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Nov. 15, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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WarRoom Battleground EP 653: Fear In The Deep State; Fixing Government For MAGA
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dave brat
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rachel maddow
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
This is what you're fighting for.
I mean, every day you're out there.
What they're doing is blowing people off.
If you continue to look the other way and shut up, then the oppressors, the authoritarians get total control and total power.
Because this is just like in Arizona.
This is just like in Georgia.
It's another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies and misrepresentations.
This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged.
As we've told you, this is the fight.
unidentified
All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth.
War Room.
Battleground.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
rachel maddow ▲ ● ▼
I think that the idea of the authoritarian promise is that everything shrivels in government other than the will of the leader, right?
So you don't necessarily put a Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
in charge of HHS because you're hoping for great things from HHS. I mean, Matt Gaetz, among all the other things we can say about Matt Gaetz, he has explicitly proposed abolishing The Justice Department.
Not specifically just abolishing the FBI and the ATF, but talking about abolishing the Justice Department.
I mean, Tulsi Gabbard, as the Director of National Intelligence, is, I mean, The idea that Tulsi Gabbard, in a normal circumstance, could get a security clearance to be a Walmart-style greeter at any U.S. intelligence agency, let alone get past the security barriers, is insane.
So you do that because you want the worst for these agencies, because you want the worst for the U.S. government, because you think that the U.S. government is worthless.
That's part of consolidating power, to make the U.S. government nothing other than the leader and people who will do what he says.
And there not being any repository of expertise, let alone just general day-to-day know-how, anywhere.
So it's a sort of, as Steve Bannon used to say, it's a sort of Leninist project, right?
Destroy the state.
This is the cabinet that you nominate not to run the U.S. government to do anything, but to destroy the U.S. government so that the U.S. government can be fundamentally reimagined as something much more like a unitary, authoritarian, or autocratic, for lack of a better term, system.
unidentified
And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder.
One of the four beasts saying, come and see.
And I saw and behold a white horse.
There's a man going around taking names.
And he decides who to free and who to blame.
Everybody won't be treated all the same.
There'll be a golden ladder reaching down.
When the man comes around.
The hairs on your arm will stand up.
The hairs on your arm will stand up.
terror in each sip and in each sub You partake of that last offered cup Or disappear into the potter's mouth When a man comes around Hear the trumpets,
hear the piper One hundred million seconds Some are born and some are dying.
It's Alpha and Omega's kingdom bound.
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree.
The virgins are trimming their wicks.
The whirlwind is in the palm trees.
It's hard for thee to kick against the bricks Till Armageddon, no shalom, no shalom Then the Father will he call his checkered tone.
The wise men will bow down before the throne.
And at his feet we'll cast the golden crowns when the man comes around.
Whoever is unjust, let him be a just still.
Whoever is righteous, let him be righteous still.
Whoever is filthy, let him be filthy still.
Listen to the words written down when a man comes around.
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers.
One hundred million angels singing.
Cultitudes are marching to the big hill of Rome.
Voices calling, and voices crying.
So is it sung, and some have died.
Salfa and Omega's kingdom come.
The world wind is in the thorn tree.
The virgins all are trimming their wits.
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree.
It's hard for thee to kick against the prince.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
This is enough for the whirlwind today in the imperial capital of Washington, D.C. That is Billy Strings, his cover of Johnny Casser's classic When the Man Comes Around, and of course, T. Bone Burnett.
Up there singing, taking the lead is from Old Brother, Where Art Thou?
Dave Brad, thank you for joining me.
It's a little bit like Armageddon for the deep state.
Man, we're going to rub this in.
The hits keep on coming.
Gates is the attorney general and nominated as attorney general.
They just announced the DAG, the deputy attorney general.
As you remember from the Comey situation, the DAG is all important.
Dave Brett knows this.
The DAG really runs the building.
And that is going to be Todd Blanche, President Trump's lawyer.
He's done such a great job of getting President Trump through here.
So Todd Blanche is the DAG. Sauer, another lawyer, President Trump, in this entire fiasco coming after him is going to be, I think, the Solicitor General of the United States, the one that's argued so eloquently.
I think Sauer argued the 9-0 decision in the Supreme Court.
You can see the hand of Mike Davis and Boris Epstein.
All over this, knowing these guys.
And I want to give a hat tip to Mike and to Boris and the entire legal team.
More announcements coming that Congressman Doug Collins from Georgia announced his Veterans Affairs.
And there'll be more coming.
I think the financial ones are going to come tomorrow, is my understanding.
