March 21, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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You expect this may be a bit more bipartisan? | |
| I hope it's more bipartisan. | ||
| And Senator McConnell, Senator Brasso, a number of Republican senators have said just that. | ||
| They want it to be respectful and fair. | ||
| Of course, ruining the party is a charge by Senator Hawley of Missouri, which has been dismissed. | ||
| by major news sources, whether it's a question of Washington Post or recently ABC, CNN, and the National Journal. | ||
| Andrew McCarthy said last night in the National Journal that the charges that are being leveled by Hawley are meritless to the point of demagoguery. | ||
| That's about as harsh as it can be. | ||
| And I don't believe that we should stand by and just dismiss this as another political This is disrespectful of the judge and her family. | ||
| It's a serious charge involving child pornography, and there is no basis in fact for it. | ||
| I have an unusual committee, Joe, as you probably know, 11-11. | ||
| And among the 11 Republicans are the real fire breathers on the right. | ||
| And so I'm used to this kind of thing happening. | ||
| And they're usually vying to wear the crown as to be the most outrageous. | ||
| Well, Senator Hawley is retiring the crown this week with this charge. | ||
| Okay, welcome back to the War Room. | ||
| We're live, obviously. | ||
| It's the 21st of March. | ||
| We've got a lot to get to. | ||
| We've got Cortez there and Bidibeg. | ||
| I've got to finish with Mike Davis, and Mike's going to jump in and watch this hearing. | ||
| Mike, Andy McCarthy, National Journal. | ||
| Andy McCarthy's not a, you know, he's not a wilting flower. | ||
| He said, maritalist to the point of what? | ||
| A smear or this a false charge? | ||
| Mike Davis, you know Andy. | ||
| What's your response to that? | ||
| I like Andy McCarthy, but he's just dead wrong here, and he needs to look at the facts. | ||
| He needs to look at the facts as put out by Senator Josh Hawley on his Twitter feed, and he needs to look at the facts as we have clearly laid out in the Article 3 Project's research on our website. | ||
| This is very serious, and this is a shameful cover-up. | ||
| By Chairman Dick Dermott on the Senate Judiciary Committee is hiding her records on the Sentencing Commission. | ||
| And he is just breezing over the fact that we have conclusive evidence that Judge Katonji Brown Jackson has a 25 year record, a public record of advocating for and even ordering lower sentences for people who possess and distribute child pornography and other child sex offenders. | ||
| This this is it's It's stunning to me that Dick Durbin is covering this up and people are not raising hell about this. | ||
| Mike, real quickly, just give your bona fides here that are pretty impressive. | ||
| What's your expertise in this area, sir? | ||
| Well, I was the chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee for the Kavanaugh hearing and for the lower court hearings for President Trump's lower court nominees. | ||
| I worked in the Bush 43 White House on nominations. | ||
| I worked in the Justice Department on nominations. | ||
| I clerked for Justice Gorsuch both on the Tenth Circuit on the Supreme Court. | ||
| I might be conservative, but I have the facts on my side and I have the receipts. | ||
| Pretty good tracker. | ||
| The last question before I go, I know you're going to punch and you're going to come back during this hour if we have something hot. | ||
| First off, what can this audience do today to make sure that this is addressed? | ||
| Should they call Mitch McConnell's office? | ||
| Should they call their senators? | ||
| If we want to just make sure that it's fair to judge Brown-Jackson, but that there's full due diligence, what should people do? | ||
| So first of all, this is not a personal attack on Judge Jackson at all or her family like the Democrats do to Justice Kavanaugh and Justice Barrett. | ||
| This is about her record. | ||
| And people need to light up their home state senators. | ||
| They need to call 202-224-3121. | ||
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202-224-3121. | |
| 202-224-3121. 202-224-3121. Ask for their home state senators, both of them, and tell them that they cannot vote to confirm Judge Jackson until Dick Durbin, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, releases her Senate, or U.S. | ||
| Sentencing Commission records as the vice chair from 2010 to 2013. | ||
| It's a pretty simple ask. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| I'll ask you these other questions later. | ||
| I'll let you go, because I know you want to watch this. | ||
| We'll be on, we'll be, we'll grab you if anything hot breaks within this hour, and look forward to having you back on this afternoon. | ||
| Mike Davis, who's led the charge here with his Article 3 project. | ||
| Thank you, Mike. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| So Mike just gave you marching orders there, 202, 242. | ||
| What's the last four digits? | ||
| Okay, I'm leaving it hanging out there. | ||
| Somebody in the posse, Captain Bannon, just text it to me. | ||
| Okay, I want to bring in, I got Cortez and I got Darren Beatty. | ||
| Okay, and we're going to put in the box the hearing when it starts. | ||
| Okay, so Real America's Voice is going to put in the War Room box The hearing and look, the first of this is all the kind of routine. | ||
| They do the opening statements, not the opening statements are important, but we don't need clearly to cut into the word for that. | ||
| But what Mike Davis, I think, is look, like I said, this is not our line of country. | ||
| We don't spend a lot of time on the. | ||
| Confirmation hearings, because other people do it so much better. | ||
| But this one right here is, you know, was brought to us by Liz Yor, Terry Schelling, and Mike very early on, that there was an issue of just releasing the documentation so people can get to the bottom of it. | ||
| I think Liz Yor shocked everybody in the audience. | ||
| They're just going through the scale of this problem. | ||
| And it also gets down to this U.S. | ||
| Sentencing Commission that the papers have not been forthcoming. | ||
| So Dick Durbin is obviously lying to people's face. | ||
| And if there's nothing there, just release it. | ||
| Have people review it, like Holly and these other experts. | ||
| Prominent lawyers are on the Judiciary Committee. | ||
| And then let's move on. | ||
