Speaker 1: Up next, Luna Talks with Anna Paulina. Luna part of
Speaker 1: the gang, which don't let the media fool you. There's
Speaker 1: no GP civil war. In fact, the Republican Party is
Speaker 1: more united than ever, putting Americans first and embracing the
Speaker 1: conservative values that so many of us hold. Dear critics
Speaker 1: want you to think the ousting was Cheney Spells trouble,
Speaker 1: but I'm here to tell you that it's marking the
Speaker 1: turning of a tide. This is Luna Talks with Anna Paulina.
Speaker 1: This week's episode is covering down on something that I
Speaker 1: have been waiting to talk about since the November election.
Speaker 1: So just to give you guys some background information. Prior
Speaker 1: to the November election, so many people, so many established
Speaker 1: may people were telling me, why are you aligning yourself
Speaker 1: with President Trump? Well, I believe in what President Trump
Speaker 1: was fighting for. I believe in the America First movement.
Speaker 1: And I can tell you that in general, there were
Speaker 1: so many people that reporters, you name it, people reaching
Speaker 1: out that we're saying, you know, what do you think
Speaker 1: is the future of the GOP I'm talking about after
Speaker 1: the November sixth election, And I said, well, I think
Speaker 1: that what you're going to see is the GOP changing
Speaker 1: this whole concept of the new GOP And with last
Speaker 1: week's events of the replacing of Liz Cheney on May twelve,
Speaker 1: what did this mean for the future of the GOP
Speaker 1: and what is it telling us about the election cycle?
Speaker 1: This is an Appallina with Luna Talks. Thank you for
Speaker 1: tuning in, and I'm very excited to brush up on
Speaker 1: this episode. After the election cycle, many people were completely upset, scared, frustrated.
Speaker 1: I saw so many people that I think just lost
Speaker 1: faith in politics altogether because of what we saw happen
Speaker 1: around the country and specifically what you know, some members
Speaker 1: of the Republican Party we're doing in order to not
Speaker 1: protect the American people, like you cannot have elected officials
Speaker 1: there that are turning their back on their voters, their constituents.
Speaker 1: But also too, I think the Republican Party and especially
Speaker 1: with political targeting that's taking place in this country, not
Speaker 1: just online but also in person. You know, there's no
Speaker 1: question in my mind that the Biden administration is actively
Speaker 1: engaging in this, whether it's with big Tech, whether it's
Speaker 1: with some of these corporations, whether it's even with the
Speaker 1: d O J. I think that there's a lot of
Speaker 1: political targeting taking place, but what do the American people want,
Speaker 1: specifically Republicans? And what I found is when I was
Speaker 1: campaigning in the election cycle, there were so many people
Speaker 1: that just had no concept, no idea. They just lost
Speaker 1: touch with I think your average voter, and I myself
Speaker 1: consider myself an average person. I don't have this elitist perspective.
Speaker 1: I'm not condescending. I don't want to just hang out
Speaker 1: and you know the yacht clubs and the garden parties
Speaker 1: out in d C. You know, you should go there
Speaker 1: to want to make change. And I think that many
Speaker 1: people that are cut out for office are actually the
Speaker 1: ones that wanted the least, if that makes sense. You know,
Speaker 1: people don't realize that when you are elected. I mean
Speaker 1: the American people realize, but I think a lot of
Speaker 1: politicians forget that when you were elected to office, it's
Speaker 1: a public service. It's not a mini monarchy. It's not
Speaker 1: you being at the top of the totem pool and
Speaker 1: looking down. You're supposed to literally be a voice for
Speaker 1: the people that you're promising to represent up there. And
Speaker 1: what we realize is that we had a ton of
Speaker 1: GOP freshman like Madison Cawthorne, Byron Donald's Burgess Owens that
Speaker 1: were more vocal about this absurd transition from the Biden
Speaker 1: administration during the transition of power, then some members of
Speaker 1: Congress who had been there for decades. And I'm not
Speaker 1: just talking about Democrats, I'm talking about Republicans. You know,
Speaker 1: America First. That idea is not just a campaign tactic.
