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| During a football match between Israeli team Maccabi and Dutch club Ajax, held in Amsterdam, Israeli fans and one of the players refused to observe a minute of silence for the flood victims in Spain. | ||
| Instead, they chanted death to Arabs. | ||
| After the game, they went through the streets shouting anti-Arab war chants, ripping down Palestinian flags. | ||
| And destroying property. | ||
| The locals responded in force. | ||
| Several Israelis were beaten. | ||
| Injured. | ||
| And some are reportedly missing. | ||
| The mainstream media is predictably spinning it as an anti-Semitic hate crime against the Israelis. | ||
| But the majority of the world now sees through that. | ||
| As endless images of dead children flood social media, Israel and the United States are being solidified in the minds of the masses as war criminals. | ||
| The U.S. funded war for a greater Israel has now entered into Lebanon. | ||
| Netanyahu warned the Lebanese people to leave their homes because Hezbollah may have hidden weapons in them. | ||
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It placed rockets in your living rooms and missiles in your garage. | |
| Those rockets and missiles are aimed directly at our cities, directly at our citizens. | ||
| To defend our people against Hezbollah strikes, we must take out those weapons. | ||
| Now, starting this morning, the IDF has warned you to get out of harm's way. | ||
| I urge you. | ||
| Take this warning seriously. | ||
| And he even promised that they could return to their homes. | ||
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Once our operation is finished, you can come back safely to your homes. | |
| Israeli forces then proceeded to use American weaponry to level and destroy entire residential neighborhoods, neighborhoods which have existed for centuries. | ||
| After their massive bombing campaign, Israeli troops were sent into Lebanon, and they failed. | ||
| Israel has a long history of failure when it comes to trying to invade their neighbor, Lebanon. | ||
| And without USA bombs, Israel will run out of soldiers. | ||
| One of the main reasons Israel was created was to one day act as an economic corridor for the West. | ||
| That mission appears to be failing. | ||
| As Israel and the United States are burning children and calling it self-defense, the East is beginning to get a stronger foothold in the area politically. | ||
| The US government is run by people who have been bought and paid for by Israel. | ||
| Many believe that Trump will negotiate peace. | ||
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What we want is peace all over the world. | |
| And many believe that he will help ignite a war. | ||
| Unlike liberal Kamala, I will support Israel's right to win its war on terror. | ||
| You have to support that. | ||
| Gotta win, gotta finish it all. | ||
| And instead of pandering to the jihad sympathizers and America-hating radicals, we will deport them. | ||
| We will deport them very quickly. | ||
| We have no choice. | ||
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This is on the occasion of Donald Trump's presidency. | |
| God bless America! | ||
| God bless Israel. | ||
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Woo! | |
| The fastest way to ignite an all-out war between the East and the West would be for the U.S. and Israel to invade Iran. | ||
| And if resetting the world currency is the catalyst for all of this madness, then a world war would serve as a useful cover story for the history books. | ||
| Reporting for Infowars, this is Greg Reese. | ||
| Alright folks, that is the latest Reese Report. | ||
| Find and share at band.video and infowars.com. | ||
| I'm Harrison Smith. | ||
| This is the American Journal. | ||
| Coming to you on what could very well be the last week of Infowars' existence. | ||
| We go to the auction block in just two short days. | ||
| November 13th. | ||
| So... | ||
| We'll just keep doing what we've been doing. | ||
| I've been saying it for the last several months. | ||
| It's been such a rollercoaster ride. | ||
| We're just gonna keep doing the show. | ||
| Keep broadcasting live until our key cards don't get us in the building anymore. | ||
| So this could be it, or it could be just a transition into something bigger and better and novel and even more powerful. | ||
| Regardless, we will not stop. | ||
| We are committed to this mission, and we're achieving victory on practically every front. | ||
| Stay tuned. | ||
| Do the Daily Dispatch on the other side. | ||
| Big one today, folks. | ||
| We'll be joined by Angela McArdle in the third hour, president of the Libertarian Party, to talk about what the Trump presidency means. | ||
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It's Monday, November 11th in the year of our Lord, 2024. | |
| And you're listening to The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| Watch it live right now at band.video. | ||
| Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Welcome to The American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith, producing you live this Monday morning on what could very well be the final few days of InfoWars broadcast existence. | ||
| In case you're just joining us, as I know some radio stations don't carry that first five minutes. | ||
| We don't know what's going to happen. | ||
| The auction is in two days on the 13th of November. | ||
| We'll find out our fate then. | ||
| Will we be purchased by somebody friendly that will cooperate and work with Alex to sort of let things continue with Alex as an employee? | ||
| Or will we be snatched up by the likes of Media Matters or some other leftist group? | ||
| We just don't know. | ||
| We really don't know. | ||
| And it really all depends on, in my opinion, my reading of the situation, depends on how desperate they are for the scalp of InfoWars, for the trophy of the InfoWars, you know, stuffed body on the mantle. | ||
| And you gotta wonder. | ||
| You gotta wonder because they know it's not gonna stop us. | ||
| They know we're just going to keep going. | ||
| They know that Alex Jones is going to keep broadcasting in one form or another. | ||
| It's not actually going to make us go away. | ||
| And so they have to ask themselves, is it really worth it? | ||
| After all, if you're going to buy Infowars to allow it to continue, it's not that big of a risk. | ||
| It's not like you're just spending a bunch of money and getting nothing. | ||
| You're spending a bunch of money to invest in an extremely profitable business. | ||
| So, you know, you'd probably be willing to go a lot higher since you know you're going to make that money back, whereas people that just want to shut us down, I mean, how much are they willing to spend just to shut us down, considering that shutting us down makes them nothing. | ||
| There is no return on investment in that case. | ||
| So hopefully we have a good, friendly buyer that can... | ||
| Let us continue, but if not, we will continue one way or another. | ||
| And it really just is a question of how desperate they are to shut us down. | ||
| And unfortunately, from history, we know they're extremely desperate to shut us down and are willing to do practically anything. | ||
| So we'll see how it goes. | ||
| We will see how it goes. | ||
| We'll continue to do our job here. | ||
| And like I said in the first five, it's been such a roller coaster. | ||
| It's been such an up and down journey. | ||
| You know, saga over the last couple years that at this point she's like, we're just going to come in, do the show until our key cards don't get us in the building anymore. | ||
| Until we're blocked from access to the broadcast equipment, we will continue to man our posts. | ||
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| Keep us on the air and in the fight and prepare us for whatever comes next, the next stage in the rocket flight of Infowars. | ||
| We have a lot to talk about today. | ||
| We'll be joined in the third hour by Angela McArdle, president of the Libertarian National Party. | ||
| Talk about what a Trump presidency means for libertarianism and libertarians. | ||
| We'll be taking your calls throughout the second hour. | ||
| We'll be talking probably mostly about the Senate leadership race. | ||
| in the first hour. | ||
| We'll get to all of it, but we'll begin today, as we do every day, with our daily dispatch. | ||
| Here it is, folks, your Daily Dispatch for Monday, the 11th of November, 2024. | ||
| Trump says Senate GOP leader candidates must agree to recessed appointments. | ||
| President-elect Trump demanded on Sunday that the next Senate GOP leader allow him to make recessed appointments, which would effectively let him fast-track his nominees and appointments without needing Senate approval. | ||
| Recessed appointments, which are intended for emergencies, can last up to two years without the Senate ever giving their advice or consent. | ||
| Trump on Sunday suggested using the practice as a way to avoid facing opposition in the Senate to his picks. | ||
| Any Republican senator seeking the coveted leadership position in the United States Senate must agree to recess appointments in the Senate, without which we will not be able to get people confirmed in a timely manner, Trump wrote in a post on social platform X. And so again, this story is just about the leadership and essentially Mitch McConnell is stepping down from Senate leadership and wants a new leader picked before the incoming senators are sworn in and it's basically a three-way race | ||
| between Rick Scott, John Thune, and John Cornyn. | ||
| And there's a lot of discussion about this. | ||
| Part of me is like, is this just a distraction? | ||
| I mean, we just had the election and suddenly we're at each other's throats and, you know, tearing ourselves apart over this, you know, leadership. | ||
| Seems a little bit of a psyop to me, but it is important to pay attention to as... | ||
