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Nov. 28, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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Episode 4089: A WarRoom Thanksgiving Day Special
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I'd like to talk to you tonight about a great lady.
And she was just that, a very great lady.
And a celebrity, which is something else, of course.
A toast of society.
On top of that, she was a suffragette, a sort of great-grandmother of woman's lib, and one of the finest singers in this country.
Her name was Miss Julia Ward Howe.
Here she is, in the happy autumn of her brilliant life.
Now, Miss Julia was born before photography was invented, and though there were cameras by the time Miss Julia had grown up to be beautiful, and she was, you know, very beautiful, If there is a photo made of her back in her youthful days as a breaker of hearts, I haven't been able to find it.
Never mind.
After all this time, we still remember her with so much affection.
Because of some words she wrote for a song.
I don't think there's any argument that it's the greatest song ever to come out of America, and hers are the greatest lyrics.
The music started well ahead of the words.
It started in church and then moved out into the battlefield.
It began as a hymn.
And grew to be the most heart-quickening, marching song in all history.
It's quite a story.
Before the Civil War, there was an old man named Brown who tried to start a civil war all on his own.
An angry old man who reckoned it wasn't enough just to say that slavery was wrong.
Something had to be done about it.
Slaves had to be set free.
So he and his sons and a few other people picked up their guns and tried to do just that.
It didn't work, of course.
Nobody was freed.
Old Mr. Brown was caught and tried for treason and hanged.
He was either a martyred hero or a bloodthirsty villain, depending on your viewpoint.
It's an argument that's still going on.
You can dispose of me, he said, standing on the scaffold.
You can dispose of me very easily.
This other matter has not been disposed of.
This Negro question, I mean.
The end of that is not yet.
Well, they buried him.
Not so long afterwards, that crazy private battle of his broke out so publicly that it all but broke our nation in two.
It very nearly destroyed us.
And early on in that terrible civil war of ours, a few soldiers picked up that half-forgotten hymn tune and improvised some words, and pretty soon an army was marching to it.
Maybe what old Brown had done in life was unlawful, but the spirit moving him was freedom.
A spirit in our land we like to think can never die.
And that's the sense of what the soldiers were singing.
John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave.
But his soul goes marching on.
Carried the whole Union army into battle.
Well, Miss Howe was the lady who made it the battle hymn of the Republic.
The whole Republic.
A nation.
As Miss Howe's great admirer, Mr. Lincoln, so greatly put it.
Dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Her song was for all of us to sing, and all of us to live by.
She'd had a sleepless night.
This happened in Washington, the old Willard Hotel, and somehow just before dawn, those words all came to her all at once, as though some other hand had written them and passed them on to her.
So Miss Julia Howe got up out of her hotel bed and found, as she said later, an old stub of a pen and as daybreak lightened over a sleeping city sat down at the window and got it all written out before the sun had reached the paper.
Those words of hers still help to bind and hold us.
A song not for half a nation to march to but for a whole people to stand up And sing together.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword.
His truth is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea, with a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me.
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, while God is marching on.
Hum. Hum. Hum.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
He is trampling of the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword.
His truth is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
His truth is marching on.
I have seen him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps.
They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps.
I have read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps.
His truth is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
His truth is marching on.
I have read a fiery gospel, written burnished rows of steel.
As ye deal with my condemners, so with you my grace shall deal.
Let the hero born of woman crush the serpent with his heel.
His truth is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
His truth is marching on.
He has sounded forth a trumpet that shall never recall retreat.
He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment seat.
Oh, be swift my soul to answer.
Oh, be jubilant my feet.
His truth is marching on Glory, glory, hallelujah Glory, glory, hallelujah In the beauty of the release Christ was born across the sea With a glory in his bosom That transfigures you and me As he died to make men holy
Let us die to make men free His truth is marching on Glory, glory, hallelujah Glory, glory, hallelujah Glory, glory, hallelujah.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
His truth is marching on.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
He is trampling out the vengeance where the grapes of wrath are stored.
He has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword.
His truth This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
The people have had a belly full of it.
I know you don't like hearing that.
I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
It's going to happen.
jake tapper ▲ ● ▼
And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
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MAGA Media.
jake tapper ▲ ● ▼
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
johnny cash ▲ ● ▼
War Room.
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Okay, welcome.
It's Thursday, the 28th of November in the year of our Lord, 2024. It's Thanksgiving Day.
This is our Thanksgiving Day special.
