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Episode 4187: Collapse Of Complex Systems
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Stuck out to me today because the former manager of the L.A. Water and Power Department said that the system has never been designed to fight a wildfire like this.
But why would that be?
Like, haven't we known for quite some time that California is at very high risk for wildfires?
Yes, absolutely.
We've known that California in general is prone to wildfires and that some urban areas...
We'll face wildfires, but I don't think, frankly, that we as a society have been willing to pay for the infrastructure that would be needed, especially on the water side, but also on the power side and the firefighter side, to address fires of this magnitude.
And we're pretty reactionary.
And it would cost, again, I don't have exact numbers, but multiple times what we pay now for all those services to have stopped these fires in their tracks.
And maybe we're going there in the future.
Maybe that's what we'll do, but to date, that just hasn't been expected, and we have trouble having people who are concerned about what they pay for water and power now.
So I think it's largely a question of societal will and also a question of whether we can afford this infrastructure in certain areas, whether these areas are defensible from fires like this.
This is my...
Worst nightmare.
But it's actually not because the planet is still getting hotter is the problem.
And, you know, I sort of did see this coming because Los Angeles, Southern California, was getting hotter and drier and more fiery.
And there were smoke events.
There was one fire that caught my family in a smoke cloud for weeks and weeks.
But it's still getting hotter, and places like this are still getting drier, and floods are still getting worse, and hurricanes are still getting worse.
And this will continue as long as we keep burning fossil fuels.
And it just breaks my heart that...
Political leaders around the world today are still continuing to drill as fast as they can, expand fossil fuels as fast as they can.
This is what's causing this, and I blame the fossil fuel industry.
I know we all use fossil fuels, but the fossil fuel executives and lobbyists have known that this would happen for decades, and they covered it up.
They lied and they've been giving donations to politicians to block action.
We look at a vast catastrophe like wildfires, like 9/11, like JFK, and we're looking for We're looking for who really did it and who is to blame for.
And I think if a personal tragedy affects you, you want someone to be angry at.
You want someone who did it to you.
And I think in this case, they're looking for a cartoon villain.
And unfortunately, there isn't one.
I'm angry.
I lost my home.
I lost things that cannot be replaced.
Friends of mine lost everything.
I have a right to be angry.
There's just no one for me to be angry at.
I mean, the wind did this.
It's foolish to be angry at the wind.
mike rothschild ▲ ● ▼
But it's very profitable to tell people that it was DEI or Antifa arsonists or the endangered smelt or Gavin Newsom who did it to them.
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It drives commerce.
It drives virality and clicks.
And unfortunately, we live in an attention economy.
Where social media and politics drive the way we look at the world and the way that we look at reality.
Evacuation orders have now expanded as the Palisades fire heads towards Brentwood.
That is where we find NBC's Dana Griffin this morning.
Dana, good morning to you.
What is the latest there on the ground?
Alicia, good morning to you.
So we are in the Brentwood neighborhood.
And as you can see behind me, this orange glow, this is the Palisades fire that has stretched farther east.
It is now encroaching on this ridge.
We've actually got some new flames just at the bottom here that are really roaring.
Fire officials are relentless in trying to attack us from above.
You may hear the helicopters above us.
They are trying to drop water on this area.
There were new evacuation orders overnight, which was very concerning for people, including actor Dennis Quaid, who was among those that had to evacuate.
Listen to what he told our local station, KNBC. Who would have thought?
You know, we've all had a really big lesson.
What is it?
That our experience of reality can change in a moment.
And that's something that we just have to let God handle.
But there was also an issue with the water supply.
We have already confirmed with officials that they didn't have enough water pressure.
They couldn't keep up with demand.
We also know that there was a community reservoir near the Palisades community that was offline and empty.
And so you've got the governor of California launching an investigation into those water supplies.
Even the LA Fire Chief said that...
The budget cut, $17.6 million that allegedly Mayor Bass cut from that budget impeded their ability to fight this fire.
Now, there was a meeting last night with Mayor Bass and the L.A. Fire Chief, and there were a lot of rumors swirling that the Fire Chief may have been fired because of the criticisms that she has made publicly.
But the fire department and Mayor Bass' office says that is not the case.
She is still, in fact, the fire chief, still employed.
So that's what we're dealing with, you know, concerns about leadership.
And if the job can be done, the fire chief has reiterated that she can get this job done.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
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Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
I've got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
The people have had a belly full of it.
I know you don't like hearing that.
I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
It's going to happen.
jake tapper ▲ ● ▼
And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
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MAGA Media.
jake tapper ▲ ● ▼
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
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War Room.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Baff.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
It's Saturday, 11 January in the year of our Lord, 2025.
We're now, what, nine days away?
And we've got a lot to talk about in the Days of Thunder, including the audience.
