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WarRoom Battleground EP 530: Fighting Against The 2024 Big Steal
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
This is what you're fighting for.
I mean, every day you're out there.
What they're doing is blowing people off.
If you continue to look the other way and shut up, then the oppressors, the authoritarians, get total control and total power.
Because this is just like in Arizona.
This is just like in Georgia.
It's another element that backs them into a corner and shows their lies and misrepresentations.
This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged.
As we've told you, this is the fight.
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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.
Yesterday morning at 2.41 a.m.
at General Eisenhower's headquarters, General Jodl, the representative of the German High Command and of Grand Admiral Dönitz, the designated head of the German state, signed the Act of Unconditional Surrender of all German land, sea, and air forces in Europe to the Allied Expeditionary Forces and simultaneously to the Soviet High Command.
Hostilities will end officially at one minute after midnight tonight, Tuesday, the 8th of May.
But in the interest of saving lives, the ceasefire began yesterday to be sounded along all the fronts.
The German war is therefore at an end.
We may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing.
Today is Victory in Europe Day.
President Truman announced the official surrender.
This is a solemn but glorious hour.
I wish that Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to see this day.
General Eisenhower informs me that the forces of Germany have surrendered to the United Nations.
The flags of freedom fly all over Europe.
For this victory, we join in offering our thanks to the providence which has guided and sustained us through the dark days of adversity and into light.
Much remains to be done.
The victory won in the West must now be won in the East.
The whole world must be cleansed of the evil from which half the world has been freed.
All through the day, the King and Queen had answered call after call, so it was again at night.
Thousands upon thousands went to the palace, for this is the way we have in Great Britain.
The family and the head of the family rejoice together.
It was at nine o'clock on VE Day that the King had broadcast his message to the people of Britain, the British Empire, and the Commonwealth of Nations.
Today, we give thanks to God.
For a great deliverance.
Speaking from our empire's oldest capital city, war battered, but never for one moment daunted or dismayed.
Germany, the enemy who drove all Europe into war, has been finally overcome.
Cheers bridged the English chapter.
Britain's impatient for the official signal to celebrate, jumped the starting gun on Monday night, when notice of capitulation waited upon Whitehall, Washington and Moscow.
VEE began it, and for days afterwards, Londoners packed city streets and squares.
The idea was to make a noise, and this is it.
You measured the crowds by the acre in this bubbling over of a nation's joy and thanksgiving.
It's a great way to celebrate.
It's a good thing we have a lot of people who are willing to help.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
It's a Wednesday 8 May in the year of Lord 2024.
It is 79 years ago today that victory in Europe was declared and commemorated.
We commemorate today just to put it in perspective.
It was from 8 December.
1941 was the day after Pearl Harbor, the Monday that we declared war on Imperial Japan.
We did not declare war on Nazi Germany or the fascists in Italy.
It was, I think, two days later.
I think it was Wednesday the 10th that Hitler declared war on the United States because of a secret treaty they had with the Japanese.
It was one of the two catastrophic decisions he made in 1941.
One, Six months before he had come to the conclusion he had to invade Russia in June of 1941 and then declared war on the United States.
It was those two powers, along with obviously Great Britain and others, but those two powers principally that destroyed Germany.
And there was a lot of questions.
By the way, three and a half years, President Trump Has been removed illegitimately from the White House, I think, in less than three and a half years.
So it's from the time of January 2021 till today, I think, is the total duration of World War II in Europe.
Think about that for a second.
When people think about World War II, it took forever.
It went on forever.
It did not.
It was a relatively short period of time.
Intense, and it built it to a crescendo of violence, a war of attrition on all fronts.
I mean, just absolutely a slaughterhouse at the end, as will be in human nature, right?
When vengeance takes over from even your thoughts of justice.
An absolutely cataclysmic war coming from in the Eastern Front that really destroyed the German army and then destroyed the German nation.
I want to bring in Dave Bragg at Ben Harnon.
Dave, we're going to talk about that.
