May 17, 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. | ||
| First of all, town halls are for the voters, not for the press, not for the person who's the moderator. | ||
| Caitlin spent more time interjecting her own viewpoints or her own views on the situation. | ||
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Excuse me, those are actually facts. | |
| Hold on, are you guys not going to interject your views on me, or do I get a chance to speak now? | ||
| If you're speaking falsely, those were facts. | ||
| The town hall is for the president to speak to the voters of New Hampshire, not for this back and forth with media. | ||
| That's number one. That's number one. | ||
| Number two, with respect to Ukraine, I totally disagree. | ||
| He did not say he was just going to give over Ukraine the way you intimate, Van. | ||
| He did not say that. What he said was that he would actually look for a solution to end it quickly. | ||
| He put 24 hours on it, but let's be very clear. | ||
| What Joe Biden has done has been a disaster. | ||
| Because initially with Ukraine, Joe Biden wanted to give Vladimir Zelensky a ride out of Dodge. | ||
| He wanted to give him a plane ride. | ||
| And it wasn't until people in Moscow and Ukraine here in the United States said this invasion is wrong that Joe Biden reversed course. | ||
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Do you want a victory in Ukraine? Do you want a victory in Ukraine? | |
| I'm just trying to respond to everything that's been coming up on the table. | ||
| Okay. I can play that. | ||
| And we've run the sprockets off this. | ||
| That is a masterclass right there. | ||
| And it's done by one of the most impressive young congressmen. | ||
| In the House of Representatives, in the previous hour, we've gone through this incredible press conference today, or the juxtaposition of what Kevin McCarthy did over on the West Terrace, compared and contrast to the hapless, illegitimate Joe Biden. | ||
| I want to bring in Congressman Byron Donalds of Florida 19. | ||
| Congressman, and I want to get back to what you did after the town hall, which was a master class on how you stand in the breach and don't let the media control the narrative, but you control the narrative because you've got a command presence. | ||
| But today, what we saw with McCarthy, and people, I went to a conference this weekend, and people were talking about the inflection point In the great fight of the first week of January was when Byron Donald's name was put into as to be Speaker of the House. | ||
| That kind of changed the entire momentum and it brought us, it made Kevin McCarthy a better speaker, it brought us today to a complete show of unity of the House and the Senate. | ||
| Tell us about that. Tell us about what you guys achieved in the first week, the 20 as we call it, achieved in the first week of January and why it is so important of what we're doing today in this great fight over the debt ceiling, sir. | ||
| Well, I think what happened, Steve, man, it's good to be on your show. | ||
| Big fan of yours, so it's good to be here. | ||
| A couple things that really happened that week. | ||
| The first was we wanted to make sure that the House would actually operate and function like the House is supposed to function. | ||
| For a very long time up here, the Speaker's office has just accumulated more power from the members, and there was a bunch of us who were just tired of it. | ||
| And so, you know, we wanted to see a house that really would function. | ||
| And our view, which I think has now played out, is that if you had a more collaborative House of Representatives, it would actually make the speaker and put the speaker in a better position. | ||
| Because then it wouldn't just be a speaker with their staff and their core team coming up with the ideas and the packages. | ||
| It would actually be the entire body that would be doing that. | ||
| Out of that first week, what's happened is we've been working hard. | ||
| We've been sitting down in meetings, going over different idea sets. | ||
| That's how we were able to produce the most conservative border security package that's ever passed the House of Representatives. | ||
| We were able to pass meaningful legislation about energy independence and permitting reform, which is needed in our country in more ways than I can even talk to in this segment. | ||
| And then the biggest one, obviously, that most people are focused on is the debt ceiling situation. | ||
| And how we're going to try to find a way to navigate that. | ||
| But you can't get to any of those meaningful packages if you don't have members of Congress working together. | ||
| And we've been able to do that. | ||
| And that first week really set the tempo of, hey, look, we want to have an open process, a collaborative process. | ||
| We want to make sure we're looking at finding ways to get our spending cut and getting back to some pathway of being fiscally responsible up here on Capitol Hill. | ||
| And so the first week really helped us do that. | ||
| And I think that, you know, Speaker McCarthy, he's responded knowing kind of where all the members are in the conference. | ||
| And he's actually been really doing a really good job leading us. | ||
| And we've been working with him to be successful. | ||
| I think what people are blown away about is how you've brought the conference together by doing this, and this all goes back to rules and process and procedure. | ||
| But I think what people are stunned about today is how that leadership and really putting that energy in the house in these bills you passed You've brought over the Senate. | ||
| I mean, what stunned people today is that you had Barrasso, you had Lee, and you had it choreographed one congressman and then a senator. | ||
| Tell us about that. Tell us about the leadership. | ||
| I mean, the House has actually stepped up here and you can tell the senators appreciate it. | ||
| They respect what you guys are doing, the men and women in the House. | ||
| Tell us about that for a second because we've never had a show of unity like this at the very moment we need unity. | ||
