June 12, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
47:57
Participants
| 
| Speaker | Time | Text |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | ||
|
unidentified
|
All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth. | |
| War Room Battleground. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Who voters in key battleground states say they believe is best to handle the economy ahead of the November election? | ||
| And Willie, on this front, we've been hearing for over a year now, Willie, that somehow there was There's huge gap on the economy and voters just would never trust Joe Biden. | ||
| Some polls are starting to show that massive gap is narrowing quickly. | ||
| And it's almost like in this a lot of economists, a lot of political people have come on our show and said, you know, The economy is a leading indicator here. | ||
| American consumers will catch up probably by summertime. | ||
| Well, it's summer and they're catching up. | ||
| It's almost a dead tie in this latest poll on who you trust more on the economy. | ||
| Yeah, Donald Trump was enjoying a wide gap, and some people thought that this would be, despite all the economic data that shows how strong our economy is leading the world, the most resilient post-COVID economy in the world, that almost had conceded that issue to Donald Trump. | ||
| But this new polling shows, as you say, that Americans perhaps now are feeling that inflation, while very stubborn, does continue to tick down, too slowly, but it does continue to tick down, and that all the other data, including unemployment and growth and the The Dow Jones and all these other metrics by which we measure our economy are moving in the right direction and hopefully people are feeling that in their lives and perhaps Joe Biden will benefit from that. | ||
| It appears he is anyway as you look at the growth there over the last couple of months. | ||
| Okay, there you have it from the Propaganda Command Center of the Information Warfare of the ruling class, that would be Morning Joe, going through some polling. | ||
| EJ and Tony, the reality is, and I think it was shown in the numbers today, the inflation numbers, that the lived experience of the American people ain't getting any better, and they know that, they understand that. | ||
| So walk me through your breakdown, the Consumer Price Index, I think it was 3.3% still, but it was 0.1% off, you know, within the margin of error off. | ||
| Is the regime, is the illegitimate regime trying to take a victory lap on this, sir? | ||
| They are, Steve. | ||
| And unfortunately, as you already pointed out, this is not really a sign of relief for the American people. | ||
| We still have prices going up. | ||
| They're just going up slower than they were before. | ||
| And for a lot of Americans, that means that we are still seeing prices outpacing, price growth outpacing. | ||
| outpacing wage growth. In other words, you're becoming poor day by day, month after month. | ||
| And the other thing to keep in mind is that so many of these official government metrics are | ||
| not even representative of real life for the typical American family. You know, | ||
| look at something like health insurance. | ||
| According to the BLS, health insurance is down almost 8% compared to last year. | ||
| Please find me anyone whose health insurance premiums have gone down that much. | ||
| Actually, please find me anyone whose health insurance premiums have gone down at all over the last year. | ||
| So, you know, the numbers are frankly just getting silly in some cases. | ||
| People are clearly worse off, and the polling data confirmed that. | ||
| And, you know, I would like to point out that, of course, MSNBC picks the one poll where Trump and Biden are somewhat close, I guess you could say, except they're ignoring all of the other polls that show not a smaller margin, but a widening margin in terms of who people actually trust on the economy. | ||
| I want to go to the American consumer because, and this gets to the point of why they're saying the illegal alien invasion of the country, which they initiated, were the architects of, exacerbated. | ||
| They're making the argument that you need those, you need the illegal aliens here, 10 to 15 million on Biden's watch. | ||
| I'm not talking about folks who were here before. | ||
| On Biden's watch, by the time this regime ends, In January of next year, they're going to be, I don't know, the argument's 12 to 15. | ||
| So let's say it's 10. | ||
| The CBO report and other reports are saying, oh, they're fundamental to the economy. | ||
| Now, the economy has only grown at 1.6 percent. | ||
| I think the second quarter may be downgraded to 1.4 percent. | ||
| That's with a trillion dollars spending every, another trillion dollars spent every hundred days. | ||
| They're saying that the illegal aliens because they spend 100% of the transfer payments they get or 100% remember they're here to lower wages which the Fed wanted and the Treasury wanted but the money they get they spend 100% and they're arguing now that's a central part of keeping the economy out of recession. | ||
| The reason is and I think you've done back of the envelope looked at the numbers. | ||
| The reason is The American citizen consumer, the American consumer, is now essentially about tapped out. | ||
| Is that what the math shows, E.J.? | ||
| Exactly, Steve. | ||
| And just real quick, in terms of the foreign workers, when people make these estimates in terms of how much foreign workers add to the economy, they conveniently only look at production increases. | ||
| In other words, these people are here working and adding to the economy, but they completely ignore all of the costs. | ||
| You know, these people are, for example, using emergency rooms and not paying their hospital bills. | ||
| They have kids in public schools, but they a lot of times are not earning an income where they're paying taxes to finance those schools, etc. | ||
| Now, in terms of the consumer, what we've seen for the most recent data that we have available is that consumers, yes, they're spending more, but they're actually buying less. | ||
| Well, things like GDP are measured in real terms, inflation adjusted. | ||
