Cheatin' elites and Ronna's new gig (03-22-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:27] your support. The New York Post reports, representative Marjorie Taylor Greene stunned house

[00:00:35] lawmakers in a Friday vote by filing a motion to vacate against Speaker Mike Johnson, a

[00:00:41] source told the post. Greene, Republican from Georgia made the move as the house prepared

[00:00:49] to pass a partial government spending bill to avert alluming midnight shutdown. And less

[00:00:55] than five months after House Republicans ousted their last speaker Kevin McCarthy. Another

[00:01:00] source told the post that Greene would have to announce her motion at one of the chamber's

[00:01:04] microphones and was likely to get gavilled away from the mic beforehand. Hardline House

[00:01:10] Republicans erupted at Mike Johnson for dropping the 1,012 page bill in the early hours of Thursday

[00:01:18] morning, less than 48 hours before the partial government shutdown on March 22nd. So they're

[00:01:24] getting ready to go into recess. And as I understand it, there's like a two day window that

[00:01:28] has to be that has to elapse. And so she is not she's not going to be able to drop this

[00:01:36] thing before they go on recess but is gonna but then said that I saw some other quote where

[00:01:42] she's saying it's just a warning shot which again kind of goes to what I said in the last

[00:01:49] hour, which is you know look for the incentive structure and her incentive structure is to

[00:01:56] get what she's getting right now, which is FaceTime airtime. She will be the topic of discussion

[00:02:05] during the weekend talk show circuit. So Scott Rasmussen, the veteran pollster, he did a podcast

[00:02:21] with the daily signal which if I remember correctly, they are affiliated with the Heritage

[00:02:26] Foundation. And he surveyed a group of Americans that he describes, he calls them the elite 1%.

[00:02:36] Now me, I hate the term elite because it indicates some level of superior ability or something and have

[00:02:47] you met the elites? I mean, yes, some of them are very smart and those tend to be like yourself made

[00:02:53] millionaires billionaires, that kind of thing. But there are a lot of people that are just kind of

[00:02:57] trustworthy and you know, they got mom and dad's trust account trust funds and they're just

[00:03:02] skating on the family name. And eventually they will, you know, the subsequent generations will lose

[00:03:08] those, will lose those fortunes. Anyway, he calls the elite 1% this top group and they make over

[00:03:18] 150,000 a year. They live in densely populated areas and they have post graduate degrees. Okay. Oh

[00:03:27] and they are all overwhelmingly liberal. So these are the, the quote elite 1%. They give president

[00:03:36] Joe Biden an 82% approval rating. This is, I see that's what makes them elite. They really love

[00:03:45] Joe Biden. That's compared to his 40% average from the rest of Americans, okay. So Scott

[00:03:54] Rasmussen asked these, these 1% voters quote, suppose that your favorite candidate loses a close

[00:04:02] election. However, people on the campaign know that they can win by cheating without being caught.

[00:04:10] Okay. So that's these, this is the hypothetical that they're asked your favorite candidate's going to lose

[00:04:16] the election, but they can cheat and they won't get caught. All right. Would you rather have your

[00:04:22] candidate win by cheating or lose by playing fair? And I think that's a good question for everybody

[00:04:30] actually to consider, right? Would you rather have your candidate win by cheating or lose by playing

[00:04:37] fair? Among all Americans, 7% said they would want their candidate to win by cheating, which honestly,

[00:04:47] I think that numbers probably higher. I think a lot of people would probably just kind of turn

[00:04:53] to blind eye to it. Maybe not outright say, yay, you know, cheat as long as I win, but still

[00:05:00] like 7%. That's the number that said they would want their candidate to win by cheating. When

[00:05:06] you ask the 1%, that number is 35%. So one out of three, one out of three of the quote elites.

[00:05:16] And then if you filter down, you start asking, okay, among that 1%, who are politically obsessed?

[00:05:29] And you start and that's just inside the 1%, who are politically obsessed, meaning that they

[00:05:37] talk about politics every single day. Okay? And among those people, 69% say that they would want their

[00:05:46] candidate to win by cheating rather than lose honestly. And this is a problem. This is a very big

[00:05:56] problem because this quote elite 1%, that's politically active. They talk politics every day.

[00:06:05] These are the people who wheeled outside's influence. And if they're willing to do this, right?

[00:06:12] 70% of them say they would rather win by cheating. That's a problem. Rasmus and said I've been

[00:06:19] Poland for a very long time in the last finding is the most terrifying poll result I have ever seen.

[00:06:26] He also said, what are their views on government compared to the general population?

