July 8, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| Takeover of the French government was denied yesterday after projections. | ||
| Again. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Again. | ||
| After projections showed voters turned to the left-wing New Popular Front Party during the second round of voting in the snap elections called by President Macron. | ||
| Macron's alliance earned the second highest amount of votes ahead of the far-right National Rally Party that had been the lead entering yesterday however no party was able to | ||
| secure an outright majority. | ||
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The result was a tie. | |
| We keep doing this where we will read for two or three weeks that the republic is teetering | ||
| on the brink. | ||
| Le Pen's about to be elected president. | ||
| It's 50-50. | ||
| She loses 58% to 42%. | ||
| And then the same thing just happened with the parliamentary elections. | ||
| We were looking at a majority and then, you know, the states at around five o'clock were shocked to see she finishes, her party finishes behind Macron's party. | ||
| Walk us through this. | ||
| What, what, what's not only, what not only happened yesterday, but what's happened over the last couple of years in these two elections? | ||
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Well, it's a question, again, as you said, Joe, very pertinently. | |
| Every time, France, in the end, is not ready to go for some kind of far-right nationalist adventure. | ||
| It's not ready as Britain was for Brexit. | ||
| It's not ready as we were for a Trump presidency. | ||
| No, it holds the line. | ||
| This is what happened this time, too. | ||
| Everything indicated that the National Rally was, if not going to get an absolute majority, going to be comfortably the largest party in the National Assembly. | ||
| It did not happen. | ||
| The centre, Macron party, and the left, in the second round, runoff voting, banded together, unified, in order to beat the National Rally candidate in as many constituencies as possible. | ||
| And the end result was the left, which is also very critical of Macron, came in first. | ||
| And Macron, while he lost about a third of his seats in Parliament, it was no victory, did not suffer a complete humiliation. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
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Because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
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I know you don't like hearing that. | |
| I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not gonna stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big line? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room, here's your host Stephen K. Babb. | |
| Monday 8th of July, anno domini. | ||
| This is Hanwell here at the helm, filling in for Stephen K. Bannon, political prisoner in one of Joe Biden's federal jails. | ||
| So Interesting results coming out from France. | ||
| To help me break them down, I've got Raheem Kassam and Ben Berkram live from France. | ||
| I just want to... Raheem, good morning to you. | ||
| I'm listening here to the cold open to Morning Mika and her assorted talking heads. | ||
| And the thing that I just can't get out of my head, because they all seem sort of deliriously happy that Marine Le Pen's national rally hasn't got The absolute majority. | ||
| Nowhere near like an absolute majority that they were hoping for. | ||
| This is somehow indicative of their failure of appeal. | ||
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I'm breaking down the statistics. | |
| I can't help but notice, in the second round, she and I think, according to the Les Republicains that they were fighting together, not fighting against one another I should say, they got 37% of the vote. | ||
| In the UK fight, Keir Starmer Got 33.8% of the vote. | ||
| So obviously different methods of election will produce different seats, arrangements of seats in the respective parliaments. | ||
| But percentage vote by percentage vote, Marine Le Pen, despite all of the negative mainstream media coverage that we've had, especially in France, of course, in the run up to the elections, she's come out with more than the new British Labour government. | ||
| Can I ask you, can I start off asking you this question, Rahim? | ||
| Did Emmanuel Macron's gamble Pay off! | ||
| Yeah, good afternoon from Paris, Ben, and to the whole War Room audience. | ||
| Bonjour. | ||
| The Macron gamble, I think, is a big question that people are still trying to figure out here, because, you know, as day broke over Paris, it still wasn't clear, you know, just what would happen with the Parliament, what would happen with the government here. | ||
| Are they going to be able to pull together A coalition of centrist, what they call centrist, I mean they would be considered far far left by US standards, but centrist parties that are allied in some way with Emmanuel Macron or are they going to have to do dirty grubby deals with the Marxists, with the Communists and with the Islamists and and you know it's still as we speak now | ||
| Those things are still being poured over. | ||
| Each of these respective parties, and the audience has to understand this is not a two-party system, this is a multi-party system, and I'll get into that in just a moment. | ||
| Each of those parties is sort of hunkered down in their headquarters at the moment, hashing out amongst themselves, you know, what deals they'll be willing to do, with who, what they'll require, and how much they're willing to offer in return. | ||
| So the answer to your question is, you know, I don't know, politically speaking, If that gamble is yet to pay off. | ||