And I want to thank the transition team.
Flood the Zone starts on Tuesday.
We're going to get to all that about these confirmations.
But folks, I'm telling you, for someone that spent, I don't know, 20 years of my life in Southern California, in those various areas on the West Side, we have staff from there, the whole Breitbart headquarters, the whole Breitbart team, Andrew Breitbart, all from that area.
This is out of control.
That footage we showed you at CNN is literally right before we came on the show.
I would argue right now, when you look at this, that this fire is actually burning more out of control and more intense in more areas than the Palisades fire the other day.
I mean, the Palisades fire is moving, but my point is, this is intensity.
And now you've got Gavin Newsom saying he's going to investigate the water situation, the 117 million gallon...
Reservoir up in Palisades.
It feels empty because working on the roof of it or the cover.
But I want to read you what sent a show to me last night from my Army Major.
Maybe not active duty, but an Army Major.
Omar Khudrat.
And I'm just going to read this.
If we can put it up.
And he wrote this last night.
We're at a critical moment in this firefight.
If this fire isn't stopped here right now, it can end up burning down Brentwood and Encino by tomorrow night.
If it jumps to 4 or 5, all of Bel Air may burn down by tomorrow night, then roll onto Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Sherman Oaks.
You add that to what's happened in the Palisades in the western part of town near Santa Monica, you've burnt down a pretty good part.
Of, I don't know, L.A. County, L.A. City now.
That turns out to be, and here's the thing for the guy, if we maybe get that ready to replay, nobody to blame.
Yo, dude, this is not climate change.
That is a fantasy.
These fires are going to happen, but they've got to be tamped down, and people say we've never had something to scale.
You've got to have kind of surge capacity and a plan to do that, and you can execute the plan.
Where's the water?
Where are the firemen?
How come they haven't called the National Guard?
This is all hands on deck.
I just want to repeat this.
I mean, this is shocking.
We're at a critical moment in this firefight.
If this fire isn't stopped here right now, it can end up burning down Brentwood and Encino by tomorrow night.
If it jumps to 405, all of Bel Air may burn down by tomorrow night.
Then roll on to Beverly Hills, Hollywood, and Sherman Oaks.
Let's play that footage again.
That's right up there.
I mean, that's right up on the 405. You could have the Getty Museum go down in Brentwood.
The intensity of this fire, not the guy whining.
Can we just go play the last part with the CNN? I'll get the guy whining in a second.
Yeah, look at this right here.
The intensity of this fire, the scale of this fire continues to pick up.
And you have President Trump make these legitimate criticisms, and you have the apparatus there of Mayor Bass, her group of, you know, the Addams Family clowns, the DEI politically correct clowns.
You know, they're a chorus.
And then you got Gavin Newsom.
Gavin, not to bring up politics, something so grubby as politics, not the best way to start your 2028 run.
Like, I think it might be over before it starts.
You've got to get a grip on this.
They're going to be all hands on deck.
National Guard should be out, every fire department throughout the country.
They're saying they're bringing in Mexican firefighters.
I don't know if you need to bring in firefighters from Mexico.
I don't think it's a good look.
Not when I hear you're turning down firefighters from New York City, some of the best in the world, FDNY. But also National Guard and Army Reserve, other National Guard units from bordering states.
This thing should have been stopped and put down by now.
The winds are bad now, but I don't think it's the same Santa Ana conditions we had at the beginning.
Just look at that.
This thing is blazing out of control.
And this is all human agency.
Stop it.
This is disorganized.
How do I know it's disorganized?
First off, you can look and see it, and then you listen to the people.
What they say.
There's nobody around.
There's no water pressure.
The hydrants aren't working.
But then you just go to the press conferences.
If you haven't watched the press conferences, you've got to watch them.
And I want to tie it back.
Remember the first press conference in New Orleans with the terrorists that killed the people, drove over them?
And Dave Bossie, it turns out Dave Bossie actually went down with Governor Landry to help sort that mess out.
He said, Steve, you can't imagine the horror of the actual site itself.
What happened to those people?
The agony, the horrible deaths they had.
Remember the first press conference?
You had the FBI local person.
She had a ring in her nose.
And she said, this is definitely not a terrorist act.
I shouldn't say, this is not a terrorist act.
She got the hook.
They sent somebody from Maine FBI down the next day.
That first press conference was a disaster.
Senator Kennedy had to step in the middle of it.
Or people were just going to totally panic.
And New Orleans would have lost business forever when they had the huge college football game coming the next day.
Look at these press conferences.
Take it unfiltered.
Don't listen to Steve Bannon.
Just watch with your own eyes.
And people there are furious.
I don't know how CNN or MSNBC found this guy.
I don't know who to be angry at.
