Aug. 24, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
50:48
Participants
| 
| Speaker | Time | Text |
|---|---|---|
|
unidentified
|
Reclaimed patriotism, right? | |
| Westmore has been trying to do this and talking about it since he started running for governor of Maryland two years ago. | ||
| But think about the amount of flags and stars and stripes we've seen over the last few days. | ||
| If the volume was down on your TV and you were squinting, you might think you were watching the RNC. | ||
| And this is so rattling for Donald Trump. | ||
| And just to hear them over and over. | ||
| You don't hear them saying, my fellow Democrats. | ||
| They're saying, my fellow Americans. | ||
| Right? | ||
| They talk about your neighbor. | ||
| You saw Bill Clinton and Barack Obama talk about, extend that olive branch. | ||
| And here is my pledge to you. | ||
| As president, I will bring back the bipartisan border security bill that he killed and I will sign it into law. | ||
| I know. | ||
| I know. | ||
| We can live up. | ||
| To our proud heritage as a nation of immigrants and reform our broken immigration system. | ||
| We can create an earned pathway to citizenship and secure our border. | ||
| And America, we must also be steadfast in advancing our security and values abroad. | ||
| And As Vice President, I have confronted threats to our security, negotiated with foreign leaders, strengthened our alliances, and engaged with our brave troops overseas. | ||
| As Commander-in-Chief, I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world. | ||
| And I will fulfill our sacred obligation to care for our troops and their families, | ||
| and I will always honor and never disparage their service and their sacrifice. | ||
|
unidentified
|
I will make sure that we lead the world into the future. | |
| you later. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Pray for our enemies, 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. | ||
|
unidentified
|
I know you don't like hearing that. | |
| I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
|
unidentified
|
MAGA Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
|
unidentified
|
War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| Welcome to The War Room. | ||
| It's Natalie G. Winters hosting today, Friday, August 23rd. | ||
| We're already having technical difficulties. | ||
| The Year of Our Lord 2024. | ||
| I'm coming at you live from Washington, D.C. | ||
| It's my first time back in studio since the imprisonment of Stephen K. Bannon, so make no mistakes. | ||
| We're going to have a fiery show in honor of him, but in honor of you guys, the posse, and that cold open that we just played. | ||
| Again, Little issue there, but it's all right. | ||
| We'll keep proceeding. | ||
| I wanted to have the discussion, the MSNBC panel, but we sort of got it from Stephanie Rule, which I would say to MSNBC, to Democrats, if your party has such an issue with patriotism, we're waving American flags of some novel concept. | ||
| Maybe there's something wrong with your party and you guys have been America Last for way too damn long. | ||
| Now, I know we've discussed the difference between what's going on outside the barricades, the walls, even though those don't work, at the DNC and what's been going on inside, but make no mistake, what you just witnessed at the DNC I think has to be probably some of the most intense gaslighting that I have ever seen at the hands of the Democratic Party, and that says a lot. | ||
| I mean, they had the nerve to make their third day, the theme, be freedom? | ||
| Freedom! | ||
| I think only encapsulated by the point when they're playing the video clip of January 6th, the Hollywood Elite produced compilation where they conveniently, what was it, nine people tangentially linked to January 6th died. | ||
| Would love to fact check that. | ||
| I know none of the fact checkers would do anything on that front. | ||
| But the very slide in which they say over 1,500 of your fellow Americans have been imprisoned, imprisoned because of their actions on January 6th, that was probably the loudest line of applause that I heard from attendees at the DNC. | ||
| They don't even pick up on the irony and hypocrisy on Freedom Night, applauding that January 6th patriots, and I use that word intentionally, are being thrown into federal prisons. | ||
| And by the way, like I said, this is my first time back here in DC since Stephen K. Bannon Has been thrown in jail. | ||
| All those people who are lecturing us about freedom and democracy, I don't want to hear it. | ||
| These are the same people who are insulting your intelligence. | ||
| I don't know if you saw just a few days ago, Rolling Stone put out an article saying that because the Harris-Waltz campaign has camo hats, and though I am a connoisseur of camo and hats, they're not that aesthetically pleasing, because they put out camo hats. | ||
| They're courting and doing a good job of taking back the rural and southern vote. | ||
| Now, I don't know about you guys, I find that pretty damn insulting that you think a camo hat and a few token speeches over the course of the DNC is enough to reverse the decades of outsourcing and offshoring of jobs that have been integral to that community. | ||
| The fact that you guys haven't done nothing on fentanyl deaths, that you guys have mocked and destroyed Southern heritage for years, and you think a camo hat is enough to win our vote back? | ||
| I mean, it is absolutely absurd the gaslighting that you saw go on on that stage at the DNC, to the point where even when Tim Walz is up there speaking, the same people who are protesting outside, and make no mistake, there's no difference when you follow the money, who they're funding and who's bankrolling them. | ||
| It's George Soros, it's the Tides Foundation. | ||
| Sure, they get whipped up over different issues, but they are cut from the same extremely radical cloth. | ||
| The people outside, right? | ||
| Tim Walz, make no mistake, he invited in and lauded, gave your taxpayer dollars, funded and granted radical Muslim clerics who praised the October 7th attacks and probably want to establish a caliphate in this country. | ||
| And his shock troops are the ones standing outside the DNC, burning the American flag, where it's up to Ben Burquam to stand in the breach and try to stop them from doing it. | ||
| Now, the clip that we didn't have there to play, which in another alternate universe we have it, It's Joe Scarborough and Mika. | ||
| They have the nerve to say that you guys, the MAGA base, the War Room Posse, that you're anti-American for having the nerve to say that this country is in decline. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| This country is in decline. | ||
