Jan. 9, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| Here's one time 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 try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big line? | ||
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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. Band. | ||
| Okay, I guess let's park along this street, yeah? | ||
| And then, Dave, if you can, just go ahead of us and try to set up a scene. | ||
| Right here, right here. | ||
| This is where it's got to be. | ||
| This is—oh my god. | ||
| What? | ||
| I've never—look at this. | ||
| Beyond comprehension. | ||
| He sees Vaughn Hilgert, who is reporting on concerns surrounding President-elect Trump's repeated threats to deny wildfire assistance to California. | ||
| Vaughn, what can you tell us about that? | ||
| Right, this goes back to his first administration, but also as recently as a campaign stop that he made in the Coachella Valley in October, in the weeks before his 2024 election. | ||
| I want to let you listen to some of President-elect Trump's past comments. | ||
| About his criticisms of Governor Newsom and forest management in California. | ||
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Take a listen. | |
| We won't give him money to put out all his fires. | ||
| And if we don't give him the money to put out his fires, he's got problems. | ||
| He's a lousy governor. | ||
| We're going to take care of your water situation. | ||
| And we'll force it down his throat. | ||
| And we'll say, Gavin, if you don't do it, we're not giving you any of that fire money that we send you all the time for all the forest fires that you have. | ||
| Of course, this is a longstanding fight that the president-elect has waged with particularly the governor of California, suggesting that they are not putting enough resources towards wildfire management, forest management. | ||
| To be very clear, billions of dollars have been approved by Governor Newsom and the California Assembly towards forest management over these years. | ||
| Of course, another issue of concern here is the amount of water supply down in... | ||
| I think that is where you're getting into a lot of the details and a lot of President-elect Trump and others who are using this moment to criticize the Democrats in the state of California, Chris. | ||
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Vaughn, thank you for that. | |
| Yeah, thank you indeed. | ||
| You're in the war room. | ||
| It's Wednesday, January 8th in the year of our Lord, 2025. I think it's my first time back here in the studio saying 2025 and not 2024. And look at the year we've already been bequeathed. | ||
| Well, I guess I'll start this show off coming hot, like Stephen K. Bannon would say. | ||
| Go to hell, MSNBC. And no, I don't necessarily mean the fiery, apocalyptic inferno that we're seeing unfold in Los Angeles right now, though one could easily mistake that for hell because that's what it looks like, right? | ||
| And I only have to make that clarification because of one reason and one reason only. | ||
| And that's the supermajority of the Democratic Party that has ruled that state for God knows how long and their horrible, asinine, backwards policies that have resulted in, what, prioritizing climate change cultists and the Green New Deal and weird energy ideas. | ||
| And now Americans, Californians' homes are being burnt to the ground. | ||
| California is my home state. | ||
| I used to, I guess, be proud to be able to say that. | ||
| But it's days like today, not just that shows you, frankly, that California is and always has been a harbinger, a bellwether for all of the backwards, destructive policies that California has always been on the front lines of, spiritually, culturally, financially, politically, I guess in this case it's physically. | ||
| But this is a defining moment in Los Angeles history. | ||
| I had a whole other show planned. | ||
| I was going to go off on Mark Zuckerberg, but Steve and I agreed that we were going to dedicate this entire episode. | ||
| We'll call it a War Room Inferno. | ||
| Let's just get it out there right now. | ||
| Gavin Newsom, you think you're going to be running in 2028? | ||
| Let's just say it's not really going to be a slow burn. | ||
| It's a crash and a burn of epic proportions like what we're seeing going on right now. | ||
| Now, my childhood home actually is in the evacuation zones. | ||
| Luckily, I'm not there. | ||
| My parents still live there. | ||
| And don't worry, I'm not doxing myself because there's so many homes that are actually under evacuation order that you probably couldn't even figure out where I live. | ||
| But places where I have so many memories of being a child growing up have actually burnt down, where I grew up playing volleyball, the Palisades Charter High School, are gone. | ||
| Of course, I'm not looking for sympathy. | ||
| After all, I'd probably take that over a four-month prison sentence. | ||
| But isn't it wild that that's where we are in America right now? | ||
| I mean, it used to just, what, be the election infrastructure, the public transportation, maybe some of our representatives. | ||
| I'd say Karen Bass is a prime contender where they would be critiqued. | ||
| Oh, it's third world. | ||
| It's so backwards for such a great country. | ||
| But now I guess we can apply that critique. | ||
| To disaster response, though I guess maybe North Carolinians know a little bit about what that's like, right? | ||
| And you know what's the most, I would say, enraging part about this? | ||
| Is that Democrats and their established Republican counterparts, rhinos, whatever you want to call them, I prefer the term dino, doge in name only, because I think that gets to the heart of it. | ||
| These are the same hacks that stand up there, just a stone's throw away from where I am right now, every single day, telling us that the reason why you need to shell out billions of dollars to Ukraine is because we have to win the fight between autocracy and democracy. | ||
| We can't become a laughingstock. | ||
| We have to prove that the American model, the American system works. | ||
| What do you think Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping or the Ayatollahs and the Mullahs in Iran are looking at the United States right now? | ||
