Jan. 9, 2025 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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| Yeah, guys, that's right. | ||
| So President Trump is calling out California Governor Gavin Newsom and President Biden over the state and federal government's response to these historic wildfires. | ||
| Trump's saying, quote, the fires in Los Angeles may go down as the worst in the history of our country. | ||
| In many circles, they are doubting whether insurance companies will even have enough money to pay for this catastrophe. | ||
| He says, let this serve and be emblematic of the gross incompetence and mismanagement of the Biden-Newsom duo. | ||
| But despite Trump's calls for news... | ||
| To resign, he says he's not going anywhere. | ||
| One can't even respond to it. | ||
| People are literally fleeing. | ||
| People have lost their lives. | ||
| Kids lost their schools. | ||
| Families completely torn asunder. | ||
| Churches burned down. | ||
| This guy wanted to politicize it. | ||
| I have a lot of thoughts and I know what I want to say. | ||
| I won't. | ||
| I stood next to the president of the United States of America today, and I was proud to be with Joe Biden. | ||
| And he had the backs of every single person in this community. | ||
| He didn't play politics, didn't try to divide any of us. | ||
| Trump, though, said he will take care of Californians. | ||
| Listen. | ||
| For California, we take care of the whole state. | ||
| So what's happened is a tragedy, and the governor has not done a good job. | ||
| With that being said, I got along well with him. | ||
| When he was governor, we worked together very well, and if we would work together, I guess it looks like we're going to be the one having to rebuild it. | ||
| But what happened there, I don't think there's anything that I've ever seen quite like it. | ||
| And the insurance companies are going to have a big problem, because you're talking about big, big dollars. | ||
| Meanwhile, President Biden, after meeting with state and local officials in Los Angeles, has canceled his trip to Italy to focus on the full federal response. | ||
| Tomorrow, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell will be in California to see the impacts firsthand. | ||
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guys. | |
| Everybody wonders, will it save the day? | ||
| I love you | ||
| He's got his suit and his determined frown In the heart of the blaze he's racing down People see him fearless, ain't afraid to dare Holding tight the fuel with a fearless stare Blazing hot show today. | ||
| Get ready. | ||
| We're going to bring you live all of the information you need to know about the California wildfires and who started them. | ||
| If you actually care about this issue, you are going to want to lock in on this show. | ||
| We have done our research and we have proof that eco-terrorists Or just degenerate arsonists, we're not exactly sure, but it's going to be one or the other, are starting these fires. | ||
| This should be looked at as an act of terrorism, what's happening in California, to potentially sabotage President Trump, who's live right now. | ||
| Sitting next to President Obama and getting Barack Obama to crack up. | ||
| This is happening at Jimmy Carter's funeral as we speak. | ||
| So much to get to today, Thursday, January 9th, 2025. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, Mike Cernovich will be on the program along with Senator Mark Wayne Mullen who just met with Trump inside of the United States Senate. | ||
| He's going to come on and brief us in just a moment. | ||
| Chris Gore. | ||
| Hollywood movie reviewer and legend, Chris Gore, will be on the program to inform us about what's going on. | ||
| He's had to evacuate from his home. | ||
| He's going to talk about what the hell is happening with all these fires. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Benny Johnson, and this is The Benny Show. | ||
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| Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we have some very interesting stuff to hop into right now because fascinating things are happening live. | ||
| Let's head on over here to Washington, D.C., where right now this is happening. | ||
| I can't believe it. | ||
| I'm like... | ||
| With my jaw on the floor, watching this. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| This is Trump and Obama live right now. | ||
| This is Jimmy Carter's funeral. | ||
| It's happening right now. | ||
| Maybe we should pull up an actual live... | ||
| This is like a clip of something that just happened a second ago. | ||
| It's too good to miss. | ||
| Barack Obama and Donald Trump are not only sitting together, but they're laughing their asses off. | ||
| And my take on this is very simple. | ||
| That President Trump, who is a Christian, is practicing Christian virtue because Barack Obama is somebody who tried to destroy President Trump. | ||
| He tried to literally assassinate President Trump in the political sense, in the legal sense, in the judicial sense. | ||
| Barack Obama has spent every waking moment of the past eight years trying to make sure that President Trump spends the rest of his life in prison. | ||
| That he's bankrupted. | ||
| That he is totally destroyed, decimated, atomized, and pushed into total and complete demolition. | ||
| Yet President Trump has survived it all and prevailed and is stronger than ever. | ||
| And now Barack Obama is witnessing what true magnanimous Christian virtue and forgiveness looks like. | ||
| I don't think I have it in me. | ||
| I don't think I have it in it. | ||
| I don't pretend to be some type of moral, high-ground arbiter, very public about my failings and about me just being a simple Christian, doing my best. | ||
| Would you have it in you? | ||
| Chat, would you have it in you to do this? | ||
| If somebody like Barack Obama spent their every waking second and hour to ensure that you and your family were raided by the FBI, were locked up in prison, were politically, financially... | ||
| Judicially? | ||
| Destroyed forever? | ||
| It's an amazing thing to see. | ||
| It makes me so proud of President Trump. | ||
| I'm going to stop this. | ||
| It makes me so proud of the president. | ||
| I mean, obviously, Melania. | ||
| Melania might have different opinions. | ||
| You raided my house, you bastard. | ||
| But look at that. | ||
| Look at him go. | ||
| Doesn't it just... | ||
| Trump is just glowing. | ||
| It speaks to the magnanimity of this guy. | ||
| I can't believe it's possible. | ||
| Klein, let's go to the longer clip, please. | ||
| Again, Jimmy Carter's funeral. | ||
| It is live right now, but there's not like a shot on Trump, okay? | ||
| Like, I want to let you guys know, it's just going to be dudes doing, you know, eulogies and, you know, it's just eulogies and stuff. | ||
| So let me show you what happened. | ||
| If there's something interesting that happens, we'll certainly cut there, okay? | ||
| Because it's live right now. | ||
| But yeah, let's go to them walking in. | ||
| Because all the presidents, all five living presidents, walked in together. | ||
| Now there's no, you can't hear the presidents. | ||
| It's just organ music, right? | ||
| That's going to be playing here. | ||
| So we're going to mute it. | ||
| And we're going to go, we're going to go right here. | ||
| Let's go big. | ||
| Here's Trump, for the first time in four years, greeting Mike Pence. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| First time since, I think, January 6th, actually, of 2021, that Donald Trump has shaken hands with Mike Pence. | ||
| This happened seconds ago. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, it's Donald Trump and Melania walk in and are seated along with the other five living presidents. | ||
| You're going to see some amazing things happening here. | ||
| You're going to see some remarkable and stunning and uplifting things happen. | ||
| And President Trump, you can see him glaring and eyeing some of the procession there, who you'd have to assume are just Jimmy Carter family and associates, right? | ||
| Here comes Barack Obama. | ||
| Look at him go. | ||
| Again, I wish they were miked. | ||
| I'd give anything for like an NFL Sunday football miked up situation here. | ||
| Barack Obama shaking the hands of Al Gore and Mike Pence. | ||
| Now, notably, Karen Pence behaved like a real Karen and wouldn't shake Donald Trump's hand. | ||
| But Barack Obama sitting here. | ||
| Let's get it. | ||
| Let's see this. | ||
| Let's see this happen. | ||
| Let's watch it all happen. | ||
| Live. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Donald Trump and Barack Obama sitting there chatting it up. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Barack Obama. | ||
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Man, you... | |
| Well, it really, really kicked us right in the ass. | ||
| We tried to run a DEI super candidate against you. | ||
| Destroy a DEI forever. | ||
| Now I mean, Big Mike, gotta retire. | ||
| One of our private islands. | ||
| Just gonna be what it's gonna be. | ||
| Alright, please, please don't put me in jail. | ||
| Please don't put me in jail. | ||
| I was like, a little scared of Cash Patel. | ||
| Just a bit scared of Cash Patel. | ||
| I never pretended to do a good Barack Obama impression. | ||
| But here it is. | ||
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Look at this. | |
| This is the moment. | ||
| Donald Trump making Barack Obama laugh his ass off. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| Did you notice how George Bush punched Barack Obama in the stomach? | ||
| Not like an actual, not like a punch punch, but like George Bush gave him a love tap. | ||
| Shows you everything you need to know. | ||
| By the way, where is Michelle Obama exactly? | ||
| Anybody? | ||
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Where's Michelle Obama? | |
| Where is she? | ||
| Yeah, you got the Clintons. | ||
| And the Clintons don't shake Trump's hand! | ||
| What a nasty woman! | ||
| She's still so bitter! | ||
| What a cold-hearted B! | ||
| See, this is what I'm trying to say here, okay? | ||
| Trying to say, like, I can't believe Trump can do it. | ||
| I can't believe he can do it. | ||
| Could you imagine? | ||
| Clearly, Kirillery has not been in charge, and obviously George W. Bush is in charge. | ||
| He can barely speak. | ||
| He's on the same mental level as Joe Biden. | ||
| Barack Obama's been the guy pulling the strings. | ||
| This was supposed to be his fourth term in the White House. | ||
| Klein, can you find the place where George W. Bush punches Obama in the gut? | ||
| It's like right when Bush walks in. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| Watch this. | ||
| Bonk! | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| Bush is still funny. | ||
| He's like funny, like a low IQ member of your family getting too drunk on Thanksgiving Eve. | ||
| Manischewitz and freaking trying to do tricks outside in the snow and lighting himself on fire. | ||
| That kind of funny. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So there it is, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| That's Barack Obama and Donald Trump. | ||
| But look at these two guys. | ||
| They're locked in with each other. | ||
| Trump ain't like talking to anybody. | ||
| He's not like doing the whole stare straight ahead thing. | ||
| Trump and Barack Obama are having a good time. | ||
| They're freaking catching up. | ||
| And I'll just say it one more time. | ||
| It's Christian virtue. | ||
| I don't know if I have it in me. | ||
| If somebody did to me and my family what Barack Obama's done to Donald Trump, I can tell you right now. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I do not believe I have it in me to do what President Trump is doing right now with Obama. | ||
| But look at him go. | ||
| Isn't that why Trump's president and I'm not? | ||
| I'm perfectly happy to admit that. | ||
| Hopefully, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, gives me the fortitude to do this someday because it'd be nice to be able to forgive people like that, to be able to carry on. | ||
| Jill Biden and Kamala Harris completely ignore each other after being forced to sit next to each other. | ||
| Jill Biden literally turns her head away as soon as she sits down. | ||
| And looks visibly aggravated being next to Kamala Harris. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Let's go ahead and rewind. | ||
| Do we have this clip? | ||
| Let's go ahead and check there. | ||
| ALX, let me know. | ||
| Again, this is happening live, so we're just gonna roll with it, right? | ||
| So here they go. | ||
| Yep, no greeting between the two of these. | ||
| Ooh, man, the frickin' Ice Queen. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| No greeting, no smiles. | ||
| Joe Biden checking his hair. | ||
| Dude, your hair's plastic. | ||
| You don't have real hair! | ||
| You don't have hair! | ||
| There we go. | ||
| Let's see it. | ||
| No handshake. | ||
| No greeting. | ||
| Jill turns her back to Camilla. | ||
| Ooh, baby. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| No greeting there either with Obama. | ||
| It's so fascinating. | ||
| When do they all get envelopes? | ||
| When do they all reach under their chairs and look at the special note inside their envelopes? | ||
| There you go. | ||
| All five. | ||
| Do you remember what happened? | ||
| Do you remember that happened? | ||
| Hey, can I grab that legendary clip? | ||
| When all the living presidents got like a special message from the Illuminati. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That run-em-all. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Look at this crew. | ||
| Oh, she's so bitter. | ||
| Oh, she's so nasty. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| Look at Biden! | ||
| The expression. | ||
| And Bill Clinton's looking for porn. | ||
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It's like, where's the OnlyFans? | |
| Somebody needs to lip-read here. | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| Look at him go. | ||
| Good for them. | ||
| I say good for them! | ||
| Don't you want to, like, I want a nation that heals. | ||
| I do. | ||
| I really do. | ||
| You know, it's actually kind of fascinating. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| This is President Trump's Secret Service, the head of President Trump's Secret Service detail. | ||
| Look at him eyeing Obama. | ||
| This guy was the guy who put his body over Trump first during the Butler assassination. | ||
| A Butler assassination where the assassin was a Democrat donor. | ||
| Barack Obama, you know anything about that? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm not saying anything. | ||
| I'm just saying. | ||
| I'm not saying. | ||
| I'm just saying. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Would sure like some answers. | ||
| Look at him go. | ||
| I'm not going to belabor this, obviously, but I want to check with the chat. | ||
| What do you guys think about this? | ||
| I've given you my take. | ||
| I've given you my take. | ||
| And my worldview, right? | ||
| Which is all I can do. | ||
| That's my worldview. | ||
| My worldview is that this is the practice of Christian virtue. | ||
| Here comes George Bush punching Obama. | ||
| Bam. | ||
| Oh, George Bush didn't shake Trump's hand. | ||
| Not sure how I missed that. | ||
| What a dick. | ||
| George Bush didn't shake Trump's hand. | ||
| Let's go ahead and watch this. | ||
| So here we go. | ||
| Again, happening live right now, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
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George Bush. | |
| No handshake. | ||
| I guess Trump didn't, like, stand up or reach to shake Bush's hand either. | ||
| So, mutual. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| What did Trump tell Obama? | ||
| What did Trump tell Obama? | ||
| I mean, he's like legitimately laughing right now. | ||