I know if you're traveling to go to family and friends for your gathering today and spend a couple hours here with the war room on our Thanksgiving, a special right there.
You heard, of course, that was Orson Welles teeing up one of my favorite songs, the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
And then Odetta, she just passed away a few years ago.
She was actually going to sing Battle Hymn, I think, at President Obama's first inauguration.
But I believe she passed away right before then.
It is one of my favorite, if not my favorite rendition of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
So we're here today to give thanks.
This day is about gratitude.
I'm going to talk a lot about the founding of the country.
We're going to talk about some of the big moments in the country's history, how it is related and how it's driven us to this point in time.
This is a very historical, obviously, a hinge of history for us and for our movement and for this movement that's saving the American Republic.
And we're going to talk about We're going to talk about some of the founding moments of it.
We're going to talk about the first Thanksgiving.
I'm going to play back with Larry Swikert from last year.
There's a couple of elements.
That absolutely just – I thought were absolutely incredible that we had, and they were so good.
Instead of trying to recreate them, I said, let's just go back to the file and cut and splice, and we'll put it in.
In fact, the next segment is Larry Swikert and myself from last year going through talking about, I don't know, election of 1864, the founding of the country, all that.
I'm also in the second hour.
I want – Welcome to my show!
Kind of caught between a republic and an empire and what our founders and the framers really thought about that and how much they look back at the Roman Republic as a model for the United States of America.
really the lessons of the Roman Republic, the structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the way they govern themselves through the Senate and through the kind of the popular vote of the plebeians, what they thought about the structure of society and kind of that constant tension between the populist and the aristocracy, the populist and what they thought about the structure of society and kind of that constant tension between the populist and the aristocracy, the populist and the elites kind of drove the Roman Republic, how the Roman Republic fell and how the Roman
All topics today, Thanksgiving Day special.
As you know, I really love these specials and particularly love being with you guys on these very special days.
Okay, we're going to have Johnny Kahn, the great Johnny Kahn.
This is one of my favorite songs.
The reason is...
John Kahn wrote this at really the height of the Tea Party movement.
It became one of the anthems.
It's not the anthem of the Tea Party movement.
It would always play when Andrew Breitbart spoke.
And Andrew Breitbart, the firebrand, was the leader.
The Tea Party movement was self-organizing, but I would think most people would say he was the leader of that movement.
Very honored to know him.
And I love this song, not just for the nostalgia and the memories, but how much it means, I think, and how much it talks about the soul of America.
What we're talking about today in gratitude and an appreciation on a Thanksgiving Day in the historic year of 2024. We're going to leave you with Johnny Kahn, American Heart.
When we return, we're going to have the historian Schweikert with me, and we'll go through and talk about Thanksgiving Day in American history.
Be back in the warm in just a moment.
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We don't have the strength to say And I won't be made to ever feel ashamed I've
got stars in my eyes Oh, I'm in love with her And I won't apologize They say that we need changing As if all the founding fathers seem to get it wrong Welcome
back to our Thanksgiving Day special.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
It's Thursday, 23 November, in the year of early 2023. You know, we call Hank Williams the Hillbilly Shakespeare, but I think Johnny Cash, what is the Hillbilly Marlowe?
Pretty close.
Just magnificent.
Thanksgiving Day, we're going to play that music in and out of today.
Really want to thank the team in Denver that's always here to help us with these specials.
Of course, our crack team, I want to stick with Lincoln, and here's why we're starting this year a little differently, instead of going back to the first Thanksgiving of when it was really the official Thanksgiving Day started, because it was a time of trial, and I mean intense trial.
If you go back to October, and we'll go back to Gettysburg in a second, but if you look at 20 October 1864 when the proclamation came out, There was something between that date, Larry, and the official first Thanksgiving, and that was called the election of 1864. And I know we talk about elections.
Every election is the most important election in American history right now and the one that we're facing next year.
But the election of 1864 was at that time, and I think all the way up to the current day, Maybe 16, maybe 24, was the most important election in the history of the country because it was going to decide the history of the country.
President Lincoln, as you remember, Larry, was so concerned.
About the direction of the country and particularly the political direction.
He didn't really run as a Republican the second time.
They ran on a national unity, I think the Union Party, that he got rid of as Vice President Hannibal Hamlin from Maine and replaced him really with a Democrat from eastern Tennessee who I think was the only still one of the few senators.
In the South, and that was Andrew Johnson as a unity ticket.
The reason he needed a unity ticket, President Lincoln was running, which a lot of people don't realize, he was running against his field commander of the first years of the Civil War, and that was McClellan.
