Dec. 28, 2023 - Bannon's War Room
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| Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will travel to Mexico City today to meet with Mexican President Andres Obrador to discuss new immigration policy between the two countries. | ||
| That visit comes as a surge of thousands of migrants making their way through Mexico to the U.S. | ||
| border as we speak. | ||
| Joining us now from the southern border, NBC News correspondent Morgan Chesky. | ||
| Morgan, good morning. | ||
| What's the latest there? | ||
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Yeah, Willie, good morning. | |
| And the organizers of that very migrant caravan have said that the group has swelled rapidly with the addition of more Central American families, so many of them with very young children. | ||
| Now, the past 24 hours here in Eagle Pass has been surprisingly quiet, but that could soon be changing. | ||
| This morning, the southern border's migrant crisis marching on. | ||
| This video capturing the largest caravan in more than a year. | ||
| An estimated 8,000 men, women, and children in Chiapas, Mexico near Guatemala. | ||
| All of them headed north. | ||
| Organizers say the group swelled by nearly 2,000 people in a single day, many hoping for a better life, many more road-weary and exhausted. | ||
| The caravan moving as the Mexican president welcomes U.S. | ||
| Secretary of State Antony Blinken. | ||
| The Mexico City meeting, set for later today, expected to focus on the unprecedented irregular migration and border security between the neighboring countries. | ||
| The visit following a recent phone call between President Biden and Mexico's leader. | ||
| The two leaders agreed that additional enforcement actions are urgently needed. | ||
| It comes as the number of migrants in cities across the country are reaching record levels, with New York City seeing up to 4,000 people arriving each week. | ||
| Local shelters and services overwhelmed and struggling. | ||
| Switching gears now, Joe Biden arrived in the Caribbean earlier today for yet another vacation. | ||
| This one to ring in the new year as crises pile up for the president and his administration at home. | ||
| To keep up, we have no more room in the city. | ||
| Meanwhile, on the ground in Eagle Pass, a surprising lull in crossings Tuesday. | ||
| Following a record-breaking week, where thousands of migrants lined the banks of the Rio Grande, and processing took hours, if not days. | ||
| Outside a shelter, we met Osmani, Marianne, and Edison. | ||
| Where are you going now? | ||
| Oklahoma. | ||
| Oklahoma. | ||
| Los Angeles. | ||
| Los Angeles. | ||
| Dallas. | ||
| Merion from Venezuela says she's now waiting until her asylum hearing. | ||
| After a five-month journey here, she describes similarly to so many other migrants we've heard from. | ||
| A dangerous, potentially deadly track that in her mind is worth it. | ||
| Morgan, we heard there from New York City Mayor Eric Adams showing his frustration with the federal government and its approach and the impact on New York City and how they're going to house migrants and have had to house migrants for several months now. | ||
| So as we approach these cold winter months in places like New York and Chicago and elsewhere, how are those cities preparing? | ||
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Well, they're absolutely having to get a little creative. | |
| We know that in the case of Chicago, the state is sponsoring hotel rooms for migrant families, while in New York City, a tent encampment has just opened up on the outskirts in a place that was once used as a campground. | ||
| We know that in some instances here, Willie, space is so tight that migrants are now being asked to leave shelters after 30 days and then reapply. | ||
| every inch of available space for housing in incredibly high demand now. | ||
| What would you like to hear from Mexico about the border? | ||
| Bye! | ||
| We're seeing the erosion of the quality of life that we've improved on in such a short period of time of this administration. | ||
| And we have been impacted. | ||
| For many months, we were able to keep the visualization of this crisis from hitting our streets, but we have reached a breaking point. | ||
| We're no longer able to do that because of the volume in numbers. | ||
| Just last week, we had 3,900 people that arrived here. | ||
| We are averaging anywhere from $2,500 to close to $4,000 a week. | ||
| And if you do the math, you see that's $8,000 every two weeks, potentially $16,000 a month that we must feed, clothe, house, educate children, and all the services that you would give a normal adult. | ||
| And we're seeing that play out on our streets of New York. | ||
| And that is what the breaking point looks like, what we are experiencing right now. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
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Because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved! | ||
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War Room. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm. | ||
| It's Thursday, 28 December, Year of Our Lord 2023. | ||
| 2023. | ||
| How many of you would face with a crisis, particularly if you were faced with a crisis that Involve the sovereignty of your country and your fellow countrymen. | ||