| But what is very clear, I think, and is especially citing some of the statistics that you just quoted, looking at the way that the Parliament would be constituted if it were, as you say, under a different system, if it were under, say, a first-past-the-post system, looking at the way the percentage vote share has broken down over the two rounds, most people Just like in the United Kingdom, where you saw the Reform Party get four plus million votes and only five seats in Parliament, most people now on the political right in Paris are waking up this morning and saying, our democracy's broken. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And that would be, I think, a realistic Conclusion to take in the UK. | ||
| I want to see, I'm not entering into the UK right now, but I'd like to see whether some of the smaller parties in the UK, like the Lib Dems, who have historically been pushing for electoral reform, whether they're actually going to, now that that could considerably be an advantage to Nigel Farage, I'd like to see whether they're still going to be pushing electoral reform moving forward. | ||
| Pivoting back to France, Rahim, Emmanuel Macron has lost his party's majority. | ||
| He's on march. | ||
| He's lost his party's tentative, not that they had a technical absolute majority, but it's lost its majority, even amongst the other parties. | ||
| But he did succeed. | ||
| For now, in stopping the momentum behind the National Rally. | ||
| Do you think from his perspective, because he now has another three years left to go until 2027, do you think from his perspective, losing his party's governing majority in the French National Assembly is a price he was willing to pay in order to stop, for now, Marine Le Pen? | ||
| Yeah, I think probably. | ||
| I mean, that was part of the gamble and we'll see how that shakes out over the next couple of years. | ||
| But it also has the implication, as I said, of calling into question the entire system. | ||
| And so, you know, if he's trying to prop himself up just a tiny bit and he's willing to sell down the river the entirety of the French political system, well, you know, that's something that I think a lot of people won't forgive him for. | ||
| I think it's something that actually some of the people on the quote-unquote far right actually will be will be willing to forgive him for. The notion that you can | ||
| have an election like this where, you know, I think the Rassemblement Nationale wins the | ||
| majority in the first round, you know, by some length as well. And then you have this | ||
| coalition of parties coming together to form this new popular front of communists, of Marxists, | ||
| of Islamists, you name it. All the demonic forces under the sun. It's really interesting | ||
| because when you look at the results, firstly, the Rassemblement Nationale, Marine Le Pen's party, | ||
| actually increased, doubled effectively the number of deputies, members of parliament | ||
| that they have. | ||
| And the other part of it is you have to look at it and say, well hold on a minute, they are still actually the largest single party in the French parliament, in the French National Assembly here. | ||
| Everything else is cobbled together from coalitions of different parties. | ||
| You've got the Socialists, you've got the Greens, you've got the Communists, you've got Macron's party, and so I understand The Le Pen, her team, Resemblable National supporters nationwide will feel dejected. | ||
| I spoke to many of them last night, will feel dejected by what happened yesterday. | ||
| But actually the trajectory is good. | ||
| The successes can be built upon. | ||
| And as you say, as they head to 2027, you've got a presidential election there. | ||
| If Macron does a deal with the devil and puts communists and Marxists in, you know, we may have somebody like Jean-Luc Mélenchon in as the Prime Minister, even though they're trying to downplay something like that. | ||
| That will lend further and further to Le Pen's credibility and the case for the Resemblance Nationale to say, hey, listen, this is not going to be France in just a few years' time. | ||
| That case can already be made, quite frankly. | ||
| I'm going, in a moment, I want to just ask Ben what the consequences of this result were in terms of the rendering of the civil fabric we've seen in terms of rights. | ||
| But Rahim, whilst you've got the microphone in your hand, could you just Just quickly, because we've got two minutes coming into the break. | ||
| Could you just quickly tell me whether you think that this result is going to help Marine Le Pen? | ||
| Because as you say, in absolute terms, they actually did have quite a good success. | ||
| It simply wasn't in line with the expectations that in some quarters people were expecting. | ||
| Do you think this is a fillip for her 2027 campaign? | ||
| Or do you think there'll be pressure now put on her to give way to the next generation? | ||
| No, I think that would be rather silly at this point if people come around saying that Marine Le Pen needs to move aside or stand down or let other people manage the party against the backdrop of actually winning seats and actually pushing Macron into this corner here. | ||
| I think the French public are going to weigh and measure Macron over the next coming days and weeks as to who he's willing to do a deal with and she should sit back. | ||
| And say, look, look at the dirty politics that's going on here just in order to thwart the democratic will. | ||
| That's what we saw over the last week on the run-up to this second round of voting. | ||
| It's what we'll see over the next week as well. | ||
| There will be people, I'm sure there will be people, who say, you know, certain things need to change. | ||
| Certain things will need to change. | ||
| There may be one or two people inside the party that will need to be shifted around. | ||
| There may be one or two policy positions that need to be tweaked and altered. | ||
| But I don't think it's all changed for Marine Le Pen and Rassemblement National. | ||
| And I think, look, The same thing you had when you had the Reform Party get that exit poll minutes before the UK general election wrapped, and they said, oh, they're going to win 13 seats. | ||