Maybe late tonight or tomorrow.
So John Sauer.
We have Todd Blanche for the DAG. Oh, Jay Clayton.
Who was in the hunt for Attorney General Jay Clayton is going to go to the Southern District of New York.
That's the number one prosecutorial base for the federal government.
Berman, he's going to clean out that rat's nest in the Southern District and follow up on Berman.
Christy Scumbag, partner that destroyed that and then got fired by a person, got thrown out in the COVID situation.
So Berman and Berman, I would preserve your documents, brother.
OK, I would preserve your documents.
We got Todd Blanche, really former senior partner at Sullivan and Cromwell.
Now the chairman of Apollo Group, a super heavy hitter, was with us in the first term, the first administration.
He now returns, and I believe he is going to work with the DAG And others over at the Justice Department, Matt Gaetz, I assume they're going to ask for the resignations of all the U.S. attorneys.
Effective, I'm going to give a random date, Dave, maybe at one minute after noon on the 20th.
I'm just throwing that maybe randomly.
So you guys, get your bags, get your bags packed, preserve your documents.
Don't get the shredders out there in those U.S. attorneys' offices.
All you folks that jackbooted and kicked down, you sent the FBI to kick down the doors of grandmothers, and you kicked down the door of Tina Peters.
You hassled Mike Lindell and a thing.
You ran O'Keefe out in his underwear, his boxers.
All of that, all of that, all that.
Preserve those documents, folks.
Chain of custody.
People are going to go through that, and they got heavy hitters going to do it.
They say, well, what are you going to do about arresting bad guys?
Well, hey, there's plenty of bad guys in the government right now.
We're going to go through all that.
So Chris Hayes and Weissman.
Weissman, where are you?
You wet yourself today?
You wet yourself?
Are you using Depends every day, Weissman?
What'd they used to say about Trump?
The walls are closing in.
Walls are closing in.
They're closing in on Weissman.
They're closing in on McCabe.
McCabe, you got your passport out?
Washington Post got a big article today.
God, I love it when they write these articles.
People getting foreign assets.
They're getting their passports ready.
And go bags.
You got a go bag?
Here's a question.
How many Depends, how many senior Huggies, how many adult Huggies does Weissman have in his go bag?
Curious minds want to know.
It's very serious.
I don't mean to make fun of this, but you're so cowardly.
Your fear, when you're back there, they shouldn't do this, Matt Gaetz.
Matt Gaetz is getting confirmed.
If you notice, we kind of stopped the bleeding today.
You haven't seen any senators step up and say, Gates is going to go, hey, folks, that's called triage.
unidentified
That's called triage.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Brett knows.
And like I told the guys, I said, hey, we're going to have a comms thing here.
How about this?
Here's the comms plan.
Fixed bayonets, okay?
Get ready in the trenches.
Fixed bayonets.
We're going over the top here in a minute.
Got Matt Gaetz.
These are heroes.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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I think every guy, I think Hegseth loves Tulsi.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Tulsi loves Gaetz.
Gaetz loves RFK. I don't know if we can announce any.
Well, I guess you always got cash.
I guess you can get one more.
That is like a crescendo, right?
A crescendo of taking it out of the administrative state.
So Dave Brat...
It's not just talking about the administrative state and the deep state.
There's a sense of political culture here.
Folks, of all the years you've been fighting, there's the Tea Party and Trump's early days and the Trump's first victory.
There is something in this city, in the imperial capital that's changed over the last 48 hours.
It is a sense that there's been a seismic shift in the political culture.
And hey, I think they know.
We're not going back.
I'm not saying we're going to win every fight, folks.
Hey, there are going to be so many fights, and we're going to lose a couple of threes, so make sure you understand that.
These are not going to all be victories.
But they understand that this is now permanent, and there's a change to this day, Brett.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, I think that's right.
And I just heard Naomi, and everything you've been talking about all day for the last few days, it's a shattered political culture right now, right?
The political culture, the American people could not believe how dark it was.
It was dark.
unidentified
And now no one— A dark specter hanging over this city.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
Just, yes.
You could feel it.
Evil.
Evil.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
You could feel it.
unidentified
Evil.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
That's why everybody moved out.
We're the last guys here.
We've actually kind of boarded up.
I used to have dinner parties here, working dinners back in the old days all the time.
This house has been essentially closed since the pandemic.
And I never opened it because everybody, after they stole the election, everybody left.
There's nobody around.
You know that.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, and in theology, there's an old theologian Tillich.
Paul Tillich.
Shaking of the foundations.
