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Wishing people a Merry Christmas when you don't know what holiday they celebrate is sort of like wishing someone a happy birthday when you don't know when their birthday is.
Like, yeah, I get the sentiment, but you're a little off.
That's neither here or there, but I get a kick out of the people who insist on saying Merry Christmas instead of just saying Happy Holidays.
Happy Holidays, everybody!
And Merry Christmas to you as well.
I hope you had a blessed one.
Jeff, how many people do we have working on our giant...
What is it that one-hour show on NPR has?
What is it, 36 people working there?
That's the New York Times podcast.
It's like a 17-minute podcast.
Okay, and then how many people do we have working today for the next three hours?
We've got two.
Two?
Yeah.
But that's not possible if NPR needs 36. How are we going to do with two?
We'll pull it off.
Are you ready?
Sure.
You sounded a bit chill, Jeff.
Who, me?
Yeah.
We might as well be.
It's the holidays.
All right, it's Guy and Mr. G on the consoles today.
So far, so good.
We're two and a half minutes in and it's working sublimely.
Welcome back to America First.
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And I'm so excited.
I'm kind of, I'm well rested.
I'm very well fed.
We had an amazing, amazing Christmas Eve dinner and a Christmas Day dinner as well in the Gorka household.
And we're just in a flipping good mood.
Why?
Well, Because of this.
President Trump is less than a month away from being sworn in, and he warned us.
He warned us eight years ago.
Cut ten.
We're going to win so much.
We're going to win at every level.
We're going to win economically.
We're going to win with the economy.
We're going to win with military.
We're going to win with healthcare and for our veterans.
We're going to win with every single facet.
We're going to win so much.
You may even get tired of winning and you'll say, please, please.
It's too much winning.
We can't take it anymore.
Mr. President, it's too much.
And I'll say, no, it isn't.
We have to keep winning.
We have to win more.
We're going to win more.
We're going to win more.
Just that energy, just that enthusiasm.
It's kind of like unstoppable.
Have you ever seen that clip of him talking about...
Never giving up.
Now he knows so many people who are just so smart and who failed in life because they just gave up.
I can think of maybe two people in my life who did that.
Really smart people who would be somewhere today and who just gave up.
There's one thing you can say about that man that is indisputable.
He never gave up.
Not whether it was in construction, walking in his father's footsteps, whether it was in media with the most successful reality TV show for 14 seasons, not four seasons, not five seasons,
14 seasons, or Whether it was the moment he stepped into the arena and decided, I'm no politician, but America is broken.
America has been betrayed by both sides of the political aisle, who outsourced jobs, weren't serious about reforming immigration, Kowtow to our enemies, our competitors, basically betrayed the oath of office they took when they became members of, wasn't a kind of citizen political class, it was a professional political class.
And he said, I love America and I want to fix it.
I've been saying this to you all for the last six years.
There's only one dividing line between us today as Americans, and it's really not about political parties.
I've never seen myself as a quote-unquote paid-up member of the Republican Party.
If I had to choose a label at all, it would be conservative.
If I had one word on my tombstone, it would be hopefully just patriot.
But the dividing line between the 60, what is it, 340 million Americans we have in the nation today is whether you love America or whether you think America is the problem.
And it's not just me, it's former politicians who had enough with the swamp and stepped into another arena, stepped into the media arena.
And Jason Chaffetz, former congressman, It's very explicit about what separated President Trump from Kamala Harris and why he broke that record with regards to a former president being re-elected, not just with the Electoral College vote, but the popular vote.
Four years ago, he broke the record for an incumbent, getting 74 million votes.
And just five weeks ago, he broke through that record by another 3 million to get 77 million Americans to vote for him.
Why?
Jason gets it.
Cut six.
So, I think there's an air of optimism, and it's also coupled with this air of patriotism.
I haven't felt this surge of patriotism in this country like this in a long, long time, and it is so welcome because Donald Trump actually loves the United States of America.
And I think the majority of Americans, they love this country.
They don't want to be pushed around anymore.
They don't want to be told that they're politically incorrect.
They love the country, they love the flag, and they love Donald Trump because he loves them too.
But it's those two things together.
God bless Jason.
It's not just patriotism.
It's that enthusiasm, that belief in America.
Not, oh my gosh, we've lost it.
We've lost the culture.
We've lost political dominance or our best years are behind us.
What does it Bannon call it?
The individuals who believe in managed decline.
The best we can do is to hope to glide ourselves down the glide path as other nations take the lead globally in terms of economics, in terms of politics.
No!
President Trump loves America.
You voted for him because not only do you love it, you're convinced it can be made great again.
That those who love it and have the skills to do so will bring us back to the place it was at not too long ago.
Do you remember what it was like to live under the Trump years?
Do you remember what the economy was like?
Just the price of a gallon of milk, let alone a gallon of gas.
Do you remember what it was like to have a secure border, to have no new wars, none of our troops being deployed hither and yon simply because, oh, I don't know, Raytheon needed to sell weapons?
Or there was some asinine belief at the State Department or the White House that we could create democracies at the end of a gun barrel?
No.
America first.
National sovereignty first.
Optimism, along with patriotism, those two ingredients and belief in America are truly a formula that is unstoppable.
So let's celebrate so much winning and we're gonna have much, much more winning.
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Do you have a title for Reagan?
Yeah, I do.
do hang on okay let's have a look
What did I say?
The Democrat Party is dead.
All right.
All right.
Thank you.
Alright, so we did ten.
We did six.
We did five.
Any clips would you like to use, sir?
Yeah, come in with four.
Then I'll do angel tree.
coming out yeah come come in with four I'll do angel tree, then I'll tee up...
three.
So four, angel tree, and then three.
Good.
Where is he?
He's in a different location.
Is he upstairs?
Yeah, I had to hide in the bedroom.
All right, thanks for squeezing us in, buddy.
Two segments and then you're good.
Very beautiful.
Where's the snow, dude?
I need some snow.
Dude, on Christmas Eve morning, we had sleep crystals for like an hour.
Yeah, 50 minutes maybe.
For what reason do you want snow?
I love snow.
Nobody knows how to drive in it.
I do.
It's excellent and it's pretty and my dogs like it.
It's pretty for about 30 minutes.
No, if it keeps snowing for days.
You are such a flippin'.
I hate snow with a passion.
I love the fact that Jeff hates everything.
He hates everything that's fun.
No, I like myself.
I've got a couple other things.
He likes himself.
He likes his wife.
He likes his kids.
My kids are good, yeah.
Except when they're overtired.
And that's about it, right?
Yeah.
I'm making fun of libs.
I'm making fun of libs.
That's right.
Coming was full.
Yeah, please.
Thank you, sir.
All right, come on.
All right.
He's probably got some pebble in his shoe about something that's happened in Panama that relates to his interests.
That's usually what provokes one of these kind of out of left field tirades from Donald Trump.
Oh, really?
Because that's how it works.
It's always about illogical things that are about his personal gain.
And try to think in the last eight years, when is there something President Trump did that hasn't proven to be correct and actually about making America great again?
Poor Tom Nichols, what a sadly relevant man you have become.
I don't think anybody else is going to be playing clips from him after January the 20th.
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I am not even going to ask him whether he had a beautifully air-dried steak this Christmas because I will be very jealous.
We're just going to welcome him to talk all things strategic here on America First.
Jim Hansen, Merry Christmas!
Ho, ho, ho!
Did you have a good steak?
I'm going to ask.
Did you have a good steak?
We didn't do steak.
We did our own smoked bacon and country ham.
Thick cut bacon?
Like at the Trump Hotel?
Steak cut bacon.
All right.
I wasn't going to ask you about this, but since you broached the topic of bacon, how pumped are you that the rumors are that the place that served the best thick cut bacon, President Trump's hotel, may be back in the hands of the Trump Organization imminently?
How cool is that?
Dude, if they bring back that bacon tree where the guy would come out and burn the sage to drive the liberals away, I am there every day for lunch.
And don't forget, you know, I used to do my lunch, because I wouldn't go there to eat a full lunch.
I'd have the bacon, what is it, the six massive fat strips of bacon on that wooden frame with the burning herbs, and then I'd have one of those massive popovers the size of my cranium.
So I'd have the bacon with the popovers, and that would be my lunch.
I mean, that's healthy, right?
That's living.
Who cares if it's healthy?
That's living.
All right.
So we played the clip at the beginning.
Let's continue with...
Let's go to Ryan Zinke.
I do believe a former frogman, a former SEAL, former member of the first Trump administration in the Cabinet of the Department of Interior.
Let's talk about the latest thing driving the left.
Absolutely insane.
Former Secretary Ryan Zinke cut three on President Trump in a certain canal.
So, you know, a shadow across the bow, especially with the Panama Canal.
Remember, we have China and Cuba.
We have Maduro and Venezuela.
We've had Russian ships there.
And the Panama Canal is critical to our national security.
And at present, it is being run by the Chinese Communist Party.
So it's a concern?
Absolutely.
How delicious is it, Jim Hansen, that whether it's Canada becoming the 51st state, whether it's buying Greenland, or finally protecting US shipping through the Panama Canal, the topics come in so fast, it's like shrapnel, that the left cannot respond adequately because of the rate of fire.
It's like verbal and social media cluster munitions, which are not banned for use online to scare our enemies, and they should.
Here's the thing.
Our enemies have been emboldened, and tyrants around the world have been emboldened by the weakness and lack of a commander-in-chief we've had for the last four years.
Now, before Trump's even in office, he has done more to make the world a safer place and to put our enemies off balance than Biden did And Obama did in their combined 12 years.
So explain, for those who aren't experts like you are, we're talking to the present world strat, Jim Hansen, follow him at Jim Hansen DC, that there's all kinds of aspects to geopolitics and geostrategy, but it's not just the stuff that you do.
President Trump is the quintessential example of If you back it up when needs be, the incredible power of just the spoken word.
I'm thinking of just last week.
Last week!
The guy drops $100 billion in front of him from that Japanese company, and he says, well, look, you're here.
You can make it $200 billion, right?
I mean, we're buddies, and the guy giggles and laughs, and I think it probably will be $200 billion.
Or whether it's sending a shot across the band with regards to Panama, with regards to Iceland, Greenland, whether it's regards to...
The verbal...
Or the verbal geopolitics is often more important than the kinetic, because if you get it right, Jim, you don't have to pull a trigger.
You're a Green Beret.
You get it.
Nobody wants to fight.
Nobody in the military, most of all, wants a fight.
We want to be the deterrent.
And if Trump's got the military in his back pocket, a military run by Pete Hexit that's actually going to be warrior-based again, and he's got the ability then to look any tyrant around the world or any troublemaker or potential troublemaker in the eye and say, are you really sure you want to do that?