| This country is in managed decline because of people like Joe Scarborough. | ||
| It's not anti-American to say that what we're witnessing is decline, because I hold our elites, our leaders, to a much higher standard, and I think there's a very interesting Freudian slip on their part, because that is what they think America is. | ||
| People like Joe Scarborough, who used to be Republicans, until the Republican Party actually aligned with the people at the base, not the donor class, so you jump ship. | ||
| To MSNBC, like the true patriot, I'm sure you were, and always are. | ||
| It's not anti-American or anti-patriotic, however they want to spin it, to say that this country has declined. | ||
| Why don't you go to the border, Joe Scarborough? | ||
| Why don't you go to the community that J.D. | ||
| Vance grew up in? | ||
| And you have the nerve to tell us that we're anti-American for raising substantive and extremely valid issues with the direction this country is going, and I'm not even talking about the lawfare that you guys are waging. | ||
| You know what the worst part is about all of this? | ||
| Yeah, and enjoy grifting on MSNBC, Joe, with your lovely wife. | ||
| New way forward, right? | ||
| Even though we're not in decline, we apparently need a new way forward, according to Kamala Harris. | ||
| That's the tongue-in-cheek, double-speak way. | ||
| That's the issue with Kamala Harris, and frankly, that's the issue that you saw replicated speaker after speaker, night after night in Chicago. | ||
| It is their shrouding, their radical death to America policies and socialist branding, whether it's price gouging, price controls, you name it. | ||
| When Kamala Harris stands there and says, oh, we're not going to be unburdened by what has been, whatever the heck that means. | ||
| Yeah, there's one way to interpret it. | ||
| Oh, it's just some vapid comment. | ||
| But you know what it also is? | ||
| It calls and it hearkens back to Mao, to radical far-left communist dictators who want to erase the past to usher in a new era of progressivism. | ||
| Again, that's too euphemistic a term. | ||
| And you saw it in her speech last night, where she continued to say, a new way forward, a new way forward, a new way forward. | ||
| Because do you know what a new way forward is? | ||
| It's a dog whistle to a 2019 piece of legislation that is so radical it's endorsed by AOC, it would effectively grant mass amnesty, would make illegal immigration not a criminal offense but a civil offense, but they wouldn't even prosecute it because they basically forbid any form of law enforcement to collaborate with the federal government on enforcing immigration law, the laws in the books. | ||
| Like I said, I wanted to go off on Joe Scarborough, but the rant is a little botched because we don't have the clip, but that's all good. | ||
| And don't worry, we're going to have Josh Hammer and Darren Beatty joining us after, but I just wanted to give my thoughts on the gaslighting sham that was the DNC. | ||
| But to Joe Scarborough, who thinks that we're the party that's anti-American because we're willing to call out the problems that we see around us, we're willing to say this country is in managed decline, you're part of the problem, Joe. | ||
| And I'm not talking about the moral decline, though I'd love to talk to the intern in your office about that. | ||
| I'm talking about what we've seen go on with the trade policies, with economy, with immigration. | ||
| And in the same breath that the Democrats are telling you that they care about freedom, they're applauding locking up your fellow citizens and granting mass amnesty to convicted rapists, criminals, and pedophiles who have absolutely no respect for this country and its heritage, the same heritage that you cannot rewrite the history that you've tried to erase by endorsing camo hats. | ||
| It's an insult to our intelligence, and it's not going to work. | ||
| And it's absolutely disgusting. | ||
| I've never seen more gaslighting from the Democratic Party, and that's a, frankly, a really low bar. | ||
| Now, I'm going to attempt to put my earpiece back in because I can't hear, but if we have Josh Hammer, this is... | ||
| I guess in honor of Steve, it wouldn't be a show without technical difficulties. | ||
| Josh, you have a wonderful piece in Newsweek that I think sort of has to do with what I was just talking about. | ||
| I'd love if you could walk the audience through your overall thoughts on the DNC, the epic gaslighting of the American people that we just witnessed. | ||
| Yeah, Natalie, you know, with or without the MSNBC clip, that was a great riff, so kudos to you. | ||
| I mean, look, what we saw all week was substantive-less, substance-less gaslighting. | ||
| I mean, there was no substance anywhere at this convention all week. | ||
| I mean, the closest thing that we got to substance, Natalie, was actually positively demonic and satanic substance. | ||
| I mean, we had that Planned Parenthood truck pull outside the convention earlier this week. | ||
| They apparently literally had an IUD, like an inflatable IUD that they were bouncing around throughout the United Center like it was a beach ball at Yankee Stadium. | ||
| I mean, if there was any substance whatsoever, it was that, it was the pro-Hamas people. | ||
| I mean, it was positively demonic to the extent that there was any substance. | ||
| But overall, there was no substance because all they did all week | ||
| was hit the recurring theme of the joy of Kamala Harris. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, because no one screams joy like Kamala Harris, who has failed upwards in every role she's ever held | ||
| from San Francisco DA to California AG to California Senator to failed 2020 campaign | ||
| to vice president to the coup last month. | ||
| I mean, she's literally failed upwards after horribly unsucceeding in every step of the way, so no one screams joy like Kamala Harris. | ||
| But nonetheless, what they tried to project, and this is kind of the point of my column that no one is buying it, what they tried to project all week was not just gaslighting you that the past three and a half years haven't happened, although they definitely did that, but what they tried to do was to try to project kumbaya and unity, that we're all in | ||
| this together, that everyone who's a reasonable American, who's not a deplorable, is lining up | ||
| behind Kamala Harris in her magnificent, grandiose 2024 bid. There are a lot of problems with this. | ||
