May 7, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| 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. | |
| You've just not got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
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The people have had a belly full of it. | |
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big 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. | ||
| All right, back in the war room. | ||
| Dave Brat sitting with the great Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| I want to do a shout-out to our friends at Birch Gold. | ||
| You've been following Steve every day. | ||
| The world is full of volatility. | ||
| President Trump is actually trying to stabilize the world and bring some sanity back to it. | ||
| The globalists are fighting by the day, and they are creating the instability. | ||
| They have created the wars. | ||
| They have created the debt. | ||
| They have created the inflation. | ||
| They have created the border invasion. | ||
| None of that is our policy on the war room. | ||
| We want peace and prosperity for the U.S. first and for the rest of the world. | ||
| And so in these times of volatility, make sure you check out gold and its place in your portfolio. | ||
| And so contact our friends at birchgold.com slash Bannon or text Bannon to 989898. | ||
| Get a free copy of The Ultimate Guide for Gold in the Trump Era. | ||
| You hear Steve in the war room and I was on yesterday. | ||
| And we've been talking about the bond market, the stock market, gold. | ||
| Gold is outperforming. | ||
| We don't sell it. | ||
| We don't push it as an investment vehicle. | ||
| But it is and always has been for millennia a source of stability in your portfolio. | ||
| So call up Birch Gold. | ||
| They're friends of the show. | ||
| They're good friends of me personally. | ||
| And so give them a ring today. | ||
| Birchgold.com slash Bannon or text Bannon to 989898. | ||
| We have Mark Lucas back on. | ||
| Mark, why don't you close out with us? | ||
| Give us a one-minute executive overview of what your veterans group is doing and how the War Room can support you in your good work. | ||
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Yeah, so Veteran Action is supporting President Trump's America First foreign policy, and we're supporting his nominees also in his cabinet. | |
| And right now we have a great... | ||
| Under Secretary of the Air Force nominee in Matt Lohmeyer. | ||
| He was an incredible F-15 fighter pilot. | ||
| But he came to national prominence for challenging the DEI culture that infiltrated our military. | ||
| And he was demoted and taken out of command. | ||
| From the U.S. Space Force. | ||
| And President Trump has selected him to be our next undersecretary for the Air Force. | ||
| So we're encouraging the War Room Posse to go to veteranaction.org, click on the Take Action button, and tell your United States Senators to confirm Matt Lohmeyer to the Air Force. | ||
| This is the same platform that I built for the Article 3 project. | ||
| It's proven you can contact your lawmakers via phone. | ||
| Email and social media and you can take all those three actions in less than five minutes. | ||
| Yep, good. | ||
| Mark, thanks for taking care of the people who take care of this country. | ||
| We owe them all a huge debt of gratitude. | ||
| Tomorrow's a special day on the calendar. | ||
| I'm sure Steve will be covering that in detail. | ||
| And so, Mark, thanks for being with us. | ||
| I just want to give a shout-out to Pam Bond and DOJ. | ||
| I know some of the war room posse. | ||
| We want a few more notches. | ||
| But let me give you some good news. | ||
| This is Washington Times today. | ||
| DOJ Notch is one of the largest fentanyl busts in history. | ||
| So congratulations, Pam, DOJ, for fighting for the country, for our kids, for the families that have been torn apart. | ||
| 100,000 deaths. | ||
| It just gets glossed. | ||
| Over in the news. | ||
| The news is not the news. | ||
| I'll just read you the opening paragraph if you want to look it up. | ||
| Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday federal agents made one of the largest fentanyl busts in history by breaking up a multi-state drug trafficking ring run by Mexico's powerful Sinaloa cartel. | ||
| And we've got Ben Burquam and the guys always covering this stuff. | ||
| So congratulations, Pam. | ||
| Just want to give you a shout out for the good work. | ||
| And Kash Patel, you keep at it, and the war room's behind you, and let's keep fighting for the country. | ||
| Next, we want to bring up Tim Kennedy. | ||
| Tim, you with us? | ||
| Yes, sir, I am. | ||
| How you doing? | ||
| Hey, great. | ||
| Tim Kennedy with My Patriot Supply. | ||
| I just kind of read off the gold thing. | ||
| We live in times of incredible uncertainty. | ||
| India, Pakistan, wars, China, everything in the show. | ||
| In the last hour, we covered it. | ||
| Give us a sense of what you're doing to prepare people. | ||
| Yeah, I'm part of a bunch of organizations that work overseas in conflict areas and war zones. | ||
| 20-year Green Beret, a Ranger, a Sniper. | ||
| Wow, thank you. | ||
| Most recently on the Sabre Allies side, going to Afghanistan during the withdrawal, Ukraine during the initial invasion. | ||
| You know, it's just been a mess for the past five years. | ||
| There's a sense of stability right now. | ||
| But if you take a step back and look at the... | ||
| The landscape of the world, it is more chaos and anarchy than ever before. | ||
| Portugal and Spain just had a power outage from atmospheric disturbances. | ||