| What do you think, chat? | ||
| Let me know in the comment section. | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| Chat, what's going on here? | ||
| What joke is Trump telling Obama? | ||
| What are they doing? | ||
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And then I decided his name would be Newscom. | |
| That's right, Newscom. | ||
| It rhymes with Newsom. | ||
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It's too good. | |
| I mean, I said it. | ||
| Like I said, it's doing pretty well. | ||
| This is my take. | ||
| Trump is legitimately his most magnanimous human to ever live. | ||
| Pure Christian virtue. | ||
| The fact that he can laugh about it is pure Christian virtue. | ||
| Good for him. | ||
| Good for him. | ||
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Look at this. | |
| Kamala Harris trying to overhear what they're saying. | ||
| Is that amazing? | ||
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This is going to be just great. | |
| Look at this. | ||
| Look at him go. | ||
| Again, I just want to be very clear, ladies and gentlemen, there's no audio to these clips. | ||
| I'm not, like, trying to rob you of it. | ||
| Like, I would love it if they were mic'd up. | ||
| I'd give anything to have them mic'd up. | ||
| There's no audio on these clips. | ||
| It's just organ music, okay? | ||
| So here we go. | ||
| Look at Kamala. | ||
| Watch Kamala. | ||
| Frickin' Melania. | ||
| Look at Melania glaring down. | ||
| And Kamala's like, what are they saying? | ||
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It should be me! | |
| It should have been me! | ||
| Doug! | ||
| You're the one who's going to get beat tonight! | ||
| Give me my box of wine! | ||
| Where's the Roomba with the box of wine on it? | ||
| Kamala is so furious. | ||
| She's so angry. | ||
| They thought that Barack Obama's magic was transferable. | ||
| And now what they've really realized is that actually the only two people with magic in politics was Barack Obama back in the day. | ||
| Not today. | ||
| Back in the day when he'd still fooled everyone and Donald Trump. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| The rest of them are just organs of the machine that don't have any actual power and no following. | ||
| I'm a real fan of Melania Trump. | ||
| Here, look at Melania Trump. | ||
| Look at that side eye! | ||
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Look at that side eye! | |
| Look at her go! | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| Just beautiful. | ||
| Just daggers. | ||
| Ice daggers. | ||
| Good for you, Melania. | ||
| You know, Melania's like, you raided my house, lady. | ||
| Women don't forget. | ||
| Women don't forgive. | ||
| It's different with the women. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| It's different with the ladies. | ||
| Melania won't forgive. | ||
| Any women watching right now? | ||
| You got, like, little boys? | ||
| You got any mothers watching? | ||
| You got, like, sons, daughters? | ||
| Like, imagine if there was somebody who authorized a raid on your son's room with deadly authorization. | ||
| I mean, would you, like, forgive? | ||
| You'd probably be looking like Melania here. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Like, I see it every single day with my wife and her, you know, I got like a, my son is very much a mama's boy, loves his mother so much. | ||
| My wife would do anything for that boy. | ||
| She loves our daughters, but like, do anything for the boy. | ||
| Like, do you feel that? | ||
| I mean, if you're a mother, I think only if you're a mother, you can like truly understand this. | ||
| I don't think even as a father, I quite get it. | ||
| Like, as a mother, like, dude, if somebody ever, ever, ever touched my son, like, they'd be the last moment. | ||
| They'd be atomized. | ||
| Probably not even through, like, just through physical, mental telepathy and lasers out of the eyes from my wife. | ||
| So, this is what they did. | ||
| They did this to Barron. | ||
| Barron is her only son. | ||
| And, uh, you know, Don and, you know, Don and Eric and... | ||
| Ivanka. | ||
| They're from a different marriage. | ||
| So Barron's her only son. | ||
| And you're having to sit there right next to the woman who authorized... | ||
| There's Melania staring right down the barrel. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Sitting right next to the guy and the woman who authorized the raid on your son's bedroom. | ||
| Like, do you think... | ||
| No, no. | ||
| No. | ||
| The ladies are different, man. | ||
| Ladies are different. | ||
| Look at them go, though. | ||
| But Trump, I mean, dude, just what a dude. | ||
| I'm telling you, this is the Secret Service guy. | ||
| This guy's probably going to be head of the Secret Service. | ||
| I want it to be Bongino, but I have information that it won't be Bongino. | ||
| I don't think it'll be Bongino. | ||
| I have some pretty direct information that it's not going to be. | ||
| I want it to be Bongino. | ||
| I'm going to advocate for it. | ||
| But this is the agent that was there in the Butler rally. | ||
| He's been with Trump forever. | ||
| I think this guy's going to be head of the Secret Service. | ||
| I actually think so. | ||
| So here he is, right behind Trump. | ||
| This is a good indicator, because he's right behind Trump. | ||
| Anyway, he's a good homie. | ||
| I forget his name, though. | ||
| His name escapes me. | ||
| Kamala's body language screams, That should have been me! | ||
| Wow, look at this. | ||
| Justin Trudeau. | ||
| I could do this all day. | ||
| It's just too much fun. | ||
| It's Justin Trudeau. | ||
| Look at this little ninny boy. | ||
| Oh, he's just oozing with beta energy. | ||
| Oozing! | ||
| Have you ever seen anybody that looks more like they won the... | ||
| Like, as soon as he gets home, he puts on a pair of high heels and prances around. | ||
| Never seen a man sit the way that Justin Trudeau sits, with his legs, like, crossed, like they were cling-wrapped. | ||
| Like, men can't sit like that. | ||
| So what's going on there? | ||
| This is the personification of alpha versus beta energy. | ||
| He's got alpha energy with Trump, and he's got the beta energy with Justin Trudeau. | ||
| Look at his, like, baby boy face looking scared, mouth agape, shivering. | ||
| Shaking. | ||
| Not Trump and Obama. | ||
| I like to see it. | ||
| I'm not again. | ||
| I'd like to see it. | ||
| It's a personification of light and darkness. | ||
| You know, you're not going to get like me saying nice things about Obama. | ||
| But I do like to see the political power of this movement grow. | ||
| This is the most powerful political movement. | ||
| The freedom movement right now is the single most powerful movement in American history. | ||
| And the more that President Trump... | ||
| Is able to build bridges and do things like that, the more powerful he gets. | ||
| This is the ethos of Christian virtue. | ||
| That the actual power is in the forgiveness. | ||
| And this is a demonstration of power right here. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| It's a demonstration of power. | ||
| And of President Trump asserting himself. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And what is going on right now? | ||
| What's going on is everybody knows, every one of these individuals know all these five living presidents with the five dynasties that Donald Trump has destroyed. | ||
| Right? | ||
| So you have, let's go back to the photo, right, of all the dynasties. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| These are all the dynasties that Trump destroyed. | ||
| Lined up for President Trump to survey the wreckage. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Surveying the wreckage. | ||
| The wreckage of the Clinton, I mean, I think he started with the Clinton dynasty and the Bush dynasty. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
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Destroyed. | |
| Utterly destroyed. | ||
| Then there wasn't really no Obama. | ||
| There was really no Biden dynasty. | ||
| The Biden dynasty was a pure extension of the Obama dynasty. | ||
| That collapsed. | ||
| Then Obama was pushing this as the puppet. | ||
| Then she utterly collapsed and atomized. | ||
| This was like the final extension of the Obama dynasty and that House Obama now in total freefall. | ||
| Collapsed. | ||
| Nobody even speaking about it anymore. | ||
| He's humiliated himself. | ||
| Good commentary yesterday from Ronnie Jackson, who was Obama's doctor on this, on the program. | ||
| So this is Trump surveilling the devastation of his, the power of his political movement. | ||
| And Trump knows the cameras of the world are going to be on him. | ||
| And so this is an opportunity for the king. | ||
| In old times, to show mercy to his subjects. | ||
| That's what's going on here. | ||
| And I think it's great. | ||
| And I think it's great. | ||
| I think it's good. | ||
| I think it's a beautiful practice in living out your values, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| So good on them. | ||
| Good on them. | ||
| Ladies, oh boy, our producer chat has a lot of inappropriate comments as to what they might be saying to each other. | ||
| Before we get to the great senator Mark Wayne Mullen, I do want to, I did, I dropped the classic envelope video reference. | ||
| And I can't help but like, we can't help but play it. | ||
| There was this moment when all of the living sitting presidents all sat down for whose funeral was it exactly? | ||
| You know, I see Jimmy Carter there. | ||
| Was it Reagan? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe it was Reagan. | ||
| They all sat down and they all got special envelopes. | ||
| And they were all pretty angry when they saw what was inside those envelopes. | ||
| So here it is. | ||
| Tell you what, here's that moment. | ||
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You have everybody getting a special, special envelope. | |
| This is too funny. | ||
| There's no, obviously, yeah. | ||
| Obviously, there's no, you know, you can't hear what's going on. | ||
| You can't hear what they're saying. | ||
| They're not mic'd up. | ||
| So they're all getting their special envelope. | ||
| You know, you'd have to see Jed there and stuff. | ||
| He hasn't been relevant in a while. | ||
| You'd have to assume that this was Ronald Reagan's funeral, I think. | ||
| Checking with the chat. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| All right. | ||
| So yeah, this is what we were talking about. | ||
| So we haven't seen any special envelopes yet delivered to the presidents. | ||
| Too much fun. | ||
| We have too much fun on this program. | ||
| We haven't gotten to the wildfires yet because I actually wanted to chat with the great senator from Oklahoma who is here to talk to us about a meeting with President Trump last night. | ||
| Senate got a one-on-one with Donald Trump where he and his team was able to talk to the senators about what's going to happen on day one. | ||
| And obviously, this is really important to us. | ||
| This is really important to our show. | ||
| We want to go straight to the source. | ||
| And then, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to talk about the wildfires. | ||
| So, and the proof that we have that they were intentionally set, we have some bombshell information for you. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen though, first, the great Senator from the state of Oklahoma, How are you doing, Benny? | ||
| Good to be back on your show. | ||
| What's up, man? | ||
| Okay, so we got Donald Trump sitting with Barack Obama, making him laugh. | ||
| I just got to start with this. | ||
| Any speculation, Senator, as to what exactly is going on here? | ||
| Well, last night, the president was kind of in a rare form. | ||
| He's always kind of joking and laughing and having a good time. | ||
| But last night with all the senators, he was having a lot of fun. | ||
| And so he feels good. | ||
| And I think he reflects that. | ||
| I mean, you talk about a redemption story, right? | ||
| I mean, the greatest political comeback of all times. | ||
| And what you see right there is Barack Obama realizing it and realized that he kind of probably should kiss a ring because President Trump is the most popular man in the world and probably the most popular man in our lifetime. | ||
| around the world, and everybody recognizes that now. | ||
| And President Trump is sitting in a good spot, and he's very relaxed. | ||
| I've seen a completely different side of him since November 6th, that he's very relaxed, very happy, and is willing to put bygones behind him and move forward. | ||
| That's wonderful to see and to hear, and I know you're very close with the president. | ||
| Can you detail for us this behind-closed-door meeting? | ||
| This wasn't in public. | ||
| President Trump did come out and do a public presser afterwards. | ||
| However, President Trump met with all of the senators and, based on all available reporting, sort of outlined the first hundred days, day one, executive orders. | ||
| Can you sort of pull the curtain back and explain what was going on in that meeting? | ||
| I'll just take you how it started. | ||
| President Trump walked in and he immediately acknowledged Susan Collins, Mitch McConnell, Lisa Mikowski, Shelley Capito, individuals that he's had. | ||
| Not great relationships in his first term. | ||
| He immediately acknowledged him and just said, hey guys, we're all in this together. | ||
| We need to all be together and I'm here to start building those relationships and working. | ||
| He talked about, he gave Mitch kudos on the way that he spent funds getting the majority back in the Senate. | ||
| He said, you know, we're going to build a war chest and actually use the same model you have so we don't have a He said Mitch's model that he used in the Senate, we're going to use that same model in the House. | ||
| So he set the groundwork immediately. | ||
| And then he said, let's talk about this reconciliation package. | ||
| One bill, two bills, I don't care. | ||
| I prefer one big, beautiful bill. | ||
| I'm just using his expressions. | ||
| I prefer one big, beautiful bill that has everything in it. | ||
| I think that would be the best way forward. | ||
| but I do know it's going to take some time and immediately some concerns came up, uh, leader food who said very clear, uh, Mr. President, we're going to deliver what you want us to deliver, but I believe the concerns are, it's going to be bogged down and take time to get that one big, beautiful bill for you. | ||
| Uh, and, and, uh, I don't think we can do it in 90 days. | ||
| Leader Thune said 90 days. | ||
| I think, personally, it'll be a huge monumental task to even get it done before Memorial Weekend. | ||
| Just because to put taxes, to put border, to put energy stuff in there, to put regulatory, put budget constraints in it. | ||
| I mean, to do the cuts, you know, we want to offset somewhere like $2 trillion in cuts. | ||
| That's going to be a huge package to put in. | ||
| And the president says, look, I'm not too concerned by that because... | ||
| On day one, we have right at 100 executive orders that by 4 o 'clock I will have signed in place. | ||
| We're going to secure the border. | ||
| We're going to revitalize our energy sector. | ||
| And we're going to roll back these disastrous regulations that has caused the Biden administration to wreck our economy. | ||
| He said that's on day one. | ||
| I already had the executive orders moving. | ||
| The advantage that you have with President Trump is he knows how those executive orders have to be written because he was the 45th President of the United States, and now we get to have the 47th President of the United States. | ||
| He will be able to hit the ground running, and he said that. | ||
| He alluded to that. | ||
| He goes, I don't have a learning curve. | ||
| I know exactly what I want to get done, which is why I need everybody in this room to work with me, and I will give you my word. | ||
