1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Too night. Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: director of talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, No, Brownie, 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: You're doing a heck of a job. The Weekend with 4 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: Michael Brown. 5 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 2: Broadcasting Life in Denver, Colorado. It's the Weekend with Michael Brown. 6 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:16,080 Speaker 2: Glad to have you joined the program today. The rules 7 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 2: of engagement are pretty easy. If you have to send 8 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:20,120 Speaker 2: me a text message message if you want to engage, 9 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 2: it's very easy to do. 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So be sure and subscribe 36 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 2: to the podcast. Marjorie Taylor Green announced that she is 37 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 2: not going to run for Congress again. 38 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 3: Always represented the common American man and woman as a 39 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 3: member of the House of Representatives, which is why I've 40 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 3: always been despised in Washington, DC and just never fit in. 41 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 3: Americans are used by the political industrial complex of both 42 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 3: political parties election cycle after election cycle in order to 43 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,919 Speaker 3: elect whichever side can convince Americans to hate the other 44 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 3: side more, and the results are always the same. No 45 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,920 Speaker 3: matter which way the political pendulum swings, Republican or Democrat, 46 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 3: nothing ever gets better for the common American man or woman. 47 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 3: The debt goes higher, corporate and global interests remain Washington's sweethearts. 48 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 3: American jobs continue to be replaced, whether it's by illegal 49 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 3: labor or legal labor, by visas or just shipped overseas. 50 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 3: Small businesses continue to be swallowed by big corporations. Americans 51 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,839 Speaker 3: hard earned tax dollars always fund foreign wars, foreign aid, 52 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 3: and foreign interest, and the spending power of the dollar 53 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 3: continues to decline the average American family. 54 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 2: Wow makes me want to just pound my head on 55 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 2: this console and just knocked myself into oblivion. I'm not 56 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:19,519 Speaker 2: saying she's wrong, but holy cow, come on, sweetheart, we're 57 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 2: fighting for a country here, We're we're fighting the constant 58 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 2: battle for liberty and freedom, a battle that never ends. 59 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 3: I can no longer survive on a single breadwinner's income, 60 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,920 Speaker 3: as both parents have to work in order to simply survive. 61 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 3: And today many and my children's generation feel hopeless for 62 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 3: their future and don't think they will ever realize the 63 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 3: American dream, and that breaks my heart. I ran for 64 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 3: Congress in twenty twenty and have fought every single day 65 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 3: believing that make America great Again meant America first. 66 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 2: And it still does. She just has some disagreements with 67 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 2: the president, and she's had a lot of agreements with 68 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 2: the President. I just want to say one thing to 69 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 2: get it off my chest before I delve into this topic. 70 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 2: She said a lot of things I agree with. She 71 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 2: said a lot of things I disagree with. But the 72 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 2: one thing that she never addresses, and it bugs me 73 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 2: about every member of Congress unless you can show me 74 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:33,280 Speaker 2: an individual that's the exception. They go to DC and 75 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 2: they have all of these hopes of changing the world. 76 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 2: They forget that they're one of just five hundred and 77 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 2: thirty five members of the House and Senate, and they 78 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 2: are just one part of three branches of government that 79 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 2: are they have separation of powers. They're equal branches of government, 80 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 2: but they are designed by the Constitution to be separate 81 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 2: with their own particular responsibilities. And being a Congressman or 82 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 2: a Senator was never meant to be a way to 83 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 2: enrich herself. I don't have the exact numbers in front 84 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 2: of me. But she came to Congress. When she first ran, 85 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:26,359 Speaker 2: she has a construction company. When she first ran for Congress, 86 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 2: her financial disclosures indicated that she had a net worth 87 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 2: of less than a million dollars. I think it was 88 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 2: four hundred thousand dollars or something. Today she is a 89 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 2: net worth of tens of millions of dollars. I just 90 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 2: like to know how that happens. Now. I could sit 91 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 2: here and I could speculate that like Nancy Pelosi, she engages. 