Radio Show Hour 1 – 12/19/2024

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[00:01:25] This is the broadcast for December the 19th in the year of our Lord, 2024.

[00:01:30] This is Hour 1 of 2 and the goal always to protect life, liberty, and property, to promote God, family, and country.

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[00:02:00] And man, a quick recap.

[00:02:02] Yesterday we had on our dear buddy James Edwards, thepoliticalcesspool.org.

[00:02:06] He was on with me for two hours.

[00:02:08] Wow, was it a barn burner show as well.

[00:02:10] We had also Casey Whalen on with us.

[00:02:13] Well-known investigative journalist slash videographer.

[00:02:18] Casey Whalen.substack.com to learn more about the incredible work that he does.

[00:02:23] It turns out there's a big old battle going on.

[00:02:28] Portland Antifa.

[00:02:30] Associate.

[00:02:31] The lady's name is Natalia.

[00:02:35] Goudvis.

[00:02:37] Is that how you say it?

[00:02:39] Yeah, Goudvis, I guess.

[00:02:41] Pleased guilty.

[00:02:42] In attack.

[00:02:43] Back on videographer Casey Whalen.

[00:02:46] We played the audio from it yesterday.

[00:02:48] She got crazy.

[00:02:50] Folks, it was outside this Clacamas County Courthouse.

[00:02:55] Katie Davosport over at thepostmillennial.com carrying the piece for us.

[00:03:02] And it's great reporting and great efforts by Casey.

[00:03:05] The Oregon judge says the main part of the story here.

[00:03:11] The Oregon judge has sentenced a mentally unstable Portland Antifa associate to 12 months of probation for committing, quote, criminal acts of violence.

[00:03:24] Criminal acts of violence outside of the Clacamas County Courthouse in September.

[00:03:30] However, Natalia Lee Goudvis, 26 years old of Boston, which I find interesting, plated guilty to charges on Monday.

[00:03:41] She physically attacked a videographer in a, quote, fit of rage.

[00:03:46] After her friend, Alyssa Azar, a ringleader of Portland Antifa, was sentenced to jail.

[00:03:59] Basically for being involved in a felony riot conviction.

[00:04:05] She has also been ordered to complete 24 hours of community service, take an anger management course, and refrain from having any contact with the victim, Casey Whalen, according to court filings.

[00:04:19] Wow.

[00:04:20] I find that fascinating, right?

[00:04:22] Anyway, Casey Whalen came on with us.

[00:04:24] Dear friend, James and I talked the rest of the couple of hours about how involved Liberty News Radio has been.

[00:04:32] In literally almost everything you could possibly imagine.

[00:04:37] I'm just telling you, I know it sounds insane, but it almost doesn't seem to matter what story that we're talking about.

[00:04:48] Liberty Roundtable Radio, the political cesspool radio programs, you know, all that we seem to be involved in.

[00:04:57] And it's just shocking how at every story we've got a representative there.

[00:05:01] We've got some tie to it.

[00:05:03] We've got somebody reporting on it.

[00:05:04] We break the story.

[00:05:05] We're involved in the story somehow.

[00:05:07] This is no different.

[00:05:08] I mean, when have you heard about Antifa going to jail?

[00:05:14] Getting caught.

[00:05:16] Criminally charged.

[00:05:18] For assaulting people.

[00:05:19] For rioting.

[00:05:21] For getting.

[00:05:21] Okay.

[00:05:22] I mean, it wasn't but many years ago.

[00:05:23] Antifa could just do whatever they wanted.

[00:05:27] Black Lives Matter could just run around and do whatever the heck they want.

[00:05:30] Nowadays, no, there's accountability.

[00:05:32] And thank heavens there should be accountability for anybody who commits acts of violence, folks.

[00:05:35] I'm not picking sides here.

[00:05:38] Anyway, we talked the rest of the hour just how involved Liberty News Radio seems to be in these core topics.

[00:05:43] Every time you turn around, we're doing something.

[00:05:46] We're involved in something.

[00:05:47] We've got a handle in this.

[00:05:48] We're involved in that.

[00:05:49] I mean, we're a tiny radio network with a bunch of dedicated people.

[00:05:53] And on a thin dime, boy, are we making a difference.

[00:05:56] With that, Eldon Stahl, welcome to the broadcast, sir.

[00:06:01] Thanks, Sam.

[00:06:01] Great to be here.

[00:06:03] It's just amazing.

[00:06:04] Eldon Stahl, the field coordinator for the John Birch Society.

[00:06:09] JBS.org or the new American.com to learn more.

[00:06:12] And, you know, the John Birch Society has been at the center of almost everything for the last, I'm trying to think how many years now.

[00:06:19] Literally 60-plus years now.

[00:06:21] 65, yeah.

[00:06:23] They've been involved in the center of things just like Liberty News Radio.

[00:06:27] I mean, everything that the JBS warned about has come true.

[00:06:30] Everything that they've documented has been factual.

[00:06:32] I mean, it's just amazing the track record that JBS has as well.

[00:06:37] Yeah.

[00:06:38] One of the things that I would recommend your listeners watch on YouTube is called Anarchy USA.

[00:06:47] It's a documentary from back in the 60s.

[00:06:50] And everybody who watches that, they're like, wow.

[00:06:52] They were way ahead of their time talking about, you know, all these riots and things going on at that time.

[00:06:58] It's so similar to today.

[00:07:00] It's Anarchy USA, it's called.

[00:07:04] Anarchy USA and then JBS.

[00:07:06] Is that what you got to type?

[00:07:08] Well, it's on YouTube.

[00:07:10] Just go type in Anarchy USA.

[00:07:12] You can watch the whole thing for free.

[00:07:15] But back then, you know, our chapters were spending, you know, like $1,000 for the real, the real thing, you know.

[00:07:24] Imagine how much that would be in today's dollars.

[00:07:29] But very, very groundbreaking video at that time.

[00:07:36] Yeah, it was 1966 that came out, right?

[00:07:39] 66, yeah.

[00:07:41] Yep.

[00:07:44] Wow.

[00:07:45] Ladies and gentlemen, think about that.

[00:07:45] G. Edward Griffin did the narration.

