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Dec. 18, 2024 - Bannon's War Room

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Episode 4136: MAGA Must Keep The Offense On The CR

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steve bannon

38:58

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01:27

mike lindell

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mike johnson ▲ ● ▼		We have to have funding for that.
		That's $100 billion to rebuild six states.
		And then on top of that, we have our farmers, our small farmers and ranchers, our food producers in this country, are in jeopardy of going under permanently.
		They've had three lost years in a row, primarily because of Bidenomics and inflation and lots of other factors outside their control.
		So for the first time since I've been in Congress, guys, in eight years, it's not just farmers and ranchers urgently needing the help.
		We now have the creditors, the lenders, the banks.
		We have to have a stopgap measure.
		So when you add those things in, here's the other thing to remember.
		Our Democrat colleagues who have to vote on all this, they don't prioritize agriculture.
		They don't really care that much about farmers and ranchers because they're in rural red districts, right?
		But that's our food supply.
		If we crush domestic food supply, that is a direct threat to national security.
		We need all those small farmers and ranchers, and that's included in the bill as well.
		So when you add all those things together, that's what makes people nervous because of the prices.
unidentified		You really don't have a choice.
unidentified		We have to fund those.
mike johnson ▲ ● ▼		We have to fund FEMA. We have to fund our farmers.
steve doocy ▲ ● ▼		Right.
		And Mr. Speaker, it's not just...
		So you've got a bunch of Republicans who are angry at you.
		They don't like this.
		And just in a couple of weeks, you're going to stand once again to run for Speaker of the House.
		And you don't need a bunch of Democrats mad at you.
		But you know, and this is breaking news you do not know.
		You know who also does not like this?
		Elon Musk, the world's richest man, just tweeted, this bill should not pass.
		The only way you're going to be able to pass it now, Mr. Speaker, is with Democrats.
		If you could, what's your message to Elon Musk?
mike johnson ▲ ● ▼		Well, I was communicating with Elon last night.
		Elon and Vivek and I are on a text chain together.
		And I was explaining to them the background of this.
		And Vivek and I talked last night about almost midnight.
		And he said, look, I get it.
		He said, we understand you're in an impossible position.
		Everybody knows that.
		Remember, guys, we still have just a razor-thin margin of Republicans.
		So any bill has to have Democrat votes.
		They understand the situation.
		They said, it's not directed to you, Mr. Speaker, but we don't like the spending.
		I said, guess what, fellas?
		I don't either.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		We've got to get this done.
		This is for everybody out there that contacts me and says, well, you can't say anything about Johnson, Steve, because President Trump, he said, no, no, no.
		Just like Vivek.
		Because Vivek's a smart guy.
		He just put this out.
		You just heard Johnson right there.
		He's saying, oh, they say I'm in an impossible position.
		I got one-third of one-ninth of one-fifteenth of one-one-hundredth.
		I don't know what the hell they even mean by that.
		But stop it.
		It's like saying elections are about the future.
		Elections are about the here and now.
		It's called net present value.
		Bring it all back to now.
		Everybody tells you an election about the future, they're trying to sell you something.
		Because they don't want to make tough calls.
		Just like I got one third.
		Man up, dude.
		Show me something.
		Show me some Christian masculinity.
		How about that?
		I want to read Vivek.
		Vivek just dropped a bomb on him.
		Remember, I talked to Vivek at midnight, and they understand I'm in a tough position, and they're supportive, and, you know, that's a bald-faced lie.
		You must not negotiate deals.
		Hey, what'd they say the first time?
		He hadn't read the thing.
		He's just going through it.
		When you read it, you throw up in your mouth.
		Hell, we got working...
		And this is the thing they can understand.
		Will you please stop?
		I think this is what I've said somebody the most.
		Our audience is working class and middle class.
		I'll bet you a third to 50% of the audience made high school degrees, probably not college degrees.
		They're plenty smart.
		My dad just had a high school degree.
		My grandfather didn't go to, like, third grade.
		They're the two smartest guys I ever met.
		Read newspapers and, you know, journals and magazines and books.
		They were voracious readers.
		My mom, high school graduate, we think.
		They're plain smart people.
		They were very smart.
		There are a lot smarter, these people up here, all these law degrees and fancy degrees.
		Vivek, let's put this up.
		I wanted to read the full 1,500-plus page bill and speak with key leaders before forming an opinion.
		Having done that, here's my view.
		It's full of excess spending, special interest giveaways, and pork-barrel politics.
		If Congress wants to get serious about government efficiency, they should vote no, and the vote no is all in caps.
		So...
		Johnson, once again, you went on Fox and Friends in the morning and you're selling...
		For the kids at home and the homeschoolers, don't...
		let's scratch that, okay?
		Pay attention.
		My mother would have dragged me in there, washed my mouth out with soap right now.
		And she would do it, trust me.
		And you would...
		it would...
		it would leave an impression.
		Keeping the government open, $300 billion.
		I mean, he's got it right here.
