Bannon's War Room - Episode 5308: We Are A Pacific Nation; Controlling The World Islands Aired: 2026-04-17 Duration: 48:50 === Primal Scream of Dying Regime (06:45) === [00:00:02] This is the primal scream of a dying regime. [00:00:07] Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. [00:00:12] You're not going to free shot all these networks lying about the people. [00:00:16] The people have had a belly full of it. [00:00:18] I know you don't like hearing that. [00:00:20] I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. [00:00:22] It's going to happen. [00:00:24] And where do people like that go to share the big lie? [00:00:27] MAGA Media. [00:00:28] I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. [00:00:34] Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose. [00:00:38] If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. [00:00:44] War Room. [00:00:45] Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. [00:00:50] It's Friday, the 17th of April in the year of our Lord 2026. [00:00:54] Massive news to report on geopolitics. [00:00:56] Captain Fennell, Bradley Thayer, Dr. Thayer are going to be here momentarily with us. [00:01:00] We got Rosemary Jinks. [00:01:01] So, Rosemary, number one, lesson learned. [00:01:04] If Cato puts out anything on immigration, Understand whatever number they put out, it's all tied to they're the open borders, coke oriented libertarians that have no problem with the free flow of labor, everything like that. [00:01:19] So look at it with a jaundiced eye. [00:01:22] And when you look at it with a jaundiced eye, you realize. [00:01:24] And what I recommend is go to Rosemary Jenks' Twitter feed. [00:01:30] This tough broad has been fighting this battle for 20 years. [00:01:33] And she is a hero and a patriot and will deal with you straight. [00:01:38] And she's got so many things she's working on behind the scenes that I think are going to be terrific. [00:01:42] That hopefully come to fruition, we're able to talk about in the coming weeks ahead. [00:01:45] So, Rosemary, you're a hero. [00:01:47] So, Rosemary, and here's why I love Jenks. [00:01:49] I bug her all the time. [00:01:51] I see stuff in the paper I send her. [00:01:53] I go, Is this real? [00:01:55] And she comes back and says, No, no, no, no. [00:01:56] That's a lie. [00:01:57] So, today, the New York Times, after attacking Make America Healthy Again yesterday and Bobby Kennedy, this is why we had to have the Children's Health Defense, Mary Holland, on to tell you the story because they're lying. [00:02:10] You know, it's fake and gay news over at the New York Times as they. [00:02:16] As they just try to destroy our coalition. [00:02:20] Today, they had a huge article in the New York Times about Texas. [00:02:26] And you know, my heart is down in Texas with these great Texans fighting to save the crown jewel in the Union. [00:02:33] And this one, it's weird. [00:02:35] It starts off with like every shop is empty, every coffee store is no, no, they got coffee shop, they got nobody coming in to buy, but then it's about labor. [00:02:45] And I'm sitting there thinking, Gosh, I thought Rosemary, I thought we had some guest worker program, and here they want full amnesty. [00:02:52] So tell me what the article says, Rosemary, and how you can see the slant on the lie and what reality is, ma'am. [00:03:00] Well, I mean, this is the New York Times shilling for amnesty. [00:03:03] Big surprise. [00:03:04] So the article starts, as you said, with these restaurant owners complaining that they don't have any customers. [00:03:10] And yet the answer from the New York Times is that we need to give amnesty so that they can keep their cheap, illegal labor and make it legal. [00:03:19] So why do they need all this cheap labor if they don't have any customers? [00:03:23] I mean, that's kind of an obvious question. [00:03:25] But then they go further, the New York Times, and say, well, the farmers who are producing the food also need amnesty because they're hiring illegal workers. [00:03:35] There's no mention in the entire article about the fact that we have an unlimited guest worker program specifically for farm workers. [00:03:44] Forget about that. [00:03:45] We need to amnesty the illegal aliens who are already here. [00:03:48] Maybe if these restaurant owners would think a little bit more about the Americans living in their communities and perhaps why those Americans can't afford to go out and eat dinner in a restaurant, maybe it's because they don't have jobs. [00:04:03] Maybe it's because prices are high. [00:04:06] They need jobs to work so that they can go out to dinner. [00:04:12] Maybe these employers should have just a little bit more consideration for their American community and stop begging for the government to give them cheap slave wage labor. [00:04:24] You know, it's not the government's job to kowtow to these employers, it's the government's job to set immigration policy so that it benefits American workers. [00:04:35] That's what we expect. [00:04:39] Rosemart, you've got a lot of things. [00:04:41] That you guys are working on that come to fruition, we'll be able to talk about. [00:04:44] But I want folks, what I love about your site, and Rosemary for years was over at Numbers USA and then said, Hey, look, I think I actually get, I have to be even more, because Numbers USA, you guys were great for years about the analysis of the numbers, but you said, I got to be more on the tip of the spear. [00:04:57] We have to hold people accountable because what they're doing is when these people are on the campaign trail, they're so hardcore on mass deportations and they're so hardcore on this and they're so hardcore on that. [00:05:10] And they get to Washington and you see this like alliance that's done the Dignity Act. [00:05:16] Which Rosemary Jenks describes as the SAW Act, screw American workers, which is reality. [00:05:21] And it shocks me that they're able to go on Fox and none of the Fox hosts actually get in their grill about how Salazar and these people are lying to the American