Why do Republicans promise change after losing power instead of delivering while they have it? Sam Bushman and Dr. Scott Bradley challenge GOP leadership, question the influence of political donors, and argue for putting the Constitution ahead of party loyalty.
The conversation examines the risk of escalating conflict with Iran, the economic costs of war, and what oil prices and shipping disruptions could signal. The hosts also discuss leadership ethics, tech industry oversight, and congressional accountability, including their commentary on allegations involving public figures.
The episode closes with a reflection on the Founding Fathers’ sacrifices and why preserving liberty requires informed citizens, peaceful action, and ongoing vigilance.
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00:00 Liberty Round Table introduction
00:16 GOP leadership: New direction or more of the same?
02:06 Donor influence, party loyalty, and constitutional principles
05:33 Iran conflict: Escalation or a path toward less war?
07:12 Inflation, federal deficits, and housing market concerns
09:06 Oil prices, the Strait of Hormuz, and shipping risks
10:58 Promotional break: CSPOA and Foundation for Moral Law
12:34 Faith, voter responsibility, and leadership ethics
16:21 Tech billionaires and the question of self-policing
17:57 Congressional citizenship requirements and the hosts’ allegations about Ilhan Omar
21:15 Staying engaged despite frustration with political accountability
22:30 The Founding Fathers and the price of liberty
23:54 Peaceful restoration, morality, and preserving the republic
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[00:00:04] Broadcasting live from atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West. You are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. Before the break, Sam mentioned that we were going to talk about the new minority leadership that were elected by the Republicans. And they're not so new, actually. They're kind of worn out shoes with the same old, same old. Yeah, well, the West Power now had for the last many years, right?
[00:00:34] Yeah. I watched the passing of the baton. They had a closed-door, secret ballot election where they elected the new leadership. You know, Jim Jordan's going to be the minority one, and he ran against Steve Scalise. And anyway, Mike Johnson's out, and they had a total of 179 voters that were there. But at any rate, you know, it's just rewarmed is what it really is.
[00:01:05] Jim Jordan, he's an intelligent, articulate young man. He presents himself well and everything. He's a former high school wrestling coach. You know, he was the original congressional brawler. The GOP is going to need him in there. And I listened to their little press release. It was a news conference, if you will. I was totally flabbergasted and blown away, honestly.
[00:01:34] There's a lot of things we could talk about. I know we run out of time quickly. But to me, it was like, oh, we're going to go in, we're going to do this, and we're going to make that happen, and it's going to be such an amazing thing. And it's kind of like in my mind, I kept saying, why the heck didn't you do that when you guys were in charge? Why do you guys squander influence every time you get it?
[00:01:59] And then the next go around, it's like, oh, if you'll just send us back in. Coach, send me in. I'm ready to go. Because the party coalesces around where the money is, where the fame and fortune is. And so the Israeli lobby is one of the big examples that I would give. The teachers union, you know, the unions are another big one. And the bottom line is they pay attention to who gives them all the money, which right now we've got these super PACs. Oh, the super PACs have to tell who donates.
[00:02:30] But the problem is they tell you that this group donated, but this group doesn't have to tell you where they got their money, and so you're at a dead end. And so they're basically out for filthy lucre. They're all compromised and destroyed. They don't keep their oaths to the Constitution. They all ought to be in jail because they're part of a criminal cabal. Just the very party is a criminal cabal. The Republicans and the Democrats do it, and they've done it so much so to where there's no other pay to play, period. A third party has no prayer. And these two big insider parties, in my opinion,
[00:03:00] hey, everything they do is fraudulent. It's okay. They say, let's not do mail-in ballots because it's fraud. Then right before the election, they're like, hey, if we can't stop the other guys from doing it, we better do it too. Okay. Now let's vote for the lesser of two evils. And we follow these lies all the way down. The only way to change the game peacefully without muskets, and I support no musket plan, is to return to the Constitution. The only way to do that is to restore the vote.
