Dec. 13, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| ...to get these cabinet members confirmed. | ||
| And the Trump team out of Mar-a-Lago has really changed tactics in the last 10 days or so. | ||
| They've gone much more on offense. | ||
| They're being aggressive in, like, really badgering and mobilizing their minions to go after the Republican senators they feel like are deemed insufficiently loyal. | ||
| Give us your read. | ||
| Give us your reporting on... | ||
| How that's taking place, but also whether or not you think it's effective, because we've heard sort of both. | ||
| Publicly, some Republican senators are saying, yeah, we're acknowledging the pressure. | ||
| Lisa Murkowski said so earlier, said so yesterday. | ||
| But others behind the scenes feel like, hey, this might backfire. | ||
| I think this is the difference in power for Donald Trump in 2025 compared to 2017-2018. | ||
| A lot of this is implicit power at this point. | ||
| Donald Trump doesn't have to be the one on Fox going on and saying, I'm going to come primary you, Joni Ernst. | ||
| He's built over the years a grassroots coalition that has audibly made these threats. | ||
| There are individuals looking to that primary challenges. | ||
| Bill Cassidy in Louisiana already has a challenger in 2026. Bill Cassidy voted convict Donald Trump after January 6th attack. | ||
| And it's one of those, you could expect that challenger to get the endorsement of Donald Trump because Donald Trump has a history going back to 2022 on his revenge tour, going after and effectively ousting most of those Republican House members that voted to impeach him from office. | ||
| For Donald Trump, he has a part of the Republican Party that knows that they'd come to the defense against those that are not loyal to him. | ||
| And in the case of Joni Ernst, I was talking with somebody who is familiar with the Trump transition's view of her role in all of this, and we don't have reporting that Donald Trump has directly sent a message to her saying, we're going to primary you. | ||
| But Joni Ernst is well aware that she's no longer going to be the natural replacement to Pete Hegseth if his nomination were to fail. | ||
| And so effectively, if you stand in the way of these efforts, do not expect that you're going to have a willing partner at the White House when it comes time to press legislation or parts of the budget that you want to see in your term in office. | ||
| I remember Carrie Lake. | ||
| We're not done with her yet. | ||
| Carrie Lake is the person that Donald Trump wants to lead the Voice of America, which by the way is the government's state media network. | ||
| It's the largest and oldest sort of public media in the country. | ||
| She is the politician perhaps most closely linked to the big lie outside, of course, Trump himself. | ||
| Lake, get this, not only insists that Trump won the 2020 election, she also insists she won her own 2022 race to be governor of Arizona, which she didn't win. | ||
| She lost to Katie Hobbs. | ||
| The Democrat who beat Lake in Arizona's Senate race last month, again, she lost twice in two years, Ruben Gallego, compiled some helpful examples of her own big lie for voters. | ||
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I am the duly elected governor. | |
| Our victory was stolen from us. | ||
| I want what I earned. | ||
| I want to be the governor of Arizona. | ||
| I am the governor. | ||
| I believe I won. | ||
| They stole this election and every man, woman and child knows it. | ||
| These bastards back there don't want us talking about stolen elections. | ||
| Will you accept the results of your election in November? | ||
| I'm gonna win the election and I will accept that result. | ||
| That's actually a pretty good, succinct articulation of the ethos, right? | ||
| Of Trump and Lake and all of them. | ||
| If they win, they accept it. | ||
| Otherwise, no. | ||
| Now, it's not exactly clear if Trump can actually install Lake as the head of the VOA because there's like a board of governors, but he doesn't care. | ||
| He's certainly going to try. | ||
| And Lake would no doubt use every facet of her power to push election lies and kind of create a domestic version of Russia's infamous state media apparatus. | ||
| Lake believes, perhaps more than anyone else, in the core tenet of the Republican Party, elections only count when we win them. | ||
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Since World War II, the congressionally funded news outlet has operated with the mission to provide free and comprehensive news coverage all across the globe. | |
| Today, VOA broadcasts to a weekly audience of more than 350 million people in nearly 50 languages. | ||
| It broadcasts in places that distinctly do not have a free press, like China and Venezuela. | ||
| And even though its broadcasts were banned in Russia after Putin invaded Ukraine, The network's Russian-language website is still up and running and providing factual information to people in Russia who access it through encrypted internet connections. | ||
| Since the network's founding, its purpose has been to provide a counterbalance to propaganda put out by nations like Russia and China and to promote democracy around the world just by giving people access to the truth. | ||
| And now Donald Trump wants to put Carrie Lake in charge. | ||
| I'm Carrie Lake. | ||
| You might recognize me from TV. I worked as a journalist and a news anchor for 27 years right here in Arizona. | ||
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So I know the ins and outs of the corporate media. | |
| And I know how corrupt it is. | ||
| It's not reporting. | ||
| It's propaganda and it's biased. | ||
| It's unethical. | ||
| Journalism is dead. | ||
| You probably know Carrie Lake best for her refusal to concede after losing both her 2022 run for governor of Arizona and her run to represent Arizona in the Senate just last month. | ||
| Lake was also one of the most vocal proponents of the big lie that the 2020 presidential election was rigged. | ||
| She also made quite a name for herself as an anti-vax, anti-mask COVID conspiracist who pushed hydroxychloroquine. | ||
| So the truth is not exactly Carrie Lake's thing. | ||
| To give you a sense of what kind of media Carrie Lake views as truthful and good, the show she chose to go on today after Trump announced she was his pick to run the Voice of America, the show was Steve Bannon's War Room podcast. | ||