people. [00:05:31] But you actually said, I've got to start putting these people on notice because that's the problem. [00:05:35] The problem is, folks out in the hinterland think they vote these people in to basically enforce immigration law and to make sure that we've got all the foreign workers that are here illegally out of here and to redo the program as a quote unquote legal. [00:05:50] To emphasize American citizens and not foreign workers. [00:05:53] And you're just doing an amazing job. [00:05:55] But the great thing that you guys do is provide information, like when Cato puts out these lies, and that's what it is it's a bald faced lie that you're able to respond to it. [00:06:05] Where do people go? [00:06:06] If they want to support your work, if they want to learn more, if they want to learn more, everybody should become a subject matter expert in this topic. [00:06:14] This is a foundational element of the populist nationalist movement in our country, the MAGA movement. [00:06:20] So, where do they go, Rosemary? [00:06:23] The best place to go is iapaction.com. [00:06:26] We actually have a congressional ranking system at iapaction.com where you can see exactly what your members of Congress are doing or not doing on immigration. [00:06:37] We've also got resources, fact sheets on various programs, including the Dignity Amnesty and the different visa programs. [00:06:45] iapaction.com, and you can support us. === Strategic Pivot and Naval Blockade (10:25) === [00:06:48] We desperately need your support. [00:06:52] Ma'am, thank you so much. [00:06:53] And thank you for being such a warrior. [00:06:55] Appreciate you. [00:06:56] Thank you, Steve. [00:06:59] Captain Fennell joins us. [00:07:01] And, Captain, let me just read this from the President, the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. [00:07:05] This is him. [00:07:06] The Strait of Hormuz is completely open and ready for business in full passage, but the naval blockade will remain in full force and effect as it pertains to Iran only until such time as our transaction with Iran is 100% complete. [00:07:20] This process should go very quickly, and that most of the points are already negotiated. [00:07:25] Thank you for your attention in this matter. [00:07:27] President Donald J. Trump, Commander in Chief of the American Armed Forces. [00:07:32] Can you get us up to speed on what we at least know now and what we know about this blockade and its impact and effect? [00:07:42] Yeah, Steve. [00:07:43] Within the last hour, CENTCOM put out a new number update. [00:07:46] It said they've turned around 19 vessels that have attempted to exit or enter the Strait of Hormuz with zero ships trying to evade or sneak through. [00:08:01] So, again, I think there's a lot of press out there and a lot of. [00:08:05] You know, X accounts and people saying this ship got through, that ship got through. [00:08:10] But you have to look at it through the very clear, clearly defined mission set, which was we would stop any ship that had been in Iran and left an Iranian port and tried to exit through the Arabian Gulf, through the Strait of Hormuz, and out into the Gulf of Oman and beyond. [00:08:30] Or any nation that would take a ship and try to send it into a declared port in Iran. [00:08:36] Those would be stopped and not allowed to happen. [00:08:40] Secondly, we also have been very clear, and we talked about this yesterday, that any ship that's been identified as an OFAC, the Office of Foreign Asset Control, controlled by the Treasury Department, any of those ships that have been designated as violators of sanctions that this United States has put on Iran or Russia or even Venezuela, those ships would also be subject to interdiction. [00:09:04] So we haven't heard any more details about that. [00:09:08] Yesterday, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs made it clear that other combatant commanders are involved with this operation, not just in the Central Command's area of responsibility there in the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, but also he specifically called out the Indo Pacific Command, Combatant Commander Admiral Paparow. [00:09:30] And so there is a clear indication to me that they specifically mention Indo PACOM, which is to say to China, if you try to send ships, Empty tankers from China to go to Iran to get oil, we're not going to let those through. [00:09:46] So we'll see how that plays out. [00:09:48] And again, the president was very clear just now in that statement you just read. [00:09:52] Well, the Iranian foreign minister can say that the strait is open. [00:09:56] That's great. [00:09:56] And the president said it's a great and brilliant day for the world, but he is not relenting on our blockade. [00:10:03] He's not going to allow Iran to buy and sell and trade oil. [00:10:07] We're going to choke them off until they come to the negotiating table. [00:10:12] And agree to the terms of the conditions that the president has set forward. [00:10:16] So it's a really, as a naval officer, retired naval officer like yourself, or if you're just a regular American, it's a great day to see what our Navy could do. [00:10:27] It's a joint force. [00:10:28] I know that Admiral Cooper talks about the joint force a lot, and so does General Kane. [00:10:36] But in this case, blockade is really a naval force. [00:10:39] And so the power and the importance of the U.S. Navy could not be more evident to America. [00:10:46] I keep saying this is equivalent when we talk about boots on the ground, a big army or special forces, the Marines. [00:10:52] We talked about Karg Island and all of that. [00:10:55] Remember, that island is 500 miles. [00:10:58] The Persian Gulf is big. [00:11:02] I think it's 500 miles from the Strait or Hormuz. [00:11:05] So it's a fur piece up there in Indian country. [00:11:10] You got to go. [00:11:11] And with lots of hostiles. [00:11:13] Here, you use the apparatus, the implementation of. [00:11:17] Economic war. [00:11:19] These blockades, and a lot of people initially were saying, hey, blockades