		If everybody can get this great input in the chat, Vivek kind of nails it.
		Congress has known about this deadline since they created it in late September.
	There's no reason why this couldn't have been done through standard process.
	Instead of being rushed to a vote right before Congress, the urgency is 100% manufactured and designed to avoid serious public debate.
	The gospel accord in a war room.
	Vivek, I'm glad you put it so...
	We got Natalie Winters, the reason she's not here this morning.
	She's going through this thing, and the first thing she tells me is the pandemic preparedness in the Global Engagement Center.
	Heard those names before?
	Heard that from Mike Benz and Natalie and Darren Beattie?
	Heard those?
	Guess what, folks?
	Vivek's on it.
	The bill could easily have been under 20 pages.
	Instead, there's dozens of unrelated policy items crammed into 1,500 pages.
	There's no legitimate reason for them to be voted on as a package deal by lame duck Congress.
	72 pages worth of pandemic preparedness and response policy.
	Renewal of the much-criticized Global Engagement Center, a key player in federal censorship.
	And he goes on and on and on.
	We're grateful...
	This is Vivek, and I quote, this is...
	We're grateful for Doge's warm reception on Capitol Hill.
	Nearly everyone agrees we need a smaller and more streamlined federal government.
	But actions speak louder than words.
	This is an early test.
	The bill should fail.
	So with...
	And if Grace, you can put back...
	Let's get this out everywhere, folks.
	Push this out.
	Vivek is 1,000% correct.
	The...
	So, Elon put it out earlier, you know, I think this thing should pass, or should fail, and I put up hard pass.
	I was going to put up, and I just didn't at the last second, you know, motion to vacate.
	I think we just got to go to that.
	I think we got to go to that, like, tell him, hey, dude, don't even put your name up.
	It's not going to happen.
	This is an epic fail, and it's not just that, it's the way the process is handled.
	Like Vivek said, they should have been working on this thing.
	Months ago and been transparent.
	What galls me is the treating you like an idiot.
	We're back to the same thing.
	President Trump, you don't need this.
	This is not what you need.
	You need some people who are going to get into the trenches and fight.
	This is going to be a fight.
	It's going to be a fight for Doge.
	It's going to be a fight on the appropriations process.
	It's going to be a fight across the board.
	It's just going to be a fight every day because we've delayed this for years and kicked the can of the years.
	I said your options get smaller and smaller and smaller.
	As you've chosen this course of action to continue to spend, there's no easy decisions.
	Hell, I gave this speech during the Tea Party.
	I said all the easy decisions were years ago.
	It's worse now.
	It's geometrically worse.
	This does not move in a linear way.
	It gets harder, orders of magnitude harder as we go on.
	Because now you've got to generate more.
	You're like an addict.
	We're addicted.
	We're addicted to easy decisions and we're addicted to spending that comes to those easy decisions.
	And everybody wants to be a big shot and stand in front of a mic.
	We're doing this and we're doing that.
	Those days are over.
	They're over.
	So for the wealthy, I said this the other night, and Elizabeth Warren's up there running her mouth on things like this is all billionaires and they're going to do.
	It's not good.
	No.
	This is what the wealthy got.
	You big donors, you better get focused unless you want, like, taxes to get your attention.
	You've got to get on all these people in the political class you pay and all the NGOs.
	You've got to be talking about cuts.
	Not playing the same.
unidentified		same.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		This is just more of the Washington game.
		I think if there's anything positive that comes out of this, I think it's for Elon and Vivek and the Doge guys, which I've been very supportive of, because that's, to me, the deconstruction administrative state, which has to happen.
		And it's an advisory and a consultant to the best thing that we got, which is Russ Vogt, Mark Paoletta, Jeff Clark.
		You seen those guys on the show a couple, three times?
		And Vogt, the CRA people?
		They're over there, and these people are hammers.
		Doge is part of that.
		They're advisors to OMB, and OMB is in the appropriations process.
		And it's going to be a fight.
		It's going to be ugly.
		It's going to be tough, but you're going to see action.
		What Vivica said, you've got to have action, not talk.
		It's a mindset we have to shatter.
		What is amazing here is that the policy people around Johnson and his political people thought this was sellable.
		They thought the process, not just the face amount and the deals, but they thought the process where they've been working on this for months under secrecy.
		And they tossed in a pay raise and opt out of Obamacare and kept it secret to just dump it.
		And everybody's got to leave.
		They all want to vote on Thursday.
		Are you kidding me?
		Are you—is that—do you think that's real?
		Do you think that that's—you think this audience and what they've done and the people that worked and walked precincts and Scott Pressler and took the training and sat in for the election integrity and canvas neighborhoods and sat in parking lots in the burning heat and humidity and signed people up for voter registration?
		Do you think they're fools— Johnson, you think they're garbage.
		You agree with Biden.
		And I can tell right here, you have no respect for our side of the football by putting this out.
		And you don't understand what this victory is.