Speaker 1: It's real. It's a movement, and it's not hard to grasp, right,
Speaker 1: It's pretty straightforward. It means no special interests, no selling
Speaker 1: out the American people. It means putting America first in
Speaker 1: all legislation, first and foremost what is the best for
Speaker 1: the country, people and future generations. And I remember after
Speaker 1: my election in November, I received an email from one
Speaker 1: of my former donors saying that that they did not
Speaker 1: think that I was going to win because I was
Speaker 1: supportive of this movement and that if I ever aligned
Speaker 1: myself with this movement in Washington, d C. Or if
Speaker 1: I ever supported anyone who supported President Trump, that I
Speaker 1: would never make it. And I read this email and
Speaker 1: I knew in my gut. I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm just not going to respond because I felt and
Speaker 1: I do feel, and we saw last week something that
Speaker 1: I had been predicting for a while that I have
Speaker 1: a really good judge in my gut of what's happening nationally,
Speaker 1: not just at the political level, but at the grassroots level,
Speaker 1: and specifically in Florida, which is, I would argue, one
Speaker 1: of the most important political strategy states in the entire
Speaker 1: United States. We have the I four corridor, and it's
Speaker 1: commonly known that every single president needs I FOURD quarter
Speaker 1: needs to campaign off of that if they want those
Speaker 1: electoral votes and if they want to make it to
Speaker 1: the White House, so it's called the pathway to the
Speaker 1: White House. The reason I even had to gauge on this,
Speaker 1: and you know, specifically as a grassroots activist, is because
Speaker 1: I had spent so much time not just online, but
Speaker 1: going to events around the country, going to college campuses,
Speaker 1: literally doing what I think a lot of people should
Speaker 1: have to do prior to even holding office. And the
Speaker 1: difference between I think myself and a lot of other
Speaker 1: candidates that I was coming across is instead of talking,
Speaker 1: I would listen. And when you listen, people will tell
Speaker 1: you a lot. They will tell you what they're concerned
Speaker 1: about and that's really what politics I think should be
Speaker 1: about altogether. It all starts locally, but why specifically was
Speaker 1: May twelfth important? Right? We know that Liz Cheney was
Speaker 1: removed from the House GUP Conference chair position, but it's
Speaker 1: signified a turning of the tides within the GOP too
Speaker 1: back and to support these strong America First movement. And
Speaker 1: you know, it's been kind of interesting because I had
Speaker 1: been asked about my opinion on the future of the
Speaker 1: GOP after the election cycle from countless reporters, even to
Speaker 1: include many from Europe that are following American politics very
Speaker 1: very closely, and also in South America. And I remember thinking,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be the fracturing of the GOP
Speaker 1: that's going to help anyone, Right, we need to be
Speaker 1: a united front. But also to when you have people
Speaker 1: that come out after such a brutal election cycle to
Speaker 1: say that you know, they are going to do everything
Speaker 1: that they can to work against the former President Trump,
Speaker 1: that to me shows that not only are they completely
Speaker 1: out of touch with fifty other million Americans that had
Speaker 1: voted for President Trump and had voted for elected officials
Speaker 1: that were not a part of that quote, unquote establishment mentality.