[00:07:47] Who did that?

[00:07:48] G. Edward Griffin did the narration.

[00:07:50] But it's basically a documentary.

[00:07:52] It goes into what happened in Algeria, what happened in China, what happened in Cuba, all these places where there's revolution and showing how that relates to what's going on in the United States.

[00:08:05] There you have it, ladies and gentlemen.

[00:08:08] It talks about the Marxist roots of the civil rights movement is what it kind of highlights.

[00:08:16] And it's something really educational, to say the least.

[00:08:19] And that's why I said, you know, we've been at the bleeding edge of this since we've been cranking.

[00:08:24] Liberty News Radio has been around since 2009.

[00:08:28] I've been on the radio since 91 or 2 kind of range.

[00:08:32] And, you know, I used to be on other radio networks.

[00:08:34] But then one of the radio networks decided that they wanted to kick me off and be unfair to me.

[00:08:39] And I just said enough of that.

[00:08:41] Cranked up my own network.

[00:08:42] And we've been around since 2009.

[00:08:44] So what's that?

[00:08:46] I've been around 15 years now.

[00:08:47] Going on 16 just for the radio network alone.

[00:08:51] And then I've been on the radio for almost coming up close on 30 years, ladies and gentlemen.

[00:08:56] It's getting close.

[00:08:57] It's just crazy how time flies and what goes on.

[00:09:02] I'll tell you that.

[00:09:03] So we've been involved in a lot of different stuff, folks.

[00:09:07] And I really want to highlight this film from the JBS.

[00:09:12] Anarchy USA 1966.

[00:09:14] Go watch it on YouTube.

[00:09:17] Because it's really something that you ought to know about and get involved in.

[00:09:23] And when I say get involved in, you know, you can join the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association Posse.

[00:09:29] And that's the nationwide posse supporting the proper role of law enforcement.

[00:09:34] And, you know, if there's groups around that have done a lot for the constitutional sheriff's movement, CSBOA has done a lot.

[00:09:41] You know, this radio network has done a lot.

[00:09:42] But the other group that's done so much on this, too, that doesn't get enough credit is the JBS.

[00:09:47] They've got all kinds of films out and programs they've put in place to properly support law enforcement when they carry out the Constitution and they carry out their oaths of office appropriately, Eldon.

[00:10:00] Yeah, we've basically pioneered that.

[00:10:04] We've started the campaign to support your local police and keep them independent.

[00:10:14] That's something we really need to kind of be aware of, folks.

[00:10:17] And so since 1966, man, a film by the JBS where I think they're making a huge difference in America.

[00:10:28] Is it harder to get JBS members these days than it used to be or easier?

[00:10:35] Not so hard.

[00:10:37] It's just that, you know, back in the day we were being attacked.

[00:10:41] So everybody heard of us.

[00:10:44] And nowadays, what you say is so correct, it's hard to attack you because the documentation has proven you correct.

[00:10:50] And so when they try to engage, they're on a losing side of the battle.

[00:10:54] That's evident.

[00:10:55] Hang tight.

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[00:12:57] Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Liberty Roundtable Live.

[00:13:40] When you've got Eldon Stahl on your radio, the John Birch Society, JBS.org, the new American.com.

[00:13:46] And when you have Brian Rust on three generations of educating our fellow Americans about precious metal,

[00:13:54] namely take possession of your metal over at freewatercoinco.com,

[00:13:57] you've got to come out of the gate for Christmas rocking.

[00:13:59] Welcome, Brian.

[00:14:01] Hey, thanks, Sam.

[00:14:02] Glad to be with you guys.

[00:14:03] All right, let's start out with the Honest Money Report.

[00:14:05] Where's gold sitting, sir?

[00:14:07] 29, or sorry, 25, 93, 10.

[00:14:13] 25, 93, 10.

[00:14:15] Silver?

[00:14:18] 28.89.

[00:14:19] Wow, silver's down a little bit, huh?

[00:14:22] Yeah, they're both down.

[00:14:23] They came down, the interest rate cut, and the metals dropped a bit.

[00:14:28] So do the metals drop or do dollars go up?

[00:14:31] The dollar's stronger, right?

[00:14:33] Yeah, there you go.

[00:14:35] The dollar's stronger.

[00:14:37] That's interesting.

[00:14:38] You know, we're near the 90 to 1 ratio right now, which is kind of crazy.

[00:14:45] But, yeah.

[00:14:47] Just so everybody knows, we're supposed to be at a 15 or a 20 to 1 ratio approximately,

[00:14:51] give or take.

[00:14:51] Correct.

[00:14:52] Yeah, that's exactly right.

[00:14:53] So we're four to five times out of whack.

[00:14:56] And the reason I say that the dollar's stronger is I find that interesting in light of the

[00:15:00] following discussion details, Brian.

[00:15:02] Again, Fed announces third rate cut of the year after Central Bank predicts fewer rate cuts

[00:15:11] in 2025.

[00:15:13] A quarter point cut, just so you know, ladies and gentlemen, which follows a half point cut

[00:15:19] in September and a quarter point cut last month brings the Fed's benchmark rate down from about 4.6% to 4.3% is what they say.

[00:15:34] They say the September cut and this cut now drops us down from a 23-year high, they say.

[00:15:43] And it brings the rate back to where it was in December 2022, which I find fascinating.

[00:15:49] Now, the interesting thing to me about this whole thing is this.

[00:15:54] When you think about a quarter point cut, a half point cut, and a quarter point cut, they've only cut 1% in 2024.

[00:16:03] Now, in September, they were predicting four cuts for 2025.

[00:16:08] Now that changed, they're only predicting two cuts now for 2025 and two cuts for 2026.

[00:16:14] I guess the Dow drops 1,123 points on the news.

[00:16:22] And here's what's interesting.

[00:16:23] Jerome Powell says, hey, when the path is uncertain, you go a little slower.

[00:16:27] And compared it to walking into a dark room and the furniture has been rearranged,

[00:16:30] then you just kind of slow down a little bit there, you know.

[00:16:34] The Dow plunges 1,100 points.

[00:16:39] They call it a 10-day losing streak.

