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 Geiser 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 a Polish name with the word Jew in it.
So that must have been a hell for your family in the 30s.
It was, you know, actually, the name is pronounced Majeski, the correct pronunciation, but I always go by Majuski.
And when you break it down, it actually means that it was a Polish Jew.
I gotta look, I'm doing it backwards here.
Polish Jew that came to the United States in the month of May.
Really?
Yeah.
So is that actually the history?
Are you just making that up?
No, I'm serious.
You can Google the-So do you know what your family's name was before you set foot in the United States?
Well- Well, no.
And here's the ringer.
And I'm actually not Polish.
My father's stepfather is Polish.
Oh, I see.
I see.
But there's something to say with nature versus nurture because I was raised Polish and I didn't know that I wasn't Polish until I was about 16 years old.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So have you ever thought about doing 23andMe and getting to the bottom of it?
I have.
Did you do it?
Yes, I did.
I did.
I did discover, if you don't mind sharing.
I thought it was messing like that.
So here's a few things I discovered.
This is going to sound like a wild story, but it's true.
I found out that my biological grandfather is the original secretary of the Hells Angels.
That is awesome.
And yeah, he's mentioned in Sonny Barger's book.
And I met his granddaughter and sent photos of me.
And then she didn't respond for about two weeks because the photos that I sent, he had died about two weeks before I contacted her.
And her grandmother saw the photos and absolutely had like a, you know, I guess 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 California and the, you know, back when the Hells Angels were created.
And yeah, it was a pretty cool experience.
How long ago was it that they were formed?
I would have to say in the 60s, I believe.
Yeah, that sounds right.
I don't know much about them.
All I know is that they got a bad rap from 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 genealogy is Scottish, Hungarian, Irish.
Yeah, you look like a Scott.
I mean, you look kind of like you could have popped right out of Braveheart.
You know, I look like a chubby Conor McGregor.
Didn't get dressed up for nothing.
Right.
That's like my favorite line in the movie.
But, you know, when people say, what, what are you?
I'm a man.
Yeah.
That's kind of why I started this whole podcast.
It's like, what are you, heritage-wise?
What's your political affiliation?
And I just got sick of answering those questions.
And that's why I am one American.
Exactly.
That's kind of the idea behind it.
So 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 president over the lawn thing?
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Listen, 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.
Thank you for your service.
Oh, you're welcome.
And, you know, in 2019, I decided to support a veterans organization that works with wounded veterans.
Is it the Wounded Warriors Project?
No, no, it's Ohio-based and it's actually veteran ran.
It's not even, I mean, they're not even a lot.
They're not a very large organization.
They tend to, they're very close-knit, smaller group, but very, very effective.
So what they do is they'll take folks that are veterans that are handicapped.
You should name drop them, by the way, in case this goes viral.
They don't.
Secret.
Yeah, they don't want to be got it.
Got it.
Just didn't want you to pitch yourself later for no, no, they love me and everything.
They just don't, they don't want any new friends.
I understand.
And they know how to find the veterans that are wounded or disabled.
So they'll essentially, you know, let's say, for example, you've lost a limb.
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, for example, if you lost a leg, you know, they'll help you.
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 game.
They'll help you process it and they'll help you get home.
And so long story short, my wife and I decided to support them and we're one of their biggest donors.
And they were coming up a little short on a fundraiser for their big hunt of the year, which is deer season, 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 this at this time, this is when Colin Kaepernick and all the other bougie NFL players decided that, you know, the national anthem wasn't good enough for them and they started taking these.
So I do something very big on the 4th of July every year.
And I decided and 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 American flag they'd ever seen.
So the long story short is they met their fundraiser and I painted a huge old glory flag on.
It's actually the Calpins flag.
It's the flag of the 13 stars.
It's 12 in circumference, one in the center.
I painted that as a slight to the media because they were going after the flag and I knew that the media would come to my house and freak out about it being a Betsy Ross flag.
And I just wanted to kind of, it was a 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 I made Ripley's, believe it or not, the largest Betsy Ross flag ever painted.
And so for 2020, I posed the same goal to them.
And this time I was going to do the POW MII flag.
And I was totally prepared to do it because I know these guys are going to, they're going to, they're going to beat the fundraiser because they love seeing me out there, you know, 90-degree heat with a, with a paint sprayer.
