- Monkey, this is not nom, this is bowling, they're a rule. - Hey, hey, hey, junior, America! - It's like four-- - Bestest! - So stand by. (upbeat music) - All right, everybody, welcome back to the State for Breakfast podcast. We are first time listener welcome to the show if you're a long time listener, welcome back to America's Fastest Growing. And quickly becoming favorite political podcast on a medium news Friday, post Thanksgiving, second edition of the podcast today. I'm Ron Noah's here with me. - Yo. - What's going on Noah? - Not too much, how about you? - Oh, just chillin'. The next one, I had them on the big screen today 'cause there wasn't too much news going on, they were kinda just reviewing what was happening over the course of the last several days. - Nice. - If you're here in this episode for the first time and wanna check out our first edition of the podcast, episode 498 is where it's at, press pause, we'll see you in a bit, go check out that one. We talked about, well, a lot of the things we're thankful for here on the show in our first new segment and rounded it out with the continuing examination of the left's ramped up rhetoric and now how it is affecting incoming Trump nominees who are gonna be working in the administration come January. We also caught up with Trump team member and official spokeswoman for the GOP, Elizabeth Pippko. We're gonna be jumping into this episode right now. There's gonna be a volunteered themed episode. Noah, if you can follow with me there, we heard them make fun of the movie The Alamo, which I kinda liked and that's because Davey Crockett was a part of that event. Who was Davey Crockett in that movie? I know Billy Bob Thornton was in that one, a couple other good actors, but here's the deal. We're gonna wrap up this news segment right now, jumping in with Tennessee's twos Congressman and that's Tim Burchett and we'll conclude the second of two podcasts today, catching up with human events, Newsmaxes and Townhall.com contributor, Kenny Cody who both hail from the volunteer state. So you see what I did there, Noah? Yeah, all Tennessee edition of the show. I like it. We're definitely gonna allow it and it's gonna be for some good interviews. Speaking of bad ones, now we had mentioned at the top of our first edition of the podcast, they know, but did you catch any of drunk mollas? I caught like just bits and pieces that people were posting, but yeah, she seemed like she was hammered. Whoever thought this was a good idea, whoever thought letting, well, she's not paying them anymore. So of course they're gonna go everywhere and try to grift. Did you see that some of her senior staffers made it onto the, what is it, God save America pod? Pod save America, the former Obama White House shit bags who have their own podcast now and are like the, I don't know, multiverse gay version of our show. Cringy cringe. Oh God, but yeah, they did a little tell all, but believe it or not, still kind of living an alternate reality. We'll bring you that as well. Dame's carville is still melting down in between the switching out of the U.S. Marine Corps and LSU Tiger sweatshirt that he's wearing on the day. While Harris had a Thanksgiving message, believe it or not, even though it was from the exact same hotel room that she did her, don't worry, I'm still a live message a few days before, but this time included her husband, which consequently kind of weirded me out yesterday because Doug, the first gentleman, took a selfie of himself and his kids on Thanksgiving yesterday for his Thanksgiving post and Kamal Harris wasn't in the picture. And then Joe Biden went and delivered some donuts to firefighters and first responders in Nantucket yesterday. So we're gonna get you caught up on all that stuff, jumping into it right now. Kamal Harris essentially breaks her silence after losing the election a little more than three weeks ago. The question we're asking right now, was she popping bottles and door pills to have to get through it? So this kind of came across the wire on Wednesday and ahead of Thanksgiving. Interesting, it was like a 28 minute clip where she kind of went over everything that had to do with nothing. And at the same time really didn't give any clarification to her. It was more like that resist a girl power. It's not time to take a break. It's time to get involved more than ever before. And it was just kind of like a regurgitation of things that you heard leading up to this election. Did you see that Kamal staffers had also leaked to the Wall Street Journal this week, Noah, that their internal polling showed at no time, especially in the last five weeks leading up to the election. Did Kamal Harris ever have an electoral path to victory? Didn't lead in any of their internal polling anywhere that she lost? - And people are leaking that or what? - Yeah, her staffers who were all pissed at, you know, listen. - Not getting paid. - Yeah, Kamal Harris told everybody involved with her campaign that they were getting paid through January or February. And the checks just stopped coming the day after the election. So everybody's going out and doing media now and back end commentating on it and armchair quarterbacking it. But yeah, internal polling from the Harris campaign showed in like the battleground states, the states that were contended, some of the ones that went red for the first time ever, like Nevada, she was never winning in any of those states. Electorally, they had no pathway to victory on the campaign for at least the last five weeks leading up to the election. - That's wild. - That is wild. Which again, is why you should be sharing shows like this with every single person you know, because you heard the accurate poll numbers. We tried to break down the money markets for you guys. And we told you a lot different story than you were told just about everywhere else. You know, everybody thought Donald Trump was going to do a good job in this election, but there wasn't very many people, I think, Bryce Musin and maybe, Barris, Rich Barris, were the only two people that had not only almost a dead heat to what he was able to get to electorally, but also nailed it in the swing and battleground states as well. Besides that, every other pollster and major news outlet was completely wrong, especially with the fact that they were telling you that Kamal Harris was a viable candidate. We had kind of got to the point in this show where we had watched her roll this out and understood that she was literally Joe Biden, like the 36% favorability should carry over into an election landslide, but you get hit from so many different angles of people saying, oh, we gotta do this, we gotta do that, we gotta do that. I'm actually kind of glad it went that way because how hard they campaigned down the stretch is probably why we retain the House of Representatives and are only gonna add one seat to our majority in the next session of Congress and flip the Senate into Republican control. What do you think about that, Noah? - Yeah, it's the only thing right now. - Yeah, I think so as well. Well, unfortunately, we're gonna listen to, just a small excerpt about 30 seconds of what Kamala Harris had to say. If you listen real closely and when you hear the word ability, she would have just did the little under her breath burp, which a lot of people were like breaking down in slow motion over social media over the course of the last 24 hours listening to this. - I just have to remind you, don't you ever let anybody take your power from you? You have the same power that you did before November 5th and you have the same purpose that you did and you have the same ability to engage and inspire. So don't ever let anybody or any circumstance take your power from you. - Just imagine listening to almost 30 minutes of that on repeat. - Just saying nothing. - Nothing. - And you empty platitudes. - There's a lot of people who are thinking that she's not even going to run in the governor's race in California in 2026. All this is is to kind of-- - No, she's done, she's done. - Yeah, recouping some of the money that she lost and is in the hole for effectively $2 million, I believe, or $20 million, I believe, you know, following the, again, the fact that Kamala Harris' internal polling had them not winning this election for the last five or six weeks of the cycle, they spent a billion dollars during that time. - Well, yeah, 'cause it wasn't their money and couldn't make up anything against Donald Trump. The good time that we saw him having at the end of that election cycle, there are a lot of really pointed ports of me who think that Trump world knew. There's always leakers and campaigns and they had to, he looked like he was having such a good time. And he was even talking about it in a way like, you know, this is the end of the presidential election circuit for me forever. You know, the rally circuit and stuff like that. And I don't think it was because he was waiting to experience a second historic loss. I really don't. And if we never find out if that's a truth or not, I could care less because what happened happened. And America spoke very clearly a couple of weeks ago. I had mentioned the staffers that are going out now, and these are some of the people directly connected with the campaign, some of the highest handlers that she had, the ones that were able to survive, the abuse and the firings. Talking about just how awesome everything was, and she was transparent, she was historic, she was available for everybody, even Joe Rogan. And the only reason that they didn't do anything outside of like the call her daddy, and Oprah was because of scheduling conflicts, of course. Listen to this. - On the Biden question, we of course got that everywhere. We went, and we knew what the data was. We knew we had to show her as her own person and point to the future and not try to rehash the past. She also felt that she was part of the administration. And unless we said something like, "Well, I would have handled the border completely differently." We were never gonna satisfy anybody. We were trying to tell a story and give the impression that she was different without pointing to a specific issue. - Can I ask this why not a specific issue? Is there some she was unwilling to do? You've worried it would feel disingenuous. - She felt like she was part of the administration. So why should she look back and cherry pick some things that she would have done differently when she was part of it? She had tremendous loyalty to President Biden. You've been on plenty of campaigns. Imagine if we said, "Well, we would have taken this approach on the border." Imagine the round of stories coming out after that of people saying, "Well, she never said that in the meeting." Or, "What meeting would she said this?" Or, "I remember when she did that." And it wasn't gonna give us what we needed because it wouldn't be a clean break. It would be days upon days in a limited time window that we had of dealing of who, what, when, where. So the best we could do, and the most that she felt comfortable with was saying, like, look, vice presidents never break with their presidents. The only time in recent memories when Pence broke with Trump after Trump stormed the Capitol. - They call that the murder exemption. If the president tries to murder you, you can break, yes. - If you are, you know, ripping up the Constitution, trying to overturn an election, people die, then you can break with your president. - Just let it go. I'm an air-caged referendum on all of that rhetoric. So I can't let it bother me on an emotional level like it has for so many years. But again, it's that messaging, which America resoundingly rejected NOAA, and it's one that they still continue to double down on, even now three weeks following such a historic loss. So, and without having to listen to this whole thing, 'cause you're talking about well over 90 minutes of this POD Save America episode with these campaign retarts, Steph Cutter, Quentin Folks, David Pluth, to name a few. - Pluth? - Here's the biggest things that they still claimed were real, even after the historic electoral loss and even popular vote defeat by Donald Trump. Number one, the campaign was perfect. And I'm not even joking about that. Everything that they did and everything that they were pushed back on during the podcast was instantly rebuked as blasphemy. They also talked about Kamal Harris being the perfect candidate for the party at this time. However, the only reason she wasn't able to play it out perfectly was because, and you heard her kind of alluding to it right there, the only blame that they threw on to Joe Biden was that he stayed in the selection cycle so long. But again, for someone who won the most votes or ballots in the history of the galaxy, how did he not have enough political capital in the last four years? Well, we all know why, but it would defeat every argument they had for him being president. And I don't think there's any doubt in America right now, especially after how this election turned out, that 2020 wasn't completely stolen from Donald Trump. You could say whatever you want, you've seen it in a lot smaller context with some of these house seats in races that they're still counting in places like California where they just continue