| First of all, Joe Biden on Monday evening was saying that he was not angry at the coup plotters. | ||
| He's not angry at Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries. | ||
| Baloney! | ||
| Literally no one with more than two brain cells between the ears is buying that. | ||
| That is garbage. | ||
| In fact, he immediately jetted off to California right after his speech so that he didn't have to be there the next day to stare down his coup plotter, the Brutus to his Caesar, Barack Obama, In fact, their party is so not unified that the night that Barack and Michelle spoke, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz weren't even there. | ||
| They were in Milwaukee, 90 miles away from there, because apparently Kamala Harris was trying to pay respect to her putative boss, President Biden, because, again, he is so peeved at Barack Obama. | ||
| And then, you know, if there's any substantive issue, and again, this is a fairly substance-less convention. | ||
| Josh, I'm going to hold you there because we have to jump. | ||
| We have to jump to break. | ||
| But I definitely want to keep you for more analysis. | ||
| But I'm Warren Bossie with Josh Hammer. | ||
| We've got Darren Beatty, but in the meantime, birchgold.com slash Bannon. | ||
| Also check out patriotmobile.com. | ||
| Use promo code Bannon to get a nice hefty discount and stop giving your money. | ||
| You're laughing because people my age remember after the turbulence of the 1960s, after Vietnam, after Watergate. | ||
| like the Democrats are trying. You guys are so much smarter than that and believe me, | ||
| they know that. They wish it weren't true, but it is. We'll be right back after this short break. | ||
| You're laughing because people my age remember after the turbulence of the 1960s, | ||
| after Vietnam, after Watergate. It took Democrats a while to feel comfortable saying what Kamala Harris just said. | ||
| And Republicans went to town on him throughout the 1980s and part of the 1990s because of it. | ||
| And I had been joking through the week that if Chance of USA, USA had come up in a rally in the 80s or the 90s, people would have looked around really quickly and it would have stopped. | ||
| I'm telling you, it is stunning to me as a former Republican watching the Republican Party Actually denigrating America constantly tearing it down their nominees saying it is a failed country it is a quote stupid country it is a quote country in decline when it is anything but that and Kamala Harris is out there embracing the promise of America and saying what | ||
| We all have been saying for some time that, yes, this is a great country, but we're forever pushing towards being that more perfect union. | ||
| Not there yet. | ||
| Not even close. | ||
| But boy, we've got a better shot than any other country on the face of the earth, and we should be proud of it. | ||
| That embrace, I'm telling you, I just know that all of that sent chills up and down the spines of Republicans who understand they are on the wrong side of this argument, and they are on Right. | ||
|
unidentified
|
You know, as Bob Dylan said, we're always a country busy being born, and that's true. | |
| No, you're on the wrong side of the argument. | ||
| You're certainly on the wrong side of history. | ||
| And you can say that way as a former Republican because we don't want you back. | ||
| And I'm really skeptical if you were ever actually Republican to begin with. | ||
| You probably should be trotted out along with Adam Kinzinger as one of the Republicans for Harris. | ||
| But just know that you're endorsing the border policies that have led to so many Americans getting killed. | ||
| That you have blood on your hands for endorsing that. | ||
| And I digress on that point, because we got not just Josh Hammer, but Darren Beatty, who has a semi-hard out. | ||
| So we're going to jump to Darren, but Josh is going to hang with us. | ||
| But Darren, you have a new wonderful piece up in Revolver that I wanted to sort of walk through your kind of outlook on the election. | ||
| But before we get to that, I'd love to get your thoughts, just overall analysis of what we saw from the DNC, how you think it plays polling election-wise. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| As always, great to be here with you, Natalie, at the elite five o'clock hour. | ||
| And it's great to be with the audience once more. | ||
| You know, I hate to say it, but and, you know, as a matter of substance, as Josh pointed out, Josh Hammer pointed out correctly, there wasn't a whole lot of substance in the DNC convention, notwithstanding that fact. | ||
| I think it was fairly successful. | ||
| I think it was quite successful, actually. | ||
| And if I were Kamala, if I were the Democrats, I would feel very good about how the convention went. | ||
| I think they struck all the right notes. | ||
| I think generally the tone was good. | ||
| You had, you know, Obama's speech, which was kind of like, I mean, of course we all know, talking amongst ourselves, that it's bull. | ||
| We all know that it's crap. | ||
| You got to put on the hat of the regular American viewer who's watching these things and how it would be consumed. | ||
| And I think the tone was fairly good, fairly inviting. | ||
| There was a lot, especially from Obama, like, oh, we don't want to scold our political opponents as to that, which sounds very good. | ||
| Of course, if you look at the reality, they're doing a lot more than scolding. | ||
| They're throwing people in prison for having political beliefs they don't approve of. | ||
| But the average person watching that is not necessarily going to think that way. | ||
| I think the tone was good. | ||
| I think Kamala's speech was actually pretty effective. | ||
| And as evidence for that, you don't have a lot of people taking excerpts from that that they think are embarrassing to her or, you know, beyond the pale and this or that. | ||
| Judging from what an average person's perspective might be, who's, you know, what we call the low information voter, diplomatically speaking. | ||
| And, you know, you need those people to win. | ||
| Not everyone can be a high information war room viewer or revolver news reader. | ||
| We've got the low information people and you need them to win. | ||
| I think from a low information, sort of on the fence perspective, The tone and the approach was very good. | ||
| And these days, it's all about vibes anyway. | ||
| So even the fact that there's no substance is unfortunate that that's the case, but it's not really a testament to how effective or ineffective it was. | ||
| So I think that was a very good convention for the Democrats. | ||