| If we have an unfriendly Senate, I mean, that's it for Trump's agenda. | ||
| So it's time for the old-school, blue-blood, Mitch McConnell-style Republicans to be humbled and just be forced to admit you lost. | ||
| You lost. | ||
| Your entire ideology lost. | ||
| Your style of governance lost. | ||
| You have lost. | ||
| So it's time to step back, step down, and let the MAGA... We'll get back into that and we'll talk quite a bit about the choices and who they are and everything on the other side. | ||
| Suffice it to say, if you're looking for somebody to have a track record as good as, I don't know, a place like Infowars, you're just not going to find it. | ||
| This has been the big takeaway for me, seeing all the things posted about the Senate leadership candidates It's like they're wrong about everything, and I don't know. | ||
| We'll get back into it. | ||
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Don't worry. | |
| Stay tuned for that. | ||
| We'll get back into it. | ||
| Just everything, from Black Lives Matter to the Russian hoax. | ||
| It's like, how did they fall for all of it every time? | ||
| It's very shocking. | ||
| We'll discuss and show you videos about the John Cornyns and John Thunes of the world. | ||
| Meanwhile, military officials reportedly discuss how to handle illegal orders from Trump. | ||
| Military officials the Pentagon, secretly met, are having informal discussions about what to do if Donald Trump were to give an illegal order, such as deploying the military domestically, CNN reports. | ||
| They're also preparing for the possibility he may change rules to be able to fire scores of career civil servants. | ||
| On the campaign trail, Trump is mold-sending the military after his political enemies. | ||
| Well, no. | ||
| Not really, but okay. | ||
| And also to turn back migrants at the southern border. | ||
| U.S. law generally prohibits active duty troops from being deployed for law enforcement purposes. | ||
| There are also fears he could gut the civil services in the Pentagon and replace fired staff and employees selected for their loyalty to him, which they should. | ||
| We voted for him, not for you. | ||
| So who do you think you are? | ||
| That's my question to the people in the Pentagon. | ||
| Who the hell do you think you are? | ||
| And who gave you the right? | ||
| The answer is nobody. | ||
| Nobody gave them the right to supersede the choice of the American people for Commander-in-Chief. | ||
| So that's treason what you're doing. | ||
| And I think really carefully about that. | ||
| We'll talk about that a little bit more later. | ||
| Alex Jones did a good job covering that last night. | ||
| And just how dangerous this is. | ||
| The deep state is real and then it must be extricated from our system of governance if America's to have hope at all. | ||
| Meanwhile, woman fired for refusing COVID vaccines wins record $12 million from rogue employer. | ||
| Congratulations, Lisa Domskib. | ||
| She worked at an insurance company, Blue Cross Blue Shield, as an IT specialist for over three decades. | ||
| decade she was fired from her position for refusing to take the jab which has since been proven to be neither safe nor effective after suing the company for religious discrimination against her catholic faith domsky was was awarded significant damages by a federal jury in detroit according to the associated press the ruling included 10 million dollars in punitive damages against blue cross blue shield of michigan as well as 1.7 million in lost wages and 1 million dollars in non-economic damages well done mr Miss Domsky, well done. | ||
| It shows you that just sticking to the truth, sticking by your guns, can eventually pay off. | ||
| And that should just be the beginning of the punishment coming down on companies for ordering this. | ||
| And I can't help but feel just a little bit, a little bit jealous. | ||
| But it's like, it's not easy being on the right side of things. | ||
| It's really not. | ||
| It turns out there's a lot of benefits in Not working for Infowars. | ||
| You just think, like, everybody else got, like, two years off. | ||
| We never stopped coming into work, ever. | ||
| It's like, we just knew there was no point. | ||
| We knew lockdown was a scam. | ||
| It was a total fraud. | ||
| We just never stopped coming in. | ||
| So, part of me is a little bit jealous for that. | ||
| Most people made a lot of money doing nothing over... | ||
| The COVID lockdown time period. | ||
| We didn't get any of that extra government cash, and we had to work every day. | ||
| It's a little annoying. | ||
| And then nobody forced us to get vaccines, so no $12 million settlement for us. | ||
| We just were right the whole time, and I guess we have our honor and bodily integrity and Legitimacy intact. | ||
| So, small price to pay, I guess. | ||
| I guess. | ||
| But it would be nice. | ||
| It would be nice to be making $12 million for refusing the vaccine. | ||
| Well done. | ||
| Well done to Ms. | ||
| Domsky there. | ||
| Meanwhile, DOJ announces charges in Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump. | ||
| This one's a weird one. | ||
| This one's a weird one, folks, and we'll get into this a little bit later. | ||
| The Justice Department on Friday announced federal charges and thwarted Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump before the presidential election. | ||
| According to court documents, Iranian officials asked Farhad Shakari, 51, in September to focus on surveilling and ultimately assassinating Trump. | ||
| Shakari is still at large in Iran, the Justice Department said. | ||
| This is a newly disclosed plot and marks yet another alleged attempt on Trump's life by the Iranian regime. | ||
| But again, this is all very weird. | ||
| He's an Afghan national residing in Tehran. | ||
| To how he was even, I mean, he's half a world away. | ||
| We'll get into it. | ||
| But it's also weird. | ||
| It was like three people were charged, two of them Jewish, one of them Iranian. | ||
| And the Iranian one was clearly not the guy in charge and kind of seemed like an idiot. | ||
| We'll show it to you. | ||
| We'll get back to that. | ||
| Finally, we have this crazy story. | ||
| FEMA official allegedly told workers to avoid Florida homes with Trump signs and has now been fired. | ||
| At the very least, I mean, this is insane. | ||
| It was one of those stories where when you first see it, you just think, there's no way this is real, this has to be fake. | ||
| Type of story that I would normally cover because you see stuff like this posted and it's like, it's too crazy to be true. | ||
| There's no way this is true. | ||
| No, it turns out it was totally true. | ||
| Marnie Washington was sacked for telling disaster relief workers in Lake Placid, Florida to, quote, not go to homes with yard signs supporting President-elect Trump, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said Saturday. | ||
| This is a clear violation of FEMA's core values and principles to help people regardless of their political affiliations, she said, adding, this employee has been terminated and we have referred to the matter to the Office of Special Counsel. | ||
| You've got people like, I believe it was Senator Josh Hawley put out a letter saying, you know, she has to be fired and, if necessary, prosecuted. | ||
| Like, if necessary, prosecuted. | ||
| Put this woman in jail immediately. | ||
| What are you talking about, if necessary, prosecuted? | ||
| This is a woman in charge of hurricane response for FEMA who was, first of all, stupid enough to put this in text. | ||
| This is how overconfident these scumbags are. | ||
| Texting people, avoid houses with Trump signs in the yard. | ||
| It's like impossible to say what a gigantic deal this is. | ||
| The fact that she thought she could get away with this, thought she could or should do this. | ||
| I mean, it just goes into what we talk about practically every day on this show. | ||
| The fact that these people get into office, they don't see their position as an obligation to fulfill. | ||
| They don't see it as a role, you know, themselves slotted given power and authority. | ||
| In this position in exchange for subduing their own political will and just doing what you're supposed to. | ||
| Instead, they see these positions as licensed to do horrible things to their political enemies. | ||
| And that's what they do. | ||
| If this is a sort of far down the line FEMA manager telling this to her local group, you don't think this same mindset is infecting The minds of the people with the exact same ideology, the exact same derangement syndrome higher up in FEMA. No, this woman needs to go to jail immediately. | ||
| And if we can't do that, We might as well just not have a country. | ||
| If you can't throw in prison a person who has been trusted with emergency response, people's lives on the line, Americans who've had their lives and homes and families destroyed by a storm, totally outside of their control, and yet this woman comes in and wants to leave them alone. | ||
| Without help, wants to leave them stranded and suffering because of a sign in their yard. | ||
| If we can't put this woman in jail, you're like, what is the point of having a government, actually? | ||
| Is this the point only to punish and withhold assistance from Trump supporters? | ||
| That's all the government seems able to do at this point. | ||
| So this woman has to go to prison, okay, immediately. | ||
| And there should be no question about this whatsoever. | ||
| So that's your Daily Dispatch. | ||
| Again, we'll get back to all these stories. | ||
| Just massive stories across the board. | ||
| Massive stories across the board here. | ||
| And, you know, the top story really over the whole weekend has been the Senate leadership decision taking place. | ||
| So Mitch McConnell announced he was retiring from Senate Majority Leader and wanted to have a replacement before the new class of senators who just got elected. | ||