| No need to make a big deal about it if there's nothing there. | ||
| Just put it forward and let's see. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I want to go to Steve Cortez and Darren Beattie. | ||
| Steve, we've got so much to go through today and a huge punch list. | ||
| Just hang on for a second. | ||
| I want to get in Darren. | ||
| Darren, you had another explosive piece. | ||
| I started the show, you guys missed it, but I did a cold open of Zelinsky's softball interview with And I understand it's a time of war there. | ||
| CNN lets the guy just talk for, just preach I should say, he just preaches for 50 minutes of an hour interview with no follow on questions, no, today we understand that Zelensky, I think, and I understand it's a time of war there, you got to take certain wartime measures, but I think he shut down all the opposition parties and he consolidated all the media into one channel to start to control, to totally control the narrative. | ||
| So, I mean, people can't sit there and say, hey, this guy's a complete Democrat and looking for other voices. | ||
| And he's taking, and I understand he's taking wartime measures, but that's also, it seems to me, CNN, he's doing this during the time of the CNN interview, Farid at least ought to ask a question or two, particularly when he says, hey, if you don't come in and supporters are going to metastasize to World War III. | ||
| Then we have the other president today comes out and he basically gives us a four point plan that will definitely lead to World War Three. | ||
| And they're they're demanding it. | ||
| I mean, they're not being shy about it. | ||
| And this gets the point. | ||
| They're demanding of the American people. | ||
| But the question has to be asked, what is the EU and NATO promise these people? | ||
| Because the the Ukrainian people are very upfront. | ||
| These were promises. | ||
| These were commitments. | ||
| They're now they're now left out to hanging out to dry, as I said. | ||
| They've cut them loose for their to face their own fate against this Russian war machine, which is basically like World War Two, where they're going to surround these cities and crush them. | ||
| And so what do people commit to these people beforehand? | ||
| What commitments have been made for the Ukrainians to make the decisions they made today? | ||
| And I think this is an issue that all you hear on the. | ||
| And the Republican Party is just cheerleading and McConnell saying, oh, these are outright. | ||
| Well, listen, let me remind everybody in the first days of the Iraq war, all the lies and misrepresentations we now know that there was 90 percent support. | ||
| OK. | ||
| And among Republicans, 98 percent sort of because of Fox News. | ||
| So don't. | ||
| People said they're well. | ||
| People are supportive. | ||
| People are supportive because one, they haven't thought it through. | ||
| Number two, they're not getting all the facts. | ||
| And that's what we're trying. | ||
| We're trying to avoid another debacle where the Chinese Communist Party is the winner and they're the winner here. | ||
| You got all these officious people going out there saying, well, they're really thinking through, there's a million views on some article in China. | ||
| Will you please stop? | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party's got this one dialed in. | ||
| They got MBZ, our great ally of UAE, taking meetings with Assad, okay, and not taking Biden's phone call. | ||
| You got the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that we basically keep in business. | ||
| We protect them. | ||
| Okay, we fought numerous wars to protect them. | ||
| There are numerous young men and women over in Section City at Arlington National Cemetery because of protecting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. | ||
| They won't take Biden's phone call. | ||
| They invite Xi for a meeting and to top it all off, they say, hey, we'll start doing our deals and we'll start doing them in Chinese currency. | ||
| You don't need dollars to do it. | ||
| Even our ally, Modi, The best ally we had with Trump and the key that picks the lock on the Indo-Pacific strategy, Modi's doing rubles-to-rupees deals. | ||
| Because the fecklessness of our leadership of both parties is driving people to do it. | ||
| And it's time that we put the pom-poms down and start to look at this because the Senators are wetting themselves because of TikTok influencers. | ||
| That's what's happening here. | ||
| It's the non-stop propaganda and TikTok influencers. | ||
| And people have to start to look at this with steely resolve. | ||
| And it's very simple. | ||
| What our founders knew, what Abraham Lincoln knew, what Roosevelt and General Marshall and Eisenhower and all these guys knew. | ||
| What is in the vital national security interest of the United States? | ||
| You don't think that Roosevelt and these guys had pressure on them with Churchill to get up into the Balkans and start sending American combat troops up there? | ||
| Oh, yes, they did. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And you know what he said? | ||
| No, thank you. | ||
| No, thank you. | ||
| We'll focus on Western Europe and the Western Front. | ||
| There's been pressure on the United States to get involved in these things for decades and decades and decades. | ||
| And our founders said, If you want to go across the ocean to slay monsters, there's plenty of monsters out there. | ||
| But is that in the vital national security of the United States of America, like our southern border? | ||
| And let's be frank about the hypocrisy. | ||
| They'll pass a bill that we can't finance. | ||
| There's no way that we can pay for this. | ||
| It's just not. | ||
| We can print money, which is completely phony. | ||
| We set up securities we buy ourselves. | ||
| The biggest scam and shell game in the world. | ||
| And it's bringing us to our knees, okay? | ||
| Because now the rest of the world is saying, hey, we want off the merry-go-round. | ||
| We're not going to buy your crap anymore, okay? | ||
| Because we see exactly how irresponsible your leadership is in capital markets, in finance, and to do these unfinanced things. | ||
| And they do this and they don't send a penny to the southern border. | ||
| We have now, because Title 42's coming up, as CIS tells us, as Todd Bensman tells us, you could have 400,000 invaders, and that's what they are. | ||
| I don't demonize them as individuals. | ||