Speaker 1: But it shows also that these people aren't seeing I
Speaker 1: think the national implication of what a fractured GOP would be,
Speaker 1: which is essentially, you know, if we're divided, then how
Speaker 1: are we going to be able to legislate? How are
Speaker 1: we going to be able to run people for office
Speaker 1: that we believe will protect the Constitution and protect the
Speaker 1: American people. And I'd argue that this is actually the
Speaker 1: GOP after the twelfth of this past month embracing and
Speaker 1: accepting these strong conservative values brought forth by many America
Speaker 1: First representatives in both the House and the Senate, which
Speaker 1: means that the party is uniting. So more Americans especially
Speaker 1: now are understanding this. I know that there was some
Speaker 1: talk for some time about people wanting to leave the TWOP. No,
Speaker 1: that's that's not what needs to happen. People need to
Speaker 1: run for office and bring change from within, which is
Speaker 1: exactly what we are saying. Again, going back to some
Speaker 1: of these GOP freshmen that have been elected. These are
Speaker 1: the up and coming voices of the Millennial and gen
Speaker 1: Z generation. Right, we have this transition of power from
Speaker 1: the old guard to the new guard, and that's exactly
Speaker 1: what we're saying, but especially now, I mean it's uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: I remember I saw a photo actually on the Internet
Speaker 1: that I happened to post on my Instagram of gas
Speaker 1: prices currently in California, and it was upwards of five
Speaker 1: dollars and thirty eight cents a gallon. So Americans that
Speaker 1: typically wouldn't be paying attention to politics, I think are
Speaker 1: especially now paying attention to it. And when you have
Speaker 1: this inflation happening, especially with something as simple as lumber
Speaker 1: prices and gas, that's scary. Because your gas prices go up,
Speaker 1: it's going to affect everything else. It's going to cost
Speaker 1: more for truck drivers to deliver food, it's going to
Speaker 1: cost more for some of your basic point a to
Speaker 1: point be transportation, whether it's airplane or vehicle, and that's
Speaker 1: going to directly impact how much food people can buy everything.
Speaker 1: And that's what we're currently seeing right now. The d
Speaker 1: n C spent serious money trying to figure out why
Speaker 1: the border was such a hot topic and why Border
Speaker 1: Town Hispanic Americans had voted down ballot Republican and supported
Speaker 1: President Trump regardless of the d n c's blitzkrieg of
Speaker 1: propaganda on the border issues and That's something that I
Speaker 1: had addressed in a previous episode on immigration the propaganda
Speaker 1: of the border crisis, but I just wanted to remind
Speaker 1: everyone that there it's been now several months since the
Speaker 1: Biden Harris administration has taken over, and that Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: was appointed to be the vice president and handle this
Speaker 1: border crisis, and she's yet to go down to the
Speaker 1: US Mexico border. And to me, that's you know, that's
Speaker 1: pretty horrifying. You have someone that's supposed to represent minority
Speaker 1: women and prides herself on being the first vice president
Speaker 1: that's you know, a black woman or a half black woman,
Speaker 1: and yet she's actively ignoring the human trafficking and slave trade,
Speaker 1: whether it's through labor trafficking, sex trafficking of Hispanic women
Speaker 1: and children at the US Mexico border. To me, that
Speaker 1: makes her a hypocrite. You know, they spent this money
Speaker 1: and by the I'm at the d n C spent
Speaker 1: a ton of money actually now investing over two hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars at targeting disinformation online, specifically in Spanish and
Speaker 1: to the Hispanic demographic via memes. Because the new gop
Speaker 1: a K people that are online really have emerged under
Speaker 1: Trump in the last four year is we know how
Speaker 1: to use social media. We understand the importance of using memes.
Speaker 1: And that might sound dumb, but you know, memes are
Speaker 1: worth a thousand words. There images that people can laugh at,
Speaker 1: that they understand the general concept. It's honestly a pretty
Speaker 1: creative tasking to be able to do it. But they
Speaker 1: also go viral because that virality, that sharing of those
Speaker 1: ideas is a huge threat, especially to people like you know,
Speaker 1: those leftists that have hijacked the Democrat Party that don't
Speaker 1: want to have free speech. These people are actively working
Speaker 1: with big tech to suppress people's ideas, to suppress the
Speaker 1: America First movement, to suppress anyone, whether you are black, white, Hispanic,
Speaker 1: Native American Asian, whether you're a man or woman, whether
Speaker 1: you're a Christian or an atheist, They don't care if
Speaker 1: you don't agree with them. They will try to steamrole you.