| The power grids are super sensitive and very vulnerable right now. | ||
| And when you look to Pakistan, China, India, there's conflicts at every door. | ||
| We still don't know what the cartel is going to be doing, but the American infrastructure is in a very dangerous place. | ||
| Love that you had Eric Prince on. | ||
| That man has more fingers and more pies trying to stabilize and secure this world than maybe any other. | ||
| My Patriot Supply is one of those companies that provide a bunch of resources to the individual to make sure that you take care of yours, both on the food side, on the power side, on the water purification side. | ||
| It's spring in a lot of places right now, so it's time for planting. | ||
| If you're in the appropriate zones, you can go to mypatriotsupply.com and you'll see that they have like seed bundles to be able to grow your own food. | ||
| That self-reliance, individual responsibility, I think it's embedded in our DNA as Americans. | ||
| And we've gotten away from that a little bit and it's time for us to put that back on the individual. | ||
| Like nobody's going to provide for my family but me. | ||
| It's my responsibility. | ||
| Tell people, how do they get a hold of you? | ||
| How do they spread the word for what you're doing? | ||
| Why is it so important at this point to take some action? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, we're at a really pivotal point in history. | ||
| This administration has a lot of work to do just up until the midterms. | ||
| If we don't make changes that will be long-lasting, we'll just be back in the same situation that we were 18 months ago. | ||
| So we're in a race against the clock to make sure that we are really creating stability and security for America and our allies. | ||
| Ultimately, it's in human nature. | ||
| There will be chaos. | ||
| There will be conflict. | ||
| There will be war. | ||
| All the way back to two brothers, one of them picking up a rock. | ||
| It's unfortunately part of the way that humans interact. | ||
| And we have to be responsible and make sure that we have everything to take care of our families. | ||
| Water, power, and food being some very basic principles. | ||
| On the Save Our Allies side, you can follow me on TimKennedyMMA on Instagram or Twitter or Facebook, all of the things. | ||
| Save Our Allies. | ||
| Heaven forbid, we're the bat call. | ||
| We're the bat signal up to come and help people get out of a conflict area. | ||
| And we're always standing ready. | ||
| But my patriots apply on the individual side. | ||
| Not just chaos and war, but it's spring here in Texas, so I just planted. | ||
| I have jalapenos and I have habaneros. | ||
| I have oregano and I have my little herb garden. | ||
| I have my water purification. | ||
| I have my grid doctor battery wall. | ||
| So no matter what happens, I'm safe. | ||
| My family is safe. | ||
| I have four kids. | ||
| I've got a beautiful wife. | ||
| I am prepared for whatever's going to happen. | ||
| We don't know what the next thing is going to be. | ||
| Whether it's going to be COVID, if it's going to be a grid collapse, if it's going to be atmospheric conditions, if it's going to be a solar flare. | ||
| But regardless... | ||
| I'm going to be able to take care of mine. | ||
| I think every American should take that approach. | ||
| Yeah, very good. | ||
| Very good, brother. | ||
| Yeah, we just had Dave Walsh on with the number of grid collapses that could have been catastrophic and permanent for the regions. | ||
| And so give people your coordinates one more time, and thanks for being on, and thanks for supporting the War Room Posse. | ||
| Yeah, I appreciate you, Dave. | ||
| Appreciate War Room and everything you guys fight for. | ||
| That Constitution, it's one to be defended. | ||
| Find me on Tim Kennedy MMA, but you can go to mypatriotsupply.com to get all the things that you need for your home, for your family, for your level of preparedness. | ||
| Everybody's lifestyle is different, but ultimately, you have to be able to take care of you and your family. | ||
| Very good. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| Thanks for serving your country, Tim. | ||
| Thanks for what you're doing now. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| My pleasure. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| All right, you bet. | ||
| We've got Jack Poso coming up after the break. | ||
| I'm going to just cover a few more headlines. | ||
| This is Wall Street Journal A3, Harvard president on his resistance to Trump. | ||
| You can read through this kind of black subheading. | ||
| Students at Harvard no longer feel comfortable disagreeing. | ||
| Notice the Oprah Winfrey language I'm about ready to mention throughout this article. | ||
| It's a summary of our culture. | ||
| Students at Harvard no longer feel comfortable about whatever. | ||
| The university wants more diverse viewpoints on its faculty. | ||
| They're using the word diversity to saying they want more conservatives. | ||
| He's trying to dig himself out of a hole a little bit, and they don't even know how to do it. | ||
| Right? | ||
| The university wants more diverse viewpoints on its faculty. | ||
| I don't know what diverse means. | ||
| Why don't you go back to the founder? | ||
| There's a guy named John Harvard. | ||
| He founded your school. | ||
| If you want diverse viewpoints, right? | ||
| John Harvard came from Cambridge, one of the greatest Christian universities in the world. | ||
| Especially at the time. | ||
| Then starts Harvard University. | ||
| The motto, I don't know if you know the motto, the president, but it was truth for Christ in church. | ||