| If we were in their place, we'd do the exact same thing. | ||
| Heck yes, I'd make a break for El Norte. | ||
| Why wouldn't I? | ||
| If I'm anywhere in the world, I'd come in. | ||
| Right now, they tell you only 60% comes from Central America and Mexico. | ||
| 40% comes from the rest of the world. | ||
| Obviously. | ||
| You got a shot to get here and get all the freebies? | ||
| I'm coming, baby. | ||
| Don't hold me back. | ||
| And once I get here, I'll figure out how to get you in too. | ||
| Absolutely, they're making rational decisions because we're incentivizing them. | ||
| That's what your country's doing. | ||
| And remember, this whole thing that sends nothing to the border to build the wall, nothing really to the border to stop anything, and doesn't give any money to ICE to enforce anything in the middle of the night, why do we have to do it with 2,700 pages not read? | ||
| Why do we have to do it? | ||
| Why is it such an emergency? | ||
| Why, why, why? | ||
| Because there's $14 billion. | ||
| In a, I think it's six trillion dollar total budget when you count the transfer payments. | ||
| It's five and a half to six trillion dollars. | ||
| Okay, five and a half to six trillion dollars. | ||
| Fourteen billion dollars. | ||
| It's got seven billion military and seven billion of civilian support. | ||
| That's why we got to do it immediately. | ||
| Even Cornyn and these gutless cowards that didn't say there's no way to run a railroad. | ||
| We still haven't read the 2700 pages, but we know he's going to pay for it. | ||
| Everybody in this country that's under the year. | ||
| If you're under 45 years old, Let me be blunt. | ||
| You're a sucker, okay? | ||
| Because all the happy talk they talk on the show, they're burying you every day. | ||
| They're burying you every day. | ||
| All the opportunities in the golden age of entrepreneurship in America and the growth and opportunities. | ||
| That is all in the past, because nobody in this town has enough stones to make tough decisions. | ||
| And all the easy calls are years behind us. | ||
| There are no easy calls anymore. | ||
| And how many of these people up here can take pain? | ||
| How many can take the pain that Paul Volcker and Ronald Reagan took in the early 80s to wring out the inflation that was in the system for the first Arab oil embargo? | ||
| Remember, that was all geopolitically driven, too, plus the fact that we weren't maximizing and going full-spectrum energy dominance on the natural resources that Divine Providence has granted this great nation, the New Jerusalem. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| You think it was bad then? | ||
| What we have now is a thousand times worse. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| We don't have the balance sheet we had back then. | ||
| We have $30 trillion face amount of debt that's already going to increase by another $2 trillion. | ||
| We've got $9 trillion sitting over at the Federal Reserve. | ||
| We've done nothing but keep the printing press running because nobody has the guts to sit there and go, we can't do this anymore. | ||
| It's not sustainable. | ||
| So all my Republican friends in the party sit there and, you know, Ben Sasse and all these guys want to send stuff all around. | ||
| Tell me how it's sustainable. | ||
| Tell me how a trillion-dollar defense bill is sustainable. | ||
| Tell me how that burden is sustainable. | ||
| The people with the pom-poms every day, please tell me what the overall game plan is, because I know what our game plan is. | ||
| We preach that gospel every day here. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Darren Beatty, Steve Cortez are going to join us, and we're going to get down to some basics, some fundamentals, some truth. | ||
| Remember, the first casualty of war is truth. | ||
| And as Churchill said, truth is so precious in war that it has to be guarded by a bodyguard, protected by a bodyguard of lies. | ||
| We're going to peel away the lies and talk about the truth. | ||
| Darren Beatty from Revolver, the great Steve Cortez, and Mike Davis, if anything breaks on the Judge Jackson hearings, to be a Supreme Court Justice. | ||
| All next in The War Room. | ||
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We're taking down the CCP! | |
| Spread the word all through Hong Kong. | ||
| We will fight till they're all gone. | ||
| We rejoice when there's no more. | ||
| Let's take down the CCP! | ||
| War Room. Pandemic. With Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room. Pandemic. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Oh Oh Okay, welcome back. | ||
| Okay, in our box, you got the hearing that started. | ||
| Mike Davis is going to give us a heads up if he needs to come back or we need to cut into the hearings. | ||
| As soon as something big there, we'll do it. | ||
| I want to bring in Cortez. | ||
| I got Darren Beatty. | ||
| Steve Cortez is going to give us some market checks this morning because things are on fire right now. | ||
| Cortez, here's what I want. | ||
| And people say, I want Zelensky and I want that ex-president. | ||
| The ex-president comes on, I think it was morning, Jerry, that he lays out four demands. | ||
| We need more arms immediately, you need to ship them in. | ||
| You need to do close sky, you need both MiGs and surface-to-air missiles to close the sky, they'll start World War III. | ||
| We need a western front that's more economic warfare. | ||
| And oh, by the way, they're still on a Marshall Plan on top of it. | ||
| I want that guy representing us. | ||
| I want that guy in the U.S. | ||
| Senate and with Zelensky in the House. | ||
| They got chutzpah. | ||
| I like it, though. | ||
| They're in your grill. | ||
| And they got a way about them. | ||
| They're kind of lecturing you. | ||
| I'm not crazy about the content. | ||
| I like the style. | ||
| Because they're sitting there, just, dude, this is what we need of American politicians. | ||
| Go ahead, sir. | ||
| It's not just the substance, of course, is so wrong for the strategic interest of the United States, or I should say the lack of strategic interest. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| It's also, it's the condescension, it's the demanding nature and I do think it's finally starting to backfire a bit on Zelensky, somebody who the American left and the Davos dilettantes want to canonize. | ||
| He, over the weekend, you know, he's doing his virtual tour of the world and over the weekend, he really lectured Israel and tried to compare this to the Holocaust. | ||