| A week ago, take office. | ||
| And I don't know what it is about these people, if it really is just like... | ||
| Like, it can't just be narcissism, because even if it was just like narcissism and self-importance, for their own sake, they should be... | ||
| Attaching themselves to MAGA. Like, if all you want is to have power and, you know, to be on the popular side of things, then they would all be hardcore MAGA patriots because that's who gets the crowds. | ||
| That's who inspires loyalty. | ||
| That's who everybody loves. | ||
| That's who gets elected into office. | ||
| So, like, even if it was just narcissism, self-importance, and self-aggrandizement, like, they would be going over to Trump. | ||
| But, like, they're sacrificing their own political power. | ||
| They're doing things that are going to guarantee they'll never be voted for again by anybody in Trump's new Republican Party that has no patience for these types of deep state weasels, these slime monsters. | ||
| So the real battle is just now heating up, and there's so much to say about this. | ||
| And one thing I don't want to do today is just like rehash the election. | ||
| I feel like it's been almost a week since the election, and we're still just sort of in the afterglow, just enjoying the victory, watching the liberals fail to comprehend why they lost so badly. | ||
| That's all been fun. | ||
| But underneath the surface, I think everybody on the right realizes it's quiet and Too quiet. | ||
| It's a trap. | ||
| There's something going on here. | ||
| Why are the Democrats not being as insane as they always are? | ||
| I mean, they go more insane over, who knows, like a baseball player wearing a red hat than they seem to have gone over losing this election. | ||
| Is that because they're just demoralized? | ||
| Part of that certainly is true. | ||
| Over the weekend, Dave Pakman, who's just a very silly guy, was complaining that he was hemorrhaging viewers, supporters. | ||
| He's a leftist dude. | ||
| And he's like, maybe this is like an algorithm thing. | ||
| So then he reached out to other lefties and they're like, yeah, same with me. | ||
| I've lost hundreds of subscribers since the election. | ||
| And then he reached out to some of the people that had stopped following him to ask why. | ||
| And the answer they got is like, they're just like too tired. | ||
| They can't keep it up. | ||
| They can't, you know, handle the setback. | ||
| And I get it. | ||
| It's like you're tuned into this anxiety-producing festival of lies 24-7. | ||
| And then you lose the election when you were told over and over you were going to win it. | ||
| Yeah, I might just give up too. | ||
| It's just like, what is the point? | ||
| What is the point of... | ||
| Tearing our hair out and not succeeding. | ||
| I get the impulse. | ||
| Of course, these people are also just weak. | ||
| They don't have the will to win. | ||
| They really don't. | ||
| They have one setback. | ||
| And they're just like, forget it. | ||
| I'm just going to watch Netflix. | ||
| Forget this whole politics thing. | ||
| It's stupid anyway. | ||
| And again, I went over so long last week. | ||
| But for 30 years, Alex Jones and the Liberty-minded movement has just bashed our head against the wall, trying desperately to get people to care about what's going on and just getting, I mean, no support, no victories to speak of. | ||
| Now, of course, we're succeeding wildly. | ||
| Now, of course, we have set the message. | ||
| We are at the tip of the spear. | ||
| We have caused a sea change in American politics that will reverberate for all of history. | ||
| So that's what happens when you stick to it and you win and you have the will to fight and you don't get dismayed or demoralized after one or two setbacks. | ||
| So there's certainly that. | ||
| There's definitely an aspect of demoralization and them just giving up. | ||
| But also, they're insane. | ||
| Aren't they still insane? | ||
| I mean, that hasn't changed, right? | ||
| So, what are they planning? | ||
| What are they working on behind the scenes? | ||
| What are they orchestrating or organizing? | ||
| What false flag attack or what national riot is going to break out? | ||
| And we'll talk a little bit about that today as well, because they have sort of advertised a little bit what they're going to do. | ||
| At the end of the day, the Senate needs to get on board with Trump. | ||
| And that's it. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| You know, they try to portray this as like, when it comes to Senate, Trump loyalty above everything else. | ||
| Well, it's loyalty to Trump's political ideology. | ||
| Because Trump's political ideology is what we voted for. | ||
| It's what won the biggest popular vote for a Republican president ever. | ||
| He is who we chose. | ||
| You may have come along with him. | ||
| You may have been dragged in on his coattails. | ||
| But we did not vote for John Cornyn or John Thune to continue the neocon losing with grace strategy that has almost destroyed our country over the last several decades. | ||
| So these people, it's like they feel like they're still in charge. | ||
| They think they have a right to To be in charge because they've been in office for so long because they have embedded themselves in the heart of the establishment of a Republican system. | ||
| We have to make it clear. | ||
| And really it should be clear to everybody. | ||
| We need collective punishment in the Senate. | ||
| You all need to get behind Trump or you're all going to get replaced. | ||
| If you all let John Cornyn get in and start messing up Trump's agenda. | ||
| You're all gonna pay the price for it. | ||
| Like, you all need to pressure each other. | ||
| Kind of like when you're a parent and you have, you know, three kids. | ||
| You don't know who it is that ate the piece of cake they weren't supposed to. | ||
| So you go, all right, until one of you fesses up, we're punishing all three of you. | ||
| They tend to find out who it was pretty quick after that. | ||
| So it's like, all right, Until you all get behind Trump, you're all gonna be primary. | ||
| We're sick of the status quo. | ||
| We're sick of how it's been for the last several decades. | ||
| That's what compelled Trump to the massive unprecedented victory he enjoyed last Tuesday. | ||
| And so it's time. | ||
| We have a lot of videos from Trump announcing his new plans. | ||
| And we also have a lot of videos of John Cornyn, John Thune, and even Rick Scott, who I guess is the MAGA choice, but all of them fall for the lies or are part of the lies. | ||
| We'll show you videos. | ||
| And we almost need, maybe we'll do a live, a spreadsheet where it's like, which lies did they fall for? | ||
| And it is crazy. | ||
| It is really astonishing and impactful when you look at every Republican in the government, and they all fell for the Russia hoax, and they all fell for the Black Lives Matter hoax, and they all fall for climate change. | ||
| They all fall for everything. | ||
| Like, how are these people even still in office? | ||
| Because we knew these things were fake from the get-go. | ||
| They didn't, or are they liars? | ||
| I mean, I'll know which one's better, stupid or liars. | ||
| That's our choice at this point. | ||
| We'll get back to it. | ||
| Stay tuned. | ||
| All right, welcome back. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, this is the American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| We'll be joined in the third hour by Angela McArdle, leader of the Libertarian Party. | ||
| Talk about what the Trump election means. | ||
| And the election is still going on, apparently. | ||
| Believe it or not. | ||
| Tomorrow will be a week from when Election Day actually happened and they're still counting ballots in House races and the majority is still up for grabs in the House unless I'm mistaken. | ||
| It would take sort of a miracle to get the Democrat wing up to majority. | ||
| If I'm not mistaken, there are 13 more Republicans than Democrats having one right now, but there's still 18 up for grabs. | ||
| I'm looking for the... | ||
| There's an AP article that lays it out. | ||
| Regardless, Trump wins Arizona, the final state called in the 2024 presidential election. | ||
| Donald Trump will carry Arizona for the first time since 2016. | ||
| The Associated Press projects winning the state's 11 electoral votes. | ||
| Polls showed the race between former president and Kamala Harris was virtually tied in Arizona in the days leading up to the election, with at least one poll indicating that Trump was edging ahead. | ||
| Both candidates and their running mates made several visits to Arizona before the election, which remained a major electoral battleground in 2024. | ||
| In his most recent visit, Trump made an appearance with conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson in Glendale last Thursday. | ||
| It basically took a week to count all of the votes, but apparently they're in now. | ||
| And Trump won, leaving his final electoral vote count at 312. | ||
| And so the discussion now is about Trump's cabinet and who he's choosing to surround himself by. | ||
| From JNS.org. | ||
| Kushner returns to advise Trump on administration. | ||
| Jared Kushner was among the key figures in the president-elect's first term and led many of his successes, they say. | ||
| But supposedly he has returned to closely assist the president-elect in preparations for building the new administration. | ||
| Which is not good to hear. | ||
| Not good to hear at all. | ||
| After all, he was responsible for... | ||
| A lot of the stuff that Trump supporters did not like about Trump's first administration. | ||
| And so far, during the campaign, he had been deliberately and very auspiciously just left out. | ||
| His absence was very evident. | ||