| How many of you would skip out and take a vacation in the Caribbean? | ||
| Where you have, because of an invasion of your nation, Where you planned it, initiated it, exacerbated it, lied about it, spun it, tried to... What did the genius... What's the over and under, by the way, Eric Adams having a three-digit IQ? | ||
| What's the over and under on that? | ||
| Visualization. | ||
| We didn't want the visualization. | ||
| This is a guy that declared, you know, made New York City a sanctuary city, bragged about it, and now every day just whines. | ||
| Because Biden doesn't want to be stuck with the problem in New York City. | ||
| We wanted to hide the visualization. | ||
| The visualization. | ||
| So citizens can't see what's going on right before them. | ||
| So now you're going to have the illegal alien invaders freezing in the streets of Chicago and New York. | ||
| Because, hey, let's do the math. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| You know, 4,000 one week, 8,000 the next week, 16,000 for a month. | ||
| That's very good. | ||
| Maybe it is close to three digits, that IQ. | ||
| Who would leave and go to the Caribbean for a vacation? | ||
| How could you enjoy yourself? | ||
| Unless the destruction and breaking of the sovereignty of your country and your fellow citizens was, you know, part of your plan. | ||
| It's going, well, let me kick my feet up and enjoy ourselves. | ||
| He's in the Caribbean on vacation. | ||
| You've got Note to self, the Israeli war with the Muslim Brotherhood and the Persians is now in a new phase of spinning out of control. | ||
| Benny Gantz said today that they're going to open after they said, hey, Biden talks as I was the first couple of days, they're putting warning signs up that they're going to start bombing the Persian Lebanese Shiite militia in Lebanon because they're tired of taking incoming You've got the situation, somehow we got a carrier up in the Red Sea, which is ridiculous. | ||
| Right outside of the Red Sea, you know, they're taking incoming Houthi drones, the United States Navy, non-stop. | ||
| So that's metastasizing over there. | ||
| This is just one thing after the other, after the other. | ||
| Big article in the Telegraph yesterday about how she and the Saudis are now very far down, you know, our allies, the Saudis. | ||
| The ones that we've been assisting them fighting the Houthi rebels on the southern, on the Yemen part of their peninsula, or the Saudi peninsula, the Arabian peninsula. | ||
| How they're cutting their long-term deal. | ||
| They're actually making more progress on the de-dollarization. | ||
| The de-dollarization program. | ||
| So all that's going on and a guy skips out and goes on a vacation to the Caribbean. | ||
| I mean, couldn't you get some time off with the family in the White House and go to the West Wing and go down to the Kennedy Room where the National Security Council is and, you know, have some meetings and act like you're even concerned? | ||
| And now the only reason they're sending Blinken, remember, this is the team that's done such a great job in Ukraine. | ||
| Ukraine, which the war is over there, as everybody knows. | ||
| Except they got to get their $80 billion into the money laundering operation. | ||
| And what are they doing? | ||
| They're holding the border hostage. | ||
| The only reason they're prepared to have any border discussion at all is because they need the $70 billion for the money laundering operation in Zelensky in a war that's essentially over. | ||
| Except when Zelensky gets his 500,000... What's the over and under he's going to get his 500,000 new troops? | ||
| Cause baby, they ain't volunteering. | ||
| You're going to have to go to Ireland and drag them back, the draft dodgers. | ||
| The only reason that Biden's doing anything now, he's got Blinken and that Mayorkas and Blinken. | ||
| How would you like that to show up as a representative of the United States of America? | ||
| Mayorkas and Blinken. | ||
| That's the best of the best. | ||
| Mayorkas and Blinken show up to your, uh, good God, don't send them to the CCP. | ||
| Don't send them to Beijing and don't send them to Moscow. | ||
| Don't send them to Tehran with the mullahs. | ||
| I mean, they laugh at how hapless the Americans are. | ||
| You send them down to Mexico, which is, by the way, the president's totally in bed with the cartels. | ||
| The cartels are making more money than they've ever made off of drugs and human trafficking. | ||
| So they're going to go down and have a meeting with the cartel sponsorships. | ||
| I'm sure they're going to get some very precise answers and assistance. | ||
| But the invasion is so bad, and you can't hide it, the visualization, as Mayor Eric Two-digit IQ Adams would tell us. | ||
| The visualization is so bad that the Biden regime now is concerned because the American people have awakened to the fact that, hey, in Wichita, Kansas, and in Lansing, Michigan, and you can go anywhere in the country and see that the streets are flooded now with the illegal alien invaders. | ||
| And who's supposed to pay for all this? | ||
| Because right now the Republicans have to say absolutely no way. | ||
| You did the invasion, you figure out where you get the money from. | ||
| No additional money to pay for this invasion. | ||
| No way. | ||
| All this thing when they talk about, oh Ukraine but we're going to have a border security part of it, all it is is for more processing. | ||