Because, I don't know, I'm bored this afternoon, and I might just ruin your entire existence, something they have not feared before.
So once you put the fear of an actual credible act of violence in their mind, then the words you use become a substitute for that violence, and that is the most effective verbal judo you can imply.
And when we're talking about a waterway, Jim, Through which 70% of the cargo vessels are American or carrying American goods.
I'm sorry, that is a national security interest of the United States, is it not?
Absolutely.
I mean, you look at Biden and his team let the Houthis shut the Red Sea.
And all the traffic that previously went through that now has to spend an extra 10 days and thousands, tens of thousands of dollars per piece of stuff.
And we're not going to allow that to happen to us in our hemisphere with a waterway we built.
Yeah.
And Jimmy Carter gave away.
Now, I'm sorry.
At this point, if the Chinese think they're going to move into our backyard and make that threat to our livelihood, we're going to stop it.
And I think President Trump took the first step by pointing that out.
Isn't it funny how they I don't want to say they've surrendered, but like none of the left are saying Logan Act, Logan Act.
It's kind of like the kind of half given up, Jim.
What are they going to do?
Even the worst among the left can tell that having Trump as acting elected president in his transition is better than the four years we've had of Biden in absentia and an empty chair, empty suit weekend at Bernie's administration.
So at this point, someone doing something, even though it's driving them crazy, is better than inactivity and, you know, a ghost presidency.
He may be a former snake-eater, but he even knows how to pronounce the phrase in absentia.
That's why Jim Hansen must be followed right now at Jim Hansen DC. He's going to stay with us for one more segment while you're following him.
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All right, I'll do my pillow at the start, the top.
I'll do, then I'll tee up cut too, Guy.
Because I know Jim is a huge fan of Wasserman Schultz.
Oh, God.
She is the worst human poodle on earth.
She does not look good either.
She is ridden hard and put home wet.
I've got to work out the lighting in here, but I kind of like this backdrop.
No, it's great.
The lighting, it's all good.
It's all good.
Yeah, it's okay.
Yeah, it's good.
The backdrop is great.
Because I've got to take care of the dome and everything.
You know, I've got issues.
Yeah.
All right, so Zinke is on the road tomorrow, but can be up the following days until the second.
Okay, Jeff, is your thing on?
Yeah, go ahead.
Ryan Zinke, I asked him for tomorrow.
He can't make it, but he can come on.
Let's ask him Monday, all right?
Okay.
Hang on, do we have a...
Do we have a manhood for Monday?
No.
Make him manhood.
Okay.
Have we had him before?
No.
Let's do him.
Let's do him.
We had a standing rib roast yesterday.
It was so good.
Oh, my God.
See, I was going to do...
We had 13 at the house for dinner, which is the most we've had.
We got eight people staying here with us.
Whoa.
So what did you feed him?
Yeah, well, I didn't have room in the meat locker fridge isn't big enough for Rip Rose to feed that many people, so I did a 12-pound ham.
Virginia ham?
Oh, yeah.
I love it.
Katie thinks they're too salty.
I just love them.
Yeah, that's one of the advantages of living here.
Come on.
I mean, buy what people you're living near are good at, and they're good at ham.
Oh, yeah.
Are they all relatives?
Oh, staying with us?
Yeah.
Yep.
We got my daughter and her husband and one of their friends, my brother and his niece, my mom and dad, and my uncle.
Wow.
I don't know how many that is, but there's more.
Where are your mom and dad out of?
Tampa.
Oh, wow.
Yep.
They came up about three, four days ago, and they just left a little bit ago.
It was fun.
You know, I mean, my dad and his brother hadn't had a Christmas together in forever, so it was good to get as much of the family together as we could.
My dad's 84, you know?
That's crazy.
You get these in while you can.
Is he military?
Yeah, West Point 63, two tours in Vietnam, 11th Armored Cab, and 1st Armored Division.
Dude!
The big red one.
When am I going to meet him?
Yep.
Got to meet him.
You should.
He likes you, dude.
He's a fan.
That's impressive.
Where did he serve in Vietnam?
He was actually on the excursion into Cambodia with 11th Armored Cav.
So yeah, when they managed to cross the border, they left from the Michelin Plantation and all that.
He was on that ride with Georgie Patton III. Just misread the map.
Oops.
Oops.
You know, borders.
Things happen.
Things happen.
It's complicated.
30 seconds.
Are we coming in with anything? - Thank you.
My pillow.
No, I'm gonna do my pillow and then I'm gonna tee something up.
Should just go on 10 seconds.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. yeah.
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Promo code G-O-R-K-A. Just when you thought you'd seen the last of her, like a zombie, like a member of the undead coming back from the crypt, she's back.
It's Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who I don't think she likes my former and my future boss.
Cut to...
What we need to do is make sure that we strengthen our relationships with our allies and treaty partners like Panama, not make ridiculous carnival barker threats like buying Greenland, which isn't for sale and we're not going to acquire, and invading Panama to take back the canal.
There's been a drought in Panama, Kate, and so it has slowed passage of ships.
Try to get better fees for passage for his corporate and billionaire allies.
That's what this boils down to, and it's preposterous.
Right.
It's the invading Panama tweet that I missed over the weekend.
Jim, how delicious is it that I just...
I'm a rational person, I think.
And I just...
These people have no cognizance Any self-awareness at all?
77 million people just voted for the person she calls a carnival barker.
Do they want to lose even worse in two years time, Jim?
Because it sure looks like it.
I was just impressed they taught that wet poodle to speak English.
That, to me, was more impressive than any of the dumb things she said.
I do.
I agree with you that the best thing that can happen to the Republican Party, to the conservative movement, everything else, is for the people on the right or on the left to continue to voice these things.
I mean, Trump derangement syndrome is the gift that keeps on giving.
They can't even fathom how insane they sound to anyone with an above room temperature IQ. But it's not just how insane they sound.
The fact that they're insulting the majority of Americans five weeks after they rejected them.
Surely they should be saying, sorry, we got it wrong.
But no, they're saying, you're stupid and we hate you.
Isn't that amazing?
But it's what they believe.
That's the thing.
They've ripped the mask off.
Trump is the best person in the world at getting the left to rip that facade of decency and the moral high ground that they have wrongly claimed and telling the truth about what they actually feel.
And thank you for doing that.
Thank you for letting the American people see that you despise them, that you consider them knuckle-dragging troglodytes, And that you're going to continue to push ideas that have been rejected until we come to our senses.
Because we're never gonna.
So, how fascinating is it That, OK, the guy who's leaving is burning everything down and he's senile.
And the woman who actually ran against President Trump is, like, disappearing and maybe will run for governor of California.
But, Jim, there's nobody who's saying, OK, I'm the sane one.
I'll take over the party.
They have nobody stepping up to the plate, Jim.
And, God willing, you know, they'll bring out Jelvin Newsome from California, where everything's going swimmingly, you know, where all their experiments in communism have proved that you can bankrupt the most productive state in our union, destroy a deficit, you know, ruin all of the...
They actually voted against their own laws letting criminals loose.
I love the Democrat Party right now.
I might even join.
I've never joined the Republican Party because I think they've always been a little incompetent in my mind.
But I might join the Democrats and just cheer them on, just throw popcorn and bullets in the ring and let them fight it out.
It is too delicious for words.
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Merry Christmas to you, Jim, and your loved ones.
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Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay, so I'm gonna do PhD at the top, and then when I'm talking to Ashley, I'm going to need you to do, I'm going to mention the last photograph of me, the before and after, and the photograph of Katie during the conversation.
Thank you.
I can't find her on here.
You need me to text her?
That's her assistant.
You just need her Skype, right?
Hey, do you have the Skype ID? And don't forget, we've got sleep at the end here.
Copy that.
Thank you.
Tom, I can't find...
I don't know...
I can't get into the computer, Tom, for the Katie thing.
Jeff said he is not able to find Dr. Lucas' info, the Skype info.
I texted her.
Copy that.
Thank you, sir.
She sent it to me.
I've got to start it and then go call her, though.
Oh, okay.
Okay, so I'll just...
Thank you.
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Got to stay on the topic of the Panama Canal for a moment because, of course, the real reason.
Can you guess what the real reason is for the problem and for the delay in U.S. shipping through the canal that we built?
Let's ask that doyen of the swamp, Mr. Establishment Richard Haas, who, uh, He's got the real reason why there's an issue.
Cut eight.
Panama, as best I can tell, they're not discriminating against the United States in any way.
The biggest problem with the canal is the lack of water.
And by the way, it's probably linked to climate change, which is something the incoming administration doesn't seem to think is terribly important.
It's climate change, didn't you know?
Oh my gosh, of course.
It's the weather, because we've never had hot weather in Panama or in the world.
This is a cult.
We have people that rely upon the shipping through that canal, more than 70% of which are U.S. vessels or vessels carrying U.S. products to and from the United States.
That in and of itself makes it A national security concern.
And that's why President Trump is right.
If we want to make America great again, America first values mean what?
That we've got to make sure that our resupply, our exports, and our imports are secure.
As for other parts of the world, It's a globalized economy.
The isolationists are just absolutely wrong on this issue.
They were wrong in 1941. Pearl Harbor proved them so.
And they were wrong on September the 11th, 2001. Why?
Well, quite simply, because it is a globalized world.
Second guest of the day.
I don't know if we've managed to connect.
Jeff, do we have our special guest today?
All right, that's fine.
But is she connected?
Alright, so this is where I'm going to do something a little bit different for the last week, week and a half we have on air.
I want to say thank you to the people who've made this show possible and improved my life and the life of my loved ones, especially Katie, when it comes to the first product.
And that is PhD weight loss and the amazing people behind it, starting with Dr. Ashley Lucas.
Dr. Lucas, welcome back to America First.
Hope you had a wonderful, wonderful Christmas.
Hi, Dr. Gorka.
It's great to see you.
Thanks for having me on.
I'm sorry you can't see me.
I know.
Technology is the bane of our existence.
I know.
It is.
We've got only a few minutes with you.
We're showing pictures of what Katie looks like today and my before and after pictures.
Can you tell us how your journey began?
That's enough of the pictures.
Can you tell me how you began and why you created PhD Weight Loss?
Yeah, you know, I come from a background of being a professional ballet dancer, and I always struggled hitting my ideal healthy weight.
I never got the roles that I should have, I believe.
I was injured all the time.
I counted calories like an expert bookkeeper, and as a result, I was always injured and still too fat.
To do really well in the career.
I had a fairly successful career, but my dancing career ended when I landed in New York City.
I thought it was this once-in-a-lifetime performance.
Every dancer dreams to land in New York City.