| And so, we keep hearing rumors about these people being involved. | ||
| I don't want to... | ||
| I don't want to put too much stake in it until we actually know. | ||
| Until we actually know. | ||
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| Well, it's things like Mike Pompeo. | ||
| Ben Shapiro put out last week. | ||
| He's like, I have an inside source. | ||
| I'm not speculating about this. | ||
| Mike Pompeo is going to be... | ||
| The Secretary of State. | ||
| Or he is going to be high up in Trump's administration. | ||
| Clearly somebody in Trump's administration had told Ben Shapiro that Mike Pompeo was for sure 100% going to be in the cabinet only for Donald Trump to put out a statement making very clear that he had no place in the cabinet. | ||
| He or Nikki Haley or any neocon war hawks would not be given a position. | ||
| So it's that type of thing where it's like, yeah, people are saying Kushner is involved. | ||
| Is he actually? | ||
| We don't really know. | ||
| Are bad people actually going to be put in the cabinet? | ||
| We'll just have to wait and see. | ||
| Trump has put out a statement on this, saying, I will not be inviting former Ambassador Nikki Haley or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join the Trump administration, which is currently in formation. | ||
| I very much enjoyed and appreciate working with them previously and would like to thank them for their service in our country, Make America Great Again. | ||
| So, from Trump, no uncertainty there. | ||
| They will not be welcomed back. | ||
| To the administration, which is very, very good news. | ||
| And the result of a lot of activism on the part of MAGA Republicans, you know, steering him away from the Mike Pompeo's. | ||
| However, there's some not great stuff happening here. | ||
| Elise Stefanik. | ||
| I never know how to pronounce her last name. | ||
| Representative from New York has apparently been selected to be the ambassador to the UN, I believe. | ||
| Yeah, the cabinet is the US ambassador to the United Nations. | ||
| Elise is an incredibly strong, tough and smart America first fighter. | ||
| She also is very much committed to an Israel first agenda, which is not necessarily what we want representing us America at the UN. So it's not all good news, and the question really is whether Trump's administration will be stocked with Warhawk Zionists or not. | ||
| One good piece of news that I think we can all absolutely get behind is that Trump is going to appoint former ICE director Tom Homan to be the next border czar, saying nobody is better at policing our borders. | ||
| Now, whether that's Borders are the sort of pretend position that Kamala Harris occupied, I think he should be head of DHS. He should take Mayorkas' job, if anything, you know, once Mayorkas goes to prison, as he should. | ||
| But this guy is exactly who you want, John Homan. | ||
| Let's go to clip number 14 here. | ||
| Meet our new Borders are Tom Homan. | ||
| Here he is. | ||
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| Holman, your name is on this, is this correct? | ||
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Yes, I signed that memo. | |
| So you are the author of the family separation policy? | ||
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I am not the author of this memo. | |
| You're not the author, but you signed the memo. | ||
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Yes, a zero tolerance memo. | |
| So you provided the official recommendation to Secretary Nielsen for the United States to pursue family separation. | ||
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I gave Secretary Nielsen numerous recommendations on how to secure the border and save lives. | |
| But it says here that you gave her numerous options, but the recommendation was option three, family separation. | ||
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What I'm saying, this is not the only paper where we've given the Secretary numerous options to secure the border and save lives. | |
| And so the recommendation, of the many that you recommended, you recommended family separation. | ||
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I recommended zero tolerance. | |
| Which includes family separation. | ||
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The same as it is when every U.S. citizen parent gets arrested when they're with a child. | |
| Zero tolerance was interpreted as the policy that separated children from their parents. | ||
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If I get arrested for DUI and I have a young child in a car, I'm going to be separated. | |
| When I was a police officer in New York and I arrested a father for domestic violence, I separated that father from his family. | ||
| Mr. | ||
| Holman, with all due respect, legal asylees are not charged with any crime. | ||
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When you're in the country illegally, it's violation 8 United States Code 1325. | |
| Seeking asylum is legal. | ||
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If you want to seek asylum and go to the port of entry, do it the legal way. | |
| The Attorney General of the United States has made that clear. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So there you go. | ||
| Tom Homan showing he's got what it takes. | ||
| He knows the law and can stand up against the Well, the whining. | ||
| The whining that's destroying us from the inside out. | ||
| The whining and complaining and sad faces they make that apparently means we can't have a law or a country anymore. | ||
| Yeah, Tom Homan's not falling for that. | ||
| And it's great to see. | ||
| So he definitely should be in charge 100% and all signs point to that occurrence happening. | ||
| Let's go now to clip number three. | ||
| America, meet a real border czar. | ||
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I got another message. | |
| Another message to the criminal cartels in Mexico. | ||
| You smuggle enough fentanyl across this country to kill 148,000 young Americans. | ||
| You have killed more Americans than every terrorist organization in the world combined. | ||
| And that's when President Trump gets back in office. | ||
| He's going to designate you a terrorist organization. | ||
| He's going to wipe you off the face of the earth. | ||
| You're done! | ||
| You're done! | ||
| Yeah, that's the type of energy we need. | ||
| That is exactly the type of energy we need. | ||
| It is pathetic that we have to suffer from these cartels even existing. | ||
| It really is pathetic. | ||
| And it goes right to the heart of why Trump got elected. | ||
| Because we really are. | ||
| I mean... | ||
| There are a lot of dystopian novels that get a lot of mention. | ||
| One that doesn't get enough love is Harrison Bergeron. | ||
| Kurt Vonnegut, right? | ||
| I think Kurt Vonnegut wrote that. | ||
| We are Harrison Bergeron. | ||
| We are just capable of anything. | ||
| America is by far, it's not even close, the most powerful, prosperous, wealthy, influential country in the history of the world. | ||
| So why do we allow ourselves to To be pestered continually by things like Mexican drug cartels. | ||
| Like, what is this? | ||
| And when you think about it in terms of teams or families, that's our family, America, and then every other family, every other country. | ||
| And it's like, everybody gets, if you pay attention, that like, We aren't letting these other teams win because we aren't good enough to win. | ||
| It's like if we were unleashed, if our power was focused in the correct areas, there's absolutely no reason why we should be just continually abused by these weaker, pathetic organizations like cartels. | ||
| Just getting richer and richer, stronger and stronger. | ||
| And the longer it goes, the more powerful they get and the more difficult it is to eradicate them. | ||
| But we're America. | ||
| We can literally do whatever we want. | ||
| And that's the spirit I get from Tom Homan. | ||
| It's just like, we're not just going to let this happen anymore. | ||
| We're letting it happen. | ||
| We're allowing our people to be abused. | ||
| We're allowing our laws to be broken. | ||
| And it's just a matter of saying no, not anymore. | ||
| And when that happens, that idea, that initiative is backed up. | ||
| By the best fighters, the most intelligent military the world has ever seen. | ||
| So, it's like, just unleash us. | ||
| Just put us in, coach. | ||
| It's just so frustrating. | ||
| And again, I really do think this goes to the heart of, like, just what Trump represents. | ||
| That here we are, this championship team, where there's these incredible prize fighters with just Total victory constantly, never lost a match when we really put our mind to it, and yet there's just these little hateful, weaker people just constantly pestering us, and we're just not allowed to go at it, and we're not allowed to do what we need to. | ||
| It's time we just take the gloves off and just do what we have to. | ||
| I don't know, it's kind of hard for me to express, but it's like, Tom Homan should strike fear into the heart of every Mexican criminal. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| This big galoot, this big Midwestern white dude. | ||
| He's the most formidable opponent the world has ever seen. | ||
| That's what I want to get. | ||
| It's like, you get a bunch of American dudes in uniform. | ||
| There's no body that can stand in our way. | ||
| And it's people like Tom Homan that have literally conquered the entire world. | ||
| I need to find the clip from Hardcore History. | ||
| I've talked about it before. | ||
| But Hardcore History, this podcast, he's quoting somebody else who is describing the world after World War II in the way that it would be described if Americans were Romans. | ||
| Like how Romans would describe Their territorial conquest. | ||