| Well, first of all, I think when you have members who are prepared to, I guess, go 15 rounds with the future speaker, going back to that first date, I mean, that kind of sent shockwaves over to the Senate. | ||
| You know, senators were kind of telling us behind the scenes, like, oh my gosh, you guys are really doing this. | ||
| And then being able to kind of keep the narrative, the media narrative contained, also making sure that even though you're gonna have, you know, this disagreement within our conference, that you find a way orderly to land that plane and come to a resolution. | ||
| That really set the tempo for everything else. | ||
| And so I think you have members of the Senate Republican senators are looking at that and they're saying, man, okay, if these guys can go through that in the first week, And still maintain, you know, the messaging apparatus and put forward what they're really trying to accomplish. | ||
| And that's getting buy-in around the country, which, by the way, got a ton of buy-in around the country from Republicans, whether they're knee-deep in politics or just Republican voters, our activists who really care about our country. | ||
| If you can get all these people to buy into that narrative and that strategy, then what else can the House really accomplish? | ||
| And I think that's where you have Republican senators looking at it and saying, you know what? | ||
| These guys have kind of figured out how to drive a hard bargain, how to stay unified, and how to explain that and get that out to the American people. | ||
| You know, why would we undercut them? | ||
| So I think you saw that today at the press conference. | ||
| It's a very good thing because our country is a mess right now because of Joe Biden. | ||
| And it's going to require Republicans to stay together and really You know lock arms and be focused on conservative solutions to our country because if we're divided the Democrats are just gonna pick us apart and that's not gonna be in the best interest of the country. | ||
| The debt ceiling debate couldn't be higher stakes. | ||
| It couldn't be more intense. | ||
| The whole world's watching this. | ||
| Your folks back in Florida in 2019, when you go back, because we know that you're very close to your constituents, what are they telling you when they're saying, hey, Congressman, this is our thoughts about this whole spending, the debt ceiling, and how you negotiate? | ||
| Well, the biggest thing is, you know, I have some constituents who are saying, don't even raise the debt ceiling. | ||
| I have some there. | ||
| I have other constituents saying you got to do it. | ||
| You can't possibly let the nation default. | ||
| But at the end of the day, what I try to make sure I tell everybody back home is we have to get our spending under control. | ||
| There's just no way around that. | ||
| The debt ceiling is going to be raised in one way or the other up here. | ||
| So it's better that conservatives are driving the solutions about how the nation's debt is going to be raised. | ||
| And so I think that's what I've been communicating and that's the input I've received. | ||
| When we passed our plan in the House, constituents, whether they're conservative activists or they might even be more moderate Republicans, one, they were all stunned we got something passed, and two, they were really excited to see what we passed. | ||
| And it wasn't just about passing the bill. | ||
| It was about actually cutting federal spending. | ||
| It was about pulling stuff out like the student loan bailout, which was a disaster. | ||
| And frankly, it's unconstitutional. | ||
| Obviously unspent COVID money, RAINS Act, which a lot of people who've watched policy for a long time have wanted to see happen. | ||
| HR, you know, our HR2, our bill around domestic energy production, things like that. | ||
| To put all that in the package, you get all of us to agree. | ||
| They're like, man, this is great stuff. | ||
| And it actually is common sense. | ||
| It's easy to explain. People get it. | ||
| They understand it. Work requirements, big piece of it as well. | ||
| So I think what's really occurred back home is people have seen us put something together. | ||
| They like it. | ||
| I mean, everybody wants to see something different or something more, and I understand that. | ||
| But that's the process you go through when you're trying to keep, you know, 218 members together to put something forward that's constructive. | ||
| And I think it's a really good package, and I think, you know, the voters back home in Southwest Florida like it. | ||
| They like the direction. They really appreciate it. | ||
| Very few people ever get nominated by their colleagues to be Speaker of the House, and almost no one's ever been nominated as early in the career as you. | ||
| Tell our audience, since you started with a bang, where's your focus? | ||
| What's the center of gravity? When you look at your time in the House and the House of Representatives, what's your big focus? | ||
| What are the issues that you think are the most important for the American people? | ||
| Well, for me, the ones that I focus on up here are financial regulatory issues. | ||
| I think those are critical, I think, for our financial system. | ||
| So much of what happens in our economy is based upon capital being able to freely move. | ||
| It's not the sexy stuff like border security. | ||
| I got colleagues that really focus on those policies, and they do a great job. | ||
| But I just want to make sure that our economy continues to be that engine. | ||
| A policy focus of mine that really came up because I was looking at ESG policy and all the crazy stuff from the radical left is nuclear. | ||
| In my office, we do a lot of nuclear policy work, very focused on that. | ||
| But I'll tell you, even the reason I ran for Congress was about really pushing the message of what conservatism really is and not listening to what the media pundits say. | ||
| And so I told a colleague of mine, like the CNN town hall stuff I did the other day that you were playing at the top, That's some of the stuff I wanted to do coming to Congress and using the platform of a congressional office to share conservatism with all Americans. | ||
