CTP S2EFebSpecial2 Unmasking Government Secrets: Accountability in the Shadows

This episode tackles the pressing need for transparency and accountability in government spending, focusing on FEMA payments and the implications for taxpayers. We discuss issues surrounding fraudulent practices, the role of major political figures in influencing fiscal policy, and the necessity of logic over emotional reactions in political discourse.
• Highlighting recent developments from Trump and Elon Musk’s meeting 
• Exploring FEMA's financial obligations towards housing illegal immigrants 
• Unpacking the complexities surrounding Pentagon and CIA budgets 
• Advocating for transparency to restore public trust in government 
• Distinguishing historical narratives of the GOP and its implications 
• Engaging in debates over the elimination of the penny and fiscal policy

Chapters

• 0:00 Examining Government Waste and Fraud
• 13:28 Addressing Republican Inaction and Misinformation

Transcript

Joseph M Lenard: 0:19

Like and subscribe to Christitutionalist Politics Podcast and share episodes. We need your help. Hello everyone, things are going so fast and furious right now and not Trump's first 100 days, trump's first 10 days that some things that I would consider doing a regular full show, audio also release are happening too quick. So for now, this is going to be a video exclusive. This will probably attach to a regular show, maybe more because this needs to be covered, but for now, today I'm looking at my clock calendar I mean not my clock Tuesday, february the 11th, on in the background on my TV as we speak, trump and Elon at the White House not quite a press conference, but a press meeting where the press is asking questions is going on as I speak. Well, first and foremost, I want to address one thing that Elon keeps getting pushback on, and it's just so amazing.

Joseph M Lenard: 1:55

The left yeah, some chinos and rhinos too, but a lot of the chinos and rhinos are just kind of trying to stay quiet and stay hidden. The left and the leftist enimedia are protecting common sense, simple things, concepts of audits, like Elon has said three times now in the amount of time that I've been watching and broke away to do this At the IRS and some other places. There are fields for payment codes and fields of why is this being paid as part of this payment code, like for bottled water, or, you know, food and beverages, et cetera, et cetera. Right, okay, food and beverage service code whatever Food and beverage service code, whatever Food and beverage. Then the justification, definition, description field for IRS offices, and whether we should be providing that or they should be paying for themselves, we can argue about. But there is one argument to be made to oppose that. You actually be required to fill in the fields you are already required to fill in, so that indeed, the books can be looked at and audited and we, the people, the actual bosses, with some transparency, we're finally trying to get know where the hell is the IRS's money going to. Fema's money going to Homeland Security's money going to FEMA's money going to Homeland Security's money going to?

Joseph M Lenard: 4:10

Now I'm going to get into a couple pieces. I've dropped the Pentagon kind of a special situation. The CIA, obviously a special situation. We can't let out all our nation's secrets laid bare, all right? Well, let me go there. I'm going to control tab here for a second so I can go over to my befores, news and sub stack pages and find the piece where. Let me scrolling apart. I beg your pardon, but Doge and overall taxation was recently replete.

Joseph M Lenard: 4:56

Department of Education, the attempted insurrection. That's not what I'm looking for now. Eliminate the penny. Please go to my at J Leonard, detroit or Joseph M Leonard. I'll try to edit in shortcut links Like well, because this will air audio eventually. Eventually. Substack https slash slash. Tinyurlcom slash jld. On Substack. Same for before it's news tinyurlcom. Slash jldarticles. And for my pieces at the Liberty Beacon tinyurlcom slash jld. On TLB.

Joseph M Lenard: 5:52

I'm trying to make it easy for you to see my exposés on the exposing of the government waste, fraud and abuse going on. Another piece Cooking the Books, a piece I just dropped a few minutes ago. Reports FEMA cut yet more checks to house illegals. Now I'm trying to think, oh, I think it's in the Cooking the Books. Why Left Fears Does Transparency to think, oh, I think it's in the cooking the books. Why left fears dose transparency?

Joseph M Lenard: 6:35

I discuss Pentagon and CIA budgets. Absolutely, there is fraud there. Like by way of example, I'll get to the Pentagon. We don't want all our nation's secrets laid bare, for our enemies to know what's going on. It's a national security issue. So there are black book projects, off-budget projects. So fraud is built in to protect secret projects. Remember years back? Do you really really think we were paying $200 for a hammer? The $200 for the hammer is what was listed on the books, because kind of special in that sense. So am I surprised the Pentagon failed seven audits? No, because we expect there's going to be some money laundering and fraud to hide secret projects, which is not to say there isn't indeed waste, personal fraud, money laundering, kickbacks and abuse there that we indeed have to look at and root out. But there is going to be some monies hidden and I for one want some of those monies to continue to be hidden, not from us, we the people, but because of security reasons, our foreign enemies. How does this not make sense to fellow conservatives, constitutionalists, republicans? We're supposed to be the party and I say this in is it in the cooking, the books, while left? Here's Doge or the piece I just released, I think it was reports.