And instead of finding myself in the spotlight, I found myself in the ER. I had no idea what was happening.
I had to stop dancing at that point.
My body just couldn't take it any longer.
The doctor said I was underfed and over-exercised and I had to do something else.
That was really huge for me because, you know, it's like Michael Phelps being carted off to the ER right before an Olympic level swim.
I was at that level and I just couldn't continue.
So I decided that I would dedicate my life to helping others avoid that issue.
You know, the metabolic shutdown, the poor health, the constant and chronic dieting that I had to go through.
I didn't want anyone to have to experience that again.
So I went on and I earned my PhD in sports nutrition and chronic disease, became a registered dietitian, and created PhD Weight Loss, where to date we've served over 10,000 people worldwide.
We've helped people drop more than 340,000 pounds all across the nation collectively.
So yeah, I'm very passionate about helping people.
Okay, give me those numbers again.
Over 10,000 clients and a collective, how many pounds have they dropped?
Over 365,000 pounds.
Oh my gosh.
I've still got questions to ask you.
Can you stay on the line for a few more minutes?
Yeah, I'd love to.
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Yeah, can I log out of Skype and back in?
Do you guys have three minutes?
No, we've got 90 seconds.
You can't just enable video?
It doesn't let you do that?
It's just not.
I don't know why.
I wanted to test this beforehand.
It's just saying I have to log in and log out, potentially.
Okay, alright, we'll stick to audio.
I know, it's terrible.
Skype is always troublesome for some reason.
I don't know why.
Hmm.
I don't know why.
I don't know why.
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We are back with a very special guest.
For putting up with pressure that you shouldn't have to put up with simply because of your association with Salem and my program.
So I want to thank you for that, Dr. Lucas.
Oh, it's my pleasure.
I'm so grateful for everything that you've done for PhD weight loss you've impacted thousands of people So I'm grateful for that you you've impacted over 10,000.
So we're just one of the couples so thankful to you So there are products out there right now that are off being used in an off-label fashion to help people lose weight and I'm familiar with them because of a pre-diabetic condition that I used to have.
These quote-unquote solutions aren't solutions, are they?
Because basically they suppress your appetite.
They don't make you think differently about bad foods.
And if you're going to stay at your ideal weight, you're going to be beholden to that chemical dependency for the rest of your life, correct?
That's right.
Yep.
They don't tackle the root cause as to why we put on the weight and why we often regain it.
And like you said, you've got to be on these drugs which are very expensive and we don't know the negative long-term ramifications of being on these drugs for the rest of your life if you want to keep the weight off for good.
The majority of people put the weight back on just a few months after stopping the drugs.
Is there any objective reason why someone physically, medically couldn't follow the PhD weight loss program?
Because people don't appreciate each client has the program custom tailored to them.
Is there any objective reason why it shouldn't work for somebody?
No.
You know, I think people go to these medications because they've lost hope.
They've failed so many times before, and they think that this is their only option.
And I think if someone's watching this or listening to this, I just want you to know that there is hope that you can drop this weight and you can keep it off and be empowered and not be dependent on anything outside of yourself.
You have the power within yourself to create this positive change for your life, just like you and Katie did.
Yeah.
And let me just share with everybody, the three and a half million people listening right now, I had given up.
I just thought, no, I'm just going to carry this extra, you know, 40 pounds with me till the day I die.
And that was not the case.
And when Katie said, let's do this together, that was the golden ticket.
And I'm very grateful to you, your whole team, to Rachel.
Thank you, Dr. Ashley Lucas.
Please follow her or the company at Twitter, phd underscore weightloss and myphdweightloss.com.
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She's been a savior to me and my wife, my muse, Katie.
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Please don't be a stranger and if you come to the swamp, please tell us and we'll break bread and I'll buy you that steak.
That's right.
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We'll do that.
I'm excited for you and Katie.
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Please.
Oh, there he is.
There's my guy.
Good job.
How's your new show going good?
Very well, thank you.
I heard good.
Thank you.
Yes, indeed.
Hard to believe it.
That was, well, that was before COVID. I'd left the White House and President Trump decided to have a summit, a social media summit at the White House of conservative social media, I hate the phrase, influencers.
And I was one of them.
And that was inside the White House where he saw me and I got to ask the president a question.
I think it was to do with the censorship of social media.
And then, wow, the same day that Putz from CNN wanted to get into a fight with me.
What's his name?
Brian Kerem.
That was quite, seems like ancient history.
Now we're on the cusp of handing over the reins, handing over the microphone to my colleague as I go back into the second Trump administration.
Let's set the scene.
Let's get the mood right for the next hour with a very special guest.
Can we play cut 10 again, Guy?
Can you do that for us so we get the mood right?
We're going to win so much.
We're going to win at every level.
We're going to win economically.
We're going to win with the economy.
We're going to win with military.
We're going to win with healthcare and for our veterans.
We're going to win with every single facet.
We're going to win so much.
You may even get tired of winning and you'll say, please, please.
It's too much winning.
We can't take it anymore.
Mr. President, it's too much.
And I'll say, no it isn't.
We have to keep winning.
We have to win more.
We're going to win more.
We're going to win so much.
More!
Just the way he says, more!
I just, whenever you feel a little bit, you know, a little bit down, you just play that clip and it takes you right up to where we need to be as a nation.
And I'm sure our guest concurs.
He is a man who has just admitted this morning on YouTube that he is a member of the undead.
I don't believe it.
It might just be a promotional stunt.
Raise a fist, host of Rageaholic!
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Merry Christmas to you as well!
You know, that reminds me, do you know the guitarist, famous guitarist, by the name of Yngwie Malmsteen, a Swedish Amigre?
He famously has a quote, people always say, less is more, less is more.
No, how can that be?
More is more, right?
And now it's, more is not enough, right?
That's the Trump motto, more is not enough.
Okay, we'll talk about your latest review.
You actually found a Hollywood movie that's good.
We'll get to that later in the hour.
I feel weird doing this because, yes, I'm close to it.
This will be the third time I'll be a presidential nominee.
But let's just be objective for a second.
And I'll ask you.
You're not a presidential nominee.
You're not going into the White House.
Just that 31-second clip.
Of President Trump shouting that you will complain that there's too much winning, that you want to stop the winning, and he's going to say, no, we're going to have more winning.
Just that ebullience, that enthusiasm, that pro-Americanism.
Is there anybody in the last 50 years in American politics who's behaved like that razor fist?
Right.
You know, it's funny.
If the media weren't so staunchly opposed to him, it would be considered kind of a benchmark speech kind of a thing, you know?
Like, it's very – it's almost Tony Robbins motivational or what have you.
But you can see it.
It's funny.
It was almost predictive because how many people on the so-called right – Have tried to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory over the last, even just the last several weeks.
We always see this.
You know, the left always enforce their lockstep.
That's a problem, right?
But the right, we immediately devolve into infighting.
We're cannibals.
We're political cannibals.
We go after each other 15 minutes after getting elected.
We're hell-betting determined not to be elected again sometimes.
So it's funny.
Like, there are actually complaints that, no, we're winning too much.
And I love that Trump is already saying, no, we're going to win.
We're going to keep winning.
Sorry.
Like, brilliance.
Absolutely brilliant.
So I'm going to ask you later on, I'm going to plant this seed because you have a very good sense of American history as well, whether this is a sui generis president or whether he's Jacksonian or who you think we should compare him to.
We'll get to that in a second.
I'll let that bubble and ruminate in the back of your cranium for a second.
But What is the genesis?
Because it seems to be this universal inoculation of all Republicans for the last, I don't know, 40 years, 50 years, that we have to be nice, that it was Marquess of Queensbury, and when they went dirty, we just roll on our back and show them our bellies.
Who began that?
Because I go to Reagan, and I remember that clip of Reagan with the students at Berkeley.
That guy was, you know, he was the person turning over the moneylender's tables in the temple.
He was not a, he was a vuncular, and he knew how to pitch and be, but he could get, I mean, oh, how about this?
Forget that when he was governor, when he fired the traffic controllers.
Could you, there's nobody!
Nobody!
Nobody in the GOP establishment since Reagan who would fire the air traffic controllers except for President Trump.
Do you have any theory when this, ooh, we've got to be nice thing was seeded inside the party?
Oh, my goodness.
That would be the compassionate conservatism.
I mean, in the modern day, it definitely codified in the compassionate conservative movement of George W. Bush.
And that really reared its ugly head during Romney.
I think Romney was kind of the zenith of this, and I could almost pinpoint the exact moment.
You remember that debate.
When Candy Crowley basically made herself a third participant in the debate where it was Obama versus Romney.
Everyone remembers the first debate.
Barack Obama got absolutely shelled in the first one.
And so it was like the dog whistle went out.
Okay, that can't happen again.
No, no, no, no, no.
Second time around.
We're not letting this happen.
And so a moderator was as biased as they have ever been, which is saying something after the 2024 cycle.
Candy Crowley was a third participant.
And you could just, if you were a Republican or a conservative or even had conservative sympathies, you were shrieking at your TV. Fight back.
He's hitting you and she's hitting you.
Call them out for what they're doing.
And Romney was just sitting there like a dullard, just sort of losing with dignity in just the standard McCainite playbook.
And that really is, it's a reaction more so than it is.
But hang on, it's more than losing with dignity.
It's losing is okay.
When was losing is okay a mantra of the establishment?
Exactly.
It's like they don't have principles to begin with, so all they've got is victory.
So if they don't have victory, they have absolutely nothing.
Nothing.
Nothing.
And I feel like the fighting really doesn't even come from Republicans.
With Trump, I mean.
No.
You have to remember, Trump almost ran on the reform ticket in 2000 and wound up going to Buchanan, right?
He was taken in big time by Perot.
He really liked Perot.
And if you watch Perot on that debate stage in 92 and 96...
I mean, my goodness, he was annihilating the competition and that was part of what endeared him and why he wound up getting like 20% of the vote.
Even after dropping out of the election, he got 20% of the vote.
So I think really Trump is inheriting that kind of, that vinegary kind of, you know, that acerbic style.
It's a pro who actually was the GOP candidate.
Is that what you're saying?
Yes, in a lot of ways.
Yes, absolutely.
It's funny.
You'll hear often, oh, Perot stole the 92 election from George H.W. Bush.
It's like, look at the numbers.
It's almost as accurate to say that George H.W. Bush stole the election from Ross Perot.
He got 20% of the vote after being pressured to drop out.
If he doesn't drop out, how much does he get?
And if George Bush isn't there, how much does he get?
Because Bill Clinton did not get the majority.
So it's kind of arguable at the end of the day.
But either way, Trump definitely inherited his style.
Not necessarily his ideology in all facets.
We'll talk about ideology in a second.
