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In the dark of night, there's a uniparty that

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meets and orchestrates the leadership in both

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parties that control the $7 trillion a year.

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And they make deals, who's going to leave from

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each party and who's going to get ejected. Collaborate.

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I've never heard this concept before. Teach us

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more. I want to know about the uniparty. The

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uniparty is what Trump ran against and what the

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Tea Party was enraged against. And it's linked

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roughly to power and money. This episode we have

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former congressman Dave brought who was eaten

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by his own apparently He was in a spectacular

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stellar rise to success seeding the incumbent

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Eric Cantor in 2014. And then promptly, after

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expressing his views and trying to make happen

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what he stood for, promptly the Republicans seem

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to have tried to swallow him whole. And welcome

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to our show, Dave. We can't wait to hear your

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story. Hey, great to be on. I've enjoyed chatting

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with you guys in advance. You're great. Thank

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you so much. So my first question is, please,

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why did you ever want to be a politician? My

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wife has ambitions of her own. Why? Why would

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you be drawn? Can I make this world country a

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better place? Please say something really horrible

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for us. I'll give you a short cerebral version.

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I was academic, right? So I did business, and

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then I went to seminary, and then I did a PhD

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in economics, and I worked with a bunch of liberals

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on Capitol Hill in the churches. And the liberals...

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were great they cared about liberals care about

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the new marxist people not so much and uh and

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so uh my my uh development was kind of academic

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that i taught you know i worked the world bank

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for a while i taught economics for 20 years uh

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and then i started want to become more relevant

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and practical and applied so i went to work in

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the general assembly in virginia for seven years

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for the head of senate finance and helped on

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education choice And then he asked me if I wanted

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to run and the machine said, no, you better not

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do that. So I waited a couple of years and I

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ran for a low slot. The machine crushed me. We

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can get into that later if you want. That's probably

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part of the story you want to get at. But it

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was just kind of, you know, if you look at the

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two great economists who framed the world, they're

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both religious, right? Adam Smith grew up in

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the Scottish Presbyterian milieu and Karl Marx,

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father of communism, atheist. And so, you know,

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there's kind of a logic within studying the world,

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wanting to help improve the world and then becoming

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active in the world. So that's that's about as

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short as I can put it. That's very admirable.

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So was that a full time position when you were

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that first term of service or were you doing

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that part time on the side? No, that was just

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all pro bono. I love doing it. And I worked for

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a great senator who was highly ethical. And I

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was a professor of economics. And, you know,

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working with a legislator, it had some nice positive

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spillovers for the school. So share with us a

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little bit of your story. I know when we're reading

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about your views, it sounds like you're super

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aligned with everything that's happening now.

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What's the issue? You know, it's a control, this

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insane budget that's... In the trillions unnecessarily.

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I mean, take us back to what happened. Was that

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a different era? Your views don't sound like

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they were anything other than rational and normal.

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So can you share? They are. They are. I mean,

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the Western synthesis, right, is the synthesis

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between Greek reason and the Judeo -Christian

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religious tradition. right is that that's my

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training it's a hopefully it is rational and

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it's caring and loving and yes and but the swamp

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does not like that and so yeah just to go to

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go back a little bit to how it happened uh so

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i ran for delegate in the uh the swamp uh creatures

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in virginia who are just as bad as D .C., orchestrated

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it so that a 22 -year -old or something would

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win the spot. And they arranged it so there was

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no vote. Four people voted in the process. And

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I was like, that was after the senator already

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told me, I don't think you're going to do too

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good with this machine thing. And I didn't know

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any of that. I was a naive liberal arts professor.

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It took me four years in Congress to just start

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learning how bad it was, just to give you some

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sense of what's to come. So then I win, and I

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just met the pollster. I always see him at events

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now. He dies laughing. He had Kanter up by 30,

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and I won by 10. So it was only a 40 % swing.

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John McLaughlin, good guy. Don't hire him as

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your pollster. And then I got up in the swamp,

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and I was shocked. everyone was friendly to me

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a bunch of the senior guys and senators is the

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senior people hey dave how you doing they were

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i think they liked the presbyterian thing right

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normally presbyterians are fairly boring nice

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people i was an economist and so that's who i

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was uh and so i went up i played nice i played

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team ball i ran on i had the tea party backing

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now this is getting interesting right so here's

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into your storyline so i i had the tea party

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backing and i knew i i had to get win the republicans

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as well right so i ran on the republican creed

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and creed of course comes out of the faith tradition

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and the nice scene creed the apostles creed right

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these creeds and so this republican creed was

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like real nice uh you you should have a balanced

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budget amendment you should have a strong moral

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code you should have strong faith you should

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have constitutional adherence and so i ran on

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the creed i voted the creed but there's nothing

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wrong with the creed The problem is my party

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didn't follow the creed. And I'm going to probably

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bash on my party right now. Right. For the next

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hour or whatever this thing goes. But the left

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is way worse. Right. The left is more from liberals

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who used to care about kids and endless wars

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and all that to a bunch of Marxists. So we have

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to beat them. All political views are my own.

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I don't speak on behalf of anybody else. Right.

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So then I get to Congress and I get. you know

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put on all the c committees where you can't raise

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any money so that's a hint right off the bat

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right that they swamp ledger there's the a committees

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your ways and means the guys that dole out the

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money appropriations finance transportation all

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the one the big money stuff right where you go

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there's tons of lobbyists and then there's the

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b committees where you can raise some money and

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then there's the c so i was to see they put me

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on the lowest of the low i was in the dog house

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from the day i got started but you're a rookie

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though Do they do that with all rookies? No,

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no, no, no. It depends if you're well -heeled

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with establishment connections and et cetera.

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If you're under a powerful person and you will

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obey, you go straight to the top. For real. Was

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George Santos with you? Was that after you? No,

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I was prior. I was prior. We had the Freedom

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Caucus. It was 30, 35 people, right? And I was

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in that group. And then we took out Boehner.

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Right. And then that really upset the hornet's

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nest up there. And they they they kicked me.

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I was already off. They wouldn't give me any

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money in the last race in the seat I'm in now.

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Leadership gave the one of the guys 10 million.

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You can go Google who that is. I got zero. They

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made one ad for me that was so caustic, it made

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me look like the, whatever it was, the, who was

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it with the mushroom cloud going off? What was

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the famous, remember that ad, the famous political

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ad? I can't think of the governor guy. Yeah,

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it was bad. And then I was in about a year or

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two, and then they redistricted me out of my

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best county, Hanover, right? Rural, farmers,

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all American. Wow. Yeah. And so that, and then.

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That lawsuit cost, I think, $1 .1 million. What

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lawsuit? Yeah, what lawsuit was that? Luckily,

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the Republican delegation came and supported

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me, but I found out after that part of the delegation

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was in on redistricting me. I mean, this is how,

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right? So they're helping me raise money for

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the thing they orchestrated to get me out of

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my district eventually. And they work in long

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cycles. They don't nuke you, you know, boom,

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because it's too obvious, right? They have all

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these vectors at work. I want you to take us

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back, because what are the words that you were

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saying that they were like, we need to nuke this

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guy, we need to get him out? That's what I want

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to understand. What did you say that caused the

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Republicans to eat you alive, which then allowed

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the establishment to continue to basically chew

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up your bones and spit them out? I need more

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details, because I couldn't find anything online.

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No, you won't. What? Yeah, you have to know how

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the process works. And you guys aren't cynical

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enough. You have nice smiles and you seem like

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nice people. I see you. So what I said is, hey,

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I promised I wouldn't vote for this level of

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government spending and the budget's way too

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big. And I see where the money's going. Similar

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like today. And I'm not going to vote for it.

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And I was on the budget committee. Right. So

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I'm not going to. And there's your key words.

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Right. It's in committee. I wouldn't vote for

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it. And then I would vote with it, with the freedom

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against rules. And all the senior guys say, hey,

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whatever you do, never vote against a rule, because

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that's where you play team ball, supposedly.