92 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,720 Speaker 2: Like Nancy Pelosi and many others, both Republicans and Democrats, 93 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 2: engage on insider trading because they know the laws they're 94 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 2: about to pass. They know firsthand some of the rules 95 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 2: and regulations that are coming out of the executive branch, 96 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,359 Speaker 2: and they make their trades based on that. In fact, 97 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:12,280 Speaker 2: that's become such a common known fact that there are 98 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 2: actual apps services that you can use to do your 99 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 2: own trades based on your particular person that you choose 100 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 2: as a member of Congress. I'd choose Nancy Pelosi because 101 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:32,840 Speaker 2: she's made herself incredibly wealthy with the trades that her 102 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:37,600 Speaker 2: husband has made based upon the pillow talk about what 103 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 2: Nancy tells him about what's going on inside the government. Now, 104 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 2: I got a problem with that, But I also have 105 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 2: a problem with something that nobody else ever really thinks about. 106 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 2: You mean, the government is so involved and so heavily 107 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 2: entwined in the private sector that you can make money 108 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,599 Speaker 2: based upon government actions, and that's going to affect the 109 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 2: price of a share of stock in XYZ Corporation. That 110 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 2: tells me the government is too big and too intertwined 111 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 2: in the economy. But Marjorie Taylor Green doesn't want to 112 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 2: talk about that, And I understand why. If I were 113 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 2: in that position and I had made millions of dollars 114 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 2: off being a member of Congress, I wouldn't want to 115 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 2: talk about it either. I'm not going to pretend to 116 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 2: have the inside baseball and everything. That led to her 117 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 2: announcing her resignation from Congress, which by the way, is 118 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 2: effective January five of this coming year. Now, as I said, 119 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 2: I got a lot of opinions on what she did well, 120 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 2: and I got a lot of opinions on what she 121 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 2: didn't do well. But I want to instead stick to 122 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 2: something different for a moment, and that is the fight 123 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 2: for liberty. Because the fight for liberty is what we 124 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 2: should be focused on, not any one individual member of Congress. Now, you, 125 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 2: just like me, need to be focused on my individual 126 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 2: member of Congress. Unfortunately, in my home state of Colorado, 127 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 2: I've got too many members of Congress that are on 128 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 2: the wrong side of virtually I'm in terms of the 129 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 2: Democrats in the Colorado delegation are on the wrong side 130 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 2: of every single issue that I care about. And maybe 131 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 2: true in your state too. I've got some really smart 132 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 2: Democrats that should know better, but they're infused with both 133 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 2: Trump and derangement syndrome, and they're true at heart. There, 134 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 2: They're no longer just big government liberals. They've crossed that line, 135 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 2: that unkind of moving line. They've crossed the line from 136 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 2: just a big government liberal to a Marxist socialist communist. 137 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 2: As I say, some are just stupid the summer smart 138 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 2: know exactly what they're doing. And the Republican members of 139 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 2: Congress from Colorado are yeah, Okay, they may be on 140 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 2: the right side of the issue, but because we have 141 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 2: such turnover where they don't really have the seniority where 142 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 2: they can really do much of anything that needs to 143 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 2: get done, which is why I focus more on national 144 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 2: issues than I do on local issues. So Congresswoman Green 145 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 2: was on the right side of a lot of important issues. 146 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 2: She favored certain positions. You know, much of I think 147 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 2: Trump's base wish that he would get behind, and in 148 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 2: some cases those roles were reversed. But what about the 149 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 2: fight for liberty? That's next. Welcome back to the Weekend 150 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 2: with Michael Brown. We're talking about the resignation of Marjorie 151 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:57,839 Speaker 2: Taylor Green, aka MTG from Congress. Somebody pointed out on 152 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:01,079 Speaker 2: the text line that her five years of of service 153 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 2: kicks in on January third, so if she resigns effect 154 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 2: of January five, she would be entitled to a congressional pension. 