Feb. 9, 2023 - Bannon's War Room
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| 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 quarter 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. | ||
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All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth. | |
| War Room. Battleground. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Boris. You got others united when it seemed absolutely, absolutely impossible. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| You, all of you, you all showed your grit and character back then. | ||
| Strong British character. | ||
| You didn't compromise Ukraine. | ||
| And hence, you didn't compromise your ideals. | ||
| And thus, you didn't compromise the spirit of these great islands. | ||
| Thank you very much. 6 человек. | ||
| 6 человек. Что мы будем делать в этом доме? | ||
| До какого времени? | ||
| Без понятия. Я серьезно говорю. | ||
| Без понятия. 6 человек. | ||
| Ты слышишь? У нас 6 человек. | ||
| 7. 7. И кто у нас поддержка? | ||
| Там больше никого нету ебать. | ||
| No one is there, everyone is dead there already. | ||
| I'm going to show it to you. | ||
| This is Minister of Defense, Ibadshimi Nahopik. This video is a discussion. | ||
| They sent a check to the police station. | ||
| Mobilized mobsters and blew them up. | ||
| Without support, without anything. | ||
| There is nothing inside, no help. | ||
| Now 12 people must take up defense. | ||
| Сзади нас никого больше нету. | ||
| Сзади никого нету. | ||
| Слева где-то призрачный первый бат. | ||
| Там призрачные где-то люди нахуй. | ||
| Из-за травы у нас же то же самое. | ||
| Люди нахуй вырежут, окружающие вырежут. | ||
| Они в подвале призрачный бат. | ||
| Вот первый бат. Они в подвалах сидят возле подвала. | ||
| Смотрят, какая ситуация. | ||
| Если что, бегут, ебать. Понимаешь? | ||
| These are not the people who will come out to help. | ||
| We have already observed the situation. | ||
| Come on, let's go. | ||
| Where? | ||
| To pick up people and go to the police station. | ||
| Report to the police station. | ||
| Let them go to the street. | ||
| Are you coming with me or are you staying with people? | ||
| Fuck, wait, stop. | ||
| Yes, guys. | ||
| Fuck, parakeet. | ||
| Bye. | ||
| Okay, welcome. Wednesday, 8 February, Year of Our Lord, 2023, the second hour of our afternoon and early evening show of War Room. | ||
| And there you see what Tale of Two Cities or Tale of Two Realities, Zelensky in London making a pitch for more support, more material, more equipment and jets. | ||
| And, of course, the grinding war that you see in Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine, particularly around Bakhmut and these other towns. | ||
| I think there's 12 different locations this broad front has reached out on. | ||
| Other big developing news today about Nord Stream 2 and the What did I say? | ||
| The event that took it out. | ||
| Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize winner, came out with a major report today that's got people shocked. | ||
| So I've asked Darren Beattie and Rebecca Koffler to join us. | ||
| Rebecca, put it in perspective. | ||
| You've got this grinding war like World War I that they said they had fought them to a standstill. | ||
| They're looking for equipment to pivot for a spring offensive to Ukrainians to liberate Have combined arms warfare with tanks and with, they need jets, really advanced 21st century U.S. military stuff to liberate Crimea. | ||
| But now, all of a sudden, the defense minister, who I don't know if he's still got a job, doesn't have a job, the Italian papers report yesterday he's out, others that he's on the chopping block, others that he's going to be there as long as this war takes place. | ||
| Because of corruption and the new zero-tolerance policy. | ||
| And you have Zelensky in London really making a huge effort. | ||
| I think even he met with the king, and he's not getting the jets, but he's making a pitch again. | ||
| Every time he sees somebody, he needs the jets. | ||
| What's going on there? I mean, how did the defense minister miss, then all of a sudden just reveal there's 500,000 either new troops or new conscripts? | ||
| It's tough to figure out what from Russia on the Ukrainian border. | ||
| What exactly tactically is going on right now? | ||
| Well, what's going on is that the Russians and Ukrainians, the two brother Slavic nations, are just annihilating each other in a brutal war that is unwinnable. | ||
| We have a quarter of a million of Slavic men, child-producing age, young guys, That are basically, you know, like gladiators. | ||
| They are killing each other. | ||
| And this is absolutely unacceptable because all that's going on is the fueling of this war by pumping in Ukraine with exquisite high-tech weaponry. | ||
| Let me just give you, and it's not going to lead anyway, because this war is unwinnable, and I'll explain why it's unwinnable, but let me just read to you the long list of high-tech weaponry that Ukraine has been the beneficiary of. | ||