Is he sui generis?
Or is there a prior president that he can be put in the same category with?
He's singular.
He's got facets of He definitely has some Andrew Jackson in him.
He's not afraid to defy institutions.
There's the famous moment where the Supreme Court defied Andrew Jackson, and Andrew Jackson replied, well, that's wonderful for the Supreme Court, now let's see them enforce it.
He wasn't afraid to defy institutions, and Trump isn't either.
That's why he's still technically got litigation and whatnot pending and all of that and what have you.
It's because it's the revenge of the institutions.
So he's got elements of that.
Certainly Grover Cleveland with the stick-to-itiveness, just the refusal to give up.
He's Grover Cleveland come again.
And then there is a glorious kind of economic cheerleader yet hands-off approach.
I would have to go back to Coolidge on that or maybe Reagan in the recent past.
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it's like i have a philosophy when it comes to economy but but i'm going to be hands off Absolutely.
He recognizes, as Reagan did, and the best presidents do, that economically a president is best served not micromanaging, but cheerleading.
Being on the side, getting out of the way, and saying, yeah, yeah, you can do this.
He's meant to direct that.
So, yeah, I think that's one of the things Trump has done magnificently.
He did it in his first term splendidly, and then he set all kinds of economic records.
I'm sure if he does the same thing, you know, headwinds allowing, I think he'll be able to do the same thing again.
Chinese bio labs allowing.
That too!
Yes, Wuhan wet markets.
Pangolins!
Pangolins permitting.
Yes, the big bat soup companies.
Okay, what's your theory on this?
The Wall Street Journal Does that massive dump of 50 White House personnel admit to shielding, you know, Biden?
And then today they drop a big piece about, well, the FBI knew it was the Wuhan lab, but they weren't allowed into the meetings at the White House.
My wife, Katie, who worked at DHS, has a theory that everybody in the establishment who's crapping themselves now It wants to stay there and is doing a CYA by giving it to the pseudo-conservative WSJ. What do you think?
That was absolutely my read, is you've still got some embedded ticks.
There's some deeply embedded ticks.
And they want to stay there.
They need that blood.
And so they're trying to be, oh, I'm the FBI guy who cooperated.
Keep me in line.
And they're probably middle management.
They're privy to some secrets, right?
But they're not powerful enough to really affect anything.
So, oh, I was against it the entire time, okay?
Yeah.
Think of me when you ascend to the highest office in the land.
And of course the scum at the Wall Street Journal are, you know, aiding and abetting.
Well, you've seen where the Wall Street Journal's gone the last several years.
Oh, it's like anybody who thinks they're conservative is just, oh, the op-ed page, well, whoop-de-doo.
Right.
See also National Review.
Right.
When we get back...
I'll have everything up, but I just got to run to my office to save the third hour.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No worries.
So don't swear.
I've got a dumb button here, don't I? No, I don't.
Do I? I don't.
Gee, it's behind you on the phone if you need it.
The other thing is, do you have a title for Jim Hansen?
I do.
Oh, for Hansen?
The big fuss about the Panama Canal.
All right, we're going to talk about whether President Trump has an ideology.
you.
How did you do the thing that your glasses are red and the rest was monochrome?
I was going to do that today, but I don't have my red glasses on me.
But how did you do it?
I'm getting...
Oh, just a filter you can put on your thing.
You have to put out your camera as a virtual camera, streaming software, and then you can apply all kinds of fun filters.
It was very cool.
Very cool.
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I've always said about President Trump, and maybe I'm too close to it, so maybe I'm missing something that you can fill out for me, that he's this kind of unique concatenation, this very unusual blend.
Of a man who really knows what he wants, is utterly convicted of it, will not brook failure, will not—I mean, whether they're shooting him or whether they're trying to put him in prison for 700 years, he just will not stop.
Yet, he's not classically— Or superficially ideological.
I hate labels myself.
I don't even call myself a Republican.
But with him, it's doubly so.
He's not neoconservative, neoliberal.
He's not an isolationist.
He's not an interventionist.
He's not a traditionalist.
The best way I've found to describe him, raise a fist, is he's a patriot, I think we're good to go.
I mean, what's better than pragmatist, right?
He's ultimately a pragmatist and not an ideologue.
And I've tried to explain this many, many times because, of course, the non-ideologues are the ones who are cast as the ideologues because where is the ideology shifted?
It's not in terms of policy.
Nobody has principles in their policy anymore.
It's all social.
This is how it's always been.
What is their stance on gay marriage?
What is their stance on this?
Which is probably why they're so hyperbolic on his governmental policy, because when you hear that he congratulated Elton John on his gay wedding, it's kind of hard to cast him as a homophobe.
And yet he's not this ideological adherent of diversity either.
As I pointed out last night, I think he's pretty clued into the fact that diversity isn't our strength.
Diversity today isn't even really diversity.
Diversity in 2024 is 10 black guys and no white people in a McDonald's commercial.
Diversity has become you shall conform.
Yes, he recognizes strength is our strength.
That's it.
Absolutely right.
It is pragmatism.
And from a guy that builds skyscrapers, you've got to be a pragmatist.
But it's got to be pragmatist with a direction, with an end state.
So it's pragmatism towards what, RazorFist?
I mean, ultimately getting the government out of people's lives because you can see how the preceding 10-15 years are.
It's a little bit of a whiplash reaction to Trump.
You know, I don't think we get Trump without eight years of Obama and Obamacare and all of that desultory nonsense that happened.
One after the other after the other.
The hits just kept on coming for the American people.
We got to the point where we were being penalized $500 plus every year when we filed our taxes.
Oh, and you talked about, give her the figures again, the shocking figures you gave for how much you were paying for healthcare and then what happened after Obamacare hit.
Give us those figures.
Oh my...
So I'm out of Arizona, right?
And Arizona was hit really hard by Obamacare.
We went from having multiple insurance providers down to two, and now we're down to one unless you live in a particular county.
And actually, I think one of those two is considering pulling out.
Our insurance premium skyrocketed 118%.
And if you need an illustrative example of what that looks like, in 2007, which is really the last year that America had an actual healthcare system, I paid like $65, maybe on the outset $85, something like that, a month for healthcare.
After Obamacare, my goodness, I had health plans that were up to $300 or whatever for healthcare, and nothing was covered.
Absolutely nothing was covered.
The original version, the $65, you could get dental, you could get your doctor, you could get anything, a random ninja attack, whatever.
But if...
After 2008, I'm telling you.
Some have said, and my friend Lee Smith amongst them, that the woke insanity really germinates with Obama.
Do you think that's fair or does it start before him?
It does.
They were a victim of their success with Obama, really.
It was, they thought, it's funny, the left when Obama was nominated, you had people like Sean Hannity sounding the alarm bells, oh he's linked to Bill Ayers, and look at Jeremiah Wright, his pastor, he's a radical Marxist.
And indeed in his youth it appears he was, but it turns out as an adult he's just a political opportunist.
So the left kept saying, oh, well, that's all hyperbole.
Sean Hannity's a wingnut.
Don't listen to him, right?
But privately at their cocktail parties, oh, yeah, socialism.
We're going to get this, right?
Because they're never who they appear to be in public.
So privately, they thought they were going to inherit the earth.
That's what happened.
And toward the end...
But what he would do is he would pay them lip service, right?
Socially.
So they got farther and farther and farther left.
It really is kind of the origin story, the supervillain origin story, of where the Democratic Party is today, right?
It's how they got so far left.
It's how you wound up with Bernie Sanders.
Bernie Sanders does not happen if the left sincerely believed Obama was the moderate they claimed he was in 2008. They thought he was a socialist, and then he wasn't.
He really wasn't.
He wound up kind of being a lame duck, really, toward the end of his presidency because he exhausted all his political capital passing Obamacare.
And right now, you know, Biden is burning down the building.
He's smiling at Donald Trump in the Oval.
Kamala's, you know, plan B is governor of California.
And they seem to have no leader at all.
None.
I mean, who could you even...
And Pelosi's already walking away sideways.
Of course, I just watched her fantastic biopic last night.
Nosferatu is great.
You know the elections didn't go well for the Dems if they're already resorting to the Pelosi biopic.
Oh, right.
We're going to discuss that at some point because it was...
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Who's behind this new movie here?
What did he do before?
Robert Eggers.
He did The Northman.
The Northman, right, right.
And The Lighthouse.
He's been on a roll.
He's been making some good, good movies.
The Lighthouse was also Defoe, right?
I think so, yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, Defoe steals his movie.
Well, he's perfectly cast for it.
I mean, you know, perfectly.
And he used to be Nosferatu.
Did you ever see Shadow of the Vampire?
What's Shadow of the Vampire?
What is that?
That's the one that posits that the original Nosferatu movie was filmed with a real vampire.
Was a real vampire.
I never saw it.
But it's supposed to be fun, right?
It is.
Yeah, yeah.
It's kind of a dark comedy, but yes, Willem Dafoe was Max Schreck slash Nosferatu.
Right, and now that's perfect cast, although Schreck was like seven foot tall or something, right?
Yeah, no kidding.
He was like the minute bowl of German actors, yeah.
How did they find the final print?
Because they destroyed all of them, right, with the Stoker Widows action.
Was it like by accident they found the print?
Somebody held on to it.
It was kind of like Metropolis.
A lot of Metropolis got destroyed because of the Nazis coming to power.
Right.
But, you know, a film house there, a film house here.
Look, there was not a vast database that they were keeping track of this stuff in.
So that's how Metropolis came to be restored, as well as Nosferatu.
They found missing film reels and stuff.
It's like the missing episodes of Doctor Who, you know, this episode in Australia, that episode in, you know, Bangladesh or wherever, and they just stitch it all together.
Right.
Right, right.
I love when that kind of stuff comes out.
It's a little appalling when you look back at some of the classic movies, especially from the silent and horror era, that don't exist anymore at all.
I mean, The Man of a Thousand Faces, he had a bunch of movies that we'll never get to see London by midnight and things like that.
They don't even exist.
But we have film stills.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm so happy there's at least one good movie we found.
Yeah, I was stunned.
It's a proper gothic horror.
It makes you wish they had made the last Dracula movie like that.
Well, some of the shots you played are just beautifully composed.
I mean, just visually stunning.
It's like the third man or something.
Yes.
It's, you know, that's what I've always said about film noir is it's a crime movie shot like a horror movie.
So this is like back to the old German Expressionist kind of chiaroscuro style of horror.
What did you think of the Gary Oldman one?
I thought it was a little, you know, I kind of have the same issue with it that I do Nosferatu a little bit in that it's a little too much nudity for my taste.
It was very sexual.
I get that there's a seductive element, but I don't think it has to be explicitly sexual.