lead to bigger conflicts, et cetera. [00:11:25] But throughout history, the World Navy, and we are the, we kind of took over from the, when the, when the, we, they went off the pound after World War II when the British Empire was destroyed and Bretton Woods set up the new financial system of the world and the dollar became the prime reserve currency from the pound. [00:11:42] Also, and we had done this in World War II, particularly with our magnificent Pacific Fleet. [00:11:46] The Atlantic Fleet was terrific, but the Pacific Fleet really won with the Marines, won the war. [00:11:51] With Army support and General LeMay's Army Air Corps support, won the war in the Pacific. [00:11:57] The strategic pivot of our country, remember that. [00:12:00] The lesson of World War II is we are a Pacific nation. [00:12:04] The strategic pivot, as Mackinder, the Scottish geopolitician, said that the center, the heartland of the Eurasian landmass is what controls the world island. [00:12:15] And that was the great wars of World War I and World War II to control that. [00:12:19] The Germans and the Imperial Japanese coming from two different directions. [00:12:24] The 21st century, the pivot for the United States of America for hemispheric defense is actually the vast Pacific. [00:12:35] Don't look at a map, get a globe and get a globe for your home. [00:12:39] And just look, if you turn the globe in a certain way, it's all blue. [00:12:43] What is that? [00:12:44] That is the Pacific Ocean. [00:12:46] We are a Pacific power. [00:12:48] The giants that followed the revolutionary generation and the Civil War generation, those giants in the late 19th century understood this. [00:12:57] This was what Manifest Destiny was about. [00:13:00] Manifest Destiny did not end at the shoreline of Oregon and California, which are the two states that are the most important to settle. [00:13:11] Manifest Destiny went all the way through the Pacific to the island chains. [00:13:16] America is a Pacific nation. [00:13:20] Peace can come to the world when the United States has absolute hemispheric defense and control of its strategic pivot, not the heartland of Asia, but the Central Pacific. [00:13:34] You control that and you control the world. [00:13:36] And the Chinese Communist Party knows this. [00:13:39] Captain Fennell, the lesson he has hammered. [00:13:42] For years, upon everyone in his sphere, is keep the main thing the main thing. [00:13:48] And Scott Besant knows this more than anybody. [00:13:51] When Scott Besant made that comment, I think it was on CNBC 10 days ago, talking about the need for a naval blockade, that was, I think, the trigger point because the naval blockade smoked out everybody. [00:14:03] It got everybody to turn their cards over, not just the Iranian Guard and not just the mullahs and what's left of the Ayatollah class. [00:14:12] But the Chinese Communist Party. [00:14:14] And that's why it's so important, I think, with the Indo PACOM today, and actually the great timing of Pete Hegseth and the team to get the Indonesians over and to sign a deal where, hey, guess what? [00:14:25] The Americans are going to be in control of the Straits of Malacca, which shuts the whole thing down. [00:14:32] Short commercial break. [00:14:33] Dr. Bradley Thayer, Captain James Fennell are going to join us. [00:14:37] More geopathics. [00:14:38] We're also going to get back into the grassroots. [00:14:42] What happened in here? [00:14:43] Take your phone out, text Bannon, B A N N O N, at 989898. [00:14:47] It's not a better weekend. [00:14:50] To peruse the handbook of the ultimate guide, totally free and no obligation, of investing in gold and precious metals in the age of Trump from Birch Gold. [00:15:00] Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. [00:15:05] Okay, Kemp Fennell and Dr. Bradley Thayer are going to come back in a second. [00:15:09] We're going to talk geopolitics. [00:15:10] President of the United States, on true social, Iran has agreed to never close the Strait of Hormuz again. [00:15:17] It will no longer be used as a weapon against the world. [00:15:21] Signed President Donald J. Trump. [00:15:23] We'll get back to that in a moment. [00:15:25] Now, maybe more than ever, you need to understand what we're talking about when the pound, when World War II was over, the British Empire was destroyed. [00:15:35] It's kind of the irony of World War II. [00:15:38] They had to have a new financial system. [00:15:40] Bretton Woods did it. [00:15:41] It was structured around the United States dollar. 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[00:16:20] That's who you need to talk to to understand about why gold has been a hedge for, I don't know, 3,000, 4,000 years of mankind's history. [00:16:28] A lot of that history, too, is the Persians getting it on with the Greeks and getting it on with the Romans, who we, in this 250th anniversary of our beloved republic, Which I think is the longest republic in history. [00:16:43] Is it longer than the Roman Republic? [00:16:46] Maybe the Roman Republic actually has more in years, but not in freedom. [00:16:50] So, in the 250th year of our freedom from a revolutionary generation that are giants in world history and created a country that's had more freedom, created more wealth, freed more people, not just here in the United States from the bondage of slavery. [00:17:08] We had one of the bloodiest civil wars in history to have to do that, but to free people all over the world. === Precinct Sites and Voting Rights (15:22) === [00:17:14] One of the most impressive things when you're a Serviceman in this country, and you go throughout the world and you go into Liberty Ports, whatever, to go see the territory that are U.S. cemeteries with our honored dead buried, whether that's in the Philippines or in France or whatever. [00:17:34] What other nation on earth has that? [00:17:36] You look at the nations of the earth in the history of the earth. [00:17:41] Do they have military cemeteries in other countries where people fought for the freedom of those countries