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But there's no team. Right. And so I was on the

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business committee. For example, the speaker

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will come in, Paul and Ryan, they'll tell the

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chairman, here's the number you're going to hit

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at the end of the year so you guys have fun talking

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about the budget for six months while you're

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on the budget committee doing important work

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of the American people. Well, educate me a little

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bit. How do the committees work? If you're a

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rookie and they don't really want to give any

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responsibility, does everybody get assigned to

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committees anyway regardless? Yeah. Everybody's

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on a committee. Yeah, everyone's on a couple

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committees, two or three. And usually in an area,

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you know, I was an economist, but they didn't

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put me on the finance committee because you can

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raise a lot of money. And so or, you know, the

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big money committees where I could have been

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helpful to the country. Right. So this is so

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anyway, the whole city, to put it in very brief

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term, is dependent on what I called. And I went

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out on the press on this and they didn't particularly

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love this either. The giant Excel spreadsheet

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in the sky. And so my shorthand story, me and

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Gary Palmer and a couple of guys, we found we're

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paying $40 billion to dead people for social

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security or something. And 40 billion is nothing,

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right? It's like a rounding error. Yeah. Time

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out. And so - Wait, wait, time out. Yeah. No,

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yeah, go ahead. Time out. Yeah, yeah. And was

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this 2016? When was this? 2014, 2015. Yeah, 2014

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and 2018. 2014, you figured out that they were

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paying $40 billion to dead people, hence what

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they're proving today. Yeah. You said something

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about it to want to stop it, and they slaughtered

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you. Yes, to your own party. Yeah, well, it was

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worse than that. They do it passively, right?

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They don't want to have any dots that I could

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connect. so we go into paul ryan say hey we're

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paying 40 billion that'd be cool we put it towards

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the deficit and give it back to the american

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people so and they and he was like let me check

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on it we're like uh you're the speaker the speaker

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has all power by the way if you don't know and

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if people listen and don't know the speaker it

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has all power he tells the chairman what to do

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and they do it period there's it's one person

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and then he's got a staff that's trained in that

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trains him in how to behave so if you ever wonder

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why all speakers act the same It's because that

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staff trains them in and tells them what they

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will say. And they'll tell them like their secret

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bunkers that national security is at stake. And

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so we need these two trillion dollar deficits.

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And if you goof that up, the world will explode

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or something. I'm making stuff up. But some story

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like this. So he goes and checks, comes back,

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says, no, can't do it. And Gary and I said, can

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we ask you why? And they, nope. And they, they

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just, no, they just silence. And that's the way

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it works. And so what's the lesson there is if

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you can't save $40 billion, that tells you what's

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going on, right? Because that giant Excel spreadsheet

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in the sky means if you take $40 billion out,

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it's already there. The money's there, right?

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So if you take $40 billion out, you're taking

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away from somebody. That's the key message that

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runs the universe, right? And that money moves.

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It ain't going to the people. It's going away

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from somebody else. That's a donor, whatever.

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That right there is your entire show for the

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day in terms of policy. Got it. Wow. Wait, wait,

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wait. This is fascinating. Go ahead. She's a

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CPA. Yeah, I'll bet. She was the CFO of my company.

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Whoa. What's exciting about this, you were way

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ahead. You were technically way ahead of where

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we are today with the Doge. Yeah. Right? Yeah.

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You were like the guy saying, guys, knock on

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this door. There's something there. Meanwhile,

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Congress is there to protect taxpayer dollars.

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They're there to make sure. Yes, idea. Right?

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They're there to make sure that our money is

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being spent right. And yet you are pointing something

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out and they refuse to speak about it. Yeah.

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They all know all of this. They all know all

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of it. Right. People say, Dave, you need to teach

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them some economics. They're all lawyers. They're

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highly talented people. They're very smart. They

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have huge human skills to get elected over a

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million people. Sure. Right. They're highly they

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all know it's just a lack of backbone. It courage

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and virtue is the missing ingredient. It's not

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intelligence. They're all fine. And the system

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just basically. From what it sounds like, anybody

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that speaks up will be cut out so fast that the

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others watching will say, I'm not going to open

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my mouth or say a word because I'm not going

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to be Dave. Right. No, that's exactly. And you

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get the repercussions are immediate, right? So

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if you vote the wrong way in budget committee.

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they come to you leadership they keep you up

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late at night till midnight try to wear you down

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wear you down wear you down and get they'll get

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you put your group in a room and wear you down

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wear you down and then after a while you're just

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like yeah whatever right they i did my best they

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the republican conference right was like 240

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people right so the congress was like four whatever

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it is 450. So say we had like 240 back then or

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whatever, right? So there was about 30 or 40

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of us out here trying to do just roughly the

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right thing. And then the blob is just resigned.

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Some of them are just old, not energy. Some of

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them are just, you know, brown nosers, that type

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that's just irritating. And some of them just

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want to rise to power and they're going to do

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the thing. And those people will tell themselves

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the story. They'll just say, well, I'm working

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real hard on my committee. Right. I'm in charge

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of the submarine committee and I'm doing the

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Lord's work on this submarine committee. So I'm

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going to vote, you know, bad on like the seven

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trillion dollar U .S. budget. You know, that's

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just a small thing. But my work over here, I'm

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so important to this country working on, you

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know, the latest green initiative for solar panels

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that that that. makes up for my vote on these

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other huge things like national security and

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the budget. You know, I'm old enough to, this

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is a pet peeve of mine, I'm old enough to remember

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when people, our politicians voted for their

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constituents and what they believed in. And then

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it's sort of the shift gears. maybe in the 70s

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perhaps, and then reaching across the aisle.

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Remember that phrase? And as time went by, God

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forbid you vote out of step with your party.

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It's complete and utter suicide. And it's really

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not right. It was a pet peeve of mine. It's really

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not right. It's really unfit for the American

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people. We have no representatives. Seriously.

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There's no representatives. Yeah. The companies

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that are benefiting, the people that have their

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hand out that are getting the money are the ones

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that are benefiting. And their machine is so

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strong, they're here to cancel anyone who says

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otherwise. Yes. Except it's even worse than what

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you just said. It's gone beyond you won't go

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get your party to in the dark of night. There's

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a uniparty that meets and orchestrates the leadership

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in both parties that control the $7 trillion

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a year, and they make deals who's going to leave

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from each party and who's going to get ejected.

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Whoa, whoa, whoa. Repeat that again. And if you

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let my guy over here go, who's on the committee,

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who's got a problem, and he's sleeping with a

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Chinese spy, how is that person still in Congress?

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Good question. You might want to analyze that.

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Wait, wait. And then we'll get a guy that's done

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this and they stay. Hold on. I can tell I got

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too excited with this concept. This is about

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to be an educational show. I need to know all

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about this too. I need to know about this too.

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The Uniparty. Elaborate. I've never heard this

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concept before. Teach us more. I want to know

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about the Uniparty. Yes. Explain that again,

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but slow it down. Yeah, we just zipped right

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through that. The Uniparty. is what Trump ran

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against and what the Tea Party was enraged against.

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And it's linked roughly to power and money. And

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so you can also refer to the Uniparty, the globalists,

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the establishment. Some people, Mike Benz is

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the expert on this stuff, calls it the blob.

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Private folks are the Uniparty. Oh, no, everybody.

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Private, public, NGOs. You just saw the huge

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evidence of it come out, the receipts. Here's

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Click it. Your future self will thank you. This

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is no longer a theory, right? So the State Department,

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under the State Department's USAID, USAID is

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funding all sorts of NGOs, Protestants, Catholic,

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Jewish groups, all in the blob. in favor of illegal

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immigration, all the church groups somehow because

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they're getting money. And then you saw CIA cutouts

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and you saw the FBI and the CIA corruption and

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51 intelligence officers that broke the law and

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on and on and on. And these are protected by

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both parties. Both parties have members from

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their party in on this thing. And they all work

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together. You can see it in certain key votes.

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Just ask the American people. When you see votes

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where the American people totally differ from

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what the elites are doing, like 10 million people,

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illegal border invasion. Average American is

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like, no, I think legal would be better. Or the

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war in Ukraine, a million dead boys laying on

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the ground. Dead boys, Ukrainians, Russians,

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all made in the image of God. We're for that?

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Who's for that? I'm not for that. I don't get.

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who's for that both parties are they the both

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parties voted for it true and this is going on

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and then the federal reserve bank after 0708

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bails out the criminals on wall street the american

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people pay for it that's the reaction that caused

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what the show you're doing right now right the

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uh the financial crisis caused this wave of populism

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not only here but across the world the federal

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reserve prints money to cover that up Then we

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run $2 trillion deficits. Well, right after that,

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we ran zero interest rates for 10 years. The

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Federal Reserve validated that. After that, we

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ran $2 trillion deficits for the last five or

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six years. The Federal Reserve validated that.

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Who's in charge of the Federal Reserve, right?

