Straight Talk Rewind: The Betrayal of Speaker Mike Johnson | Episode 70

In this "Rewind" episode of the Straight Talk podcast, originally aired on April 23, 2024, former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke expresses his dissatisfaction and disappointment with House Speaker Mike Johnson, labeling him a 'RINO' and detailing Johnson's perceived failures, particularly regarding Ukraine funding and border security. Clarke advocates for Johnson's removal from the Speaker's chair and discusses the broader implications of his actions. Clarke also addresses pro-Palestinian protests that have blocked roads, urging citizens to take direct action to clear blocked routes and criticizing the lack of immediate police response.
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Chapters

• 1:33 Disappointment with Speaker Mike Johnson
• 3:27 Call for Vacating the Speaker's Seat
• 4:53 Critique of Johnson's Actions and Policies
• 25:34 Protests and Civil Disobedience
• 33:41 Final Thoughts on Law and Order

Transcript

1:22

Greetings, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Welcome to another episode of the Straight Talk podcast with your host, former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke. Well, the Republicans have done it again. They sold us down the river. Speaker Mike Johnson. He has become the quintessential rhino. This is a guy who, when he was named Speaker of the House, we were told that he was a staunch conservative. And I told you, you know, you got to be careful when, when, when you hear that from people that they're conservative and so on and so forth. And you've heard me talk about the difference between a conservative and a Republican. And I was willing to give Mike Johnson, you've heard me on this podcast, you can check the tape, I said I was willing to give him a chance. But I said I reserve the right to kick the tires. I reserve the right to kick the tires. to hold off on full throated support of him until I see his behavior, until I see him in action. Well, we've seen it. And we've seen it on more than one occasion. I'm not, I don't overreact to this stuff. You know, every once in a while in politics, somebody who is usually reliable might misstep or might do something that's out of the ordinary. And you look and you go, what did they do that for? But, you know what? They get back to who they are and they remain relatively consistent. To me, that's what a conservative does. And then there's Mike Johnson. And I made the decision that I'm done with Mike Johnson. I'm done with support for Mike Johnson. I hope the Speaker's seat is vacated. I hope a motion is made to remove him as Speaker. Yes, I want to go that far. Now you might say, well, you know, that creates a lot of chaos and, you know, we're getting close to the election and, and, you know, I don't care about that. I care about principled leadership. Conservatism. I care about the constitution that comes first. As a matter of fact, the way I see it, if the speaker's seat is vacated, if they move to vacate'em and they can't come up with another successor, and they successor and they go through person after person and hundreds of votes, leave it vacant for the rest of this congressional term till after November, and then we'll see what happens after the November elections. And if the. GOP, if, because there's no guarantees in politics, if the GOP maintains control of the house, they can pick a new speaker. But until then, you know what? With no speaker, guess what happens? No business can be conducted. Good! Because that means no more damage can be done by this inept class of Republicans. So let's examine a little bit of what Mike Johnson's done recently that has turned me against him. He's a turncoat. He's a traitor. His position before he became, his position after he became speaker. No Ukraine funding until we get some significant changes on border policy that has to be included. That's what he said. Any Ukraine funding bill, he said, has to come with improvements on border security. He also said he would not vote in favor of section 702 remaining in place that allows the FBI and other intel agencies, the government, to spy on American citizens on U. S. soil. He said he would not do it. He would not bring it up for a vote to extend it. Because it's set to expire. Well, he did it. And he cast the deciding vote to allow the government to continue with the authority to spy on American citizens without a warrant. He was the deciding vote. It was tied. He cast the last vote and he voted in favor of it. You know, he, well, you know, I believe the intel and, you know, this is serious. No, no, no, no. It's not what the constitution says. You believe the intel. The Constitution doesn't say the government must get a warrant unless you believe the intel. He reversed course. I mean, that's a 180, ladies and gentlemen. That's not a slight departure. He said he wouldn't do it. And he claimed, well, this is too important, and this is About national security. There is no exception. No national security exception to the 4th amendment. I read the 4th amendment in the last episode. It's very clear. With few exceptions. There are exceptions to the warrant requirement. It's not that one. So now we get another two years and I guess we're supposed to be happy with that because they were looking for a five year extension but they only got two and then in two years so. Extended