| And then, of course, by the morning, it was down to five seats. | ||
| Who is creating the false expectations here? | ||
| In a lot of cases, it is the left. | ||
| It is the corporate media. | ||
| They do this on purpose. | ||
| And then they can say, oh, look, these parties are not succeeding in the way that they thought they were going to succeed. | ||
| Well, no, it was their Raheem, thanks very much. | ||
| Look, stand by please. | ||
| were not met, not Marine Le Pen's, not Rassemblement Nationale's, and I think it's worth bearing | ||
| in mind. I think there's a lot of good to take away from this. | ||
| Rahim, thanks very much. Look, stand by please. We'll be back straight after this short break | ||
| to finish up with Rahim Hossam and Ben Burkhardt. | ||
| Let's go straight back to Paris. | ||
| Ben, what Rahim was saying before the break there, I think, is a fundamental insight here. | ||
| What Emmanuel Macron has done, and what the left have done, by the way, in forming this new popular front, is they've basically put the whole of the French establishment together in order to stop the national rally. | ||
| Now, this is a dangerous thing for a globalist-minded leader to do. | ||
| Because if they fail to deliver now, they've got like three years until the presidential elections in 2027. | ||
| If they fail to deliver, it's the whole establishment now that is going to pay the consequences for this. | ||
| Because the only alternative was excluded by strategic voting from the second round. | ||
| Sir Ben, I'm going to ask you the same question that I asked Rahim. | ||
| Do you think Emmanuel Macron's gamble has paid off? | ||
| Well, I think it depends on who you're asking. | ||
| Yeah, good morning, Ben. | ||
| I think it paid off. | ||
| If you're the devil, you look at what he did and what he had to do in order to keep Marine Le Pen out. | ||
| And really keep in mind, too, this this was a snap election. | ||
| It didn't have to be called. | ||
| He made that call based on the outcomes of the European Union and the European elections that had just come out. | ||
| He didn't have to do that. | ||
| And by doing this, what he's done is not is take the party from the center or what you know, and America would be a far left. | ||
| To the communist extreme. | ||
| And what I saw out in that park last night, and what I've seen here across Paris, is the death of the country. | ||
| You look at the people that are going to be in charge now. | ||
| These are the worst, the most base-level people and politicians on the planet. | ||
| Not just in France, but this is the worst that I've seen anywhere. | ||
| It is the anarcho-communists, the Antifa, godless leftists, now aligned with the jihadists, That really just want to destroy the country. | ||
| They don't have any desire to fix the problems in France. | ||
| This is about tearing down the Western world. | ||
| And the worst part about it is you see all of these white liberals marching around as if this is some good thing for the country, not realizing that they're going to be the ones that are thrown in the gulags first. | ||
| It's an absolute disaster for France. | ||
| It's a disaster for Europe. | ||
| But in the end, as you said, you know, 2027 is a long time away, but what it hopefully will do is wake the people up to just how bad these coalitions really are and hopefully put Marine Le Pen and the populist right back in a position to take the power back. | ||
| The question is, will there still be a country? | ||
| You know, again, what I saw last night was open communists, open hatred for this country, | ||
| open hatred for the West, open jihadism and illegal aliens all in this melting pot, this | ||
| stew of vitriol and evil against this country and the Western world. | ||
| And so it's going to be an ugly time. | ||
| But this really comes back to, Ben, the battle that we face globally. | ||
| This is not just a France problem. | ||
| This is not just a Europe problem. | ||
| This is a global threat that we face. | ||
| It's the same threat that we face in America. | ||
| It's the same reason President Trump has to win in America. | ||
| And the other thing to remember is they acted that way. | ||
| You see the footage of these guys burning the place down. | ||
| I had bombs going off right next to me. | ||
| They acted that way when they won. | ||
| When they lose, it's all out destruction, and that's what we're going to see in America. | ||
| I just need people to be prepared. | ||
| When President Trump wins, you're going to have these exact same forces rally together against America, and the people of this country and the people of Europe have to come to terms with that and what that means and how you actually stop it. | ||
| And what it means is you have to have people in a position of power that give law enforcement the authority To handle these spoiled, evil children, like the spoiled, evil children they are, and give them the spankings they deserve. | ||
| Right now, you just don't have that in France. | ||
| The law enforcement has been completely neutered, and sadly, across much of America, because Antifa and BLM, you've got the same thing. | ||
| So there's a lot. | ||
| So back to your question, Macron's gamble, again, the only entity that won in this is the devil, in my opinion. | ||
| Ben, so let me just get this clear in my head from what you were just saying. | ||
| Your argument is, looking at these scenes from the victorious party supporters, party campaigners in Paris last night, the rampage. | ||
| Your argument is that globalist, sociopathic overlords, that it is their design, their engineering, their intention to bring about the same scenes that we're seeing in Paris right now, right across the United States. | ||
| Over the coming years. | ||
| Is that your thesis? | ||
| That what we're seeing here, not only in Paris, not only in France, but right across continental Europe, this is by design and they want to try and bring this destabilizing dynamics into America. | ||