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I mean, so it's just all these huge pieces where

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what's going on and somehow our intelligence

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committee lost track of China. for 30 years what

00:21:41.049 --> 00:21:43.970
you said like 1970 right so we let them in all

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the free trade agreements we let them in the

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world trade everything uh they're now almost

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as big as we are they're a threat they're our

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enemy uh the chinese people are not our enemy

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they're made in the image of god but the ccp

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doesn't believe in god and they're atheists and

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they got slaves and all this stuff right you

00:22:00.150 --> 00:22:02.490
all know all this and our ceos in the fortune

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500 and the uniparty and the globalists are all

00:22:04.890 --> 00:22:09.160
trading into china till now And they know they

00:22:09.160 --> 00:22:12.680
got slave class. Like, huh. I don't think the

00:22:12.680 --> 00:22:14.660
American people like any of that. So basically,

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this is something I have heard before that, you

00:22:18.099 --> 00:22:20.359
know, the Republicans versus the Democrats, it's

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just a big show. Yeah. There's no such thing.

00:22:23.579 --> 00:22:26.380
It's really one party. But they have people at

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the top that are like the puppet masters of both

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the parties. And it looks like they're arguing

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and fighting. But then when you see these things

00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:37.420
get voted on and you're scratching your head

00:22:37.420 --> 00:22:40.359
going, How is that even possible? You realize

00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:42.380
that the fighting and the bickering is all a

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show. Yeah. OK, so the evidence for that, the

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Democrats had the House and the Senate and the

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White House, and they're against all the billionaires,

00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:54.140
right? Supposedly. Yeah. Bernie Sanders, AOC.

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When they had all three, what did they do? Did

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they raise taxes on the billionaires? No. Did

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they break up big business, break up corporate

00:23:03.420 --> 00:23:06.099
America, anything? Antitrust? Do they do anything?

00:23:06.259 --> 00:23:09.440
No. So that's there, right? I've been covering

00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:12.240
the kind of Republican stuff. But yeah, so it's

00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:15.240
like when you get power and you don't do anything

00:23:15.240 --> 00:23:17.339
the American people promised, our side's always

00:23:17.339 --> 00:23:19.359
gullible. We're like the Cub Scouts, right? They're

00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:22.720
Republican. We act stupid, but the billionaires

00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:25.920
are running. Okay, so what about what's happening

00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:30.279
now with the DOG? With the DOG? With the DOG.

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Yeah. It seems like the information is coming

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out. Is it not the real deal? You know, that's

00:23:37.019 --> 00:23:38.859
the real deal. That's the first time that's ever

00:23:38.859 --> 00:23:41.740
happened. That's how you know. Is it because

00:23:41.740 --> 00:23:46.059
Trump's the real deal? Yes. He's the only guy.

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He got erased in the first term. And then in

00:23:52.259 --> 00:23:54.099
the second term, I'll let your viewers decide

00:23:54.099 --> 00:23:56.660
what that election was all about. But the evidence,

00:23:56.819 --> 00:23:59.299
Tulsi Gabbard's coming out with some new evidence

00:23:59.299 --> 00:24:02.640
on that. Receipts, not just theories. And then

00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:04.680
the third time around, he's got his pencil out.

00:24:05.230 --> 00:24:09.329
And he's cracking it all. He's exposing all of

00:24:09.329 --> 00:24:11.789
the corruption. And the first explosive piece

00:24:11.789 --> 00:24:15.349
was that USAID piece that just showed without

00:24:15.349 --> 00:24:19.170
any doubt what's going on up there. Do you think

00:24:19.170 --> 00:24:21.549
he knows about, he understands the Uniparty?

00:24:21.710 --> 00:24:26.630
Oh, yeah. They tried to, they erased him from

00:24:26.630 --> 00:24:31.660
power. In 16. The first day of his presidency,

00:24:31.900 --> 00:24:34.180
the Washington Post was writing hit pieces, and

00:24:34.180 --> 00:24:36.839
the Steele dossier was created by the Clintons,

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and that involved 51 intelligence officers at

00:24:39.940 --> 00:24:43.579
the highest level, right? The highest level.

00:24:43.619 --> 00:24:45.660
National security people signed their name to

00:24:45.660 --> 00:24:48.839
a lie that was created by a political party,

00:24:48.900 --> 00:24:52.700
by the UK, and then that was pushed in the Washington

00:24:52.700 --> 00:24:55.660
Post, Russia, Russia, Russia, for three years.

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Russia, Russia, Russia. what was it was nothing

00:25:00.349 --> 00:25:03.089
there nothing burger right and so that's the

00:25:03.089 --> 00:25:06.329
uniparty and both sides had people doing that

00:25:06.329 --> 00:25:09.990
story right so that there's your i i just like

00:25:09.990 --> 00:25:11.849
giving evidence i don't like giving my opinion

00:25:11.849 --> 00:25:14.410
i just like giving the receipts that's all you

00:25:14.410 --> 00:25:17.049
can look it up there's receipts on all of that

00:25:17.049 --> 00:25:19.549
so is this why they tried to take him out three

00:25:19.549 --> 00:25:23.170
times because they knew he was going after this

00:25:23.170 --> 00:25:27.460
money that's being just thrown everywhere yeah

00:25:27.460 --> 00:25:30.460
they knew where he was going yeah the cia absolutely

00:25:30.460 --> 00:25:33.779
right brennan i think got caught lying and that

00:25:33.779 --> 00:25:37.059
the cia guys the fbi guys got caught lying comey

00:25:37.059 --> 00:25:40.539
got caught lying i think i mean it's uh it's

00:25:40.539 --> 00:25:43.940
pretty stunning and uh so now the base and the

00:25:43.940 --> 00:25:46.140
american people are going oh if they break the

00:25:46.140 --> 00:25:48.740
law why aren't they arrested right bannon got

00:25:48.740 --> 00:25:51.440
put in jail for not showing up to a sham committee

00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:54.940
meeting that uh pelosi set up with no republican

00:25:54.940 --> 00:25:59.589
members and no lawyer and he goes to jail jail

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prison and navarro went to prison because he's

00:26:03.049 --> 00:26:04.789
the architect of the tariffs and he wouldn't

00:26:04.789 --> 00:26:08.170
show up for the pelosi sham trial and if you

00:26:08.170 --> 00:26:10.650
looked at it it was a really a sham trial and

00:26:10.650 --> 00:26:13.150
they wouldn't show up because the republicans

00:26:13.150 --> 00:26:15.069
didn't have equal representation they didn't

00:26:15.069 --> 00:26:17.769
have a lawyer they didn't have due process and

00:26:17.769 --> 00:26:19.950
so yeah there's there's a there's a bunch of

00:26:19.950 --> 00:26:21.819
problems we got to sort through So going back

00:26:21.819 --> 00:26:24.640
to you and your journey. Can I just say something

00:26:24.640 --> 00:26:26.119
real fast? Because this is what's exciting me

00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:29.339
about this show, Erased, right now. You're actually

00:26:29.339 --> 00:26:33.460
teaching us, I love this, you are teaching us

00:26:33.460 --> 00:26:39.079
the reason behind cancel culture, especially

00:26:39.079 --> 00:26:41.460
in the political world. This could be the first

00:26:41.460 --> 00:26:44.660
time on a show like ours, Erased, where it goes

00:26:44.660 --> 00:26:48.019
to the root cause. Of why people have been erased.

00:26:48.099 --> 00:26:50.039
And, you know, we have been interviewing a lot

00:26:50.039 --> 00:26:55.400
of different people who supported Trump and were

00:26:55.400 --> 00:26:58.539
erased because of their support of Trump. So

00:26:58.539 --> 00:27:01.740
they just try and cancel. Right. You know, they

00:27:01.740 --> 00:27:05.900
go. And if you want the answer book ahead of

00:27:05.900 --> 00:27:09.079
time for the show, it's Kash Patel, government

00:27:09.079 --> 00:27:13.500
gangsters. And they went after him big time.