And now you've got an assembly of Tucker Carlson, Jordan Peterson, Elon Musk going to God and back to first principles and even Elon, right?
The smartest people on the planet.
If you push them for a few sentences on the first principles, you get back To this country.
And so it's been dark.
And now we're seeing glimmers of the sunlit uplands, as you say.
And there's glimmers.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
I ripped that off of Churchill.
That's an homage to Churchill.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
And we can't get carried away because we got tough, tough times coming.
The economy, it's going to be tough.
We might be on the verge of a lost decade when it comes to the serious stuff, but we can do it.
And what is uplifting is the American people have the sense for the first time that the foundations are within our reach, right?
It's America first, but it's the America citizens first, the American citizens first.
And it just gives, you have to have hope.
You have to have that optimism.
You have to have some aim and purpose in your life.
And before, right, we were naive.
When I came into Congress, we had the separation of powers and these Madisonian language, and it's all good.
All that has been a cosmic joke.
We've learned that, right?
Thanks to RFK Jr., right?
unidentified
Right.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
Mike Glennon, the national security state and the double government, he showed us Article 1, 2, and 3.
They've been run by the deep state.
RFK shows that.
If you're sick of the Fauci stuff, read RFK's book at the end of the book.
He shows the evolution from the Rockefeller Foundation to the Gates Foundation to these elite billionaires setting up Practice runs for a COVID viral attack on the country 10 years ago in print.
All of it's sitting there.
How do you respond?
How would you overcome the press?
How would you overcome all of this?
Now you've got efficiency moves by Elon and Vivek.
And this can be done, right?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
But hang on, hang on, hang on.
I want to talk about Vivek.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
Yeah.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Because they played a clip earlier today where Elon, when he was at the Madison Square Garden, and Howard Lutnick was kind of interviewing him on stage, he says, of the $6.5 trillion, how much are you going to cut out?
He said $2 trillion.
Now I realize he's just talking.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
He's talking like I talk when I talk at those rallies.
However, help me out here, brother.
If they have to, and through the Doge effort, they're saying, but realistically, they're looking for a trillion dollars a year to cut out of this.
Which, hello, gets you back down to kind of a pre-COVID number, gets you closer to Trump's four and a half under five trillion, right?
Spending.
Just saying.
Why are we going to...
The budget they're going to cut is what we're going to pass or kick the can down the road.
So if it's a trillion dollars there, let's have a summit meeting and say, whoa, before we pass it into law, let's have that fight now.
Let's just go to appropriations.
Open it up to Vivek and to the team at OMB and to the team with Elon.
And let's not pass it and then have to go cut it.
Let's not pass it.
In fact, let's say we just do CRs.
I'll do this.
As long as they're on the program, we do see ours for 30 days until you go back and say, okay, here's the trillion dollars.
We cut it.
Now we pass it.
Can we do that?
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
I highly doubt it.
In terms of the budget, I've been telling the story for years with my Tea Party friends on this show.
We tried to save $40 billion.
Gary Palmer and I are paying to dead people.
We went to Paul and said, hey, can we come?
unidentified
Tell the audience that these are dead people getting Social Security checks.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
$40 billion.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
$40 billion, which is a teaspoon up here.
And the answer was, let me go check on it.
You're the Speaker of the House.
What are you checking on?
The Speaker makes every decision, right?
unidentified
So Vivek and Elon, the key to what they're going to- Hold on, but Paul Ryan's guys came back and said, no, we can't do it.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
No, we can't do it.
That's because there's a giant Excel spreadsheet in the sky.
And if you take $40 billion and put it toward the deficit to the American people, it's going to come from somebody, a donor.
That's the trick with the trillion.
But what they can do, this government reorganization and restructuring of employees, and everybody in DOD will tell you, and I had my district, and it's going to be painful.
But there are so many supply bins and this, that, and the other thing.
DOD, everybody getting checks.
Everybody knows there's too many four-stars, three-stars, two-stars.
All that has to be cut way back.
Then you reimagine your defense strategy.
And you realign a spending up to that number, right?
But you first reorganize government.
You get rid of all the layers.
That's what they can do, right?
So you don't need the budget to do that.
That's all under the executive.
They can reorg government.
Every single agency and the efficiency costs to come with it, that's a virtuous cycle going up.
Right now, everything we have is a non-virtuous cycle going down, crushing the economy, crushing the small guy, crushing the small business.
We need to get rid of all that.
And in economic terms, there's always been markets, right?
The ancient Greeks had the Agora.
The Hebrews had markets.
There's always markets.