| Without a doubt. | ||
| We saw that for four years under President Trump, with Antifa and BLM burning down America in the summer of love and the mostly peaceful protests, as CNN called them. | ||
| And we've seen that in the months leading up to now the DNC convention, where you have this unholy alliance now with Hamas supporters that have joined in on this, that are burning down and taking over college campuses. | ||
| This is just the beginning of what's to come if these Forces are allowed to continue to build. | ||
| We're entering a very, very, very dangerous time, not just for France, not just for England, not just for America, but for the world. | ||
| And it all goes back to the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, all of these globalist interests that are using these separate groups, these communist groups, Marxist leftist groups, now jihadist groups, to tear down the Western world and remake it in the image that they have, they've always had. | ||
| And what that means is death, Right, OK. | ||
| And of course, the point is, it's very difficult to go back once you start down this path. | ||
| To quote here Rahim's book about the no-go zones across continental Europe. | ||
| Once you go down this path, it's very difficult, at least within democratic norms, to pull back and try and rectify that. | ||
| It's going to be violent. | ||
| It's just a matter of how violent. | ||
| And the sooner you get to that, and the sooner you deal with that, these kind of people, the quicker we get to that solution. | ||
| The problem is, the longer we allow this kind of behavior to continue, the worse it gets. | ||
| Got it. | ||
| Thanks, Ben. | ||
| Thanks very much. | ||
| Rahim, with your knowledge now of frontline politics and the dynamics and how these things | ||
| work, I'd like to ask you, it strikes me that the very best, this will be the high point | ||
| from this new left coalition is day one, because it's going to be very difficult for them going | ||
| forward. | ||
| It seems to me that the only real issue of coherence between these disparate groupings | ||
| is their opposition to Marine Le Pen. | ||
| And you can already see some of this starting to leak through, because already on day one | ||
| you have some of this coalition faction saying they're not going to support Jean-Luc Mélenchon's | ||
| bid to be prime minister. | ||
| And you know, if I was to pitch this in US television, I would say, you know, I would | ||
| terms, I'd basically describe him as basically an old version of AOC or something like that, perhaps a bit like Bernie Sanders, a bit of AOC's pizzazz mixed in. | ||
| But fundamentally, a solitary political figure, not a team player, and someone who's always trying to promote fundamentally themselves. | ||
| Do you think this is going to be a dynamic now, between now and the French presidential elections in 2027? | ||
| Could this leftist coalition start to dissolve? | ||
| Now, I noticed that Gabriel Attal, the present prime minister, offered his resignation to Macron this morning. | ||
| I suppose he had to, but somewhat of a sacrificial lamb for Macron. | ||
| A snap general election that he was vociferously against. | ||
| Macron's declined that for now, keeping him in post. | ||
| How stable do you think this will be for France going forward? | ||
| And could this actually hurt their chances, the lack of stability inherent within this left-wing coalition? | ||
| Could this actually hurt their chances in 2027? | ||
| Yeah, well, this might actually be the saving grace of what we saw happen yesterday, is that this coalition is going to be so shaky. | ||
| They're going to be at each other's throats all the time. | ||
| They're never going to want to be able to compromise with each other on a vast array of issues, by the way. | ||
| It doesn't come down to just one or two things. | ||
| It's not just about the economy. | ||
| It's not just about immigration. | ||
| It's not just about ecology and the environment, things like this. | ||
| There are vast swathes of policy positions that all these separate parties that have | ||
| pulled together this kind of unholy alliance of the left, you know, vehemently and violently | ||
| disagree with one another on. | ||
| So actually, it may be very entertaining, and we'll keep an eye on it for the audience | ||
| as well. | ||
| We'll continue to cover it both here on The War Room, Real America's Voice and The National | ||
| Pulse. | ||
| But also, you know, it makes you wonder, can there even really be any form of government | ||
| here with this situation going on? | ||
| And if they can't, well, maybe we'll see another election. | ||
| I mean, that is not beyond the realms of possibility at this point, that they turn around a couple | ||
| of weeks time and say, we can't get anything done. | ||
| We see this happen across Europe all the time. | ||
| We can't get anything done. | ||
| We have to go back to the people. | ||
| We have to ask them to give somebody a mandate to govern. | ||
| So who knows? | ||
| We may be knocking at your door again, saying, please send us back to Paris, except this | ||
| time, can I go without Ben? | ||
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I'm out. | |
| Guys, that was a fantastic overview and I feel much more informed than I was 20 minutes ago. | ||
| Listen, you've got 30 seconds each. | ||
| What's next for Emmanuel Macron? | ||
| Well, that's a great question. | ||
| I'm going to actually let Rahim go first on that one. | ||
| Yeah, what's next is trying to save face here, trying to claim that this is some sort of victory over anything except, you know, just limiting. | ||
| Remember, they didn't squash Marine Le Pen, they didn't squash Rassemblement Nationale. | ||
| They still have more deputies, more MPs than ever before. | ||
| So he's going to be doing the rounds, trying to convince people. | ||
| And of course, you've got the NATO summit. | ||
| This coming week, you've got the Olympics here in Paris these coming weeks. | ||