[00:03:26] The only way to do that is to take it to the precinct level and jettison partisan politics, period. I don't think there are other ways, doctor. Well, what we have with this new, and I emphasize new facetiously, minority leadership is some more servile sycophants that are licking the boots of Donald Trump. People don't seem to get the idea that the election in the midterms said,
[00:03:54] this is a vote on Donald Trump's processes, and it's a failed vote, and we're throwing them out. They did the wrong thing. The Democrats didn't deserve to win. The Republicans should have been spanked, but so should the Democrats, as you talk about these two parties. But what happened is Jim Jordan is absolutely a servile Donald Trump guy.
[00:04:14] He has taken over $300,000 from the Israeli lobby, which is just slightly more than Mike Lee from our state. But if he doesn't take some of the money from the lobbies, and he doesn't stand, if he stands actually with the Constitution, they'll run him out on a rail like they did Thomas. Exactly. So here he is. He's coming in. Then Trump's position was repudiated completely by the... Yeah, they didn't vote yes for the Democrats like the blue wave wants you to believe.
[00:04:44] They voted against the Republicans, and the problem is they have nowhere to go, right? That's right. And so they cast their vote for the evil of two lessers, and even some of it's more evil perhaps. But the fact of the matter is Jim Jordan, as intelligent and articulate and well-spoken as he is about all of the stuff that he's going to stand for and the pugilist and everything else like that,
[00:05:07] you know, he's still absolutely devoted to the Trump agenda, which is the Israeli agenda, which is that you have given away your duty to the United States and the United States Constitution when you become an engineer. And the proof in the pudding is your next headline from your incredible webinar last night, which is, hey, what about the war in Iran? Are we going to have more or less intense war?
[00:05:36] What's going to happen where, you know, Donald basically just said, hey, I'm not interested in working out a deal with Iran now. So it's going to be more intense. And the question becomes, do the Democrats rein it in or do they get talked into going along? You know, time will tell. We're going to have more or less war, do you think, doctor? Well, the big problem is that the vast majority of Congress were bought and paid for by the Israeli lobby. That's, you know, and you say, get off that, but go look at the numbers, people, who is there at any rate.
[00:06:04] The question becomes, are we going to be more intense or less? Now, there's some mixed things in this. And I think one of the things in favor of less war is the fact we've kind of shot up all our munitions, the high price spread, and our options become very narrowed. And this is boots on the ground. We started off the hour saying, never send your sons to finish a war the politicians started. And that would be a travesty, a tragic situation.
[00:06:34] But here's a couple of things. In spite of the fact that CENTCOM is saying, you know, Central Command is saying, ah, we're gearing up for some more Bravo Sierra that's going to bomb infrastructure and civilian stuff and all that kind of stuff. But number one, we've kind of punched ourselves out. The rope-a-dope thing happened. You know, if any of you ever remember Muhammad Ali, and probably most of your listeners don't. But the fact of the matter is that I think we're out of gas.
[00:07:03] And it's unpopular with the people. And here's how the market, I think, is kind of reading it. Almost every morning, one of the first things I do when I get up. Just so you know, just a headline for you. Inflation is up big time right now. It's up more than it has been since 2022. 2022, the headline basically says, U.S. wholesale prices up 6.5% from a year earlier. It's its highest rate since 2022.
[00:07:33] 2022, federal government posts a record $404 billion deficit. Think about that, folks. $400, a half a trillion dollar deficit. And U.S. existing home sales fall to the lowest level since 2010. I'm just saying, you look at those statistics, and economically, we are in trouble. We are indeed.
[00:08:03] And here's the problem. Not the problem. It's one of them. The 2022 inflation was caused by the Bravo Sierra that happened with the COVID con. Sending out free money, pumping the economy up with money. Everything goes up in price. We're doing the same thing with this war. And the war has caused the inflation. No new wars. Okay? So here's the deal.