But the genius of this country and of the founders who read books We constructed the free market system.
That is not just a bunch of markets.
That is a system that has to work all together.
Private property rights, rule of law, human rights language, all of that.
The true separation of powers.
When you have that put back in place for real, right now, look at going to war.
We have four wars going on right now.
None of them have gone through Congress.
Senator Cain fights every year in Virginia for this, you know, the War Powers Act.
Where is he?
There's no voice going up there.
So now we've got some great...
We've got John Ratcliffe in CIA. We've got Hegseth, DOD. We've got Tulsi Gabbard over the intelligence.
Now, when we do this, these pledges are fairly simple.
We will not go to war, spend another dollar until it's full transparency.
And this is the Rachel Maddow piece.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Do we have a cut just on her criticizing...
Just that one piece.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
And they say they want democracy.
They're going to get democracy.
That's what they're going to get.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Well, they got democracy here.
They got a democracy suppository on 5 November.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
They weren't expecting.
Transparency kicks in, and the good news for us is when we show the American people what's been going on in the 50 or 60 taking out regimes across the world, these color revolutions, and then as you cover every day, that tool has been used against the American people.
And Mike Benz has just been a gift from God on that story, right?
unidentified
Amazing.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
It's not we the people anymore.
They've changed the definition of democracy in law to the processes and institutions needed for democracy.
That doesn't sound threatening at first blush, but what that means is, and tweets were redefined as cyber events, so they now fall under DHS, Department of Homeland Security.
And so if you tweet, and this is what happened to 20 million tweets back under COVID, if you go after your own government and just say freedom of speech stuff, they can attack you, they can indict you, you know better than anyone, and the nerve of these folks to talk about Oh my word, they're going to use the government.
Yes, the government is in charge of the rule of law, and we're going to enforce the rule of law, and it's going to be fully transparent.
At base, I just want to say, this is a cliche.
This republic was built for a moral people.
And no one wants to hear about that.
You can do all of this stuff.
You can do all of the, you know, spreadsheets and set up the institutional piece, right?
But if you do not have a moral people underneath this, and what I like is the 52% of Americans that just spoke up are the non-college educated elites that have a moral compass.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
You like that?
You like that?
I want to make that differential.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
Oh, and the guy's in jail.
Yeah, and the guy's in jail.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
The inmates, the convicts.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
They're in prison, and they have a better moral sense than our elites.
They know what we've got to do.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Let's play Rachel Maddow the short clip about she's criticizing Lieutenant Colonel Tulsi Gabbard that's been in harm's way before.
They're criticizing her that she doesn't have a security clearance.
No, Rachel, that would be you that don't have a security clearance.
And why do you don't have a security clearance?
Because you've never served your country, ma'am.
Let's go ahead and play it.
rachel maddow ▲ ● ▼
I think that the idea of the authoritarian promise is that everything shrivels in government other than the will of the leader, right?
So you don't necessarily put a Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
in charge of HHS because you're hoping for great things from HHS. I mean, Matt Gaetz, among all the other things we can say about Matt Gaetz, he has explicitly proposed abolishing The Justice Department.
Not specifically just abolishing the FBI and the ATF, but talking about abolishing the Justice Department.
I mean, Tulsi Gabbard, as the Director of National Intelligence, is, I mean, The idea that Tulsi Gabbard, in a normal circumstance, could get a security clearance to be like a Walmart-style greeter at any U.S. intelligence agency, let alone get past the security barriers, is insane.
So you do that because you want...
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
You're a disgrace.
You're a disgrace.
You're an absolute disgrace.
And for the Roberts, this is the Roberts family, to keep her on there?
Her nasty attitude, her nasty mouth.
Well, you don't like Tulsa, you don't like Lieutenant Colonel who has a security clearance because she served a country, which you didn't.
Because she's not a lesbian?
Is that it?
Or she's a woman of color?
Right?
She's a woman of color.
Or she served her country.
Or she saw your lies.
She specifically went from a Democrat that believed your lies to now she's part of MAGA. Is that why you hate her?
You hate her because she saw your lies?
Why do you come after Tulsi Gabbard and why do you lie and smear her?
She has the security clearance.
It's not for being a greeter at Walmart.
It's for being in the field up in Syria.
Up in Syria, where your American empire is rutting around where it shouldn't be.
Rutting around where it shouldn't be.
Maddow, you're a disgrace.
You got your comeuppance last Tuesday.
All your MSNBC and Joanne Reed and Chris Hayes and all your acolytes.
Democracy.
You put democracy on the ballot, ma'am.