| So sometimes it means you go into hostile territory, but that's okay because the messages I receive, you know, outside of media, I think are really helpful. | ||
| I want to go to that. | ||
| I know we're jammed for a time, but I got to go to that because people don't understand in the moment how hard it is not just to keep your composure But to have a command, you totally controlled that. | ||
| You totally commanded that. And I tell people, you can't coach that. | ||
| That is a natural talent to be able to bring it in the moment. | ||
| Walk us through, and you had a panel of nine, and these were all heavy hitters. | ||
| They were all, and I'm sitting there watching live. | ||
| I go, oh my God, here we go now. | ||
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All of them, boom, right there, and you blew it out of the water. | |
| Talk to us about it. When you made that decision, hey, I'm coming in hot, talk to us about that. | ||
| Well, honestly, that really came out of my time as an activist. | ||
| I got started in politics about a decade ago, Tea Party activist. | ||
| And so on the panel, I went last. | ||
| I'm kind of glad I went last because I was listening to their punditry. | ||
| And frankly, I was just getting pissed off because I heard a completely different town hall than they heard. | ||
| And I just wanted to set the record straight and really speak to it like a normal citizen would, not as a member of Congress, not as somebody who's Trying to maintain all the right views and all the right words, but bringing that passion that so many Americans feel when they hear these political debates on TV or they hear the punditry class on TV. So that's how I responded. | ||
| In terms of going back and forth, I mean, I'm a sports junkie. | ||
| I argue about sports all the time with friends. | ||
| And stuff like that. So it's kind of taking a little bit of that and bringing it to politics and really just engaging. | ||
| But the biggest thing overall is you have to know your information and you cannot be afraid when they push back. | ||
| They're gonna try to push back on you. | ||
| You kind of have to go in knowing that and you have to be prepared to deal with the pushback and have the courage of your convictions to continue to go forward. | ||
| And that's what I did and I'm glad it worked out. | ||
| Congressman, it was a master class. | ||
| We thank you. We know you're incredibly busy, particularly on today of all days. | ||
| Could you just give us your social media and your website? | ||
| Where do people go and find out more about you? | ||
| Because, like I said, very few individuals are ever nominated to be Speaker of the House, and I don't think anyone's ever been nominated in the early stages of the career like you have. | ||
| So as a former Tea Party activist, folks could not be more excited about having you in the House and having you in leadership. | ||
| Where do they go to get more about you? | ||
| Everything is at Byron Donalds. | ||
| Follow me there, Facebook, Twitter, all that kind of stuff. | ||
| Website, ByronDonalds.com. | ||
| I try to keep it simple. Congressman Donalds, honored to have you on here. | ||
| Keep fighting. All right. | ||
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Hey, listen, thank you, Steve. Thanks, brother. | |
| That is a... Watch that young man. | ||
| That is incredibly impressive what he did at CNN and just everything when he presents himself and the issues he takes on. | ||
| He's not out. One thing's about Donald's. | ||
| It's very important on this nuclear power. | ||
| Look, if we're going to get really sustainable energy in the future, it's going to be based upon nuclear power. | ||
| And you see a guy like Donald's who goes and does the hard issues. | ||
| The capital markets, the regulatory, absolutely essential. | ||
| for a robust economy. | ||
| This is what's so impressive. | ||
| He can step into the breach in CNN in the moment that it counts, but he's also a workhorse, not just a show horse, not a guy just doing cable TV to do it all the time. | ||
| A real hard worker. | ||
| Let's go to Mark Mitchell. Mark, at Rasmussen, another poll today that kind of, I had my jaw dropped. | ||
| Tried to get you in the morning show, but we had to cut to the McCarthy. | ||
| Walk us through this. These poll numbers are stunning. | ||
| So can you just take it from the top and walk me through it? | ||
| Yeah, the top line is, in our polling, Ron DeSantis' numbers are worse than they've ever been, and they're going in the wrong direction for him. | ||
| So we've been testing primary matchups on and off for the last couple months, and it had been a while since we did Republicans. | ||
| So we did it again, and we threw everybody at the respondents. | ||
| So we included Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Asa Hutchinson, as well as some other candidate. | ||
| And Donald Trump beats Ron DeSantis 62 to 17%. | ||
| Ron DeSantis is 17 % is the lowest we've ever had in a poll. | ||
| That Trump's 62 % is the highest it's been in a really long time. | ||
| And DeSantis is doing worse among Republicans than even Bobby Kennedy is doing among Democrats. | ||
| So really not great. | ||
| The last time we asked it was back in February. | ||
| Right after Nikki Haley had announced, and among Republicans, Trump took home 52 % of the vote. | ||
| DeSantis did 24 % there, and he'd actually gotten up in the mid-30s in Republicans. | ||
| Now, I'm looking back at the last couple months, and I'm really starting to get a feel that this whole thing about DeSantis really wasn't about his ability as a candidate To really compete with Trump, it was more about Trump himself. | ||
| So the worst Trump did was in the beginning of February, not long after the fight for speakership. | ||
| And Trump still beat DeSantis among Republicans, but it was close. | ||
| It was in the teens. And now he's opened up essentially a 45-point lead among Republicans. | ||
| It's just going in the wrong direction. | ||
| And from the reports I'm hearing, DeSantis is taking in a lot of money. | ||
| Presumably, they're spending that on consultants and a lot of polling, and they can't like these numbers they've seen. | ||
| But even just outside of the Republican circles, at an all-likely voter level, we ask these questions of all likely voters as well. | ||