We're also going to take it directly to today, because we're still living not just in the shadows of World War Two, but inextricably linked back to that history.
Remember the war for the Eurasian landmass that spun into a global war.
It was the greatest catastrophe of humanity.
Actually, from, I guess, World War I, we entered into a new dark age.
But people argue that, I don't know, a quarter of a billion people, more than 250 million people were lost in that time from 1914 to 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down and Tiananmen Square had the Empress of Democracy.
In that time, you lost 250 million people.
Over 100 million, maybe 150 million.
I want to bring in Dave Bratt, Liberty University.
I know we've got a lot to talk about how this relates to today and particularly the republic-ending effort both on the legal side, the immigration side, the financial side that's going on today.
Your thoughts about V-E Day and World War II, Brother Bratt.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
Yeah well you set it up great as usual from the Oxford Don and so Victory in Europe Day also called Victory over Fascism Day and I think we need to take a deep Study of what that looks like.
Today, I'm going to show you some charts and I don't like the look of the charts.
Fascism only comes about with the big governments, right, of Germany and then, you know, Russia's and the Soviet Union was communist.
But we're being run by governments today.
And so, you know, back then, I just look at the clips of London back then and you can just see the people celebrating.
And then you heard Truman talk about using language of the nature of providence, bringing us into the light.
What great language that is.
It's sadly missing today.
And then you heard the king, you know, the darkest hour with Churchill and Churchill's just Eloquent and just one of my favorite movies of all time, The Darkest Hour.
And then the king's speech rivals it too.
And you hear the king in just all his sincerity, you know, working with Churchill and says, I want to start off and thanks to God, you know, with his a little bit of a stammer.
But you just hear the sincerity of the folks back then, what they believed in.
And that all matters.
It all fits together.
Back then, the Judeo-Christian West was still in place.
Oxford and Cambridge hadn't lost their marbles, and now our Ivies have lost their marbles.
And now the thing that animates our own government is the government, right?
The victory over fascism was a victory for freedom.
And today, I don't know if our kids are even being taught about the values and virtues of what it means to be free.
You're free in the first place from the shackles of government.
Our founders had to ask seriously about the question, by what right?
We used to take rights language seriously, right?
We believed rights come from God and they were negative in nature.
Just the rights to life, liberty, and happiness.
No one has to give those to you.
God gives those to you.
But our founders had to ask the basic question, by what right can I take one dollar from you?
And it was a serious question.
Now we're in the trillions and trillions of dollars.
Our world is being run by governments, not by a free people anymore.
And so, yeah, for me, it is not a stretch to link the rise of fascism or World War II and the fight against it.
And we need to always be on guard in this country.
The government is now in charge.
You see the Justice Department, a former president of the United States, in multiple lawsuits back to back to back, being run and each of the trials being run by government officials.
From the Justice Department, from political parties.
All political views are my own.
But the government is running your life.
And I have a few charts we can look over in a minute after Hanwell gives his opening, I'm sure.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, listen, let me bring, Ben, that was fantastic.
Let me bring Ben Harnwell.
Ben, you're an Englishman and a, I don't know, sardonic is the right word, but you always put a jaundice eye on what the official narrative is of everything.
So give me your thoughts about World War II, victory in Europe Day that came, I think, just over a month after President Roosevelt.
Uh, died in, uh, in, uh, in Georgia.
I think it was Hot Springs, Georgia or Warm Springs, Georgia.
Uh, just a couple of months, uh, after the firebombing of, uh, of Tokyo, 90 days later, we would drop two atomic weapons almost back to back on the, uh, on the Japanese to force their surrender.
Your, your thoughts on, uh, on Victory in Europe Day, uh, 2024?
ben harnwell ▲ ● ▼
Good afternoon, Steve.
Afternoon, Dave.
Yeah, well, you know, I'm going to cast my cynical BDI over this as you correctly predicted.
It's difficult watching the footage, the path, a footage deal, black and white.