[00:06:33] He said most Americans think that we don't have enough individual freedom

[00:06:40] among the elite about half of them say that. They say no, we have too much freedom. Half of

[00:06:47] the 1%, say we have too much freedom. And among that politically obsessed group, it again is 7 out of 10.

[00:06:55] 7 out of 10 say there's too much individual freedom in America. I bet that number was even higher

[00:07:01] during the pandemic, by the way. It's just mind boggling to Rasmus and he says part of the reason

[00:07:10] is because they trust the government. Right? That's part of the reason. In America, it's been 50 years

[00:07:16] since most voters trusted the government to do the right thing most of the time. But among the elite,

[00:07:22] 70% trust the government to do the right thing most of the time. Maybe it's because they are that

[00:07:30] group of people, right? These are the bureaucrats. These are the people who work or

[00:07:36] are either work in government or they're government adjacent, right? Maybe they're in like

[00:07:41] NGOs and nonprofits. They're in these sort of cottage industries that pop up living off of

[00:07:47] government grants or access. You know, like, 100 buy it.

[00:07:55] Rasmus said when I look at all the data, there's a sense that most of us believe in government of

[00:07:59] the people by the people and for the people. And I think they would say it's oven by the elites.

[00:08:04] And that's what's best for the people. They really believe that if they could just make the

[00:08:09] decisions and get us out of the way, we would be a lot better off. You know, like Mike Johnson.

[00:08:23] I look at this point, you know what? Make Marjorie Taylor green the house speaker seriously.

[00:08:29] Or Matt Gates make that make like don't even ask it like you don't even get the choice to say no

[00:08:34] like you are going to be the speaker. Now it's your gig. Now do whatever it is that you want

[00:08:39] wanting to do it. And let's see how it works out. Seriously, when look, I was listening to

[00:08:51] and watching the podcast interview between Jordan Peterson and Dr. Phil of all people. They're both

[00:08:57] clinical psychiatrists and Dr. Phil's got a new book out. And so Peter since talking to him about

[00:09:03] and one of the things that Dr. Phil said during this interview, I thought was profound which was

[00:09:09] anybody can come in and kick down something that somebody else made. Anybody can do that.

[00:09:16] Anybody can walk in and just tear something down. But it takes something special and somebody

[00:09:22] special to build something out of nothing. And so and it uses this as a lesson in not just always

[00:09:34] criticizing but also fixing. And okay, well how do you make this better? At which point I'm like whoa

[00:09:43] if you do that, like I that's my whole job. Like I just can't just criticize like what am I going to do?

[00:09:52] But I actually noticed this believe it or not at the HOA level because I've started to try and help

[00:09:59] on the on the com because there's a lot of issues in my neighborhood that I moved into and I'm trying

[00:10:03] to help fix them because you know me I'm like I'm all about solutions. And so I'm trying to help fix

[00:10:09] them and there are a lot of people that are just super interested in drama. And that's all they care

[00:10:15] about. The whole they care about is tearing a bunch of crap down and and poking it poking holes

[00:10:22] at things and you know dending things that's all they care about. And that's their incentive

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[00:11:37] of this promotion and is used under license. I saw this post this is from RN Macintyre

[00:11:46] he is a host and a columnist at the blaze and reacting to the news that former RNC chair

[00:11:56] Ron a Mac Daniel has now joined NBC news as a contributor. I assume that also means she'll be appearing

[00:12:04] she'll be appearing on on MSNBC as well. And RN Macintyre says most of the GOP aren't in an

[00:12:13] existential fight for the future of the nation. They're just second rate elites who are resentful

[00:12:20] that they didn't qualify for the cool kids table and had to slum it by managing the plibs.

[00:12:28] And I would agree with that but but wait a minute Pete how does that square with what you said earlier

[00:12:35] about not wanting to burn it all down right well it's like okay if you are in the minority

[00:12:42] how many bills are you able to get passed if you said zero congratulations that's the correct answer

[00:12:49] right you don't get anything you get nothing if you're in the minority okay so how's about we try

[00:12:56] to get a majority well but Pete in order to do that we're going to have to have some people

[00:13:00] that are the Ron a Mac Daniels that is correct as well okay so what then do you do well you have

[00:13:09] to try to change the incentive structure inside the organization to identify and penalize people

[00:13:19] like the Ron a Mac Daniels or the the other quote unquote rhinos establishments or whatever you

[00:13:26] want to call them all these different because remember like Ron Mac Daniel was getting slammed by

[00:13:32] all of the grassroots in the Maga world and all this stuff and then Trump went ahead and endorsed

[00:13:37] her for the position again right the only reason she stuck around so long was because she had