00:27:13.599 --> 00:27:17.579
And then Mike Benz. who's one of the top intelligence

00:27:17.579 --> 00:27:20.000
minds in the country. Both of them are brilliant

00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:22.420
people. If you interview them, they'll give you

00:27:22.420 --> 00:27:24.740
way more than I got. They'll give you stuff that'll

00:27:24.740 --> 00:27:27.359
blow your mind. Well, maybe you'll connect us

00:27:27.359 --> 00:27:28.779
with them. What do you think about that? Sure,

00:27:28.799 --> 00:27:32.000
sure, good. So sorry, go ahead. Okay, so back

00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:34.720
to your journey. So you were elected, must feel

00:27:34.720 --> 00:27:37.759
great. Everybody's super excited. Your family's

00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:40.500
really excited. And almost from day one, you

00:27:40.500 --> 00:27:43.319
feel like, oh, this is not what I had planned

00:27:43.319 --> 00:27:47.200
for. What did that feel like? Tell us what was

00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:49.380
going on in your household. Yeah, well, it was

00:27:49.380 --> 00:27:53.920
great. Even when you're taking your dings, you

00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:57.039
know, you still think you're doing the right

00:27:57.039 --> 00:27:59.240
thing for the country. It's like I was talking

00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:02.519
about the family. There's certain things worth

00:28:02.519 --> 00:28:04.259
fighting for, and you pay a price for them, but

00:28:04.259 --> 00:28:08.509
doing the right thing matters the most. So, yeah,

00:28:08.569 --> 00:28:10.809
you start getting worn down. In the first two

00:28:10.809 --> 00:28:12.789
years, I was still kind of green and gullible

00:28:12.789 --> 00:28:14.710
and didn't get all these forces that I'm talking

00:28:14.710 --> 00:28:18.650
about now. And so it was going pretty good. It

00:28:18.650 --> 00:28:19.890
was one of the colleagues we thought were going

00:28:19.890 --> 00:28:22.849
to make some hope. And then the Republicans said,

00:28:22.910 --> 00:28:24.130
well, if you give us the House, we're going to

00:28:24.130 --> 00:28:25.670
do this. Now, if you give us the Senate, we're

00:28:25.670 --> 00:28:27.109
going to do this. Now, if you give us the president,

00:28:27.230 --> 00:28:29.289
we're going to really do this. Right. In 16,

00:28:29.490 --> 00:28:32.369
we got all three and we didn't do anything. We

00:28:32.369 --> 00:28:34.789
promised to repeal Obamacare for seven years,

00:28:34.970 --> 00:28:37.109
and we didn't. We put in some Paul Ryan Medicaid

00:28:37.109 --> 00:28:40.269
little thing, and that raised health care costs

00:28:40.269 --> 00:28:43.650
by 20 % in the first year. So I went on TV and

00:28:43.650 --> 00:28:46.809
said that. Paul would walk by and just go. And

00:28:46.809 --> 00:28:49.190
he knew I never lied, but he knew. He said, there

00:28:49.190 --> 00:28:52.470
goes Brad. And so they found that irritating,

00:28:52.730 --> 00:28:54.410
and they're like, but it's flying the ointment.

00:28:54.430 --> 00:28:57.349
Like, doesn't belong up here with us sophisticates.

00:28:58.349 --> 00:29:02.089
And so and then Trump won in 16. He came down

00:29:02.089 --> 00:29:03.970
and visited me because I was the canary in the

00:29:03.970 --> 00:29:06.750
coal mine. He wanted to see what was this. And

00:29:06.750 --> 00:29:09.349
I had major opposition, some silver hair people

00:29:09.349 --> 00:29:12.890
in the party structures who were just terrible.

00:29:13.349 --> 00:29:15.990
And Trump comes down and wows them and said,

00:29:16.049 --> 00:29:19.369
where did you put my buddy, Brad? He read the

00:29:19.369 --> 00:29:21.509
room like by a thousand people, this golf thing.

00:29:22.140 --> 00:29:23.740
And they stuck me at the back table. And Trump

00:29:23.740 --> 00:29:25.200
was like, hey, where'd you put my buddy Brett?

00:29:25.500 --> 00:29:27.940
Where's the best congressman? That's awesome.

00:29:28.180 --> 00:29:29.640
Hey, why'd they stick you in the back, Dave?

00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:34.099
So he called out everybody like immediate. And

00:29:34.099 --> 00:29:36.460
my wife and I like diving under the table going,

00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:41.500
oh, God. We're dead. We're dead. The newspapers

00:29:41.500 --> 00:29:44.220
are going to crush it. Get me on the newspapers

00:29:44.220 --> 00:29:47.799
coming up. But then after that, it got real tough.

00:29:47.859 --> 00:29:51.559
In suburbia, there was a war. The left just came

00:29:51.559 --> 00:29:54.500
after Trump and anyone that supported him. And

00:29:54.500 --> 00:29:58.339
I supported him. And so that was a major. And

00:29:58.339 --> 00:30:02.500
I was I'm I don't cheerlead like, you know, we're

00:30:02.500 --> 00:30:04.759
always right. You can. Right. I mean, I'm telling

00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:07.359
you where I told my party, you're wrong. Right.

00:30:07.420 --> 00:30:10.440
So when I say I support some, I wanted a shakeup

00:30:10.440 --> 00:30:13.180
of this corruption. And that's what I saw that

00:30:13.180 --> 00:30:17.460
Trump could do. And he has done, you know. You're

00:30:17.460 --> 00:30:21.400
kind of wired the same way. We got into our own

00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:23.839
cancellation journeys. My wife, her journeys

00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:26.519
had to... She has an amazing bullshit detector.

00:30:26.740 --> 00:30:29.200
She saw very early on that things didn't seem

00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:32.539
to add up with all the mandates and so on. She

00:30:32.539 --> 00:30:35.619
had to speak up. She had to speak up in the loudest

00:30:35.619 --> 00:30:38.480
possible way. A lot of people don't do that,

00:30:38.579 --> 00:30:41.059
you know? Yeah, yeah. And you sound like you're

00:30:41.059 --> 00:30:43.359
the same. You saw something and you see something,

00:30:43.420 --> 00:30:47.640
say something. You have to. But it costs you

00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:51.200
as well. Yeah, yeah. You served one term and

00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:54.680
out you go. Would you have done things differently

00:30:54.680 --> 00:30:58.990
if you could do it all over again? No, no, no,

00:30:58.990 --> 00:31:00.970
no. There's only one way to sleep at night. And

00:31:00.970 --> 00:31:03.670
I actually was in two full terms and a hair more.

00:31:03.910 --> 00:31:07.690
But it was two full terms before Trump and then

00:31:07.690 --> 00:31:11.950
after Trump. And then I won by 15 percent and

00:31:11.950 --> 00:31:15.450
won by 15 percent and then lost by one and a

00:31:15.450 --> 00:31:21.289
half percent to a CIA agent. Are you getting

00:31:21.289 --> 00:31:27.289
where this is going? So the CIA. She didn't have

00:31:27.289 --> 00:31:29.869
to say anything about her position or what she

00:31:29.869 --> 00:31:32.829
did. Man, what a way to run for office, right?

00:31:32.910 --> 00:31:34.950
There's no record on anything you've done, what

00:31:34.950 --> 00:31:38.549
your job was. And then the one and a half is

00:31:38.549 --> 00:31:44.930
also kind of a giveaway because if you lose by

00:31:44.930 --> 00:31:51.440
less than 1%, you get a recount. And if it's

00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:55.579
one and a half, it's just over. No conspiracies,

00:31:55.579 --> 00:32:00.619
but no coincidences, right? So, huh. And to win

00:32:00.619 --> 00:32:05.019
by 15 and 15, and then that's a 17 -point turnaround.

00:32:05.299 --> 00:32:09.319
And now in light of the CIA and the FBI and the

00:32:09.319 --> 00:32:12.819
deep state, I'm going, uh, uh. But to get to

00:32:12.819 --> 00:32:16.099
your question, you know, so is it worth it or

00:32:16.099 --> 00:32:17.460
would you have done it? I would have done it

00:32:17.460 --> 00:32:21.779
all over again. And now I'm in a good spot right

00:32:21.779 --> 00:32:23.920
now. And I know all this and I'm on shows like

00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:26.579
this and I'm doing maybe the more important thing

00:32:26.579 --> 00:32:28.500
like you guys are doing, which is educating the

00:32:28.500 --> 00:32:31.579
people. So this cannot happen. Right. And why

00:32:31.579 --> 00:32:33.819
people keep electing people who vote for seven

00:32:33.819 --> 00:32:37.920
trillion dollar budgets and lie. I don't know.