| What do you think they're thinking about? | ||
| You think they're saying, wow, Gavin Newsom and the Democratic Party and America's elected officials, they really know what they're doing. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| No, we're watching Americans be stranded, having to abandon their cars on freeways and streets in Los Angeles because disaster planning is so bad in California that people are left to what? | ||
| Fight for themselves. | ||
| I see people are already tweeting about wanting private firefighters because I don't know what's going on out there. | ||
| Now, I know the question, and I guess I'm glad to be broadcasting in, what, just the final few days of the Biden regime, but what was the perennial question that we would always ask from day one of the Biden regime? | ||
| Is it intentional or is it incompetent? | ||
| And I think today, I would like to finally rest my case, and maybe I guess fact check myself, because in framing that question, I implied that they were mutually exclusive. | ||
| But with what we've seen unfold today, and yesterday, and frankly the entirety of the Biden regime, it is intentional incompetence. | ||
| And let's walk through that, right? | ||
| When I said I wanted to turn California red, I didn't mean like this. | ||
| Now, the brilliant Karen Bass, who is over in Ghana right now, I think attending some inauguration, for those of you who know her track record and her history, I'm only surprised she's not in China, kowtowing over there. | ||
| But she thought, maybe she's California's Lori Lightfoot, how about that? | ||
| She decided this year that $23 million, I think which amounts to about a 25% or something like that, decrease in California's firefighting budget would be a good idea. | ||
| That, of course, on top of what? | ||
| Massive shortages and layoffs of the best and the boldest and the brightest in terms of California's firefighters. | ||
| Because why? | ||
| They refused to get vaccinated. | ||
| So now we're left with all the ones that, what? | ||
| Both ideologically were weak and kowtowed to the mandate and are actually vaccinated. | ||
| We can see how that's going to end up. | ||
| The Biden administration, sorry, regime, thought that it would be a good idea to stop all the controlled burns. | ||
| To what appease the Greta Thunbergs of the world and the climate change cultists and the WEF green energy agenda. | ||
| The fire hydrants up there don't even have water because apparently you can't divert the copious amounts of water that flows through that great state because some fish are maybe going to die in the name of environmentalism. | ||
| And in 2014, Californians actually overwhelmingly voted to spend and allocate billions of dollars on storing that water so they could use it in emergency situations like this. | ||
| But guess who still hasn't done a damn thing about that? | ||
| A guy by the name of Gavin Newsom. | ||
| A guy also by the name of Gavin Newsom also thought it'd be a good idea to spend, I think the figure is, $11 billion to build 1,600 feet, feet, not miles, feet, of high-speed rail. | ||
| A state that what? | ||
| It's forced to shell out tens of billions of dollars. | ||
| I think last year was $21.8 billion annually for illegal immigration. | ||
| And then to cap it all off, this is really going to get you mad, so buckle up. | ||
| LA County Fire is donating supplies to Ukraine's first responders. | ||
| Yeah, look at that headline. | ||
| And let's put the picture up. | ||
| Now, no shade to L.A. County fire, but I think when they're probably told by their elected betters in the form of Gavin Newsom, oh, we got your back, we got it, yeah, of course you're going to try to do the right thing, which is the American ideal of civic virtue in helping others, though I don't think Ukraine is necessarily where we should be allocating that assistance. | ||
| They thought that they probably had equipment to spare. | ||
| And then, of course, Joe Biden... | ||
| At the highest levels, his USAID, yes, the same, sorry, that was FEMA that was shelling at, what, a bunch of generators and warm weather equipment to Ukraine as North Carolinians were freezing. | ||
| Well, oops, I guess history repeats itself. | ||
| Because you know what? | ||
| Joe Biden's USAID has funded, bankrolled, and trained 16, more than a baker's dozen, 16. And I think the worst part about that story is that's not even something that I had to sleuth around and find out. | ||
| They actually thought that that would be a good story to publish front and center on the USAID website. | ||
| Just like what, today Joe Biden is getting ready to announce another $500 million in aid to Ukraine? | ||
| But what do I know, right? | ||
| I'm just a racist, sexist, homophobe. | ||
| So naturally, that would be the only reason why I think, what is it, the first ever female LGBTQ fire chief is now running all of LA's fire response. | ||
| Wow, I know I can sleep well at night. | ||
| Yet not quite. | ||
| And we'll play the clips. | ||
| All she's prioritized is diversity, equity, and inclusion. | ||
| She's had time to go to the pride parades. | ||
| Yeah, how many Californians right now have pride in what's going on? | ||
| I don't think a lot. | ||
| And by the way, I'm allowed to say this. | ||
| Like I said, I'm from California. | ||
| I get to play a little bit of victimhood culture right now. | ||
| I'm not used to doing that because I'm not a Democrat. | ||
| But my house is under an evacuation order right now because of the failures of Gavin Newsom. | ||
| The failures in kowtowing to a climate cult agenda that says you can't remove debris. | ||
| That's obviously going to catch on fire like it has been for years because apparently climate change is the new god for some hippie liberals out in California. | ||
| Gavin Newsom has kowtowed to a DEI agenda that's rooted out not just the best and brightest in the form of vaccine mandates, but installed unqualified people who, by the way, that chick, her salary? | ||
| Guess what it is? | ||
| $400,000. | ||
| $400,000. | ||
| And I think the DEI person who runs their coordinate, I was saying the figure for her or him or whatever their pronoun may be, is I think $600,000. | ||
