Dec. 30, 2023 - Bannon's War Room
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Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never more divine? | |
| Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne? | ||
| For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, we'll take a cup of kindness and... | ||
| Okay, welcome back to the war room. | ||
| It's Saturday, 30 December, Year of the Lord 2023. | ||
| This is also doubling as our New Year's Eve special. | ||
| We kind of review the year. | ||
| A historic year, particularly with the rise of MAGA as a massive political force, even more so than in 16. | ||
| Uh, Rahim, you've been probably the... | ||
| Because it's not like the old, this primary was not like the old days where every move that came out of the, because you know as we totally dismissed it, it used to be in the previous ones that you would help us cover either in 16 or even in 12 at Breitbart, you know every movement of a Rick Santorum or a Mitt Romney or you know a Jeb Bush, everything was covered and magnified. | ||
| You didn't really see that this year because of so much I think dismissal of the, of the Of the whole concept of a primary, putting Trump to a primary. | ||
| However, anybody that did cover it in the most important elements of it were you and the team at National Pulse. | ||
| Walk through to the audience how you saw a total collapse of a guy that had $300 million, all of the donors, Fox News media that was just non-stop starting to begin this year with town halls and praise, virtually two-thirds or 75% of conservative media. | ||
| on his side. | ||
| How did that collapse? | ||
| And then immediately they look for two other alternatives. | ||
| They look for the governor of Virginia first, and then they finally landed on Nikki Haley. | ||
| And people should know, we'll talk more about this tomorrow, the Nikki Haley thing is going to be, I think, a quite ugly situation. | ||
| So from the person that covered it the most, before we get into McCarthy and the House, the importance of that story, the collapse of the rise and fall of Ron DeSantis. | ||
| Yeah, well, I think it's wrong to say that Ron DeSantis is irrelevant. | ||
| I think it's more accurate to say that Ron DeSantis' relevance applies almost only from the perspective of how not to run a campaign. | ||
| And that is important. | ||
| That is a lesson that people should learn. | ||
| It's a book that needs to be written. | ||
| It should be taught in political science classes, and it should be studied by everybody who wants to work in elections. | ||
| That is what they did. | ||
| was the complete diametric opposite of what you need to do to win a primary, to win an election. | ||
| And there are so many reasons why. There are so many different elements to this, whether you want to take the kind of the boorish arrogance of somebody like Jeff Rowe, whether you want to take the sort of the grifting nature of van der Plaats and those people who were brought on using $100,000 checks to the process, whether you want to look at it from the perspective of who Ron was allowing to run his campaign | ||
| and what Ron thought about himself as a result of having won his own elections in Florida. | ||
| He convinced himself that Donald Trump had nothing to do with those wins, when in reality Donald Trump had everything to do with those wins. | ||
| You can look at the people who have endorsed him, you can look at how they set about the campaign in the first instance. | ||
| By the way, it's not often you'll get me complimenting New York Times reporting, but there was a fabulous piece of New York Times reporting towards the latter part of this year which walked people through exactly what took place and when within that campaign. | ||
| And you go from the original sin of that campaign was hiring Jeff Rowe. | ||
| But why did he hire Jeff Rowe? | ||
| Because Adam Laxalt told him to. | ||
| And why did Adam Laxalt tell him to? | ||
| Because they're buddies. | ||
| And he knew that in hiring Jeff Rowe, it took Ted Cruz and Glenn Youngkin out of the running for the race, because they would naturally go to Rowe, their buddy as well, to run their campaigns. | ||
| It was all of this what we call too clever by half, right? | ||
| Too cute way of trying to run this campaign. | ||
| And they thought, all of them, by the way, thought That, oh, if we're doing the opposite of what all of the MAGA world people think we should be doing, then we're on to the right thing. | ||
| Well, look, this year is something very fundamental because at first we were told, all right, you know, wait until he gets in the race. | ||
| Then we were told, okay, wait until he debates. | ||
| Then we were told, okay, wait until, you know, Whatever it is, and now it's wait until Iowa, which is just in a couple of days' time at this point, and no sign of any serious movement for DeSantis there. | ||
| And even if there was, he runs up against his 8% in New Hampshire. | ||
| Some of it is philosophical, right? | ||
| You can't hologram your way into being the leader of a mass movement, especially not the MAGA movement, because the MAGA movement is something more than just politics. | ||
| It's more than just philosophy. | ||
| It's almost spiritual, right? | ||
| It's a spiritual battle, it's spiritual warfare, and people feel it in their soul. | ||
