April 26, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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| Anyone disagrees it should be a free and open debate or platform, but I mean, should it be necessarily a font for misinformation or to, you know, say things about people that just aren't true? | ||
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Apparently, yes, according to Elon Musk. | |
| Yeah, I think so. | ||
| That's what he's saying. | ||
| He's a free speech maximalist. | ||
| Now, a lot of people, you know, it's very difficult to moderate, as you've seen. | ||
| You know, people sort of have these fights over it. | ||
| The left and the right are arguing over it. | ||
| You know, the right talks about censorship and shadow banning, which there's been no real proof of yet. | ||
| Maybe Elon will unveil it in some fashion. | ||
| But I mean, one of the things is that what's happened is when anybody gets to say what they want, anybody gets to say what they want. | ||
| And that can lead to some really ugly situations, especially on digital media where people feel a little bit more unfettered and maybe a little addicted to it. | ||
| And anonymous. | ||
| Yeah, and anonymous. | ||
| You think he thinks that hate speech should be free to be blasted over Twitter? | ||
| I don't know his rules. | ||
| I don't know his rules. | ||
| They seem to be headed in that direction. | ||
| Twitter had a bunch of rules, many of which they didn't enforce at all. | ||
| I think that was one of the issues. | ||
| Twitter had a lot of rules and it was very arbitrary, very difficult. | ||
| Millions of posts are being done at any one time. | ||
| Same thing over at YouTube or at Facebook, etc. | ||
| It's a very difficult issue, content moderation. | ||
| Some people think there should be more and some people think there should be less. | ||
| So we'll see. | ||
| This is the less guy, the one who thinks, you know, all speech needs to be free. | ||
| Look, who knows? | ||
| I think that's an example of a broader question for Twitter, which is, if you get invited to something where there are no rules, where there is total freedom for everybody, do you actually want to go to that party? | ||
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Or are you going to decide to stay home? | |
| And that's a question for Twitter users. | ||
| Some Twitter users might love the idea that there's going to be absolutely no moderation and no rules at all. | ||
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Others might not want to be anywhere near that. | |
| Am I crazy, Matt? | ||
| No, no, you're right. | ||
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And what happens to the advertising? | |
| I mean, if there's no moderation or little moderation, do the advertisers stay away? | ||
| What does that do to the business prospects for Twitter itself? | ||
| I think that's very much a... If you own all of Twitter or Facebook or what have you, you don't have to explain yourself. | ||
| You don't even have to be transparent. | ||
| You could secretly ban one party's candidate or all of its candidates. | ||
| all of its nominees or you could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not even find out about it till after the election. Elon Musk says this is all to help people because he is just a free speech, philosophically clear, open-minded helper. | ||
| Okay, we're live. It's Tuesday, 26 April, Year of Our Lord 2022. | ||
| We're in the War Room. | ||
| We've got a packed show today. | ||
| I want to bring you Cortez. | ||
| Steve, I don't know, I want to get to Ari Melber's lack of self-awareness. | ||
| Did he just lay out what Twitter... I'll get to that in a second. | ||
| But I've got to deal with Stelter. | ||
| And we don't like to get personal on this, but Stelter makes a pitch. | ||
| Would anybody in this audience, would anybody in America, the fear of missing out, if you knew that Stelter was going to be at something, you know, no rules, if you knew Brian Stelter was going to be at a party, would you attend? | ||
| Right. | ||
| I think Brian Stelter... Go ahead. | ||
| No, Brian Stelter is like Jeff Zucker made it with a matzo ball, right? | ||
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Right. | |
| This guy is a homunculus, right? | ||
| He's sitting there going, yeah, you know, would you want to go with no rules? | ||
| No, Brian, I wouldn't want to go anywhere that you were invited. | ||
| Anybody, if you were invited, we would know. | ||
| That would be a tell. | ||
| We're not going to attend. | ||
| Steve Cortez. | ||
| Well, Steve, before we get to the philosophical absurdity of Stelter and the rest of the corporate media, you know, sort of Just bemoaning, right, the fact that there might be free speech. | ||
| Just the practical aspect of what Stelter said, because I think this is important. | ||
| He said, would you go to a party where there are no rules? | ||
| Which presupposes, what normal person, when they get invited to a party, Steve, says, well, wait a second, what are the rules for this party? | ||
| This fiesta you're throwing, I need to know the ground rules before I either, you know, confer, before I RSVP. | ||
| What kind of a universe do they live in? | ||
| No, they live in the universe. | ||
| That's my point. | ||
| They live in the universe of microaggressions, right? | ||
| If it's going to be a synonym, is it going to be cultural appropriation? | ||
| I must know in advance. | ||
| I can't take a microaggression. | ||
| They live in fear. | ||
| They live in total fear. | ||
| But here's the more important point, you know, outside of the practical nature of how just, you know, absurd Stelter is on the philosophical point here. | ||
| Here's what I think is important It's clear whether it's Don Lemon or Stelter or Ari Melber or any of them They believe that there is this notion of quote misinformation and disinformation I think both of those phrases should not be used by any person of intelligence because When somebody says something that isn't true—let me give you a specific example. | ||
| Joe Biden, Jay Powell, the rest of the ruling class in Washington, D.C., for more than a year told us that inflation was, quote, transitory, okay? | ||
| That was clearly not true, and I believe they knew it was not true. | ||
| But the way that we fight that factual—the way that we fight that falsehood It's not by getting it banned. | ||
| We don't say, wait a second, you can't use the word transitory. | ||
| We're going to get big tech to literally silence you so that you cannot say transitory because we believe it's misinformation or disinformation. | ||
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No! | |
| What do we do, Steve? | ||
| And we did this a lot, by the way, on your show. | ||