| So this is just a PR thing now for Macron over the next couple of weeks, maybe months, depends on how the negotiations go. | ||
| But I don't think he comes off this looking any better. | ||
| He may come across looking like a bit of a smart man for keeping her out of a majority in the National Assembly. | ||
| But besides that, this is just more problems for him, more problems for the government, and critically, more problems for the French people. | ||
| No, actually, we'll leave it. | ||
| We'll leave that part there. | ||
| I want to bring this guy in. | ||
| We got a War Room Posse fan over here. | ||
| Come over here. | ||
| What's your name? | ||
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Next man up. | |
| I'm Derek. | ||
| OK, my family. | ||
| Yeah, well, we live in Paris after the COVID lockdown. | ||
| OK, we got 15 seconds to break. | ||
| Huge shout out to War Room Posse watching the show. | ||
| Came over here. | ||
| Ben Burquhart, Real America's Voice News, FrontlineAmerica.com and The National Pulse. | ||
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Great guy. | |
| Inside the White House, we have a special guest. | ||
| Joining us now, the 46th President of the United States and presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, calling in to Morning Joe right now. | ||
| Good morning, sir. | ||
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I'm more than presumptive. | |
| I'm going to be the Democratic nominee. | ||
| Well, Mr. President, that leads to the letter that we just received a few minutes ago. | ||
| How would you feel if Donald Trump beat you? | ||
| How would you feel after you lost? | ||
| And you said, well, as long as I did the best I could do, that's the most important thing. | ||
| That's caused Democrats concern who believe that losing is not an option. | ||
| What would you say to those who are concerned by that answer? | ||
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It's not an option. | |
| And I've not lost. | ||
| I haven't lost. | ||
| I beat him last time. | ||
| I'll beat him this time. | ||
| And this is a guy who, look, we talk about debates. | ||
| Look at his performance with debates. | ||
| He lied over, you know, Trump has 50 lies. | ||
| I mean, look, this is a guy who says 10% of the universe. | ||
| Yeah, I want to get into it. | ||
| He's just a liar. | ||
| And he hasn't done a damn thing since the debate. | ||
| He's been riding around in a golf cart for 10 days. | ||
| He's down in Mar-a-Lago talking with his wealthy friends. | ||
| I'm not running because of these guys, Joe. | ||
| I'm running because, and you know me well enough to know this from the very beginning, | ||
| I ran because I never bought on in the trickle-down economic theory. | ||
| I never bought into the notion that we have to walk away from the rest of the world and cave to Putin or anybody | ||
| else. | ||
| I've never, never believed any of that. | ||
| And I'm confident that's what the American people are. | ||
| So what I did was I went out and I wanted to make sure that there wasn't any slippage at all. | ||
| The French elections and the British elections, because we keep hearing about the rise of far-right nationalist extremism in Europe, but I've got to say it looks like this past week has been the worst week. | ||
| for far-right nationalists between Britain and France. | ||
| I'm wondering what you say about that and what message you take to NATO allies this week. | ||
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Look, Joe, let me get something clear about 20 and 24. | |
| Not only were they wrong, I said they were wrong beforehand. | ||
| I said we were going to win and how we're going to win. | ||
| I didn't pretend about it. | ||
| It wasn't like, oh my God, I was surprised. | ||
| I was not surprised. | ||
| I predicted it. | ||
| I knew what we were doing. | ||
| Number one. | ||
| Number two, you may remember, I was one of the few people out there publicly saying before the 2022 election, there will be no red way. | ||
| There will be no red way because I've been all over the country. | ||
| I didn't believe it at all. | ||
| And then in 2023, the key elections, I went into those races, not every one of them, but a lot of them. | ||
| I said we were going to win. | ||
| Look, we won those. | ||
| So Joe, it wasn't just that it didn't happen. | ||
| I was predicting beforehand it would not happen. | ||
| Because I've got a pretty good political instinct and I. | ||
| And here's the deal. | ||
| It's not going to happen here this time around. | ||
| The American public is not going to move away from me as an average voter. | ||
| Well, congratulations to Morning Meeker. | ||
| They were able to get Joe at the right time of the morning when he was still semi-lucid. | ||
| I've got Jim Rickards here. | ||
| He's going to Break down not only what's going on in the States but also the fight back that's taking place amongst our sociopathic overlords. | ||
| They weren't ready for Donald Trump in 2016. | ||
| They're making sure that they won't make the same mistake this time around. | ||
| Jim, good morning to you. | ||
| Good morning, Ben. | ||
| How are you? | ||
| Fantastic, thanks. | ||
| All the better after hearing the incoherence from President Magoo on MSNBC in the cold open. | ||
| Look, what's your take on this? | ||
| Because I can't help but notice, and I posted on Getter earlier on today about this, and indeed yesterday, it seems to me that even CNN and Axios are looking for opportunities to draw out the fact that Joe Biden isn't going to be able to beat Donald Trump in November. | ||
| It seems to me that some of these Democratic stalwarts in the mainstream media are now more engaged and more focused on making sure that they have a nominee that might be able to bring the fight to Donald Trump than the Democratic Party itself. | ||
| What do you think to this? | ||
| Well, I think that's right. | ||