| Right? | ||
| California is a sanctuary state for illegal aliens and people with the most depraved minds. | ||
| I'm not just talking about the Joe Biden voters. | ||
| But it is a hellish inferno for everybody else. | ||
| And it's by design. | ||
| I mean, the fire hydrants don't have water in them, and Gavin Newsom wants to stand up there and lecture Donald Trump. | ||
| MSNBC wants to blame Donald Trump for the fires. | ||
| Make that make sense. | ||
| You can't. | ||
| And Gavin Newsom's busy holding, what, just last month? | ||
| Emergency planning sessions on how to defeat President Donald Trump. | ||
| Maybe, bro, you should have focused on fire preparation and prevention. | ||
| Instead of... | ||
| Going over your skis and plotting and planning the resistance because as far as I'm concerned, you don't even have the most populous and most productive city and a state that's going to mount a resistance against President Donald Trump because you failed. | ||
| This is on you, Gavin Newsom. | ||
| Got a lot more. | ||
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We'll be right back after this short break. | |
| Super inspired. | ||
| She took time out of her already busy schedule to tell us about her vision for the department's future, one that includes a three-year strategic plan to increase diversity. | ||
| People ask me, well, what number are you looking for? | ||
| I'm not looking for a number. | ||
| It's never enough. | ||
| Out of 3,300 city firefighters, only 115 are women right now. | ||
| She's already looking at ways to change that. | ||
| She's quick to point out that doing so has a greater purpose, attracting the best and brightest for the job. | ||
| They feel included, they feel valued, and they feel part of a cohesive team. | ||
| The chief also checks another box when it comes to inclusivity and diversity at this department. | ||
| She's a proud member of the LGBTQ community. | ||
| That just kind of opens the door of people that thought, wow, I didn't even know that that was an opportunity for me. | ||
| Its leadership has since changed. | ||
| Chief Crowley is an openly gay woman now. | ||
| It took me a couple years. | ||
| I wasn't sure, and this was when I was new on the job. | ||
| I was very kind of mindful about my personal life. | ||
| Very serious people addressing, well, actually serious problems, or I guess in this case, what? | ||
| Not addressing them. | ||
| Now, I want to bring you guys back to an article from, believe it or not, the Washington Post in 1996, before I was born, but let's read that headline. | ||
| Illegal immigrants feeding wildfire epidemic in California. | ||
| Now, very rarely do I unironically quote the Washington Post on War Room, but hey, it's 2025, new year, new me. | ||
| Illegal immigrants who hike through the rugged forested mountains of eastern San Diego County after making it across the border are causing a dramatic surge in wildfires because of the fires they light when camping out in the area, state and county officials said today. | ||
| Now this is a quote. | ||
| Now I know we're talking about San Diego, which is about an hour, hour and a half south, including LA traffic, so it's actually not that far. | ||
| But I think we know under Joe Biden, these numbers have only multiplied by a radical, radical, radical increment. | ||
| But are you ready? | ||
| Quote, it's a disaster waiting to happen, said Diane Jacob, a member of the Board of Supervisors representing eastern San Diego County. | ||
| I don't think it's a matter of if we have a major human catastrophe. | ||
| It's a case of when, if something isn't done immediately. | ||
| Well... | ||
| I'll bring you flash forward to this year. | ||
| Now, someone had to FOIA Cal Fire for data. | ||
| This was up sort of near Santa Barbara area. | ||
| From May 1st through June 1st of 2024, there were eight fires along the border. | ||
| Do you know how many of those were tied to illegal border crossers? | ||
| And the only one that wasn't. | ||
| I guess I just gave it away. | ||
| It was seven of them, but the only one that wasn't, it's only because the cause was undetermined. | ||
| And I guess it started in Mexico, so you could choose how you want to categorize that. | ||
| And then in July of 2024, an illegal alien deported three times, set a California fire that killed a mother and her two young children. | ||
| See where I'm going with this? | ||
| And like I said, as someone who was born and raised in LA in a house that is now under, currently, evacuation orders, for those of you who spent time in LA, you know what the whole beach scene is like, the Malibu area where all these famous historic restaurants have burned down. | ||
| It's homeless people, it's people parked out and camped out in cars. | ||
| I mean, there are fires just waiting to happen. | ||
| There's clips all over social media of mentally ill homeless people, illegal aliens, setting fires for just... | ||
| No known reason. | ||
| And the police officers don't do anything about it. | ||
| Not to go anecdotal, but my parents, who still live there, take my wonderful dog Rosie on a walk on the beach every single morning. | ||
| They'll go for walks. | ||
| There'll be homeless people in tent encampments, which is illegal, per Santa Monica law. | ||
| The police never enforced it. | ||
| There's dozens, dozens! | ||
| I'm talking about 60-plus homeless people, probably illegal aliens, too. | ||
| You can tell. | ||
| Sitting there. | ||
| They never enforce the law, but they come up to my parents and they say, you aren't allowed to walk your dog on the beach. | ||
| You're being fined. | ||
| That's the America that you live in. | ||
| That's the value of citizenship. | ||
| I guess at least they know you have money so then they can, what, tax you and charge you with a crime because, hey, at least they know you'll be able to pay because, in other words, you don't have papers. | ||
| You're an illegal alien. | ||
| That's what it's like living in California, right? | ||
| That's what happens when you have Democrat supermajority rule for so long. | ||
| I mean, Newsom is responsible for more destruction right now than anything that allegedly happened on January 6th, right? | ||
