The GOP’s Distraction Game: Republicans Campaign on Fighting While Giving Democrats Everything | 9|03|26

0:00Politics without the soap opera with unfiltered constitutional conservative truth. The conservative review with Daniel Worlds. And welcome back fellow American patriots and Minimons standing at the ready to fight anew for the issues that matter today on this Thursday, September 3rd here at Blaze TV your host Daniel Harwitz. Of course, always here to focus on the issues that matter in the way they matter at the time they matter, no distractions, no soap opera, no games. But that is exactly what Trump and the GOP have consistently done, really done my entire lifetime to make sure that Republican voters, conservative voters get this perception that they're fighting for you, they're throwing chairs and making noise at the Democrats, but ultimately in the channels that actually matter that will determine with finality,

1:02the trajectory and outcome of issues, the very issues they say are important to us, they actually toss the fight and ensure the other side wins. And part of their tactic, I want to discuss today through the prism of two votes that took place in Congress yesterday that no one else is going to focus on, but it's very important to get delve into a discussion with the courts and then with this pay for play corruption with the administration, so you understand the modus operandi of the GOP so you don't fall victim to it. What they like doing is hallucinating success while gaslighting and causing negative efficacy with even greater speed. So they constantly get conservative voters and activists and people that passionately want to solve our cultural fiscal, economic, social problems, they want to distract those

2:03conservatives to focus their attention on a game of checkers over a game of chess. On a game of simple math, well 51 Republicans is more than 49 Democrats, rather than politics as an art or a science, the confluence of multiple factors over a period of time that determine outcomes. Meanwhile, the goal of the GOP in reality beyond that distraction game is never about anything they say it is, it's never really about anything ideological. It's not even a matter of, oh, they're more moderate or liberal than you and I are. It's all about pay for play to service donors, politics and campaigning as an ends to itself rather than a means. Now, to be clear, it's not that Democrats aren't the same way. The only difference is that in terms of growth of government control and everything, corruption and pay for play could seamlessly flow with their ideological objectives and accomplishments,

3:11whereas with conservatism, corruption flows against conservative objectives. Like there's no money in social conservatism, there's no money in sovereignty and continuity of society against master world migration. There's no money in being tough on crime. There's no money in being for free markets actually. Believe it or not, there's no money in that. There's money in parochial interests that want to manipulate and monopolize and break a free market. That's why, even like we talked about yesterday with Katie Faust, great show if you haven't heard it, yesterday's show about big fertility. This whole trafficking of embryos and children, it's a massive industry. Anytime you want to stand up for Micah 6.8, you just want to do what is righteous within the confines of the powers that a government can and should wield and should not wield.

4:12There's no money in that. What I just described in about three minutes there is politics in a nutshell. And then itself is novel to a lot of people, but it's very simple. And we need, this is why we need to prayerfully understand that what we're doing is not working and we need to find a way to finesse this. But the job of Khan Inc, gaslit by their masters in the Republican Party, is to get your brain away from this thought process and think that no, they're fighting hard for you and there you just got to vote Republican harder and beat the Democrats and all will be well. And that's why they're so into distractions. The classic embodiment, before I get to the congressional news, but the embodiment of this hallucination on the right that we've been dealing with with Trump, really with the GOP our entire life,

5:16it just Trump does a better job with marketing and show business. He doesn't even more. Is yesterday, this just this imagery of Trump putting out this tweet, I'm going to change the name of the Straits of Hormuz to Trump Straits. So meanwhile, in reality, we're not accomplishing objectives. We're getting all the liabilities of a war without any of the benefits. He decides to get involved without a plan to win decisively. So you suffer economic effects. But he's going to hallucinate on behalf of his voters some sort of imagery of victory, success, and conquest. Same thing as he did with this lake Trump or what a lake America is in terms of lake as opposed to Lake Ontario and Gulf of America. All this patriotic imagery, which is icing and it would taste pretty nice if you had a cake. But absent a cake, it's just icing floating in an air.

6:20It really does us no good. So I was just watching that. The Trump straight and lake America, and then he minza $1 Trump coin yesterday. It's all about naming monuments after him, ballrooms. This is what it is. That's what he cares about. But then they get you thinking, oh yeah, you better vote. This is good versus evil. Let me show you what actually matters in politics and civilization. And how not only did Republicans sell us out yesterday in a complete uniparty moment. But most of you won't even know it happened. It's literally imagined if you had sports talk radio. And I know it's getting a little bit more like this, but where the entirety of the focus is on the pregame show and on like the politics of sports itself. And then you don't broadcast the Super Bowl