and died in battle for their freedom? [00:17:48] No. [00:17:49] You do not. [00:17:50] The United States of America. [00:17:51] And that is the power. [00:17:53] And one of the reasons you must understand is because your agency, you're the direct inheritors of that. [00:17:59] And the only way we are going to bequeath a free republic, bequeath it to future generations, is the obligations that we have all the way back to the revolutionary generation. [00:18:13] And that is your responsibility. [00:18:15] You will be weighed and measured about that. [00:18:18] We'll be weighed and measured as generation and other generations that are coming up right behind us. [00:18:24] History will weigh and measure us, but your creator will also weigh and measure you on all the benefits you had to live in this time and to live in this country and to be basically an inheritor of these freedoms. [00:18:37] What did you do in this 30-front war? [00:18:40] Ask yourself that. [00:18:42] This audience, you've done a hell of a lot, and there's a hell of a lot more to do, a lot more work. [00:18:49] Part of that, Stanley Woodward joins us, Precinct Strategy Chairman down in Dallas County, Texas. [00:18:54] What in the hell is going on there, brother? [00:18:56] You guys have fought. [00:18:57] So long and so hard to get these elections right, to get the balloting right, everything. [00:19:02] Next thing I know, I got people resigning. [00:19:05] Everybody's arguing with each other. [00:19:07] Just explain as simply as possible what's happening and what solutions we're going to get for this, sir. [00:19:15] Thanks. [00:19:15] And it's good to see you again. [00:19:16] I think the last time we talked was during the hand count that we were trying to do back before the end of the year. [00:19:21] And like I think I told you last time we saw each other, we ran out of time on that. [00:19:26] But there were two resolutions. [00:19:28] Okay. [00:19:29] We've got two things going on down here. [00:19:32] Back in September, literally all but about 10 people, you know, over 200 people stood up and said, we want to do two things. [00:19:39] We want to do precinct only voting on election day, which is the fairest original form of voting we've always done in this country up until 2019 in Dallas. [00:19:49] And it's constitutional, protects audibility, protects the secrecy of the ballot. [00:19:55] And so we wanted to go back to that and do it on election day. [00:19:59] And we also wanted to do a separate non joint primary. [00:20:02] And the second thing we tried to do was the hand count. [00:20:04] But those were two different resolutions that were overwhelmingly passed by the CEC. [00:20:09] And you teed it up great coming into my segment because we're talking about the debt we owe to all the people that created what we have. [00:20:17] For example, in Texas, our constitution. [00:20:19] Comes down probably from Pennsylvania and some other Eastern states. [00:20:23] You know, things like Article VI, you know, just how we vote and all that kind of thing. [00:20:28] These are really kind of ancient principles. [00:20:31] And one of the most common and ancient principles is the power of a precinct chair. [00:20:36] And I didn't know this until last summer. [00:20:38] And like most Americans, we're just, you know, wafting through life. [00:20:42] But the precinct chairs really control, they're what used to be the election judges. [00:20:47] They're the people that opened their garages up and got judges and clerks and held an election. [00:20:53] So, in Texas, the power to go run our primaries is controlled by the CEC, all right? [00:21:01] The county election committee. [00:21:03] That's us. [00:21:03] That's not the chairman. [00:21:05] So, we stood up and we voted to do that. [00:21:07] December 31st, the hand count ended, but we kept on with Resolution 1, which was to do precinct only voting on Election Day, separate and non joint. [00:21:16] Well, everything's fine. [00:21:17] And March 16th or March 3rd, we have a primary. [00:21:22] Overwhelming turnout, Republican turnout, about 105,000. [00:21:25] The Democrats owe us a check. [00:21:27] They had a record turnout, but we had chaos. [00:21:30] And why do we have chaos? [00:21:31] Because some software was on tablets with navigators hired by the county with wrong information. [00:21:39] And so they're sending people to the wrong polling locations all over. [00:21:43] And it was a real problem. [00:21:45] And then just like on clockwork, the press clicks in and we're guilty. [00:21:48] The Republicans create so chaos and create all this problem on election day. [00:21:53] Nope. [00:21:54] County Secretary of State. [00:21:56] And now the receipts are starting to show up. [00:21:58] So now you get all these people posting up old memos to the Secretary of State, warning about this with these tablets, the software that's upgraded to the team system. [00:22:08] Okay, but it's our fault. [00:22:10] Well, it's not. [00:22:12] So, without warning, on March 16th, we show up to our normal CEC meeting, and we've heard that Chairman Alan West is wanting to go back to countywide voting. [00:22:25] And two or three people have emailed and were like, Well, really? [00:22:29] Why would you want to do that? [00:22:30] Why would you want to go back to something we all vote? [00:22:33] You can't do that. [00:22:34] Okay. [00:22:35] We need to amend the contract, have a vote, have orderly discussion. [00:22:38] Okay. [00:22:39] So March 16th, we show up to our precinct chair meetings, a packed house. [00:22:43] I'm sending out information to people that have been given to me. [00:22:47] I was like, Here, you might want to know this because we're in a debate about it. [00:22:50] No debate occurs. [00:22:52] March 16th, nothing. [00:22:54] March 17th, the next morning, just a Perfectly created press release goes out from Chairman West announcing I am suspending precinct only voting and we're going to go countywide. [00:23:08] Well, that's against the law. [00:23:10] Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, just