| We write, we talk, we give evidence, we give data, we persuade people that what you're being told is not true and here's why. | ||
| That's how rational human beings operate. | ||
| It's how the United States operated for most of our history until very recently, and it's one of the key reasons that we built the greatest republic in the history of the world, including the greatest economy in the history of the world, is because a marketplace not just of small businesses and entrepreneurs, but also a marketplace of ideas. | ||
| So again, this whole idea of misinformation, disinformation, these are absurd constructs on their face. | ||
| Rational, reasonable people argue against Falsehoods with their own better ideas, with their own better speech. | ||
| The left doesn't want that because they know if they have to get into a legitimate discussion and into a real debate that we will then win on the issue. | ||
| They also know that they're a tiny minority in this country. | ||
| We're the ascendant. | ||
| The inclusive nationalism and participatory populism is ascendant in this nation. | ||
| We are two-thirds. | ||
| Cortez, you and I have talked about this all the time and have worked for years on this. | ||
| We're two-thirds to 75% of the country. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| As soon as we get the economics right. | ||
| We gotta get the economics right. | ||
| We're not quite there yet, but we're getting there. | ||
| We're two-thirds to 75% of the country. | ||
| Overwhelming. | ||
| This is gonna be like 1932. | ||
| This is gonna be a reorientation. | ||
| In this midterm, we have a chance to destroy the Democratic Party at the ballot box. | ||
| All the way from school boards, all the way up and down. | ||
| And they know that. | ||
| Their last bastion is controlling the oligarchs and social media. | ||
| In that, what a great tee-up. | ||
| Let's play from this great rally on Saturday. | ||
| In Ohio. | ||
| Let's play the clip from that and introduce our next guest. | ||
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He's tough. | |
| He's smart. | ||
| He's a former Marine. | ||
| He's a Yale-educated lawyer, a great student. | ||
| You know, went to Yale, got a law degree. | ||
| He's a great student. | ||
| He's a fearless MAGA fighter. | ||
| He fights like crazy and he loves Ohio and he, frankly, he's a great Buckeye. | ||
| So what I'd like to do is ask J.D. | ||
| Vance. | ||
| Come forward. | ||
| I want to pick somebody that's going to win. | ||
| And this man is going to win. | ||
| Come on up, JD. | ||
| So, JD, very good to see you. | ||
| Vance, now you've been preaching this gospel since you gave this, you've been doing it for years, but when you gave this amazing, populous speech over at Pentagon City, I think it was in May of last year, in 2021, or in the summer of last year, a fire-breathing throwdown. | ||
| Now you see what Elon Musk is doing, you see what DeSantis is doing with Disney. | ||
| Is the time coming? | ||
| Are you going to base your campaign on this, to take on the tech oligarchs, to take on, quite frankly, the corporate oligarchs? | ||
| And is this one of the reasons you think that Donald Trump picked you, sir? | ||
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Yeah, I think it's a big reason that the President picked me. | |
| We had a really good time, great rally here in Ohio on Saturday. | ||
| I mean, at the end of the day, you know, you mentioned we on the populist side, the conservative side, we need to get the economics right. | ||
| And one of the things we have to wake up to is that the oligarchy here is not going to give up power without a fight. | ||
| This is not just about politics, about who you install in positions of power, who you're voting for in your government. | ||
| If your biggest corporations are actively silencing conservatives, if they're in financial relationships with the communist Chinese, And they take that that power that they're acquiring via the Chinese and using it to destroy your own nation, then you're going to lose even if you win a political battle here and there. | ||
| And so I think Republicans, man, we're really waking up to this stuff to how how evil some of these major corporations are. | ||
| And look, man, you know, 50, 60 years ago, you look at where big corporations in this country were. | ||
| They were nationalistic. | ||
| They loved their workers. | ||
| They made products. | ||
| You look at where some of our biggest corporations are now. | ||
| They're left wing. | ||
| They're radical. | ||
| They don't care about their own nation. | ||
| That's a new world. | ||
| We have to wake up to it. | ||
| So walk us through this campaign. | ||
| It's next. | ||
| It's a week from today, right? | ||
| It's Tuesday. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| You're the person in the box next Tuesday. | ||
| In the last week, because Cortez is going to be with you, too. | ||
| We're going to talk to him separately in a few minutes. | ||
| Walk through. | ||
| What are you going to do between now and then? | ||
| To push this over the top because you've got people and I can in the Mandel crowd and the Timken crowd you have both people there that love their candidates. | ||
| They're in for this fight. | ||
| So walk us through how you actually win next Tuesday. | ||
| What's the plan? | ||
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Yeah, there's still a lot of undecided voters. | |
| See, probably one in five of our voters are undecided, so we're doing non-stop town halls. | ||
| We had probably 600, 700 people at a few different events with Don Jr. | ||
| yesterday. | ||
| Came up and barnstormed the state, the I-75 corridor in the western part of Ohio. | ||
| Steve and I are going to go see big chunks of the state tomorrow and the day after. | ||
| We're going to have Marjorie Taylor Greene here. | ||
| We're going to have Matt Gaetz here. | ||
| It looks like Josh Hawley is going to come. | ||
| Last day of the campaign, Charlie Kirk. | ||
| So maybe we're just going to bring a lot of our allies to go and really carry the message all across the state of Ohio. | ||
| You know, our voters actually, I say this all the time, our voters deserve to have somebody who respects them enough to go in front of them, to answer their tough questions, to actually try to fight for their vote, not just expect that they're going to get it based on the 30-second TV commercials. | ||
| So we're putting in the work, man, and we're going to win, but we do have to sprint through the finish line to make sure we win as much as possible. | ||
| Look, guys like Blake Masters, obviously Peter Thiel's very involved in your campaign. | ||
| You guys understand technology. | ||
| Give our audience a couple of minutes on Elon Musk and Twitter. | ||
| Why is this a big deal? | ||