| I guess that would fit under a diverse point of view at Harvard right now, right? | ||
| Truth for Christ in church. | ||
| I'm not sure if your kids know what that is, if they've been educated on that. | ||
| I'd love to come up and be the dean of your divinity school if you need that. | ||
| I doubt I'll make the cut. | ||
| But I would foster that point of view, a historic intellectual point of view. | ||
| Here's a few other words in the article. | ||
| To diversify the faculty, the university is seeking to hire people with an intellectual range, an intellectual range, whatever that means. | ||
| We want multiple points of view. | ||
| Multiple points of view. | ||
| We want to have more perspectives, different from the mainstream, more perspectives. | ||
| This is all just kind of psychological mumbo-jumbo word salad. | ||
| None of this sounds academically serious. | ||
| What happened to the great books? | ||
| What happened to the classic liberal arts curriculum? | ||
| What happened to knowledge and science and verification? | ||
| All the great thinkers in the canon. | ||
| And they don't mention, why don't you teach some of them? | ||
| And then I think people would be happy. | ||
| I've got some friends who have said, we're losing research funding. | ||
| What can you do for us? | ||
| I said, I think it's pretty simple. | ||
| Why don't you just have your president write a letter to the administration and say, hey, we're going to get back to teaching this thing called knowledge. | ||
| We're going to do education. | ||
| And that's all we're going to do. | ||
| And then I think the whole country is like really going to be happy with that outcome. | ||
| If we get back to education, it's fine to disagree. | ||
| The Constitution was built up on the assumption in Madisonian logic that there's going to be a multiple view factions fighting against each other. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| The Constitution guarantees only a few things in its original form. | ||
| Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. | ||
| None of it provided by the government. | ||
| Right? | ||
| It's protected by the government. | ||
| But those are the original rights. | ||
| Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. | ||
| You can differ with your opponent. | ||
| The thing with the left now is they want to have radical thoughts. | ||
| And that kind of was okay with traditional folks until the left started imposing those views on us. | ||
| And then they said we want your tax money to fund our crazy ideas. | ||
| Now that's not the original constitutional logic. | ||
| So I just wanted to share a little news with you from... | ||
| From Harvard and then the Washington Post today on their lead page of their opinion section. | ||
| It is nice that they reported some news. | ||
| From a person responding to one of their opinions, we're Catholic. | ||
| This is not what we want from a pope and a president. | ||
| Regarding the May 4 front page article, Church's Soul on the Line Ahead of the Conclave, the Washington Post chose to frame its recent article about preparations for the conclave to select the next pope in political terms, progressive, liberal, conservative, traditional. | ||
| As a Catholic, I don't want to hear any of that. | ||
| That's what they said. | ||
| That's what this writer said. | ||
| And I think they're kind of spot-out. | ||
| The Washington Post frames everything politically except the headline, we're Catholic, this is what we want from a pope and a president. | ||
| And they called their article, the Post did, the church's soul, right? | ||
| So they refer to religious language to be clever, but then they only do politics within their article. | ||
| And so, not a shocker, we got Jack Posobiec coming to address precisely these points right after the break. | ||
| Stick with us. | ||
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In America's heart. | |
| I am a woman. | ||
| In confession. | ||
| In confession. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| All right, back in the war room. | ||
| That is stunningly beautiful, and we're going to do some commentary. | ||
| I think we're waiting for Jack Basobiec to get mic'd up. | ||
| Might have Liz Yor or Harnwell with us. | ||
| But I'll just offer up a few more remarks. | ||
| I just got done with the Washington Post framing up everything with religion to be political. | ||
| The morning shows, Mika and Joe have on always their folks poking fun at religion, making fun of evangelicals, making fun of the church, making fun of Catholics. | ||
| Harvard's motto used to be truth for Christ in church. | ||
| It's not anymore. | ||
| Why is American culture not at ease? | ||
| But why is it a disaster right now? | ||
| Why is there hardly any culture? | ||
| We used to have a culture, and we do not have a sound culture anymore. | ||
| It's because the foundation of it was the Judeo-Christian West. | ||
| The synthesis between Greek, reason, right? | ||
| Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and then all the greats in the Christian canon and the Jewish canon. | ||
| All the way through, it framed all of history, it framed all of our studies, all the great schools. | ||
| Cambridge, I mentioned, Oxford, Harvard, all of them. | ||
| Princeton Seminary, Madison went, Adam Smith, Presbyterian schools for his invisible hand. | ||
| Who do you think the invisible hand was? | ||
| And so there you just saw the most beautiful clips of St. Peter's and the beauty and the majesty of the church. | ||
| That is the power of the church, right? | ||
| The power comes from God. | ||