7:27or the World Series in the playoffs post season like like the All Star game or whatever. It doesn't exist. That's what it's like here. So let me build this up. We are in the closing weeks of a Republican Trump trifecta that was supposed to be a generational victory to write the wrongs on culture, on inflation, on invasion, on the courts, on all this stuff. And I think it's become very clear to people that we have not enshrined into law one permanent change on any meaningful issue. And we have a few weeks left to what most sensible people will understand that trifecta is over with. Certainly the House likely to send it, but even if not, it's over with you lose the House. So the one leverage you have left are maybe a few must pass bills, but this CR government funding

8:32is actually going to expire at the end of the month. So that is your leverage that you go and you campaign and Trump uses his bully, Paul, but to say they the courts just said that we have to give citizenship to future invaders of this country. We're going to defund that in Congress. We're going to defund sanctuary cities, 80, 20 political issue, by the way, things like that to enshrine one aspect, one or two aspects of the immigration promises and dealing with the court problems that encompass both immigration many other issues. Just one thing, this is your last train stop. And conservatives tried to put up a fight yesterday as always, the few we have to block this bill until something is dealt with. One of these grievances, some reform give us one major

9:39enduring victory from this trifecta. I will be your revenge. Remember that from Trump? Well, this is where the bull crap walks or the bull crap talks and everything else walks. This is that moment. Everything else is a press release, a true social point. This is the budget. This is the annual budget and conservatives thought to get that enshrined. And of course, the administration whips against them, pressures against them, and works with the Democrats to get a CR passed in toll, I guess December, to fund every bad thing we disagree with with no reforms, every executive order that's been struck down by the courts, nothing is enshrined, but it's worse than that. You might say, well, Daniel, come on, we're just heading out to

10:45campaign season. We got to win this election. We don't want any trouble. We don't want to shake things up. Let's just do a clean CR and we'll deal with it. Well, I don't know when you'll deal with it because it's the end of the road and you're going to lose, but we don't want to do that. Just a clean CR. But here's the deal folks. It's not a clean CR. It actually has new policies in it, except their liberal policies. It's not like the Trump administration didn't want to, you know, expend their political capital, leaning in on Congress saying, I want the CR to include things. I just want to clean. Oh, no, he leaned in all right. Where basically they were going to have a ban on dangerous, certain dangerous hemp and THC intoxicating products. It was slated to go into effect November 12th and they voted, they put in a provision in this bill to delay it. They always say, Daniel, it's a budget bill. We can't put extraneous policies. This is the most off topic,

11:49non-Germain policy provision you can put it. It was put in there. And Trump signed it. By the way, Trump signed it. We wasted no time signing it. Gas stations and other retailers are selling hemp THC products destroying our children nationwide. And it also contained a provision. Barring Trump from what his OMB director Russ Vote reformed the grant making process. So you have a lot of grifting. Basically, one of the big problems with government, as we well know, is that Democrats don't just fund, you know, liberal causes or, you know, causes that are harmful. Shouldn't be called funding. But they enshrine their political nurturing and mother's milk, like NGOs that help them get elected. They find ways of getting the taxpayer to fund their campaigns.

12:49This has been for years. Democrats have been masters at that. Whether they're educational institutions, well social welfare institutions, housing, you know, institutions, it's all their GOTV operation. So Russ Vote, his OMB director, got to the plant to start cutting off these grants. Democrats demanded a provision prohibiting it. They agreed and Trump signed it. So there's a lot to unpack here. Again, no one will talk about this. First of all, it just shows that when Trump signs an executive order agrees to a policy, but then he'll completely sign a bill prohibiting his own policy. It's a joke that there's the distraction game and there's the real game. There's the sports talk, talk radio. And then there is, you know, there's the plays on the field, the Super Bowl. And they diametrically opposed. He'll fight for what he wants. To me, it's just an unbelievable juxtaposition that you look at what's going on with this.

13:54There are so many grievances, even if you don't want to like do something really big, like I'm talking to judicial reform and birthright and whatever. But there are so many winning issues that we could have gotten maybe smaller things. Nothing. It's a clean CR except for two left wing armed for provisions. One of them, Trump directly lobbied for one. He allowed to go in there. But I guess you have to interpret that as he was happy to let that go through. The signing of the bill was immediate. And did he know there were only 17, 17 GOP no votes, 17 that are saying, wait a minute, we're accomplishing nothing but negative things. 17 of them. And at least four of them, because they're running for higher office and

14:55sadly all failing, won't even be there. Chippewa, Ralph Norman, Andy Biggs, obviously, Massey was one of them. It's probably a few more that will either not be there or be defeated. So we're going to go backers right now. We're at 17. 17. Okay. This is the sort of trajectory that you will, I promise you, you won't hear on any other show. And by the way, one other thing on that before I go on. So the way it works in Congress is that in protest of the other party, even on something that they ultimately vote for, the minority party always votes against the rule. It's called the rule because you have to first vote to adopt a rule of construction to debate and bring a bill to the floor. So they always vote no on the rule. And so what conservatives have started to do over the last number of years, people like Chip Roy,