| Because overnight, I mean, the left does this for you, right? | ||
| Because I'm not a huge, people know I'm not a huge Elon Musk fan. | ||
| I think he's a transhumanist and, you know, he's hooked up with the Shanghai and the CCP. | ||
| He's thrown down hard here, and the left has just come in and piled in. | ||
| How do you see this thing playing out, and is it good for the populist movement? | ||
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Yeah, I think it's very good for us. | |
| Two things this does, Steve. | ||
| First of all is it reveals, you saw this quote with Ari Melber, right? | ||
| These people know that they have been playing a rigged game where they get to control the flow of information. | ||
| They get to control the censorship, who gets voted up, who gets voted down, the shadow banning, the sort of silent censorship. | ||
| They all know that's going on. | ||
| So the first thing that Elon Musk buying Twitter does It kind of reveals the rats, right? | ||
| It shows us who these people really are. | ||
| The second thing Musk could do, Steve, and this is so important from a technical perspective, is actually open the source code on Twitter. | ||
| Actually show the content moderation algorithms and what they've been doing. | ||
| We could learn more about how big tech controls this country in a week than we have in the past 20 years if Elon just showed us how they're doing content moderation at Twitter. | ||
| Like, when they go and ban Marjorie Taylor Greene, when they go and shadow ban Tucker Carlson, what are they actually doing technically? | ||
| How are those decisions being made? | ||
| If you throw open the gates and show what's going on there, you actually give us intelligence that we could use to go after the Googles of the world, the Facebooks of the world, the whole big tech industry. | ||
| That's what I think the real promise is. | ||
| With Elon buying Twitter. | ||
| Yeah, we don't have to agree with him about everything, but if he actually opens up the code and shows us how they use the ads algorithms, man, it is like that. | ||
| It's the Rosetta Stone of censorship in our country and will never go back if we gain access to that information. | ||
| Give me a minute. | ||
| We got two minutes left a minute on Tim. | ||
| Ryan is going to be shared. | ||
| Brown's mini me shared. | ||
| Brown's a populist. | ||
| How are you going to has a center right populist going to run against a left-wing populist? | ||
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You gotta do two things, Steve. | |
| First of all, you gotta say, look, this is a guy who tries to claim that he's basically a Trump Democrat. | ||
| He's running ads that are harsh on the CCP, but at the end of the day, he's voted for Joe Biden with Joe Biden 100% of the time. | ||
| This guy is lockstep with Joe Biden and the Democrats. | ||
| The other thing you say is, look, he's been a congressman in Youngstown for 20 years. | ||
| Youngstown has lost its steel, its manufacturing, its workers have been devastated. | ||
| This guy has failed for 20 years And now he wants a promotion by the whole state of Ohio. | ||
| So you just gotta hammer him, man. | ||
| He's a fraud. | ||
| He's a failure. | ||
| Those two things, everybody in the state of Ohio is gonna know when we're done with this campaign. | ||
| And because of that, I think we're gonna win. | ||
| And we're gonna win big. | ||
| J.D., how do people get to your site? | ||
| How do they find out more about you and what's happening this week? | ||
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Yeah, best place to find me is jdvance.com. | |
| I'm on all the social media. | ||
| Truth, Gitter, Twitter. | ||
| Facebook. | ||
| So, you know, log on. | ||
| Help us. | ||
| Send us resources if you're able. | ||
| But most of all, get out and vote on May 3rd. | ||
| Volunteer for the campaign and then run up to it. | ||
| Again, we've got all the momentum, Steve. | ||
| We've got the Trump endorsement. | ||
| We've got Don Jr. | ||
| We've got a lot of people out there really hammering everything for us. | ||
| We've just got to sprint through the finish line to win this primary. | ||
| J.D. | ||
| Vance, in this intense race in the Republican primary for the Senate in Ohio. | ||
| J.D., keep the fight on and we will track this closely. | ||
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J.D. | |
| Vance. | ||
| Steve Cortez, the one and only Steve Cortez, is going to hang with us for the first hour. | ||
| Steve's actually going to be with J.D. | ||
| through the rest of the week, and we're going to walk Steve through why he's doing that. | ||
| And he's also got a ton of information about the economy, the bond market, and exactly what's going on in your world. | ||
| You're not going to hear anywhere else except in the War Room next. | ||
| Inflation is causing an absolute spike in interest rates, which translates into a bond market bloodbath. | ||
| At the same time, he's engaged in a currency war, one that he is losing, jeopardizing the century-long dominance of the United States dollar. | ||
| For the numbers, let's get to a Chalk Talk brought to you by Getter. | ||
| This is dollar versus Russian ruble. | ||
| For the pre-invasion year, last Feb through this Feb, it traded in a pretty tight band in the 70s. | ||
| Once Putin decided to invade Ukraine and Biden declared an unprecedented currency war against Russia, the immediate effect was the collapse of the Russian ruble. | ||
| But guess what? | ||
| It only lasted four weeks. | ||
| The Russian ruble has soared all the way back And it is now. | ||
| As this chart goes down, these numbers go down. | ||
| The ruble is getting stronger. | ||
| The dollar is getting weaker. | ||
| And the Russian ruble is now stronger than it was before Putin decided to invade Ukraine. | ||
| Here's the consequence of the takeaway for your life. | ||
| Joe Biden's economic recklessness is making you poorer every single day. | ||
| Let's go through this. | ||
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| Steve, why are people going to get poor? | ||
| We've had basically 10% per year devaluations. | ||
| They're devaluing the dollar to the deplorable, right? | ||
| Isn't that what Biden's strategy is? | ||
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100%. | |
| We went after economic war against Putin to take down their central bank, something we didn't do against Hitler, to get the Russian people to overthrow him. | ||
| That didn't quite work, did it, sir? | ||
| Right. | ||
| No, it sure didn't. | ||
| As I showed there, the ruble is stronger today than it was before Putin invaded Ukraine. | ||
| So Joe Biden risked the credibility of the United States dollar. | ||
| He jeopardized a century of dollar dominance on a reckless bet that did not work, that reversed itself in only a matter of weeks. | ||