I think the medieval stuff was really good.
Yes!
I thought that stuff was great, and I thought Gary Oldman himself was great as Dracula.
I thought that was great.
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I've got to share this.
We've been talking about our side, President Trump, taxonomies, ideologies.
Let's talk about the other side, because I can't believe we are getting so lucky.
This is like having Hillary run for the presidency in four years' time.
This is at the level of luck we're getting.
This is from the Daily Mail.
The CNN journalists spoke...
Anonymously to the Washington Post to explain the failure of their platform eraser, and I'd like you to comment.
The CNN journalists who spoke to the Washington Post say that they are hemorrhaging viewership because they were too kind to President Trump, didn't pile on enough, and hosted a town hall with him.
It's not that they were biased, you see.
It's that they didn't bias hard enough.
Yes!
Yes!
You remember the famous episode of The Simpsons where they have the treasure everyone's looking for and Chief Wiggum's down in the hole and he's digging.
He's like, no, no, no, no.
Dig up, stupid.
Come on, dig up.
We gotta get out of this hole.
So how is it that it's a big entity, right?
The Democrat Party, the mainstream media, lots of people in it.
And apart from the guy who actually calls himself a commie, which is quite ironic, apart from Van Jones, nobody gets it.
And they're actually digging deeper when they say the black males voted for Trump because they're misogynists and they hate women like Kamala.
And the Hispanics were too stupid, according to the Democrats.
And that's why Stark County voted for President Trump.
The majority of Hispanic men.
This is delicious.
How is there not one person who says, excuse me, our emperor is naked?
They did, and they kicked him out of the party.
I referenced it earlier, right?
Look at what has happened to the Tulsi Gabbards of the world.
Kyrsten Sinema, who, you know, I have my doubts about her sincere political reformation, but she presented herself as a moderate, and what did they do?
They followed her into a bathroom with a video camera and harassed her, because she wouldn't vote...
Right.
Directly in line with Biden one time, right?
She voted with him 99% of the time.
This is how the left polices its own side.
I don't think the right should go that far, by the way.
I kind of trumpeted those virtues a little bit earlier.
I want to make that perfectly clear.
We could, however, stand to maybe have a little bit more lockstep on our side, you know, because sometimes we just fall into infighting, ultimately.
So what is your prediction?
Because we've got an election in two years' time.
I mean, it would be too delicious if they just kept on digging the hole even deeper and popped out in China or Australia somewhere.
Do you see any spark of...
Look, call me crazy, raise a fist, but I would like both of our parties to like America.
Are the Democrats just going to pile on and 1619 Project version 12 is going to come out?
I think really the problem is one of coalition for them, right?
Trump built a coalition that no Republican has ever had, right?
The Democrats used to have that, but what they did was it was sectarian, right?
What they did was they sort of corralled all these little aberrant groups into these little ideological pickpens, right?
I've made this analogy before, but it's like, okay, you're gay, okay, you're trans, okay, you're Latino, okay, you're this, you're that, you're Irish.
And that tent, that was fine, as long as you had kind of a big labor backbone, big education backbone, whatever.
But as you become increasingly fringe in order to play to each individual pig pen, you get more marginal and you lose that broader tent.
It gets smaller and smaller and smaller.
And worse still, when the fences between those pigs come down, they don't play well with each other.
They start eating each other.
And we've seen the cumulative effect of that.
I believe, really, that was what 2024 was.
The culmination of a long process of all of these disparate groups not playing well with each other, and the Democrats just desperately spinning plates in the air trying to placate them all.
And they all just came crashing down.
Kamala was, she was the apotheosis of that phenomenon.
They couldn't have had a better candidate than Kamala for that.
So what happens on our side?
That's my next question.
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Right, right.
And what's been broiling in Italy for many, many years.
And Italy, right, right, right, right.
Good stuff.
What's your next project?
Are you doing another graphic novel?
Working on finding an artist for it.
I'm wanting to go in a different direction art-wise, but yes, absolutely.
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And then I got a little pulp novel, you know, a little book that I want to work on as well.
I'm pretty far along on that one.
But that's not part of Night Vale, right?
That is part of Night Vale, yes.
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And I have a few other little projects that I'm working on too.
Might even be a little, pardon me, a little video game thing as well.
Ooh, exciting.
We'll see about that.
Might get to come up with a little concept for that.
So we'll see how that goes.
My son just played me the Warhammer episode from that, what is it, that Netflix series?
What is it, Something Level, where every episode is a different computer game episode.
Have you seen that?
No, no, I haven't actually.
I know there's a new Warhammer series coming.
The Warhammer episode?
Wow.
Just wow.
Wow.
It is pretty cool.
I'm eager to see what Henry Cavill is able to do with.
Yes, because he's such a nerd.
He's such a nerd.
He is a massive nerd.
He's just a great big burly nerd.
I remember when I was a kid, Warhammer was one shop in Hammersmith, West London, that sold the lead figures.
That was it.
One brick-and-mortar store, and now it's valued at however many billions.
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Let's open the aperture a bit.
Let's look a little bit broader at the I hate the phrase populist because they have truly turned it into a pejorative word, despite the fact that it just means your policies are popular, which I thought is kind of the point in politics.
Let's talk about the rebirth of populism.
Political parties that represent the will of the people and believe in national sovereignty.
What a crazy idea.
If you look at what's happened in France, in Germany, even in the UK, despite the victory of the left, the Labour Party raised a fist, it's because the Conservatives were fake.
And had to be punished.
And also the Labour government got less than 25% of the vote.
So it's not exactly a very stable victory.
Is the Trump phenomena, is America first or Germany first or Italy first?
Is this the shape of things to come or is this lazy thinking?
I see it as, at least in the UK, I see it as a cautionary tale, right?
You have this populist mandate very clearly, right?
Electoral College popular.
And after all the fortification came in, slightly narrower popular win, but we'll leave that one alone for now.
But after that massive mandate, if you then don't pursue a populist agenda, There's the ghost of Christmas future right there.
That's what we're looking at over in the UK. And I hope it is kind of a shaking fist in the face of any bad actors who might have found their way anywhere into Trump's orbit.
I hope they're seeing that and recognizing...
Let's stop there for a second.
I just look at the list of names.
I look at the alacrity, the speed with which, I mean, we weren't dropping ambassadorships until after the inauguration last time, and I think we've had maybe a dozen already.
And you look at the names of the secretaries, whether it's the director of the FBI, Kash Patel, whether it's Pam Bondi, whether it's Peter Hegseth, whether it's, you know, John Radcliffe, this is going to be very different from 2017, isn't it?
I agree, yeah.
I made a video after Trump was elected in 2016 where I said, you know, where I dissected his cabinet and I kind of had a movie poster and it was, is it the untouchables or is it the unflushables, right?
Who are the good actors?
Who are the bad actors?
And over time, as you know, some of them proved to be unflushables.
Some proved to be untouchables.
Sadly, some of them were out of the administration, ultimately.
But it's I definitely see this as a vast improvement.
However, you're always going to have someone in orbit, whether it's it could even be someone connected to someone in the administration doesn't even have to be an actual appointee.
And I hope if there are bad actors, as there inevitably are, that they're seeing what is happening over in the UK, because it is if you're not careful, if you don't comport yourself in accord with public will.
Yeah, this is a portent of things to come.
And you can see, I think there's also a bit of a reaction, like with, you know, the sort of shadow of the refugee crisis of 2015, 16, 17, that is finally bearing fruit.
It took France a long time.
They had several chances with Marie Lapin, right?
That didn't exactly work out well.
But Italy has gradually been drifting in a more populist direction.
And we even see in Japan, which is, you know, politically a little bit more left, socially a bit more right, but even Japan drifting in a more populist direction, which is not a very populist country, right?
It's not really oriented that way, culturally speaking.
So do we think this is the trend for politics for the years to come internationally?
I think it is, but only if we seize this opportunity.
We saw a bit of a false start in 2019, 2020, because we all know what happened then, right?
Where those kind of movements had been building momentum, and then they just kind of stalled out.
We saw Boris Johnson kind of botch Brexit, and there was...
There was a lot of demoralization in, I think, Europe and even in Asia among these populist movements, because after seeing Trump's sweeping victory, I think they expected, kind of like what I described with the Obama voters a little bit, they expected to inherit the earth.
And when they didn't, got a bit of blackpilling going on there.
So I'm hoping that this is fulfilled pretty quickly.
And Trump does seem bound and determined to really get to work pretty fast.
And the fact that you have the likes of Mitt Romney say last week on CNN, this is President Trump's party and it's now a MAGA Republican Party, that's a big deal, right?
Where's the lie?
Where's the lie?
The Republican Party, they had completely forsaken their brand and their core constituency.
John McCain got in front of rolling video cameras and called Arizona conservatives The Crazies.
Right.
Right?
A remark which his daughter and wife still defend to this day.
Yeah.
That was emblematic of how the Republican Party treated their actual voters in constituency.
Trump came along, and you know, before he even ran for office, he was combing talk radio.
He had people out there looking at conservative forums and social media and all that, just getting a read of the room.
Hey, how are Republican voters feeling?
What are they actually wanting?
What's the deal?
And surprise, surprise, that turned out to be a winning strategy instead of John McCain lecturing a guy in the audience because he questioned whether Obama was born in Kenya or not, right?
Unbelievable.
This is night and day by comparison.
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Antoinette, how are you?
Hey, Dr. G, at the speed of Trump that you are, I'm good.
I'm good.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
Just want to let you know we're adding one more thing.
Just like Sonya Shah and Jamie Reid, Dr. G, we're going to not only be in front of Planned Parenthood, but we're going to go to more of the school board meetings because Planned Parenthood is pretending to have wellness centers without their name, Planned Parenthood.
Of course.
So if you would get a chance, please see if we can get the defunded all Planned Parenthood nonsense, okay?
Well, you know where President Trump stands on that, so I appreciate you.
Merry Christmas, my dear.
Merry Christmas.
And I will miss you.
We all will miss you.
We know you're like our protector, and we are going to feel much safer with you there helping President Trump.
Thank you, my dear.
Don't be a stranger.
God bless.
God bless you, too.
Bye-bye.
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It's going to shape the way I think about the next Trump administration and we should never ever forget it just a few months ago this summer in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Razor fist in the last few minutes we have with you, what do you subscribe to?
Do you subscribe to the great men theory of history or do you think that it is difficult times that create the opportunities for men to step forward and become great?
Why not merge those?
Difficult times kind of make great men.
And they kind of feed back into each other.
You get a little bit of a bleed effect there.
I think the times create the men for which they are accustomed, right?
They create the kind of man that can deal with those times.