15:57so in a narrow majority where there's a bad bill, but automatically Democrats vote no on the rule. They're like, okay, we'll vote against the rule. And then you can't, even if they know you'll get the votes to pass the bill, but they'll ensure you don't get the votes to even consider the bill. Huck him Jeffries privately ensured that Congressman Golden from Maine and Perez from Washington state, two Democrats helped the GOP pass the procedural rule. So the whole thing is the choke. It's hilarious watching this. This is what ultimately matters. And we talked about, I pretty much given you a front row of seed in every budget bill since the Tea Party era. Those of you who have been with me in my writings, my podcast. Oh, and House GOP leaders are planning to announce this morning that they're canceling the final two weeks of the pre-election session. They're

16:59canceling. They need to go home. All of this unfinished business to do. Oh, we need to rush out to campaign. It's a tough election. But what is the point in campaigning if you have nothing to campaign on? Wouldn't you want to put in the budget or at least attempt to like 10, but poll tested if you want 10 popular issues and run on that sanctuary cities, things like that. But no, nothing, nothing but liberal things. But that's the point the campaign is the end to itself. GOP politics in America is but one big campaign. It's always campaigning. That's the name of the game to always rile you up, but the Democrats, but the Democrats, even as they're in control. I mean, how many times have we heard Joe Biden the last two years when they're the ones steering that

18:00that plane? This is the game. At some point, when you got to see beyond that, I'm open to multiple ideas. Everything but the status quo, something's got to change. That's that's my only message. This is the difference between people. The difference between me and everyone else in this business is to me, I actually believe the crap I say. Some of you might agree with me, disagree with me, agree with a lot of what I say, not everything I say, that's fine. But I agree with what I say. Now you might think, well, that sounds kind of ridiculous. Of course you do. Well, clearly, no one else does. It's a game. Politics is an end to itself. Campaigning and rhetoric and podcasting and tweeting and writing and grifting is an end to it. That is the goal. To me, I'm not happy with, oh, this is a nice meme or this is a good thing or, you know, unless it's a means to an end,

19:05to me, I look carefully at the outcome level. I got to tell you guys, I was not born into hating the Republican party, born into this independent conservative. I was a typical, I mean, I think my values were always the same, but I was a typical yay Republican like anyone else. I don't know why, maybe I'm kind of crazy or I always felt like God put in my brain from the earliest age to obsess about politics that just subconsciously thinking that one day it would be needed for me. Maybe I could do something with it. There's still a paper my parents have in the 1988 election. I was a little kid coloring in the maps as the electoral returns came in in a presidential election. I don't even remember it. I evidently I did that and then, you know, I really got into it, you know, as a 9-10-year-old with the 94 election while Republicans took over Congress after 40 years.

20:14And, you know, even when the later years I went away to boarding school and didn't really have access, you know, you didn't have the internet there or you had it, but it was nascent and, you know, I would constantly be on the phone with my brother, you know, the foreword. I don't know if you had real clear politics back then, but, you know, some of those old websites, hey, what's the latest polling data? How many seats, you know, throughout the election? Oh, you know, which Republicans up here? I was like anyone out. I was like that, but I was like that because I badly believed in things. I had values. And over time I started realizing I was like, why is it that over time, Republicans went half, Democrats went half, roughly, but over time everything seems to get worse and we never seem to even come close to solving anything. And then, as I got even older and more professional in this and did this for a living, I started noticing the red state business that even where Republicans went 100% of the time and should control a lot of things, maybe not foreign

21:16policies, a lot of things. It still doesn't help. And that's why I was I'm constantly thinking of why it's like that and what we ought to do. Why? Because my goal since I was a little kid is, Mike 6, 8, to just do it's right, to do what I feel is right. If you really believe in something, you have an obligation to see that through. You might have to compromise, you might have to play a long game, but it's got to be a positive trajectory. The difference is the Republican party is designed with the synergistic apparatus of conning media and personalities to play on what they love and what they love are hallucinations, distractions, and using ultra processed sloppification and shodified content to gaslight people. All the while, the things that will

22:19actually determine the outcomes of what they increasingly shout from the rooftops with existential language ensures it doesn't happen, doesn't come to fruition. Again, they don't even see here's another thing. Some people might say, well, Daniel, not everyone is smart, is as smart and informed as you knowing about all the minutia of primaries and state legislatures and all the congressional affairs and the granular level of policy issues. Well, two things about that. Number one is, if you're going to do this full time, maybe you ought to know about that. That's something you should do. Anyone could get up there and read the headlines and the Georgia board or whatever they or the Twitter feed or pulling data and 50 is more than 45. I mean, anyone could do that. That's, I don't insult your intelligence. I wake up every day and say, what can I give you guys that maybe you didn't have time to see? Because I don't think you're stupid. To be fair, maybe their audiences are stupid. I just find that insulting. But also, the other thing is, and here's the