And McClellan's basically pitch essentially was, we've got to make a deal with the South.
We have to make a deal, and they either go in peace or we'll figure something out, but there's been too much bloodshed.
We're not going to win this.
Of course, Atlanta fell on one September.
But in August, correct me if I'm wrong, didn't President Lincoln draft this incredibly controversial memo that even Seward and others that were very close to him on the team arrivals cabinet said, whoa, because essentially the memo said to the cabinet, That, hey, we're in a great conflict.
We've gone all in on this.
The nation's all in on this.
But as it looks now, because Atlanta had not fallen, as it looks now, we could very well lose this election.
But didn't he say words to affect something that if we lose, then we, this cabinet, somehow have to bring this war to a successful conclusion?
And it left open...
transfer of government in March of 1865, which had been the date.
Is that the context in which Lincoln wrote this proclamation to set up the first Thanksgiving?
larry schweikart ▲ ● ▼
Well, let's go back through this a little bit.
In July 1863, the war had been going very badly for the Union.
They had won, really, in the East.
Now, they'd had many victories in the West, but for some reason, the West didn't count, because it wasn't Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
It wasn't in the eyes of all of the Eastern newspaper men.
And so you needed a victory in the war in the East to solidify things, and they really didn't get one until Antietam, which was, it was a draw, but because Lee withdrew, historians generally ascribe that as a victory for the North.
But then you had all sorts of other defeats and some horrible things like Fredericksburg, And so the war was still going very, very badly for the North until Gettysburg.
And in a four-day period, the Union won the Battle of Gettysburg and the very, very long ongoing siege of Vicksburg by Ulysses Grant finally came to an end and Vicksburg surrendered, all within a four-day period.
And you would have thought, okay, war is over.
Well, it wasn't.
And by mid-1864, it was dragging on, and while the Union had had other victories, it hadn't yet gotten that knockout victory that they needed.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Well, hang on, hang on, hang on.
Even, even, even, I don't want the audience to understand this about the tragedy of the country.
The Overland, they brought, they fired everybody, brought Grant and Sherman, the entire staff of the West, to east of the White House, and they said, we're going to go to Richmond.
If it takes however long it takes, the casualty rates, the Overland campaign, but by the midsummer of 1864, you've had more bloodshed than ever.
I mean, these campaigns are just wars of attrition, complete, just hit the South, hit the South.
They're backing up to Richmond.
But the casualty rates now, people like Seward and others are going...
You know, this thing is, and people associate this with Gaza or Hamad, this is out of control.
The blood here is just too much, and it's not going to stop because the Confederacy doesn't look like they're ever going to surrender.
I mean, the tragedy of the nation is actually getting deeper and deeper and drenched in blood.
larry schweikart ▲ ● ▼
Well, and Grant was highly opposed.
to these kinds of campaigns.
He had agreed, his own soldiers basically convinced him to launch an attack at Vicksburg, which he didn't want to do.
He just wanted to starve him out.
But his own soldiers lobbied him so hard he went against his own better judgment and launched one Large-scale attack, and then his own soldiers said, you know, this digging.
Digging isn't quite so bad as we thought.
Let's keep digging for a while.
So when he comes east, he really doesn't want to have to engage in a lot of these frontal attacks, and he keeps moving around to Lee's right, moving around to his right, moving around to his right, but Lee kept blocking him off.
And once or twice, Grant thinks, maybe we have a chance, as all of the generals on the Western Front thought in World War I, maybe we have a chance for a breakthrough to end this once and for all.
And, of course, you end up with these horrific casualties at Cold Harbor and the Battle of the Crater.
And Grant finally says, no, we're not going to end this by head-on attack.
We've got to keep moving around until Lee stretched so thin he can't fight.
But the key to all that is That's a long process, and the politicians in Washington were getting extremely concerned that the war was never going to end, that we weren't going to be able, that Lee would escape again to the West, and this would go on for years and years.
So, Lincoln was resigned to the fact, as you mentioned earlier, That he wasn't even going to be the Republican nominee that year.
He said, I've just got to go a different route.
He fires Hamlin.
He brings in a Democrat who was not like some moderate Democrat.
Andrew Johnson was a pretty radical, hardline Democrat, but he was still in the union, one of the few Democrat senators who didn't leave.
And Lincoln's opponent, as you mentioned, was a very successful general, which up before Gettysburg, had given us our only major victory in the East, McClellan, the Napoleon of the West.