| It's the American-made weaponry. | ||
| Military Hardware. | ||
| Javelin, a man-portable anti-tank system. | ||
| Stinger, a lightweight portable air defense system. | ||
| High-mobility artillery rocket system. | ||
| Patriot missile defense system. | ||
| Bradley's fighting vehicle. | ||
| And most recently, it's the Abrams tank, right? | ||
| And now Zelensky is asking for air But what the Pentagon has forgotten is that weaponry and technology do not win wars. | ||
| Strategy does. | ||
| And this conflict has demonstrated to us, to the entire world, that the White House and the Pentagon lack strategy. | ||
| There's no de-escalation strategy. | ||
| There's no exit strategy. | ||
| All that they've been doing is just pumping this weaponry. | ||
| We have already provided basically the equivalent of half of Ukraine's GDP, $100 billion worth of equipment at this point. | ||
| This reminds me of Afghanistan. | ||
| I mean, remember We were told the very same narrative that victory is just around the corner, which is what Zelensky keeps telling us, deceiving the American people. | ||
| And yes, he's desperate. | ||
| Yes, I understand his people are being brutally slaughtered. | ||
| It's his complete misunderstanding of, and rather, lack of competence of the art of war. | ||
| You know, Sun Tzu told us that you have to know your adversary, and Zelensky doesn't, and neither does Joe Biden. | ||
| I mean, look at the Russians. | ||
| They sacrificed more than 25 million of their own citizens in World War II. He's not about to give up because what he's defending here, or what rather he's facing, is the equivalent of his Cuban Missile Crisis. | ||
| He's defending his, I know, to the Western analysts, It's Russia is being the aggressor. | ||
| And that is correct. | ||
| But from the Russian standpoint, he's defending his security perimeter, which has shrunk to 100 miles, which is a shorter distance than between Washington and New York. | ||
| And so we would have never allowed this type of proximity of an adversarial force, you know, whether it's Russia, China, Iran, you name it. | ||
| And neither will Putin. | ||
| And so what's happening right now is the Pentagon and the White House, plus the liberal media, are completely being enthralled with this narrative that is coming out of the former actor. | ||
| And we are depleting our own weapons supply. | ||
| It is no secret anymore and it's worrying the Pentagon and some of these high-tech weaponry is going to take as long as 18 years to restore the inventory. | ||
| And that is reckless because neither China nor Russia nor Iran nor North Korea are going to put their sinister plans on hold. | ||
| We just had the CIA director, Williams Burns, Give us their intelligence assessment that China or Xi Jinping gave direction to his military to prepare for a military assault on Taiwan as soon as 2027. | ||
| My own intelligence analysis, a former DIA intelligence officer, tells me At this time, it's more likely 2024, 2025, most likely during Biden's presidency, because all of our adversaries have assessed that this presidency is weak. | ||
| But on top of that, our own national security apparatus is unable to protect us from airspace attacks. | ||
| We just had a Chinese High Altitude Reconnaissance Vehicle breached our sovereign airspace completely undetected, right? | ||
| The four-star commander, General Van Herc, who's in charge of Northern Combatant Command and NORAD, which is Northern Aerospace Defense Command, the four-star, told us that the reason that they have missed this threat is because of the domain awareness gap? | ||
| Are you kidding me? | ||
| $850 billion? | ||
| dollars in defense budget and we can't defense our people, our airspace from what effectively is a low-tech dirigible sent to us by the Chinese, the balloon. | ||
| This is not a birthday party that we invited Xi Jinping to. | ||
| Let's get serious about the defense of our security. | ||
| And not just being, you know, taken for fools by Ukrainian, you know, actor Volodymyr Zelensky, whose appetite keeps growing and growing. | ||
| I mean, where does this end? | ||
| We don't need another 20 years of entanglement into a foreign war that is potentially going to go nuclear. | ||
| The RAND Corporation just came out of a study saying a long war here goes against America's strategic interests. | ||
| So the question, Rebecca, the New York Times, all the people covering this on the ground, you see at the battlefront, whether it's Bogmut or these towns around Bogmut to the east, this is a grinding type of war like World War I, and they're being relentlessly shelled by the Russians. | ||
| And they're giving back as good as they can. | ||
| But Has anybody come forward to the American people, or is Zelensky coming forward? | ||