| And that point, sadly, is not being made these days. | ||
| The other day, Steve asked me, what is love? | ||
| And I didn't have a quick response on Good Friday. | ||
| I was trying to show the love came about only at zero in the Western tradition. | ||
| It wasn't in the Greeks or the Romans. | ||
| It wasn't in the Enlightenment science philosophers. | ||
| None of it. | ||
| It came uniquely as a virtue in the Judeo-Christian West and the Christian tradition in particular. | ||
| And the important part I omitted there is the great commands, right? | ||
| And so I'm going to weave together this into the power of politics coming right here. | ||
| But the power of the politics, the two great commands are love God with all your heart, mind, and soul, and love your neighbor as yourself. | ||
| But in our secular culture, we skip the first command, love God. | ||
| And so when Steve says, what is love? | ||
| It's hard to get at that immediately, right? | ||
| God is a person, right? | ||
| It's the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the Christian tradition. | ||
| And so it's a person. | ||
| And so in order to love God, you have to first get to know who that person is, right? | ||
| And that's key to the tradition. | ||
| And Christ is certainly central to that. | ||
| And then the church is central to that. | ||
| And then you will know how to properly love your neighbor as yourself. | ||
| To say, I'm just going to love my neighbor as yourself, turns into a psychological mismatch, right? | ||
| I think it was David Schweitzer. | ||
| Everybody that went back after the historical Jesus, guess what they found in the scholarship? | ||
| They found a Jesus just like them. | ||
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Right? | |
| So I would find a Presbyterian economist if I went looking for Jesus. | ||
| Because the power of our egos are so powerful, when we go searching for Jesus, the world is so turned upside down and so fallen, we find ourselves instead of God. | ||
| So you have to go to the text and find God first. | ||
| And then that teaches us how to love Him and then to serve His people on earth, right? | ||
| The kingdom on earth that is in heaven. | ||
| And so all that to get to the point, that is an extremely powerful thing. | ||
| When the Roman citizens were being tortured under Nero in 70, and Jesus comes and tells them, I love you. | ||
| Can you imagine the stark contrast between Roman power and oppression and Jesus' humble servant washing feet and saying, I love you? | ||
| That is the majesty of the church, of the Catholic service you just saw there, of the papal enclave, conclave. | ||
| That you're going to be seeing for the next, we don't know how long. | ||
| And it's powerful. | ||
| And of course, with power, as I was in Congress, whenever you get to power, you get power mongers that want to grab that power and use it. | ||
| And so the left's interest in religion never has to do with God. | ||
| And your clear check on that is to see if they ever mention God. | ||
| If they just mention religion and want to mock religion, That's the trick, right? | ||
| And so on these days, when our focus goes to the church... | ||
| And we all hope we just get a great Christian leader. | ||
| That's what the world needs. | ||
| That's what China needs. | ||
| Can you imagine if the church stood up strongly and condemned the Chinese oppression and the Chinese Uyghurs and the oppression going on all over the way and worked for peace in Africa, etc.? | ||
| Instead, we have NGOs. | ||
| Working on a 10 million illegal border invasion in the United States. | ||
| On the Protestant side, on the Catholic side, on the Jewish side, it's just gone crazy off the wheels. | ||
| And so this has always been the great uniter in the country. | ||
| The left does not want us to unify. | ||
| We're unified because we're all made in the image of God. | ||
| The founders of this country, the most cited book was the book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Scriptures. | ||
| That was the most cited book, the law of God. | ||
| The institutions of our government were crafted based on the wisdom in Deuteronomy. | ||
| And all that has served our country great. | ||
| And the basic insight is we're all equal, only in one regard. | ||
| We're not equal in many other regards, but we're all equal in the most important regard. | ||
| We're all made in the image of God. | ||
| Can you imagine? | ||
| If we could just fathom what that meant, and none of us do. | ||
| We don't wake up in the morning and see the person sitting across from us and say, that person, every single person I meet, is made in the image of God. | ||
| That sentence is transformational. | ||
| That sentence helped transform and found this country. | ||
| And that sentence can transform this country again. | ||
| And I think it is coming. | ||
| And unfortunately, it all gets clouded in this political rhetoric because everybody wants power. | ||
| And so one little proposition of conservatives. | ||
| I was with the Heritage Foundation last night. | ||
| Everybody ought to check that out. | ||
| Kevin Roberts, the Heritage Foundation. | ||
| He hosted a group of 20 African ambassadors. | ||
| I've known many of them for the past four or five years. | ||
| And we had great meetings on unity, people working together. | ||
| And the Heritage Foundation... | ||
| It's all summed up in the word heritage, right? | ||
| It's the Judeo-Christian West. | ||
| It's the rule of law. | ||
| It's foreign policy. | ||
| It's military policy. | ||
| It's education policy. | ||
| And it all fits together in a seamless whole. | ||
