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Sept. 15, 2022 - Bannon's War Room

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Battleground EP 137: Congress Facing Record High Inflation Rates; AZ-7 To Fight Migrant Crisis

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joe allen

05:13

steve bannon

19:14

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karine jean-pierre

01:02

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nancy pelosi

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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		This is what you're fighting for.
		I mean, every day you're out there.
		What they're doing is blowing people off.
		If you continue to look the other way and shut up, then the oppressors, the authoritarians, get total control and total power.
		Because this is just like in Arizona.
		This is just like in Georgia.
		It's another element that backs them into a corner and shows their lies and misrepresentations.
		This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged.
		As we've told you, this is the fight All this nonsense, all this spin.
		They can't handle the truth.
joe allen ▲ ● ▼		War Room, Battleground.
unidentified		Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
		And I wrote down a song.
		I just can't remember who to send it to.
		I've seen fire and I've seen rain.
		I've seen sunny days I thought they'd never end.
		I've seen lonely times and I could not find a friend.
		But I always thought I'd see you again.
		On the inflation report that came out today, the President is promising the Inflation Reduction Act will do just that and bring down costs, but this bill does not address food or housing, prices of which we are seeing going up.
		So, what is your message to Americans who are seeing these rising costs, and are you confident that you're doing enough to finally bring these down?
karine jean-pierre ▲ ● ▼		So look, the President has said for some time now when it comes to his number one economic priority is to deal with inflation, is to make sure that we are lowering costs for the American people, for American families, Americans who have to come around the table once a month in particular to figure out how are they going to pay those bills.
		Again, this is why the event that we're having in less than 45 minutes to celebrate and talk about, you'll hear from the President about the Inflation Reduction Act, is so critical.
		That is why Democrats and this President did the hard work to get that done, is to lower costs on healthcare, to lower costs on prescription drugs and also energy costs as well.
		Look, when you look at the data, the inflation data, we're seeing more progress bringing global inflation down in the U.S. economy, as I just stated moments ago.
		Overall, prices have been essentially flat in our country these last two months.
		That is welcome news for American families.
nancy pelosi ▲ ● ▼		Kitchen table items for America's working families.
		Mr. President, thank you for unifying and inspiring a vision of a stronger, fairer, safer future for all, for our children.
		Your extraordinary leadership has made this glorious day possible.
		That's an applause line.
unidentified		Ha ha ha.
nancy pelosi ▲ ● ▼		Jill was a parting.
nancy pelosi ▲ ● ▼		you And let us salute Leader Schumer, his colleagues in the Senate, for their extraordinary leadership and the success in bringing this bill forward.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Yesterday, today it's Wednesday, 14 September, the year of our Lord, 2020.
		That was the fiasco yesterday.
		We started with James Taylor, you know, the song about suicide.
		They have this fiasco.
		You've got the Zen master, Jean-Pierre.
		She's sitting there telling, she's gaslighting you right in your face.
		You know, they've been flat for the last two months.
		That's not true.
		That's all a lie.
		You just don't understand the math.
		Today, the wholesale prices are out.
		They're terrible.
		You know, year over year, over 8% in wholesale.
		Remember, that all rolls down through consumer prices the next couple of months.
		This is a burning dumpster fire.
		And they're over there, they're passing another $800 billion bill, which is just payoffs to all the venture capital and private equity buddies that are upside down on all these deals and green, green new deal.
		They're all upside down.
		Every one of those deals are upside down.
		They always need cash.
		They need new suckers to come in because it's all a Ponzi scheme.
		I want to start with Congressman Andy Biggs.
		And particularly, Congressman Biggs, I just have a question for you.
		I noticed, because they didn't want to get to what I call the undercard, or what was in these reports, which is horrific, because the gasoline prices are down because of demand destruction.
		You've changed your lifestyle to do it.
		Everything else on fire, including food.
		But then they went through regions.
		And I noticed the White House didn't talk about this and none of the mainstream media is talking about it.
		Phoenix is as bad as eight at the consumer price of 8.3 percent.
		Phoenix is over 13 percent.
		Sir, what has the Biden regime done to the good folks, not just simply in Arizona, but to Phoenix, Arizona, with the great cities in our country?
		How can you even survive at 13 percent inflation?
		I mean, that's like Weimar Republic stuff.
		Congressman Biggs.
unidentified		Yeah.
		Yes.
		Yeah, Steve, good to see you.
		But, you know, 13 percent, that would be taking the actual reported basket of goods.
		But it's actually closer to about 18 percent because they don't include all of the energy and all of the consumers' goods that you consume normally in your life.
		Now, what they've done is they've put a massive squeeze on the Phoenix metro area.
		Five million people live in that area, as you know, and so The gas prices are really high still.
		Food prices are high.
		People are trying to make decisions.
		Can I even go out to eat?