23:27kicker. If you actually believe in something, you make it your business to care. You make it your business to know, if someone locks you in a room and you don't have food and you're desperate to get out, you're going to find every way to get out. So if you really feel that we're headed to an economic and social hell and so many problems and so and you recognize, you're not going to hallucinate that I'm going to trap through or like that I'm getting out of the room because you're not, you're trapped. You need to get out. See, the more you hallucinate and think that you succeeded in something, it's not just an academic problem. It's a practical problem because then you're never going to seek agency because you think you already have it. That is exact. That's not a side effect of Republican politics. That is the main point. And that's what they're going to do next week with this mass distraction, you know, retarded and super gay midterm convention. That's going to fall flat.

24:37This is what they do every dog on time. And I'm just sick of it. And you know what? Again, it didn't have to be this way. We could have reset the baseline after Trump left. DeSantis is the only one in this generation who not just is good on policy, but he seems to get this political thing. I want to play for you a clip of him. So he held this unity event of whoever won a Republican nomination for statewide office. And then included Byron Donalds. And he's like, I endorse them. I know some people are said, oh, he's endorsing Byron Donalds. Again, I mean, it's kind of hard not to endorse the GOP nominee in his position. I mean, I could say what I say. But if you look carefully, notice he never talks about Byron. He says, I endorse the

25:39GOP slate. But let's be honest, it's a little bit weird to make a big deal out of like the agricultural commission and the commissioner in the CFO. You know, like, I mean, maybe in Florida, maybe they focus on a little bit more than other states, but not really governors, everything. Okay. So he always he, because two out of the three are his people, the, you know, AG off-myer and the CFO is Blazingolia. So he had them all up there. That's number one. And then number two, he didn't do it in terms of pandering. He actually did something as a sitting governor. He held the forum. And he like took questions. And then he asked, he turned to like the panel of four or five GOP nominees. He's like, Hey, what are you going to do about this? What are you going to do about that? And in between the lines and those of you who know about Byron, I'm going to play a clip of him and his message here. And those of you who are watching on our

26:39video podcast, and again, those of you who listen to audio might be worth checking out our video component, Herwitz Show, is the handle on YouTube. We're also on Ciro podcast on Rumble, if you prefer that as well. So anyway, he looked at Byron Donalds, who was the, he was the one that was sitting right to his right while Dessantis at the lectern listened to what his message was. So I'll be successful if they get in and do what they've said they're going to do or in the case of three of them, what they are already doing up there. I think we get in trouble whether it's running for legislature or others. If you put yourself out to be something, then you get in, and then you're doing doing the opposite. And that's a big problem nationwide. We're seeing what the Republican Party and a lot of these states unfortunately don't let that happen to Florida. Make sure the people that you're electing that are running as Republicans are actually going to do what their fancy mailers say they're going to do. And their commercials say they're going to do.

27:41And I hope that the folks up here will hold everyone in the party to their promises because I think it's important. Folks, that is powerful. Again, where did you hear that? And even in single letters like, well, and three out of the four already did, you know, because they're in combants or either acting were official CFO ad commissioner and attorney general. Obviously the fourth is Byron Doddell. It is like, yeah, you know, there's this disease among Republicans nationwide where they have these fancy mailers and then they do the opposite. So, you know, again, everyone in conservative media says they want that. But then when they were actually given the guy who diagnoses it and then does himself what's right, they rejected him. And I think the reason they rejected him is because they want politics as a song that never ends. They enjoy it. I actually don't enjoy it. I would love to solve the issues and go home. You know, in my religion, I'm trained

28:44not to gossip, not to I don't like, you know, I know sometimes I'm a little bit rough with my rhetoric. I don't enjoy it. I don't enjoy being hateful and spiteful. And I really don't. I do it because sometimes I feel I actually feel passionate about the issues. The problem we're having with with politics and Trump has really gaslit this is if you're going to have smash mouth rhetoric and politics and nastiness and then you don't even get the outcomes and you actually subvert them. Then what's the point? You're just left with acrimony and hatred of fellow fellow man and gossip and whatever. God doesn't want that. Again, I'm not trying to sound like a sissy. Oh, I'll believe me. You know me. I'll fight to the death over my prerogatives. But my point is there's something particularly solace about fight, fight, fight, fight as an end to itself. That's like worse than anything. So anyway, that's the first half of the show. The congressional vote on the CR to subvert everything