| And so the Heritage Foundation... | ||
| Has been leading, and they provide a bridge to Africa and our friends in Africa, right? | ||
| And the Africans couldn't have been happier to have friends who are trying to build bilateral trade relationships or just business-to-business relationships. | ||
| And all this comes out of the Christian heritage, right? | ||
| And so I want to just give a hat tip to Kevin Roberts again. | ||
| There's always some politics that go along with it, but he gave a bold message yesterday to the rest of the world on the good news that is coming this year internationally. | ||
| There's just huge good news coming. | ||
| We got a clip to Jack. | ||
| Jack Posobiec, I think, is with us. | ||
| Hey, Jack in Rome. | ||
| Wow, great to see you there, brother. | ||
| Thanks for coming on the War Room this morning. | ||
| Bring us up to speed, Jack. | ||
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Well, thanks so much, Dave. | |
| Yes, we are here in the Eternal City where we have been dispatched by War Room and human events. | ||
| Also, really want to thank our sponsors over at Catholics for Catholics and John Yepp and the great work they do for helping take care of this. | ||
| We are here in the Eternal City. | ||
| As you can see, St. Peter's Basilica directly behind me. | ||
| The Sistine Chapel over my left shoulder. | ||
| You can see it's very faint. | ||
| I know the sun is just behind me, but the chimney. | ||
| The smoke that is just above there has been erected, and that is where the smoke will come from, black or white, depending on whether or not we have any of the smoke, which could come earlier than just a few hours, but it's more likely either tomorrow or Friday. | ||
| What we're seeing going on now is the 133. | ||
| Cardinal electors gathered from around the world, and they are going one by one, taking their vows of silence. | ||
| They will go broadcasting a lie from inside the Sistine Chapel right now. | ||
| Let's get this here. | ||
| And of course, all of the politicking, all of the rumors, everything that goes on, it will be shut down behind those doors within the confines of the Sistine Chapel itself, where they're turning it into a Faraday. | ||
| Where no signals, even your cell phone, even if they bring in some device or people are trying to use devices to try to figure out what's going on in there, it will be up. | ||
| So this is going to be very secure. | ||
| There's police everywhere. | ||
| There's security everywhere. | ||
| Obviously, I can threaten firemen just given the nature of the world right now. | ||
| And so, of course, Dave, I thought when you were talking about earlier, what we're all praying for, as we've seen, at least in Europe and in the United States, this resurgence of the traditional Christians. | ||
| People are tired of the namby, namby, light, shallow, substanceless Christian faith. | ||
| That's what's bringing Zoomers, Gen Zs. | ||
| Surging them into the churches. | ||
| And so what we're hoping for is that we get a total leader here. | ||
| So by the way, if you're Catholic, even if you're not Catholic, this will affect you because of a billion plus Catholics in the world. | ||
| This is somewhere where we have the ability to actually shape the direction of the world going forward. | ||
| And we want that with a return through tradition, just as we're seeing. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| Frame that. | ||
| Frame that for us when we get back from the break. | ||
| Jack, going out in five seconds. | ||
| War Room, hang with us. | ||
| Back after the break with the great Jack Posobiec in Rome. | ||
| Stay tuned. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Van. | |
| All right, everybody. | ||
| Welcome back to War Room. | ||
| What a great show. | ||
| What a bunch of history. | ||
| We're living in history, right? | ||
| As Steve always says, there's weeks when centuries happen. | ||
| We're living them. | ||
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| We're back with Jack Posobiec. | ||
| Jack, we've been covering all things Rome. | ||
| The mainstream media treats religion only in political terms. | ||
| What's wrong with that? | ||
| What do they got wrong? | ||
| Why do they always frame everything as a war against religion? | ||
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Well, because, Dave, to understand the war against religion is because to them, religion is not real. | |
| To them, religion is something that is actually in their way. | ||
| It is something that is outdated. | ||
| It's old. | ||
| It's something that people don't need anymore. | ||
| It's something that people don't, you know, that is in the way of new laws and new beliefs. | ||
| I'll give you a great example out in... | ||
| Out in Washington State right now, this huge controversy that's going on, one that hits very close to heart for me. | ||
| So there's a new law that's been passed in Washington State requiring priests to have to divulge the contents of confession to the authorities in certain cases. | ||
| And by the way, that doesn't mean when someone says, hey, I might go out and commit something. | ||
| Okay, we all understand that. | ||
| But actually to divulge things that have been said in the past. | ||
| And I would certainly call on any treaty put in that situation. | ||
| Do not comply with that law, which is a direct abridgment of the First Amendment. | ||
| But of course, they have no problem whatsoever with writing laws and passing laws in a liberal state that completely abrogate the right to practice your religion freely, the free exercise of religion in the United States. | ||
| Why? | ||