		That people out there that are kind of new to politics and don't follow that much.
		And they should, and they got their own lives to live.
		You don't have to follow this crap at this level of detail.
		Trust me.
		Half of this audience would love to punch you out and go do other things.
		But they're not because their patrons said, hey, I'm fighting for the country.
		This is where the fight is.
		Sign me up.
		I'd rather go play golf.
		I'd rather go play tennis or pickleball, whatever it is.
		Get on a yacht and get the hell out of here.
		But I'm not.
		And yes, I'm sitting in a parking lot setting up people.
		I'm going with Scott Pressel and knocking on...
		Remember, he's in Gettysburg.
		He's knocking on windshields.
		Open your car.
		Are you registered?
		Johnson, you've shown you don't have respect.
		And then you get on Fox and Friends and you basically say, Vivek, you don't know how the world works.
		These guys haven't seen it.
		They're not going to...
		Your BS is not sellable.
		Well, you know, Vivek, you know, I only have one thing, and, you know, it's the Emergency for the Farmers and National Security.
		Don't use the farmers.
		Don't pimp them out.
		It's terrible.
		They haven't had a bill in two years.
		It's terrible.
		They're left hung out to dry.
		It's terrible, the small banks.
		I got that.
		And we got to figure out something.
		Hey, I think you can wait for 60 or 90 days.
		You strung them out this long.
		They're part of the permanent capital structure.
		Maybe not there.
		Maybe not some of the things.
		I think at least to keep the money flowing, the stuff in FEMA, that's Biden holding it back to make it harder for Trump.
	You don't have to step in with $100 billion.
	$100 billion does not need to be done for the next 30 days.
	It just does not.
	And you're hiding behind those people like a coward.
	You're using them as a human shield.
	The farmers are a human shield.
	The little banks that lend to them are human shields.
	The people that devastated in Carolina.
	You see these videos every day.
	My citrus all over me every day.
	These people in Carolina.
unidentified		We have to, we have to, we have to, we must.
unidentified		We must.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		We owe it to Tuberville's 18 year old dad.
		With Patton's army or in the Battle of the Bulge that we're going to eventually hurdle to save the beleaguered 101st Airborne that was surrounded at Bastogne.
		That's where we come from.
		That's what we honor back to every patriot's grave, back to the beginning of this project, back to the revolution when they put it all on the line.
		Then afterwards to try to form a country because, trust me, it was still in play then.
		We disgrace them.
		We dishonor them.
unidentified		They didn't risk all.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		To have this.
		And they didn't risk all.
		To have the disrespect.
		This is why I'm a populist.
		I back on the sovereign will of the American people and the common sense because I come from the deplorables.
		And I've seen them in action.
		And their decency and their hard-headedness and their common sense.
		That's what I rely upon.
		And I don't rely upon the games I see up here.
		And I find it revolting, Johnson, that you hide behind Christianity, because you do.
		That's not Christianity.
		Christianity's stepping into the breach.
		I find you personally offensive.
		I'll just be blunt.
		I find you personally offensive.
		Your wormy little ways in trying to sell this and lie to people, the straight faith, and treat us like fools.
		Short break.
unidentified		Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, birchgold.com slash Bannon.
		Into the dollar empire.
		Hey, I don't give investment advice here.
		Although, gold's been on quite a run, right?
		Big article on Zero Hedge about, I think Goldman Sachs has found that the Chinese have been buying like three times more than they've represented.
		Wow, that's fascinating.
		The CCP has actually put out bad numbers.
		I don't give you personal financial advice.
		What we do is put you in contact with people.
		The home title lock people are going to be on later.
		That can help you sort out certain issues or problems.
		But, if you see where this deal's going, I mean, the audience, do you have the stomach for this?
		I got it.
		Do you have the stomach for it?
		Ask yourself.
		This is gut check time.
		Do you have the stomach for this?
		Because a lot of this show going forward, I'm just telling you, and we're kind of looking, you know, around the room, hey, It's going to be a lot of this going forward.
		This country's in a crisis.
		It's far from over.
		I keep telling you, November 5th is just a sign on the way.
		They have now rendered their verdict, the American people, on the version of Stasi-like East German quote-unquote democracy, color revolution that these people are trying to pull in this country, including Liz Cheney, who's now, I think, going to be up on serious criminal charges.
		But this is going to be a fight.
		And we're going to be in it, and the show's going to be in it.
		We're going to be the tip of it.
		And we're going to be telling you the smart things many, many months before they become evident on other platforms, including the big conservative channel, quote-unquote, the big neocon neoliberal channel.
		Like this morning, they shouldn't have had to have Elon and Vivek to Elon's tweet to have to jump Johnson.
		He's jumping because he's lying to your straight face.
		But one thing you have to put in your repertoire that you have to think about.
		I don't think that you got to think about it.
mike johnson ▲ ● ▼		You.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		You're free men and free women.
		You.
		This show is about self-determination.
		It's about agency.
		It's about the sovereign will of a free people.