And so Lincoln is pretty resigned by October, despite the Atlanta falling, that he's probably not going to win reelection.
Now, Your viewers need to understand, Lincoln is not the most optimistic of guys many times because he personally was a chronic depressive.
Historians don't know yet medically how to term him, but he was such a depressive that when his first love, Ann Rutledge, left him high and dry, he literally vanished for almost a month.
Nobody could find him.
And they thought he killed himself, and he made several allusions to the fact, don't leave me alone with a penknife, I might kill myself.
So you can imagine his mental state in October of 1864, when the Confederates still haven't surrendered, I don't think News of Mobile Bay had come through yet, and Sheridan was coming through the Shenandoah.
I don't know if he'd reported back in yet that he'd finished off the Shenandoah Valley.
It was those three things, though, Atlanta, Mobile, Shenandoah Valley, that basically ensured the war couldn't go on much longer.
But yeah, Lincoln was prepared to say, we've lost.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Was it his depressed nature?
Was the nature of the overwhelming nature of the conflict, which you already said, seeing the horrors of Gettysburg when he went up there to give the address when he saw the horrors of Gettysburg made him a Christian?
Was it also the incredible sacrifice of the spring and early summer of 1864 and the Overland campaign to Richmond at Spotsylvania, the wilderness, Cold Harbor?
Remember, Cold Harbor, where they didn't even let the New York Times and people report the casualties.
They thought the country would overthrow Lincoln if they did.
It was so horrific.
I think 17,000 men in like 20 minutes or something.
Is it that which forced him?
Is that what said, we've got to give thanks to God here?
We have to reach out to God to make sure that we're right with him and the nation has to show its thanks or open up its heart to God?
larry schweikart ▲ ● ▼
I think what happened was After Gettysburg, Lincoln's view that both sides are praying to God, both sides want God's support, we need to be on God's side.
And I think Gettysburg was the first time that Lincoln finally thought God's on our side.
God's on our side, then he's real.
If God's real, then his word's real, and if his word's real, Jesus is real, and I need to take action.
I think that you can't prove it, but I think that's the thought process he went through.
You know, you mentioned Cold Harbor.
The soldiers were pinning their names and addresses to their uniforms so their bodies could be shipped back to the right place.
That's how...
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Let's take a commercial break.
The last wave, Cold Harbor in June of 1864 was so bad.
The last wave when the officers got to the top of the trenches, the enlisted men said, we're not going to do this.
This is a slaughter pen.
That's the tragedy of the Civil War.
We're going to take a short break.
The connection between our greatest conflict and giving thanks to God next in the world.
johnny cash ▲ ● ▼
This year when I count my blessings I'm thanking the Lord He made you I'm grateful for the last We've come to the time and the season When family and friends gather
near To offer a prayer of thanksgiving For blessings we've known through the year To join hands and thank the Creator Now when thanksgiving is due And this year when I count my blessings I'm thanking the Lord He made you This
year when I count my blessings I'm thanking the Lord He made you I'm grateful for the laughter of children The sun and the wind and the rain The color of blue in your sweet eyes The sight of a highballing train The
moonrise over a prairie And oh love that you've made new And this year when I count my blessings I'm thanking the Lord He made you And this year when I count my blessings I'm thanking the Lord He made you And
when the time comes to be going It won't be in sorrow and tears I'll kiss you goodbye and I'll go on my way.
Grateful for all of the years.
I thank you for all that you gave me.
For teaching me what love can do.
And Thanksgiving Day for the rest of my life.
I'm thanking the Lord He made you.
Thanksgiving Day for the rest of my life.
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Thanking the Lord he made you Wow Wow.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
You got Odetta on the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and then you got Johnny Cash with the Thanksgiving song.
Is that a beautiful song?
And is that right from the American Songbook?
What a voice.
What a life.
Just hear the soul of America.
You know, we play...
We play Billy Strings' cover on When a Man Comes Around, which to me is one of my all-time favorite songs.
But the Johnny Cash version is just the original version of it.
Just absolutely stunning.
Thank you for being here on Thanksgiving.
When at the Posse, we have so much to be grateful for, so much gratitude.
Divine providence, God in heaven, has guided us and worked through each and every one of you.
I think, to me, that's the biggest thing to be grateful for, is that we found each other.
We kind of came together self-organized over the last couple of years to support President Trump, really in his second victory, because that's what it was.
The second victory, and now his third victory, because now it's the third victory.
Second term, third victory.
I do say this, and Divine Providence, in its wisdom, we had to have that second victory stolen.