[00:13:42] the endorsement and the support of Donald Trump even though Trump supporters hated her I can't

[00:13:49] explain any of that I don't know what's going on why all of those deals got cut I have some ideas

[00:13:54] but I don't know for sure but it doesn't matter my opinion on that does not matter I'm not a registered

[00:14:00] Republican I'm not involved in your party apparatus right you guys are free to do whatever you want

[00:14:04] to do I'm just kind of on the outside looking in maybe throwing some spitballs or spitting them as

[00:14:10] it were as I am known to do that is true but if you've got Republicans that are in this existential

[00:14:19] fight for the future of the nation and you're trying to and and I believe that we are and so like

[00:14:25] I am willing to help with that I don't think it is a helpful strategy to take yourself out of power

[00:14:33] that's not a good idea you only have one of the three parts of the government right the House

[00:14:43] the Senate and the presidency you only got the House and you got it by two votes two seats that's

[00:14:49] it and so the this desire to kind of keep swapping out the leadership because of the spending bill

[00:14:58] I understand you can be mad at the spending bill go do all of your videos and YouTube's and

[00:15:03] rants and and tweet storms do all of that stuff against the spending bill and meanwhile keep going

[00:15:09] after one at a time trying to replace the people right inside the coalition because I thought my

[00:15:17] Johnson I thought everybody was pretty happy with my Johnson and maybe my Johnson is now like looking

[00:15:22] at the math and saying there's not enough people on our team that are going to support us blocking

[00:15:31] the spending so we so do we just not do something and there are a lot of people that are like yes burn it

[00:15:37] all down kill it all and it doesn't matter to them and that's and so so essentially then you're

[00:15:45] arguing over tactics right so you're gonna limit you're gonna kick him out but you don't want

[00:15:50] but nobody else has enough support to take over like Jim Jordan can't take it he couldn't get it

[00:15:54] last time now maybe he can this time I doubt it because now you need all those votes and there's

[00:16:00] only you got a margin of two and the the split still remains between the quote moderate Republicans

[00:16:08] and the hardline conservatives right so what's the point of all of this why would you do it

[00:16:18] if it's going to yield you a result that in all likelihood is going to be worse

[00:16:23] well again like I'm not predicting I don't know but I do know this it's gonna get Marjorie

[00:16:31] Taylor Green a lot of coverage and don't think she doesn't know that she's a politician too

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[00:17:30] what the whole thing comes down to is whether or not you believe we should shut down the federal

[00:17:36] government as far as I could tell that's what this comes down to all of the arguments about

[00:17:41] the spending levels and what gets cut and what's in it and all that right I mean we all understand

[00:17:46] right that every single one of these trillion dollar spending deals are always going to have things

[00:17:50] in them that we don't like right been doing this a very long time I've not encountered a single

[00:17:56] budget ever that did not have something in it that I could talk about and uh end objective

[00:18:03] that's kind of the thing with really large budgets and I say this is one this is my like like

[00:18:09] the the role of the executive branch the overreach the biggest thing for me

[00:18:15] and the fiscal stuff is second that's these are the big issues for me and so but I recognize that

[00:18:21] when you've got you know four hundred thirty five members of congress they're all hammering out a

[00:18:25] budget and I wish we would get back to regular order in the committee process but somewhere along the lines

[00:18:34] or along the line people uh who are like uh really interested in politics and follow it as if

[00:18:41] they're following sports um a lot of people seem to have come to this conclusion that they're going

[00:18:49] to win and that the other team never gets in that bat and I don't understand where that comes from

[00:18:56] I don't know who told you that because it's not true okay you're not going to get everything you

[00:19:01] want you're not going to win much if anything at all particularly if you are uh of a limited

[00:19:11] government uh persuasion right or philosophy such as I am and I don't expect to win

[00:19:19] we're literally offering people nothing uh vote for us uh and we'll not give you all sorts of

[00:19:25] stuff that the other guys are promising you right it's a very hard sell um so I don't know where

[00:19:34] you know where people get the idea that um that somehow or another they're going to be able to

[00:19:40] with a two vote majority reign in a trillion dollar behemoth by shutting down the government

[00:19:46] I don't understand the tactic I and there are a lot of people that believe that uh republicans lost

[00:19:52] the last time when they did shut down the government I don't know if that's true or not

[00:19:57] I've seen evidence both ways but there are people who believe that they will lose if they

[00:20:04] shut the government down and you know that if the republicans in the house uh don't cut a deal

[00:20:10] a spending deal with the senate which is controlled by the other party right and they get an add-back

[00:20:16] to the other party they want to spend more you're not going to get your budget