| They don't just sort of feel it at the ballot box. | ||
| They don't feel it as just marking an X in a box somewhere and hoping that a politician down the line does something that you like. | ||
| Way more than that. | ||
| It is the embodiment and the epitome of the anti-declinist nature of that movement. | ||
| And you can't hologram that. | ||
| You can't facsimile it. | ||
| And that's what they tried to do. | ||
| I think the focus on what went wrong, focus on the R-O-N in the word wrong there, will actually be the most fascinating part of Ron DeSantis' political career. | ||
| And that really is saying something. | ||
| Um, this MAGA not abandoning Trump, even though some of the polling initially where people were have some people definitely were having some doubts, but MAGA finding its home with President Trump having his back, seeing DeSantis out of the box, and at the exact time, having the back of Matt Gaetz and these rebels starting in January, both of these show | ||
| Both at the House and Congress level and at the executive branch for a broad national election. | ||
| The rise and ascendancy and the self-assurance of this movement. | ||
| Where it became very clear, they see it very clearly, what needs to be done. | ||
| And no matter what Murdoch News, because remember, Murdoch News was absolutely 1,000% against this audience and what it believed in the whole McCarthy thing, right? | ||
| And it was 1,000% in back of DeSantis as the replacement for Trump, and it was 1,000% in back of Uh, the Ukraine war on those three elements. | ||
| This audience went very clearly. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Took the exact opposite of what they knew was at the center of gravity of the America first movement. | ||
| They did not flinch at all. | ||
| And that to me has been the big story of, uh, of this past year of 2023 Raheem Kassam. | ||
| Yeah, again, I want to bring it back to kind of the instincts of the base here. | ||
| Donald Trump is not successful just because he's Donald Trump. | ||
| He's not a successful politician just because he was a successful developer. | ||
| He's a successful politician and a public figure because he is channeling the base. | ||
| He's not just a populist, right? | ||
| He's a popularist. | ||
| He fully I mean, you look at the abortion argument as a massive part of this, right? | ||
| Typically, that would have been the end for a Republican politician to kind of come out and say, like, hey, there's too much of a grift in this pro-life inc. | ||
| organizations in Washington, D.C. | ||
| I think we just actually need to keep advancing the ball here rather than sticking to a list of bullet points that somebody 40, 50 years ago wrote down on a piece of paper in Northern Virginia, right, when they were setting up some C3 or C4. | ||
| And typically that would have been the end of a conservative politician, a Republican politician, but he manages to explain it, walk the audience through it, and actually channel them in such a way that they go, yeah, actually that is how I feel about that issue. | ||
| That is how I want this issue advanced. | ||
| And it's a perfectly reasonable way to go and do it. | ||
| And whether you look at that stuff or anything else, you have to understand this. | ||
| Matt Gaetz, all of those guys, they work in... I'll say the same about you, by the way. | ||
| They work in the very same way. | ||
| They are not trying to put their belief system on their audience. | ||
| They are populists, they are popularists. | ||
| They are trying to channel the audience. | ||
| And they know, the audience knows what battles to pick and what battles to avoid. | ||
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You can't... It was Churchill, right? | |
| Don't stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. | ||
| You will never reach your destination. | ||
| That sums it all up. | ||
| What's the takeaway from particularly this historic where you actually remove a speaker? | ||
| What's the takeaway you take from the speaker? | ||
| The battle was enjoined in the very first days of 2023. | ||
| This audience had Gates' back, Rosendale's back, Eli Crane's back. | ||
| The heroic Folks that stood in the breach and then later it took nine months to get there and there's still all types of and remember Johnson is no He's a good man, but he needs a lot of training and he needs to be able to stand in the breach What's your what's your takeaway from this historic removal of Kevin McCarthy? | ||
| The the people need to internalize That history can be made every single day, right? | ||
| I didn't mean that I say it as somebody who cannot believe the rooms that I'm in, as a kid from Uxbridge, West London, right? | ||
| Who came from no money, no political family, no dynasty, no nothing. | ||
| And I look around me sometimes and I just think, history is being made right around me right now. | ||
| And this audience made history. | ||
| It was obviously not just historical because of what happened, It's historical because the precedent set that will be used again in future as a result, that's very important. | ||
| It's critical to lay down markers like that. | ||
| The left does it all the time. | ||
| The right has been particularly bad at it for several decades. | ||