| I will work with you. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So that's really remarkable. | ||
| First off, sort of the subject of the morning was that this is an act of magnanimity to be so kind to Barack Obama. | ||
| I don't... | ||
| I'm a Christian. | ||
| I don't have it in my soul. | ||
| I can just tell you that as somebody who's pretty honest about my failings. | ||
| I just don't have it. | ||
| If somebody tried to lock up my kids, lock up my family, lock me up for the rest of my life, prevent me from seeing my children, if somebody did what Barack Obama's done to Trump to me, I wouldn't be able to sit with them and laugh. | ||
| It's an incredible thing. | ||
| And Mitch McConnell has also not been too kind to Donald Trump or Trump supporters and to sort of kick off the meeting like that. | ||
| It's just such a great headspace. | ||
| I mean, I admire it, Senator. | ||
| I think it's incredible. | ||
| Well, I've heard him say this more than once, that if I held a permanent grudge against everybody that's been ugly to me, I'd be lonely. | ||
| And he even addressed that in this meeting, too, and I've heard him address it multiple times, is that, listen, not everybody here had kind words to say about me, and I understand that. | ||
| And that's what he was talking about. | ||
| We all need to be together. | ||
| He goes, I am telling you, we all need to work together and move forward. | ||
| And he used the example of Thun. | ||
| He says, Leader Thun and I have great relationships. | ||
| The misconception is that we don't get along. | ||
| We get along. | ||
| And we've put our differences to the side, and we need to do that here, too. | ||
| That's where the president is coming from. | ||
| He is really trying in a hard way. | ||
| To put America first, work with a party, build a coalition of the party, but look what he's done in the party, and look at how he's able to reach across. | ||
| We won the union vote by 59%. | ||
| He won the Teamsters vote by 68%. | ||
| He won the Otto's workers vote by 60%. | ||
| I mean, we haven't won the labor vote. | ||
| I don't know how far you've got to go back. | ||
| But it hasn't been in my lifetime. | ||
| Reagan didn't win the votes or the labor votes. | ||
| I know that Bush 41 didn't win it. | ||
| And so I can't imagine that I guess it would be 41 and 43 both. | ||
| They didn't win it. | ||
| So I don't know when a Republican won the vote. | ||
| Last time, he also won the Native American vote. | ||
| The last time that the Native American vote, which I'm Cherokee, the last time the Native American vote was won was by President Nixon, and he won it by 63%. | ||
| So the coalition that he's able to bring back into the party is he's saying, we have a diverse Republican party now, and we need to act that way too. | ||
| And he made it very clear too. | ||
| He goes, I want to try working with the Democrats, not sell out to the Democrats. | ||
| I want to try working with the Democrats, the ones that want to work with us. | ||
| And you guys know those, and those that know that will work with me, bring them to the White House. | ||
| I want to talk to them. | ||
| I want to encourage them to work with us. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Do you name anyone? | ||
| Yes, but I don't know if I should do that. | ||
| It's for their sake. | ||
| I don't know if they, you know what I'm saying. | ||
| I don't know if I want to mention him. | ||
| But yeah, he mentioned about four or five of them. | ||
| Democrats that have reached out to Trump? | ||
| No. | ||
| Once he wants to work with us? | ||
| No, once he wants to work with. | ||
| But he also used the example of Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard. | ||
| You know, he said, I took a chance on Bobby and look how wonderful that has been. | ||
| And how people love him and what he did with us. | ||
| He said, look at Tulsi Gabbard and where she is in the party. | ||
| And she's going to be revamping our intel department as director of national intelligence. | ||
| He goes, we can do this and we can continue to grow our party like we haven't ever done before as long as we just don't fight with each other. | ||
| And we've got to let some of that stuff go. | ||
| And I think what you saw... | ||
| He wasn't sitting there talking bad about the Bush family. | ||
| He wasn't throwing anybody underneath the bus. | ||
| And I'm telling you, he's been this way, Benny, since the election. | ||
| It's been remarkable. | ||
| I have a couple of follow-ups here. | ||
| One, so he says that he's planning on working with Democrats. | ||
| You only need like a handful of Democrats to vote with Republicans to get some monster stuff passed. | ||
| Some big stuff, big issues, big stuff passed. | ||
| Five, six Democrats, you're going to blow right past the filibuster threshold. | ||
| We'll be at 53 when we get Rubio replaced. | ||
| Right now, we're basically sitting at 52. We also got to get JD replaced, so we're at 51, really. | ||
| When we get everybody in place, we'll have to have seven Democrats we work with. | ||
| That's really not that hard of a threshold, but through reconciliation, we can do it with a simple majority. | ||
| The president actually brought this up, too. | ||
| He said reconciliation is still temporary. | ||
| Whatever we do is just temporary. | ||
| It's only 10 years. | ||
| At most, if we do tax code, if we do a rollback on regulations, if we revamp the energy sector, whatever we do on the border, if we do it through reconciliation, it's 10 years. | ||
| I want to go past that and make it permanent. | ||
| Some of that stuff, the threshold, depending on what it is, how it's written, could be a threshold of 60, and that will require him to be working with individuals. | ||
| Some people say don't do that, right? | ||
| We shouldn't work with the Democrats. | ||
| They didn't work with us. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| I understand that. | ||
| But you also have a business guy that's in office. | ||
| And those same people say, why can't the government work more like a business? | ||
| Business is all about negotiating. | ||
| The president is all about making deals. | ||
| He always has been, and he's going to continue to do that. | ||
| But there's limits. | ||
| When you're negotiating, I tell people all the time, when I negotiated deals, when I started at 20 years old, when I first got my first company, I would tell people, I negotiated one in 110%. | ||
| I would accept 70 and I walked away from 69. Everybody has a different threshold, a different way that they negotiate. | ||
| But we have a guy that literally wrote the book on the art of the deal. | ||
| And he is all about negotiating. | ||
| Well, you've already heard a couple of senators like John Fetterman coming forward on Fox News being like, no, I'm going to work with him. | ||
| I'm going to work with the dude. | ||
| I'm going to sign on to the Lake and Riley Act and other things. | ||
| I think it's good. | ||
| And you have a number of senators from states that are losing a ton of population that went for Trump and are represented by a Democrat senator. | ||
| I think the possibility of this happening, I think, is really strong. | ||
| The thoughts on Thune. | ||
| I've been very, you know, I've definitely boxed. | ||
| Thune around a little bit on the program. | ||
| Just based on past public statements and where we've seen him on various issues. | ||
| Do you think Thune's going to get it done? | ||
| I do. | ||
| John, Leader Thune, is a friend of mine. | ||
| And the misnown about him running for leader against Rick Scott and John Cornyn was that he was Mitch McConnell 2.0. | ||
| What they didn't realize is Leader Thune... | ||
| And President Trump had a great relationship, and President Trump was actually willing to come out and endorse him. | ||
| And President Trump and I had multiple conversations about this, and I think other people did too. | ||
| My suggestion to the president was to stay out of the leadership race altogether. | ||
| And he said, well, John and I had been building relationships since the summer. | ||
| John had been down to Mar-a-Lago several times and met with him. | ||
| They talked all the time on the phone. | ||
| They talk all the time right now. | ||
| And he asked me one time, he goes, why? | ||
| And I said, because we're going to have a small majority. | ||
| At most, we're going to have 54 seats. | ||
| We're probably going to be around 52 or 53. You've got two people in this race, Rick Scott and John Cornyn, that if you endorse Thune, then you're going to have... | ||
| There's going to be a rub against the other two, and you're going to need everybody to work with you. | ||
| We can't afford to have any enemies there. | ||
| And so, John, yeah, there were some things he said in the president's first time in office as 45th president of the United States. | ||
| But there was a lot of people that said some things back then. | ||
| There's a lot of people now that are coming in the private sector that are coming in, kissing, as I would say, kissing the ring of President Trump now. | ||
| There's a lot of professional athletes now that have come back around. | ||
| There's a lot of politicians that have come back around. | ||
| And the President has been very, very gracious on accepting them and moving past. | ||
| Once again, that's what a leader does. | ||
| We've been on this program ripping meta, but Zuckerberg goes, meets with Trump, and the results are good. | ||
| Let the results speak, right? | ||
| And so that's what we're going to do with Leader Thune. | ||
| We're just going to let the results speak. | ||
| And the first results we're going to be looking at are these cabinet confirmations. | ||
| So can you walk us through this minefield? | ||
| Are there any... | ||
| Confirmations that you are nervous about? | ||
| Is there anything that's looking bad, or are things looking upward? | ||
| Yeah, let me get to that in a second. | ||
| Let me talk about Zuckerberg real quick. | ||
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Please. | |
| Mark met with President Trump the day before he made the announcement that they were going to change the way that they do censorship, essentially. | ||
| The big announcement that he made the other day. | ||
| President Trump and him spoke about that. | ||
| And Mark has been down to see the president several times already. | ||
| Mark has actually reached out to me, texted me a couple times. | ||
| The guy's got into jiu-jitsu real heavy. | ||
| He wants me to come down there and roll with him. | ||
| He wants to train. | ||
| He actually wants to get in a cage and fight. | ||
| He said, I'd love for you to come down and spar with me sometime. | ||
| I think that'd be great to go down there and do that. | ||
| So a lot of these people have changed because here's what I told President Trump. | ||
| Wait a second. | ||
| Senator, you get a chance to kick Mark Zuckerberg's ass? | ||
| Senator! | ||
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Sit there! | |
| Let me make sure you understand this correctly. | ||
| Did you see Mike Tyson's fight? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Okay. | ||
| He's 57, and he's the greatest fighter of all time, and it looked awful. | ||
| I'm 47. I was never at Tyson's caliber, so I may not be kicking anybody, but I'm the W2 song that says I'm as good once as ever been runs in my head, but maybe not. | ||
| It's a rude awakening. | ||
| Nothing but love, nothing but love. | ||
| I will say that a lot of these people have reached out in a way because they had four years underneath Biden. | ||
| Awful for their businesses. | ||
| It was awful for their workforce. | ||
| It was awful for us internationally, especially these big companies that do business internationally. | ||
| And there's no pushback. | ||
| There was no respect for the United States in any of these countries that we do business in. | ||
| And they were getting bullied. | ||
| These companies were being bullied by these countries. | ||
| And typically, the United States stands up and pushes back. | ||
| That hasn't happened. | ||
| And you just see what Google got sued for, right? | ||
| In Europe, you see what Meta got sued for. | ||
| You start looking at what's been going on. | ||
| I mean, talking about billions of dollars of lawsuits. | ||
| Now they see what it is. | ||
| And this is what I told President Trump. | ||
| I said, you know, this reception that you're having would have never taken place. | ||
| If you would have had consecutive terms. | ||
| But because there's a pause in between it, it's allowed the country to unify or rally behind you and unify behind you because we know what this woke DEI movement has got us. | ||
| So it doesn't surprise me these people are showing up. | ||
| Now, going back, getting back to your question about the confirmation hearings. | ||
| Just really quickly, Senator, before you move on. | ||
| Are you going to go and get in the octagon with Zuckerberg? | ||
| Can we come with you? | ||
| Can we live stream it? | ||
| We'll live stream it on a meta platform. | ||
| Mark and I will probably roll at some point. | ||
| Will we spar? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I need to reach back out to him and stuff. | ||
| I don't know how serious he is about wanting to fight again. | ||
| He blew his shoulder out and had to go through rehab. | ||
| Even what you've got posted right now, you can tell he's thicker. | ||
| He's thicker in the shoulders and stuff than what he used to be. | ||
| But I would enjoy it. | ||
| I will tell you, the first time he texted me, I was like, how did he get my phone number? | ||
| And then I thought, it's Mark Zuckerberg. | ||
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Well... | |
| He already looked me up on Instagram and got it or something. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| You're right about this, though. | ||
| We said so. | ||
| In the studio with me is Killer Klein. | ||
| He's a jiu-jitsu master. | ||
| He's a jiu-jitsu master. | ||
| He's a purple belt or a black belt? | ||
| Purple belt. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And Killer Kline's like... | ||
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Hold on. | |
| How's a Jiu-Jitsu master a purple belt? | ||
| I don't know what I'm saying. | ||
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I don't know these things. | |
| All I'm saying is this, Senator. | ||
| All I'm saying is this. | ||
| Is that there's a physiognomy issue here, right? | ||
| Where, like, you take this dweeb nerd... | ||
| Who was Zuckerberg, where he was like pale and translucent skin and all slumped over, right? | ||
| Looked like he never lifted anything other than a keyboard. | ||
| And then suddenly the guy's clearly putting on muscle, getting a lot of time outside, exercising, becoming able to roll. | ||
| I mean, we've seen videos of it, right? | ||
| Able to really like throw down a little bit. | ||
| And then he changes his entire, it seems like his entire politics is like reasserting itself into reality, free speech, like bravery, having a spine. | ||
| It's really good for a man, actually, to have those things. | ||
| It's incredible to see the people that change course when they start taking care of their health, when they start learning how to fight, when they get hit in the face a couple times. | ||
| It's really good for a man. | ||
| All that is correct. | ||
| Some of the best jiu-jitsu artists out there are guys that... | ||
| Probably wasn't very athletic in school, but they're technicians. | ||
| And jujitsu is such a technical sport. | ||
| It's not about muscle. | ||
| It's about angles. | ||
| It's about leverage. | ||
| It's about taking advantage of what your opponent gives you. | ||
| And so you see guys like Mark that become actually incredibly good at jujitsu. | ||
| It's surprising to me and actually frustrates you, too. | ||
| Some of the best jujitsu people out there that will just... | ||