And we've definitely seen that over the years, but I've never seen one quite so encapsulatory as Trump, certainly not in the modern day.
Do you worry about four years from now, or will the next person step to the fore that we're not familiar with right now, just as President Trump did in 2015?
Look, if the Republican Party truly is a MAGA party, if we truly have fumigated the Flakes and the Romneys and such, then we have a fighting chance.
But you have to understand that politics in America are upside down.
They filter up from the state level, not down from the federal level.
So that person has to be built on a state level.
Yeah.
Look at that map, right?
It looks like the elevator scene in The Shining.
It was absolutely incredible.
So, of course, you're actually cultivating that, and that's what you need.
He gets to play Kingmaker, and definitely Vance impressed everybody, so I would think he's pretty high on the list, right?
So, there's definitely no shortage of talent, and of course, DeSantis is always waiting in the wings.
You've got some names right now, which I would say...
Democrats really don't have.
When you have AOC out there asking her audience, hey guys, what conservative podcast should I listen to?
Yeah, Dems are on the ropes, folks.
Dems are on the ropes.
I think we have the title for this hour.
And I'm just jealous that in six years I've never used the word encapsulatory on my show.
And my guest just didn't use it correctly.
It didn't even trip over his tongue.
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What's behind you?
That's not Slave 1. What is the vehicle behind you?
Oh, it's the B-Wing.
I got that for Christmas.
That is very cool.
That looks like a really cool one.
It's gargantuan.
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It's huge.
I love it.
That's one of the things I'm taking with me.
They're worried about me leaving it here, but I'm taking my Millennium Falcon with me.
Maybe to the White House.
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My parents couldn't afford it when I was a kid, so the one I found on eBay two years ago is not staying here.
That's for sure.
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That ain't no Disney Star Wars movie involved.
No, that's the original, the OG, even with some of the decals.
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That was amazing, dude.
Thank you.
And you've got to come to the swamp sometime.
We've got to break bread here.
I have never been to Washington, D.C., even on vacation.
You didn't go on a school trip to the Capitol?
Never been to the East Coast several times.
Never been to Washington, D.C. or anywhere around there.
Well, now you have to.
Now you have to.
Yeah, I'm gonna have to take it.
Well, shoot, you were at AmericaFest.
I somehow missed you.
I was only there one or two days.
Oh, no!
I didn't get to see any speeches because I was only available early in the day and all the speeches were at night.
Bummer, bummer, bummer.
How far are you from Phoenix?
Just north of it.
It's like 15 minutes away from my house.
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As somebody who's involved in the transition, tell you what, I'm impressed.
What about the other side, those who lost?
A lot of retrenchment, a lot of...
Oh my gosh, those black men are misogynists.
They didn't vote for Kamala.
All those Latinos, those Hispanics must be uneducated because they voted for America first.
There is one exception, however.
A man who styled himself as a communist for a short period was an appointee in the Obama administration and, well, he's being rather blunt about it.
Let's listen to Van Jones.
The problem is, you have a framework in your mind that, how can Donald Trump, how can Donald Trump, how can Donald Trump?
Guys, can we cut it out?
Donald Trump is not an idiot.
Donald Trump, let me just be very clear.
Donald Trump is smarter than me, you, and all critics.
You know why we know?
Because he has the White House, the Senate, Totally agree.
He has a massive media ecosystem, bigger than the mainstream, built around him and for him, and a religious fervor in a political movement around him.
Andy, his best buddy, is the richest person in the history of the world, and the most relevant Kennedy is with him.
This dude is a phenomenon.
He is the most powerful human ever.
On Earth and in our lifetime, and we're still saying, well, how is this God?
We look like idiots to ordinary people.
You're totally right.
The Democrats saying we, the Democrats, look like idiots.
I do tend to agree with that man.
Why are they drawing the wrong conclusions?
What does it bode for two years from now?
Let's talk to a man who braves the arena every single week, walks into the lion's den as a Republican strategist goes on CNN. A good friend of the show, Sher Michael Singleton.
Welcome into the America First studios.
Hey Doc, thanks for having me.
Happy Holidays.
Merry Christmas.
Soon to be New Year.
I know, I know, I know.
And congratulations, by the way.
I mean, so many of us are excited about your appointment.
Well, thank you kindly.
National security is going to be a big deal.
China, Russia, Middle East, and so I'm happy that President Trump's going to have somebody good around him to advise us.
Well, it's super exciting.
We'll talk about the names and the confirmations and everything, because you discussed that.
I just wanted to put that on the record from your friend.
I appreciate it.
And I like the way you made an effort, or at least your wife told you to put a tie on today.
You're looking very sharp, very sharp, my friend.
Thank you, Doc.
So let's talk about...
What happened on November 5th?
Yeah.
This is a very different, not only in terms of the records, the 77 million, the popular vote, as well as the Electoral College, every county in America that she, Kamala, failed to beat Biden's record in.
Let's just talk about Van Jones.
I've heard One other person, I call him the Crypt Keeper.
What's his name?
That's Skull.
Oh, Carville.
Oh, James, yeah.
James is saying all the right things.
He's been saying this for a long time.
No, no, no.
He's saying it now with a hammer.
He wasn't quite saying the same things during the campaign, like, oh, we're so stupid and Trump is so great.
Oh, well, yeah, he thought they were going to win.
That is true.
Let's talk about Van Jones.
Is he trying to audition for a gig on Newsmax or Salem Radio?
Because the Democrats must not be liking this guy now.
You're a GOP strategist.
Give me your take.
Are they misinterpreting what happened?
On November 5th, are they just talking to themselves in their Washington Post, New York Times bubble?
Because it seems to me like they're drawing all the wrong conclusions.
When you have Star County, that's 93% Hispanic, vote for President Trump, when you've got at least 20% of the black men in America say, we want America first.
When are they going to realize what happened?
Well, look, I know Van, and I think Van is right.
Everything he said about President Trump, why he won, and there's a huge disconnect between Washington Democrats, New York Democrats, California Democrats.
And where the rest of the country is.
And so Democrats thought the Trump movement is predominantly white.
And they look at 2016 and say it's predominantly white voters.
And if you look at the numbers, that's fair to kind of say that.
It didn't do terribly poor with people of color, but certainly not as well as this time around.
2020 comes around.
He increases his margins with black men.
He increases the margins with Hispanics and Asians.
But 2024, you look at states like Pennsylvania, where he got, what, 15%, 14% of black men increased to over 20-plus percent, close to 30. North Carolina, double digits.
Look at Texas, almost 30-plus percent, I think 35%, 36% of black men.
Then you get to Hispanic women.
Hispanic men.
I mean, you're talking about half.
Almost half of that population said, look, we're going to vote for Trump.
Look at the movement when Asians voted for Trump.
And this is another thing that we don't talk a lot about.
Women and young women.
A lot of Democrats argued at the time and had a lot of these debates on CNN. It's going to be about reproductive rights.
Reproductive rights, that's going to move the needle forward for Democrats and young women and women writ large.
That's not what the exit data now tells us.
Women overwhelmingly voted for President Trump.
Younger people voted for President Trump.
Men, regardless of their ethnicity, younger in particular, about 55 years old, Trump dominated compared to Kamala Harris.
And so what this suggests, Doc, is that There's a huge disconnect economically between working class people.
Well, this is going to be my next question.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because you actually, you're grounded and you look at the attitudes of these people, especially those who've come over to, you know, MAGA and America First.
Is it really, is the economy stupid or is it more than that?
I think it's more.
I think the economy is a component of it.
I think culture is a significant prevailing theme that cannot be dismissed.
And you and I have talked about this a lot strategically.
I even wrote some notes about this that I shared with you about the importance of targeting men in particular.
The Republican Party is now the party of men.
If you are a man and you believe in traditional masculinity, if you are a woman who loves manliness in your men and in your boys, then the GOP and conservatism is now the party that embraces and is the protector and the defender of that.
And the Republican Party is saying, look, we recognize that less men are wanting to go to college compared to women, for a whole lot of reasons.
We like to use our hands.
We're builders, not really technocrats so much.
And so the GOP is saying, well, we want to protect the livelihood that the vast majority of men in this country, since the dawn of this country, have found themselves in, in terms of skills, to be able to provide for themselves, provide for their families.
The whole idea of the gender fluidity stuff, where Democrats were like, oh, you know, gender can be whatever you want.
Where Republicans are saying, look, we're not discriminating against anyone, but we do believe that there is a difference between a man and a woman.
And there's no way you can change that regardless of how one wants to identify.
Now, you identify however you want, but that doesn't mean the definition of what science tells us changes.
And so a lot of families looked at that and said, wait a minute here.
I actually agree.
I think my daughter is my daughter, and my son is my son, and it is okay to acknowledge those things.
The Republican Party said, well, we're going to protect tradition.
We're going to protect those norms.
And so, Doc, you look at the economy, you look at customs and behavior, culture, immigration is a big issue.
Kamala Harris's father, and I pointed this out on CNN, and a guy called me anti-black for saying this.
Her father was an economist, not a conservative economist, back in the early 90s.
Talked about NAFTA, wrote a treatise about it.
And at the time, he said, NAFTA... It's going to destroy black workers, particularly blue-collar black workers, because his argument was mass illegal immigration causes economic dislocation.
So what do I mean by that for the audience?
Essentially what I'm saying is there are a significant class of Americans, particularly men, who work in a certain set of jobs, certain skill of jobs.
Well now, those rates can be undercut because those manufacturers, those businesses can now pay less to other individuals.
So now you're completely out of a job.
So what her father said at the time was- As a Marxist.
Yeah, as a Marxist.
Again, not a conservative for the audience.
So what he said, if we move forward with this, you're going to destroy the working black middle class and ultimately you're going to destroy the working middle class writ large.
Which was the argument of J.D. Vance's book, Hillbilly Elegy.
Hillbilly Elegy, that's right.
Decimated.
Decimated Appalachia.
Because you saw that those towns, those cities were completely destroyed.
Why?
Because many of those manufacturing jobs, they moved to Mexico.
They moved to other places.
Because the idea for NAFTA, and I'm going to roll this into the answer that I want to ultimately give.
The idea of NAFTA was...
This is going to lift everybody.
Yeah, we're going to move some jobs out, but the American people are going to get better jobs, better high-paying jobs.
I'm moving into the cities.
Sounds like trickle-down.
Well, it does.
It's like Clinton selling trickle-down.
But a lot of people now are saying, well, wait a minute here.
I don't want to live in a big city.
I don't want to sit behind a desk.
I actually liked working with my hands.
I was okay with the skill of the trade that my father taught me or that I may have learned in high school or after high school, after a year or two, because it paid me a good salary with benefits.
I can take care of my family, buy a home, put my kids through school if that was indeed their choice.