| And that means consumer spending, the biggest portion of the economy, somewhere between two-thirds and three-quarters, has already turned negative. | ||
| So if that trend continues, GDP for the second quarter, the change is going to be negative there too. | ||
| And the consumer has essentially, Steve, been just relying on credit to keep their livelihood going in the same way that the government has been relying on credit. | ||
| You pointed out that they're borrowing about a trillion dollars Every hundred days. | ||
| Well, the consumer has similarly been borrowing a ton of cash, which is why we have over a trillion dollars in credit card debt in this country. | ||
| And what we've seen, again, according to the most recent data we have available, is that the consumer has really tapped out at this point and more and more are unable to get additional credit. | ||
| We're seeing things like credit cards maxed out, We're seeing foreclosures, defaults, delinquencies, all of those rates are slowly ticking up across all types of debt, whether it's not just credit cards, but mortgages, auto loans, etc. | ||
| So as consumer credit dries up, as growth in consumer credit, I should say, dries up, we are seeing the spending growth dry up as well. | ||
| And that spells really bad news for the economy as a whole. | ||
| No, this is one of the reasons that we actually reached out to one of our sponsors. | ||
| We reached out to him and said, hey, in looking at the macro numbers here, it's quite evident that the, and I'm talking about from the middle of the middle class all the way down through the working class, It's quite obvious that the American worker or consumer is financing this kind of like Treasury Janet Yellen's financing our $35 trillion in debt. | ||
| She's not selling 10-year bonds or 30-year bonds. | ||
| They're selling, they're doing it with 90-day notes and bills and it rolls over and that's one of the reasons inflation's now embedded into the system because of the cost of doing that in a more expensive manner than if she went out on the yield curve. | ||
| The there's $1.3 trillion of credit card debt that I think now 10% is actually defaulted, 9.8% default. | ||
| The other 10% is kind of on the watch list. | ||
| You're talking a quarter of a trillion dollars. | ||
| of credit card debt and we keep telling people, hey, you can't put that credit card, you can't | ||
| put that in that's in the do not put it in the drawer because it's a ticking time bomb that's | ||
| going to blow up and destroy you financially. That's what we take. Go to go over to donewithdebt.com | ||
| right now and check it out. Immerse yourself there. But you make the point. That's the canary | ||
| in the mine shaft. | ||
| When you look at the macro about the U.S. | ||
| consumer, the U.S. | ||
| consumer has been using the credit card to gap themselves on a monthly basis. | ||
| That game's tapped out. | ||
| And that's why the whole thing's been on the shoulders of the U.S. | ||
| consumer. | ||
| We're just about, we just about run, we're at a runway on that. | ||
| Is that your theory of the case, EJ? | ||
| Absolutely, Steve. | ||
| The American consumer has already taken a lot of extreme measures. | ||
| They've gotten multiple jobs, for example, to try to boost their income. | ||
| They've relied on credit to make ends meet. | ||
| Well, at the end of the day, as inflation keeps pushing prices higher, people aren't able to keep up. | ||
| Remember, inflation is a tax. | ||
| It's a hidden tax, but it's still a tax. | ||
| And so we're seeing the exact same effects today as if the government several years ago | ||
| had levied trillions of dollars in additional taxes. | ||
| The consumer is completely strapped. | ||
| They are tapped out. | ||
| You're absolutely right, Steve. | ||
| And at the end of the day, that means that we're going to start seeing the effects of | ||
| this hit businesses' bottom lines. | ||
| And one of the things to worry about with credit cards now is that all of this debt, | ||
| And one of the things to worry about with credit cards now is that all of this debt, | ||
| a lot of which will not be recoverable, let's not forget credit cards are unsecured debt. | ||
| a lot of which will not be recoverable, let's not forget credit cards are unsecured debt. | ||
| There's no real asset that banks can go after in most cases to recoup losses there. | ||
|
unidentified
|
There's no real asset that banks can go after in most cases the effects of this hit businesses bottom lines. | |
| Banks are not only going to have credit card losses, but we still have the ticking time | ||
| bomb that is commercial real estate around the necks of many banks, mostly small banks, | ||
| the regional banks. | ||
| That bomb is still going to go off. | ||
| There's a lot of economic headwinds that are going to start, you know, they're going to | ||
| start hitting us a lot of bombs that are going to start going off in 2025. | ||
| One thing before you go, just the decline in the purchasing power of the dollar is about | ||
| 20%. | ||
| I know the audience understands this in their lived experience, but the economists that come on TV continue to not... the inflation is cumulative. | ||
| This is why we've had, you know, a drop in 20 you're purchasing power of your dollar since Biden took his hand off the King James Bible. | ||
| Or in his case, he might have done it off a Catholic Bible is is about 20% the decline in purchasing power of the dollar. | ||
| Steve, that's according to the official metrics. | ||
| But one of the things that I point out is the fact that these grossly understate a lot of different types of price increases. | ||
| Let's just real quick look at the cost of home ownership, for example. | ||
| According to the BLS, that's up about 21 or 22 percent since Biden took office. | ||
| But the actual cost of home ownership, just the monthly mortgage payment for a median price home, is up 119.5 percent You talk about BLS, as folks know, that's the Bureau of Labor Statistics. | ||
| I want to go with, I just want to ask you about one more statistic before you go. | ||
| Correct me if I'm wrong, when I look at the BLS statistics and I see the breakdown on Zero Hedge and these other economic sites, is it not true that the net 100% Of net job creation since Joe Biden took office. | ||