Speaker 1: So what is the new GOP? Stay tuned, We will
Speaker 1: be right back after this quick break. Well, I was
Speaker 1: able to witness the start of this transition to the
Speaker 1: new party coming forward, not just as a candidate in
Speaker 1: but also as someone who happened to make friends with
Speaker 1: some of the candidates that are now sitting and elected
Speaker 1: members of Congress. And I think that that's actually really
Speaker 1: unique position to be in because it's like, we went
Speaker 1: through this incredible election, historical election at that and there
Speaker 1: are some things that you know only your friends can understand,
Speaker 1: especially when you are on the campaign trail, whether it
Speaker 1: was dealing with the attacks, whether it's the stress, whether
Speaker 1: it's family. You know, you form this bond with someone,
Speaker 1: and I think that that actually enables you to really
Speaker 1: become not just friends for life, but especially in a
Speaker 1: political climate in Washington, d C. That we currently have
Speaker 1: allies with one another. But I think that this new
Speaker 1: GOP is shattering stereotypes and that's been a big one, right.
Speaker 1: We know that for a really long time, the GOP
Speaker 1: specifically has been wrongfully targeted as quote unquote just being
Speaker 1: the party of old white males, which, to be clear, one,
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with being an old white male, but
Speaker 1: it's an absolute lie. There are so many minorities, there
Speaker 1: are so many women, there are so many people that
Speaker 1: break these stereotypes that the progressive left wants to suppress.
Speaker 1: I mean, in fact, if you notice a lot of
Speaker 1: these suppressed candidates in the election cycle, and suppressed voices
Speaker 1: online are those of minority conservatives. There's a reason why
Speaker 1: they do that, right, If they can keep the information
Speaker 1: isolated and controlled to the masses, then they essentially are
Speaker 1: controlling the election cycles. And that's I think strategy one
Speaker 1: oh one. But is it right? No, it's absolutely wrong.
Speaker 1: And that idea, that whole concept of being minorities, both
Speaker 1: black and Hispanic in in you know, the election classes
Speaker 1: well for different candidates. There were a ton of women.
Speaker 1: In fact, I think election cycle was known as the
Speaker 1: year for Republican women candidates because we actually shattered some
Speaker 1: of the records of the amount of women that were
Speaker 1: elected to the GOP, which was a maze using to see,
Speaker 1: especially for I think younger women wanting to get into politics,
Speaker 1: realizing that that's something that you know, is attainable, absolutely doable,
Speaker 1: and then you see that whole concept of girl power.
Speaker 1: As weird as it might sound for the guys listening,
Speaker 1: you know, that is actually really refreshing to see. But
Speaker 1: it's dangerous to the d n C because much of
Speaker 1: their national propaganda and their divisive strategy for the election
Speaker 1: is based on identity politics. So I always say that
Speaker 1: you fight fire with fire, and think about the pandering
Speaker 1: that took place at the d n C presidential candidate debates, right,
Speaker 1: You literally had so many candidates to include Corey Booker,
Speaker 1: who completely butchered I didn't I don't want to even
Speaker 1: say that he was speaking Spanish. It was just this
Speaker 1: completely butchered rendition. But you know, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, guys, we speak English, you know where you're
Speaker 1: in the United States, and I don't think that there's
Speaker 1: any reason, especially at a presidential debate, for people to
Speaker 1: be speaking in Spanish. You know, we have Spanish media outlets.