again, anyway. And then there's the Ukraine funding that he brought to the floor without the guarantees of increased and improved border security. Southern border security. And he moved a bill through to fund Ukraine and to fund Israel. You know, Israel doesn't need our help. Netanyahu has said so. You know, just, hey, stay out of the way. They'd probably like to have it, you know, additional aid and so on and so forth. But unlike Ukraine, you know, we're totally funding their war effort. Totally. You know what I heard Mike Johnson say? Quote from his mouth, Well, I'd rather send Ukraine bullets than our boys. That's a false choice. There has to be limits to this stuff. And there has to be guidelines and there are none. Do you know they can't even account for a lot of the military supplies that we've sent over there and they can't account for the money? How do they, how does the Congress even know that this is going toward the war effort? So, he was able to get the bill through, Ukraine funding, with mainly Democrat votes. What does that tell you? Johnson had to rely on Democrat votes to pass this thing. That means to me, it's a Democrat bill. Biden has already said he supports the bill that Johnson's going to take up. He said that last week. That means it's a Democrat bill, because if they would have put more border security protections in there and guarantees. Biden would have been against it. As a matter of fact, Chuck Schumer told him, don't you be sending anything over here that has anything to do with the southern border. This guy's like dancing Johnson, dancing to the tune of the Democrats. You call that being a rock solid principle conservative? I don't. So I hope, like I said, I hope, and there's a growing number, by the way, this isn't just Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz anymore. There's some prominent Republicans in the House who have signed on to their threat to remove him. Several noted Republican House members have said, I'm going along with voting to remove him. If this goes through. Folks, Nancy Pelosi never had to rely on Republican support to get a bill through. Nancy Pelosi knew how to keep her members in line. They weren't all fans of hers, but they dared not cross her. They knew better. They were afraid of her. She takes some bill that the, the, the Republicans were entirely against and she didn't care. It was a strict party line vote. She says, I got the votes, we're gonna get this through, and none of her members strayed, ever! And she knew going in, or she wouldn't have called it up for a vote. She went back and did some more arm twisting, until she got those on board who were Hammond and Hawn, Democrats. She never had the, the, the, Get a bill passed, especially a controversial one, with Republican help. She used her majority, kept everybody on the farm, and she got it through. Why can't Republican Speakers do that? I don't get this. Boehner couldn't do it, Paul Ryan couldn't do it, McCarthy couldn't do it, and now Mike Johnson can't do it. What in the heck is wrong with this party? Having to rely on Democrats. And you know what? No Democrat would go for this. If it was not to their liking, they wouldn't. So this is what we're stuck with. I hope this comes quick. Let's move to vacate the Speaker's chair, seat. I hope it comes quick. I hope it comes this week. And you know what? They can just leave it vacant. And all that means is, you know, the business of the house comes to a halt. Good. They're doing an up damage. We won't miss it. They won't be able to spend any more money, which is why somebody should have moved to vacate it before this Ukraine vote. That way that thing wouldn't have been able to come to the floor for a vote. You know, you gotta learn how to play chess. Thanks. Republicans, this isn't checkers, it's chess. If you wanted to stop that Ukraine bill, with all that Democrat support, and you knew that Johnson had the vote to do this, you should have made a move to vacate last week, before this thing could have advanced to the floor for a vote. This happens every time with us, conservatives, and some Republicans. It happens every time. We get sand kicked in our faces by our own leaders. You know, now all of a sudden, Mike Johnson goes from You know, the label of being a staunch principled conservative to a freaking rhino. Maybe it's the, the, there's something in the air, in the water, in Congress, in the water fountains or whatever, the water cooler. Then when you drink from it, you just, you lose your soul. You lose your courage. You lose your backbone. I mean Johnson buckled to Biden and Schumer's threats. Pelosi and Schumer never buckled to Trump's threats. It's just amazing. I just, and I get sick. I said, I'm sick of it. And it only happens to us conservatives. We're the ones that always lose out. We're always the ones that get the short end of the stick. We're always the ones that are told, you know, given some excuse. Well, we can't because you know, of this. It's just amazing. It's so disheartening. to watch this and it just continues to happen. So we'll see what happens with that threat of a motion to vacate the speaker's chair. Like I said, I hope it happens and I hope that just stays vacant. Let's get through the November election and see what happens if the GOP retains control of the house. They can pick a new speaker and maybe finally pick one that's got a backbone. Man is Mike Johnson