Hey, I can tell you, a lot of your compatriots, as they get over the shock, and they're in shock, some of the most pristine storybook Villages and towns in L.A., which is a collection of, like, New York's a collection of neighborhoods.
I tell people New York's not one thing.
It's a collection of neighborhoods interlinked.
L.A.'s a collection of, like, except for downtown L.A., the rest of it's a collection of, like, little towns and villages and neighborhoods.
These neighborhoods look like, it's not Dresden and 40, it's Tokyo and Kyoto.
It looks like it got firebombed at low level by Curtis LeMay dropping napalm.
Oh, they're looking.
They see.
There was no water.
The fire harness hadn't been checked.
There's no water.
And now, I don't know if you don't have enough people, but I'm telling you that this Army Major, if we can put that up, make sure, and Grace, if you can push that out, seems like a pretty logical guy.
He's warning.
That thing's burning out of control.
It jumps to 405, gets into Holmby Hills and Beverly Hills on that side, and Sherman Oaks on the other.
It'll burn all the way to downtown LA. It'll burn to Mid-Wilshire.
This is a catastrophe.
Then you have the insurance thing that's going to be bankrupt.
They're going to have to have a federal ballot.
Hey, Jesse Ward has said last night, you may need a federal takeover.
If Trump was the president today, I think President Trump would say, hey, Sign this for posse comitatus.
We're sending in the troops.
You're going to have looting.
You're going to have destruction.
People need to be taken care of.
There's already things that vendors, they're sending in water and sodas, and these guys are getting it.
Vendors are selling it, not giving away for free.
It's chaos.
Gavin Newsom's lying.
People confronting him, saying, oh, I'm on the phone with the president, with Biden.
This is what happens.
This is a collapse of complex systems.
Darren Beattie nailed it a year ago.
This is what DEI gets you.
This is a collapse of complex systems.
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One of the great cities in the world.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Complete free fall.
With a biblical fire heading their way.
Stunning in America in the 21st century.
Look at it.
Just look at that.
Embrace it.
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Unbelievable.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
You know, Grace, we're monitoring this thing very closely.
I may actually be coming up over the weekend and doing maybe some specials on Getter and Rumble, whatever, on this L.A. situation.
This is one of the great cities in the country.
And I think it's, and Alexandra Priate, in her last days working with us, because Alexandra has been announced, you guys know, she's going to go over as senior counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury.
She sent me, she says, it's ironic, it's symbolic that in the last days of this illegitimate regime, that this audience hammered from the very beginning and tried to make the case that we know we got the facts that Biden stole the election.
This is what you get.
This is apocalyptic.
I'm not saying divine providence is working its will there.
Far be for me to say that, but there's something deep going on here, man.
This thing in L.A. is Old Testament.
And the incompetence.
I mean, it's the incompetence and the arrogance.
Because they don't want to be corrected.
They don't want to take any questions.
They're going to lie to you and to your face.
I just hope, you know, this worm, there's nobody to blame.
Hey, just keep watching the press conferences.
When it settles into people, because they're in shock right now.
I mean, they're in shock.
You get up Tuesday morning and it's windy.
It's a Santa Ana.
That happens all the time in L.A. It's a Santa Ana.
It's a hot day and a windy day.
In LA. That happens.
Not fire season, but that happens.
All of a sudden, 10.30, I think it happened in the morning.
We monitor here about having it on the afternoon show.
A couple hours later, you're asked to evacuate, which is extraordinary.
And you never go back.
It's taped off now.
It's gone.
Everything.
Everything your parents gave you.
Everything you've got from childhood.
All your photos.
Right?
Your wedding album.
Your high school.
All of it.
Not just the material stuff of your car and your furniture and how you live.
Your home, your home is gone.
It's ashes.
Right there, it's ashes.
Not one home or two homes.
Blocks and blocks and blocks.
A village like Palisades, gone.
Over 100 years, gone.
Gone.
And people, you see them coming back, there's no water.
I kept sitting there asking.
I said, these firemen are very brave.
If they got it, they'll go.
And I said, where are the firemen?
How come they're not deployed?
And now they got excuses.
Well, you had this once in a gazillion years.
Well, hey, you got to plan for that.
I'm not saying you have to build to that because it may cost $2 trillion.
I don't know.
But I can tell you, I'm not buying the story that you got the big gravitational feed over at Homeby Hills, right?
And then you got the 117 tank in Palisades and the three.
I just told you at the time when the woman, now they're all over her.
Daily Mail, everybody.
When she was in the press conference, she goes, well, there's one million.
She thinks it was like a sophisticated answer.
She gave us the exact times of one million.
Lady, that's not the question.
The question is, how did you run out?
How did these tanks run out and not refilled constantly?
How did you not have water?
Don't give me the precise minute.