Speaker 1: I myself actually work with a very prom Spanish news
Speaker 1: outlet called All American, which translates tweet interviews in English
Speaker 1: and then we translate it into Spanish for some of
Speaker 1: the Spanish voting block, a Spanish speaking voting block. But
Speaker 1: there's no reason why at the candidate debates for the
Speaker 1: d n C here in the United States of America,
Speaker 1: where we speak English, that they should be pandering like
Speaker 1: that in Spanish to a voting block that honestly doesn't
Speaker 1: even really align with, you know, their ideas, because again,
Speaker 1: Hispanic Americans are inherently conservative based on cultural values. So
Speaker 1: aside from that, aside from the whole shattering the identity politics,
Speaker 1: the new GP is huge on funding from people, not
Speaker 1: from special interest groups. And that's something that I really
Speaker 1: believe that in the election cycle that President Trump proved
Speaker 1: that you don't need those special interest groups to have
Speaker 1: your back and do you see, in fact, you can
Speaker 1: do it on your own. That's why I think social
Speaker 1: media is such an important thing for younger candidates. You know,
Speaker 1: this is a huge deal because the DC insider money
Speaker 1: is not always in the best interests of the American
Speaker 1: people or even the people of the districts that the
Speaker 1: representatives are supposed to be, you know, voicing their opinions
Speaker 1: for they are completely out for themselves. I am a
Speaker 1: huge advocate on not really taking corporate interest money because
Speaker 1: once you go to d C, what is the point
Speaker 1: of saying that you are quote unquote representative if you're
Speaker 1: not even able to represent the interests and needs of
Speaker 1: your people because you're bought out and paid for by
Speaker 1: these special interest scripts before you even get to Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. And to give you guys kind of a
Speaker 1: heads up on a story that took place with me
Speaker 1: when I first had declared as a candidate. I was
Speaker 1: up in d C and there was a lobbyists that
Speaker 1: I sat down with from an American auto manufacturer, and
Speaker 1: he was saying that, you know, he loved my platform,
Speaker 1: that I would be a great voice in d C,
Speaker 1: but that apparently he was having issues and they were
Speaker 1: having issues on tariffs, and that the Trump administration they
Speaker 1: didn't appreciate what they were doing on taxing them and
Speaker 1: their goods because they were manufacturing overseas well. First of all,
Speaker 1: Trump is right in believing that you shouldn't be manufacturing overseas,
Speaker 1: especially if it's an American automobile, you should be manufacturing
Speaker 1: here back in the States. But also too, he saw
Speaker 1: that I wasn't agreeing with him, so I just continued
Speaker 1: to let him talk, and then prior to the conversation ending,
Speaker 1: he goes, you know, you'd be again just an incredible voice.
Speaker 1: We would love to work with you, but you know,
Speaker 1: we would really need your help on this tariff thing.
Speaker 1: If you ever would like to check out one of
Speaker 1: these vehicles, we can get your really good price on it,
Speaker 1: and it's totally legal. And I looked at this guy
Speaker 1: and I remember thinking, just he must really think that
Speaker 1: I'm an idiot, right, like, you don't ever go into
Speaker 1: that situation. First of all, it doesn't even sound right.
Speaker 1: But also to you know, some people, the best, people
Speaker 1: like myself, you can't buy them. You can't buy their opinions,
Speaker 1: you can't buy their loyalty to this country. And I
Speaker 1: politely declined, but that's something that happens. If that happened
Speaker 1: to me, imagine how much that's happening on a regular
Speaker 1: basis to other elected representatives in Washington, d C. And
Speaker 1: it's wrong, it shouldn't be happening, But that's us and
Speaker 1: a slight example of what's taking place with that special
Speaker 1: interest money. And then also to relying on that national
Speaker 1: small dollar donor program is something that many, I think
Speaker 1: Democrat representatives started doing early on. But with a new GOP,
Speaker 1: especially with candidates and representatives who are savvy on social media,
Speaker 1: it's become easier to almost start their own small dollar program,
Speaker 1: and I think that that's the most important. I remember
Speaker 1: getting a donation from a woman who was actually working
Speaker 1: at a taco bell in Michigan, Okay, And so she
Speaker 1: made a twenty dollar donation and I called to say
Speaker 1: thank you, because you're thinking about someone who's working every
Speaker 1: single day probably making minimum wage, and twenty dollars is
Speaker 1: honestly a lot, I don't you know. I know in California,
Speaker 1: and I know in Florida, the you know, the minimum
Speaker 1: wage used to be what about like seven dollars an hour.
Speaker 1: So let's say that that's the case for Michigan. That's
Speaker 1: three hours of work. And this person is donating what
Speaker 1: they can so that hopefully I get elected and that
Speaker 1: they will feel that their voices heard, even all the
Speaker 1: way in Michigan. So that reliance on the small dollar
Speaker 1: donor programs is so important, and we're actually seeing that.
Speaker 1: We are seeing that with so many new members of
Speaker 1: the new GOP that have come to Congress that are
Speaker 1: really able to maximize on that small dollar donor program.
