Chase Geiser & Congressional Candidate JR Majewski Discuss Afghanistan, Jan 6, & Nuclear | OAP #50
Chase Geiser is joined by JR Majewski
James Richard (J.R.) Majewski was born at Parkview Hospital in Toledo, Ohio on Veterans Day, November 11th, 1979 to high school sweethearts, James (Randy) and Gail Majewski. Randy and Gail raised J.R. Majewski and his sister Amanda in the “Polish Village”, LaGrange Street area of Toledo where Randy worked in the UAW Union at Toledo Jeep.
Majewski attended Calvin M. Woodward High School, graduating in 1998. He then went on to serve honorably in the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1999-2003. During his tenure in the Air Force, Majewski served overseas, and was deployed to the Middle East in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Majewski has also earned his Bachelor of Science in Business (Summa Cum Laude) and Master of Science in Management (Magna Cum Laude). Majewski also holds the designation of Project Management Professional Certification.
In 2003, Majewski began his career in Nuclear Security at FirstEnergy’s (FE) Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station located in Oak Harbor, Ohio. Majewski’s intellect and leadership capabilities were quickly recognized by FirstEnergy’s Leadership Team while he served as the Assistant Project Manager during their reactor vessel head replacement. After his proven success, Majewski was rapidly promoted, becoming the youngest Project Manager in the company’s history.
Majewski went on to manage multiple multi-million-dollar projects within the nuclear industry and earned a reputation for his leadership style and ability to transform struggling projects, programs, and portfolios into high performers.
Majewski has also applied his leadership skills and abilities across other industries: serving as the Project Director during the construction of General Motors (GM) new production facility and product line replacement at GM’s Powertrain Plant in Toledo, Ohio.
Majewski now serves as a Senior Leader in the nuclear industry working with some of the world’s largest nuclear utilities. Majewski and his wife Nichole have been married since 2003. They currently reside in the Walleye Capital of the World, Port Clinton, Ohio.
Hey, hey, hey, this is Chase Geyser with J.R. Majewski on the One American podcast.
Did I pronounce your last name correctly?
You sure did, man.
All right.
Now what is that?
Polish?
It is Polish.
Yeah.
Man, you got you got a Polish name with the word Jew in it.
So that must have been a hell for your family in the in the 30s.
It was, you know.
Actually, the name is pronounced my correct pronunciation, but I always go by Majewski.
And uh when you break it down, it actually means that it was a Polish Jew.
I gotta look, I'm I'm doing it backwards here.
Polish Jew that came to the United States in the month of May.
Really?
Yeah.
So is that is that actually the history you're just making that up?
No, I'm serious.
You can you can Google the So do you know what your family's name was before you uh set foot in the United States?
Well, no.
Um, and here's the here's the ringer.
Um and I'm actually not Polish.
Uh my father's stepfather is Polish.
So I see.
I see.
I was uh, but there's certain there's something to say um with nature versus nurture because you know I was raised Polish and I didn't know that I wasn't Polish until I was about 16 years old.
So really yeah, yeah.
So have you ever thought about doing 23 in me and getting to the bottom of it?
I have.
Did you do it?
Yes, I did.
I did discover if you don't mind sharing.
I thought it was fascinating.
Um so here's a few things I discovered.
This is gonna sound like a wild story, but it's true.
Um I found out that my biological grandfather is the original secretary of the Hells Angels.
That is awesome.
And uh yeah, he's um mentioned in uh Sonny Barger's book, and uh I um met his granddaughter and um sent photos of me, and then um she didn't respond for about two weeks because uh the photos that I sent,
he had died about two weeks before I contacted her and um her grandmother saw the photos and um absolutely had like a you know, I guess uh uh another another series of mourning because I look so much like him, and then she sent me a bunch of photos, a bunch of the photos of him, you know, in in California, and the you know, back when uh the Hells Angels were created, and uh yeah, it was a pretty cool experience.
How long ago was it that they were formed?
Um I would have to say in the 60s, I believe.
Yeah, that sounds that sounds right.
I don't know much about them.
All I know is that they got a bad rap from um Woodstock and that Sons of Anarchy was really cool.
Yeah, and I know they were highly patriotic, you know.
So maybe that's genetic, but I'm actually so my my um my legitimate uh genealogy is Scottish, Hungarian, Irish.
Yeah, you you look like a Scott.
I mean, you look kind of like you could have popped right out of Braveheart, you know.
Yeah, I look like a chubby Conor McGregor.
Didn't get dressed up for nothing.
Right.
That's like my favorite line of the movie.
So you know when people say what what are you?
Um I'm a man at the end of the day.
That's what yeah, that's kind of why I started this whole podcast.
It's like you what are you heritage-wise, what's your political affiliation?
What you know, and I just got sick of answering those questions, and that's why I am one American, you know.
Exactly.
That's kind of the idea behind it.
So um, I looked you up a little bit before we did this podcast.
You're the dude with the lawn.
Yes, I'm the dude with the lawn.
So tell me about that story.
Did you get to meet the pres meet the president over the lawn thing?
Yeah, yeah.
Um, yeah.
Absolutely.
So what happened for those of the listeners that don't know what the hell's going on?
All right, so I'll take you back to 2019.
In 2019, so I'm a military veteran.
And um for your service.
Oh, you're welcome.
And uh, you know, in uh in 2019, I decided to support a veterans organization that um works with wounded veterans.
And um it's the wounded warriors project or no, no, it's a it's uh it's Ohio-based and it's actually veteran ran.
It's not even I mean, they're not even uh a lot, they're not a very large organization.
They tend to they're they're very close-knit, uh, smaller group, but very, very effective.
Um, so what they do is they'll take folks that are are veterans that are handicapped.
You should name drop them by the way, in case this goes viral.
They don't they they they secret.
Yeah, they don't they don't want to be um there's a lot of got it yeah, got it.
Just didn't want you to buy didn't want you to pick yourself later for no no they love me and everything, they just don't they don't want any new friends.
Uh I understand.
And then they they know how to find the veterans that are wounded, so or or you know, disabled.
So um they'll essentially, you know, let's say for example, you've lost a limb.