| And after World War II, you gotta understand, the entire world was essentially divided up and being managed and administrated by dudes from Kansas and Ohio and Illinois. | ||
| It's in a historical spectrum, in a historical view, it really is just like Corn-fed good old boys from the Midwest that are just unmatched on the battlefield. | ||
| So why do we allow these little criminal, scumbag, sex-trafficking, Satan-worshipping murderers to get away with what they get away with? | ||
| And why can't we just unleash the true potential of America and the American people to set things right? | ||
| And impose justice where it's been lacking. | ||
| Anyway, it's going to be great. | ||
| It's going to be great to see Tom Homan just fully unleashed. | ||
| That'll be very fun. | ||
| Now when it comes to the Senate leadership contest, it's very sad. | ||
| It's very pathetic how the people in power universally fell for everything. | ||
| It's hard to even get into details in this because they just fell for everything. | ||
| I've got videos here. | ||
| I don't have time to go to all of them. | ||
| But it goes on and on. | ||
| You've got Thune and Cornyn trashing President Trump over the Eugene Carroll case, right? | ||
| The Trump molested me 30 years ago. | ||
| And by the way, I spend all of my time painting rocks to remind them that they were wet once. | ||
| This woman is insane. | ||
| They fell for that, apparently. | ||
| Okay, great idiots. | ||
| John Cornyn believed in the Russia hoax, which was just obviously a lie. | ||
| I've got a video of John Thune giving a very heartfelt speech about the importance of George Floyd and how we have to have sympathy with Career criminals. | ||
| Just falling for that hoax. | ||
| The Black Lives Matter hoax again. | ||
| Got John Cornyn being booed by his own party at the Texas GOP convention in 2022 after endorsed left-wing gun control measures. | ||
| It's just like, how are they all so bad? | ||
| How are they all so wrong about everything? | ||
| And like, I get it to one degree that, you know, if these things were true... | ||
| Then maybe it was the correct way to respond, right? | ||
| If you take the premise that Donald Trump was a Russian puppet and working with Vladimir Putin, if that was true, then I guess you'd want to say something about it. | ||
| But like, how could you possibly believe that was true? | ||
| And why do you think it's necessary to give credence to something that is obviously on the face of it, from the get-go, utterly false? | ||
| And do you think these high-ranking, lifelong senators... | ||
| Don't know as much as we do at InfoWars. | ||
| I mean, I have a hard time believing that. | ||
| So why are they either believing or pretending to believe hoax after hoax after hoax after hoax? | ||
| What is wrong with them? | ||
| Even Rick Scott is out there bashing Trump early on. | ||
| Even the good pick, Rick Scott, is not 100% lucid. | ||
| I guess we go to some of these videos. | ||
| Let's go to, we'll do the two for one. | ||
| It's Thune and Cornyn going on broadcast TV and trashing President Trump after the E. Jean Carroll case last year. | ||
| This was just last year in 2023. | ||
| Here's both of the potential two out of three of the Senate minority or Senate majority at this point leaders falling for a rape hoax from 30 years ago with an insane woman. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| Oh, this is clip number nine. | ||
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Scott, let me ask you before we go ever so briefly to summarize Capitol Hill response so far as you've been able to gather it to the civil verdict in Manhattan today against former President Trump. | |
| Two reactions worth noting from Senate Republican leadership. | ||
| John Cornyn of Texas told CBS News he simply doesn't think Donald Trump can get elected president. | ||
| Quite a statement from Senator Cornyn. | ||
| John Thune of South Dakota says America is going to have to decide whether it wants to deal with, quote, all the drama. | ||
| After this verdict and the other investigations, not exactly a robust endorsement from top Senate Republicans for Donald Trump tonight. | ||
| What is wrong with these backstabbers? | ||
| What is wrong with these people? | ||
| We don't want to deal with all the drama. | ||
| Well, then maybe defend Trump against all the drama they're fabricating out of thin air. | ||
| Really, this just annoys the crap out of me. | ||
| And it's because I've experienced stuff like this in my own life too, personally. | ||
| Where it's like, how are you going to blame Trump for all of this crap? | ||
| Trump didn't do anything to E. Gene Carroll. | ||
| Never been proven. | ||
| Never even really been argued. | ||
| They just asserted that he must have been guilty. | ||
| And so therefore he's guilty of defamation for, you know, refusing to acknowledge it. | ||
| This is absurd. | ||
| And yet they're both like, oh, we just can't deal with the drama. | ||
| You're worse than our enemies. | ||
| I mean, it's one thing if your enemy makes up a lie about you. | ||
| It's another thing for your supposed ally to then turn on you because of that lie, even though it's a total lie, and go, you know, whether or not it's even true, it's just the drama. | ||
| It's just all the drama that gets cooked up. | ||
| Well, if you want that drama to stop, then why don't you back up Trump, show them that creating this drama isn't effective, that their petty little fake squabbles and fabricated scandals aren't going to get you off of your path towards political domination. | ||
| Why don't you go after the people that are creating all of this drama? | ||
| If you hate the drama so much, focus your energy on the people creating it. | ||
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Morons. | |
| You're targeting the person it's targeted towards. | ||
| This is so infuriating, honestly. | ||
| And these are the two people. | ||
| He quoted two people, Cornyn and Thune. | ||
| Two of the three potential Senate leadership people. | ||
| The two most popular ones, by the way, of course. | ||
| Of course, they have to be the most popular. | ||
| Let's go to clip number 11 here. | ||
| This is John Cornyn. | ||
| Falling for the Russia hoax, despite all the proof against it. | ||
| I mean, we never fell for it, weirdly enough. | ||
| Infowars never once even entertained the Russia collusion hoax because we knew how it started from the beginning. | ||
| We tracked it from the beginning. | ||
| It was always totally fake. | ||
| There was never any evidence. | ||
| Somehow, the potential next majority leader of the Senate just fell for this. | ||
| It's absurd. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| Then-FBI director James Comey said that they have not dialed back their interference by his judgment in U.S. politics. | ||
| So it's interesting that we have these diplomatic meetings. | ||
| Everybody's nice, you shake hands, you smile, you walk around. | ||
| At the same time, the man who was FBI director until last night has said they are still actively trying to interfere in our democracy. | ||
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Well, I think there's no question about that. | |
| We saw the act of interference in the French elections here just a few days ago. | ||
| But through a combination of espionage, cyber espionage, propaganda efforts, use of social media, co-opting even some of the mainstream media to take phony news stories and to make them enter the mainstream is part of the way they undermine public confidence in our democratic institutions. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| Wrong. | ||
| Wrong. | ||
| See, I get how it happens. | ||
| These guys who are on intelligence committees and things, they get brought into a skiff with the CIA who lay down, I'm sure, a very convincing evidence. | ||
| You go, this is totally secret. | ||
| I just cannot leave this room. | ||
| Here's the evidence that we have that Russia... | ||
| Now, you can't tell anybody about this. | ||
| They do it in a way that convinces... | ||
| People like John Cornyn. | ||
| Again, crazy. | ||
| And we've heard Thomas Massey talk about the same thing. | ||
| They take you in, you know, 10 minutes before. | ||
| He's talking about Mike Johnson in this case. | ||
| We're 10 minutes before. | ||
| Mike Johnson's, yeah, fully on Massey's side. | ||
| Then he goes into this skip for 10 minutes. | ||
| And when he comes out, he's like, nope, we got to go to war, actually. | ||
| Actually, I saw the data. | ||
| Now we got to... | ||
| And Massey's like, I saw the same data. | ||
| It was all BS. It was all bullcrap. | ||
| Why did he change his mind over this? | ||
| So they have these ways of, like, influencing. | ||
| Because then senators go out and make statements like that, thinking that they're... | ||
| They're in possession of secret knowledge. | ||
| It makes them better than everybody else. | ||
| And they're out there saying, no, these threats are real. | ||
| Trust me, I have the secret knowledge. | ||
| You're just being fooled. | ||
| You're just being utterly fooled and made a patsy. | ||
| And now you're the one out there delivering the lies to the American people that the intelligence agencies have now laundered through you. | ||
| You morons. | ||
| Or you complicit traitors. | ||
| You deep state actors. | ||
| Again, I don't know what's worse. | ||
| I don't know what's worse. | ||
| These people are in on it, and they're just deep state actors lying and giving credence. | ||
| Because, of course, Democrats saying this doesn't have the same impact as Republicans saying it. | ||
| They're supposed to be on the same side. | ||
| So if they're saying it, you know it's true. | ||
| In the same way that Mike Pompeo, talking about Trump's classified documents, has a little bit more weight than one of his enemies. | ||
| So they're doing the bidding of the enemy. | ||
| Are they doing it wittingly or unwittingly? | ||
| I don't know what's worse. | ||