| Has it been to foreign workers, sir? | ||
| Absolutely, Steve. | ||
| There are fewer native-born Americans working today than before the pandemic in February of 2020, so all of the job gains on net that we have seen have all gone to foreign-born. | ||
| It's amazing, Steve, when you start digging into these numbers, all of the job growth that we've seen recently, it's all been to foreigners, it's all been part-time work, and it's in only about 13 of the metropolitan areas in the entire country. | ||
| I mean, this is essentially what the Biden administration has done here, is turn the U.S. | ||
| labor market into a temp agency for foreign workers in an increasingly small geographical area. | ||
| That is the plan. | ||
| That was not, that is not, that is not a random occurrence. | ||
| EJ, your analysis of the numbers is brilliant. | ||
| We're very fortunate to have you on here, the Heritage guys, working with Steve Moore. | ||
| Where do people go? | ||
| Your Twitter feed, and I tell people, if you want to keep up on constant kind of analysis of economic data, EJ's Twitter feed is fantastic. | ||
| Where do they go to the website to get you, and where do they go for your social media feed, sir? | ||
| For the website, you can find me and all the other Heritage folks at heritage.org. | ||
| Best place to find me, though, is going to be on Twitter or X, and the handle there is AtRealEJAntoni. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| So, when Joe Biden, Scranton Joe, when he goes up to Scranton and says, you know, I'm a populist, I'm for the thing, it's a bald-faced lie. | ||
| It's a bald-faced lie. | ||
| It's one of the reasons we work with Birch Gold to do the end of the dollar empire, to show you exactly what they're doing to our currency and what the spread of the currency is now with precious metals because it's at an all-time spread. | ||
| This is why gold He's been going through the roof because of the converse of what they're doing on inflation and what they're doing on the destruction of the U.S. | ||
| dollar. | ||
| Now, people say, well, Steve, I thought the U.S. | ||
| dollar was strong. | ||
| It's strong vis-a-vis other fiat currencies. | ||
| It's the world's tallest midget. | ||
| But this is why the Global South, this is why the BRICS nation, this is why they have | ||
| so much stroke now in these Ukraine peace negotiations. | ||
| Because they are binding together as the Global South. | ||
| They're coming up with an alternative currency. | ||
| It ain't going to happen overnight. | ||
| But they're looking at different aspects of their central banks continue to buy gold at | ||
| record rates, 22, 23, and now at 24 for the first five months at record rates. | ||
| And that's going to have an impact. | ||
| What is your central bank doing? | ||
| What's the Federal Reserve doing? | ||
| Federal Reserve's working on a central bank digital currency, which is the end of you if it ever gets promulgated. | ||
| Now a bunch of states are trying to fight it. | ||
| We're going to fight it. | ||
| And the end of the dollar empire, the totally free installments we've been doing with Birch Gold, five installments now, get it, it's all free. | ||
| The end of the dollar empire. | ||
| The fifth free installment about economic freedom, economic liberty. | ||
| We talk about this process of the gold standard, what happened to it, and we end up talking about the BRICS nations, what they're doing, and also, in particular, the central bank digital currency. | ||
| Go check it out today. | ||
| Also, the debt service. | ||
| When you get these credit cards, when you're beyond payment and you stopped using it, it's a ticking time bomb. | ||
| So don't, you can't, it's all a process. | ||
| Just don't put it in the drawer. | ||
| You put it in the drawer, you're just having a ticking time bomb in your house. | ||
| Call the folks at donewiththat, donewiththat.com. | ||
| Call the folks at donewiththat.com slash ban and you get a discount. | ||
| See if you're eligible, talk to those guys. | ||
| They will engage in the process. | ||
| You cap the interest rates, you may take off, Pretty significant face amount of the card itself. | ||
| It's a process to work it out, but just like the IRS, if you think this is going to go away by hiding from it, you are absolutely incorrect. | ||
| As you know, we focus very much on the European parliamentary elections, obviously, on all these sovereignty parties, these populist nationalist parties. | ||
| Nigel Farage now, over the last 24 hours, has been called the true head of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom. | ||
| We're sending Rahim. | ||
| Rahim is leaving from Detroit from the People's Convention this week. | ||
| To go to the United Kingdom, once again, follow Nigel around for this 4th of July election. | ||
| Also, Raheem will be there in France. | ||
| We're going to follow Front National, or they call themselves National Rally now, in really this incredible fight they're having with Macron. | ||
| It looks like Macron may be on the ropes, but we'll have to see. | ||
| They somehow have pulled that out the last couple of times. | ||
| AFD Alternative for Deutschland had a great chance to talk to the folks there last night. | ||
| Tremendous showing, particularly crushing the Greens. | ||
| But the one closest to my heart is what's happened in Ireland, because Ireland being such a great nation and having so many great patriots and having done so much for the United States of America with the families that came over here, including my own family, Ireland has seemed like the most far gone of all the countries in the EU in a political class that completely sold out These fantastic people to Brussels. | ||
| Malachi Stinson joins us from a nationalist that won a seat on the Dublin City Council and gave a couple of amazing speeches right afterwards. | ||
| Is the concept of nationalism, which I thought which was the Irish rebellion was about, 1916 was about, was this fierce Irish nationalism. | ||
| Is that now coming back, sir? | ||
| Because it seems like the political class in Ireland has sold out body and soul to the party of Davos. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Good afternoon, Steve. | |