| Because when you look at this every day, and they're doing interviews with the troops, they're saying, we're out, man, we're outgunned, we don't really have the medical supplies here to take care of the wounded, we don't have a lot of food, it's very cold, people getting dispirited, although they're obviously fighting through their country, and they're enormously patriotic. | ||
| How can anybody have a wishful fantasy about that army regrouping and doing a sophisticated combined arms operation to liberate Crimea in the spring? | ||
| Isn't there just a mismatch with the reality on the ground and what the narrative is being sold back here to the American people? | ||
| Well, the narrative that's been sold here to the American people is an egregious distortion of reality. | ||
| I mean, look, if Ukraine were winning, we wouldn't be needing to continue this relentless outflow of high-tech weaponry, you know, top of the line, out of our own arsenal, right, if that were the case. | ||
| But what's basically happening is that You know, the strategy that the Biden administration has adopted is to use Ukrainians in a highly immoral way, right? | ||
| To use them as a shield for the Europeans who are unwilling to provide for their own security and to pay for that security. | ||
| And so we are effectively throwing Ukrainians 100,000 of them at this point, you know, killed or wounded. | ||
| We're throwing them into the meat grinder. | ||
| And we're calling it a sound investment. | ||
| I mean, these, you know, so-called experts, right, the Washington national security talking heads, are no longer hiding the fact that they're using it as an investment. | ||
| Two weeks ago, he gave a speech to the Chamber of Commerce in Beratona, Florida, where he spoke to all the executives of major U.S. and international investment companies, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and BlackRock. | ||
| And instead of framing it, as he did before, as the fight for freedom and all these tear-jerker, you know, videos of maternity wards being blown out by the Russians. | ||
| He used these words, Steve, this is an investment. | ||
| So he is being blatant about the fact that he's using this was an investment. | ||
| And meantime, his corrupt Corrupt officials are raiding the Treasury and raiding all the weaponry and the cash that we've been pumping into Ukraine, courtesy of U.S. taxpayers. | ||
| We have people in our own country right now that are struggling to put food on the table. | ||
| The inflation hitting us up, and the food prices are skyrocketing, and the gas prices. | ||
| In the meantime, the Ukrainian oligarchs misusing all of that and embezzling all that security aid that we have been providing them. | ||
| And I wish I was surprised. | ||
| I mean, Ukraine is the top corrupt country in Europe. | ||
| This is a fact. | ||
| You can look that up. Igor Kolomoisky, who bankrolled Zelensky's presidential campaign, is on the no-entry list of U.S. government. | ||
| Again, you can look that up on the State Department's website. | ||
| Why is he banned and his entire family? | ||
| It's because he's under multiple and multiple corruption investigations. | ||
| So this is just showing us, you know, that the Biden family is completely entangled with foreign adversaries. | ||
| In a very, you know, corrupt deals. | ||
| I mean, we can't escape that fact. | ||
| And until the American people face that fact that they're ruled by the corrupt Biden family that is using our funds, our treasury, and potentially Our lives, I mean, we sacrificed 6,000 lives, $2.2 trillion in Afghanistan. | ||
| What kind of investment is that? | ||
| And so now we're pumping all the weaponry that, soon, the American boys and girls are going to be fighting in the battlefield in Ukraine. | ||
| Because Ukraine, you can't just train on that weaponry. | ||
| It's taking years, months and years. | ||
| So that's what we are stepping into. | ||
| Yeah. Rebecca, what's your social media? | ||
| How do people get to your writings? | ||
| You're up on Fox. You're up on the New York Post. | ||
| You're a former DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency official. | ||
| How do people get to you and your content, and how do they get to your book, Putin's Playbook? | ||
| Thank you. My website is RebeccaKoffler.com. | ||
| I am on Twitter, Getter, and Truth Social. | ||
| Rebecca, add 0132. | ||
| My book, Putin's Playbook, is available on Amazon and any other bookstore or wherever you guys buy books. | ||
| And in this book, I predicted the Russia-Ukraine conflict is rapidly now escalating and potentially into a broader war in Europe. | ||
| We war-gamed it back at the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the United States is being entangled right now into another foreign war with catastrophic consequences. | ||
| Rebecca, thank you so much. | ||
| Honored to have you on here. Look forward to having you back. | ||
| Rebecca Koffler, former DA official. | ||
| Thank you, ma'am. | ||
| Darren Beattie, with this breaking news today, you've got an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| Tom Cotton is actually taking Rebecca Koffler's line. | ||