		Do I have enough gas to go to work?
		It's a real bind in the Phoenix metro area.
		And you start throwing that and you add it to the other inherent problems that this administration has brought upon Arizona, like illegal immigration and that type of problem.
		And you've got a real difficult situation in Phoenix today.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Listen, the Congress is coming back in now after the August break, and I think the House is only in for two weeks before everybody goes back to their districts to campaign in October.
		And there's a stack of work, but the one thing, correct me if I'm wrong, Congressman Biggs, Does the federal budget run out and appropriations run out at the stroke of midnight on the 30th, which if I look at my map here is two weeks away.
		So am I seeing, and I know we've got the transfer payments, that's kind of done, and they don't want to include that in the budget, but if you add it all up, it's over five and a half trillion dollars.
		The other two, one and a half to two trillion dollars of discretionary spending that we cannot, that we have to just print money for.
		Are we going to see that?
		Is the Congress going to vote on that?
		Are we going to have hearings on that?
		Is there going to be a debate on that?
		Are the people in Metro Phoenix going to be part of that, of this new spending bill that will clearly fuel inflation?
		Sir, are we going to kick the can down the road once again?
unidentified		The sound you're hearing out of Congress right now, Steve, is the kicking of the can.
		That as it rolls down the the highway, because the reality is they're going to do a short term bill and it's going to be a spending.
		They haven't done a budget, a real budget in 20 years here.
		And that's part of the problem, because they refuse to face the troublesome and vexing issues on how to solve the spending crisis.
		So you're exactly right.
		We have about a trillion and a half dollars are so in structural deficit every year, every year.
		And that just gets rolled into the national debt and that debt to GDP ratio is extremely and dangerously high right now.
		So this group of people that we have here, you know, they want to spend another $22 billion, for instance, on COVID relief.
		They want to do $4.5 to $5 billion, excuse me, on monkey pox stuff.
		And they want to, you know, they did the $80 billion not so long ago for the 78,000 IRS agents.
		Steve, This group here in Congress, I could probably point you to 80 to 100 people that would say we need to balance the budget.
		But the other 335, they will keep spending, they believe in modern monetary theory, which means you just keep spending it and add it to your national debt and everything's okay.
		But they're going to fuel inflation and they don't have any energy plans and You know, as long as that's happening, we face basically a national economic crisis in this country.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		The national economic crisis, and this is the point I'm trying to get at.
		What do we need to do to assist and to help?
		If the good folks in Phoenix, in Metro Phoenix, I'm using them as a specific example because I think they have the highest inflation.
		And your point's the exact point.
		I want to make sure the audience understands.
		When Andy Bakes talks about, hey, they shift around the things all the time so they look better.
		If you really included what's really in the inflation, it's about 18%.
		If the good folks in Metro Phoenix Understood.
		Or do you think they're getting to understand that the size of these federal budgets in this mass overspending is related to the inflation and the destruction of their own?
		Because right now, real wages 17 months in a row, you know, they're like a gerbil on a wheel.
		Right?
		And now at 18%, you can never catch up.
		And we just had a historic, they just announced a historic drop in net worth of the American people of $6 trillion in one quarter.
		And that does not include the implosion of the bond and stock market.
		It's not including, we're hearing right now, the real estate market is starting to implode.
		The good folks in Metro Phoenix right now, I think they're starting to wake up.
		I hope they wake up in time for the election, Steve.
		And this gets to the finer point.
		The Democrats refuse to even acknowledge this issue or any other issue.
		when the music stops?
unidentified		I think they're starting to wake up.
		I hope they wake up in time for the election, Steve.
		And this gets to the finer point.
		We're dealing, the Democrats refuse to even acknowledge this issue or any other issue.
		They just lie without any conscience.
		They're pathological in nature.
		And, you know, I got people running against me, and they say, oh, bigs won't spend money.
		Well, you know, they're right.
		First of all, it's not our money.
		But every time the government does spend more money, we don't have the money, so we devalue the currency.
		So you fuel inflation.
		So the question is, and to get to your point, I think people in Arizona, particularly in the Phoenix metro area, are starting to realize you can't keep Using the the spending policy and prerogatives of this uniparty, the swamp, and particularly the Democrat Party, because modern monetary theory does not work.
		And it's a threat to the very existence of the United States of America.
		I can't say that emphatically enough.
		And that's that's what I'm hoping that my my friends, my neighbors and my constituents all say, look, you know, we can't We have got to fight this.
		We need to send people here in Washington D.C.
		who will fight and bring our spending down and maybe even get a balanced budget for a change, Steve.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Are you telling me your opponent is going to try to debate Andy Biggs on this topic?
		Is he prepared to get on a debate stage and argue that the problem with Andy Biggs is he's not agreeing to spend more money?
		Is he actually thinking he can get on a stage and make that case to the citizens of Arizona and they just won't laugh him off the stage?