for clarity. [00:23:13] I, Alan West, Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, U.S. Army retired, are doing this, not you. [00:23:19] I, Alan West, correct? [00:23:20] Correct. [00:23:21] Yeah. [00:23:23] I have made the decision to go back to there. [00:23:26] It is. [00:23:26] There's your, there it is. [00:23:28] So, you know, I've been a CEO, I sit on boards. [00:23:31] I'm aware of the rules. [00:23:34] So we look into election law. [00:23:36] The first three people I call are the state attorney and all some other people. [00:23:40] They're like, yeah, you can't do that. [00:23:42] I mean, everybody you have called, like, yeah, that's against the law. [00:23:45] Well, it gets worse because he's signed a contract now with the county. [00:23:49] That's an illegal contract. [00:23:51] So I email the election administrator and put him on notice. [00:23:56] And he's going to send that over to the lawyer. [00:23:58] So they were on notice on the 17th. [00:24:00] And then on the 18th, It took two weeks or three weeks to get this, but on the 18th, there's a signed amendment with his name on it and the election administrator's name on it on this amended contract that's illegal. [00:24:14] So, all right. [00:24:15] So, we're going and doing the things that we have to do when that happens. [00:24:21] When your chair does something like that, you do what you have to do and you ask them to leave. [00:24:28] And we did. [00:24:29] And he just resigned. [00:24:31] So, that's what he should have done. [00:24:37] So, now then the second issue. [00:24:38] So, the chairman's resigned, which he should have done for doing that. [00:24:44] And the party, the precinct chairs, Stood up and we're going to take care of this, but now we're going to have to put the county on notice. [00:24:53] They're going to get some formal notice very quickly. [00:24:57] It's taken the longer we want it, but they're going to get formal notice that the original contract is still in place. [00:25:04] All right. [00:25:04] We've never amended, we've never met to amend anything as a body, as the CEC. [00:25:10] So the original contract from December 31st is in place. [00:25:14] This amendment really is. [00:25:22] Let me just cut to the chase. [00:25:24] Yeah. [00:25:24] The way you see this in Arizona, when they go to this, they go to the centralized voting for one simple reason. [00:25:30] And they've done this in my hometown in Richmond, where you had these precincts, and my mom was always a precinct worker. [00:25:38] And you know everybody that comes there. [00:25:40] And if other people start showing up, you go, hey, I don't think they are in this precinct, right? [00:25:45] The way you keep control. [00:25:46] Is you put the hairy eyeball on them at the precinct level with people like Doris Bannon who are sitting there going, Hey, I don't never saw these guys before. [00:25:56] Who are they? [00:25:56] And when you bring your cousins in, right? [00:25:58] Exactly. [00:25:59] Exactly. [00:26:00] Bring your cousins in. [00:26:01] So, are we, because in Arizona, every time they want voter fraud, the Democrats want to centralize into these big impersonal areas. [00:26:10] This is what they've done in Arizona. [00:26:12] Is this, in fact, I'm going to hold you through the break. [00:26:15] Is this what they're trying to do in Texas and what they're trying to break the whole precinct part of it? [00:26:20] Exactly. [00:26:21] Exactly. [00:26:22] Okay. [00:26:23] Stan, hang on for one second. [00:26:25] I'm going to hold you through the break. [00:26:26] Captain Fennell and Dr. Thayer are also with us. [00:26:29] We're going to get back to more geopolitics. [00:26:32] My Patriot Supply, the leader in the preparation business. [00:26:36] Go to preparewithbanon.com, get a three month food kit. [00:26:40] You include a mega protein upgrade. [00:26:43] This is normally $1,000. [00:26:45] It's now for $800, roughly. [00:26:47] A couple of dollars on either side. [00:26:50] Check it out a day, plus an upgrade of a couple hundred bucks. [00:26:53] Prepare with Bannon.com. [00:26:56] All the information right there. [00:26:57] Short commercial. [00:26:59] Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann. [00:27:03] Okay, Stan, quickly, why were the tablets not tested in advance, sir? [00:27:10] No, I can't answer that. [00:27:11] But what I would say is it's software, so fix the software. [00:27:15] That's all we're asking for. [00:27:16] And we also had a link, Steve. [00:27:18] We had a link on our site that worked perfectly. [00:27:20] And we had offered that, you know, when we were talking through the handcuff, we'd offered the link to them for free. [00:27:26] So we have a good link, you know, the same software could be used to put the Democrat sites up. [00:27:31] So, fix the software. [00:27:32] That's all we want. [00:27:33] Go back to the same in precinct sites, run some software that works, and do exactly what you did March 3rd. [00:27:39] The precinct, the core of American democracy gets down to these precincts. [00:27:43] You want to stop, it's just not machines. [00:27:45] It's being able to put the hairy eyeball on somebody that doesn't live in the neighborhood. [00:27:49] That's why the precinct is one of the basic foundations of our democracy. [00:27:53] And that's why people fight so hard for the precinct strategy and then voting for the precincts. [00:27:59] We've got a runoff stand. [00:28:02] At the end of May, between Paxton, who is the populist grassroots hero of the MAGA movement, and Cornyn, who represents everything bad and evil in our system. [00:28:13] Is this thing going to be sorted out by then? [00:28:15] Is it going to be centralized voting, which they want to be able to steal elections? [00:28:19] Or are you going to be back at the precinct level, sir? [00:28:21] Well, right now, they put it, our former chairman in the county has put it back to countywide. [00:28:27] We're wanting to put it back to exactly what we voted on back in September and in December 31st, put it back to