just Thoroughly. Thoroughly. Disappointed me Probably many of you as well. Wow, we don't know what to do with power The Republicans they do not know what to do with power The Democrats are in the minority in the house, and they're basically Running the House of Representatives They're running the House of Representatives and they're in the minority You got a bill put through this Ukrainian aid that the Democrats Got across the finish line for Johnson. Johnson didn't have the Republican votes to either pass it or defeat it. And all this crap, you know, about, well, we, we have to fund Ukraine because, you know, our allies, but then when it comes to Israel, all of a sudden it changes. That is a losing proposition in Ukraine. It's time for a negotiated settlement. It's time for Zelensky to be told that's it, man. Game's up. Get to the negotiation table. And all these threats you hear about, well, if, if Putin gets into Ukraine, then he'll go on to all these other, you know, bordering nations, and he's not going to have the army to do that. His military is being decimated. Where's he going to get the military resources to go into other areas? I mean, this should have started with, you know, when they went into, what was it, Crimea? We didn't see it have a problem there. Amazing. Anyway. Okay. Let's go on to something else here. Did you know there's a gunpowder shortage in the United States? Speaking of the Ukraine war, it has come to light that gunpowder, the gunpowder supply is starting to run dry for the military and for gun users. Boy, how did this happen? You know how it happened? Ukraine! We are weakening our ability To military, militarily respond to other areas of the world, including in our own defense, because we're running short on munitions. I've talked about that on this podcast previously. Stockpiles are dwindling. Bombs. Bullets. So we're allowing the, the defense of the United States to lessen because of Ukraine? And that's in our best interest? And nobody in Washington seems to care. And every time somebody opens their mouth and says, Well, they're an ally and we have to do everything we can because it's a vital interest. They should ask these people, how are our stockpiles? I'm telling you right now that if China decided to go into Taiwan next week, there ain't a damn thing the United States could do. If North Korea, because they have nukes. If North Korea invaded South Korea next week, There is not a damn thing the United States could do. This is not a good position to be in, either defensively or offensively. You can't respond to other areas of the world because, well, you don't have the weaponry. So it says here there's some hearings on Capitol Hill. Members of Congress announced legislation Thursday to prod the Biden administration to conduct an inventory of the U. S. gunpowder supply chain and offer suggestions to ensure enough will be available for the military and the average consumer. Quote, this administration creates as many ridiculous hurdles as possible to restrict law abiding gun owners access to affordable guns and ammunition, said Senator James Risch, Republican of Idaho. He said legislation will force transparency on the White House. No, it wasn't. The Biden administration doesn't give a damn what Congress thinks. They don't give a damn what the Constitution says. They don't give a damn what the Supreme Court rules. He said you can't do the student loan program and Biden is still doing it. Transparency? Remember that, that word last, in the last podcast when I talked about section 702? Where some member of Congress said, you know, this will force more transparency in the process of the FISA. And I reminded the listeners, I said, you listeners, I said, transparency, it's a secret process. So, we're supposed to be fooled by these, remember I said I, I read critically, I look at, I read words, because words matter, and I thought, here's that word again, here it is again. He said, and this is Rich, the, the senator from Idaho, the legislation will force transparency on the White House. They're probably on the floor laughing already, in the White House. Nothing's transparent. In terms of what they're doing, what they're up to, the Congress. And the White House? Nothing's transparent. So there are other European officials who are also concerned about the scarcity of gunpowder. Gunpowder! So this bill that's being proposed states that, quote, Congress remains concerned about the domestic supply and product of gunpowder. production of nitrocellulose and worries that a supply chain failure could restrict ammunition manufacturing for large and small calibers, harming the commercial marketplace and placing the warfighters at risk. They're risking the national security of the United States by continuing to give our Gunpowder, bullets, and, and, and weaponry, and, and bombs away to Ukraine. So it says here the ammunition industry is still struggling with a shortage of percussion caps. Like gunpowder, the caps are crucial to a usable round of ammunition. Few nations produce nitrocellulose. Nitrocellulose is a ingredient used in making gunpowder. Thailand, China, and India are considered the most significant players. Thailand? The U. S. is a net importer. We don't make it ourselves. We don't produce it ourselves. So it says here, the Russia Ukraine war has created a massive sinkhole for munitions. The And China has tightened its supplies, all