Um they'll have a veteran go with you on a hunt, depending on what game you'd hunt, say it's deer or duck or what have you, and that veteran will play whatever role that you need, you know, to facilitate a successful hunt.
So uh, for example, if you lost a leg, you know, they'll help you uh they'll they'll get you back into a hunting location into a blind, you know, with a four-wheeler or with some type of an all-terrain vehicle.
They'll help you clean and dress the the game, they'll help you process it and they'll help you get it home.
And so long story short, my wife and I decided to uh support them and uh we're one of their biggest donors.
And um they were coming up a little short on a fundraiser uh for their big hunt of the year, which is deer season.
Um obviously, which starts in like November, October is when they start going out and they start laying all their you know their grounds, they'll put their salt things out and all the other things for the deer.
And so um this at this time, this is when Colin Kaepernick and all the other bougie NFL players decided that uh you know the national anthem wasn't good enough for them, and they started taking these.
So um I do something very big on the 4th of July every year, and um I decided and I I I actually wagered them a bet.
If they could break their fundraiser, fundraising goal, I would match my original donation, and I would paint the largest um American flag they'd ever seen.
So the long story shorters, they they they met the met their fun raise fundraiser, and I painted a huge um old glory flag on it's actually the Calpin's flag, it's the flagship.
The 13 stars, it's 12 of 12 um 12 in in circumference, one in the center.
Um I painted that as a slate to the media because they were going after the flag, and I knew that the media would come to my house and and you know freak out about it being uh a um Betsy Ross flag.
And right, I just wanted to kind of it was this it was a uh slight slight on my part because I know they don't understand you know, they don't know the lineage of our American flag.
So it's actually the flag before, but um I made uh Ripley's believe it or not uh the largest um uh Betsy Ross flag ever painted.
And um, so for 2020, I posed the same goal to them.
And this time I was gonna do the POW MIA flag, and I was totally prepared to do it because I know these guys are gonna they're gonna do they're gonna beat the fundraiser because they love seeing me out there, you know, 90 degree heat with a with a paint sprayer.
And so um I at the essentially at the 11th hour, I got a call from the company that sells the paint, and they explained to me that it would be a bad idea for me to paint my lawn black because it would essentially kill you know my my grass entirely.
Well, that was nice of them to tell you that instead of selling you the paint.
Yeah, well, and they also knew you know the fact that I you know my wife wasn't extremely happy with me for painting it the year before, and they were looking out for me.
So um that left us with about two days to go, and we needed to find you know an object to paint, and we went back and forth, back and forth, and you know, at this point in time, um, just like the year before, there was some there was some uh you know pop culture and and confrontational things out in society, if you will, and the the topic of that was you're you know, people that support President Trump.
So me being the guy that likes to you know swim against the waves, uh, I brought up the idea of doing the Trump 2020 campaign logo.
And at first everybody's like, oh man, no way, you know, it's gonna cause a bunch of trouble.
And that was just more inspiration for me to do it.
So yeah, I ended up uh so I painted the Trump 2020 logo, and then the veterans organization, a bunch of other people started calling the local media, and my neighbors started calling the local media.
Next thing you know, I'm on Fox and Friends, and then I'm on you know, some paper in London.
Um you know, just kind of doing this little you know local and national tour of hey crazy guy why'd you paint your lawn you can't love Trump that much so that's my story that is that is an awesome story so how did how did you get to how did you get to meet Trump out of the out of the the yard thing so he was watching Fox News when I was locked and it wasn't tweeted yet he sent a tweet yeah he sent a tweet and then um Don Jr. saw it he sent a tweet um Mike Huckabee you know you name it Mike Huckabee was on the actually on
segment after me.
And, you know, it essentially, if the president wants to get a hold of you, he does.
So, yeah, he ended up sending me VIP tickets to one of his rallies locally here in Toledo.
He asked me to, you know, attend a couple of different rallies.
I drove in his motorcade.
Instead of just going and showing up, I wanted to do some work.
So I drove the motorcade.
I drove the news media around.
And then I decided based on the, you know, recognition and the, you know, at one point in time, I had about 100,000 followers on Twitter and got a really good, I would say, a base, if you will, out of that.
So I decided to use that positively to help local Republicans and national Republicans.
And so I maintained my lawn throughout the entire election season.
So from July 4th through actually mid-October, I painted it every other week.
And yeah, it's been a lot.
Did you lose?
Did they ban you?
No, they started banning, you know, just tons of people that had supported Trump or said anything, you know, outside of the norm.
And yeah.
So you got lost a lot of followers when they did the purge, basically.
Yeah.
And then a bunch of people just left Twitter altogether.
So, you know, when, when all, you know, other, other things came up like Gab and, and what was it?
Parler and all the other foreign platforms came out.
A lot of people decided that they had enough and they just left.
So, but, but after that, I, I decided to, well, actually I was asked to speak at a Trump rally, like a lower level rally for a back to blue.
I spoke there.
I was the keynote speaker.
And then I met the state rep and a bunch of other folks from the Trump team.
And I brought up the idea of having a Trump watch party at my home.
And essentially, if you were, you know, involved with Trump's campaign, they would allow you to have Trump victory events.
And if you did, they would send you memorabilia and things like that to, you know, to give out to people.
And so I did that three times.
I rented a 30 foot Megatron NFL style TV.
I rented a huge concert stage and I had a couple of guys come out with their food trucks and I had over a thousand people on my yard three times.
I was the largest Trump watch party victory event in the state of Ohio in the 2020 election cycle.
So president Trump got a kick out of that.
And, you know, I spent about 60 grand doing all this stuff last year out of my own pocket, didn't charge anybody a dime.
And, you know, when, when I watched the election and the results and when, you know, they had to stop the steel rally, I got back on Twitter and I leveraged my base again.
I raised about $30,000 and I took close to a hundred wounded veterans or supporters of the president that weren't, that didn't have the financial means.
I took them to Washington DC on January 6th.
So, and so you said, you get, did you get a call on, uh, from the FBI about being there?
Yeah.
Yeah.
But were you scared?
No, no, I didn't do anything wrong.
No, absolutely not.
Did you know that you weren't supposed to go in or were you on the impression that you could have if you wanted to and just decided not to?