[00:16:42] And I look at this whole thing and I just go, Brian, I think they're playing games on the Donald now.

[00:16:48] Now, don't get me wrong.

[00:16:49] I'm not for the government manipulating interest rates in the first place.

[00:16:52] But if they're going to manipulate interest rates now, so everything was fine under Joe,

[00:16:56] now we're lame duck and Donald announces all these different things he's going to do.

[00:17:00] And they're like, oh, my gosh, we're getting all scared now.

[00:17:02] We better go ahead and manipulate the game here.

[00:17:05] How political is this versus wise decision-making?

[00:17:12] Yeah, that's exactly right.

[00:17:13] I mean, they are playing the games and they're trying to control this market and still control this market and so on.

[00:17:20] But realistically, when it's out of control, they can say all they want.

[00:17:23] Oh, we're going to slow down the economy.

[00:17:25] We're going to slow down this just to kind of help ease.

[00:17:29] You're not helping anything.

[00:17:31] Right now, the bottom line is the cost of living for people is out of control.

[00:17:35] They're having to spend more.

[00:17:36] Yeah, maybe right now during this time of season, we're seeing some people out there shopping and spending some of their money and so on.

[00:17:44] But realistically, bottom line for a lot of American people, they don't have the money.

[00:17:48] So what does that mean?

[00:17:49] That means our credit card debt is climbing through the roof.

[00:17:53] And the interest rates based on those credit cards are not good.

[00:17:57] So they can't even keep up.

[00:18:01] So they've gone out and interviewed people and saying, well, hey, are you going to back off from these vacations?

[00:18:09] Are you going to not buy as much?

[00:18:11] No, they're putting it on cards.

[00:18:12] They're spending.

[00:18:14] And so last year's money they had to probably come up with to pay that bill, they've just pushed aside because they want to still buy stuff for their kids and so on.

[00:18:23] So now they're credit.

[00:18:26] So it's out of control and it's not helping our economy at all or the American people.

[00:18:31] It's, you know, just I'm sorry, I'm rambling here, digressing here basically.

[00:18:35] But if it takes.

[00:18:37] I don't think so.

[00:18:38] I think you're spot on.

[00:18:39] And the question becomes at the lower interest rates, what does that do?

[00:18:42] Let's just kind of lay this out for a second.

[00:18:44] All that does is make it easier for the government to print more money and for people to spend it.

[00:18:50] Right.

[00:18:51] That's exactly right.

[00:18:53] But if people don't have money, how do you print more money and then get more money in the economy and spend it?

[00:18:58] At some point you feel this psychotic, you know, it reminds me of a sugar high.

[00:19:05] But yet, you know, it's 10 p.m.

[00:19:07] We're super tired, but we want to wrap Christmas presents.

[00:19:09] So we're going to just go ahead and drink a bunch of caffeine, eat a bunch of sugar.

[00:19:12] We're just going to rage all night and wrap presents, okay?

[00:19:15] But at the end, at some point, the crash is just going to be harder the more you do this, right?

[00:19:22] Well, you try to hide.

[00:19:23] You don't worry about that.

[00:19:25] You just live in the now.

[00:19:27] You know, not what's going to happen down the road.

[00:19:30] You live in the now.

[00:19:30] Brian, hold on a minute.

[00:19:31] You cannot take another swig from the false bottle of economic prosperity, my friend.

[00:19:37] Right.

[00:19:39] I agree.

[00:19:42] It's out of control.

[00:19:42] It's like an alcoholic getting another bottle.

[00:19:44] What good is that going to do?

[00:19:47] Yeah.

[00:19:48] It's going to kick the bottle down the road.

[00:19:50] It's going to pretend we're okay.

[00:19:51] It's going to give us this, you know, drunk, whatever feeling you want to say, this good high, whatever term you want, you know, sugar high, whatever.

[00:19:58] And it's not going to change anything except for the problem is a little bit worse every bottle, every swig, every time we do this.

[00:20:04] And so, you know, I understand that everybody wants the interest rates to be cut more because they feel like, man, if we, if the Fed would just cut interest rates more, by golly, would be rolling again.

[00:20:15] It depends on how you define rolling, Brian, and what you're rolling towards.

[00:20:19] Yeah.

[00:20:21] That's exactly right.

[00:20:22] You know, it's crazy.

[00:20:24] What did, what was it, Les Reed?

[00:20:26] I was hearing, you know, he was saying the last constitutional budget set was 25, 26 years ago or so, 26.

[00:20:34] I mean, so, yeah, let's shut down the government.

[00:20:37] Let's say, hey, we're done doing this.

[00:20:38] Let's figure it out at this point.

[00:20:40] But we're going to shut you down because, yeah, you're out of control.

[00:20:42] That's what I think.

[00:20:44] That is the next topic, by the way.

[00:20:46] But before we get to that, do you want to chime in on this, Eldon?

[00:20:49] I'm just saying to you that when we lower the interest rates, we pretend we're doing well.

[00:20:53] But all that is for the manipulation.

[00:20:54] I think we need to get the Feds out of the interest rate game, first of all.

[00:20:58] And so we've got to correct this one step at a time.

[00:21:01] But look, lowering interest rates and passing an omnibus spending bill and passing it to the next Congress is the last thing we should be doing.

[00:21:09] Yeah.

[00:21:10] You know, I mean, the basic principle, I certainly encourage anybody to read Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt.

[00:21:18] But if you get under your belt some of these basic principles, like the fact that price controls are in the long run destructive,

[00:21:32] then you understand that, well, yes, having some central authority decide what your price will be for borrowing money,

[00:21:41] which is what interest rates are.

[00:21:43] It's your price for borrowing money.

[00:21:46] You know, they don't know any better.

[00:21:49] There's no way they can know any better than the people that might be actually participating, the lender and the borrower.

[00:21:56] And so rather than having that decided by central planning, which is basically socialism, socialist model,

[00:22:05] we should allow that to be done on a free market basis because those are people that have the most interest in those things.

[00:22:14] The most to gain or to lose.

[00:22:18] Now, I find this interesting.

[00:22:20] I went and I looked up economics in one lesson because I wanted to put it in the show notes.

