Aug. 17, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| 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. | ||
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This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged. | |
| As we've told you, this is the fight. | ||
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All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth. | |
| War Room Battleground. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Honnold here at the helm. | ||
| Good afternoon. | ||
| Friday, 16th of August, Anno Domini 2024. | ||
| We've made it through until Friday. | ||
| OK, so there's a lot to cover through in the show today. | ||
| We'll go straight off with Congressman Ralph Norman to discuss this talk about the continuing resolution that the Freedom Caucus is very much pushing. | ||
| Congressman Norman, good morning. | ||
| Good morning, Ben. | ||
| How are you? | ||
| Great. | ||
| Thanks for coming back on the show. | ||
| You're a great, warm favourite. | ||
| Now, I've been looking at the background here of what the Freedom Caucus is trying to push for, which is to push the debate, the continuing resolution to a formal spending decision in March of next year. | ||
| So it's basically a CR that would maintain current spending levels. | ||
| to avoid a government shutdown, I think, in sort of September, October sort of time period | ||
| and all the political fallout, if that's correct. | ||
| But, Congressman, I'd like to ask you, if I may, to start off with, the thing that I | ||
| don't quite understand intuitively here is that it seems to me that the Democrats control | ||
| the agenda, both when they're in power and when they're out of power. | ||
| Because right now, the gavel is in the hand of the Republicans, notionally. | ||
| So looking at the Freedom Caucus's strategy, there's something here that's being admitted, if not openly confessed. | ||
| And that is, we have a substantial problem. | ||
| The Republicans, or the Freedom Caucus, or MAGA, or America First, has a substantial problem with the vast majority of GOP congressmen, if they cannot be relied on right now, | ||
| when you have control of the House, to come up with a spending plan that will benefit the vast | ||
| majority of Americans and obviously also the base. Is that right? Yeah, you're | ||
| exactly right, Ben, and here's the issue. | ||
| We've gotten through six of the appropriations, five passed, we voted on six in the House. | ||
| We've got 12, we've got five, six more to go, and the fact is we're not going to have it done by the date of September 30th. | ||
| So what the Freedom Caucus is asking for in a letter is to have a continued resolution through March. | ||
| Now, for your listeners, the reason we are doing that is because we're going to have a new president, we're going to have more control of the House, and I think we'll have control of the Senate. | ||
| But that being said, we've got to put the SAVE Act, which Chip Roy has worked on, and my good friend Clay Higgins from Louisiana, and we've all signed on to. | ||
| And the SAVE Act makes sure that the illegals are not voting in this election. | ||
| And it's got some safeguards in place. | ||
| So that's what we're asking the Speaker to, when we go back in September, to basically say, we will do a continued resolution, but we're going to do it through March, and we're going to approve it through March, the middle of March, and then we're going to have the SAVE Act with it. | ||
| They don't want to do that. | ||
| Democrats do not want, they want citizens, they want illegals to vote, instead of lending it to our citizens, per the Constitution. | ||
| So that's going to be the battle, and hopefully we will stick on that. | ||
| That is the hill to die on. | ||
| If we don't have safe and secure elections with American citizens voting, then we're like any other Venezuelan or any other socialistic country. | ||
| Well, we actually have Linda Sienkiewicz on the show a little later, who's uncovered something down in Alabama to do with illegals voting. | ||
| We'll come to that a little later on. | ||
| And it's good news, by the way. | ||
| But with regards to the CIA here, what should the woman possibly be looking out for as early indications that the Freedom Caucus is actually pushing and winning the debate on this one? | ||
| Because, you know, we've had the debt ceiling debates. | ||
| We've had so many spending omnibuses that we've followed every single time. | ||
| It's been fight, fight, fight, cave. | ||
| Fight, fight, fight, cave. | ||
| Fight, fight, fight, Cape. | ||
| What do the folks who are getting sort of a bit disillusioned, if I can put it like that, with a vast number of your colleagues, obviously not the Freedom Caucus, but what should folks be looking out for to see that you actually might be able to win this time with the CR? | ||
| Well, what we will be doing is, I mean, we've written a letter, but we're going to do more than that. | ||
| We're going to go to the Speaker and urge our colleagues to do the same. | ||
| And, you know, this isn't a, the cancer in this country is overspending. | ||
| I don't like this budget, but I don't like it in the hands of Democrats through the lame duck session or through the end of the year. | ||
