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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Should We Be Worried About the "Big Beautiful Bill"?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-06-30. Transcript available.

Congress is this big, giant black box, and people can't see what's going on
inside of that black
box. They know they're electing their congressman and two of their senators and
the president,
and they're sending them to Washington, D.C., and then they don't understand
what comes out of that
box. I've been in that box for 12 years, and I think that's sort of what my
role has evolved to,
which is to just try to tell people what's going on inside of the box so that
they can do a better
job of picking congressmen and senators. That's what I always think. I'm like,
if somebody would just get elected just to get in there and tell us what's...
We don't even fucking...
We'll buy you a Volvo or whatever. Fucking... You know what I'm saying? We'll
give you some
Taiwan semiconductor shares, but just tell us what's happening in there.
Somebody fucking look in there
and just throw a note out and be like, hey, this is what's really going on. Now,
the problem we start
to get into is there's so much pandering and everything and so much social
media used to try
and disguise who the messenger is. It really turns into a game, and I think
that is one thing. That's
the only joy of it is watching the masters of this just Game of Thrones type of
energy go on.
So the biggest... I'll tell you right now, this would be 50% of solving the
problem.
It's not a silver bullet, but it's a lot of it. Get rid of the giant bills,
okay?
The omnibus bills, the continuing resolutions, and even the big, beautiful bill.
Why not put that shit on the floor one at a time? I agree.
And then that way, you can go to your representative or your senators and say,
why did you vote for that? Right now, they can say, well, Theo, I had to vote
for it. I had a pay
raise for soldiers, right? They literally will put a pay raise for soldiers in
every freaking bill,
giant bill, so that if you vote against it, you have to go back home and watch
TV ads that say,
he voted against a pay raise for the soldiers. Right, even though he may have
voted for 90 other
amazing things on the bill, right? Right. And that was one thing that was tied
in there,
that if you went this way, you know? Yeah.
It may have been like oxygen for grandmothers, right? Literally, there probably
is that in there.
But if you vote for oxygen for grandmothers and you cannot, they're not going
to give...
So I see what you're saying. I voted against oxygen for grandmothers so many
times,
they can't even run that ad anymore. It doesn't even seem real.
Has there ever been a bill that was like, okay, we want to stop these omnibus
bills? And bring up
omnibus bill. We looked it up the other day when Mr. Vance was here, but I just
want to go over it
again. An omnibus bill is proposed law that covers a number of diverse or
unrelated topics.
Omnibus is derived from Latin. It means to, for, by, with, or from everything.
An omnibus bill is a single
document that is accepted in a single vote by a legislator, but packages
together several measures
into one or combines diverse subjects. So it's not even really fair because you
only get one vote on
the bill? Correct. And, and not, and so typically an omnibus bill, it includes
at least 12 other bills
because they're, the 1974 Budget Control Act, there's a law that says we're
supposed to do these
bills separately. So we've already tried the law. We already tried that, Theo.
They just suspend that rule,
every year. Okay. So, but take me through this moment. So I don't, so I don't
stray from it. So
people can be, so I can, so I can understand it. So like, give me two examples
of things that would
be on an omnibus bill that would be that there's no way for a voter to win,
that there's no way for
a representative to vote and win on. Okay. Well, the, the, um, the easiest, let
me just take something
topical, the big, beautiful bill inside of that big, beautiful bill is a
provision for artificial
intelligence corporations that says no 10 years, 10 years for 10 years, no
state or local locality
can regulate them. And then it talks about zoning and routing, which if you,
you know, some of your
listeners may have seen this, like locally, somebody, some big corporation
wants to put a data center in
your backyard. Well, that's what Congress is trying to do. They're trying to
say that
these corporations can override local zoning laws, that the local zoning board
should take a backseat
and let this big information center show up in your backyard that uses all
kinds of water and all
kinds of power and puts out all kinds of RF and has, you know, oh yeah, your
cousin's going to be
walking down the street, just fucking, you know, just fucking screaming out
Amazon orders. You know,
it's going to be the shit that's going to start happening to be crazy. You're
literally going to
be driving on the road with your windows open and an old gust of, uh, 5g
remnants from blockbuster
emails that never got out of it and got out of, uh, uh, got out of, got
uploaded or just going to pass
through your fucking vehicle. Shit's going to get insane. You're going to have
babies that are born
with advertisements, like birthmarks that show up. This is a set of twins with
Nike logos on them.