| And I guess they'd say, oh, well, hey, Democrat supermajority rule, it's so great, at least you can get, what, an elective abortion at nine months post-birth? | ||
| Hey, at least your kid can transition at age six months! | ||
| Alright, how about this? | ||
| At least your driver's license in California, you can now be non-binary and use, what, the pronouns, you know, Z-Zer, except the thing that they don't tell you is that that driver's license is probably going to be what you're using to escape a fiery inferno. | ||
| Then you're going to have to abandon your car because the roads are so poorly maintained and the urban planning by all these brilliant, Harvard-educated expert elites that are running the city of Los Angeles don't know what they're doing. | ||
| And by the way, it's a fire that never should have even happened in the first place. | ||
| I want to put a video of Gavin Newsom, if you haven't picked up, he's the guy we're going after on this show, justifiably so, next to me. | ||
| Now, do you guys remember, and you can just keep playing it, when Steve was in prison, like, a true man... | ||
| I believe I sat here, had something to do with immigration, and I sat here and I said, the Democrats' version of masculinity is making you sit in a cuck chair and watch the destruction of your country, the degradation and mental illness propaganda spreading against your children. | ||
| And they want you to sit there and take it and do nothing about it. | ||
| And that video of Gavin Newsom... | ||
| Is that version of masculinity to a T? I'm so glad, dude, that you got the photo op. | ||
| So glad. | ||
| You know, it's almost as good as when Kamala Harris went down to the border for a day, introduced the word sovereignty to her vocabulary. | ||
| Now it's apparently gone. | ||
| But you're responsible for this. | ||
| And just last month, you plotted with all of your stupid Democrat legislators you had a special emergency session. | ||
| Have you called a special emergency session about this fire? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| But you called it so you could plot against Trump. | ||
| Let that sink in. | ||
| And by the way, it was, what, a $25 million taxpayer subsidized justice fund so illegals wouldn't get deported? | ||
| Yeah, probably the same illegals that I'm sure, and mark my words, we'll probably find out if who years from now started this fire. | ||
| I tell Facebook to fact-check me, but what? | ||
| I hear they don't have their fact-checking programs anymore. | ||
| You know, you want to talk about preemptive pardons? | ||
| What was it? | ||
| Was it you, Gavin Newsom? | ||
| In 2020, Trump signed an executive order diverting water from Northern California to cities and farmers in the South. | ||
| They wanted to put it down in the city. | ||
| And Gavin Newsom immediately filed suit to, quote, protect highly imperiled fish species close to extinction. | ||
| Yet maybe you should be added to the preemptive pardon list, too, at this point. | ||
| Absolutely disgusting. | ||
| We've got more clips that we're going to be playing, but I think we have the one and only Mike... | ||
| Mike Cernovich joining us. | ||
| Mike, if we have you, always an honor to have you on War Room. | ||
| I was looking at my text. | ||
| I think it was 2023 you were last on. | ||
| We got a few minutes left in this break. | ||
| Before we get to, I think you're calling for what? | ||
| Federal takeover of California. | ||
| Before we make the case for that, you are in California right now. | ||
| I think the Laguna Beach area. | ||
| Can you sort of give the audience an overview of what it's like of your friends in the area, where we stand now with the fire? | ||
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Yeah, luckily for us, we're further south in Republican Orange County. | |
| But we've had multiple friends have to evacuate the Palisades. | ||
| Multiple people who worked at Breitbart have had to leave their houses. | ||
| And Peachy Keen, she's a great Twitter person. | ||
| She said she was near Pasadena, so I'm not doxing her or anything like that. | ||
| So the fires are so out of control now that they... | ||
| To people who don't know the California landscape well, which is obvious because when people argue with me about California, it's pretty clear that they don't. | ||
| You have the Palisades, which is one of the most desirable places to live in the country and in the world. | ||
| And it's a little bit north of Malibu, but it's in the Malibu area. | ||
| It's very mountainous. | ||
| It's very rural. | ||
| I remember because I went to law school at Pepperdine being surprised at how rural Malibu was. | ||
| Because if you grew up anywhere else, you hear Malibu and you think it must be this glitzy place. | ||
| But in fact, it was rural. | ||
| It looked very – people would ride horses. | ||
| There's a lot of trails. | ||
| So when these wildfires hit, they just jump house to house. | ||
| And they go through all of this dried forest that hasn't been well-maintained. | ||
| And then the fire just kept spreading south. | ||
| And it's also reached because of the winds, Pasadena and – Santa Monica, which is huge, we're talking a 40-mile area. | ||
| Nobody thought the fires would get this bad because there had always been fires in Malibu. | ||
| Everybody knew this. | ||
| It was always a risk, but they would be contained. | ||
| So this is going all the way up from the Palisades. | ||
| If you have a map, people can look at the map, Pacific Palisades, all the way south, putting Santa Monica in danger, and then also heading east, putting Pasadena in danger, which is bizarre. | ||
| I mean, it really is a cataclysm. | ||
| No, it really is so unprecedented. | ||
| Mike, before we go to break, just give me a minute. | ||
| Your sort of overarching thoughts, our theory of the case here in War Room, the state has been mismanaged. | ||
| You know I'm from Santa Monica, from start to finish, starting with Gavin Newsom, all the way down to the DEI hires and all the woke stuff if you want to entertain that. | ||
| But your thoughts on if you think that this really calls into question the leadership in California and Los Angeles? | ||