| And the story there isn't great either. | ||
| So President Trump, among all voters, and of course, not all voters are gonna vote in the Republican primary, but it gives you a feel for really how that person would do generally at the national level in a general. | ||
| Trump takes 37 % of the vote and DeSantis is only getting 14. | ||
| Now that 14 is higher than any of the other Republican candidates, but it's still not great. | ||
| So two weeks ago, we asked about Kennedy versus Biden. | ||
| and all the other Democrats, and Kennedy almost tied Biden essentially 35 % to 36%. | ||
| Back when we asked about Nikki Haley in a question like this, she got 25%. | ||
| So if you take those five candidates and rank them at a national level, DeSantis comes in a pretty distant fifth place. | ||
| So even at the national stage, he really isn't as much of an item as those other four candidates. | ||
| Hold it, hang on. And walk me through, I mean, Is this likely voters or just the general Republican thing? | ||
| Because these numbers are kind of jaw-dropping, so I want to make sure that we take a second to break it down, because when I saw the poll, you got it to me early. | ||
| It blew me away. Is this just registered voters or likely voters? | ||
| Rasmussen, we really believe in the likely voter model, so pretty much everything political that we run is going to be likely voters. | ||
| And that just means we ask somebody, how likely are you gonna vote? | ||
| Now, we also had a question, how likely are you gonna vote in the Republican presidential primary? | ||
| And I was pretty astounded at how high that number was. | ||
| Now, we know half of America has somewhat open primary states. | ||
| But even among people that say they're very likely to vote in the Republican primaries, Trump is still beating the Santa's 53 to 18 percent. | ||
| Really, any way you cut these numbers, DeSantis loses to Trump. | ||
| There's not one single demographic where DeSantis does better than Trump except among self-identified liberals, and he beats Trump by one point. | ||
| So it's really just across the board. | ||
| And again, the tables did shift towards DeSantis back in the end of January, early February. | ||
| But with Trump out there on the stump, with him doing town halls and getting the right kind of press, I think that's what really moved it. | ||
| It's nothing DeSantis did. | ||
| I'm going to be blunt. | ||
| This started, I can go back and track exactly when it started. | ||
| It was East Palestine. When Trump went to East Palestine and DeSantis didn't, not just DeSantis didn't, really, DeSantis can't. | ||
| And that's the key point. | ||
| That was the beginning of Trump, and then he had the CNN talk. | ||
| I just want to make sure I go through here. | ||
| You had DeSantis at one time. | ||
| In the same thing with likely voters, and I think likely is the much better way, and I disagree with people that just either don't do either registered voters who get a lot of misreads on polling that people just do Americans or American citizens are even registered. | ||
| Here you're getting people that are kind of focused and are actually going to be relevant. | ||
| It's cheaper to do registered voter polling off-cycle. | ||
| So there is that. | ||
| That's why people do it, for sure. | ||
| So he went from 30, he's gone from 37 percent To 17 % in essentially 100 days, January, February, March, April, a little over 100 days. | ||
| A little over 100 days, essentially 100 days, he's gone from 37%. | ||
| In your history as a pollster, would you define that as a collapse? | ||
| Yeah, it's 100 % a collapse. | ||
| But on the flip side, Trump is screaming, doing great right now. | ||
| And maybe Trump is pulling the votes from DeSantis. | ||
| Maybe DeSantis didn't earn those respondents really to begin with. | ||
| I think that he—and again, we've talked about this—Republicans do like Ron DeSantis. | ||
| He's a Trump substitute. | ||
| He's not a Trump replacement. | ||
| I'll give you one more that's really fascinating. | ||
| So back in February of 2022, we asked a very similar question. | ||
| This is what I like to call the Republican clown car. | ||
| We literally threw every candidate at these people, Cheney, Cruz, DeSantis, Haley, Pence, Pompeo. | ||
| And back then, over a year ago, Trump beat DeSantis 47 % to 20%. | ||
| And so here we are over a year later, presumably with a lot of major news media attention for DeSantis, a huge election win and foreign trips and all these other things. | ||
| And he's polling worse among Republicans than he was over a year ago. | ||
| He's down three points from there. | ||
| So he's even on a national stage, even when you ask all likely voters. | ||
| Back then, Trump was beating DeSantis 30 to 14 percent, and today, DeSantis is still at 14 percent. | ||
| So Trump's gained seven points among all voters, and DeSantis is flat in about a 15-month time period. | ||
| But look, I like what Governor DeSantis has done in Florida, but I said I'm not sure it's going to translate right now. | ||
| That's why he should finish his term and be as great a governor as possible. | ||
| But I believe the more that you see him, and I think he's making tremendous missteps because of these consultants and the big money in Backham. | ||
| The big money in Backham does not care about Ron DeSantis. | ||
| They care about stopping Trump, and they've used Governor DeSantis. | ||
| And I've said from the beginning, as soon as he's used up in these numbers, are getting there because this is a collapse. | ||
| And not just that, this is a collapse. | ||
| The undercard, when you really look at the reasons why, you can't turn this around. | ||
| Because the more they see you, it's not going to all of a sudden, oh yeah, I didn't see that aspect of it. | ||
| This is called being weighed and measured and found wanting. | ||
| That's the headline out of the Rasmussen poll. | ||
| Mark, incredible work. | ||
| How do people get to you? | ||
| How do they get to you? I understand YouTube's giving you a rumble. | ||
| You got a new rumble site. | ||
| Walk people through how they get to the Rasmussen polling. | ||