| All it is is for more housing. | ||
| All it is is for more cell phones and cash money and education and health care and all of it. | ||
| And they say right there while the folks are coming, And if you and I were in the same situation, we would be coming. | ||
| So let's not demonize the individual people because, hey, if Uncle Sugar's going to open the gates and Biden's saying, come on in, and he knows that President Trump's going to return and you're going to have real adults, of course you're going to flood the gates. | ||
| This is what the surge is about. | ||
| It's not quantum mechanics, what's going on here. | ||
| But you're seeing the destruction of your country, and I hope everybody under 35 pay attention, don't look away, because the removal of these people is going to engulf the nation. | ||
| Getting our arms around the financial situation, which is discretionary spending on defense and on social programs. | ||
| It's going to have to have massive cuts. | ||
| I mean massive cuts, not the things they're talking about, but 1% of this and some, some, Oh, waste, fraud and abuse. | ||
| No, I'm talking about massive cuts, a five-year program, a five-year program to get to balance budget. | ||
| Couple that with the deportation of what is Todd Benson tell us going to be 12 or 4 million to 12 to 14 million, uh, illegal alien invaders. | ||
| By the time president Trump gets back in there. | ||
| Okay, we got a lot going on today. | ||
| We continue to celebrate the Christmas season. | ||
| Bing Crosby is going to take us out. | ||
| We're going to be back. | ||
| I've got Brett, I've got Harnwell, Raheem. | ||
| We've rang the bell, got everybody up, everybody's working. | ||
| It's a work day here in the War Room. | ||
| Hope you're enjoying your Christmas holiday. | ||
| We'll be back in a moment. | ||
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This blessed babe was born, and laid within a manger upon this blessed morn, the which his mother Mary did nothing take in scorn. | |
| O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy, O tidings of comfort and joy. | ||
| From God, our heavenly Father, a blessed angel came. | ||
| And unto certain shepherds brought tidings of the same. | ||
| How that in Bethlehem was born the Son of God by day! | ||
| O tidings of comfort and joy! | ||
| Comfort and joy! | ||
| Oh tidings of comfort and joy Good King Wenceslas looked out on the feast of Stephen When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even | ||
| Brightly shone the moon at night, though the frost was cruel, when a poor man came inside, gathering winter fuel. | ||
| Hey, welcome back. | ||
| It's Christmas week here in the world. | ||
| What a crisis for our country. | ||
| We're going to end this year historic 2023. | ||
| And by the way, we're going to be doing our New Year's Eve special. | ||
| And we're also going to have our New Year's Day special packed with a review back of the year. | ||
| Historic year we just came through, and as importantly, on New Year's Day, a look ahead of one of the most important years in the history of your republic. | ||
| Dave Brat, how can a guy, help me out here. | ||
| How could you possibly leave? | ||
| I mean, it's just a middle finger to the United States. | ||
| How can you possibly leave, go down and hang out in the Caribbean and some billionaires hang out? | ||
| Where all the billionaires hang out. | ||
| They all go to the Caribbean for Christmas and New Year's. | ||
| How could you go down there and hang out when your country is literally being invaded every day? | ||
| 10,000 to 14,000. | ||
| Remember, that's the ones that are processed through. | ||
| And they're not eligible for asylum. | ||
| Everyone that comes up there, hey, I want a better life. | ||
| I understand that is a driving Element of humanity. | ||
| I want a better life for them and their children. | ||
| I got that. | ||
| That's not a... That has nothing to do with our asylum laws. | ||
| That's what you get in line and you try to get into in this country through immigration. | ||
| And yes, it takes years. | ||
| And most of those people are not going to be eligible and never get there. | ||
| I got that. | ||
| That's how you have control of your border. | ||
| And we don't have a border now. | ||
| It's not even about border control. | ||
| Oh, but Mike Johnson is going to go down. | ||
| He's going to take a congressional delegation. | ||
| A CODEL is going to go down, I think, on the 2nd and 3rd. | ||
| And we're going to have a couple of photo ops down there and some happy talk. | ||
| Let me just lay it out. | ||
| This is simple. | ||
| So Mike Johnson, everybody can get it. | ||
| Shut down the border or shut down the government. | ||
| That's as simple as it can get. | ||
| Just defund the whole thing. | ||
| You get back on the 9th, the 19th I think is the first big, the first big CR. | ||
| Instead of doing a CR for the year, just shut it down until they're prepared to get serious, get to the southern border, and shut this nonsense down. | ||
| Then you know they're serious or not. | ||
| And totally decouple it from Ukraine. | ||
| Ukraine, no, not a penny. | ||
| How can you afford a penny of Ukraine? | ||
| You've got $2 trillion, $2.5 trillion, trailing 12 months deficit. | ||
| No even possibilities. | ||