155 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 2: Just to make sure that we're all on the same page, 156 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 2: let me explain about federal pensions. A member of Congress 157 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 2: can become eligible for a pension, but it varies depending 158 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:29,680 Speaker 2: upon their years of service and their age. So generally speaking, 159 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 2: you can receive a pension at age sixty two if 160 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 2: you have at least five years of service. You can 161 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 2: receive a pension at age fifty if you have twenty 162 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 2: years of service. But you can also receive a pension 163 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:45,199 Speaker 2: at any age if you serve for at least twenty 164 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 2: five years under both the civil service retirement system and 165 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 2: the federal employees retirement system. So that's pretty much the 166 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 2: general brule about congressional pensions. So making her announcement that 167 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 2: she was resigning, which by the way, we'll make our 168 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 2: margin in the House even smaller. I think that gets 169 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 2: us down now to a difference of three, like two 170 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 2: nineteen to two sixteen something like that. 171 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 3: Things, because they are meaningless and empty traps that hold 172 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 3: too many people in Washington. I believe in term limits 173 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 3: and do not think Congress should be a lifelong career 174 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 3: or an assisted living facility. My only goal and desire 175 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 3: has ever been to hold the Republican Party accountable for 176 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 3: the promises it makes to the American people and put 177 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 3: America first. And I have fought against Democrats damaging policies 178 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 3: like the Green New Deal, wide open, deadly, unsafe border policies, 179 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:43,720 Speaker 3: and the trans Agenda on children and against women. With 180 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 3: that has brought years of non stop, never ending personal attacks, 181 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 3: death threats, lawfare, ridiculous slander and lies about me that 182 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 3: most people could never withstand even for a single day. 183 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:00,560 Speaker 3: It has been unfair and wrong, not only to me, 184 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 3: but especially to my family. But it's been wrong to 185 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 3: my district as well. I have too much self respect 186 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:11,440 Speaker 3: and dignity. I love my family way too much, and 187 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 3: I do not want my sweet district to have to 188 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 3: endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the 189 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 3: president that we all fought for only to fight and 190 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 3: win my election, while Republicans will likely lose the midterms 191 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 3: and in turn be expected to defend the president against 192 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 3: impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars 193 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 3: against me. 194 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 2: Sunds, little sour grapes, doesn't it. But there's something else 195 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 2: that I want you to be aware of. I find 196 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,839 Speaker 2: it interesting that she points out that historically, for the 197 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 2: past ninety years, presidents in their first year. Now this 198 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 2: is I understand, this is his second term, but nonetheless 199 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:55,960 Speaker 2: it's his first year, and the same told is true 200 00:12:56,040 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 2: for second terms interrupted by a mid eight president forty 201 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 2: five forty seven tend to lose seats in the House 202 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 2: and tend to lose their majorities in the House. And 203 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 2: with the margin of say two nineteen to two sixteen 204 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 2: with her gone, that means you would be serving in 205 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 2: the minority and I can just tell you that it's 206 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:23,599 Speaker 2: not fun to serve in the minority for forty years, 207 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 2: for forty years until Newt Genrich won election in nineteen 208 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 2: eighty four, eighty two, eighty I forget what year it 209 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 2: was now with the Contract for America. Prior to that, 210 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:41,319 Speaker 2: it was forty years that Republicans were in the wilderness. 211 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 2: Forty years Bob Michael of Illinois was the House Minority leader, 212 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 2: and Republicans only learned, you know, after forty years, you 213 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 2: learn one thing, how to say no, how to object 214 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 2: to everything, just no, no, no, no no, and never 215 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 2: actually governing. Republicans could be facing that again. I hope not, 216 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 2: and I don't think so, but they could be. And 217 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 2: it's easy when you've got a pension and you've made 218 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 2: millions of dollars to cut and run and say on 219 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 2: the way out, I love my country, I love my district. 220 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:17,839 Speaker 2: They don't deserve this. You know, there's gonna be a 221 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 2: primary against means Republicans are going to fight, So I'm 222 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 2: out of here. I'm out of here. I get it, 223 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 2: I get it. So it's it's easy to see that 224 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 2: she's been right on some issues, she's been wrong on 225 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 2: some other issues, But there should be room in the 226 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:40,640 Speaker 2: overall framework of political problem solving that we could fuse 227 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 2: those two things together. 228 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 3: Right. 