| However, I think, you know, they might have a short lived boost here because the RFK news is also quite important, arguably more so than the positive convention story for the Democrats. | ||
| I think the fact that a Democrat candidate is basically lending his support to Trump can cause all kinds of problems, not just from the standpoint of sort of the more timid, Joe Rogan type people, the permission guys, you know, Joe Rogan got permission from Elon to go Trump. | ||
| He still wasn't really willing to go there for a variety of reasons. | ||
| But there are a lot of these people who are sort of anti-woke, centrist types, and they just can't bring themselves to go direct for Trump. | ||
| RFK always gave them an out. | ||
| But the fact that RFK is stepping down and basically saying it's Trump, I think puts the Joe Rogan demographic in a position where they basically need to go for Trump because they're not going to go for the Kamala Nonsense. | ||
| I think that's very positive. | ||
| And also it creates a lot of strategic difficulties for the Democrats. | ||
| You know, it's a whole other headache that they have to deal with. | ||
| Now they're fighting a, you know, multiple front war, two front war at least. | ||
| And so I think there are a whole host of advantages here that could help to even out the boost that I think the Democrats would have gotten and may have gotten from I think an objectively successful convention. | ||
| Well, and speaking of waging war, you laid out kind of a nice battle plan in your piece for revolvers we're getting. | ||
| I think you put it up two days ago, the headline was 75 days, so I guess that puts us 73 days away. | ||
| Though according to the DNC, they only have to pretend to be normal for about 70 more days, then they can go back to being crazy. | ||
| But on the opposite side, in Trump world, you had some sort of advice or just ideas about how to best approach this final stretch of the campaign. | ||
| So why don't you walk the audience through that article, which is going viral. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Big article. | ||
| A lot of people are talking about it. | ||
| A lot of people in the campaign seem to be digesting it and even taking some of the suggestions to heart, which I'm very encouraged by. | ||
| People can read the whole piece at revolver.news. | ||
| I'll run through quickly the most salient points. | ||
| So number one, Trump needs to maximize exposure in a variety of fronts. | ||
| One, I think he should do more of these long form, one-on-one conversational podcasts. | ||
| You saw him do recently something with Theo Vaughn. | ||
| I think he is excellent in that context. | ||
| And we typically think about how impactful he is in, say, a rally context, and he can do rallies like nobody else. | ||
| I think it's sort of an underappreciated skill that he has, just how good and how likable he is in the context of a kind of one-on-one conversation that is not hostile. | ||
| Not necessarily an interview that loves him so much, but someone who isn't in that sort of mainstream media attack mode posture where they can just have a one-on-one conversation and kind of let his personality and conversational style flourish. | ||
| I think it's very difficult for someone to watch him in that context and not Like him. | ||
| So he has this advantage of being a likable person, even though the media has demonized him. | ||
| And so I think the more he does these long form, big podcasts, the better off he is. | ||
| And do a variety of them. | ||
| You know, I've said he should go on Call Her Daddy. | ||
| He should go on Deovan. | ||
| He should go on Rogan. | ||
| Rogan needs to let him on those types of NAS podcasts. | ||
| He should absolutely do them and do them very frequently. | ||
| The X thing, think of how well the X spaces went with Elon. | ||
| Those should be a regular occurrence. | ||
| He's just so good. | ||
| He's one of the few people, he can talk more and more in this one-on-one style and he doesn't really get boring or stale and he comes across as quite likable. | ||
| So that, more rallies, more exposure, maximum exposure. | ||
| What else? | ||
| We want him to emphasize his role as a peacemaker. | ||
| And I think the RFK news, I think dovetails very well with this narrative, as does J.D. | ||
| Vance. | ||
| His VP pick was one of the few people in the Senate who is good on foreign policy, doesn't want us to go to war with every every place. | ||
| It's something that resonates so well with, again, even the low information people. | ||
| And you don't need to get into particulars of foreign policy, which people don't care about. | ||
| But people do resonate with the idea that, hey, Trump didn't get us in any wars. | ||
| People do resonate with that, and that's very important, and it's undeniable. | ||
| There's an ancillary benefit that, in particular in the case of Russia, | ||
| so many of Trump's domestic enemies exist within this subset of the national security community | ||
| that's obsessed with Russia. | ||
| So by advocating the right and peaceful position geopolitically in relation to Russia, there's this ancillary benefit that you are sort of taking the fight to those forces that have visited such destruction and degradation on our country domestically from censorship and the whole host of things. | ||
| So that's another one. | ||
| A third and I think very important one is he should be leveraging what I call low cost, high leverage positions, excuse using the term leverage twice, but that I had to use it. | ||
| And what do I mean by this? | ||
| Well, one example is the outreach to the sort of cryptocurrency community. | ||
| Is that something that a wide variety of the electorate cares about? | ||
| No, it's a very small, it's a niche issue. | ||
| But it's something that people are passionate about, and it doesn't really cost anything. | ||
| And you can get donors and even a good amount of passionate voters by advocating for it. | ||
| Another one, just say something like, we need to fix our airports. | ||
| We need to get TSA under control. | ||
| Think of the nuisance of having to take your shoes off the laptop. | ||
| If he said something like, look, you and- And Darren, before you make everyone's blood boil even more about talking about TSA lines, I have to hold you because we're about to jump to break but hang with us and Warren Posse. | ||
| Hang with us through this short break. | ||
| Maybe in the meantime, go check out birchgold.com slash Bannon to get the latest installment | ||
| of the end of the dollar empire. | ||
| Or while you're at it, slnt.com slash Bannon. | ||