You put it on there.
You put it on there.
And the American people, not the credential class, not the snowflakes to watch MSNBC, the two-thirds are curled up in the fetal position not watching you right now.
Your gutless viewers are sucking—they've got a pacifier in the fetal position to the two gutless to stand up and say, hey, we're going to fight these guys.
They're not going to fight us.
They're gutless like you are.
You sit up there and you've got all the power and you've got all your experts that are coming from the government, and you're going to mock Tulsi Gabbard?
You're going to mock a young woman who served her country and come up through the ranks and now is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserve and is deployed before?
Is that what you're going to do?
Why?
Because she's a woman of color?
Is that what you're going to do?
You think you can pick on her that way?
Or she's a patriot?
Or she was a former progressive Democrat that's now with MAGA? Or she's not a lesbian?
Is that what it is?
Is that what gets under the skin?
You think you have to go after her?
I'll match her security because I will guarantee you one thing, ma'am.
You will never, ever, ever have a security clearance.
You will never have a security clearance.
Yes.
The enemies of the people are the media.
I've said that for years.
They're the opposition party in all their glory.
And I think you need a deep, fundamental investigation of how they've coordinated and been part of a criminal conspiracy.
Weissman, you're part of a criminal conspiracy.
You used the RICO statutes, brother, against an awful lot of folks.
What's good for the goose is going to be better for the gander.
Because we're coming for you.
And we're going to use those statutes.
Preserve your documents.
Don't be shredding anything.
Don't be burning anything.
Don't be throwing those phones away.
You people are revolting.
Disgusting.
You've got people in these prisons.
Not in camps.
You've got them in prisons.
Because they're praying the rosary outside the murder factories.
The butcher shops that you hold up.
If we're praying the rosary, you got a thousand, what, J6ers in there?
Some just walk by the Capitol in prison with multi-year sentences, and you're laughing all the time, and these people are bad.
Hey, we're going to see how much you laugh when the tables are turned, because tables are turned.
Fauci and all the guys, all the lies you said on the pandemic, all the lies you said about the vaccine, all the lies you said about anything.
unidentified
Hey, we're going to be charged at going through the records.
We're going to go through very, very systematically.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Okay!
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
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unidentified
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Dave Brat's going to pick it up from here.
Brad, you finally get to talk.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
You see here?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
So good.
unidentified
You're so good.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
Great having you back.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Short commercial break.
unidentified
I've got to punch.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
I'll be back at 10 a.m.
unidentified
tomorrow morning.
Dave Brat will take you home.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Love you guys.
See you tomorrow morning.
unidentified
All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth.
War Room Battleground with Stephen K. Bannon.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼
Back in the war room with the great Stephen K. Bannon.
So honored to be in the chair with Steve back in the house.
I had no idea I was going to be sitting here tonight.
I came up for something tomorrow.
Steve said, I'm Bolton, you're on.
And so just an honor to be here.
I just want to pick up where Steve just left off on this Rachel Maddow.
And by what moral authority does she speak?
Tulsi Gabbard has more moral authority in her pinky finger.
Then the left combined.
She is just the finest person.
When she speaks, she carries moral authority.
And this assault on Matt Gaetz, I was in the Congress with him.
Everybody comes out against him.
But as Steve has said over and over and over again, courage is the one key piece.
Gaetz is bright.
He's smart.
He's got strategy.
He's got objectives.
He plans things out.
But at the bottom, it's all courage.
With 20 or 30 people in the Congress, right, you've seen the turnover in the House from the top guns, right?
The Eric Cantors and the Paul Ryans and the McCarthys and everybody saying Gates has just got some, you know, he's just on a personal vendetta.
That is all false.
I've been in this process for 10 years.
The whole thing is false.
The whole thing is there are a few people who are willing to stand up when you're being lied to, when you're just being lied to over and over and over on the Ukraine war.
We did a coup d'etat in 2014, John Mearsheimer, on Ukraine.
Now we're spending hundreds and hundreds of billions of your dollars on these wars.
Where are the senators and the House members speaking up on that?
When I was in the House, the deficit was $800 million, and I voted no, and I was on the budget committee and got in trouble every day on that.
I was against that.
Now they're $2 trillion deficits.
Gates and the Freedom Caucus and everybody just stood up on just basic grounds to protect the American people.
And for that, you are annihilated.
That's the major story up here.
And if you have the courage to stand up like President Trump, Has stood in the breach for all Americans.
He didn't have to do any of that.
He could have gone off and had just a life of leisure with his great family and the kids and all of it.