She was like very proud of herself.
Don't I get an A? No.
You're making $750,000 a year.
You're clearly not competent to have the position, lady.
They're not even talking about the looting.
And the looting is also tied to, hey, I'm not saying it's not American citizens in there stealing as quickly as they can, but you've got a lot of illegal aliens.
It's all coming home to roost.
This is like Rebecca West's novel about L.A., The Day of the Locust.
About this horrific, I think it was around an earthquake.
And what's happening with, and Biden, I've told you now for weeks, he's doing everything possible to chop like he was out there the other day.
I'm just saying, God works in mysterious ways.
He was out there that day.
Out there that day.
Divine providence deemed that he was not going to go see the Pope.
He was out there that day.
Incompetent.
Remember the arrogance in not reading the room?
He said, well, you know, he goes through this thing.
People have lost everything, and they'll never re-congregate there.
In other words, they left, and their kids went to school.
They had a social network.
That was their home.
That'll never be back.
Even if the rebuild will be years, and people won't.
It'll be totally different.
The kids will have to go to different schools.
Your entire life's turned upside down.
You know what this guy says?
Well, after hearing all this briefing of this horror in an inferno, And people's lies being destroyed.
And people who voted for him, his guys.
He sits there kind of drifty.
He's got that blank look.
And then he goes, well, there's some good news.
I'm a great-grandfather today.
Screw you, man.
What are you talking about?
I don't care about your granddaughter having a baby.
Good on you.
But don't bring that up.
You wait till they start picking bodies out of this thing.
They say five now.
It's going to be a lot more than five.
And my point, it's getting worse.
Look at that.
You either watch the screen, all those good things.
We just ripped this off of CNN before we came in.
It's pre-dawn there.
It's burning.
And not just that, but if Benson's going to be on, you know what Biden does yesterday?
He basically tries to legitimize a million illegal aliens here so he can't deport them.
He's up in your grill.
I don't care if he gives himself a pardon.
He's got to be investigated.
Criminal charges are going to be burned.
Criminal charges on the invasion of this country.
He's upping your grill yesterday signing this thing.
Todd, I'm going to do this out of order.
I'm going to get Todd first because I'm going to continue with this in Biden.
But I also got, we got very good news.
I'm not here to be doom and gloom.
Flood the zone.
Let's not put that up.
Flood the zone.
Days of Thunder is going to have a pregame.
We're going to start on Tuesday because confirmation, they are chock-a-block with confirmations.
I'm going to walk you all through it.
There's great news here.
Susie Wiles.
Stephen Miller, the team, the transition team, did it.
Bang.
You're going to be so happy about what you see, and we're going to do wall-to-wall coverage of all these confirmation hearings.
I'm going to get to that in a second.
Todd, and Todd knows about the looting and what's going on.
The National Guard will be called out immediately.
I saw some yesterday.
I mean, other National Guards, other Army Reserves.
You've got to get to L.A. You've got to save this city.
You've got to save this city.
And then people got to throw these bums out and recall Bass, recall Gavin Newsom, throw them out.
If this doesn't red pill yet, then nothing will.
Then you're lost.
Unreal.
The looting's going to be terrible, already terrible.
But in all of this, Todd, in all of this, and by the way, I'm not saying you need to have a federal bailout for people who are quite wealthy.
I'm not going there.
But this insurance deal they have, this scheme they have, this structure they have, is very much like Florida.
We have to think these things through.
People are not going to be able to live.
We'll get to all that in a moment.
But Todd, in all of this, tell me what Biden does, and this is in your grill, and this is why there has to be an upfront, totally transparent...
And not some commission or not some set of hearings.
I mean a special prosecutor with powers of subpoena power and a grand jury on the invasion of the Southern Board.
Let's leave lawfare here.
We've got other things we've got to do.
I'm talking the invasion of this country.
Catholic charities, all of them get rolled out.
I'm quoting The Guardian.
I said, hell with it, dude.
Kate, got to be investigated.
But Biden specifically.
What he did yesterday is an outrage.
Walk our folks through how much he's making it so tough for Trump to execute the plan on deportations.
Todd Benzeman.
todd bensman ▲ ● ▼
That's right.
It's like somebody did not let the dog out of the White House quick enough, and they left piles all over the place for Trump to come in and clean up.
The latest pile is that the Biden-Harris administration, Mayorkas, yesterday signed an order extending deportation prevention.
It's called temporary protected status for a million people, 600,000 of them being Venezuelans, so that Trump can't deport them readily when they enter office as part of the mass deportation program.
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Now, what this does is it...
todd bensman ▲ ● ▼
It just – it enables those people who fall under it to reapply for work permits and to stay for another 18 months past when they were already.
And it adds 400,000 more Venezuelans than were already on this thing.