		To be just brutally frank about it.
		McCarthy's out today with some tweet, America's an idea.
		Will you stop America's not an idea?
		Just stop reinforcing what a moron you are.
		That helped get us in this situation.
		That's where you're turfed out as the first speaker to be fired.
		Well, Johnson gonna be the second.
		Or Marty shouldn't run again.
		There's just zero probability.
		You're like peacetime army, like the army before the Civil War, the army before World War II. It's got to function, you know, training and things like that, but this is why I see different leaders come up, you know, from the Civil War, guys like people that you just would never have thought of come to the forefront, like Sam Grant.
		Or people like Patton and people, you know, that you would never thought they were marginal players come up.
		That's what we're in now.
		We're in a war for our country.
		There's all kind of folks you've never heard of.
		That are going to be quite prominent in the years, days, weeks, months, years ahead.
		People that you may have seen on TV once, you may have heard about them once, you may see the clip, and they're going to be folks that matter, people that matter.
		That's how fourth turnings are.
		The pattern's pretty well established if you think it through and study it.
		And they're horses for courses, but it's more than just Johnson as an individual.
		I don't even want to pick on him.
		It's a mindset.
		It's an attitude.
		We have to always be on offense.
		And you just heard right there from Coach Tuberville.
		Have you heard that yet?
		Of Pete and Cash and Bobby, of how organized they are, and Pam?
		How organized they are when they come in and they're actually on offense and laying out their plans?
		Because these people have thought about this a long time.
		These aren't random choices of President Trump's.
		He knows these folks.
		And that's why we have to have their back.
		Is there any surprise that President Trump put out last night about Liz Cheney?
		We thought about this a lot.
		This is not personal, but Liz Cheney has nothing to do with my going to prison.
		It just doesn't.
		The prison was empowering for me.
		It was damn empowering.
		As a 70-year-old guy, it was damn empowering.
		That's why I don't talk about it.
		It was empowering.
		And Nancy Pelosi's broken, and I'm more empowered than ever.
		This is about something so fundamental and basic, and it has to be done.
		Yes, of course she's guilty of crimes, but that has to come out of the process, but it has to be investigated.
		But the question there with Latimer coming out yesterday, Johnson, you've been Speaker, McCarthy, you've been Speaker.
		We had this thing since January of 23. Why is it coming out now?
		It's an attitude.
		We're either going to set things right or we're not.
		This is either meaningful or it's not.
		And now, like I said, we're thrust upon the world stage.
		Now, now, now.
		Right here in this time and place, we are thrust upon the whole world, the big shots.
		Everybody calls, all these big shots in these European capitals, in these Asian, all throughout Asia, and all the money market guys, all the big shots, the hedge fund guys.
		You see them down there, why are they going to Trump and genuflecting?
		It's obviously President Trump, it's what he represents, the manifestation of the movement that he leads.
		They understand a sea change.
		Stephanie rules on last night.
		She's hammering these guys.
		Yeah, but, you know, why did they, why would their employees of these CEOs, why their employees and their customers didn't want to operate with Trump and jump at the first thing?
		And that's not the case now.
	Because there is a change to the zeitgeist.
	We finally have broken through.
	We have broken through in low information.
	Low performance doesn't mean they're not smart.
	They're plenty smart.
	They just don't pay attention to politics because they've got enough in their life trying to get on a subway and go to work for eight or ten hours and then come back on a subway and try to make ends meet.
	It's the speech in Parliament in the Canadian Parliament by the great populace up there.
	He says he's just talking to common people that are working two and three jobs.
	And that's prevalent when you see that when you really, as we take you through the employment statistics, more people working multiple jobs than ever.
	The lived experience of the American citizen sucks.
	To wit, and I don't approve this.
	In fact, I disapprove it.
	I've dedicated my life to a proposition that we can get through this and restructure without going there.
	But when a young man from a wealthy family and privileged and has got every privilege in the world guns down somebody at point-blank range, Like Robert Ford shot Wild Bill Hickok right in the back in the most anti-American thing that happened in the entire American West.
	Okay, maybe not the most, but up there.
	And you do it again, and I don't know, 90% of the online people are saying, that's a seething anger.
	I'm not empathizing with the anger.
	I'm telling you, it's there.
	It's a fact.
	It's a material fact.
	And the way not to do that is that this is enabling.
	What Johnson's doing and these people, they're too weak to stand the breach and say, okay, this is a problem, this is a mess, and we're going to have to hammer this out together, and everybody's going to have to give up a little bit because we don't have any easy solutions anymore.
	And obviously the people that are in these hurricane areas and these farmers, yeah, we've got to figure out how to try to take care of them.
	They've already been in pain, and guess what?
	They're going to continue in pain, because this is not a total solution.
	But then you've got to stop the rest of it.
	It's the attitude.
	And it's the attitude that you're stupid.
	That you're stupid.
	I want you to embrace that today.
	Everything with Johnson, with that deep voice, and one-third of one-fifth of one-ninth of one-one-hundredth of the government.