| because they view their own ideology the same way that we view religion. | ||
| Nevertheless, their belief system is actually theocratic. | ||
| That is what they are trying to put up. | ||
| And see the response that she gets. | ||
| Of course, you will get a response that is akin to blasphemy or heresy. | ||
| Some Christians saying something like that about Christ. | ||
| And so, the situation is, they've always targeted Christianity. | ||
| Every revolutionary movement, whether it's France, whether it's China, whether it's Bolshevik Russia, or even in Spain, who was the first group to always go after? | ||
| It was the Christians and it was the believers because they know deep down that only the Christian and godly belief system can stand in the way of this. | ||
| And if you go back to the 1960s, really when all of this counter-revolution started getting going, or I should say the revolution, the counter-cultural revolution got going. | ||
| So who was it? | ||
| What was it? | ||
| That was the very first target. | ||
| God in the public square. | ||
| God in the public square was the first cornerstone they targeted. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because if you remove God and you remove the Bible from schools and you remove parents from schools and you go after the 10th commandment in courthouses, then suddenly our entire system... | ||
| America has only been a Christian majority country and is still a Christian majority country. | ||
| But if you take away that bedrock, suddenly it's all just a bunch of words and you can twist it to your own sides. | ||
| Yeah, Jack Posobiec's in the public square literally right now. | ||
| Jack, I don't know if you know it, but you have a ray of divine sunlight shining across your face. | ||
| It looks like it's coming from the top of St. Peter's. | ||
| So you must have been saying your prayers this morning. | ||
| Why don't, instead of covering the negative, let's cover the positive. | ||
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What is the true power? | |
| I was going to say, that dome that you see behind me that you mentioned, that was designed by Michelangelo himself, as well as, as we know, the roof of the Sistine Chapel, and in fact, the pieta, the great sculpture of Jesus and his mother's arms. | ||
| It's just inside those lords right behind me. | ||
| Unbelievable. | ||
| Yeah, so get at that. | ||
| What is the true power of Christianity and the church and Jesus and the PA, Todd, Michelangelo? | ||
| What is the true power which the non-faithful cannot stand? | ||
| Why is it such an affront to them? | ||
| What's the positive source of that power, Jack? | ||
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The positive source of that power is the connection to the transcendent. | |
| You know, these bodies of flesh that Anthony Fauci was having to believe that we are, in fact, spiritual beings, that the spiritual world does exist, that we are in a struggle, in a contest. | ||
| You know, good and evil. | ||
| A spiritual war. | ||
| And that's truly what's going on. | ||
| And I think if you look at anything that's happening in the United States in the last 10 years, you certainly have to get the student hunt if it exists. | ||
| But here's the flip side of that. | ||
| The flip side of that is that Christ exists. | ||
| That God exists. | ||
| That the angels exist. | ||
| We've got the power of the human spirit to connect with God. | ||
| And then, of course, we're praying very, very deeply. | ||
| Everyone in the square, everyone inside, we're praying very deeply that the Holy Spirit works on the hearts of the cardinal electors who go in, and as well as the other cardinals who can speak, even if they're not voting, that the Holy Spirit is present in these proceedings the same way the Holy Spirit was present in the senesol, the upper room on Pentecost after Easter, coming down to the apostles. | ||
| And we want back to pray for that to pass. | ||
| And we had a bit of spirit. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, outstanding. | ||
| Yeah, and so the whole show today and the whole show every day and everything you do every day, I went over Harvard, right? | ||
| The motto used to be truth for Christ in church. | ||
| We covered China, which is an atheist regime. | ||
| Just every news item we cover every day. | ||
| It gets down to kind of this basic split between the Judeo-Christian West. | ||
| And the others, and the others, and then as soon as we fight for what we believe in, which is just our extended history, which founded reason and rationality and science, we get hammered for being political when we just want to be left alone. | ||
| How do Christians respond in this new age where it is a war right now? | ||
| We don't want to go down in the ditch with them. | ||
| We want to stay at the heights and have the sunlight shining on our face like you do right now. | ||
| And so how do Christians stay up at the heights? | ||
| But we do have to fight a war. | ||
| How do we do it? | ||
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The way you do it is you stick by your guns. | |
| When someone comes to you and says, oh, you're praying too hard or like the FBI came out last year and the year before saying, oh, you know, the Latin masses are extremists and the pro-lifers when you're going out and praying in front of the extremists that you can be arrested. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| Don't stop. | ||
| Never, ever stop and hold by your guns. | ||
| When they say, you can't pray that, pray it ten times louder. | ||
| When they say that you can't go to that, that, that abortion, go pray, go get sent to your friends and then go out there again. | ||