Joseph M Lenard: 9:09

Fema cut yet more checks to house illegals. We're supposed to be the party of logic, reason, common sense, rule of law, which means contract law. So let me get into that a bit. Fema cut yet more checks to hotels to house illegals. Well, sorry people to you, emotionally hysterical, non-thinker snowflakes because, yes, we have some of them on the right we have to honor our obligations.

Joseph M Lenard: 9:49

We have said new administration. You will no longer be paid to house illegal immigrants, period. If you choose to do so, going forward, you do so on your own dime or work with a charity to raise the funds to cover those costs. But going forward that doesn't mean people who, in good faith, while you and I do not agree with if I were operating a hotel, I would have never, ever allowed myself or where I worked, or I would have left enter into an agreement to house illegal aliens. But some did with the prior administration that was engaging in unconstitutional activity. Those obligations, those contracts, still have to be paid for. Billing isn't going to stop now. Billing is going to happen for 30, 60 days for past monies due. Those obligations have to be met. In reports, fema cut yet more checks to house illegals.

Joseph M Lenard: 11:12

I go into oh, I've lost my train of thought here for a second now, but that point past billing obligations, oh, the left is currently through. They're saying Trump is going to cause a constitutional crisis. The left already has by leftist activist judges, not constitutional jurists, acting on leftist activism, accusing Trump, saying Trump cannot pay people to retire early, right Early retirements or buyouts, right? Except a buyout happens all the time in the private sector. And take this early buyout. Although in the private sector they are not getting eight months pay, you're lucky if you get 30, 60, 90 days pay and benefits covered for 30, 60, 90 days, or guess what? You could pay through COLA to cover your benefits, but we'll pay you your salary for 30, 60, 90 days to help you transition out to somewhere else. But the government's offering eight months pay. I think that's ridiculous, five at the most I get.

Joseph M Lenard: 12:36

We want incentive to get some of these people to leave voluntarily and we're going to have to move on next to firing for fraud, waste and abuse and dereliction of duty. But the left is saying, well, we're not sure they're really going to be paid, so therefore we're going to block the program. You want to be as bad as the left now saying we're not sure he'll live up to the obligation and actually pay them, while you're arguing FEMA shouldn't cut the check to the hotels that already rendered the services they shouldn't have done, but they did and are owed monies for. At any rate, I'm going to leave it. I could go on and on and on.

Joseph M Lenard: 13:28

Many of these things would have been their own episode, but I don't have weeks or months to be able to wait to get to this stuff because it's happening so fast. We've got to discuss the issues now, now, and Republicans need to stop being as stupid as commie fashie, socies, okras. Use your brain, logic, reason, common sense. Because we may dislike something does not mean we're not still obligated to some degree to deal with it until the policy is indeed fully changed, fully stopped, fully rooted out. So again I'm looking at my sub stack here. The same as mostly true of beforeitsnewscom Reports FEMA cut yet more checks to house illegals. Please read and share that. Cooking the books why left fears? Doze transparency. Read and share that to fellow Republicans. You know are not using their brains, are acting emotionally. We've got to be the logic and reason party.

Joseph M Lenard: 14:56

Decades ago, I wrote a piece the GOP, the party of no. What do I mean by that? Remember Chuckie Schumer and the left called us the party of no. And oh Well, my rebuttal. And Thaddeus McCotter, who was in Congress at the time, did I know at that time, saw what I was saying, saw what I was doing and it indeed became a Republican talking point at one point for a while the party of K-N-O-W because we know better.

Joseph M Lenard: 15:39

Sadly, some Republicans don't know any better. They're just emotional snowflakes, too Logic reason knowing facts, evidence, reality, not delusion. Some Republicans need to hear this message, message please go to these articles and share them with your email contact list, please, I beg of you. I hate to have to do that, but this information needs to be shared with some republicans as well as those independents who keep getting fooled and bamboozled by the left. Another one thoughts and prayers. Another you censor or YouTube controversy.

Joseph M Lenard: 17:13

Eliminate the penny Good, bad, indifferent. Let's examine all the angles. I don't have time to go into that today. Please sub stack or before it's news. Eliminate the penny Good, bad, indifferent. Let's examine all the angles, not just left or right. Spin On there also. In there also. I mean not on there also in there also. I mean not on there, in there also.

Joseph M Lenard: 17:43

I go back and examine the harriet tubman replacing andrew trail of tears jackson on the 20 bill and I offer an actual solution to that problem to get past the leftist, left-hard, race-baiting, bullshit objections, their desire to keep Andrew trail of tears Jackson Democrat on the 20, when under GW Bush a little more here right it was put in place that Harriet was to replace Jackson on the 20. The Democrats kept resisting. Obama completely scrubbed it Trump's first term. He tried to resurrect it but nothing happened. It's time to what? Maybe create a new bill? What maybe create a new bill? What would be the left's objections?