I just want to point out that having interviewed hundreds and hundreds of Venezuelans and also others that are on this list.
That they are not coming from Venezuela.
We don't have to deport them to Venezuela.
The vast majority of them are coming from perfectly safe, happy, prosperous countries.
They were doing great for years and years.
Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru.
They did well in all of these places.
Argentina.
You don't have to deport them to Venezuela, but they're acting as though Oh my God, we can't deport them to Venezuela.
We can deport them to the places that they came from, where they were prospering for many years.
And I just want to point out that those people that fall under this committed fraud, in my opinion, asylum fraud and humanitarian parole fraud, just to get into the country because they weren't coming from Venezuela.
Millions of them are still outside of Venezuela, 7 million plus.
They don't need TPS or deportation prevention at all.
This whole thing is smelly.
It's got a big stink on it.
And I think that it needs to be investigated.
But also, the thing that really needs to be investigated is the steering of contracts and grants from the State Department to the United Nations.
And NGOs that were facilitating the onward movement of those Venezuelans and lots of other nationalities besides.
I can't wait until somebody starts sinking their teeth into that one.
And Stephen, can I just mention one other little pile that they left behind?
I got a minute.
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Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
I want to hold you through because I want to go back to that.
Because this is going to be a big part of the investigation.
These NGOs, these contractors, they are a central part of the apparatus.
Remember what Todd Benzman told us early on.
He said, don't fall for the media thing.
This is not chaos.
This is not chaotic.
This is not disorganized.
This is a well-thought-through plan they have to get as many illegal aliens into this country as possible.
They've got 15 million.
Now their whole purpose is to spread it out, have a whole architecture of resistance.
An architecture of resistance for the mass deportations.
Days of thunder are upon us.
Because I'm telling you folks, Holman, Miller, Trump, the war room, not going to be any back down on this at all.
Going to double down.
They've got to go.
And they've got to go as soon as President Trump's hand comes off the King James Bible.
Going to be a tough one, folks.
Got to get very focused on this.
Days of Thunder next.
Todd Benzman.
We're going to talk about flooding the zone next week with the confirmation hearings next in the War Room.
Just a quick note from KTLA in Los Angeles.
The big TV station, KTLA 5. Not people that are...
You know, crazy, screaming, etc.
KTLA, one of the better stations out there.
This is, they just tweeted, the Eaton Fire, one of the multitude of wildfires incinerating the Los Angeles area, let me repeat that, incinerating the Los Angeles area, is still burning with little containment on Saturday as the Santa Ana wind event fueling the blazes is set to continue into next week.
You're going to see the difference between this regime and what they consider...
Folks out there, as everything you have is burning down around you and you look and you see no help arriving, no cavalry arriving, please remember that this is not simply a natural event.
It's also human agency is either exacerbated or failed to plan and prepare and be able to execute like people should to be able to stop it.
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Or at least thwarted.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
It's going unabated.
If Donald Trump, if the oath of office was a week ago, there'd be a very different situation in L.A. today.
There would.
It's called stepping into a decision and owning it.
And here's what I want to make the contrast.
While that is on fire, incinerating.
KTLA incinerating the Los Angeles area.
What is Biden spending his time on, Todd?
Because there's more outrages.
And I realize, hey folks, can President Trump undo this?
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Yes.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
But it gets much more complicated, much more bureaucratic.
So don't think we're just going to wave a magic wand.
It's all going to be good again.
You've also got embeds in these organizations.
And when I say organizations, I mean the actual departments that are going to fight you tooth and nail on this.
Leak everything about the administrative state and the deep state.
Part of their plan.
They're all open borders, guys.
Don't you think you're going to walk in there and it's all going to be sunshine?
Yes, we're so glad you're here.
No.
This is what Biden's doing.
He's raising the stakes, making it more difficult.
Like, Trump doesn't have enough problems to step in on day one.
Now he's got figured they've got another million people that are trying to turn them against us.
Give me the thing about the NGOs, the contracts, and then you've got even a greater outrage regarding Romania, sir.
todd bensman ▲ ● ▼
Right.
U.S. State Department money absolutely has bloated the NGOs, non-governmental organizations, and U.N. agencies for the last four years, bloated with hundreds of millions of dollars, State Department money, USAID, to facilitate the onward movement of hundreds of thousands and millions of migrants over our southern border.
Transportation company NGOs, housing, shelter, all over the United States, hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars in no-bid contracts and grants that are just waiting to be investigated, in my opinion, on our side of the border, on both sides of the border.
In my view, this ought to be a priority FBI task force kind of thing.
A federal investigation, DOJ, like COVID fraud, like healthcare fraud.
I mean, they're still popping people for COVID aid fraud even to this day.
Here we are two, three years later.
