince you that is the Democrat's fault. 209 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 3: I mean, that is the Republican's fault when it is 210 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,440 Speaker 3: objectively to me the fault of the Democrats. Let me 211 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 3: explain why. First, remember everything I told you about the 212 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:38,839 Speaker 3: clean CR that was passed by the House that included Democrats. 213 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 3: Democrats joined in Republicans to create the majority in the 214 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 3: House to pass that clean CR. The dollar amount now, 215 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,960 Speaker 3: listen closely, the dollar amount of the CR that the 216 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 3: House passed and is now in front of the Senate 217 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 3: is the same spending level that the Biden budget was. 218 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 3: Not a dime more, not a dime less. Now, some 219 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 3: of the priorities may have changed, but the amount of 220 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 3: spending has not changed. So we're still going to go 221 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 3: in the hole just as much as if Biden is 222 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 3: still president. So apos and all of them for continuing 223 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 3: to do this. But the point that I don't want 224 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:28,920 Speaker 3: you to miss is Republicans and Democrats alike voted for 225 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 3: that original cr that is now stalled over in the Senate. 226 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 3: We need I think it's five or seven, well, we 227 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 3: technically need seven, not counting the ones who have already 228 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 3: crossed over, which we technically need seven Democrats to get 229 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 3: to sixty. A couple of them have already come to 230 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 3: the Republican side, Senator Feederman of Pennsylvania, and I think 231 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 3: the Senators from New Mexico and another one, so we 232 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 3: need a couple more. It is the Democrats that are 233 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 3: holding up and now demanding even more. So I want 234 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:11,400 Speaker 3: you to think about let's just say that that we 235 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 3: capitulate to the Democrats, that doesn't mean that the shutdown 236 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 3: is over because if they if the Senate changes the 237 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 3: continuing Resolution and adds all of the Democrat demands to it, 238 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 3: that has to go back to the House for the 239 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:34,920 Speaker 3: House to approve it, or it goes to a conference 240 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 3: committee for the two sides, the House and the Senate, 241 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 3: to work out their differences, and then they have to 242 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 3: vote on what the conference called a conference report. What 243 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 3: that committee, that joint committee of the House and Senate 244 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 3: negotiators come up with, So that means you still have 245 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 3: two more votes before it could ever get to the 246 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 3: President's desk, So that means the shutdown will continue. Absolutely, 247 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 3: we continue. So if the shutdown's going to end, all 248 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 3: it takes is for a couple of more Democrats to 249 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 3: tell Chuck Schumer, we're tired of you playing politics, We're 250 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:11,000 Speaker 3: tired of the issue about it. I'll get to the 251 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 3: judges in a minute, and they're ruling on the snap benefits, 252 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 3: but it's clearly the Democrats who are holding it up. 253 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 3: And if we capitulate to the Democrats, that doesn't end 254 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 3: the shutdown because they change the very language of the 255 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 3: continuing Resolution, which then has to agree to by the 256 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 3: House via the Conference Committee, the joint committee between the 257 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 3: House and the Senate. This is an insane way to govern, 258 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 3: an absolutely insane way to govern. Now, Republicans are obviously 259 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 3: worried about a future Democrat administration passing sweeping legislation that 260 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 3: would fundamentally alter the American economy, fundamentally alter the political system, 261 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 3: and would actually fundamentally transform the United States of America 262 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 3: if we got rid of the filibuster. Which is why 263 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 3: I happen to disagree with Trump on this nuclear option. 264 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 3: I want the Senate to require sixty votes to invoke cloture. 