| I mean, because they're flexible, they can get into places that most guys can't. | ||
| And I'd love it. | ||
| I mean, I used to have my own gym until I got into politics. | ||
| It's something I used to roll two or three times a day, six days a week. | ||
| And it's something that I enjoyed. | ||
| It gets your mind clear. | ||
| But go back to Zuckerberg, too, and his policies and his company and the way he's handling stuff and his politics. | ||
| We all make decisions on two things, Benny. | ||
| Our life experiences and the way we're raised. | ||
| His life experience drastically changed when he had four years of Biden economics. | ||
| And you see the same thing with all these tech companies, that their life experiences changed when they saw this woke DEI. | ||
| Economic plan that the socialist Biden administration rolled out, and it wasn't good for them. | ||
| No. | ||
| And this world policy of appeasement, not peace through strength, wasn't good for them. | ||
| And so, yeah, they've changed because they saw what the results are. | ||
| They used the Trump tactics against them. | ||
| They're like, listen, man, in 2017, everyone was like, let's put Mark Zuckerberg in jail. | ||
| Like, this guy rigged the election, he colluded with the Russians. | ||
| I mean, you shouldn't appease these people, actually. | ||
| Like, you should give them the middle finger. | ||
| And I'm just saying that one of the corollaries of having a reality-grounded ideology, and a very healthy ideology, some people call it right-wing, I just say it's based in reality, and reality is the undefeated champion of everything, is being able to get some sunshine, get a workout. | ||
| Read your Bible. | ||
| Get in the gym. | ||
| Get hit a little bit. | ||
| Like, live a life, like, live a grounded life. | ||
| And so, I just think it's neat that you're able to actually see these things shift and change in people that are doing that. | ||
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Anyway. | |
| You can, but I mean, you go back to this, too. | ||
| In our party, sometimes, there are certain people that say, you'll never be part of our party. | ||
| I mean, there's people that are still saying that about Bobby and about Tulsi, right? | ||
| And they campaign for the President of the United States more than just about anybody out there than himself. | ||
| By the way, Bobby Kennedy is what I want to be when I'm 70, dude. | ||
| Oh, he is ripped and hilarious. | ||
| He's got the best Irish jokes you can ever imagine. | ||
| I mean, when we were in the motorcade together traveling, it was never boring. | ||
| I mean, the guy, and you're talking about someone that's had a life experience. | ||
| He's not what you would think by saying he's a Kennedy. | ||
| This guy is a man's man. | ||
| I mean, he's really cool. | ||
| We've read the stories. | ||
| That sounds awesome. | ||
| But you go back to the situation as a business owner. | ||
| Some of your best employees you have are employees that come back to work for you. | ||
| And my dad had a philosophy when he was running his companies, is that when you left, he burnt down the freaking bridge on your way out. | ||
| I mean, he just, if you leave me, you're dead to me. | ||
| And a lot of business owners have that mindset. | ||
| For me, I never did. | ||
| I always kept a relationship with those employees. | ||
| And then if I could get them to ever come back for me, they were some of our biggest advocates because they would be telling the other ones, no, the grass isn't as green as you think over there. | ||
| And I think that's what you're seeing with President Trump, too. | ||
| He's like, I get it. | ||
| They didn't understand what I was doing for the country. | ||
| Now they did. | ||
| I want them in our fold. | ||
| I want to bring them in. | ||
| And I think we as a party can learn from that. | ||
| Okay, so Senator, I'm sorry that I've obviously... | ||
| Distracted this conversation. | ||
| I want to get quickly to the cabinet position. | ||
| I know! | ||
| It's like too much fun. | ||
| We should do another hour. | ||
| I want to get really quickly to cabinet positions because I know that you've made a lot of news on these. | ||
| You're a very honest broker. | ||
| Give us the honest dish, Senator. | ||
| What's up? | ||
| Is anybody in trouble? | ||
| No, I'm concerned a little bit about Bobby, but I think Bobby's going to make it through. | ||
| There's some concerns with Chairman Cassidy. | ||
| Listen, I enjoy working with Chairman Cassidy. | ||
| I know there's been a lot of... | ||
| Bill Cassidy from Louisiana. | ||
| There's been a lot of pushback on him. | ||
| I said on his committee, I think he's going to get there. | ||
| They met the other day. | ||
| And he said it was a very productive meeting. | ||
| I talked to the chairman afterwards. | ||
| He said it was very productive. | ||
| I was concerned until that meeting. | ||
| Tulsi is going to be confirmed. | ||
| And she's going to be in my office, I think, in a couple hours. | ||
| But she's a very good friend. | ||
| I mean, Tulsi will call me her brother. | ||
| I'll call her my sister. | ||
| Our families are very, very close, and we've been close for 13 years. | ||
| But Pete Hegseth is going to have the biggest challenge. | ||
| He will confirm him, but I'll be really surprised if he's able to even get a Democrat vote on this one. | ||
| I don't know if that's going to be the case. | ||
| I know he's doing everything he has to do. | ||
| He's walking into the enemy's camp every day. | ||
| He's answering the questions. | ||
| He's not running from it. | ||
| He's doing murder boards, which what that is is mock hearings. | ||
| And I participate in those with him. | ||
| And I mean, we are tough on him. | ||
| We understand he has a lot of... | ||
| Public statements out there, and they're going to be brought up. | ||
| It's going to be uncomfortable for him. | ||
| It's going to be uncomfortable for his wife, unfortunately, because the Democrats are going to throw everything at him. | ||
| But I think at the end of the day, if Pete stays there, and this is what I was telling him yesterday, I said, Pete, you've got to look at this as a debate. | ||
| You're up by 10 points. | ||
| It's Friday before the election. | ||
| You don't necessarily have to win the debate. | ||
| You just need to make sure you do no harm. | ||
| So when he goes in, when we have our hearing on Tuesday with Pete, his whole thing is to just do no harm. | ||
| Answer the questions. | ||
| Be frank. | ||
| Don't hide from it because it's all public information anyways. | ||
| And just move forward. | ||
| I think Pete will be able to deliver that. | ||
| He is very calm and collective. | ||
| It's like once you've been in a situation that you've been shot at and you've heard bullets snap over your head, everything else is kind of, eh. | ||
| And Pete is that way too. | ||
| I tell people all the time when the plane has heavy turbulence, I was like, they're not shooting at us and we're not throwing out flares. | ||
| I'm good. | ||
| Pete is the same calm collective mindset when it comes to that. | ||
| When you start talking about Cash Patel, Cash is going to be confirmed and I cannot wait until he gets in the FBI. | ||
| He is going to actually do that. | ||
| Easier than Pete, you think? | ||
| Easier than... | ||
| Yes. | ||
| You're just like, Cash has certitude. | ||
| You're good. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Cash is going to get there. | ||
| He's going to get pushed back. | ||
| I get that. | ||
| Cash is going to get there, and he's going to make the changes that the FBI needs to make. | ||
| Not in the field. | ||
| They do a wonderful job in the field. | ||
| It's the seventh floor of the Hoover building where the changes need to make. | ||
| And that's where Cash is going to get them back on mission focus. | ||
| I'm excited about that. | ||
| You talk about Pam, the AG. | ||
| No problem there. | ||
| She's going to go through. | ||
| I think she may even pull some Democrat votes on that one. | ||
| You talk about Lori. | ||
| There's been a lot of spun up on Lori with being the Secretary of Labor just because she was for the PRO Act when she was in the House. | ||
| Keep in mind, we're a right-to-work state. | ||
| But this was something that the President and I spoke about. | ||
| This is something that Sean O 'Brien and myself spoke about. | ||
| Sean helped. | ||
| Deliver the union and the labor vote the president reached out to them Lori is a perfect mix, a combination, that she's a Republican. | ||
| She chose to be a Republican, but the unions love her. | ||
| And if we're going to continue to have people in our party and grow our party, then we've got to be able to put people in place. | ||
| And I think Lori will be confirmed very easy. | ||
| She'll go through the process. | ||
| I think she'll probably get more Republican votes than any other nominee out there. | ||
| Excellent. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I really appreciate that very honest and clear-eyed rundown. | ||
| It's going to be fascinating, I guess, to watch. | ||
| It's going to be fascinating to watch the Democrats that Trump is appointing, like Tulsi and RFK Jr. | ||
| These are people who just, I don't know, last week. | ||
| Tulsi's Republican now. | ||
| Last week were Democrats, right. | ||
| So like a couple, you know, so during this morning's coffee, they were Democrat, right? | ||
| They are going to have the hardest time. | ||
| With the Democrats. | ||
| Isn't that fascinating? | ||
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Yes. | |
| What a party in chaos. | ||
| What an absurd party. | ||
| But Bobby and Tulsi exposed the hypocrisy inside the Democrat Party. | ||
| I mean, Tulsi was the first one that came out here and exposed it for what it is. | ||
| And that's when she left the Democrat Party and became an independent. | ||
| Bobby experienced it. | ||
| And Bobby, man, that is tough for a Kennedy to step back. | ||
| And, I mean, I'm sure he's getting a tremendous amount of riff from his family. | ||
| When I talked to him, I said, so how was Christmas? | ||
| And he just kind of chuckled because he knew what I was referring to. | ||
| But the reason why the Democrats fear them so much is because they know where the bodies are buried inside the Democrat Party. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, Bobby Kennedy didn't end up in a river somewhere, so... | ||
| I mean, that's a big positive, obviously, for him over Christmas. | ||
| So way to go. | ||
| I view this as an absolute win. | ||
| So really quickly here, because I know this is something that is going to be important for you and important for a state where you come from that has enormous amounts of agriculture and enormous amounts of dry fields, forestation, and so on. | ||
| Somebody who also clearly loves being outside. | ||
| California. | ||
| What the hell's happening? | ||
| Listen, man, I gotta tell you, Senator, there are so many credible reports from people who have been on our program, from people who we trust, like Andrew Huberman, who says there are fires being started all over this Los Angeles area. | ||
| He's physically up seeing them this morning, and there's report after report after report of this. | ||
| What I think is really important for our show to deliver truth is, you know, I feel very bad for the people in L.A. right now. | ||
| I feel very bad for, obviously, them. | ||
| They've been persecuted and tortured by idiot policies and wokeness and DEI. | ||
| But also, why are these fires starting? | ||
| And could this be eco-terrorism? | ||
| Could this potentially be a strategic attack on our country looking at vulnerabilities in places like Los Angeles, where even Joe Rogan is saying just the right fire could rip the city to pieces? | ||
| With the right wind. | ||
| I don't know if I would say it's eco-terrorism or not. | ||
| I wouldn't be surprised if people were out there starting it because there's some crazy people out there. | ||
| But I wouldn't think it'd be terrorists if they're doing it because that'd be a stupid strategic spot. | ||
| There's a lot more strategic areas you can hit that would hit our economy a lot worse than the billionaire row homes. | ||
| They're going to be at their other house. | ||
| It doesn't... | ||
| So I don't think it's that. | ||
| Now, when you start talking about the failures and their policies, there are huge failures in policies. | ||
| I mean, just today, I was having a phone call with my ranch foreman that we do controlled burns out of our ranch every year, which is where I live, because it's forest management, right? | ||
| And today, I literally said, we need to start getting the fire lines put back in place because we keep them cleared and start doing a controlled burn just as quick as we can. | ||
| Not because of this virus, it's because of the time of season we do it. | ||
| You take PG&E, which is An electrical company in California that has blackouts all the time, and they've been blamed for starting fires. | ||
| And they can't get in there and clean the right-of-ways out because of this, you know, wokeness, environmentalist movement that prevents them from keeping their right-of-ways clean, which when the wind blows, it blows down their power lines, which is probably what's happened here and caused a lot of fires. | ||
| And then the bottom of it is so overgrown. | ||
| You have a tremendous amount of of of kennel down there. | ||
| One spark lights it and it takes off. | ||
| Then you have the winds that are 100 mile an hour. | ||
| You had oxygen. | ||
| You had you have wind. | ||
| You have a fire that's going to run rampant, and that's what you have going on here, and it's spelled policies of California. | ||
| I mean, you have Governor Newsom out there that is saying that this is local, that he can't be concerned about the fire hydrants not working, but yet the reservoirs were empty because of a fish. | ||
| If he's even a fish, I think it was more like a sardine. | ||
| And now you have fire hydrants that's empty. | ||
| You have trucks that aren't being refilled. | ||
| And you're going, well, if you want to be a leader, Then put three water trucks behind every engine and have public, have National Guard, had everybody bring these water trucks out. | ||
| And then I started thinking, well, they probably couldn't get the water trucks out there because they probably have, inside LA, they probably have emission requirements and they wouldn't weigh the emission requirements for these trucks, these water trucks to come in there. | ||
| I'm not joking. | ||
| I'm being very serious by this. | ||
| It's so ridiculous of what's going on because of this. | ||
| This environmentalist woke movement that now California is burning wild, and President Trump pointed this out nine years ago. | ||
| There's a video of him nine years ago touring this same area with Governor Newsom and said, this is going to be a disaster. | ||
| This is going to burn. | ||
| You have to do something about this. | ||
| Nine years ago, and here we are. | ||
| It's happening. | ||
| Senator, we'll donate, give any amount of money. | ||
| We'll pause everything to livestream you fighting Mark Zuckerberg. | ||
| If that ever happens, let us know. | ||
| No. | ||
| Okay, first. | ||
| We know that you're 0-5. | ||
| We pulled your record. | ||
| We know you're 0-5 in professional MMA. | ||
| We will build you the octagon if you need it. | ||
| 5-0, not 0-5. | ||
| 5-0, correction. | ||
| 5-0. | ||
| Sorry, reading quickly here. | ||
| 5-0, we meant to. | ||
| Compliment you. | ||
| Of course, I never mean to insult you. | ||
| 5-0, this is pretty awesome. | ||
| And maybe you could bring Elon along. | ||
| Tulsi, she looks pretty scrappy. | ||
| Throw RFK Jr. in there. | ||
| We could settle all of our scores in the octagon. | ||
| We could be a party that actually does that. | ||
| That'd be great. | ||
| That'd be amazing. | ||
| You know, we could see the Jake Paul, Mitch McConnell fight. | ||
| I wouldn't have to raise money again. | ||