| Thanks for having me on. | ||
| I think for many years, Irish nationalism has been swept under the counter and we've been run by a collection of careerist politicians who are beholden to the European Union and, you know, and to themselves. | ||
| They're not particularly concerned about the Irish nation or the Irish history or the Irish culture, which many people in America will be aware of. | ||
| My own background, my grandparents joined the Republican movement in 1913, 1914 and fought in 1916. | ||
| And our family has continued in that tradition. | ||
| And the main objective of that rising in 1916 was the sovereignty of the Irish people and the right of our people. | ||
| to determine its own destiny. | ||
| The decisions that relate to the Irish people should be made in Ireland by Irish elected representatives, not by somebody in Europe, not by somebody in Brussels or anywhere else, or in London for that matter, but made in Ireland by Irish people. | ||
| And we have seen a huge revival in the nationalist movement, particularly since November 2022, when the impact of the huge immigration crisis that was coming ahead of us was realised by some people. | ||
| And it started off in a small part of the North East in our city of Dublin, in East Wall, when the state decided to put in almost 400 single male migrants from God knows where, into an office building. | ||
| And they've tried to do that in many towns and villages around the country. | ||
| They've taken over A huge amount of hotels. | ||
| So when when our American friends come over here to visit, there'll be barely a hotel space left for them because the state has blocked them all to put in immigrants who are mainly economic migrants who claim political asylum. | ||
| And we've now one of the things we pointed out in November 2022 was that many of them were coming from the United Kingdom, just traveling over, somehow losing their passports between getting on the plane and getting off. | ||
| I'm presenting for asylum. | ||
| We were told, you know, the political class here keeps telling us we have a moral and a legal responsibility to somebody coming from a far from place that never heard of Ireland. | ||
| We have no responsibility either. | ||
| And if we have a legal responsibility, well, it's time to change the law. | ||
| We have no moral responsibility to anybody outside of our own nation, particularly at a time. | ||
| And this is one of the issues that is at the heart of this whole debate. | ||
| It's down to capacity. | ||
| The political class have never developed this country in line with the increase in population. | ||
| We have a huge housing shortage. | ||
| It is impossible for an ordinary person on the average salary to buy or rent a home to live in. | ||
| And you can't solve the housing problem If you keep increasing demand by importing people continually, the population in this country in the past 10 to 15 years has gone from three and a half million to over five million. | ||
| That is not sustainable at any level. | ||
| And, you know, proportionately, if you look at the influx of migrants over your southern border, in terms of population, our influx is much higher. | ||
| We have a much smaller country. | ||
| We have a much less developed infrastructure. | ||
| We have a health crisis where people are waiting for a week to see a doctor. | ||
| If they go to hospital, they can't be seen. | ||
| The hospitals are overwhelmed. | ||
| There are people lying on trolleys. | ||
| We don't have enough schools. | ||
| We don't have enough of anything to support the population we have. | ||
| In emergency accommodation, our own native people, there's almost 14,000. | ||
| And that doesn't include, you know, people who in their thirties are still living at home with their parents. | ||
| And remember, most Irish homes are a lot smaller than American homes, for instance, are generally Three-bedroom, semi-detached houses, which are quite small and not sufficient to have a whole load of adults in, whatever about, you know, a couple and a couple of kids. | ||
| So this new movement that has emerged, and we had some success in the recent local and European elections in that the nationalist vote was far in excess of what we expected. | ||
| But what delayed the huge progress in this country to shift in the narrative And gaining electoral success for more people. | ||
| I said the government in the past number of months, we've got rid of Varadkar, who was the Taoiseach and the Prime Minister. | ||
| And he was replaced by Simon Harris, who adopted all of the narrative that we have been saying, he started talking about, you know, checking people coming in, deporting people, renting planes and chartering planes to deport people, all of which will never happen. | ||
| But it was enough To placate the middle ground, and it was enough to to secure their success and their political survival in the most recent elections. | ||
| Now, we do have a general election for a national parliament coming up, we suspect later this year, certainly before March of next year. | ||
| But the speculation is that it will be just after the budget. | ||
| So sometime in November, when we, you know, on our side of defence, and they keep calling us fascist and racist and right wing, we would be slightly, we would be conservative naturally. | ||
| But it's about the infrastructure of the country and the sustainability of | ||
| the country and how we run this country for the best benefit of our own native | ||
| people. | ||
| Help me out here because one of the reasons I was inspired to be a populist nationalist was | ||
| my dad and particularly my grandfather, you know, telling me stories and giving me books to read | ||
| about the Irish nationalists and how they put everything on the line for the nation of Ireland | ||
| to create a nation, to create a free republic that was for Irish citizens. | ||
| How did you go from that, the foundational myth or the foundational modern myth of modern Irish society based upon these fierce nationalists who gave everything to make sure they could break away from Great Britain and have a free republic? | ||
| How did you get to a situation where It's one of the most woke nations. | ||