And so I, 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 and say they're 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 that left us with about two days to go and we needed to find an object to paint.
And we went back and forth, back and forth.
And, you know, at this point in time, just like the year before, there was some pop culture and confrontational things out in society, if you will.
And the topic of that was people that supported President Trump.
So me being the guy that likes to swim against the waves, I brought up the idea of doing the Trump 2020 campaign logo.
And at first, everybody's like, oh, man, no way.
It's going to cause a bunch of trouble.
And that was just more inspiration for me to do it.
So, yeah, I ended up, 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.
I'm, 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 you get to, how did you get to meet Trump out of the yard thing?
So he was watching Fox News when I was live.
He sent a tweet.
Yeah.
He sent a tweet.
And then Don Jr. saw it.
He sent a tweet.
Mike Huckabee, you name it.
Mike Huckabee was on the actually on the segment after me.
And essentially, if the president wants to get a hold of you, he does.
So he ended up sending me VIP tickets to one of his rallies locally here in Toledo.
He asked me to 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 recognition and the, 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 had painted it every other week.
And yeah, I spent a lot of time.
Did you lose?
Did they ban you?
No, they started banning just tons of people that supported Trump or said anything outside of the norm.
And yeah.
So you 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 all other things came up like Gab and what was it, Parlor and all the other platforms came out, a lot of people decided that they had enough and they just left.
But after that, I decided to, well, actually, I was asked to speak at a Trump rally, like a lower level rally for a back the 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 had brought up the idea of having a Trump watch party at my home.
And essentially, if you were 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 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 I spent about 60 grand doing all this stuff last year out of my own pocket.
Didn't charge anybody a dime.
And when I watched the election and the results and when they had the 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 100 wounded veterans or supporters of the president that weren't that didn't have the financial means.
I took them to Washington, D.C. on January 6th.
So did you get a call on from the FBI about being there?
Yeah.
Yeah.
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 oppression 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.
No, there was a gentleman that had a heart attack.
I didn't know that.
I'm sorry to hear that.
And we had a guy that he wasn't in my group, but a guy passed away from a flashbang.
If you look on my Twitter, you'll see the videos that are posted.
Oh, my God.
So 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, you know, I don't know how they categorize his death.
But in my experience, the flashbang was shot by Capitol 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 had- wasn't even breaking the law, right?
He was just outside the Capitol and they fought.
Yeah, they were all, 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 lethal force on us when there was no really no means, no reason to do so, not beyond the capacity that they already had.
I mean, other than the intimidation factor that there's 4 million people walking up to the building and there's only 50 Capitol Police, but that's just an optic, right?
So after that flashbang, that's when people started to get a little bit rowdy.
And then the gentleman went into cardiac arrest.
People tried helping him.
It was ineffective.
I had a lady that was with me that was in her 50s, late 50s.
She fell down, broke her, like her wrist and then dislocated her knee.
And I had a lot of people that were not physically 100% physically able.
They weren't able to run or do certain things.
I mean, they were elderly or they had been injured in their military service.
So it was a challenge for us.
But 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 right after the service.
So I have an active FBI clearance, right?
So it's pretty easy for me to understand where I stand with the FBI.
And 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 what video and photos I had, I submitted, did all the other law-abiding things to make.
I think the FBI was involved in some of the illegal activity.
I mean, there was that controversial, I think it was Revolver News.
I had Darren Beatty on the BD or Beatty.
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 they covered that story that said, you know, that there were a lot of agents from the FBI that were involved in January 6th that, you know, were also involved with the Gretchen kidnapping controversy.
Do you think the FBI had something to do with instigating January 6th?
Or do you think 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, I think it just it resonates with me just like the election.
I think there's a lot of things that were extremely dubious and then that left the American population curious.
And I think Congress failed in doing their jobs by eliminating any suspicions that we had.
I certainly think that the videos that I saw of a few gentlemen that were known to be FBI agents and the video of folks in the crowd trying to incite physical violence and protest, physical protest, I certainly think that those individuals look alike.
But I haven't done my due diligence to 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 definitely want to talk about your election, so I promise we're going to get to it.
No, no problem.
But I wanted to ask you if you did you have you ever feared that you were going to lose your clearance because of your political positions?
No, I don't think so.