229 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 2: But when you have eight or ten different ideologies that 230 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 2: get shoved into a shoe box of one of the 231 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 2: one of the two parties, it's inevitable that you will 232 00:14:54,840 --> 00:15:00,080 Speaker 2: have conflict and dissolution. But I must caution, as I 233 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 2: always do, that the battle for preserving freedom and liberty 234 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 2: is a never ending battle. There is no end to this. 235 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 2: There's no end to it. These battles that we fight today, 236 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 2: while they may be different issues, are part of the 237 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 2: same battle that this country has been fighting since its founding. 238 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 2: Because we're the anomaly. Do you not get that we 239 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 2: are the aberration? The United States of America is not 240 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 2: the normal republic the Roman Empire fell. We've managed to 241 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 2: survive longer because of our constitution and because we've had 242 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 2: these battles, and we will always have these battles because 243 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:55,040 Speaker 2: the power of darkness, the power of tyranny, is substantial. Now, 244 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 2: I don't think it's as great as the power of 245 00:15:56,680 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 2: liberty and freedom. But when you brow beat a people 246 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 2: into submission, whether that's a COVID lockdown or whether that's 247 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 2: through taxation, or through it's through over regulation and over 248 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 2: policies that intrude into every aspect of your life. It 249 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 2: really does become hard to fight the battle for liberty 250 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 2: and freedom. We already have plenty of threats to liberty 251 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,600 Speaker 2: in the weakness of many members of the Republican Party itself, 252 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 2: who are indeed beholden to foreign and domestic donors into 253 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 2: special interests. Now, if you side with Congresswoman Green in 254 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 2: this fight, then remember she is but one of four 255 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:38,920 Speaker 2: hundred and thirty five members of the US House, and 256 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 2: even at her best, she is incapable of making positive 257 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:48,320 Speaker 2: change without being accompanied by scores of others sharing convictions 258 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 2: that the status Colin Washington has to change. If you 259 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 2: side with President Trump in this dispute, then this is 260 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 2: the simplest way to understand this issue, and that issue 261 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 2: is this. Trump's term in the White House expires on 262 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 2: January twenty, twenty twenty nine. That is three years, one month, 263 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:19,200 Speaker 2: and I think twenty eight days from now. If you're 264 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:23,199 Speaker 2: listening later, it might be twenty seven days. So unless 265 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:24,920 Speaker 2: your plan is to place the weight of the world 266 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 2: on one man or woman, or even on a few congressman, senators, 267 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 2: or influencers and media personalities. You have no choice but 268 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 2: to step up and be involved in this process. Why, 269 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 2: I'll tell you. 270 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:51,680 Speaker 1: Next tonight, Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA 271 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 1: director of talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, No, Brownie, 272 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: You're doing a heck of a job. The Weekend with 273 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 1: Michael Brown. 274 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:03,200 Speaker 2: January twenty twenty nine. Welcome back to the Weekend of 275 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 2: Michael Brown. Three years, one month and twenty eight days. 276 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:08,880 Speaker 2: Which is why you don't want to place the weight 277 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:11,200 Speaker 2: of the world on just one member of Congress, one 278 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 2: man or one woman, or you know, a few congressmen, senators, influencers, 279 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:20,159 Speaker 2: all those media personalities out there. You really don't have 280 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 2: a choice but to step up and get involved in 281 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:27,199 Speaker 2: the political process. Parties change platforms when they're directed to 282 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 2: do so by the votes of the subordinate leaders at 283 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 2: the lowest levels, over a significant enough period of time. 284 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 2: That's why in this it's such a conflict a mental perspective, 285 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:47,640 Speaker 2: because we live a real life. Our real lives are 286 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:52,920 Speaker 2: lived Unfortunately, I think too much so based on instant gratification. 287 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 2: Oh she whiz, I mean, you know, porl FedEx. I 288 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:00,480 Speaker 2: can order from Amazon, and I don't even have to 289 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 2: wait for FedEx delivered the next day. I can order 290 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:05,960 Speaker 2: from Amazon and have it delivered the same day, even 291 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 2: if even some things depending on you know, whether it's 292 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:11,639 Speaker 2: just a letter or a package. Sometimes with FedEx you 293 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 2: can even get same day delivery. We want it right now, 294 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,120 Speaker 2: and I don't want to have to go too small 295 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 2: to get it. I want somebody to bring it to 296 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 2: my porch and ring the doorbell. In fact, if I 297 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 2: get them to bring it in and you know, unpack 298 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 2: it for me, they'd be even better. We want instant gratification, 299 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,400 Speaker 2: but when it comes to politics, you don't get instant gratification. 