[00:20:24] they hopefully are not going to get their budget you're going to get a budget that both of y'all

[00:20:29] are not going to be entirely happy with that's the cut right that's the general concept

[00:20:34] I think that like I have always labored under like that's the general concept when you've got

[00:20:39] uh you know the house and the senate controlled by different political parties or in the the white

[00:20:44] house you know you need a signature without any kind of like a veto override that's how you have

[00:20:50] to do these things so you're not going to get everything you want so okay if you're not going to

[00:20:55] get everything you want your answer then is to shut down the federal government okay knowing

[00:21:01] that the other team is not going to like that and the other team oh by the way just so happens

[00:21:06] to control virtually all of the means of communication to the general public that doesn't follow all

[00:21:14] of this stuff right all I'm asking for is the people play is a people play a little smarter right

[00:21:22] and understand the game like you know the I know we all know these things we know that you know

[00:21:28] the legacy media is aligned against the GOP but more more specifically aligned against a limited

[00:21:36] government anti communist kind of philosophy they are aligned against that so okay your answer

[00:21:44] then is to what alienate a whole bunch of more people with a government shutdown and look maybe

[00:21:50] that is the right play I don't know that I'm just telling you that that is not a strategy that a

[00:21:57] lot of people believe can work for the Republicans they believe that that strategy is actually going to

[00:22:04] hurt them they will lose and when then they lose then the communist leftists are going to go

[00:22:10] even further and they're going to push forward with more of their stuff

[00:22:14] I don't know what else and I look at the announcement today of Ronald McDaniel going over to

[00:22:24] and to NBC news as a as a pundit

[00:22:29] and I'm supposed to take the tactical advice from the people that are beating the drum for the guy

[00:22:33] that kept her in charge of the GOP

[00:22:38] make it make sense make this make sense to me please oh he was oh so Trump was just keeping

[00:22:44] Ronald McDaniel around for what fill in the blank why if everybody thought she was part of

[00:22:51] the problem and now she's out and then she goes and lands at NBC confirming all of those suspicions

[00:23:02] I'm supposed to take the tactical advice on no no no we should shut everything down but here's

[00:23:06] the thing I don't even know if Donald Trump would actually say shut it all down I think there's

[00:23:10] a disconnect going on because I think Trump takes a deal actually because that's what his presidency

[00:23:15] did when he was when he was president he cut deals but now I'm supposed to just fall in line with

[00:23:22] the Charlie Kirk's like Charlie Kirk is now going to set the policy for who for T. Marjorie Taylor green

[00:23:30] they're there incentives are aligned differently than mine okay they are

[00:23:44] I have some messages here on the budget this is from Tim

[00:23:51] I saw on real Americans voice chip Roy and Marjorie Taylor green speaking against passing

[00:23:56] Chuck Schumer's budget bill which is $30 billion larger than anti-polosis bill last year buried in

[00:24:01] the bills all kinds of pork including 140 billion for Jordan's border security 100 million for

[00:24:06] Egypt's schools gender transition programs tens of millions speaker Johnson is getting in bed with

[00:24:13] Chuck E. Schumer to push this crap through some conservative this guy is they're doing all of this

[00:24:18] during you know the basketball tournament as well it's all about distraction bread and circuses see

[00:24:23] so here this a perfect example to him this what I'm talking about so what so speaker Johnson is now

[00:24:29] in bed with Chuck Schumer guys been fighting Schumer on the spending stuff for the entire

[00:24:33] for the entire time he's been the speaker it's been one budget fight after another that he's

[00:24:39] been waging and here's the thing he can't win them he can't win them as a like I'm a conservative

[00:24:49] cut all the funding do exactly what I want he can't win those fights he doesn't have the votes

[00:24:54] he doesn't have to send it he doesn't have the presidency okay so then what shut it down right

[00:25:00] that's the answer here it's the only answer shut it down until what until Democrats stop being

[00:25:07] Democrats I don't know maybe I'm just too practical and pragmatic for this but like to me this

[00:25:13] doesn't make any sense anybody you put in that speaker ship is going to land on the same results

[00:25:19] they are they're going to come to the same conclusion that you either shut everything down

[00:25:23] or you do these spending bills that have stuff in them that you don't like that Democrats demand

[00:25:28] and rather than blaming the Democrats for stuff in the budget the budget bills filled with this

[00:25:33] crap you're gonna eliminate your own leadership and maybe show him the exit right maybe he can

[00:25:41] do what McRathie did and just walk away altogether and now you got one seat of majority