| I'm not even sure I could go into the country if I wanted to, because they would say everything you're saying is hate speech when you try to defend your citizens. | ||
| I mean, we're very close to these populist nationalist movements throughout Europe and the world. | ||
| And one of the most woke countries, as far as media goes, as far as higher education, high culture, and particularly the political class, is Ireland. | ||
| How did that happen? | ||
|
unidentified
|
Well, if you go back again to the 1916 Rising, which succeeded, not in a military sense, but the execution of the leaders led to the groundswell of support from the ordinary people. | |
| But that was defeated, that republic was defeated in 1922. | ||
| And what we've had since then, is a political class of Tweedledum and Tweedledee of Irish politics, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, who would come in and out of government, and it didn't really matter which of them was in government, but their objective was not to rebuild the Republic of 1916, but to create this almost a monarchist setting where they would stay in power for | ||
| Forever. | ||
| And then we had, you know, Sinn Féin, Provisional Sinn Féin, who emerged from the Struggle in the North, which was in part an attempt to remove Britain from the six northeastern counties of the island. | ||
| But they became more awoke than anybody else. | ||
| And they went from being a nationalist movement to being an anti-Irish movement. | ||
| And in fact, you know, it was somewhat incredible when we were in the Counts Centre in the RDS on Sunday. | ||
| And having people in Sinn Féin calling us fascists, calling us shite, calling us all kinds of things. | ||
| And we were there with a tricolour and all they were short of doing was spitting on the tricolour. | ||
| Yet, 20 years ago, when they were in the very same position, they would be there with a tricolour. | ||
| And now it seems that they will carry any flag in this country and the state will fly any flag except the tricolour. | ||
| The tricolour is now again seen as a sign of resistance to the state. | ||
| And we proudly fly a tricolour. | ||
| And just at last Easter day, we led a massive campaign to have people retake the tricolour from the political class and fly it at their homes for the Easter period, in memory of the Easter Rising. | ||
| And if you look at any of the footage of any of the protests that we have been involved in and organised, the only flag you will see flying is a tricolour. | ||
| Malachy, just hang on one second. | ||
| We're going to hold you through the break. | ||
| Malachy Stinson joins us from Ireland about the rise of Irish nationalism. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Back in a moment. | |
| All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth. | ||
| War Room Battleground with Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| So Ben Harnwell's going to join me in a moment. | ||
| We're going to talk about National Rally or Front National. | ||
| This really, and I got to tell you, the making of alliances is quite brilliant. | ||
| We're going to get into all that in a moment. | ||
| Ben's going to join us from Rome. | ||
| Malachi, we want to stay very close to this. | ||
| It's not close to my heart, but it's a, it's a, Ireland has always punched way above their weight, particularly in intellectual, you know, in, in, in the arts and creative, but also in, in, in just thinking. | ||
| And I think it's amazing, finally, We have people there that are thinking about the nation of Ireland and the Irish people as this revolt goes on across, not just Western Europe, but it goes on across the United States. | ||
| It's in India. | ||
| You see it in Japan and Philippines across the world. | ||
| How do people find out more about this fight, more about your cause, more about what you guys are doing, and particularly if there's a, do you believe a general election will be called this year? | ||
| Or do you think it's going to be in spring of next year? | ||
|
unidentified
|
No, I think it'll be this year. | |
| I think that the political class believe that they have Sinn Féin on the run, because Sinn Féin have sold out their working class base and opted for open borders. | ||
| And at the same time, they won't have time to regroup before an election and they won't want to give them too long. | ||
| And the government parties, by adopting our narrative and implying that they're going to do these things, They won't be able to carry that on forever. | ||
| So we would see it as a short term kind of pretend operation to control the middle classes and ensure that they're elected, vote for them. | ||
| And I can't see that going on any longer than another six months. | ||
| So I would think November is the likely date for the next election. | ||
| And they can follow me on Instagram. | ||
| We'll push it out hard. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Do you guys have a website yet? | |
| All of that is developing because this is a very new movement. | ||
| But if you follow me on Extent, you know, you get all those details in time. | ||
| This is the first time, unlike previous movements in this country, we have created a genuine grassroots movement, which is, I wouldn't say leaderless, but it doesn't have a rigid structure of leadership. | ||
| And, you know, we had taken the decision to wait until after these elections to try and formalise some kind of an alliance with other people. | ||
| And that's what we will be doing now. | ||
| And we'll be reaching out to people in other European countries who are suffering the same fate as us to build both a national coalition and an international coalition of people of like mind who have at their heart the sovereignty of their own nation. | ||
| A belief in their own people and a belief that their own nations should survive. | ||
| And I'm not doing this for me. | ||
| I'm doing this for the nation. | ||
| I'm doing it for my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, because it's the generations that are coming after us that we have to save our nation from. | ||
| Many of us are getting old. We don't have the natural time span left to benefit from this. | ||
| But it's about our children and our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren. | ||