| Almost as offensive, or I should say actually more offensive even, than coming to the United States virtually and comparing it to 9-11 for Americans. | ||
| So I think he is overplaying his hand certainly. | ||
| But I want to also touch on financial markets right now and how it relates to the economic risk that America is taking here. | ||
| Because we are at full-scale economic war. | ||
| When people talk about the United States engaging, we have totally engaged. | ||
| As a matter of fact, on the economic front, we are using unprecedented actions. | ||
| We have weaponized money in a way that we have never done in American history. | ||
| Including even in World War II. | ||
| So we're at full-scale economic war. | ||
| Realize that we already had a full-on Biden inflation embroilio in this country, an explosion even before things got hot in the Ukraine. | ||
| Joe Biden already took us economically to a place of the 1970s. | ||
| I argue that he now risks, through this escalation and through this economic war versus Russia, he risks taking America to a place of the 1930s. | ||
| 1930s. And let me give y actually, I think three right now. One is crude o today. West texas interme visit below $100. Unfortu back above 100 materially as we speak up about 6% o This doesn't get talked about enough. | ||
| Wheat prices right now per bushel are above $11 per bushel. | ||
| When Joe Biden took office on January 20th, it was $6 per bushel. | ||
| Wheat was already flying like every commodity before this crisis, but this crisis has put it on steroids. | ||
| Steve, if you double or almost double wheat prices, you are literally begging for a global food crisis that is imminent and looming. | ||
| And then the third issue for Americans that really hits home and hits Main Street, Today, for the first time, we see two-year Treasury yield go above 2%, first time since 2019. | ||
| Ten-year Treasury yield already did that weeks ago. | ||
| Mortgages, 30-year mortgage rates, are above 4% now, on average, for the first time since 2019. | ||
| So, my point here is to the people out there, realize you are a combatant, and I'm sure an unwilling combatant right now, but you are a combatant in this economic war against Russia right now. | ||
| We have already escalated Far beyond any material interest that the United States actually has in this fight in Ukraine. | ||
| We must stop it now. | ||
| The economic risks alone are too severe to justify any further escalation of this process. | ||
| Do not listen to corporate media, and that includes Fox News. | ||
| Do not listen to corporate media when they try to claim that, quote, freedom isn't free and that we need more escalation of the U.S. | ||
| into what is clearly a regional struggle over a border. | ||
| We're the de-escalation group. | ||
| We want to de-escalate, get people to the table, and let's make a deal here so the killing can stop and the economic carnage can stop. | ||
| Cortez is going to jump back in here. | ||
| We're going to talk about a political story about Hispanic votes. | ||
| Any African American or Hispanic that votes for these Democrats, you just have to look at this with a fish eye. | ||
| The oil was $42 a barrel. | ||
| It's now over $110 a barrel. | ||
| This is the cruelest, most unfair tax on you in history. | ||
| And they can sit there and do away with these state taxes. | ||
| Hey, they've caused this with their own actions. | ||
| They've done this. | ||
| And look at wheat. | ||
| Look at even buying bread. | ||
| I think it was under $4. | ||
| It's now over $11 and going higher to a global... | ||
| Crisis remember Ukraine's the Kansas of of Eurasia. | ||
| These folks in exacerbating this and that's what they're doing now is exacerbating it's time to deescalate want to get to Darren Beatty Darren revolvers always I think had a very. | ||
| A jaundiced eye on any type of American involvement in any of these situations. | ||
| You and I are dear friends and close colleagues, but even you and I disagree that sometimes, you know, you're always on me, that I'm seeing the CCP under every bed, right? | ||
| And I understand that. | ||
| But you're, I think, the epitome of the ultimate non-neocon. | ||
| What is your problem with the media today, particularly Newsmax and Fox News, because we've got so many friends and colleagues over there, people like Sean Hannity, who everybody's very close to, and a fabulous guy, and been a great bulwark of the conservative movement for years, and others, when now it's just non-stop war porn over there, sir. | ||
| Yeah, it's amazing. | ||
| To look at Fox, to look at the seemingly nonstop propaganda, although at Fox, I have to give them credit, at least there are a number of precious and extremely important exceptions. | ||
| Tucker, as you pointed out, Jesse Watters seems to be leaning in the right direction. | ||
| But other than these exceptions, it's a nonstop drumbeat for escalation toward war. | ||
| And the thing that's so Unfortunate about this is it seems like a total reversion to the Iraq War Bush days. | ||
| But it's even less excusable than that. | ||
| Because in the lead up to the Iraq War, we were experiencing this grand emotional trauma of 9-11. | ||
| So it was easy being manipulated. | ||
| You didn't have the internet that you could use as effectively to see alternative sources of information. | ||
| And The entire U.S. | ||
| national security apparatus hadn't yet effectively declared war on Republicans and conservatives in the country. | ||
| And so we could perhaps be forgiven for swallowing all the propaganda back in the Iraq war, but now you turn on Fox, you turn on Hannity, and it's like the early 2000s all over again only applied to Ukraine. | ||
| It's quite It's quite disturbing to see. | ||
| Let me ask you, how can we not have learned the lessons? | ||
| So let me ask you, why? | ||
| How can we not have learned the lessons? | ||
| 20 years, nine trillion dollars, what, 10,000 dead, 50,000 wounded, 20, 20 to 40, depending on how you count it, suicides a day from PTSD still. | ||
| And and is my daughter contained? | ||
| and other people, people they know, still questioning why they were there. That's the big thing is that why they were there. Why did this happen? | ||
| What happened? Why have we learned and why has Fox learned no lessons whatsoever from the Iraq debacle? | ||
| Well, it's an interesting question. I think a lot of it has to do with various factions of the ruling elite that exerted dominant influence on reporting throughout this country. | ||