[00:08:27] It's been reported in the Financial Times that Netanyahu's on the phone every day with Trump saying, we've got to ramp this baby up. We've got to launch some more military. Bravo Sierra. All that kind of stuff. But the markets, like I say, almost every morning, one of the first things I do is I look at the... Well, even the Israeli people pretty much voted against Netanyahu, too. And that's why his goal is to hold on to power. And he can do it by partnering with the Donald and keeping us in a war.
[00:08:53] But the markets, the oil markets, I think are reading it like I'm reading it. And they're saying, these guys are... They've punched out. These guys are out of gut. You know, they're out of juice. And so every morning I look at the Brent crude price, which is the world price, basically, that's most commonly purchased for oil. And it's down. $15 to $18 what it was before... This is per barrel.
[00:09:21] $15 to $18 before the midterms. Right. And the Democrats will be glad to grab a hold of that and say, see, just the thought of us being in power changes the economy for the better. Doctor. Here's the thing. The Hormuz, Straits of Hormuz are not really any more open. We're getting maybe eight or nine ships a day through instead of 90 ships a day. Yeah, we're in 10% capacity or something crazy. Yeah. It's horrid.
[00:09:48] And what's even worse, not even worse, but it's going to be a bigger problem ultimately is how the Red Sea could easily become a center conflict on this thing. Everything over there is a little tiny strait that's narrow. It's like passing an eye of a needle. And so it could be a problem. If Trump decides to escalate this as Netanyahu is attempting to get him, according to what's been reported in Financial Times,
[00:10:14] and if the bloodthirsty toads that are like Headic Seth that are there are saying, we can do this. We just need a little more time. I get so sick and tired of it. You know, I watch a lot of news sources, you know, like Fox News and News Nation. Well, we've been in a lot of war, ladies and gentlemen, in our lifetimes. And it's not about to end if you believe prophecy in history. We've got big problems, that's for sure.
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[00:12:34] All right, back with you live. It's Dr. Scott Bradley and Sam Bushman, freedomsrisingsun.com. So I'm saying to you that we all share responsibility here, folks. And I know we want to just look at a leader and have a savior like the Donald. There's only one savior, ladies and gentlemen. That is the Lord Jesus Christ. There's only one king. That is the Lord Jesus Christ. And any attempts to put anything in his place is nothing but disaster for the nation as we worship idols and humans. And, I mean, it's insanity, ladies and gentlemen. Stop it. Stop it.
[00:13:01] Okay, but the new Republican minority, I mean, they're disaster folks. The Democrat majority, disaster folks. The people tried to vote no, but they don't realize what they've got when they vote no. Because they're going to be promoting socialism and vitriol and hatred and anger and attacks. And it just goes on and on and on as the left, right wings of the same bird of prey continue to abuse the people and violate the Constitution. But you know what? We're going to have more war. And the reason we're going to have more war is because the people are immoral and love war.
[00:13:31] We love war. We celebrate war. Okay, and we murder our babies. We murder people in wars. We love death and destruction. And when you put the greatest sins together, like murder, especially the most innocent among us, the children, and then you put by that sexual indiscretion or impropriety, whatever you want to call it, you've got this situation where you've got this CEO, the NVIDIA CEO. Turns out that he had an affair with one Chinese chick,
[00:13:58] and now everybody's worried about the compromising of national security. Then it turns out that he had an affair with another chick, and now there's a third one materializing. So he resigned from a scandal. But now there's a big lobbying group trying to bring him back, doctor, saying this guy's fine. Don't worry about his indiscretions. We need him as a leader of this thing and all this kind of stuff. You've got Congresswoman Ildin Omar that married her brother. Okay? What's going to happen with her citizenship and all this kind of stuff?
[00:14:27] I mean, all down the line, morality and the lack thereof, if you will, is at the core of all the problems we face, sir. You know, Sam, this thing in NVIDIA, I mean, there's so much that we need to talk about. I mean, I could take an hour and a half on this, and you'd think, where the heck did all this come from? It's been talked about that what he did with this, you call her the chick,
[00:14:55] this communist Chinese spy that he was sleeping with. Honeypot, whatever word you want to use. Honeypot espionage operation, whatever the heck you want to call it. There's some that are saying that the damage that he has incurred upon the national security of the United States has never been exceeded until you get back into the 1950s, when the Soviet Union obtained through espionage. And I think that's true, but it's understating the issue, doctor.