265 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:18,879 Speaker 3: Here's why. On the House side, you have four hundred 266 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 3: and thirty five members of Congress. Sometimes those four hundred, 267 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 3: there's four hundred and thirty five of them, and you've 268 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 3: seen some of them. They look like they're out of 269 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:31,359 Speaker 3: South Park. They look like that all the Simpsons. And 270 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:34,920 Speaker 3: sometimes they get really stupid stuff passed that goes over 271 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:38,639 Speaker 3: to the Senate, and the Senate kills it. Sometimes they 272 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 3: kill it just by permanently filibustering it and it just 273 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 3: never gets passed. But what if they pass something that 274 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 3: everybody agreed upon? What happens? Then easy answer to you. 275 00:17:50,920 --> 00:18:02,440 Speaker 1: Next Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director of talk. 276 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 2: Show host Michael Brown. 277 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 1: Brownie, No, Brownie, You're doing a heck of a job 278 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:07,679 Speaker 1: the weekend with Michael Brown. 279 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 3: Hey speaking with Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me. 280 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 3: I appreciate you tuning in. Be sure and follow me 281 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 3: on x formally Twitter at Michael Brown USA. We're talking 282 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 3: about Trump wanting to nuke the filibuster and I'm opposed 283 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:26,880 Speaker 3: to that, and one of the reasons that I'm opposed 284 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 3: to it, and I'll explain the the finesse that I 285 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:34,199 Speaker 3: want to put on it in just a second is 286 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:39,240 Speaker 3: when the House goes nuts and passes something that's crazy. 287 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 3: Our system was designed to be slow and methodical. It's 288 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:49,159 Speaker 3: why one reason why we are a republic and not 289 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 3: a democracy, which always just devolves into mob rule, no 290 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:59,439 Speaker 3: minority rights, no you know, thoughtful process, just throw everything. 291 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 3: We'll just have everybody go to the town square and 292 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:04,400 Speaker 3: raise their hand all in favor, SAYI all the pose, 293 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:06,679 Speaker 3: same side motion carries and we're just gonna, you know, 294 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 3: destroy radio or we're gonna, you know, destroy your life. 295 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:12,119 Speaker 3: We're gonna change this rule or that rule. And the 296 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:13,880 Speaker 3: next day they came back and do exactly the same 297 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:16,240 Speaker 3: same thing to do it the opposite direction. And you 298 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 3: never you never have any stability in our system. You 299 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:24,440 Speaker 3: never have any stability in the rule of law by 300 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 3: which governs the way we interact with one another, or 301 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 3: or even contractually interact with one another. So the filibuster, 302 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:37,119 Speaker 3: which many people claim is undemocratic, I actually think is 303 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:41,600 Speaker 3: actually very democratic. I know it's more than a majority, 304 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:46,159 Speaker 3: but that's the way of protecting the minority, that's a 305 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 3: way of keeping the Senate from falling into the trap 306 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:53,880 Speaker 3: of everybody's all emotional about something. I'll give you an example, 307 00:19:55,680 --> 00:20:03,160 Speaker 3: the Patriot Act. I we could spend weeks picking apart 308 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:08,480 Speaker 3: the Patriot Act. But why did it pass? It passed 309 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:12,400 Speaker 3: because one nobody in the Senate philibustered it, and two 310 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,360 Speaker 3: when it came up to a vote, everybody's passions were 311 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:22,119 Speaker 3: a mile high. Everybody's emotions were on edge. Every member 312 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:24,680 Speaker 3: of Congress felt like we needed to be seen doing something. 313 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 3: The American people demand that we do something, and we were. 314 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 3: We were like, how did this happen? Don't ever let 315 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:34,440 Speaker 3: it happen again, which is crazy because things always happened again. 316 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 3: So what did they do? They passed the Patriot Act. Now, 317 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:41,879 Speaker 3: if somebody had had the cajones, if somebody had the 318 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 3: guts to stand up in that heated moment and say no, 319 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:48,119 Speaker 3: I want to debate this and I don't want to 320 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:53,440 Speaker 3: filibuster it, it would have slowed it down. May have 321 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 3: still passed, but it would have given both the House 322 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 3: and the Senate time to reconsider some of the stupid, 323 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 3: dumbass provisions that were in it. Now, they didn't do it. 324 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 3: So my example that I'm using you can rip apart 325 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:12,679 Speaker 3: to the date. I understand that, but it could have 326 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:19,159 Speaker 3: done that and hear what's happening. Well, the House passed 327 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,400 