29:45they said they were going to do not do and actually add worse things to it while talking about, oh, look at the streets of Trump and the lake of Trump and the Gulf of Trump and the coin of Trump and all that stuff, classic, classic stuff. And of course they ignore it. Democrats go and help him pass the bill then Republicans like we need to campaign but campaign on nothing. Literally while they have the power to pass budget reconciliation, while Trump could use the capital that he is expending, pimping data centers, pimping flock, pimping crypto, pimping, hemp and marijuana, all that stuff he could be using to focus on the economic and immigration agenda. And he doesn't do it. Oh, but look at my campaign mailers. Look at the Democrats. You know, I'm right about that. That is the vicious cycle. But then there's the second half I wanted to get to a vote that occurred yesterday about the courts, the courts. There was a vote

30:48about the Supreme Court, very interesting vote that embodies the Republican party. So I've said this for years. Judicial supremacy is the most dangerous lie that has not a shred of legal or constitutional or historical validity to it. Yet it is the most devastatingly consequential one. It is, it is the lie real briefly in case we have new listeners. Judicial supremacy is the political theory that is against our constitution that the judicial branch that our founders intended to be the weakest and least influential, which is why they made them life tenured and not elected has more power than all of the elected branches put together in as much as they could give standing to any fake litigants and litigate by proxy or vicariously.

31:53Any social or political issue of our time, it could be appropriations, it could be national security, it could be immigration, it could be social issues, fiscal issues. And if they issue a ruling and say that the law or the constitution requires that it is binding on everyone and it's irreversible without a constitutional amendment. That they have more power than all 50 states and their respective three branches, Congress both branches and the president put together and they could will anything. And that is it, they get to determine with finality and exclusively the contours of its own power and everyone else's power. Okay, no one could deny what I just said. That is what is happening, that is what has had happened. That's what they believe. Republicans rather than rejecting that theory that really came into light with Cooper Vierian during the, and that's the whole thing 1958, they ensconced it in civil rights. So it was very sensitive. They were very brilliant on that because then you,

32:56if it looked like if you were against them, then you're for segregation of blacks. But that's what they they they so did very artfully there. And then Grazig just built it 60 70s and you know, everyone and Republicans rather than saying, what wait a minute, that's not true. Congress has full control. And you know, we control their jurisdiction, their numbers, their everything. Oh, we'll just appoint better judges. And it was the perfect game. If you think about it, if you watch the distraction, because they knew you would never be able to appoint your way out of it. Right. We had Trump had the best effort ever of rapidly confirming relatively more conservative lower court judges than ever in his first term. And even now, and he not only got to replace Scalia, flip Anthony Kennedy's pretty liberal seat. And then, but he got to flip Ruth Bader

33:56Ginsburg's super liberal seat. And still here we are where nine times out of 10 on the biggest issues of our time, like things like birthright citizenship, we get screwed over by them. Okay. But the Republicans love that. They're doing to birthright citizenship, what they did to gay marriage. Oh, oh, well, nothing we can do. We have to wait for, we'll get five justices one day or a constitutional amendment. And notice they've done nothing. They've not conducted a single vote. They don't plan on changing anything because they love that. Because, like I said, it's hard to fight for the things we believe in. It runs among culture, but it also runs among special interests, even where it's some of our issues are very culturally or politically popular. And they pull that very well, not all of them, but a lot of them increasingly so actually. But it runs among the special interests. So this way, they get to have the courts. They love the fact

35:03that the courts strip the power from them. Because again, you could, the courts compared to the other branches, our founders talking about this is like a hundred pound woman, you know, fighting a champion, you know, boxer or something. You can only lose if you want to lose. You can only be denuded of that power if you, if you want that, if you will that, and they will it, they want it. And this is why, this is why they want on the one hand for the courts to determine with finality, everything. But oh my gosh, wow, the courts are so, the Supreme Court is everything because they can determine everything with finality. So vote Republican to make sure we appoint better judges because it's first of all, it's just simplicity of message, like issues are complicated. What's your social conscious of? What's your immigration plan? What's your national security plan? What's your economic plan? It's complicated, healthcare complicated. But here, I'm just going to appoint a better judge, liberal judges, conservative judges. You know, and largely they do.

36:11I mean, again, we can get into a lot of them are more like, you know, up and down the appellate district level, I'm more like Barrett and Cavendon, not like Thomas and Alita, but that's not even the point. You're never going to win the judicial supremacy game. It is completely rigged. Okay, but they want it that way. Why they love the judicial issue. They get to act like heroes and juice up vote Republican while ensuring that nothing actually ever comes of voting Republican, which is exactly how they want to keep it. Anyway, why did I give this big introduction? So, basically, everything of substance that Trump claimed to want to do through executive order has been mowed down by the courts. Okay? Every last thing, or we've allowed it to be mowed down by the courts. Congress has done nothing about it. We have been crushed and this is at the apex of conservative