| I don't think it matters. | ||
| They shouldn't be the leadership. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| I got videos and videos about this. | ||
| Senator John Thune giving a very passionate and long speech about Black Lives Matter and how George Floyd has touched us all and how we all just, our heart breaks. | ||
| The idea that these police are out there killing black men. | ||
| It's like, really, you fell for that too? | ||
| You fell for everything. | ||
| How did these people fall for absolutely everything? | ||
| And how is it that we don't fall for anything? | ||
| Because it's not like this stuff is still being speculated about. | ||
| I mean, all of these things are incontrovertible at this point. | ||
| There was never Russia collusion. | ||
| They fell for that. | ||
| George Floyd died from a fentanyl overdose. | ||
| And it was totally covered up. | ||
| His autopsy was covered up. | ||
| The FBI was involved. | ||
| All of that's come out at this point. | ||
| We were right about that too. | ||
| We were right about COVID-19. | ||
| We were right about the... | ||
| Classified document hoax. | ||
| We're right about E. Jean Carroll. | ||
| None of this is up for debate. | ||
| None of this is still kind of like, well, you can land on either side. | ||
| No, all of this stuff has been proven false. | ||
| We knew it was false very early on, yet the people running for Senate majority leadership fell for every single one of these scams. | ||
| These people can't be trusted. | ||
| They can't be trusted to guide our political future. | ||
| It just can't happen. | ||
| Rick Scott, I guess, is the best choice, but even him. | ||
| Welcome back, folks. | ||
| This is The American Journal's second hour is on. | ||
| I'll open up the phone lines for your calls. | ||
| This hour will be joined in the third hour by Angela McArdle. | ||
| But I want to start with a little TikTok video that honestly really hit me when I watched it. | ||
| I mean, As it goes on, you'll see, and I'd seen memes sort of equating the showing up of the Amish in Pennsylvania to like the Ents in Lord of the Rings. | ||
| These people had never been involved in the conflicts before. | ||
| Then it hit them personally, and they got involved and changed the tide of the entire conflict. | ||
| I never realized how accurate that meme actually was. | ||
| I didn't realize how the Amish basically don't involve themselves in politics at all, hadn't, until this year. | ||
| Amazing stuff. | ||
| Here is a Pennsylvania TikToker talking about the importance of Pennsylvania and the way that the Amish, by coming out in droves for Donald Trump, saved the entire country. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
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Man, I'm literally sitting here crying. | |
| Because I get it. | ||
| I'm outside of the church house right now waiting on somebody. | ||
| And it got me thinking, you know, they tried really hard in Pennsylvania. | ||
| Kamala Harris got all these celebrities to come to Pennsylvania. | ||
| And they went and held these rallies in Pennsylvania. | ||
| And you heard Trump say, Trump said, if we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole thing. | ||
| And the Democratic Party was targeting voting blocs, the gays, the blacks, the Latinos, the white man, the women, all the voting blocs, they were attacking. | ||
| They had Obama come out, and they were going into Pittsburgh, and they were going into Philadelphia, and they were pounding, pounding, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, we need Pennsylvania. | ||
| But then God showed up. | ||
| See, out of all the voting blocs that they were looking at and counting, they forgot one voting bloc. | ||
| They thought that they had, you know, all the American people sewed up, but they forgot a group of Americans that has long been forgotten, the Amish. | ||
| The Amish has never voted in any campaign ever. | ||
| And you would think for the first time for them as a community to vote, it'd be, you know, some would trinkle in because others just are totally against government. | ||
| They don't want to participate in it. | ||
| So they would slowly trinkle in. | ||
| No, that's not what happened. | ||
| They showed up in droves. | ||
| It looked like a battalion of Amish people, horse and buggy with Trump flags flying. | ||
| I wanted to cry when I seen them buggies coming down that road with the Trump flags on it. | ||
| Buggy after buggy after buggy after buggy. | ||
| Literally, those people were literally coming to save America. | ||
| That's a voting block that the mainstream media and the Democrat Party forgot, totally forgot about. | ||
| And they can't go after them because they don't watch TV. They don't look at the news. | ||
| They're not brainwashed by the propaganda. | ||
| Why don't you look at a group of people that hasn't even seen CNN and then show them, ask them, and listen. | ||
| Because they haven't been brainwashed by either side. | ||
| They haven't partaken in the propaganda of the left or the right. | ||
| And when they get a chance to vote, clearly off their conscience, they vote for Trump. | ||
| If you cannot see that Trump is anointed and this is the direct hand of God, you better fall on your knees the night before you go to bed and ask God to return the joy of your salvation and you don't lose that first love. | ||
| Yeah, pretty incredible stuff. | ||
| I love the way he lays it out there. | ||
| I mean, if the Amish hadn't turned out, maybe Pennsylvania doesn't go to Trump. | ||
| Pennsylvania doesn't go to Trump. | ||
| That's the election. | ||
| So we all owe a gigantic regret of datitude to our Amish fellow Americans for really saving our butts, pulling us out of the fire. | ||
| And you think about all of the things that had to contribute to Trump's election. | ||
| You know, we were kind of joking about it, like, was it the squirrel? | ||
| Was it Peanut the squirrel that infuriated enough people? | ||
| Probably not, but it probably had some sort of impact. | ||
| The assassination attempts, probably some sort of impact, which is hilarious because that means that the assassin who tried to kill Trump instead guaranteed his victory. | ||
| Very ironic and appropriate. | ||
| But do you think the, you know, federal functionary that sent the EPA after raw milk knew he had doomed the country? | ||
| Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Yeah, shout out to the Amish coming in hot. | ||
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That's so awesome. | |
| It's so cool. | ||
| It really is. | ||
| This is the American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| We'll be joined in the third hour by Angela McArdle. | ||
| I'm going to take your phone calls for the second hour. | ||
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| Give us a call on American Journal, 1-877-789-2539. | ||
| That's 1-877-789-2539. | ||
| Still got a lot of videos to get to. | ||
| I mean, Trump has been making these videos, but it's kind of hard to tell where they're from or when they're from. | ||
| A lot of these videos, that's him sort of in front of a fireplace or, you know, sitting in Mar-a-Lago in front of a couple of flags. | ||
| A lot of them are new, but a lot of them are from years ago, 2022, 2023, where he's laying out his policy. | ||
| Because there was a lot of these videos that we would play on our show, especially around the time of the primary when DeSantis was still a viable prospect or people were arguing for Nikki Haley. | ||
| And even on the dissident right, there were a lot of people that were wanting to move on from Trump and I thought you didn't have a chance and didn't want to see the Republican Party go down by staying loyal to Trump. | ||
| And we kept playing these videos going, what are you guys objecting to? | ||
| Watch these videos. | ||
| Listen to his policy proposals. | ||
| They're amazing. | ||
| They're incredible. | ||
| They're exactly what we have always wanted to hear. | ||
| So what are you guys complaining about? | ||
| And people weren't paying attention to these. | ||
| Now they are. | ||
| But it's because some of them are being presented as if they're, you know, brand new policy announcements. | ||
| Some of them are, some of them aren't. | ||
| Again, it's kind of hard to tell which is which. | ||
| But as far as I know, all of these are still valid. | ||
| They all still stand as, you know, Trump's official policy. | ||
| Problem is they're so, these videos are all a little bit long and I can't get to all of them in their entirety. | ||
| But they're amazing. | ||
| He announced that he'll ask Congress to pass a bill establishing that there are only two genders. | ||
| And you have to stick to the gender you are assigned at birth. | ||
| He has a plan to terminate the U.S. relationship with the World Health Organization and thwart their efforts to surrender our sovereignty. | ||
| Full concealed carry reciprocity. | ||
| Trump on free speech. | ||
| Trump's plan to deploy the National Guard and federal assets to every major city to restore law and order. | ||
| These are the things that Trump was running on, which is why he got elected. | ||
| And it's why we told you he was the best choice from way, way early on when people were still doubting. | ||
| We'll go to this one at least for a little while. | ||
| Clip number 19. | ||
| Sort of the most widely spread one over the weekend. | ||
| Trump on free speech. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| If we don't have free speech, then we just don't have a free country. | ||
| It's as simple as that. | ||
| If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple, just like dominoes, one by one. | ||
| They'll go down. | ||
| That's why today I'm announcing my plan to shatter the left-wing censorship regime. | ||
| And to reclaim the right to free speech for all Americans. | ||
| And reclaim is a very important word in this case because they've taken it away. | ||