I mean, I have a very good reputation in the industry.
I have a very good working relationship with my company and throughout the industry.
I'm a young leader in the nuclear industry.
So I have, you know, I've worked my way into, you know, what I have today.
And I think that there's years and years of legacy of what I've brought to the industry, what I've brought to the people that I work with that significantly override my political feelings.
And I've always been in a, you know, in the majority of my professional career, I was promoted very quickly at a very young age.
I've managed a lot of big projects, a lot of large portfolios, and I've had the opportunity to lead people that were much, much my senior.
And, you know, that was a challenge in itself.
But, you know, the strategy 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 I never expressed my political beliefs at work because I was the leader.
Leaders don't do that.
They don't impress those things upon folks.
But I was the vent path for frustrated employees that I was the guy that they could come to talk to.
And part of the reason that I was inspired to paint my lawn and show my support of the president was because of all the things that I had dealt with at a professional level.
And I can tell you that many, if not almost all of my friends 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 a different perspective because they found themselves at a grounds where it's like, I've known JR for 10, 15, 5 years.
He's been a solid stand-up guy.
He's been a great leader, supportive person.
How could he support this misogynist, this racist, this terrible traitor, all these other things that the left-wing media placed upon him?
And because of the reputation that I had with those folks, that opened their minds.
And I have a lot of friends that have come to me and have, and they're all backgrounds, all diversities, all ethnicities that have come to me and said, I really thank you for what you did.
You stood up.
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 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 me 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 you because you're an expert and I'm not.
I wouldn't call me an expert.
Well, it seems to me that nuclear energy is incredibly safe and clean.
100%.
But that 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 or the private market rather, but I don't know.
So can you tell me whether or not you think I'm right or wrong about that?
And like I said, I will believe you.
I think you're right about nuclear being inherently safe.
Nuclear is one of the most heavily scrutinized 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 an occupational safety standpoint, nuclear workers have some of the most prolific and greatest 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 you stub your toe, if you have to go see and seek medical attention, the entire sites will do what they call a 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 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 a 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, I think nuclear belongs in the private sector.
Absolutely.
There are examples here in the United States where the government actually manages nuclear reactors, and that's in Tennessee with Tennessee Valley Authority.
Now, they're one of the highest performing nuclear utilities in the country.
And actually, their chief nuclear officer, his name is Don Maul.
He used to be my boss when I worked here locally.
No, maybe.
I think if he paints his face, he might look like him a little bit.
But Don's a great guy, young man, a little bit older than me.
He's a fantastic leader.
And Tennessee Valley Authority is ran pretty well.
Now, if you recall, President Trump had an issue with their CEO or the last during his presidency, and he actually tried to fire him.
I don't remember the reasons why, but be it what it may, nuclear is very safe.
I can tell you right now, if a 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 dock.
And it is very, very safe.
Did you watch the Chernobyl series on HBO?
I did.
I did.
What did you think?
I've assumed that any major mainstream network did an anti-communist show, which I'm not sure.
Major, basically.
A lot of embellishment.
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.
We actually perform that.
The current encapsulation.
It's done now.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, it's done now.
And also, you know, removing all the spent nuclear fuel.
So the owner of my company owns the patents for that.
And I work on a day-to-day basis with the scientists and the very intelligent experts who perform that work.
And Chernobyl is an issue again with the RMBK reactors.
Fukushima, on the other hand, that's an issue with the Japanese style, not necessarily the style reactors, but their backup safety systems.
As a matter of fact, because of Fukushima, all of the reactors in the United States, active reactors, underwent a study and they're planning for what they call here a 100-year storm.
So example, this plant here on Lake Erie has mechanisms in place to face a 30-foot wave that would come off Lake Erie in the case of this 100-year storm.
Never will happen, never has happened, but that's the type of deployment of safety features and safety nets and defense and depth that the 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 upgrade on a system that is highly unlikely to fail because we're not on an island can be straining on the private sector.
And that's the one thing that I think that you see in almost every industry is government overreach.
So it is pretty tough.
But you're right on when you said that 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, 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 believed in QAnon.
They read the, whatever the forums were.
You know, a good friend of mine, he runs his own podcast.
I would equate him to, you know, 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.
So my buddy Zach, he's kind of like Art Bell.