| All we're saying is we'll keep the current spending, which has got to be drastically cut. | ||
| We've got to deal with it at some point, and it can't always be next year. | ||
| But have the same numbers in place that we can agree on, hopefully, but it's just pushing it into March. | ||
| Now, the Democrats are going to say we're not going to take that. | ||
| We're going to shut the government down, and it's going to be your fault. | ||
| We can't fall for that bluff. | ||
| In the business arena, you call bluffs, and the country's at stake here. | ||
| They think the optics, if they don't accept it, and I don't think Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, and Mitch McConnell, to be honest with you, I don't think they want to put the SAVE Act on it, nor do I think they want to punt it until March. | ||
| But all we can do is push for it. | ||
| The Freedom Caucus can stick. | ||
| We'll get our support. | ||
| of close to 30 members and hopefully we'll make a difference with the Speaker. | ||
| Hopefully he will do that. | ||
| Congressman Norman, one of your colleagues in the Senate, Tom Tillis, earlier this week | ||
| you no doubt saw this as well, was starting to float the position of somehow tying in | ||
| before November. | ||
| In the expectation, presumably, this is unsaid, of a Trump victory. | ||
| But tying in funding for Ukraine. | ||
| Now, pretty much 99% of the viewership on this show Does not want to see more American tax dollars go to Ukraine. | ||
| Is there anything, any commitments that you can give the warring parties to indicate that the level of opposition you are going to be providing in the Congress so that not a single cent, a single further red cent goes to Ukraine? | ||
| Here's what I would say to that. | ||
| We've done over $100 billion to Ukraine. | ||
| The fact is, and I would disagree if Tom Tillis puts this up, first of all, it's money we don't have. | ||
| We don't have a hidden vault with this kind of money in it. | ||
| And so I'd be opposed to that. | ||
| And I think most of the people, a lot of the members of Congress, not all, would take the same position. | ||
| No more money for Ukraine. | ||
| That would be a poison pill, to be honest with you. | ||
| And we shouldn't do it now and we'll fight it and vote against it and be vocal about it and urge our other colleagues to do the same. | ||
| Congressman Ralph Norman, thanks very much for coming on the show today. | ||
| I just want to point out, I think last February of last year, you were actually rated by one organization as being the most conservative A member of Congress. | ||
| So congratulations on that. | ||
| And I hope you keep up that sterling record. | ||
| We'll see you back on the show soon. | ||
| Thank you very much, sir. | ||
| Thank you, Ben. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| God bless. | ||
| OK, so, you know, having spoke about the illegals voting, which is something that we're hitting on, obviously, all the time here on the show, let's go and talk once again. | ||
| We spoke to a few days ago to Linda Sienkiewicz, from the organisation Fight Voter Fraud, who has some news of an important discovery down in Alabama. | ||
| Substantially, I think sort of three and a half thousand illegals. | ||
| Linda, good afternoon to you. | ||
| Thanks for coming back on the show. | ||
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What details can you give us about this? | |
| Well, down in Alabama, they pride themselves on having the most accurate voter rolls. | ||
| Wes Allen is their new Secretary of State. | ||
| He started in January of 2023. | ||
| And they uncovered 3,251 non-U.S. | ||
| citizens on their voter rolls. | ||
| And the way they found that is they have non-citizen numbers. | ||
| And he has been requesting from the federal government to give them a list of all non-citizens that have their numbers in Alabama, but the feds are not helping out with that, so he's getting his attorney general involved. | ||
| But as he said, he will not tolerate having non-U.S. | ||
| citizens voting in our elections. | ||
| So kudos to him for doing that. | ||
| So Mark Mitchell from Rasmussen Reports a couple of weeks ago on the show had a genius idea, he's a pretty smart fellow, that guy, of adding in a question into his poll on voting intentions. | ||
| The questions were obviously, as they usually are, are you going to vote? | ||
| Are you going to vote Republican? | ||
| Are you going to vote Democrat? | ||
| And all the rest of it. | ||
| Final question, Linda, was, and are you a citizen of the United States? | ||
| Get this. | ||
| 9% of the respondents of that poll who said they intended to vote in November weren't even citizens of the United States. | ||
| 9%. | ||
| That is a statistic, if it is represented accurately statewide, which would fundamentally transform the results, right? | ||
| So this figure here that you've uncovered in Alabama, it's a start, but I have a feeling it's not nearly enough. | ||
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No, there's a lot more out there. | |
| So we really need to urge the Secretary of State to start looking through the voter rolls. | ||
| We already know that you have ghost voters on voter rolls. | ||