| I could have a huge fundraiser for this. | ||
| That's right! | ||
| Senator! | ||
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Think about it! | |
| Just the rights! | ||
| You can sell the rights alone! | ||
| Now our entire chat's melting down as to who they want to see in a battle royale. | ||
| But then you go back to it still yet. | ||
| I still remember Mike Tyson fighting recently, and he was the best of all times, and I was never that good. | ||
| It was very tough for me. | ||
| I had to admit that he's 10 years older than me, and I think in my head I was good at one time. | ||
| I don't know if I actually was now. | ||
| 5-0 MMA professional fighting record. | ||
| Would Tulsi kick Zuckerberg's ass? | ||
| That's the question from our producers. | ||
| Oh, Tulsi's tough. | ||
| I wouldn't bet against her ever. | ||
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Oh, baby! | |
| There's your DEI. | ||
| There's your we're all equal fight. | ||
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Yeah, okay, all right. | |
| This will be fun. | ||
| Okay, all right. | ||
| Has the Director of National Intelligence ever beat up a billionaire? | ||
| That's a question for this country. | ||
| That's the content that we deserve. | ||
| Senator, this has been really fun. | ||
| Thanks a lot. | ||
| I hope you come back. | ||
| I really deeply appreciate your honesty. | ||
| Everybody go follow, obviously, the Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. | ||
| You can follow him right here on X if you want real true honest takes. | ||
| That looks like a beautiful, beautiful family up there. | ||
| Are you on your ranch there? | ||
| No, that's not the ranch. | ||
| I don't know where that is, actually. | ||
| Okay. | ||
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Well, either way, it looks very... | |
| Either way, sir, it... | ||
| Either way, sir, it has been a pleasure talking to you. | ||
| Godspeed. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| Let's make this fight happen. | ||
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Thank you, sir. | |
| All right. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Talk to you later. | ||
| Thanks, Senator. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| you you Oh, man. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, I didn't know that it would take us this long to roll through into what was actually our first topic for the show today, so I deeply appreciate you sticking with us. | ||
| Obviously, this is something that is going to be near and dear to the hearts of our guests that we have lined up, and obviously something that's also really disturbing in our country. | ||
| I don't like seeing Americans treated as third-class citizens. | ||
| I don't like seeing Americans who are subject to the horrors and the malfunction and the dysfunction of the third world. | ||
| There's a privilege and a birthright, no matter who you are, when you are born here in this country. | ||
| California is a place that has a lot of problems. | ||
| But we also believe, and the senator disagrees with us, but it doesn't matter. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| I'm also going to present to you an enormous amount of evidence that these fires are not natural disasters. | ||
| And the reason I'm going to do this, and the reason why I've been hammering at this at 6 a.m. | ||
| this morning on X, is because they're going to do the same thing. | ||
| You're already starting to see it. | ||
| They're going to literally blame global warming on this, on these fires, instead of their own woke DEI incompetence. | ||
| They're going to blame the planet. | ||
| What an unbelievable skate. | ||
| They're going to say it's the planet's fault. | ||
| It's not single-party rule. | ||
| Unified trifecta. | ||
| California has had single-party Democrat rule from the governorship, the House, and the Senate for over 20 years. | ||
| It's not us, they'll say. | ||
| It's just the world. | ||
| I'm already starting to see it. | ||
| It's starting to make me very angry. | ||
| And we have certified evidence that it's actually not. | ||
| That these fires are being set and started on purpose. | ||
| The fires that are appearing make no sense. | ||
| And also the confluence of idiotic policies and degenerate leadership that can't even answer basic questions or read URLs is quite literally to blame for this. | ||
| So it really is the perfect storm, quite frankly, of failed left-wing policies. | ||
| And innocent Americans are being affected. | ||
| It makes me very angry. | ||
| And you know that I had a lot of anger and righteous indignation when this was happening to the working-class people of Lahaina in Maui. | ||
| And the same thing is now happening here. | ||
| And so you as an American should share that indignation, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| I'm going to get into all of it, part of what's actually happening. | ||
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| I was taking my Christmas lights down and noticed exactly how nasty and ugly everything is up there. | ||
| There's a lot of trees in our neighborhood and things go south, right? | ||
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| All right, let's get into this because I think this is really, really important, this jackass. | ||
| This son of a bitch. | ||
| I don't like this guy. | ||
| This guy has the physiognomy of a sociopath. | ||
| You ever heard this guy talk? | ||
| This is a clip. | ||
| Alex, I don't know if we have this clip loaded. | ||
| Let me know. | ||
| This is a clip of him saying, it's not my fault. | ||
| Anderson Cooper goes, why isn't there any water in the fire hydrants while all these homes are burning behind him? | ||
| And he's literally the it's fine dog meme. | ||
| This is actually the everything's fine dog meme. | ||
| He goes, not my fault. | ||
| No, somebody else is going to have to figure that out. | ||
| This is the actual actions of a sociopath. | ||
| California has been failed by two things. | ||
| One, the idiot degeneracy of their leaders and their woke policies. | ||
| And two, the destruction of California society. | ||
| Which doesn't create a society of high trust. | ||
| Creates a society of low trust, loneliness, and vagrancy. | ||
| Listless and broken people doing listless and broken things. | ||
| So I'm going to jump into a couple things that I want to share about the fires. | ||
| And why I don't believe that these fires are just happening naturally. | ||
| Because actually that's not what happens in nature. | ||
| A bunch of fires don't start all at the same time. | ||
| Man, I saw this photo from last night of a helicopter flying over the Hollywood Hills. | ||
| And I was like, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. | ||
| This looks like intentional eco-terrorism. | ||
| This is not natural, and it's beginning to look like eco-terrorism. | ||
| It looks like someone's trying to take advantage of the incompetence and dysfunction in California. | ||
| And then lo and behold, as I search the greater internet, I'm starting to notice that people of California are posting random fires that clearly have accelerants on them. | ||
| Here's a dumpster. | ||
| That's burning next to a power line, next to a wooden power line. | ||
| Somebody is clearly placing accelerant inside of the dumpster. | ||
| Random citizen right here, not even verified, said, I'm hearing the problem that people are thinking that it's arsonists or arsonists that are starting fires in the Valley area, Studio City, NoHo, and Burbank. | ||
| With my own eyes, I know that they are. | ||
| I hope that all the fires are contained and put out by tomorrow. | ||
| Please be safe. | ||
| Here, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Is a dude. | ||
| I don't know any of these people. | ||
| This guy's in my timeline this morning. | ||
| My neighbor saw a small fire start at 5 o 'clock above our house in the Hollywood Hills in Runyon Canyon. | ||
| Hiking trail. | ||
| I asked him what he thought was going on. | ||
| The guy says, arson. | ||
| There's no power lines up there. | ||
| Somebody started this intentionally. | ||
| Look at what this dude has to see outside of his house. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| There is an arsonist here in LA. | ||
| May you be beaten unrecognizable for the pain you have caused. | ||
| Says Henry Winkler. | ||
| I think this is actually legitimately Henry Winkler. | ||
| He's like a pretty famous Hollywood actor. | ||
| Yeah, he's got one million followers. | ||
| Yeah, it's the Fonz. | ||
| It's literally the Fonz. | ||
| Saying there's an arsonist. | ||
| Here's Andrew Huberman. | ||
| Andrew Huberman is a deeply respected health and wellness dude. | ||
| He's got a very successful podcast. | ||
| He clearly follows me for all of my fitness knowledge, okay? | ||
| All of the profound knowledge that comes from a guy who eats frozen pizzas with my kids. | ||
| People are lighting fires in otherwise non-burning urban areas of LA. | ||
| Saw this happen firsthand at 302 Pico Street in Santa Monica. | ||
| Called it in. | ||
| Fire department responded. | ||
| Stay safe out there. | ||
| Call an activity ASAP. | ||
| We don't need more flames out here. | ||
| So here's Huberman. | ||
| Again, this dude is like a doctor and a scientist. | ||
| Like, this is probably the most credible person you could possibly have, posting a video on the internet, posting his own video of what doesn't look like a bunch of homeless people. | ||
| He says, some of these people started the fire. | ||
| Just zooming in on his video there. | ||
| He says, some of the people in the video, actually, I watched them start the fire. | ||
| These don't look like tweaking degenerate homeless vagrants. | ||
| This looks like some type of sophisticated activity. | ||
| What's the motive behind these arson attacks? | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| But he says it's arson. | ||
| So please, be high IQ in this moment and recognize that what's going on here in L.A. is on purpose. | ||
| Locals will fire your ass for this answer, okay? | ||
| So, I'm not above saying this is eco-terrorism. | ||
| We've seen them do it before. | ||
| We know that there are people who behave like terrorists that are currently in charge in Los Angeles and California. | ||
| Here's Gavin Newsom saying, not my fault and not my job to fix the fire hydrants. | ||
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| Obviously, Palisades ran out last night in the hydrants. | ||
| I was trying to find the firefighter in this block. | ||
| They left because there was no water in the hydrant here. | ||
| The local folks are trying to figure that out. | ||
| I mean, just when you have a system where it's not dissimilar to what we've seen in other extraordinarily large-scale fires, whether it be pipe, electricity, or whether it just be the complete overwhelm of the system. | ||
| I mean, those hydrants are typical for two or three fires, maybe one fire. | ||
| You have something at this scale, but again, that's going to be determined by the local. | ||
| Local folks. | ||
| The local folks will figure it out. | ||
| Let's go really quickly to the local folks here, shall we? | ||
| I mean, let's look at what things look like locally here. | ||
| I'm telling you, this looks worse than any war zone in Ukraine. | ||
| This looks worse than any front line in Ukraine right now. | ||
| What's going on with these fires? | ||
| So proof that they're being set intentionally. | ||
| They're causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage. | ||
| Insurance companies will go bankrupt trying to pay for this. | ||
| There's no water in the fire hydrants. | ||
| And the mayor of LA, somebody named Karen Bass, has been on vacation in Africa. | ||
| Vacation in Africa, you say? | ||
| Why would somebody do that? | ||
| It's like you clearly want the city to fail, and maybe she does. | ||
| Let's make sure we have the video loaded up here, boys. | ||
| Okay, good. | ||
| Karen Bass. | ||
| Let's look into Karen Bass. | ||
| Who's Karen Bass exactly? | ||
| Karen Bass is like the final boss of DEI hiring. | ||
| Karen Bass is somebody who's clearly and utterly low IQ. | ||
| We have a clip to prove this, actually. | ||
| Do we have the URL clip? | ||
| Let's just begin with that. | ||
| Okay, here's Karen Bass trying to read a website, okay? | ||
| Let's start with, like, you would assume that your leader, the leader of one of the biggest cities in America, would be, at least have, like, the intelligence to be able to read a website. | ||
| But here we go. | ||
| Right now, if you need help, emergency information, resources, and shelter is available. | ||
| All of this can be found at URL. | ||
| Los Angeles together is how we will get through this. | ||
| URL. | ||
| You can find me at URL. | ||
| Got it? | ||
| She's the lady in charge. | ||
| She was in Africa, by the way, vacationing when there were already high incidents of fires and a... | ||
| High fire warning for her hometown. | ||
| And she decided that was the time to go to Ghana. | ||
| Why would she go to Ghana? | ||
| Ghana is clearly not the place you'd want to be found when your home nation is burning, but is that the bug or is that the feature for Karen Bass? | ||
| You see, Karen Bass has a very strange history of wanting this country to burn, and she has terrorist associations in her background. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, I couldn't believe it when I read this, and we checked it all out, and it's 100% true. | ||
| Disgraced mayor of LA Karen Bass traveled to Cuba repeatedly, including with radical leftist groups that supported Castro's communist regime. | ||
| She worshipped Fidel Castro, and she also praised him upon his death. | ||
| Then she worked with the far-left-wing militia group that bombed the United States Capitol. | ||
| Yet she was allowed through the Democrat Party organs to rise to extreme prominence and power, be appointed to various boards, serve in Congress, and now is the mayor of L.A. Here's a little bit of Karen Bass's Marxist backgrounds. | ||
| I can't believe it's real. | ||
| And here we are. | ||
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November 7, 1983. | |
| Remember this date. | ||
| But first, let me introduce you to Karen Bass. | ||
| Back in the 1970s, community activist Karen Bass went on at least 15 trips to Cuba, many with a group known as the Venceramos Brigade, a Marxist group started by the Castro regime to subvert American interests, weaken democracies, and spread communism around the world. | ||
| Founded in 1969, the Venceramos Brigade organized trips to Cuba every year for half a century. | ||
| They attracted the most radicalized and delusional segments of the American left, including overtly Maoist and pro-Soviet communist groups. | ||
| In fact, a Los Angeles police investigator who infiltrated the group testified to Congress saying that to be a member of the brigade, you had to be confirmed as a Marxist-Leninist, as a brigadista, and then moving up the ranks to organizer. | ||
| For the Venturemos Brigade, Karen Bass visited Cuba every six months. | ||
| Their mission? | ||
| To radicalize young, impressionable American leftists in terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare. | ||
| Members of the Venturemos Brigade were even taught how to make bombs. | ||
| Jesus Christ! | ||
| Karen Bass admits, on her many pilgrimages to Cuba, she went to see Fidel Castro speak several times, even calling him charismatic. | ||
| And upon his death, Another group, the M19, took its belief in revolutionary anti-imperialism to extremes, violent extremes. | ||
| The M19 was the first and only women created and women led domestic terrorist group. | ||
| Since their founding in 1978, M-19's tactics escalated from robbing armored trucks and abetting prison breaks to building their own explosives and carrying out terrorist bombings. | ||
| From 1983 to 1984, M-19 bombed an FBI office, the Israel Aircraft Industries building, the South African Consulate in New York, DC's Fort McNair, and Navy Yard, which they bombed twice. | ||