You know, he doesn't prescribe to their thoughts, but he doesn't chastise them for thinking the way that they think.
I feel that way too.
Yeah.
Well, a friend of mine had come to me after I was on Fox News and said, hey, you got to go on this guy's show.
You know, me being me, I didn't care how many followers he had.
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 it meant.
I didn't know anything about it.
But I'm not going to denigrate anyone that believes in it.
I mean, you know, but there's a couple candidates on the Democratic side that are running against Jim Jordan.
They saw me out and about with Jim Jordan at a couple of dinners.
And they decided that the one way to get to Jim Jordan was call J.R. Majewski a QAnon guy.
And they did the same thing last week when I, you know, was at a fundraiser with Marjorie Taylor Grant.
It's low-hanging fruit.
They think that it, you know, it's something they can go after me, but you'll never hear me.
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?
Sure.
I don't want to.
Well, 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 don't know if I tweeted it or not, but it's saved in my drafts.
I was going to tweet something to the effect of, listen, if we weren't lied to so much, we wouldn't have nearly as many conspiracy theories.
Right.
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, until you couldn't trust anything.
Right.
Exactly.
Exactly.
I mean, you know, I've used that statement before.
I mean, you know, I same with the election stuff.
The reason people doubt it is because when was the last time the mainstream narrative was the truth?
Right.
Exactly.
And, you know, I convinced my mother to vote Republican for the first time in her life.
Okay.
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.
Right.
Republican.
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 done my own.
And my mom was valedictorian in 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 her parents.
And they used to watch the news and it was whoever, Tom Broca, 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 campaign season.
And so it wasn't until we had this huge wave of younger, be it progressives or conservatives that got active in politics that 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 her research herself, but I had to poke her every once in a while to make sure she was doing her homework.
But once she did it, I mean, within days, my mom's now a mean master.
I mean, she's throwing Trump photos to all her little old lady friends.
I mean, my mom's not that old, but she's throwing memes at her ladyfriends and they're getting mad about it.
And she's fighting back with them.
She's all in.
So, you know, 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, do you think John Podesta is a pedophile?
He's the guy from the Hillary administration, right?
Yeah.
He was the champion manager or the chairman of the DNC, I believe.
He had all the WikiLeaks weird emails that would like.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Again, that's a hot noise.
So I'm sorry.
I'm not scared of anybody.
I'm going to say what I feel.
And that's just what it is.
You know, 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 open to critical feedback.
I'm always open to making myself a better person, expanding my mind.
And, you know, I think that there's, again, a lot of information out of there that's compelling that is plausible that this guy is a pedophile.
He's somebody that, you know, what's his name?
Walter in the Big Lebowski would have been chasing him down, right?
So over the line.
This is a non-manner 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 longest serving woman in Congress.
Is that correct?
What's her name?
That's correct.
Marcy Captor.
And 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 in the state of Ohio, though.
Oh, she's taking money from national donors.
Oh, of course.
Yeah, she's a Democrat.
So my question to you is, how are you going to beat her?
Because it's going to be tough.
I'm going to beat her with a tough ground game.
I mean, we have a real strong ground game.
My staff is comprised of the number one door-to-door guy for President Trump in the state of Ohio.
He's a 21-year-old guy.
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 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.
My name recognition is very solid.
I can't go to Walmart without one person, if not three or four, saying, dude, there's JR the Trump guy.
You know, I got a pretty cool beard.
People recognize that.
I'm kind of built like the typical bearded, tattooed, beer and brats kind of American guy.
But Monday through Friday, catch me before 4 p.m.
I'm in a suit and tie.
And people know that.
And Marcy's demographic is Toledo, Ohio.
I'm born and raised in Toledo.
The Polish neighborhood where she claims to be from, I'm actually from there.
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?
My grandfather and him have been friends since childhood.
I mean, I got pictures of my grandpa and Jamie in his high school yearbook.
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 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 a group of voters that just vote for Marcy Kaptur because she's a nice old lady.
Well, you know, we plan on changing that dynamic.
I'm not going to attack her personally.
The reason why is because my grandparents voted for her.
I wouldn't stand in front of my grandmother today and call her an idiot for voting for Marcy Kaptur.
So I'll respect the other voters that, you know, were, in my opinion, swindled into voting for her.
They didn't really have a strong candidate for me.