It's difficult not to have an emotional response to seeing that, seeing the joy, seeing the defeat, the sacrifices that the Allies had made to fight and defeat fascism.
And of course, Contained within that, all of the evils which we subsequently found out, I think after the war pretty much, sort of the horrific stories coming out of Germany and Poland, where the concentration camps and just the annihilation, the Holocaust of the Jews.
I don't know how much of that was known at the time during the Second World War, how much of a motivation it was, but certainly the idea was there that Hitler and was really represented something dark and bad and was
very much against the Anglo-American, if I can put it like that, concepts of liberty. So that's
the response one feels watching the footage. And yet, I've never understood up until really I've
been working on this show, how it was that Winston Churchill lost the election less
than two months after VE Day, I think the 5th of July 1945. I could not understand it.
You know, people have said, oh, you know, it was the postal votes coming in from all the servicemen overseas and they sort of, they sort of, they wanted, they had different aspirations for the future.
They sort of, they were grateful for Churchill for having won, but they really wanted like an investment in, they wanted like a national health service and all the rest of it.
The start of the social welfare state that Clem Attlee, the Labour Prime Minister, Started almost immediately.
And it just never sounded right.
I mean, how do you go from the jubilation of VE Day and then in 15th of August, 2nd
of September, VJ Day, which I think is more of the festival in America, when Japan signed
its own unilateral surrender.
But how do you go from the euphoria from that to Churchill losing?
And the only thing, Steve, I can think of, and of course, When I say it's difficult not to have an emotional response, that is precisely the point of it.
It is propaganda.
OK.
And I don't even think, Steve, and it's a bit counter-conventional, this.
But I think there was a huge movement in the UK.
And as I say, I don't think that the degree of the Holocaust was really known.
It was a motivating factor.
I think there was a huge proportion of the UK that didn't want to fight the war, didn't think that war was necessary, thought perhaps erroneously that some form of accommodation could have been made.
And that's why, you know, we won.
But, you know, time for Churchill to go.
Because Churchill was very much instrumental in Britain's entry into what became known as the Second World War.
Very much, that was his personal charism.
I mean, obviously, over the last 79, 80 years, that sentiment has rescinded, thanks a lot to a lot of the details that have come out from the Second World War.
And it's almost universally considered to be a good thing that the Allies fought and defeated Nazi Germany.
But at the time, how did Churchill lose the war less than two months later?
And the point I'm going to make, Steve, is this, OK?
And it's to do with propaganda.
Since, as I say, citing working on this show, I have in Covid, just to go back a couple of years, I saw in real time, we all did, the whole world did, the whole West, the whole world did.
We grew up reading books, history books at school, Steve.
We always wondered how Nations could be captured by, could be whipped up into certain mentalities.
The Germans, for example.
How do you whip up?
How do you introduce a fear so badly?
Because this was extraneous to us.
And we lived through this in Covid.
We saw this in real time, how it was done.
And my point here is this.
Looking at Ukraine, because you know, this is my point I want to make on this.
I don't think it's going to happen.
Very far from it.
In fact, I've got some developments to bring on the show later.
I don't think Ukraine will win this war.
Should it win, you can imagine similar scenes coming out from Ukraine, the ticker tapes, the parades, the cheering.
And Zelensky, I think, would probably immediately lose an election for exactly the same sort of sentiment that's going on.
The media is only presenting a very one-sided thing.
And a recollection of historical events is basically captured within the media that was
made at the time.
So I think there's the same sort of dynamic going on in Ukraine as there was in Europe,
if I can tie these things together.
I don't think people in Britain really wanted to have to fight that Second World War.
It broke the country, broke the empire.
Perhaps it was necessary to fight.
But going back 80 years, I think the sentiment was different.
And all I want to do is to use that as an illustration to suggest that the mainstream
media is not telling people the truth of what's going on behind the lines in Ukraine.