37:13power because obviously once Democrats get in, then they they appoint all the vacancies. So right now, the judicial system is as good as it ever has been. If you want to look at it simplistically of how many relatively conservative judges you have on a Supreme Court, on a Pelic Court, right, it's never on paper. And this is true. It's never been farther to the right. But the outcomes for every one case where the court's judicial supremacy benefits us, there's a hundred others where it harms us and it's usually on the bigger issues. So anyway, but because there is this perception that at the end of the day, conservatives have a majority. So the Democrats, like the far left, they have these they're floating these ideas of you know, they have these bills to change the structure of the courts, whether it's

38:14jurisdiction stripping, whether it is, you know, changing the rules of what they can hear and when they can hear at the shadowdocket. And then most prominently, the number of justices. So if I want to show you very vividly two outcomes, two strategies driving towards two very divergent outcomes, one of them rooted in, oh my gosh, I want to get the best outcomes for civilization. And one, I want to juice up my voters into voting for me so we can perpetuate a system that ensures we don't get those outcomes, but keeps them voting for us. If you were the former, the first one, which is what you and I want. When Democrats come and say we want to pack the courts, you know what I would do? I talked about this for years. I would have a grand bargain. I'd like

39:14sure you want 16 judges. I'll give you 25. I'll give you 30. Except one thing. We're just going to agree that the other branches, you know, if it's a political social question where we disagree on the constitutional interpretation, remember that's not all judicial proceedings. Most judicial proceedings still are not about politics. Our judicial system generally works in most civil and criminal litigation. But when you are using litigation to take a political issue to court and then determine it with finality, constitutional question, a societal question, a religious question, right? We're going to do what we want. And the fact that you would have the American people vividly seeing right now your average American doesn't get it. They think like there's like something enshrined in the Bible in the Constitution about nine justices and they have this power. None of that power is real. It's all vested not in the Constitution, but in Congress. Yes, the Democrats are

40:19helping us. Democrats are telling us because they're scared once in a while. They don't like some court rulings. But so for their purposes, they're like, we want to limit and dilute the power of the Supreme Court and demonstrate the command of Congress over it. Why the hell would you not try to jujitsu that? That is chess. But instead they're like checkers. Oh, well, we have more Republican appointees on and there's less Democrats. So if they pack the court, you're missing the point. So out of nowhere, Republicans voted on this constitutional amendment to set the, because you need a constitutional amendment, because it's not set in the Constitution. Nine justices in the sacred. Of course, they failed because you need two thirds and they only had the Republicans voted for it and not the Democrats. But that's what they spent their time on. Unlike I would be like, hey, I would take their legislation and modify it a little bit and work with it and and by the way, they won't know what hit them if you would do that. They'd be completely caught

41:22because they'll realize what we're trying to do is like, holy smokes. Oh, they're not stupid. It's not a matter of the Democrats want more Democrats judge. I mean, they'd rather that. But the key is they want judicial supremacism. They want politics away from the electorate. Just look at the data center fight. Look at what happens when you galvanize people. They want to place it in the hands of a lawyerly elite that is life tenured and doesn't stand for election. I get why they want to do that. What I don't get is why a conservative would support that. I get why a Republican wants that too. Democrats want it because they get their outcomes. Republicans want it because Democrats get their outcomes while they get to campaign against and say, oh, they're going to pack the courts. But those of us who want to change things, this is an example where I'll be like, hey, you want to pack it? You want to do jurisdiction stripping? That's exactly what we want to do. Look, I would even be, let me say this. I say this as a resident of Maryland where I am a

42:28beneficiary of the Bruin ruling where you get to carry, you know, concealed carry. But on net by a mile, okay, at the end of the day in the long run, blue state infringements of rights are not going to be held down by the courts. And we saw this during COVID. But what we are finding is even the few things we can do, which is not much nationally, but like executive orders struck down. Red states, and that's the most important thing. Anything you and I want to do doesn't even get off the ground in the courts. You'd be stupid not to take that deal if your motivation is civilization outcomes. But you understand what they're doing? The Democrats are going to pack the courts. Okay. This is high level chess versus checkers. This is trying to accomplish civilization

43:30outcomes versus fake partisan talking points. This is the difference between a high level graduate level program in political science from a conservative perspective versus the nursery rhymes and sophistry. You're going to hear on pretty much every other conning outlet. This is a thought process of mine that has been born out of years of uninterrupted continuity of observations about all of this. That's how I came to this conclusion. I thought very hard and long. I was like, look, maybe judicial supremacy, maybe it will come in handy. It strikes down some of what we want to do. But maybe it's it will be used to strike down some bad stuff. But you have to understand the Marxists and the communists and the globalists and the bad guys, there's never going to be a scenario where public opinion and electoral politics is with them and somehow

44:33a lawyerly elite of unelected people are going to be able to hold that back. If they feel they have popular opinion, they're going to do what they want. To extent courts would even try to hold them back. And COVID really saw this because in the first months, everyone's a hero now, but our view was very unpopular. Your average schmo was terrified of the thing and they're like, sign me up. And courts are like, I ain't doing that. The courts did not get involved. I'm cognizant over transitory victories here and there where a Democrat president, Democrat governor does something and we take it to court and you know, and they decided, sun consular, I get that. I've thought about this long and hard. You would be stupid not to take that deal. But again, I understand why the Republicans have this focus. So those were the two two things. But in the meanwhile, why do they want this distraction? So the question is,