I think that you're going to be seeing lots of fraud cases involving these NGOs on our side of the border, religious NGOs, Catholic charities, HIAS. Lutherans, you name it.
At Venice, they're all involved.
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Hang on, hang on, hang on.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
The Guardian's about to print a story about the Catholic Church in McElroy, the cardinal that the fake pope has put in as a cardinal in Washington, D.C., which is normally one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful cardinal, because they interface with the White House.
They've put in one of the most radical open borders guys.
Whose big deal is deportations and open border.
His assignment, McElroy.
And I said, hey, look.
I'm a Catholic.
Catholic Church has to be investigated criminally along with Catholic charities.
All of them.
Just because I'm a Catholic, they don't get it.
In my mind, they don't get it.
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In my mind, they don't get it.
They don't get it.
They don't get it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Opt out.
Whoever tried to destroy the sovereignty of this country, I don't care where it goes.
I don't care if it goes to rabbis.
I don't care if it goes to these evangelical, you know, or Lutherans.
I don't care.
Mormons, you pick it.
This is a highly organized effort to invade our country.
And there was billions of dollars spent that went to these NGOs and these contractors.
And see what Todd sounded at the last second, going out the door.
Instead of doing a transition with President Trump, understanding what our policy is going to be and what the American people voted for November 5th, they're doing the exact opposite.
This is not going to stop until you stop it.
Anybody thinks you can have a group hug or unity?
We need unity now.
No, we don't need unity.
We do not need unity.
We will get unity after Trump's policies are implemented.
You're going to see how much unity we get starting the afternoon of next week.
That's where our coverage is going to focus on, is getting the job done.
Not to celebrate, but yes, it's going to be part of that.
But this is, we're in a crisis.
This is like wartime capital.
We're in a crisis, and look what they're doing.
Everything they can possibly do to thwart Trump, they're going to do.
And this is just their opening salvo.
They're just giving us a love tap right now.
You wait until they bring in the heavy guns, and they're going to bring them in.
Unless you break them now.
Benzman, tell me about Romania.
Tell me what they're doing here.
This is more outrageous than what they've just done, given the million folks another 18 months and work permits.
Every black and Hispanic person in this country has got to understand they're letting another million people compete against you.
This is why your salaries suck, particularly if you're lower skilled, right?
If you're lower skilled and fighting for those kind of wages towards the bottom of the rung, trying to work your way up, save a little money, make yourself better, do the small things for your family.
This is what Biden thinks of you.
I don't think they got the message on November 5th.
They didn't get the message.
The message is you're sick of that.
They just did another million to compete with you and get extended their work permits.
Tell me about Romania.
todd bensman ▲ ● ▼
Oh, man.
Well, listen to this one.
Romanians have poured over the southern border, 10,000 of them, just in the last couple of years.
Because Romania, I've been to Romania.
You've probably been there.
It's one of the poorest countries of Eastern Europe.
They're economic migrants.
They know Trump's going to sew up the border and they wanted to just create a pile for him to clean up.
So they just made Romania a visa waiver country so that they can fly into the U.S. on a tourist visa with no checks and no regulation.
So guess what they're going to do?
They're going to overstay.
Of course they're all going to overstay.
They're going to have thousands and thousands of Romanians flying into U.S. airports under this visa waiver deal.
And Trump's going to have to clean that one up too.
And I hope they get on that one fast because they will be flying into U.S. airports and overstaying.
They get 90-day visas.
Without any regulation or checking, they can fly in like a British subject or somebody from Norway or Denmark or something like that, except they're going to stay.
Of course they're going to stay because they can't come over the border anymore.
They gave them this alternative route into the country.
Expect more of that visa waiver stuff in the next couple of weeks.
Keep an eye on it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Not in the next couple of weeks.
They've got a week to do this.
We're going to be monitoring to make sure it's overturned immediately.
Todd, where do people go?
Your coverage now more important than ever.
Can you believe that?
We won the election and Benzman's still got to be on watch.
He's going to be there for the deportations.
You think it's going to be easy, folks?
Think it's going to be an easy one?
Don't think so.
Think they're going to sit there and try to thwart this at every step of the way?
Just saying.
I'm just throwing it out there.
Todd, where do we go?
todd bensman ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, you can follow me at BenzmanTodd on X. I'm also at Truth Social and Getter.
You can sign up for my newsletter at ToddBenzman.com.
All my stuff is there, too.
I work for the Center for Immigration Studies, CIS.org.
Great organization for all your information about the deportation, etc.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
I hope we announce...
Soon that you're going to the administration, sir, they need you.
Todd Bensman, good man.
Thank you, brother.
todd bensman ▲ ● ▼
Thank you.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
You know, Viva Frye, the great lawyer from Canada, Viva's one of the smartest guys out there.