Speaker 3: a clean cr the Senate, all they had to do 328 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:26,119 Speaker 3: is vote yes, and the Democrats joined the Republicans, and 329 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 3: the government would be open, Spending levels would be the same. 330 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,160 Speaker 3: Nobody would be screaming about snap or air traffic controllers 331 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,720 Speaker 3: or anything else. It would just be a stop gap 332 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 3: measure to keep things going. But the Democrats were playing politics, 333 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:43,439 Speaker 3: so they invoked the filibuster. Now you may see yourself. Well, Michael, 334 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 3: that's an argument against this filibuster. I would agree, except 335 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:55,680 Speaker 3: for this. It gave us time, which is so important. 336 00:21:56,320 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 3: It gave us and quite frankly, the new media I'm 337 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 3: talking about the substacks and the people on x and 338 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 3: the people on conservative websites all gave us. Everybody, even 339 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 3: the liberals, even gave liberals time. Oh what's going on. 340 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 3: Let's analyze this and see what's in it. And now 341 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 3: because of this time where the filibuster has been invoked, 342 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 3: we've been able to find out everything that's in this 343 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:29,400 Speaker 3: Some of it's pretty bad, some of it's pretty good, 344 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 3: and now they're debating it. But the Democrats have decided, oh, 345 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,679 Speaker 3: we're going to use it as a way to extrapolate more. 346 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 3: We're going to hold the Republicans ransom in hopes that 347 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:44,360 Speaker 3: politically we can gain an advantage. And they think they 348 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 3: can gain an advantage because they've got the Cabal on 349 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:51,199 Speaker 3: their side. I'm telling you that we live in a 350 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 3: time where the Cabal's influence is beginning to wane. Ask 351 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:00,239 Speaker 3: me how many times I know I'm different and you 352 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 3: probably are too. How many times have you watched the 353 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 3: network news over the past week. I can tell you 354 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 3: I haven't watched it one time. In fact, I'm not 355 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 3: quite sure when I last watched the NBC Nightly News, 356 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,639 Speaker 3: the CBS Evening News, or the ABC World News tonight. 357 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 3: I couldn't tell you the last time I watched it, 358 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,359 Speaker 3: because that's not where I get my news. I get 359 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:29,159 Speaker 3: my news from highly specifically curated places that I believe 360 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 3: will give me some that will give me a biased 361 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 3: conservative libertarian point of view, and some that will give 362 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 3: me a very middle of the road objective point of view, 363 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,160 Speaker 3: and some that will give me some of the wildless 364 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 3: crazy stuff on the left side of the political spectrum 365 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 3: so that I can see everything. If I just watch 366 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 3: the news, or if I just watch MSNBC, then all 367 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:53,640 Speaker 3: I think about is, oh, Republicans are trying to starve babies, 368 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:57,679 Speaker 3: They're trying to starve children, They're taking food away from people. 369 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:00,879 Speaker 3: And then I go on TikTok and see people saying, oh, well, 370 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,440 Speaker 3: I'm just gonna go steal the groceries anyway, And I'm 371 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,439 Speaker 3: thinking to myself, Okay, they'll be cool. Go try that. 372 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,640 Speaker 3: Let me watch that. Let's see how far we get 373 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 3: in the devolution of society for people stand up and 374 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:18,680 Speaker 3: say stop this. Stop it. And here's my other theory. 375 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:24,159 Speaker 3: This impasse will end sometime next week. It will not 376 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:28,359 Speaker 3: be before Tuesday, November four, because we have an election 377 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 3: on November four in which a couple of very important 378 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,320 Speaker 3: gubernatorial races are going to be decided, in which a 379 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:37,680 Speaker 3: couple of special congressional districts will be decided, in which 380 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 3: there will be a lot of ballot issues decided. And 381 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,440 Speaker 3: so Democrats want to see, oh, how are those going 382 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 3: to you know, how much strength do we have, how 383 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,639 Speaker 3: popular are we right now? And I think they're going 384 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:52,960 Speaker 3: to get mixed messages. I think they could lose in 385 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 3: New Jersey. I'm not sure