| 15% off, get your Faraday bags. | ||
| So the government can't track you. | ||
| No EMFs if you're into that kind of stuff. | ||
| That's slnt.com slash Bannon. | ||
|
unidentified
|
We'll be right back after this short break. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Welcome back to the war room. | ||
| We're still joined by Darren J. Beattie, or I should say Dr. Darren J. Beattie. | ||
| Don't want to spread misinformation here in the War Room. | ||
| Darren, why don't you finish up your kind of thoughts on the low effort, low resources required strategy to court more voters to the Trump side of things? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| So I mentioned crypto and these have numerous advantages. | ||
| They get a niche population interested, very passionate. | ||
| They bring in donations and also they Change the conversation. | ||
| They create things that the media has to respond to that can put Trump on the offensive. | ||
| Another issue, TSA. | ||
| That's a great one. | ||
| Airports, TSA. | ||
| Everyone wants that. | ||
| Why not say you elect me as president? | ||
| You don't have to take your shoes off the TSA anymore. | ||
| People would love it. | ||
| Again, very low cost, very high leverage could pay off. | ||
| Very well. | ||
| For that matter, infrastructure. | ||
| You know, one of Biden's celebrated achievements is this $1.3 trillion infrastructure deal. | ||
| What do they have to show for it? | ||
| Not a lot of anything. | ||
| In fact, there was that EV station scandal where they spent like billions and billions of dollars and they built like four electric vehicle stations or something like that. | ||
| So don't only talk about that, but say, hey, where did all the money go? | ||
| When I win, we're going to have an inquiry to figure out where the money went. | ||
| That's another thing. | ||
| Another one, pre-announce some cabinet picks or some possible cabinet picks. | ||
| Put out a list of potential people. | ||
| Again, that's proactive. | ||
| It shapes the conversation. | ||
| It potentially gets interested parties, passionate people involved. | ||
| Let's say Tulsi Gabbard was on the shortlist for some interesting cabinet position. | ||
| That sort of thing would rile up a certain segment of the electorate, which is good. | ||
| It would force the Democrats and the media to respond to it. | ||
| And it would also sort of sidestep all the attacks that he's gotten in relation to 2025. | ||
| Whatever you think about it, 2025 is just a name. | ||
| What it comes down to is personnel. | ||
| So by putting out personnel ideas, he's sort of taking the offensive and circumnavigating an attack vector that the Democrats have exploited to some effect. | ||
| And finally, poll watchers. | ||
| You need a legal team and you need poll watchers ready in every urban area, especially urban areas in those critical swing states. | ||
| Philadelphia, Atlanta, I'm looking at you. | ||
| He needs people there to watch those polls like a hawk so none of the shenanigans happen like we saw in 2020. | ||
| So that's a sort of quick tour of some of the most salient issues and sort of strategies and tactics he can use The full piece is at revolver.news. | ||
| I really hope the campaign implements some of these things because, look, it's a neck-and-neck race. | ||
| It's very close. | ||
| It's going to be close to the very end. | ||
| I think it still trumps to lose. | ||
| And if he embraces these strategies, I think it could push him over the finish line. | ||
| Darren, if people want to follow you, get more Revolver content. | ||
| Until you're back on the war room, which I'm sure will be soon, where can they go to do that? | ||
| Revolver.news, revolver.news, we're at the bleeding edge of it all. | ||
| Read it so you remain high information. | ||
| Watch The War Room, read Revolver so you're not one of these low-information voters that watches the DNC and thinks, oh, I kind of like the tone. | ||
| Oh, Obama kind of makes sense. | ||
| Don't be one of those people. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| The War Room posse is much smarter. | ||
| Darren, thanks so much for joining us. | ||
| We'll have you back on. | ||
| Thank you, Natalie. | ||
| Darren is so right to bring up poll watchers. | ||
| I'm sure you guys saw Adam Kinzinger speak last night and Kerry Washington. | ||
| Those two people are leading an effort for an organization that's funded by, you guessed | ||
| it, George Soros, that's actually coordinating and actually advising election offices on | ||
| who to pick as their poll watchers. | ||
| The group is called Power the Polls. | ||
| I'm pretty sure that's probably somehow a legal issue. | ||
| It's a 501c3, but I guess if it's on that side of the aisle, it doesn't matter. | ||
| It only seems to go one way, right? | ||
| The law fair and the mistakes and the late night ballot dumps. | ||
| By the way, I feel like I'm talking a lot this episode. | ||
| Very fired up to be back in DC, like I said the first time since Steve went to jail. | ||
| Steve, who has played such a pivotal role in my life, it's so tragic what they're doing to him, but I digress on that point. | ||
| But I will be doing a solo episode at 6 p.m. | ||
| walking through ballot warfare, all the ways that the Democrats are not just | ||
| getting ready to, but are already rolling out their plans to steal the | ||
| next election. Mail-in ballots already saying there's going to be delays in | ||
| results, shortages of election workers, even buying, that's right, panic buttons. | ||
| Panic buttons talk about stolen valor for election workers down in Georgia | ||
| because apparently you guys, the war room posse, are so scary and intimidating. | ||
| I think you guys are wonderful and lovely. | ||
| Someone else who I think probably shares that viewpoint is Josh Hammer, who's still with us now. | ||
| Josh, I know I had to cut you off, but I'd love to bring you back to keep walking through not just your piece for Newsweek, but more broadly kind of, you know, Darren's critiques of the DNC and your analysis of it. | ||
| Yeah, so, you know, Darren's a friend in real life. | ||
| I actually owe him a tennis match, so, you know, it's great to be here with Darren. | ||
| So, look, you know, my critiques of the DNC notwithstanding, I fear that Darren is actually correct when it comes to the fact that the Democrats, from their own perspective, given their own expectations, They probably feel that they met expectations, but this is the key point now. | ||