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And as I said, I've got further stories to illustrate that.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, but I want to go, before I go back to Dave, I mean, today in The Hill newspaper, the lead story, as all of DC's on tenterhooks about MTG's MTV motion to vacate, The Hill puts up from the Senate It's got Thune's picture that the Senate's telling Johnson
that if MTG, as she put up here the first time on the show about her four demands of
Johnson, the first demand was about, well, the Hassell rule, the second man, the
first key policy demand was about Ukraine.
No more money for Ukraine.
You got your 60 billion, you gun deck that, no more money.
They came out and said, the Democrat party, that MTG's even concept of the motion to vacate
should be put asunder for no other reason than cutting off money to Ukraine.
I mean, think of what's happened in 79 years.
Now we're the guarantor of the underwriter of freedom and a military intervention on essentially now the Eurasian landmass.
When they make it Not something that they think is important, not something they disagree with MTG and the MAGA movement, not something on the margins, the central heart.
They said if that is any part of her motion to vacate, you can't vote for the motion to vacate as Republicans.
You must have the back, no matter if Hakeem Jeffries is 100% for Johnson, you have to do this because this is essentially our number one policy position.
Your thoughts, Ben Harnwell?
ben harnwell ▲ ● ▼
Well, we discussed on the show the other day the Ed Luce interview with Morning Meeker.
One of the things that came out of that interview, Ed Luce is the chief U.S.
correspondent for the Financial Times.
And we ran a significant excerpt of that.
We weren't able to carry it all.
Later on in that interview, Ed Luce basically says Poland is upping its NATO, its defence contributions to 4%.
And really, he argues America should be doing as well.
Not because America has latent interest that it needs to defend, but because it needs to defend Europe.
This is the argument that's taking place.
I'm glad we made it onto MSNBC because so many Americans don't seem to be aware how foreigners, how Brits, are basically blithely committing American taxpayers' money to pay for our defence here in continental Europe.
I think what MTG is doing is absolutely correct.
It's a shame she hasn't had more support from within the GOP congressional caucus.
It's a big shame because I think what she and Goza have been doing has been spectacular.
I think we need to use the Bill Blaster, I think, to be phoning up the congressional representation and to make it absolutely clear that The 61 billion to Ukraine was a mistake, but it's absolutely, you know, if you're going to draw a line under that, draw a line of it, that is absolutely the last dollar that can possibly go to keep this war going on because it is it because nobody on the ground here in Italy, I mean, it's been over 50 percent of the Italian
Population for over a year and a half aren't in favour of this war, right?
This war has no natural latent support in Europe.
What is keeping it going, and we touched on this briefly on the show before, is the fact that the European capitals now are trying to galvanise some support between now and November, not to help Ukraine anymore.
That's not the focus.
The focus is to hand Joe Biden, a single foreign policy achievement of his administration.
And of course, the mainstream media propaganda will be relentless.
I don't think it will happen.
But should it happen that Russia concedes defeat and retreats from the Donbass, that will obviously be portrayed massively as a foreign policy victory for Joe Biden.
So that's why the European capitals, I think, are sort of upping the ante.
France is sending It's on the ground to Ukraine right now.
Not huge numbers, but it is.
It is sending a presence.
I think everything now is occupied on trying to keep Donald Trump out of the White House and Joe Biden in.
And just to come back to and I'll finish with this, just to come back to your point about Hakeem Jeffries supporting Mike, no Johnson.
Johnson, I said before, I don't think that's the dynamic.
I really don't.
Johnson is helping out the Democrats.
They're not helping him out.
He's doing everything he can, as is obviously the GOP in the Senate, that they're doing everything they can to hand Biden his foreign policy win in Ukraine.
They're helping.
The GOP is helping the Democrats.
It's not the other way around.
They're not bailing him out.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Dave Brat, in your economic and financial analysis, you see that this ongoing, because they want a 10-year deal, that $61 billion is supposed to be it, they want a 10-year deal, and they want to put in $30 to $50 billion a year.
How does that play with the financial and economic analysis you've done of this fiasco and disaster we have already, sir?