| Those are the people that are registered to vote that don't even exist. | ||
| It's bad enough we have deceased people that are on voter rolls that are voting, people that have moved that are double registered, double voting. | ||
| But this non-U.S. | ||
| citizen one is a huge problem. | ||
| And it also is on the application to register to vote. | ||
| You're basically one check mark away from a felony, because it is a felony to register and vote in an election if you're not a U.S. | ||
| citizen, which has been a problem for a long time with people signing up. | ||
| It's just the difficulty of finding who they are. | ||
| So we really need the cooperation of the federal government to get involved in this. | ||
| OK. | ||
| I have my own private views there, Linda, on how useful they're going to be on that one. | ||
| When you were on the show a couple of days ago, you told me just before we came on air today that you had a lot of reaction, specifically people asking for more about the free information that you're offering on the double registered, double voters. | ||
| Could you just recap that again, say what that is, say what the information is that you're offering out? | ||
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Sure, what we're doing, you can go to our website, fightvoterfraud.org, go to data request, and we will send you the double registered and double voters from your county. | |
| And since I was on the program the other day, we've had over 150 requests. | ||
| We've already hit 41 states. | ||
| So thank you, thank you, thank you. | ||
| This way, you can actually see people who should not be on your voter rolls. | ||
| A lot of the people are taking action within their own counties and with their own states. | ||
| We are extremely grateful for that. | ||
| Linda, we have hundreds of thousands of people tuning in to every show across all platforms. | ||
| It seems to me that with very literal effort, if only 10% of our viewers actually did something here, you could actually make a massive contribution towards election integrity in November. | ||
| Once again, if you're Sort of giving up this free information. | ||
| What can people send to their friends, to their family members, to contacts on their various social media platforms, saying, look at this, please sort of forward it. | ||
| Look at it, forward it, because it could move the needle. | ||
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What was that website? | |
| What was that website? | ||
| It's fightvoterfraud.org. | ||
| So dot O-R-G. | ||
| If you can send that out and then you'll see it's actually at the top. | ||
| It says data request or request data. | ||
| Just send that out and have them fill it out and we will get them the information that they can use and they can check their own voters in their counties. | ||
| And they can take action along with the double voters, which is a federal offense as well. | ||
| Because the information we're providing has 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022 of people who are double registered and double voting in multiple states. | ||
| So we really need to crack down on that and we need everybody's help. | ||
| In the near future, we are going to have available deceased voters and a whole bunch of other information that we're pulling together. | ||
| Yeah, I said on the show before, and I'll say it again, I'm absolutely convinced that the people responsible for 2020 will try something again in 2024. | ||
| Getting involved in initiatives like this, Linda, is something that I think everyone can do to make the project of stealing an election more difficult. | ||
| Just finally, before you go, what were you telling me about Pennsylvania | ||
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and the ballot marking that you wanted to alert people to? | |
| Yeah, so a friend of mine at WABC News Radio contacted me early this morning and said a friend of theirs | ||
| had gone through the poll worker training in Pennsylvania. | ||
| And they have been warned that if there was any marks on your ballot, whether a star, a D, an R, | ||
| anything at all, those ballots are actually going to be pulled. | ||
| So if you are handed a ballot with a mark on it, ask them for another ballot because it will be rejected. | ||
| Brilliant. | ||
| Linda Sienkiewicz, thank you once again for coming back on The War Room. | ||
| For folks who want to keep up with you and your work, you've mentioned your website already. | ||
| Do you have any social media that you'd like to share right now? | ||
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Yes, we're on Facebook. | |
| We're also on Instagram. | ||
| People can email me directly with questions at linda at fightvoterfraud.org. | ||
| But we encourage everybody to go to the website. | ||
| You can send even through info if there's things that you want to do. | ||
| We actually will have a list of things that you can do within your own community in getting this out there. | ||
| And we truly appreciate the opportunity to come on. | ||
| And we would love to keep you informed of all the different things that are going on across the country as far as election integrity. | ||
| So thank you. | ||
| Linda, thanks very much. | ||
| We'll catch up again with you soon. | ||