45:39why is it that Republicans constantly put in mechanisms to ensure they don't accomplish their campaign promises? Well, constantly campaigning to get us to vote for them. Well, what's the point? Well, Ecclesiastes 10, 19, money is the answer for everything. The point is it enriches them. It's a pay for play with their donors. Okay. You know, Trump is taking government equity in private companies in Venezuela, all getting back to him. Okay. You have the Brazilian beef deal we talked about with Trump with the imports. This is from the hill.com. When asked that Andrews Air Force Base, which countries were involved in the deal, Trump said there's a few countries, but they're going to be sending high highest quality beef because he knew that they

46:40were referring to Brazil, which has crap. But the reality is the day before the announcement, the day before Trump, the day before, it's not even subtle. Trump reportedly met with hostel, hostly Batista, if I'm pronouncing that correctly, who shares control of JBS, the world's largest meat packer to Brazilian company, according to the Wall Street Journal, the journal journal reported that during the meeting, Batista lobby Trump to drop the 26% import tax. And it noted that Pilgrim is pride, which is the US's second largest chicken processor, but it's controlled by JBS contributed $5 million to Trump's inauguration, making Pilgrim's pride literally the number one donor to his inauguration. Of course, Batista and his brother were fined in 2020 by the Justice Department for a violation of foreign corrupt practices act, engaging in a bribery scheme, JBS is corrupt as hell,

47:45ProPublica reports that Peter Navarro reportedly fast-tracked the 620 million Pentagon loan to a startup involving Trump's son. The call came from the White House, that we have got to get this done. So again, at a time when we're trying to figure out how is it that with an increasingly larger military budget, we're accomplishing less, we can't win wars, we're having emergency, the DHS Secretary's Coast Guard helicopter had to do an emergency landing, you have all sorts of bases or rotting, ships are rotting, and all sorts of problems. So at a time when we need procurement reform based on what's going to solve the problem, it's a hundred percent pay for play with Trump donors and even his own family. And again, you could call me and then you'll Trump the way he went, then done. Okay, well, address the points I'm making. This is what it's all about.

48:48This is what motivates Trump in politics. This is what motivates all Republicans. Again, this is why we've been spinning our wheels our entire life. Because when they talk about fiscal conservatism, social conservatism, look at the left, look at anti-family values, look at the socialism, look at this, they don't believe in that. And the few that genuinely do, and there are some, there are inevitably people who break through, their silence, they're crushed by those very entities. And we saw that straight up, Ron DeSantis, Ralph Norman, Chip Royale, you know, that's what happens. Everyone's all, all these keyboard warriors, like, see, at least I have self-awareness that, yeah, for various reasons, I can't run for office. I mean, the biggest one being, I live in a place that's irrevocably left. And then once I would move to a conservative area,

49:48they'd call me a carpet bed or even though I'd be more conservative than the, you know, whoever's running there. So I at least try to support and cheerlead for those that we say we want. But you have all these other keyboard warriors like, yeah, we need this and these so listen. And finally, someone comes along, a lot of them dump on the guy. Well, they're obstructing the Trump agenda. Oh, well, I thought you wanted, they're obstructing Trump's desire to obstruct those who actually want to cutify his claimed agenda. Oh, okay, I got that. It's all a game. You know, and this is what data centers are. You know, Lutnik, who's the ultimate venture socialist, he's the Commerce Secretary. Someone dug this up and I apologize for whether this isn't going to play a clip once from Fox. One is from somewhere else within a few months. Lutnik said last year that, oh, these data centers suck out water. And now he says they don't.

50:52I mean, data centers don't use water. The data centers, this is propaganda by our adversaries to try to slow us down. So that was the CNBC quote that he just recently said is CCP propaganda. Then this is what he said a few months ago. Think about it. These these AI things, they, they suck water and they need water, right? And so they need a plumber, but not a plumber plumber. Yeah. So he's trying to say it creates plumbing jobs because it uses so much water. It's like, you know, this whole thing, they don't believe anything they say, oh, those AI things. By the way, that's another thing like the the con ink, uh, flatchulators are a reflection of Lutnik and Trump. They don't even understand the differences of different types and modalities of AI, so they're the AI things. And that's that's the crux of why they're conflating endless hyper scale data centers with, you know, growth and success in what AI could do. But anyway, that's not even the point. The point is it's all a pay for play.