So, I mean, there's been a couple, don't get me wrong.
The last guy was strong, but he didn't have backing from the Republican Party.
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 going to do.
And that's a positive and a negative.
But, you know, for the most part, I have a reputation of being the kind of guy that just helps anybody.
And 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 they need to be 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 ask for and they're out the door.
But we're going to beat her through a solid ground game, man.
You know, like I said, Toledo's my home.
I have a lot of friends that live in that area that have, you know, that are of, you know, they're white.
They're of the, you know, they're white, black, Mexican, Asian, and Arabic.
I mean, I have friends in all of those, 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 vote for Donald Trump and they're ready for a change.
Toledo's falling apart.
It's been falling apart for years and that's the biggest area.
But the other thing we have going for us is redistricting.
You know, Ohio is losing a district because of the 10-year census.
And our state senate is going through that right now.
So what are you going to do differently once you get in?
The first thing I'm going to do is actually be in district and represent people.
Marcy Kaptur may be the longest standing Congresswoman in history, but she has the worst attendance record than any other Congressman or woman, regardless of their sex.
I should say the, they, them or whatever the heck else they call them now.
But it's too complicated for me.
So, you know, Marcy's is not around.
I think the last time you saw Marcy is when Joe Biden came in town.
I've been to every festival, every fair in this district.
I think that that was something for this community, whether or not I was going to be the, you know, the candidate, I still made a presence there.
I think this district has been oppressed through the COVID-19 mandates.
I have friends that lost businesses.
I have friends that fought and they've been fined to the point that they're wondering how they're going to mend themselves financially and recover.
And I think the least that Marcy could have done and other candidates could have done is actually showed up to these things and showed the community that they appreciate and respect the fact that they're allowed to be free and they're allowed now to be unmasked and to gather at these municipal events.
But she didn't attend any of those things.
And I made sure that the people in the community know.
The other thing is we're extremely dependent on our nuclear power plants here.
Our power plant here at Davis Bessey is one of the best operating nuclear facilities in the world.
I've had the pleasure of working there for over 10 years.
And I'm very in touch with the current staff there.
My friend and former boss is the site vice president.
A lot of my friends still work there.
Marcy Captor has done nothing at all for that plant in the entire time she's been in office.
The only time she shows up is when there's a public meeting with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that opposes whatever the plant wants to do.
That's the only time she's there.
That is something that's significant to this community because we're facing a lot of issues here in the state with regulation and deregulation of that market.
And Marcy Kaptur wants to bring sustainable energy here, obviously, using what she would define as sustainable energy.
And she wants to litter our lakefront with wind turbines.
And 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.
Well, all the turbines froze in Texas.
I'm in Texas.
Yeah.
And, you know, Ohio is much colder than Texas.
So 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 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 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 buy a generator set and some battery capacity and you are capable from a maintenance perspective to fix and maintain your wind turbine, it's probably great to have.
But from a municipal standpoint and trying to power major metropolitan areas like Cleveland, Ohio and Toledo, Ohio, that's a failure.
It's setting us up for failure.
And not only is it something that we have to watch from a consumer standpoint, I mean, everybody likes to come home and turn their lights on.
But the other part of it is that nuclear power is exceptionally important to our national defense.
And our grid and the stability of our grid is something that the terrorist outfits, especially from a cybersecurity standpoint, they look to prey on every day.
I mean, 2000.
China could just turn us off.
People don't realize that China could just turn us off.
Yeah.
In 2003, I mean, you look at the blackout that happened from New York to Ohio.
This power plant here was rooted in that power outage.
Right.
And because of that, we now have a very significant cybersecurity strategy that air gaps almost every major component.
So there's really no way for outside, you know, an outside cyber attack.
But that doesn't mean that they can't, you know, blow up a transformer yard or blow up a switchyard or, you know, something like that.
But, you know, without nuclear power, all of these other things become, 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 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.
Government overreach and the failure to adhere to our constitutional rights and vote 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 going to do?
What can a congressman from Ohio do?
I think the one major issue we have in Congress right now is we have all these people that say that, I'm going to go to Congress and fight.
I'm going to go do this and fight and fight and fight.
Well, you know, fighting when you get up like Mitch McConnell.
Yeah, fighting only gets you so far.