| Yeah, we'd love to have you to sign up either on YouTube or Rumble. | ||
| Either one works. You're going to get the same videos. | ||
| And we're on TrueSocial and Getter, but I really want to make a pitch for people to come to our Twitter account, rasmussen underscore poll. | ||
| I know a lot of your audience may not be on Twitter, but you might not know this. | ||
| Just recently, a big conversation on Twitter has been this study that was done in coordination with Cornell University in the And they ranked the 10,000 highest spreaders of quote, election misinformation during the 2020 cycle. | ||
| And Rasmus' report's Twitter feed ranked 42nd on the list of 10,000. | ||
| Now, of course, we're very careful to only share primary source material, data out of local investigations into electoral irregularities, and things that have meat at a national scale like 2,000 mules and like True the Vote. | ||
| So we're out there spreading information that we think is important, because as pollsters, we need to know if there is election fraud. | ||
| So we're making waves there, and if people like that, we really appreciate a follow on Twitter. | ||
| We will definitely get everybody that's on Twitter. | ||
| We want them to follow Ransomus on Twitter. | ||
| Mark Mitchell, thank you very much. | ||
| Honored to have you on here. Great analysis. | ||
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My pleasure. Shocking. | |
| Shocking if you're a DeSantis fan. | ||
| I want to bring in Carly Bonet. | ||
| Carly runs Midnight Rider. | ||
| Carly, you've done such an incredible job. | ||
| You are a true news junkie. | ||
| How many hours a day are you following the news, ma'am? | ||
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Oh, boy. I never put a time limit on it. | |
| Sometimes I'll wake up in the middle of the night and, you know, something tells me, go look at this, and I post it. | ||
| But I do get sleep. | ||
| I'm good. Maybe... | ||
| 11, 12 hours a day? | ||
| We got about a minute here, and I'm going to hold you through the break. | ||
| You go and you're pulling great videos all the time. | ||
| What are the new sources that you're going to to pull all these great videos and all the great articles you're putting up? | ||
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Well, you, of course, over on Getter, you can put the articles up. | |
| But I watch a lot of Fox, and people do depend on that because a lot of people have cut the cable. | ||
| To Fox. And there's people on my Midnight Rider chat that are from other countries. | ||
| And they appreciate the Fox clips where a lot of people say, stop watching Fox. | ||
| You yourself say, stop watching Fox. | ||
| But I want to see the other side, you know? | ||
| You got to know what's going on there. | ||
| They are a major news source. | ||
| So I know I'm bad. | ||
| I know you get mad if you stop watching Fox. | ||
| But I'm going to do it because I'm familiar with it. | ||
| And Jesse's still great. | ||
| You know, there's good people there. | ||
| Just hang on for one second. | ||
| I'm going to go through a short commercial break. | ||
| Carly Bonet is with us from The Midnight Rider. | ||
| They're a fabulous source. | ||
| I'm on there all the time watching all the clips she's putting up. | ||
| Although she does put up these Fox clips from time to time, she gets the great Jesse Walters and Judge Jeanine and all the great folks. | ||
| There's still a lot of great folks there. Short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to be back in the War Room in just a second. | ||
| It's just been an absolutely incredible day. | ||
| I want to go back to Carly Bonet. | ||
| Carly, the Midnight Writer channel, I'm over there all the time. | ||
| Tell us about, we've got a couple of minutes. | ||
| How did you form it? How did you come up with the idea? | ||
| And tell me about the community, because the chat's incredible. | ||
| The folks over there are incredible. | ||
| How did you do this? Who are they? | ||
| And how do you make it work? | ||
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Well it's basically someone accused me of having a team but it's basically me and three phones and I have some great admins that help me out but this all came about on telegram because I was continuously taken down from Twitter then Parler was demolished and I like doing That's my favorite thing to do. | |
| Ripping videos. Sometimes I'll add music or, you know, edit them. | ||
| And Telegram was the fastest to upload. | ||
| And a friend of mine saw that my voice was gone. | ||
| And there was nowhere to go. | ||
| There wasn't Getter yet. | ||
| There wasn't Truth Social. | ||
| Where am I going to go? | ||
| And they made me a Telegram account. | ||
| A very dear friend from the Keystone channel. | ||
| So once I started that, it just grew and everyone remembered me and my famous cackle, they call it. | ||
| It's a much better cackle than Kamala Harris, I have to admit. | ||
| Because I think hers is a little phony where mine's just real belly laugh. | ||
| But I was known for laughing at the TV on Twitter. | ||
| And I went viral a couple times and they took down my account. | ||
| I was supposed to be on Jesse Waters. | ||
| My pinned tweet now that I have a new account shows the video of when Jesse Waters had on a dog trainer and he said just a PSA Jesse Epstein didn't kill himself and I filmed the TV while this was happening and I laughed out loud and it went like mega viral that Jesse Waters actually DM'd me on Twitter and said I'd like to have you on the show. | ||
| Well after about 18 million views They took down my account. | ||
| No warning. | ||
| No reason. Just don't. | ||
| You're gone. And I was heartbroken and I tried a couple accounts after that and they just kept taking me down. | ||
| And that's when Telegram happened and I use it like a news aggregator. | ||
| I put all the videos there. | ||
| I'm able to edit the videos right on Telegram. | ||
| It uploads very fast. | ||
| And now I find out the CIA is using Telegram to recruit Russians to be spies for us. | ||
| So I'm on a good site now. | ||
| Unbelievable. Carly, we've got to bounce, but I want to make sure everybody gets to all your different touch points because, quite frankly, Nazis should work. | ||