to figure out how many ballots they need to find to make sure that the Republicans have the slimest majority in the history of majorities of the party and shave popular votes off Donald Trump, which again does not diminish the fact ever that he still won a mandate in the form of the selection. So she was perfect and so was the campaign. I already told you about how they really criticized the shortness of it though. And also said that it was Trump's fault that Kamala Harris didn't win. You know, instead of them being able to put a positive spin on Kamala Harris, they always had to defend the negative things that Donald Trump was prying against her and said because she had to come back and every media hit, oh, how do you respond to Donald Trump calling you crooked Kamala and the borders are and all this stuff? And because they said because she had to reset the standards, people would get hung up on that and not the content filler she had following when even the view had to cut to a commercial because she couldn't hit the beach ball they lobbed at her out of the park. They didn't really take too much of a blame and push it towards the media, but a lot of their commentary throughout the course of this podcast shifted the blame to the media. And I don't know how they could even say that since about 94% of Donald Trump's entire coverage throughout the cycle has been negative. I don't know what else they wanted. Like even if Kamala Harris's coverage was neutral, Donald Trump was still getting almost 100% negative coverage in this. They blamed men. They said that again, she did go on all the podcasts except Joe Rogan, except PVD, except a lot of the ones that would have brought people from the middle to learn a lot about her, which was the there there that they didn't want people to know that she had a resume that had a lot of bullet points, but no content to it. They also said that probably sticking on the credibility of Trump as a criminal and insurrectionist and a fascist was something that should continue to be completely unquestioned in the media. You saw them basically say when they were on this podcast and say that Donald Trump instructed his followers to murder Mike Pence at the Capitol after they stormed it and tried to revolve the Constitution. - Little bit of a stretch. - Three things that literally didn't happen on January 6th. And again, the desperation for the Republican breakaway vote was something that they claimed they needed, but then wouldn't go on Rogan, wouldn't go on PVD, and instead went out and campaigned in battleground states with Liz Cheney who almost in the entirety of the Republican party is hated. So that's how they combated that narrative. And they said Trump's advantages were all unique to him. So now that this election is water under the bridge, so is his. And I think that might be part of the only truth that they spoke throughout the entirety of this podcast, that we will probably never see such a great showman, someone who could, whether it be because of what he does or forcefully, bring the party together and hold it together enough in such a strenuous time for our country, bring everybody together and win an election. Noah, there's a good chance that Republicans will never win the popular vote ever again in this country. - Yeah, it's a likely scenario. - Yeah, so it's one of those things where those are some of the big things that took away. They said that climate change and abortion weren't huge issues in this election. We said it, America voted on it. Look, Kamala Harris went out there and stumped on it all the time. I think that bit them in the ass. - Well, a lot of the people that I saw posting the most egregiously about those particular instances are like I always say, taking pictures of their lunch now. And then they said Kamala Harris also owned the kitchen table items, even though America voted resoundingly in favor of Donald Trump for them. So yeah, I don't under, like they're just trying to reassure everyone that things are okay within the party. But again, they even admitted when it came to a UFC event, when it came to the way Donald Trump started and ended all of his rallies and they're talking about his walk ups and walk offs. When it comes to McDonald's, when it comes to the garbage man, when it comes to Joe Rogan, they don't have any answers for that. So they just say that their campaign was perfect and so was their candidate. So they're not even to willingly accept the reality that we all know is true up to this point, even though we saw it kind of unfold real times a little over three weeks ago. James Carville wasn't too happy and usually isn't when the narrative gets spun that way. But as I kind of unwillingly had to digest that podcast to be able to talk about it on the show today, he willingly listened to it as some of his former political counterparts and friends were part of this campaign but had a little bit more, I guess, of a negative take on it than we're here having on the show, check this out. - We're going on Joe Rogan's show and a lot of the younger progressive staffers pitched a hissy fit. Supposed that the campaign said that that wasn't the term, the fact that they did. When you put a campaign together and you hire young people to do work, let me tell you exactly what you tell these people what I would tell them. Not only am I not interested in your fucking opinion, I'm not even gonna call you by your name. You're 23 years old. I don't really give a shit what you think. And let me tell you another huge era, huge fucking era this may, is when people said campaigns need to reflect progressive values. No, they don't. No, they don't. Campaigns are authoritarian by their nature. And if I will run a 2028 campaign and I had some little snotnose 23 year old saying I'm gonna resign if you don't do this, not only would I fire that mother fucker on the spot, I would find out who fired him and fire that person on the spot. I'm really not interested in your uninformed stupid jackass opinion. It's whether you go on Joe Rogan or not. - That's me in that angry all the time. - Yeah, you can? - No, I mean, sometimes, but occasionally. - Yeah, so again, you're gonna hear some people tell you that the Democrats are solving all their problems behind closed doors and they're hashing things out and they're getting things ready to go. And there are parts of me that agree with that. I feel like by the time Congress gets sworn in on January 3rd at the very earliest and at the latest by January 20th, when Donald Trump puts his hand on the Bible, the Democrats will be ready with some new fresh faces to be propped up in the form of leadership. We're already seeing it right now over to Thanksgiving break with AOC's name being floated out there. I think we'll see some of the old guard kind of take maybe a backseat publicly and still kind of pull the strings behind closed doors. And that's in the anti-proloses, the Chuck Schumer's, maybe even the Kamala Harris's. But we saw the Clintons, the Obamas, et cetera, they just didn't stick in this last cycle. Like America was kind of over them, top to bottom. And I mean, where they go from here? Got a lot of work to do, to say the very least. Guys, wherever you're listening to the show today, no matter what platform it's on, do us a favor. Make sure you subscribe to Stake for Breakfast. Head over to Apple, Spotify, I Heart, Samsung, Amazon, podcast or wherever you're here in the show. Hit follow, hit subscribe. Just make sure we're downloading to your electronic device. Share us with your friends, family, coworkers and loved ones. And then check us out on social media, Twitter, get our true social Instagram and TikTok is where we have accounts, find 'em, follow 'em, hit the notification bell. You'll never miss out on all the great stuff that's going on down here at Stake for Breakfast, like, a heartwarming Thanksgiving message from first gentleman, Doug Imhoff and failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Oh, sorry Noah, it's a shorty. - Greetings everyone and happy Thanksgiving. Today we come together to reflect on what we were thankful for and to share our appreciation for one another, surrounded by family, friends and those we cherish. We cook our favorite recipes and share family stories, serve those in need and give thanks for our blessings. - On Thanksgiving, we also express our gratitude as a nation for our service members and their families. The sacrifice so much to protect our nation and our most sacred values. - We are truly grateful for their service. - So again, from our family to yours, happy Thanksgiving everyone. - Okay, they fixed the audio right at the end of that clip there. - Yeah. - Oh boy, Noah seems like a pretty generic message from the not president-elect and not first gentleman-elect, what do you think? - Bye. - Yeah, book deals made for TV adaptations. Would a white person play Kamala Harris in the next Netflix adaptation of her presidential run? Hey, I don't think it's allowed to go that way. Speaking of not allowed to go that way, did you see the new Apple commercial? - No. - You haven't? Listen, in between new segments here, Noah, you got to do a little Google search. So we joked that the world is healing, but the world might actually really be healing. Apple put out a commercial yesterday and it's like Christmas morning. The daughter sits down. She unwraps a present and makes eye contact with her father to where he goes back to like so many Christmases before all the way to when, you know, live in the best life. Every single person in the family was lily white-skinned and blue-eyed. - No, what? - Yeah. And the fact of the matter is the Apple CEO or whoever controls Apple now, whatever his name is, he put out on his X account, here's our incoming Apple commercial to help welcome him in the holidays. I hope you enjoy it. Well, I didn't think he expected everyone from like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami and just about every single person in America first to, you know, the big names, the major accounts to kind of share the post and quote it by saying like, essentially, and I'm paraphrasing here, the world is healing. This is the first non-DEI commercial for a major, you know, entity of the holiday season. And could we be, I always get so confused. I mean, I saw one the other day, it was like two white parents and a black baby. And I'm just like, what's going on here in this commercial? And it was like for, you know, chronic colitis medication. And I even asked my wife and she's like, just stop. I was like, how did we get here? Is adopted or somebody was, you know, playing around a little bit. Can we get a little bit more of a backstory besides that this might cause more diarrhea than you already have with chronic colitis? More than I already have? Oh, but yeah, that's kind of, it was a little bit of an eye opener. Much as the case when Joe Biden comes to town. So as I reported yesterday, Joe Biden took some pastries and headed on down to one of the fire stations in Nantucket where they're staying for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. And in meeting with firefighters, EMS and other aspects of first responders, Joe Biden, believe it or not, and probably much to his handlers dismay, fielded some questions. Our reporter asked Joe Biden what his message was on Thanksgiving for Americans who are, believe it or not, worried about their futures. You wanna hear his answer? Yes, let's check it out. - All right. Mr. President, there are many Americans who are worried about the future, this holiday season. What is your message to them? - My message is to just remember the count on your wall. Look, you all have a very tough job. I'm not peaceful as you are. I'm really tough as you are. Think about it. If you, I remember a couple weeks ago, they surveyed John Hawking to feel about where they are. 62%, 35% thought they were moved very well. What did they mean about the direction of the country? 