[00:15:23] From a technical point of view, we're understating the issue right now. Here's the deal. I mean, there's so many things. I can't overstate it. Let's put it this way. You know, I ask you often, Sam, parenthetically and facetiously and all this kind of stuff, if your wife can't trust you, can I trust you, Sam? No, absolutely not. Okay. Okay. So here's the deal. This is one of the closest buddies Trump has in his billionaire cadre cabal.
[00:15:52] Oh, for sure? This guy, I can't count the number of times he has been standing next to Trump, shaking his hand, getting an award from him, getting praise. And, you know, he takes him like a puppy. And now you wonder why no one will go after the Epstein files, huh? No. You okay? All this, the net gets thrown pretty wide. Because, honestly, this whole thing is tied so inextricably to Trump. Okay, just recently. Couldn't agree more. Here's the deal.
[00:16:21] Trump met with the tech billionaires just recently, and they decided that we should trust them to self-police. Here's a guy that can't police his own morality. And here's a guy that has thrown away billions of dollars. I mean, he's probably the, I think I read one time, he's like the 11th richest guy, $150 billion. Oh, yeah. If he wouldn't have blown it and time would have went out, it would have probably been the richest guy over time. Okay. So here's the deal.
[00:16:47] These are the people that Trump is bringing to center stage. That's right. And there's a lot of things that are different. And that's why I'm saying, hey, if we the people allow immoral leaders like that, which really means that, in my opinion, these electrants, whatever you want to call them, they mirror society, right? So, you know, we're wicked people, sir. And it isn't going to get better. I mean, think about this Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and stuff. Are they going to really get to the bottom of her status? I don't think so.
[00:17:16] They're going to just run the clock out of time. Then the Democrats are going to be taken over. Then it's going to be basically, we're not going to worry about it anymore, right? Well, Ilhan Omar was just reelected. 60% margin between her and her closest competitor. She was 76%. You can't really go after her. She's above reproach. She's in the special class. She was 60% ahead of her closest competitor. And that's why I say, see, we the people have got to take some blame here.
[00:17:42] You cannot elect people like Donald Trump, people like Omar, you know, these people, the Democrats who are flat out blue socialists, publicly promoted as such, and then have consequences, right? Well, here's the deal. The Constitution requires that a member of the House has to be a citizen for seven years prior to being elected. Not really, though.
[00:18:07] This latest thing is that she obtained her citizenship illegally when her father got his citizenship, and she was over the age of 18 and would have had to stand independent herself, file her own paperwork, qualify under the law, and all that kind of stuff. She lied about her age. She's part of one of the parties, sir. The damn party doesn't have a thing to do with it. It has to do with illegal actions by a lot of people.
[00:18:34] It has to do with when you're part of a party, you get money and secrets and special privilege, and you're in, buddy. Well, she got her cabal, the Somali cabal, which is particularly powerful in her district. But apparently, and this is yet to be completely brought forth, but they're saying that she is not a citizen of the United States. Why isn't she in prison? She should not, cannot legally, constitutionally be in the House.
[00:19:04] That's what we're doing. All that's right, but here's the deal. She's part of the Democratic Party, and without that, she would never have been able to come to America in the first place, become a fake citizen or whatever you want to call it, run for office and get elected and be part of the party. See, she's an insider to the party, and I don't think we can remove her. Donald hasn't even touched her. He's got all kinds of people and all kinds of, I don't want to call them prison camps, but deportation centers or whatever else. Why isn't she there? Because she has special party privilege. That's why.