| I do this for a living now after, what, 10 or 11 years. | ||
| You have an incredible... | ||
| And a lot of people don't have that. | ||
| You have the real ability to find the buried lead. | ||
| You have a real ability to find things out there that are signal, not noise. | ||
| And that's why your channel and your community, I think, is so important and so powerful. | ||
| So how do people get there? | ||
| How did they get to Telegram and how do they get to the other touch points like Getter and Twitter? | ||
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Well, it's Carly Bonet on Getter Truth Social. | |
| It's Carly Bonita. | ||
| On Twitter now, and Telegram, it's Midnight Rider, but on all those sites, I have the link to the Telegram channel, which is just nonstop. | ||
| I get accused of posting too much, but that's my go-to. | ||
| That's where I can edit, and then I share it to other sites. | ||
| The entire gang over at Midnight Rider is incredible. | ||
| The comments are incredible, the whole thing. | ||
| Your huge team that you work with I know is incredible. | ||
| And we're going to have you back on. | ||
| Carly's the one that started the whole hair meme of your humble servant here. | ||
| So we'll have Carly on another time to go through how that's gone viral. | ||
| Increased our viewership by 20%. | ||
| Carly, you're incredible. | ||
| You're a fighter and a warrior. Ed Henry's a big fan wants this hair. | ||
| Carly, we love you over here. | ||
| Keep fighting and say hi to everybody over at the Midnight Writer channel. | ||
| Thank you. Carly Bonet. | ||
| Thank you very much. She's an American original right there. | ||
| I wanted to have this guy on for a while up in the great state of Maine, Sean McBriarty, the defender of children, fighter for families. | ||
| We're kind of jammed for time today, but Sean, I wanted to get you on to give your overview of what you're working on, but most importantly, you've got something else rolling up there, I think, in the legislature in Maine. | ||
| I want to make sure everybody knows about your fight and how they can assist you, sir. | ||
| Thank you for coming on. Yeah, no, I appreciate it. | ||
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Thanks for the opportunity and congratulations on the New York Times saying that War Room was the number one source for factual information. | |
| That's a good thing. | ||
| I just wanted to give your viewers a little bit of context of how bad it is here. | ||
| I would say Maine's K-12 public schools are irreparably broken at this point. | ||
| We are seeing the worst academic assessments in our history. | ||
| We are seeing the highest tax burden in our history. | ||
| Based on the nation's report card that just recently came out, only 29 % of students in Maine are proficient in reading, Steve, and only 24 % of students in Maine are proficient in math. | ||
| It's the lowest score since they've been keeping track of it. | ||
| We spend $3 billion a year here for Maine schools. | ||
| The majority of Maine citizens pay a large percentage, sometimes up to 85 % of their property taxes, to go to the local school in their hometown. | ||
| And simply, I tell every parent I can, pull your kids out of these schools now because it's that bad. | ||
| But if you can't, Steve, you better be fighting for your kids' education like their lives depend on it every single day because they do. | ||
| These schools want to take your kids from you. | ||
| And those are a couple of the bills that we've recently seen roll through the Augusta Capitol here in Maine. | ||
| How did that happen? | ||
| Although I'm a southerner from the south, on my mom's side, my great grandfather was a sergeant in the first Maine cavalry during the Civil War, and his brother died in the Civil War in Dahlgren's raid with the first Maine cavalry when he volunteered. | ||
| So we've had a stake, and I used to spend summers up in Maine working. | ||
| How did this happen? | ||
| Maine is one of the best states in this union, and I've got to tell you, the people up there, are just absolutely incredible, right? | ||
| It's an incredible state, incredible people. | ||
| How did the schools get so radicalized? | ||
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Yeah, it's a beautiful four-season state, Steve. | |
| I mean, I love being here. | ||
| I've got a beautiful house here on the Penobscot River, and I'm really blessed. | ||
| But what's happened in our political spectrum is, I would say that conservatives have been asleep at the wheel for the last couple decades, including myself. | ||
| And until three years ago, when we received a letter at my Twin Daughters High School calling us all white supremacists on the heels of George Floyd's death as Minneapolis is burning the ground. | ||
| I didn't know how bad it was. | ||
| And we've just simply allowed many of these folks to get on school boards in Maine, run unopposed, and they are leftist progressive Democrats. | ||
| And they're looking to indoctrinate your kids to graduate little socialist leftist Democrats every June from high school. | ||
| And so we're in a just a horrific situation here in Maine. | ||
| The assessment scores are just the tip of the iceberg. | ||
| I've been able to really work on exposing critical race theory in Maine schools, hypersexualization of minors in Maine schools. | ||
| And what we're really seeing now, unfortunately, we just had this Bill 3, LD 385 pass. | ||
| And what it was is it's known better as chapter 117. | ||
| But what that states is that social workers in schools can sexually transition kids and keep it a secret from parents. | ||
| And so, we recently had a situation in Little Damariscotta, Maine, a town of 2500 people, a beautiful, quaint little town on the coast, where a mother found a chest binder in her daughter's room, and a social worker in that school system had sexually transitioned this girl to be a boy using different pronouns and different names in schools, and then told that 13-year-old to keep it a secret from their parents. | ||
| This is how bad it is. | ||
| And we'll touch on LD1735 here in a second, but just wanted to give your viewers a sense that I think there's not enough strong men and women in Maine to push back. | ||