What is happening? So that's in the big, beautiful bill. Okay. And you can know
that's evil. You can
know that's bad. And, and Trump never campaigned on that, but also in that bill
is to enforce our
borders. Okay. To finish the wall. Right. So if you're a Republican and you
vote for that bill,
okay, you supported enforcing the border, but you also let AI basically take
over your local and state
governments. Okay. And then if you vote against it, well, then you're against
the AI provision,
but oh my gosh, you're for open borders. You know, you're for, you don't want
to support the military.
There was a hundred billion dollars in there for the military. There was, oh,
you want to tax seniors.
There was a tax cut for seniors. There was an extension of the tax cuts from
2017. I voted for the 2017 tax
tax cuts, but I voted against this 2025 bill because it's got a lot of crap in
there that doesn't belong
and it's going to balloon our deficit. Right. So you can't win for losing. And
so I don't blame a lot of
my colleagues. Like they, they come to Congress, they have the best intentions
and you get there and
you're like, oh my gosh, this whole game is rigged. How, how am I going to play
it? Am I going to call
it out? Will that get, will that be the best for my constituents who elected me
or should I play along?
And most of them choose to play along and you can't, can't really blame them.
They feel like, oh, my
fiduciary duty to the people who elected me is to get as much as I can up here.
And if I piss off the
Trump and I piss off Mike Johnson, I can't get any table scraps, but the
reality is they're not even
getting table scraps. They're trading. I say every week, congressmen trade
their votes for magic beans
that never sprout like Jack and the beanstalk. He trades the cow for magic
beans. The difference is
Jack got beans that sprouted by congressmen. They're not getting gas vouchers.
They're not getting a
Cracker Barrel gift certificate. So, so explain to me how that part works. So
that's a part that I don't
understand. Cause you mentioned a little while ago, you're like, I could have a
bill and I put it
forward. Cause Mike Johnson seems like a good guy. He doesn't seem like
somebody that would take
something that was yours and make it somebody else's. Like, I don't understand
what you're so
I don't understand what you're saying. Like, how does that work? And take me
through like, like,
how can you put a bill out and people would know what's your bill? I mean,
obviously is there
information online that says this is a bill that Thomas Massey made or that any
person made like any
representative made? You, the other thing they'll do with your bills is they'll
stick them in another
bill. Okay. Let me, let's, I'll give you an example. Yeah. Show me how you're
saying that people
aren't even getting the scraps or whatever, you know what I'm saying? Right.
Take me through some of
that. Uh, well, they're not, Theo, I tell people, I joke with my colleagues up
there. They're like,
man, see why, uh, you're not a sellout. I'm just like, I look at him in the eye.
I say,
I'm biggest sellout up here. Like I would sell out for Snickers bar, but you
guys aren't even getting a
Snickers bar. You're not getting a bridge in your district. You're not getting
a new exit off the
interstate. Yeah. You're not getting anything for your vote. Like the, nobody's
ever offered me
anything up there of value. I'm not, I don't even know myself. I could be the
biggest sellout there
is. There's just no trade up there that's, that's worth taking. And so mostly
people are trying to
stay relevant and get reelected. Right. That makes perfect sense, right?
Everybody's looking out for
themselves in a sense, but you would think at some point that even that would
lose its appeal.