300 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:38,639 Speaker 2: What you get are humans because politics are comprised solely 301 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:42,960 Speaker 2: of humans engaged in a unique thing of trying to 302 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:49,119 Speaker 2: govern ourselves. And we try to govern ourselves while maintaining 303 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:53,159 Speaker 2: individual liberty and individual freedom. So everybody's willing to enable 304 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:57,640 Speaker 2: to believe their own beliefs and push their own agenda, 305 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:01,159 Speaker 2: all within the confines of a two party system. And 306 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,680 Speaker 2: I'm not going to argue that we need to abandon 307 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 2: the two party system, because that's just not going to 308 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 2: happen again. I live in the real world. So a 309 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:13,520 Speaker 2: platform changes. And by a platform, I don't necessarily mean 310 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:15,920 Speaker 2: a party platform that gets read or voted on at 311 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:20,400 Speaker 2: a party convention. I mean a party's position on ideas 312 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 2: or issues in general. But the good news is this 313 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 2: doesn't take relocating across the country for you to be involved. 314 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:32,120 Speaker 2: It takes being willing to go to local meetings, to volunteer, 315 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:34,879 Speaker 2: to sign up for leadership positions, and to drag people 316 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 2: with you if it's necessary. Now, if you're restless with 317 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 2: certain positions that never seemed to change, did understand they 318 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 2: are there because they went largely unchallenged before the cabal, 319 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 2: before mass media brought people to the point of realizing 320 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 2: the country is on the Vergia collapse unless we were 321 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 2: resuscitated by a powerful new movement, and we got that. 322 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 2: In other words, things it's like the typical male And 323 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:08,159 Speaker 2: I just laugh with the typical male species because I'm 324 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:10,400 Speaker 2: laughing at myself because I'm as guilty of it as 325 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 2: every other male. Oh you see, I got this spot. 326 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 2: It's really bad. It seems to be growing. I'll get 327 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 2: a check someday. Yeah, and then you've got a tumor 328 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:22,640 Speaker 2: or you know. I just I don't feel very well. 329 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 2: I think, you know, just you know, give me, give 330 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 2: me a couple of SIPs of tequila and you know, 331 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 2: a nice nap, and I'll be I'll be okay tomorrow. 332 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 2: Next thing, you know, you've got pneumonia. Men just keep 333 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 2: putting it off. We just we don't want to deal 334 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,040 Speaker 2: with it. We got other things we gotta do. There's 335 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,840 Speaker 2: a football game on. I gotta go listen to Michael Brown. 336 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 2: I gotta go do this or that. I got to 337 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:51,439 Speaker 2: mow the yard. But what finally woke men up and 338 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 2: women for that matter, was along comes Sleepy Joe, and 339 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,479 Speaker 2: we we knew if it was bad. We knew it 340 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 2: was bad, but it took the overreach of Democrats force 341 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 2: to realize, holy crap, batman, it really is bad. We 342 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 2: got to do something. If you're viewing the day to 343 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 2: day events through a microscope, then you're inevitably going to 344 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:24,280 Speaker 2: be disappointed as to what must come to pass gets 345 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:29,200 Speaker 2: delayed or otherwise obstructed, like it was in the twenty 346 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 2: twenty quasi election, the pseudo election, if you will, which 347 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 2: set everything back four years or more. When taking all 348 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:43,800 Speaker 2: the damage of the Biden administration into account, Now I've 349 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,159 Speaker 2: kind of split the baby here, because this may not 350 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 2: be what you wanted to hear if you're deep into 351 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 2: the division that you can find if you go over 352 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:52,119 Speaker 2: and you know you're following me on X and you 353 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 2: look at some of the stuff going on over there, 354 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:57,399 Speaker 2: you realize, I've seen a lot of stuff about how 355 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:01,400 Speaker 2: MAGA has devolved into Mega to make America great again, 356 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 2: this make Israel great again instead of MAGA, it's Mega. 357 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:09,280 Speaker 2: I'm like, really seriously, because of some of the things 358 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:12,200 Speaker 2: that Trump's done, or or that Trump met with Mom 359 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:16,680 Speaker 2: Donnie yesterday, the fact he met was Zoefram. I wouldn't 360 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 2: have done it. If I'd been president, I would not 361 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 2: have met with Zoefram. And the reason I would not 362 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 2: has nothing to do with the fact that he's a communist, 363 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 2: nothing to do with the fact that I think he's 364 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 2: going to destroy New York. But I would have just 365 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 2: let him hang out there. But you gave him great legitimacy, 366 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 2: mister President, by inviting him to the Oval office. Well, 367 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:42,000 Speaker 2: what about the next mayor of Los Angeles who might 368 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 2: be a communist? What about the next mayor of Houston, 369 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,119 Speaker 2: or for that matter, what about the next mayor of 370 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 2: Podunk nowhere that just might happen to be a communist. 