| But what he did accomplish, and what he has unfortunately accomplished, I say that in quotes, Is an inflation spiral that is causing a bond market bloodbath and has real-world consequences for everyone in America. | ||
| You know, I point out in my new article on this point that equity markets I think are a lot more frankly fun and interesting to watch. | ||
| But bond markets interest rates matter far more to most Americans. | ||
| Because unless you're very wealthy, moves in equities generally don't affect your everyday life. | ||
| But moves in interest rates affect your everyday life immediately. | ||
| And what we're seeing right now regarding inflation and regarding interest rates. | ||
| Is having an immediate deleterious effect upon rent prices, home purchase prices, financing prices and of course things like food and gas. | ||
| So Biden has created two concurrent and related economic crises. | ||
| The Biden inflation surge, which is causing interest rates to absolutely spike. | ||
| So far this year, 2022, it is the worst year for bond markets ever, Steve. | ||
| The only year that is even comparable so far is 1980, which was a time of horrific double-digit inflation and double-digit interest rates. | ||
| This year so far is worse than 1980. | ||
| We are set to have the worst year ever in terms of bond market prices, meaning the prices go down while interest rates go up. | ||
| And then at the same time, as if that's not bad enough, Joe Biden also decides to roll the dice with King Dollar, and he is losing miserably. | ||
| But nonetheless, he has convinced, and really I would say compelled, the rest of the world, including both enemies as well as friends, To seek non-dollar alternatives, to seek payment and banking systems that do not rely at the whim of Washington, D.C. | ||
| So on both of these points, he is making Americans poorer. | ||
| And by the way, that's not just my opinion, Steve. | ||
| Again, we like to focus here on evidence and data. | ||
| If we look at real disposable income, so incomes that are adjusted for what things cost in your life, real disposable incomes have now gone down Every single month of the last year except for one month. | ||
| 11 out of 12 months real disposable income declining and declining hard. | ||
| So real wages are crashing right now for Americans. | ||
| And by the way, what's their answer? | ||
| And they're starting to get a little more open about this? | ||
| Their answer is, let's bring in millions more workers. | ||
| Let's bring in millions more people to unlawfully and unjustly compete in the labor market to make real wages go down even more. | ||
| So, I talk about the twin crises that he created. | ||
| I could almost add that and make it a triple because that is, unfortunately, their answer is a quote, solution that is only going to make the problem even worse. | ||
| So, Joe Biden's making this country poorer every day. | ||
| The Biden inflation surge, the spike in interest rates, and Risking the century-long credibility of the United States dollar. | ||
| This illegitimate regime and this is why although our country is going through turmoil. | ||
| It was providential on the big steel and here's why we finally understand everything what they stand for from the classroom all the way up to the to the sovereignty of our nation. | ||
| To the, to the credibility of our currency, at every level. | ||
| This is why Mark Penn, the Democratic pollster, Hillary Clinton's pollster, has that piece in the New York Times, Steve. | ||
| He talks about every crisis we've had since the 1970s. | ||
| Every major, the one thing that drove the decade. | ||
| And now they're saying they're all here, right? | ||
| The inflation, he did all five of them. | ||
| They're all, they're all coming together because this illegitimate regime. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And don't even talk about the culture war aspect of it. | ||
| Go ahead, sir. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And that's also hugely important. | ||
| But this is why, okay, look, the predicament right now is dire. | ||
| And I'm not going to sugarcoat that for anybody. | ||
| You certainly won't either. | ||
| And by the way, it's likely to get worse before it gets better, this inflation scenario, because we didn't even mention yet what's going on in Shanghai and what that's going to do to the supply chain. | ||
| In the United States. | ||
| So things are likely to get worse before they get better. | ||
| But I also do believe that always within calamity, there is opportunity. | ||
| And you're exactly right. | ||
| There is political opportunity here, but we must seize it. | ||
| And how do we do that? | ||
| In these elections, we have to elect not just Republicans and not just a Republican majority, but Republicans who believe in the principles of America first and cultural conservatism combined with economic populist nationalism. | ||
| And I would submit to you, and I've been very forward about this idea and this thesis, I w that Kevin McCarthy and M remotely those people. Th of leaders to to maintain mantle of leadership over that is going to act in an America first manner. | ||
| I believe that their actions and their statements and in the case of McCarthy, his outright lies, his duplicity, have shown the American people, have shown the deplorables most of all, that they are not the kinds of Republicans, the kinds of America First stalwarts and fighters that we need. | ||
| I would submit to you I think that J.D. | ||
| Vance is exactly that kind of person. | ||
| There are a lot of those candidates out there, thankfully, across the country. | ||
| So we have many to pick from in races all over this land, but we have to be diligent on that front. | ||
| Let's go to this, because you have tremendous credibility, obviously, with this audience. | ||
| This is your home, right? | ||
| And people kind of always wait for the Cortez to come on. | ||
| They love the fact you're always backing up stuff with evidence. | ||
| There has been some natural hesitancy on J.D., right? | ||
| And part of that is not just saying stuff about Trump, but even saying stuff that's racist. | ||
| And there's a big part of this audience that loves President Trump and loves Don Jr. | ||
| and you and everybody, but there's a natural hesitancy. | ||
| On this guy, although intellectually comes at it. | ||
| So make the case for this audience, why you're putting your credibility, why Trump put his credibility, why Don Jr. | ||
| I mean, it's a murderer's row of, you know, you got MTG, you got Gates. | ||
| It's a murderer's row of MAGA populists. | ||
| Why are you guys all in hard for J.D. | ||
| Vance, given his history? | ||
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Sure. | |