| And what we're seeing out of the Maine GOP is a bunch of milquetoast paper tigers. | ||
| Talk to me about these bills you're working on. | ||
| What's your organization? I want to make sure everybody gets a chance to go there. | ||
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What's the organization? Yeah, so I work for Maine First Project, and I do a podcast called Maine Source of Truth. | |
| Maine Source of Truth you can find on Facebook, and you can listen to the podcast anywhere you listen to podcasts. | ||
| It's about 60 episodes or so of educational-based content with a number of people around the country, peers of mine that are battling in the same situation. | ||
| But this 3LD1735, which actually today is supposed to be in a work session in Augusta, It's a bill, Steve, that's falsely labeled an act to safeguard gender-affirming healthcare. | ||
| And really what it is, it's a classroom-to-clinic pipeline, right? | ||
| This is a trans-tourism sex trafficking bill to kidnap kids, bring them into Maine, and then mutilate their bodies because of their gender dysphoria. | ||
| And no child, regardless of age, should be able to self-diagnose what's going on. | ||
| But these schools are pushing This trans cultism. | ||
| And it is very unfortunate. | ||
| Parents are not fully informed as to what's going on. | ||
| And I would argue 9 out of 10 parents here in Maine have no idea what we're talking about. | ||
| Okay, hang on for a second. | ||
| Hang on for a second. My head's already blown up. | ||
| I know the audience is. Hit rewind on that. | ||
| I've actually moved some things around here so we can spend more time with you. | ||
| Okay. Those are pretty explosive terms you just used. | ||
| Walk us back and break this bill down for a second. | ||
| When you say that, hey, it's supposed to be gender-affirming, and that sounds bad enough on top, but you're saying, oh, it's really a sex trafficking and mutilation bill. | ||
| Back that up for a second. | ||
| So what is the bill itself? | ||
| And first off, why are these radical things even coming up in Maine? | ||
| What is happening to the folks up there? | ||
| I mean, this is not what you think of When you think of the state of Maine and the hardy types it takes to live up there, sir. | ||
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Yeah, no doubt. You know, we generally, again you mentioned, you know, The service that Maine has put towards the United States here in the last few years. | |
| But what's happened is- Well, hold it. | ||
| What about Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain? | ||
| Not for Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. | ||
| We don't have a country. If he didn't hold, if what the Maine infantry didn't hold, the pivot of the far left at Gettysburg, You wouldn't have a country. | ||
| They would have gotten rolled up. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is one of the greatest heroes of the Civil War. | ||
| What Maine has done in the history of this republic has been extraordinary. | ||
| How did this happen that you've got now these massively radical bills that are targeting children and the family coming from the legislature in Maine? | ||
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Yeah, we've lost this state, Steve. | |
| What I would say is between Governor Mills, our House Senate, and our District Attorney Office, they are all controlled by radical Democrats at this point. | ||
| And that's been an incremental shift. | ||
| What I would argue is the last three years, these leftist progressives have dialed it up to 11, and they feel emboldened because there's nobody there to stop them. | ||
| There are not enough parents and taxpayers pushing back, and so they've got free reign to radicalize the entire system. | ||
| Joshua Chamberlain and the Swinging Gate, all of those things, 100%. | ||
| You know, Maine has helped defend this entire country, and now we need help. | ||
| Maine's a pretty cheap date. | ||
| We've got Planned Parenthood, for example, spending millions of dollars here. | ||
| We've got radical organizations named OutMaine and GLAAD and Maine Transnet, Big Pharma. | ||
| They are pushing it to Maine. | ||
| And this bill is similar to the bills that you've seen in California and Washington, which again, I will label as a trans-tourism bill. | ||
| No parent, no child in the United States is safe from this bill because If a minor child, regardless of age, self-diagnoses them and their gender dysphoria, this is what the bill says. | ||
| It says gender-affirming health care means medically necessary health care that respects the gender identity of the patient as experienced and defined by that patient. | ||
| And it's not limited to suppressing the development of secondary sex characteristics, aligning the patient's appearance and physical body with their gender identity, And then anything that will alleviate symptoms of clinically significant distress due to gender dysphoria. | ||
| Now, there's no such thing as gender-affirming healthcare. | ||
| It's permanent malfunction and mutilation of your body, irreversible drugs. | ||
| There's no turning back. | ||
| And there's zero scientific evidence that say any of these things will help these confused and some are mentally ill, these children, these minors in school. | ||
| There was a study in Sweden over 30 years which said that the culture and the supportive of the transgender movement continues lifelong mental unrest because 10 to 15 years after their surgery, after their transition, after their mutilation, the suicide rate of those folks that went through that goes up 20%, Steve. | ||
| So this bill basically creates a situation where parents and police have no jurisdiction over these children If they're pulled from neighboring states or any states across the United States into Maine, the police cannot protect this child or the parents from potential mutilation. | ||
| It's trans kidnapping, Steve. | ||
| Basically, the law in the way that it's said here... | ||
| But hang on one second so I understand this. | ||