| I think, although we're focusing on Fox, I think it's important to note that within the U.S. media ecosystem generally, Tucker is really the only major exception to an otherwise absolutely uniform and homogenous reporting when it comes to the narrative. | ||
| This gets back to Ukraine. | ||
| You said, oh, Ukraine isn't very much a democracy because they just consolidated their media. | ||
| They can still be a democracy like us when all of the media says one thing. | ||
| It just matters what they say. | ||
| If they're saying what we say, then they become, by definition, a democracy and part of the rules-based order. | ||
| But this is the media environment you have here. | ||
| And many people were saying, no, you don't touch it. | ||
| Don't discuss the Hannity problem. | ||
| We had to do it. | ||
| It's a red hot piece. | ||
| It's generating a ton of controversy and discussion right now at revolver.news. | ||
| It's called The America First Movement Has a Sean Hannity Problem. | ||
| People are scandalized by it. | ||
| People agree with it. | ||
| People say this is the single best analysis of the right-wing media environment in wartime that they've ever read. | ||
| So I encourage everyone to go there right now, read it, and share it with the people that you know need to read it, who don't want to read it, but who need to read it. | ||
| It's hard to read. | ||
| Sean Hannity is a great guy. | ||
| Everybody knows Sean. | ||
| He'll bend over backwards for anybody. | ||
| Sean is a very giving person and a great guy. | ||
| And you would have thought, given Iraq and particularly with America First. | ||
| Here's the other thing I don't get. | ||
| So you got to help me out with this. | ||
| How can Fox and MSNBC be totally aligned? | ||
| And MSNBC's got so many Bush officials that were there to sell the Iraq war and they're just brazen out there with the same cheerleading. And if you look at the war coverage, MSNBC and Fox try to top each other during the day. How does that work, Darren Beattie? | ||
| It's a great point and this is something that we say in the piece, which again, it's very brutal, it's very hard, but it's necessary And that is, you know, I can actually understand why MSNBC would be fully aligned with our national security state on this issue. | ||
| I can understand why CNN would be aligned to this issue. | ||
| You know, there's people who say, oh wait a minute, the leftists are supposed to be anti-war, and there's some truth to that. | ||
| But in the larger sense, why wouldn't MSNBC, CNN, the Dems generally, why wouldn't they fall in line with the very same national security state that has effectively declared political war on their domestic enemies? | ||
| Of course they would support the national security state. | ||
| What's more puzzling, and actually pathetic, is that the right, the Fox News right, the battered spouses of the national security state, who've been beaten down by this establishment, all of a sudden when it comes to a national security issue, they fall in line like literal battered spouses. | ||
| It's pathetic, it's weird, it requires a deep psychological explanation to account for this fact. | ||
| Okay, real quickly. | ||
| Send it to the site. | ||
| Your Getter and Twitter handles. | ||
| What are they? | ||
| Getter at RevolverNews. | ||
| Twitter at Darren J. Beatty. | ||
| Revolver.News. | ||
| This controversial piece is up there right now. | ||
| Read it and share it. | ||
| We'll pull it back in a moment. | ||
| Patriots, even the New York Times now concedes that the Biden laptop from hell was authentic, something that thinking people knew all along. | ||
| But let's talk about how the oligarchs of America determine what you are allowed to see and to hear. | ||
| How does the digital iron curtain work in America right now? | ||
| To explain, let's look at this triangle of tyranny. | ||
| Let's start with the intelligence community. | ||
| The intelligence community is totally dependent upon legacy media to act as the public relations arm of the IC, to effectively act as the scribes, the stenographers for the stories which legacy media is dependent upon the IC to feed into it. | ||
| The legacy media, in turn, is dependent upon Big Tech. | ||
| Big Tech acts as the gatekeepers, deciding which stories produced by legacy media can be seen and heard. | ||
| Big Tech, in turn, is dependent upon the intelligence community. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because Silicon Valley has some of the largest contractors in the world to the Department of Defense and to our national security agencies. | ||
| So, taken together, we see here a trifecta of treachery Okay, I've got Cortez with me, Darren Beatty. | ||
| I want to just read one of the more controversial quotes from this brutal story he's got up that everybody should read. | ||
| And I think once you read this, you'll understand the heroism of someone like Tucker Carlson. | ||
| People say, well, Tucker's got a huge show, they're not going to touch him. | ||
| Trust me, you're in an environment like that, You're getting it every day. | ||
| So that's a that's a real hero. | ||
| I want to read this as a quote from the article. | ||
| For the right, war is a permanent crutch, a way to ignore real issues, the issues where they are losing and live in a comforting fantasy world of easy moral clarity and absolute American dominance. | ||
| Demanding escalation in Eastern Europe is a way for Republicans to feel tough. | ||
| Brutal passage from Revolver.News' article. | ||
| Everybody's got to read it. | ||
| lost control of their own country. | ||
| In this darkly ironic fashion, Republicans actually do have something in common with the Ukrainians they wish to save. | ||
| They are both patriotic to a country that they have no control over in the first place. | ||
| Brutal passage from Revolver.News' article. | ||
| Everybody's got to read it. | ||
| It's a tough article to read, particularly given people's sense of support and admiration for many of the people that But look, this is a war. | ||
| This is what the Fargo War is. | ||
| This is why you have to have steely-eyed resolve. | ||
| Steve Cortez. | ||
| Thomas Dealey, I resolve you, hearing these pollings, 99% of the people support this, support this. | ||
| NBC's got some quote for me, and they said, well, he didn't give a follow-up example. | ||
| Hey, in the Iraq War, it was 90% of the people. | ||
| Just remember that. | ||
| Go back in time, particularly you old enough. | ||