[00:19:30] Well, like I say, both the Department of Justice and the House are investigating her, and you do constitutionally have to be a citizen for seven years. The House can remove somebody based upon concurrence of two-thirds that can expel a member. There's all sorts of approaches that could. Do you think two-thirds of the Democrats are going to expel her? You know, it's one of those things that the Republicans expelled their New York buddy
[00:19:59] that was voted in a couple years ago. But the fact of the matter is, this is where we are right now. And it's a stir, and they don't have all the facts on the table yet, but they're saying they're getting mighty close to proving she lied about her age to become a naturalized minor. Well, and I think that's probably true. The problem is, I'm afraid that if they're not very careful, they're going to run out of rope because the lame duck session is going to end.
[00:20:29] No, no. This is something I'm pretty confident is going to go through into the next session. I hope you're right. I just don't have any confidence. I'm too jaded, doctor. Emmer is a fellow Minnesotan. He's a congressman there, and he's one of the guys that's pushing this, and he's from Minnesota. When Donald said, I'm not going to go after Hillary or anybody else because the power of the president is too important, so I'm not going after Joe, and I'm not going after anyone.
[00:20:56] I just realized, hey, all I know is even if the Democrats go after her, there might be like an alley-oop from the Donald that gives her a pardon or something. I'm just saying I don't have any confidence that they'll do what's right. I pray you're correct. I just don't have confidence anymore. Yeah, we have so many challenges today, but to throw our hands in the air, walk away, and give it over to the bad guys, I just can't do that.
[00:21:25] No, we don't do that. What we focus on is what we have control over. So I support Jim Jordan. I support going after this. I support the Democrats who will stand up and be honorable and set aside partisan politics, and I pray that we can get the goods on her and dismiss her. And I pray we can do a lot of these things, and I'll advocate for them. But it's kind of like I'll support them, but I don't have a lot of faith in the mojo just because I haven't seen success. That doesn't mean I won't push for that success.
[00:21:54] I'll give you a quick example. The price paid at the Foundation of Liberty and proper government was established by our founding fathers. We need to be that committed and realize the high price for our liberty is still necessary to defend, doctor. I do a little personal privilege kind of segment on my webinar.
[00:22:20] I've done that for quite a number of weeks now, months even. And so I try and take a single concept and develop it out for 15 minutes. And one of the things that – well, the thing that I did in that personal privilege presentation or concept last night was to talk about the price paid as the Foundation was established. And I reviewed the skin in the game that the American founding fathers had. And I know we're out of time.
[00:22:48] I couldn't do it justice in hours, literally. They paid the price. And it's been said that the price of liberty is blood, human blood. And that sounds a little almost paganistic and certainly is brutal. But the fact is that seems to be what society and history has shown is that if you're going to be free, somehow you've got to pay a price to become that. Eternal vigilance, Andy Jackson talked about.
[00:23:17] But the fact of the matter is today we have so little understanding. We just had Veterans Day recently. It's a, oh, thanks for your service. And we move on with whatever is going on. And the military – They should be rallying and trying to get out of the war and protect the children of the next generation, sir. We have – the price of liberty has been paid. And I talked about many dozens of them last night. That what they paid –
[00:23:47] Well, it must continue to be paid. You know, Ezra Tab Benson taught sometimes that you've got to have the blood of patriots, water the tree of liberty if you want to maintain liberty. And so I'm not calling for any violence, but I am saying there is a price that we must continue to pay for liberty. Otherwise, it will be stolen from us. And so the debate isn't should we pay that price, should we give up? Of course not. Never. And yes, we should pay the price. The question is how do we go about the restoration? That, in my mind, is the only question left. How do we prepare people for the Savior Jesus Christ to return?
[00:24:16] And how do we go about restoration and preserving this nation's legacy while we can? It only depends on how difficult it will be between now and when the Savior comes. The more we embrace liberty and morality, the better off we are. The more we reject that, the more difficult and the more tyrannical and abusive it will be between now and then. That's what we're talking about. For Dr. Bradley, freedomsizingson.com, I'm Sam Bushman. Thanks for listening. God save our constitutional republic.