| But that's now coming back. | ||
| That understanding of that is now coming back. | ||
| And the lessons of that can be applied across the board. | ||
| It can be applied to election integrity. | ||
| It can be applied to the life argument. | ||
| It can be applied all through the political issues, the border, the political issues that you know, that we know, that we care about. | ||
| So for me, 2023 was A critical year in reminding ourselves, I'll use this word, maybe Media Matters will pick it up, reminding ourselves that we can bully our way to victory. | ||
| And I think in 2024, take those lessons and bully your way to victory. | ||
| Rahim is going to join us for the New Year's Day show. | ||
| Incredible year in peace looking forward about 2024 and what a historical year it's going to be, historic year it's going to be. | ||
| Rahim, how do people get to the National Pulse? | ||
| Because what you guys do, you provide something quite unique. | ||
| I would say it's as close to, is it Vox that you're probably closest to? | ||
| The left has a couple of these by very smart guys who have stepped out and done it. | ||
| We essentially have National Pulse. | ||
| How do people get there? | ||
| Yeah, look, at the end of the day, it's actionable intelligence, right? | ||
| It's actionable news. | ||
| It's things that concern you and that you can take action on. | ||
| We provide very short, punchy and well-sourced news information and editors' notes with that in mind. | ||
| It's the NationalPulse.com You go there, you sign up, you become part of a community surpassing 10,000 now. | ||
| We want to surpass, you know, we want to double that by halfway through 2024. | ||
| So we hope, you know, we hope and we pray that you'll join us. | ||
| The first month for that is free. | ||
| Otherwise from that, it's nine bucks a month. | ||
| It's literally as cheap as we can make it, right? | ||
| To be able to provide this public service that we're doing, thenationalpulse.com forward slash war room. | ||
| Rahim, thank you for joining us. | ||
| Look forward to seeing you on our New Year's Day show. | ||
| Have a great weekend. | ||
| Happy New Year. | ||
| Rahim Ghassan, been in many of the battles from the beginning of the 2010-11. | ||
| Saw the Syrian Civil War and everything it did on the invasion of Europe led by Merkel and the Germans. | ||
| And now we're going to take a short break. | ||
| We're going to go down to southern Mexico. | ||
| Oscar Blue Ramirez has covered this story for us for a year like no one else, putting himself in harm's way. | ||
| We're going to get an update from Oscar of what the year meant to him. | ||
| And as importantly, what it's meant to the folks in Mexico that have had this invasion come right across them. | ||
| Short break. | ||
| We'll be back in the warm in just a moment. | ||
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| Okay, welcome back. | ||
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back. | |
| The rising power of the America First and the MAGA movement of which you, this audience, is the tip of the spear. | ||
| One of the reasons of your empowerment and your impact on the political structure and process in the United States of America, the most powerful nation on earth, And quite frankly, the most powerful nation in the history of the earth is because of the information that you're able to get access to and then kind of think it through yourself. | ||
| And for that, we have to thank many, many people. | ||
| Two of the ones that we're going to bring on next are two of the most important about the invasion of this country is Todd Bensman from CIS. | ||
| And Oscar Blue Ramirez, who's always in harm's way, and now is down in southern Mexico today. | ||
| Oscar, put it into perspective. | ||
| You've been there. | ||
| You've been in harm's way many, many times. | ||
| You've been all the way from the Darien Gap to the border down there with Columbia. | ||
| You've covered all the migrant caravans. | ||
| You've covered, you know, the most serious aspects of this. | ||
| You've been at Tijuana, the Rio Grande Valley, all of it. | ||
| Put in perspective the invasion of the United States of America as you've seen it through the whole year of 2023. | ||
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This was not happening under the Trump administration because Donald Trump did not give the power to the United Nations. | |
| Immediately when Joe Biden came in, Steve, he was a collaborator of the Global Compact on Migration and that basically opened the door and the floodgates for people to come in through non-ports of entry to be arriving through non-ports of entry. | ||
| In the meantime, the United States of America and other countries are involved in this globalist agreement this humanitarian idea that it will create a better atmosphere for migrants, you will have these kind of problems and these kind of situations at every border. | ||
| It doesn't even matter how large the wall is going to be built, as long as we keep the priority out. | ||
| We need to keep the priority out, that is the United Nations, and the United States needs to pull out immediately from the global compact on migration as soon as Donald Trump steps into office and push Mexico to do exactly the same. | ||