| So we have to leave a legacy. | ||
| And I want to leave this place when I do eventually leave. | ||
| And there have been a number of attacks on me in the past during this election campaign. | ||
| So, you know, that may not be too long that I have left. | ||
| We want I want to leave this place in a better place than it was when I came into it. | ||
| I want to leave a legacy for my grandchildren that they can say, well, at least our grandfather stood up and was prepared to be counted along with many, many other people. | ||
| And I'm only a figurehead in this because none of this is just me. | ||
| This is about our people. | ||
| And I'll just give you a quote to finish maybe from Bobby Sands, one of the hunger strikers in 1981, a Republican nationalist hunger striker who died and went to jail for the freedom and sovereignty of his country. | ||
| And he said that we all have a part to play. | ||
| No one's part is any more important than anyone else's. | ||
| That every individual Devotes whatever effort they can. | ||
| I'm paraphrasing here now. | ||
| Devotes whatever they can to the struggle. | ||
| And it's just one person is just as important as the next. | ||
| So somebody like me is no more important than somebody who puts a leaflet in a door or puts a poster on a wall. | ||
| Or indeed who encourages their friends and relations to supporters. | ||
| Or somebody who replies to a tweet, contacts a radio station. | ||
| Or does anything in this struggle. | ||
| We are all cogs in a wheel. | ||
| And if you look at a clock, for instance, a clock, if there's one cog missing, it won't work. | ||
| We need all of our cogs working together to save our nation. | ||
| I couldn't say it better, and you will find out, because we were very self-organizing for years with the Tea Party movement in the early days of MAGA, but you will find that the middle class, the lower information voters, smart people that just don't have access to the information, the more information they get, the more real information they get, the scales will come off their eyes, and they will join your cause. | ||
| That's what's happened here in the United States of America. | ||
| That's why we're ascendant and dominant political force in this country. | ||
| Malachi, honored to have you on here. | ||
| We will stay in close touch, sir. | ||
| Thank you for joining us. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Lovely. | |
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| You see it. | ||
| You see it right there. | ||
| The exact same situation. | ||
| The exact same situation. | ||
| These people come in, the political class, the ruling class. | ||
| They detest the culture of a country, the civilization of the country, and particularly the citizens of that country. | ||
| You heard that one before? | ||
| Let's go ahead. | ||
| By the way, make sure you go to Birchgold. | ||
| Times of turbulence. | ||
| It's only going to get more turbulent. | ||
| You know that. | ||
| I know that. | ||
| You're going to need an anchor to windward. | ||
| One of those anchors to windward is to have in your portfolio, particularly of any stage of life, but particularly if you're getting closer to retirement, go to birchgold.com slash abandon and check it out today. | ||
| You get to talk to Philip Patrick and team. | ||
| We've got all kinds of free information about the dollar and the dollar empire, all of it about the U.S. | ||
| currency. | ||
| We just talked when E.J. | ||
| was here about the dramatic drop in the purchasing power of the dollar. | ||
| Make sure you go to Birchgold today and talk to Philip Patrick and the team. | ||
| Okay, I want to play a cold open. | ||
| Ben Harnwall is joining us to talk about France, but I got to have him opine about what's happening here in the United States of America. | ||
| Let's go ahead and let it rip. | ||
| Steve Bannon and Kash Patel, who many people believe is going to be his next CIA director, looked straight into the camera and said that they were coming after Morning Joe. | ||
| And warned us, as well as our producers, watch out, we're coming after you. | ||
| Kash Patel agreed with Steve Bannon. | ||
| It doesn't get any more direct than that. | ||
| You know, of course, this is the same guy that accused me of being a murderer a dozen or so times, wanting me to be arrested, tried, executed. | ||
| That was in his first term, right? | ||
| So it's a pretty direct threat. | ||
| A pretty direct threat to generals who don't bow down to him. | ||
| He says they should be found guilty of treason and executed. | ||
| He said he'll fire any U.S. | ||
| attorneys that don't go after his political enemies. | ||
| We go on and on and on. | ||
| But as Mika said, People need to believe what he's saying. | ||
| They need to hear what he's saying and understand that a second Donald Trump term takes America into a very, very dark place. | ||
|
unidentified
|
It's going to be a very, very close race. | |
| I think there are terrible choices that we're being presented with. | ||
| And that's just the fate of that's what the primary voters selected. | ||
| And I regret the fact that that's that's where we are. | ||
| All right, now I know a lot of these folks who also shared your same concerns about Donald Trump have sort of said, all right, we're rallying around Donald Trump. | ||
| You had said, though, that would not be the case with you. | ||
| You had said that he's a populist and an authoritarian narcissist, that character is too important to me, and it's a job that requires the kind of character he just doesn't have. | ||
| That's pretty strong. | ||
| Yeah, that's the way I feel. | ||
| I agree with that. | ||
| I don't support Biden either. | ||
| I think his policies are terrible. | ||
| I hate the fact that I feel I got to write in a Republican like I did the last time in 2020. | ||
| I voted for him in 2016, hoping that there was going to be a different kind of person in office. | ||
| And I do think character is a really important issue. | ||
| If you put yourself above the Constitution, as he has done... What happened? | ||
| What turned you on? | ||
| Is this the whole January 6th thing? | ||
| That's a part of it. | ||