| Well, Steve, first I would tell you that I want to be in a political movement that believes in winning people over, that believes in persuasion. | ||
| You know, I want to belong to a faith that believes in evangelizing. | ||
| And we believe in winning converts over. | ||
| And I fully believe that J.D. | ||
| is exactly that kind of convert. | ||
| And here's why. | ||
| I don't want the audience to just take my view or my opinion on that. | ||
| Here's why I think it is instructive to people or should be revealing to people that he's authentic. | ||
| J.D. | ||
| gave up a lot. | ||
| by becoming an America first pro-Trump populist. | ||
| He was beloved by the ruling class, and I mean the ruling class of media, Hollywood, big tech, high finance, all of those very same people, all of those ruling class oligarchs, they now despise J.D. | ||
| Vance because of the things he's saying on the campaign trail, because of the policies that he's agending, the policy agenda that he is promoting, and because of the way that he has embraced Donald Trump, and that embrace has been reciprocated by President Trump, Himself, so I think he risked and gave up a lot. | ||
| I also think you know in this time when big tech is foremost in our minds. | ||
| J.D. | ||
| is the perfect kind of leader that we need in Washington, D.C., and for this reason, he has an insider knowledge of big tech. | ||
| He knows how that business operates from working at it, in it, at the very highest levels. | ||
| But he is also the most bold candidate out there in terms of a willingness to take on big tech. | ||
| So he combines insider knowledge with the boldness and the Okay, and you're going to, real quickly, you're going to be with him this week also. | ||
| You're going to go out, I think, today? | ||
| Starting today? | ||
| when it comes to JD Vance. And it's one of the key reasons that I'm so supportive of his bid to become the next senator from Ohio. | ||
| Okay and you're gonna, real quickly, you're gonna be with him this week also. | ||
| You're gonna go out, I think today, starting today, next couple of days? | ||
| Correct. Next couple days doing town halls across Ohio. | ||
| So yeah, encourage Deplorables. | ||
| Please come out and meet us. | ||
| And ask us tough questions. | ||
| We deserve, JD deserves to be put on the hot seat. | ||
| This is a job interview for an incredibly serious job. | ||
| And the citizens, the Deplorables of Ohio, should be asking this interviewee really tough questions of why he deserves this job. | ||
| So the War Impostor, you got an open invite from Brother Cortez. | ||
| So let's take advantage of it. | ||
| I don't want to hear any whining after the fact. | ||
| Let's take advantage of it. | ||
| I know a lot of this audience is not down there yet. | ||
| It's a lot of undecideds. | ||
| Every opportunity to go do it. | ||
| Okay, short commercial break. | ||
| And by the way, we're going to have Mandel and Tim Kim back on too. | ||
| We're the world. | ||
| It's a platform. | ||
| Short break. | ||
| Cortez gonna join us on the other side. | ||
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We rejoice when there's no more, let's take down the TTP! | |
| Twitter or Facebook or what have you, you don't have to explain yourself. | ||
| You don't even have to be transparent. | ||
| You could secretly ban one party's candidate or all of its candidates, all of its nominees, or you could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not even find out about it till after the election. | ||
| Elon Musk says this is all to help people because he is just a free speech, philosophically clear, open minded helper. | ||
| Okay, Steve Cortez. | ||
| You've got to remember Ari Melber is a lawyer. | ||
| He's one of the smartest guys over at MSNBC. | ||
| I think he said that he has no self-awareness. | ||
| Cortez, why for people that do this for a living and have been around President Trump and have worked the campaigns and been surrogates like you have, why is that statement and mindset by Ari Melber so outrageous, sir? | ||
| Steve, it is absolutely outrageous. | ||
| It is maddening, in fact, because what Ari Melbert is describing right there is exactly what has been happening to conservatives in general for years. | ||
| But it is specifically what happened to the Trump campaign and to the MAGA movement in October of 2020 regarding the Laptop from Hell. | ||
| The phrases he used there, he said, quote, ban candidates, quote, turn down the reach of campaigns and candidates. | ||
| Gee, Ari, can I introduce you to October of 2020 when the New York Post broke the Laptop from Hell story? | ||
| And the social media accounts of the Trump campaign, the official accounts, I don't mean small little outlier accounts somewhere, the official accounts of the Trump campaign, including my own, were suspended, were shut down, so that we literally could not talk directly to the American people about the most explosive story of the entire 2020 election. | ||
| And according to polling, by the way, Steve, from the Media Research Council, 17% of Biden voters say they did not know about that story and that it would have changed their votes. | ||
| So even for people who believe that the tally was accurate of November of 2020, and I'm certainly not one of them, but for those who believe that that tally was accurate. | ||
| That shift of one in six Biden voters is more than enough to make Donald Trump the President of the United States today. | ||
| So Ari is not only lacking in self-awareness... Hold on, hold on, hold on. | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| Don't bury the lead. | ||
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Even with stealing millions of votes, understand something. | |
| Even with stealing millions of votes, he would have been President. | ||
| Overcome the biggest theft in history. | ||
| This is what's so stunning about... Listen, let's cut to the chase. | ||
| Democrats, I don't care if they don't like hearing this or not, Democrats can only win if they cheat. | ||
| They gotta have the media as a Praetorian guard for them, or they actually gotta cheat with all the phony votes, stuff like that. | ||
| Your day is over. | ||
| The Twitter thing's done, and you're seeing it now, and this is, look, like I said, I'm the Elon Musk fanboy, people know that. | ||
| But hey. | ||
| He's got them jammed up right now, and they're in full meltdown. | ||
| I talk about the two-gun strategy. | ||
| Miles O'Groat told me you've got to have two guns. | ||
| You've got DeSantis on one wing. | ||
| You've got Elon Musk on the other. | ||
| It's not that they're having a bad week. | ||
| They understand there's a new reality. | ||
| Steve Cortez that we're not going to take this from corporations anymore. | ||
| This whole thing of the Republican Party for years and years and years given deregulation and tax cuts to these corporate oligarchs and monsters. | ||