I don't think I even considered it in the moment.
I was more worried about the guy who died.
Um, no, there was a gentleman that had a heart attack.
I didn't know that.
That's I'm sorry.
to hear that we had a a guy that he wasn't in my group but guy passed away from a flashbang if you if you want if you look on my Twitter you'll see the videos that are posted.
Oh my god so that's there's another casualty that just doesn't get reported no it's reported it's reported I don't know how they reported it I don't know how they um you know I don't know how they categorize his death but in my experience um the flashbang was shot by capital police into the crowd in a very irresponsible way and he went into cardiac arrest because of that flashbang but you know who am I to say that but I have wasn't even breaking the law right he was just outside the capital and they flashed they were all on we were all outside.
There was no violence until that flashbang.
And then you'll see by the video that I posted on Twitter, there was no violence until after that flashbang, the crowd got riled up because the police were using less than less than lethal force on us when you know there was no really no means, no, no reason to do so.
Um not beyond the capacity that they already had.
I mean, other than the intimidation factor that there's four million people walking up to the building and there's only you know 50 capital police.
Um, but that's just an optic, right?
So after that flashbang, um that's when people started to get a little bit rowdy, and then you know, the gentleman went into cardiac arrest.
We people tried helping him, it was ineffective.
I had a lady that was with me that was you know in her in her 50s, late 50s, she fell down, broke her um like her wrist, and then dislocated her knee.
And you know, I had a lot of people that were um you know not physically, you know, 100% physically able.
They weren't, you know, they weren't able to run or or do certain things.
I mean, they were elderly or they had been injured in in mil in their military service, so you know, I it was uh it was a challenge for us, but you know, we were there to peacefully protest the election.
I mean, nothing other than that.
But I work in the nuclear industry, so I've been in the nuke industry since you know, right after the service.
So and I have an active FBI clearance, right?
So it's pretty easy for me to understand where I stand with the FBI.
And you know, I I immediately when I got back home, I did what I should do as a responsible citizen, and I made sure that I cleared everything and you know what video and photos I had, I submitted, you know, did all the other law-abiding things um to make it.
I think the FBI was involved in some of the illegal activity.
I mean, there was that controversial uh uh I think it was revolver news.
I had um Darren Biatti on the uh BDR Biat, I don't know how to pronounce his name, but I had him on the podcast, and he's the founder of Revolver News, and um they covered that story that said you know that there were a lot of agents that from the FBI that were involved in January 6th that you know were in also involved with the the Gretchen kidnapping controversy.
Um do you think the FBI had something to do with instigating January 6th, or do you think that they were just you know I'd be I'd be hard, I'd be hard pressed to say, yeah, I think that as a matter of fact.
Um I think it just it it resonates with me just like the election.
Um I think there's a lot of things that were extremely dubious, you know, that and then that left the American population curious, and I think Congress failed in doing their jobs by eliminating you know any suspicions that we had.
Um I certainly think that the videos that I saw of a few gentlemen that were known to be FBI agents, and you know, the video of folks in the crowd trying to, you know, incite um you know, physical violence and protest, physical protest.
I certainly think that those individuals look alike, but I haven't done you know my due diligence to you know give myself the confidence to say that I firmly believe, but where there's smoke, there's fire, and there's a lot of smoke, a lot of smoke.
And I I definitely want to talk about your election, so I promise we're gonna get to it.
No, no, no problem.
But I wanted to ask you if you um did you have you ever feared that you were gonna lose your clearance because of your political positions.
No, I don't think so.
I mean, I'm I have a very good reputation in the industry, I have a very good working relationship with you know, with with my company and throughout the industry.
Um, I'm a young leader in the nuclear industry.
Um, so I have you know, uh I've I've worked um my way into you know what I have today, and and uh you know, I think that there's years and years of of legacy of you know what I've brought to the industry, what I've brought to the people that I work with that that significantly override uh you know my political feelings.
And you know, I I've always been in a you know, in the majority of my professional career, I I was promoted very quickly at a very young age.
I've managed a lot of big projects, a lot of uh large portfolios, and uh I've had the opportunity to lead people that were much much my senior, and um you know that was a challenge in itself, but you know, the strategy that I that I implemented to get those folks to like me and to accept me as their leader, you know, really built a foundation for the future where you know I never um expressed my political beliefs that work because I was the leader.
Leaders don't do that, uh they don't impress those things on folks.
But I was the vent path for frustrated employees that I was the guy that they could come to Talk to.
And you know, part of the reason that I was inspired to paint my lawn and show my um you know my my support of the president was because of all the things that I had dealt with uh you know at a professional level.
And I can tell you that um uh many, if not almost all of my friends or or work associates, once they realized that I supported President Trump, that really changed their minds on him as well.
And they started to look into him with with a different perspective because they found themselves at a grounds where it's like you know, I've known JR for you know 10, 15, five years, he's been a solid stand-up guy, you know, he's been a great leader, uh supportive person.
How could he support this misogynist, this racist, this you know, terrible traitor, all these other things that the left wing media placed upon him, and you know, because of the reputation that I had with those folks, you know, that opened their minds.
And I have a lot of friends that have come to me and and have and and they're of all backgrounds, all diversities, all ethnicities that have come to me and said, you know, I really thank you for what you did.
You stood up, you know, you broke what they called the silent majority, and you gave us hope and inspiration, and you changed our minds at the ballot box.
So, you know, if at the end of the day, I made those veterans happy.
But once I made Fox News, I thought to myself that if I can inspire one guy or one lady to wear their Trump shirt on Jeans Friday to work, I did my job, and it just evolved into what it is today, which is you know, me running running for Congress.
So let me ask you, if you don't mind, can I tell you what my opinion is on nuclear, and you can tell me whether I'm right or wrong, and I will believe, and I will believe you.
Okay, because you're an expert and I'm not.
I wouldn't call me an expert, but well, it seems to me that um that nuclear energy is incredibly safe and clean.
100%.
But that um my concern is that I don't trust government to properly run or maintain the facilities to keep it that way, because it's like Chernobyl, for example.