		Is that his angle of attack on you?
unidentified		Yeah, yeah.
		I mean, firstly, the Democrat is all in with Joe Biden, and so is the Independent.
		They're all in on that.
		They'd say, oh, well, you know, he voted against this COVID spending.
		Well, Steve, The COVID spending added trillions of dollars, as you know, to our national debt.
		And then you add the four and a half trillion dollars of the Biden administration in the last 18 months.
		And nobody, I mean, a year and two months ago, there was a good number of us saying this is inflationary when you get the American Recovery Act or whatever they were calling it at the time.
		Yeah.
		My opponent says, yeah, big should have voted for that stuff.
		Well, that's what caused this accelerating inflation that we have today.
		And Steve, a lot of people believe that money just appears through digital, you know, spreadsheets these days.
		And so they say that's OK.
		No problem.
		But they're wrong.
		They are wrong.
		Absolutely.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		They're wrong.
		By the way, so how do people find out more about this campaign?
		How do they find out more about you?
		Because you're going to be one of the leaders in the new Congress to put rationality.
		We have to start being rational.
		We have to govern like we're adults.
		You've got to put the fantasies away.
		And Washington, D.C.
		is like a fever swamp.
		Of these of these bizarre fantasies of modern monetary theory and all these radical ideas that they've implemented and the proof's in the pudding.
		The proof is at your checkout counter.
		The proof is in your monthly rent.
		The proof is in can you pay your electric bill?
		The proof of their lived experience of the American working class and middle class of this country is proof positive.
		That these radical and reckless ideas don't work.
		Just ask the people, the recipients, and that's why people have a chance to vote it out.
		You have a chance to say, we can't do this anymore.
		The path we've gone down the last eight months, first off, it's just not sustainable.
		It's not sustainable.
		You can't do it.
		You're not going to be able to continue to print this money.
		It's impossible.
		Congressman Biggs, how did they find out more about your campaign?
unidentified		Go to at Rep Andy Biggs AZ.
		That's going to get you to everything.
		You can go to Biggs or congress.com.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		This is the irony about why Arizona was so contentious, not just after the election, but in these primary seasons.
		Arizona has got a whole different level of inflation than the rest of the nation.
		The citizens in Arizona have to step up to a person and say, we're not doing this anymore.
		We're a great state.
		We're a growing state.
		We're a vital state.
		We have urgency.
		This is one of the great states in this nation that's growing.
		But you can't do it.
		They're going to destroy the middle class.
		They're going to destroy the working class out there.
		The radical invasion of immigration.
		But what's happening with inflation here in Arizona?
		It's 18%.
		Like you said, it's going to get worse.
		The wholesale price surge is going to get worse.
		So it's time for Arizona to step up to a person and say, hey, we can't do this anymore.
		We're not just destroying ourselves, we're destroying our children, our grandchildren.
		It's incredible.
		Congressman Biggs, thank you so much.
		Honored to have you on here.
unidentified		Thanks, Steve.
unidentified		Take care of yourself.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		I want to stick in Arizona.
		I want to stick in Arizona because it's so important.
		I want to go to Arizona 7 now, Luis Pazola.
		So, your opponent, sir, has been in Congress forever, and he's one of the biggest, most prolific spenders, profligate spenders.
		Tell me, what is your campaign against him?
		Tell me what your angle of attack is in this very vital campaign.
unidentified		Thank you, Steve, for having us.
		Of course, you know, we're working on the spending, working on deflation.
		We have 82% of the border in Congressional District 7.
		That's the district I'm running.
		Raul Grijalva has been there for 20 years.
		We had a debate 10 days ago and he agreed the issues are getting worse.
		Well, he had the power for 20 years.
		So inflation, gas prices, the absence of opportunity for our people are really hurting, especially Southern Arizona.
		Well, the unemployment rate is double than the rest of Arizona.
		I think Raul is tired.
		He's 75.
		He's showing already signs that he's slowing down.
		He did very poorly on the debate, and the people are seeing that, you know.
		This is a 64% Latino district, and we are suffering with a Latino who has been in Congress for 20 years, and he's not helping our people.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Do you believe the Latino community, that they understand that this radical spending plan they have really doesn't help them?
		What it does is hurt them, particularly as inflation goes and the ability to create wealth.
		Because they have to be getting crushed.
		With 13, 14, 15 percent inflation, and wages just not going up anywhere near that, they're losing money every day.
		I don't even know how people put food on the table, pay for gasoline, or pay for the electric bill, sir.
unidentified		Oh, absolutely.
		They understand.
		Our campaign, as you know, is a grassroots campaign.
		We are knocking thousands of doors every week in different areas in the district.
		And we're basically knocking Democrats and Independents doors more than Republicans right now.
		And the people had that feeling that we are not in the right direction.
		Maybe they don't understand deeply why, but they understand that we need to change and that we are not going in the right direction.