| The point is, the reason that they think that they matched expectations and the reason that they think that their satanic conclave was a success is that they think that they can win an election just ignoring the past three and a half years, pretending like they're all unified and everything is fine and dandy, that it's all just kind of unicorns and cotton candy and kids smelling roses. | ||
| When as recently as two and a half months ago, they were trying to convince Biden to drop Kamala from the ticket because she was considered an albatross around the net because she's so catastrophically unpopular. | ||
| So the reason that they're happy right now is because they think that they can get away with this. | ||
| They think that they can ultimately bamboozle, and to use your word, to gaslight the American people into not actually voting on the issues, into not caring about the fact that the economy is in the toilet, into not caring about the fact that the world is on fire in multiple regions all throughout the globe, and not caring about the fact that inflation reached a 40-year high, not caring about the fact that there have been millions of unvetted illegal aliens invading this country, committing horrific atrocities on a seemingly daily basis. | ||
| So, as long as Republicans in this remaining time Focus on all those issues I just named. | ||
| Economy, inflation, immigration and crime, above all else. | ||
| Day in and day out. | ||
| Every single day in the campaign trail. | ||
| Hammer those themes. | ||
| Trump on the border in Cochise County, Arizona. | ||
| Perfect example. | ||
| Hammer these themes day in and day out. | ||
| I think that they will be in good shape, honestly. | ||
| And walk us through your sort of rundown of the RFK endorsement, how you think that that bodes for the Trump campaign, or the Harris team, if you think that that endorsement probably, I would say, would move more voters than any alleged Beyonce appearances, but what are your thoughts? | ||
| Yeah, you know, Natalie, it's funny. | ||
| My wife's actually a big Beyonce fan, and she's very conservative, obviously, and she was praying that Beyonce would actually not appear at the DNC. | ||
| Don't talk to your wife like that. | ||
| No, but she was very happy when Beyonce did not make an appearance. | ||
| Look, I think the RFK endorsement is a very big deal. | ||
| There are some people trying to downplay this. | ||
| There are some friends of mine, even fellow conservatives, who are saying this is not a big deal. | ||
| RFK was polling like 15 to 17% just a few months ago. | ||
| He's still polling in four or 5% in many national polls, disproportionately in some of the key swing states there. | ||
| You know, if even 60 to 65% of the RFK supporters go to Trump, you know, that works out to about a point, | ||
| point and a half, maybe two points in some of these swing states. | ||
| In an election this tight, that absolutely 100% could tip the scales of this election. | ||
| And RFK spoke shockingly well today. | ||
| I mean, I shouldn't say shocking because he's a smart guy, obviously. | ||
| But he presented very, very well in that exit speech, talking about how his father, RFK Sr., how his uncle, JFK, they would not recognize today's Democratic Party. | ||
| And of course, that's totally right. | ||
| JFK was a cold warrior. | ||
| He was deeply anti-Soviet. | ||
| He would not recognize the fact that Bernie Sanders, who literally honeymooned in the | ||
| Soviet Union, is now a prime-time speaker and a kingmaker in today's Democratic Party. | ||
| So he spoke very well. | ||
| I think it's actually going to make an impact. | ||
| I'm very bullish on the RFK endorsement, actually. | ||
| And just walk us through, I'm curious, your takes. | ||
| I know at Newsweek, you guys are a little different than War Room. | ||
| You guys, of course, have a wonderful opinion page, but you know, we're always focused here. | ||
| Like we always say, I sometimes don't even think that it's necessarily about the candidates. | ||
| I think it's about what's sort of happening outside of the scope of politics, whether it's the mass mail-in balloting they're already pushing. | ||
| Pandemics and, you know, the U.N. | ||
| is stepping in now in the U.K. | ||
| to help combat racism. | ||
| I'm sure they'll probably be doing that here soon. | ||
| But just from your perspective, you know, where do you see the fight on election integrity and the sort of, you know, metadata of the election as opposed to the candidate quality? | ||
| How do you see that shaping up? | ||
| Do you think Republicans have gotten their act together or do you think we're still leaving the goal wide open for some, you know, penalty kicks? | ||
| I don't know if that's sport metaphor. | ||
| Sports metaphor checks, but I think it does. | ||
| Yeah, unfortunately, Natalie, I think it's the latter. | ||
| And I think it's not even close. | ||
| You know, look, yesterday, Arizona, the great state of Arizona, had a tremendous victory at the U.S. | ||
| Supreme Court in this case, RNC versus Mi Familia Vota, where Arizona was allowed to proceed with enforcing | ||
| its own proof of citizenship requirements when it comes to absentee balloting. | ||
| But the scary part, and it's truly scary, was that this was a five to four decision. | ||
| I mean, Amy Coney Barrett tragically joined the liberals. | ||
| I mean, is there any issue in America that should be a nine to zero issue? | ||
| I mean, I'm a lawyer, but you don't have to be a lawyer to know that it is common sense stuff, | ||
| that a state should be able to make sure that you are a United States citizen | ||
| to be able to vote in a federal election in that state. | ||
| It's completely insane that this is considered a divisive issue legally or politically. | ||
| But on the latter point, on the political point, there is a great piece of legislation called the SAVE Act. | ||
| You know, at the Article 3 Project, where I'm senior counsel with my good friend Mike Davis, You know, we're pushing really hard for House Republicans to make the SAVE Act a part of the impending must-pass piece of legislation when Congress gets back from their Labor Day recess. | ||
| They have a funding deadline to fund the government at the end of September. | ||
| Come October 1st, that's when the fiscal year starts. | ||
| Republicans should make sure that the SAVE Act, which is a federal piece of legislation that would require proof of citizenship in all the states, to make sure that that is a hard requirement for voting in a federal election, they should put that in the must-pass piece of legislation. | ||
| If the Democrats, Natalie, want to shut down the federal government come October 1st on behalf of an illegal alien invasion's right to affect the outcome of our elections, Let them do it. | ||