And I know with the RBMK reactors, there were some unique conditions that catalyzed what happened at Chernobyl, and then we don't have facilities like that in the United States or wouldn't that use the cheaper materials that allowed those nuclear reactions to happen.
But it seems to me that the incompetence of government is such that something like nuclear is probably not something a state could run.
Now, I think the private industry could probably do it, but um, or the uh the the private market rather, but I don't know.
So can you can you tell me what whether or not you think I'm right or wrong about that?
And like I said, I will believe you.
I think you're I I think you're right about uh you know nuclear being inherently inherently safe.
Um nuclear is one of the most heavily scrutinized uh industries.
It is the safest, be it from a reactivity management standpoint or through a defense in depth public safety standpoint.
But even if you look at it from uh an occupational safety standpoint, nuclear workers have um some of the most prolific and and and greatest uh safety statistics that you'll see.
And I'll give you an example.
If you're working, we're working on a job and you're walking through the plant.
If you're not wearing your gloves in an area where you're supposed to wear your gloves, you'll get fired.
If you're not wearing your safety glasses in an area where you're supposed to be wearing your safety glasses, you'll get fired.
If you get injured on the job, even if it's you stub your toe, if you if you have to go see and seek medical attention, the entire sites will do what they call stand down.
And what they'll do is they'll say, Hey, look, Chase was walking through the plant today, he stepped over a barricade, he tripped on a cord, fell, he's fine, but you know, what's the what's the lessons learned from this?
Well, pay attention to where you're at, situational awareness.
If you see signs, you see barriers, make sure that you're navigating those barriers in accordance with you know proper protocol.
And so nuclear has this layered approach to safety, not only for the workers, but for what's in that reactor.
And now to your point about who can manage it, and I think nuclear belongs in the private sector, absolutely.
Um, there are examples here in the United States where um the government actually manages nuclear reactors, and that's in Tennessee with Tennessee Valley Authority.
Now they're one of the highest performing um nuclear utilities in the country.
And actually, their chief nuclear officer, his name is Don Maul.
Um, he used to be my boss when I worked here locally.
That's what I mean.
No, not uh maybe.
I think if he paints his face, he might look like him a little bit.
But Don's Don's a great guy, young man, um, a little bit older than me.
Um he's he's you know a fantastic leader.
And um, you know, Tennessee Valley authorities is ran pretty well.
Now, if you recall President Trump had an issue with their CEO or you know, the last you know during his presidency and he actually tried to fire him.
I don't remember the reasons why, but you know, be it what it may, um, nuclear is very safe.
I can tell you right now, if it had disaster happened in this area, the first place I would want to be is the nuclear power plant.
And I can see it from my from my from my doc.
And you know, it is one of it is very, very safe.
Did you watch the Chernobyl series on HBO?
I did.
I did what'd you think?
I was surprised that any major mainstream network did an anti-communist show, which I'm basically a lot of a lot of embellishment.
Um I can't really give you perfect examples, but I can tell you that my company is the company that is responsible for the encapsulation of Chernobyl.
Um we actually performed that current the the current encapsulation.
It's done now, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, it's it's it's done now.
Um and and and also you know, removing all the spent nuclear fuel.
So the owner of my company owns the patents for that, and you know, I I work on a day-to-day basis with the scientists and the you know, very intelligent experts who who perform that work.
And uh, you know, Chernobyl is uh is a is an issue again with the RMBK reactors.
Fukushima, on the other hand, you know, that's an issue with you know the Japanese style, not necessarily the style reactors, but they're you know, their backup safety systems.
Um as a matter of fact, because of uh Fukushima, all of the reactors in the United States, active reactors underwent a study, and they're planning for what they call here a hundred year storm.
So example, this plant here on Lake Erie has mechanisms in place to face a you know a 30-foot wave that would come off Lake Erie in the case of this, you know, uh 100 year storm.
Never will happen, never has happened, but that's the type of deployment of safety features and and and safety nets and defense in depth that the um nuclear regulatory commission will impose on the private sector.
Now one would say that sounds fantastic, that's great, but I can tell you every plant doing a 15 million dollar upgrade on a system that they you know is highly likely unlikely to fail because we're not on an island.
Um it can be you know straining on you know on the private sector, and that's the one thing that I think that you see in in almost every industry is government overreach.
So you know it is pretty tough.
Um, but uh you're right on when you said you know that uh nuclear power belongs to the private sector without a doubt.
Interesting.
So why is it and I assume this is bullshit if it's not I don't care, but why is it that when I Google you it says that you're a QAnon enthusiast?
It says that because you know, I've it says that because I've I've you know you can look me up, look watch the videos, you know.
I've been on some podcasts with folks that were you know that that believed in QAnon, they read the whatever the forums were, you know.
Um a good friend of mine, he runs his own podcast.
Um I would equate him to, you know, um you remember Art Bell, he would be on the radio, he would interview people on AM radio, they believe in bigfoot and aliens and all that stuff.
Oh, is he the coast to coast guy?
Yeah, coast to coast.
There you go.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So my buddy Zach, he's kind of like Art Bell, you know, he he he doesn't prescribe to their thoughts, but he doesn't chastise them for thinking the way that they think.
Um I feel that way too.
Yeah, well, well, a friend of mine had come to me after I was on Fox News and said, Hey, you gotta go on this guy's show.
You know, me being me.
Um, I didn't care how many followers he had, and I didn't care about any of that stuff.
Come to find out, he has you know close to 500,000 subscribers on YouTube, he's got a big nice show, you know, he's interviewing a whole bunch of people.
Well, media matters had a little thing for him, and you know, the minute I went on his show, you know, they started calling me a QAnon supporter and all these other things.
I had no idea what a man, I didn't know anything about it.
And um, but I'm not gonna denigrate anyone that that believes in it.
I mean, you know, but uh, you know, the there's a couple um uh candidates on the Democratic side that are running against Jim Jordan.
They saw me um out and about with Jim Jordan at a couple dinners, and they decided that the one way to get to Jim Jordan was called Jr.
Majewski a QAnon guy.
And they did the same thing last week when I, you know, was at a fundraiser with Marjorie Taylor Grain.