		People had that feeling when they need to choose between filling up their gas tank or feeding their children.
		Some of these people are even telling me, I said, Luis, I don't know why I came to this country.
		I came for better economics and freedom.
		And now I'm suffering the same problems I was suffering 20 years ago.
		Maybe my grandfather or my father was suffering when they decided to come to this beautiful country.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		This is a very key point.
		You're a grassroots, like in New Hampshire, and Carrie Lake did it in Arizona, and you've got Joe Kent and so many around the country, MAGA candidates have knocked on doors.
		So when you're knocking on doors, and you're talking to independents, and particularly, it's a heavily Democratic district.
		So they're telling you, and I understand they didn't go to Harvard, so they can't do all the math, but they're sitting there telling you with their common sense and their lived experience, Lewis, they're telling you they know something's wrong?
unidentified		Well, absolutely they know.
		Even the problem we have in the border.
		We did a poll and more than 60% of the Latinos don't agree with the policies of the Biden administration and what is happening in the border.
		Fentanyl is killing thousands of people.
		We do a lot of work with the homeless communities.
		The homeless communities are growing.
		Uh, not only because these people, you know, not because these people loves to live in the street in a tent, 110 degrees is because one, you have a big group that, you know, is hooked to fentanyl.
		This is a 60 cents to a dollar, uh, you know, appeal.
		And you have another people that were making, you know, minimum wages.
		And right now with $1,200, $1,500 a month, they cannot afford to, you know, pay their rent.
		So they, they, they have the feeling that we are hitting them in their wallet and they are feeling the pain for sure.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Do people make the correlation when you talk to them that your opponent's been there for 20 years and he's part of the, you know, he's one of the senior guys they always roll out, particularly when they talk about the Hispanic or Latino community.
		Do they make that correlation that part of the reason, maybe a significant part of the reason, that the economics of their lives is so bad?
		Is because of policies that they have nothing to do with.
		It's not about their hard work or how dedicated they are to their job, but it's because opportunity has been crushed and the currency has been devalued and inflation is out of control because those policies have come from Washington D.C.
		and particularly the party that your opponent is a senior member of.
unidentified		Oh, absolutely.
		And especially when they have the feeling 2016 to 2020, I'm not going to say that our district was a paradise, but these people were able to afford housing, they were able to afford gas, food.
		Right now, they don't.
		And basically, the message we get from all these people, yes, You know, some of them even tell you, you know, we like Raul.
		He's been there for 50 years, you know, total, you know, he's been working in the community for 50 years.
		But we understand it's time for a change and we want to bring the economics back.
		You know, all these things that Raul are talking about, even in the debate, not even one issue that Raul was interested in even hit any of the six main issues that these communities are interested to solve in the next two years.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Amazing.
		How do people find out more about you and more about your campaign?
		You're in one of the tougher ones in the country.
		It's one of the reasons I want to focus on you, particularly the fact that you're an entrepreneur, you're a man of the people, you're running a grassroots campaign, you're going and knocking on doors, you're meeting people in small groups, and you're sitting there dedicated to flip Independents, Democrats, Latinos, Hispanics to vote for you as a Republican.
		It's something that we can learn a lot about.
		So how do people find out more about you and find out more about your campaign?
unidentified		Okay, my campaign is, my website is louis4congress.com.
		We recently launched my last book, it's called American Dreamer.
		People can buy the book and understand, you know, the parallels and see why I'm doing this.
		And the other thing I want to add is that, you know, basically this is a grassroots campaign.
		We have no any funding from the RNC.
		We don't have any funding for any super PAC or PAC.
		You know, all the small donors are being, you know, carrying this campaign and my own money.
		This is a effort we're doing, you know, from the bases and the people are, you know, helping us to, you know, to defeat the guy who has done nothing for them, you know.
		And again, you know, anything you do to help us, riskforcongress.com, you can get a free signed book and you can see why I'm doing this.
		And, you know, the parallels, especially from, you know, what I saw 20 years ago, and the country it was born, and why I came here.
		Well, this is just a flashback of what I lived 20 years ago.
		That's why it's so important for me to fight for the future of our children.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		And the book is American Dreamer?
unidentified		Yeah, the book is American Dreamer.
		You know, it tells a story about why I'm fighting, and it shows you the parallels.
		What you see here in America is not new for me, and that's the main reason I'm fighting.
		Like you said, I'm a business, a small business owner, entrepreneur.
		I wasn't interested to be in politics two years ago, but, you know, I cannot live what I lived 20 years ago again.
		I have no place to go.
		This is my, you know, last stand.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Lewis, thank you very much.
		Honored to have you on here.
		You're a patriot and a hero running out there in Arizona.
		You too.
unidentified		Keep the good fight.
unidentified		Thank you.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, brother.
		Thank you.
		That's the future of this country right there.