| He said, it is an investment. In fact, we don't mind giving up all the weapons systems, so we might as well get rid of the old weapons systems so we can buy new. | ||
| Let's give all the old stuff to Ukraine. | ||
| Let them use it. And then you've got this Pulitzer Prize winning, the muckraker, Cy Hirsch, that looks like there was something much more nefarious going on at the start of this war. | ||
| Can you put it in context, given the fact that Every day we're trying to play this footage of what's really happening on the ground in eastern Ukraine, which is just this brutal World War II type of, you know, you shell, you kill people, and you take it yard by yard and then take it back inch by inch. | ||
| Darren Beattie. Well, thank you. | ||
| And I guess it's fortuitous that I'm on having the opportunity to follow your previous guest. | ||
| With all due respect, I need to put the previous guest back in context because months ago, when Nord Stream was attacked, you'll recall a very famous segment in which Jack Posobiec, the great Jack, | ||
| was on, I was on, and the esteemed Miss Koffler was also on, and we discussed Nord Stream and Jack and I simply followed common sense that whatever was responsible for Nord Stream 2, it's extremely unlikely that Russia did it because they have nothing to gain from it. | ||
| In fact, they have everything to lose from it. | ||
| And Ms. Koffler, for whatever reason, without giving any kind of convincing argument, maintained very emphatically that Russia is to blame for blowing up its own pipeline. | ||
| So I'd be very curious what her position is now in light of The reporting by Seymour Hersh, is his reporting simply false? | ||
| Has she come up with any By the way, it could be Russian disinformation. | ||
| I mean, we haven't actually seen... | ||
| Hirsch has put something forward that is very controversial, right? | ||
| He's put forward a well-thought-through, not just so some Navy guys got an idea and went and did it, but he puts forward a complete plot Led by kind of Jake Sullivan months before the war actually started. | ||
| I think his first meeting, according to Cy Hirsch, takes place in December of 2021. | ||
| That's right, Steve. That's right. | ||
| The Hirsch position is a pretty explosive one. | ||
| You know, you don't have to go as far as Seymour Hersh to understand that it makes zero sense. | ||
| No, no, no. Hang on. | ||
| It's not pretty explosive. It's massively explosive. | ||
| I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but what Seymour Hersh lays out is that the United States essentially committed an act of war prior To really the combatants getting at each other in February of 22. | ||
| And in fact, we know from the Israeli Foreign Minister that it looks like Putin and Zelensky, according to him, wanted to have a ceasefire, didn't want to really go forward, but the Americans drove this. | ||
| If you add that to what Cy Hirsch is saying, I mean, you tell me. | ||
| You're the PhD genius. | ||
| I'm just some stupid mick. | ||
| You tell me. If Cy Hirsch is right, is that an act of war or not? | ||
| Well, I don't want to get distracted. | ||
| What Cy Hirsch is saying is something that, again, is... | ||
| Extreme, because it's not simply what seemed to be logical, which is that it was some proxy operating with the tacit blessing of the United States. | ||
| The Koffler position never had any logical support, which is that Russia did it, and I'd be interested in if she's revised this position in light of recent reporting. | ||
| What Hirsch is doing is he's taking it a step farther and saying, It's not simply some kind of proxy acting with the kind of tacit blessing of the US, but it's actually, you know, the US Navy was involved in doing it and the planning had been conducted before the invasion even took place, which is obviously far more extreme and explosive. | ||
| But it has enough plausibility that I think it warrants closer examination due to the states involved. | ||
| No, no, no. I totally agree with you 1000%, but I want to take it deeper. | ||
| It's not just that the U.S. Navy was involved, but... | ||
| Jake, he basically says Jake Sullivan convened a meeting. | ||
| This is the president's national security advisor. | ||
| So this came at the direction, had to come at the direction of Biden and the senior level. | ||
| Something at this level would have to come from the very top. | ||
| Right. But also, according to Hirsch, they actually chose the Navy divers because being not part of Special Warfare Command or they wouldn't have to find a presidential finding and actually go to the Gang of Eight and explain this before he did a covert action. | ||
| That this was thought through, according to Hirsch, from the highest levels of the U.S. government to game the system that they then could do a full-out attack to take out Nord Stream 2. | ||
| And of course, his implication... | ||