they'll lose in Virginia, but 386 00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:59,400 Speaker 3: they're going to get a message. And once they get 387 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,439 Speaker 3: that message, and they won't care and they'll just move on. 388 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 3: The other thing that's happening is what's out in front 389 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:12,160 Speaker 3: of us. Well as I broadcast today, it's Saturday, November one. 390 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 3: We're just a few weeks away from the busiest travel 391 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 3: season of the year. Now, planes aren't gonna fall out 392 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:25,680 Speaker 3: of the sky because air traffic controllers, if there aren't 393 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,399 Speaker 3: enough of them, they'll never let those planes get in 394 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 3: the sky, so they'll space them out further. They'll do 395 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 3: ground stops that'll force the airlines to do cancelations. People 396 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 3: will start getting backed up in the TSA lines, and 397 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 3: for people like me that paid extra to get through 398 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:45,280 Speaker 3: Global Entry or TSA pre check, are clear, those lines 399 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 3: are going to get longer and longer, and it won't 400 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 3: be any advantage to it. The airport concourses and terminals 401 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 3: are going to get jammed up. The lines to get 402 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 3: to the airport are going to get jammed up, and 403 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,879 Speaker 3: people are gonna get pissed off. And who's fault is 404 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:03,160 Speaker 3: that going to be? Democrats, as Republicans are smart if 405 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 3: snap benefits get cut, if they can get their messaging right, 406 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 3: whose fault is that Democrats? Because all Republicans, even Ran Paul, 407 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 3: every Republican is ready to vote for this CR. It 408 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:24,680 Speaker 3: is only Democrats voting against it. It is only Democrats 409 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,640 Speaker 3: who are keeping the government shut. And that's very simply 410 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:34,120 Speaker 3: how you explain this. But if the filibuster didn't exist 411 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 3: and it took a simple majority, remember what we did 412 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 3: to the Supreme Court and other judicial nominations. We will inevitably, 413 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,880 Speaker 3: I hope not in the near future, but we will 414 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 3: inevitably go back into minority status as Republicans. Then the 415 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 3: Democrats will use it against us. It will become a 416 00:26:56,200 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 3: political tool, not a legislative tool. And as long as 417 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 3: the seventeenth Amendment remains in place, nothing's going to change. 418 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,200 Speaker 3: If the fellow us will always be a political tool 419 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:13,359 Speaker 3: and not a legislative tool. Now, the seventeenth Amendment, which 420 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:17,199 Speaker 3: required senators to be elected to represent the states, so 421 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:24,880 Speaker 3: that state legislators, every state legislature elected to US senators. 422 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,200 Speaker 3: What do you think now in my state of Colorado, 423 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,639 Speaker 3: because I'm represented by two really liberal, progressive if not 424 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:37,159 Speaker 3: Marxist Democrat senators, they wouldn't do it. They would the 425 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,399 Speaker 3: state legislature here, controlled by the Democrats, would be telling 426 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 3: my two senators, hey, keep holding the line, don't give up, 427 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:46,719 Speaker 3: don't give up. But in Texas and other places, they 428 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 3: would be telling their senators go vote for it. Or 429 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,640 Speaker 3: they might even be telling even in my state, even 430 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,639 Speaker 3: in a blue state like Colorado, they may say, hey, listen, 431 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,639 Speaker 3: we're going to get pressure because states. Remember, member states 432 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,639 Speaker 3: are the ones that administer the SNAP program. So the 433 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:05,600 Speaker 3: states are the ones are going to get blamed if 434 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,879 Speaker 3: there's no money there, not the fads, the states. So 435 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,720 Speaker 3: the state legislature in Colorado may actually say to our 436 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,240 Speaker 3: two Democrats senators, look, go ahead and vote for this. 437 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,200 Speaker 3: We'll fight about the money and the other stuff later. 438 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 3: It's just crazy, absolutely crazy, And I understand Trump's impatience. 439 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 3: I understand why Trump wants the nuclear option put in there. 