When you look around your town or your community and you see that like, oh man,
by not really benefiting the people, it's every, like it's all falling apart,
you know,
by not really benefiting the country, it's falling apart. And I fuck, I'm
starting to sound like a
downer again. I don't want to do that. It should, it should. But take me
through,
take me through what you're talking about, how you put a bill up and it doesn't
get labeled yours.
Is that, so it's plagiarism or I don't understand what you're saying. Well, and
then if you do get
something done by working inside of the system, they'll just, you won't get any
credit for it.
So for instance, uh, when Ron Paul left Congress, I came into Congress and I
introduced Randy's daddy.
Yep. Rand's dad. I introduced a lot of Ron Paul's bills and one was the
industrial hemp farming act
because it was illegal. They treated hemp just like marijuana. It was illegal
to grow it,
according to the federal government. Uh, so I introduced that bill and I got a
lot of co-sponsors
and I, I figured out a way to work with Democrats and get it into the farm bill.
Now it was a Republican farm bill that I got it into, but I needed Democrat and
Republican votes to do it.
And I got it in the farm bill, but now like people online say, oh, Congressman
Massey,
and it became law by the way, and people can grow industrial hemp in all 50
states.
That's the end of the, you know, that's the rest of the story. Oh yeah. A lot
of
chicks that don't wear deodorant are working on those, working on those places.
And no offense,
ladies, I don't mind it. But yeah, no, I'm glad that we have another product in
our country, you know?
Right. Um, and so that became law. That was one of my bills, but nobody ever
gives me credit for it
because it wasn't a separate bill that said, and by the way, I voted for that
crap sandwich,
the, the farm bill, which is a big giant bill. And then I took crap for voting
for that because it
had my thing in it, but now I don't get credit for it. But I've, I haven't
particularly had bills
where somebody took my name off them and put somebody else's name, but my
colleagues had.
Okay. So, so you haven't had that exact thing happening for Mike Johnson.
No, but you've seen it happen. Yeah.
You're saying, and if it did, I wouldn't care that much. I mean, if it's a good
bill,
make it happen, but a lot of people, you know, they, they need to go back to
their district and
say, I got this done. Oh, I see. So a lot of times people don't know from the,
um,
from their Congress people or their representatives that they actually got this
thing done. Right. Right.
So there's a communication issue there. And then there's another thing that
happens,
like some Congressman gets to DC and they have this bill they wanted to pass
even before he was a
Congressman and they say, we'll put your name on it and then you'll get credit
for it. And then the
Congressman has no idea about the subject or anything. So I had, there was a
bill that came to
the floor. It was about opioids. Okay. And I voted against it. And the sponsor
of the bill comes up to
me and says, why did you vote against my bill? And I said, well, I'm not
against research or things like
that at the federal level, but this is basically a form of Obamacare. And I
thought we were against
that, like, cause this had treatment and stuff, which should be handled at the
state level. And he
looked at me, he said, you're right. He said, I'd vote against this too. If it
weren't my bill.
He said, the leadership gave it to me and told me to bring it to the floor and
it would help me get
reelected. Wow. I swear to the Lord above. That is an exact conversation I had
on the floor. Yeah. Oh,
I believe you. Congressman from Wisconsin. He's still there. He is. Yeah. White
guy, I bet. Oh,
yeah. That was a guess, dude. That was a guess. By the way, but not to pick on
him because that year
we passed like 38 opioid bills. Yeah. They're all redundant. They just gave
everybody they were
trying to get reelected. They give them an opioid bill. Oh yeah. I mean, they
were renewing more
prescriptions for opioid bills than they were opioids. That's the craziest part
of it. And the Sackler
family never even went to fucking jail. And some people believe that the Sackler
family should be
electrocuted. Allegedly. I don't know them and I don't even know if electricity
would work on their
fucking sick evil bodies. Is that slander for saying that? Can I go to jail for
saying that?