[00:25:46] and if you don't lose the speaker ship to a to a Democrat coalition

[00:25:54] what have you gained let's open up that's open up the email sack and take a look here what do we got uh

[00:26:04] oh well John says if memory serves correctly you only did half a shift yesterday Pete and

[00:26:11] Brent windable is off today that's true chat Adams is filling in for him uh seems to me that it

[00:26:16] would only be appropriate that you took the first two hours of winter bull show to make up for

[00:26:20] the lost time you know me I am all about solutions hot jokes on you John um I actually provided

[00:26:27] 90 minutes of content yesterday he had to get it on the podcast so we did there were two separate

[00:26:34] podcast episodes what the first one was the first hour and a half of the show and then the second

[00:26:39] one was all bonus material so I actually did do the full show it just wasn't all on the radio

[00:26:47] and that's good enough for me um Stan says regarding your border crashing

[00:26:55] at the Grateful Dead Show that'll teach him to catch and release you at RFK

[00:27:01] exactly catching release um Richard says uh Pete good show as always thank you Richard I agree with

[00:27:09] the strong man caller and have long thought this I don't think it's a conspiracy as much as shallow

[00:27:14] thinking by leftist seeking power Biden Pelosi Schumer at Al are not Hitler Stalin Mao Castro etc

[00:27:24] but they are setting the table for one this is the logical conclusion of the left's policies both

[00:27:29] government and cultural that's true rich is correct and the earlier caller um

[00:27:39] Russ was his name um if you want a good analogy for the Bolshevik revolution and the rise of

[00:27:47] communism in the in Russia and the Soviet Union right there's a classical tale called animal farm

[00:27:55] right the first uh the first revolutionaries right there they're always like the ideal uh the idealists

[00:28:03] right they're the ones that oh we have this philosophy and they're motivating people and I guess

[00:28:08] yes sometimes you got to murder a bunch of people at the beginning but then like oh we're past all

[00:28:12] of that we've already killed the bourgeois they're dead like we're liberated and all this

[00:28:17] and then of course it doesn't work because it's communism and none of this crap ever does work and so

[00:28:21] then they have to start blaming other people and the system doesn't really function correctly because

[00:28:25] it's you know it was developed by like an insane person um and so you now are trying to make this

[00:28:32] system work and it's not working and then it ends up being taken over by the most ruthless of

[00:28:40] the people and that's what Stalin did I Stalin didn't really care about the

[00:28:46] uh the ideological purity of of Marxism right he he was a tyrant he was an associate path like

[00:28:56] that's and that should always take control um

[00:29:02] Stan says when by cheating on the polling on the elites the 1% that said they would rather win

[00:29:06] by cheating just confess to all of us how they got into that group that's probably that's

[00:29:13] probably accurate uh and then regarding shutting down the government I think everybody

[00:29:18] agrees that government spends too much money and agrees that spending needs to be cut the problem

[00:29:24] is that government spends it all on us collectively and most of us want to cut the money the government

[00:29:28] spends on everybody else and their priorities but not their own as long as the conversation is

[00:29:34] who's going to pay for it as opposed to cutting spending across the board we're going to keep kicking

[00:29:39] the can down the road until it's no longer a question as to who's going to pay for it um

[00:29:45] and Bob says too many Americans do not know the language of federal budgeting there's no such thing

[00:29:51] as zero-based budgets all the covid-lord never expires the GOP should embark on education campaigns

[00:29:57] on DC budgets ronna McDaniel is just following michael steel that's true remember michael steel everybody had

[00:30:04] really high hopes for that guy too and he ended up on msnbc as well um

[00:30:11] Greg says Pete I decided a while ago to no longer have an opinion on spending bills budgets etc

[00:30:20] since we only talk about expenses I never hear how these trillion dollar bills compared to the

[00:30:26] government's income which would in theory pay for them that's hilarious it's

[00:30:36] that would be similar to my wife and I fighting over how much money to spend each month without

[00:30:39] ever discussing how much money we are making the entire process of talking about this is backwards

[00:30:47] and then Jay says end baseline budgeting yeah so for folks who aren't aware

[00:30:54] this is how it operate how it works at the govco level uh which is um you take last year's budget

[00:31:00] and then you sort of you say okay that's what we're going to spend this year plus 3%

[00:31:04] and there's never there's never a reversion back to zero and building the new budget all over again

[00:31:09] because that's too much work um I also just saw Charlie Kirk who I just mentioned he is recommending

[00:31:16] against marjorie Taylor greens motion to vacate saying this is not the time to do it

[00:31:22] all right that'll do it for this episode thank you so much for listening I could not do the show

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[00:31:41] break anything while i'm gone