[00:22:29] And so I wanted to make sure I had the author's name spelled right.

[00:22:31] When I came across, I find this comical economics in one lesson summary.

[00:22:36] So not only can you get one lesson, you can get a summary of the one lesson.

[00:22:42] And I find it funny because here's what the one-liner says.

[00:22:46] Just listen.

[00:22:46] This is really interesting.

[00:22:48] The field of economics is plagued by fallacies, which inevitably influence national policies that end up doing more harm than good.

[00:23:00] Now, I'm just saying, I'm not saying you shouldn't read the book.

[00:23:03] I'm just saying if that doesn't boil it down to a reality check, I'll install it.

[00:23:06] I don't know what does, my friend.

[00:23:09] Well, it's very true, yes.

[00:23:11] You know, there's classes and classes you can take at the college level in economics.

[00:23:15] And I would say just, you know, economics is painful to take as a class in the first place.

[00:23:22] And there's a number of reasons for that.

[00:23:25] But why not at least read this book, get the basics under your belt.

[00:23:30] And you can see through so many, so many different fallacies that are put forward in the public sphere.

[00:23:38] Oh, maybe we should have minimum wage.

[00:23:41] Oh, maybe we should have price subsidies or, you know, subsidies for the milk producers

[00:23:47] or for the ethanol producers or for the wind turbines or on and on and on.

[00:23:52] I think for the Sam Bushman Christmas fund, for crying out loud, if we're going to do it,

[00:23:57] unless you do it right.

[00:23:58] Come on, people.

[00:23:59] Fun like Christmas.

[00:24:00] Let's go.

[00:24:01] Drop interest rates.

[00:24:02] Give me a card that's unlimited, man.

[00:24:04] Call that the Platinum Sam card.

[00:24:06] Let's go.

[00:24:08] I'm just kidding.

[00:24:09] I'm just, this is insane, ladies and gentlemen.

[00:24:11] We're going to take a quick pause.

[00:24:12] He'll install with me.

[00:24:14] TheNewAmerican.com.

[00:24:15] Check that out.

[00:24:16] JBS.org.

[00:24:17] I also have our dear friend Brian Russell with us.

[00:24:20] FreeWaterQuinco.com.

[00:24:21] And you've got a friend in the honest money business.

[00:24:23] And that's what he tells you first off.

[00:24:25] Hey, get the right medals and then take possession of that medals.

[00:24:28] And then you can't be conned by the conman.

[00:24:30] How's that?

[00:24:31] All right.

[00:24:31] Hang tight.

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[00:29:00] Senator from Kentucky.

[00:29:01] Reserving the right to object.

[00:29:02] I lived for four months in Asheville, worked at the VA hospital, still have fond feelings for Western North Carolina.

[00:29:08] But the thing is, is the reason why we won't do this in responsible ways is because the Senate voted to send all your money to Ukraine.

[00:29:13] I mean, they voted to send $200 billion to Ukraine.

[00:29:16] I've been all over the mountains of Appalachia when I ask people,

[00:29:19] would you rather that your senators take care of you here in Asheville or here in Pikeville, here in Appalachia,

[00:29:25] or would you rather them send your money to Ukraine?

[00:29:27] I don't get anybody wanting to send a penny to Ukraine.

[00:29:29] Look, you can have all kinds of sympathy in the world for Ukraine,

[00:29:32] a hostility towards Russia being the aggressor nation, but we don't have the money.

[00:29:35] We're $2 trillion in the hole.

[00:29:37] Interest this year is going to be $1 trillion.

[00:29:39] And as far as passing this, I'm willing to let it pass today.

[00:29:41] He's going to object to passing his own bill today simply because it gets paid for.

[00:29:47] I'm willing to let the bill pass, but take some of the fluff and boondoggle subsidies from the Green New Deal

[00:29:53] and put it into here.

[00:29:54] The money's sitting here.

[00:29:55] We put it into here for disasters.

[00:29:57] We help Asheville today.

[00:30:00] You opened the floodgates.

[00:30:02] I hope I can make it through things.

[00:30:35] Live on your radio, Merry Christmas.

[00:31:04] Brian Rust, FreeWaterCoinCo.com, Eldon Stahl, JBS.org, and yours truly, LibertyRoundTable.com, and LovingLiberty.net.

[00:31:13] We're talking about economics.

[00:31:17] And we're talking about this deal where the Dow drops literally over 1,100 points.

[00:31:24] People are freaking.

[00:31:25] Everybody's melting down.

[00:31:26] Everybody's going, what's happening?

[00:31:27] I said they're playing games on the Donald.

[00:31:31] But Eldon Stahl brought up, please read economics in one lesson.

[00:31:37] Henry Hazlitt with the book.

[00:31:39] It's a short, and you can even get a summary of the book.

[00:31:41] So it's already a summary because it's in one lesson, right?

[00:31:44] And then you can get a summary of the one lesson even.

[00:31:46] But the field of economics is plagued by fallacies, which inevitably influences national policies that end up doing more harm than good.

[00:31:57] And then he explains that there's one lesson illustrates the single most important lesson in economics.

[00:32:04] And that is this, ladies and gentlemen.

[00:32:06] Listen up.

[00:32:07] Ready?

[00:32:07] Every economic policy has secondary consequences that often do the opposite of the intended effect of the policy in the first place.

[00:32:20] And that's what we're seeing here.

[00:32:23] Okay?

[00:32:23] The feds lower interest rates.

[00:32:25] Of course, they don't lower them enough.

[00:32:27] Powell's a clown.

[00:32:28] Runs around.

[00:32:29] Says, we promised we were going to do four cuts.

[00:32:30] But now we've changed our mind.

[00:32:32] We're only going to do two.

[00:32:33] And on the news, the stock market just melts down.

[00:32:36] Man, a 10-day losing streak, they say.

[00:32:38] Poor Donald in the lame duck session.

[00:32:40] You're going to inherit disaster.

[00:32:41] But Joe had it all rolling until you came along, buddy.

[00:32:45] You see how political that gets?

[00:32:46] And then the headline says this.

[00:32:48] Stopgap spending bill has been scrapped.