that. [00:28:35] Fix the software, run it. [00:28:38] And now that we know what happened, you know, our party will be more than involved in the communication side. [00:28:43] We're happy to work with the county on that, but go fix the problem. [00:28:47] And it forces the Democrats to come and do precinct voting as well, which we're protecting their constitutional rights. [00:28:54] So they should love that. [00:28:55] If any one of their candidates getting a runoff and need an audit, they can do it in precinct. [00:28:59] They don't love it. [00:29:00] They don't love it because they love stealing them. [00:29:02] They can't. [00:29:03] If you make them vote for really American citizen voters, you go back to the The last thing the Democrats want is the precinct. [00:29:10] That's what you know. [00:29:14] You got me, Steve. [00:29:15] You got me. [00:29:15] So, yes. [00:29:16] But you're trying to put it back. [00:29:21] We don't have a lot of time, but we're going to do it. [00:29:23] Yeah. [00:29:23] We're going to do it. [00:29:24] We want to thank Melissa Katz. [00:29:26] Thanks to all the Patriots down there. [00:29:27] Where do people go to keep up with this fight? [00:29:29] Because this fight, this is once again, folks, a microcosm of the fight we got throughout this great country of ours. [00:29:36] Where do they go to keep up with you, Stan? [00:29:38] Yeah, well, the party is just dallasgop.org. [00:29:41] But if you want to see some posts that relate to this, you can go to my X feed, Stan M, as in Mary Woodward, Stan M Woodward on X. [00:29:51] And I'll be posting up some of the more relevant links to the receipts because there are receipts out there. [00:29:57] And so we want to fix this. [00:29:58] And I appreciate you giving us a voice because there are 16 media outlets. [00:30:03] Last time I looked just in lockstep saying, oh, it's the Republicans' fault. [00:30:07] It's the furthest thing from the truth. [00:30:11] Of course. [00:30:12] Stan, fight on down there. [00:30:14] You guys, the 55 precinct chairs, you guys have stood together are heroes and patriots. [00:30:19] Melissa Cass, thank you for keeping us here. [00:30:21] Yes, Melissa. [00:30:21] Yeah, thanks for Melissa for getting us on here. [00:30:24] Thank you, Steve. [00:30:25] Thank you, sir. [00:30:29] Captain Fennell, just tell me, technically, this is right now, I think, unless something's changed where I've been on air, this runs through the end of the ceasefire, and the president is working nonstop to make sure this thing's permanent. [00:30:42] Am I correct on that? [00:30:44] Yes, Steve. [00:30:45] The Iranian foreign minister statement stated that the Strait of Hormuz was open through the duration of the ceasefire, which ends next Tuesday. [00:30:55] So that gives some pause for concern. [00:30:58] I know the president and his statements have been very positive, and I would not detract from that. [00:31:04] But as the Navy and the CENTCOM commander, they have been given an order to keep on the mission of the blockade. [00:31:11] And there's just since we've been on here, there's been some reporting unsubstantiated yet, but there's people that are allegedly close to the Iranian foreign minister that say that there's kind of three conditions that are still out there for the Iranians that traffic would still need to go through the toll booth, that the passage would be limited to commercial vessels, not including adversary nations. [00:31:33] Which would be the Gulf states or U.S., and then all movements must be coordinated with the IRGC Navy. [00:31:40] So we're going to have to see how this plays out. [00:31:42] And that's why Admiral Cooper and the CENTCOM and the naval forces out there are not going to, they're still on mission. [00:31:50] But the president's smart. [00:31:52] He's got Cooper and he's got General Kane. [00:31:56] Keep the hammer there, right? [00:31:58] And let me try to deal diplomatically. [00:31:59] But if they don't come along, we still got them locked down, correct? [00:32:05] Correct. [00:32:05] And oh, by the way, we have two major big decks that are coming in. [00:32:09] The George Bush is arriving, should be arriving in the next day or two. [00:32:13] That's the aircraft carrier strike group that's coming in with additional ships and the aircraft carrier, and the USS Boxer will be coming in soon. [00:32:22] So we're reinforcing the area to make sure that it's crystal clear to whoever's running Iran that there's no escaping from this. [00:32:31] And if they try to play word games, they're over. === China Blinked on Trade War (12:06) === [00:32:36] Dr. Bradley Thayer, is the key lesson we take from here, as Captain Fennell continues to tell us about the main thing, is that the Chinese Communist Party blinked on this one, that their proxy state, the Mullahs and the Ayatollah and the Revolutionary Guard, got choked down economically, big league. [00:32:58] And the Chinese are getting choked down also from getting oil to exacerbate an already bad economic situation. [00:33:06] In mainland China, sir? [00:33:08] Yes, Steve, I think that's right in terms of the pressure that we've been able to put on them. [00:33:15] I think if we are able to reach a deal, right, we're now moving to a new phase of this conflict, and we need to make sure that we don't allow communist China to win the peace, right? [00:33:29] We didn't fight this conflict to allow communist China to really come out of it ahead. [00:33:37] So we put great pressure on them. [00:33:40] They've yielded, but we want to ensure that whatever deal is reached, Communist China just isn't able to rearm Iran and return to really the status quo ante in five, six, a year from now. [00:33:55] So we're going to have to watch Communist China very closely. [00:33:58] And I'm sure this is going to be an item, major item, when President Trump and Xi Jinping meet in mid May. [00:34:07] Well, when you talk about that, you know, we did this deal, our memorandum of understanding with. [00:34:13] Indonesia. [00:34:13] And people should understand because the Vietnamese