It's it's low-hanging fruit, they think that it uh you know it's something they can go after me but you'll never hear me you there's no recorded audio there's no videos of me saying that you know but I will say that I know people that still believe in QAnon right they sure I don't I think it's a product of the fact that we've been lied to so repeatedly by the political class in the corporate media that you know I I I don't know if I tweeted it or not but it's saved in my drafts.
Um I was going to tweet something to the effect of listen if if we weren't lied to so much we wouldn't have nearly as many conspiracy theories.
Right.
Like people would just buy the narrative you know like there was a time when everybody trusted what they heard on the news rightfully or wrongfully and no one doubted that we landed on the moon until later when you know you know it's until you couldn't trust anything.
Right.
Exactly exactly I mean you know I I've used that uh statement before I mean you know I I same with the election stuff the people the reason people doubt it is because when was the last time the mainstream narrative was the truth.
Right.
Exactly and you know I I um I convinced my mother to vote Republican for the first time in our life.
Okay.
Um and as a matter of fact at one point in time that was like my biggest Twitter hit.
I mean it was even bigger than the Trump sign or the Trump tweet.
Yeah I recorded it on video and my mom my mom admitted to it and she said I've been lied to I was wrong and you know I've I've I've done my own and my mom was valedictorian high school extremely intelligent but guess what she votes with her heart.
And she remembers she only recalls and remembers the time when she used to sit around the dinner table with her family and you know her parents and they used to watch the news and it was whoever Tom broke who you name it.
And those people they felt that they were being told the truth and that transcended into their adult life because they're so busy out trying to make a living trying to feed their kids trying to raise their families that they didn't necessarily pay attention to politicians other than the fact that they saw him during you know campaign season.
And so it wasn't until we had this huge wave of of younger um be it progressives or conservatives that got active in politics that you know started to tell their parents look what you've been telling me is wrong.
What you've been believing is wrong.
And all I did was point my mother in the right direction.
I let her do the her research herself but you know I had to poke her every once in a while to make sure she was doing her homework but you know once she did it I mean within days my mom's now a mean master I mean she's throwing you know Trump photos to all her little old lady friends.
I mean my mom's not that old but you know she's throwing memes at her lady friends and they're getting mad about it you know and she's fighting back with them.
She's all in so that's awesome.
You're you're you're dead on with it.
I mean people have been lied to and look God bless the folks that believe in the fact that they think that the Democrats are out killing babies and drinking blood and they have underground tunnels in Alaska and there's earthquakes in Antarctica that's fine if you want to believe that that's fine.
I'm never going to tell you anything otherwise but if you ask me what my opinion is I don't think that happens.
Right.
Do you think John Podesta is a pedophile?
He's the guy from the Hillary administration, right?
Yeah.
He was the chairman of the DNC, I believe.
He had all the WikiLeaks weird emails.
Yeah.
Again, that's...
I'm asking you a tough question.
No.
I'm not scared of anybody.
I'm going to say what I feel, and that's just what it is.
One thing about me is if I don't know, I'll say I don't know.
and if I have to answer a tough question like this, I'm always over
to critical feedback i'm always open to you know making myself a better person expanding my mind and you know i think there's again a lot of information out of there that's compelling that that you know is plausible that this guy you know is a pedophile he's somebody that you know uh what's his name walter in the big lebowski would have been chasing him down right so over the line this is a non-man there are rules that's my father when i was growing up that's my father that's awesome so you've got a big race going
up against the unionists longest serving woman in Congress is that correct what's her name that's correct Marcy Captor.
And um obviously this is going to be a tough race.
She won with 63% of the vote last time I think and she's raised you know significant amount of money so far.
Not as much as I would have thought I've raised more than her than the state of in the state of Ohio though.
Oh she's taking money from uh national donors.
Oh of course yeah she's a Democrat.
Yeah so so my question to you is how are you gonna beat her?
Because it's gonna be tough.
I'm gonna beat her with a tough ground game.
I mean we have a real strong ground game um my staff is is is com is comprised of you know the number one door to door guy for President Trump in the state of Ohio.
He's a 21 year old guy uh he was part of the Trump team he got to come here and hang out my lawn and see all the cool stuff we did and uh you know when the multi-millionaire candidates for Senate here in Ohio decided to call, he chose to pass them up because he found out that I was running.
Um, you know, my name recognition is very solid.
Uh I can't go to Walmart without one person, if not three or four, saying, dude, there's JR the Trump guy.
Um, you know, I got a pretty cool beard.
People recognize that.
You know, I'm I'm I'm kind of built like a, you know, the the typical bearded, tattooed, you know, beer and brats kind of American guy.
But you know, Monday through Friday, catch me before four, eight, four PM, I'm in a suit and tie.
And people know that.
And you know, Marcy's demographic is Toledo, Ohio.
All right.
Um, I'm born and raised in Toledo.
Uh the Polish neighborhood where she claims to be from, I'm actually from there.
Um, I don't know if you've if you know who Jamie Farr is, but Jamie Farr was on MASH.
He played Klinger on MASH.
He's kind of like the celebrity from Toledo, right?
Um my grandfather and him have been friends since childhood.
I mean, I got pictures of my grandpa and Jamie in, you know, his high school yearbook.
Um, you know, the the solid demographic that Marcy has preyed on for years after year after year, they're gone.
Those older Western or actually the older European um folks, they've gone.
Urban sprawl has pushed them out of that district.
They pushed them out of the city of Toledo.
They're scared to live there because the neighborhood is full of crime, full of blight.
And you have uh a group of uh voters that just vote for Marcy Captor because she's a nice old lady.
Well, you know, we plan on changing that dynamic.
I'm not gonna attack her personally.
Um reason why is because my grandparents voted for her.
Uh I wouldn't stand in front of my grandmother today and call her an idiot for voting for Marcy Captor.
So I'll respect the other voters that you know were were, in my opinion, swindled into voting for.
They didn't really have a strong candidate before me.
So um, I mean, there's been a couple, don't get me wrong.
The last guy was strong, uh, but he didn't have backing from the Republican Party.
Um, you know, I'm out there fist bumping President Trump.
So you can bet your ass that every Republican in the state is looking at me, wondering where I came from and what I'm gonna do.