| And that's what he created these Frankenstein. | ||
| Those days are over. | ||
| And it's just not the standard. | ||
| People have their back. | ||
| The vast majority of people are saying, we've had enough of this, and we're not going to tolerate it anymore. | ||
| That's what the corporations, with all their consultants and all their lobbyists, this is beyond lobbyist, okay? | ||
| This is reality. | ||
| And people are showing, not just can we punch back Steve Cortez, we can play smash mouth, right? | ||
| And he's sitting there right now. | ||
| The other thing about Musk is, look, Goldman Sachs, as a junior guy, this is what I did for a living. | ||
| It's stunning. | ||
| They didn't have another bid. | ||
| Right? | ||
| They didn't have another bid. | ||
| My point is, they purposely had a business model that doesn't work. | ||
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Right. | |
| To be a Praetorian guard for the progressive Democrats. | ||
| If their business model is so great with all their advertising and total access, where are the other bids? | ||
| Why are they selling the stock at, what, 20% below where it traded in the last 12 months at Goldman Sachs? | ||
| And I was there. | ||
| You couldn't agree to that deal. | ||
| You couldn't give a fairness opinion. | ||
| No way! | ||
| The stock was up there less than a year ago. | ||
| Where's all the research they've been putting out? | ||
| Here's the point. | ||
| They actually have a rigged game on the social media side, and they don't care if it doesn't even pay for itself. | ||
| They'll prop it up. | ||
| Their lefty friends will prop it up. | ||
| Larry thinks these guys, Vanguard, will prop it up in the stock market. | ||
| This is totally rigged from stem to stern and we're going in there and we're going to unrig it, okay? | ||
| We're going to unrig it and it, ladies and gentlemen, if you think this fight's been tough before, you ain't seen nothing yet, okay? | ||
| Because you're going to the heart of the power of what we have allowed and Republicans and the Fox News guys have allowed to metastasize over 30, 40, or 50 years. | ||
| Corporate oligarchs Financial oligarchs that are not going to sit there and just give, like in 16, when Trump won? | ||
| Did they just toss you the keys and pass you in the hand and say, what an amazing idea? | ||
| Steve Cortez and Boris and Steve Bannon with Trump, you know, these little guys running around with Trump. | ||
| What a great idea. | ||
| Let Donald Trump run things. | ||
| Did you see that happen in 16? | ||
| No, the nullification project started that night. | ||
| Do you think They're just going to sit there and pat us on the head? | ||
| We win a 100-seat majority in the House, we take the Senate, they're going to sit there and bring it? | ||
| Every day is going to be Stalingrad, okay? | ||
| And I'm fine with that. | ||
| They want to come at it? | ||
| Bring it! | ||
| We got the American people, and we're getting bigger and more scented every day. | ||
| And to show you the rot in the system, where are the other bids for Twitter? | ||
| Where are they? | ||
| Where are they? | ||
| It's a totally corrupt apparatus from stem to stem with no business model and they propped it up for the entire time. | ||
| It's outrageous, Steve Cortez. | ||
| Listen, you're exactly right. | ||
| And here's the thing, the concentration of power, certainly political power, but particularly economic power, the concentration of power, which has been intensifying in this country for really the last 30 years, but especially the last 20 years, once we led China into the WTO on terms that were incredibly generous to Beijing, we shouldn't expect that we are going to break apart that kind of concentration of power without enormous pushback from the oligarchs who have so benefited from that very same concentration. | ||
| So they are pushing back, but you're exactly right. | ||
| We are winning. | ||
| And part of why we're winning is, and JD Vance mentioned this earlier, there was a nostalgia and a legacy bias where a lot of regular patriotic Americans assumed that big business viewed the interest of the United States as the interest of their own companies. | ||
| For example, there was a phrase generations ago, what's good for General Motors is good for America. | ||
| That was probably true in the 1950s. | ||
| It was probably true in the 1970s. | ||
| But what's good for big business in the 2020s is not at all good for America. | ||
| Because big business is really about two things primarily in terms of macro trends. | ||
| About offshoring as much as possible to achieve cheap labor somewhere else or doing it here in the United States. | ||
| effectively offshoring by bringing in illegal workers into the United States. | ||
| And then the second thing is making a devil's bargain with the left, effectively paying indulgences to the left. | ||
| And what I mean by that is saying, we will promote your toxic secular humanist agenda, your social justice warrior agenda, if you agree to leave us alone so that we can pursue our monopolistic practices. | ||
| So that's what big business does in the 2020s, but it took years to overcome that bias because a lot of free market thinking, Republicans and conservatives still had that nostalgic view of big business. | ||
| They have not woken up to this. | ||
| That's why people like Ron DeSantis are so important. | ||
| That it is time to get gangster against these oligarchs who have inflicted so much damage. | ||
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Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah. | |
| Conservative Inc hasn't. | ||
| Fox hasn't. | ||
| They think this, they don't like this flexing on big business. | ||
| The National Review is melting down. | ||
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I've got to watch what I say, so I'm going to watch it. | |
| All the fellows over at National Review, they don't like DeSantis going beast mode. | ||
| This is what it's going to take. | ||
| Donald Trump goes full beast mode and flexes on these guys. | ||
| That's what DeSantis is learning. | ||
| You're seeing the legislature in Tennessee. | ||
| You're seeing it at that convention in Michigan. | ||
| We're hoping J.D. | ||
| Vance—look, there's a lot in the audience saying, I don't see beast mode there, but hey. | ||
| You've got to be full beast mode, and what that means, you don't have to be mean or nasty, but you've got to stand your ground and say, no, we're not going to do that anymore, okay? | ||
| We're going to cut your tax breaks. | ||
| We're going to get into the fact of what you're going to do with destroying American workers, okay? | ||
| And I don't care if the National Review doesn't write it, they're totally irrelevant. | ||