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Yeah, there needs to be a federal response. | |
| One of the persons who I think deserves a lot of blame for this and a lot of rancor, I think we need to not be nice to these peoples, Maria Shriver. | ||
| Even though RFK Jr. is maha now and there's an alliance there, that family members who attacked him, there were Kennedys who were on the city council of Santa Monica. | ||
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These people have been ground zero for the destruction of California. | |
| Their liberalism has been ground zero, not RFK Jr., but the Kennedy family. | ||
| So I'm saying that... | ||
| We've got to be careful how we talk about it because we don't want to insult RFK Jr.'s family. | ||
| But people like Maria Shriver and them are saying, oh, I can't believe it. | ||
| What do you mean you can't believe it? | ||
| You vote for Karen Bass instead of Rick Caruso instead of voting for a visionary real estate developer who is basically a Democrat. | ||
| He was an RFK Jr. kind of guy. | ||
| There was no reason to not vote for Caruso. | ||
| So you vote for Karen Bass. | ||
| And Mike, I'm going to hold you right there because we've got to jump to break. | ||
| But if you can stay with us, obviously, we've got to make the case for a significant and sizable federal response. | ||
| Warren Posse, we'll be right back. | ||
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| We'll be right back. | ||
| Mike Cernovich, so much more. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | |
| You're back in the war room where, of course, you've got to be checking out Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws. | ||
| Warroom.film. | ||
| Got to get up to speed on government gangsters before the cash confirmation hearings commence, which, as we have suggested, need to start January 21st, the very latest. | ||
| We are still joined by the one and only Mike Cernovich, who is in California right now. | ||
| Mike, I sort of want to pick up where we left off, but sort of through this lens of, you know, Rick Caruso versus Karen Bass. | ||
| For people who don't know who exactly these people are, I think that's sort of an interesting insider jumping-off point to more broadly demonstrate how California and Los Angeles politics have contributed to the situation that we're seeing unfold right now. | ||
| Your thoughts? | ||
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Right. | |
| So I'll do a flashback, an old man, an old guy flashback. | ||
| So 20 or 30 years ago, the first time I saw California, all I could think of was, wow, what is this place? | ||
| Everywhere you would look around, there was new developments. | ||
| There was a good balance between old and new. | ||
| The people were in great shape. | ||
| Everywhere you looked, you were in awe. | ||
| And Rick Russo... | ||
| He was one of the developers in Southern California. | ||
| He did the, before Calabasas got famous from the Kardashians, he developed Calabasas, he developed The Grove, which was a big plaza. | ||
| And he was known for using a lot of water features and making, blending shop, not to sound like an architect, but blending the water features and feeling like you're kind of in nature or kind of in a courtyard while also commercial shopping. | ||
| He was visionary. | ||
| I think he's a billionaire by now, but I watched his profile grow over the past, say, 30 years, and he wanted to be mayor of Los Angeles. | ||
| He was somebody who had had a proven track record, knew how to build, knew how to run budgets, was a philanthropist. | ||
| He's given so much, like, crazy amounts of money away. | ||
| Sometimes on X, it's funny, you'll see these guys that are billionaires, and they'll throw around a few thousand dollars. | ||
| Or they'll try to show up to Mar-a-Lago and try to buy their way in with a million dollars after they give $500 million to Democrats. | ||
| And then they want to show their faces at Mar-a-Lago with these little penny-ante checks based on their net worth. | ||
| And I always find that a joke. | ||
| But with Caruso, this guy, he was a true man of the people, a great philanthropist, and a Democrat, frankly. | ||
| Our politics wouldn't agree. | ||
| But I live in California, so I'm realistic about it. | ||
| What you can get. | ||
| And then Karen Bass was just a DEI Kamala Harris person, propped up her whole career, if you want to call it that. | ||
| No genuine achievement, no genuine accomplishment. | ||
| Caruso ran for mayor. | ||
| He ran how you would have to run for California, which if you're a purist outside of California, not a great idea always to comment about California politics. | ||
| He was ahead. | ||
| And then what happened on election night when he was ahead? | ||
| Oh, more votes came in from the unions. | ||
| More ballots have been found. | ||
| And then overnight, his lead collapsed. | ||
| And he lost, if you believe he lost. | ||
| But either way, it shouldn't have been close. | ||
| Absolutely shouldn't have been close. | ||
| And maybe if the election had been had this prior cycle where Prop 36, the crime reform initiative passed 70-30, maybe he would have won. | ||
| But this was a choice. | ||
| And here's where I don't want to sound cruel. | ||
| I don't want to sound grim. | ||
| Because people I do business myth have lost their homes in Palisades. | ||
| Close, close friends of mine have lost everything. | ||
| Their houses are gone, the schools they send their kids to are gone. | ||
| This is a traumatic thing, right? | ||
| And then people say, don't politicize it. | ||
| And I say, I understand that. | ||
| Those people, those people who love America, I love them and I truly feel for them, okay? | ||
| The writers and the Hollywood people who live in the Palisades and have profited off of the corruption in California, it's 70-30 Democrat. | ||
| They didn't want to recall Newsom. | ||
| They voted for Kamala Harris. | ||
| My God, imagine if they had gotten their way. | ||
| They supported Karen Bass, the Kennedy family, city council members in Santa Monica. | ||
| They did this. | ||
| And we're just supposed to pretend like they didn't. | ||
| And we're just supposed to say, oh, I don't want to bring up the fact that this is a Democrat supermajority. | ||