371 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 2: I think it was a mistake and I wouldn't have 372 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:02,119 Speaker 2: done it. But when you when you live, and I know, 373 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 2: politics has become a religion for many people, and politics 374 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,640 Speaker 2: is what they live and die by every single day. 375 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 2: Even though you might have a regular day job, you've 376 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 2: got a nine to five job, you've got a six 377 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,440 Speaker 2: to six job, you've got an eighteen hour day job, 378 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:19,360 Speaker 2: whatever you've got. For many people, regardless of what their 379 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:23,640 Speaker 2: day job is, their other life is just consumed by politics. 380 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 2: And so when something comes along that you don't like it, 381 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:30,159 Speaker 2: I'm just to my hands and walk away. We can't 382 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,639 Speaker 2: do that. We can't do that because individual liberty and 383 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:37,120 Speaker 2: individual freedom truly does hang in the balance. And maybe 384 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 2: maybe I'm the one that's pissing in the wind. Maybe 385 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 2: I'm the one that just needs to set back and say, Okay, 386 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 2: well fine, just let it collapse. You'll get your wish. 387 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 2: The country will devolve into civil war or into chaos, 388 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 2: or will devolve into communism. And then you know, maybe 389 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 2: you know, my great great great great great great great 390 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 2: drank grandchildren will rise up and turn it back into 391 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 2: a constitutional Republican, I don't know, But again I say 392 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,360 Speaker 2: that no one man or no one woman can uphold 393 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,960 Speaker 2: that which is meant to be a shared responsibility given 394 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 2: to all of us as citizens. So Marjorie Taylor Green, 395 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:18,680 Speaker 2: MTG is gone, Okay, well, bye bye and good luck. 396 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,800 Speaker 2: And I mean that sincerely. I don't wish you're ill. 397 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:28,440 Speaker 2: But by the same token, those who are absolutely appalled 398 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 2: and want to join her because Trump's done a few 399 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 2: things they don't like, Versus everybody that looks at Trump 400 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,159 Speaker 2: and says he can do no wrong, I say, on 401 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:43,719 Speaker 2: both sides, that's incorrect. Trump's not perfect. He's done some 402 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:45,679 Speaker 2: stuff that I like, and he's done some stuff that 403 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 2: I don't like. Some stuff I am absolutely convinced. He's 404 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 2: playing four dchess, and I haven't quite figured out what 405 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:55,919 Speaker 2: the four D chess is. But as long as we 406 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:00,840 Speaker 2: are moving to correct the mistakes of the past and 407 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 2: somehow get this country on a stronger economic footing, which 408 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 2: is not going to happen overnight. If you listen to 409 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,160 Speaker 2: me during the weekday, you know that I spent a 410 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 2: good hour to an hour and a half one day 411 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 2: this week talking about how affordability is a buzzword that 412 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 2: we need to avoid because prices have so many different 413 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 2: influences that set a price for whatever widget or whatever service, 414 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 2: whatever good it is that you're buying, that those prices 415 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,359 Speaker 2: in general may come down or some prices are going 416 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 2: to stay high because of things that frankly, a president 417 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 2: has no control over, and because of a COVID shutdown 418 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 2: which absolutely destroyed the economy, and not just in this 419 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:53,880 Speaker 2: country but worldwide. And so now we are still almost 420 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,360 Speaker 2: almost five years later, still trying to recover from that. 421 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 2: So the affordability issue is going to be used by 422 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 2: Democrats as a cudgel to try to divide Republicans because 423 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,199 Speaker 2: those of us who understand that this is going to 424 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,879 Speaker 2: be a long term recovery because it was truly a 425 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 2: it was a near death experience. It was an nd 426 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 2: that we experienced with the COVID shutdown, and because of 427 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:26,440 Speaker 2: the COVID shutdown, we've been resuscitated. We came back to life, 428 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 2: we got a heartbeat, lungs were working again, the blood 429 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:35,640 Speaker 2: was circulating again, but the tissues still damage and we're 430 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,800 Speaker 2: still recovering from it, and we're still trying to move 431 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 2: in the right direction. And it's going to take a 432 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,399 Speaker 2: long long time to do that. I hope that the 433 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 2: lesson that we learned from the COVID shutdown was that 434 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,879 Speaker 2: don't ever let that happen again. Don't