[00:32:52] After Trump opposes it, Elon Musk joins the debate earlier urging lawmakers to reject the, listen to this, 1547-page omnibus funding measure, the Epoch Times of this.

[00:33:10] Trump rejects plan to prevent government shutdown.

[00:33:14] He says Johnson, that's Mike Johnson, and other Republicans should.

[00:33:21] The deadline.

[00:33:22] Well, the deadline's Friday night.

[00:33:24] I did a video on this.

[00:33:26] If you can go ahead and look for that at libertyroundtable.com, Liz.

[00:33:30] Choose videos and then see if you can find the one where I talk about this funding scandal.

[00:33:34] We'll see if we can play that too.

[00:33:36] But before we get there, while Liz looks that up, libertyroundtable.com, look for the video on the spending scam.

[00:33:43] You'll see it.

[00:33:44] Anyway, I look at this and I just go, Donald's exactly right.

[00:33:49] Elon Musk is exactly right.

[00:33:52] Johnson running around defending the bill saying we got to do this.

[00:33:55] This is good.

[00:33:56] No, that's just going to hand a pig and a pulp to the Donald 100 days in.

[00:34:00] That's all it's going to do.

[00:34:01] Why not hand Joe the meltdown in the economy?

[00:34:04] Why not make the Democrats own this thing and say you clowns won't even pass a streamlined bill that's to do what it's supposed to do?

[00:34:12] You won't pass it unless it's loaded with pork.

[00:34:14] You could hand the Democrats a big problem this time, Brian.

[00:34:21] Yeah, you're right.

[00:34:23] There's so many things we can kind of look at this and kind of pick at, and it's just a disaster.

[00:34:28] We've been going down this thing.

[00:34:30] I mean, the economy is showing some growth.

[00:34:34] We're showing some growth and so on.

[00:34:36] But what?

[00:34:37] At a higher inflation.

[00:34:39] And what they have to do, the economy is like we're addicts or whatever, and it needs a constant fix.

[00:34:48] And next year, with all its challenges and that, it's going to be no different.

[00:34:52] So what happens?

[00:34:54] They keep printing money, and they keep printing money, and it's broken.

[00:34:58] This is broken, and we can see it's broken.

[00:35:00] I mean, if we're $100 trillion in debt really over everything, and you figure what each person owes, we can't pay.

[00:35:07] I mean, if there was a bill thrown around each of us, we'd be bankrupt.

[00:35:11] We're out.

[00:35:12] They'd take our property, whatever, I mean, if they wanted to do.

[00:35:14] But this is broke, and you can't keep kicking this same can down.

[00:35:19] You can't come at the end of the year.

[00:35:21] Christmas is here.

[00:35:22] We can't shut this down.

[00:35:23] What a crock.

[00:35:24] And so, yeah, it's broken, and we're not in a good spot.

[00:35:32] Ellen, what do you say to this?

[00:35:33] I say we're more than not in a good spot.

[00:35:35] I think Trump and Elon Musk are spot on in this.

[00:35:38] Johnson's out in the weeds and ready to cave to the Democrats.

[00:35:40] Johnson typifies the problem, people.

[00:35:43] In my humble opinion, Donald Trump and Elon Musk typify the solution.

[00:35:47] We've got to pass a clean bill.

[00:35:49] Democrats are already promising they'll oppose a clean bill.

[00:35:52] That's fine.

[00:35:53] You tell me how many pages the clean bill is compared to the 1,500-plus pages of the omnibus spending disaster.

[00:36:01] And we can talk about that, but a clean bill shouldn't be a lot of pages.

[00:36:05] And a clean bill should be simple and easy to understand.

[00:36:07] And it would be easy to hand Joe Biden in the lame duck session.

[00:36:11] Say these lame duck clowns are trying to sabotage, you know, Doge, trying to sabotage a correction here.

[00:36:19] And I think you could use the media and hand them their head on this if you had enough guts, Eldon.

[00:36:27] Yeah, and of course, you know, we're so far away from what needs to happen.

[00:36:37] Largely, this ends up being theatrics every six months or whatever it ends up being.

[00:36:41] But we need to get back to the idea that essentially the government, federal government, is not Santa Claus.

[00:36:53] The government is a tool to, as the founder said, to secure our rights.

[00:37:02] It's not something that is supposed to just create prosperity, give favors to one and not to the other or what have you.

[00:37:13] But everybody's trying to get their piece of the pie now.

[00:37:16] Once they figure out that, you know, we can use the government as this way to plunder our neighbors for our own pet project, then, well, everything's at play.

[00:37:31] We can't.

[00:37:33] So that's really what we need to get back to.

[00:37:36] We need to get back to the idea that the federal government should be very limited and by the Constitution itself.

[00:37:43] Well, we need to understand and demand that it be adhered to and actually understand the value of adhering to it.

[00:37:52] Brian, you want to chime in on this one?

[00:37:53] I mean, we need to use the media here.

[00:37:57] This is where the clown media all betrays Trump.

[00:37:59] They're all like, oh, my gosh, the stock's down.

[00:38:01] Everything's horrible because of Donald.

[00:38:03] Oh, my gosh.

[00:38:04] He's going to just beat up it.

[00:38:06] He's a racist.

[00:38:06] He's going to go after every illegal and he's going to go ahead and put a gazillion percent tariffs on everybody.

[00:38:12] And, by golly, everything's just melting down because Donald's created so much uncertainty.

[00:38:16] And all we've got to do is pass the spending bill.

[00:38:19] Even Mike Johnson says so.

[00:38:20] And now Donald and Elon, clowns out there kind of disrupting everything.

[00:38:24] And, well, that's where they're going.

[00:38:26] It's psychotic.

[00:38:27] Why don't we tell the truth?

[00:38:28] What's wrong with a clean bill, Brian?

[00:38:31] Well, it's nothing.

[00:38:32] But you just don't get it anymore.

[00:38:35] It's just whatever they can kind of throw in these bills and puff up themselves.

[00:38:40] And it doesn't work.

[00:38:42] I mean, we've been kicking this can down the road forever.

[00:38:46] And it's just getting worse.