surprise surprise, crippling us in other ways. China, weakening us militarily. China. The consensus was that China was reluctant to sell to the U. S. because so much of the supply was being pumped into munitions for Ukraine. See? China's involved in Ukraine and it's not costing them hundreds of billions of dollars. They just cut off the supply to an ingredient used in making gunpowder. Defense industry manufacturers are scarfing up much of the supply reaching the U. S. European officials say the scarcity is affecting the ability to rearm Ukraine. This stuff is, it, it, you know, it's just, I come across it, and I just, and this'll just shake my head, I go, you gotta be kidding me. And this stuff never makes, you know, headline news. You gotta read deep, you gotta dig to find this stuff. I'd be willing to bet, it. 90 percent of the American people don't know about this lack of gunpowder supply and how it's weakening us militarily. And it's also going to have an impact on gun owners here in the United States when they can't find ammunition or the price goes through the roof. Bidens don't care about that, but it's just, I don't know. I don't know where this all ends, ladies and gentlemen. You know, we're fiddling around talking about stuff that has no impact on anything. Stuff coming out of Washington DC. This whole damn trial with Trump and the hush money and so on and so forth. Captures the headlines, wiped everything else off the front page. Sometimes I think this is done, not sometimes, this stuff's done on purpose. We have glommed on to the shiny object once again, the Trump trial. It's all I'm hearing about, the shiny object, and we fall for it. I mean daily reports, you know, and just hourly reports and breaking news. It's Juror number three, or, you know, just, I don't know. Maybe I'm just wired differently. I don't care about that kind of crap. That's all tabloid journalism. That's all it is. It means nothing to the average American. It isn't, you know, the American people. No bearing on it whatsoever. Then you got all these damn protests from these Pro Palestinian ill idiots. These, these I gotta kind of watch it because the boys and girls might be listening. But they're in full force, I guess. And this is the way this leftist movement works. You know, it started small. You had a couple protests here and there. A couple people, you know, squawking. And, you know, with their nursery rhymes. You know, we charge you with genocide. That stuff is stupid. It's very juvenile. And if they're not getting enough attention, they up the ante. It's stupid. So last week these protests broke out all throughout the United States, on cue, blocking bridges, blocking roads, shutting down transportation, and this stuff is tolerated. It's not allowable under the Constitution. I wish people would stop, you know, calling it peaceful protest. No, it's civil disobedience, subjects due to arrest, but you know what? Arrests are only gonna be so effective, or effective so much. There's a limit to it. What an arrest will do. You look at your states that have no bail policies. So they arrest them. Okay, they can move them out of there then. Alright, so that's a useful tactic in terms of opening the roadway. But then what? I'm hearing that they have a legal defense fund and they have money. Set aside in an operation that if you get arrested for any of this stuff, you, you know, they'll, they'll produce. Well, first of all, when I heard that, I said, wait a minute, many of these states like California, they shut down the Golden Gate Bridge last week. They have no bail policies. They don't need bail money. They take them in, they write them a summons, and they let them go. That's tying up police resources. I would just bodily drag them out of the way. Drag them. Open up the roadway. It's a public safety menace not to mention and this is You know, this is an important aspect of this I have constitutional rights too and one of them is freedom of movement These people are obstructing my freedom of movement. And what, I can't respond? Like hell I can't. Now, remember, I've said this before and I always advise it. It's gotta be reasonable. In other words, people are blocking the roadway, you can't pull out your firearm and start firing shots at it. It's not reasonable. Dragging them out of the way is. I'm talking about by citizens, not by cops, by citizens. Pushing them out of the way. So you can continue to move forward. They're restricting your freedom of movement. If I have to get to work, or I gotta go here, or I'm trying to catch a flight, I mean they blocked the entrance to O'Hare International Airport. Gas them and get them out of the way. The hell with arrests. They have no bail policies in Chicago and Illinois. Clear the roadway is job one. Clear the roadway by any reasonable means necessary. Including by US citizens. But I would just, I'd gas them. Tear gas. Police, I'm talking about. And the beanbags. And any of this less than lethal force. I'd deploy it. Not gonna arrest you. Gas you. Then drag you up on a sidewalk or out of the way and let you sit there and writhe in pain. You're not gonna die. Your eyes are burning. You know what happens with the effect of tear gas? Clear the roadway. Immediately, it takes the police too long to respond to this stuff. First they show up and they just stand there waiting for orders. I'm not being overly critical of the frontline officer. I'm