I'm just going to read from his tweet.
He's an accurate guy.
This is from the tweet.
His tweet.
His tweet.
It appears people broke into an Army Reserve Center in California and stole three Humvees.
Machine gun vehicle mounts, machine gun tripads, and try to steal the uniforms.
Right?
The Army's saying that they were up-armored, but they didn't get the machine guns.
Got the mounts.
How does that happen?
California, I hope you love it.
I hope you love it.
It's days of the locusts.
Days of thunder in Washington, D.C., of what President Trump's going to do, and days of locusts.
In L.A. Well, how's that comparison?
How's that comparison?
It's an individual who happens to be a man that knows how to be a boss and a leader, has both moral courage and physical courage, and has a plan.
And he's putting people around him.
He's going to execute on that plan.
And all of these bad guys and villains, because that's what they are, are trying to try to stop that.
So this is what they think of democracy.
You think all this democracy, remember Biden was out there with the red thing in front of Independence Hall looking like a demon with the red eyes and shouting at us, we hate democracy, we hate democracy.
And we know that loss because it didn't resonate with the American people.
Why?
Because the American people know we're defenders of democracy, we're defenders of the little guy, the MAGA movements made up of little guys, men and women.
And how much do they believe in the will of the people that have spoken clearly?
About what they want, clearly.
Trump, these are not marginal issues that are kind of coming out of nowhere.
These were the central issues that were debated for years, debated for years.
And the American people rendered their verdict.
And what are they doing to spend all the time answering?
See, he's convicted felon, convicted felon.
I told the team yesterday, convicted felon, convicted felon.
Shove it up your ass.
This country's in a crisis.
Don't think it's in a crisis?
Look at the collapse of complex systems in L.A. It's one of the most advanced cities in the world.
It's got some of the smartest people in the world.
It's Hollywood, it's television, it's content on a global basis.
They voted it in, just saying.
Chickens coming home to roost, just saying.
Days of the Locusts, just saying.
That's the contrast.
The imperial capital now, and that's what I'm telling people.
I know they got all these balls and people thinking all these ball gowns.
Hey, I'm not so sure it's a ball gown type time because the imperial capital is not sitting there spreading roses on the street saying, oh, Trump is returning.
We're so honored and glad to have Trump return.
No, no.
That's the resistance in the apparatus.
That's who's doing this now, giving it to Biden.
Here's how we do it.
We got a main of these guys.
You extend their stay.
They get their thing.
Romania.
We got a whole deal in Romania.
Let them in.
They come in through Ireland.
We got it.
That's all the apparatus doing it.
But you have the fear, and there's fear, because Trump's coming to town and going to deliver days of thunder.
And on the West Coast, you have days of locusts.
You can't get more biblical than this.
You can't get more Old Testament than this.
I don't know.
Is it a cleansing fire?
I don't know.
But I tell you what, for everybody who's supported out there, has the cavalry arrived for you?
And you know in your own mind, if Trump had taken the oath last Monday, would your life be different right now?
Would Los Angeles be different?
You damn right it would be different.
You would have a man.
Who stepped into a decision and made decisions and deployed people to take care of the problem.
Would it be perfect?
No, it wouldn't be perfect.
Would it be better than this?
This is just surrender.
Look at that.
It's going to get worse.
Read the Major's tweet.
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Short break.
We will fight till they're all gone.
We rejoice when there's no more.
tej gill ▲ ● ▼
Let's take down the CCP.
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
So I'm going to get to the top of the armory.
I'm going to get to this.
So there's flooding the zone, going on offense.
The Days of Thunder actually starts not going to be even on the inauguration day.
It's going to start next week.
Tuesday, I think there's three hearings.
There's six on Wednesday, more on Thursday.
I'm going to walk through all of them.
At the top of the hour, congratulations to the team.
We're not there, but it's looking great because of the work of the transition team and the individual people that were nominated and their teams.
This takes an enormous amount of work and coordination.
And the murder boards of this week, I heard they were going great.
I walked through everything, but congratulations.
So far, fabulous job.
We've got to push these over the top.
But amazing.
And you flooded the zone, and I'm telling you, it's been an all-hands-on-deck evolution.
But just great.
We'll get to that in a moment.
Taze, you've been in a lot of hot jams in the world.
This thing in L.A., and I realize you've kind of moved out of the areas a lot of us have, but this is the collapse of complex systems.
This is where you have no...
You have no order.
You have no hierarchy.
You have no teams that are not trained.
And all the time, you're training, you're training, you're training.
So in situations like this, when it's so chaotic and things are happening, you just know the big muscles in a group, the reflex actions can pull it off like you train all the time.
Obviously, that's not happening here.
They've essentially surrendered to the elements.
And it's going to have catastrophic outcome for the folks in Los Angeles.