| Let's just kumbaya and pretend like they didn't do it, didn't vote for it. | ||
| They did. | ||
| So I don't want to see people like Marie Shriver showing her face, saying anything. | ||
| I want to see people saying, what are you talking about? | ||
| They go, well, you didn't vote for fires. | ||
| Oh, but you voted for Karen Bass instead of Caruso. | ||
| You voted for people who can't keep water under fire hydrants. | ||
| I mean, I know you come to California. | ||
| We had record floods. | ||
| The water just poured right into the ocean. | ||
| No way to capture it. | ||
| They were going to build all this Green New Deal stuff. | ||
| They didn't do that. | ||
| They couldn't build basins. | ||
| So this is what Democrat supermajority gets us. | ||
| So that's the case that I'm making for Federal takeover of California. | ||
| I know that Trump is being a little cheeky when he talks about Canada being a 51st state, and I think the reaction that Pierre, the Apple Eater, and others have is amusing, but California is a state. | ||
| Under the Constitution, there's a case to be made that the federal government needs to come in to enforce the civil rights of the people to act in a reconstruction kind of manner. | ||
| So I want the Trump administration... | ||
| I'm a citizen and resident of California. | ||
| I want the Trump administration to exercise its constitutional power to come in and fix all the election fraud. | ||
| They have this authority. | ||
| They have this authority under the 14th Amendment, Section 5. They have the authority to enforce the rights, the civil rights of me, the citizen, which is being deprived by the state government of California, where people can't trust the elections, where somehow... | ||
| These Orange County Republican areas all went Democrat, even though everywhere else was trending for Trump. | ||
| But somehow Michelle Steele lost her election, even though, you know, she didn't run a good race. | ||
| And I said that to their faces and they wouldn't listen to me. | ||
| So I don't know what to tell. | ||
| Scott Baal lost his. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| So so I am unironically. | ||
| This isn't me being cheeky when I'm talking about Canada being a state. | ||
| I'm goofing off because I know it annoys the Canadians. | ||
| I'm not joking. | ||
| I want the I want the federal government under Trump to come in. | ||
| And clean the state up, and they have the constitutional authority to do so. | ||
| Obviously, MSNBC Media Matters, take your pick. | ||
| They'll be melting down over that. | ||
| But to that point, we opened the show with a clip from MSNBC where they're already somehow indirectly trying to blame Trump for this, saying that he withheld disaster aid and the whole Gavin Newsom back and forth over wildfire response. | ||
| So where do you think there is either the proven track record on the Trump side that shows that he would be up to task to do this better than Gavin Newsom? | ||
| And more conversely, I know you've been tweeting up a storm all day, but I mean, when you really dig in, whether it's the salaries or just the abject failure and the prioritization, I always think DEI is too sort of cheeky a term. | ||
| It's everything that's anti-straight white male. | ||
| It's anti-whiteness to its core. | ||
| But make the case, contrary to what MSNBC is saying, that Trump has botched emergency response, pandemic response. | ||
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Well, this is why nobody other than conservatives watch MSNBC anymore, just to kind of know what the idiots are saying. | |
| That's true. | ||
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Because there's no credibility to what they say. | |
| Here's what I love, and this is reminiscent of the entire Democrat mindset in the Kamala Harris campaign. | ||
| On day one, on—wait, no, no, you were in office for four years, right? | ||
| On day one. | ||
| No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| You were in office for four years. | ||
| Well, I was only—they had all these excuses, right? | ||
| So this is all they can do, this weird year zero, Pol Pot kind of thinking where we haven't been in control and you can't blame us. | ||
| So it was all nonsense. | ||
| But to address blaming Trump, Obama, they quit doing wildfire clearings. | ||
| I posted links to all documented sources because— I want everything I say to be truthful and to be unimpeachable. | ||
| The Biden administration quit doing the clearing because they were afraid a fire would happen and they would get blamed, even though they knew there was a bigger risk of a fire happening. | ||
| But then they could say, well, it's not our fault, which is what Democrats do. | ||
| Don't do anything that somehow... | ||
| It might lead to a very low risk of a bad outcome because you might get blamed. | ||
| Just let the druggies burn this stuff. | ||
| Bernie's already talking about climate change. | ||
| Even if people believe in that, which I hope nobody watching this thinks it's man-made. | ||
| But let's just assume it is. | ||
| Assume it is. | ||
| Okay, Master Bernie, it is. | ||
| There's no water in the fire hydrants, bro. | ||
| This is a Democrat problem. | ||
| The LA Fire Department's budget was cut by Mayor Karen Bass, who was mayor instead of Rick Caruso. | ||
| The homeless. | ||
| This budget was $1.3 million allocated. | ||
| So we're getting more money to the homeless industrial money laundering complex than we are to the fire department. | ||
| The fire department is not physically fit like it used to be. | ||
| It used to be if you lived, I mean, California's changed so much in 30 years, it's unrecognizable. | ||
| It used to be if you went to the gym, a lot of the local gyms would give the fire department guys a free gym membership, and Pepperdine would let the local guys work out. | ||
| And they were strong guys, strong fit guys. | ||
| And then you look at what they have now, it's not that. | ||
| It's not that anymore. | ||
| So we have a competency crisis. | ||
| We have a strength crisis. | ||
| We don't have people who can run. | ||
| And a lot of them are still good. | ||
| They've been doing heroic work, so I don't want some loser to try to claim that I'm... | ||