And he did not do that.
And why?
Because he loves this country.
And this country is now loving him back.
Thank God.
At base, this is a moral thing.
President Trump, I don't think, would ever want, you know, to...
He doesn't wear the religion on his sleeve.
Steve Bannon doesn't.
Peter Navarro doesn't.
But what they're doing, they're doing Herculean lifts on behalf of this country.
And to hear these elitists come back, right, after the American people had just spoken.
And they spoke loud and clear.
But it's no time to get cocky.
You heard the show last night, the Color Revolutions.
They've turned the tables on us.
They're using all the tools we've used on the coup d'etat internationally to turn on the American people.
And the American people are catching on, but we're still not there.
The one piece we have left is we need to educate the entire country.
I hope everybody goes out.
And now you've got RAV. You've got X. You've got Rumble.
You've got Truth.
You've got all these pieces to work with.
The young people listening, I hope you take charge of this.
You need to get on board here.
When you read The Real Fauci by RFK Jr., and when you see pieces that move you that haven't been widely shared, you need to copy and paste and put that out there so everybody can learn this stuff.
It's horrendous what we've done to the American people.
And so going back to the House a bit, right?
We've had leadership in the House for the past 30 years, the House and the Senate.
And now you've got the Wall Street Journal, etc.
And all of a sudden they're crowing about this debt bomb we've got.
They never crowed about that back when I was in.
They didn't crow about it.
Now all of a sudden President Trump comes up and they're talking tariffs and all this kind of stuff.
I just want to get this piece straight, too, for the American people.
So we get our economic house in order.
I've been over it a million times with charge.
You can go out and find a charge.
Brad Economics on Getter.
But productivity has gone down for 70 years in a row.
CBO has it going down for the next 30 years in a row.
Okay, so now you're bored with that line.
But that is the line.
That's the real economy.
It's not doing well.
So the folks who say we're simply going to grow our way out of this...
I really hope so, but that's going to take Elon and Vivek and the House getting on board and the Senate leadership getting on board.
I haven't heard anything from any of these folks in leadership positions about a plan.
I was stunned when I came in.
We promised one thing.
We're going to repeal Obamacare.
For seven years, we promised that.
We didn't keep our word.
That's a moral failing of the first order.
And so now it's incumbent on us.
I just want to go over real quick because I bore you all with this productivity stuff.
Three things cause productivity.
And this is Nobel.
Robert Solow won the Nobel Prize for this.
Man Q at Harvard says the same thing.
So when Brad's making up these three things that cause productivity growth, these are the three things widely agreed on by the top economists who are not all mega.
Let me tell you that one.
The three things that cause growth are capital, capital formation, the amount of capital you put in the Americans' hands.
This is why the tariff threat is so important.
China, we've all sent our jobs abroad, but just as important, we've sent our capital abroad.
The factories, China is still a manufacturing powerhouse and we are not.
They have $100 trillion in capital to work with.
The United States of America, who has a bigger economy, we only have $70 trillion of capital in the hands of the American workers.
That has to change.
That's the Navarro play.
That's the tariff argument.
Dear Wall Street Journal, please tell me where we're wrong on this.
Human capital.
Education in the United States.
The elites are doing DEI. Everybody knows the story now.
They're doing everything except education.
In Chicago, the poor kids in the inner-city schools, the literacy rate is 12%.
That's another third of economic growth.
The final third is technological growth.
There were the envy of the world, but the problem there is it never makes its way down to the poor.
And so this revolution from beneath, this is how all the great revolutions start.
A lot of talking on Henry V earlier today on the show.
Love it.
Agincourt, the battle, the hope of the minority fighting the majority and winning.
What a great story we have.
But now it's time to get to the heavy lifting.
And so I just want to go through a few more notes we have on the institutions, the moral foundations, the folks we got fighting on our side.
Naomi Wolf, RFK Jr., go back and read that book, The Real Anthony Fauci, and share that with everybody you know.
The other one is Mike Gibbons, the national security and double government.
That is equally important.
That's the argument that we have this separation of powers in this country.
That is a total myth right now.
That is a farce, right?
Why do you think Bannon went to jail?
Why do you think Nabarro went to jail?
Why do you think there's tens and tens of trumped-up charges against President Trump?
That's lawfare.
We do not have a balance of power, right?
It's been overtaken by the elites and the cutouts and the NGOs.
That's gonna be the new piece coming out.
When we get transparency and we find the State Department cutouts, the CIA cutouts, the FBI cutouts, that's gonna make you very excited and it's gonna motivate you.