		I want to go to talk about entrepreneur.
		I want to go to L. Todd Woods.
		Todd, help me out.
		I want to talk about Armed Forces Press, but for a minute, am I incorrect?
		Are you launching another paper on a news website every other day?
		You're on a roll, brother.
		Tell me what's going on.
		I love it.
		You had the New York one, which is genius.
		You got the Armed Forces one we're going to talk about today.
		But how big is this empire now?
		I knew you when you were a bond trader.
		Now you're like Murdoch Jr.
unidentified		So look, I mean, we're both Wall Street guys, and I just see massive opportunities, Steve.
		I mean, when do you see a business like the corporate media that literally destroys its audience purposely within a couple of years?
		So for me, it's a chance to build something, but also to help save the Republic.
		So yeah, we're expanding as fast as we can.
		And, you know, we've opened the Connecticut paper, the Georgia, Miami, New York, as you mentioned, we've got several other districts coming.
		But one of the spots that has really bothered me is the military media, which is woke, which is pushing CRT, cultural Marxism, you know, the Vax mandates.
		All of it on our troops.
		There's something really dark there and wrong, and we want to expose it and bring the military press back to what it should be, and our military men and women back to their purpose, which is to defend the country.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Give me that for a second, because I know you had kids up at the West Point.
		Give me a minute before we go to break and we'll have Dan O'Shea on after the break, your editor.
		What happened to the great Stars and Strikes, Military.com?
		Why did all these all of a sudden go woke?
unidentified		Look, we've done some research and it looks like, you know, one of our colleagues on the other side has bought up a lot of this via different shell companies or whatever.
		You know, I used to write for the Armed Forces Journal.
		Long time ago, and that one was shut down, and the URL just kind of, you know, banked and not used.
		And so, I think there's been planning in all of this, and the military is obviously part of that.
		So, they wanted to control the military press as they have the corporate press, and they did a good job of it, but we're going to fight it.
		Armedforces.press is airborne, as we say.
		We're launched.
		We've got a rogues gallery of frogmen, rangers, delta, generals, fighter pilots.
		Navy captains, you name it, just go to our Meet the Team page.
		It's unparalleled in the level of quality riding we're going to have, and we're excited.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		It is a Rose Gallery.
		No, it's fantastic.
		Armed Forces Press.
		We're going to take a short break.
		Todd Wood's going to join us on the side.
		Dan O'Shea, one of his editors and writers.
		We're going to take a short break.
		We've also got this explosive executive order and now the funding of it on transhumanism.
		Of course, our own Joe Allen will join us.
		Short commercial break.
		We're going to be back in War Room Battleground in just a moment.
unidentified		War Room Battleground with Stephen K. Bannon Okay, welcome back.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		I noticed when we had all this controversy, whether it was at the service academies, whether it was about vaccines, CRT, the wokeness, non-combat readiness.
		You know, I used to be able to go to the military press, which I was a big consumer of, and I noticed the stories either weren't being covered or they were being covered like the New York Times would cover them.
		And I kind of said something's wrong here.
		L. Todd Wood did something about it.
		And Todd, real quickly, because we would actually go to Major Schilling or the Air Force Colonel out at the Air Force Academy, these guys all being fired, whether it's vaccine mandates, mask mandates, CRT, wokeness overall, the service academies.
		You couldn't really bring a reporter on because it was they were all left wing or they all covered it like the New York Times are covered.
		Is that why you saw and that's why you started Armed Forces Press?
unidentified		Yes, it's armedforces.press and that's exactly the reason Steve because and they're all coordinated and so you get the same you know woke message from all the military outlets out there and you know there is I'm telling you when we started this the feedback has been overwhelming and people are like can I contribute?
		Can I write?
		I've got a story.
		And so it's just been massive.
		So we're very excited about it.
		And we're really going to go after, you know, I'm angry at all these flag officers and retired guys who are not standing up and fighting this stuff because they want the board seat or whatever they want.
		And it's time.
		We were trained as leaders and we need to be leaders.
		So it's time to stand up.
		And this is our contribution.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Let me bring in Dan O'Shea now.
		Dan, tell us about tell us about Armed Forces dot press.
		What can people anticipate?
		What stories you're covering?
		How are you doing it?
unidentified		So I met Todd last year, about a year ago today, actually at the end of the fall of the absolute chaos out of Afghanistan.
		I was involved with a number of groups, including Operation Task Force Pineapple, trying to rescue Americans and Afghan partners that were literally abandoned by this commander, quote, commander in chief, and this administration.
		And it was, you know, the media piece is a big part of it.
		People just don't know what's being told.
		Don and I met a year ago and have been, you know, I'm a recently retired SEAL with 29 odd years.
		I retired at SOCOM a couple years ago, and I've watched the degradation of this, and I've written in columns for the last 15 odd years.