| If that is the hill that they want to die on, that is not going to stand with the American people. | ||
| This Biden-Harris administration's handling of the immigration issue is like 30 points underwater on the RealClearPolitics average last I checked. | ||
| If they want to die on the hill of allowing illegal aliens to corrupt our electoral process, I think House Republicans should make them do it. | ||
| It was also interesting too, I think, on the DNC stage, a lot of topics that they sort of abstained from talking about, right? | ||
| Though Harris tried to sort of weakly discuss the invasion at our southern border. | ||
| I noticed she didn't really discuss climate change, which of course made that crazy eco-terrorist wing of the party very upset. | ||
| But just from your perspective, were there any other topics that you think that they failed to really get a grasp on or cover in a meaningful way? | ||
| You know, Natalie, I'm not sure that I can think of a single issue that I feel like they meaningfully covered. | ||
| I mean, people today, people on social media last night were making a big deal of the fact that Kamala Harris promised affordable housing in her speech last night. | ||
| Okay, I'm sorry, but just simply promising affordable housing, that's not a policy. | ||
| That is not a substantive approach. | ||
| That's not actually saying what you will do with the levers of power to affect tax policy or anything like that. | ||
| That's just a platitude. | ||
| I mean, that is a vague promise that you are just telling people in the hope that they will not look at the fact that you have not done that over the past three and a half years. | ||
| You know, our generations, Gen Z's, millennials, they are acquiring homes. | ||
| Their home ownership rate at the age of 35 or 30, 35 is tragically and catastrophically lower than Gen X to say nothing of the boomers because the younger generations are simply not able to afford housing in this country. | ||
| And the percentage of Americans, more generally now, who are having to make sacrifices when it comes to the grocery aisle, simply to pay their utility bills, to put gasoline in their car. | ||
| I mean, these are very real economic trade-offs. | ||
| And, you know, the Democrats pretend like the people out there are not actually making these trade-offs. | ||
| But, you know, the populist party of Trump and J.D. | ||
| Vance, to their great credit, they are taking these issues head-on, as a stark contrast, I think. | ||
| And Josh, we've got to jump to break. | ||
| I want to hold you through. | ||
| We're certainly not going to surrender to the false calls of unity coming from, I don't know, the rhinos who lost the Republican Party to cede background on the populist victories that we've held. | ||
| We'll have Josh Hammer and Catherine O'Neill with us after this short break. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | |
| Welcome back to The War Room. | ||
| I've been catching a lot of flack for my Michelle Obama remarks from two shows ago, and I just want to say I stand by all of it. | ||
| We're still joined by Josh Hammer, who's got to bounce, but Josh, real quick, the audience one more time, if they want to read the piece, get the Newsweek opinion section, everything that you do over at the Article 3 Project, too, where can they go to find you, follow you, and do all that? | ||
| Yeah, great to join you, Natalie. | ||
| So I'm on XJosh underscore Hammer. | ||
| The column I wrote, No One Is Buying It, is found at Newsweek and a bunch of other write-up center publications that run the column as well. | ||
| And then I host two shows, the Josh Hammer Show and America on Trial with Josh Hammer. | ||
| And then finally, the Article 3 Project is at article3project.org. | ||
| Quite the busy guy. | ||
| We are always honored to have you in the War Room. | ||
| Thank you so much for joining, Josh. | ||
| You bet. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| Chris Hoare, I hear you have joined us to talk about one of my favorite sponsors, the satellite phones. | ||
| I think they're so cool. | ||
| I'm sure you have a nice deal since we're approaching catastrophic end times in this country, but walk us through the deals you got for the posse. | ||
| Well thanks Natalie. | ||
| What we've actually come up with today is a Faraday bag to help protect your satellite phone. | ||
| It's a brand new product. | ||
| It's the Escape Zone Satellite Phone Faraday Bag and you can check that out at darkbags.com. | ||
| We all know that data theft is on the rise, Natalie, and people are trying to get into your phones and your laptops and everything else, but a Faraday bag prevents any of that. | ||
| The bag itself is lined with silver, copper and other metals that help stop all signals. | ||
| So they'll stop a 2G, 3G, 5G signal, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, you name it. | ||
| And they'll also protect your device from solar flares, which Uh, turn out to turn into, uh, EMF or EMP, uh, players, which are basically electromagnetic, uh, electromagnetic pulses or electromagnetic fields. | ||
| And these can fry, uh, all electronic components. | ||
| And, uh, these sometimes come from the sun and they sometimes come from our, our enemies who've weaponized this kind of, uh, technology so that they can actually. | ||
| Point an EMF or an EMP at a ship or at an office building or at a location and fry all the electronic components there. | ||
| So the Faraday satellite bag, the Escape Zone satellite Faraday bag, is just $99, Natalie. | ||
| It's on sale right now at darkbags.com. | ||
| And then we also have, of course, the best-selling product we've had a long time, which is the Bulletproof Backpack. | ||
| We all saw what happened to President Trump and Look, he has incredible protection. | ||
| Maybe not quite so incredible on that day, of course, but he has a lot of protection with him and he still gets shot at. | ||
| And anyone who lives in America's big cities these days can tell you that gun violence is on the rise. | ||
| And of course, there's always the fear of active shooters in a school situation. | ||
| And with everyone going back to school, the kids going back to school right now, we all as parents want to make sure that our kids are safe. | ||
| And one way to do that is with the Bulletproof Ballistic Faraday Backpack. | ||
| This backpack is just 2.5 pounds in weight. | ||
| It's 18 inches by 12 inches. | ||
| 18 inches tall, 12 inches wide, and 5 inches deep. | ||
| And it has a Kevlar panel inside that will stop gunfire from a handgun, a shotgun, or even automatic weapons fire. | ||