| God bless. | ||
| Well, my next guest is a lady called Megan Basham, who has a new book out just two weeks called Shepherds for Sale. | ||
| And as can be guessed from the title, it's really to do with the concept that our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ mentions repeatedly in the Gospels, hireling shepherds who flee in front of the wolves. | ||
| The book's primarily wrote for the evangelical But I have to say, straight off, as a Catholic, we have exactly the same problems that Megan mentioned in the evangelical sphere and the Catholic sphere. | ||
| Megan, thanks for coming on the show today. | ||
| Good afternoon. | ||
| I want to start off by saying that most people who write books like this, at least in the Catholic sphere, but I guess also in the evangelical sphere, they write books that really they want to get invited to conferences and to speak on panels, to promote their blogs. | ||
| and all the rest of it, within their church communities. | ||
| Your book really, like an Exocet missile, is targeted directly at the huge swathe of the evangelical church establishment, and I commend you for your courage on that. | ||
| My first question is, before you wrote this book, how many of your friends and family tried to gently discourage you from writing it? | ||
| And then tell us a little bit about what the book is in itself. | ||
| And there's a backdrop, I think, in the news today that I think makes what your book is somewhat prophetic in its account of the general situation. | ||
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Well, thanks for having me, Ben. | |
| And yes, not so much my family, because they know how passionate I am about this subject, and I care about the church and protecting the church, and I care about leftist secular actors like George Soros funneling money | ||
| into the church to try to sway evangelical voters to the left and try to co-opt their vote. | ||
| So my family knew I was not going to be dissuaded from it. | ||
| But, yes, a lot of people, institutional contacts that I have, really discouraged me. And much more | ||
| than that, we got a lot of pushback at my publisher. We had legal threats targeted at us. We | ||
| had a lot of phone calls, backroom dealing to try to prevent this book from coming out, | ||
| because what I cover has been going on for some time now. | ||
| And, as you said, it's not unique to evangelicals. It is also happening in the Catholic Church. | ||
| But the evangelical vote is so very important to the GOP that these left-wing actors have | ||
| been especially targeting them. | ||
| So, for those who don't know, the evangelicals represent roughly 30% of the U.S. | ||
| electorate, and they have rightly been called, even by secular left outlets like The Atlantic, America's most powerful voting bloc. | ||
| They are the people who put Donald Trump in office in 2016. | ||
| And that is why you have seen this all-out effort of dark money flowing into evangelical institutions to try to move them to the left. | ||
| So that's basically the pitch of the book and the concept of the book, that the evangelical church, its pastors, its shepherds, are effectively hiring shepherds. | ||
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Yeah, absolutely. | |
| That's exactly what we're seeing. | ||
| How that works on a number of different issues. | ||
| You were just talking about immigration right before me. | ||
| There has been a lot of money going in to create these astroturf evangelical front groups that are taking money from people like George Soros. | ||
| The idea is that they will harness the power of these evangelical influencers in the hopes that that influence will then trickle down to the pews. | ||
| So that's really what I track here. | ||
| What we really need to know is that it's having some very big impact right this second on this election. | ||
| The story that I mentioned in my question that is quite topical now is I think America's most important evangelical family | ||
| is Billy Graham's family right. | ||
| Franklin Graham, his son, came out and condemned a movement which I think even featured one of Billy Graham's granddaughters in it. | ||
| This new lobbying group called Evangelicals for Harris. | ||
| Look, I was reading through your book earlier and it's absolutely, I mean it's chapter in verse, the level of corruption that has taken place within the top tiers of the evangelical movement. | ||
| And we'll come and talk about specifically how that hits on the immigration front. | ||
| But specifically here to Franklin Graham, he seems to be one of the few Probably the only, I think, really establishment evangelical to come out and offer clear, decisive, prophetic leadership. | ||
| And as I say, even some of his own family now is wandering slightly off the reservation. | ||
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Yes, and what you really need to know is that this is not a coincidence that they're using Billy Graham's name and image. | |
| to try to promote this Evangelicals for Harris movement. | ||
| If you look at the people who are behind it, one of the key speakers of this group is a | ||
| man named Claude Alexander, and he sits on the board. | ||
| He is the—in fact, he's the chairman of the board of Christianity Today, which was | ||