| Here was Carrie Lake on that show today after Steve Bannon asked her why she thought she was the right person to lead the VOA. I've been in broadcast journalism for 30 years, but as most people in the War Room Posse know, I walked away from a very lucrative contract during COVID after the government was pushing so many lies about COVID, its origins, what kind of treatment, We were allowed to have about the vaccine. | ||
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On top of that, when the 2020 election, when all of that went down and that was rigged, I did not want to sit and push the government line. | |
| I really cherish my time as a journalist. | ||
| And when it became very apparent that it was getting impossible to be a journalism in a world that has been taken over by propaganda, I chose to walk away rather than stay in it. | ||
| Does that sound like the voice of America to you? | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| 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. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | ||
| It's Friday, 13th December, Year of Our Lord, 2024. Yeah, you heard that right. | ||
| Friday the 13th. | ||
| What a better way to roll through December. | ||
| Um... | ||
| A lot to get to. | ||
| And I'm trying to think, what order are we going to do this? | ||
| If the crack staff in Denver, Denver, great. | ||
| And I want to thank my production team here in the Imperial Capital. | ||
| That was a great cut. | ||
| As they're fully in meltdown on Cary Lake and many other things. | ||
| So let's pull the camera back for a moment in the war, the debt, and the border. | ||
| The war, the debt, and the invasion. | ||
| Whatever you want to say. | ||
| The three massive things that have to be dealt with. | ||
| Where they're trying to handcuff President Trump every second of every day. | ||
| Because they're not organized. | ||
| The resistance that we had in 16 when we shocked them with the win is not the resistance they have today. | ||
| Trump is so much in full spectrum dominance that they are... | ||
| In trying to get a resistance, whether it's Mark Elias, whether it's Jamie Raskin up on the Hill and the forces on the Hill, it's not very effective yet. | ||
| As they're in the plan, they're still kind of in shock. | ||
| They haven't figured out their angle of attack. | ||
| There's one group up there. | ||
| Their one thinking is let Trump roll, let Trump start to do the mass deportations, wait for CNN to jump in. | ||
| Trump will do things and we'll react to them and we'll take that reaction and build a resistance off of that because right now, They're tired. | ||
| The reason that President Trump is back is resilience. | ||
| The resilience of President Trump, of having gone to Mar-a-Lago with the 2020 election stolen, and then having all the debanking, the suppression of his voice, the kicking off of Fox, you know, Fox, we're going to make him a non-person, all of it. | ||
| Then the lawfare, the vast criminal conspiracy, all of that. | ||
| The resistance is pretty well, is ill-defined but coming together. | ||
| They can't really decide. | ||
| And so this is the time when they're not organized and they're kind of defeated. | ||
| They haven't shown us yet resilience. | ||
| Even their grassroots, which used to be quite strong in the Obama era, the community organizing aspect of it. | ||
| They got lazy. | ||
| Why they got lazy? | ||
| They were flooded with money. | ||
| And they had all the media with them with the BLM, you know, the Summer of Love, and they just got lazy. | ||
| They got lazy. | ||
| They haven't shown resilience. | ||
| They can't take a punch. | ||
| One big piece of this is that many people on the left feel they were lied to. | ||
| I can't emphasize enough that 10 o'clock, 11, and people are doing mashups, and I strongly recommend they get some great mashups online about the arc of the coverage on CNN, on MSNBC, on NBC News, on CBS, the arc of the coverage from polls closing in Virginia, and this is democracy at work, and we're all chipper, and it's going to be great, and we're going to have... | ||
| We're going to break history, and all through the night, no, it's these urban areas, and the universities are going to, and people are calling me, you know, people close to the Harris campaign are calling me, and then the long faces. | ||
| When North Carolina comes in, the reality sets in that we knew was going to happen, and then you see things like, I think Rachel Madden, those guys, actually punched out. | ||
| We have to seize the institutions now. | ||
| You have to seize them. | ||
| One way to seize them, and you see on Voice of America the revered historic Voice of America that's really atrophied into an anti-American platform. | ||
| And the people of Voice of America ought to be on notice right now. | ||
| Under no circumstances start destroying documents and under no circumstances should you be doing and locking in things that Carrie Lake and President Trump's team can't get into things that can't be unwound quickly. | ||
| I might note that over there that one of the worst aspects is the pro-CCP nature of the Mandarin language, the Chinese language, renowned throughout the anti-CCP movement as just being collaborators essentially in the management over there being collaborators. | ||
| So that will definitely change as will many other things. | ||
| And Carrie Lake couldn't be a better person with $350 million. | ||
| And my point to Carrie is that you ought to have a commitment to President Trump that it's at a billion – you're at a billion listeners in content, podcasts, doing videos. | ||
| All of it. | ||
| You've got a massive platform. | ||
| The Voice of America. | ||
| Remember, in the wars that we're in, information warfare is the most important of all. | ||
| And they say, oh, we're just trying to tell the truth. | ||
| In fact, if we can pull last night, there was a guy from NPR. I'm going to do some directing and producing here live to my crack team. | ||
| Later on, Alex Wager, I think it was, or maybe Stephanie Rule, they actually had a guy from NPR, a media critic producer, if we can pull that. | ||
| Because my point, I think this guy would be fired today. | ||
| He's on taxpayer payroll at NPR. He comes in, he's like dumping all over Cary Lake. | ||
| Like, yo, dude, what is going on? | ||
| Those budgets should be zeroed immediately. | ||
| And then we should figure out NPR and public broadcasting should go to zero. | ||
| And they keep saying, well, we're really supported by listeners. | ||
| Yeah, not so much. | ||
| That's a scam. | ||
| You live off the government teat. | ||
| That's all got to be corrected. | ||
| So, the point. | ||
| The only thing that can stop us now is ourselves. | ||
| If you notice up there 24-7, what are they talking about? | ||