00:32:41.420 --> 00:32:46.319
But I guess my question is, OK, so Trump is president

00:32:46.319 --> 00:32:50.930
right now, but you still have. You know, they're

00:32:50.930 --> 00:32:53.730
still voting for this. They're still not doing

00:32:53.730 --> 00:32:58.349
enough to stop the insanity. Can one person break

00:32:58.349 --> 00:33:02.589
this up? Like, what could we do as the people

00:33:02.589 --> 00:33:06.529
besides not vote for these people? How do we

00:33:06.529 --> 00:33:08.809
know the next person coming in isn't just going

00:33:08.809 --> 00:33:11.470
to get canceled and kicked out? I mean, what

00:33:11.470 --> 00:33:15.329
can we really do to take this place to where

00:33:15.329 --> 00:33:18.230
everybody is? that's supposed to be working for

00:33:18.230 --> 00:33:21.089
us is truly pro -America, and it's not smoke

00:33:21.089 --> 00:33:22.849
and mirrors. What can we do about it? No, that's

00:33:22.849 --> 00:33:26.769
the right question. The serious answer to that

00:33:26.769 --> 00:33:30.309
is a spiritual awakening, right? The founders,

00:33:30.529 --> 00:33:32.990
even some of them were very Christian, some of

00:33:32.990 --> 00:33:35.549
them were somewhat Christian, somewhat secular,

00:33:35.609 --> 00:33:37.910
Jefferson, you know, whatever. But they all,

00:33:38.029 --> 00:33:40.730
Ben Franklin, this smart aleck probably, they

00:33:40.730 --> 00:33:42.750
all said this republic was created for moral

00:33:42.750 --> 00:33:46.599
people. So in K -12 education right now, a kid

00:33:46.599 --> 00:33:48.599
doesn't even know what morality is. They're not,

00:33:48.680 --> 00:33:52.960
what's morality? Can you name it? What system?

00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:56.619
Like the Ten Commandments, Moses, anything? No,

00:33:56.940 --> 00:34:00.160
right? So at a serious level, if you don't know

00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:02.200
why you're on the planet, and that's not religious,

00:34:02.279 --> 00:34:07.400
that's Socrates, right? Why am I here? What's

00:34:07.400 --> 00:34:09.800
a good life? What is a good life? What's a life

00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:14.130
worth living? That's Socrates. And you can't

00:34:14.130 --> 00:34:15.570
teach that in the public schools because you

00:34:15.570 --> 00:34:18.269
might create thinkers. And they certainly don't

00:34:18.269 --> 00:34:21.710
want thinkers up there, right? So that's one

00:34:21.710 --> 00:34:24.050
level. The other level of what you can do is

00:34:24.050 --> 00:34:27.130
write op -eds in your papers across the country

00:34:27.130 --> 00:34:30.070
and do podcasts and get young people to multiply

00:34:30.070 --> 00:34:31.949
it, right? Get the young people are sophisticated.

00:34:32.289 --> 00:34:36.030
Get them to blow up your numbers, right? And

00:34:36.030 --> 00:34:38.889
push the information out. So we don't have to

00:34:38.889 --> 00:34:41.110
keep going through this. And we have a window

00:34:41.110 --> 00:34:44.929
with Trump right now. And that's why he's doing

00:34:44.929 --> 00:34:47.449
great. You saw the pharmaceutical piece yesterday.

00:34:47.630 --> 00:34:50.349
The tariff piece is having profoundly good effects.

00:34:50.670 --> 00:34:53.369
The stock market went down at first a little

00:34:53.369 --> 00:34:56.989
bit. The mainstream media said it's like 1929

00:34:56.989 --> 00:34:59.469
in the Great Depression. I mean, it's just you

00:34:59.469 --> 00:35:01.889
can't make up. Right. Markets are actually up

00:35:01.889 --> 00:35:04.860
a little bit. right since the tariffs went a

00:35:04.860 --> 00:35:07.079
year on year the markets are up put it that way

00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:11.440
so it's just total false information by who who

00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:15.619
owns all the mainstream media the unit party

00:35:15.619 --> 00:35:19.320
so um does your is your family deeply involved

00:35:19.320 --> 00:35:21.559
in your in your politics or do they just like

00:35:21.559 --> 00:35:23.800
oh there's dave doing his thing when things were

00:35:23.800 --> 00:35:28.699
really really bad um do you I guess you were

00:35:28.699 --> 00:35:30.639
living in Washington. I assume you went back

00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:33.179
and forth, I assume. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did they

00:35:33.179 --> 00:35:35.599
see you depressed or down? What were your spirits

00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:37.179
like through all of this stuff? It was pretty

00:35:37.179 --> 00:35:41.460
good. I viewed it as my duty. If it's your duty,

00:35:41.519 --> 00:35:44.400
it's like a general. You go to war. What are

00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:47.019
you going to do? Come home depressed? So no,

00:35:47.099 --> 00:35:49.420
the kids, I just let the kids kind of float on

00:35:49.420 --> 00:35:51.480
their own as best I could. I didn't want them

00:35:51.480 --> 00:35:53.920
in the middle. I didn't make them do work for

00:35:53.920 --> 00:35:56.400
me, that kind of thing. My wife is like your

00:35:56.400 --> 00:36:02.380
wife. She's a true teller of fire. Once she hears

00:36:02.380 --> 00:36:06.099
something, she kept my blood rushing. I'm the

00:36:06.099 --> 00:36:11.639
northern, cool -blooded, frozen chosen, and she's

00:36:11.639 --> 00:36:13.500
the southern, hot -blooded everything. She's

00:36:13.500 --> 00:36:18.039
got the... irish and and uh and italian and all

00:36:18.039 --> 00:36:22.179
the all the excitement in her so it's good and

00:36:22.179 --> 00:36:24.420
uh so she's still fighting with me we're still

00:36:24.420 --> 00:36:28.179
trying to tell the truth uh and uh it was a good

00:36:28.179 --> 00:36:31.079
team and so i really don't get in the family

00:36:31.079 --> 00:36:33.739
because the press will abuse that if you convey

00:36:33.739 --> 00:36:37.179
any information the blob is so corrupt and evil

00:36:37.179 --> 00:36:40.260
i cannot tell you and that's one of the downsides

00:36:40.260 --> 00:36:42.780
is if you are virtuous there are people without

00:36:42.780 --> 00:36:46.880
virtue who will use your virtue uh as a weapon

00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:50.739
to attack you what's the worst thing that the

00:36:50.739 --> 00:36:55.079
media said about you like the worst it just went

00:36:55.079 --> 00:36:59.039
on it it's just constant my own paper the richmond

00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:02.139
times dispatch and and the editor i'd call them

00:37:02.139 --> 00:37:04.239
up every saturday where they'd lie every single

00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:07.539
week uh one day i said you know the greeks you

00:37:07.539 --> 00:37:09.280
know they were talking about education pie so

00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:12.219
there's these guys socrates and plato and aristotle

00:37:12.219 --> 00:37:14.699
uh the smartest guys that ever lived as far as

00:37:14.699 --> 00:37:16.780
i know no one's real all the western philosophy

00:37:16.780 --> 00:37:19.840
they say is a footnote to play -doh and i studied

00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:22.719
that for you know 30 years and i said these guys

00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:25.889
got pretty smart studying on rocks And the headline

00:37:25.889 --> 00:37:28.289
next day, Brat says education should eat rocks.

00:37:28.489 --> 00:37:32.090
I mean, just as an example, one day I'm in the

00:37:32.090 --> 00:37:34.010
prison talking. I got the men over here and the

00:37:34.010 --> 00:37:35.750
women over here and they're all on drugs and

00:37:35.750 --> 00:37:37.590
doing that, but they're turning their lives around

00:37:37.590 --> 00:37:39.710
in jail. They're good people. We have a great

00:37:39.710 --> 00:37:42.230
talk, talking about God, Jesus with the Christians

00:37:42.230 --> 00:37:45.710
and God with everybody and whatever, a better

00:37:45.710 --> 00:37:48.289
life, turning over a new leaf, doing the best

00:37:48.289 --> 00:37:51.250
you can. And then one person from a political

00:37:51.250 --> 00:37:54.730
thing nukes me, says, we're having a bad day.

00:37:54.809 --> 00:37:56.070
What are you talking about yourself and all this

00:37:56.070 --> 00:37:58.210
stuff? And then I made the mistake of saying,

00:37:58.269 --> 00:38:00.429
you think you're having a bad day? Try having

00:38:00.429 --> 00:38:02.349
5 million negative ads dumped down your head.

00:38:03.170 --> 00:38:06.969
Dave Brat tells prisoners they got no problems.

00:38:07.150 --> 00:38:09.849
He's the one you should feel sorry for. Wow.