| the magazine that Billy Graham founded. | ||
| And so it's got a lot of trust as a brand among evangelicals, but many people don't know that it now takes a huge amount of funding, millions of dollars from secular left foundations, in particular the Lilly Endowment, which is the foundation started by the Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Company. | ||
| So it is no longer really beholden to what you would expect to be its subscriber base, It's more beholden financially to the secular left and you're seeing that in its political activity. | ||
| So not only is its board chair out stumping for evangelicals for Harris, I can tell you its editor-in-chief, a man named Russell Moore, was involved in developing a political Bible study that is being pushed into conservative churches and onto conservative Christian campuses. It was developed | ||
| with David French, the New York Times columnist, who, of course, just endorsed Kamala | ||
| Harris. And what it teaches is that abortion is a very confusing issue. We don't necessarily | ||
| know how we should vote regarding an issue like abortion. But systemic racism is a singularly | ||
| important issue that Christians are obligated to use their vote to oppose. | ||
| So even though this group claims to be nonpartisan, it's actually very subtly leftist. | ||
| And it also is exclusively funded by hard left secular foundations, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, second largest funder of Planned Parenthood in the country. | ||
| And they explicitly said when they made their grant for this political Bible study that they would be seeing it roll out in the battleground of Ohio. | ||
| So this is how this kind of dark money and influence is coming into the church to try to co-opt that naturally conservative evangelical vote. | ||
| Let's just take a step back. | ||
| Here are some of the chapter headings here. | ||
| Climate Change, Sneaking Past the Watchful Dragons. | ||
| Chapter 2, Illegal Immigration, Strangers, Neighbours and Aliens. | ||
| Chapter 3, Hijacking the Perlite Movement. | ||
| Chapter 4, Christian Media. | ||
| And you go on then, chapter six, critical race profits, chapter seven, me too, and all the rest. | ||
| Chapter eight, none dare call it sin, LGBTQ in the church. | ||
| These are you, you know, you really have run towards the sound of the gunfire here. | ||
| My wider question for you, Megan, today, if you wouldn't mind trying to tackle this, is something I think about quite a lot within the Catholic sphere. | ||
| How is it that people, I guess, you know, you mentioned Russell Moore and, you know, By association, one could mention Rick Warren as well, right? | ||
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Yes. | |
| I guess that these people had, at one point when they were kids, when they were youth, they had genuine vocations. | ||
| What went wrong? | ||
| It's the same in the Catholic Church, right? | ||
| In the Catholic Church, if you have to give a young guy who wants to be a priest has to give up really everything, any idea of a family, wife, kids, all the rest of it. | ||
| So there's obviously a vocation at the beginning. | ||
| What is going wrong across Christendom that people who start off with genuine serious vocations with which for which they are prepared to give up everything to follow Christ. | ||
| So what goes wrong that I'm 20, 30 years? | ||
| Is it just a money thing, Hank? | ||
| You mentioned the Lily Fund. | ||
| I'd like to know more about that. | ||
| Obviously, they're not the only people here. | ||
| It can't just be an issue of money. | ||
| We're going to have a short break and then I'll come back and ask you that. | ||
| But what is going on in Western Christendom? | ||
| That people are so easily, they start off as pastors and defenders of sheep and end up becoming high elite shepherds. | ||
| Perhaps it is just a question of money, I don't know. | ||
| And Megan, I'd like, if I may, after this short break, to come back and ask for your response on that one. | ||
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All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth. | |
| War Room Battleground with Stephen K Bannon. | ||
| Welcome back. | ||
| Here just finishing off with Megan Basham talking about her new book, Shepherds for Sale. | ||
| Just before the break, Megan, I asked you if you had an idea of what's going wrong in Western Christendom. | ||
| Do you have a quick response for us? | ||
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Yeah, I mean, obviously, I do think filthy lucre mammon plays a role here, but there's also the media adulation that you see. | |
| There's the proximity to elite institutions. | ||
| And seeing your name hailed and being suddenly in these very Tony circles with the Davos crowd, with the UN, with the Council for Foreign Relations. | ||
| So all of those things is turning a lot of heads and that's the very sort of thing that scripture warned us would happen. | ||
| So I really want to tell people in the pews, Catholic, Protestant, you need to be aware of how this could be impacting your churches. | ||
| Look, In the Catholic ambit, and I guess in the evangelical as well, anyone with any experience or any type of vocation towards evangelization, especially in the new media, is just | ||