| They're talking about Republican senators that would be blocking President Trump's nominees. | ||
| And we're spending an awful lot of time as a movement in this show and our content correcting that, where we should be spending our time right now and seizing the institutions and policy and things that happen. | ||
| January 20th is here because you have Christmas, New Year's, and then boom, it's upon you. | ||
| You come back for the confirmation hearings and then you're in it. | ||
| And on the 20th of January at noon, when President Trump takes the oath and turns around, gives it what his plan is, his address to the nation, we've got to be hitting it right then. | ||
| You have to be hitting it. | ||
| You know, if not in the first hundred days, the first six months, but you've got every day is the equivalent of a month. | ||
| Like even right now. | ||
| We cannot be our own worst enemy. | ||
| And this is what you're saying. | ||
| We're spending an inordinate amount of time just kind of... | ||
| Because the established or the Republican Party still rejects the populist nationalist movement. | ||
| They are only... | ||
| Make no mistake about this. | ||
| They're tolerating Trump because they feel they have to tolerate him. | ||
| They ain't tolerating you. | ||
| The populist nationalist movement, you know, Peter Stork said to his mistress, I can smell the Walmart on him, which is one of the most definitive phrases of this entire effort. | ||
| Well, your bettors in the Republican Party can smell the Walmart as we're up on Capitol Hill. | ||
| To us, it smells like Chanel No. | ||
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5. Next. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | ||
| Yeah, as the engine room informs me, and this is correct, there are actually some very good anti-CCP folks over there. | ||
| And so we know they're collaborators. | ||
| They are collaborators with the CCP because they know Voice of America will watch this closely. | ||
| For the good guys over there, the cavalry is about to arrive. | ||
| Make sure you keep all your files. | ||
| Don't let people destroy things. | ||
| There have been some things that have gone on in the American government that are going to shock people. | ||
| Charlie Gasparino, and as you know, if we can put that, Mo and Grace can get the camera, let's put that tweet up. | ||
| I don't agree a lot with Charlie Gasparino. | ||
| We're not exactly buddies. | ||
| But Charlie Gasparino has a quite brilliant tweet up this morning. | ||
| He's saying the Democrats are freaked out, you know, Trump's going to do this, Trump's going to do that. | ||
| Their great fear is full transparency. | ||
| Everything that we have to do on the declassifications, on J6, on the border, all we have to, Gasparino's one million percent correct. | ||
| We have to comport ourselves and we have to think of the long flow of history. | ||
| When President Trump's administration takes charge on the afternoon of the 20th, we have to keep in mind the revolutionary generation, the framers of the Constitution. | ||
| We will be within 90 days, the day President Trump, on that 20th, 90 days later, or 89 days later, is the 250th anniversary of Lexington and Concord, the shot heard around the world. | ||
| In the providential Story of the arc of the age of Trump. | ||
| We won out of nowhere in 16, and it was a shock to the system. | ||
| And the system was very quick to unite and come against us and to try to stop the populist nationalist movement, including two impeachments of President Trump, all the madness, right? | ||
| We didn't have a deep bench at the time. | ||
| That's just reality. | ||
| We didn't. | ||
| This movement was just coming together. | ||
| And everything we had to do was put into winning. | ||
| We didn't have a lot of time to think about transition. | ||
| And Chris Christie and these guys don't get it, obviously. | ||
| One, they're kind of clowns and not particularly bright in the first place. | ||
| And I don't mean to say that without the honored graduate of Seton Hall Law School. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But we didn't have a deep bench. | ||
| And you kind of got a lot of people in there that you might like to cut to their jib historically but turned out they not only disliked our policies, they hated Trump and then hated our policies and fought us. | ||
| Then you have the – that was providential though. | ||
| That winning was providential because you could stop the bleeding and defeat the Clinton mafia, which quite frankly was never able to raise its head again. | ||
| You see this in how weak and feckless Bill Clinton is coming in. | ||
| They put him out to Wisconsin and go to some high schools and junior high schools and then he goes on these shows. | ||
| It's kind of embarrassing. | ||
| He's a D-block guy on MSNBC, and then he gets tossed onto The View. | ||
| It's all marginality and nobody cares. | ||
| Just like Obama. | ||
| Obama gave the speech the other day. | ||
| Nobody cares. | ||
| Quite interesting. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi's coming against AOC. They're trying to get rid of Nancy Pelosi. | ||
| They've dismissed. | ||
| Clinton and Obama didn't bring the heat. | ||
| He had a speech the other day that Talk about not owning the moment, not understanding the historical moment we're in. | ||
| It was like they said stoically sat there as audience. | ||
| No, they hated the speech because it was the speech about nothing. | ||
| More of Obama's kind of floating around above it all. | ||
| He's the epitome of the Seinfeld of politics along with Kamala Harris. | ||
| The politics of joy. | ||
| What's happening up here now is that we can only defeat ourselves. | ||
| When I say ourselves, I mean the people on our side of the football. | ||
| And there's a big hunk of people on our side of the football are just not down with President Trump and certainly not down with the populist nationalist movement. | ||
| What's happening? | ||
| Let's give some inside baseball. | ||
| In fact, can I play? | ||
| I want to play Jonathan Lemire, the tee-up. | ||
| Vaughn Hill's response was good, but we don't need to hear it again. | ||
| But I want Lemire, because Lemire speaks the truth of what's happening. | ||
| On the surface, they're saying, yes, that what we've done, and this audience have done, and what Charlie Kirk has done, and others are having people call, and the Mike Davises has had a big impact. | ||
| But behind the scenes, they're telling you, hey, we've had a belly full of this. | ||
| We don't need the... | ||
| On the War Room Posse. | ||
| We can smell the Walmart on the Turning Point crowd. | ||