Joseph M Lenard: 18:47

I go into all the reasons why a new bill makes sense in eliminate the penny. Good, bad, indifferent. Let's examine and yes, I defend the penny. Okay, make it out of tin and paint it copper. We can't pay three cents to produce a one cent coin. I get that. That is wasteful. But the prescription to just eliminate the penny? I love Trump to death, but that doesn't mean I check my brain at the door. It's about principles, not personalities. We still need the penny. I go into the reasons why and the slippery slope. We, on the right arguments, often make people always ignore and then a few years later we're saying see, we told you so you didn't listen. You wouldn't listen. So I oppose. I support Trump when he's doing something I agree with, and that's 99% of the time. I do not support the elimination of the penny and I lay out why in there.

Joseph M Lenard: 19:55

Another piece doge and overall taxation. Some people are saying, oh, we're cutting all this waste, fraud and abuse. Taxpayers should be refunded all their taxes for the last 10 years or send a million dollars. People. We're almost $40 trillion in debt. We're not going to get a balanced budget, let alone a surplus budget, overnight. It's going to take years and then we need to put the surplus to paying down the debt. So, yes, I'm for more making the current Trump tax cuts permanent, potentially viewing and adding some more, but we can't keep racking up deficits and more debt. We've got to get to balance, then to surplus and paying down debt. So are we all going to have our taxes cut, tax rates cut by 50% overnight? No, ever no and shouldn't happen. We've got to address the debt.

Joseph M Lenard: 21:03

Also another piece the Gaza problem, with Trump saying about you know well, we're going to take it over and we're going to develop it of Hamas and what's been going on for 70 plus years, not just the current status of needing to rebuild it. Look at the politics and the rebuilding aspect of it. Flashback 2024 and a look ahead to 2025 part two I'm trying to see when that dropped. And a look ahead to 2025, part two. I'm trying to see when that dropped. Let me pop up that page On Substack flashback 2024, part two. Dropped on February, the 8th of this year, 2025. Please look at and share that to understand where we're going. Some people still don't grasp where we've been, to the why and how we need to correct the ship, right the ship to where we're going.

Joseph M Lenard: 22:18

Department of Education attempted insurrection, including several violent actions the left has taken many times. They talk over and over about January 6th being an insurrection when in the past in Michigan, wisconsin and in DC they had occupied buildings for days on end to interrupt government business. I go into that there. What the left will never let you know, what independents need to understand. Please go Substack or Before it's News. Department of Education attempted insurrection. Share it with the independents that you know need to be red-pilled.

Joseph M Lenard: 23:18

The Thetterman rollover it drives me crazy how many people are jumping up and down and on the Uncle Thetterman bandwagon. He's a liar, he's a fake, he's a fraud and he's already rolled over for Schumer and Soros in announcing 90% of the time he is not a moderate. He is trying to cover his ass because his seat is up in 2026. Fetterman must be removed in 2026. Further back Doge versus IRS, leftist 70s. Anything to avoid Doge TDS is now DDS Doge derangement syndrome, federal tyranny, mistakes versus purposeful, willful, wantful, jackbooted thugism.

Joseph M Lenard: 24:30

Regarding Valentine's Day coming up, am I the ass game in time for Valentine's Gameplay? They go along with last Wednesday's show drop and this coming Wednesday, tomorrow. Because today's Tuesday, what? The 11th, wednesday the 12th, I will be dropping a Valentine's special with a dating expert. So you voted. So what? What are you doing now? The number of lazy people who have gone back to their couch and not paying any attention to what's going on, on the right, supposed Republicans that cry endlessly. People don't know what's going on, don't watch what's going on. They themselves are still also not paying attention. They're hypocrites. So you voted. So what? What are you doing now, right now, in the next two hours, two days, two weeks, two months, next two years, next two decades? You don't get to just vote and then go back to sleep. It says we, the people, in our founding documents, for a reason All right, anti-semite left kamifashi, so she's okay.

Joseph M Lenard: 25:55

Projection again. Flashback part one. Let me pop that up. Just I have to scroll, scroll, scroll. Pop that up on Substack. It was released, I think later than it was at Before it's News, or sooner, I forget which. But looking February, the 1st of this year, flashback Part 1 was officially released on Substack.

Joseph M Lenard: 26:27

Before that, turn your articles and blogs into a book Egg prices to double the why. What Biden did to try to make Trump look bad. And you're not hearing it even on the supposed conservative news stations. A must read and a must share, both at Substack and Before it's News, eventually, probably. Coming again to the Liberty Beacon, check out the video exclusive and that piece I mentioned on Substack and Before it's News scrolling up, scrolling up called thoughts and prayers. That's because Roger with the Liberty Beacon had a stroke. That's why you're not seeing my stuff at the Liberty Beacon right now. He needs to recover, he needs to heal before my stuff can start getting back up on the Liberty Beacon again. Stuff can start getting back up on the Liberty Beacon again. At any rate, I have gone way, way, way longer than I expected to for this video exclusive and it's so long now it's going to be hard to pack it on to future standard Saturday monologue episodes. So maybe, maybe I'll have to drop it as a next Tuesday special or something.

Joseph M Lenard: 27:56

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