| There's so many of our young colleagues that don't remember that were either not born or were young kids then in short pants. | ||
| But the adults should remember, all the cheerleading of the Iraq War, it was all lies. | ||
| All of it, they were all lies. | ||
| Not just, there's one thing about making bad decisions or, you know, the Kazarin Pass or, you know, do you go Japan first or you go Europe first or, you know, tactical decisions are bad. | ||
| There's another thing to just lie to you, reinforce the lie. | ||
| And then after it's exposed as a lie, just try to say, oh, well, you know, we thought it was there or really was there, etc. | ||
| You were lied. | ||
| About Iraq. | ||
| And look at the debacle. | ||
| We still have not recovered from Iraq. | ||
| We haven't recovered from Iraq. | ||
| Haven't recovered financially or as a country. | ||
| But when you ask the questions correctly, Mr. Cortez, what happens? | ||
| No, it's a great point. | ||
| And Steve, listen, I do not believe in policy by polling, because you're exactly right. | ||
| Some of the lonely voices like Patrick Buchanan during the Iraq War, they were right, even though the polling favored that war. | ||
| But my point is, if the questions are asked correctly right now, the polling actually is not pro-escalation. | ||
| It is not pro-intervention. | ||
| And let me give you some concrete data there. | ||
| This is from economist YouGov. | ||
| This poll was just finished on March 8th. | ||
| So things were extremely hot, full-on invasion of Ukraine. | ||
| At that point, they said, and if you ask this correctly, not no-fly zone. | ||
| That phrase doesn't mean much to most people if they're not involved in the military or if they don't think strategically about it. | ||
| But they asked the question, Economist YouGov, should the U.S. | ||
| shoot at Russian planes in Ukraine? | ||
| Okay, that's the actual question, right? | ||
| Should we engage in combat there? | ||
| That's what a no-fly zone really means. | ||
| Only 14% said they strongly support it. | ||
| 17% said they somewhat support it. | ||
| So 31% in total of Americans say they either strongly or somewhat support the idea of the U.S. | ||
| actually really enforcing a no-fly zone over in Ukraine. | ||
| And by the way, 14% strong support, twice as many strongly opposed. 29% So, the good common sense of the American people, I think, when the question is asked the right way, that good common sense shines through. | ||
| I think Americans instinctively, even if they don't use this phrase, they instinctively maintain and embrace an America First foreign policy that, you know, we protect vital American interests. | ||
| So, I think that the American people are, despite all of the obstacles put in their way, and I mentioned some of them there in my chalk talk, | ||
| Despite all those obstacles, despite all of the lies, all of the fog, not a fog of war, but fog of real disinformation coming from the corporate media, from our own elected officials, including a lot of Republicans, I think people are increasingly grasping the reality that there's no vital American interest at stake here, that we have already paid an enormous economic cost for the economic war that we've instituted, that Biden has instituted against Russia, and that further escalation does not make sense. | ||
| for the American people. So again, I don't believe in policy by polling, but the polling is actually on our side on this issue if the questions are asked correctly. | ||
| You see in how we're losing yesterday on CBS on the I think it's Face of the Nation show on CBS, the Sunday morning show with Ms. | ||
| Brennan, she gets read the Riot Act by the Chinese ambassador. | ||
| And these guys are all made to kind of be very polite. | ||
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| Just right back in your face. | ||
| They have no respect for our leadership anymore. | ||
| What they have done from Alaska till now is stunning. | ||
| They didn't do that under Donald J. Trump. | ||
| They flew over here after we took the phone call from Taiwan. | ||
| They flew Tiger Yang. | ||
| I sat Tiger Yang for two days, not for six hours, for two 12-hour days without Ombra right across the table from me. | ||
| I didn't let him, he wouldn't read me the Right Act. | ||
| Not going to read me the Right Act. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Not going to happen. | ||
| This is why he hates, that's why he hates me, this is why I'm, one of the reasons I'm sanctioned. | ||
| I told him exactly what we're going to do. | ||
| This is, and people right now, in the vital national security of our nation is the protection of our currency and not the weaponizing of it. | ||
| If we're going to weaponize it, you've got to go for the head of the snake. | ||
| Am I wrong, Steve Kortes? | ||
| Listen, Steve, we live in a world that is full of powerful vipers out there. | ||
| And that's really, I'm not exaggerating when I call them that. | ||
| I'm talking about people like Xi, Putin, MBS, others, right? | ||
| We live in a world where America needs to be respected and or feared. | ||
| And Joe Biden is neither. | ||
| He is not respected and he is not feared. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Well, for one reason, when you're talking about Beijing specifically, because he is in all likelihood Totally compromised by them. | ||
| A reality that we know from the laptop from hell. | ||
| A reality though that was hidden from the American people. | ||
| And unfortunately, rather successfully hidden. | ||
| So there are real consequences to a rigged election. | ||
| And by the way, I would say even if you're a person out there who actually believes that the legal votes were counted correctly. | ||
| I'm certainly not in that camp. | ||
| Far from it. | ||
| But let's say you believe that. | ||
| It was still a rigged election because the most bombshell story of the entire campaign was completely suppressed and hidden from the American people. | ||
| A story that has again become incredibly relevant today because it's a story that involves China and Ukraine, two of the most key players in this entire current conflict. | ||
| And one of the reasons, perhaps the primary reason, that the Chinese Communist Party neither fears nor respects Joe Biden is because they internally have the receipts. | ||
| They know exactly how compromised he is personally as the, quote, big guy. | ||
| His family is, which I really prefer to refer to as the Biden cartel. | ||