| Follows your analysis by the anonymous Wall Street financier about the U.S. dollar, that this was all done to guarantee the dollars, the prime reserve currency, or essentially the petrodollar. | ||
| So this was as well thought through, and quite frankly, probably more thought through than the Biden administration. | ||
| Certainly it's not their Afghanistan withdrawal, you would agree? | ||
| No, I mean, I don't know about the petrodollar, but it's certainly done to reassert total hegemony and control over the geopolitical affairs of Of Europe. | ||
| And as I was saying in this morning's segment, an underexplored dynamic of this conflict is just how much we've fully domesticated and tamed Europe. | ||
| The idea that Europe is somehow like benefits from this or, you know, no, this is the U.S. is in the driver's seat more than we could have ever But again, I would really like to know if the previous guest maintains her strange position. | ||
| It's one thing to question, but does she maintain this position that Russia is responsible for attacking its own pipeline? | ||
| Let's take a short commercial break. | ||
| I'm not sure it's relevant because I never heard anybody else support the fact that the Russians did it, except the U.S. government kept saying that. | ||
| Let's take a short break. We'll get back to Darren Beattie in a moment. | ||
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Battleground with Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| We have the founder and publisher of Revolver with us. | ||
| It's been all over the story from the beginning. | ||
| If what Cy Hirsch is saying is true and it checks out, and I think the only way it's going to be able to check out, you've got to have hearings on this right away. | ||
| Is that Jake Sullivan conceived of this sometime in the fall or over the holiday season of 2021, which would have been a month, let's say two months, before hostilities actually broke out in Ukraine. | ||
| And that this thing was then executed later, I think in September of 22, correct? | ||
| If this had happened, what is this, do you believe, an act of war by the United States government against Russia, sir? | ||
| Well, you know, it's a funny thing because ultimately it's only an act of war if the aggrieved party decides it is. | ||
| But I think we could reformulate the questions to say, if somebody did this to us, would we think of it as an act of war? | ||
| And I'd say the answer is an unambiguous yes. | ||
| And furthermore, under these terms, it wouldn't just be an act of war against Russia. | ||
| It would be an act of war against Germany because, remember, the Nord Stream 2 was a critical element of Germany's economic plan. | ||
| They had just as much invested in the Nord Stream pipeline as Russia. | ||
| It was a critical piece of German infrastructure as much as everything else. | ||
| And that's why I say is, you know, of course, in certain sense, the story is about Russia. | ||
| But there's another really fascinating and important story, which is about U.S. relationships with Europe and Germany specifically. | ||
| We destroyed either ourselves, if Hirsch is right, or operating through a proxy. | ||
| Otherwise, Russia didn't do this. | ||
| I'm sorry. We did it either directly or indirectly, and we destroyed a critical piece of German infrastructure. | ||
| And, you know, the Europeans have this kind of squeamish way of speaking between the lines, and what they've done is they've conducted various investigations. | ||
| The Scandinavian countries had, and they said, we found no... | ||
| Evidence that Russia is responsible for this, which effectively means either the US or its proxies did it. | ||
| Seymour Hersh gives a particularly explosive case of how it may have happened. | ||
| We can't be sure whether it's true or not. | ||
| It looks like he has just one source and we don't know. | ||
| But the allegations are important enough, the stakes are high enough, that this absolutely warrants further investigation. | ||
| And I fear that We're talking about this on The War Room because The War Room is where you talk about things that actually matter, but as far as the cable news for the mindless cattle, I don't know if anyone on cable news is going to talk about this other than Tucker Carlson, which means that it won't reach the level of scrutiny that it really deserves given the seriousness and what's at stake in the story. | ||
| Tucker and War Room and yourself and all of us on this anti-war right, we punch way above our weight. | ||
| What would be your recommendation? | ||
| Because obviously a lot of people not just focus on these shows, but it has a lot of throw weight. | ||
| Now that we've shifted the Overton window away from kind of the Tom Cotton, Mike Pompeo, both guys I really admire, but on this one are just dead wrong. | ||
| What would be your recommendation? | ||
| What has to happen? I want to tie that into... | ||
| Biden's State of the Union last night was a little half-hard about Ukraine. | ||