That's not the case anymore.
And so you look at that and you look at what Harris and Biden was representing in the Democratic Party writ large, and then you have Trump.
And when Trump was saying, and you saw this on the campaign trail in Ohio, Iowa, if you ship this job to Mexico, this manufacturing plant, then I'm going to tariff and tax the heck out of you.
Wait a minute here, Mr. President, we're going to keep the job here.
Trump said, I understand that mass illegal immigration does lead to economic dislocation because the vast majority of people who work in those lower skilled jobs are people of color, poor whites.
I have to defend those people.
Poor Hispanic.
Exactly.
That's my point, Doc.
So Trump was essentially saying, this is why we have to address this.
And then on the foreign policy part, Trump said...
Hold that, hold that.
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All right, our guest has made a quite declarative statement on CNN about the president's pick to run the second Trump administration.
I had long wondered how long before other outside Republican groups would say, all right, how many meetings do you need to have?
You've had one, you've had two, you've had three, you've had four, and then you'd still say, well, I don't know what I'm going to do.
Oh, well, I need another meeting.
At some point, I can't use the phrase I really want to use on a family-appropriate show.
You've got to get up and make a decision, and you guys know what I really want to say.
And so the Heritage and other groups are saying, enough with the meetings.
Come out and say you're going to either support this guy or not support him, so at least the president-elect has an opportunity to throw out someone else's name.
But if you're not going to do that, then allow him to go before a committee to defend himself and have a vote before the full Senate.
So, two questions for you.
Number one is, because you've been observing these things for a long time, and I'm close to it.
I'm part of it.
I don't have to get Senate confirmed, but I'm a nominee for the White House.
They're just moving so fast.
I mean, this is like 1990 in the Iraq War.
This is shock and awe.
So, do you see something different in the speed with which President Trump is nominating multiple ambassadors?
We don't usually see ambassadors being named until after the operation, right?
So I want your comparison of how it's going right now in terms of speed and organization.
And then secondly, 77 million.
I mean, the Republican senators voted for Merrick Garland.
They voted for Lloyd Austin.
Why are they having problems with their own party's president's nominees?
What's going on here?
Well, so I answer the latter first.
A lot of these guys In the Senate and in the House, won in part because Trump did so well.
Now, some will say, well, I outperformed him.
I just saw someone, I think, yesterday, the new guy that just won.
And it's like, well, sir, with all due respect, if Trump would have lost, you probably would have performed really poorly in your Senate race.
Just be honest here, right?
Donald Trump won with, indeed, a mandate.
There is just no doubt in my mind about this, and I've been saying this on CNN over and over and over again.
You can try to twist it, you can spin it, you can paint it, you can put it into whatever kind of bottle you want and shake it up and say, ha-ha, here you go.
It's not going to change the definition of a mandate.
But they're trying to do this.
The mainstream media is trying to say, well, it's not so big.
But it is.
77 million!
It is.
He won the popular vote, which Republicans rarely win.
He won the Electoral College by, what, 303, I think, give or take.
I might be wrong.
And look how well he did with people of color.
That's my point.
With people of color in particular, Donald Trump performed better than any Republican with Hispanics ever.
Ever, ever since Gallup started conducting that data.
He performed better than any Republican since Richard Nixon with black men.
Better than any Republican with ages.
So what are the Republicans in the Senate doing?
What do they think they're doing?
Because I think some of them are guessing that, okay, Trump's going to get sworn in, and yeah, everything looks like it's going well now, easy coasting, and it's going to be chaos.
I think that's what they're betting on.
And I think they want the ability to say, well, I didn't necessarily support all of this.
They want to be able to go in before the media.
They think there are going to be problems, and now they want to wash their hands beforehand?
That's what I think.
That's what I think.
But go to the first point.
It's really going fast and smooth.
Okay, and I'm going to get to that.
I think the transition is doing an amazing job.
I think they've nominated some really good choices.
As I said in that clip on CNN, if you're not going to support someone, have enough respect for the president-elect and the people who voted for him by saying, look, Mr. President, I know this is your person.
I got some issues, and I just can't get over these issues.
Is there somebody else?
And if there isn't anybody else, then help me try to get over these issues.
Some of these guys aren't doing that.
And that, to me, is problematic because when a president wins, Donald Trump has been very clear about the people he wanted to nominate to go into Washington with him.
He wanted disruptors.
He wanted outsiders.
He wanted people who were going to think outside of the box in an unorthodox way.
And the American people, for a year-plus, Listen to that message.
And they said, you know what, Mr. President, if you deliver on economics, if you deliver on immigration, if you keep my sons and daughters out of these foreign conflicts, nominate whoever the hell you want as long as they do well.
We're giving you that mandate by voting for you.
And so I was frustrated in that clip because to me, those senators, and this is my issue with Washington in general, they don't have to run for reelection again for six years, most of them.
Trump will already be gone.
So they know they can play these games and there is no recourse.
No one's going to challenge them.
And that's why my argument has been the president at some point, if this continues, needs to come out and say, I understand you have advise and consent.
But the American people have given me the authority to govern.
I am choosing these people to help me govern.
Now, you go to your constituents and tell your constituents why you are blocking people who are going to help me move my America First agenda forward, which is what the vast majority of people in this country voted for.
And let's see how that's going to work out for them.
What's your prediction come January?
Because Hank Seth is like one of the first.
I think Pete gets confirmed.
You know, to be transparent, I'm good friends with his attorney, Tim Palatour.
I have heard nothing but very positive things about Pete.
What about the former Democrats?
I mean, because they're going to get stick, right?
The Bobbies, the Tulses.
Well, they are.
But look at Fetterman.
Well, yeah, but he's not indicative of the Democrats.
But also look at some Dems in the House now have come out and said, you know, they don't get to vote on these, but some Dems in the House have said they think some of these folks should be listened to, Democrats should meet with them, and go from there.
My thoughts on this, Doc, are quite simple.
Allow every single nominee to go before committee.
Let them rise or fall on the merits of their ability to persuasively articulate that they can or cannot do the job.
If they can't do the job, they're not going to go through.
But if they can showcase, they understand the nuances, they have plans in place to follow President-elect Trump's agenda to improve things and make things better for the American people, then that, to me, should get an approval out of committee to go before the entire body of the Senate.
That, I think, is reasonable and fair.
Do you think he gets all of them through?
I think Pete gets through...
Tulsi?
I think Tulsi's gonna be tough.
What about Bobby?
And I like Tulsi.
I think she's gonna be tough.
Can Bobby be forgiven for being a Kennedy who's MAGA? You know, Van Jones is right when he said that Bobby is the most relevant Kennedy right now.
Yeah, totally.
No one knows the names of any other Kennedy but RFK Jr. And so I think he's going to get confirmed ultimately.
I think Tulsi's issue is that there are some huge war hawks on the Republican side in the Senate.
And they vehemently disagree with Tulsi's analysis and approach to Middle Eastern policies.
And my thing is...
Despite the fact that she's a colonel in the army.
Well, right.
I mean, she's active, currently active.
My thing is, it's okay to say, look, Tulsi, we don't agree with you, but as I said a couple days ago, Doc, I think I was talking about RFK. These nominees aren't going to just get confirmed and run amok and do whatever they want.
They have to move forward with the president's agenda.
President Trump is going to be the person who's ultimately setting the tone and stage for what he wants.
And so Tulsi, RFK, Pete, anybody else may have their own thoughts about certain things, but at the end of the day, they will follow the mandate from the president because he's been given that mandate by the American people.
But again, I think some Republicans just really have issues with Tulsi.
It's going to be tough.
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This is very specific, but I'm curious because I say this to you, Michael, as somebody who was born in another country, born in England, spent 15 years of my life in Hungary after the fall of communism and then came here only 16 years ago.
And I've traveled the world from Asia to Africa, you name it.
I have never found a country, never found a country which is so obsessed With the question of abortion as America, it's just really perverse.
That it is the perennial political issue, that you all have marches for more abortion every election cycle.
But if you look at it from a global perspective or an internet, it is truly odd.
It doesn't happen anywhere else.
Even if I can interrupt, Doc, even the Scandinavian countries that Democrats love to point out, you can't get abortion passed in many of them, I think, what is it?
16 weeks.
The European standard is much higher than what the Democrats would like to have here.
So...
Given that the, what do they call it, the women's choice, whatever, reproductive...
Yeah, the women's march movement, all that.
Yeah, but the reproductive health, blah, blah, blah, you know, killing a baby's reproductive health and stuff, didn't bring the results they wanted in November.
What does that mean for the Democrats?
Are we beyond this?
I mean, you look for the March for Life.
I go to the March for Life every year.
President Trump is the only president to have addressed it as president.
Is abortion...
Dying out as a mobilizational issue for the left, given it didn't seem to work six weeks ago in America.
What do you think?
I think so.
I mean, look, I'm having my first daughter.
You and I were just talking about that in like a week and a half.
You're not.
Your wife is.
My wife is.
Yeah, let me go.
Thank you, Doc, because if she sees it, she's going to say, wait a minute.
So to me, you know, life is incredibly important, and it's an issue that I've been involved with, I want to say, since my sophomore year of college.
I got involved with some pro-life groups in Georgia where I took to college.
And so it's just been an important issue for me.
I grew up in the Baptist Church in the South, a family of pastors.
This just wasn't up for discussion.
We don't support this.
As my grandmother would say, we don't believe in this, to put it bluntly.
I think it's dying out.
The question for me, though, as conservatives, we have an amazing opportunity to reinvigorate the importance of family.
And what does that look like in terms of policy?
I think we have an opportunity to start talking to a lot of younger men of every ethnicity to talk about the importance of fatherhood, the importance of masculinity, not only in our young sons' lives, but also in our daughters' lives, to choose the right men, to have respect for themselves and how they portray themselves outwardly to the world.
And for our women, I think this is a unique opportunity for women to say, keep your standards high for chivalry, For a man who's going to protect you, who's going to love you, who's not going to cheat on you.
You do not have to go and get an abortion because we want you to know that the guy you choose is going to be there with you.
And so I think the Republican Party has an opportunity to say we're going to be the party that's going to restore.
It's a restorative effort of values that conservatives are going to return to the American ecosystem, if you will.
And we're not trying to force anything on anybody, but what we're saying is people are happier when they're married.
Women are happier when they choose the right guy versus the wrong guy.
And people are more successful if they're married.
And we can carry that matter.
I think we should.
I think you're right.
It's an opportunity to revitalize the family.
But let me flip it back to the far cruder question I asked.
Is abortion no longer that winning issue for the Democrats, or are they just so ideologically wedded to it?
I think they are ideologically wedded to it.