		I used to be a CNN, MSNBC, BBC, Fox News analyst on terrorism, specifically kidnappings, which was what my claim to fame, working 440 at kidnappings at the American Embassy in Iraq.
		Bottom line is, there's so many veterans out there, especially from my community, the Special Ops community, that are just seeing the nonsense coming down.
		And what, you know, Todd and I, Todd stayed with me over this weekend.
		We did an event with the horse soldiers down in, you know, the original Fifth Group guys and some of the Delta guys that went into Afghanistan, literally weeks after 9-11.
		And Todd stayed with me over the weekend.
		We literally just had a Vulcan mind meld the whole weekend.
		And I told him, I said, Todd, I'm in, brother.
		I'm on board.
		I already wrote a post Last year about the fallout withdrawal from Afghanistan and literally Todd yesterday said, hey, there's pressure at BUDS.
		There's an article coming out in the New York Times and now the Military Times about an outside group headed up by a Navy Admiral outside of Naval Special Warfare, who's going to look at BUDS training and all become and again, it's tragic.
		We lost a BUDS trainee last year early in the year.
		He died right after Hell Week, literally finished Hell Week, went back to his room.
		And then I think he died in his room because I think he has walking pneumonia or something.
		And now there's pressure to change it.
		There's pressure to change Hell Week.
		There will be pressure on Naval Special Warfare to change Hell Week, to change the training, and it's just more than nonsense.
		So, Todd asked me to write an article, and I literally started about 10 o'clock last night, finished at 2 in the morning, woke up, drank a cup of coffee, reviewed it one more time, and sent it to Todd, and he posted it within about 5 minutes.
		So, it's an article about why SEAL training is so brutal.
		Because it has to be.
		Because, you know, graduates of BUDS are going to go to war.
		And having fought in every conflict this nation's had since World War Two, and it won't change.
		And we can't change the training.
		And we need to resist the pressure that's been coming down about integration of, you know, women in special operations, which has been an abject failure.
		You know, now change buds.
		So this is, you know, guys like me, we spend our life serving our country.
		It doesn't mean we don't have to, we don't stop honoring the oath to defend this country against enemies foreign and domestic just because we retire.
		That's a lifelong oath we all made.
		And that's why I'm happy to be joining Todd's team and be one of the columnists on this growing website which Todd just launched and I'm proud to be part of it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Dan, do you get a sense, look, part of it is Chain of Command and everybody's bitching and moaning all the time about the command and what they're doing, but there seems to me There's something different going on here that there are people that are the most, and I know so many people that have had either served or had sons and daughters in.
		It's the first time in my life I've had people say, you know, I don't feel comfortable with my kid going into the military right now.
		And these are people that are patriots, have either served themselves or have had other older siblings in.
		Is there something Inside the ranks that you see boiling that, uh, that, that a message needs to get out there is because it seems to me that there's totally, there's been a sea change, particularly what we see coming out of Washington.
		And honestly, this, this group of flag officers is, let me be brutally frank, essentially pathetic by and large.
unidentified		I'm I've never been so ashamed.
		Last year, and the continuation of how we exited Afghanistan and the abject refused to accept responsibility.
		I mean, the op-ed I wrote for Todd last year, that was basically the title was, you know, leave no man behind is a principle, not a talking point.
		Because you had the president up there saying, oh, we're not going to leave Americans behind.
		And then four days later, we abandoned everyone.
		And it, the anger in my, it just, it was a combination.
		Literally, I spent 29 years in the special operations community.
		My peers are Green Berets, Rangers, Seals, obviously, and most of my peers, most of my peers are like, I would have a hard time recommending my son to go into the military today because the experience that we had in Bud's Ranger School, the Q course, it's not the same.
		I mean, they shoved so much of this diversity crap down on you that it's sad.
		I mean, a dear friend who had to go back to bootcamp training because of a gap in service.
		He was 59 years old.
		You should get him on your show.
		I served with this guy in the 90s.
		He came and trained with my SEAL platoon.
		He's a National Guard guy, but he'd been away from the Army on order so long.
		He went back to boot camp at age 59 and he talked about just the generational change about how, and he went through Marine Corps boot camp in 1976.
		And it's, it's literally, you know, and the movies, you know, the, the full metal jacket and, and all the bootcamp movies.
		I'm telling you, your kids are not going through that today.
		I mean, they're going through diversity training.
		They've got training timeout cards.
		Um, you know, my last PRT in the Navy a couple of years ago, after shattering my ankle on a Harley accident, me and another old guy in my unit, I was 53 and he was probably 55.
		And we were doing the pushups, sit-ups, you know, the annual PT, a physical test for the Navy and all the younger kids.
		And these were reservists, but it was the weekend drill weekend.
		All the younger kids at one minute, which was, you know, you have two minutes for max pushups and sit-ups.
		They just stopped at one minute after they got the minimum.