| Yes, certainly you had the ambassador take a bow, but there wasn't ten minutes about Ukraine. | ||
| He wanted to get in and out of the Ukraine part as fast as possible. | ||
| What is your assessment given this explosive allegation, Zelensky's in London begging for jets, all the polling in the country saying the American people Are starting to question this now. | ||
| Obviously in Europe, they're really starting to question. | ||
| That's why he's not going to Italy. | ||
| Italy just canceled Zelensky's appearance at this music festival to give his rah-rah pitch. | ||
| Where do you think we stand on this since you've tracked it probably more closely than anybody since day one? | ||
| Well, as far as Biden's speech goes, I think it's fair to say, just generally speaking, people don't really care about foreign policy relative to other issues at the retail level. | ||
| Biden had some, you know, bungling as is to be expected, but I have to say, you know, frankly, overall, I don't think his speech was particularly disastrous. | ||
| I think it hit all of the points that he needed to hit, and it was politically intelligent of him to spend as little time as possible on Ukraine, because they understand that it's just not What sells at the retail level. | ||
| In some ways, the only politician on our side who understands what sells at the retail level is Donald Trump. | ||
| Other than that, the Republicans seem to be largely tone deaf, and that's reflected in these sort of neocons in drag like Tom Cotton and others. | ||
| But I think overall Biden's speech unfortunately was kind of a net positive for him and he cleverly disguised himself almost as a kind of populist in a way and then he'll go on to govern in the way that we've all seen with the disastrous effects that we've seen so far. | ||
| What is your assessment of next moves? | ||
| Before, we've got two other big stories you're covering we want to get to, and we've got some cold opens for you. | ||
| What's your assessment right now in Ukraine, particularly when they're talking about a massive spring offensive to liberate Crimea, but it looks like they're being ground into dust in cities like Bakhmut, and the civilians are taking it every bit as badly. | ||
| The incoming from this new looks like reinvigorated with conscripts Russian army. | ||
| Well, I mean, the whole thing is just such a disaster and we're on autopilot. | ||
| It's not clear that we have any particular strategic objective. | ||
| We have, you know, obsessives like Victoria Nuland, who figures prominently in the Hirsch narrative as someone who is one of the key proponents of blowing up Nord Stream. | ||
| We have people like that who are Russia obsessives at the helm with no consideration for any kind of larger Geopolitical or strategic objectives here, and you have various special interest groups that are feeding at the coffer, like the defense industry and so forth, | ||
| and you have various oligarchs benefiting, but there's no grand vision behind it, and so it's hard to see, even if individual persons within the decision-making mechanism understand that this needs to come to an end, There's so many competing parties with so many competing interests and a lot of inertia negatively at the moment that it's hard to see where a real course correction would come from. | ||
| I think we're just going to bungle along in the same trajectory and just hope it works somehow. | ||
| Let's play the cold open. | ||
| I want to start with the Christian story first, and then we're going to go to this blockbuster about this unbelievable story about Hillary Clinton. | ||
| Go ahead and play the cold open for this segment. | ||
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There was this controversial figure. | |
| Everywhere he went, people challenged him. | ||
| They questioned his ideology, trolled him, called him ugly names. | ||
| But he never took the bait, never raised his voice, refused to retaliate, because he believed he could change the world by turning the other cheek. | ||
| . | ||
| Bye. | ||
| Very striking in black and white. | ||
| Super professionally made. | ||
| And I'm talking playing in prime time on National Football League games, the playoff games, which is the most expensive territory you can buy in media right now. | ||
| And most of these have a very decided left-wing slant to them. | ||
| There's one about being a refugee. | ||
| There's other about, I think, LGBTQ, all these questions. | ||
| You've uncovered. What is this? | ||
| These are ads promoting Christianity, supported by some of the biggest names in the conservative movement, like Kabi-Labi? | ||
| What's going on here? Yeah, it's very bizarre, and it's really kind of treacherous, it seems to me. | ||
| I'm somewhat I'm reluctant to fully analyze simply because I'm not a Christian, so I wouldn't presume to say what Christianity should mean or anything like that, | ||