| Real America's Voice got Walmart all over it. | ||
| It smells like Walmart. | ||
| And that does not smell like Chanel No. | ||
| 5 to them, folks. | ||
| It does not. | ||
| Sorry to break that to you. | ||
| It does not. | ||
| It's a Target crowd. | ||
| Although Target's become a... | ||
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Actually, with all its wokeness, which we'll get back to the corporations in a minute. | |
| Let's play Lemire, because it leads into my... | ||
| There is a logic to where I'm going on this. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play Lemire. | ||
| These efforts to get these cabinet members confirmed. | ||
| And the Trump team out of Mar-a-Lago has really changed tactics in the last 10 days or so. | ||
| They've gone much more on offense. | ||
| They're being aggressive in like really badgering and mobilizing their minions to go after the Republican senators they feel like are deemed insufficiently loyal. | ||
| Give us your read, give us your reporting on how that's taking place, but also whether or not you think it's effective. | ||
| First of all, the one thing that did not come from Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| This is self-organizing. | ||
| It was people that say, hey, this is in trouble here, and we're not getting clear guidance, and we can't have any more Matt Gaetzes. | ||
| You can't. | ||
| We've got to go all in. | ||
| I will tell you right now, with Hegseth and Cash in good shape, the one that they've identified, I think they're going to come together around Tulsi. | ||
| Tulsi's the one they want to remove. | ||
| Because they do not want, and this, hey Ratcliffe bro, when they, after Tulsi and not after you, from the war of posse's perspective, that's not the best thing. | ||
| The intelligence apparatus is like the FBI. The FBI, they've kind of, I think now, they're not conceding, they're still going to try to chop, but cash has got real momentum. | ||
| Number one, besides all the lies you hear up there, Cash is one of the most, if not the most qualified guy they've got because of intel, counterintelligence, and counterterrorism. | ||
| Those three things are 65% of the budget when Cash talks about the big footprint or the massive footprint. | ||
| Of the FBI when they talk about the headquarters of the FBI being bigger than the Pentagon is because of those. | ||
| And I happen to think that you can totally deconstruct the FBI out of existence by not saying their functions are going to go away. | ||
| Just be different and smaller but they can go to places in DHS or combine things. | ||
| Maybe some scale economies or scale of things doing things that you can take the intel. | ||
| And remember, it's not CA. This is domestic. | ||
| Intel, counterintelligence, and counterterrorism, those can be, you know, there's lots of interesting combinations that don't have to have FBI on it. | ||
| Then you got the 35% that's the law enforcement and the cops and working with the prosecutors. | ||
| Well, hey, they have 250 lawyers right now. | ||
| They all got to go back to DOJ. So maybe you rearrange this and repackage it. | ||
| Maybe it's with the U.S. attorneys. | ||
| And there's all types of interesting combination. | ||
| And then voila. | ||
| Voila. | ||
| No FBI. The FBI guys that come on these shows, preserve your documents, guys. | ||
| Preserve them. | ||
| And for all the FBI guys out there saying, no, there's 35,000. | ||
| They're really great. | ||
| They're great. | ||
| Well, hey, you're so great. | ||
| Let me see. | ||
| There should be more than a dozen whistleblowers. | ||
| You got 35,000 employees. | ||
| Where are you? | ||
| The argument that the SS and the Gestapo used at the Nuremberg trials and afters, I've just taken orders. | ||
| No, didn't work then. | ||
| Ain't going to work now. | ||
| The only thing that can stop us is ourselves. | ||
| Let me take a couple of things. | ||
| Number one, the NDA, the Doge effort. | ||
| They're out to stop the Doge effort full on. | ||
| And here the apparatus is going to come together. | ||
| Number one, the NDAA. I will say it and dare anybody challenge me on the facts. | ||
| The NDAA at $900 billion, and it came out of nowhere, had to be done, had to be done, had to be done, had to be done, had to be done. | ||
| It's to stop full-on any kind of meaningful doge process. | ||
| It just is. | ||
| Because they're going to point back on top line, $900 billion, top line, $900 billion. | ||
| It locks you in and it doesn't answer the dispositive question, which everything in our national security has to revolve around. | ||
| Whether in the 21st century, geopolitically, it leads to a CCP victory or to an American Republic victory. | ||
| And the NDAA does not do that, guys. | ||
| It's still got way too much CENCOM. It's got way too much NATO. It's got way too much Ukraine or emphasis on Ukraine, even if they try to hide the money. | ||
| So the war and suck back into the Middle East because the CENCOM guys, because they kind of grew up with the Arabs. | ||
| They know the Arabs and they know all the guys in the Middle East and the Israelis. | ||
| They all know each other. | ||
| Not good enough. | ||
| Obama couldn't pivot to Asia when he tried. | ||
| He got one Marine brigade, four deployed in Darwin. | ||
| President Trump in the first term, try as we might, and there's a reorientation to take China on with tariffs economically focused on East Asia. | ||
| Let's be blunt. | ||
| Didn't get there. | ||
| Ran out of runway. | ||
| And now this time the fight is on. | ||
| You know, we got to accommodate. | ||
| You got to sit there and you got to live with it. | ||
| No. | ||
| As the great Captain Fennell says, the main thing is the main thing. | ||
| So that's that. | ||
| So that's where they're trying to stop. | ||
| They're trying to lock in the strategy and the programs and the number. | ||
| And they say, well, you still cut later. | ||
| That's all lies. | ||
| In the appropriations process, you never cut from the NDA. They always fall back. | ||
| We passed the NDAA. That's the number. | ||
| But more importantly, and this is where the long con really comes out, folks. | ||
| And this is where... | ||
| I can't smell the Walmart up on Capitol Hill, but I can smell the fear. | ||
| And I smell the fear up in the House of Representatives, working with the Senate. | ||
| And what do we got? | ||
| A concept called reconciliation. | ||
| I don't have time to go into all the backflips. | ||
| Reconciliation is basically an instrument that kind of comes up and can be used to get around the filibuster. | ||