| In that way, it will completely do a domino effect, as he was doing strategically and smart with the tariff that he was putting on Mexico to tariff them under the automobile industry, avocado and beer. | ||
| And that completely shut down the massive influx that was coming in from Guatemala, and ultimately Guatemala was going to do exactly the same and the same and the same. | ||
| Even the Panamanian authorities in the Darien Gap, they said when Mexico was applied with the tariff, that completely slowed down, and it completely slowed down in the borders with the United States. | ||
| As you see, migrants are walking behind me again, Steve, for the 11th caravan that we have covered with the war room in the south border of Mexico, Steve. | ||
| Oscar, just get people up to speed. | ||
| This Global Compact, which is really essentially a treaty, never went through the Senate. | ||
| Biden just kind of signed on at the beginning of his regime. | ||
| Walk us through why it's so deadly to the United States of America or any nation that wants to declare and have its own sovereignty. | ||
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Basically, the United Nations created this idea of, you know, of opening borders by doing it in a humanitarian way. | |
| 140 countries signed it first. | ||
| This global compact tells you that every migrant that enters through a non-port of entry or through a port of entry needs to be attended and needs to be given education, job, everything that they need and a comfort to stay. | ||
| But this also says that the migration needs to be done in an orderly fashion, documented peacefully and with a purpose that is completely the opposite of what the United Nations has done. | ||
| If you pull out of this, you will also cut the funding to the NGOs that they're part of this enormous problem that they're eating and abating this to continue to every border. | ||
| NGOs from the United States of America that they are funded by the Biden administration and the billions that they are funded, they're part of this global problem. | ||
| And then the cartel knows that the cartel is growing massively with billions of dollars. | ||
| What the Biden administration has done is created wars on the other side of Mexico where the wall is not built. | ||
| They're fighting over it, Steve. | ||
| They're fighting for these open border gaps because they know that extra continental migrants are paying between 25 to 30 to $35,000 to get all the way to the border. | ||
| And an average migrant is paying $2,500 to $4,000. | ||
| Talking about these numbers in a high scale. | ||
| Talking about millions of people. | ||
| You're talking about high numbers of quantities of money. | ||
| So this is the reason why the Global Compact needs to be dismantled, disabled, and disappeared and eradicated from every country and every voter. | ||
| I want to go back to the NGOs for a second as being an absolutely part, inextricably linked part of making this operate. | ||
| You've covered with Burquam, I think it's Panama, with NGOs, the old military bases are now taken over by the NGOs. | ||
| What NGOs are you talking about? | ||
| But talk to us about, and name a couple, because I think a lot of people naively are still giving money to people. | ||
| Are not putting pressure on their reps to cut the funding to the NGOs in this budget process. | ||
| So walk us through their key part of it and where the funding comes from. | ||
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Well, the funding comes from the, and sadly I'm going to say this to the United States people, it comes from your taxpayer. | |
| It comes from you. | ||
| And some of the, and the most important NGOs are the Catholic Charities. | ||
| They use the Catholic Church as, you know, as a frame and as a smoke screen to drag people and to donate a lot of this, a lot of this humongous money. | ||
| Also the ACLU is part of this Humongous problem of bringing people, the ACLU, just to put attention to people and do what they have done. | ||
| Donald Trump wanted to stop child trafficking and wanted to put, you know, DNA testing in their borders because of the enormous fake families that were coming in. | ||
| Just to remember everybody, in the year 2018, there were more than 58 fake families that were detected because Donald Trump was really strict on the borders. | ||
| When he was trying to do the DNA testing, the ACLU immediately stepped in and Hardly attacking Donald Trump. | ||
| All these NGOs that they are working on, you know, not only in the borders with the United States, they're spreading the information on how to cheat on the system. | ||
| That is the number one thing. | ||
| They're educating the migrant to say, you know what, I can enter to a non-port of entry and I can stay there and I can possibly make it and I can possibly don't. | ||
| I'm going to be released immediately and I'm possibly, I'm not going to be released, but they're willing to risk that. | ||
| Steve, that is the problem. | ||
| They already found a loophole, that humongous loophole, through social media, through applications like TikTok, through where the cartel works continuously. | ||
| These No More Debts, it's another NGO that works on the desert in Arizona. | ||
| They're in cahoots with the cartel and everybody knows it. | ||