| but it certainly seems that you have groups with some type of cultural purchase on the Christian right using people's sincere religious beliefs against them as a propaganda tool to shove Globalist and left-wing agendas and talking points down and this kind of, | ||
| you know, manipulative use of saying, oh, you know, Jesus would love all refugees and by implication you're not a good Christian if you don't like open borders, which again I would suspect is Theologically unsound, | ||
| although I would encourage you to have a religious authority to fully explicate that, but I can say with confidence that it's extremely deceptive on the part of Hobby Lobby because, again, it would be one thing if it's coming from Manifestly and conspicuously left-wing groups. | ||
| We can just discount it accordingly. | ||
| But when organizations or people with cultural purchase and trust on the right use people's In this case, religious beliefs, in order to manipulate them into accepting an agenda that is bad for them, bad for the country, and has nothing to do with these religious beliefs, is really sinister and really nefarious. | ||
| And of course, to play it on NFL time just shows how much contempt the system has for these people. | ||
| They're thinking, look at the dumb cattle watching their dumb cattle game. | ||
| Let's shove this message down their throat and they won't know any better. | ||
| But I think people do know better. | ||
| They do know when they're being manipulated. | ||
| And I was very glad to highlight this recent and really egregious case on Revolver.News. | ||
| How did this story come across? | ||
| How did you see the story? | ||
| I noticed it was pretty shocking because the ads are almost like Hollywood-type quality ads. | ||
| Plus, it's prime time, you can tell. | ||
| Very expensively made. In the most expensive time, we actually tried to track down who had put the money up, but it was quite obscure to do it. | ||
| How did it come across your desk? | ||
| You know, we have source aggregation and it was a story I think it had some traction on social media and so forth. | ||
| Again, I think it's one of those things where, you know, I don't know if you were following this, but it was one of these things where everyone was up in arms because there was some Grammy performance that was, you know, allegedly like, you know, someone dressed up as Satan and people were up in arms about it. | ||
| But, you know, this is coming from the Grammys. | ||
| It's, you know, silly celebrity stuff. | ||
| But here, again, I think it's so much more sinister when the people promoting these things are people that have Gain the trust of people who are on the right, and in this case on the religious right, | ||
| who organizations like Hobby Lobby that may have had their trust is using that trust against them and using their own sincere religious beliefs against them in order to promote a very, very devious and insidious political agenda. | ||
| You're absolutely right. I think this warrants further investigation. | ||
| Let's find out where the money comes from. | ||
| Let's find out the full story behind this. | ||
| How did they get to Hobby Lobby? | ||
| What's actually going on here? | ||
| What kind of deals were cut in order for these absolutely high-quality production videos to be played during NFL primetime while people are watching the game? | ||
| Therefore, in some ways, people are at their most vulnerable when they're engaging in sort of entertainment stuff like watching the game. | ||
| The mind made the defensive critical faculties of the mind dissolve because you're just in relaxation mode. | ||
| Well, and here's why it's so striking because... | ||
| For those games, you know, pre-Super Bowl, for those games, you have the consumer products thing just repeating the most basic commercials you've seen. | ||
| It's just repetition, right? | ||
| And they're pretty mindless. This is actually where it very well thought through. | ||
| It's interesting, just right in the middle of this massive debate we have on the invasion of our country, and they start off the hearing yesterday on the DHS, and the very first comment by the minority Democrats, and I think the ranking member or one of the leading members on the minority Democrat side, says this whole hearing is going to be about white nationalism and white supremacy because these guys are calling it the invasion of our border. | ||
| And to have that spot that's so striking and sticks out from all the other crap commercials, and they're repeated but different elements of it. | ||
| One of them is about Jesus as a refugee, which you don't get to the punchline to the end. | ||
| Just in the very moment that you're having this huge debate about migrants and about what it is about national sovereignty and all that is insidious, truly insidious, particularly when you see the people in the back of it. | ||
| I've got about six minutes, and I've got to get to this other story because people's heads will blow up. | ||
| I don't think we have a cold open for it. | ||