| And they know that the election of Joe Biden was rigged. | ||
| And they know that this is a time to press their bets. | ||
| And it is a time to end, in all likelihood, A century of the hegemony of the American dollar, and this is something which, for regular everyday folks out there who don't follow capital markets, I know it may be easy, you know, your eyes might glaze over when you start hearing currency talk, but please pay attention and know this. | ||
| Your life has been made materially better because the dollar has been the reserve currency of the world, because there's been an almost insatiable demand Globally for United States dollars everywhere from corporations to central banks to drug dealers. | ||
| Everyone transacted in dollars that had great benefits for America because it was a lid on inflation and the last couple of decades when we have run out of control and irresponsible deficits, it allowed us to finance those deficits at very reasonable rates. | ||
| Once we lose that status of King Dollar, that status of the reserve currency of the world, and I believe it's already happening now under Joe Biden, the economic reality for America becomes nightmarish as our deficits and debts are totally unsustainable without the exorbitant luxury of King Dollar. | ||
| We can quickly become Argentina, and I think that probably sounds like an exaggeration to a lot of Americans, but realize that Argentina was as wealthy, if not wealthier, than America a century ago. | ||
| Economics can be a very harsh set of principles. | ||
| And right now, we are playing with fire, with unprecedented escalation economically against Russia, and over what? | ||
| Over the eastern border of Ukraine, over a regional struggle in which America And by the way, no one in American government, no one from Brussels, no one in media has had the decency, has had the respect for the American people to explain to us why we should be taking these monumental risks because of eastern Ukraine. | ||
| Why does this matter to the United States? | ||
| They don't have the decency to try to make a case. | ||
| I don't believe there is any case for them to make, but they should at least Have the respect to try because every American is a combatant right now in this economic war and this economic war could very well lead to kinetic war if we don't cool it. | ||
| So stop listening. | ||
| I implore the audience out there, stop listening to Davos dilettantes and D.C. | ||
| dilettantes, people like Ben Sasse, people like Mitch McConnell, like Lindsey Graham. | ||
| Notice I'm naming all Republicans, like most of Fox News, like most of the legacy media, because they are trying to get you into a hot shooting war. | ||
| Mike Pence. | ||
| We're champions of freedom. | ||
| That's all happy talk. | ||
| I'd like to start supporting freedom at home, Mike Pence. | ||
| I'd like to start supporting freedom for the working class Hispanics in the Rio Grande Valley that bear the brunt of the first wave of this invasion. | ||
| Remember, in the month of February, I think 150,000-160,000 invaders came across. | ||
| That's more than the army that landed at D-Day. | ||
| It's more than the British, Canadians, and Americans combined. | ||
| That's a one-time deal. | ||
| This is every month. | ||
| And we're talking about 400,000, which is bigger than Patton's army that drove across the heart of France and Germany. | ||
| This is what you're talking about, and all this having Champions of Freedom. | ||
| Please, I want Sass, Pence, Lindsey Graham, that's a great group of, that's a high IQ set. | ||
| I want you guys all to sit there and tell me, walk me through the plan, and walk me through the sustainability of the plan. | ||
| You cannot talk about these commitments until you talk about paying for it. | ||
| And paying for it no longer can be just deficits. | ||
| This is the crime on every kid, your children, and your grandchildren. | ||
| They will look back on what we're doing now and spit on the floor as we frittered away their inheritance of 12 or 13 or 14 generations. | ||
| How do you think we got into the economic situation to be able to do this? | ||
| For the blood and the sweat and the tears and the struggle? | ||
| And determination and hard, just basic hard work and doing without saying, no, we won't do this today because this will build it for future generations. | ||
| That's what America is. | ||
| That's what built America. | ||
| OK, and you're furthering it away with this talk. | ||
| Let's send weapons and tell me the sustainability of the plan. | ||
| Tell me how you're going to finance. | ||
| The bill you just passed last week and voted for, Ben Sasse and Lindsey Graham? | ||
| And tell me how you're going to pay for being champions of freedom, Mike Pence? | ||
| Show me. | ||
| Walk me through. | ||
| Have enough respect for the American people to treat them like adults, not like children. | ||
| Put the pom-poms down and let's have an adult conversation. | ||
| Because there's no plan. | ||
| The plan is just continue on. | ||
| And it's not sustainable. | ||
| It's not sustained. It's going to bring this nation to its knees Short break cortez will join us on the other side Everything's just beginning But the games you want to play Bring it on and have a fight to the end. Just watch and see it's all started | ||
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| We've got Steve Cortez is with us. | ||
| Okay, the Evercrack War Room production staff has given me the number to call 202-224-3121. | ||
| Okay, is that the general number? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Okay, that's it. | ||
| Call that number 202-224-3121. | ||
| You notice they don't have an 800 number. | ||
| 202-224-3121. You notice they don't have an 800 number. Ha! | ||
| They'd be flat. 202-224-3121. | ||
| Ask for your state senator and say, hey, we just want a fair, but we want to get all the details on Judge Brown Jackson. | ||
| Her all the details relate to this thing about child pornography, the release of all the commission, U.S. | ||
| Sentencing Commission, everything. | ||
| Need a full vetting of this to be fair to make sure that when she went and if she joins the court, that she's had she's had her day to explain this situation. | ||
| Cortez, you've got polling for us, because the Democrats are in a full scramble right now. | ||
| There's an article in Politico today that basically says, and correct me if I'm wrong, that the U.S. | ||
| Senate hangs on the Hispanic vote in Arizona and Nevada. | ||