440 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 3: Trump may well increase the pressure on Republicans in coming 441 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:33,639 Speaker 3: weeks as as Americans become more and more restive and 442 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,159 Speaker 3: frustrated over the shutdown. Because I said, flight delays are 443 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 3: bound to increase, the SNAP program benefits are probably going 444 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 3: to expire, even though I know a judges ordered them 445 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 3: to be paid I have. They'll run that to the 446 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 3: Supreme Court pretty quickly. So people are beginning to panic 447 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 3: a little bit. I say, let them penny, lets them 448 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 3: see just exactly how the Democrats are holding all of 449 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 3: these programs that they voted for. Michael Obamaca. Now one 450 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 3: Republican ever voted for Obamacare. So let them see exactly 451 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 3: what kind of crap they brought to this country. I'll 452 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 3: be right back. Hey, welcome back to the Weekend with 453 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 3: Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me. Text lines 454 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 3: open three to three one zero three, keyword micro Michael, 455 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 3: go follow me on X at Michael Brown USA. I 456 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 3: want you to imagine for a moment, what if the 457 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 3: federal government were to apply diversity Equity Inclusion DEI principles 458 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:44,000 Speaker 3: say to the animal world, animal farm like animals. It 459 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 3: might look like this. Just imagine this. There is a 460 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:52,000 Speaker 3: controversial plan of foot right now to kill, to kill, kill, 461 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 3: murder a half million barred owls to save the spotted 462 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 3: owls in the Pacific North Northwest. It got it the 463 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,160 Speaker 3: green light after the US Senate rejected a resolution to 464 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 3: stop this plan. This is. The apparent problem is that 465 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:16,760 Speaker 3: barred owls are more effective hunters than closely related to 466 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,280 Speaker 3: spotted owls. I never knew this before. I'd never heard 467 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 3: of a barred owl versus a spotted owl. I think 468 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 3: spotted owl, of course, I think about the Northwest. The 469 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 3: Senate this week voted seventy two to twenty five to 470 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:33,920 Speaker 3: reject a bipartisan resolution launched in July which have which 471 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 3: would have nullified the Biden era ol killing plan. Now, 472 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 3: if Democrats don't mind chopping up, you know, a bunch 473 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 3: of eagles with coursively subsidized wind turbines. Why what makes 474 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 3: you think they would care a rat's ass about shrinking 475 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,480 Speaker 3: from killing a few thousand, few hundred thousand What am 476 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 3: I saying? Five hundred thousand, nearly half a million owls? 477 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:06,920 Speaker 3: Because as with all things big government taxpayers, you and 478 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 3: I will be the victims. Oh, the owls will suffer too, 479 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:15,400 Speaker 3: beside your pocketbook. The United States Fision Wildlife Services barred 480 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 3: owl management strategy. Aren't you glad to know that we've 481 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:24,720 Speaker 3: got a barred owl management strategy comes with a roughly 482 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 3: blank price tag and would involve wildlife agents shooting the 483 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,880 Speaker 3: barred owls. So they want to get rid of the 484 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 3: bar owls because they're more effective hunters than the spotted owls. 485 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,240 Speaker 3: And we got to protect the spotted owls. And those 486 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,120 Speaker 3: damn bar owls are out there getting you know, they're 487 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:46,120 Speaker 3: getting the field mice much more effectively than the spotted owls, 488 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,320 Speaker 3: and it's really starting to piss off the spotted owls. 489 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:53,120 Speaker 3: So you notice I said a blank price tag. So 490 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 3: in a time when we're arguing over a government shutdown, 491 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 3: you want to spend a billion dollars a billion dollars 492 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:13,160 Speaker 3: on this barred owl management strategy, including sending agents out 493 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 3: to shoot the barred owls al genocide. Will just mark 494 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 3: this as the al genocide segment to give the spotted 495 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 3: owls better odds. The Feds have already killed about forty 496 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,520 Speaker 3: five hundred barred owls along the West coast since two 497 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,840 Speaker 3: thousand and nine. Now they haven't rechieved they haven't achieved 498 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,480 Speaker 3: their goal of equity, which is a purpose of diversity, 499 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 3: equity inclusion. Yet everybody's just equal, everybody's the same. Well, 500 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 3: they haven't quite accomplished that yet. So let's go to 501 