It might be a death threat. You can, but I can't. Could Mike Johnson
put a bill on the floor about the omnibus thing? Yeah. And then we could see
who would vote for it
and vote against it? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. He could, but he's not going to. Right.
Because it would be too
dangerous. It's, it's way too dangerous. I mean, the lobbyists love it that way.
Yeah. They,
they love the opaqueness of that black box that Americans can't look into it
and see what's going on.
Yeah. Because they're inside the black box. Oh, for sure. They get to, they get
to craft language,
language and special provisions in those big giant bills. And they're so big
and we don't,
we're not given time to read them. But you got to remember, Theo, like a lot of
my colleagues
wouldn't read these bills, even if they were given three months to read them.
What they're,
what they're doing by rushing these bills through is they're not who doing the
congressman,
they're who doing the public. Of course. No, I think it makes perfect sense. It's
like,
cause we just send one set of eyes and brain up there to handle something, you
know, or a couple
sets if you have a few reps and then it's, but it's so much information at once.
It's all, it's,
it's all the same thing. It's literally like a bus passing by. It's like with a
car passing by,
you can get an idea of what's on it. You can look at the wheels, you can check
the exhaust,
you know, and be able to see who's in there. But when a bus goes by, you're
like, fuck,
I don't know. You know, was a driver awake, you know, that's kind of like, you
know,
that's how it, that's how it certainly starts to appear, appear. And the
windows are
painted black on the bus. Oh yeah, dude. And somebody wrote,
just married to a trans man on the windows with chalk or whatever with window
paint. Um,

Should We Be Worried About the "Big Beautiful Bill"?

Congress is this big, giant black box, and people can't see what's going on
inside of that black
box. They know they're electing their congressman and two of their senators and
the president,
and they're sending them to Washington, D.C., and then they don't understand
what comes out of that
box. I've been in that box for 12 years, and I think that's sort of what my
role has evolved to,
which is to just try to tell people what's going on inside of the box so that
they can do a better
job of picking congressmen and senators. That's what I always think. I'm like,
if somebody would just get elected just to get in there and tell us what's...
We don't even fucking...
We'll buy you a Volvo or whatever. Fucking... You know what I'm saying? We'll
give you some
Taiwan semiconductor shares, but just tell us what's happening in there.
Somebody fucking look in there
and just throw a note out and be like, hey, this is what's really going on. Now,
the problem we start
to get into is there's so much pandering and everything and so much social
media used to try
and disguise who the messenger is. It really turns into a game, and I think
that is one thing. That's
the only joy of it is watching the masters of this just Game of Thrones type of
energy go on.
So the biggest... I'll tell you right now, this would be 50% of solving the
problem.
It's not a silver bullet, but it's a lot of it. Get rid of the giant bills,
okay?
The omnibus bills, the continuing resolutions, and even the big, beautiful bill.
Why not put that shit on the floor one at a time? I agree.
And then that way, you can go to your representative or your senators and say,
why did you vote for that? Right now, they can say, well, Theo, I had to vote
for it. I had a pay
raise for soldiers, right? They literally will put a pay raise for soldiers in
every freaking bill,
giant bill, so that if you vote against it, you have to go back home and watch
TV ads that say,
he voted against a pay raise for the soldiers. Right, even though he may have
voted for 90 other
amazing things on the bill, right? Right. And that was one thing that was tied
in there,
that if you went this way, you know? Yeah.
It may have been like oxygen for grandmothers, right? Literally, there probably
is that in there.
But if you vote for oxygen for grandmothers and you cannot, they're not going
to give...
So I see what you're saying. I voted against oxygen for grandmothers so many
times,
they can't even run that ad anymore. It doesn't even seem real.
Has there ever been a bill that was like, okay, we want to stop these omnibus
bills? And bring up
omnibus bill. We looked it up the other day when Mr. Vance was here, but I just
want to go over it
again. An omnibus bill is proposed law that covers a number of diverse or
unrelated topics.