So much became evident, so much became evident in the last four years of how far the country had gone, how radical these elites were, and how our civilization, the Judeo-Christian West,
Because of these modernity and these modernist and these anti-tradition, the people that are anti-tradition, the pro-system anti-tradition folks, how they've created a toxic culture, an anti-civilization.
They've taken, I think, the flower of mankind's all the civilizations.
It was the Judeo-Christian West, and it still is.
It's done more to drive human endeavor and human knowledge and human achievement than any civilization of all the other great civilizations the planet has had and people have had.
Of that, there's no doubt.
That's why the American experience, that's where the New Jerusalem, we're celebrating that today.
What this celebration is, is that whether it's the Puritans in New England or kind of the Cavaliers down in Jamestown, They both realized pretty quickly that as they came ashore and tried to carve out life in just a hostile environment, a place with immense bounty, but you had to get up and do it every second of every day.
This was not England.
They had to give thanks to God.
To divine providence that they were saved.
And think of what they created out of that small foothold they had on the James River down in my home state, beloved Commonwealth of Virginia, and what they had on the coast right there on the rocky, hard coast of New England and Plymouth.
It's a story that's absolutely inconceivable in human history.
That's why it's divinely inspired.
That's why we are the New Jerusalem.
And we have to recognize that, embrace that, and understand it.
The duty that comes with it.
The duty to preserve it and to pass it on.
This is where you come in.
The Puritans and the Pilgrims in Cape Cod and New England.
The Cavaliers and the Virginia Company down in Jamestown.
It was their agency.
There was no reason...
Even the dissenters on the religious side, they could have stayed in Holland, they could have done something else, gone elsewhere in Europe.
It might have been hard.
But to come here and to try to do it here in this hostile environment was the utmost form of agency, of using your agency.
That you can imagine.
That's what you've done today.
Remember, you all came from different walks of life.
Most of you were not engaged politically until very late in life, the Tea Party movement or maybe afterwards.
Most of you as young people had not been that engaged in politics.
You just weren't that interested.
This is today the reason we had this victory.
Remember, time and again, we talk about engaging the low propensity, low information voters.
It doesn't mean the low information voters don't have lower IQs.
It's not about education.
It's not about smarts.
It's just a lot of people just not interested in politics.
They see the disconnect between politics and their own lives.
This is why, you know, up until this recent election, so few Christians actually voted.
The percentage of Christians and traditional Catholics, because people just think, hey, I've got my religion.
I've got my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
I don't need politics.
One of the connections we try to make in using your agency is that culture and society and even your religious beliefs and politics, the thing that kind of makes the republic go forward, inextricably linked.
And if you just walk away, that's what the atheists, that's what the demons want.
They want you just to throw in the towel.
They want you to walk away.
Heroic is a story of the American Republic and particularly the foundation.
And think about what happened from the time they came in with the early 1600s, right?
Was it 1603 and then Jamestown and the first Thanksgiving and all that to the...
Really the founding of the Republic, the Revolutionary Period, the Revolutionary War, the great fight for the Constitution, the founding of the nation.
Everything was going to the founding of the nation.
The nation could have collapsed at any time.
There was no guarantee this would ever come together.
The British were relentless.
They didn't want to give up.
It kind of broke George III. He wasn't tightly wrapped to begin with, but losing...
Losing America, even at the same time they gained control of India, he never got over it.
Because of the vastness of the resource, the vastness of the potentiality of the United States, of the colonies.
Knowing what they had in Canada, knowing they were to control all of North America.
But in the story of agency, nothing I think will compare Or very little will compare to what you, this audience, has done over the last several years.
This is a major hinge of American history.
This is why I say time and again that President Trump, it's General Washington at the founding of the Republic, fighting the revolution, winning the revolution after eight years, holding the Continental Army together, holding the militias together.
Then, against long, incredible odds, particularly against the Royal Navy and the British Army.
Then, coming back and being the rock upon which the country was founded with the Constitution, really chairing the Constitutional Convention, which had never been taken seriously unless Washington was a major part of it.
Not that he was any deep thinker about issues of the Constitution, but there you had Madison, you had Hamilton, you had others.
And then to hold the country together, and most importantly to walk away, to walk away after eight years.
They kind of set that as a tradition.
Of course, the Radical Democrats went around that with FDR, where they had four terms.
Think of that for a second.
Four terms.
You talk about an autocratic breakthrough, Rachel Maddow.
Four terms.
Never mention that, do they?