35% on 35% were so important. - We're in the right direction. - I think they're the explanation of that. You think about it. What do you, there's not a question in the question. I mean, the number two is that you turn on the television and you'll see a lot of good news. Even the stuff that is good and you've ever seen the silver. And so, you turn around the TV and everything looks bad. Everything. And now you have, just to talk about the number, you've seen this whole number of people watching me and seeing television and reading the newspapers. And you have the number and you have the right one. And you read down. So wherever you get your news and how you know what you're feeling, it's not just what you're looking for, what is the closest to what's happening. Not because of you. I'm not being good for the press. And when I talk to many of you privately and around a long time, then you're gonna have a job. I mean, you know, I don't think. - Well, you hit them all, huh? - Yeah. Anyway, I barely understand what you're saying. - The transition goes through. I want to make sure it goes through and all the talk about what he's going to do with you. I think it may be a little bit of an internal reckoning on this part of what he's going to do. But he is going to do that. So, you may see in the Congress that it's still ready to stand across the board. It's going to be a (indistinct) It's going to compromise. But we'll see, we'll see. - All right. - Nice, give me a book. - Good job, Joe. - Yeah, I mean, it sounded like it was in a, like underneath a freaking coffee table. I couldn't understand any of that. - Did he change? - Except for the, except for the old faithfuls anyway. - Yep. - Did he change up the, instead of saying I'm being serious, I think he said I'm not being solicitous. - Yeah, what? - I'm not being solicitous. I think instead of saying I'm serious, he said, now listen. - I was like, on the words, you make up. I'm not being solicitous. Number one, I don't even know what that means. Number two, did he just-- - I think that's a thing that happens with prostitution and child molesting. - God. You know, somebody put up a picture of him. And instead of saying like happy things, give me, it said happy, nom, nom, nom, nom. And it was him biting that kid in like the turkey ones. He used his leg at the White House during Halloween a couple weeks ago. And then I saw another one over the, you know, Thanksgiving holiday that said, what's your favorite Joe Biden moment over the last four years? And I of course jumped right in there with when he shit his pants at the Vatican. And then so many other people underneath it were like, what about it? Would he shit his pants here? What about when he shit his pants there? What about when he shit his pants on 9/11? I was like, oh my God, they all remember. And it was pretty funny. So yeah, it was-- - You don't, Pepperidge Farm remembers. - Oh gosh, the internet never forgets. Listen, jackets for real, I'm serious anyways. We're gonna be jumping in with Tennessee Congressman Tim Burture right now. But before we do, how about another check-in with one of our partners? This episode of the podcast is brought to you by Battleborn Coffee Roasters. They're law enforcement family-owned and they produce some of the best available special-to-grade coffee. That means all those beans have gone through an extensive process to remove all defects. Battleborn research is all their sources, farms, and milling stations to make sure you're not getting any pesticides or chemical fertilizers. Sit back and have a cup of their borderline Mexico Chappas blend while you're out sitting on an X or sitting in the office. Buy quality coffee from high-quality people. Use promo code STATE for 20% off your first order. Make sure you go check them out at Battleborn.com. - Joining us next on the show today is the Friday edition of the State of Records podcast. He's the Congressman who represents Tennessee's second congressional district. We're always glad to catch up with the one and only Representative Tim Burture. Welcome back to the show. - Thanks for having me on, brother. Always a pleasure. - Same, same, same on our end. Happy Thanksgiving. Hope yours was well. Well and fattening, like I say, if you don't eat leftovers the day after Thanksgiving, the Taliban wins. - There you go, waiting to get done recording the show today to jump into my leftovers. And I won't need to send any picture of Abdul's house to the Taliban because we're gonna be eating them here on steak for breakfast. So Congressman, there's a lot of stuff we wanna talk to you about. We come in on the heels of this historic election in which we saw a mandate delivered by the American people in the form of the electorate. Not just electoral votes for presidential Trump and the great margin that he won by there, 312 to 226, but we also saw a popular vote victory for the first times in George W. Bush, third time in the last 40 years for a Republican candidate. You know, when you look at the amount of different kinds of people that came out in this election, first time voters, Democrats, which is independents, all different kinds of people of color, Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans, et cetera. You know, it makes up a broad and diverse coalition of the electorate, but it also sends a message that a lot of the narrative that the Democrats have provided in the media for the greater part of the last decade is just not sticking anymore. You see these failing ratings in all the cable news outlets. You see these media outlets also starting to fold up, lose some of their top contributors, if you can even call them that. And, you know, really get down to what the problems are in this country, the fact that people have woken up to, well, I guess you could say the fact that they've been lied to for so long. You know, their bank accounts are empty, their streets are not safe and secure, their borders wide open, and there's wars breaking out all over the planet. When you saw this kind of materialized on election night and then moving forward, how did you feel, probably rest assured, number one, that you won your congressional seat back, congratulations. But number two, you know, that Donald Trump has a pretty good mandate heading into not only the next session of Congress, but his next term in office. - I just think we better deliver. You know, that's my mandate. We better deliver. And these folks that are hollering about making cuts and all this, you know, where the heck were they? A couple of years ago, when they were siding with the Democrats on spending or making the compromises, as they say, when my folks were saying if it doesn't work, shut it down. It's that important to us. And I think, I worry about our future. I really do, we're just, I dig your confidence, but in some other folks, it's almost an arrogance. I saw where there was somebody that said something about AOC might be a presidential candidate in four years. And they just laughed. It was LOL, and these were people that are, you know, keyboard warriors, I guess. But when she walks on that house floor, young folks, older folks, they cheer, they yell for her. And I warn people, you know, this is, you know, we underestimated Jimmy Carter, 'cause he was just some clown governor from Georgia, peanut farmer, you know, they made fun of him. Of course, he was coming off the Nixon impeachment, I don't know anybody. And then we, Reagan took him out. And then we, you know, we laughed at Clinton, 'cause he was a draft dodger. And we got him, we laughed at Obama, because he was a nothing. I mean, he was a Marxist and, you know, and just, he never really had served, he never done anything. And he's still a rock star among Democrats. And, you know, we laughed at, we underestimated Joe Biden. And we got him for hook or crook. So I would warn people, we've got a lot of work to do, and we better, and you're gonna see unity in the Democrat party like you've never seen before. They will not cut any deals. They don't have to, they'll just vote against it and use the mainstream media to lambast us with every, you know, they're gonna show every mother that's affected every disabled veteran that's affected. So we better stick together and we better have a message. And that's our biggest problem, really. We don't stick together and we do not have a clear message. Donald Trump had a clear message, has a clear message. And it's to make this country great again, because we've seen it fall on hard times. So I'm not being the doggy downer, but, and also a lot of these folks make one to make these cuts, you better worry where they're gonna spend that money. They better start paying down the debt and getting us out of all these messes that we're in financially and otherwise, because every time, I remember when I was in the state senate and I found a $5 million in a program that wasn't needed. And Democrats looked at me and I remember when I said, "Great bail, Tim," I said, "Thanks," and he goes, and another one said, "I know just where I can spend that money." And, you know, and that's the mentality of a lot of Republicans as well. So let's remember, we're $36 trillion in debt and neither party really has a clear path out of that. We need to pass single issue spending bills. We need to stay there and do the people's work. And that's how we solve this problem, 'cause we expose where we're spending this money, like the Pentagon and other areas, Department of Education, if we break it down and show what we're spending the money on and where we're spending it, I think the American public will say enough is enough and they'll have our back. But if we don't, we're gonna be in the minority in the House of the Senate in two years and then we're just gonna be deadlocked and then they'll play us and shut it down and blame it on us, 'cause we don't have the guts to stand up to 'em and fight 'em. - And that will essentially be the end of the Trump doctrine as well. You don't wanna lame duck president, especially the caliber of Donald Trump for his last two years in office by any means, Congressman. And you do make some excellent points. I mean, for everyone that we bring on the show, we don't bring a lot of the big spenders in here. We bring in a lot of the people who are realists, who have seen the writing on the wall for a long time, have been blowing the whistles both figuratively and literally and understand just what's at stake here, especially when you talk about the financial component of it. You also made a great point about the Democrats right now. As discombobulated as they see coming out of this election with a kind of a leadership vacuum they have within the party. When those big donors kind of sit them all down and tell us like, this is the direction we're gonna go in, these are the people that are gonna take us there, I completely agree with you that they're gonna seem more united than ever before. It's gonna look like this election cycle just was completely awash, it'll put it behind 'em, they live in an alternate reality in a lot of the ways they conduct themselves anyway, like things just don't happen. There's no problem for them forgetting that Donald Trump won the election over Kamala Harris and moving on from that as well. You know, why is it going to take someone like Donald Trump? And then you talk about these guys who are talking about cuts now that might have not wanted to do it in the past or haven't done it in the past, have sided with Democrats in big time spending legislation, budgets and bills and things of that nature. Why is it somebody like Donald Trump bringing in like the Elon Musk's and the Vivek Ramaswami's who are gonna shine the light, to see how much money we waste on Veritas, to see how much money we waste on illegal aliens, to see how much money we waste on things where, you know, less than 15% of all government agencies and their actual buildings are staffed with staffers and everybody is working across the country and remotely. For us to finally start being able to trim the fat and like you said, not diverting it to other places and within the government or in other interesting ways to find spending, but in actually getting rid of it and starting to pay down this national debt. I think we, because we don't have any guts and you're gonna see how many people are compromised in this game, whether through nefarious means or just out of their own pocket book. You're gonna see, they'll show their cards, but the problem is they're gonna be using that large S in their district so they'll end up getting reelected or taking care of some big shot who will provide them protection in the media through some different source. So I would just caution people, let's look where we're doing with that money, let's follow through with this thing, let's hold the Congress accountable, 'cause without that, it's all for not. It's just another, we'll be adding, you and I'll be having this conversation in four years and we'll be 40 or $50 trillion in debt if we exist as a nation by then. - Definitely don't wanna be having that Congressman. You know, one of the things that you guys have left to take care of, one of the final, you know, items in the 118 session before you guys are sworn in in the 119th on January 3rd, is figuring out what we're gonna do budget-wise between now and when Donald Trump is sworn into office on January 20th, you know, I've heard everything from omnibus, no omnibus, we don't want an omnibus, that's a year long of continued ridiculous spending. CR, no CR, you know, it's coming from within the party, Andy Biggs put out a video the other day talking about why even short-term CRs are bad ideas for the incoming budgets. What are some of the ways that you'd like to see what we need to do to close out the session of Congress in regards to government spending happen? And what do you think the most prudent thing is? Or how do you see this going as we're getting ready to head into winter recess? - Let's put out our clear objectives of what they are. If they are to pay down debt, they are to get us out of all these masses and quit funding things like Ukraine and quit sending bogus statements back saying, well, 60% of that money's spent in America, you know? So, or is profitable. We get it, you know, I get what side you're on on this thing. But when we start bringing American boys and girls home and body bags, that changes everything to me. And that's something that is obviously in our future with a lot of these folks, these war hawks, they'll call war hawks as long as they aren't going or their kids aren't going, they're okay with it. I