	It doesn't matter, dude.
	You're Speaker of the frickin' House.
	Stand in the breach and lead.
	People will rally around you.
	Hell, man, you're the number two in line of succession to be president of the United States.
	A little worm like you.
	Think about that for a second.
	Think about that.
	That requires you to grow a set and stand in the breach.
	Not do this.
	And not treat people like idiots and hide stuff.
	The pay raise they gave themselves is $243,000.
	Well, at $173,000, you can get a lot of good people in this country.
	Hell, I'll take every truck driver making $30,000 or $40,000.
	I'll take people making $52,000 and say, we're going to fleet you up and pay $173,000.
	You've got to go over this job.
	and they'll do a better job.
unidentified		So what's the actions?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		First off, get Bill Blaster.
		On this one?
		Or call 202, is it 225-3121?
		Of course.
		But I think the message...
		My recommendation, and I'm just throwing it out there, that this is deeper than the CR. CR is offensive.
		And of course you've got to vote no.
		And anybody that represents you that doesn't vote no, you have to deal with it.
		But to me, that's because you're not serious going forward.
		Because this is the easy one.
		It's a hard no or, you know, you're done.
		I'm done with you.
		But it's deeper than that.
		I think Johnson's got to be told...
		You know, either step down now and put somebody in on an interim basis for the next couple of weeks or just commit to us that you will not run again before.
		And we have to see some leaders step up here.
		Tom Emmer is his whip.
		I think Emmer's just told us in so many words he's running for speakership.
		And Emmer's no day at the beach.
		I mean, he's a tough guy.
		But hey, he's no MAGA guy.
		He trashes Trump all the time behind the scenes.
		I know he's down there kissing his ass like they all do.
		I'm just saying Embers is, Embers is, he's the whip, and they asked him walking out, hey, whip?
		Because the whip's a guy cracking the whip to get the votes and line it up.
		Hey, whip!
		Why are we going to vote on this?
		Is it going to be tomorrow morning?
		That's what people are saying.
		He says, I don't know.
		Ask the speaker.
		That's your whip telling you that, hey, I'm a kid in play.
unidentified		Okay?
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unidentified		Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so I'm throwing these out there, folks.
		Remember, I'm calling, we're doing audibles here, but I just, these are observations right off the top of the head, but Tom Emmer's running for speaker.
		Just is.
		When you whip, if you've ever seen House of Cards, you know, the whip is like the hammer up there.
		It's a job you give somebody that's tough.
		Emmer's got a reputation.
		I think he's a former hockey coach.
		He's a tough guy.
		And the whip is supposed to be obviously very dedicated to other speakers because you're the enforcer.
		You're the enforcer.
		So Embers walks out and they go, hey, are they going to vote tomorrow?
		He goes, hey, I don't know, man.
		Talk to the speaker.
		Boom!
		That is not air cover.
		That's the opposite air cover.
		But I get even a better one.
		Coming from another...
		Because you saw Coach Tuberville.
		Coach Tuberville is a classic Southern gentleman.
		He's a classic Southern gentleman, so he's not going to talk crap about anybody, but he rolls his eyes on Johnson.
		I got Josh Hawley.
		This is part of Josh Hawley.
		This is Josh Hawley 2028. He's got the child tax credit, so he's into the populist economics probably more than anybody.
		This is a quote from Hawley, and this is from the Senate.
		This, in the old school of kind of the way the city worked, this was kind of verboten.
		The House never criticized the Senate guys, and the Senate never criticized the House guys.
		It was just kind of one of the unspoken rules.
		But we live in different times, people.
		This is a quote from Senator Hawley of Missouri.
		Quote, the Speaker has been an embarrassment from beginning to end.
		And the CR is the latest example of this.
		The CR is a total disaster.
		Why he continues to be elected as Speaker is beyond me.
		Boom!
		Said from a populist point of view in Speaker Johnson, I mean Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, ditto.
		Ditto head.
		That's ditto.
		I want to quote again.
		The Speaker's been an embarrassment from beginning to end, and the CR is the latest example of this.
		The CR is a total disaster.
		Why he continues to be elected as Speaker is beyond me.
		End quote.
		It's beyond me too, sir.
		So today, and I think you tell them, give us a one-liner and kick it into one Trump's here.
		All right, don't go home for Christmas.
		D.C. is a lovely Christmas town.
		There's no requirement.
		You serve in your country.
		Hell, we got 100. You know, tonight at 6, I'm going to try to get Patrick K. O'Donnell on the 80th, the week of the 80th beginning, because the Battle of Bulge went through it.
		We always do it on Christmas, too, as the combat history of Christmas, because we're still going.
		The...
		If you're serving your country, it's what it is.
		If the government gets shut down, maybe it gets shut down when Trump comes, hey.
		And let CNN and these guys all melt down.
		So Biden's got no government, no money in the government for his last five weeks.
		Maybe that's what we do.