ever let it 435 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 2: happen again. Fight it with everything you have. Because they 436 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 2: conducted the experiment, they showed they can control us. We 437 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 2: all shouldn't say all of us. Many of us fell 438 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,359 Speaker 2: in like sheeple and just hidding our bedrooms because we 439 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,960 Speaker 2: were afraid to get out because of a virus that 440 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:17,240 Speaker 2: oh is still around and is still affecting people and 441 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 2: is still causing people to get sick. There's a story 442 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:26,399 Speaker 2: out just last night about measles in Canada. Measles is 443 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 2: now endemic endemic versus pandemic, means it is just consistent 444 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 2: in Canada, widespread and consistent measles. Now, I suppose if 445 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:43,920 Speaker 2: Canada wanted to go backcrap crazy and in force a 446 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 2: shut down or in you know, do force vaccinations again, 447 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 2: whatever it might be, then they maybe they get measles 448 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:56,760 Speaker 2: under control again. But it's a constant battle for freedom 449 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:03,160 Speaker 2: and liberty. An MTG's disappearance from the scene for me 450 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 2: is a big yawn. I'll be right back Hey, welcome 451 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 2: back the weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you 452 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 2: with me. I appreciate you tuning in. Text line has 453 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,040 Speaker 2: always always opened. The number on your messy jap is 454 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,400 Speaker 2: three three one zero three three three one zero three. 455 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,400 Speaker 2: Keyword Micha or Michael. Tell them anything, ask me anything. 456 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 2: So tell me Crooks. Remember Thomas Crooks that seventh Mary 457 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:43,239 Speaker 2: to you. I imagine a lot of people forgot who 458 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 2: it was. Oh yeah, the guy in Butler, Pennsylvania that 459 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 2: tried to assassinate Donald Trump and came within just a 460 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 2: tiny fraction of an inch of blowing Trump's brains out 461 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 2: on national television. Why on Earth are we funding the 462 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 2: FBI when they can't even tell us the truth about 463 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 2: a guy who came within that split second and a 464 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:08,960 Speaker 2: fraction of an inch of assassinating an American president on TV. Instead, 465 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:11,800 Speaker 2: we got to turn to podcasters or the New York Posts. 466 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:16,720 Speaker 2: Miranda Devine's doing great investigative work about Thomas Crooks, and 467 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 2: she's exposing the truth about the social media footprint of 468 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 2: this dirt bag, a footprint of the line leadership of 469 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:29,600 Speaker 2: the former director of the FBI, Chris Way. Chris Ray, 470 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 2: excuse me, wouldn't even tell us about did you know, 471 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,800 Speaker 2: for example, the Crooks was a Trump hating leftist with 472 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,520 Speaker 2: a furry fetish. You don't know what a furry fetish is. 473 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,640 Speaker 2: If you are our y, go look it up. His 474 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 2: pronouns they then, now you didn't know that. That's because 475 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 2: the FBI let the cabal lie that Crooks was a 476 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:54,240 Speaker 2: registered Republican, a lie that began circulating mere hours after 477 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:59,959 Speaker 2: the attempted assassination. In fact, on July twenty four five, 478 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,680 Speaker 2: a couple of weeks after the shooting, Chris Ray said this, 479 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,800 Speaker 2: in terms of what we've been able to find so far, 480 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 2: a lot of the usual repositories of information have not 481 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:14,200 Speaker 2: yet yielded anything notable in terms of motiv or, you know, 482 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,680 Speaker 2: anything like an ideology. Now, remember that's the exact same 483 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 2: Chris Ray who opined that we weren't sure whether Trump 484 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:25,840 Speaker 2: was even really shot or not. Unbelievable, even though the 485 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 2: New York Times reporter that took the picture of the 486 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:36,320 Speaker 2: bullet whizzing by a Pulluzer winning prize photo, I don't 487 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 2: think it takes a genius to say, wait a minute, 488 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 2: I told you so. Even a few days earlier before 489 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:46,600 Speaker 2: that day. In July of twenty twenty four, Ray's partner 490 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,520 Speaker 2: in crime, the Deputy Director of the FBI, Paul Abode, 491 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,120 Speaker 2: had told Congress that Crook's social media comments appear to 492 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 2: reflect anti Semitic and anti immigration themes, to espouse political violence, 493 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 2: and are described as extreme in nature. Oh so it's 494 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 2: the right wing violence that kept us that they kept 495 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,040 Speaker 2: warning us about during the entire link of the Biden presidency. 