just, I fear all of that. I would hope, though, again, single issue spending bills, make us defend every dad gun bill, streamline the process where that's capable, that's a possibility, just sit down there all day long if you got to, you know, and have the sponsors, the bills come up and say, this is what it does, yes or no, and you give them three minutes that Democrats can be for or against it or whatever. And then it goes to the floor for the vote and we have a two minute vote and start cranking them out and tell everybody that the first vote will take 15 minutes to do, the next will be two minutes and there will be no exceptions. - And that's the thing, I think a lot more people, you know, we saw a lot of egos checked, we saw a lot of inhibitions kind of left to the wayside heading into this end of the election cycle. And that was not only just people running in their own races, but getting out there and kind of promoting the overall message of unity within the Republican party. But you had called it even before Election Day Congressman and everybody would be breaking up into their little factions and figuring out how they can make their lives better, their congressional districts better and getting away from the messaging, which led to success, which came in the form of the election a little over three weeks ago. You know, as we move into this right now and talk about the next session of Congress, it seems like Donald Trump has already kind of ahead of himself when it has to do with some of the biggest issues that he ran on. Number one, the economy, number two, the border. So relationships with Mexico's new president and Donald Trump seems like they're going pretty well as she seems pretty committed to ending the caravans and the unmitigated people coming into this country through hers, and then, you know, doing something to strike against the fentanyl epidemic, which has plagued our country and has a lot to do with what's going on in Mexico and how they're controlled by the cartels as well. When you see Donald Trump kind of put his foot down even before he's sworn in and the fact that world leaders, much and not like the fashion they have done with Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, actually respond in a pretty prompt manner. I mean, at least for getting things like border security, taking care of in the early parts of the next session of Congress, it looks like you're going to have a good foot in the game when this thing gets kicked off in January. - I agree, and I think though we have to be ready with those tariffs that Trump talked about and that's what brought them to the table. That is the arc of the deal. That's how you negotiate. When you're, if you're ever selling anything, you don't come in and tell them your bottom price at the beginning or what you'll pay for something at the very beginning. You inflate that or deflate it as the case maybe. And that's what Trump understands. And he understands that the tariffs could cause a little bit of hurt, but it'd be a long time gain. American jobs would come home. People would have money. People could pay, be spending more money. And that's exactly what would happen with the tariffs. And maybe we would start producing our own energy here in this country. We're already doing it at a record level. I get that, I always get that thrown in my face. But what they don't tell you is they're not permitting any new refineries and they're not permitting any new pipelines. So we're still drinking out of a straw and we need to be drinking out of a garden hose. And that's exactly what they're doing. They're playing fast with the numbers and the media is allowing them to do it because either they're ignorant or they're in bed with them. - Yeah, energy futures has a lot to do with the problems that you're talking about and the fact that you had alluded to, that there's no new contracts being given out. Now we're not drilling in new places, which are gonna provide us with substantial amounts of energy for decades, if not longer to come. Definitely is having a, it's a manipulatory ways over the market. So I think that's a huge thing there. Did it surprise you heading into the Thanksgiving holiday that Alejandro Mayorkas and Christopher Ray decided to skip a senatorial hearing on border security? - No, no, they know they're getting, they're trying to stay out of it. It's a double standard in the current justice department. And I suspect they're very well lawured out. You know, I saw, you know, when people on our side of the hour refused to come to committees, they were, you know, went to jail, he literally went to prison. And yet you're not hearing anything about that. And they'll use excuses, legal excuses, while the reality is it is a double standard. And those days are getting ready to end very quick. They certainly are. We need a lot more government transparency. And one of the things that, you know, you're looking to bring and shine that light on. Listen, UAP hearing recently, we had Congresswoman Nace on the show last week. She wanted to talk a lot about making congressional bathrooms great again, but she also did talk about some of the things that came out during that committee. You know, when we talk about what's going on with this stuff, the lack of transparency, truthful nature, hidden programs within our governments, what we have, what reverse engineering, biologicals, everything of that nature. What were some of the most eye-opening parts of that hearing Congressman? And what do you have to say as someone who's, you know, on the forefront of, you know, bringing a forward disclosure to the American people regarding something that's probably been covered up for many, many decades? - I guess another time the biggest surprise I had was that I wasn't surprised. I've said this has been a cover up. I think more and more people on both sides of the hour saying that the deep state or deep sewer, as I call it, is alive and well. And they pull a lot of the strings and they're the ones who have things compromised. You know, there's a reason why the Pentagon never passes, you know, it never passes an audit. - Yep. - That can count for over half a trillion dollars in assets. I mean, that's a battleship. And there's a reason for that. And the reason is they're using it for something else. And the people that are running the show are not necessarily the ones in office. It's the deep sewer ones. It's the ones that are second and third tier level underneath when they bring in a new board of directors or new chairman of a group or committee or what have you. It's never, it never changes because the people running it are still the same ones. And I think that's what the doge committee and some of these others offer is that a clarity. Again, I would warn people though, the ones that are out here pushing for the big cuts are not necessary. I mean, this is stuff that's just low hanging fruit that we see every day. And I like seeing going that Pentagon and say, you don't pass a budget. You don't pass an audit. Then we're gonna, for the amount that you, your deficit, we're gonna hold back from your budget. - Have to do it. - And just, and that's what you do. - No. - And that's what you gotta do. I mean, you don't reward your kids with, when they, you know, you give them an allowance of $5 or whatever. And then, they spend $7.50. So you're up at the next week to $7.50. That's exactly what we're doing, rewarding bad behavior. And the reason we're doing it is 'cause of people that are in these committees, both parties, in my opinion, they have an allegiance to something else that you and I probably do. And it's, and there's a lot going on there. And if there's an arrogance associated with it too, certainly not gonna describe, explain it to low life like me and you. And they're, they don't have time for that. And they're, but hopefully their days are numbered. - That's exactly the way I feel, Congressman. And then in closing with you today, you know, there's so much to be thankful for around this time of the year. I know you just came off of the Thanksgiving holiday to jump in with us and probably spend some time with your family. All you have to do is check out your social media as to see the great relationship you not only have, not only in your own home, the way you've kind of developed for our listenership over the years on the show, a lot of the campaigning and, you know, community work you do when you're out in district as well. Just give us a little bit of insight on something. I mean, listen, we talk about all the drags up on Capitol Hill for all the time. We could do it to the cows come home or whenever it comes home out in Tennessee where you're at. But the fact of the matter is there are some great things to be thankful for. We just wanted to hear a couple of the ones that you've got going on today. - Well, I live in East Tennessee, of course. And it's, it is home. It's where I'll be buried, no time soon, but it is where I'll end up my final days and I, I'm just surrounded by wonderful people. A lot of these folks fought for our country and they never have asked anything of their country. And they, they were committed to give it all, you know, and I think about my uncle who in my Knoxville office have a 48 star flag on the wall. He died fighting the Nazis. When my daddy was off fighting the, the Japanese and the Marine Corps. And my mom actually flew an airplane during the Second World War. I mean, that's where I come from. That's my people. And that, that by and large is a lot what East Tennessee is about. It's about freedom. It's about respect for those who fought for it. And it's about respect for this great country. And, and I, I'll leave you with, I've said this before, but I'll say it again. I remember when Bill Clinton took the White House and daddy said the prayer of that and it was just me and him. We'd been working the polls all day and we were having a, as I like to say, traditional Italian meal for Mr. Gaddies. We had a pizza on the table right there in front of us. - Love it. - Had one of those little televisions about this big, but weighed about a, you know, a half a ton. And it was colored, but it was, we thought it was pretty cool. It was an RCA, I believe. And we were watching the election results. And daddy said, I'll say prayer. And it was clear that Clinton was winning. And I'm, on daddy pray and he said, "Lord, please don't let us lose our country." And that would be my prayer right now. We feel it we're feeling good about it. Let's follow through with it folks. Let's not let all those people like my daddy who fought my uncle and my brother-in-law Cliff who fought for this country. Let's not let that be in vain. Let's remember the shoulders we're standing on and let's take our dad's gun country back. God has given us an incredible gift with this country, but he's also given us an incredible opportunity with this administration not to blow it. And 'cause rarely in the history do you get a second chance at something like this, but we for some reason been given that. And I sure hope we don't turn our backs on it. I hope we, do you hear my voice or hear? So yes, I hope you pray with me that, Lord, let's take our country back. We need it too many people have fought and died for it for what we got. Let's not throw it away. - So that's what I'm talking about there, Congressman. Listen, we've got everything live link in the show description today, including your website. We know there's two Twitter accounts associated with you. There is a spicy one though. We'd prefer it if you gave that one out for our listeners today as well. - @TimBurchit will squiggly at and then T-I-M-B-U-R-C-H-E-T-T. - Won't disappoint much like he never does when he comes and shares with our listenership here on the show. This is the Congressman who's representing Tennessee Second Congressional District. Representative Tim Burchit, thanks for joining us on the show. Sir, I'm glad you had a great Thanksgiving. Have a great weekend as well. - It's always a pleasure, brother. And thank you so much for having me back on the show. I'm out in the handerlands a lot of my rural area and people see this podcast. So I'm very delighted in that. I hope you have much success in the New Year, brother. - We can't do without you. And we were glad to host today, sir. You take care. - Thank you. - My goodness gracious. Yes, the Republicans are gonna control the House of Representatives. But if all the current results hold up, we're looking at a record small majority after the November's in the last 90 years. You have to go all the way back since the Herbert Hoover administration to find an even smaller majority after the November elections. We're talking about the Republicans with 220 seats, Democrats with 215 at the current House results hold and keep in mind that this will drop lower if Stefanik, Waltz, or others like Matt Gaetz leave the Congress. - Yeah, talk to me. This is sort of the best case scenario for Republicans, at least for the next few weeks or months. Where could it go? - Where could it go? - It could shrink even further. So let's say Gaetz, Stefanik, and Waltz resigned. We could be looking at get this. Republicans at 217, the Democrats at 215, and I went all the way back, this is crazy. This is crazy, right? Because