		And me and this other old guy, we were the two oldest guys taking the PRT.
		We were the only two that went all the way to the bitter end on everything, and it just was telling that the Navy has changed, and I saw it on my watch, and it's a challenge because there's young men that want to serve, and women that want to go serve, and they want to do great things, but they got to get through all the woke madness that's being driven now at the academies, and I'm an academy grad, you know.
		It's hard, it's hard because it's got to be hard.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		You're asking to go in harm's way and the hardest details you've got, it's hard because it's got to be hard.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Dan, how do people get to you on social media and how they get to you over at armedforces.press?
unidentified		Well, I just started a column at armedforces.press.
		I mean, I'm on, I'm getting a website built up.
		Todd and I have got some ideas about some things we're going to do.
		I'm not really a social media.
		I have, you know, my Facebook and social.
		I'm not out there doing that yet, but Todd and I have some ideas.
		We're probably going to put together a podcast for Armed Forces Press.
		So we'll grow, and I'm sure there'll be an excuse for you to have us back on again.
		It's a pleasure to meet you, sir.
		You're in the battle space, and we're with you, my friend.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		All I do is provide a platform.
		Todd, how do people get to armedforces.press?
		How do they get to you on social media?
unidentified		It's armedforces.press, and you can find me at El Todd Wood on Getter, Gab, Truth, and CD Media on all of the same.
		So, we're out there.
		We're not on the comedy platforms because we got kicked off all of them, but we're on the good ones.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		By the way, we had Barris on yesterday about the generic polling.
		Remember, he's doing all the polling for CD Media.
		So, great work over there, Todd.
unidentified		Keep fighting.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, he told us that he's in the field now, come back.
		Dan O'Shea, an Irishman, and Todd Woods, a brawler.
		Thank you guys very much, appreciate it.
		I want to bring in my man, Joe Allen.
		Joe, go back, walk us through exactly, we're going to play, if we get the call open, not to play it now, but I want to play it towards the end.
		Walk us through exactly what this executive order is, because now everybody, the world's on fire about this thing.
		What this executive order is, how dangerous is it, and how they've kind of proven our point about transhumanism and singularity.
		And now today, they have the cabinet meeting where they're basically divvying up or saying who's going to pitch in for the $2 billion.
		They're immediately going to put in back of this, really the treating the cell and biology like it is a like a silicon chip.
		You can program a chip to do anything, right?
		With algorithms, they're going to program the cell to do anything.
		This is beyond playing God.
		This is trying to be the author of life, Joe Allen.
joe allen ▲ ● ▼		Yes, Steve, the language of reprogramming the cell like computer software is more than sinister.
		And it's all too common.
		I mean, I spend most of my time looking at the kind of deep structure of transhumanism.
		This is essential to it.
		So two days ago, Monday, Biden signed an executive order, the National Biosecurity and Biotechnology And what this will do, it will put up $2 billion to enhance research and development programs in various corporations and government agencies.
		It will also be really focused a lot on agriculture.
		So if you think about genetically modified organisms as food, including cultured meat, which is just lab grown steaks.
		And really, I think the most alarming aspect of this initiative and everything that will come out of it is focused on health.
		Everything from gene editing to advancing and pushing out more and more mRNA-based vaccines.
		And of course, its relationship to artificial intelligence.
		Using artificial intelligence to sequence and analyze the genome and predict What a particular mRNA code might do to the human body, and thereby fast-tracking the process, as we just saw with Moderna and Pfizer's programs, fast-tracking that to push it out into the population.
		So they held a summit today, the summit on the National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative, and probably the most disturbing news to come out of that is the discussion of the appointment of Renee Wegerzin to the newly developed Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health.
		So Wesigreen comes from DARPA.
		She then worked at Ginkgo Bioworks and her programs that she was directing at DARPA were largely centered on synthetic biology and gene editing.
		And so, of course, DARPA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is large.
		They were at the forefront in the development of brain-computer interfaces, including implantable brain-computer interfaces, and also have a number of projects to create a human-machine or human-AI hybrid culture in the military, which then descends out to the rest of us.
		So I'll be looking a lot at Rene Weggersen's work going forward, but that I think is among the most alarming things.
		Aside from all the enthusiasm for this biotechnology with no reflection whatsoever, No, no, no, no.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Hang on, hang on, hang on.
		It's not, it's not, it's not, it's not enthusiasm.
		It's, it's, it's rapturous joy.
		That's what I'm saying.
		People gotta understand something.
		When you have legislation, you put it in and even though they're trying to hide it and it comes up at the last minute, you don't have the hearings you normally have, it's in process.
		There's this thing, people arguing about it.
		There are subcommittees working on it.
		You hear through the grapevine, it gets, it gets registered and logged.
		You know kind of what's going on, although you don't have all the details.
		Executive orders are very different.
		That's the administrative state.
		That's going inside the apparatus.