| But that wasn't enough for them. | ||
| On the night of November 7, 1983, the M-19 called the U.S. Capitol switchboard and warned them to evacuate the building. | ||
| Minutes later, the M-19 bombed the north wing of the U.S. Capitol. | ||
| November 7, 2023 marks 40 years since the M-19's bombing of the U.S. Capitol. | ||
| Members of the M-19, like Susan Rosenberg, traveled to Cuba with Yo, like, uh, is there an actual Marxist takeover? | ||
| Like, McCarthy was right. | ||
| Like, was there, like, an actual Marxist takeover in this country, like, that's trying to burn this place down? | ||
| So Karen Bass was, at the very least, allied with and or adjacent to the M-19 terrorist group that bombed the U.S. Capitol, along with a bunch of other... | ||
| bunch of other... | ||
| How do people like this keep getting promoted through the Democrat Party ranks? | ||
| How is it that eco-terrorists and literal Marxists, ISIS members, keep rising up through these ranks and getting leadership positions? | ||
| There's something sickening and deeply dark and wrong about this party, and now American people are suffering and will probably never get their houses back. | ||
| Try getting through the regulations of California. | ||
| Have your house burned down in California. | ||
| It's hard enough to put up a post office box in front of your home. | ||
| You have to go through 17 different federal organs in order to get that box up in a place like California. | ||
| You're paying 17% income taxes. | ||
| You are oppressed by every conceivable environmental regulation. | ||
| Within an inch of your life, you are regulated, taxed. | ||
| Overburdened and utterly oppressed by your federal government, these people will never be able to rebuild their homes again. | ||
| Maybe in a hundred years, they'll finally get their permitting to build these neighborhoods back. | ||
| They'll never be made whole again. | ||
| And their leaders are quite literally silent. | ||
| Here's Karen Bass. | ||
| You don't have to play the same whole thing because it's like so humiliating. | ||
| Karen Bass, on her way back from her vacation in Africa, Surprised it wasn't Cuba or North Korea, given her communist background. | ||
| But here she is at an airport. | ||
| She's caught by a reporter. | ||
| And Karen Bass stands there looking totally stupefied, unspeaking, unflinching. | ||
| As the reporter asks her questions, look at the glaze in her eyes. | ||
| The indifference of these sickening people. | ||
| It's demonic. | ||
| Here you go. | ||
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Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning? | |
| Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars, Madam Mayor? | ||
| Have you nothing to say today? | ||
| Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? | ||
| Elon Musk says that you're utterly incompetent. | ||
| Are you considering your position? | ||
| Madam Mayor, have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with this disaster? | ||
| Madam Mayor, I call the IRB. | ||
| No apology for them? | ||
| Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding back home? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And then they run away. | ||
| And she runs away. | ||
| She gets followed by this reporter for like another minute. | ||
| The cold expression and glassy eyes of somebody who just doesn't care. | ||
| Indifference is possibly the most evil attribute you can have as a human being. | ||
| It's what you see in the worst leaders throughout all time. | ||
| It's not actual anger and rage. | ||
| It's actually indifference to other humans' suffering. | ||
| That's the science of a sociopath. | ||
| Somebody who's not indifferent is President Trump, who has called, as of this morning, for Gavin Newsom to resign. | ||
| President Trump has officially thrown the gauntlet down and said, Gavin Newsom must resign. | ||
| Here, ladies and gentlemen, on Truth Social. | ||
| One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States, America, is burning to the ground and snashes. | ||
| Gavin Newsom should resign, and it's all his fault. | ||
| President Trump going after, and President Trump going after also Karen Bass in a subsequent post. | ||
| I can't move on without showing you this. | ||
| David Muir, this charlatan, weasel actor, is pinning back his rain jacket so that he looks more svelte on TV. | ||
| You can see here, clear as day, if we can zoom. | ||
| You can see here, clear as day, he has a pin on the back of his rain jacket. | ||
| There you go, this is good enough. | ||
| You can see the pin on the back of his rain jacket. | ||
| This is a man who is allowed to host a debate with President Trump. | ||
| People are literally being burned alive. | ||
| Hundreds of billions of dollars of damage is being done. | ||
| Hundreds of thousands of people have now fled their homes. | ||
| And this twink is pinning his rain jacket back so that he looks slimmer in it. | ||
| This is his concern. | ||
| These are the people that we allow to interview our presidential candidates? | ||
| No more! | ||
| I'm telling you, no more. | ||
| We have a pretty loud, and it's getting louder, and pretty important, and it's getting a stronger voice in this ecosystem with, like, the freedom movement, and I will speak until my voice cracks to say that people like this should never be allowed to ask questions of our candidates ever again. | ||
| This is the problem. | ||
| The people who should be hosting Presidential Base should be like Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, and Tucker Carlson. | ||
| And of course, you remember what happened when David Muir fact-checked Donald Trump's internal dialogue. | ||
| Donald Trump said he was joking about something, and David Muir's like, well, it didn't sound like you were joking. | ||
| Among many other flaws, like not having any plan to fact-check Kamala Harris. | ||
| These people are despicable cretins. | ||
| People are literally burning alive behind him and all he cares about is that his rain jacket makes him look svelte. | ||
| Oh, they're sickening. | ||
| Oh, they're disgusting. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, Joe Biden also used this opportunity at the emergency center to announce that he's a great-grandfather. | ||
| That's very, like, utterly inappropriate. | ||
| I don't even want to play it for you. | ||
| Makes me rage with anger. | ||
| And I want to get to the final reason why all this is happening. | ||
| DEI and wokeness. | ||
| The firefighters of LA have not only had their budgets cut by $18 million, but they've also been using their positions to attack white men, to attack meritocracy, to attack traditional toxic masculinity. | ||
| You know, the kind of things that you need to fight fires. | ||
| Like if there's a man who's going to carry you from burning building, better be a dude who can lift you up over his head. | ||
| That's how this works, actually. | ||
| But this department, over and over and over again, has decided to not put firefighting and lifesaving as its main objective, but political masquerades. | ||
| And you can see that in video after video after video. | ||
| The Los Angeles Fire Department created its first DEI Bureau with Chief Christine Larson. | ||
| Who rakes in $400,000 a year leading the Bureau. | ||
| Her job is to root out bigotry in firefighters. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
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So I want to reach down and bring you up. | |
| And that's kind of something that stuck with me to this day. | ||
| Part of that work means speaking up for those who can't. | ||
| Over the last few years, LAFD has dealt with a fair share of controversy. | ||
| And Larson, not afraid to sound the alarm. | ||
| I chose to speak out pretty much by myself about the issues of sexism and racism within my department and the need for change. | ||
| We need to change. | ||
| There's too much firefighting actually going on and not enough hurt feelings fighting. | ||
| Better to pin all of our rain jackets back. | ||
| What we need is tighter fitting rain jackets around here. | ||
| I'll say this before we get to a very, very patient Chris Gore, who I'm really excited to speak with, who's a critic, professional movie reviewer in L.A., who knows L.A. better than almost anybody, and knows the L.A. ecosystem better than anybody, and who has had to evacuate his own house. | ||
| I want to say this. | ||
| What is happening is technically good, and while I have great empathy for the people in Los Angeles, and I don't want the working-class people of Los Angeles... | ||
| We're going to talk with Chris Gore about that. | ||
| But I'll say this. | ||
| I believe that these fires are burning something else to the ground, far more... | ||
| Evil than some of the political structures and some of the—or far more megalomaniacal than just a single individual politician. | ||
| It is the overarching ecosystem of wokeness that is being torched to the ground right now. | ||
| DEI is dying today, starting with the 2024 election, moving through the ISIS terror attacks. | ||
| Where you had, like, these obscene FBI agents with nose rings and no qualifications, like, saying it wasn't a terror attack. | ||
| I mean, it's, like, so humiliating. | ||
| You have an 80-year-old police chief there in New Orleans. | ||
| What the hell is going on? | ||
| To these fires. | ||
| Everybody, like, the American public is no longer fooled. | ||
| We will never again accept that you are somehow more qualified because of your skin color or who you like to have sex with. | ||
| That's done. | ||
| We've seen it kill enough people. | ||
| We've seen it torch enough lives. | ||
| We've seen it hurt enough people. | ||
| We're no longer accepting that. | ||
| Meritocracy and meritocracy only. | ||
| If you want a job, show us the credentials. | ||
| Show us you'll be able to do it. | ||
| And show us you'll be able to do it well. | ||
| And we just don't give a rat's ass about how much melanin you got in your skin or what you like to do in your bedroom on Saturday night. | ||
| It doesn't matter to us. | ||
| It's not only unqualifying, quite frankly, like that ideology is disqualifying because that ideology at its root is bigoted and racist. | ||
| It's important to actually straight up say it. | ||
| If you say that we are going to make sure that we don't hire white men to be firefighters in LA, that is prima facie racism. | ||
| It's actually illegal in this country. | ||
| And I look forward to it being prosecuted as such. | ||
| It's actually against the Civil Rights Act. | ||
| And it's had horrible consequences all across the country. | ||
| So they tried with Kamala Harris, which was, again, the final boss of DEI hiring, was let's make Kamala Harris president. | ||
| A lady who can't complete sentences, a lady that has absolutely zero credentials, never even tried a case. | ||
| The most unqualified person to ever run for president. | ||
| Let's try and force her into the chair. | ||
| They failed. | ||
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They failed spectacularly. | |
| Then ISIS terrorist attacks in DEI epicenters like the municipality of New Orleans and then what's happening in LA with all their problems. | ||
| And the American public is now awake to it. | ||
| And so we are no longer woke. | ||
| We are awake. | ||
| And that is a good thing, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Joining us now. | ||
| The great Chris Gore, who has had the patience of Job. | ||
| And I'm looking forward to speaking with him about everything that's going on. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| you you you Chris, I just want to check in. | ||
| Are you still evacuated? | ||
| Are you and your family safe in your home? | ||
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Yeah, everyone's safe. | |
| I was told to evacuate to a convention center three blocks from where I live. | ||
| So I'm still here. | ||
| But the water in Pasadena is contaminated, not useful. | ||
| And the air quality is the worst. | ||
| So I am headed to Orange County right after this. | ||
| So get away from L.A. Okay. | ||
| So you can't drink the water and you can't breathe the air? | ||
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No. | |
| Not where I am currently. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And no end in sight. | ||
| So we'll see. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| Your mayor was in Africa on a vacation buying trinkets and cut the fire department budget by $18 million. | ||
| It's actually the steepest cut in her budget was for a fire. | ||
| And so you can't feel good about that, Chris. | ||
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Oh, I'm well aware of her shortcomings. | |
| And I will say this, having seen this is before the fires, the decline of this city. | ||
| Has been awful. | ||
| I moved to Los Angeles in 1989. | ||
| I've seen some good times, some bad times. | ||
| Saw the railway, the metro be built. | ||
| That was amazing. | ||
| I used the metro. | ||
| And the decline has been dramatic. | ||
| Since Gavin Newsom took office, I voted for the recall. | ||
| I wanted him gone. | ||
| You can objectively see the city get worse. | ||
| It is. | ||
| I've said this for years. | ||
| I am living in Gotham City, but there's no Batman. | ||
| There's no one to save us. | ||
| And we have some unimpressive politicians not focused on problem solving. | ||
| They're focused on their stardom, their celebrity, their vacation in Ghana at the behest of Joe Biden. | ||
| Obviously, she's looking to climb the ladder. | ||
| Of her political career. | ||
| But I hope that maybe if there's a silver lining to all this, the careers of Newsom and Karen Bass will be ended after the horrible response to this disaster. | ||
| And we saw it coming. | ||
| It was going to happen. | ||
| You bet against the House, you're going to lose. | ||
| You saw that Joe Rogan clip. | ||
| I mean, yeah, it's just eventually going to happen. | ||
| It could have been prepared for. | ||
| And for Newsom, of course, it's convenient. | ||
| I saw this clip, you know, talking about Trump politicizing it. | ||
| This is what he does all the time. | ||
| He is the worst politician I've ever seen in my years here. | ||
| And the reign of this one-party rule in California must end. | ||
| We saw it go more red after Trump's victory. | ||
| California did. | ||
| Go more red in places. | ||
| So there is a gradual turn, but we'll see. | ||
| This is horrifying. | ||
| This is horrifying. | ||
| I have a friend whose house in Alta Dini, he lost everything. | ||
| House is gone. | ||
| All his possessions. | ||
| It's just horrific to see the images. | ||
| Since you work in the film industry, and since that is the prevailing industry of Los Angeles, It's what it's known for. | ||
| Many of these houses that have been torched to the ground were homes of actors or people in that industry. | ||
| And they've got to be furious. | ||
| And this has been a state where you won't be... | ||
| I just don't think you'll be able to blame the planet anymore. | ||
| I don't think you'll be able to say, it was just hot. | ||
| I think there might potentially be a sea change, especially given the fact that these actors, they'll never get their house back. | ||
| It'll be 100 years, I think, with California regulations before these places are rebuilt. | ||
| And so will there be a change in Hollywood? | ||
| There's no one better to maybe answer this question because you've been covering it for so long. | ||
| But it feels like even Hollywood and the entertainment industry was already on a precipice of realignment. | ||
| What's going to happen? | ||
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TDS is a real problem here, and the power of the propaganda that has captured the minds of most people in entertainment is shocking. | |
| Myself, I've been independent. | ||
| I voted red. | ||
| I voted blue. | ||