| Nobody's even talking about how you pay for this anymore. | ||
| He's just going to print money and bury the generation under 35 years old who are now paying attention and that's why they're supporting Trump. | ||
| Brad, your assessment of all this? | ||
| You know, it's spot on and I totally agree with it. | ||
| This is the fight. | ||
| This is the fight we should take on. | ||
| All political views are just my own, right? | ||
| The president and his elites are off on island hopping because they're arrogant. | ||
| They think the old formulas of pulling certain levers are going to work. | ||
| I'm going to prove that's not true right now in the charts that are upcoming. | ||
| But Congress should shut down the government until we shut down the border. | ||
| That is the fight that Americans want to see. | ||
| And that is the right play call. | ||
| And the American people know two things right now with certainty that have changed the game. | ||
| They know the government has systematically lied to us for four years. | ||
| From COVID to masks to Russiagate for three years, backed by our top intelligence officials, CIA, FBI, and all the lies on economics we've borne from the Federal Reserve Bank to the Treasury Secretary saying inflation is transitory. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| The charts below are going to show that. | ||
| The people know very well prices have never gone down. | ||
| They've only gone up, up, up. | ||
| The prices are still up. | ||
| That's the number one indicator of misery. | ||
| And then the whopper of the year, the lie, the lie in the Christmas season, the lie, which still has not been renounced, Homeland Security Mayorkas declares, I want to be very clear, our borders are not open. | ||
| Right? | ||
| I mean, the American people are sick of getting gaslighted with yes being called no, up being called down in the Christmas season, especially the truth matters. | ||
| So that's fact number one. | ||
| You're being lied to. | ||
| You know it now. | ||
| And then the second new part is the American people now know the government is in full control, and they don't care about you. | ||
| So you put those two together, you're being lied to across the board. | ||
| Your own government is lying to you. | ||
| They've shown they don't care about you. | ||
| If you step out of line, you will pay a price. | ||
| It doesn't matter whether you're a Catholic or not. | ||
| That explains the poll numbers, right? | ||
| They'll be at your door knocking. | ||
| If you get too far out of line, you'll be deplatformed. | ||
| You will lose your freedom. | ||
| We're not living in a free country right now when you have to walk around that scared. | ||
| And so that explains the poll numbers, right? | ||
| Biden's down at 34 percent. | ||
| Seventy percent of the people think he's got it wrong on inflation. | ||
| Of course, that's true. | ||
| 50% of people think he's got it wrong on jobs, when all the headline numbers are good. | ||
| And so that's the mystery, right? | ||
| How in the world are all the headline economic numbers good, but everybody knows it's not true. | ||
| And so if Denver wants to put up the first chart, Here's the evidence, right? | ||
| I mean, that first chart is just devastating. | ||
| This is Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index. | ||
| It's been around for a long time. | ||
| It's basically, how do you feel? | ||
| How's it going for you? | ||
| And you'll see the sentiment now, the feelings of the American person are worse now than they were after the 07-08 financial crisis, right? | ||
| That got down pretty far down that gray bar. | ||
| Now at the far right, consumer sentiment, your feelings, your lived experience is miserable. | ||
| Next chart, Denver, just shows the current state of affairs. | ||
| So in 2020, Trump's trajectory and the economy had some momentum still going up. | ||
| Bidenomics kicks in, it goes down, it comes up a bit, but now it's going back down again. | ||
| And so the American people got a good sense of what's going on. | ||
| And now what's really going on here is people don't care about the headline statistics. | ||
| They care about their lived experience, their lives. | ||
| So let's just, I'm not cherry picking, this is out of Axios, not a right-wing place. | ||
| Here's the change in the share of Raleigh, Carolina metro area households by income. | ||
| Take a look at that chart for a minute. | ||
| Everybody look at this chart. | ||
| Everybody making less than $25,000 a year. | ||
| The poor, their incomes went down. | ||
| The purple arrows going to the left. | ||
| $25,000 to $49,000 down. | ||
| $50,000 to $74,000 up. | ||
| 1% up. | ||
| $75,000 down. | ||
| But the 100K or the rich folks, way down to the bottom right. | ||
| Doesn't even look like it's on the right chart. | ||
| That green arrow, their incomes go up from $39,000 to $47,000. | ||
| And so, okay, you say, well, Dave, you just picked one city, an outlier. | ||
| Denver, the next chart, if you want to go to the U.S. | ||
| of A, basically the green there are the moderate to good news. | ||
| Everything else is bad news for the United States of America. | ||
| So if you want to know why Biden's at 34% and it is cratering and why the American people feel terrible, this is it. | ||
| This is the change in medium income households from 2019 to 22. | ||