00:38:10.409 --> 00:38:11.989
Every single day, a headline like that. Oh, I

00:38:11.989 --> 00:38:14.630
think I heard about that one. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

00:38:14.690 --> 00:38:17.670
And that was NPR or whatever, the public radio.

00:38:17.809 --> 00:38:19.880
I was like. I knew who was in the room, right?

00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:23.059
And then other rooms, you got spies in there

00:38:23.059 --> 00:38:25.000
and they tape you and they just, they give you

00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:27.300
one sentence. I was in a church one day and all

00:38:27.300 --> 00:38:30.280
the pink hat people were in there dropping F

00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:33.260
-bombs on the pastor while he was praying, giving

00:38:33.260 --> 00:38:35.980
the invocation and the press wouldn't cover it.

00:38:36.199 --> 00:38:38.960
And I called the press. We had it on tape. My

00:38:38.960 --> 00:38:41.480
opponent was in there. Democrats are in there.

00:38:42.619 --> 00:38:46.940
Nothing. And I'm like, wow. Wow. And then people

00:38:46.940 --> 00:38:49.139
wonder, like, why do you want Trump? That's why.

00:38:49.860 --> 00:38:52.300
Yeah, we learned the hard way that we didn't

00:38:52.300 --> 00:38:54.119
have a voice. Anybody who's been through a cancellation

00:38:54.119 --> 00:38:58.340
journey, nobody covers it. The other side, you

00:38:58.340 --> 00:39:00.940
know, that's the purpose of the show is to finally

00:39:00.940 --> 00:39:04.559
have a mouthpiece, you know. So you had, I mean,

00:39:04.599 --> 00:39:08.079
I'm sure you had aspirations, ambitions to serve

00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:11.960
our country for more. Is that? Was that dead

00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:14.159
in the water? You knew really relatively quickly

00:39:14.159 --> 00:39:16.280
that, I mean, I guess you have a pretty thick

00:39:16.280 --> 00:39:18.380
skin. Did you always have a thick skin or did

00:39:18.380 --> 00:39:22.179
you have to develop it along the way? No, I think

00:39:22.179 --> 00:39:27.360
some people just thought I was stupid. It's like,

00:39:27.420 --> 00:39:30.780
this guy doesn't have a clue of the forces arrayed

00:39:30.780 --> 00:39:33.699
against him, does he? And I was like, not really.

00:39:33.980 --> 00:39:36.179
I'm just going to do what I'm going to do, right?

00:39:36.300 --> 00:39:38.800
I mean, I was raised to tell the truth and do

00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:42.159
what's best for the country. and put those principles

00:39:42.159 --> 00:39:46.380
in law so that they can't be changed. And so

00:39:46.380 --> 00:39:52.059
it's like, that's the deal. And actually, I didn't

00:39:52.059 --> 00:39:54.679
think I was going to get turfed out. I thought

00:39:54.679 --> 00:39:56.219
I was going to win that election because I won

00:39:56.219 --> 00:39:58.820
by 15 and 15, and I was in a red conservative

00:39:58.820 --> 00:40:01.699
district. But boy, the press went to work, and

00:40:01.699 --> 00:40:05.139
there were a lot of forces up above me. My own

00:40:05.139 --> 00:40:08.730
party didn't want me to win. I could tell you

00:40:08.730 --> 00:40:11.130
horror stories about some other races. I won't

00:40:11.130 --> 00:40:18.710
even go there. You know, actually, ask your question.

00:40:19.050 --> 00:40:23.510
So the media is punching you in the face all

00:40:23.510 --> 00:40:26.210
the time. You're in your community. You're walking

00:40:26.210 --> 00:40:30.050
around. People consume the media, and they take

00:40:30.050 --> 00:40:34.039
it as gospel. Did you lose? friends or family

00:40:34.039 --> 00:40:35.800
along the way who were like, oh, my God, this

00:40:35.800 --> 00:40:39.400
day is not exactly who I thought he was. Any

00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:41.400
stories like that? Yeah, and toward the end,

00:40:41.440 --> 00:40:44.719
it got bad. I mean, we were in a cheesecake factory

00:40:44.719 --> 00:40:48.059
one day, and this old lady yells at my daughter,

00:40:48.179 --> 00:40:51.760
who's like eight years old back then. I mean,

00:40:51.780 --> 00:40:54.920
this is the extent of, like, nasty, right? And

00:40:54.920 --> 00:40:58.000
the left says that, you know, the conservatives

00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:01.900
are the nasties. i wouldn't condone i wouldn't

00:41:01.900 --> 00:41:04.679
let any of my people do treat anybody that way

00:41:04.679 --> 00:41:08.900
right and so yeah that that you know and then

00:41:08.900 --> 00:41:11.579
it gets into your head a little bit you're in

00:41:11.579 --> 00:41:14.079
church with christians who you you know are supposed

00:41:14.079 --> 00:41:15.780
to you don't love your neighbors kind of one

00:41:15.780 --> 00:41:18.860
of the key ideas and uh you know that'd be nice

00:41:18.860 --> 00:41:21.820
and uh you just see less than love and i love

00:41:21.820 --> 00:41:23.599
them i didn't care if they're democrats i don't

00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:26.599
care if they're marxist you know it's like I

00:41:26.599 --> 00:41:28.320
try to convince them they're wrong, but I'm not

00:41:28.320 --> 00:41:31.420
going to get nasty. And so, yeah, it's just that

00:41:31.420 --> 00:41:34.440
the other side doesn't have any corresponding

00:41:34.440 --> 00:41:38.920
virtues that they have to live up to. And so

00:41:38.920 --> 00:41:41.960
I had to live with that. That's a problem. I

00:41:41.960 --> 00:41:43.920
mean, if your kids were that young, were they

00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:46.119
being impacted at school? Would they come home

00:41:46.119 --> 00:41:49.800
crying, saying, show us that? I won't go into

00:41:49.800 --> 00:41:53.760
that. But our public school system does not defend.

00:41:54.510 --> 00:41:57.309
the innocence. I'll just put it that way. And

00:41:57.309 --> 00:42:00.650
it's not just my kids and these issues. There's

00:42:00.650 --> 00:42:03.150
kids that are getting pummeled and whatever.

00:42:03.730 --> 00:42:06.090
And these public school principals are under

00:42:06.090 --> 00:42:08.809
pressure and they cave to the loudmouth parents.

00:42:09.110 --> 00:42:12.110
And it just should not be that way. And that's

00:42:12.110 --> 00:42:13.969
why the school systems are getting blown up right

00:42:13.969 --> 00:42:16.190
now. We have a school, you know, we run Sentinel

00:42:16.190 --> 00:42:19.210
Academy in Miami. No. Oh, I didn't. I did not.

00:42:19.909 --> 00:42:23.429
That's why we got blasted. Cause I, I stood up

00:42:23.429 --> 00:42:25.550
against wanting the teachers to get the COVID

00:42:25.550 --> 00:42:27.530
shot. I did not want them to get it. I was not

00:42:27.530 --> 00:42:31.630
supporting it. I was not for it. And, um, you

00:42:31.630 --> 00:42:34.489
know, we're also very anti all this insanity.

00:42:34.710 --> 00:42:38.369
So while the other schools are allowing, you

00:42:38.369 --> 00:42:42.610
know, parents to bring their kids to school with

00:42:42.610 --> 00:42:45.710
a litter box, we're like, No, no, no, no, no.

00:42:45.730 --> 00:42:49.389
Your kid needs a psychiatrist, not a litter box.

00:42:50.030 --> 00:42:53.849
So, you know, we've been very loud about, like,

00:42:53.889 --> 00:42:58.829
you're weaving. Right, right. I can feel it coming.

00:42:58.849 --> 00:43:02.130
It's good. I've been on Turning Point, and one

00:43:02.130 --> 00:43:04.610
of my speeches at Turning Point, I actually showed

00:43:04.610 --> 00:43:08.130
the audience some of these books that public

00:43:08.130 --> 00:43:12.699
schools are allowing little kids to read. You

00:43:12.699 --> 00:43:16.159
know, the gay B .C. is for five year olds. Inappropriate.