And that's a positive and a negative, but you know, for the most part, I have a reputation of you know, being the kind of guy that just helps anybody.
And uh I still do it even on the campaign trail.
And sometimes it hurts, you know, sometimes I help people, and you know how it is.
Nobody, you know, people are only as friendly with you as as they need to be is you know, while while they're in your presence, but the minute that they're gone, they forget about the things that they promised, they just take what they asked for, and you know, they're out the door.
But um, we're gonna beat her through a solid ground game, man.
Um, you know, it's like I said, Toledo's my home.
I have a lot of friends that live in that area that have, you know, um that are of you know, they're white, they're of the man, you know, they're white, black, Mexican Asian, and Arabic.
I mean, you know, I have friends in in all of those, uh, you know, from all those ethnicities that have actually grown in the community and made something out of themselves.
They're business owners or they're influencers or you know, they own radio stations and they all respect and like me.
They're some of the folks that decided to to vote for Donald Trump.
And uh they're ready for a change.
Toledo's falling apart, it's been falling apart for years, and you know, they that's the biggest area.
But the other thing we have going for us is redistricting.
You know, Ohio's losing a district because of the 10-year census, and you know, our our our um our state senate and is going through that right now.
So, you know.
So, what are you gonna do differently once you get in?
Um, the first thing I'm gonna do is actually, you know, be in be in district and represent people.
Um Marcy Captor may be the longest standing Congresswoman in history, but she has the worst attendance record than any other um Congress man or woman, regardless of of their sex.
Um I should say the they them or whatever the heck else they call them now.
But um it's too complicated for me.
Yeah, so you know, Marcy's is not around.
Um I think the last time you saw Marcy's when Joe Biden came in town.
I've been to every festival, every fair in this district.
Um, I think that that was something for this community, whether or not I was going to be the uh, you know, the the the candidate.
I still made a presence there.
I think this this district has been um oppressed through the COVID-19 mandates.
I have friends that lost businesses, I have a friends that Fought and they've been fined to the point that you know they're they're wondering how they're gonna you know mend themselves financially and recover.
And I think the least that uh Marcy could have done and and other candidates could have done is actually showed up to these things and showed the community that they you know appreciate and respect the fact that they're allowed to be free and they're allowed now to be you know unmasked and and to uh you know gather at at these uh you know these these municipal events, but you know, she didn't she didn't attend any of those things.
And uh it's I made sure that the people in the community know.
Um the other thing is, you know, we're we're extremely dependent on our nuclear power plants here.
Um, you know, our our power plant here, Davis Bessie is one of the best operating nuclear facilities in the world.
I have the I've had the pleasure of working there for over 10 years.
And you know, um, I'm I'm very uh in touch with the with the you know the current staff there.
My friend and former boss is the site vice president.
Um, you know, a lot of my friends still work there.
Um Marcy Captor has done nothing at all in the you know, for that plant in the you know, entire time she's been in office.
She's um the only time she shows up is when there's a public um you know uh public meeting with the nuclear regulatory commission that you know opposes whatever the plant wants to do.
That's the only time she's there.
Um, you know, that is something that's significant to this community because we're facing you know a lot of issues here in the state with regulation and deregulation of that market.
And you know, Marcy Captor wants to bring sustainable energy here, obviously using what she would define as you know sustainable energy.
And she wants to litter our our lakefront with uh with wind turbines, and you know, I can actually stand on the floor of the house and I can speak articulately about the fact that the Green New Deal is bullshit and I can call her out and I can explain to her why companies like Siemens give you turbines for free and why nuclear power is important and why natural gas and clean coal isn't as sustainable.
And well, and all the all the all the turbines froze in Texas, I'm in Texas.
Yeah.
And and you know, Ohio is much colder than Texas.
So I I mean, I don't know if there's ways to mitigate that.
I'm not an energy expert, especially not green energy expert by any means.
So you know, maybe it was just an issue with the way Texas was doing it.
But yeah, I don't know if you can weatherproof them, but it seems to me that uh turbines is not a very effective way to generate power in the winter in a Midwest state.
They're not, and they're not fossil fuel free.
That's the point.
They're heavily reliant upon uh, you know, a preventative maintenance plan.
Look, if you're a farmer and you live out in the middle of nowhere and you have the ability to buy a wind turbine and you can, you know, buy a generator set and some you know battery capacity, um, and you are capable from a maintenance perspective to you know fix and maintain your wind turbine, it's probably great to have.
But from a municipal standpoint and trying to power you know, major metrop, you know, metropolitan areas like Cleveland, Ohio and Toledo, Ohio, that that's a failure.
It's it's setting us up, you know, uh for failure.
And not only is it something that you know we have to watch from uh, you know, uh a consumer standpoint.
I mean, everybody likes to come home and turn the lights on, but the other part of it is is that nuclear power is exceptionally important to you know our national defense and you know our grid and the stability of our grid is is something that you know our the the terrorist outfits, especially from a cybersecurity standpoint, they look to prey on every day.
I mean, 2000.
China can just turn us off.
People don't realize the tiny China could just turn us off.
Yeah.
In 2003, I mean, uh, you know, you look at the blackout that happened from New York to Ohio.
This power plant here is is was rooted in the in in that uh power outage, right?
And because of that, we now have uh a very significant uh cybersecurity strategy that air gaps almost every major component.
So there's really no way for outside, you know, an outside cyber attack, but it that doesn't mean that they can't uh you know blow up a transformer yard or or blow up a switchyard or you know, something like that.
But you know, without nuclear power, all of these other things become um they they they'll find themselves under a different microscope.
And I don't think the public well, I know the public isn't educated on what that would look like, but you know, I I know the politicians have heard some of it, But they just don't want to entertain it because it doesn't fit their narrative.
So what do you think the biggest threat to America is today?
White supremacy?
No.
Um government overreach and the failure to adhere to our constitutional rights.
Yeah.
Um and vote and and voter fraud.
I don't know which one's worse.
I mean, because with one you may have the other.
So what are you gonna do?
What can I what can a congressman from Ohio do?
Um I I think the one the one major issue we have in Congress right now is we have all these people that say that I'm gonna go to Congress and fight.
I'm gonna go do this and fight and fight and fight.