| Everything's going down. | ||
| The rich are getting richer. | ||
| The mainstream economic press and headlines, you know, the financial channels only pay attention to the stock market, not to this. | ||
| This is the real economy. | ||
| Hang on for the last chart, because I may want to go to break. | ||
| I want to summarize this. | ||
| Number one, the 34% is everybody. | ||
| Remember, you got the partisan Republicans and MAGA, you got the hardline Democrats. | ||
| If you look at the proxy for the American people right now is independents. | ||
| I think he's in the mid-20s. | ||
| I mean these numbers for approval are like unheard of because the lived experience. | ||
| Also this goes back to our basic thesis that all these top line numbers and all this happy talk is because of massive Keynesian, a massive Keynesian infusion of government fiat money. | ||
| It's just the printing presses are turned up and that's why it's not coming down into the lived experience of people. | ||
| The purchasing power, at the same time they're destroying the purchasing power of the Federal Reserve note of the dollar and that's why people's lived experience is harder and harder and harder. | ||
| I tell you, we're going to play some Christmas music. | ||
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Hang on. | |
| I want to get you're going to get your last chart up. | ||
| We're going to get drilled down more into it. | ||
| Tie it together. | ||
| Also, we got Ben Harn, where we're talking about Ukraine, also the geopolitics of it. | ||
| Rahim's going to join us in a little while. | ||
| Ed Dowd's going to join us. | ||
| He's got some new statistics on your vaccines on the, you know, suddenly died. | ||
| We're going to get into that. | ||
| He's got a new update for the year. | ||
| OK, we're going to take it. | ||
| We're going to go out. | ||
| How can you do bad going out? | ||
| How can you? | ||
| Not love going out with Bing Crosby. | ||
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Bing Crosby, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, I think it is. | |
| Let's roll. | ||
| Hark the herald angels sing. | ||
| Glory to the newborn king. | ||
| Peace on earth and mercy mild. | ||
| God and sinners reconciled. | ||
| Joyful all ye nations rise, Join the triumph of the skies, The angelic host proclaim, Christ is born in Bethlehem. | ||
| Glory to the new-born King! | ||
| Gloria, Gloria, in terra, terra, It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From angels bending near the earth | ||
| To touch their harps of gold. | ||
| Peace on the earth, goodwill to men, from heaven's all gracious King. | ||
| The world in solemn stillness lay to hear the angels sing. | ||
| Still through the cold and skies they come with peaceful wings of heaven. | ||
| Go to www.jamesboylearn.com to learn more. | ||
| Good King Wenceslas looked out on the feast of Stephen, when the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even. | ||
| Brightly shone the moon at night, though the frost was cruel, when a poor man came inside, gathering winter few. | ||
| Welcome back. | ||
| The Engine Room sends me a Ronald Reagan, and I think it was the quote that he used that really drove the 1980 election against Carter. | ||
| Remember, he said, a recession is when your neighbor loses his job. | ||
| Depression is when you lose yours. | ||
| And recovery is when, he said Carter, but when Biden loses his. | ||
| Now you say, well, Steve, you got all these jobs, low growth. | ||
| Yeah, but people work in two and three jobs. | ||
| These jobs aren't paying anything. | ||
| You're purchasing powers down. | ||
| The harder people work. | ||
| Here's the great thing, and particularly the working class and the lower middle class. | ||
| You look at the polling. | ||
| You can't fool people. | ||
| They're smart. | ||
| They get it. | ||
| They see exactly what's happening. | ||
| Of the Forbes Forbes 400, I think it's the Forbes 400, or the Fortune 500. | ||
| I think it's the Forbes 400. | ||
| Both lists are pretty interchangeable. | ||
| These are the billionaires. | ||
| 375 of the 400 wealth increased, and most dramatically. | ||
| You've set up a system controlled by these central banks that can just continue to print. | ||
| You have fiscal irresponsibility at the legislatures. | ||
| That's throughout the world, Western Europe. | ||
| In the United States, so fiscal irresponsibility, i.e. | ||
| that's a fancy term. | ||
| That's Harvard Business School speak for gutless politicians who won't stand up and say, hey, we got to cut this spending because we have fiscal irresponsibility. | ||
| Coupled with monetary, that's the the printing of the money in the currency out of the central banks, and they have a system where the oligarchs, the super wealthy in this country, control it. | ||
| Now, think about this for a second. | ||
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We're a revolutionary country. | |
| We broke off from an empire that was just at the beginning phase of their takeoff, of their ascendancy, in mid-18th century. | ||
| They were about to be turbocharged with these giant, essentially monopolies, like the British East India Company, the crown had given monopolistic power to for trade. | ||
| They were just about to take over and control India and other places, other choke points of the world. | ||