| Right? | ||
| But you don't have... Conservative Inc. | ||
| has not bought into this whatsoever. | ||
| They are not populist. | ||
| They're not economic nationalist. | ||
| They're not inclusive in our nationalism. | ||
| They don't like the participatory populism. | ||
| They hate the fact that the two-thirds of the votes up in Michigan... And we're winning everywhere. | ||
| Across the board, it's a sweep. | ||
| Is it not, Steve Kortes? | ||
| But Steve, the willing collaborators of Conservative Inc., and that's what they are. | ||
| They're collaborators. | ||
| They're a controlled opposition that the corporate interests and the left sort of maintain. | ||
| They have done nothing but sell us out for decades, right? | ||
| That's just the reality, because you're exactly right, and you say this often, and it's accurate. | ||
| For decades, we won elections while we lost the country. | ||
| And that's in part because the right was represented by Conservative Inc., by these collaborators. | ||
| But those days are now, thankfully, long gone. | ||
| It is no time any longer for collaborators. | ||
| And again, I want to bring this back to the Congress. | ||
| I think two of the chief collaborators are Mitch McConnell in the Senate and Kevin McCarthy in the House. | ||
| And it's why when we elect Republican America First majorities in the House and Senate. | ||
| Those two men cannot be, in my view, the leaders of an America First coalition. | ||
| What do I mean, too, from leaders? | ||
| What do they need to demonstrate? | ||
| Other than, of course, the policies of cultural conservatism and economic populist nationalism. | ||
| But in terms of the approach and the characteristics and the character, they need to show courage Authenticity and an understanding of what time it is in America. | ||
| That the hour is late and the clock is ticking. | ||
| We're going to save this country, but make no mistake, Steve, we have been losing our republic to the oligarchs. | ||
| This is no longer the 1980s where we're arguing about marginal tax rates. | ||
| No, there is a political and cultural war going on in America right now. | ||
| This is a cauldron, and we need leaders who can stand up and see the moment for what it is. | ||
| And see what time it is and recognize that the tactics of the past will not work now. | ||
| And recognize that corporate America is very much our enemy. | ||
| And that big business almost completely works to the detriment of the American people, particularly working class people. | ||
| And it's not just the big corporations that a lot of folks out there know. | ||
| It's some of the companies that they may have never heard of or at least don't know much about. | ||
| And by that, Steve, I mean the asset managers because they are in many ways The glue that holds the oligarchy together. | ||
| It's the Black Rocks and vanguards of the world. | ||
| So we need to not just break up big tech. | ||
| That has to happen. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And not just break up other big businesses. | ||
| We need to also attack big asset management because their power is sly, but it is extensive and pernicious in America. | ||
| To bring this back to housing, by the way, Steve, we got housing numbers out today. | ||
| Homes prices year over year, last March to this March, up 20%. | ||
| 20%. | ||
| When you combine that with interest rates spiking, that means, guess what? | ||
| Young people can't afford a home, and right now, the trajectory we're on, they're never going to be able to afford a home. | ||
| One of the key reasons is because they are competing. | ||
| A young couple who just had a child or wants to have a child, they are competing against BlackRock in the single-family housing market, something that never happened before in American history, something that needs to be forbidden. | ||
| That's a specific example of what I'm talking about, where the oligarchic power of these firms is harming regular Americans every single day and we have the political power to stop it if we have the will to stop. | ||
| These are fights are going to be tight. | ||
| These are going to be massive fights. | ||
| Just stand by. | ||
| One of the members of the engine room, because they know I have a great love for Arizona and for particularly southern Arizona, the Tucson area, just sent me, as you were talking in the Tucson paper today, a huge rental community, a massive New home community, all for rentals, because the asset manager is going to actually own the houses. | ||
| So you pay the interest rate. | ||
| You're basically paying the interest on their loans, and they're going to own all the upside in the assets. | ||
| You're a Russian serf. | ||
| We've got to break that serfdom. | ||
| It's not going to be easy. | ||
| They're not going to sit there. | ||
| Larry Fink and Ray Dalio, they're not going to sit there. | ||
| What a brilliant idea. | ||
| You've got Steve Cortez. | ||
| You've got Steve Bannerman of War Room. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| We should be broken up. | ||
| We're $10 trillion. | ||
| We're just going to turn it all over in those fees. | ||
| The big house out in Greenwich. | ||
| It's brilliant. | ||
| Why didn't we think of that? | ||
| Why did it take Cortez and Bannon? | ||
| They're such geniuses. | ||
| We should have thought of this first. | ||
| Hang on for a second. | ||
| Cortez, the world's on fire. | ||
| You called it first with fertilizer. | ||
| This is deadly serious. | ||
| We got famine all over the place. | ||
| You got shortages all over the place. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| We'll be back in the War Room with Steve Cortez in a moment. | ||
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| Unfortunately, Russian people share responsibility for this war. | ||
| We see how they vigorously support the aggression against Ukraine, how they hate us. | ||
| So they share responsibility with Putin for what Ukraine will win. | ||
| for all the massacres, for crimes, for rapes, tortures, looting. | ||
| I'm sorry to say this, but Russia will have to go, to undergo the process of deputization at certain point. | ||
| It's not only the Russian leadership to blame, the Russian people have to wake up and to atone their sins. | ||
| Ukraine will win, it will be a European democratic country, and Russia will be contained, it will not be able to pose a threat to any country in the world. | ||
| We will pay the price for the safety of the world. | ||
| But we are ready to do it, because it's also the price for our own independence. | ||
| I could take a whole show to go through that, so I'm not going to do it now, because I want to choose my words carefully. | ||