Omnibus is derived from Latin. It means to, for, by, with, or from everything.
An omnibus bill is a single
document that is accepted in a single vote by a legislator, but packages
together several measures
into one or combines diverse subjects. So it's not even really fair because you
only get one vote on
the bill? Correct. And, and not, and so typically an omnibus bill, it includes
at least 12 other bills
because they're, the 1974 Budget Control Act, there's a law that says we're
supposed to do these
bills separately. So we've already tried the law. We already tried that, Theo.
They just suspend that rule,
every year. Okay. So, but take me through this moment. So I don't, so I don't
stray from it. So
people can be, so I can, so I can understand it. So like, give me two examples
of things that would
be on an omnibus bill that would be that there's no way for a voter to win,
that there's no way for
a representative to vote and win on. Okay. Well, the, the, um, the easiest, let
me just take something
topical, the big, beautiful bill inside of that big, beautiful bill is a
provision for artificial
intelligence corporations that says no 10 years, 10 years for 10 years, no
state or local locality
can regulate them. And then it talks about zoning and routing, which if you,
you know, some of your
listeners may have seen this, like locally, somebody, some big corporation
wants to put a data center in
your backyard. Well, that's what Congress is trying to do. They're trying to
say that
these corporations can override local zoning laws, that the local zoning board
should take a backseat
and let this big information center show up in your backyard that uses all
kinds of water and all
kinds of power and puts out all kinds of RF and has, you know, oh yeah, your
cousin's going to be
walking down the street, just fucking, you know, just fucking screaming out
Amazon orders. You know,
it's going to be the shit that's going to start happening to be crazy. You're
literally going to
be driving on the road with your windows open and an old gust of, uh, 5g
remnants from blockbuster
emails that never got out of it and got out of, uh, uh, got out of, got
uploaded or just going to pass
through your fucking vehicle. Shit's going to get insane. You're going to have
babies that are born
with advertisements, like birthmarks that show up. This is a set of twins with
Nike logos on them.
What is happening? So that's in the big, beautiful bill. Okay. And you can know
that's evil. You can
know that's bad. And, and Trump never campaigned on that, but also in that bill
is to enforce our
borders. Okay. To finish the wall. Right. So if you're a Republican and you
vote for that bill,
okay, you supported enforcing the border, but you also let AI basically take
over your local and state
governments. Okay. And then if you vote against it, well, then you're against
the AI provision,
but oh my gosh, you're for open borders. You know, you're for, you don't want
to support the military.
There was a hundred billion dollars in there for the military. There was, oh,
you want to tax seniors.
There was a tax cut for seniors. There was an extension of the tax cuts from
2017. I voted for the 2017 tax
tax cuts, but I voted against this 2025 bill because it's got a lot of crap in
there that doesn't belong
and it's going to balloon our deficit. Right. So you can't win for losing. And
so I don't blame a lot of
my colleagues. Like they, they come to Congress, they have the best intentions
and you get there and
you're like, oh my gosh, this whole game is rigged. How, how am I going to play
it? Am I going to call
it out? Will that get, will that be the best for my constituents who elected me
or should I play along?
And most of them choose to play along and you can't, can't really blame them.
They feel like, oh, my
fiduciary duty to the people who elected me is to get as much as I can up here.
And if I piss off the
Trump and I piss off Mike Johnson, I can't get any table scraps, but the
reality is they're not even
getting table scraps. They're trading. I say every week, congressmen trade
their votes for magic beans
that never sprout like Jack and the beanstalk. He trades the cow for magic
beans. The difference is
Jack got beans that sprouted by congressmen. They're not getting gas vouchers.