blaming the damn higher ups in the administration. They're afraid. They're afraid to give the order to use reasonable force. I never was as a sheriff. Matter of fact, there was a situation in Milwaukee. I was a sheriff for a hundred demonstrators, went under the freeway system and the, the, the, Interchange, in downtown Milwaukee, at rush hour. I gave the order immediately to the commander on the scene, the authority to use tear gas. And he said, I think we can get him out of here, quickly. There were a hundred of them, eighty of them went to jail. We cleared it, quickly. But I gave him the authority to use tear gas. I'm not fooling around! Then again, they don't make police leaders like me anymore. So anyway, Senator Tom Cotton, guy I like. It's irrelevant that I like him, but I just thought I'd throw that in there. Tom Cotton doubles down on comments urging people to forcibly remove protesters blocking traffic. He's repeatedly urged people delayed by traffic stemming from pro Palestinian demonstrations to take action against protesters, including forcibly removing them. The people who are blocking you. This is a quote from him. Absolutely. I support of people. I support people if they're blocked by traffic by pro Hamas vigilantes in the street. I like that language. They should get out of their cars. They should move them to the side of the road. And they should let traffic continue. Cotton told NBC News. Asked if he was calling for violence against protesters. First of all, they're not protesters. Cotton said he wasn't. And that's always that gotcha question. Oh, so you're advocating for violence? No, but I'm advocating for clearing the damn roadway. That'd be my response. I understand that trick question. Are you advocating for violence? So a quote from Cotton, I'm saying that if people are trying to get to work to pick up their kids from school or take a sick kid to the doctor and you have pro Hamas vigilantes blocking the streets, they should get out and move those people off the street, Cotton said, the police will get there eventually, but a lot of damage will be done in the meantime, and that's what I mean when I say the police are too long, too slow to respond to this. And when they do get there, the first moment is just standing, or spent just standing there. It's to jump out of those damn cars and immediately start dragging those people out of the way. Have your pepper spray ready. And your batons, in case they start to resist, and you have to up the ante, of force use, and clear the damn roadway. The people will love you for it. Instead of just coming there and standing in a line and watching. Cotton on Monday urged people delayed by traffic stemming from pro Palestinian demonstrations To, quote, take matters into their own hands. I second that motion. I second that motion. The rule of law has been obliterated. Law and order doesn't exist anymore. It's every person for themselves. Just do it reasonably. Quote Cotton again, I encourage people who get stuck behind pro Hamas mobs blocking traffic Take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way It's time to put an end to this nonsense Cotton wrote Monday on the social media site X Further quote another quote from Cotton if something like this happened in Arkansas on a bridge Let's just say I think there'd be a lot of very wet criminals that have been tossed overboard. Not by law enforcement, but by people who's rolled their blocking cotton set. And if they glued their hands to the car or the pavement, well, I'd probably be, it would probably be pretty painful to have their skin ripped off. But I think that's the way we'd handle it in Arkansas. Again, I second that motion. Start gluing themselves to, you know, it happened at some sporting event where somebody went onto the court, a basketball court, and glued their hands to the floor. Drag them out of there, rip the skin off, weld it, you know, just to get for, teach a lesson. It's not deadly force. We put up with this crap, and the left knows it. And that's why they resort to these tactics. They're not going to do anything to us. Might get arrested, but we'll be back next week. California Highway Patrol Chief Don Goodbrand said, You can protest anywhere you want. First of all, no you can't. But it is unlawful to block a roadway and to prevent people from getting to work, emergency personnel from getting to help people. You can't do it. You can tell them they can't do it! I maintain they can do it if you let them, and that's what we're doing right now. We're tolerating all this nonsense in the United States, and it isn't just with this pro Hamas garbage. It's with our schools. It's in our streets. The crap we put up with, where a school administrator is going to tell you what they're going to do to your kid. And we just, and the left just keeps pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing. With no pushback or very little pushback. We're trying to use the system to do it. You know these institutions, the courts, the police, elections. The left's made it clear they don't care about that crap anymore. They don't care about elections. They don't care about the rule of law. They don't care about the Constitution. They don't care about parental rights. They don't care about the fact that the roadway was made for cars, for vehicles, for the movement of traffic. They don't care about that. Well, why the hell should we care about them?