| I look at the policy, not the personality, for the most part, because the personality is generally always fake. | ||
| Always fake. | ||
| I remember, and I blame more than anything the media, because having spent time in the 90s, the LA Times was respected. | ||
| The LA Times held politicians to task, held them accountable. | ||
| The LA Weekly was known for investigative reports that broke real important stories. | ||
| But the... | ||
| Crazy, weird narratives that are being pushed, whether it's DEI or climate. | ||
| It's not doing us any favors. | ||
| And so you can't have a different opinion. | ||
| But only recently, the owner of the LA Times said, we're going to be more unbiased here. | ||
| I mean, look at how it affects our world. | ||
| Look at how it affects everything now. | ||
| LA is devastated. | ||
| LA is a third world country. | ||
| If I were Karen Bass and I were mayor of LA, I would not step foot outside the city until the problems were solved. | ||
| Another problem, the homeless industrial complex. | ||
| A system of grifters, NGOs, government programs, and NGOs that keep people homeless and on drugs. | ||
| Not solving this problem, making the streets unsafe. | ||
| And you've seen people like Anna Kasparian, like, change your tune! | ||
| After getting assaulted. | ||
| And it's sad that it has to come to that. | ||
| But I've seen the city I love descend into madness. | ||
| And this is just the most recent result. | ||
| I mean, look, I drive through it. | ||
| I live in Pasadena, which is, this will only mean something to locals. | ||
| Pasadena is like the Orange County of LA County. | ||
| It's very based. | ||
| You know, Orange County is much more conservative. | ||
| So is Pasadena, but it's working class. | ||
| It's rich people. | ||
| It's a great mix, right? | ||
| I love my city of Pasadena, but I'm on the edge of this madness. | ||
| Driving through downtown LA, the graffiti alone, you know, it's the, what do they call that? | ||
| The broken windows. | ||
| Yeah, broken windows. | ||
| Once it's the decline, and there's only one useful piece of graffiti. | ||
| Down the 110 freeway. | ||
| You can see it every time I drive into downtown LA. | ||
| It says LA is not a safe city. | ||
| That's all it says. | ||
| Very useful. | ||
| But how Karen Bass could sit there and leave the city she was elected to manage and not fix one problem. | ||
| Not one. | ||
| Not one. | ||
| And go off on some, you know, she's a climber. | ||
| I've seen them. | ||
| I see them in entertainment. | ||
| I call them climbers. | ||
| They're people that, what they do, it's all about how I look. | ||
| It's all about perception. | ||
| It's all fake. | ||
| And these climbers cannot be tolerated anymore. | ||
| I mean, Trump, whatever you think of him, I think some people watching the show probably like him. | ||
| He broke it. | ||
| He broke the system. | ||
| The media has been exposed. | ||
| And more people need to wake up. | ||
| Wake up to this. | ||
| People in your industry kept casting him in Home Alone 2 and The Little Rascals. | ||
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Right. | |
| Hated Trump so much, then why does he have his own Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episode? | ||
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Right, right. | |
| Well, I don't know if you probably didn't see the movie Wicked, but I said right off the bat that Elphaba, the witch, was vilified by the wizard. | ||
| I said, Elphaba is Trump. | ||
| Elphaba is Trump. | ||
| Go watch Wicked. | ||
| I mean, I don't know. | ||
| I like The Wizard of Oz. | ||
| I like a lot of different movies. | ||
| But the way The Wizard vilified the Wicked Witch, that's what the media did to Trump. | ||
| People can't get it out of their minds. | ||
| They can't watch a Trump... | ||
| They don't understand his humor. | ||
| And I think he's a guy... | ||
| He's results-oriented. | ||
| When you look at his... | ||
| Whatever you think... | ||
| He's the building contractor that may be an a-hole, but the job gets done. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| We have the post here. | ||
| Here you go. | ||
| Elizabeth, is Trump the wizard is Biden? | ||
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Yeah, yeah. | |
| I think our producers found your graffiti, actually. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| Let's go ahead and see. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| LA is not safe? | ||
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LA is not safe. | |
| Look at that. | ||
| Wow, that was from a while ago. | ||
| But, yeah, no, it's disgusting to see this city. | ||
| I mean, look, in the 90s, I'm a little older than you. | ||
| I had kids in the 90s, and I thought, I'm not raising them in L.A., not just because of the city itself, but there's a prevailing attitude. | ||
| I see the worst parenting in the world happens in this city. | ||
| They call it free-range parenting. | ||
| They let the kids do whatever they want. | ||
| As you know, a recipe for disaster. | ||
| So I moved up into, this is not the first time I've had to deal with fires. | ||
| I lived in the La Crescenta, La Cañada area. | ||
| In 2009, there were fires there, and no one reported on it. | ||
| And I, with my, I think I had a Moto Q or a Moto Razor at the time, was taking these little videos, posting on Twitter, saying, hey, there are fires up here. | ||
| It wasn't on the local news. | ||
| It wasn't in the LA Times. | ||
| Finally, they picked up my video saying, hey, this is what's going on. | ||
| It was horrible. | ||
| Now, we got lucky in that 2009 fire, even though firefighters lost their lives. | ||
| We got lucky because the winds were not bad. | ||
| But the firefighters, they were so brave. | ||
| Saw a group of them at Chipotle. | ||
| Covered in... | ||
| Their face is black from ash. | ||
| Just sitting there tired eating tacos. | ||
| And just could not be more grateful for their work and sacrifice. | ||
| But we got lucky there. | ||
| This is horrifying. | ||
| And you see all the bad decisions that led up to this. | ||
| You could do one of those... | ||
| You could cut a hundred videos of that Curb Your Enthusiasm. | ||
| Cut to the director credit and you hear that music. | ||
| You know? | ||
| With bad decisions. | ||
| You see that clip of Trump riding Newsom. | ||
| And I feel like, you know, they're so obstructionist. | ||
| Even when Trump has good ideas, which is often. | ||
| He's got some good ideas. | ||
| But those are tough decisions. | ||
| Might not be popular. | ||
| But we need leaders that don't care about being liked. | ||
| I don't think Trump cares about being liked. | ||
| But these leaders care more about their popularity and their perception than getting things done. | ||
| And enough is enough. | ||
| Enough. | ||
| I still think that even in spite of this horrible disaster and so many people suffering, I don't know if people will wake from this TDS or wake to, hey, our current leaders are incompetent. | ||
| Okay, it's going to take more than Adam Carolla or Zachary Levi, among others, to speak out. | ||
| It'll take some people on the left to say, I mean, Justine Bateman had a great, I don't know if you follow her, I love her, she's my spirit animal, you should have her on your show. | ||
| She called it out, you know? | ||
| She's very based, Justine Baseman, I think my nickname for her. | ||
| But, yeah, really, it's going to take more people. | ||
| To say enough is enough. | ||
| And if people aren't resigning, if they are not resigning in disgrace and handing it over to people who want to do the job, how about people that want to stay in the city they were elected to lead? | ||
| Where is that? | ||
| Where is that energy? | ||
| You know? | ||
| I mean, look. | ||
| This is the Hollywood Hills. | ||
| I mean, will it take the Hollywood sign burning down? | ||
| Will it take, like, a Nerdrotic cover image, like a Critical Drinker cover image? | ||
| Will it take, like, the actual meme happening? | ||
| Does the Hollywood sign need to actually burn down? | ||
| This is a real photo from a helicopter last night, and is Hollywood on fire? | ||
| Sunset Boulevard was on fire last night. | ||
| Is this enough? | ||
| At some point, it's like a sign from God, right? | ||
| Like, change your ways. | ||
| Or is the TDS so strong that this won't wake up Hollywood? | ||
| At some point, what is it going to take for them to say that the single-party rule is going to lead to potentially our physical deaths? | ||
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Well, I think people like Mark Ruffalo and Mark Hamill have the luxury of having the opinions that they have. | |
| So, I don't know what it's going to take. | ||
| When you see those guys change their tune, I mean, just look at the city. | ||
| Look at it before the fires. | ||
| Just look at it. | ||
| It's not a safe city at night. | ||
| Seriously, it's horrifying what I've seen LA turn into. | ||
| And I saw you. | ||
| I got to watch the show. | ||
| Benny, I was very patient. | ||
| I watch your show. | ||
| I was listening to you talk about these being set on purpose. | ||
| Oh, definitely. | ||
| I mean, before this. | ||
| I've seen fires and garbage cans. | ||
| Just all over the city, there are little fires set. | ||
| Just like that. | ||
| That's common. | ||
| That could have happened months ago and people wouldn't bat an eye. | ||
| Wow. | ||
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But enough is enough. | |
| Let's get real leadership. | ||
| A quick aside. | ||
| These press conferences, they act like they're accepting an award. | ||
| These morons. | ||
| These utter morons. | ||
| The URL. | ||
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Go to URL, you idiot. | |
| Some 22-year-old intern that knows social media wrote that for her to say because she doesn't know anything. | ||
| She's disinterested, right? | ||
| You should at least be interested in getting educated about the thing you're supposed to do. | ||
| So... | ||
| I see these press conferences. | ||
| Look, I've been watching. | ||
| I had my TV on the whole time because I want to know if I need to make a move, right? | ||
| They get up and they're thanking this person. | ||
| They're thanking this department. | ||
| There are 20 people and they all need to give their speech. | ||
| You know? | ||
| It's unconscionable. | ||
| Where is the media? | ||
| I knew in the 90s, the LA Times of the 90s, the LA Weekly of the 90s. | ||
| Where are you? | ||
| Where were you when, as you pointed out, the most unqualified person to run for president, no one questioned her? | ||
| Where were you, media, when I can see with my eyes Joe Biden, an old man? | ||
| You know? | ||
| We all have older relatives. | ||
| You see them in the stages of decline. | ||
| It's very sad. | ||
| You could not point that out. | ||
| You could not ask the question. | ||
| And I am from an erotic. | ||
| We are from the Gen X generation. | ||
| Question everything. | ||
| And that's something that is happening on one side of the aisle. | ||
| I see that happening a lot. | ||
| On the other side, not so much. | ||
| And it has cost us dearly. | ||
| This is a state that's had unified single party control for close to the last 50 years, certainly for the last 25 years. | ||
| Karen Bass is the mayor. | ||
| Gavin Newsom is the governor. | ||
| Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla are the senators. | ||
| And Kamala Harris is the vice president. | ||
| Joe Biden's the president. | ||
| I don't see it. | ||
| I don't understand the cognitive dissonance. | ||
| I mean, like, I guess what I look for is, you know, what I look for is a sign. | ||
| And I guess this is like the sign, right? | ||
| This is the sign to change. | ||
| Nobody knows the industry better than you, Chris, man. | ||
| I mean, I'd love to see. | ||
| I don't want to see L.A. burn to the ground. | ||
| Like, I'm trying to be a friend here, you know? | ||
| I don't want to see this place destroyed. | ||
| But it seems like at some point you have to accept the fact that there's, you know, I don't. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't think any place is beyond redemption. | ||
| I guess there's no such thing as a permanent red city. | ||
| There's no such thing as a permanent blue city. | ||
| There's no such thing as a permanent red state. | ||
| Maybe this will be a wake-up call. | ||
| I'm seeing a lot of stuff in my timeline from a lot of Democrats and a lot of left-wingers that are saying, like, this is it. | ||
| We draw the line here. | ||
| Like, we're done. | ||
| This is it. | ||
| Time to recall everyone. | ||
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| But it's sad that it came to this. | ||
| I saw it before. | ||
| Since the pandemic, I hate even using that word. | ||
| We did all the damage to ourselves. | ||
| Self-inflicted. | ||
| We can see it now out in the open. | ||
| I think the best thing was Elon buying X Twitter. | ||
| It has helped quite a bit. | ||
| Open free speech, free discussion. | ||
| Community Notes is amazing. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| That is a great... | ||
| Hey, you know, Mark Zuckerberg likes it. | ||
| So get with the program. | ||
| And even the vilification of Elon. | ||
| I love Elon. | ||
| I mean, I've always been a NASA. | ||
| I love NASA space exploration. | ||
| But seeing what Elon has done, he's a guy dedicated to results and accountability. | ||
| And we need our politicians. | ||
| I mean, if they're responsible, they have to take care of this. | ||
| I'm just disgusted. | ||
| So we'll see if there's change. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| I feel bad because there are good people. | ||
| I wanted you to come on. | ||
| I was so happy to have you on the show because there are good people that live here, right? | ||
| Sometimes you get very calloused and you're like, you voted for this. | ||
| Well, not everyone. | ||
| But also, I think this is going to be a good opportunity for these systems to finally break. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Something horrible was going to have to happen for us to say, like, you know, DEI, Oscar's so white. | ||
| Like, this is not a way to run a society, actually. | ||
| But there's good people that are in these industries that live in these areas. | ||
| And you don't deserve this. | ||
| You don't deserve to not be able to drink your water or breathe your air. | ||
| And this is done almost exclusively through the incompetence. | ||
| This was by choice. | ||
| This was declined by choice. | ||
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Yes, by design. | |
| And it's horrific. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So Hollywood, will change or won't? | ||
| What do you think? | ||
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I give it 50-50. | |
| The propaganda has been so powerful that when I see colleagues, I hear their opinions, I'm like, oh, I know what news you listen to. | ||
| You see them just parrot things they heard. | ||
| They're not well-informed. | ||
| They're really not well-informed. | ||
| And they don't look at things objectively, which is what a journalist is supposed to do. | ||
| Or even just any thinking person look at things and sort of an unemotional, cold analysis. | ||
| And this whole crop, Giff, Bass, Newsom, get rid of all of them, please. | ||
| Somebody that had to get... | ||
| It's funny, you say you live in Gotham, but you have no Batman. | ||
| I watched Batman flee his house. | ||
| Ben Affleck had to flee. | ||
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Right! | |
| Ben Affleck fled! | ||
| You're a shack up with Jennifer Garner again. | ||
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I like Ben Affleck. | |
| I feel bad. | ||
| I saw the James Woods breaking down in tears over his granddaughter. | ||
| Horrifying stuff. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm hopeful. | ||
| I'm a glass half-full guy. | ||