| Or say, you know, I'm going to be there every once in a while. | ||
| That's what it's going to take. | ||
| It's going to take spiritual warriors, it's going to take prayer warriors to the point where they understand. | ||
| And look, the left... | ||
| The one thing that I'll always say about the left, and I always give them credit for it, don't sell themselves so short, they are true believers. | ||
| They are willing to set fires, they are willing to attack police, like we saw at the University of Washington earlier this week, they are willing to commit assassinations against Richard Maggioni or Thomas Matthew Brooks. | ||
| They are deeply committed to their faith. | ||
| We need to have devotion to our faith as well, true devotion, even in the face of... | ||
| We have to break our beliefs. | ||
| Never, ever quit. | ||
| And in fact, when they tell you to stop talking about it, it's doubled. | ||
| Don't just... | ||
| Don't back down. | ||
| Double bounce, as Steve would always say. | ||
| Hey, Jack, I forgot I got the great Gordon Chang on. | ||
| I got to jump on you. | ||
| But we're going to be back to you all day for the next several days. | ||
| Thanks for what you're doing, Jack. | ||
| Keep the faith, brother. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
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Amen. | |
| And Gordon, of course, knows about the corrupt deal between the previous episode and the CCP. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Great. | ||
| Thanks, Jack. | ||
| Gordon Chang, are you with us? | ||
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I'm here. | |
| I'm here, Dave. | ||
| Hey, Gordon, thanks very much for coming on. | ||
| I was excited when Cameron told me we had you today. | ||
| You're one of my heroes. | ||
| I wanted to get you on the weakness of China and the economy, any new data points you got. | ||
| But if you want to respond to what you just heard there on the Catholic Church and the spiritual war elements versus an atheist CCP, the floor is yours. | ||
| Take it over, Gordon. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
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Yeah, the Communist Party is not just atheists. | |
| It is militant atheists, because especially under Xi Jinping over the last five years, it has gone hard after all forms of faith. | ||
| In the past, it went after Muslims, it went after Christians, but it generally left what were considered to be homegrown religions alone, like Buddhism. | ||
| But under Xi Jinping over the last half decade, they have gone after Buddhism as well. | ||
| This is a full frontal assault on anyone who has any faith at all. | ||
| And against Christians, it has been taking crosses down off of buildings. | ||
| It has been taking images of Jesus off of altars and replacing them with those of Xi Jinping. | ||
| It is basically devoid of all content of religion in religious services. | ||
| As it relates to the Catholic Church, There was the 2018 agreement between the Communist Party and the Catholic Church. | ||
| This was certainly an agreement that the Communist Party has violated numerous times. | ||
| The Church nonetheless has re-upped the agreement, which I think is wrong. | ||
| The first agreement was wrong, and certainly extending it was wrong. | ||
| I just hope that the Church will take a U-turn and start supporting Catholics instead of supporting the Communist Party. | ||
| Yep, spot on. | ||
| Well, why don't we pivot from that to, you know, it's not as sublime as religion, but it's just as real. | ||
| The whole world in our course over the next decades hinges on the question of the strength of China. | ||
| I think you probably agree with that. | ||
| So why don't you tee us up there? | ||
| How is China doing? | ||
| Can they sustain this trade war? | ||
| All the evidence I've seen looks like they are really weakening in a serious way, but you're the expert. | ||
| So lead us. | ||
| Give us a minute, then I'll hold you over the break, Gordon. | ||
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Yeah, you're absolutely right about that. | |
| China cannot sustain a trade war. | ||
| Their only hope is to get President Trump to back down, to de-escalate, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said yesterday. | ||
| But the Chinese economy was contracting before the trade war, and it certainly is now from all sorts of factors that we can see. | ||
| This is an economy that is failing, and the Trump tariffs are driving it down even more. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How much have you seen on 30 seconds on the rioting and the disruptions in the streets? | ||
| Are they widespread? | ||
| 30 seconds? | ||
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They're widespread. | |
| The Communist Party can contain this now, but if the trade war continues, you're going to see more workers on the streets and they won't be able to contain it because there will be too many people. | ||
| This was something we saw before the tariffs and has all now become much more pervasive because factories have been closing in greater numbers after the tariffs. | ||
| Yeah, I encourage everybody, you know, on the war, we pride ourselves being fully data-driven and transparent. | ||
| Just go out to YouTube. | ||
| Don't take our word for it. | ||
| Just type in, is China's economy collapsing? | ||
| And put in videos. | ||
| Search for videos. | ||
| And you'll see a whole host from every region that Gordon's just talking about. | ||
| So we got Gordon Chang, one of the world's premier experts on China, coming back after the break. | ||