| Remember, in World War II, let's never forget in World War II, the great war against the fascists, the imperial junta in Japan, Uh, the fascists in Italy and the fascists in Nazi Germany. | ||
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| Among others. | ||
| That great war. | ||
| Lao Bajing in China. | ||
| The ordinary person in China and the ordinary person in Russia took the brunt of that war. | ||
| The great heroism of the United States can never be questioned in the Pacific, in Normandy, in the 8th Air Force over Germany, okay? | ||
| Doing daylight precision bombing when the Brits and nobody else would, right? | ||
| Can never be questioned. | ||
| But they took the brunt of it. | ||
| They lost, I think, total combined, I don't know, 40 or 50 million people. | ||
| In that war for the Eurasian landmass, okay? | ||
| And history is being turned around on its head now, okay? | ||
| We've got to be very careful. | ||
| These people running around with pom-poms, we have to be very careful. | ||
| That's about that specific situation. | ||
| I'll spend more time on that during this week. | ||
| But Steve, in this running around with our haircut, now the nomenclature's changed. | ||
| We send the Defense Secretary and Secretary of State over there, and All I see on MSNBC and CNN and the generals on Fox and everything like that, they've now talked, and they're talking about victory against Russia. | ||
| They're talking about victory, and the victory they're defining is pushing Russia out. | ||
| It's like they're oblivious to the photographs and the images coming in from Ukraine that said, you know, Ukraine is winning. | ||
| I heard this a hundred times, Ukraine is actually winning. | ||
| I think Blinken said it, Ukraine is winning. | ||
| I want to ask the dead of Ukraine and Eastern Ukraine, does this feel like victory to you? | ||
| I want to ask the dead women and children. | ||
| Let's start there. | ||
| Does this feel like victory? | ||
| This is insanity. | ||
| And now the situation is spreading throughout the world. | ||
| You're the first one to call it on fertilizers. | ||
| I mean, you've got food rights in Sri Lanka. | ||
| You've got things going on in Chile. | ||
| Ukraine is the Kansas. | ||
| It's kind of the breadbasket of Europe. | ||
| We are hurtling towards a crisis that is a self-inflicted crisis, Steve Kortes. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| Self-imposed. | ||
| You know, much like I talked about earlier, the Biden inflation crisis, which predated anything that happened in the Black Sea, right? | ||
| The Biden inflation crisis was raging last year. | ||
| That is a created crisis. | ||
| The Biden dollar crisis, or risking the dollar, the hegemony of the United States dollar, that is another created crisis. | ||
| And regarding the economic fallout here, I think We haven't even started to see really how bad things can potentially get, particularly because of the fertilizer situation. | ||
| So, Steve, you're right. | ||
| You mentioned that Ukraine, of course, massive grower of wheat and really the breadbasket in many ways of what was the former Soviet Union and for Europe. | ||
| But Russia and Belarus are the dominant players in the global fertilizer market. | ||
| So when we decided to declare economic war, despite the fact that there's no compelling American interest at stake in this Black Sea struggle, we declared economic war on both Russia and Belarus. | ||
| We effectively targeted the global fertilizer market. | ||
| So what has been the fallout? | ||
| Let's talk actual numbers and data. | ||
| If we look at wheat prices, for example. | ||
| Wheat on the day that Joe Biden prevailed in November of 2020 was right around $6 per bushel. | ||
| Now it had soared even before, again, before things got hot in Ukraine, it had soared because of Biden's overall inflation. | ||
| By last Thanksgiving, it reached almost $9 a bushel, so it was already in crisis stage. | ||
| But then Biden put it into overdrive. | ||
| And right now, as we speak, it's trading just below $11 per bushel. | ||
| So nearly doubling of wheat prices and a trend which is likely to get significantly worse because of soaring fertilizer prices and perhaps even fertilizer shortages. | ||
| So this situation, you know, I keep saying that Biden is playing with fire here, and he's playing with fire for no compelling American interest. | ||
| But the kinds of fallout From hunger in the world can be so severe that it's hard for us to even exaggerate. | ||
| It's hard for us to overstate how important this is for the world. | ||
| Now, thankfully, the United States produces an enormous amount of food. | ||
| We're not going to have hunger in the United States, but we are going to have massively higher prices. | ||
| For food here and in many parts of the world, particularly the developing world, there's going to be actual famine and hunger as a consequence of these disastrous policy choices. | ||
| If we had left what is a regional struggle alone to remain a regional struggle, there would not be this kind of global fallout. | ||
| Cortez, give your coordinates today. | ||
| How do people get you on social media? | ||
| Steve's going to be out in Ohio, and I want all the Warren Posse to come up and get a chance to meet Steve Cortez. | ||
| He's going out there with J.D. | ||
| But ask Steve Cortez about J.D. | ||
| Vance. | ||
| You'll have J.D., but if you can't get to him, you've got Cortez. | ||
| I know that's your beloved figure for the Warren Posse. | ||
| Cortez is saying, hey, come and give me the hard questions. | ||
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| Hey, Steve, you know I can handle tough questions. | ||
| I worked for two years at CNN. | ||
| I'm not afraid of tough questions. | ||
| No, but really, for the deplorables in Ohio, please come out and meet us and see us and ask us the very, very tough questions that you deserve to have answered. | ||
| Please find me on social media. | ||
| I'm at Getter, I'm at Steve, and my new sub stack is up there. | ||
| I'm also on Twitter at Cortez Steve with an S. Forget CNN, dude. | ||
| You were a surrogate for Trump. | ||
| There's nothing harder than that. | ||
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You and Boris walked into the lion's den every day. | |
| Every day. | ||
| There's no harder job than in 16 being a surrogate for Donald J. Trump. | ||
| That's where Boris Epstein and Steve Cortez are two of the hardest, hardest you'll ever meet. | ||
| Okay, short commercial break. | ||
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We'll be back. | |
| Second hour's gonna be on fire. | ||
| Short 90-second break. | ||
| Cortez, good trip. | ||
| I want everybody in the War Room to go up to Cortez. | ||
| Tell him how much you love him on the show. | ||
| Safe travels, Steve. | ||
| Go with God. |
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