00:43:16.179 --> 00:43:19.300
Yeah. You know, or way more pornographic than

00:43:19.300 --> 00:43:22.880
that. Ten year olds in public schools are reading

00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:28.739
books where you see illustrations of transgender

00:43:28.739 --> 00:43:33.159
with a dildo on strap on and another. Well, I

00:43:33.159 --> 00:43:35.539
don't know. He she in front of her like doing

00:43:35.539 --> 00:43:39.619
the act. Ten year olds reading these books. you

00:43:39.619 --> 00:43:42.840
know and so to us that's insanity it's it's truly

00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:46.340
insanity yeah well and it and it it's it's it's

00:43:46.340 --> 00:43:48.260
worse than insanity because it's intentional

00:43:48.260 --> 00:43:52.300
it's i mean it it this is policy that's inflicted

00:43:52.300 --> 00:43:55.199
intentionally on the kids it's not that these

00:43:55.199 --> 00:44:00.380
kids are insane this is a strategy and the marxists

00:44:00.380 --> 00:44:03.960
have had this on paper for a hundred years And

00:44:03.960 --> 00:44:06.659
this is how you tear a society apart. You go

00:44:06.659 --> 00:44:09.280
after the churches and the morality and you get

00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:12.059
the kids, right? And that's what they're doing.

00:44:12.260 --> 00:44:15.800
You confuse them. You beat them down. You break

00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:18.139
their self -confidence, their self -esteem. You

00:44:18.139 --> 00:44:20.019
make them think they don't know who they are

00:44:20.019 --> 00:44:22.840
or that they can choose who they are or what

00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:26.539
they are or the 56 other, I don't know, genders

00:44:26.539 --> 00:44:30.400
or whatever. I just have a quick comment again.

00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:36.269
Sorry, honey. But, you know, one common theme

00:44:36.269 --> 00:44:39.670
that I'm seeing on our show is the people that

00:44:39.670 --> 00:44:43.309
seem to be really like taking a stance. Yeah.

00:44:43.469 --> 00:44:46.349
Are the ones that feel they're very purpose driven.

00:44:46.469 --> 00:44:48.530
Like you said earlier that they believe in a

00:44:48.530 --> 00:44:51.889
higher power. Right. Right. And that like. God

00:44:51.889 --> 00:44:55.429
chose you to make a stance, to use your voice.

00:44:55.510 --> 00:44:57.789
And I felt that as well. I felt like I didn't

00:44:57.789 --> 00:45:00.630
have a choice. It was like God was telling me,

00:45:00.650 --> 00:45:04.050
listen, little girl, you work for me. Yeah, you're

00:45:04.050 --> 00:45:05.750
going to get slapped around and it's going to

00:45:05.750 --> 00:45:10.570
hurt, but I need to use you to be my voice. Yeah.

00:45:10.710 --> 00:45:15.510
Right? And I feel like if that's... the message

00:45:15.510 --> 00:45:17.670
of this show and the inspiration that we can

00:45:17.670 --> 00:45:20.969
give others, you know, as Alan said, fight, fight,

00:45:20.989 --> 00:45:25.690
fight, you know, to really not be afraid even

00:45:25.690 --> 00:45:28.590
when it hurts. Yeah. Even when you need to get

00:45:28.590 --> 00:45:31.550
up and lick your wounds. Yeah. And say, you know,

00:45:31.570 --> 00:45:33.510
that's going to take a little while to heal.

00:45:33.710 --> 00:45:36.389
At the end of the day, it's going to heal. Yeah.

00:45:36.550 --> 00:45:38.309
And, you know, there have been some situations

00:45:38.309 --> 00:45:42.010
where, you know, like Roger Stone, his wife suffered

00:45:42.010 --> 00:45:45.699
serious health issues. Because of the, you know,

00:45:45.699 --> 00:45:49.219
PTSD around what they experienced as a family.

00:45:49.539 --> 00:45:52.460
Because you go through this journey as a family.

00:45:52.579 --> 00:45:54.500
I didn't go through it alone. I went through

00:45:54.500 --> 00:45:58.079
it with my husband. You know, we're impacted

00:45:58.079 --> 00:46:01.239
together. What impacts me and hurts my soul hurts

00:46:01.239 --> 00:46:04.219
his soul. You know, we get up together off the

00:46:04.219 --> 00:46:06.639
floor, lick our wounds together and hold each

00:46:06.639 --> 00:46:09.900
other up. You know, and I also noticed another

00:46:09.900 --> 00:46:12.800
common theme. Our guests have had strong spouses.

00:46:13.659 --> 00:46:16.519
yes that's true right yeah that's across the

00:46:16.519 --> 00:46:18.920
board yeah for sure that's a good observation

00:46:18.920 --> 00:46:22.699
because you know we're the success stories in

00:46:22.699 --> 00:46:25.340
terms of you know hey we're here we're not going

00:46:25.340 --> 00:46:27.780
anywhere yeah that hurt but we're here standing

00:46:27.780 --> 00:46:30.840
strong there are people that have been canceled

00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:34.820
and have committed suicide yes yes i know it's

00:46:34.820 --> 00:46:41.239
sick yeah oh yeah yes yes you know we interviewed

00:46:41.900 --> 00:46:47.139
Eddie Gallagher. And also the Navy SEAL and the

00:46:47.139 --> 00:46:50.699
lady who one of the Navy SEALs committed suicide.

00:46:51.239 --> 00:46:54.019
Yeah. Yeah. You know, and he felt after that

00:46:54.019 --> 00:46:57.380
it was his duty to stand up against to do it.

00:46:57.500 --> 00:47:01.559
It is. It is. And the flip. Yeah. And the flip

00:47:01.559 --> 00:47:05.039
flip side of it is people that don't have any

00:47:05.039 --> 00:47:09.019
purpose in their lives are miserable. And the

00:47:09.019 --> 00:47:11.199
point isn't to judge them. The point is to give

00:47:11.199 --> 00:47:13.090
them hope. Well, part of the problem is they

00:47:13.090 --> 00:47:15.710
cause harm, though, too. They're miserable. Yeah.

00:47:15.829 --> 00:47:18.750
I know. They actually try to hurt others and

00:47:18.750 --> 00:47:20.030
bring others down. Well, and that's the law.

00:47:20.190 --> 00:47:22.670
Then that's time for the law to kick in. Yeah.

00:47:23.070 --> 00:47:24.929
But, you know, if this show could do anything,

00:47:25.070 --> 00:47:30.409
give others inspiration to tap, you know, into

00:47:30.409 --> 00:47:33.590
that strength, to tap into, you know, the higher,

00:47:33.750 --> 00:47:40.030
you know, to God. Yes. And know that. It could

00:47:40.030 --> 00:47:43.389
hurt. It might hurt. You might drop in finances.

00:47:43.650 --> 00:47:48.809
We voided seven figures of contracts just because

00:47:48.809 --> 00:47:50.590
the parents thought I was trying to kill the

00:47:50.590 --> 00:47:52.469
school because I wouldn't let the teachers get

00:47:52.469 --> 00:47:57.730
an experimental you -know -what. You have to

00:47:57.730 --> 00:47:59.429
know that when you're going through the hurricane,

00:47:59.750 --> 00:48:02.489
you will come out stronger because your soul

00:48:02.489 --> 00:48:05.849
will be stronger. At the end of the day, we're

00:48:05.849 --> 00:48:07.449
not going to take this money with us, are we?

00:48:08.299 --> 00:48:14.059
Nope, nope. And the God piece is huge, right?

00:48:14.159 --> 00:48:17.820
The God with purpose and the purpose -driven

00:48:17.820 --> 00:48:19.880
life, and there's books out there on that for

00:48:19.880 --> 00:48:22.900
people who are listening. That's a good entry

00:48:22.900 --> 00:48:27.719
point. And God is objective, right? In the Judeo

00:48:27.719 --> 00:48:29.860
-Christian West, God is a person, right? It's

00:48:29.860 --> 00:48:34.889
not just some abstract idea. person you know

00:48:34.889 --> 00:48:37.630
entered history as well and suffered with us

00:48:37.630 --> 00:48:40.449
right so there's a story there about suffering

00:48:40.449 --> 00:48:42.329
and then redemption right so you're right the

00:48:42.329 --> 00:48:44.710
good news does come in the end but it doesn't

00:48:44.710 --> 00:48:46.690
mean you get out of suffering but that that's

00:48:46.690 --> 00:48:50.010
part of a purpose -driven life uh and then for

00:48:50.010 --> 00:48:51.949
the for the more secular people you may want

00:48:51.949 --> 00:48:55.409
to check out a book by a jewish atheist guy but

00:48:55.409 --> 00:48:58.869
one of the smartest guys ever is alan bloom university

00:48:58.869 --> 00:49:01.630
of chicago philosopher he wrote closing of the

00:49:01.630 --> 00:49:05.619
american mind And it's a tour de force through

00:49:05.619 --> 00:49:08.840
the Western tradition. And the first sentence

00:49:08.840 --> 00:49:12.139
in the book, I think, says, with respect to higher

00:49:12.139 --> 00:49:14.840
education these days, in terms of the absolute

00:49:14.840 --> 00:49:18.420
or objective truth, he says, the students at

00:49:18.420 --> 00:49:21.579
our campus believe that everything is relative.