Speaker 1: And that is something that again, I mean, you look
Speaker 1: at the progressive Left and how they've engineered these massive machines,
Speaker 1: working with big tech to kind of boost these platforms
Speaker 1: and ensure that these people are actually able to fundraise
Speaker 1: these small dollars on their own, is what they say,
Speaker 1: even though we know that they're getting help, but we're
Speaker 1: able to do it, and we're able to do it
Speaker 1: on our own. And I continue to say that that's
Speaker 1: probably one of the most important things that Members of
Speaker 1: Congress can do is get that small dollar program. It's
Speaker 1: so important that again you go to Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: And you're representing the interests and the needs of the
Speaker 1: American people and not or in your constituents and not
Speaker 1: those special interest groups. And then also I think one
Speaker 1: of the most important that we are saying is the
Speaker 1: new GOP wants to put an end to these endless sports.
Speaker 1: I will get to or that after our quick break.
Speaker 1: The whole military industrial complex is something that the United
Speaker 1: States up until recently, I think a lot of members
Speaker 1: of Congress did not feel comfortable coming out and addressing.
Speaker 1: But you know, this year especially marks the twenty year
Speaker 1: anniversary of the war in Afghanistan. And you guys already
Speaker 1: know my story with my husband, and you know the
Speaker 1: fact that I am a military member. This is so
Speaker 1: incredibly important because even now we're seeing some of the
Speaker 1: long term effects of this war, whether it's with the
Speaker 1: suicide rates, whether you know, and I'm still thinking that
Speaker 1: we're probably going to see an increase in lung cancer
Speaker 1: cases honestly from these burn pits from what our service
Speaker 1: members were exposed to during the war in Afghanistan. But
Speaker 1: it's it's sad. It's sad because a lot of what
Speaker 1: we're seeing is these war mongers that have existed for
Speaker 1: so long in DC, that don't have any family members
Speaker 1: in the military, that haven't even served themselves. They have
Speaker 1: no idea what they're putting. Are some of our brightest
Speaker 1: and best, they have no idea what they're putting them through.
Speaker 1: And actually next week I'll be doing an episode on
Speaker 1: the military, my experience and an inside look into what
Speaker 1: these families go through. And I actually also to wrote
Speaker 1: a book on this called Bringing Them Home, which is
Speaker 1: actually now up for purchase. You can buy it online
Speaker 1: on Barnes and Noble and then also to an Amazon
Speaker 1: just google it Bringing Them Home. And for me that
Speaker 1: is such a personal thing because what we saw is
Speaker 1: that these wars, there's no reason for us to still
Speaker 1: be there. You know, I support the military, of course,
Speaker 1: my husband is still in I have many friends that
Speaker 1: are still serving as well. But this new wave of
Speaker 1: Republicans are not war mongers. And I was found it
Speaker 1: interesting how many again representatives say they support the troops,
Speaker 1: will take photos with us, they put it out on
Speaker 1: their flyers, they say that they support a strong military,
Speaker 1: but yet they are so incredibly quiet on this. And
Speaker 1: then you look at how they're taking money from, and
Speaker 1: they're taking money from these lobbyists, from these pro military
Speaker 1: industrial complex groups, these basically a column pro war groups.
Speaker 1: Right war is good for business for these people, and
Speaker 1: offer them money for their campaigns and then they fold.
Speaker 1: And so it's like military members are not just something
Speaker 1: that you get to put on a flyer and send
Speaker 1: out so that you can get someone to vote for.
Speaker 1: You were so much more than that. And when you
Speaker 1: have the support and you say that you're going to
Speaker 1: defend the military community, that also means actively voicing your
Speaker 1: opinion on pulling out and not funding these endless wars.
Speaker 1: So how do you you support the troops essentially, when
Speaker 1: we are still in a twenty year war in Afghanistan
Speaker 1: with no end insight? What about the families? I mean,
Speaker 1: why was there so much opposition and push back to
Speaker 1: a withdraw from Afghanistan, even from some members within the GOP,
Speaker 1: which honestly disgusted me. But now that the Biden administration
Speaker 1: is in effect, they're saying that it's basically their idea.