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, well, Harnwell just gave great comments.
I just want to make one more remark about President Trump, right?
So Churchill, in the darkest hour, stood alone against all the generals, against all the countries, and did absolutely the right thing every single time with courage.
And a forceful will that we cannot even comprehend these days.
And the mirror image there is President Trump, now on stormy seas, right?
And he alone is taking this on.
And that is stunning to me, that with what the DOJ has done, with what the CIA has done in the past, with what the intelligence agencies have done in the past, with the 51 signatures, with Russiagate, That Trump is standing alone, fighting off this behemoth of the deep state and the administrative state without cover right now.
That is stunning.
And so with that, I just hope that, you know, President Trump, I hope he's on God's shoulders, right?
And, you know, everybody that's so Christian and so graceful, you don't know where Trump stands that way.
Nobody does.
I hope he tells the country that, right?
Because that could turn this country around in five seconds.
If he states that he sees this universe in those terms, that would be stunning.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Hang on, I got a minute or so, I'm going to get to your charts after the break.
Go back and give me that.
You're saying if President Trump stepped forward and put this in the perspective of the spiritual war it is, and people could then appreciate, with all his imperfections, how he's the one man alone that stood in the breach, that would change the entire dynamic of the narrative here?
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
I think he could reignite, right?
And I'm not saying this because of holiness or churchiness or religiosity.
I'm just saying this is a reality.
He has the personal power.
Somehow, it's a mystery, but he's providential.
He has the mystery that if he says, you know, he just has to say, I'm standing on God's shoulders, right?
Something extent where he acknowledges divine providence that he sees things in a whole new way.
He's never seen this much evil.
The evils forced him to see the world in a new way human nature in a new way and he's standing in the breach every day right now for all of us to prevent what I see is This country falling into the hands of a government that's just run away.
The CIA alone, right, if I had to pick one institution that needs a microscope and replacement, the things we're hearing from RFK Jr.
and Benz and Tucker and you, just on the CIA and what they have done to our government and to our people by extension.
If Trump would explain that, he would be transformative like we cannot believe.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
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I think they understand.
That's why they're trying to take him out.
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
You know, one of the reasons we're commemorating Victory in Europe Day on the 79th anniversary is that that was, and people felt, the greatest turbulence mankind could take.
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Ben Harnwell, observations on the day and Dave Brat's ideas?
ben harnwell ▲ ● ▼
I have to come back, Steve, to something that Dave just said, which is really interesting
and thought-provoking.
There is a parallel between Winston Churchill and Donald Trump in exactly the way that Dave Buck was just saying.
Churchill basically single-handedly … contained within himself the destiny of Europe as a free… a concept of freedom, of a free… against collectivism, right?
In the same way, and you said this before on the show several times, Trump sort of follows on from the direct line of Washington and Lincoln, where the destiny of the republic rests in a single man.
There is absolutely that parallel.
One difference, however, It's not to contradict what they say, far from it.
It just shows you the nature of the game as it currently is.
For Churchill in the Second World War, the sociopaths were without.
They were outside the system.
The system that he was defending still had the integrity to it and was worth fighting for and worth defending.
The evil, the sociopaths, that was outside.
Today with Donald Trump, to hold the analogy, the evil, the sociopaths are within.
And I think that makes the current fight to cast it in these terms even more alarming.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Because you're saying they have the access to state power, and what you're saying against Trump, whether it's the deep state trying to, obviously with the crossfire hurricane, stop him from being elected in the first place, to the Russia hoax leading up to the first impeachment, or what they've done to steal the 2020 election, or what they're doing now to thwart his return.
That's all the use of state power, including now lawfare in the legal system.
ben harnwell ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, and I have to flag up again COVID and going north of the border into Canada, what Trudeau was doing with shutting down the bank accounts of people who are donating to the truckers.
I don't know if I've ever seen anything so explicitly totalitarian.
On behalf of a proponent of supposedly Western liberal democracy in my life.