[00:38:48] And we're reckless abandoned as far as spending.

[00:38:51] I mean, we're giving to Ukraine all this money.

[00:38:53] And realistically, there's a number of things that you have to look at based on kind of what's going on.

[00:39:00] If we continue to be out of reckless control, our money system and so on, it's a collapse.

[00:39:06] I mean, go read James Rickard's book of the death of money and how these societies have collapsed.

[00:39:11] Well, we can't support ourselves and protect ourselves when we're broke.

[00:39:17] You know, it's just because, well, now they're going to have to have more money because we've got to our defense system is down.

[00:39:23] We've got to get that back up.

[00:39:24] We've got all these wars.

[00:39:25] People are attacking us.

[00:39:26] They don't like us.

[00:39:27] We got.

[00:39:27] Well, what does that cost?

[00:39:29] And what does this cost?

[00:39:30] And what does that cost?

[00:39:31] I mean, it's it's out of control.

[00:39:33] And it is out of control.

[00:39:35] What I want to do is skip the break.

[00:39:38] Go ahead and skip the break.

[00:39:39] Go ahead, Brian.

[00:39:39] Go ahead and finish.

[00:39:40] Well, well, unless we unless we do something, it's going to be the same.

[00:39:45] It just keeps continuing to go this rate.

[00:39:49] We're we've got states already that are bankrupt.

[00:39:52] We've got so many issues ourselves and we just want to bandaid it.

[00:39:57] And then they want to kind of, you know, then they then they throw something else in and then they do something else.

[00:40:02] But if you start looking at all these things that are happening and and and agendas that really need to be looked at our countries, it's it's somewhat scary because we're not in a good place.

[00:40:14] You know, financially, you know, sustainable orally, military and so on.

[00:40:20] And all these things or all these things.

[00:40:22] And so we've got to fix this.

[00:40:24] And it's and it can't it's not going to happen overnight.

[00:40:27] So they better do something to just start the process is what I.

[00:40:31] Well, and that's the point.

[00:40:32] If they don't start the process during the lame duck, when they have a chance to set up Donald Trump to come out of the gate January 20 with a with a little bit of a win, with a little bit of a we've handed the Democrats their head for their failures.

[00:40:44] Now, let's you know, it's our turn.

[00:40:46] Let's if they don't do that, if they go ahead and bridge this gap and they put it off till March, then at 100 days, instead of celebrating the 100 days of success, you're going to be celebrating.

[00:40:55] Now we have another dilemma.

[00:40:57] How are we going to deal with the dilemma now?

[00:40:58] Oh, man, last time it was fine.

[00:41:00] But now that Donald Trump, it's horrible and they're going to go down that road.

[00:41:04] And you've got to be smart enough.

[00:41:05] You've got to play chess here.

[00:41:06] Don't let them do it, people.

[00:41:08] And I appreciate Elon Musk and I appreciate Donald Trump.

[00:41:12] I just hope they can remain strong.

[00:41:14] And I know they don't control Congress, but I hope we the people can put enough pressure on Congress.

[00:41:19] So, as you know, I'm doing short videos now.

[00:41:21] So LRT video.

[00:41:22] I just did one called Cash is King Liberty Roundtable dot com.

[00:41:27] Let's play that and then we'll talk about it.

[00:41:31] Cash is King.

[00:41:34] Welcome to another edition of Liberty Roundtable Live Video Shorts.

[00:41:37] I'm Sam Bushman.

[00:41:45] Dark and undercover.

[00:41:48] Congress fails to finalize funding bill just days before the deadline.

[00:41:54] I want to focus on this because we hope for a new era.

[00:41:59] Will the Republicans pass an on-the-bust spending bill?

[00:42:02] Kick the can down the road?

[00:42:04] So when Donald Trump's in office 100 days, they're forced to deal with the budget once again?

[00:42:09] I predict the answer is yes, but pray the answer is no.

[00:42:13] What Trump needs to do is hand Joe Biden, pardon the pun, his head.

[00:42:19] And I mean that figuratively, not physically.

[00:42:22] What I mean is he needs to make Joe Biden own it.

[00:42:25] Close the government down is what needs to be done.

[00:42:28] And then you need to simply look at the government and say,

[00:42:30] we will fund all constitutional government line items one at a time.

[00:42:35] If they're not constitutional, we'll either jenison them entirely and never reopen them.

[00:42:39] Or we can create a sunset provision.

[00:42:42] In other words, yeah, we have promises to keep, but it's unconstitutional.

[00:42:46] So we're going to make sure that we eventually shut the program down,

[00:42:49] but we'll fund it meanwhile to keep our promises and create an extraction plan.

[00:42:54] In other words, we don't want to crash the plane.

[00:42:56] We're glad to land it as safely as we possibly can,

[00:42:58] but we will absolutely use Doge to create a line item budget.

[00:43:04] If it's constitutional, we're going to keep it and open it up.

[00:43:07] If it's not constitutional, we're either going to end it now,

[00:43:10] or we're going to simply find a way to end it sooner rather than later.

[00:43:15] That way, Biden owns the failure of the government,

[00:43:19] and Donald Trump on day one has the opportunity

[00:43:22] to create the most constitutional government in modern history.

[00:43:27] What an opportunity, President Trump.

[00:43:29] We're here to help you make that happen.

[00:43:31] I'm Sam Bushman.

[00:43:32] That's another Limited Roundtable Live short.

[00:43:34] And God save the republic.

[00:43:39] There you have it.

[00:43:40] Brian, I want your take on this thing first.

[00:43:42] What do you think?

[00:43:43] I'm trying to really use my influence to say,

[00:43:46] hey, Donald and hey, Elon, you're on the right track.

[00:43:49] Mike Johnson, you're out in the weeds.

[00:43:50] Shame on you.

[00:43:51] Don't do it.

[00:43:51] Come on.

[00:43:52] We've got to start to set the standard here.

[00:43:54] And all we're asking for, we're not asking to not fund government.

[00:43:58] We're not asking.

[00:43:58] What we're saying is don't put the pork in.

[00:44:00] Offer a clean bill.

[00:44:02] Why can't Mike Johnson do that?