all it means is Democrats at 215 plus one GOP seat could tank the entire thing because then they both sides would be at 216 seats, John. - One Republican vote. For the first few weeks, maybe months of the administration could be enough to sink a measure. I mean, how historically unprecedented it is. - You might have noticed in my last answer, I was so excited, I nearly got ahead of myself. Nearly got ahead of myself. How historically unprecedented is it? I love history. So times just one majority member could sink a bill by voting with the minority in the last 100 years plus. This possibly 2025 with the likely resignations from the House, and that's it. It's literally the only time in the last 100 years, assuming of course all members vote. So the bottom line is, look, the results from the November elections weren't exactly good for Democrats, but this is a shining light for them. They really did hold the Republican majority down, and given the likely resignations that are coming, that House of Representatives for the Republicans, that House majority is gonna be record, record small. Gives to be clear, that won't. - All right, jump back into the news portion of the show here. Last news segment on the backend of Too Big Friday, post Thanksgiving editions of the "Stake for Breakfast" podcast. It was great catching up with Congressman Tim Burchin. Noah, listen, he tells it like it is. The segment we just opened with, is kind of a bleak picture that he painted in regards to the ebbs and flows of Congress, but he was thankful for a lot of things, especially those regarding his family. What do you think? - Yeah, he's a solid dude. - Absolutely love him and love when he contributes here on the show, and that was CNN's pollster talking about, well, not just what House Republicans have done to themselves, but because we allow for these elections to continue to last months instead of weeks, or even days, got forbid, that they've been able to shave the House majority doubt, to essentially 220, 221 seats, max, which, again, Gates said he's not coming back. Stefanik is gonna go be the UN ambassador from the US. Rep Walts from Florida is coming over to head up one of the major federal agencies as well. There's going to be special elections, but it is going to be razor thin. Now, Republicans in the House even have their shit together a little bit more than House Democrats, but much like Congressman Burchin alluded to, when the egos start coming into play, when you start having the power grabs for committee chairs, and maybe that's why they already threw some of the loud mouth muck runners, like MTG, a seat on the doge committee before we even go and get sworn in here, because they just wanted to keep a big fucking mouth shut for the start of this Congress so we could start to get Donald Trump's legislative agenda off and on the right track. But much in the same way we saw it, and listen, I'm being serious here, I mean it, anyways. House Republicans are going to have to vote together, like they came together at the end of the selection cycle to get some of these bills up to the upper chamber and do it fast. You know, we can't take into account that everyone's going to want to be on the same page, but when it's for the greater good here, we're going to have to figure out how to do something. 'Cause when it comes to some of the Congressman who don't make no bones about it, and I'm talking about the man who represents my mother's home district, that's Congressman Andy Biggs, listen, he doesn't even want to CR happen into end this session of Congress. I kind of head scratched a little bit because I guess we got to keep the lights on in some way, shape or form, but I'm going to let the Arizona Congressman explain it right now, check this out. - Hi, Andy Biggs here from Arizona's Fifth Congressional District. We're coming up on a series of bills in the lame duck that have to be processed with a national defense authorization act. There'll be something on an agricultural bill. And then, of course, we come up to the spending because we did a short-term continuing resolution keeping all the programs and all the spending in place. We did that in September through mid-December. When I say we, I'm talking about the almost all the Democrats and the substantial number of Republicans. So they're going to decide now, leadership, what they're going to do in December, and they're telling us maybe there'll be another continuing resolution. Now, here's the problem with the continuing resolution. You keep the spending at the levels that you currently are, which is adding over $2 trillion in national debt every year. And you also keep all the programs in place. So for instance, Planned Parenthood will continue to receive hundreds of millions of dollars to do their really aggressive abortion program. But also, I wanted to highlight something else that will continue. Right now, you have a prosecutor in Washington, DC, and a special team at the Department of Justice where they're going after people who paraded or walked or were anywhere on the Capitol grounds. On January 6, 2021, for four years, they've made this the biggest manhunt in the history of America. Well, so they prosecuted over 1,600. Most of them have been charged with things like parading or interfering with the police process. That type of thing, these fines, these offenses usually have a fine, that's all. But we have had people go in to prison and jail for years over this. There were those who committed assaults, violent assaults that they've been prosecuted. But the current prosecutor is going to continue trying to indict and prosecute people through January 20, 2025 when President Trump takes office. That's where you shouldn't be funding the CR, because that's over, Kim. That is something that shouldn't be going on. And we should be changing that directive. And President Trump is going to have to clean that up when he gets in. So no, what do you think? I guess keeping the lights on isn't a priority. In the House of Representatives, when you look at some of the bullshit that they're funding, and Congressman Biggs would like to see this session of Congress come to a resounding close with a government shutdown. What do you think? Yeah. Is there going to be another government shutdown? Is it going to happen? We just listened to two minutes and 32 seconds of him making the case for it, and I'll be honest with you. Do you think it's going to happen, though, like you? Well, I mean, I asked Congressman Burchit what he thought. I even referenced this as a clip we were going to be listening to, because I had already listened to it. I know he's kind of on the same page, or at least in the same thread, of Andy Biggs as well. And I'll be honest with you, he's skirted around the answer. He really didn't answer it. He went to the-- we got a lot of wasteful spending up in DC, and we need to change the way we do things, and got back into the single appropriation bills, which I'm all for in the next session of Congress. But it sounds like some of the most America-first Congressman and women up on Capitol Hill are talking about ending this session of Congress with literally just ending this session of Congress. And I'll be honest with you, I wouldn't hate it. Maybe due to the fact that it's around the holidays, there'll probably be some servicemen and women in this country who would get pissed that they wouldn't be getting their checks right before Christmas. But I mean, when you look at the stuff that's going to get funded, they continue J6 witch hunts, Planned Parenthood, and the access to the federal funded access to abortions and things of that nature. Do we stand on presence? And I'm talking about the ones with bows on top of them. Are we going to stand on principle here? I'm not going to lie, I wouldn't hate it. But I guess we'll have to see what happens. We've got some news, as we're looking into right now, the House treads along dangerous waters here, and the world continues to respond to the incoming Trump administration. I saw the guy who's probably going to be the next prime minister of Canada, Pierre Polive, talking about Justin Trudeau and what he's done to the border, and essentially for the fact that Donald Trump's not going to be dealing with Fidel Castro's bastard child. He's going to be dealing with Pierre at some point during the next year or so. Well, he obviously wants to try and fix it from the side of our northern neighbors. Listen to this. [INTERPOSING VOICES] If the government needs to pass new spending, to better secure its borders, would you support that? Why haven't they done it? They broke the border. Justin Trudeau broke the border. We didn't have these problems before Justin Trudeau. We didn't have rocks and road before Justin Trudeau. We didn't have these illegal border crossings before Justin Trudeau. We didn't have-- the number of asylum claims have gone from 10,000 to over 200,000 under Justin Trudeau, more than 20-fold increase. All the chaos at our border is the result of Justin Trudeau. It's his job to come up with a plan today. You know what we're seeing now, though, is that because the prime minister has vacated the border and turned it open to anyone who wants to come in, the premiers are now taking responsibility for our border. Trudeau wants to be in charge of all these provincial areas of jurisdiction. And yet he's not taking care of the one federal job that is most the responsibility of the federal government, which is the border. So we have Quebec sending in the Soussides Quebec, the police force, to secure the border. Premier Smith, common sense leader, is proposing to use drones, provincial drones, and other police law enforcement measures from her province to secure the borders there. I understand Doug Ford is looking at something similar. Now, because Trudeau has so thoroughly broken the border, we're getting a patchwork of premiers who have no choice, but to try and hold the border together with bubble gum, scotch tape, and elastic bands. I thought it was going to be so serious. Just everything is broken after Justin Trudeau. We need a carbon tax election to fire him and bring in a strong prime minister who can rebuild our borders. He probably said right after that, guess who it is. It's me. It's me. It's me. Hey, listen. I would much rather be dealing with Pierre-Pauler of Den, Justin Trudeau in any part. Pauler has drill baby drill as part of his platform. The deals that President Trump is going to want to be making with our neighbors to the north regarding natural gas, drilling for oil, all that new stuff that's going to quell the fears of the futures, and finally drive down the prices of energies. He's also for very strong borders. That's people not being flown in to Canada and people not being just allowed to walk across into the United States, which a lot of congressmen and women, especially chairwoman Elise Stefanik, has brought to our attention over the years. And while we've seen some dealings going on regarding tariffs and immigration with Mexico, obviously impending energy and immigration with Canada, it's one of Donald Trump's former frenemies, geopolitically. And that was Vladimir Putin, who, ahead of the BRICS conference that they're having this week, spoke on the presidential election and gave some commentary overall on President-elect Donald Trump, let's hear it. Well, probably, just like me, you are amazed not by the fact that absolutely uncivilized means had been used against Trump, all the way up to assassination attempts, numerous assassination attempts. And I think he's not safe even now. The history of the United States has known many cases. But I think President Trump is a smart person and a cautious one, I hope, but what amazed me most that in fighting him, not only Trump was subjected to humiliating court procedures, accusations, and so on, but his family was attacked as well. His children was attacked. And gangsters don't do this in Russia. When criminal gangs fight, they don't touch children and women. It's men who fight among themselves. But those guys stooped as low as that. I think this is so bad that it only reaffirms how low the political system of the United States has fallen. Oof, and then he walked off. What do you think, no, anything you missed his buddy? A little bit. Think he wants to get the old Trump handshake again? Probably. Now that Vladimir Putin has had the opportunity to do a couple of pressers while at the BRICS conference, it seems like Ukraine president Vladimir Zelensky is now expressing more of a willingness to negotiate peace with Russia, the closer and closer that Donald Trump comes to being reinaugurated back into office. I also heard that he's reached out. And ask Joe Rogan if he can come on the show? Really? Joe Rogan told him no. Joe Rogan made some news on Wednesday by saying, fuck that guy after the constant reports of him trying to get our country to support him flaming the fires, which are drawing us closer to World War III. Yeah, reports out today that Zelensky said he's prepared to end the war in Ukraine by ceding territory to Russia in exchange for NATO membership. That's a non-starter for Vladimir Putin. And there was a quote from Zelensky that I'm reading right now. If we want to stop the hot stage of this war, we should take under the NATO umbrella, the territory of Ukraine that we have under our control. And what he means is just drawing the boundaries where, essentially, the Russians have decided they're going to be getting NATO. But again, Ukraine doesn't need to be part of NATO. It's not a thing. No, they certainly don't. And who's to say that if Ukraine gains NATO membership, they don't start the next conflict and when Russia retaliates. Article 5 says we're doing World War III. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, no thanks. No thanks. I would go with the one that I've heard as part of, like, maybe the Trump negotiations. 20 years, we're not even revisiting this. So most of us will be dead and buried by the time they want to complain about NATO membership again. I know it just seems like a big fucking shit show going on with this Ukraine debacle. And I want to see Donald Trump kind of get in there and put his foot down soon. And I really hope he does. Because there is nothing to gain, positively, out of this anymore. By that, I mean the conflict to continue. Because again, we're going to get screwed out of the rebuilding contracts. We're going to be on the hook for over a quarter of a trillion dollars. We're not going to wind up losing the rare earth minerals to countries like China. And there is anywhere between $7 and $11 trillion of them there. The amount of liquid natural gas that's producing that country and then the wheat as well. We have to be able to put our foot down, bring an end to this conflict, and wedge ourselves in there as fast as possible. Well, great friend of the show, Congresswoman Victoria Spartu, I think is joining us again next week. So I heard on CNN yesterday, they clear out the bench on the holidays and where they can't always get people like Lindsey Graham. They actually bring in real congressmen and women who have an opinionated statement that doesn't necessarily go with the flow over at fake new CNN. That's your her. Well, sadly, now, President Zilesky felt his Ukrainian people. He didn't get ready. The country for the war, he's not very supportive of his own military. He didn't deal with corruptions. And he does a lot of grandiose presentations. But he didn't do a draft. Didn't get military ready. And he did nothing to really support his own people that bravely died for freedoms. And that is on him. Unfortunately, he led this war to be where we are right now. I mean, President Biden, I was very critical of him. He didn't push on him enough. But ultimately, he's judged by the American people. And he was judged. And his administration was not reelected. President Zilesky judged by Ukrainian people. He betrayed and felt the Ukrainian people not to win that war for them and not to fight to win that war. Very difficult when you deal with leaders that not trying to win the war. So it's a very difficult situation that President Trump is going to inherit. And very likely, he will try to push it in some way, temporally ceasefire, because ceasefire is very temporal. But Russia is going on a fence right now, because they don't know what Trump can do. He's unpredictable. Putin actually preferred Biden. He's very predictable and allowed Putin to be where he is. And he will try to get as much as he can. But ultimately, that conflict will continue in the future, because Ukraine is not in the position to be winning, not like in Israel right now. I don't disagree with her. So when that immigrated here from Ukraine should know, as she always talks about the corrupted nature of that government over there, also the corrupted nature of the government of Russia and how she's seen a lot of similarities to it kind of flourishing here in the United States. Most recently, in her absolute destructions of people like Alejandro Mayorkas and Merrick Garland during Republican and congressional committees, what do you think Noah? Yeah, never. Can't be in NATO. It's not necessary for them to be part of NATO. I mean, that's the whole thing that caused all this stuff is that Russia didn't want NATO to be that close to its back door, right? Absolutely. It's what NATO said that it wouldn't do when it formed itself to protect Europe from rising entities like the Nazis or after World War II Russia. And yeah, it really hadn't been a question. But geographical, historical skirmishes over disputed land, which has changed hands hundreds of times over thousands of years, haven't really led to the elevated level that this conflict is at right now. And I think that's the big thing, because of the cash cow. Yeah, there were reports circulating online. I tried to get a little bit more information before the show over the course of the holiday week here that Zelensky or someone directly tied to his financials purchase like this major hotel in a different country, trying to find out if it's real or not. And when we really pissed, it was like $68 million. $68 million of our dollars. Yeah, that was there, there. So let's get like, see these? These are IOUs. This is as good as cash. He doesn't say that. He says other things. If you can't give us some financial support, OK? OK, please, give us a credit. I don't care how many times I hear it, it's funny. Yeah, it's always funny. Boy, but sad at the same time, it's definitely sad. Guys, wherever you listen to the show today, last call, make sure you're sharing the podcast with your friends, family, co-workers, and loved ones. But even more importantly, make sure you're subscribed to Stake for Breakfast, and that we're downloading to Electronic Device. 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Well, there was a couple commentators the other night on CNN, and again, remember, they're going with the JV team, as far as commentators, and with their content too, because outside of the normal BS that's going on, Joe Biden mumbling about threats to democracy, and Kamala Harris doing drunk happy thanks givings, and of course, bomb threats going out to Donald Trump's cabinet nominees. There wasn't much to talk about. So they were talking about the fact that Elon Musk in no way, shape, or form, cannot buy MSNBC, even though he 100% and totally could buy MSNBC. Let's hear it. CNN contributor Carrie Champion joins us in our fifth seed. So, Carrie, I want to ask you about this idea of media takeover, because after Elon Musk purchased Twitter, changed it into X, there's no doubt that he exercised some power there. So how do you hear this, even in just kind of purchase of the cable network? Good to be with you tonight. Good to be with you as well. Thanks for having me. I think that we should believe everything that is said, coming from this administration. I don't think that we have the luxury to dismiss it as him being someone who's being funny, or someone who is just being himself, or that is his brand. X, and you said in some ways, always. I feel like, X, I don't know if anyone is on it in any capacity. I don't know if you're on it. You're the only one. You're on it. You all are on it. OK, I've actually decided to take a rest of peace, because it is not a peaceful place for me. And I know if, in fact, you don't agree with this current administration. Most people can say that it's not a peaceful place. I wouldn't be surprised if there was an actual bid made to take on MSNBC. But the fact that it just can't happen in our life. And we just can't. It's even a real sale. Yeah, it's not a real sale. It's not a real sale. It's not even realistic in real life. But I do believe that media, everyone sitting here at this table, if you don't agree, we are in for some tough-- we're in for some tough years ahead. I do believe that we are not going to be able to be as safe or say what we want to. I don't think free speech. So again, and this goes to, like, one of my points. I don't mind women contributing commentatively to men's professional sports. But Carrie Champion is a perfect example of how 90% of the women around men's professional sports think and act. And as soon as she was canceled and sent back into, like, the ether and came up as, like, some kind of progressive champion. And I say it with a pun because that's her last name, her stage name. Just about how annoying these people must be to work with. I go on to these games yesterday. And I wasn't even going to fucking talk about sports today, but this is just annoying. Number one, because Blake Snell signed with the Dodgers. And they just keep loading up like a Chicago Bull-esque super team out in LA while the Yankees still haven't signed Wandsota or any free agents this offseason, which is just pissing me off. That's neither here nor there. I go and watch these football games yesterday, and I'm trying to teach my son about the essence of the game. So the whole theme of this Thanksgiving in the NFL, Noah, all three games that were on TV, was a tribute to John Madden. I know you don't, a big sports guy, but at least you know who he was. He was the historic coach that went back to back Super Bowls with the Raiders before he became the commentator who donned the video game, which bared his name for decades. Still does today. I grew up on John Madden and Susie Wild's father, Pat Summerall's, is my favorite commentators. There was Frank and Alan Dan on Monday Night Football. There was a couple other ones on other channels. But when I really got to know football was explained to me by John Madden and Pat Summerall. Now, outside of all the bullshit that I had to endure and showing my son, there's a quarterback playing yesterday with painted fingernails. There's another quarterback playing yesterday with Rainbow cleats on. They interview every single one of these guys, and they come off as like, not football players, but like, metrosexual participants in athletic theater. You have two former football coaches, one 30-year commentator, and a quarterback who should have got out of commentating like 10 years ago. And then you have like some 30-something-year-old woman in like a pencil skirt. And it just doesn't look like it fits in. And I just don't like the way it's forced into trying to tell a story about something that's as simple as throwing the ball around and scoring points that doesn't have to be with. You have to give them a segment because they're the woman on a contributing panel of commentators. You know what I'm saying? It's like, God forbid, all of them are talking about their experience. You have like Jimmy Johnson, and you've got Michael Strahan, and you've got Tom Brady, and you've got Terry Bradshaw, and then you have some girl who never played professional football, but is thrown in as part of like the DEI-edness of the NFL. And they're all telling stories about Thanksgiving and it's passed. And what story could she tell that I couldn't contribute to that argument, which is, I've watched the games too growing up, and this is what I remember about John Madden and the six-legged turkey he'd give out at the end of his game. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. It's just really frustrating. And it goes into like these panels right now, because did you see her like look like an absolute retard when she's like, well, who's actually on X? And every single person, well, of course, Scott Jennings puts his hands up real fast, but the other five people there all slowly raise their hands. And she's like, oh, oh my god. Well, I'm thinking that it's literally the largest social media platform. And then she said she's taking a break because she has no peace with being on there. Well, insensibly living on there and getting triggered by every single thing, every single person on it says, that's a mental illness. Go get it taken care of. You don't need to announce that you're not on there. As we're getting ready to wrap right now and jump in with Kenny Cody and bring it back to what we're talking about, and that's the ultimate troll right now on X, who is Elon Musk. We're not going to end with him. But as our last audio clip of the week, we're going to end with his mother, who not a lot of people know about, but it seems like every time she's dying at Mar-a-Lago, she's sitting across the table from Donald Trump. It seems like their family's not just Elon and X, his son, and Donald Trump, Melania, and Barron, but the entire Musk apparatus and all things related, including May, have really meshed. And I'll be honest with you, it's better for the country right now. I love the direction that this relationship, this broship, this whatever you want to call a chip is going in. And at the end of the day, it makes everything about not just our politics, but the direction our country's going in better. And May was just on Varian friends the other day talking about that she's so happy that this is happening for her son and how she feels and why she thinks everyone around the world has fallen in love with Elon Musk. And even more importantly, the relationship he's having with the incoming president of the United States, let's check it out. I like your son. Yes. I mean, it walks around as the wealthiest man in the world bar none. They like him, really. You know, I don't like the world wealthy or billionaire or things like that, because I think it's degrading. I think he's the genius of the world. And people are loving him for that. They don't-- when they see me, they go crazy because I'm his mother. But they love him because of what he does, and they respect him, and I'm very proud of him. I can't imagine what it would be like to be his mother, watching him go from PayPal, to rockets, to Tesla, to just one thing after another. You ever surprise about what he's coming up with next? Well, every time I'm surprised, and every time I say, don't take on something else. And he doesn't listen to me. And then he makes a big change. And this neural link, people saying, well, I don't want something in my head. I said, well, you aren't paralyzed, or you aren't blind. Good point. If you're blind and you don't want to see, then you can argue the point. You don't have to have a chip in your head. I just think it's a little wholesome way to close out the show. Noah, we don't really hear from May Musk that much. I pulled a clip recently of Elon Musk's dad, who still, I believe, lives-- I still believe he lives in South Africa, given commentary on the success of his son. But you know, did you hear how she led into that? I don't like the billionaire-leaders kind of mentality. I think it's degrading, because I feel like he should be referred to as a genius. That's the same shtick, which led Donald Trump to all the success he's having when. And you find two people whose family ideologies are that way. It's not Donald Trump the billionaire. It's Donald Trump the showman, the man of the people, the one who understands our problems and wants to fix them, and May Musk kind of spins Elon Musk in that light. I love it. I absolutely love it, and I think it's a great way to wrap up the news portion of our show here. 