| I think it's a contribution of factors, but I think it really is just character at the end of the day. | ||
| And the fact that if you're willing to put yourself above the Constitution, an oath you swear when you take office in federal office, whether it's president or a member of Congress, you swear an oath to the Constitution. | ||
| And if you're willing to suborn it to yourself, I think that makes you unfit for office. | ||
| Ben, we see the rise of the populist nationalist sovereignty movement throughout Europe. | ||
| We're going to talk about France in a second and an absolute dogfight there. | ||
| But you see right there, number one, the left is absolutely meltdown now about being held accountable for what they've done. | ||
| But you see the reason we're in this shape. | ||
| is the moral equivalent of the Tories right there. | ||
| Paul Ryan in the controlled opposition mode. | ||
| The populists are bad. | ||
| Populists are narcissists. | ||
| Trump's a narcissist. | ||
| Your thoughts, sir? | ||
| Well, I was delighted to hear Paul Ryan's contribution there, his intervention, because that's only going to galvanize MAGA. | ||
| I can't think of anyone who's more detested or loathed by actual Republican voters. | ||
| You know, the people who go and knock on doors, the people who go to supermarkets and hand stuff out. | ||
| The people that try and have parties at their homes to try and bring on their friends and neighbours. | ||
| The people that put flags out and banners out on their front lawns. | ||
| All of these people absolutely loathe Paul Rhino. | ||
| So anything he says is going to make them... This is going to get the troops up, Steve. | ||
| This is fantastic. | ||
| Very, very happy he made that intervention. | ||
| Regarding Morning Mika and Joe, you know, of course, they're absolutely right. | ||
| Joe's absolutely right. | ||
| I don't know what you or Donald Trump think you're doing. | ||
| Only the Democrats and the Uni Party are allowed to use the D-O-G D.O.J. | ||
| F.B.I. | ||
| complex to persecute political opposition. | ||
| You guys, you know you're not allowed to do that. | ||
| That's for them. | ||
| That's their responsibility. | ||
| It's their privilege. | ||
| Because they control the state. | ||
| They control the strings. | ||
| They control the power. | ||
| That's why they want to remain in power even when they're out of power. | ||
| That's why they're doing a good job of actually doing that. | ||
| So of course they're absolutely right and I'm surprised you guys even think that you're going to be able to have a fair run at this. | ||
| That's for them. | ||
| If you want a political prosecution, this is what they do. | ||
| Retribution, that's what they do. | ||
| And they're allowed to get away with it because they're sort of uniparty stroke Democrats. | ||
| Stroke, of course, Republicans as well. | ||
| It's all one big conglomerated morass of corruption. | ||
|
unidentified
|
And they have power. | |
| I think of the Italian statesman, Andreotti, who said that power wears down people who don't have it. | ||
| And that's very much their strategy there. | ||
| If I can pivot from that, Steve, to what's going on in France. | ||
| When you and I exchanged texts this morning, I said this is going to get challenged. | ||
| And lo and behold, this is literally breaking news. | ||
| It has been challenged. | ||
| So what's happened is, and I'm glad we've had the last couple of weeks in the run-up to the European elections, just to set the scene for the posse about what's going on, the in-fighting between the centre-right group Which is the European People's Party. | ||
| And then you have the ID, the Identity and Democracy, which are the anti-Atlanticist nationalists. | ||
| So what happened in France, and this was yesterday and today's great news, is that Eric Chotty, who's the leader of the Republican Party, the French Republican Party, he said that he's going to support Jordan Bardella at these elections, which was, that is absolutely, that is literally, you know, in fact I don't even use this term of a political earthquake because it's so overused. | ||
| That is literally a political earthquake and it's so important because it illustrates for the first time that this what's called the cordon sanitaire, the wall at the centre right, And the centre-left, but principally the centre-right, has constructed around what they call the centre ground. | ||
| Then, you know, according to that Cordon Sanitaire, you're not allowed to work or cooperate in any way whatsoever with the nationalist parties. | ||
| They're the anti-establishment nationalist parties. | ||
| These guys are so untouchable, open brackets. | ||
| That is how much these people are invested in the immigration agenda. | ||
| Because that's fundamentally the differing point between the centre-right. | ||
| There are others. | ||
| That is the substantial non-negotiable point, however, between the centre-right and what the press call | ||
| the far-right. | ||
| It's the immigration thing. | ||
| That is so urgent to these people. | ||
| It's so existential to the establishment centre-right. | ||
| They've constructed this, call it a wall, if you like, a wall of separation. | ||
| You cannot work with these parties on the right. | ||
| And that's been imposed right across Europe. | ||
| And that fundamentally is important when we're talking about the coalitions in the European Parliament, especially when it starts the negotiations in a couple of weeks over who's going to be the new president of the European Commission. | ||
| Ursula von der Leyen wants a second mandate. | ||
| What happened in France, then? | ||
| Eric Trotty is the leader of the centre-right party. | ||
| He said, we're going to work with Le Pen's national rally. | ||
| And potentially even giving them the votes they might need to form an absolute majority after the next election, which they are forecasted to win absolutely. | ||
| Now, when we exchanged texts about this this morning, Steve, I said this is going to get challenged. | ||
| It'll be absolutely. | ||
| Lo and behold, lo and behold, this guy has been trotted, the leader, the parliamentary leader of the Republicans, the centre-right party in France, has been no confidence, right? | ||
| He's been no confidence. | ||
| He's been sacked. | ||