496 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 2: It's almost as if they were getting their narrative talking 497 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:17,280 Speaker 2: points from the autopen and the cabal was just transcribing 498 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:21,239 Speaker 2: what the autopan was writing. Now, they did report, to 499 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,280 Speaker 2: be fair, that Crooks had made a fifteen dollars to 500 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:28,840 Speaker 2: nation to the Progressive Turnout Project back on Inauguration Day 501 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:32,360 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one, but that only causes people to 502 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 2: shrug their shoulders about the ideology that actually drove you know, 503 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:41,160 Speaker 2: Crooks to nearly change the trajectory of the world and 504 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:45,640 Speaker 2: its history. As Miranda Devine points out in the New 505 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:51,200 Speaker 2: York Post, Thomas Crooks wasn't mixed up at all, thanks 506 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 2: thanks to an enterprising source who uncovered Crook's hidden digital footprints. 507 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 2: She wrote, we can say that a body misled Congress 508 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:02,320 Speaker 2: by old mission because he left out an entire section 509 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,800 Speaker 2: of Crooks's online interactions between January and August of twenty twenty, 510 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:11,040 Speaker 2: when he did an ideological backflip and went from rabidly 511 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,640 Speaker 2: pro Trump to rabidly anti Trump, and then went dark, 512 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:19,280 Speaker 2: never seeming to post again. Now, why wouldn't the FBI 513 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:23,400 Speaker 2: tell us that Crooks ultimately did a political one eighty 514 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,680 Speaker 2: in early twenty twenty, the last year of Trump's term, 515 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,080 Speaker 2: and then started posting stuff about fighting the government with 516 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 2: terrorism style attacks his words online. Wouldn't an online posting 517 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:41,760 Speaker 2: suggesting that you quote sneak a bomb into an essential 518 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,840 Speaker 2: building and set it off before anyone sees you track 519 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,360 Speaker 2: down any important people politicians, military leaders, etc. And tried 520 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:52,440 Speaker 2: to assassinate them, wouldn't that phrase? Wouldn't that sentence raise 521 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,680 Speaker 2: an eyebrow with those whose job it is to find 522 00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:59,120 Speaker 2: those things and detect that kind of threat and protect 523 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:03,200 Speaker 2: the rest of us from that kind of threat. Well, 524 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,120 Speaker 2: you know the answer, because it would have put the 525 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:11,759 Speaker 2: victim of the attempted assassination, Donald Trump, in a sympathetic 526 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:17,000 Speaker 2: light and would have therefore hurt the Democrat Democrats politically 527 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,719 Speaker 2: because all that was in the run up to last 528 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:25,280 Speaker 2: year's presidential election. Luckily for us, it ended up not mattering. 529 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:31,200 Speaker 2: It was on Friday that Tucker Carlson, who has neither 530 00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,719 Speaker 2: the financial resources nor the investigative power say of The 531 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:38,160 Speaker 2: New York Times of the Washington Post, nonetheless delivered the 532 00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:42,360 Speaker 2: goods in a thirty four minute podcast. The rest of 533 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:46,839 Speaker 2: fair minded media have since followed suit and built upon 534 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:51,160 Speaker 2: Carlson's reporting. Now, if only Carson could resist the apparently 535 00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:54,960 Speaker 2: overwhelming urged a kill to give softball interviews to, you know, 536 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,080 Speaker 2: Hitler loving people like Nick Flante's, he might have some 537 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:01,839 Speaker 2: more credibility. But I digress. But you have to give 538 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:07,280 Speaker 2: Carlson credit. Despite the wild conspiracy stuff that he seems 539 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,440 Speaker 2: to be going off on, was able to at least 540 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:14,600 Speaker 2: find this information which really corroborates whether you want to 541 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:19,239 Speaker 2: say he corroborated Miranda Divine and Miranda Divine corroborated him. Nonetheless, 542 00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:23,080 Speaker 2: we have at least two disparate sources telling us that yes, 543 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,120 Speaker 2: this is the truth about Thomas Crooks, and this is 544 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:30,120 Speaker 2: exactly what the FBI was hiding from us. Now, Trump's 545 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:34,000 Speaker 2: FBI director Cash Pttel has come out and said that 546 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:40,480 Speaker 2: crooks or Cook's crooks acted alone. But now people are 547 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,360 Speaker 2: calling for an investigation to be reopened, including the widow 548 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:48,880 Speaker 2: of the firefighter Corey Compettour that's the volunteer fire chief 549 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:52,480 Speaker 2: who was murdered that day. I mean, this is really sad. 550 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,920 Speaker 2: But here's former FBI Assistant Director Chris Schwecker quote. I 551 00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,440 Speaker 2: wouldn't trust the previous iteration of the FBI and the 552 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:03,120 Speaker 2: bidenmin to not hide their mistakes and not be proactive 553 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,040 Speaker 2: when it comes to Donald Trump and getting out there 554 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,480 Speaker 2: and trying to intervene an intercede. Regarding the motivation, we 555 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,879 Speaker 2: know again that the previous iteration of the f behind 556 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,000 Speaker 2: the Biden administration tried to convince us that there was 557 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:18,600 Speaker 2: only right wing terrorism and right wing fanatics and that 558 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:24,680 Speaker 2: simply wasn't the case. Wow, and you think that MTG 559 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,640 Speaker 2: leaving is a big deal. No, we have a lot 560 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:28,719 Speaker 2: of work still to do.