They're not getting a
Cracker Barrel gift certificate. So, so explain to me how that part works. So
that's a part that I don't
understand. Cause you mentioned a little while ago, you're like, I could have a
bill and I put it
forward. Cause Mike Johnson seems like a good guy. He doesn't seem like
somebody that would take
something that was yours and make it somebody else's. Like, I don't understand
what you're so
I don't understand what you're saying. Like, how does that work? And take me
through like, like,
how can you put a bill out and people would know what's your bill? I mean,
obviously is there
information online that says this is a bill that Thomas Massey made or that any
person made like any
representative made? You, the other thing they'll do with your bills is they'll
stick them in another
bill. Okay. Let me, let's, I'll give you an example. Yeah. Show me how you're
saying that people
aren't even getting the scraps or whatever, you know what I'm saying? Right.
Take me through some of
that. Uh, well, they're not, Theo, I tell people, I joke with my colleagues up
there. They're like,
man, see why, uh, you're not a sellout. I'm just like, I look at him in the eye.
I say,
I'm biggest sellout up here. Like I would sell out for Snickers bar, but you
guys aren't even getting a
Snickers bar. You're not getting a bridge in your district. You're not getting
a new exit off the
interstate. Yeah. You're not getting anything for your vote. Like the, nobody's
ever offered me
anything up there of value. I'm not, I don't even know myself. I could be the
biggest sellout there
is. There's just no trade up there that's, that's worth taking. And so mostly
people are trying to
stay relevant and get reelected. Right. That makes perfect sense, right?
Everybody's looking out for
themselves in a sense, but you would think at some point that even that would
lose its appeal.
When you look around your town or your community and you see that like, oh man,
by not really benefiting the people, it's every, like it's all falling apart,
you know,
by not really benefiting the country, it's falling apart. And I fuck, I'm
starting to sound like a
downer again. I don't want to do that. It should, it should. But take me
through,
take me through what you're talking about, how you put a bill up and it doesn't
get labeled yours.
Is that, so it's plagiarism or I don't understand what you're saying. Well, and
then if you do get
something done by working inside of the system, they'll just, you won't get any
credit for it.
So for instance, uh, when Ron Paul left Congress, I came into Congress and I
introduced Randy's daddy.
Yep. Rand's dad. I introduced a lot of Ron Paul's bills and one was the
industrial hemp farming act
because it was illegal. They treated hemp just like marijuana. It was illegal
to grow it,
according to the federal government. Uh, so I introduced that bill and I got a
lot of co-sponsors
and I, I figured out a way to work with Democrats and get it into the farm bill.
Now it was a Republican farm bill that I got it into, but I needed Democrat and
Republican votes to do it.
And I got it in the farm bill, but now like people online say, oh, Congressman
Massey,
and it became law by the way, and people can grow industrial hemp in all 50
states.
That's the end of the, you know, that's the rest of the story. Oh yeah. A lot
of
chicks that don't wear deodorant are working on those, working on those places.
And no offense,
ladies, I don't mind it. But yeah, no, I'm glad that we have another product in
our country, you know?
Right. Um, and so that became law. That was one of my bills, but nobody ever
gives me credit for it
because it wasn't a separate bill that said, and by the way, I voted for that
crap sandwich,
the, the farm bill, which is a big giant bill. And then I took crap for voting
for that because it
had my thing in it, but now I don't get credit for it. But I've, I haven't
particularly had bills
where somebody took my name off them and put somebody else's name, but my
colleagues had.
Okay. So, so you haven't had that exact thing happening for Mike Johnson.
No, but you've seen it happen. Yeah.
You're saying, and if it did, I wouldn't care that much. I mean, if it's a good
bill,
make it happen, but a lot of people, you know, they, they need to go back to
their district and
say, I got this done. Oh, I see. So a lot of times people don't know from the,
um,
from their Congress people or their representatives that they actually got this
thing done. Right. Right.
So there's a communication issue there. And then there's another thing that
happens,
like some Congressman gets to DC and they have this bill they wanted to pass
even before he was a
Congressman and they say, we'll put your name on it and then you'll get credit
for it. And then the
Congressman has no idea about the subject or anything. So I had, there was a
bill that came t