| What's interesting is that they're fighting over the nominee based on who they think can win, who can possibly beat Trump and saying we don't think Biden can beat Trump. | ||
| Maybe Kamala Harris can. | ||
| Let's go with her. | ||
| But they're completely ignoring the fact that that Biden is mentally incompetent today. | ||
| Forget about, you know, three or four months from now, the election and, you know, six months until the inauguration. | ||
| How do we get from here to there with a mentally incompetent president? | ||
| I thought he was incompetent in 2020 and even earlier. | ||
| Okay, so now, and others did as well. | ||
| Now the whole world has woken up to the fact. | ||
| The fact that Biden refuses to leave the race is a symptom of why he should. | ||
| In other words, any kind of rational person, you don't have to have any particular ideology, would just look at your condition and say, no, I can't do this. | ||
| Are we kidding? | ||
| But he won't. | ||
| But that's a symptom of how far gone he is. | ||
| So this isn't a guy who makes an occasional gap or whatever. | ||
| He's mentally deficient. | ||
| You can have an advanced case of dementia and still speak rationally from time to time, but then you just go off the rails. | ||
| No, that wouldn't be a good move. | ||
| this whole thing about, yeah, he's fine from 10am to 4pm. | ||
| Okay, well, a nuclear missile heading your way at 3am with six minutes to decide whether | ||
| to end the world or not. I don't want to have to wake up Joe Biden, ask him to make | ||
| that decision. | ||
| No, that wouldn't be a good move. Not for world peace. I might have added that the Axios | ||
| thing I posted this morning was, now I didn't know how they got hold of this. And there's | ||
| a story in and of itself here, I think. Someone in the Biden campaign leaked to Axios, thanks | ||
| very much, Denver, this package that is produced for Joe Biden whenever he's speaking at a | ||
| rally. And you can see that it's clearly marked, Walk to podium, and then the second one has a photo of a podium, just in case there was any doubt. | ||
| Perhaps it's after 10 a.m. | ||
| in the morning and President Magoo has forgotten what a podium is. | ||
| What I found most interesting about that is that Axios, every day, every morning, they're pumping out all stories like this about how Biden isn't competent to be the nominee. | ||
| And I think your point The fact that he doesn't realise that is another element, another indication of just how inappropriate he would be as a nominee, that he's unable to have the situational awareness to realise that Trump would mince meat out of him. | ||
| But also, with regards to this Axios story, it surprises me because, pleasantly, Because it's indicative that someone on the Biden campaign is leaking this out to the mainstream media with the hopes that enough pressure can be put on Biden to drop out in good time. | ||
| So that's sort of an illustration of the people who are there working with Biden on a day-by-day basis. | ||
| See him up close and even they realise that he doesn't have the wherewithal anymore not to be president right now and not to be a candidate, the nominee in November. | ||
| Jim, what's going on now amongst our sociopathic overlords? | ||
| What are they doing? | ||
| Just to move the conversation aside one moment as to who will be the eventual Democrat nominee. | ||
| What is the regime doing to try to Trump-proof itself, which they weren't able to do in 2016? | ||
| What are they doing? | ||
| What are the moves that they're pulling now to head off this eventuality? | ||
| Yeah, the Axios story is interesting. | ||
| I know Mike Allen pretty well. | ||
| He's the co-founder there. | ||
| You know, great reporter, but I hate to use cliches, but this is, you know, rats deserting the sinking ship. | ||
| Yeah, this comes from inside the White House. | ||
| I don't doubt the sourcing at all. | ||
| But these are not, you know, hangers-on reporters or people on the fringes. | ||
| It's inside the White House. | ||
| So if they're doing this, they're thinking of themselves. | ||
| They're thinking of their future careers. | ||
| They don't want to go down with the ship. | ||
| And so this is kind of the last stage. | ||
| But to your point, Ben, Yesterday morning, I was doing a little homework for the show, brushing up on things we might talk about, and this article from Politico drops. | ||
| And I took one look at it, I said, well, here's the whole playbook right here. | ||
| Why don't we talk about this? | ||
| It's an article about how the world, not just the United States, but the world, NATO, diplomats, | ||
| lawyers, etc., are basically what we call Trump-proofing the world so that when Trump | ||
| wins, which I expect and I think a lot of people expect, he'll be very limited in what | ||
| he's actually able to do. | ||
| By the way, I think the phrase Trump-proofing is one we came up with on the war room. | ||
| You hear it all over the place today, but I think we were the first ones who started | ||
| that. | ||
| So a couple of interesting things about this article. | ||
| Number one, the reporters, there are six or seven reporters who worked on it. | ||
| I can't say they're dumb. | ||
| They're not dumb. | ||
| They're intelligent. | ||
| But they are ideologically in a box. | ||
| I mean, they've just got an ideological frame. | ||
| They've probably been brainwashed by the professors. | ||
| And it's apparent all over the article. | ||
| So I'm not saying they're dumb or they didn't work hard. | ||
| They're smart and they did work hard. | ||
| But they've just got these ideological blinkers on that you can't get past. | ||
| The first thing they say is they did 50 interviews. | ||
| That's a lot of interviews, and that's a lot of work. | ||
| But everybody they talk to thinks about the world exactly the way they do. | ||
| They're all globalists. | ||
| They're all anti-Trump. | ||
| They're all, as I say, bracing the world for Trump and getting ready for Trump. | ||