		When you read this executive order, they just didn't think this up yesterday.
		Oh, we're in a midterm.
		Let's have something that's going to show people we're thinking downrange.
		This has been something they have worked on from day one.
		And quite frankly, they brought elements of this from agencies inside the government, like DARPA, that have been working on this a long time and nobody's questioned it.
		If you look at the last two days, it's like a joyous coming together like they've got it, right?
		And there's no discussion whatsoever of the ethics of this.
		There's no discussion whatsoever of exactly where are we going?
		Where is this taking us?
		There's no real vision of the questions of all the ethical questions and philosophical questions and religious questions and spiritual questions about exactly what we're doing here.
		And then the days to put the money in and start to put the administrators.
		And here's the thing.
		The Republican Party, except for one or two people, are totally quiet about this.
		This is going to take just like the vaccines and the and what happened in COVID brings together a new coalition of Dr. Robert Malone, who has been a Biden guy, or Naomi Wolf, who's been a liberal Democrat.
		And now all of a sudden they're at the forefront of, hey, what's going on with this vaccine?
		And they're the ones being blown up the most by their former colleagues and friends.
		This is going to take a new coalition.
		This is as serious as it gets.
		Look, I have dedicated my life now to making sure that we're putting forward to the people in this country the signal, not the noise, not the spin of the pro wrestling stories that people cover and take so much time and energy that are meaningless.
		And I can tell you, of all the important things we're working on to save this republic, This is by far the darkest and this is by far something that people need to get their hands around because it's taking us to a place that people have not fully thought through.
		And the ones that have thought it through are kind of not doing it with the best intentions for humankind.
		And that's why you see this executive order the other day and the rapturous coming together, right?
		Let's have a cabinet meeting.
		They've already got all their different departments and segments.
		This is happening and this train is leaving the station and right now there's no organized political opposition to this.
		This is the opposition that we're taking to the place that, hey, we're kind of on the side of mankind.
		We're on the side of the homo sapiens.
		And I think the homo sapiens would like to have a say-so on exactly what you're doing when you start essentially saying, I can program and come up with a better homo sapien.
		This concept called God, or if you're a Native American, the Great Spirit.
		They had some imperfections in this, right?
		But we're smarter than that.
		We're smarter than the Great Spirit.
		We're smarter than God the Father.
		We're smarter than Divine Providence.
		Whatever you refer to it, we're smarter.
		We have a way to perfect it.
		And we're going to go down the path and we're going to perfect it.
		If you don't think that could lead to a couple of three issues, you haven't followed modern science and technology, right?
unidentified		Joe Allen, your thoughts, comments, and analysis?
joe allen ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, you know, this initiative in general and that rapturous joy you're talking about, you know, with again, zero reflection on the harms caused by the vaccines and of course, zero reflection on the harms caused by the social programs of lockdowns and six-foot distancing and the adoption of digital technology to do all of your communication.
		And so, That alone, that aside, just that blind enthusiasm aside, I think that the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, which was formed in March and has a new director, again, her name is Renee Wegerzin, and she comes out of DARPA.
		This is the fusion of the military-industrial complex with the biomedical establishment made official.
		We already knew that.
		But this is, that connection, that demonic marriage made public, made obvious.
		And so a woman who is working on synthetic biology, the creation of, literally the creation of new organisms, basically from scratch, and then of course gene editing.
		How can we, how can we edit the language of life to our benefit and for our profits?
		And oftentimes for bioweapons, yeah, Americans should definitely be, they should be not only alarmed at this and wanting to wrap their heads around it, they should be prepared to engage this on a political level and figure out how to, if not put the brakes on it entirely, control it so that it does not end up like many of the other technological and sociological transformations we've seen in our lifetimes, in our grandparents' lifetimes,
		many of which have been disastrous.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		This is a great book.
		And she's at the cutting edge of the research.
		She actually wrote a book about it.
		She's been, many of the people in this are quite concerned of, have we really thought through where we're actually headed with this?
		Joe Allen, we got to bounce.
		I'm going to have you back on tomorrow, and I think I can announce you're going to be at the Great Reset Conference in Arizona that Charlie Kirk's putting on, because transhumanism, as Alex Jones says, transhumanism is one of the centerpieces and underpinnings of the Great Reset from the Party of Davos, the World Economic Forum.
		Real quickly, what's your social media so people can follow you between now and tomorrow?
joe allen ▲ ● ▼		Steve, real quick, I want to note, the title of her book is Cracking the Code of Creation.
		Now, you talk about a pregnant title.
		So, my social media, at J-O-E-B-O-T-X-Y-Z, my website, joebot.xyz, and of course, you can find all my stuff at warroom.org.
		Thank you very much, Steve.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, we're going to see you tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, and it's going to... Do you think today's shows were hot?
		You ain't seen nothing yet.
		See you tomorrow morning.
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