| You had this radical bill just passed and signed a law, I think, in the state of Washington, where if the kids felt they self-identified, they could go to the school counselor. | ||
| Even without the parents, they could put them into one of these homes and the parents had nothing to do with it. | ||
| When you say self-identified, how young can a child be to be eligible to self-identify according to this bill? | ||
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There is no age definition on this bill, Steve. | |
| You could have any child of any age suddenly decide that a boy is a girl or a girl is a boy. | ||
| I believe they're too sexist. | ||
| Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. | ||
| You're telling me that if a five or six year old child goes into the doctor at school or goes into the teacher at school and tell them this, that that overrules the parents? | ||
| That overrules the parents' ability to raise the child according to the- Yeah, well there's two things involved. | ||
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LD685 said that a social worker or a counselor can sexually transition a kid and keep secrets from parents. | |
| You've got LD1735, which basically allows the parent No authorization over their children. | ||
| So yeah, you can certainly draw the conclusion that any child in any state who humps on a bus or is kidnapped or sex trafficked to Maine and then is radicalized and is put on a medical table for mutilation, that that's going to occur. | ||
| And the parents, again, have no way to stop it because the way that the law is written right now, a law enforcement agency may not knowingly make or participate in the arrest or participate in the extradition of an individual pursuant to an out-of-state arrest warrant for violation of another state's law against providing gender-affirming care. | ||
| So, for example, America's Governor Ron DeSantis is doing a great job down in Florida to knock this stuff off, but if somebody kidnaps a kid from Florida and brings them to Maine and puts them on a table in Barbara Bush here in Portland at Maine Medical Center for gender mutilation, There's nothing that the police or the parents can do to stop that, the way this bill is written, Steve. | ||
| Okay, but hang on, Sean. | ||
| Correct me if I'm wrong. | ||
| Knowing the Northeasters and the hardy folk that have to avoid the Maine woods, I think was the big warning up there, the orange book they used to sell. | ||
| This has to be a 90-10 What you just laid out is as radical or more radical than the state of Washington. | ||
| This has to be a 90-10 issue. | ||
| Am I incorrect in that, sir? | ||
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No, you're correct in saying that, Steve, but I think what's happened over the years is many people, what we would say from away, have moved into the state from Connecticut, from New York, from Massachusetts, from parts unknown, and they've brought their leftist progressive values here into the state. | |
| Then many of them have run for office over the last few years. | ||
| And what I was saying to begin with, including myself, we've been asleep at the wheel here in this state for decades. | ||
| And only now in the last three years have I started to identify some of these horrors inside our K through 12 public education system. | ||
| And now we're trying to connect the dots between what's happening in Augusta in our Capitol building with Governor Mills and Commissioner of the Maine Department of Education, Pender Macon, and a number of these nonprofit woke groups. | ||
| who are looking to profit on children. | ||
| So I would agree with you 100%. | ||
| This should be a 90-10 issue. | ||
| What I would say is there's not enough strong men and women in Maine right now willing to take a stand, willing to put themselves on the line, and we need some support here. | ||
| So I really appreciate the opportunity to expose more of this. | ||
| But yeah, this is mind-blowing because people don't recognize how horrible the state of Maine is right now in treating kids Kids who have more anxiety, depression, and thoughts of suicide, Steve, than we've ever seen in our lifetime. | ||
| Sean, how do people get to you? | ||
| I want to know how they get to the podcast, how do they get to your site, and how they can support you. | ||
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Yeah, I appreciate it. Main Source of Truth, you can search for that on any place that you listen to podcasts, Apple, Spotify, iHeart, Google. | |
| And like I said, I think I've got about 60-odd episodes there. | ||
| Always looking for great educational guests to have on the podcast. | ||
| Please follow me on Twitter at Sean McBriarty. | ||
| And also you can go to the Facebook page, Main Source of Truth. | ||
| Hopefully Zuckerberg will keep it up for a little while longer, but the more we get there to expose, the greater risk of that is for that coming down on Facebook. | ||
| So I'm a big proponent of Twitter since some of the changes, and that's probably one of the best places to follow my work. | ||
| Sean, honored to have you on here. | ||
| Look forward to having you back and hopefully get up there one day and visit with you guys. | ||
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Absolutely. Thank you very much. | |
| Thanks, Sean McBriarty. | ||
| Doing the God's work in the great state of Maine and man, what a fabulous place. | ||
| Have you never had a chance to go there? | ||
| Absolutely breathtaking in its beauty, both on the coast and in the great, what do they call it, the Maine woods. | ||
| Just incredible. L.L. Bean, when you used to go there, we'd go up to work. | ||
| They have the book right there in the front in orange. | ||
| Lost in the Maine woods. | ||
| That was one of the first things you had to read. | ||
| Okay, we're going to be back 10 o'clock tomorrow morning live. | ||
| We commit to you one thing, that the shows will be every bit as on fire as they were today. | ||
| I want to thank everybody. I want to thank Frank Speech, all the great team over there. | ||
| Logan Hauser, an incredible producer. | ||
| I want to thank everybody. We'll be back here tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. |
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