and the Chinese hated each other. [00:34:19] That was a Soviet Union deal. [00:34:22] But even more hatred is between the Indonesians. [00:34:24] I mean, Mao Tse Tung tried to really export the Chinese Revolution to Indonesia, I think it was in the early 1960s. [00:34:31] And it was kind of, they had a bloodbath down there. [00:34:34] The Indonesians have an innate hatred of the Chinese Communist Party. [00:34:42] And now they've signed a memorandum of understanding that essentially. [00:34:45] In some semi formal or beginning of a formal way, puts the United States of America as their partner in charge of the Straits of Malacca. [00:34:53] That's a choked down big time. [00:34:55] That's like the British had when they had Singapore back in the old days, is it not, sir? [00:35:01] It is, if it comes to pass, right? [00:35:04] So there's no doubt. [00:35:07] Your point about no love lost, there were about half a million, over half a million Indonesian communists killed by Sukarno when Mao tried to bring about really a revolution in Indonesia. [00:35:20] Hold it, hang on, Repeat that number because I think people, this whole history of this place is lost to them. [00:35:29] The blood, that's just the communists that were killed, not just the other Indonesians, but. [00:35:34] Mao went full on into Indonesia. [00:35:37] That's where he thought he could export his revolution, correct? [00:35:40] Right. [00:35:41] And Sukarno wasn't having it. [00:35:44] And in one of the major killings, of course, in post World War II, Sukarno eliminated really the Indonesian Communist Party and their allies and removed Communist China's influence from Indonesia. [00:36:05] So, that was from the standpoint, of course, from the US, that was a very positive step, as well as from the Indonesian people to ensure that they didn't fall under a communist government. [00:36:15] So, that really underscores the depth of hatred that exists between the Indonesians and the CCP. [00:36:28] It's not forgotten by any stretch of the imagination. [00:36:32] So, we'll have to see if that deal comes to pass, but that's very positive. [00:36:37] Hormuz is open and we have control of Malacca, that puts us in a much better position. [00:36:44] And that's a debit, right? [00:36:46] That hurts communist China. [00:36:48] So that's very good for us. [00:36:52] Real quickly, what should we be looking for in this mid May? [00:36:56] President Trump's obviously very excited about going and sitting down with this. [00:37:00] And obviously, there's all kinds of concerns of the Straits of Taiwan, et cetera. [00:37:06] The United States, given this, what looks like could be a true victory, in because I said, hey, I'm against this war and how we got here, but once you're in it, you got to win. [00:37:16] You don't have a choice. [00:37:17] It looks like we have the beginnings of an actual victory. [00:37:21] How can that inform President Trump's negotiating with Xi in mid May in Beijing, sir? [00:37:28] Well, again, we can't let communist China win the peace, right? [00:37:32] They can't essentially snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. [00:37:37] From their perspective. [00:37:39] So, what we're going to be looking for, the usual issues are going to be discussed, of course. [00:37:44] Iran is going to be front and center. [00:37:46] Trade is going to be a major issue that's discussed. [00:37:50] Taiwan is certain to come up. [00:37:53] And what we need the team to do, of course, is to focus on the importance of Taiwan and the importance of ensuring that that relationship is stable. [00:38:06] South China Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea, Communist China's aggression. [00:38:12] In those areas, of course, freedom of navigation in those areas is certain to come up as well. [00:38:22] But we can't allow communist China to win the peace. [00:38:25] It's important for President Trump to keep the pressure on them, both in Iran, Strait of Malacca, South China Sea, on Taiwan as well. [00:38:36] Dr. Thayer, where do people go to get more of your analysis on this? [00:38:40] Of course, you've got a huge book that's going to come out about the 100 year war up against communists and the Marxists. [00:38:45] Where do people go to get all your writings? [00:38:48] Steven, Brad Therad X and Bradley Therad Getter and Truth. [00:38:52] Thank you, sir. [00:38:53] Look forward to having you back on. [00:38:54] Looks forward to the ultimate publication of the book. [00:38:56] Socarno, right to put that one down, original badass. [00:39:02] I think that when the CIA assassinated DM with the generals in Vietnam, I think that this is what those generals are supposed to be as tough as Socarno. [00:39:18] In extricating us from the Vietnam War and making sure the Vietnamese took it over. [00:39:24] It didn't quite work out like that now, did it? [00:39:27] Another tragedy in history. [00:39:29] Captain Thayer, closing thoughts. [00:39:31] We've got about a minute, and then where can people go get your writings? [00:39:36] Yeah, Steve. [00:39:37] Just on the Indonesia piece, remember in the 90s, we passed the Pressler Amendment based on those actions by Sukarno that caused us to stop selling military equipment to Indonesia, F 16 specifically. [00:39:51] So we've had 40 years of strained relations with Indonesia. [00:39:55] So this announcement is really big, and it really gets to the president's understanding of Mahanian. [00:40:01] Grand strategy, which is you have to control and allow major choke points to stay open or under our control in some semblance. [00:40:09] So, the Strait of Malacca, Strait of Hormuz, Panama Canal, these are major choke points that allow a naval and maritime nation to be able to buy and sell and freely trade. [00:40:21] So, what we need is for other nations that share those same views to stand up. [00:40:26] So far, NATO and the EU are lacking. [00:40:29] Where is India? [00:40:30] Fortunately, Japan is standing with us in the Indo Pacific and out in. [00:40:34] Right now in the South China Sea, exercising with us in the