| So you don't learn anything when you talk to people who think about the world exactly the way you do. | ||
| There's no value adders. | ||
| This whole thing is a left-wing echo chamber, but that's okay. | ||
| People ask me why I read the New York Times. | ||
| It's full of lies. | ||
| And I say, well, that's why I read it. | ||
| Because in intelligence, you know, I do a lot of intelligence work. | ||
| One of the things you do is if you have lies, like in Pravda during the Cold War in New York Times today, it's important to know what your opponents are lying about. | ||
| Because from that, you know what's important to them and you can use inferential method to learn more. | ||
| So I read this stuff, even though it's a lot of junk, because I want to know what they're thinking about. | ||
| So a couple of things. | ||
| Right off the bat, they use the word isolationism. | ||
| Trump is a nationalist, but nationalism is not isolationism. | ||
| As a nationalist, you can engage with the world, and Trump did, but you do it on a bilateral basis. | ||
| You don't sign up for these multilateral, you know, kind of encasements of the world. | ||
| So Trump negotiated a new trade agreement with Korea. | ||
| He negotiated a new trade agreement with Mexico and Canada. | ||
| But what he did not do was join the Trans-Pacific Partnership. | ||
| That was like a 20-member, you know, kind of mini World Trade Organization. | ||
| So being nationalist and putting America first does not mean you disengage from the world. | ||
| That is isolationism. | ||
| Trump's not an isolationist. | ||
| He's a nationalist, which means he can do things on a bilateral basis. | ||
| So right off the bat, they're using that word isolationism because it's a boogeyman, but it doesn't apply. | ||
| Then they go on to say that foreign diplomats are working hard to figure out how to handle Trump. | ||
| They use the word handle. | ||
| Think about how condescending and arrogant that is. | ||
| Trump could be the chief executive of the United States, commander-in-chief of the United States, largest supplier, largest military power in the world. | ||
| Why do you have to handle him? | ||
| As if he's a kid in a sandbox throwing sand and you got to take the sand away. | ||
| Why don't you engage with him? | ||
| Why don't you treat him with respect? | ||
| You may or may not disagree with it. | ||
| The phrase handling, again, kind of gives away the condescension of this. | ||
| So there's another quote. | ||
| This is an exact quote. | ||
| Efforts, quote, to armor NATO priorities against tampering by a Trump administration. | ||
| Now, why the word tampering? | ||
| Why is the president of the United States tampering? | ||
| He's allowed to, if he's duly elected, he's allowed to pursue policy. | ||
| He can be different from some other predecessor. | ||
| But they use the word tampering as if, you know, somehow he's not a legitimate president. | ||
| We've got to stop him in his tracks. | ||
| And the thread just continues. | ||
| They say they want to armor NATO priorities. | ||
| Why are NATO priorities different from U.S. | ||
| priorities? | ||
| U.S. | ||
| is the biggest military power in NATO by far, the biggest financial supporter by far. | ||
| U.S. | ||
| priorities should be aligned with NATO priorities, but they're assuming if Trump's president, they won't be. | ||
| Again, it runs all through this article, Ben. | ||
| It's condescending, it's in an ideological bubble, it's out of touch with reality, but it's the way the elites think. | ||
| Jim, we're going to just go to a quick break. | ||
| When we come back, I'd like to ask you, is there not something ironic about the fact | ||
| that these great paladins of democracy are bending over backwards, tripping over themselves | ||
| in order to frustrate the democratic will, the clear democratic will of an incoming administration? | ||
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| Welcome back, folks. | ||
| Jim, is it ironic that the great paladins of democracy are visibly and actively and brazenly trying to frustrate the democratic will of a democratic mandate of an incoming Trump administration next January? | ||
| Sure, it's ironic because they're the supposed champions of democracy, but they're doing everything possible to thwart democracy. | ||
| And by the way, Ben, I refer to this Politico article. | ||
| I encourage people to read it, not because it's true, it's not, but because it's a case study in how out of touch the elites are. | ||
| One example, and I mentioned earlier, You know, this anti-Trump, Trump-proofing tactic is not confined to the United States by any means. | ||
| It's rampant in Europe. | ||
| And of course, we all know that Labour scored an enormous victory in the UK general election. | ||
| But they have a new foreign secretary. | ||
| His name is David Lammy. | ||
| So he'll be, you know, the equivalent of our Secretary of State. | ||
| Now, here's an exact quote. | ||
| This is the exact quote, not putting words in his mouth. | ||
| He referred to Trump as a, quote, woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath. | ||
| This is the British Foreign Secretary calling Trump a neo-Nazi. | ||
| Now, there are neo-Nazis involved, but they're not in the Trump campaign. | ||
| They're in Kiev. | ||
| They're running Ukraine. | ||
| When you look at the Stefan Bandera, going back to World War II and afterwards and then today, the Azov Brigade are neo-Nazi troops, shock troops. | ||
| They have a Nazi insignia. | ||
| They control Zelensky. | ||
| Zelensky's a puppet. | ||
| They control the military. | ||
| When you support Ukraine, you're supporting a neo-Nazi regime. | ||
| It's not a stretch. | ||
| Again, this is all readily available. | ||
| Just read about Stefan Bandera and his successors and what they're doing today. | ||
| So there are neo-Nazis around, but they're in Kiev. | ||
| They're running Ukraine. | ||
| The UK is supporting them, as is France, Germany, and the United States. | ||