You know, you can fight all you want, but, you know, a king that rules with a sword 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 hostile business and social environments in the United States being New York City.
And they try to adopt his rhetoric and his behaviors, and they think that that's enough, and it's not.
We need people in Congress that have 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 strive towards a common goal.
Sometimes you have to work across the line.
That doesn't mean you have to 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 there's something to say about the art of manipulation, right?
If you can get them to believe in something, 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 born of wealth.
They're some rich lobbyist kids.
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 professional standpoint and they surround themselves with campaign strategists and lobbyists and things like that.
And all they are is a mantelpiece for a narrative or an agenda.
And look, I'm not that.
I'm not that good looking.
I'm just smart enough and I've navigated my life and I've won.
And despite all the odds being against me, I'm a military vet.
I'm one of the youngest executives in the nuclear industry.
I have a master's degree and I have the house I've always wanted.
I have everything you can name.
I mean, I don't want for anything.
And I'm taking a six-figure pay cut to do this.
So I'm not looking to go on Fox News and hang out with Sean Annity and smoke cigars.
I'm looking to change.
I wouldn't mind doing that, though.
I'm not a huge Hannity fan, but I'd have a cigar with them.
I would too, but that's not going to be my agenda.
I'm not going to leave.
I'm not going to leave the Capitol building and run to Fox's headquarters.
Not insinuating people do that.
I'm just being facetious.
But at the end of the day, 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.
I had to be.
There's no way to convince a person that's been in the nuclear industry 30 years, my senior, that they should follow this bright-eyed and bushy-tailed kid to get some things done.
And nuclear is not an easy industry to work in.
And 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 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 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, you know, they're big on keywords and talking points.
But at the end of the day, most, if not a high percentage, are fundamentally out of touch 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.
How many tours?
One.
What year were you there?
What years?
2002, 2003.
Wow.
So you served right at the beginning.
What was that experience like?
Tough.
Tough.
I don't like talking about my military experience.
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 to me, you know, it was a tough time in life.
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, my answer to most people when they ask about my military service is I served, I served honorably, and I fought for this country for a lot of months over in the Middle East.
And 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 put my BDUs back on, if I wasn't so chubby, I'd probably I'd probably try to find a way to do it.
What do you think about the way that the Biden administration has dealt with leaving Afghanistan?
I think it's disgraceful.
You know, when I look into, you know, the more you shake the sheets, the more dust you see.
And, you know, President Trump had a pretty well thought out plan to get out of Afghanistan.
You know, he had buy-in from, you know, the rank and file.
Maybe the generals didn't like it because they didn't serve him any political gain, but he had the rank and file buy-in.
And one thing about President Trump is he didn't talk about a strategy.
He didn't make it public knowledge because he wasn't looking to gain political points from it.
He was looking to do his job as the president of the United States.
And obviously, when you look at, and you want to talk conspiracy, not necessarily conspiracy, but I mean, just things that look ironic.
I mean, why did we leave $85 billion worth of military weapons and equipment there?
Why did we leave room fulls of $100 bills?
Why?
I mean, why do we do that?
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 the nuclear arms deal.
But the reality of it was, is we 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 going to go to China.
Those weapons aren't going to go to Russia.
China's not going to show that card 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 Blackhawk 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 going to be scary.
They won't keep them in the air long, but all they got to do is get on the news.
And China will be over there.
They'll reverse engineer.
They'll steal our IP like they always do.
But there's a lot of intelligence when it comes to the composition of those Blackhawk 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 a reason.
I've moved Patriot missiles across countries.
I know the protocol that comes with moving those types of things.
Look, a Blackhawk chopper is not a Patriot missile, but it's treated the same way.
And we don't just leave that stuff laying around.
Not at all.
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, no tech, nothing that we're worried about getting stolen and compromised.
They would have come out and said that because that's a defensive mechanism for them.
They're going to come out and they'll deny, but they didn't do that.
And Joe Biden showed, I think, where he stands on this yesterday when he couldn't even look up at the podium.
I mean, I think he's unfortunately a pawn for many things that are going on right now.
Yeah, what baffles me is like, I don't understand what his incentive was to do it the way he did it.
Like, 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.
And this, again, this is leading again to what we just talked about.
This is going to create years and forums worth of conspiracy theory.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
This is going to create a giant amount of information that's going to be pandered on the internet.