| So you can just vote on these things with 51 votes, and when you get a majority... | ||
| They all try to ram this through reconciliation, and this is these opportunities. | ||
| Now, it turns out we have two abilities to do reconciliation, as fate would have it. | ||
| And up until now, there's been all this focus that on day one, the 20th, shock and awe. | ||
| We're going to do shock and awe at the border, on deportations, on security of the country, ISIS, all this. | ||
| Because we've got a reconciliation coming in with a legislative package, a money package, executive orders. | ||
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And we're going to solve it. | |
| And President Trump, as he said the other day, I want on immigration at the border and groceries. | ||
| Immigration at the border and groceries. | ||
| So boom, out of the box of one reconciliation, they're working on it now. | ||
| Miller, Holman, everybody, war room posse. | ||
| Boom, boom, boom. | ||
| We're going to do it. | ||
| But guess what? | ||
| And the second reconciliation would come in April, May, or June with taxes and all this stuff kind of blended together. | ||
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Get the taxes, the taxes, the taxes. | |
| Now they're talking about one. | ||
| In a moment. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | |
| So here's where it's going. | ||
| This is Inside Baseball, and we're going to have Mark Lucas up from Article 3 in a second talk about the appointments. | ||
| We've got to put time and effort in the appointments, but in the networks, Fox particularly, they cover it nonstop. | ||
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Why? | |
| Personnel's policy, so it's very important. | ||
| Do not get me wrong, and we have to fight. | ||
| All of these have to get across, including Tulsi. | ||
| But it's easy to cover the horse races. | ||
| The media is essentially dumb and lazy. | ||
| But horse races are stories just in and of themselves. | ||
| They're going to create themselves. | ||
| You don't do any work. | ||
| You just have to sit there and gossip and be punditry, right? | ||
| Oh, this person says this and this person says that. | ||
| It turns into a process story and always a court intrigue. | ||
| Of the different campaigns and what they're saying. | ||
| It's gossipy. | ||
| It's the high school table, right? | ||
| Gossipy. | ||
| And if you go back and look at how much time you spent, like on Fox and these other channels, looking at this stuff over the years, and you realize, man, that was a waste of time, wasn't it? | ||
| Sure was. | ||
| That's done on purpose. | ||
| Done on purpose. | ||
| They never want you to kind of see the thing itself. | ||
| It's a distraction. | ||
| It's easy a distraction. | ||
| It's like watching football. | ||
| It's watching a sports competition. | ||
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It's not the thing itself. | |
| Remember, the country did not get in this shape unless you had controlled opposition. | ||
| In a democracy, something this big, with the kind of media platform you have, you have to have controlled opposition. | ||
| Fox News and the Murdochs are controlled opposition. | ||
| The Republican Party is controlled opposition. | ||
| Classic. | ||
| Paint by numbers. | ||
| The populist national movement is not. | ||
| We're ornery. | ||
| We're cussed. | ||
| Not particularly... | ||
| We're proud. | ||
| Hey, Peter Stork, you can smell the Walmart on the posse and the cadre of the war room. | ||
| You're damn right. | ||
| And to us, it does smell like Chanel No. | ||
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5. That's called the sweat... | |
| Of American working class people and middle class folks that are trying to stretch a dollar because they're getting crushed. | ||
| And why are they getting crushed? | ||
| President Trump said the other day, the numbers are not going to come down because, hey, it all goes back to the federal spending. | ||
| These massive deficits, because they have to be financed. | ||
| Because he keeps telling Steve, nobody cares about this. | ||
| Nobody cares about deficits. | ||
| Nobody cares about debt. | ||
| I said the reason they don't care because it ain't explained the right way. | ||
| Once they understand that the cost of living, which comes from rising inflation, which comes from federal spending, which comes from how you finance it. | ||
| There's nothing free in life. | ||
| It's got to be financed. | ||
| And right now, a third of it gets financed every year, and we're doing it like on our credit card, short term. | ||
| That gets embedded into the one-third of the debt that That you have to refinance. | ||
| Zero Hedge laid it out for you. | ||
| In the first two months, October and November, the greatest deficits in the history of this nation. | ||
| With everything else going on, $624 billion, folks, in 61 days. | ||
| By midnight on New Year's Eve, it's going to be a trillion dollars in another 100 days. | ||
| It may take a couple days in New Year's, but the first quarter plus 10, 100 days, another trillion dollars. | ||
| It's not sustainable. | ||
| The only way we keep the long con going, the three-card money, is that everybody's got to eat the dollar. | ||
| It's exchanged for everything in the world. | ||
| You've got to exchange in the dollars. | ||
| This is why the BRICS nations, whether you're sub-Saharan Africa or the Middle East or Eurasia, you pick it. | ||
| You pick the most obscure country out there. | ||
| You know what they got? | ||
| They got guys just like Steve Mann went to Harvard Business School, have an HP-12C, can do net present value, discounted cash flow, and they're sitting there going, hey, boss, at a central bank there, you know, those American elites are burying us in the 25 to 30 percent depreciation of the dollar. | ||
| Purchasing power of the dollar means we're selling our oil or a tin or a rubber or a tea or you pick it, and they're doing a devaluation. | ||
| So they're forming up together. | ||
| And they're a long way from getting it going. | ||
| But guess what? | ||
| You've bound them together. | ||
| And they're talking. | ||
| And they'll figure out something. | ||
| And once that happens, it's not the dollar. | ||
| And I'm not saying we have to be the prime reserve currency. | ||
| Because that debate that we must have gets back to the indestructible nature of the post-war international rules-based order, which is predicated upon two things. | ||
| The American dollar and the American military. | ||
| And this gets back to the NDA, the $900 billion. | ||
| And this gets back to why Doge and Vivek and Elon, if I can give you some free advice. | ||