| And Bill, I don't, you know, I'm not faulting them. | ||
| They created an empire from a small island nation with grit, determination, foresight, and titanium stones. | ||
| We opted out at the beginning because we said, hey, we can see where this is going of tyranny. | ||
| Our Christmas Day show right to Trenton. | ||
| Of actually fighting for that and saying, no, we don't want, we want out and we're going to fight our way out if we have to. | ||
| So that same system, we've come back and created a economic system that is to the 10th power, more unfair and more laced with tyranny than that, that they can even conceive. | ||
| Now with the power of technology. | ||
| And now with the power of artificial intelligence and everything related to transhumanism, of which the oligarchs that control this country are all in for, 1000%. | ||
| So that's what we're fighting against. | ||
| With all those odds, you guys are not doing too bad a job. | ||
| Not perfect, but we live in an imperfect world. | ||
| But even now, as much as they control the media and the propaganda machine, people can look at their lived experience, they look around their cities. | ||
| And the big tectonic plate shift is really coming from heretofore have been the low-hanging fruit for these radical Democrats. | ||
| And that is the working class people, minorities, the young people, and they're looking around and going, whoa, this doesn't work. | ||
| It doesn't work at any level and particularly doesn't work at me. | ||
| So, Ben, you've got some updates, too. | ||
| Particularly, you've got comments on the border, things you're pulling from the news media. | ||
| You joined us from Rome today. | ||
| Thank you for hanging in there. | ||
| I know most Romans take off Christmas week, most Italians, but Ben Harnwell, being a proper Englishman, is hard at work. | ||
| That's juxtaposing two opposites, I guess, a hard-working Englishman. | ||
| What do you got for me, brother? | ||
| Well, I'm still trying to get my blood pressure back down from when you called the UK just a few moments ago, a small island nation. | ||
| That's obviously not how we see ourselves, Steve. | ||
| Good morning to you. | ||
| So, look, just talking quickly about Bethlehem and then I want to talk about the FT. | ||
| This is how quickly a situation can change. | ||
| In around 1993, the proportion of Christians in Bethlehem and the surrounding area was considered to be about slightly over 90%. | ||
| That was 1993, Steve. | ||
| So this is basically within each generation. | ||
| It's now considered to be around less, less than 5%. | ||
| That's a total decimation of the Christian population in and around Bethlehem. | ||
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Now, Hold it. | |
| Don't get off that. | ||
| Hold it. | ||
| Don't get off that one. | ||
| This is about Islamization. | ||
| And this is, hey, Israel being such a great ally, you have to have blunt conversation. | ||
| Not just the thing on October 7th. | ||
| Hey, that still stinks to high heaven. | ||
| And we, you know, we're not even close to getting to the facts of what actually happened. | ||
| But I'm talking about overall. | ||
| They've been Just like people here in the United States all of a sudden, oh my gosh, look at Kennedy Airport. | ||
| It's shut down. | ||
| Look at Times Square. | ||
| It's shut down. | ||
| If you're a Jew, you just can't even walk through. | ||
| I mean, Alec Baldwin the other night, they were going to tear him limb from limb. | ||
| If you're a Jew, you can't walk into the middle of that. | ||
| You're going to get torn limb from limb. | ||
| And everybody's like all shocked. | ||
| And at the Ivy League schools, they're all shocked. | ||
| Gosh, how did this happen? | ||
| This is Sharia supremacism. | ||
| You know, Rahim's been on here. | ||
| Rahim and I, and you, have worked on this for over a decade. | ||
| At least I've been involved in this, right? | ||
| Actually, my first film, In the Face of Evil, about Reagan and about communism, the whole thing was about taking on the Sharia Supremacist. | ||
| The coda of the film, the last five minutes of the film, actually comes and talks about what the film's about, how you take on these radical ideologies. | ||
| And you remember, Ben, when you were so gracious, I think in 2014, to invite me to speak at your at your conference in the Vatican, and I kind of laid out, you know, it was about wealthy people and how wealthy Catholics could do good, and I kind of said, okay, that's interesting. | ||
| Let's talk about what the problem is. | ||
| We talked about the rise of radical Islam. | ||
| Not Islam, And not people that profess the Muslim faith, and that's their journey to salvation. | ||
| Every individual's got to have their own journey, got to make up their own mind. | ||
| We have never criticized that. | ||
| I'm talking about where the political Islam, where it becomes Sharia supremacism. | ||
| It's got to be their way or the highway. | ||
| And you see this happening in England right now. | ||
| You see this happening in France. | ||
| And the elites who have allowed this to happen are too gutless right now and too nervous and afraid. | ||
| Talk to people in England. | ||
| They're afraid to actually take the measures they have to take. | ||
| to shut this down. | ||
| And that fear is only going to eat away at these societies. | ||
| But look what's happened in Israel. | ||