And you're going to have people believing that he did this to hide a sex trafficking ring or something.
I mean, this is the kind of rhetoric that's going to come out of this.
Yeah, because almost anything makes more sense.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
I mean, I personally, you know, in my heart says that, you know, I want to believe they just panicked.
They made a couple of 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 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 13 American soldiers as an opportunity to stand up on a soapbox.
But they should be calling members in.
They should be calling on the Biden administration to do something.
They should be taking these folks to task.
And they're not doing that.
Well, one congressman did call for the 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 Greene filed articles of impeachment.
And I know there were a couple other congressmen that got on, you know, onto that ship.
But my point is, is that she did that before Marines died.
And she was on the right path.
She's doing, she did and was doing what I think should be done.
But once those Marines died, I mean, the narrative turned to, oh, man, the poor Marines.
And I get it.
Don't get me wrong, but 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 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 what we're already saying, and you're not in the right country because those guys can do that kind of stuff.
We have the resources.
We just got to do it.
Do you think that we could have taken out Osama bin Laden without a full-scale invasion of Afghanistan?
Wow.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, I don't see why not.
I mean, you know, 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 a good question.
I never really thought about that.
Because, 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 needed 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.
And if you remember back then, it was the deck of cards, right?
That's very young.
I was only 11 when 9-11 happened.
So they had a deck of cards.
So each member, each leadership member of Al-Qaeda was assigned a deck of cards in accordance with their performance or their position in Al-Qaeda.
And you'd see the green berets, you see the Delta guys, you see the SEALs.
They'd all have a deck of cards.
And it was their way of remembering when they would see people, because one of the things that you do in the Middle East when you have nothing better to do is you play cards.
So that was the U.S. military's way of reminding us of who the bad guys were.
So the face cards were the terrorists and people were playing with that card.
That's pretty smart.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was very effective.
And we should make an alternative one where it's all the enemy of the people, the domestic enemies.
That's a good idea.
That would sell on a lot of vets.
It's a great idea.
But yeah, it also, you know, it made our, you know, our ally forces, you know, smart on who we were looking for too.
But, you know, we, we did a really good job.
No.
Oh, no.
I wish I did, but I don't.
I had a couple at one time.
I lost.
I lived in a, when I first got out of the service, when I started working at the power plant here, I moved into an older house by the plant and I had a fire in my 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 all my BDUs got ruined except for one pair.
So I lost because I had my big bags, my big, you know, C-bags and all that just, you know, up in there.
All the vets I know keep that stuff in their garage.
Yeah.
And yeah, it got, and the fire wasn't that big, but it was, you know, obviously that's the most flammable stuff up there.
And 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.
Majuski.
You can find me on most forms of social media.
You know, I just, I try to stay the same with the same moniker.
It's at J.R. Majuski.
My website is Jr.
Majuski, 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 little videos and snippets of me from TikTok.
And, you know, I've had, I had one TikTok and it was called J.R. Majuski.
Well, this TikTok that they say was mine is some other name, like something patriot or something.
So essentially what people were doing is they were clipping my videos and putting them on TikTok.
And posting it.
And they were putting like these QAnon hashtags with them, right?
Oh, so they rebranded you on accident, inadvertently.
Yeah, exactly.
So, so, so, um, yeah, I've, I've, you know, I've, I've said since the first day, it's like, I'm not an anonymous person.
My name is, you know, my name, my whole, my whole, you know, position on standing up and supporting President Trump was to be who I am.
I'm not anonymous.
And, you know, I respected the fact that I didn't have anonymity when I was online.
I, I behaved in a manner that, you know, is commensurate with wanting to maintain a reputation.
I didn't have, you know, some fake picture and some fake name.
Everybody knew where I lived.
The New York Daily News put my address in the newspaper, you know.
So, yeah, I've never hid and never will.
And, you know, all the other crap is just, you know, people that, you know, want to hold us down when we try doing the right things.
Well, thank you so much for coming on the show.
It was a real pleasure and honor to have you.
I wish you the best of luck in the campaign presenting I can do for you.
Let me know and I'll be there for you.
All right, brother.
I appreciate it.
Appreciate it.
Yeah, absolutely.
Hang tight.
I'm going to end the stream and then we'll do a debrief.