Well, you know, fighting when you end up like Mish McConnell.
Yeah, fighting only gets you so far.
Um, you know, you can fight all you want, but you know, a king that rules with a sword has has no kingdom.
And you know, everybody wants to emulate President Trump.
They want to, you know, pretend as if they have this business savvy that they've built multi-million dollar businesses in one of the most um you know hostile in business and you know social environments in the United States being New York City, and they they try to adopt his his rhetoric and his his uh you know behaviors, and they think that that's enough, and it's not.
Um we need people in Congress that have you know critical thinking, the capability to critically think.
We need people that can solve complex issues, we need people that can get folks to work together and you know strive towards a common goal.
Sometimes you have to, you know, work across the line.
That doesn't mean you have to, you know, high-five the Democrats and watch their kids and go to soccer games with them, but for God's sake, you have to work with them and you know, there's something to say about the uh art of manipulation, right?
If you can get them to believe in something, and if you can convince them that what you're doing is right, outside of just taking a hard party line, you might find yourself being more successful.
But if you look amongst the ranks of Congress members, we have people that are you know born of wealth, they're some rich lobbyists kids, they're you know, they're they're they're being well, I I don't want to say something that will allow people to tie back to who I'm referring to,
but there's some folks of privilege, and when I say that, I mean privilege as in they've done nothing from a pro professional standpoint, and they surround themselves with uh with with campaign strategists and uh and lobbyists and things like that, and all they are is is a is a a mantelpiece for a narrative or an agenda.
And look, I'm not that I'm not that good looking, you know.
I'm just I'm just smart enough and I've navigated my life and I've I've won.
And you know, despite all the odds being against me, you know, I'm a military vet, I'm one of the youngest executives in the nuclear industry, I have a master's degree, and you know, I have the whole you know, I have the house I've always wanted, I have everything you can name.
I mean, I don't want for anything, and uh I'm taking a six-figure pay cut to do this, right?
So um I'm not looking to go on Fox News and you know, hang out with Sean Annity and smoke cigars.
I'm looking to change.
I wouldn't mind doing that though.
Wow, I would I'm not a huge Hannity fan, but I'd have a cigar with them.
I would too, but that's not gonna be my agenda, right?
Right.
Um I'm not gonna leave, I'm not gonna leave this the Capitol building and you know, run to Fox's headquarters.
Not insinuating people do that.
I'm just being facetious, you know.
But but at the end of the day, um as a representative, you have to work for the people.
You have to want to work for the people.
I'm a leader, I'm a servant leader.
Uh I had to be.
Um, there's no way to convince a a person that's been in the nuclear industry, you know, 30 years my senior that they should follow this, you know, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed kid, you know, to get some things done.
And and nuclear is not an easy industry to work in.
And you know, I've done everything from being responsible for spent nuclear fuel to cybersecurity.
I've built 500,000 square foot buildings from the ground up.
You know, you name it, I've done it.
And it's always taken a team.
I've never been the expert.
I've never been the expert.
I don't even, you know, I can change my my tire and my oil in my car, and that's about it.
Anything else, I go get the right people to help me.
And that's the failure of Congress.
Everybody thinks that they know, and um, you know, they're big on keywords and and and talking points, but at the end of the day, the most, if not a high percentage are fundamentally untouched, you know, out of touch with with their communities.
The only time you see them was when they're trying to raise money.
Did you serve in Afghanistan?
Yes, I did.
Well, how many tours?
One.
What what year were you there?
What years?
Uh 2000 and 2002, 2003.
Wow, so you served right at right at the beginning.
What was that experience like?
Um tough.
Tough.
I don't like talking about my military experience.
Not not not that um not that we've said too much.
I just don't I don't really like to I really don't like to divulge a lot of things about the military because you know they're to me, you know, there was a it was a tough time in life.
Um you know the military wasn't easy, but in retrospect, it's one of the best decisions I've ever made.
And you know, I do it all over again.
But you know, out of respect of you know many things, you know.
I you know, my answer to most people when they ask about my military services, yeah um I served, I served honorably, and um I fought for this country for a lot of months over in the Middle East, and uh so did a lot of people that went with me.
And you know, when I see all these things that are going on today, I mean if I could if I could uh put my BDUs back on, I wasn't so chubby, I'd I'd probably uh I'd probably try to find a way to do it.
What do you think about the way that um the Biden administration is uh dealt with leaving Afghanistan?
I think it's disgraceful.
Um, you know, when I look into the the more you shake the sheets, the more dust you see.
And you know, President Trump had a you know pretty well thought out plan to get out of Afghanistan.
Um you know, he had buy-in from you know, the rank and file.
Um maybe the generals didn't like it because it didn't serve him any political gain, but yeah, the he had the rank and file buy-in.
Um thing about President Trump is he didn't talk about a strategy, he didn't he didn't make it public knowledge because he wasn't looking to gain political points from it.
He was looking to, you know, um do his job as the president of the United States.
And um obviously when you look at and you want to talk conspiracy, you know, when you not necessarily conspiracy, but I mean just things that look ironic.
I mean, why did we leave 85 billion dollars worth of military weapons and equipment there?
Why did we leave room fulls of hundred dollar bills?
Why?
I mean, why do we do that?
Um, you know, last time we wanted to give Iran money, we just flew a plane over there and pretended like it had something to do with uh you know with nuclear arms deal.
But the reality of it it was is we find found a way to pay our masters, and I wouldn't put it past the Biden administration to have you know be doing that again because those weapons aren't gonna go to China, those weapons aren't gonna go to Russia, China's not gonna show that card on the on the global stage.
They don't want people to know that they're behind terrorism, they'll deny it on every front.
Where it'll go is Iran, right?
Iran will be the first buyer.
And I wouldn't be surprised within the next seven days you see these jerks flying black hawk choppers.
And when they do, you think it's scary now?
Wait till the American public sees ISIS or the Taliban flying blackhawks.
That's gonna be scary.
They won't keep them in the air long, but all they gotta do is get on the news.
And you know, China will be over there.
They'll they'll reverse engineer, they'll they'll steal their they'll they'll steal the RIP like they always do.