| All these NGOs, they need to be eradicated also. | ||
| Stop the funding to these people and you will see that the problem will be cleared immediately. | ||
| Oscar, hang on there. | ||
| You know, you put yourself in harm's way more than anybody. | ||
| You've been out in the field with Birquam from the beginning. | ||
| I want to bring in Todd Bensman. | ||
| Todd, you've been now, I think, on the show starting from 2020 and the pandemic. | ||
| When you first started coming on the show, I think it was the spring and summer of 2020. | ||
| of 2020. If I had told you that in December of 23 that the invasion and the surge would be at its worst In fact, it would be multiple times worse than even what you were seeing in 2020 or the years that you had worked in this beforehand. | ||
| Would you have thought I was crazy? | ||
| I mean, what gets me about this story, it literally gets worse every day. | ||
| And with the exposure it has now, now it's starting to have big political consequences for the Democrats. | ||
| But did you in your wildest dreams ever think we'd talk about the scale of this thing ramping up to where the scale is now? | ||
| Well, normal, regular people would probably be surprised, but I actually wrote a big column predicting that the biggest mass migration that we've ever seen was on the way. | ||
| I wrote that thing in November of 2020, that it was coming. | ||
| And so, because it was obvious with the policies that the Biden campaign Was promising to bring in that the world of aspiring immigrants was going to respond to those promises and already were. | ||
| You could see it in interviews down in Tapachula and all over Mexico as they were already starting to come. | ||
| To wait for the shift, the change in administrations by the tens of thousands, they were coming already just in anticipation. | ||
| Trump was still in office blocking them, but they, they were coming already. | ||
| And, uh, but I, I will say that I I'm maybe a little bit surprised by the volume and scale. | ||
| Uh, I, I, I really, I mean, we're looking at, I think in the last three years, I'm going to say a minimum. | ||
| I know that the range is wide, but I like to play it a little conservative that we probably have 6 million foreign nationals that came over the border living in the United States in the last 36 months. | ||
| In just 2023, my My guess is, a good informed guess, is a minimum of 2.5 million and probably 3 million plus when you calculate the different gotaways numbers. | ||
| And also, you know, they put in these new CBP-1 app and they're flying, you can fly in from foreign countries secretly into U.S. | ||
| airports. | ||
| By the hundreds of thousands they're flying in and nobody's really accounting for those. | ||
| I mean, we really had millions of people crossing to the United States over that southern border in one way or another and stayed in the United States. | ||
| I think we're going to see 2024 even more, that we'll have higher volumes of 24 because Unless the administration shifts policies, I don't see any change. | ||
| I mean, the messaging to the world is that you've got a 90% chance When you lay your money, your smuggling money down on the felt of getting into the United States within a day and being allowed to stay for your whole life. | ||
| So why not drop 10 grand on smuggling? | ||
| You're going to pay it back plus many multiples. | ||
| That's really what's going on here. | ||
| I mean it's these policies. | ||
| Todd, hang on, because you just dropped a blockbuster on us. | ||
| You'd think 24 is even going to be worse. | ||
| On 23 was a year. | ||
| The scale of this is mind-blowing. | ||
| Just hang on a second. | ||
| We've got Oscar Blue Ramirez in Mexico. | ||
| We have Todd Benson with us, the leading expert. | ||
| We're going to take a short break. | ||
| the invasion of the United States 2023 edition next in the world. | ||
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Thank you for watching. | |
| Shall all acquaintance be forgot, and all things fine? | ||
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
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| Todd Bensman, I want to thank you for being at the year-end show, and you've done such a heroic job. | ||
| Obviously, Oscar's done a heroic job. | ||
| When you tell us there's been, I don't know, a couple of million, three million, four million, five million, I mean, the numbers, the scales, every day we have another combat division. | ||
| And most of these, let's face it, besides the little kids they traffic across, because it is trafficking, because they won't do the DNA test, the rest look like military-age men. | ||
| From every nation on earth. | ||
| I mean, no nation in the history of the world has ever invited their own destruction like this. | ||
| It's mind-boggling. | ||
| Will history say we did enough to stop it? | ||
| I mean, you're going to have Mike Johnson down with a CODEL next week. | ||
| We've had tons of photo ops on the border. | ||
| We've talked about it till we're blue in the face. | ||
| You've interviewed all the Border Patrol. | ||
| Your books have been incredible. | ||
| Your writing has been incredible. | ||
| But have we done enough? | ||
| Because to me, and this is what my mantra is for 2024 right now, shut down the border or shut down the government. | ||