Tasia Gill.
tej gill ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, this hits home for me.
You know, I grew up in Southern California.
Actually, my grandparents and my mom had a house in Altadena, California.
It burnt down on Thursday, so it definitely hits home.
It's unexcusable.
There's no water in the fire hydrants.
They had a 117 million gallon reservoir in Pacific Palisades, and it was empty.
It's crazy.
The mayors in Africa, you know, $17 million budget cut.
It's almost like you can't make this stuff up.
Was it intentional?
It's like the Afghanistan pull out of so many bad things.
It's so many coincidences.
Is it intentional?
It's completely crazy.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
We're not conspiracy theory, guys.
We keep saying we're not conspiracy theories, but there are no coincidences.
This thing is so...
The incompetence couldn't be that great.
That all this stuff, the fire hydrants hadn't been tested and were empty.
It's just too much.
The woman the other day sitting there and she's in it.
Oh, we had three one million tanks.
And she's giving this precise second that it ran out of water.
Lady, that's not the question.
We don't care that in 2.31 a.m.
in the morning Pacific Standard Time it ran out of water.
The question is, why were the tanks not being refilled as they were coming down with water?
It's like it never dawned on her.
This is my point.
The people they appointed, the lack of experience.
Go ahead, Tash.
tej gill ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, I saw also when Biden was in town, they grounded a lot of the firefighting aircraft so they couldn't even fly and drop water on these fires because the president's in town and the airspace restrictions.
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It's too many coincidences.
tej gill ▲ ● ▼
It's right before Trump takes office.
And California burns like this every single year.
They never improve their firefighting capabilities or readiness.
We had a phrase back in the SEAL teams, complacency kills.
They get too comfortable, and then they get complacent, and people die, and the city is actually burning down.
It's completely insane.
It's like nobody cares.
And then there's no accountability, so everybody points fingers at everybody else.
And meanwhile...
The people in California are suffering.
It's the most beautiful state in the nation, and they are literally destroying it and burning it to the ground with their crazy policies.
It's insanity.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
It's one of the most...
Having traveled all over the world and lived in Southern California, Mo was raised there, but having lived in Southern California for 20, 25 years, it's one of the most beautiful places in the world.
In the world.
And the natural resources.
And the people out there are great.
Most of them.
You know, the vast majority.
But you've got some bad hombres out there.
And Gavin Newsom and Bass.
Just look at them.
Just watch the press.
Don't take it from me.
Don't take it from Tash.
Go watch the press conference.
See it from their own lips.
The arrogance.
Also the arrogance.
When they give these half-baked...
Go ahead, Tash.
tej gill ▲ ● ▼
These political dynasties run that state.
The Brown family, the Pelosi family, the Newsom family.
And they have literally destroyed it.
It's the most beautiful state.
It's the best weather.
It's incredible weather year-round, and they've destroyed it.
They care more about illegal immigrants, the transvestite minorities, and all these crazy policies.
And the people that built the state, the people that work hard, companies are leaving there in droves.
People are leaving there in droves.
You can't even get a U-Haul truck outbound out of California.
They're all coming back in because everybody is leaving the state in droves.
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It's horrible and it's sad.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
You wait until what happens after this.
Tej, I think people need a cup of coffee this morning.
People need a hot black cup of coffee.
Walk me through.
You guys have sorted out.
You've left Southern California now.
You live up near the American Redoubt, which is a favorite part of our country for us.
Up in the Idaho, Montana, eastern Washington, eastern Oregon area, Wyoming.
Tell us about the company, the coffee.
Where do people go?
tej gill ▲ ● ▼
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The website is warpath.coffee.
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We've got over 6,000 five-star reviews on the website.
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We just dropped these.
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We partner with them.
So we're trying to do everything made in the USA. You know, the coffee's grown overseas, obviously.
But it's warpath.coffee and it's promo code warroom.
Right now we're doing 20% off for the War Room posse this weekend.
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We've got all kinds of coffee.
And it's amazing coffee.
You can drink it black.
Because the way we roast it, we don't burn it at all.
So you can drink it black.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
It's not burned.
I'm a coffee aficionado.
That's what we've partnered with, Warpath.
It's unbelievable.
One more time.
Give where they go right now to see the 6,000 five-star reviews.
tej gill ▲ ● ▼
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And use promo code WARROOM and you will get 20% off.
That's for the War Room Posse for all the support.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Tej, thank you, brother.
Appreciate you and appreciate the company.
Complacency kills.
That's a phrase from the teams.
Complacency kills.
Write that down and take your number two pencil out there in California.
Write that down.
Complacency kills.
Absolutely disgusting and revolting what's happening out there.
Taze Gill's got the right stuff.
So does this audience.
We're going to set things right in the next hour.
Stick around.
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