| Israel fears, and they're still happy talking about letting the PLO take over Judea, Samaria, and maybe they have a role. | ||
| The PLO has no support among these people. | ||
| These people are Sharia supremacists. | ||
| This is the Islamization. | ||
| That number, again, I want to go to, and this is what they've allowed to happen in Bethlehem. | ||
| In Bethlehem, it was 90%, essentially, in the early to mid-90s, correct, of Christians. | ||
| And now it's under 5 or 10 percent. | ||
| That's the Islamization of Bethlehem. | ||
| The other day, the reason there's no services, the reason there's no services at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and these other places is because Not simply there's a war on and tourists are hesitant, but the official folks running things said are in sympathy with the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza. | ||
| They're in partnership, they said that. | ||
| These are our partners and we're not going to have any Christian, there's not going to be any commemoration of the birth of Christ while we're in charge. | ||
| Is that essentially what's going on in the Holy Land, Brother Harnwell? | ||
| Steve, certainly that's exactly what is going on in Bethlehem. | ||
| The reason I mentioned that statistic was because obviously we've just celebrated Christmas and literally I just had being crossed me on before me talking about peace on earth, in the Holy Land, in the land of the birthplace of our Lord and Saviour. | ||
| But these demographic changes, they're happening all over the world. | ||
| And what I had wanted to mention, it's not why I came on to the show today, but it's so pertinent and it sort of complements exactly what you and Dave Black were talking about a moment or so ago. | ||
| For example, look, The FT has an article today and it's basically now admitting the crisis of the open borders, the lack of borders is having in politics and on the American people. | ||
| And obviously it frames this story is that the Democrats want to be welcoming to people who are vulnerable and the Republicans are just cynically and hard heartedly and opportunistically trying to stop them. | ||
| If you go all the way down to the bottom fifth of this article, it actually lays out, however, the consequences of what's happening. | ||
| And it's talking about lifelong, some personal anecdotes that are in this article, lifelong Democrats who are switching in the border states, who are switching to Republicans because they've seen in their own communities that the absolute crisis and degeneration that's happening in their local communities. | ||
| This is the consequences. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So you might talk about I mean, Bethlehem obviously has an emotional place in all of our hearts. | ||
| But most of us, when we think of Bethlehem in the Holy Land, we're thinking sort of 2000 years ago. | ||
| And it's a little difficult to relate what's happening on the southern border in the United States is not only on the southern border, but of course, as you were saying, you had people being shipped right across the United States, swing states, especially specifically, of course, for the future anticipation that these people will be voters and Democrat voters. | ||
| But what's happening in Bethlehem? | ||
| and the whole land now is tomorrow's story across Europe and the United States. | ||
| And it was interesting to see sort of these arguments being hinted at in the financial times. | ||
| The crisis of the established order is the following, is how are they going to continue to pay for this? | ||
| Because, as I said, fiscal irresponsibility by the legislative branch, and even worse, monetary irresponsibility in the monetary side, the central banks, where they just continue to print fiat currency, whether it's in the ECB or the United States, and they buy off | ||
| Was it Georgina's silence on the immigration side, on the invasion of Italy, and to have some sort of side conversations, because they need the money from Brussels. | ||
| Only Orban is one of the few in the polls, or some of the few, that say, no, you're not going to bribe us with your 10 billion dollars. | ||
| We need it, we're due it, we're owed it, but you're not going to buy our silence for that. | ||
| We'll be able to stop it. | ||
| The established order is crashing as cratering because of the invasion they've allowed they've initiated from at least two thousand twelve to fourteen in europe in the united states uh... and and you see the breaks happening right now that's why this crisis builds everyday of course what better thing to do in a crisis than to go to the frickin caribbean and kick your heels off f you to the american people okay short break | ||
| Harnwell, Rahim, all of us next in the world. | ||
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Our Savior was born on Christmas Day to save us all from Satan's power when we were gone astray. | |
| O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy. | ||
| O tidings of comfort and joy. | ||
| In Bethlehem, in Jury, this blessed babe was born and laid within a manger upon this blessed morn. | ||
| Alleluia. | ||
| Adeste fideles, leti triumphantes, venite, venite in Bethlehem. | ||
| Natum videte, regem angelorum, venite adoremus. | ||
| Venite adoremus, venite adoremus. | ||
| Domino. | ||
| Welcome back. | ||