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He's also the chair of the Cott County GOP on one of our favorite places, Tennessee. I don't know why I'm rhyming because I'm about to introduce Mr. Kenny Cody. Welcome back to the show. Man, it's going to be back. I'm going to talk to you all. And it's good to have a victory celebration for my first appearance back on the show. Certainly is. I mean, we probably all experienced a little bit in our own way, shape, and forms that the Thanksgiving Day table yesterday. But I do need to start off talking with everybody who's coming back to the show following the presidential election, just what you thought about it, Kenny. You know, electorally, 312 to 226. Pretty good scorecard there. First time, since George W. Bush, that we get the popular vote win. I think it's the third time in the last 40, maybe longer, years at that. And then, you know, when you talk about flipping the Senate and retaining control in the House of Representatives, albeit by a slim margin, pretty big wins for Donald Trump coming out of what was just one of the most brutal campaign seasons, probably in the history of modern politics, if not ever. And for someone that covers this 24/7, you know, is dialed in and got your finger on the pulse of America first, just want to kind of see how it went down for you. And what you see now that the desk has kind of settled, those were three weeks off election day. Yeah, looking up, I was actually looking up to be down in West Palm Beach whenever, you know, I was at the Trump election party back in back to Portugal, and, you know, it was just, I had a good feeling the entire time, you know, and, you know, traditionally, I'm a Tennessee football fan, so a win is never clearly inside. So I'm well-accustomed to being nervous for big wins, but, you know, I was very ready. I was really nervous. I think that's the right way to be if you are in politics or if you're rooting for any side. You are always going to be nervous. You're never going to get complacent. But I was very pleased to see that the election was called pretty early. You know, and the rest had the popular vote win. You know, you hear all these Democrats and all these leftists and progressives saying, "Well, you know, it's not really a mandate, but it is." You know, if we're going to call George W... They're going to call Bill Clinton's victory over George H.W. Bush and Ross Perot a mandate when they only got 43% of votes. And then the House and the Senate, this is absolutely a mandate. And, you know, with the demographics shifting in the country, you know, for California and a bunch of other states to have these file landlocked states and electorally or the cities are carrying over the Democrats in the states that are heavy blue states. You know, I think as the size of as a Republican can have a win as can be. I mean, unless we see just an overturn of, you know, for junior and a few more in Minnesota, maybe a couple more states. New Mexico and a couple more states just shifting holistically to the right. Over the next few years, I think this is as the size of a victory as a Trump or a Republican could have had. We heard, you know, that he was unelectable for the last four years. And, you know, all those notions are just out the window. And I think we saw the best campaign ran basically in Republican party history, you know, for a candidate that had been, you know, that was running for a knock at executive term for somebody who, you know, used alternative media the way that he did brought all kinds of different people to the party, you know, such as, you know, such as Robert Kennedy, Tulsi Gabbard and others, you know, I think it was one of the most well-ranked campaigns that you could see and it concluded in one of the most size of victory as Republicans that we've also ever seen. So it's been, it's been a really good feeling for the last few weeks. - You know, and then that takes us through and up to now, we just finished Thanksgiving yesterday, Kenny, and although, be it, we're all still full, you know, it's like the mainstream media just can't get their shit together and really let us know just how bad a shape this country is ahead of Donald Trump getting sworn back in with Congress joining him as well in just a couple of weeks. You know, telling us that this is the most affordable Thanksgiving feast that we could ever provide for our families in the last five years and things of that nature. It's just like they don't get it right now and there's a lot of disconnection with the Democrat party. I think they are gonna rebound and by the time Congress gets kicked off on January 3rd, ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration, probably be more galvanized than ever with the big-time lawyers and the billionaire donors and then who they're figuring out is gonna be the new leaders of the party. As I see people like kind of the Clintons and the Obamas, probably the Pelosi's and the Schumer's kind of getting sunsetted a little bit is that they were found to be extremely unattractive to the American electorate in this last cycle. But, you know, when you talk about going into Thanksgiving and there is a lot to look forward to and be thankful for, what were some of the biggest things that resonated with you and how do you see the country acting a little bit different over the course of the last three weeks? - I think it's just happy. At least it's positive mainly. You know, I've seen such a energy from, you know, of course, I live in a very solid Republican state and a solid Republican county and I'm thankful for that. But, you know, just hope, I think there's hope and optimism more than there ever has been, but I think we're still polarized. So I think there is gonna take this sort of unity, but it has to be over-uniformity. You know, over the last four years, we've solved this separation really, but the lines really get drawn in the sand and I think that's important because we can't really conform and just get complacent because of the victory. And I'm very thankful that President Trump won the size of the league. I don't think there's any candidates that deserves it more than him over the last two, three centuries of our country. Our last 10 or 50 years that we're gonna be, you know, seeing this upcoming year that he's actually gonna get to see the silty over, which is gonna be great. But I'm thankful for our country. I'm thankful that the people, you know, I think that Eric Trump said on Fox News that his father was covered nearly 98% negative by the mainstream media. And I'm really thankful that the America people overwhelmingly saw that. You know, but I think people feel to feel forget that the poverty vote is heavily steamed towards Democrats, right? Like it's with California, with New York, they're always gonna be skinned more towards Democrats. So in the same way that, you know, the Republicans have won the popular vote, it's just gonna be rare from here on out for the rest of human history, unless one of these states to seed, it's gonna be rare that we ever win the popular vote. And I think that's something we have to take in consideration and really embrace as Republicans, like, wow, the Republican party has a mandate because the American people saw through the mainstream media and the cultural leftists' shielding of the Democrats and this painting of a mirage of a candidate, like Kamal Harris, they were just throwing whatever to the wall that's stuck and that stayed there. And I think that we now have to realize now to the American people want. And I think that was addressing, as much as I hate exit polling, I think with immigration, I think with crime, I think with the economy, we have to actually do something within the next two years 'cause we're unlike you just said, you know that the Democrats are gonna have their stuff together by the inauguration day. And I think that we also, unfortunately enough, I'm not faulting Speaker Johnson, I'm not faulting anybody in the majority, but history tells us that more than likely in 2026, we are going to lose the house or are likely to are gonna be favored to lose the house 'cause of the slim majority that we have in the house. And I'm not trying to doom, I'm not trying to be negative. We just have to be prepared for that. And the reason we have to be prepared for that is we have to get a lot done the first two years, not only for us to give us a chance to keep the trifecta of government in 2026, but we also have to get it done in case we get kicked out of the house in 2026. So I think that I still want complacency. I'm glad we've run our victory laps, but now the first thing on our mind is gonna be confirmations. The second is going to be enacting policies and acting executive orders through their mass deportation and other policies that are gonna give the entire back to the American people. And I think it's gonna be really essential coming down the path. And we gotta start now. We can't wait until January 20th to start these policies and to start these pathways that we've created and hopefully we're gonna be able to do that in the next few months. - Yeah, that's some good points you make. And outside of policies, which we talk with so many of our congressional guests about. We had Congressman Tim Burchit, who represents Tennessee too on earlier today. And the show making this an all volunteer state episode of "Stake for Breakfast," I like it. But here's the deal. You know, we know we're gonna get border security done. We know we're gonna do things that are gonna get this economy back on track. We know Donald Trump is gonna start taking care of those things, geopotically, that are gonna bring these foreign conflicts to an end and strengthen our relationship with our allies by keeping our geopolitical foes at bay. But at the same time, doing it with the enticement of bringing them back into the global community, which I saw Donald Trump had a great deal of success with Saudi Arabia, places like Russia, even North Korea. They were so close to being welcomed into the global community prior to him leaving office at the end of his first term. It seems like those things are gonna be back on track, the Abraham Accords, et cetera. But you can't really have the backing for a lot of the legislation that's gonna get passed that Donald Trump wants to have promoted through the House of Representatives up to the Senate and over to the Resolute Desk. Without the confirmations and nominees that he's picking to join him, his venture into his second term. Now, it's really interesting, Kenny, because you only go back one administration to see that there was anywhere between 10 and 13 Republican senators who back in 2021 helped confirm Alejandro Mayorkas, Pete Buttigieg, you know, Merrick Garland. You go back and administration or two, the same Congressman and women up in the Senate also helped confirm people like Eric Holder. You know, that's one of the examples is probably the worst cabinet selection in Attorney General, even outside of Merrick Garland that this country has ever known. You know, when you see the squish nature of these people where there's anywhere between three and six Republican senators now who just aren't in line with the mandate that the American people gave, and we all know how some of these senators act. Some of these senators literally act like they're the presidents of their states. And because they feel entitled to the fashion that they've been working up on Capitol Hill and in the upper chambers since Donald Trump came down the Golden Escalator in 2015, they have more political capital than he does. We just spent about 10 minutes outline all of the reasons why