		Or they sit here and negotiate it and get into the trenches and now get everybody.
		Maybe they don't go home tomorrow.
		Maybe they miss the weekend before Christmas.
		Hell, maybe they go all the way up to Christmas Eve.
		Maybe they go through Christmas Day.
		It's not the end of the world.
		It's not the end of the world.
	It's the end of the world as we know it if you keep doing this.
	Because this runs out over time.
	You saw that from the BRICS nations.
	You saw that because they're punching out.
	And here's why they're punching out.
	They see this.
	You think these people are stupid?
	They're not stupid.
	They got all these resources.
	They got plenty of people that went to the top Ivy League business schools.
	You go to those countries, they got them.
	Their best are pretty damn good.
	They got them and they're plenty smart.
	And they see exactly what's going on here.
	Do you think this shows the rest of the world, your fiduciary?
	When you sit here and you throw in all this mess, are you going to slide in a pay raise?
	Johnson, before you get turfed out as speaker, and you're going to get turfed out, you've got to fire these people around you that told you this was a good idea to put the pay raise in there.
	To put the pay raise in there.
	To put the payers, to raise your, because of past COLAs, they haven't had a raise, I don't know, since 2009 or whatever.
	Because of the $243,000.
	That's a, what's it, $80,000?
	Like bonus, right off the bat.
	It's not going to happen.
	People are not going to agree to that.
	Just don't.
	Your approval rating, I think, as an institution, I don't know, it's in single digits.
	That's pretty hard to do.
	Because you can basically find anybody at 20%.
	You know, the people are confused.
	Yeah, Congress, they're fine.
	Okay, you're at like 8. 202-225-3121.
	Give them the old what for.
	And tell the staff, you know, put me in touch with the principal.
	Give me your principal.
	Give me the member.
	I want a member.
	I'm not looking for a staffer.
	Call up there and say, hey, I'm irate today.
	They'll be running.
	They'll be out the microphone.
	Trust me, you get the phone calls like we can get them in there and the emails and text messages.
	They'll be up the microphone.
	Hey, I don't know anything about this.
	I had nothing to do with it.
	Our phone's blowing up.
	The producer, all kind of folks want to come on.
	I said, I don't want to do that this morning.
	I got to have a pardons discussion with the troops.
	We're about to go up armor here.
	So if we do that, at least we're going to have a chat.
	And we got to take this up a notch.
	This has got to be about, let's get down to the thing itself.
	This is about the leadership.
	And we don't have time.
	President Trump, you can't put everything back on him.
	Hell, he's got a war.
	He's got to negotiate.
	And Ben Harnwell, I got to slip Ben in here.
	I'll get Ben tonight.
	In Ukraine, folks, they're committing your sons and daughters right now, even as we speak.
	And I'm talking about Kellogg, I think.
	They're over there talking about American security guarantees.
	That means United States troops.
	They're talking.
	We're not going to do it with Ukrainians.
	We're not going to stop.
	Guess what?
	Then keep fighting.
	Then talk to your own people.
	Maybe you have an election.
	Maybe go talk to those parents of the 500,000, 18-year-olds who want to chew up.
	Go talk to them.
	Don't talk to me.
	What do you mean we have to give?
	We don't have to give anything.
	We don't have to give any more money.
	We don't have to give none of our kids.
	It would be a crime.
	A crime that somebody should be held accountable for of a young man or woman in uniform died in Ukraine.
	Just should be.
	That's where they're going.
	And they're going to do it in Syria, too.
	You watch.
	You wait for it.
	Unless you fight.
	You.
	Unless you sit there and say, no, I didn't work for years in doing this.
	I didn't use my agency.
	Send American boys and girls over to Syria and to Ukraine.
	I didn't do that.
	That was not part of the deal.
	I'm America first.
	And no, Mitch McConnell, to smear this, that this is dangerous, isolationism, the same, oh, the people that were for the fascists.
	Well, they weren't for the fascists, and quite frankly, McConnell, when FDR ran in 1940, he pledged to the American people, he pledged to the American people that we weren't going to get in a European war.
	He pledged to the American people, swore to them, Why?
	World War I was vastly unpopular.
	He had some more time, but you don't see a lot of movies.
	Hey, you know, All Quiet on the Western Front, Sergeant, these are not, Sergeant is a little celebratory, but there wasn't much.
	The big parade, you go back and look at Paths of Glory.
	There's not, World War I was not celebratory.
	That was a slaughterhouse.
	That was a slaughterhouse.
	That was the end of the Victorian era.
	That was a slaughterhouse.
	People weren't digging that.
	In World War II, they would have never gotten into it unless the Japanese is intact.
	And hey, I'm just saying, if somebody that studied the transcripts and studied it, there's a whole lot of unanswered questions on Pearl Harbor.
	Just is.
	Hate to break that news to you.
	Just is.
unidentified		Yep.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Just is.
		My point.
		The American people want to opt out.
		The congressmen want to opt out of Obamacare.
		The American people want to opt out of a lot of stuff.