| His response to this, and I quote, is that he said it's a flagrant violation of our statutes, that it was illegal and void, and he's going to challenge it. | ||
| Steve, this could not be more important, not only for France, not only for the The first round of the general election, which will take place on the 30th of June, second round I think is on the 7th of July, three days after the UK general election. | ||
| Not only for France in the French context, but also for the European thing. | ||
| We say time and again that France and Germany are the motor of the European Union. | ||
| If this cordon sanitaire between the central right and the far right dissolves, And they have a working cooperation. | ||
| This will absolutely transform European politics. | ||
| And principally, Steve, I'll close and give way on this point. | ||
| It absolutely shows how legitimate now our arguments are and have been. | ||
| And they cannot be pushed to the outer peripheries and not even acknowledged. | ||
| That's the reality, Steve, of what happened at the European elections over the weekend. | ||
| Over the weekend, the past weekend, this is the consequence of that. | ||
| This is a new reality that is now a political reality in France and it could well change everything in Brussels and the European Union. | ||
| And it could change everything within the nation of France and Germany, all of it, and become more of a better part of our sovereignty movement. | ||
| It's absolutely breathtaking. | ||
| With all that and your brain analysis, I'm gonna let you go because I know you got stuff to do. | ||
| With all the brain analysis you just did and making sure the posse and the war room audience is up to speed and knows more than people on the block or people at work because it's important for them to know this stuff. | ||
| The best was Paul Rhino. | ||
| I don't think I've ever heard that before. | ||
| Maybe somebody else thought it up, but I'm gonna give credit to Ben Harnwell. | ||
| That sums up perfectly. | ||
| From now on, he's Paul Rhino. | ||
| He's Paul Rhino in the war room because it absolutely summarizes that guy in his totality. | ||
| So Ben Harnwell, social media, you have the greatest engagement of anybody on social media. | ||
| It's not just your brilliant posts, it's the way you formulate them. | ||
| With your quotes at the top, your audience loves you. | ||
| I kind of draft off it. | ||
|
unidentified
|
So where do people go? | |
| Getter, Steve. | ||
| Getter's my favourite social media platform. | ||
| It's absolutely great. | ||
| Steve, the best thing about my feed, atHarnwell, which is my surname, it's not even my posts. | ||
| It's the War Room Posse, the Getter family, that are there posting responses, their comments. | ||
| It's the War Room Posse's comments on my feed, which are the best thing about the atHarnwell. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| away. Great sense of humor, great insights, lots of things which I just shamelessly, shamelessly steal | ||
| and repeat on the show. It's really, it's interactive because they're great guys and | ||
| they know a lot and I lean on them. I'm very grateful for their contribution. | ||
| That's why I tell folks, join Getter. | ||
| It's totally free. | ||
| It's another free aspect. | ||
| And we, you know, Ben goes through every day and reads all the comments. | ||
| I try to go through as much as possible and give people likes, but you want to really get in communication with us and give us ideas, everything like that. | ||
| Just go to our Getter feed and put it in there. | ||
| And Ben's Getter feed is absolutely unbelievable. | ||
| I've never seen engagement like that on anybody in any social media. | ||
| Ben Harnwell. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Very important. | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| France. | ||
| France has fallen to the populist nationalist. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Populist nationalist, right. | ||
| A couple things from sponsors. | ||
| Number one, you know, we started today and talked about the administrative state and the deep state. | ||
| We had Russ vote on. | ||
| We had a lot of, we want to do a lot of work on that in the morning. | ||
| This is why one of our sponsors, Silent, Make sure that because we did lose the battle on wire on the warrantless, you know, observations of your media, your social media, your telecommunications, etc. | ||
| Silent slnt.com slash band. | ||
| You get a discount. | ||
| They got these Faraday bags. | ||
| For your computer, for your iPad, for your iPhone, and then just overall they got these amazing kind of backpacks you can put everything into. | ||
| It's a Faraday bag. | ||
| It's kind of the best in the business. | ||
| slnt.com slash Bannon. | ||
| Go check it out today. | ||
| Silent. | ||
| These guys do an amazing job. | ||
| Also Jace Medical, Dr. Sean Rowland and the team over there. | ||
| It started with this kind of grip the Chinese Communist Party had on the supply chains. | ||
| It's expanded into much more than that because the reason is your own medicines, the ones you depend upon, not just in generics or things with active pharmaceutical ingredients now because of cyber attacks, bankruptcies, or just the medicine's not there. | ||
| You got to get ahead of that. | ||
| That's what Jay set the entire business up. | ||
| Go to jaycemedical.com. | ||
| And we always want to give a shout out to Michael Seifert and the team. | ||
| Remember, we try to get in back of these entrepreneurial companies that are building an alternative economy so that you can't be debanked, deplatformed, and you stop giving money to people that hate you and hate your values. | ||
| PublicSquare.com. | ||
| Go check it out today. | ||
| They've got the great show on Real America's Voice every Saturday at 7 o'clock right after us, Public Square Live. | ||
| But go check it out today. | ||
| Download the app or go to the website. | ||
| Lou Dobbs is next, the great Lou Dobbs. | ||
| We're gonna be back at 10 a.m. | ||
| Eastern Daylight Time tomorrow morning. | ||
| I commit to you, I guarantee you, we'll be just as much on fire tomorrow as we were today in the War Room. | ||
| Lou Dobbs is next. |
Export Selection