| The only thing they understand is money. | ||
| You just got to shut it down. | ||
| And we have to take a hard line on that. | ||
| And this is the hill that we should die on because this invasion of our country is changing everything right now and going to change it even more. | ||
| Todd Bensman. | ||
| Well, this brings to mind the old Pearl Harbor story where you had a radio, a SIGINT operator pick up and report that there were Japanese aircraft on the way to bomb Pearl Harbor. | ||
| And of course, nobody listened. | ||
| And I kind of sometimes feel like that guy. | ||
| And I think, you know, guys like Ben Berquam and Oscar and a few others who have been down there actually covering this thing on a regular basis. | ||
| Um, our lonely voices in the wind, in the wilderness, uh, trying to, um, you know, showcase the realities of what's actually happening on our border and into the interior of the country too. | ||
| And, um, to the. | ||
| To the extent that the Republican House and even when they were in the minority in both chambers were able to affect change on this, you know, it's partly due to the fact that there wasn't really an understanding, I think, about what was happening, that they didn't understand what was happening. | ||
| And the extent of it, the regular media was, Suppressing the news and avoiding it, really avoiding it for years. | ||
| And so in the 22 midterm elections, we didn't see the Democrats cut very deep to the bone. | ||
| It wasn't cut deep enough. | ||
| And so they were able to continue this through 2023, all the way through. | ||
| After the elections in the midterms, the president actually said, Uh, the American people like, they saw what we're doing and they, they don't mind it or they like it actually. | ||
| So we're not changing anything. | ||
| And that's what's happened. | ||
| The Republicans are divided among themselves. | ||
| There are Republicans in the House that love this secretly. | ||
| They are benefiting. | ||
| Maybe they have businesses or industries or there's lobbyists out there that are indebted to the slave labor force that's been brought into the country. | ||
| They are profiting by it, maybe, and didn't really put that much back into it. | ||
| Uh, they didn't, there's not a lot of unity, even on the Republican side on this. | ||
| Uh, and I, I would put that, uh, as a pretty significant factor and the fact that we just didn't really have coverage. | ||
| Uh, there weren't really very many radio SIGINT operators out there. | ||
| There weren't enough. | ||
| To make people understand, immigration policy is very complicated. | ||
| And I think the Democrats were able to exploit the complexity of it to confuse the public, to keep them confused about what was really happening. | ||
| And I think a lot of Republicans were part of that. | ||
| They were just, they were confused too. | ||
| I think they still are. | ||
| Uh, I see it fairly often that they don't really even understand. | ||
| I had one major Republican contender in the current lineup right now, I'm not going to name names, who asked me, what is remain in Mexico recently? | ||
| Didn't, didn't even know what it was. | ||
| I had to explain to this. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| Oh my God. | ||
| Oh my God. | ||
| You know, that's a major problem. | ||
| Uh, and it's complicated and I think the Democrats are able to take advantage of it. | ||
| Todd, how do people get to all your content? | ||
| I want to thank you. | ||
| One, your analysis has been incredible. | ||
| I just hope, I know this audience does, but I hope the folks to the degree possible force multipliers, because remember right now we're getting across the border about one combat division a day that's processed and shipped in, and another essential combat division that's sneaking in. | ||
| And the vast majority of these are fighting-age men. | ||
| No nation in the history of the earth has ever invited their own destruction like we're doing here and with the spending. | ||
| And this also drives part of the spending. | ||
| So, no nation has ever been so reckless. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| One extra minute to give a slight silver lining, possibly a silver lining for 2024. | ||
| I don't want to be all doom and gloom. | ||
| People complain that I always depress them after they see me. | ||
| Something to pay attention to for the 2024 election cycle are Democratic constituencies in the big blue cities that are taking the brunt of this mass migration now and are loudly complaining and in many cases are loudly promising that they are switching to the Republican Party. | ||
| Black communities in Chicago, Denver, New York, Latino communities that are classic Democratic-based constituencies forever, generationally, are now coming out and saying, you know, we really don't like this, and we don't like it so much that we're going to switch our political allegiance. | ||
| And they're saying this out loud, and the reason is because These democratic municipal governments are diverting massive resources that should have gone to helping black communities with housing subsidies and jobs and all the rest of that are instead going to Illegal immigrants and foreign nationals that are not even supposed to be here. | ||