| Take it for what it's worth. | ||
| And Elon, you see today that coming after you, brother, now that you're down and dirty with MAGA, Hey, Gary Gensler, and I used to work with Gary Gensler back in Goldman Sachs many decades ago, and Gary's kind of a nerdy guy, but he's a little bit of an assassin. | ||
| He's giving you a love tap on the way at the door. | ||
| Hey, maybe you got you some insider trading there, brother, on the Neuralink. | ||
| And remember, we're not fans of Neuralink because, hey, guess what? | ||
| That's kind of homo sapiens 2.0. | ||
| We don't think you've been particularly upfront about what the chip actually does and how it does it, but that's different than what they're doing. | ||
| They're saying, hey, you're maneuvering stuff, and you're making money, and Alex Spiro, who I know is a pretty good lawyer, might have used myself a couple, three times, pretty tough guy. | ||
| He sends a letter, a shot across your bow at the SEC, say, back off, dude. | ||
| Because, Elon, you're getting it now. | ||
| You're going to get the full money. | ||
| They're going to come at you from every different angle. | ||
| You know, maybe a little criminal charge here, maybe a little thing here, a little that. | ||
| They're going to try to bleed you out. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because they went after Donald Trump in every different aspect and tried to bleed him out. | ||
| And this is why he's the American Cincinnatist. | ||
| Look at that cover of Time Magazine. | ||
| You know what that cover of Time Magazine shows you? | ||
| Projects power. | ||
| Power. | ||
| Did you see him in Notre Dame? | ||
| You know what that was, folks? | ||
| Pick your history books up and read the Holy Roman Empire. | ||
| That's Charlemagne. | ||
| Charlemagne walked in in living color. | ||
| And you had the court jesters like Macron and these guys. | ||
| And then you had Jill Biden and, you know, Macron's wife, which I won't comment on. | ||
| Like elves, like little munchkins running around. | ||
| And all those Europeans sitting there trying to kiss the ring. | ||
| All those head state that hate him. | ||
| That hate him. | ||
| You know one of the reasons they hate him? | ||
| Well, I go back to the front page of the Financial Times, cover financial. | ||
| Look at this right here. | ||
| Looky, looky, looky. | ||
| NATO's European members discuss lifting defense spending target to 3%. | ||
| 3%. | ||
| Folks, that's your victory. | ||
| They wouldn't even get to 2%. | ||
| They couldn't get to 2%. | ||
| Trump said, hey, guess what? | ||
| The American people are not going to underwrite you guys up in your Swiss ski chalets or down there in the south of France or in the west end of London. | ||
| There's more money in Europe than you can say. | ||
| Look at it. | ||
| You got the wealthy because it's all aristocrats. | ||
| You saw that. | ||
| You saw that in Notre Dame. | ||
| You want to see the difference between the American experience and the American Republic and the war room posse and the cadre here and populist nationalism? | ||
| See it right there in Notre Dame Cathedral when Trump walks in. | ||
| He walks in like Charlemagne. | ||
| And they're all running around and all the guys that hate him, they're trying to kiss the ring right there. | ||
| They have a mentality to look for kings. | ||
| We don't. | ||
| They sit there, President Trump's an autocrat, President Trump's a dictator. | ||
| Hey, you know who doesn't believe that? | ||
| You know who doesn't believe that? | ||
| The folks in the Bronx that voted for him. | ||
| The folks out in Kansas, in the hinterland that voted for him, the Democrats came to talk to him. | ||
| They don't think of him as a king. | ||
| They think of him like Andrew Jackson. | ||
| A man of the people that on their shoulders drove him over the gold line. | ||
| As a leader who came back from oblivion. | ||
| Because they were there. | ||
| And Elon, you're about to get it. | ||
| Elon, we're going to find out something. | ||
| We're going to see how resilient you are. | ||
| Because they're coming after you. | ||
| They are so upset you wrote that $250 million check. | ||
| And let's be brutally frank. | ||
| I'm not so sure we would have pushed it across the goal line if we didn't have that check. | ||
| Because there was no money for the ground game. | ||
| And the ground game takes money to kind of organize. | ||
| Right? | ||
| You guys volunteered. | ||
| You didn't get paid. | ||
| You turned out in the hundreds of thousands, not millions, to be ground game, to have a – wait for it. | ||
| With all the early voting, it's great. | ||
| On a day in November, on the 5th of November, I don't know, 50 million people had to show up. | ||
| It was a mass mobilization unseen because the Democrats all vote early. | ||
| I'm talking about MAGA. | ||
| Of low propensity, low information voters. | ||
| That turned out and led to a victory. | ||
| A victory that could be like 1932. It could be like when the great reign of the Republicans from the Civil War, from Abraham Lincoln and John Fremont and Seward and all that team of rivals and winning the Civil War all the way through, even with a couple of Democrats, but all the way through, Republican rule, all the way through. | ||
| FDR in 1932 and the collapse, the stock market collapse of 29 led to the realignment in 32. Wait for it. | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| I'm seeing pattern recognition. | ||
| Wait for it. | ||
| Oh yeah, 2008. A collapse actually bigger than the Great Depression. | ||
| The fuse that was lit that went off with Trump on 8 November of 2016. And then had the providential stealing of the election. | ||
| And Charlie Gasparino, we agree, we're going to put it all in public. | ||
| It's all going to be there for everybody to see, for the world to see. | ||
| The more transparent, the better. | ||
| Because the more transparent, we bury the Democratic Party forever. | ||
| They become the Whigs. | ||
| They become, remember, one of the two most powerful parties went away from 1856 to 1860. It evaporated. | ||
| President Lincoln was a Whig. | ||
| And it went away. | ||
| Just like the Democratic Party can go away. | ||
| We can actually end it. | ||
| We can drive a stake in the heart of the beast. | ||
| You can do it. | ||
| And here's how you can't do it, because here's the game they're playing right now. | ||
| Reconciliation. | ||
| Let me get back to it. | ||
| So the thing is supposed to be on the 20th, reconciliation, we got money, we got boom, we don't have to get the filibuster, we got it, 51 boats, bang, bang, bang. | ||