Oh, is it the time of war?
No, I think it would have been just fine with other leadership, although his leadership was very important.
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That was an autocratic breakthrough.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
But your accomplishments, your achievements in a collective fight over the last four years will be talked about forever now, the whole future that's before us.
So as we give thanks and we thank God and we praise God today for our deliverance and we thank Him for everything, thank Him for everything that has happened in this country to turn it around and the return of President Trump and the return of the forces of light.
Remember, and I'm not trying to be a downer here, but I think it informs and should inform your day of celebration, that this fight continues and it's a continual fight.
The reason we've been successful today, the reason that you have made American history over the last years, but really came to its apex, At least for now on November 5th is you understood that this is a process and that this fight is a process and to save your country is a process and you will be part of that and you will be a component piece of that
and that if you don't quit and if you just stay the course and hold the line that victory is achievable Give thanks today that you're part of that.
Give thanks to God that you're born in this time and place and that God in His wisdom has seen fit to put you at the tip of the spear of this fight.
Because that's where you are.
It's Thanksgiving Day in 2024 and this is our Thanksgiving special.
We're going to take a short commercial break.
We're going to return.
We're going to leave you with Nicole NoGrady, Modern Day Holy War, another anthem of the MAGA movement.
Short commercial break.
Back in a moment.
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Little children in a straight line Don't fall behind Oh no, the television only lets you indoctrinate the minds Count
your blessings, be your sin no more, no more.
Cause Jesus put the light in you.
Light in you.
Count your blessings, be your servant Till his will is done Could you be free, could it be true that everything War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Mann Thank you Welcome back.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
It's our Thanksgiving Day special.
We know you're either at home getting ready for your Thanksgiving Day feast or you're traveling somewhere to join family and friends for your Thanksgiving Day feast.
You know, this is the...
Is this the year, the first year that we can actually...
talk about politics at the table.
I know we've wanted to do it and have done it for years and years and years.
There may be some people coming to your Thanksgiving Day that are absolutely still in the mumble tank.
That's OK.
There's worse things in the world than that.
Make sure you nurture them.
Maybe if they come and dinner's a couple hours away, You let them lay on a sofa with a MyPillow.
Maybe they curl up with a MyPillow.
Body pillow.
They feel better.
They feel calmer.
You see all this stuff at the State Department.
They got to have sessions and people are distraught.
Hey!
The reason they're distraught, folks, is that you became part of a movement, and particularly coming around this show, where he gave you hard truths every day.
And I understand this show is not entertainment.
This show is a lot of work.
We demand a lot of work out of you folks to keep up.
And you volunteered and you made the difference.
Whether it's a precinct strategy, taking over state parties, volunteering to get out the massive, get out the vote, the mass mobilization, or becoming election integrity officials.
All of you folks pitched in.
And it didn't take you writing checks.
What it took was to commit your spirit and your soul to this endeavor, and you did.
What happened on the other side is they were lied to constantly.
They were lied to by MSNBC. They were just lied to, lied to, lied to.
They thought they were going to win.
They had no earthly idea.
They thought we were the anti-democratic forces.
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They thought that we were the fascists, the garbage, all of it, deplorables.
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Remember that?
There was no chance the American people would stand up, particularly people that are black and brown, that African-American men, working class men or Hispanic men and women, families, would say no.
In one case, maybe not vote for Kamala Harris.
In the other, hey, just actively vote for Trump.
They weren't prepared for that, why they were lied to for years and years and years.
That's the trauma they're getting over.
We're going to do some different things in the show today.
I've got a clip.
This was a film that was not particularly a huge hit because it is a problematic film, but it's got some amazing pieces in it.
I want to show what the kind of scale of what The Settlers...
This is about Jamestown, starring Colin Farrell, the film The New World from, I don't know, 10, 15 years ago.
Like I said, it wasn't a huge hit, but it's a very powerful film if you watch it, particularly given the fact of the continent in which they came and how they had, it was hardscrabble.
And a lot of these people had been, what I say, sons of the Cavaliers.
They were a fortune, they were seeking gold and the fountain of youth.
They weren't really there to do farming, types of things you had to do to succeed.
We're going to play a clip.
From the New World, that will take us out.
I'll be back at the top of the hour.
All right, let's go ahead and play the clip from the New World.
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So, let's let's go.
So, let's let's go.
So, let's let's go.
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From England.
and the land to the east.
To know which, como chumbo.
Leave.
There won't be any leave until spring.
There also won't be back till then.
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