I don't think it's going to go away for them.
Which, again, is why I bring it back to us as conservatives.
We need to take it away from them.
Got it.
Because one of their arguments will say, well, we're taking away choice.
And then they'll say, well, what about rape or health?
And President Trump is saying, look, I'm following Ronald Reagan's old doctrine on this.
Rape, incest, life of the mother.
Your thing.
But avoid those three things, then you should keep that child.
So then the question for us as conservatives become, then we have to form an ecosystem economically.
This goes to Trump's message about the economy and immigration.
We need the conditions where people can be vibrant and raise that healthy family.
We have to, I think, stress in our civil society.
In our education, and I know people have a lot of views about this, but I think kids spend a lot of time at school, time at school, and we need to say, young men, young ladies, wait until you get married.
And if you're not going to wait, then make sure it's the right one.
Well, it's what Marielder says, right?
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All right, cut 10, please.
And then if you've got...
Do you have...
Guy, do you have any B-roll of Musk and Vivek in the system?
Yeah, because I'm going to...
In the second half of this segment, I'm going to talk about Elon.
And if you have some B-roll, you could play it in the background.
All right, so this is going to be a little bit shorter.
So this is going to be seven and a half.
All right, so...
Coming with cut 10, yeah, coming with cut 10. The anti-blackness that has happened in Michael's comments is very concerning.
The reference he just utilized is the vice president's father when talking about a policy on illegal immigrants.
Let's be very clear.
There is one entity that's been pushing this, and this is Donald Trump, and that is why Democrats have to come to that.
Well, Michael, black people.
John, I mean, most Americans are worried about immigration.
I didn't use an anti-black policy.
Michael, you're not talking to Donald Trump.
John asked me my specific points on this.
This is how I would address it.
I think a lot of Democrats would also say this is systematic.
One example from 1988 referencing the vice president's father.
I can list a litany of examples, Michael.
Let's not call BS this morning.
Immigration is a problem.
Most Americans find it to be a problem, including many Democrats.
Friends, we've got to end this discussion.
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I'm super glad that the other person, the other guest there was remote because...
That was just wrong.
Calling you anti-black, I'm surprised you controlled your temper so well.
Let's not talk about that idiot.
Let's talk about, I asked you about abortion being a dying issue for the Democrats.
What about race division?
We've looked at the figures for black men, for Hispanics.
It looks as if the two mobilizational pillars of the left just didn't work.
However, I don't think they can give it up, can they?
No, look, I think the Democratic Party, and this isn't just a matter of Schermichael's opinion, this is backed by data.
Your guests can Google this if they want.
It's becoming a more female-oriented, very progressive-leaning party.
And white.
And white.
With the exception of black women.
Black women are still very dominant.
But also urban.
Yeah, yeah.
Urban, female, educated.
Very educated, affluent, well-traveled, all this other crap.
It's not the Workers' Party.
No, no, it's not, which is interesting, right?
Because this is so funny to me, and I always joke with this among my friends.
Donald Trump, billionaire, highly successful, has turned the Republican Party into a working-class party in many ways.
And the big question that I have, and I've been thinking, you know, Doc, I think about a lot of these things.
I've been writing a lot in my journals as I've been trying to think this through.
What is the policy orientation of this new party under Donald Trump?
The Republican Party and a lot of these voters who voted for the president-elect, I wouldn't call them Republicans.
I would say they're Trump voters, but they're soft.
Meaning, if we don't solidify that support, it won't become crystallized in future elections.
What is that going to look like for us in terms of making sure that the policy orientation of the GOP is reflective of this new working class Base of people who really got President Trump and Republicans across the finish line.
So Republicans in Congress have to orient themselves in a way that matches the message of President Donald Trump in terms of the policies that they try to move forward.
But let's observe, you said it's peculiar, but it's doubly peculiar.
And I saw this at Butler, Pennsylvania, when the president went back there.
It's not just the billionaire top of the ticket.
They're like tens of millions of Americans, especially young men, who are super excited by Elon Musk.
A lot of guys like Musk.
A lot of guys like Musk.
Musk is cool, man.
Talk to us about how that changes the GOP's mechanical advantage.
Because, I'm sorry, you're the expert, but I look at the last two weeks on Capitol Hill, and I look at a billionaire walking around with his son on his shoulders meeting and saying, this is new!
Yeah, it is new.
The businessman billionaires walking around The capital, but not as lobbyists, but as guys who say, I'm going to fix the government for the boss.
This is a new age of politics, isn't it?
Well, think about, what, 150 plus years ago when you had the wealthiest men who helped save the United States from going into bankruptcy.
I mean, you know this world.
Or help win World War II. Or help win World War II. So when people try to say, well, Elon Musk is somehow doing something that is appalling and an affront to democracy, my response is always, and you don't know the history of the United States.
Because a lot of very entrepreneurial men In the past, have saved this country multiple times.
And we embraced it then.
Why not embrace it now?
A lot of guys get excited about Musk.
I like Elon Musk because I think he's a brilliant thinker, his ingenuity.
Men like other guys who think outside of the box in terms of solving problems.
Because at our core, we're problem solvers.
We fix things.
And when we meet another guy who's unique in his ability to approach him problems, like, holy smoke, let me check this guy out.
Now, you'll have some weak-minded guys who get a little jealous, but the strong, dominant guy's like, man, did you see what he's doing?
Did you see that idea?
That's brilliant.
So that's, I think, a part of Musk's appeal.
I tell the story, I've said it, I think, once or twice already on my show, that I was at Butler, as I said, for the second time, and I'm sitting behind J.D., and there's this guy in a ball cap sitting next to him.
I couldn't tell who he was.
I thought it was that rapper that likes the president.
And 20 minutes into the president's speech, Butler was, I mean, there were people as far as the eye could see.
You were there during the shooting?
No, the second one.
Oh, God.
I was going to say I didn't know that.
And this chant starts behind us.
And this chant starts waving through the people up to us.
And I hear most of these young men going, Elon, Elon.
And the guy in the ball cap turns around.
And it's Elon, right?
And this is when he jumps up on stage and goes, fight, fight, fight.
This is rural Pennsylvania, Michael.
This isn't Boston.
This isn't Palo Alto.
And the young guys of rural Pennsylvania are completely jazzed that Elon Musk is there.
That's interesting politically.
It is interesting.
It's interesting politically, but again, it goes back to my earlier point about manliness.
There's a book by conservative, I think he's deceased now, former Harvard government philosopher, conservative, what is it, Harvey Mansfield.
Yeah.
Yes!
It's titled Manliness.
It came out a couple years ago.
It's an easy read.
I'd highly recommend it to the audience.
Check it out if you're a mom.
Check it out if you're a guy.
Check it out.
Read it to your sons.
Discuss it at the family table.
But Harvey really sort of sets a course of...
There needs to be a return to manliness and masculinity and there needs to be a return to people that young men can look up to.
And you can disagree with Elon Musk's politics all you want.
You can't tell me that what this guy has been able to do for humanity isn't frankly incredible.
And there's only every couple of decades you see one of these incredible men who are really moving the needle forward for what will be humanity's next frontier in the next 150 plus years.
And so for a lot of young guys, they look at Musk and they look at what is possible.
To look at this billionaire guy who's living life on his own terms, at his own record, accord rather, and he's shaking things up.
He's very blunt about the way he feels.
And a lot of guys want to be able to have that return to their dominance as men.
And I want to just say this because some Democrats will say, well, men were toxic.
That's not what I'm saying.
What I'm saying is once upon a time, society valued the role of men.
Yeah.
We preserved our women, we protected our women, but even the women...
And we built stuff.
Exactly.
And we built stuff.
And he's building stuff.
That's lingering, Doc.
Yeah.
He's building stuff.
And that's why so many of these young guys are struggling, are troubled, because they don't have that spark in them anymore, that sort of push still.
Or a positive role model.
Or a positive role model.
I just ordered it.
Get it yourself.
Harvey C. Mansfield.
Manliness.
Get it today.
Because we have new examples of it.
And they're changing the culture as well as the political environment.
I'm excited about it.
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All right, let's play our last cut.
This is from AmFest.
I was there as well, just before the president at the weekend.
Here is the incoming president of the United States.
And we're going to change it because your border is a disaster.
Your border is a disaster.
What's going on?
And you just have a few days to wait.
We're going to be fully operational, I would say, by about 2 o'clock on the 20th.
20th of January.
Relax, guys.
Within two hours of him raising his hand, they're going to be fully operational.
Well, with the likes of Tom Holman, Governor Noem, Stephen Miller, Kash Patel.
Oh, yeah, baby.
It's going to be super exciting.
Last question, just a little fun one.
Although it's serious as well, don't you find it...
I don't know if amusing is the right word.
Let's say ironic.
That the biggest issue that won him the election in 2016 is probably, again, the biggest issue.
The Democrats let him win.
I mean, if there's one thing you're not going to give the enemy is the weapon he won with last time.
And they did it!
You would think, right?
Are they just that stupid?
Maybe.
You think.
It is ironic, Doc.
It is ironic.
And here he is again, almost eight years later, the same issue.
And it's a lot worse.
And Democrats love to say, well, immigration is lower now.
Well, yeah, obviously, because in 2022, you had the highest number of illegals coming to the country ever.
It's only lower, because they legalized illegals.
They did the shell game.
You have to factor that into place.
I don't disagree with Donald Trump's position on illegal immigration, and I'll tell you why.
When a lot of illegal immigrants go into cities and they have to displace Americans because they need housing, they need health care, increased safety, they need vouchers for food for their children, they have to go to school to get an education, and a lot of people, usually poor people, of every ethnicity, Regardless of race, right?
But Americans.
Look at this and they say, well, wait a minute here.
I've been waiting so long to get a voucher to move to a better part of town so that I can get a better job.
Or I've been waiting forever to get this extra assistance and I no longer could get it because you guys said the money wasn't there.
Or I am a legal immigrant who came here five years ago.
I don't get a free phone.
I don't get $10,000 on a card.
But the other individuals do.
And so it's nonsensical.
And in that clip you played of the guy who called me anti-black, it was crazy to me that he would say that because I was literally defending why illegal immigration is a problem and why Trump was correct because of the implications on black urban class people.
And here's another black guy who happened to be a Democrat who was advancing illegal immigration, which has clearly statistically been against the interest It doesn't make any sense to me, Doc.
So to your point, the irony, yes, it is hilarious.
But you know what?
Sometimes, Doc, people don't learn the first time.
And I don't know if they'll learn the second time either.
Well, in that case, we'll find out in...
2028!
We'll find out in two years' time.
That's right.
We'll find out in two years' time.
If they keep digging that hole...
Just dig it, Democrats.
Just dig it.
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