| Action, action, action, drive it, drive it, drive it. | ||
| Muzzle velocity, boom, hit it, boom, hit it, boom, hit it. | ||
| And then later, because it's going to be more complicated, you've got to get into the tax and the economics is going to be complicated, it's going to be a lot of horse trading, a lot of tears. | ||
| We're going to want populist policies, we're going to want cuts on social, no tax on social security, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and a whole lot more. | ||
| Populist policies, nationalist policies. | ||
| Economic. | ||
| To bring jobs back. | ||
| To bring manufacturing jobs back. | ||
| High value added manufacturing jobs that an individual can have. | ||
| And if his wife or his significant other is a woman, they can make a conscious decision. | ||
| Maybe I stay home with the kids and I'm a caregiver and I raise the kids. | ||
| And we do that. | ||
| Like the good old days. | ||
| And those good old days look pretty damn good for folks under 35 when you've got to sit there. | ||
| Everybody's got to work and nobody's making any money using the credit card every month to gap it. | ||
| And the credit card's at 25%. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| The lived experience of the American people ain't joy, Kamala Harris. | ||
| It's kind of complete and total anxiety that drips on you like an acid every day. | ||
| That you can't rest. | ||
| You can't feel comfortable because you're sitting there going, good God, if I got laid off from the job or something happened or the company went out of business or something happened. | ||
| I'm 90 days away from oblivion. | ||
| My family's been here for five or six generations, or maybe seven or eight, or nine or ten. | ||
| And what do you got to show for it? | ||
| Have you not done enough hard work? | ||
| Did your family not serve in the wars? | ||
| Did you not build, were you not Burke's little platoons? | ||
| Did you not build these communities? | ||
| Can you not look at this great country out here and see who built it, and on whose shoulders built it, and who sacrificed for it? | ||
| Can you not see that? | ||
| Who's the full faith and credit? | ||
| The full faith and credit of this country, you think, is Larry Fink and Steve Schwartzman? | ||
| And the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett? | ||
| That's not the full faith and credit of this country. | ||
| It's not the SEC. It's not the FTC. It's not the FCC. It's not the Federal Reserve. | ||
| It's not Congress. | ||
| It's not those gutless cowards up there. | ||
| The full faith and credit of this country would be you, the American citizen. | ||
| You're called on everything to pay your taxes and to have your little bit of pension money or whatever you got used as private equity to venture capital so these guys can lord it over you, hate on you, try to defeat Trump, and then show up down to Mar-a-Lago with a million-dollar check. | ||
| Take your million-dollar check and shove it up your ass. | ||
| Don't want billionaires coming down with a million-dollar check. | ||
| Take your million-dollar check and shove it up your ass. | ||
| Think you're going to buy into this with everything you try to do to destroy him, everything you try to do to destroy this audience? | ||
| Shove it up, fold it up tight and shove it up your ass. | ||
| That's what I think about your million dollar check. | ||
| When you see the games you're going to play, this reconciliation and trying to jam it all together and get these tax breaks for these guys is not going to happen. | ||
| Johnson, write this down. | ||
| Short break. | ||
| Back in a moment. | ||
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Now you may say, well, hey, you're not yelling at me. | |
| But there's a big fundamental difference. | ||
| Elon Musk and I, I think, would disagree on does the sun rise in the east or in the west? | ||
| Okay, particularly about the CCP. But you got to give the devil his due. | ||
| He wrote a quarter of a billion dollars worth of checks, folks. | ||
| And this is more powerful. | ||
| He didn't do it like the rest of these goobers. | ||
| They all come in and they get sucked in by these consultants. | ||
| They're all showing these flashy TV ads and go, TV ads don't mean anything anymore. | ||
| Don't mean anything. | ||
| You just put money in the consultants' pockets. | ||
| Most of his money, 200, 225 or whatever, went to ground game. | ||
| And it not just went to ground game and to the professional and the data and all that that you had to have, the self-organizing. | ||
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Every place he went, he's like Scott Pressler. | |
| Everywhere he went, every time on stage, Doc Maga and bouncing around. | ||
| Remember one time in Pennsylvania, I think it was 19 times he repeated What do you repeat? | ||
| Grassroots, ground game, canvassing, phone banks, Scott Pressler, voter registration. | ||
| Over and over and over again, the one that all the bros who are just coming in, who are kind of low information, low propensity voters, not that they're dumb, they're not dumb, they're just not involved in politics. | ||
| Politics doesn't mean anything to them or didn't. | ||
| Every time they're seeing this guy, he's talking about the thing itself, which is the thing of victory, which the Democrats didn't think about. | ||
| They're all kind of sitting in politics of joy with all their TV ads and Taylor Swift and, you know, Beyonce and all the concerts and everything like that. | ||
| If they had delivered for their low-propensity, low-information voters the Taylor Swifties, hey, they might have taken it. | ||
| They didn't. | ||
| They didn't execute. | ||
| You executed. | ||
| You executed. | ||
| And it took because the campaign ran out and it didn't have money. | ||
| So Elon deserves his turn at the table. | ||
| I can tell you, you can tell he delivered because Gary Gensler, with 45 days ago, doesn't just randomly, when he's thinking about, I'm going to Virgin Islands for a vacation, I'm going to come back, I'm going to be out of town with those Trump guys here, but I'll do some sort of changeover with a whack job. | ||
| They send me his SEC because that's how they think. | ||
| He's not sending a shot across their bow. | ||
| And have a guy like Alex Spires charging you $2,000 an hour, writing a letter saying, bring it, we're going to take it on, and have Elon mocking him, okay, let's go, throw down. | ||
| Because Elon's in the crosshairs, and he's in the crosshairs because they understand he's a player, and it's not about down there, he's sitting in meetings, not sitting in meetings, he's co-president, it's not that at all. | ||