| pushed in that direction, because there's a lot of converts that can be made out there, right? | ||
| A lot of lost sheep can be brought back into the fold. | ||
| Listening to your answer, I think it's pretty good as well, your answer. | ||
| I just wonder whether in the Catholic sphere and in the evangelical sphere, any attention is being given on a spiritual, pastoral level for those people who are doing that sort of outreach, for those temptations that will beset them. | ||
| I'm not familiar with very much in the Catholic sphere. | ||
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You know, no, not really. | |
| And I think part of that is that you have this sort of idol of respectability so that people, once there are boundaries established for what's the polite discourse to have and how we should talk about some of these subjects, you will find very few pastors and ministry leaders willing to traverse those boundaries and risk seeming impolite. | ||
| And I think that's part of why the conversation around Issues of sin, issues of salvation have gotten so stilted. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Megan, I'm very, very grateful for you coming on the show today. | ||
| We're definitely going to have you back. | ||
| Could you just give a few details about your book, Shepherds for Hire, where they can get this? | ||
| Yes, absolutely. | ||
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Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Target, Walmart, anywhere there's books. | |
| And you can find me on Twitter. | ||
| Great. | ||
| Thanks so much. | ||
| I love your surname, by the way. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| That's definitely the kind of spirit we try to have here on The War in Basham. | ||
| Megan, thanks very much. | ||
| We'll catch up again with you on the show soon. | ||
| God bless. | ||
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You too. | |
| Thanks, Ben. | ||
| My next guest is rapidly becoming a firm favourite here on the wall with Ellen Fantini, managing editor of the European Conservative, of which I have a small role. | ||
| I declare that interest right away. | ||
| I look at the European Eurocon website every morning, Ellen. | ||
| Good morning to you, good afternoon to you. | ||
| There's something that caught my eye today over in Germany, which is these elections that are projected for, I think, Thuringia and Saxony in September. | ||
| Could you just give a quick rundown? | ||
| We've been tracking in real time for the last couple of years all the developments to do with the patriotic nation first iterations right across Europe. | ||
| Germany is producing great results, and these results here in September seem to indicate that the alternative for Deutschland, the AfD, could have some great electoral victories for them. | ||
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Yes, that's right. | |
| Thanks for having me back, Ben. | ||
| Always great to be here. | ||
| So yes, in September, voters in Eastern Germany will cast their votes in state elections, or as they call them, federal elections. | ||
| Two states in early September, one Mid-September. | ||
| And it's looking very good for Alternative für Deutschland. | ||
| In two out of three, they're expected to come in first. | ||
| In the third, they're expected to come in second. | ||
| And of course, Eastern Germany has lived through communism. | ||
| They don't want it. | ||
| And they're very clear that the Alternative für Deutschland is what they want. | ||
| The anti-globalist right-wing party that wants to stop immigration is pro-peace. | ||
| That's what Germans want. | ||
| Okay, so I'm looking here at some of the statistics and the European election results produced something between 11 and 15.9 | ||
| percent. | ||
| So every time that we're having an election here in Constantinople, we're seeing these | ||
| percentages move forward and forward and forward slightly a bit at a time. | ||
| The containment strategy, this cordon sanitaire, as it's called, the idea that the mainstream | ||
| political parties can eliminate the non-establishment right-wing parties by simply not dealing with them. | ||
| And that containment strategy isn't working, is it? | ||
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It's not working in Germany. | |
| And you know what's interesting is these establishment parties are so afraid of being forced to work with the AFD that they're working with each other even though they don't agree on anything. | ||
| So they would rather Gather their enemies close just so that they can keep away the AFD. | ||
| And that's very much like I told your viewers was happening in the European Parliament with the Patriots for Europe. | ||
| This whole idea of a cordon sanitaire, right? | ||
| This idea that the other side is diseased and has to be kept away is alive and well also in Germany. | ||
| There's also an interesting party that I think is kind of a wild card. | ||
| This is this BSW or Sarah Wagenknecht's party. | ||
| She was a star in the left and she left them because she said they've gone too woke and they're not paying attention to workers and pensioners. | ||