| In recent weeks, bombshell reports have confirmed that a sinister group of deep state bureaucrats, Silicon Valley tyrants, left-wing activists, and depraved corporate news media have been conspiring to manipulate and silence the American people. | ||
| They have collaborated to suppress vital information on everything from elections to public health. | ||
| The censorship cartel must be dismantled and destroyed, and it must happen immediately. | ||
| And here is my plan. | ||
| First, within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an executive order banning any federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business or person to censor, limit, categorize or impede the lawful speech of American citizens. | ||
| I will then ban federal money from being used to label domestic speech as mis- or disinformation. | ||
| And I will begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship Directly or indirectly, whether they are the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health, Human Services, the FBI, the DOJ, no matter who they are. | ||
| Second, I will order the Department of Justice to investigate All parties involved in the new online censorship regime, which is absolutely destructive and terrible, and to aggressively prosecute any and all crimes identified. | ||
| These include possible violations of federal civil rights law, campaign finance laws, federal election law, securities law and antitrust laws, the Hatch Act, And a host of other potential criminal, civil, regulatory, and constitutional offenses. | ||
| This video goes on for another five minutes, but you can see it there. | ||
| There really is not an issue that we care about that Trump is not on top of and has the right take on. | ||
| I'm not going to show you all of them, but free speech, concealed carry, reciprocity. | ||
| Deploying the National Guard and federal assets to restore law and order. | ||
| It's fantastic. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| The question is, will he get the right people in positions to carry out his will or will he be thwarted once again by bad actors in the Republican Party? | ||
| Luckily it seems like this time he's much more aware, much more cautious, much more well advised in a lot of these regards. | ||
| But we gotta keep the pressure on and make sure he's not being infiltrated. | ||
| And remind these people, you didn't win. | ||
| John Cornyn didn't win. | ||
| Trump won. | ||
| John Thune didn't win. | ||
| You do not have the mandate from the people. | ||
| Trump does. | ||
| Get in line or get out of the way. | ||
| That needs to be the message. | ||
| These people at the top of the Republican Party want to sit there acting like they achieved victory. | ||
| No, Trump achieved victory in spite of you, not because of you. | ||
| And we all know it. | ||
| So, again, for your own political future, it's time to come to the table. | ||
| And it may be too late at this point. | ||
| You may have already made too many mistakes, like Ron DeSantis. | ||
| Ron DeSantis would have been vice president if he hadn't gone up against President Trump. | ||
| He'd at least be in a very good position for a very high-up cabinet position. | ||
| I haven't even seen his name floated anywhere. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because he decided to get greedy. | ||
| He decided he thought he could take a shot at the king. | ||
| And he missed. | ||
| So, that was a bad idea. | ||
| And we said it was a bad idea from the very beginning. | ||
| Again, I don't know how we at Infowars have a better interpretation and better understanding of political reality than these people that are in it at the top and have been for decades. | ||
| And I'm just commenting on headlines. | ||
| But we get it. | ||
| They don't. | ||
| I don't understand it. | ||
| But that's just how it is. | ||
| Again, we're going to go out to your calls in just a second. | ||
| We still have some open lines if you want to call in. | ||
| The number to dial is 1-877-789-2539. | ||
| That's 1-877-789-2539. | ||
| Give us a call. | ||
| Who do you think should be Senate leadership? | ||
| Do you think it's a distraction? | ||
| Also, do you think they have something else up their sleeves? | ||
| The Democrats, the deep state actors, any of these people? | ||
| Because I think we're all recognizing that things are a little bit too quiet. | ||
| And just last week, you had stories like this. | ||
| CDC planned quarantine camps nationwide from Jeffrey A. Tucker on brownstone.org. | ||
| No matter how bad you think COVID policies were, they were intended to be worse. | ||
| Consider the vaccine passports alone. | ||
| Six cities were locked down to include only the vaccinated and public indoor places. | ||
| They were New York City, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Seattle. | ||
| The plan was to enforce this with a vaccine passport. | ||
| It broke. | ||
| Once the news leaked that the shot didn't stop infection or transmission, the planners lost public support, and the scheme collapsed, it was undoubtedly planned to be permanent and nationwide, if not worldwide. | ||
| Instead, the scheme had to be dialed back. | ||
| And they admit that their COVID... Scheme failed. | ||
| I mean, in their own discussions, they say, you know, we expected everybody to be vaccinated and should lockdown to go on for a lot longer. | ||
| They failed. | ||
| They absolutely failed. | ||
| Even with that, worse was planned on July 26, 2020, with the George Floyd riots having finally settled down. | ||
| The CDC issued a plan for establishing nationwide quarantine camps. | ||
| People were to be isolated, given only food and some cleaning supplies. | ||
| They would be banned from participating in any religious services. | ||
| The plan included contingencies for preventing suicide. | ||
| There were no provisions made for any legal appeals or even the right to legal counsel. | ||
| The plan's authors were unnamed, but include 26 footnotes. | ||
| It was completely official. | ||
| The document was only removed on about March 26, 2023. | ||
| During the entire intervening time, the plan survived on the CDC's public site with little to no public notice or controversy. | ||
| Like this is what we told you. | ||
| They wanted to put us in camps, if not for our steadfast and overwhelming resistance. | ||
| It would have. | ||
| They would have put us in camps like they did with Australia. | ||
| Even that would have gone farther if they thought they could get away with it. | ||
| I'm proud that we were able to resist that. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| But don't think that they just like have shelved these plans and just aren't going to do anything with them. | ||
| They have the plans. | ||
| They have the operations. | ||
| They're ready to roll them out with any excuse, whatever excuse comes next. | ||
| Maybe bird flu. | ||
| After all, BC, British Columbia, detects Canada's first human case of bird flu, according to officials. | ||
| Just a very coincidental and serendipitous time for them. | ||
| In a news release Saturday afternoon, the Office of the Provincial Health Officer said a positive case for H5 influenza virus was performed at BC Center for Disease Control's Public Health Laboratory. | ||
| This could be the first human case of this bird flu. | ||
| So maybe it's a, you know, Novel new lab-created virus that gets us in lockdown. | ||
| Maybe they'll launch a Civil War-style coup, turning to Basically, a false flag, everybody. | ||
| And everybody gets at this point, January 6th, was that. | ||
| I don't think we're going to fall for it again, but we got to reemphasize that we know the type of schemes that they run. | ||
| And that's exactly it. | ||
| Pissing everybody off, creating civil war conditions, and then cracking down on only Trump supporters for any violence that ensues. | ||
| So we're not going to fall for that, I hope. | ||
| Especially since the people around Trump, and again, this just gets back to what we're talking about in all these stories, whether Trump has the right people around him. | ||
| There are certain litmus tests. | ||
| We've talked about some of them here. | ||
| Did you fall for the Russia hoax? | ||
| You're disqualified. | ||
| Did you fall for Black Lives Matter? | ||
| You're disqualified. | ||
| If you fell for January 6th, you should be disqualified. | ||
| And that's the one that Rick Scott fell for as well. | ||
| Saying, yeah, it was terrible. | ||
| I think he called it disgusting, what happened on January 6th. | ||
| I think you should be disqualified for that. | ||
| After all, if you weren't able to, on the day it happened, see through the lies and disinformation surrounding that event, you're just not suited for authority in the American government. | ||
| If you can't see through that, but we could, clearly we should be the ones in charge. | ||
| Let's go to clip number 21 quickly and then we'll go out to your calls. | ||
| Here's Vivek Ramaswamy, one of the people that needs to have a very high position in the Trump presidency. | ||
| If I had to guess, I'd say probably as press secretary because he's just so good in front of the microphone. | ||
| I think he could fit a lot of different positions. | ||
| But here's him showing that rhetorical prowess and the way he's able to answer these questions that are meant to be traps. | ||
| By the liberal media, and he's able to avoid the trap, answer honestly, and get the truth out to the American people. | ||
| Let's go to clip 21 now. | ||
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Let's start with January 6th. | |
| Sure. | ||
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There is no evidence that it is an inside job. | |
| It was a fringe conspiracy theory. | ||
| And if you had asked me three years ago, is there some chance January 6th is an inside job? | ||
| I would have said that was crazy talk. | ||