| He helped us deliver victory. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| And just like they came after you, they're going to come after him, they came after Trump, they're coming after everybody, and they're going to keep coming after it until we stop it. | ||
| And it's not going to stop until we make it stop. | ||
| And one way we got to do it, President Trump's greatest, no games, let's stop the games. | ||
| Speaker Johnson, as you know, I'm not a huge fan. | ||
| I'm just not. | ||
| I'm not a huge fan because I don't think you have a set of balls, okay? | ||
| Let me be blunt. | ||
| Let me just cut through the chase. | ||
| And since we're going to get fined today anyway, for my last rant, you know, Rob Sig, just put it... | ||
| Hey, Rob and Parker, just put it on the account. | ||
| Here's the game they're playing now. | ||
| The reconciliation all of a sudden... | ||
| And now they got the NDAA. | ||
| It came out of nowhere. | ||
| They got that. | ||
| They got their $900 billion target. | ||
| That's their target of defense. | ||
| And kind of they jammed up the VIC in Elon. | ||
| And maybe they can do a workaround. | ||
| They probably can. | ||
| They'll think it through. | ||
| But, hey, it's going to have to be a workaround. | ||
| Now they're saying, hey, we're going to combine just one reconciliation package. | ||
| But that's not going to happen on January 20th. | ||
| That's going to happen, I don't know, sometime in March when they can work out, when Jason Smith and these guys over Ways and Means can work out their tax plan. | ||
| And here's what they're trying to do. | ||
| Here's what they're trying to do. | ||
| Because they're doing some simple math. | ||
| They go, okay, Ben, I got this. | ||
| We have approximately, let's do sources and uses. | ||
| Let's just do sources. | ||
| We have essentially $4.5 trillion that comes in from all sources. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| The budget's, I don't know, six, six and a half, pick it. | ||
| Let's say six. | ||
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| That's a three and a half dollar deficit. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Now, if you go and you take the populist tax cuts, and I think, guys, hello, I think we kind of won on these, just saying. | ||
| If you take no tax on social security and no tax on overtime and no tax on tips and not even throw any other things in, the car loans, everything, let's just stop there. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I haven't done all the math, but let's assume that's a trillion dollars less in cash that comes in. | ||
| All of a sudden you get a two and a half trillion dollar deficit. | ||
| Well, we can't do that because that's just not financeable, folks. | ||
| So we got to do something. | ||
| We either have to cut the spending We have to cut the spending, but since you have the entitlements, and you can't touch the entitlements. | ||
| Let me be simple. | ||
| It's a contract with the common man right now for Social Security and his Medicare, and he paid him for the Social Security. | ||
| So if you want to come and touch the entitlements, screw you until you show me that you're responsible. | ||
| The little guy's got something. | ||
| He's got a contract. | ||
| And that contract will only be changed by Congress. | ||
| And that is a head on a pike of a congressman if he does it right now because they're sitting there. | ||
| You're not going to. | ||
| I don't trust anything you tell me. | ||
| You lie to me all the time. | ||
| I don't believe it. | ||
| It's bad enough I've got to vote for you, but you're not going to touch my Social Security, you're not going to touch my Medicare. | ||
| Over my dead body, that's what they say. | ||
| And the old folks should say that. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Until it's proven otherwise, you hold on to that contract. | ||
| Because they've got to come to you with your permission to change it. | ||
| Now, you talk about discretionary. | ||
| Discretionary is a $3.5. | ||
| Well, hey, I just approved the NDAA, the $3.5. | ||
| The defense is about, oh, guess what? | ||
| $900 billion. | ||
| So we're going to change that? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe, but it doesn't sound like it. | ||
| So I got $500 or $600 million to play. | ||
| But now I got more because I got the $3.5. | ||
| Oh, so you know what I got to do? | ||
| I got all these goodies. | ||
| All the corporation taxes only come to $500 billion. | ||
| Yo. | ||
| And the wealthy attack so much? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| But I know somebody's ox has got to get gored there. | ||
| And here's what they want to do. | ||
| They want to jam the reconciliation. | ||
| Because then they're going to sit there and say, Hey, Bannon, all you big talkers. | ||
| Right? | ||
| War Room Posse. | ||
| You got Burquam. | ||
| And you got Oscar Blue Ramirez down there on the border. | ||
| You want to close the border. | ||
| You want to build the wall. | ||
| You want to deport hell everybody. | ||
| It's going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars. | ||
| If you want that, then guess what? | ||
| We're going to have to have the Trump tax cuts. | ||
| Wealthy, that's all part of a package. | ||
| It's all part of one reconciliation package. | ||
| It's an up or down vote. | ||
| So if you want to save your country, if you want to save your sovereignty, if you want to take back your total integrity, everything, Bannon, you've been running your mouth about for years and all your war room posse gets all worked up and they're on the phone yelling and screaming at people like a bunch of mad men, then guess what? | ||
| You're going to have to give us our tax cuts for the wealthy and for the corporations. | ||
| Well, hey, it ain't going to work like that. | ||
| Like Charlie Gasparino said, if we're totally transparent, we can bury the Democratic Party of everything they've done over the last four years. | ||
| People sit there and go, what in the hell happened? | ||
| These people lied to us. | ||
| These are bad people. | ||
| Well, the same thing's got to happen here. | ||
| We have to be fully transparent and have a national conversation on exactly where this thing's going. | ||
| Because the long con is at an end. | ||
| You can't do it anymore. | ||
| And we ain't gonna let it happen. | ||
| You may pass it. | ||
| But we're gonna go through every frickin' line. | ||
| And we're gonna find out whose ox is gonna get gored. |
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