		And what they want to opt out is the way you're running the deal.
		They want to opt out of that.
		They spoke.
		They rendered a verdict on November 5th.
		They rendered a verdict.
		And you know what they said?
		We don't want to do this anymore.
		And I keep telling you, it's just not the Democrats.
		How did we get in the situation?
		Polly Pockets Johnson is the manifestation, the manifestation of controlled opposition.
		When I say controlled opposition, that's what it looks like.
		That's what it sounds like when he's talking to the guys on the curvy couch.
		And he's saying, you know, I had a very deep conversation with Vivek, and he understands, Vivek understands, and Elon understands, that we're one-ninth of one-fiftieth of one-two-thousandth of the government, and, you know, we're in a tough position, and you have, you know, all these things that have to be done, and so I had to, in the dark of night, over many months, allow the Democrats to run the table on a 1,500-page bill that supports everything that they want and has more things.
		No.
		No.
		And then Vivek comes out, kaboom!
		I think, yo, dude, I think that's the end of your political career.
		Maybe you stay as a congressman, but you can't be the Speaker of the House.
		Come on, man.
		People had been Speaker of the House.
		You saw McCarthy got turfed out, and we've got to deal with that, the debt ceiling thing, the debacle of the debt ceiling.
		So I don't know what you looked at when you looked at, and what your people have told you is coming, because the firestorm we're going to have in March, when you have to do these massive cuts to the budget, and you're going to have to raise taxes on the wealthy, yep, that's going to happen.
		As sure as the turning of the earth, it's going to happen.
		You've heard it here.
		Hell, I gave it at the New York at Wall Street, at the biggest private center down at Wall Street, where all the big dinners are held.
		And it was virtually a standing ovation.
		It wasn't everybody, but man, when I said tax the wealthy, hey, that's a Wall Street crowd.
		They know, they understand, and hey, they've got to be financially, you know, that's not income tax, because there's all types of financial transactions, taxes, there's all kind of ways you can get people to start paying up.
		But it has to happen.
		Because you just can't have the scale of this.
		It's moving beyond our control.
		And then Johnson comes in here and puts lies and misrepresentation.
		Oh, by the way, gives himself a pay raise from $173,000 to $243,000.
		For what?
		For the job that you've done?
		For the job that Congress has done?
		If that was the case, why didn't a month ago you come forward on Fox and the TV show, send some people over here and say, look, we haven't had a cost of living increase since, I don't know, 2009 or whenever.
		The financial crisis?
		I don't know when it's been.
		But we want to catch up with all of it.
		And I want to put it in the CR. And it's going to increase our salaries $80,000 to $243,000.
		And we're going to give ourselves the ability to opt out of Obamacare.
		So we want to pay for that.
		And go around and pitch it and sell it.
		I can tell you what people are going to say.
		Hey, it's right there.
		It's a surprise vote.
		You see that?
		Watch it on TV. It's a surprise vote.
		I don't know what that is.
		What is it?
		Oh, that means no.
		Okay.
		Yeah, that's not going to be.
		They're not going to sell that part of the deal.
		Two things.
		Rickerts, I think now more than ever, probably the geopolitics and the capital markets, that'd be one to catch up on.
		He's one of our best contributors.
		From the economics side, maybe a few guys, we're going to restock.
	Because, you know, Besson and Navarro and probably Trenner and EJ, they're all probably going to be.
	Some of them are already gone and a couple of three others are going to probably be gone.
	So go to Rickards War Room.
	It's with an S and it's all one word.
	RickardsWarRoom.com.
	You get access to his newsletters.
	He's got general newsletters.
	He's got special newsletters.
	You check it out.
	You make the decision.
	Also got access to his book, Currency War.
	I don't know, it's 10 years old, but it's not too shabby.
	That's how I got started on Jim Rickards.
	So check it out.
	Also, The Silent Company.
	They make these great Faraday bags and backpacks, all of it.
	The product offering is extraordinary.
	They've been in it a long time.
	SLNT.com.
	Put in Bannon, get yourself a discount.
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	The Silent Company.
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	Short break.
	Back in the warm in a moment.
unidentified		Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, they just put a notification...
		They're going to do a canvas at, a whip canvas at 1.30 p.m.
		Eastern Standard Time.
		So get on those phones right now and let them know, give them the old what for.
		So in this, we're trying to get the whip notice.
		The whip notice actually highlights what they see as wins in this bill.
		Johnson, not to tick people off more, but you will tick them off more.
		McCarthy doesn't have the job because, remember all the wins that he had in the debt ceiling deal when he gave him the second year?
		Took the cap off, gave him the second year.
		I had a friend of mine that was one of these Republican, you know, rhino types.
		Called me one time with the wins, and I eviscerated this person.
		I said, look, I know we're friends, but I said, I'm about to rip your face off, and here's why.
		I went to, remember the McCarthy thing?
		It was $2 trillion in saving, two and a half.
		Biggest one said, we have so many wins here.