| And so, she is what we'd call a left-wing nationalist party, populist, and she has basically said she's not working with any party who supports the war in Ukraine. | ||
| So, of course, AFD and Sarovagin's next party are called anti-Ukraine, pro-Russian, but what I think is really clear is that they're both pro-peace. | ||
| Yeah, I'm following her movement with a great deal of interest because it's coming from the left. | ||
| And the lockdown, again, obviously is exactly what you would expect. | ||
| Our political leaders pretend not to be obsessed by Ukraine, but they are. | ||
| You know how obsessed they are when anyone goes against the official line on that. | ||
| And Steve has said on this show so many times, there is something going on in Ukraine that is acting like a magnet, captivating. | ||
| Look, in the two minutes that we have left, Ellen, there's something else. | ||
| I don't know if Denver would like to put this article up on Denmark saying Sweden's failed migration policy is to blame for exported crime. | ||
| But when one thinks of Scandinavia, you think of peace, tranquility. | ||
| You don't think of countries sort of attacking one another over this immigration issue. | ||
| Just tell us a little bit, what's going on here in northern Europe, in Nordic Europe, to do with the immigration thing? | ||
| And can America look forward to the same disturbance, same civic disturbance? | ||
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Right. | |
| So American leftists love to talk about the haven that is the Nordics, particularly Sweden. | ||
| But the fact is, Sweden has had a very, very liberal migration policy for at least a decade. | ||
| And now Sweden has another claim to fame, which is that it has the highest per capita rate of gun violence in the European Union. | ||
| So, what's been happening is that Danish gang members, criminal gang members, have been bringing what are called Swedish child soldiers. | ||
| Imagine, Swedish child soldiers. | ||
| Now, 20% of the Swedish population wasn't from Sweden originally now. | ||
| That's a very high rate of migration. | ||
| They're bringing these Swedish child soldiers over to Denmark to participate in these gang battles, and the Danes have had enough. | ||
| Even though there's a bridge that links these two countries, and of course, people have always gone back and forth. | ||
| Last week, Denmark implemented border controls on trains coming across that bridge because of shootings and a bombing involving young perpetrators from Sweden. | ||
| So the Danes have had enough. | ||
| They're saying, if you get convicted of a crime, You're going to get deported, and your whole family's going to get deported, and the Swedes, we hope, are starting to wake up. | ||
| Certainly looks that way. | ||
| I mentioned that the two articles were discussed on the European Conservative website. | ||
| Ellen, where do people go if they want to read about these two things in more detail? | ||
| Just go to the website, folks. | ||
| It's outstanding. | ||
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Yes, europeanconservative.com. | |
| Great. | ||
| EuropeanConservative.com. | ||
| Ellen Fantini, thanks very much for joining us once again. | ||
| I'll catch up again with you soon. | ||
| God bless. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Thanks for having me, Ben. | ||
| Bye-bye. | ||
| Bye-bye. | ||
| God bless. | ||
| So my final guest today, this afternoon, is Michelle Morrow, the GOP candidate for superintendent of North Carolina. | ||
| Michelle, I've been studying the news, and it looks like the establishment is really trying to stop you now as you move towards the election. | ||
| What have you done? | ||
| What have you said to upset folks so much? | ||
| Good afternoon to you. | ||
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Good afternoon. | |
| Thank you so much for having me on, Ben. | ||
| I have been exposing the divisive and the dangerous content in our schools that's harming our children, and they know that I am going to get rid of DEI. | ||
| and CRT and get boys out of our girls' sports and private places. | ||
| I mean, you said your famous expressions, you've called public schools, you've homeschooled your four kids, right? | ||
| But you've called public education indoctrination centres, socialist centres. | ||
| I think everyone in the war room would agree with you on that. | ||
| You're also pledging, if elected, to bring back some form of biblical instruction, right? | ||
| Could you tell us a bit about what your plans are there? | ||
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Sure, and I have five children, and you're exactly right. | |
| They know that I have been exposing the fact that they are not teaching our children critical thinking. | ||
| They're teaching them an ideology, and political and social activism is happening in the schools, and I'm going to get rid of that. | ||
| I just want to point out that your Democrat opponent is called Mo Green. | ||
| Now, anyone who's This must have been pointed out to you a thousand times. | ||
| Mo Green, for anyone who knows the Godfather films, is a guy who's in the Mafia, bumped off by the Mafia. | ||
| The guy, according to the Godfather trilogy, built Vegas. | ||