| And let me just tell the Democrats out there, particularly the operatives that watch this show, If that's what you're hanging on, guys, you better have a plan B. You're in deep trouble. | ||
| That's the biggest tell I've seen so far. | ||
| I've read that thing 10 times and just loved it. | ||
| Walk us through your analysis, Cortez. | ||
| Well, Steve, I have to tell you, I do take some personal glee in this. | ||
| As an American nationalist and a proud Hispanic, nothing would be better than watching Hispanics in states like Arizona and Nevada tip the balance with amazing candidates. | ||
| Like Blake Masters and Adam Laxalt, both of whom I think will make amazing senators. | ||
| But let's look at some of the data here. | ||
| And believe me, the Democrat operatives are pulling their hair out, okay? | ||
| Because they see the same data here that I see. | ||
| They might be misguided, they might be evil, but they're not stupid. | ||
| They see these numbers and they see the way Hispanics are rallying to the America First agenda. | ||
| Hispanics, and I would say working-class Americans of whatever persuasion, whatever ethnicity, whatever color, Americans of the working class, and that comprises almost all Hispanics, are rallying to the combination of cultural conservatism plus economic populist nationalism. | ||
| That is the winning formula. | ||
| Cultural conservatism plus economic populist nationalism. | ||
| Now, let's look at the numbers to try to prove my point. | ||
| In Arizona, and this is polling from civics in Arizona among Hispanics in that state. | ||
| When Joe Biden took office just over a year ago in January of 2021, he had a commanding positive approval ratio among Arizona Hispanics. | ||
| 65% approved, only 26% disapproved. | ||
| That's really an amazing, I mean, he had amazing, an amazing font of goodwill among Arizona Hispanics, plus 39, almost 40% his way. | ||
| That has shrunk all the way now to only plus 12. | ||
| He is right now at 5139, according to Civics. | ||
| Now, I'm shocked that he still has a positive approval ratio at all, because it has either shrunk into even or even negative in other states, similar states like Texas and Nevada among Hispanics. | ||
| But if we take Civics number on its face, and again, I do think that polling, even if you don't believe in the outright number, as long as they haven't changed their methodology, Steve, I think the movement is valid and the movement is something to pay attention to. | ||
| And the movement here is in just over a year's time, An implosion minus 27% in the state of Arizona among bad hombres and among Latinas who have had enough of Biden's policies. | ||
| One other poll to give you on the national level. | ||
| If we look again at Economist YouGov, I mentioned some of their other polling before. | ||
| Economist YouGov on the economy nationally asked all Americans of whatever ethnicity to describe the economy. | ||
| 5%, a paltry 5% Yes, 9%. | ||
| 9% of Hispanics say they are better off. | ||
| It's an amazingly bad number, of course. | ||
| It's accurate, unfortunately, but that's the reality. | ||
| They asked Hispanics, are you better off than you were when Joe Biden took office? | ||
| The percentage of Hispanics nationally who said yes, 9%. | ||
| 9% of Hispanics say they are better off. | ||
| So the Democrats have a massive problem among working class constituencies in this country, including Hispanics. | ||
| And it's not just the economy, although that's a crucial part of it. | ||
| I think it's the economy plus the cultural issues. | ||
| You know, Hispanics as a community tend to be more conservative than other demographics in America. | ||
| And when the Democratic Party, which has really made political orphans of Hispanics in this country, when the Democratic Party insists on fake reality, on things like there are 50 genders and it's okay for men to crush women in sports, for example. | ||
| I think all Americans have good sense recoil, but particularly so Hispanic Americans. | ||
| So that we have the winning policy combination for a tidal wave to come in 2022 and 2024 among Hispanic Americans as the new real, one of the new pillars of the America First movement. | ||
| And I've got to tell you, for all working-class people out there, you haven't fought the brunt with the 10-year Treasury going up. | ||
| Your credit card interest rates are going to crush you. | ||
| Your gasoline is going to crush you. | ||
| And now with wheat blowing up, you're going to get crushed. | ||
| But basics, basics like food, basics like gas to get to work, and basics like, hey, my credit cards, the very basics of the credit cards, Steve Cortez, that trifecta is going to wipe out working-class people throughout this country. | ||
| No, you're exactly right. | ||
| Listen, inflation is the most regressive of all punishments, right? | ||
| In other words, it affects working-class people the hardest, people who, for them, the percentage of the income that they spend on the essentials, on the staples, is the highest. | ||
| It might annoy the law partner or the investment banker who makes a seven- or eight-figure income, but it's not going to change his or her life. | ||
| It is going to materially change the lives of the single working mom waitress who has a long drive to work and cringes when she puts her credit card Into that gas pump, knowing how high the tab is going to be. | ||
| Again, these are the consequences of policy failures of Joe Biden, and we are not going to allow him to use the beard of Putin. | ||
| We're not going to allow him or Nancy Pelosi to lie to the American people and spin a narrative that this is because of Putin. | ||
| Yes, the inflation has been exacerbated because of our needless escalation, but we had an inflation absolute inferno before anything got hot in the Ukraine. | ||
| Okay, we're back here at 5 o'clock. | ||
| Tons of stuff to get through today. | ||
| We're also going to have a pre-game of this explosive debate in Ohio. | ||
| Steve, real quick, I have people get to your social media, follow you throughout the day. | ||
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You bet. | |
| Please find me at Steve on the getter, and my substack is linked there. | ||
| I'm also on Twitter at Cortez, Steve Cortez with an S. Cortez, thank you for sitting in for the second hour. | ||
| Okay, follow today. | ||
| The confirmation hearing, it could get a little explosive. | ||
| We're going to have Mike Davis back here at 5 o'clock. |
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