[00:44:05] The Democrats don't support it.

[00:44:07] Then use the media to absolutely shame them.

[00:44:10] Just say we've got a clean bill here ready to go.

[00:44:13] And the Democrats are opposing funding the proper role of a clean government.

[00:44:17] This is what we're doing in the next administration.

[00:44:19] And this is how we're coming out of the gate.

[00:44:21] And I just think we need to shame anybody not aboard.

[00:44:24] But now what we're doing is debating this huge fiasco instead of talking about the clean bill.

[00:44:32] Ryan?

[00:44:33] That's right.

[00:44:34] Well, here you go.

[00:44:36] They just want to take time to talk about all this stuff instead of action.

[00:44:40] But that's right.

[00:44:42] So realistically, I mean, Johnson and others are part of the good old boy club.

[00:44:47] So they don't want to offend any of their people in the club.

[00:44:49] So let's not try.

[00:44:51] But Rand Paul, all he was asking at one point, how about we just cut 1%?

[00:44:55] Let's just start with the 1% thing.

[00:44:57] How well did that go?

[00:44:58] Well, that didn't go.

[00:44:59] You're not going to do it.

[00:45:00] So we're going to still kick this can down the road.

[00:45:02] But they have an opportunity now to maybe make some headway.

[00:45:05] And it would be like you said on your podcast there.

[00:45:08] It's great.

[00:45:09] That little video, that's awesome.

[00:45:11] I need to get you, like I said all along, is let's get you on that cabinet.

[00:45:14] But they're not hearing this.

[00:45:16] You'd be awesome to be on his cabinet to help him look and see at some of these things for the American people here,

[00:45:23] the middle class people here, that you've got a boy in Sam Bushman.

[00:45:27] I think you get the metal man himself on the board.

[00:45:29] You have Sam Bushman put him on the radio.

[00:45:31] And then you have guys like me promote the heck out of it saying, hey, man, these people are on target and on track.

[00:45:36] What we've got to do, why is it even a discussion about a clean bill?

[00:45:42] I think the Republicans just need to stick together and say, there's your clean bill.

[00:45:46] If you clowns don't want to support, you know, the proper rule of limited clean government, be my guest to shut it down.

[00:45:51] We're going to spend all of our time.

[00:45:53] You know, we've got 200 plus 18 Republicans in the House or whatever.

[00:45:58] And because we control the House right now, right?

[00:46:00] We just were hoping for a little bigger margin.

[00:46:02] Isn't that the discussion?

[00:46:03] OK, and we're going to control the Senate soon.

[00:46:06] And we've got enough senators now.

[00:46:07] If we start together and put 300 people publicly in the media and say we will not talk about a single issue.

[00:46:12] I don't care what you want to talk about in America.

[00:46:14] We're not going to talk about a single issue until you clowns pass this thing because you're idiots.

[00:46:19] We're funding the proper rule of government and we're going to show who is the problem here.

[00:46:23] And we're going to do it right now.

[00:46:25] No, sir, we're not talking about that.

[00:46:27] Back to the spending bill.

[00:46:28] We've got a clean bill and just absolutely broken record this sucker.

[00:46:32] Am I crazy, Ellen?

[00:46:37] No, not at all.

[00:46:38] I mean, we've got to start somewhere.

[00:46:43] And just an idea for a short, I guess, I had is you might touch on, you know, just the idea of what constitutional versus unconstitutional means.

[00:46:55] I have to follow up to that a little short.

[00:46:58] Because so many people have the idea that, well, that's just a question of whether nine well-connected lawyers in the Supreme Court decide if something is OK to do.

[00:47:09] Well, that's not what the founders had in mind, is it?

[00:47:12] No.

[00:47:13] You're right as rain.

[00:47:14] That's a good idea.

[00:47:15] I'll certainly work on that because I really appreciate.

[00:47:18] Liberty Roundtable is one of the greatest think tanks on the planet, people.

[00:47:21] Not because of me.

[00:47:22] I'm just kind of the redneck that puts everybody together and runs the traffic and everything.

[00:47:27] And, you know, hey, you're up.

[00:47:28] Go.

[00:47:29] So I play that.

[00:47:30] But I've got so many brilliant people around me that literally know what's going on.

[00:47:34] They have the solutions at their fingertips.

[00:47:36] I mean, look, you've heard Eldon say, hey, let's document what constitutionality is on this thing.

[00:47:41] You've got Brian Russ saying, hey, you know what?

[00:47:44] Let's get somebody on the panel to articulate this in a meaningful way.

[00:47:50] You know, you've got economics in one lesson.

[00:47:52] You've got precious metals at the core where, you know, right now, hey, they're a good deal.

[00:47:57] They're supposedly down.

[00:47:59] If you believe the manipulations, it's a good time to buy gold and silver.

[00:48:02] It's a little down from what it was.

[00:48:05] You can add to your portfolio there.

[00:48:09] Okay.

[00:48:10] But these are the people that are surrounding me.

[00:48:12] Now, here's the headline that I find fascinating.

[00:48:15] So we're debating this massive spending bill.

[00:48:17] It's over a billion dollars.

[00:48:19] And it doesn't even fund government for even half a year.

[00:48:21] Right.

[00:48:21] Senate clears defense bill denying transgender care.

[00:48:28] The annual defense bill.

[00:48:31] Listen, directing 895 billion with a B dollars towards the Pentagon and other military programs.

[00:48:41] Of course, it would deny transgender health coverage to minors.

[00:48:45] They say it now heads to President Biden's desk to sign.

[00:48:49] The Senate on Wednesday gave final approval to this bill.

[00:48:53] The defense policy bill.

[00:48:56] 895 billion, as I told you, toward the Pentagon and other military activities.

[00:49:01] Moving ahead over the objections of Democrats, by the way, who opposed the provision that was added to deny care to the transgenders.

[00:49:11] And then they say the 85 to 14.

[00:49:18] Decision came a week after a divided House passed the same measure cleared the bill for President Biden's signature.

[00:49:29] Most Republicans and many Democrats supported the measure, which provides a 14.5 percent increase in, I guess, all kinds of pay raise and everything else for some of these people.