But there's a lot of intelligence when it comes to the composition of those black hawk choppers, and that in my mind is treason in itself when you allow that type of intelligence to just be vacated and left.
I mean, there has to be a reason.
There has to be reason.
I've moved Patriot missiles across countries.
I know the protocol that comes with moving those types of things.
Look, a black hawk chopper is not a patriot missile, but it's it's treated the same way, and we don't just leave that stuff laying around.
Not at all.
Now if it was just unless you want somebody to have it.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
And you could bet if it was a stripped Blackhawk, there was no Intel on there, you know, no, no, no, no tech, nothing that that that we're worried about getting, you know, stolen and and compromised.
Um they would have said they would have come out and said that because that's a defensive you know mechanism for them.
They're gonna come out and they'll deny, but they didn't do that.
And you know, Joe Biden showed, I think, where he stands on this yesterday when he couldn't even look up at the podium.
I mean, he he's uh I think he's I think he's unfortunately a pawn for you know many things that are are going on right now.
And yeah, what what baffles me is like I don't understand what his incentive was to do it the way he did it.
Like I you know for a long time I've said that we should get out of Afghanistan, but the appropriate way, right?
And it doesn't make any sense from an incentive standpoint why he did it so abruptly and recklessly.
Yeah.
Like I who who's buying like what's really going the fuck on?
Right.
There's something behind it, right?
There just has to be.
And and this again, this is leading again to to what we just talked about.
This is gonna create years in forums worth of conspiracy theory.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
This is gonna create uh um a giant amount of information that's gonna be pandered on the internet, and you're gonna have people believing, you know, that that he did this to to hide a uh uh you know in a sex trafficking ring or something.
I mean, this is the kind of uh rhetoric that's gonna come out of this.
And yeah, because that almost anything makes more sense.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
I mean, I I personally, you know, in my in my heart says that you know, I want to believe they just panicked, they made a couple mistakes and it created a domino effect.
You know, I want to believe that, but you know, common sense tells me there's got to be a reason.
I don't know what the reason is, but Congress should be demanding answers.
And uh right now, you know, they're just grandstanding on a lot of things, and shame on them for doing so.
They're using the death of the 13 American soldiers as you know an opportunity to stand up on a soapbox, but you know, they should be re they should be calling members in, they should be calling you know on on the Biden administration to do something.
They should be you know taking these uh folks to task, and uh they're not doing that.
So well, one congressman did call for the um 25th amendment to be used, I believe today.
I think it was earlier, I can't remember which congressman it was.
I know Marjorie Taylor Green filed articles of impeachment, and I know there were a couple other congressmen that got on, you know, onto that ship, but you know my point is is that you know she did that before Marines died, and uh you know, she was on the right path.
Um, she's doing she did and was doing what I think should be done, you know.
But once those Marines died, I mean the narrative turned to oh man, you know, the poor Marines, and you know, I get it, don't get me wrong, but um, we don't then stay on the Biden narrative as much as we stay on the let's get everybody the hell out of their narrative, right?
Let's send uh uh a special operations detachment in there that can evacuate these folks.
I mean, like Robert O'Neill said, give him nine guys and he'll get everybody out of there.
And if you look that dude in the eyes and you don't believe everybody's saying, and you're not in the right country because those guys can do that kind of stuff.
We have the we have the resources, we just gotta do it.
Do you think that we could have taken out Osama bin Laden without a full-scale invasion of Afghanistan?
Wow.
Um yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean I don't see why not.
I mean, you know, um in retrospect, you know, we kind of did.
I mean, we right because he wasn't even there, he was in Pakistan, right?
Yeah, he was hiding in the mountains the whole time.
Yeah.
That's uh that's that's uh that's a good question.
I never really thought about that.
But I mean, that was kind of the whole at the time that was the whole incentive for going there was hey, this is where Al Qaeda is, they shelter Al Qaeda.
This is how we get Osama bin Laden.
We need to invade them, wipe out the terrorist threat, and then yeah, but I mean, we also looked at we also looked at conquering you know the entire regime.
Um the kind and you if you remember back then it was the deck of cards, right?
I was very young.
I was only 11 when 9-11 happened.
So they had a they had a deck of cards, so you know, um each member, each leadership member of Al Qaeda was assigned a deck of cards in accordance with their performance or or their position in Al Qaeda, and um, you know, you'd see the green berets, you see the Delta guys, you see the SEALs, they'd they'd all have a deck of cards, and you know, it was it was their way of uh remembering when they would see people, you know, because one of the net one of the things that you do in the Middle East when you have nothing better to do is play cards, right?
So that was the US military's way of you know reminding us of who the bad guys were.
So the face cards were the terrorists and people were playing with deck of cards.
That's pretty smart.
Yeah, yeah.
It was it was very effective.
And um, we should we should make an alternative one where it's all the enemy of the people, the domestic enemies, you know.
That would sell up to a lot of that's it's a great idea.
But yeah, it it it it uh it also you know um it made our you know our our uh uh allied forces you know smart on who we were looking for too but you know we we did a really good job your deck no oh no uh uh I wish I did but I don't I had a couple at one time I lost uh I lot I I lived in a um when I first got out of service um when I started working at the power plant here I moved into an older house by the plant and I had a fire in
garage and it burnt like a lot of my military stuff a lot of my cameras a lot of my photos a lot of my you know my coins I have a couple of the coins left but you know all my bdus got ruined except for one pair so I lost that because I had my big bangs my big you know sea bags all that just yeah you know up all the vets I know keep that stuff in the garage yeah and uh yeah I got and the fire wasn't that big but it was you know obviously that's the most
flammable stuff
stuff up there and uh it took it out so yeah I don't have a lot of the stuff that I wish I still had I don't have so where can people find you to support your campaign oh you can find me on Twitter at Jr Majewski you can find me on most forms of social media um you know I just I try to stay the same with the same moniker it's at JR Majewski my website is JR Majewski the number four Congress.com I'm on YouTube I got some pretty cool videos out there and
you know pretty much anywhere so that's another thing if you look at this those QAnon articles they have these uh little little videos and snippets of me from tick tock and uh you know I've had I had one TikTok and it was called JR Majoki.