Speaker 1: You have the entire d NC going along with it.
Speaker 1: Everyone's like, okay, yeah, we're gonna make a withdraw from Afghanistan.
Speaker 1: I mean, is that not the perfect example of using
Speaker 1: military members when it's convenient for optics? But really, behind
Speaker 1: closed doors, if they realize that it's a good idea,
Speaker 1: but that it might somewhat make you know, Trump or
Speaker 1: the Republican Party look good, that all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it's this thing that we should work against. I mean,
Speaker 1: these people, in my opinion, if that's how you're voting,
Speaker 1: I honestly think you're a sociopath because we're talking about
Speaker 1: human lives here. We are talking about the long term
Speaker 1: effects that it's having on people's families. I mean, PTSD
Speaker 1: is still something that's super taboo that people, I think
Speaker 1: in the military don't even feel comfortable talking about. Most
Speaker 1: members of Congress unless you've served, have no idea that
Speaker 1: what it's really like. And there's only so much you
Speaker 1: can read in a book without having experienced it yourself.
Speaker 1: For seeing, you know, close love on or family member
Speaker 1: or even friend go through it. But also to this
Speaker 1: fact that veteran suicides are still through the roof because
Speaker 1: opposed to about extress disorder, it's not a made up thing,
Speaker 1: it's absolutely real. And you know these lockdowns only made
Speaker 1: that worse. America is not the global police force. We
Speaker 1: should not be one at least, and the sacrifices that
Speaker 1: are troops are making are worth their weight in goal.
Speaker 1: There's no amount of money that you could put on
Speaker 1: that to say that it's okay for that. We need
Speaker 1: to give these people a break, we need to bring
Speaker 1: them home. I think the amount of actual enlisted personnel
Speaker 1: and commission personel in the United States, I want to
Speaker 1: say it's less than one person of the US population. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's not a lot. After World War Two, the reason
Speaker 1: why you saw the baby boomeras because a lot of
Speaker 1: people had served. I'm the first person to tell you that,
Speaker 1: I think only a stupid person would ever advocate for
Speaker 1: war because you realize what it's doing to people, you
Speaker 1: realize what it's doing to the country. And then also
Speaker 1: to never mind the deficit. I mean, no one talks
Speaker 1: about that either. But these wars are expensive and they
Speaker 1: are not good for the people that are picking up
Speaker 1: the tab which are the American taxpayers. So it's not
Speaker 1: possible to understand the idea of freedom being paid for
Speaker 1: in blood and left you've actually been there. And then
Speaker 1: you have this concept of the new GOP standing up
Speaker 1: for the Constitution that includes the First and the Second Amendment. Again,
Speaker 1: I mean, I did a huge episode on big tech
Speaker 1: and the issue that it's having in the effect that
Speaker 1: it's having on our election process, and there's so many
Speaker 1: people that get soft on these issues. The First Amendment
Speaker 1: with big tech is a huge problem. The Second Amendment
Speaker 1: Shall not be infringed is extremely straightforward, and all of
Speaker 1: these people want to put in these special clauses if
Speaker 1: and and but none of that should apply to the
Speaker 1: Second Amendment. The Second Amendment means that the people have
Speaker 1: the right to own firearms, regardless of whoever is in office,
Speaker 1: regardless of what these bereaucrats in Washington, d C. Say.