| So the side of the Nazis are the globalists, the people we're talking about. | ||
| This guy, David Lammy, when he says something like that, I said earlier, the political reporters were not stupid, but they were ideologically brainwashed. | ||
| I kind of questioned David Lammy a little bit. | ||
| He seems not very bright if he's using those phrases about Trump. | ||
| We covered on the show, Jim, that I think from 2016 onwards, the US State Department an arms embargo on the United States, selling arms to | ||
| Ukraine, specifically the Azov battalion, because – and this was the justification at the time – | ||
| of its neo-Nazi links. | ||
| So it's clear for our sociopathic overlords there are good Nazis and bad Nazis. | ||
| The good Nazis are in Kiev. The bad Nazis are in Maghreb and represented by Donald J. Trump. | ||
| And of course, by association, every single person listening to this show as well. | ||
| We're all smeared with this This insult. | ||
| But it's rare now. | ||
| I think it's a new low that the slur is coming from a British foreign secretary. | ||
| Let's see how the special relationship is able to cope with this. | ||
| These words will be noted and held, I hope, as hostage by an incoming Trump administration to be thrown back Thanks, Ben. | ||
| We have a special landing page for the War Room Posse. | ||
| a difficult negotiation. Jim, you're an absolutely amazing analyst. I hang on every word that you say. | ||
| Absolutely first rate. Where can folks keep up with your output and your commentary? | ||
| Thanks, Ben. We have a special landing page for the War Room Posse. It's called | ||
| RickardsWarRoom.com. That's RickardsWarRoom.com. | ||
| When you go there, you'll find an opportunity to subscribe to our flagship newsletter, Strategic Intelligence. | ||
| We also have a free book offer. | ||
| If you subscribe, you'll get a copy of my book, The New Case for Goals. | ||
| So we hope people go there and take our newsletter. | ||
| Thanks! | ||
| Jim Rickards, thanks very much for joining us this morning. | ||
| We'll catch up with you soon. | ||
| Talking about gold, I might just quickly give a quick mention to Birch Gold. | ||
| Do go onto their website. | ||
| You can see that they've got an updated version of the end of the dollar empire, and that's something I think Steve Bannon himself has written that, and you might want to support Steve. | ||
| But as he's suffering for us vicariously, if I can put it like that, in prison, do contact not only Jim Rickards for his analysis on gold, but also Birchgold.com as well. | ||
| Steve Stern, I think I'm right in saying that the last time you did a call, you broke your records. | ||
| You've got a call coming up now, a conference call at three o'clock this afternoon, right? | ||
| We do. | ||
| We got one of the largest election security calls ever. | ||
| We're going to have Captain Bannon leading it off. | ||
| Katherine Engelbrecht will be talking about the illegal aliens. | ||
| Greg Stenstrom talking about Pennsylvania. | ||
| Dan Schultz talking about precinct strategy. | ||
| We're going to have a big talk on precinct strategy. | ||
| We'll talk a little bit about it afterward. | ||
| We're going to have Robert Beatles on from Nevada. | ||
| He's going to be telling about all his lawsuits. | ||
| Lou Marin going to be talking about some of his important information that he wanted to get out. | ||
| Linda Rance going to be talking about cause of America. | ||
| Dr. Rick Richards will be on. | ||
| Linda Sikowitz, one of my favorite people. | ||
| She's going to be talking about how you can get 500 people who voted twice in your county. | ||
| She will give you that free. | ||
| All you have to do is get in touch with her. | ||
| We'll let you know how to do that. | ||
| We're going to have Kerry D'Alasco and we're going to have Carlos Santos, who just became | ||
| a committee chair in New Jersey, knocking out a rhino after 14 years. | ||
| Now, also, you see my stand with Bannon. | ||
| I'm going to come back a little bit here so you can see it. | ||
| We have our stand with Bannon's shirt. | ||
| Steve Bannon always talks about success of the country depends on you. | ||
| Be a force multiplier. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| Get others involved, save the country. | ||
| Precinct strategy. | ||
| We need to double our members. | ||
| If every member to 200,000 people that are members of the precinct strategy, Get another member. | ||
| We now will have 400,000 and complete all our things. | ||
| A gentleman was on today from Kansas. | ||
| He's had 78% fill. | ||
| That's unbelievable. | ||
| So I always lead with action, action, action. | ||
| We got a tremendous people helping us. | ||
| Tina Selene in California, Jill Howell in Arizona, Paul Bodine in Nevada. | ||
| Again, if you want to get your shirt, Today, we're going to be delivering next Monday. | ||
| Go to SaveStandWithBannon.com. | ||
| That's StandWithBannon.com. | ||
| Let's help Steve. | ||
| I mean, it's phenomenal. | ||
| If you want to get on our meeting today, go to estern1054gmail. | ||
| It's on the bottom of the screen. | ||
| Send me a note. | ||
| I will send you a link to the show. | ||
| We're expecting 30,000 people on. | ||
| Action, action, action. | ||
| Let's get involved. | ||
| Steve, can you just repeat that once again? | ||
| How do people get involved in the call at 3 o'clock today? | ||
| So, email me at estern1054gmail.com. | ||
| I'll spend the next couple hours sending out the links for it. | ||
| The last time, about two months ago, we had a thousand people come in. | ||
| This is going to be the largest one. | ||
| I'm going on vacation tomorrow. | ||
| The next one will be the 31st. | ||
| Let's get your shirt for Steve, show your support for this country. | ||
| Thank you very much for having me on, Ben. | ||
| Steve, thanks very much. | ||
| You're an absolute star, a hero, and a great American patriot. | ||
| God bless. |
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