00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:24.699
except for that statement itself, because the

00:49:24.699 --> 00:49:27.800
statement that everything is relative is objective,

00:49:28.059 --> 00:49:32.280
right? So they say there are no absolute rules.

00:49:32.559 --> 00:49:35.000
Well, they're making an ethical statement, too,

00:49:35.039 --> 00:49:38.219
and they're wrong, right? So, I mean, and he's

00:49:38.219 --> 00:49:42.219
very smart and witty, and it's a thick read.

00:49:42.260 --> 00:49:47.639
It's a hard read, but he is a Plato freak, and

00:49:47.639 --> 00:49:50.159
there's nothing wrong with going with Greek reason.

00:49:50.559 --> 00:49:53.780
So going back to, you know, we have bullies in

00:49:53.780 --> 00:49:57.619
our school on occasion, and we have zero tolerance,

00:49:57.900 --> 00:50:02.010
and they're out. Because then it's just the least

00:50:02.010 --> 00:50:03.690
common denominator if you really allow this kind

00:50:03.690 --> 00:50:07.710
of stuff to happen. So your kids perhaps experienced

00:50:07.710 --> 00:50:09.889
some of this kind of stuff. The school handled

00:50:09.889 --> 00:50:12.670
it poorly. Maybe you could share a little bit,

00:50:12.710 --> 00:50:16.369
some insights about that. Yeah, I don't go into

00:50:16.369 --> 00:50:18.469
it for the reasons I said, but I'll just speak

00:50:18.469 --> 00:50:21.389
in general terms. Yeah, there's bullying going

00:50:21.389 --> 00:50:26.920
on all over the place. In fact, the school papers,

00:50:27.019 --> 00:50:30.039
I had 10 counties and the school papers would

00:50:30.039 --> 00:50:33.800
have op eds written by the leftist students tanking

00:50:33.800 --> 00:50:38.360
me inside the school papers. Right. And so this

00:50:38.360 --> 00:50:40.079
is back when the conservatives were on their

00:50:40.079 --> 00:50:43.079
heels and no one had any courage and everyone

00:50:43.079 --> 00:50:46.579
just was still kind of, well, that's cute. Except

00:50:46.579 --> 00:50:48.880
for now in the Ivy League schools, there's riots

00:50:48.880 --> 00:50:52.159
all over the joint. They don't believe in human

00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:58.219
rights of any degree right now, it appears. Harvard's

00:50:58.219 --> 00:51:01.619
motto in 1640 was truth for Christ and church.

00:51:02.300 --> 00:51:05.179
And right now, I don't think they seriously know

00:51:05.179 --> 00:51:07.980
what human rights are. And I'm dead serious.

00:51:08.159 --> 00:51:10.219
Like at the back of the World Bank of the United

00:51:10.219 --> 00:51:12.619
Nations, there's hundreds and hundreds of human

00:51:12.619 --> 00:51:15.809
rights that are just asserted. And the founders

00:51:15.809 --> 00:51:17.889
had three, right? Life, liberty, and the pursuit

00:51:17.889 --> 00:51:19.909
of happiness, right? And no one has to give you

00:51:19.909 --> 00:51:21.869
those. The government's supposed to protect you.

00:51:21.969 --> 00:51:25.230
But now it's all flipped into this grand socialist

00:51:25.230 --> 00:51:28.849
Marxist experiment where the left gets to dictate

00:51:28.849 --> 00:51:30.829
their crazy views that you're talking about.

00:51:31.469 --> 00:51:33.329
And then it's even worse than that. They want

00:51:33.329 --> 00:51:35.889
you to pay for their crazy views because they

00:51:35.889 --> 00:51:39.010
don't work, right? So it's like the Cub Scouts

00:51:39.010 --> 00:51:41.710
have been stupid for way too long. And it's time

00:51:41.710 --> 00:51:43.670
for the American people to start roaring a little

00:51:43.670 --> 00:51:46.570
bit. So what are you? Go ahead. I was going to

00:51:46.570 --> 00:51:48.570
ask him. So where are you at now? What are you

00:51:48.570 --> 00:51:52.070
doing now? How's life? Yeah, it's good. I was

00:51:52.070 --> 00:51:54.730
dean of the business school at Liberty for about

00:51:54.730 --> 00:51:56.869
four years. And then I moved into a senior VP

00:51:56.869 --> 00:52:00.130
for business relations. So I go around the country

00:52:00.130 --> 00:52:03.380
giving talks like this. on the links between

00:52:03.380 --> 00:52:06.260
faith and politics and religion and academia

00:52:06.260 --> 00:52:08.940
and the church and politics and Congress and

00:52:08.940 --> 00:52:11.960
the debt and deficits and China and immigration

00:52:11.960 --> 00:52:14.659
and all that. I just try to link it all, right?

00:52:14.739 --> 00:52:16.440
And you guys are doing a wonderful job of linking

00:52:16.440 --> 00:52:18.420
it just because if you just talk about reality,

00:52:18.699 --> 00:52:21.659
right, in the liberal arts education, all the

00:52:21.659 --> 00:52:23.679
disciplines are supposed to be studying the same

00:52:23.679 --> 00:52:26.460
reality and they're not. They're just making

00:52:26.460 --> 00:52:29.400
up stuff and installing it in the kids' heads.

00:52:29.599 --> 00:52:32.309
If you just read the papers and examine it. which

00:52:32.309 --> 00:52:35.050
is what you guys are doing, we're going to all

00:52:35.050 --> 00:52:40.429
reach very similar conclusions. So I have to

00:52:40.429 --> 00:52:42.630
ask you, what do you think of the format of the

00:52:42.630 --> 00:52:47.210
show? Oh, I love it. Couldn't be better. You

00:52:47.210 --> 00:52:49.219
guys are both great. Thank you. Thank you so

00:52:49.219 --> 00:52:52.719
much. So thank you for bringing our show. My

00:52:52.719 --> 00:52:57.320
nickname was Sensitive Dave. It was always Sensitive

00:52:57.320 --> 00:53:00.599
Dave growing up. I don't have the skin that you

00:53:00.599 --> 00:53:02.900
have. You're such an inspiration. You're not

00:53:02.900 --> 00:53:04.500
Sensitive Dave anymore. Not anymore. You're a

00:53:04.500 --> 00:53:06.780
tough man. Not anymore. I'm a tough boy now.

00:53:06.920 --> 00:53:07.980
You've been through the ringer a few times. I've

00:53:07.980 --> 00:53:10.179
been through the ringer, yeah. And now God has

00:53:10.179 --> 00:53:13.159
strengthened your soul and you are here to fight

00:53:13.159 --> 00:53:15.920
too. I really appreciate our time together. You're

00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:18.079
an inspiration. It looks like you. You go through

00:53:18.079 --> 00:53:21.000
life just rolling and going with the flow. And

00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:24.099
thank you so much. No, you're welcome. And just

00:53:24.099 --> 00:53:26.820
let me share one little data point. Liberty University,

00:53:26.840 --> 00:53:31.059
we have a CEO summit, October 15, 16. You can

00:53:31.059 --> 00:53:33.039
just Google it. And if you're interested, let

00:53:33.039 --> 00:53:35.219
me know. And then also I go around the country

00:53:35.219 --> 00:53:38.820
giving talks. So I've been to all the major cities

00:53:38.820 --> 00:53:41.320
in the country and kind of linking ideas. So

00:53:41.320 --> 00:53:43.639
if you want me to come to a city, just Google

00:53:43.639 --> 00:53:45.880
me at Liberty University and please invite me

00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:47.719
to your city. Well, I look forward to meeting

00:53:47.719 --> 00:53:50.539
you in person. No, you guys too. Thank you very

00:53:50.539 --> 00:53:53.559
much. I appreciate what you're doing. We need

00:53:53.559 --> 00:53:55.380
way more people doing this. Thank you, buddy.

00:53:55.519 --> 00:53:57.960
Thank you. Appreciate you. Thank you. All right,

00:53:57.960 --> 00:53:59.480
you guys too. Have a great day. Bye -bye.