| A lot of them are still doing good work, but we're undermanned by about half. | ||
| And these are all due to... | ||
| Democrat policy choices, directly traceable choices. | ||
| And that's why they want to pretend like, I love how they pretend like they're not in power. | ||
| That's what they were, oh, on day one, I'll do this, Kamala Harris, which, okay, which you haven't done anything, you haven't gone to the border. | ||
| Biden, I guess, is still president, although his press conference got cut off short today. | ||
| So there's no, there's no logical way to blame Trump, because Trump himself was saying in 2019 people found his old posts, then called tweets, clear the brush. | ||
| They don't do any of this, right? | ||
| Or they do very little. | ||
| So there's no really blame Trump angle here. | ||
| Mike Cernovich, please come back. | ||
| I know you very rarely do interviews, so I'm always honored to have you in the war room. | ||
| In the meantime, if people want to follow you, stay up to date with everything you're working on, where can they go to do that? | ||
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They can find me on Axe at Cernovich, but... | |
| Probably not. | ||
| Probably a lot of them wouldn't. | ||
| A must follow. | ||
|
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Mike, thank you. | |
| I don't know. | ||
| A lot of them don't like it. | ||
| Thank you so much for joining us. | ||
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I read the Telegram chats after I come on, so I would say Tread Lightly War Room listeners. | |
| I might not be your cup of tea. | ||
| You know, the War Room Posse is very discerning, but, you know, we have good taste in the War Room. | ||
| Mike, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| We'll have you back on soon. | ||
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All right. | |
| See ya. | ||
| War Room Posse, you want to talk about a little bit of live producing. | ||
| It's not every day that you're hosting a show where your brother, who, by the way, tried to actually be a firefighter, but I believe he was turned down. | ||
| You know what I look like. | ||
| He is a straight white male. | ||
| I'm sure that's not why he got turned down. | ||
| But he just texted me, Hey, the house just got the mandatory evacuation. | ||
| Do you think I should call someone to get the documents out? | ||
| So thank you, Joe Biden. | ||
| And thank you, Gavin Newsom. | ||
| And thank you, Karen Bass. | ||
| For allowing me to have a moment where I have to question if the house that I grew up in is still going to be standing. | ||
| And if all the documents, the pictures, my parents' wedding, me growing up, it's going to be okay. | ||
| So I really hope, Gavin Newsom, that it was worth letting a ton of illegal aliens pour into California. | ||
| Wasting money on God knows what corruption that you profited off of, you and your disgusting wife. | ||
| All you Hollywood execs who voted for Democrats just because they were Democrats, because you didn't have the moral courage to stand up and vote for people who are going to save this country and put damn water in frickin' fire hydrants. | ||
| Sorry if that's me being high-maintenance. | ||
| I like my countries and my cities and my towns where the fire hydrants actually have water in them. | ||
| I don't live in the third world, and I don't want to import the third world, and I don't want my tax dollars to go fund stupid wars in Ukraine so my house right now might catch on fire and burn down. | ||
| So what? | ||
| We can all pat ourselves on the back and say, we're a multicultural, eco-friendly, climate change-friendly country. | ||
| Yeah, screw all that. | ||
| That's where it gets you. | ||
| So thank you, Joe Biden. | ||
| From the bottom of my heart, I'm so glad that you became, as you announced in your press conference, a great-grandfather today. | ||
| Because a bunch of Americans are about to lose their homes. | ||
| And let's not even get into the Americans who've lost their damn lives under your role as president. | ||
| I'm not just talking about Afghanistan. | ||
| Yeah, you know, I'm sure Lake and Riley's parents would love to have had the ability to become great-grandparents, but you took that away from them. | ||
| I hope you sleep well at night, and I hope you sleep well at night in a prison cell, because that's where you belong. | ||
| And frankly, Gavin Newsom, too. | ||
| We'll be right back after this short break. | ||
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You're back in the war room. | |
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| Well, now it's so cool that National Pulse is partnered with War Room. | ||
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| And while you're at it, I think if there's anything that we've learned from this show today, it's that things are very unstable, turbulent, whatever adjective you want to use. | ||
| I think there are probably a lot. | ||
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| We are now joined by Chris Hoare, who I was going to get to last block, but it's not every day that you get a text saying your house is about to burn down. | ||
| So my apologies. | ||
| A little bit of live production. | ||
| But Chris Hoare, you, I understand, have an awesome deal for us. | ||
| All things satellite phones. | ||
| Hit us with it. | ||
| Well, yeah, Natalie, first of all, I hope and pray that your house is safe. | ||
| I know it's been a terrible couple of days for so many people in California. | ||
| And I hope you guys are okay and your house is okay. | ||
| But look, a lot of people have already lost their houses and their businesses. | ||
| We have a ton of clients in the LA area. | ||
| We're, of course, based in San Diego at Sat123.com. | ||
| And we've been very, very busy today. | ||
| Our satellite phones are the only thing keeping a lot of people in communication. | ||
| And we've been saying- I've seen this for a long time, Natalie, as you know, that when the worst case happens, and this is the worst case scenario, cell phone towers go down. | ||
| Right now in LA County, we have over 1.6 million people without power, and that means cell towers are down as well. | ||