That was absolutely terrifying what they did in Canada during COVID.
But the whole thing from start to finish about COVID was absolutely terrifying.
And if you think about the Second World War, seeing as we're drawing the links today, That was a fight.
And I'm not saying that people had this image.
It wasn't ideological what people were fighting for.
They had a basic idea that they were fighting for freedom.
But if you ask them, if you wanted to put it into its most straightforward terms, people
were fighting against collectivism and state control over the private individual.
Fundamentally, I think it was that.
And, you know, we won that war.
We won that battle in the Second World War.
We won the Cold War when the Berlin Wall fell.
And yet every single principle supposedly that we were fighting for and sacrificed so much Over the—in that period from the Second World War to the Cold War, every single principle against collectivism, we've conceded it.
We've conceded it away.
We've conceded—we have conceded it away, largely the ballot box as well.
This is absolutely terrifying.
This is the absolute triumph of cultural Marxism.
After economic Marxism had failed in the West.
And, you know, in the American context, there is really only Donald Trump who is able now, I think, to stop this.
And that's part of the reason, as you suggested, that the system really wants him out.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Brett, one of the things I talked to you about was, in stopping Donald Trump, was this massive spending that Biden basically hopes is vote-buying, right?
Whether it's the college loans, writing it off.
But we're talking about, I think it's the $1.6 trillion Green New Deal.
1.6 trillion.
Now they're finding out that there's not even enough projects because it doesn't make sense.
As Dave Walsh says on here all the time, you're only destroying your industrial-level power system, power grid, by chasing these fantasies in this cult of climate change.
I know you've done some analysis on this because we're digging ourselves a hole here that you're not going to be able to dig out of.
Your thoughts, sir?
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, well, Denver can throw up the first chart with the green bars, but the bottom line is going to be that these four bills, just these four bills from Biden are $1.1 trillion.
And that is more than... Hold on, hold on.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
These four bills, these were the spending bills we passed Early on, in 21, it had to get through the American Recovery Act, all these things that we argued.
You were on the show.
We were arguing at the time, hey, I think Trump's done a great job of bringing back aggregate demand.
You know, we had that drop when everything got locked up, aggregate demand.
You don't really need a Keynesian infusion at this level because that's going to cause inflation.
I think the only person outside of Wharton that was saying that was Larry Summers.
At the time, if you remember correctly, Dave Brat.
So walk me through what actually happened with this $1.1 trillion spending.
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dave brat ▲ ● ▼
And as you said, the Trump spending is different when you decide to shut down the whole government.
You know, Trump was misled on a bunch of issues.
And when you shut down the entire economy, it makes sense.
You need a bridge.
But it no longer makes sense to any sense to have these massive bridges still in place.
The only good news about what I'm ready to show you, and the punchline there was Biden's, these four bills are $1.1 trillion.
That's bigger than FDR's New Deal in totality, which was $793 billion.
Right?
Less than a trillion for FDR's entire New Deal, and they are both in 2021 dollars.
So no exaggerations going on here.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Ho, ho, ho, ho.
Stop.
That's a bombshell.
Go back to the New Deal.
This is before the World War II, because remember, the New Deal had petered out by the late 1930s.
We were still in the Depression.
But go back, because people think that that was like, you know, like the Marshall Plan, trillions of dollars.
How much was the entire New Deal in current dollars?
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
Yep, in current dollars, the entire FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt New Deal, which came out of Woodrow Wilson and then, you know, embedded even more by Lyndon Johnson, but this was the attempt of the left to create this administrative state.
The size of the entire FDR New Deal was only $793 billion, right?
only $793 billion, right?
And the Biden bills together are $1,100, right?
$1.1 trillion, $1,100 billion in comparison.
So Biden's just these four bills and they've had much more than that.
And that's why I'm saying this, the founders were nervous and philosophically did not have an answer.
What gives me the right to take a dollar from you?
Now the federal government, and the good side of this is they have not been able to spend this money.