| But I still see it as 50-50 chance this will wake up L.A. or Californians in general. | ||
| Well, hopefully a glass not half full of the poisoned water that's growing at your house. | ||
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Yeah, I can't drink my Pasadena water now. | |
| Horrific. | ||
| I mean, you shouldn't be... | ||
| No Americans should have to live like this, right? | ||
| This is just like what happened in Lahaina. | ||
| It's just gross government incompetence. | ||
| And it has a horrible effect. | ||
| And no one should... | ||
| I hope it's a wake-up call. | ||
| I really do. | ||
| I hope it's a wake-up call. | ||
| California is a crown jewel. | ||
| It's arguably the most beautifully and naturally gifted state in the entire country. | ||
| It is a crown jewel of beauty. | ||
| And it really makes me sad to see it run like this. | ||
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Chris... | |
| Please shout out where everyone can find your work. | ||
| Everybody knows that I'm massive fans of this cultural ecosystem. | ||
| The work that Chris does with some of his colleagues and allies inside of nerddom is really important. | ||
| And it actually sets the groundwork for what happens on a political basis in the country. | ||
| And so culture comes first. | ||
| And so that's why the work of Chris, you can follow him here on X. He's got 200,000 followers and subscribers on X. Film Threat is right here. | ||
| This is also the account. | ||
| But where else, Chris? | ||
| What am I missing? | ||
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That's it. | |
| Follow Film Threat. | ||
| Follow me, that Chris Gore. | ||
| And even in the interest of the culture, we do an event every year called Award This, which is the only award show you can click on that. | ||
| Only award show you can buy a ticket to. | ||
| It is, we award all kinds of movies on both sides of the political spectrum. | ||
| By the way, you know, we gave an award. | ||
| Best documentary was won by a film called The Boys in Red Hats, which was about the Covington kids. | ||
| I don't know if you've seen that documentary, but it's an award show. | ||
| We are trying to change the culture by actually, we are awarding movies of all types. | ||
| Independent film is my focus, and I just like calling out Hollywood BS. | ||
| I've been doing that, God, since... | ||
| I started Film Threat as a teenager in 1985. | ||
| It was a zine. | ||
| You don't even know what that is. | ||
| It's like a zine is like the internet but printed on really thin slices of wood. | ||
| They called them magazines. | ||
| And that's what Film Threat was in the 80s and 90s. | ||
| But we're a website and a YouTube channel and I'm on YouTube three times a week. | ||
| Watch us on YouTube. | ||
| And Benny, I watch you and I appreciate your no BS approach and your shining example of questioning everything. | ||
| So thank you for your work. | ||
| Chris Gore, ladies and gentlemen, please be safe with your family. | ||
| And geez, man, if you're evacuating today, my prayers for you, man. | ||
| Godspeed. | ||
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Thank you very much, Benny. | |
| Appreciate it. | ||
| *Bad music* | ||
| It's tough, man. | ||
| It's tough. | ||
| It makes you upset. | ||
| Am I too much of a bleeding heart? | ||
| You know, it's like you feel for these people. | ||
| That's my country right there. | ||
| We have the map. | ||
| Thank you, Klein. | ||
| We have the map. | ||
| That's my country. | ||
| You can see on the map, we can't zoom the camera here, but you can see on the map that actually the country's red and a ton of California was red this year. | ||
| So, I mean, like, you shouldn't ever want this. | ||
| Don't, don't side with the orcs, man. | ||
| The orcs celebrate when bad things happen to their political enemies. | ||
| Like, I don't want to be there. | ||
| I want actual change. | ||
| I don't want, like, I don't want to rub salt in all of this. | ||
| I want the change. | ||
| I want to cover, I want to cover that this is happening for real. | ||
| This was a choice. | ||
| This was a choice. | ||
| The descent into madness is a choice. | ||
| President Trump on Gavin Newsom, saying Gavin Newsom needs to resign. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
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On California, Mr. President, during the pandemic, you often said that you didn't believe that you should bail out blue states that you believe were being dismanaged. | |
| Given your criticism of Governor Gavin Newsom, are you willing to work with him? | ||
| Do you believe that federal aid should be provided to California for as long as it takes? | ||
| Well, it's very sad because I've been trying to get Gavin Newsom to allow water to come. | ||
| You'd have tremendous water up there. | ||
| They sent it out to the Pacific. | ||
| Because they're trying to protect a tiny little fish, which is in other areas, by the way, called a smelt. | ||
| And for the sake of a smelt, they have no water. | ||
| They had no water in the fire hydrants today in Los Angeles. | ||
| It was a terrible thing. | ||
| And we're going to get that done. | ||
| It's going to finally be done. | ||
| I got it done from the federal side. | ||
| And he didn't want to sign it, but it's not going to happen again like that. | ||
| There's no reason. | ||
| Can you imagine? | ||
| You have farmers that don't have any water in California. | ||
| They have plenty of water. | ||
| They don't have a drought. | ||
| They send it out to the Pacific. | ||
| And it's crazy. | ||
| So what's happening in California is a true tragedy. | ||
| I know those areas very well. | ||
| I have many friends living in those houses. | ||
| That is a true tragedy. | ||
| Virtually Beverly Hills and areas around Beverly Hills are being decimated. | ||
| The biggest homes, some of the most valuable homes in the world are just destroyed. | ||
| I don't even know. | ||
| You talk about a tax base. | ||
| If those people leave, you're going to lose half your tax base of California. | ||
| This is a true tragedy, and it's a mistake of the governor, and you could say the administration. | ||
| They don't have any water. | ||
| They didn't have water in the fire hydrants. | ||
| They don't have water. | ||
| And yet they have. | ||
| The water comes from, you know where? | ||
| Up north. | ||
| And it comes down at levels. | ||
| They give millions and millions of barrels of gallons of water that they have, and they send it out into the Pacific. | ||
| For the Pacific, it's like a drop. | ||
| It's nothing. | ||
| But for California, we take care of the whole state. | ||
| So what's happened is a tragedy, and the governor has not done a good job. | ||
| With that being said, I got along well with him when he was governor. | ||
| We worked together very well, and we would work together. | ||
| I guess it looks like we're going to be the one having to rebuild it. | ||
| But what happened there, I don't think there's anything that I've ever seen quite like it. | ||
| And the insurance companies are going to have a big problem. | ||
| Because you're talking about big, big dollars. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, got some fascinating... | ||
| Fascinating breaking news here. | ||
| We're going to go ahead and verify that and find the article. | ||
| Goodness gracious, producers. | ||
| Check out the chat. | ||
| Apparently a lip reader was able to capture what Barack Obama and Donald Trump were talking about. | ||
| Let's go ahead and verify. | ||
| It looks like a CNN article. | ||
| Let me know if we can have that down. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| You know, we started the show with Barack Obama and Donald Trump cutting it up. | ||
| So the cameras were facing the pair as they sat shoulder to shoulder. | ||
| The lip reader says that Obama asked if they could find a quiet place later that day to discuss a matter of importance, according to forensic lip reader Jerry Freeman. | ||
| What now? | ||
| So Barack Obama was asking Trump to meet privately. | ||
| This is according to the New York Post, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Thank you, ALX. | ||
| Holy smokes. | ||
| That's okay. | ||
| Don't worry about it. | ||
| It's okay. | ||
| This is insane. | ||
| Again, I'm reading that right. | ||
| Obama said that he'd like to find a place to talk about a matter of importance with Trump. | ||
| Careful, Trump! | ||
| Bring someone with you. | ||
| Bring your Secret Service with you. | ||
| Holy smokes. | ||
| I get nervous about this kind of stuff. | ||
| I've seen enough, right? | ||
| We've seen enough. | ||
| We've had to cover enough. | ||
| Assassination attempts and malevolence on President Trump. | ||
| Careful! | ||
| That's all I'm going to say. | ||
| Careful! | ||
| Please! | ||
| Bring Tom Homan with you. | ||
| Bring somebody who's physically strong with you that can ensure your safety. | ||
| Make sure the Secret Service is with you at all times. | ||
| Make sure that there's somebody very smart listening in. | ||
| In fact, why don't you take them up on that and say, yeah, but General Flynn has to join me. | ||
| You have to bring General Flynn. | ||
| General Flynn's going to just listen in on our conversation. | ||
| Goodness gracious. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Well, that'll be interesting, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| We are looking forward to a fresh start. | ||
| We are 11 days away from a President Trump. | ||
| Of course, we already have a President Trump, but like the active Trump presidency 2.0. | ||
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| All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's some very, very interesting, very interesting. | ||
| So Obama and Trump are going to be meeting privately. | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| All right, fine. | ||
| I'm not so callous. | ||
| I haven't gotten my cold, dead heart just yet. | ||
| Okay, maybe it's Barack Obama's going to ask for a pardon? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't trust these people. | ||
| I really don't. | ||
| But I trust you, and we're so deeply thankful for you. | ||
| We are sorry that Cernovich can't join the program today. | ||
| Cernovich had to cancel. | ||
| He's, of course, living in California. | ||
| I have no idea if he's being currently affected by what's going on there. | ||
| But Mike Cernovich, we will effort to get on the program very soon. | ||
| I guess we might as well make an announcement right now that we have a very special guest joining us tomorrow, because tomorrow is a day that President Trump... | ||
| Can we get the graphic? | ||
| Tomorrow is a day that President Trump will be sentenced for his non-crimes. | ||
| President Trump, of course, had to go get a mugshot. | ||
| He had to technically go into jail to do that. | ||
| President Trump is somebody who has been utterly destroyed by the systems. | ||
| No, there's a cool one with me with glasses. | ||
| Where'd it go? | ||
| Where'd it go? | ||
| Gotta get the glasses one! | ||
| No, I refuse. | ||
| I want the glasses. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, I'm here to announce for you that we couldn't think of a better guest than Andrew Tate to have on the program tomorrow because Andrew Tate is somebody who's, well, also been persecuted by government systems that destroy lives and that lock people up with zero evidence. | ||
| Just go with it, Klein. | ||
| Just go with it. | ||
| I've literally seen it in our chat all morning. | ||
| Working on it. | ||
| There you go! | ||
| Come on! | ||
| Thank you! | ||
| Thank you! | ||
| So badass. | ||
| We work on these graphics. | ||
| We go hard. | ||
| Okay, there we go. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| If you work so hard on a badass graphic, just put it up. | ||
| I don't often wear aviators because of their association with Joe Biden, but we'll... | ||
| We've got to put a screaming lib in those AVs. | ||
| We've got to do a reflection of that. | ||
| Let's do some live editing here. | ||
| Let's put a reflection of the screaming lib in the yellow trench coat. | ||
| With a David Muir pin on the back so that they look skinnier. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So we are set and ready to go. | ||
| We'll have Andrew Tate live on the program tomorrow. | ||
| It'll be awesome. | ||
| He'll be joining us from Romania. | ||
| He's also planning on running, I think, for Prime Minister of England. | ||
| So that'll be exciting. | ||
| He started a new political party. | ||
| The Brove Party. | ||
| That'll be fun. | ||
| And first for our program. | ||
| So, Andrew Tate. | ||
| Live tomorrow. | ||
| And it should be fun. | ||
| Go for like an hour, right? | ||
| With Tate. | ||
| How much fun will that be? | ||
| What a perfect person to talk to about the Matrix coming after you, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| On a day that Donald Trump will be sentenced for his crimes. | ||
| Days before he takes the presidency. | ||
| Days before he takes... | ||
| Office here in this country. | ||
| Hopefully to make sure that this never ever happens to anybody ever again. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, our verse of the day today. | ||
| From Corinthians 15 58. Boy, sometimes we felt useless last year, so I'm sure sometimes you feel useless. | ||
| Everybody does. | ||
| You fight and you don't see any chance of victory. | ||
| And you have to keep fighting. | ||
| You have to keep working. | ||
| You have to be strong and immovable. | ||
| You're seeing now the product of that, actually, on a national scale. | ||
| It's exciting. | ||
| And you're seeing the product of God's providence. | ||
| And so while we certainly don't claim to be theological experts... | ||
| We can read the Bible just like anyone else, and it's nice, actually, to get a chance to read and get encouragement every single day. | ||
| And this is the encouragement that we have, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Strong and immovable, and that nothing that we work for is ever useless, as long as we are working for the Lord. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we are excited to tell you that we are the fastest single-growing news stream in the world. | ||
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| To entertain. | ||
| And then to also give you a pep in your step as you go about this day in this world. | ||
| Knowing that you have us fighting with you. | ||
| Fighting alongside of you. | ||
| And that you can't defeat an army of happy warriors. | ||
| And that certainly is what we are at this program. | ||
| It's your boy Benny. | ||
| We'll see you tomorrow with Andrew Tate. | ||
| Should be fun. | ||
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See ya. | |
| I have six grandchildren, and I'm crazy about them. | ||
| And I speak to them every single day. | ||
| Not a joke. | ||
| Matter of fact, I just got finished going through the calls, and only one of them answered the phone. | ||
| But at least they got to leave a message. | ||
| Why don't you take the big bed tonight? | ||
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You deserve it. | |
| Thank you, Grandpa. | ||
| In the time of corrupt DC, I want my money. | ||
| Gravy in my veins and my son Hunter is a junkie. | ||
| With the plastic face wife, spray paints her dresses. | ||
| My dog bites you all while I'm sniffing the pantyhose. | ||
| So you ain't black, but they'll call me dark. | ||
| Branded on the food stamps burning down the country hard. | ||
| Yo. | ||
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Cut it. | |
| Fear. | ||
| I fall down the stairs. | ||
| I'm a loser, baby. | ||
| So why don't you impeach me? | ||
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He's got his suit and his determined frown In the heart of the blaze he's racing down People see him fearless, ain't afraid to dare Holding tight the fuel with a fearless stare Dabbing | |
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