| Stick with us. | ||
| Stick with us on The War Room. | ||
| What I said I think is very important for everyone to realize. | ||
| If we don't win against China, if they continue on the trajectory they've been on, we would be in serious, serious trouble, as Eric Prince also said early in the show. | ||
| Stick with The War Room over the break. | ||
| See you in a minute. | ||
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See you in a minute. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | ||
| you All right, welcome back to War Room. | ||
| Sitting in for the great Stephen K. Bannon today, we have Gordon Chang. | ||
| Gordon, I think, oh, by the way, on the TV, I think they just sealed the doors to the Sistine Chapel for the first round of voting. | ||
| So stay tuned. | ||
| We'll see how many rounds it takes. | ||
| But Gordon, you wanted to get at the trade wars itself, how important it is to sketch that out a couple minutes and then give us one minute up front. | ||
| This country does not think we are at war with China, right? | ||
| Business folks are still looking for supply chains to China or substitutes. | ||
| The Fortune 500 CEOs, there's no sensibility that there's a war going on. | ||
| So please enlighten them. | ||
| Gordon Chang, thank you. | ||
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Yeah, People's Daily, which is the most authoritative publication in China, in May 2019 carried a landmark editorial that declared a people's war on the U.S. We're Americans, so we ignore propaganda. | |
| But that's a term which has great importance for the Communist Party. | ||
| They call it, quote-unquote, total war. | ||
| And we have seen this with, for instance, their backing of the fentanyl gangs, some of which are state-owned. | ||
| They're killing 70,000 Americans a year. | ||
| They're going stealing hundreds of billions of dollars of U.S. intellectual property each year, perhaps a half trillion dollars, as John Ratcliffe, when he was director of national intelligence, said. | ||
| Their assault on the United States is across the board. | ||
| And they intend to destroy the United States. | ||
| This is not just competition. | ||
| This is an attempt to kill off America. | ||
| And they believe they're in an existential fight with us. | ||
| So we've got to defend ourselves. | ||
| And if we don't, even though we're the far stronger society, Dave, we're going to lose our country. | ||
| Yeah, give us just 20 more seconds on that piece, right? | ||
| So I think you're right about the rhetoric and the propaganda. | ||
| We just glaze over it. | ||
| But they move in thousand-year increments, and you're the expert on their culture. | ||
| But why would they even announce it? | ||
| Why would they give us a heads up that they're at war with the American people? | ||
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Because they're trying to justify, with their strident anti-Americanism, they're trying to justify to the Chinese people and to themselves a strike on the United States. | |
| As one of our famous ambassadors to Beijing, James Lilly, said, the Chinese always telegraph their punches. | ||
| They're telling us what they're going to do because they want to believe that they're in the right. | ||
| So we have been warned and we are ignoring those warnings, just like we ignored Osama bin Laden's warnings. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Right. | ||
| No, exactly. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Gordon, give us two minutes in closing on the bullet points on the trade war and what level of trade war should we keep going for? | ||
| What duration to ensure that we stay around as a civilization? | ||
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Remember, our tariffs are a remedy for the theft of U.S. intellectual property and for China's predatory trade practices. | |
| So when Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent talks about de-escalation, If we remove tariffs, that leaves China's trade practices and its theft of our IP still in place. | ||
| So we've got to make sure that whatever arrangement we come to with China preserves and protects the American worker. | ||
| You know, we've had a lot of trade deals with China. | ||
| China has ignored all of them, not complied, including the last one, which was the January 2020 Phase 1 trade deal. | ||
| Very easy for China to adhere to its promises of buying a certain amount of American goods. | ||
| Well, they even failed to do that. | ||
| So we've got to protect ourselves. | ||
| This is not peacetime. | ||
| We are in a situation where we've got wars in Ukraine, Middle East, North Africa, which look like wars, and now the India-Pakistan war. | ||
| This is a world that is descending into chaos. | ||
| We need to make in America. | ||
| Those things that Americans need. | ||
| We can no longer rely on buying stuff from the other side of the world. | ||
| Yep, I agree with you 100%. | ||
| I think the war room policy does, too. | ||
| I think that's very good counsel. | ||
| The trade deal, it can't end in an easy compromise deal. | ||
| We need to have a long-term win. | ||
| That doesn't mean the Chinese people have to lose, but that means we need an equilibrium that works for us all in the long run. | ||
| Gordon Chang, thanks for being with us. | ||
| You're always a war room favorite, and just a blessing to have you on with us today. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Oh, well, thank you so much, Dave. | ||
| I really appreciate it. | ||
| You bet. | ||
| You bet. | ||
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