And if Denver wants to put up the chart, I'm just going to read off real quick a few lines.
This is all from Politico today.
But the government has only awarded less than $700 million of the $54 billion that had been made available in the CHIPS Act alone.
Uh the IRA right the uh if you look at that second bar in the chart if Denver wants to put that one up the Inflation Reduction Act what no back up to the green bars again guys the the Inflation Reduction Act right that second green bar there Unleashed a gusher.
This is all under the Inflation Reduction Act name.
Those initiatives are hitting turbulence, Politico says, with some major electrical vehicle, battery, solar and wind projects being delayed or canceled because of the changing Uncertain markets.
And that's the key word markets.
Markets are reality.
So all of this policy is not being implemented.
Thank God, because they got to dole it out through the states.
And then they got to study where do you send it?
Where do you send all this chips money?
Where do you send all this battery money?
And then by the time it this is three years later, right?
This money was allocated in 21.
It's 24.
They still haven't figured out how to dole it out because that's what socialism and communism does.
They don't know how to calculate.
In the State of the Union, Biden promised and boasted about this massive installing 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations.
They've installed only 8 of them.
500,000, he was bragging about, electric vehicle charging stations.
They've only installed 8 of them.
While we're trying to compete with China, Department of Energy decided that the award to MicroVast last spring after the company had drawn fire from a Republican lawmaker because it has a subsidiary in China.
These things, the CHIP Act and all these things, are set up to compete against China.
And then they finally figured out they're funding China in these American bills to fight China.
And so I could go on and on and on, but that gives you a sense.
The only good news is, and if you're looking at those four charts still, the yellow is how much has actually been spent, right?
So it's a very small amount.
The green have been designated.
And this whole project is all about trying to make the budget Trump-proof.
That was kind of a thesis statement in Politico, right?
They're in a race to make sure that the Republicans and President Trump, when he comes in, he knows the green thing is falling apart.
The EV thing is falling apart.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
OK, OK.
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The windmills and the endless spending is falling apart.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
We control the House.
The Wall Street Journal's reporting this.
We've been talking about it for a while.
I want to hit rewind.
Just give people.
Don't.
This is what they're trying to do.
If we win or when we win on November 5th, they're still going to try to steal it.
Having fought through that to get to Inauguration Day, they're working now to Trump-proof that Trump can't really pull the trigger on his policies he wants to do when he's Commander-in-Chief and when he's President of the United States.
Go back through that litany that Politico and the Wall Street Journal are now putting in front of us.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, well, the litany just follows the logic of these four major bills, right?
So the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the IRA, the Inflation Reduction Act, which is increased inflation, the CHIPS Act, And the American Rescue Plan.
And so all four of these, luckily, the money has not been spent.
Some of it's been designated.
And that'll be the issue.
What they're trying to do right now is to spend it as fast as they can.
And Politico, right, and the entire administrative state that funds a lot of the mainstream media, by the way, is signaling to the White House and to the Democrats, you better start spending this money on this green thing.
And by the way, as an economist, I try to keep the politics out of it, but whenever you see green stuff in there, it's just a signal, right?
It means our party.
There's nothing rational about it.
There's no evidence of efficiency here.
This stuff is more efficient than building shells to go blow up in Ukraine.
That's the most inefficient spending.
But this stuff, they have no evidence, no analysis of government investment and the rate of return on any of this stuff.
They're just doling it out to their friends.
And tell me what percent of small businesses, right, who employ, you know, 70% of the people, are getting this money, the CHIPS Act, for the giant CHIPS folks, right?
And so, you know, some of this stuff, the CHIPS thing we need, but we're not allowing the market system to work.
And the history, and here's my one sentence close on this thing on fascism, right?
It's fascism is nothing new.
If you go look at economic history, the duration of all human history, no matter what country you live in, what culture you live in, has been dominated by despots, tyrants, autocrats, kings, pharaohs, for all of human history with slavery and everything Harnwell was talking about.