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 3: Senator Kennedy who explains it to us. 502 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,440 Speaker 2: The Department of Interior is mad at the barn owl 503 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,960 Speaker 2: because the barn owl is a better hunter. The barn 504 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,480 Speaker 2: owl is just a better hunter. That's just the way 505 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:01,400 Speaker 2: it is, you know, just just like the Senate President 506 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,760 Speaker 2: president is better looking than me. Accept that that's the 507 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 2: way God made us. God just made the bard owl 508 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:12,600 Speaker 2: a better hunter. And the Department of Interior is all 509 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,920 Speaker 2: up in arms. They say this is threatening the spotted 510 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:22,400 Speaker 2: at Now, the spotted owl isn't on the danger species list, 511 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:23,960 Speaker 2: but they say this isn't fair. 512 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,560 Speaker 3: The barn owl is a. 513 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:30,400 Speaker 2: Better hunter than the spotted owl, and that's causing the 514 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:35,040 Speaker 2: spotted owl's population of decrease. So the Department of Enter 515 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:39,760 Speaker 2: of Interior and its infinite wisdom has come up with 516 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:45,320 Speaker 2: Dei for ols. They come up with quotas for owls. 517 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:50,440 Speaker 2: The bard owl, because Nature, God, whatever you believe in, 518 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 2: made them better hunters now has to give up its rights, 519 00:33:55,680 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 2: has to give up its life because the spot of 520 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,720 Speaker 2: out is not as good of a hunter. 521 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:10,800 Speaker 3: Now. Now, by the way, Sooner to Kennedy is brilliant 522 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,719 Speaker 3: when it comes to these kinds of comparisons. Now, imagine 523 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:22,640 Speaker 3: the same Dei principles which the left fully embraces. Imagine 524 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:30,400 Speaker 3: those fully implemented against the human population. You've heard of 525 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:35,480 Speaker 3: the final solution. If you haven't, ghos, study your history 526 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:42,400 Speaker 3: in the Final Solution to inequity. I think democrats, even 527 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:46,960 Speaker 3: Caucasian Democrats, would take the place of the bard owls, 528 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:57,560 Speaker 3: because we've imbued so many people with the idea falsely, incorrectly, horribly, 529 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:05,640 Speaker 3: I think, in humanely. I think, very very racially, have 530 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,600 Speaker 3: declared that all the problems in this country are because 531 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:16,840 Speaker 3: of Caucasian Americans. They say, although I'm a halfway decent hunter, 532 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,200 Speaker 3: I'm not very good. I'm probably good at pheasant and quail, 533 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:25,040 Speaker 3: not very good at large animals. But they claim that 534 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:29,799 Speaker 3: because I happen to have or be Caucasian, that everything 535 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:33,520 Speaker 3: else is everybody else, It's all my fault that everybody else, 536 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,160 Speaker 3: that somebody that works in the same building I do 537 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,600 Speaker 3: is not quite as successful as I am. Well, that's 538 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,480 Speaker 3: because I happen to be a white guy. I guess 539 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:47,320 Speaker 3: that's exactly how they apply Dei principles, and now we 540 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,640 Speaker 3: see it in the animal kingdom. So when you think 541 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:55,280 Speaker 3: about cultural Marxism, when you think about critical race theory, 542 00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:59,080 Speaker 3: when you think about DEI or environmentalism, you realize that, 543 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:01,160 Speaker 3: oh when you stay back and you just take the 544 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:05,960 Speaker 3: very same principles and just apply them to the animal kingdom, Suddenly, 545 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,480 Speaker 3: if you don't understand just exactly how insane DEI is, 546 00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,040 Speaker 3: then I want you to remember the bard owl and 547 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:18,120 Speaker 3: the spotted owl, because the spotted owl somehow has to 548 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,880 Speaker 3: gain an advantage, but only gain the advantage at the 549 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,160 Speaker 3: expense of the bard owl, who, through no fault of 550 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,800 Speaker 3: his own, or maybe through his own ingenuity over time, 551 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,600 Speaker 3: through evolution, through just you know, the evolution of the species, 552 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:35,880 Speaker 3: has become a better hunter than the spotted owl. But 553 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:40,040 Speaker 3: the United States Senate and the federal government thinks they 554 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:44,480 Speaker 3: can equal everything out. Oh yeah, it's like socialism. That 555 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,759 Speaker 3: won't work, just like socialism has never worked. I'll be 556 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:48,319 Speaker 3: right back