| And it's happening right in front of their faces, in their neighborhoods. | ||
| And they've had it. | ||
| So I would watch that. | ||
| I would just say that that's maybe a little glimmer of change in the 2024 election that is different than the 22 midterms. | ||
| Because those numbers, that hadn't really happened by the 2022 midterms. | ||
| And I'll just leave it there. | ||
| That's fabulous, fabulous. | ||
| I agree with you 1000%. | ||
| It's part of the tectonic plate shift. | ||
| What I call the Patrick Henry who stood up at the Chicago City Council meeting and said, you need Trump back to clean up this mess, I think spoke for a lot of folks in the black community. | ||
| Todd, your content, where do people get it? | ||
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That's right. | |
| Well, you can find me at BenzmanToddX at X. I'm on Getter, T. Benzman at Getter, and Truth Social. | ||
| I work for the Center for Immigration Studies, CIS.org. | ||
| You can find a lot of my work there. | ||
| And they support all my travel and all of my field work on donations. | ||
| So keep that in mind for the holidays. | ||
| And ToddBenzman.com, where you can find everything all together. | ||
| And sign up for my newsletter too. | ||
| Todd, incredible, incredible 2023. | ||
| So thank you. | ||
| Look forward to having you back on the show in the new year. | ||
| Todd Benson, one of the most brilliant guys out there about this. | ||
| Oscar Blue Ramirez, you put yourself in harm's way at 2023. | ||
| What's your wrap up for the year and your warning to the folks in this audience? | ||
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Well, Steve, I just talked to my brother Ben Bercano a couple of days ago, and it was really sad to talk to him in a way that, he said, we're really close, Oscar, to lose our country. | |
| And it is not only at the borders, it is because they've forgotten that the Constitution of the United States of America was first God and liberty and freedom. | ||
| And as a foreigner to your country, Steve, I can tell you that that is the number one thing that Americans are forgetting, that the Constitution says about God, freedom, and respect for law and order. | ||
| And those are the founding things that the United States was built upon. | ||
| And you can see that the actual administration of the United States of America does not care about those foundations and those things, that they are so important to represent the United States around the world. | ||
| But it's just a lot of Americans have told me as a foreigner, you know, the Mexico is corrupt. | ||
| Mexico has a lot of corruption and has a lot of corrupt politicians. | ||
| And right now, sadly, I can say how far are the politicians from the United States corruptively almost exactly the same or worse than the ones in Mexico? | ||
| Because they know what is happening at your borders. | ||
| They know what is actually continuously going on at the borders. | ||
| Millions of people. | ||
| We talked about this, Steve. | ||
| One day, we were talking about quantities of people. | ||
| Not too far along, with initiation of the year, we were talking about 2 million, 1 million. | ||
| Now we are estimating on 10 million. | ||
| It is just impossible for a country to sustain this. | ||
| It is just unbelievable to sustain it. | ||
| Bob Bensman was telling about the year 2024. | ||
| I believe that it's going to be double the influence. | ||
| It is going to be worse than 2023. | ||
| Already, Steve, just for you to let you know. | ||
| Central and South American authorities are already preparing because they know that election year is going to be the next 2024 and already preparing in the dairy gap. | ||
| They're already preparing in Central and South America how they're going to combat the organized crime, how they are going to try to slow down the pace, what the Biden administration has done to the continent. | ||
| Of America and the world, it's just the idea that there's no border, there's no country, and you don't deserve a border, and there's no need for a border, there's no need for border security. | ||
| And that's the worst thing about it, that I see Americans right now that they're really comfortable. | ||
| I see Republicans that they're not doing anything, anything, absolutely anything for their country. | ||
| And one day, Steve, you will, sadly, one American, I don't want that to happen because I love the United States of America. | ||
| They're going to be standing on the other side, where I'm standing, and be admiring the country like it is the United States. | ||
| And you will be saying, oh, that's a beautiful country. | ||
| And I will tell you, you know, you had it, and you let it go. | ||
| What is your social media? | ||
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How do we get to you, Oscar? | |
| Twitter and all around, and of course, Real America's Voice News, sir. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You're the best. | ||
| Happy New Year, brother. | ||
| Stay safe. | ||
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Oscar Blue Ramirez from Mexico. | |
| Incredible. | ||
| Listen to his words. | ||
| Short break. | ||
| right back at you. | ||
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Welcome back to the war room. | |