		I said, are you kidding me?
		This is all in the out years.
		It's all nonsense.
		It's not going to happen.
		I want to know what you're cutting immediately down front.
		Period zero, as we say in the finance business.
		Show me.
		It was nothing.
		It was all ephemeral.
		It was all another jerk-off.
		I said, do you expect people to...
		I said, the times have changed.
		This is when you begin to see the ecosystem of these podcasts and streaming services and online...
		And people want receipts.
		They want to get into details.
		This started during the pandemic.
		You can't fool them anymore.
		You can't fool them anymore.
		1.30 is...
		They're going to canvas at 1.30.
		So, 202-225-3121.
		Get Bill Blaster.
		Call up their local office.
		And hey, you got to make it personal.
		You got to make it personal.
		I went there this morning.
		This is not just about...
		It's a hard no on the CR. Tell me you want two lines that kicks into President Trump saying, let President Trump and his team figure it out.
		Because they'll do it.
		Vivek told you that.
		That was a great tweet from Vivek.
		And that should be passed around to everybody.
		Get Bill Blaster at 202-225-312.
		And hey, I don't know.
		Throw in there that, hey, if you're thinking of voting, if you're representing, thinking of voting for Johnson, get their mind right on that.
		Natalie Dominguez from Home Title Lock.
		Natalie, make me feel better about how we're going to make sure that people, because we're going through a firestorm.
		We're going to go through a financial, economic firestorm in this thing.
		You can tell.
		There's not an attitude in this town to get serious about it.
		And they're trying to tap people along.
		So Natalie, talk to me about Home Title Lock.
		We've got to preserve people's castles.
		What do you got?
unidentified		Absolutely.
		So today, Steve, I want to share a report with you all coming from Deer Park, Texas, where a woman named Ashley stole her late grandmother's house.
		Now, the house was supposed to be willed to Ashley's uncle, who'd moved into the house after the grandmother had passed.
		But Ashley faked signatures and filed fraudulent documents to put the title in her name.
		The family only realized something was wrong when they saw a for sale sign outside of the house one day.
		But by the time they looked into it, the house had already been sold.
		And the crazy thing is, when Ashley got caught, her own sister tried to warn the realtors and the title company involved that it was a fraudulent sale, but their warnings were ignored and the money was wired anyway.
		And now the new owners ended up evicting her uncle from the home that was rightfully his.
		And to top it all off, after Ashley got caught, she kept doing the same thing, but this time targeting strangers.
		Investigators, she's stolen mobile homes and land, all using fraudulent transfer documents, and has since been charged with additional crimes.
		But I guess the first charge wasn't enough to stop her from doing it, because this all happened after she posted bond from the first charge and was out on bail.
		And the family's been fighting for two years, during which time the house has been sold twice, and they don't think they're ever going to get their home back.
		They said if they'd caught the title change sooner, they believed they could have stopped the sale and saved themselves years of fighting and turmoil.
		And that's why we can't stress enough how much monitoring your title is so important.
		These scams can happen fast and the damage can take years to unwind, especially the longer it goes unnoticed.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Real quickly, give me 60 seconds.
		I gotta go to Lindell.
		Just hit rewind and give me that story again.
		What was that?
		What happened?
unidentified		What happened?
		Grandmother dies.
		Uncle was supposed to inherit the home.
		Niece, or granddaughter, I guess in this case, steals the home, and then the guy gets evicted.
		They never got the home back.
		It's been two years.
		And you know, Steve, reports like these are exactly why we do what we do, right?
		Our triple lock protection monitors the property, alerts you to any changes in your title, and then handles all the restoration when fraud occurs at no cost to you.
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, people should be giving this as Christmas gifts.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		The kids got a house?
unidentified		Absolutely.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		I think they're giving it to them as a Christmas gift.
		Natalie, thank you so much.
		Fantastic job.
		Yeah, elderly parents.
		This is a great Christmas.
		Merry Christmas, Natalie.
		Wow.
		You know, these governments have been turfed out.
		This is what's happening to Johnson.
		He's getting turfed.
		I told you it was going to happen.
		You're going to see it.
		These guys, these weak-willed people are going to get turfed out because people are sitting there going, man, we're in the jam.
		Mike Lindell, before we get Charlie Kirk up here at noon, we're back 5 to 7. This is going to be on fire at 1.30 today.
		They're going to canvas the vote.
		They're going to try to jam this thing through tonight or tomorrow, folks.
		Mike Lindell, sell me a pillow.
mike lindell ▲ ● ▼		All right, everybody.
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		But there is free shipping, but that won't arrive by Christmas, but you still get that option.
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		And once again, there is a shipping option available.
		Go to the website or ask the reps when you call in to arrive by Christmas and they'll tell you what your options are.
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		We can do it.
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		But you guys...
		Thanks for all the help.
		And my employees, thank you.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		We'll see you back here at 5 o'clock tonight.
		Charlie Kirk is next.
		Jack was so big after that.

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