And when the American people find out what this country has been doing to you, The American people, the Rachel Maddows, are going to have their heads down.
They cannot defend anything they've been defending for the past 30 years and they know it.
That's the tough piece that's coming up for the left.
We have the moral high ground on our side, brought to you by the Judeo-Christian West.
And I just want to reiterate that piece again.
It's one thing to have the technocrats on our side.
We're going to chop up the government.
We're going to cut it down to fight and wait again.
We're going to regrow it and reimagine it the right way, doing strategy the right way.
You've heard Eric Prince on this show talking about how we're spending billions and billions to shoot down many weapons in the Gulf.
It's horrendous when you hear these stories.
So we can save that money, but really it's the moral authority of the American people who stand behind all of it.
And we, the American people, need to get back to the Judeo-Christian values and virtues that made us great.
Way back when, right, economic growth only started in about 1700.
Prior to that, everyone on this earth made a thousand bucks a year.
And so if you don't get the cookbook right, we will not get this country back on track, right?
The Judeo-Christian West brought us private property rights, the rule of law, human rights language, the left.
You asked someone on the left, why do human beings matter in the first place?
That is the central question for a government.
We are the sovereign in this country.
Why?
The founders, in their wisdom, they used to read books and books and books.
They knew the Greeks.
They knew Rome.
They knew the Enlightenment.
They knew it all.
And they framed a government based on the idea that you all are made in the image of God.
And that ought to give us hope, politically and economically.
If you're made in the image of God, you have God's mind within you.
You have great capacity to do great things.
And so the good news is the hope is if you're raising your kids up with those moral foundations and with that entrepreneurial American spirit, they can still do anything they want.
This is the greatest country on earth, and it's up to us now to make it that way.
We can blame it out.
We're going to run into some turbulent times, as Steve says, every day.
The economy is going to get shaky.
They've set it up, right?
They printed $9 trillion.
That piece, the monetary policy, the Federal Reserve, that's going to run out of bullets, right?
That's coming to an end.
We're doing $2 trillion deficits.
Those are stimulative.
Those have boosted Bidenomics.
All of it's fake.
All of that economic progress led to economic growth because they just shoved money from here into government spending, basically on government jobs and health care, which isn't productive and doesn't make jobs.
And so what did that result in, in terms of jobs?
For the past year, all new jobs have been part-time.
All.
Full-time jobs are negative.
They've shrunk.
That's why we just won the election.
Why else did we win the election?
Because all new jobs since 2018 went to foreign-born workers.
Where has Congress been on that one, on this border invasion?
Where has your representative been on the border invasion?
They're not screaming.
They're getting huge checks from the cheap labor crowd.
All of that just shifted and all the appointments, every appointment you've seen, every single person knows that that reality is going to change and we got a team in place finally.
That's going to turn that ship around, right?
The cheap labor days are done.
The deportations are going to start, I'm guessing, with the most serious suspects, the drugs, the cartels, the criminals, the Chinese invasion of this country.
All new jobs in the past four years since 2018 have gone to foreign-born workers.
Just let me say that again.
Rachel Maddow and you leftists, what moral authority do you have?
And how do you dare speak to the American people?
About our side trying to restore the rule of law.
Why does everyone in the world want to come to this great country?
Because of that Judeo-Christian ethos.
We love everybody.
What did we put in play?
We put in play minority rights for every single minority group.
We've guaranteed you're all talking about, what are you talking about?
Authoritarianism.
All conjecture.
President Trump was president for four years.
Not a hint, not a whiff, nothing.
You're just made up a narrative like you made up the Russian collusion thing.
What this country has done is we've promised life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to everyone.
What the left really wants is power.
They want rights to ensure that everyone gets a paycheck so they're in charge of your life.
That's what they want.
Where is the authoritarianism in that story?
And while we're on the authoritarian story, let's define fascism for a second.
Fascism has been the confluence of the state, the big state, which we don't want, along with the modern corporation, Hitler, Mussolini, etc.
They wanted about 10 power corporations they could control.
Sound familiar?
We got the Magnificent Seven all on the left.
They're shifting.
All of a sudden, President Trump wins, and all of a sudden, on a dime, we got new friends over on this side of the football.
Pretty shocking.
We'll see how the president deals with all that.
But Zuckerbucks, right?
That's all you need to say, right?
It's just, oh, it's just a coincidence all the money went to swing states and on and on and on.
And 20 million, you know, tweets out of the other cyber CEOs, right?
Censorship across the board.
No one's speaking up.