| Of course, the single most important effort was in the removal of the Speaker of the House. | ||
| And why was that? | ||
| Because of the lies and misrepresentation. | ||
| Doing nothing on impeachment. | ||
| Doing nothing on stopping the madness of the spending. | ||
| Doing nothing at all on the southern border. | ||
| And passing H.R. | ||
| 2 in the House is just not good enough. | ||
| That's kind of the old method. | ||
| Yes, you have to pass bills, and there was hard-fought and head amendments, don't get me wrong. | ||
| But that was more of a messaging bill, understanding in the Senate you have to take other actions, the defunding process. | ||
| This is why we're quite adamant that we've had it now. | ||
| You've heard from the review of 2023 the scale of the invasion of your country. | ||
| Remember, your country's being invaded. | ||
| You can't call it anything else. | ||
| And the deportation programs are what's going to take to sort this mess out is going to take years to get done and be quite, how do I say, messy. | ||
| So you have to stop now. | ||
| What's Todd Benson was saying is coming in 2024. | ||
| It must be stopped. | ||
| The way to do that is simple. | ||
| And we're adamant about this. | ||
| Shut down the border or shut down the government. | ||
| The government spending is out of control and that's the things are talking about 1% CR if we do a whole CR and that CR is still at Nancy Pelosi levels. | ||
| They're just not enough focus. | ||
| There's not enough hardness. | ||
| There's not enough toughness given the crisis the country's in. | ||
| And on these elements as we've shown you in 2023. | ||
| We're very rarely, if ever, wrong on these big topics. | ||
| We can kind of analyze them and say, hey, boom, and remember, Rahim, myself, Ben, others, been working on these for over 10 years now. | ||
| And it's only getting worse. | ||
| Now, we've had big victories. | ||
| You're showing your political muscle by what was accomplished in the House, which was monumental. | ||
| And we're moving McCarthy and starting to break the cartel because the same cartel that runs the imperial capital through the House and the Senate is the exact same donor class, the exact same donor class that essentially put Ron DeSantis back in line, but really exposed that Ron DeSantis was not going to meet the moment. | ||
| It was not the man of kind of character and toughness and judgment. | ||
| That a lot of people thought he was. | ||
| He was not. | ||
| We were pretty open and adamant about that from the very beginning. | ||
| We've been proved to be right once again. | ||
| I can tell you that what Nikki Haley is trying to do is even more insidious. | ||
| Because they're, I believe the donor class understand they cannot defeat President Trump in the face of the power of this audience, the power of the War Room Posse and the MAGA movement. | ||
| And it's absolute backing of President Trump that they'll try it a different way. | ||
| And that way is to try to slip it under the tent and try to either get her on the ticket or have a big role in some sort of policymaking, which we absolutely cannot have. | ||
| If 2023 shows us anything, if 2023 shows us anything, it shows us the importance of America first. | ||
| It shows us the importance of sovereignty. | ||
| And so hopefully over the next couple of days, New Year's Eve tomorrow, I want to thank Real Americans Voice, the entire team, Parker, Rob, Sig, Harry, all of them, the team in Denver, just spectacular. | ||
| I want to thank everybody for the year that we've had. | ||
| I've been blessed to have also my own production team. | ||
| Which has been fantastic. | ||
| And, of course, Grace Chung, Mo, Natalie, Jane Zirkle, all the rest of the folks that help every day either with content or distribution. | ||
| But most of you, this audience, a lot to think about over the weekend as you reflect upon your accomplishments, the ascendancy of this movement, the ascendancy of you because you are the vanguard of this. | ||
| You're the cadre at the vanguard. | ||
| We're going to leave you something to think about. | ||
| It's going to be this choir, Magnificent Choir with Auld Lang Syne to end 2023. | ||
| I want to thank you and we'll see you back here. | ||
| Happy New Year. | ||
| We'll see you back here in the New Year. | ||
| Big special on Monday, our New Year's Day kickoff, the annual New Year's Day kickoff here in the War Room. | ||
| Until then, Happy New Year. | ||
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We'll see you on Monday. | |
| For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll take a cup of kindness yet for auld lang syne. | ||
| Surely you'll buy your wine cup, and surely I'll buy mine. | ||
| It won't take a cup of kindness yet for auld lang syne. | ||
| For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, We'll take a cup of kindness yet for auld lang syne. | ||
| We two have had a livin's dream from mornin's time till now, But these between us broad have bores since auld lang syne. | ||
| For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, We'll take a cup of kindness yet for auld lang syne. | ||
| On the ground. | ||
| There's a hand, my trusty friend, and it's a hand of mine. | ||
| And may your rightful will last for all of time. |
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