| Talk to us about the Hillary Clinton. | ||
| A guy that's done memes on Hillary Clinton, I think this came from a couple years ago in the 16 campaign, he's facing 10 years in prison? | ||
| No, I mean, I wish we had more time because this really is the most important story. | ||
| It's the most important First Amendment story you've never heard of, just in a nutshell. | ||
| A young man called Douglas Mackey, who was allegedly operating with a pseudonymous Twitter account called Ricky Vaughn, named after the major league character. | ||
| This account, Ricky Vaughn, MIT did a study on the most influential media accounts and his humble Twitter account, this anonymous young guy in New York, He was more influential than CBS and all other mainstream outlets, according to this MIT study. | ||
| So it was a spectacularly influential account, and it dabbled in memes. | ||
| Some hilarious, some controversial, some both hilarious and controversial. | ||
| And among those memes, there's sort of a meme format in existence, kind of implicitly mocking the intelligence of Hillary and Hillary supporters. | ||
| And so one of his meme was, oh, you know, if you want to vote, just text Hillary to this number, you know, with the suggestion that Hillary supporters are so dumb, they're the types of people who would believe this. | ||
| It was clearly satirical in nature and had a satirical format. | ||
| The government that's trying to throw this guy in jail for 10 years has not been able to produce a single example of somebody who didn't vote as a result of this meme, and they're resurrecting this statute that was designed to prevent the Ku Klux Klan from intimidating voters from going to the polls, | ||
| and they're saying that The meme satire on Twitter is equivalent to that. | ||
| It's a deeply disturbing case, and what it amounts to is the Biden regime trying to codify the disinformation scam into our criminal law, such that disinformation no longer only becomes a pretext to censor someone, it becomes a pretext to actually put them in jail. | ||
| In the case of this young Man who dared to mock Hillary Clinton to put him in jail for 10 years. | ||
| Hold it. Hold it. Hang on. | ||
| Hold it. Hang on. You would hope they shifted tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of votes. | ||
| Under what law are they going after a guy for making fun of somebody? | ||
| That's pure political discourse. | ||
| I mean, I'm made fun of all the time. | ||
| Trump's made fun of all the time. | ||
| That's part of the currency of politics. | ||
| How are they even going? | ||
| What do they charge the guy with? | ||
| Remember, there's this statute that, again, was originally designed to prevent the Ku Klux Klan from intimidating African Americans from being able to vote at the polls. | ||
| And they're saying that, well, this was an intimidation, but it was a kind of deception because people are going to think it's real and they're going to text Hillary instead of going to vote, even though, as I mentioned, they haven't been able to produce a single aggrieved party that didn't vote as a result of this satirical meme. | ||
| So the whole premise is ridiculous. | ||
| It's a complete stretch. | ||
| It's an innovation in criminal law. | ||
| And again, what it's trying to do, is to codify the disinformation scam, which Steve, you and I have been talking about for a while, which is the censorship predicate du jour favored by the national security community. | ||
| But again, they're trying to expand it such that you're not just going to be censored and de-platformed for disinformation. | ||
| You're going to be thrown in jail, which when you think about it is kind of the ultimate de-platforming. | ||
| And in the case of this young man, he faces 10 years, which is absolutely insane. | ||
| You know, there are murderers who don't go to jail for 10 years. | ||
| Hunter's not going to spend a single day. | ||
| It's really a terrifying innovation. | ||
| I think every American who cares about the role of free speech in our deliberative democratic process needs to take this case very seriously. | ||
| And there is a legal defense fund for this young guy. | ||
| It's memedefensefund.com. | ||
| So if people are interested, they could support the legal effort at that website, memedefensefund.com. | ||
| Darren, how does everybody get to you on social media and how they get to Revolver? | ||
| Your website is showprep for the war room. | ||
| How do people go? Revolver.News, white-hot. | ||
| There's also the DeSantis story, which Chris Rufo said is the best analysis of what's going on with DeSantis in Florida, taking over these colleges for the better. | ||
| So that's white-hot, revolver.News. | ||
| I'm on Twitter, at Darren J. Beattie, and we love it. | ||
| We're white-hot on Getter, at Revolver News. | ||
| Darren Beattie, thank you for Revolver, and thank you for joining us here today. | ||
| Appreciate it. Thank you. | ||
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