The holocaust, right, the butchery, the savagery of Rome, etc., was all of
human history when the government ruled you. Those were all governments ruling you. We broke
free in 1776 with freedom, with a freedom assault, and then freedom entered into the
market system.
We chose the market system, not the government system.
And that right there is the choice that's on us right now as a country.
Are we going to let these elites and betters and the globalists run our lives or not?
And it's a it's a choice for freedom.
And of course, I don't mean some, you know, free market like we're going to have magical free markets pop out.
We have fights on our hands to reclaim the institutions Dave, where do people go to get your charts and all your analysis?
Once we get those institutions back, then you can talk about the efficiency stuff.
We're nowhere near that.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Dave, where do people go to get your charts and all your analysis?
This is always kind of breathtaking, particularly on today.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
It's Brat Economics on Getter.
This will be posted today.
And then I got a few other charts I'm going to post from a great little piece by Zero Hedge.
Very interesting and provocative.
They say no matter what we do, if the Fed cuts rates or if they don't cut rates, you end up with inflation both ways because of fiscal dominance.
We're so out of control with government debt and government spending that The Feds and the government are hamstrung, no matter what they do.
If they raise rates, you get inflation.
If you lower rates, you get inflation.
And I'll give you the arguments there with the charts that go along with it.
And it's very thought-provoking.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Well, maybe we'll also try to book you for the next couple of days and go back through that in detail.
But let's get it up on Getter tonight after the show.
Thank you so much, Dave Brat.
Amazing job.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
Thanks, Steve.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
The philosopher-economist can do both, can do both theology, philosophy, and the hard numbers of economics.
Ben, we'll get to, we'll have you back on the next couple days.
We've got so much happening on Ukraine.
I just want to emphasize to everyone, and this is kind of what Ben's been doing for the last two years, over two years, right?
And we called the shot on this war at the beginning of it.
Now, the Senate's telling you that Marjorie Taylor Greene's efforts on accountability and the motion to vacate.
If she keeps in there that Johnson's got to concede on a couple of points and one of those is no more money for Ukraine, not unwinding the $60 billion, that that in and of itself Means that Johnson should not go with everything else he's done.
That, to me, and the Hill knew this when they said it.
That's why it was their lead story today.
I can't tell you how monumental that is.
Closing thoughts, Ben Harnwell, before we bounce.
ben harnwell ▲ ● ▼
Well, Steve, I can only repeat what I've said before.
The War on Impulsive needs to get on the phone and support what MTG is doing.
And I don't know how much Thomas Massey is still standing by her side on this.
But basically, it's just two of them.
So people need to give them the maximum public demonstration of support, as they do to Donald Trump, as they have done for Donald Trump, because the fight that these people are conducting is for you, Warren Posse.
They're doing it in your name, on your behalf, because no one else is interested.
If you know, Dave Brat just sort of talked about the history, basically human history, Being one of oppression.
George Orwell had the famous phrase that an image of the future is a boot stamping on the human face forever.
And that's pretty much the deal, right?
Unless we, you know, that might be true, might not be true, but there's no reason why we're supposed to kneel down with boots on our foot entire place ourselves.
We have to give maximum political support to the people who are coming out, risking everything in order to fight in our name.
It's as simple as that, Steve.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Ben, where do people get you and all your great analysis?
You've got engagement over at Getter like nobody's business.
You put up great pieces.
Where do folks go?
ben harnwell ▲ ● ▼
Thanks, Steve.
Getter at Harnwell, which is my surname, at Harnwell on Getter.
Thanks, Steve.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
If you're not part of Getter, you should go download today.
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We're putting up stuff 24-7.
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We're going to get back into some detail, more detail, the capital marks, particularly the zero hedge story tomorrow that no matter which way the Fed goes, it's just going to cause inflation because of the fiscal irresponsibility.
That means.
Congress, but we've allowed that to happen.
And so that's one of the reasons you have to have this moment of accountability, and we're adamant about it.
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