| Cell towers run on power, and when they go down, your cell phone will not work. | ||
| And that means if you are stuck and you have no cell phone, then you have no way to communicate. | ||
| So it's so important that everyone has a sat phone ready to go in case they should suffer one of these, God forbid, one of these. | ||
| But as far as today is concerned, Natalie, first thing I want to say is that we do sell satellite phones. | ||
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| They can call us at 941-841-0844. | ||
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| We can rent you a satellite phone for a couple of days, a couple of weeks, however long you want. | ||
| And we are also still providing free satellite phones with And that's $1,000 savings. | ||
| You also get a free bulletproof backpack included in the deal, which is pretty helpful these days. | ||
| But look, $94 a month is all you have to pay. | ||
| That gets you 150 minutes, and those minutes roll over if you don't use them. | ||
| But Natalie, when you have a situation like this, you have no power, you have no cell phone, no landlines, nothing like that. | ||
| A satellite phone is literally a lifeline in every possible way. | ||
| And so we continue to urge people to- To be prepared if they're not in LA County right now. | ||
| But look, these fires could spread and we've already seen devastating, other devastating fires taking place throughout the nation. | ||
| So it's been a dry year and if it doesn't, we don't see much precipitation pretty quickly, this could happen elsewhere. | ||
| But the biggest thing to know, Natalie, is that we can get equipment to LA County as soon as today. | ||
| If you call us right now, we can get you satellite phones. | ||
| We also sell and rent Starlink satellite internet for those people who have lost internet, which again, millions of people are now without internet in LA County and the surrounding areas. | ||
| So we are here to help to make sure that you can get back up and running or you can restart your business, whatever it is. | ||
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| And, you know, like, some people gouge their customers in these situations. | ||
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| We here at Sat123.com are maintaining our free satellite phones, no change, with activation. | ||
| So we want to do whatever we can to help make sure those people who've already lost everything can at least start to get their lives back together. | ||
| We also, Natalie, provide, we sell generators that run on solar power. | ||
| I don't know in California how long it's going to take to get the power back up, but I doubt it's going to be quick in many of these areas. | ||
| So whatever it is you need from sat phones to satellite internet to mobile generators, we've got that at sat123.com or call us at 941-841-0844. | ||
| We're open 24 hours a day. | ||
| That's 941-841-0844. | ||
| And we can get USA equipment as soon as today if that's what you need. | ||
| Thank you, Chris, for coming on. | ||
| We will have you back on soon, hopefully under better circumstances. | ||
| Have a good one. | ||
| You too. | ||
| Thanks, Natalie. | ||
| Best of luck. | ||
| And, of course, War and Posse, you've also got to be checking out recordswarroom.com. | ||
| It's how you stay up to date. | ||
| It's not just what's going on here domestically. | ||
| Fires, resistance, retribution. | ||
| Pick your word. | ||
| Angle of attack aside, I think a man was just arrested for wielding a machete at the United States Capitol and a few knives, for good measure, I guess, when they say diversity is your strength. | ||
| They were talking about the type of weapons that people use to commit attacks with. | ||
| We are joined now by Mike Lindell. | ||
| Mike, I think you have the perfect product that you're launching today. | ||
| By the way, love the background. | ||
| In light of what's going on in California, hit us with it. | ||
| Well, that's right, everybody. | ||
| But where I was yesterday, you all know when I came on, I was speaking in a prison in Texas. | ||
| And while I was there, it's a pilot program, people that change their lives, find the Lord. | ||
| My pillow is gonna be donating beds, blankets, pillows to these inmates down there in these prisons. | ||
| And all part of the Lindell Recovery Network that we all know is being attacked down by Keith Ellison. | ||
| Well, what I did is my crosses had come in. | ||
| Everybody's requested my crosses that I've been wearing for like two decades now. | ||
| And so they're all in, and this is going to be a War Room exclusive. | ||
| Here's the women's. | ||
| In turns, it's reversible. | ||
| The men's here. | ||
| And if you put up the thing, this is a War Room special exclusive. | ||
| They just came in. | ||
| You get the Microsses. | ||
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| And promo code WARROOM. This morning, it was the biggest launch of a product we've ever had this morning that I can remember. | ||
| And this is exclusive to the War Room Posse. | ||
| So you guys go to the website. | ||
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| Get all the other products, too. | ||
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| Yes. | ||
| Mike Lindell, we've got to bounce. | ||
| But as always, thank you for joining us. | ||
| We'll have you back on soon. | ||
| WARROOM Posse. | ||
| As always, thank you for the prayers and kind messages I've already been receiving. | ||
| You know the cheeky bumper stickers that you see around town? | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Don't blame me. | ||
| I voted for Trump. | ||
| My mom is the kind of person who would have one of those signs, though I don't think she ever put it out because I'm sure our socialist neighbors would have attacked us. | ||
| But let's just say when the neighborhood burns down, maybe stake that in the ground. | ||
| Don't blame me. | ||
| At least I voted for Trump, and at least I voted against Gavin Newsom, but I guess too many illegals canceled out my vote. | ||
| I guess that's called election fraud. | ||
| Have a good one. |
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