52:00It's all a pay for play. I'll give you one other example. Indiana's new commerce secretary, his name is Chuck Goodrich. So he's appointed by Mike Brown. Oh, he was a Republican senator. He's now governor of Indiana. He he was a right winger. I remember him. He was an outsider. Businessman concerned. He did. They were like two two congressmen who were running for, uh, I guess it was originally when he ran for a senate and he was just an outsider businessman. He actually beat them out. So he points this guy Chuck Goodrich, who now yesterday he said that AI is the future of Indiana. But again, by AI, he doesn't mean mechanization. He means dotting the physical landscape with draconian buildings like nothing very technologically advanced. But that's what he said. It turns out he was and will remain the CEO of galore electric, which is a company that

53:02designs and constructs data centers while he is the sitting Indiana commerce secretary. At least Lutnik officially gave up his thing, although I'm sure he's directing favors to his family and whatever that's running it. But it's like shameless. That is all you need to understand about politics. Ron DeSantis is a unicorn and almost doesn't exist. Doesn't exist at a statewide level. Statewide is the only one. Handful of congressman like chip Roy. Handful of state legislators. And that is it. Almost everyone else is much more in the mold of this Chuck Goodrich Indiana Commerce secretary. That is the 90% of the GOP at least to varying degrees. Maybe there's a middle ground where they're just cowards and go along with it and with better leadership. And you know, Trump got con ink to then get the voters to choose. Choose the Goodriches.

54:08Because that's what Trump is. We have this path in front of us. You know, it's like God says multiple times towards the end of Deuteronomy. Chapter 30, you know, I'm putting in front of you life and death, good and evil. Choose wisely. I control the world, but I give you free will. I want you to choose wisely to get reward in the next world. And we have it right in front of us. Do you want to do everything you can to achieve outcomes? Or do you want to lie to people for the rest of your lives into playing the same game that not just fails to achieve, but ensures we do not achieve those outcomes? You'll often hear from these people who's excuses, not enough power, Daniel. This is not feasible. That's not to you. And then you'll listen to my show and you'll look, oh, wow, I didn't hear about all these other options. Like we had all these primaries. We could have won with better people.

55:12We had all these legislative vehicles. We could have done. We had all these politically popular, but important issues we could have run on and not just run on, but implemented. They try to steer you into a very, very narrow contract. And look, folks, don't think you're alone. In my own extended family or friends circles, everyone, I don't really associate with liberals. I don't know any. You know, I'm a religious Jew. So there's no, not a secular Jew. So I don't know any personal votes, Democrat. And you know, everyone roughly shares my values, but they'll stop me. Come over me. All they know is I work in politics. And they just approach me with their nonsense. And it gives me a sense of what the average Republican voter thinks and is focused on. If I deliver a show like this, they'll agree with it. Oh, yeah, I grew up that. But that's not what

56:14they get. So they'll just send me memes of a, you know, a couple of weeks ago was Fauci taking the pleading the fifth amendment meme while the Trump administration is approving Fauci's new vaccines literally. It's like, hey, look at Fauci. Look at yesterday's man while you with the finger on the button are pressing his button. It is so vivid. Oh, Lake, look at our trade, Paul. We're going to fight Canada on trade. Oh, but meanwhile, we tariff the hell out of input raw materials that are needed for our manufacturers. But then we take off tariffs on finished products like beef. Do you ever think about that? By the way, that's why they were there. I don't have the numbers in front of me. Maybe I do. No, I don't. The ADP Joltz report, the job numbers yesterday, horrific. We're basically for months in a row, we either have negative job creation or like a few

57:16thousand a month, which is negative because relative to population growth. And every month, including this one, manufacturing is in a recession. And that's why. Again, we've talked about this a lot that tariffs are not the most important policy. We talked about this. It's you got to cut the debt. You got to cut inflation. You got to fix healthcare. You got to fix the labor union problem. You got to fix education. You got to fix the welfare state. You got to fix the foreign worker state, which the two go together. We hook Americans on welfare so they don't have a need to work. And then we import foreigners that drive down wages so they don't want to work. That should have been an economic message. But the worst thing you can do is do nothing on that front. In fact, the many fronts make that although a forementioned worse, but then put tariffs on raw materials and then take them off on finished products. That's the worst thing you can do to manufacturing. Hence, you know,

58:20the job numbers are getting worse than underbited. Every minute of this hour show is something I promise you will not hear elsewhere. And that's why what I need you guys to do is those of you who are conservative like me, you have friends, neighbors, you know, workers, associates, relatives, get this show in their hands. It's something different. I look, I got to tell you, I really have no agenda other than I am a hack for outcomes. I would work with anyone to get outcomes, even if they, you know, pin things I didn't like until now. But as long as there's a realization that we got to expand our purview and what we're doing, this is a theme I'm going to drive home over and over again through the news of the day. So make sure you subscribe not just to iTunes, but to add her with show on YouTube. It's very tough. Everyone tells me it's blocked.

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