| This is Bing Crosby. | ||
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This is Dave Fidelis. | |
| I was going to do... On Christmas Day 1973, Some of the greatest films in modern American cinematic history were released. | ||
| It's kind of extraordinary. | ||
| I was going to do a kind of an analysis of, I think, what was the most important film. | ||
| Magnum Force, Clint Eastwood, the sequel to Dirty Harry. | ||
| But I think I'm going to do that tomorrow because there's a couple of people I want to pull into the show to talk about it. | ||
| A film More relevant today than the day it was made, and it was a pretty shocking film at the time. | ||
| For those of you who don't remember it, I'll give you full details tomorrow as we break it down. | ||
| Birch Gold, I think Gold hit a high in 2080. | ||
| It's off a couple of bucks in 2078, but the daily price is not the thing that we talk about here. | ||
| It's the macro. | ||
| We're going to be talking a lot about macro the next couple of days as we end the year and look back over the historic 2023 and look forward to the more historic 2024. | ||
| It's a time of turbulence. | ||
| More turbulence today in the Middle East, I think. | ||
| I gotta think and maybe Ben can help me out here than anytime. | ||
| You know, it's an active war going on there right now in the Holy Land. | ||
| And people should pay attention to that, of exactly what the stakes are for us as Catholics and us as Christians. | ||
| But that's why you need to understand the geopolitical and, how do I say this, financial forces in back of gold as a hedge of which it's been for 5,000 years of mankind's history. | ||
| You have to understand why is that? | ||
| Why has gold always been a hedge against turbulent times? | ||
| Go to birchgold.com. | ||
| Slash Bannon, you get the end of the dollar empire and baby over the last couple of days as Ben Harnwell can attest with the article in the Telegraph, which is quite brilliant about our allies, the Saudis. | ||
| Trying to get off the petrodollar in a deal with the Chinese, as we've told you about for, what, two or three years here now. | ||
| It's kind of a big shock to the guys at the Telegraph, but at least they're reporting on it. | ||
| The de-dollarization march just continues on, and it is to make sure that the foundational element of the United States' power, its currency, is stripped from it. | ||
| And this is because of one disastrous decision by our elites after the other. | ||
| That's why I say if we had the choice to be governed by the first hundred participants that walked into the Cowboy Church for the Eli Crane Town Hall, what, a week ago, right before Christmas, I think it was on the 20th, right before Christmas, versus the elites at Goldman Sachs or McKinsey or your bettors in the U.S. | ||
| government, I would take The folks at the Cowboy Church. | ||
| We'd be much better off. | ||
| Birchgold.com slash Bannon. | ||
| Also, as people know, I'm still a little bit under the weather, but we're powering through this as you have to. | ||
| I don't think my dad ever took a day off. | ||
| I don't remember him ever missing work for being sick. | ||
| Ever. | ||
| Unheard of. | ||
| Incomprehensible that he would do that. | ||
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| Slash War Room. | ||
| You get your discounts. | ||
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Slash War Room. | |
| You get your discounts. | ||
| Dave Brat. | ||
| I've got about a couple... I'll tell you what. | ||
| Brad, can you hang on through 11 o'clock? | ||
| Am I imposing upon you? | ||
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| Love it. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| I want to get to the chart and get... I'm still... I'm on a roll and I want to end with... | ||
| Was it Bing Crosby's faith of our fathers can't be a better way to take us out? | ||
| And the reason Bing Crosby, I don't think there's a better, obviously, voice, right, crooner, a voice in American, of the American songbook, but it's also about the confidence, the confidence of the post-war era. | ||
| That's when President Trump talks about making America great again. | ||
| It's to harken back to those days when we were at the top of our game and we had, it's just not material, it's just not the ability to be the arsenal of democracy, it's just not the valor and courage of the greatest generation, it's that and more. | ||
| Why were they courageous? | ||
| Why did they have valor? | ||
| Why could Rosie the River, why could we turn on a dime and become the arsenal of democracy? | ||
| It's because of confidence in one's culture and one's civilization. | ||
| You can see that in the music, in the films, in the voices. | ||
| That is all before us. | ||
| That is what Trump represents. | ||
| Let's go out with faith in our fathers. | ||
| We're going to turn the war on in just a moment. | ||
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Oh how our hearts beat high with joy, whene'er we hear that glorious word. | |
| Faith of our fathers, holy faith, we will be true to thee till death. | ||
| Our fathers chained in prison's dark were still in heart and conscience free. | ||
| How sweet would be their children's faith if they like them could die for thee. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. |
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