[00:49:46] Okay.

[00:49:46] I look at this and I go, who's the friend and who's the enemy?

[00:49:50] 895 billion, almost a trillion dollars for war.

[00:49:55] And the way they get this through is they're like, yeah, we're going to stop the transgenders.

[00:50:00] What does that even have to do with a military bill?

[00:50:04] Okay.

[00:50:04] And so they're going to get the Republicans are like, yeah, we stopped the perverts.

[00:50:07] We're doing good.

[00:50:08] And the Democrats are going, no, this is a clown show.

[00:50:11] Well, they're saying there's a clown show because they don't want to stop the perverts clause in there.

[00:50:15] But no one's discussing the $895 billion boondoggle war promoting backing the military industrial complex war machine discussion.

[00:50:24] And everybody's ready for Joe to sign it.

[00:50:26] This is lame duck stuff, Brian.

[00:50:28] I'm the only one calling out going, you guys are clowns.

[00:50:31] It isn't even about transgender.

[00:50:32] It's about military spending.

[00:50:34] And you shouldn't spend that much.

[00:50:35] We spend more than all other countries combined.

[00:50:39] Is this just like hawkish as all get out?

[00:50:42] Why are we doing that?

[00:50:43] And now that's separate from the spending bill they're talking about that's going to shut down the government.

[00:50:47] It's insanity.

[00:50:51] I bring it up there like, Sam, you don't understand economics there.

[00:50:55] You need a degree in economics, Mr. Bushman.

[00:50:58] It's like, what?

[00:51:01] That's good.

[00:51:01] There's no doubt about it.

[00:51:03] It's absolutely crazy.

[00:51:04] You're exactly right.

[00:51:06] But it's, well, that's it.

[00:51:08] I mean, common sense.

[00:51:09] We're back to common sense again.

[00:51:10] And there's none of that.

[00:51:12] There's no common sense.

[00:51:13] You know, they're just reckless abandoning back there.

[00:51:17] Like they're chickens with their head cut off running around.

[00:51:19] And we look at it as like a clown show, as you have said in the past.

[00:51:22] That's what it is.

[00:51:23] And so, you know, to sit down and really discuss the issues.

[00:51:27] The reason why it's so big, the billion, we're hitting a trillion dollars.

[00:51:30] It's because we're basically, the defense isn't our country's defense anymore.

[00:51:36] We become the defense for everybody else.

[00:51:38] So let's send 20 billion to Ukraine.

[00:51:40] Let's send some money over to Israel.

[00:51:43] Let's get the money over here.

[00:51:44] I mean, we're paying for everything in this world.

[00:51:47] And that's the issue.

[00:51:49] So that's why it's big like that is because, well, you got to add this.

[00:51:52] You got to add that because we got to give that country and that country and so on.

[00:51:55] It just, holy smoke.

[00:51:56] We're just, it's going to explode here one of these sooner than later days.

[00:52:01] And it's a clown show.

[00:52:05] You're right on.

[00:52:06] I don't even understand the headline.

[00:52:08] It's like, yeah, we've got this big old spending bill.

[00:52:10] Republicans are promoting it.

[00:52:11] Denies care to the transgenders tonight.

[00:52:14] And Democrats are opposing the bill.

[00:52:16] And I'm thinking, the Democrats are right to oppose the bill.

[00:52:18] No, they got a wrong reason.

[00:52:21] But I mean, I'll go with the wrong reason if we shut that sucker down.

[00:52:24] What about you, Eldon?

[00:52:28] Yeah, this, I mean.

[00:52:32] It ends up being such a crazy thing.

[00:52:34] This is actually a great illustration of why term limits are a bad idea.

[00:52:41] There's so many people right now, the election is over.

[00:52:45] They're not coming back to Congress because they're retiring or they're voted out, whichever.

[00:52:51] And they have no accountability, no incentive to listen to their voters back home.

[00:52:57] Okay?

[00:52:58] Because they're going to be gone in January.

[00:53:02] Imagine if you expanded that to a third or a half of Congress, that they all were lame ducks for two or even six years in the case of the Senate.

[00:53:14] That's what term limits would do.

[00:53:18] Do you really want that?

[00:53:20] We want to make this lame duck period even much larger.

[00:53:27] Anyway, I just look at this thing and I just think, man, this is how they deceive us and play games.

[00:53:31] You've got a defense bill for $895 billion.

[00:53:34] Let's discuss that and determine do we want to put $895 billion into the military.

[00:53:38] I don't think so.

[00:53:39] That doesn't protect the homeland.

[00:53:41] That doesn't bring our troops home.

[00:53:43] That doesn't.

[00:53:43] All it does is fund the military industrial complex.

[00:53:46] This transgender thing should not even be a discussion.

[00:53:49] Now, I know the Republicans want to stop transgender and I get it.

[00:53:52] I do too.

[00:53:53] I don't think the government should be involved in that.

[00:53:55] But do you put that in this bill so the Democrats oppose the bill and now the Democrats are on the right side of the issue for the wrong reasons?

[00:54:01] And you're on the wrong side of the issue for the right reasons?

[00:54:05] I don't even understand this kind of clown show stuff.

[00:54:08] Look, let's debate the bill.

[00:54:09] Do we want a military bill of $895 billion?

[00:54:12] I do not.

[00:54:12] How about you, Brian?

[00:54:14] I do not.

[00:54:15] How about you, Eldon?

[00:54:18] No, I mean, how many countries would we have to go into?

[00:54:21] Great point.

[00:54:22] Ladies and gentlemen, it's a mandate.

[00:54:23] Shut that bill up.

[00:54:24] But see, it's already going to hit the desk.

[00:54:26] The Republicans, House, Senate, are sending it to Joe right now.

[00:54:30] It's too late.

[00:54:31] And they haven't even begun to debate the omnibus spending bill.

[00:54:34] That's on the table to argue about there.

[00:54:36] For the lame duck session, it's a disgrace.

[00:54:39] Shame on them all.

[00:54:40] Thank you, Brian Rust.

[00:54:42] Hey, Merry Christmas to everybody.

[00:54:44] To you, Sam, your family.

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