Donald Trump is like the start all and all of once in a lifetime political icons. He just is, it's gonna be the same with the popular vote. I think we're gonna be able to retain the house in the midterms only because Donald Trump's gonna be, you know, the president who sits in theory this time at the top of the ticket because it'll be a midterm election. But the fact of the matter is, is how can we continue to allow three, four, five, six senators really want to derail the mandate that America is sending Donald Trump back to the White House with? - Yeah, this has been a problem for the GOP for such a long time. And it's this, I hate, this is gonna sound strange because I just got through talking about unity. But, you know, I wish we saw more uniformity amongst the party and more unity and much governance. - Right. - That makes sense. I hate this idea that Republicans almost all the time have to be the good guys and the moral backgrounds. We have to be bipartisan. Now that we have power, we have to be bipartisan. Now when the opposition party is the one to control, we can pretend that we're these hard news, hard nail conservatives and that we're gonna fight against the Democrats. But as soon as we get power for some reason, we all of a sudden become, well, we have to be bipartisan and we have to be, you know, let them tell us what to do. I'm not really understood that. And I just wish, I wish that we would finally go, okay, we have the power, the people that make people have a mandate, the physicians are universally popular in all the red states such as Alaska, like Elisa Murkowski is from, and you know, that South Carolina from that Lindsey Graham is from, like Oklahoma, where Mark Wayne Mullen is from, all of these men and women are from solid states that have shifted to the right. Every state in the country voted for Donald Trump more than they voted for him in 2020 and 2024. So that's just proves that the mandate is there, the shift is there, the change is there. There is no reason for even Susan Collins, who is a mane to oppose any of these cabinet positions. And you know, and she's probably the most understandable living in a blue state like Maine, but even Maine shifts to the right. Even Washington's shifted to the right. There is no reason for these nominee to not get confirmed. P.H.X.S allegations are untrue. There are charges filed at all. There are Democrats like Jared Pulse, who are supporting Robert F. Kennedy for the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and then Tulsi Gabbard is a former Democrat herself, who had relationships with several of these Democrat senators. So if we cannot come together to confirm these nominees, what kind of administration and what kind of health is the administration going to get from Congress if they can't even unite together on nominating two former Democrats and somebody who has a decorated war veteran, such as P.H.X.S.S. What are we doing if we cannot get those simple, and those are the most controversial nominations that we're gonna have. Letting a man is gonna get approved by. Michael Rubio is gonna get approved by. But if we can't get these three people who seem to have the most trouble getting confirmed, I don't know what kind of support the Trump's gonna have in Congress. So which is why I wait for once, we have to show uniformity among the Republican Party to get these people confirmed in the Senate GOP, because for once the GOP is relying on the Senate GOP to be strong, and I'm hoping with those that are gonna be in power and with new leadership, if you wanna call it new with John Foon, I hope we're able to see that. I'm nervous and I wanna push for that, because that's the first step and the first signal of Trump getting support he needs, and that's gonna be from the Senate GOP. - No, those are some excellent points you make, Henny, 'cause when you look at it in the big scheme of things, like would HR1 and HR2, would the Lake and Riley act get passed if the people who are gonna vote for these cabinet selections voted in the same way legislatively? So what is having a 53 seat or 54 seat with JD Vance? Majority in the Senate really mean if you're going to have five or six senators who are gonna bail out every single time something comes across, because it's what Donald Trump wants to get done. There's a virtue single to states that they're representing and five out of six of them come from Ruby Red States as well. It's just really interesting to see. I hope it's a lot of grandstanding and I hope at the end of the day they're gonna give Donald Trump to at least afford him the same opportunity that unfortunately Joe Biden had, because here's the deal. The Senate wanted to have a hearing last week on border security and all things related to the fentanyl crisis. And guess what Merrick Garland and Christopher Ray did to that senatorial hearing instead of showing up, they got on planes and jet set for their Thanksgiving destinations. And you know, if this was any kind of Republican led endeavor where the Democrats had called them up for a hearing, this would be 24 hour news, much as the cases of every single thing of when they cope and see the over things that have to do with America first. Don't you agree? - Well, I don't see it. I mean, again, I mean, we hate to do this what about it is a percentage GOP gives us a reason. You know, when Democrats are held to the same standard, Republicans are for some reason, we all just let them go. You're like, oh, yeah, go fly off. You're not going to be held same standard. But when our Republican nominee is coming here, then we're going to be the solid nose, like we're asking the tough questions. Are these allegations true? Did you have ties to, you know, to Syria? Did you have ties to, you know, on Wallach Abagnotti? Like, did you really eat a rattlesnake for Robert F. Kennedy? Like, you know, these non-sensical things, the Democrats are going to ask these questions anyway, but if it was their own nominee, they would call it racism, bigotry, fascism, or whatever, if we were asking the same questions to Democrats, but for some reason, now we're going to be tough on our own nominees. It's just, it's so annoying. And I get bothered by what you just said. It's because these people are from really red states that overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump. A lot of these, Donald Trump got, if they were on the same ballot, Donald Trump got more percentage in the states they represent than they did. They got more votes than they did. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever that, for some reason, they're going to now oppose because they're neocons or because they're in the establishment, the deep state, whatever. And, you know, like I said, I mean, I understand situations like Susan Collins. I understand that that is one of the only senators that I understand in the US Senate that can vote that way. But even her state, again, voted to the right of what it did to the 20 and 2016. So it still doesn't make that much sense. And so I just wish that we would see the same sort of fight that Republicans always have for the opposition party. You know, they always have this safe, you know, we're going to hold Bajo Biden accountable and all that kind of stuff. I wish we would see this getting the same kind of conformity for our own party. And because because these nominees are not controversial, the mainstream media are going to make them a gabbard, hexefic unity and all these other nominees out to be controversial for some reason. But they're just, they're just not. They're not, they're not that controversial. They're not as controversial as Pete Butticej. They're not as controversial as Alejandro Mayorkas. They're not as controversial as Elle Air colder. So I hope there is some unity show with the Senate GOP. I hope there's unity shown with the Republican Party to align to institute the Trump mandate and institute the Trump agenda. Because if not, we're going to remember, and I don't know what kind of other phrase we can have for. We're going to remember if you don't, because this is going to be the first true test of seeing if Margaret can go across all scales of the Republican Party and the first test is going to be the Senate GOP. - And we've had Elon Musk now, who's going to be back in these upcoming elections. He said he's getting heavily involved in the midterms, his, the endeavors that he went and did out in the state of Pennsylvania, which I think was critical, not just in helping Donald Trump win the Keystone State, getting McCormick to secure that seat in the Senate and defending one of the major seats that they wanted to go after. And Scott Perry, this election cycle to be set up in all the swing states and battlegrounds by the 2026 midterm, and it's going to be spending billions of dollars on making sure that he can do everything possible to help the House of Representatives retain that power moving forward. I can see the same kind of influence kind of, you know, being directed at the Senate as well. I think Donald Trump's kind of playing this low key right now because maybe we're hearing it's a lot of grandstanding going on. And at the end of the day, they're just going to suck it up and vote. But I guess we're going to have to wait and see. It provides for good commentary, which is exactly what you gave us on the show today. Kenny, listen, there's a lot of stuff that we want to live link in the show description. You tell us what it is and we'll be live linking us. And then tell us where we can find you on social media as well. - Yeah, man, you can find me on social media @padycodetn on true social and of course on X. You can find all of my archives on muckrack.com, which is an article, archive website for a community journalist and all of your consult kinds. And my most recent article on exactly what we'll be talking about today with the Senate confirmations of the cabinet nominees is pinned on my Twitter page. You can go to go there to find that at humanimmons.com. - Absolutely fantastic as we get you up with one of Tennessee's finest volunteers. He provided it willingly here on the show today. Mr. Kenny Cody, thanks for joining us on the show. Sir, I'm glad you had a great Thanksgiving. Have a great weekend as well. - God bless you guys, man. Have a Thanksgiving, get a good break in and don't get too cool from see you guys and God bless you. - Thanks, Kenny. We'll see you soon. Coming out of Thanksgiving Day holiday, run in. And although I'm circling back to get some leftovers right now, I think we nailed it. If you enjoyed this episode of the podcast, I wanna hear the now nearly 500 other editions of the show you best be following us across every downloadable podcasting platform. Find this on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, Samsung, Amazon podcast, or wherever you listen to your shows. And then check us out on social media, Twitter, get our true social Instagram and TikTok is where we have accounts. Find them, follow them, hit the notification bell. You'll never miss out on all the great stuff we've got going on down here. At stake for breakfast, we wanna thank all of our guests coming in and sharing with us today, GOP spokeswoman, Elizabeth Pekko, Tennessee Congressman, Tim Burchin, and columnist at Human Events Newsmax and Townhall.com, Mr. Kenny Cody, you guys all helped make stake great again. Guys, we're heading into the weekend and saying goodbye to Thanksgiving, but we've got a lot to be thankful for, including the first of our two big Tuesday editions of the show next week, which will be our 500th episode. Got a great lineup for you guys already set to appear. Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, House Republicans Keith Self, Andy Olals, and Mike Collins, and the one and only, most iconic political figure and commentary in all of Republican politics. The infamous Roger Stone will be here as well. So on behalf of the pod team, I'm Ron. Thanks for listening. Have a great weekend. You eat the rest of that turkey, and take care. (upbeat music) Listen, Mr. Samsonite, about the briefcase. My friend Harry and I have every intention of fully reimbursing you. Open it up, open it up! Go ahead, open it up, do what he says. Harry. This, this, what is this? Where's all the money? That's as good as money, sir. Those are I/O use. Go ahead and add it up. Every sense accounted for. Look, see this? That's a car, 275 thou. Might wanna hang on to that one. [BLANK_AUDIO]
On today’s (Friday 2 of 2) Episode of the Steak for Breakfast Podcast, we are covering:
Kamala Harris finally breaks her silence in a pre-recorded, telepromptered message to supporters and Joe Biden takes questions from the press after delivering pastries to Nantucket’s First Responders for Thanksgiving
As House Republicans tread lightly and on dangerous waters following the election and by retaining the slimmest of majorities, we breakdown how they intend to navigate the depths to close out the year and this session of Congress
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Congressman Tim Burchett: (@timburchett) U.S. Representative, TN-5
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Kenny Cody: (@KennyCodyTN) Columnist, Human Events, Townhall.com; Newsmax
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