Zuckerberg now, to his credit, wrote a letter to Congress saying the government put pressure on me.
A little too late.
But as I said earlier, the transparency is going to be the new part here.
And so the American people are awakening, but I don't want to get overjoyed.
52 to 48 was historic win, the way it worked out on the map with a popular vote by 5 million people.
Huge.
But I'm not sure if our leadership has the full story yet and the full courage needed to do.
And that's why it's incumbent on you.
When Steve says, we're still at the ramparts, we are still, and you heard Naomi.
She said, I'm a nice Jewish lady, right?
And she says, in the Jewish tradition, we don't get too excited until it's over.
It ain't over, right?
We got tough times.
You're seeing the mainstream media have an out-of-body experience.
Why?
Because they're losing power.
It's all about money and power up here in the Imperial City.
How do we fix that?
We return the Department of Education back to you.
We the people.
We return the power and the $7 trillion back to you.
And it's very exciting.
It's very promising.
But you heard Steve and I talking about if we do government reform right, that can deliver a huge piece.
But where's leadership going to be?
Back when I was in Congress, right, the budget was $4.5 or $5 trillion.
Now it's $7 trillion in our debt load right now, right, $36 trillion, if you can fathom that.
That's World War II level debt loads with no world war.
We got four wars and 14 hotspots going on all over the world right now.
Because our military is in disarray.
There's no strategy.
There's no coherent leadership, etc.
That's going to change.
And so we're going to realign the state.
And then when it comes time to the budget, we'll see who the heroes are.
We'll see who's on our side of the football when it goes.
And I hate to tell you, but it always comes down to the Speaker of the House.
He's a good man.
And I hope...
He made a deal in the short run last year, but we'll see right now this year.
When he gets the authority and the American people are behind us, I still have not seen a contract with America on the simplest items.
No debt.
No wars without war authority.
No border invasion.
I want to see some promises out of the congressional leadership.
We always spend too much time bashing the House.
The Senate is crickets.
They're the imperial court up there.
You're supposed to genuflect and bow before them.
They pick one issue in six years.
They have nine doors.
They have entire hallways, their office staff.
And then on top of nine doors and nine offices down, marble office buildings, they have committee floors as well.
Committee staff in the 30s and 50s and 100s that all could be committed to running this government in the right way.
What would that look like?
Have you ever seen a Congressional Budget Office report on the border invasion?
I don't think so.
Have you ever seen any economists chalk up the total cost of wars right now to you, the American people?
What's the total cost of war?
And please add in there the cost of human life, right?
A million dead boys sitting there in the Ukraine because of the United States and a bunch of oil deals and mineral deals, etc., right?
It's an abomination, right?
And the moral language has to come back.
God delivers.
We invoke the name of God on this show.
President Trump invoked God.
But for a millimeter, he said, by the grace of God, I'm standing here.
Steve Bannon, the war room, the leaders, the American people.
I never heard so many prayers coming into the war room for Steve, for this country.
What a blessing that is to hear the prayers.
But when you invoke the name of God and then God delivers, undeserved, undeserved always.
When he delivers, what are we going to do the next day?
What's on your list?
What is your moral commitment to God to make this country better?
What is your church and synagogue going to do in practical ways?
What are you going to do to help the black, the brown, the blue collar workers, those less fortunate?
We can all do our share.
What are you going to do to help the literacy rate in the inner cities?
The Democrats have destroyed it.
But to our shame, the conservatives, we don't have enough cities on a hill that we can point to and say, look what we've done.
Look at what we have achieved.
That's what this show is all about.
It's what we're going to achieve together.
And when I'm talking morality, I'm not talking about being pious and acting religious and all that.
I'm talking about love God and love your neighbor with all your heart, mind, and soul.
Love your neighbor.
If we do that alone, we'll get everything right.
This country will be blessed again.
God's hand will come down strongly to restore this country.
We're also praying for Israel.
What a quagmire.
We're praying for the rest of the world.
China.
Rubio, I think, is going to be tough on China.
We love the Chinese people.
The CCP, we'll see.
They're cracking up.
Japan copied our cookbook economically, but they couldn't copy...
The essence, the soul of it.
And they cracked.
They had two lost decades.
China is cracking up right now.
The U.S. has cracked up.
But it's on all of us right now in the war room to turn this country around.
And by the grace of God, we've been given another chance.
Let's all do it together.
Let's everybody pitch in, educate everyone you know, share this platform.
A lot of people still don't know about it.
Share Steve Bannon, The War Room with every friend you have.
God bless you all.
It's an honor always to sit in.
God bless you.
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