| That's obviously not your candidate that you're fighting against. | ||
| But it's illustrative, I think, of how the Democrats and the Union Party in lockstep very much do act as if they were an outfit of organized crime. | ||
| You were also, if I may just recall back two years, you were also present at the January the 6th protest, right? | ||
| You video streamed yourself there, and a lot of people don't like that. | ||
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You're right. | |
| A lot of people are not for the rule of law as well as constitution to reign in the United States, and they're threatened by that. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And you asked for, I think, the military at some point to assist in some ways. | ||
| We're famous, like our first guest on the show today, Congressman Ralph Norman, also asked for the military. | ||
| I think he asked for Marshall Lloyd itself during the inauguration process. | ||
| That is obviously also creating a lot of opposition to you from the usual quarters. | ||
| Are you following, Michelle, what's going on in Oklahoma with their state superintendent who has ordered | ||
| the obligatory instruction of the Bible in all state schools there? | ||
| Are you following this? | ||
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I am following, Mr. Walters, and I think this, I think our students desperately need to know the truth | |
| about history. | ||
| And I think as a historical text, the Bible spans not only geography, but also the entire beginnings of Western civilization. | ||
| And I think it's important for our students to have accurate history, especially on the world stage. | ||
| And there's also a similar proposal in Louisiana, if I remember correctly, to obligatory have, even if it's only a poster, the 10 commandments up on every school classroom. | ||
| This is something that you would also consider as state superintendent? | ||
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I absolutely would consider that. | |
| I think that we need to recognize that all of the three largest religions in the world, whether it's Islam, Christianity, or Judaism, all look to the Old Testament and the Ten Commandments for their foundational belief system and their moral compass. | ||
| And I think we are in desperate need of a moral compass. | ||
| Finally then, Michelle, I think on the basis of what you said and what you're known for, if the warming policy Had the vote on this, you would be elected with a super majority for this position. | ||
| But I think it's going to be only people in North Carolina that get the vote. | ||
| Can you just tell us a bit about the election, the details, where folks can get your campaign information, find out more fully about your platform? | ||
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Certainly, and I will say this, I am going to win this election because the majority of parents are very concerned about the, we have a literacy crisis, we have an increase in drugs and violence in our schools, and our children are not equipped to be able to go into adulthood and to be successful. | |
| And I believe not just in North Carolina, I believe it costs the entire country Doesn't matter your race, your religion, or your politics. | ||
| Everybody is concerned that their students are not getting what they deserve. | ||
| Absolutely right. | ||
| I guess your philosophical position here is that parents ought to be the, basically, fundamentally responsible for the education, for the formation of their children, rather than the state, right? | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| I think parents have the responsibility And it is the schools that should be partnering with parents to ensure that their children are going to be able to reach their full potential. | ||
| I think that I know that I have fought to protect parental rights in North Carolina for the last five years. | ||
| It would be interesting for the people that are listening to know that my opponent actually has stated that the Parental Bill of Rights is doing more harm than good. | ||
| I saw something in the news just briefly, because we only have a minute left now. | ||
| I saw something in the news this morning that one state, I don't recall which one it was, has said that the state can give children abortions without the consent or information or the knowledge of the awareness of the parents. | ||
| I guess this is something you would be absolutely opposed to in North Carolina, right? | ||
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100%. | |
| I am a nurse. | ||
| And as such, I believe 100% in medical freedom. | ||
| And to another point, my opponent is proudly endorsed by Planned Parenthood. | ||
| And they don't have any business being in our schools. | ||
| And that's why the people of North Carolina have got to elect me. | ||
| My website is maro4nc.com if they want to go and get elected. | ||
| I think we're having a slight sound break up there, but we'll get those details on our own website. | ||
| Michelle Morrow, thank you very much for joining us on the show this afternoon. | ||
| Wish you every luck in your election and we'll catch up again with you soon. | ||
| God bless for now. | ||
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