Philippines for the first time ever in 80 years, combat troops down there. [00:40:43] Combat troops. [00:40:44] Captain Thayer, thank you. [00:40:45] This also shows you the formative power of writing Samuel Elliott Morris, Victory at Sea. [00:40:52] Very formative for a young Donald John Trump. [00:40:58] Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann. [00:41:05] Okay, from Iranian officials, the Port and Maritime Organization of the Islamic Republic, in line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage of all commercial vessels through the Strait of Ramuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire on the coordinated route, as already announced, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. [00:41:21] Folks, this is all a work in progress. [00:41:24] Number one, you're dealing with people you can't trust at all. [00:41:27] You know the reason they've even come to the table? [00:41:29] You got the United States Navy in all its glory out there in the Gulf of Oman saying, nope, thou shalt not pass. [00:41:38] And you force the hand of forcing the function of the Chinese Communist Party, which are the worst people on earth. [00:41:46] And the second worst, they got down in Tehran with the Mullahs and the Ayatollahs and this Revolutionary Guard that have essentially brought in by the Persian people, or a lot of them, back in 1979, have ruled as incompetent dictators. [00:42:04] And now folks want to throw them out. [00:42:06] And it's only the strength and purpose of the United States military that has forced this thing to date. [00:42:13] And now we're getting some action. [00:42:14] We'll have to see how it plays out. [00:42:15] But look, the world's America's greatest ally was put on notice. [00:42:19] Enough is enough. [00:42:21] If you want to do a greater Israel project, you're going to do it on your own, but not on our nickel and not on our time and not with our folks in harm's way. [00:42:28] President Trump, number one. [00:42:29] Number two, the Arabs are no better. [00:42:32] You know, they got Qatar. [00:42:33] They bought up this town. [00:42:34] They get spread money everywhere. [00:42:35] They're forcing the Muslim Brotherhood down in the Saudis and Qatar. [00:42:40] Forcing the Muslim Brotherhood down in Caire, down in Texas. [00:42:43] Don't think their hands aren't all over it because all over. [00:42:46] That's where they're getting the money behind the scenes. [00:42:49] UAE, you know, we had the OFAC ships that Scott Besson designated, wherever they filled up in a UAE port. [00:42:56] So don't think we don't have any allies over there. [00:42:59] They're no good guys. [00:43:01] They're only degrees of bad guys. [00:43:04] This is why we got to wrap it up, put a bow on it, say, hey, and Bob's your uncle. [00:43:12] You guys figured it out from here. [00:43:13] We're out of here. [00:43:14] The Middle East is a sideshow, and the Israel situation is a sideshow to a sideshow. [00:43:20] You got the peace board. [00:43:22] You've got the Gaza situation with Turkey and Qatar. [00:43:28] You got a two state solution. [00:43:30] I hated it, but hey, that's what that Gaza situation brought on because of the epic failure of Netanyahu, who still hasn't been held accountable for October 7th, Mossad, Shin Bet, the IDF, all of it. [00:43:45] We've been living with it ever since. [00:43:47] So you want to take on Turkey? [00:43:49] You want to take on Qatar? [00:43:50] Good. [00:43:50] You do it on your time. [00:43:51] What I want is a Christian state. [00:43:55] In the Christian quarter, I went to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and let's cut a corridor to Bethlehem back under the control of Christians. [00:44:03] Let's get a three state solution. [00:44:05] Let's play three card money. [00:44:06] You got two card money right now. [00:44:10] But the glory of the United States Navy and the Air Force and the Army, everybody delivered this. [00:44:16] So President Trump's going to try to hammer it through. [00:44:18] And remember, these guys will double deal you. [00:44:20] They'll look you in the eye and lie to you because they've been doing it for thousands of years. [00:44:26] Pocks on all their houses. [00:44:27] And let's get the hell out of there. [00:44:30] Mike Lindell, you are now running for governor of Minnesota. [00:44:33] How's that going? [00:44:34] Also, cut me a deal. [00:44:35] Mo Bannon is going to be at the end to tell us one more time to have this massive gathering in Virginia. [00:44:41] We want you all there. === Mike Lindell Runs for Governor (04:08) === [00:44:42] Mike, how's it going? [00:44:44] Well, it's going pretty good. [00:44:46] The first quarter report came out. [00:44:48] I raised more money than all the other Republican candidates for governor. [00:44:53] And we have now four events in the last three days. [00:44:58] We're doing events all over Minnesota, town halls and rallies. [00:45:01] I'm bringing it right to the people, the messages we have of how I can win Minnesota and beat Amy Klobuchar. [00:45:09] We call her Angry Amy. [00:45:10] She's always angry, but she was there, remember, when all this fraud that happened in Minnesota was on her watch, too. [00:45:18] So I'm really excited to see if I've got solutions. [00:45:21] I just was in northern Minnesota, met with the farmers up there in the Iron Range, and then also. [00:45:29] They have a lot of problems with the DNR up there. [00:45:32] So I'm going around the state. [00:45:33] I met with the teachers last week and meeting with the different groups and finding out what their concerns are with what we have going on in Minnesota. [00:45:42] So, everybody, you can support that run. [00:45:45] Like I say, we're number one right now. [00:45:46] We're pulling number one with the Republicans and raising the most money. [00:45:49] But with all these, to get the word out, it's going to take a lot. [00:45:52] And that's mikelindelgov.com. [00:45:55] MikeLindelgov.com. [00:45:57] And you guys, I went all in. 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