Speaker 1: And as someone who has literally been involved, I walked
Speaker 1: in at nine years old to an armed robbery. You know,
Speaker 1: when I was in high school, there was a gang
Speaker 1: shooting on my campus. I've had a cousin murdered, I
Speaker 1: had one of my friends murdered in l A. And
Speaker 1: then I joined the military and I had a home
Speaker 1: invasion and it left me traumatize. I get a firearmed,
Speaker 1: you protect myself, and all of a sudden, the media
Speaker 1: says that I shouldn't have the right to own fires,
Speaker 1: that we need quote unquote, you know, according to the media,
Speaker 1: the media says that Americans need gun control. All of
Speaker 1: that is completely wrong. In fact, it's not just a
Speaker 1: little bit wrong. It's not American. It's completely against what
Speaker 1: the Constitution is standing for. And then understanding the whole
Speaker 1: concept of term limits, which is something that we need
Speaker 1: to have. I think that and if it were up
Speaker 1: to me, if we could take back control of the
Speaker 1: House and the Senate and then have a president and
Speaker 1: in office that would be willing to sign this, I
Speaker 1: think that we should have term limits, not just on
Speaker 1: the elected members of Congress and Senate. We have to
Speaker 1: remind these people that once you're elected, it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: a lifetime apportment. Okay, Diane findes Dine will be in
Speaker 1: her nineties and she has filed for reelection. Tell me
Speaker 1: if there's anyone that you think who's in their nineties
Speaker 1: that you actually believe should still be traveling back and
Speaker 1: forth to d C and voting if you're nine years
Speaker 1: old kick back relax. You should be asking it off
Speaker 1: and honestly standing up through being a mentor your replacement.
Speaker 1: But you should not be running for a Congress again
Speaker 1: or running for Senate again at that age. And it's
Speaker 1: crazy to me that no one discusses this. I mean,
Speaker 1: everyone complains that America currently is so upside down and backwards,
Speaker 1: yet we continue to vote for the people that have
Speaker 1: been there for decades and not brought any change, have
Speaker 1: not done anything to help the country, and are the
Speaker 1: reason why we are in these endless wars, are the
Speaker 1: reason why we went to Vietnam. I mean, think about that.
Speaker 1: There's people in office who were there during the Vietnam War,
Speaker 1: the Gulf War, and then the Global War Ontear and
Speaker 1: then the war in Afghanistan. I mean, that's to me,
Speaker 1: that's nuts. Give other people the opportunity to make their
Speaker 1: voices heard. And term limits should also apply to the
Speaker 1: bureaucrats and d see, including staff members, including people in
Speaker 1: the State Department, including people that have been there for
Speaker 1: that long. Why Because when you have centralized control power
Speaker 1: like that, it's not good for anyone. In fact, it's
Speaker 1: quite the opposite. All it does is completely push the
Speaker 1: same agendas that didn't work, regardless of who's holding office.
Speaker 1: So what does this new GOP mean for the country.
Speaker 1: The new party means change, but for better And no,
Speaker 1: I'm not referencing the Obama era slogan change whatever he
Speaker 1: was trying to say that he was representing, which we
Speaker 1: all know is a lie. I'm talking about actual change,
Speaker 1: which is going back to the basics of what we
Speaker 1: were supposed to be as a country, as a constitutional republic.
Speaker 1: No more establishment control, but power back in the place
Speaker 1: and the hands of the American people. And that is
Speaker 1: something that I think for a very long time, at
Speaker 1: least as early as I can remember, up until the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, I didn't know if it was
Speaker 1: actually possible. I wasn't exactly all that political when I
Speaker 1: was in high school, didn't exactly grow up in a
Speaker 1: political family, and if anything, you know, I was raised
Speaker 1: by young single mother there who you know, is a Democrat.
Speaker 1: But for me, what that means is that if you
Speaker 1: actually work hard and you can attain these positions, that
Speaker 1: you can actually bring change and really protect that whole
Speaker 1: crazy idea and concept like the left likes to think
Speaker 1: of the American dream and honestly leave a better country
Speaker 1: for future generations. You know, after all, America is one
Speaker 1: of the greatest experiments in the history of civilization. Our
Speaker 1: constitution requires a constant attention and devotion of all citizens
Speaker 1: and the obligation of our elected representatives to do just that.
Speaker 1: I actually found that online. You had Benjamin Franklin who
Speaker 1: was approached by a group of citizens right after the signing,
Speaker 1: and he goes They're asking what sort of government have
Speaker 1: the delegates created, and he answered, a republic if you
Speaker 1: can keep it. So this new GOP, god willing, will
Speaker 1: do exactly that. Before we go, I want to thank
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