| It has been certified by the NIJ. | ||
| The National Institutes of Justice to Level 3A. | ||
| So it has been tested and proven in the field. | ||
| It'll stop any handgun bullet up to a .44 Magnum shotgun blast or 9mm automatic weapons fire. | ||
| So this is something that can give your kids a fighting chance in the classroom, you know, protecting them from gunfire. | ||
| They can hold this in front of them and have a fighting chance. | ||
| It's also something that anyone can wear anywhere. | ||
| Um, I've had a couple of friends who are in Detroit recently and they just walked around the street and walked right into gunfire and you just don't know when it's going to happen. | ||
| You know, crime is, uh, is absolutely everywhere and, uh, guns and gun violence is on the rise, sadly. | ||
| Uh, so this bulletproof backpack from darkbags.com can be a real lifesaver. | ||
| And you can also call us, uh, if you want more information at 941-845-6808. | ||
| That's 941-845-6808. | ||
| Or, Natalie, you can go to darkbags.com. | ||
| But all these products are designed to help keep you and your equipment safe as can be. | ||
| Chris, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| I'm sure the posse will pile in. | ||
| We'll see you soon. | ||
| Thanks, Natalie. | ||
| And Mike Lindell, I think we have you. | ||
| Now, Mike, last time you were on the show, you did get crashed by Harry Sisson. | ||
| We made the rounds on the internet. | ||
| We went very viral. | ||
| But let's make the rounds. | ||
| We asked him if he had a vasectomy, for those of you who didn't see the clip. | ||
| But Mike, walk us through the latest deals you've got. | ||
| Or have you ever gotten an answer from Harry? | ||
|
unidentified
|
I never got the answer from Harry, but I was in there about another four hours, and right now I'm heading to another big event here in Chicago, everybody. | |
| I can check out that tonight on frankspeech.com. | ||
| I'm actually in traffic. | ||
| I couldn't even pull over to do this, but I'm sure they'll get me for doing that. | ||
| But anyway, I wanted to get on here and give the War Room the best special of the year. | ||
| We have a four-pack. | ||
| MyPillow 2.0, we brought it back $69.98 for the 4-pack, regular $199.92. | ||
| This is a War Room exclusive, king size, just $10 more. | ||
| And get this everybody, go to the website. | ||
| Everything is free shipping today. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| Everything is for the promo code War Room. | ||
| Free shipping. | ||
| Go to MyPillow.com. | ||
| Go down to your seat. | ||
| Steve there. | ||
| You miss him. | ||
| You click on his face and all the War Room specials are there. | ||
| There they are. | ||
| The sheets. | ||
| Remember, you can get the top. | ||
| Now's the time to get that mattress topper. | ||
| You get free sheets and free shipping. | ||
| And so all the towel specials, $25. | ||
| You can get those $9.50 sandals now with free shipping at the lowest price in the history of my pillow. | ||
| The closeout overstock sales, we have a sheet or a tie. | ||
| There's still some of the blankets on there from Portugal, everybody. | ||
| Get those, call 800-873-1062. | ||
| Let's break some records today and celebrate this week in Chicago. | ||
| So many great things came out of this and I'll probably get back on the war room tomorrow or Monday and tell you all about everything that happened. | ||
| It was amazing. | ||
| Mike, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| We'll see you soon. | ||
| We've got Catherine O'Neill with us now. | ||
| Catherine, one of my other favorite sponsors of The War Room, like I always say, my shows always go better if I eat steak before. | ||
| What deals do you have for The Posse today? | ||
|
unidentified
|
Thanks so much, Natalie. | |
| It's great to see you and to see The War Room Posse. | ||
| We are offering a site-wide discount today. | ||
| Usually you guys ask for our burger deals, but today we're throwing in something Really special, so 10% off, site-wide, code word WARROOM10. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Merryweatherfarms.com. | |
| We so appreciate you guys' support. | ||
| We wouldn't be here today without you, so go stock up. | ||
| Labor Day's coming up, so we gotta stock up the freezers. | ||
| And one more time, if people want to go to get the burgers, the hot—you guys are always selling out! | ||
| This stuff is so good. | ||
| Grass-fed, everything's wonderful. | ||
| One more time, where can people go? | ||
|
unidentified
|
Thank you so much. | |
| So, MeriwetherFarms.com, 10% off, site-wide, code word WAROOM10. | ||
| sent off sitewide code word war room 10 go now before we sell out. | ||
| You got to go now. | ||
| Catherine, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| We'll have you back on soon. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Thanks so much, Natalie. | |
| Have a good one. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| And Warren Posse, like I said, if you go on Rumble, where else? | ||
| Getter, Frank Speech, wherever you watch the 6 p.m. | ||
| show, because I'm in D.C. | ||
| and I'm super fired up. | ||
| I decided I'm going to spend my Friday evening doing the show. | ||
| entirely by myself for an hour, but I wanted to walk through. The left is already accusing | ||
| us of getting ready to steal the 2024 election. You know they operate, shouldn't be lost to | ||
| anyone, that they held their convention in Chicago, home of Saul Alinsky, which they | ||
| obviously operate under that rule of projecting and accusing your enemy of what you're guilty | ||
| of. So that to me, the sirens went off full send, full speed, that they're getting ready | ||
| to steal this election. So we're going to walk through, like I said, the mail-in ballot, | ||
| fraud, election shortages, the psyops and psychological warfare that they're trying | ||
| to perpetrate on the American people, blaming you guys, MAGA and the War Room Posse for | ||
| tearing the fabric of our democracy. | ||
| Yet in reality, it's sort of funny that they're willing to raise any issues with our electoral process to begin with, because I'm pretty sure I've been told that if you do that, you're a conspiracy theorist and you're spreading misinformation. | ||
| And, well, the New York Times may just go ahead and write an article saying that your podcast is the number one spreader of misinformation. | ||
| I'm, of course, just kidding. | ||
| Oh, wait, that actually did happen. | ||
| But like I said, that's going to start right after this show. |
Export Selection