| I would say looking at the facts of the video footage that have come out, Dana, it is Shocking that you still haven't gotten a clear answer of how many federal agents were in the field that day. | ||
| Look at now the video footage of actually throwing explosives and rubber bullets into what was a peaceful crowd, then releasing to the public what came in response to that. | ||
| But now look at the video footage that was released. | ||
| And I'm glad we're talking about it because viewers deserve to look at that footage. | ||
| Capitol Police literally letting people in, who were then now prosecuted, some of whom have gone on to commit suicide because of what the government's doing. | ||
| That is a case of entrapment. | ||
| And I think the government has not been transparent about this. | ||
| There's entrapment going on, and this looks like a case of entrapment. | ||
| And if you look at even over the last day- What do you mean by entrapment? | ||
| Entrapment means that the police goaded people to do something otherwise than they otherwise wouldn't have done. | ||
| And then they arrest them for actually doing it. | ||
| I was in a different place before a lot of that evidence came out. | ||
| But you have to respond to the evidence. | ||
| What is your response or what is anybody else on CNN's response to the video footage that was released of Capitol Police? | ||
| Literally just peacefully allowing people into the Capitol. | ||
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What we know is that 850 people have been convicted of crimes. | |
| But the reality is many of them were convicted before that information was released. | ||
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If they'd never thrown the concussion grenades, if they'd never used a pepper spray, this wouldn't have happened. | |
| It was a peaceful protest. | ||
| Yeah, so again, we need people like that. | ||
| We need people like Vivek Ramaswamy that can just shatter the lies of the mainstream media put up with it. | ||
| People think that they can go along with it and go, well, yeah, January 6th was terrible, but this is this. | ||
| And it's like, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| You have to understand at this point, give them no ground. | ||
| Give them no justification. | ||
| When they try to come up with some hoax about Russia or domestic terror, you have to reject their premise outright. | ||
| And somebody that was really good at this... | ||
| Sorry, I know I said I'd go to calls, but I do want to play one more video because, again, it shows that Trump is... | ||
| Doing better this time at his choices. | ||
| He's not weighted down by the dead weight of Mike Pence. | ||
| Instead, he's being empowered by the skill and intelligence and patriotism of J.D. Vance. | ||
| So I'm gonna go quickly to a J.D. Vance little montage here, clip number six. | ||
| Here's J.D. Vance owning the left over and over. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
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Did Donald Trump make a mistake when he chose J.D. Vance? | |
| I think it was a great choice. | ||
| Kamala Harris questioned my loyalty to this country. | ||
| That's the word she used, loyalty. | ||
| And I'd like to ask the Vice President, what has she done to question my loyalty to this country? | ||
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I served in the United States Marine Corps. | |
| I went to Iraq for this country. | ||
| I built a business for this country. | ||
| I built a business for this country. | ||
| And my running mate took a bullet for this country. | ||
| So my question to Kamala Harris is, what the hell have you done to question our loyalty to the United States of America? | ||
| You said the other day, I guarantee John Kelly talked to somebody on Kamala Harris' campaign beforehand. | ||
| I've spoken with people in John Kelly's circle, and I've spoken with people in the Kamala Harris campaign. | ||
| They say there's been no communication the entire time. | ||
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Oh, I'm highly skeptical of that, Jake. | |
| You know the way that these people are often vetted? | ||
| So you made it up. | ||
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Or something goes out there. | |
| No, I said that the American media and the American Democratic Party apparatus works a certain way. | ||
| It's interesting. | ||
| We've now spent, Jake, three minutes talking about John Kelly. | ||
| Who did he deliver this news to? | ||
| To Jeffrey Goldberg, a guy who lied the United States into the Iraq War, which led to the deaths of millions of innocent Arabs and thousands of innocent Americans. | ||
| I think that's something that Governor Walz just said is quite extraordinary. | ||
| You yourself just said Iran is as close to a nuclear weapon today as they have ever been. | ||
| And Governor Walz, you blame Donald Trump. | ||
| Who has been the vice president for the last three and a half years? | ||
| And the answer is your running mate, not mine. | ||
| Donald Trump consistently made the world more secure. | ||
| Now, we talk about the sequence of events that led us to where we are right now, and you can't ignore October the 7th, which I appreciate Governor Walz bringing up. | ||
| But when did Iran and Hamas and their proxies attack Israel? | ||
| It was during the administration of Kamala Harris. | ||
| So, Governor Walz can criticize Donald Trump's tweets, but effective, smart diplomacy and peace through strength is how you bring stability back to a very broken world. | ||
| Donald Trump has already done it once before. | ||
| Ask yourself at home. | ||
| When was the last time, I'm 40 years old, when was the last time that an American president didn't have a major conflict breakout? | ||
| The only answer is during the four years that Donald Trump was president. | ||
| There you go, J.D. Vance just absolutely killing it across the board. | ||
| So, again, we told you that too. | ||
| There's a lot of doubting Thomases out there, a lot of doubt about J.D. Vance when he was first announced. | ||
| Not from us, though. | ||
| Not from us. | ||
| We knew it was the right choice, and that's been proven out over and over. | ||
| And again, we can get back to this, but that's what's happening now, right? | ||
| That's where the battle has moved. | ||
| We've won the election. | ||
| Wonderful. | ||
| Now it's about getting the right people in the right positions, and there's back and forth. | ||
| John Cornyn and John Thune, not great. | ||
| Rick Scott, better. | ||
| Not totally great either, but certainly better. | ||
| I think J.D. Vance should be head of the Senate. | ||
| I mean, he's wasted as VP, quite honestly. | ||
| And that's one thing people are putting forward. | ||
| I'm not sure exactly how the mechanisms of that work, but as I understand it, it's totally possible. | ||
| He was a senator. | ||
| He knows how the Senate operates. | ||
| He could be the Senate majority leader as vice president, which would actually give him something to do. | ||
| I think that falls more in line with how the founders originally envisioned the position of vice president. | ||
| With that, let's go to the calls. | ||
| Don in Argentina has called in. | ||
| Thank you, Don, for the international call. | ||
| You're on the air, sir. | ||
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Hey, morning, Harrison. | |
| Good morning. | ||
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Everybody has a list of probably the biggest problems in the world. | |
| My three are Ukraine. | ||
| Genocide in Israel, Lebanon, and Syria, and the border. | ||
| Those are my three tops. | ||
| Those three could be solved overnight. | ||
| All you have to do is cut off the spigot of American money. | ||
| They would stop immediately. | ||
| So where's the real problem? | ||
| It's coming out of the Congress. | ||
| Specifically, the House, which is Republican-controlled, getting ready to be even more so. | ||
| That's where the money comes from. | ||
| That's the way the system works. | ||
| Let's go to the border then. | ||
| You seem to have a pretty high opinion of the American military that there's some kind of super soldiers who never lost a war. | ||
| I don't know what planet you've been on since I've been alive, but I'll tell you this. | ||
| In my opinion, they haven't won a war since World War II except for Grenada. | ||
| That's the only success I can see. | ||
| You know, 300,000 of them couldn't deal with 25,000 Taliban. | ||
| So, let me tell you what would happen if Trump decides to attack the cartels in Mexico. | ||
| The next day, at some shopping center, or some Costco, or some Sam's Club, somewhere in the country, people are going to pull up and go in and massacre everybody. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| We think, oh, We knocked over Saddam Hussein. | ||
| Oh, we're big and bad. | ||
| Yeah, he didn't have an Air Force, at least not one that functioned. | ||
| Syria, they didn't have hardly anything. | ||
| We still can knock them over. | ||
| Assad is still in. | ||
| But we're going to go down and teach the cartels a lesson? | ||
| They have cells in every county in this country. | ||
| And they're not sleeper cells. | ||
| They're active cells. | ||
| You know, we had drug prohibition for 90 years now. | ||
| Has it done away with drugs? | ||
| Are drugs hard to find now? | ||
| I would just ask these people that. | ||
| You think you're going to double down on the drug war and go down there and attack them? | ||
| You know, you're going to be sorry. | ||
| And then after the first massacre, then I would ask Mr. | ||
| Trump, what's your next move? | ||
| So that was just my fault. | ||
| Okay, so I don't really understand. | ||
| So what would you say we do, Don? | ||
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Well, no prohibition doesn't work. | |
| We've had 90 years of prohibition, and attacking the cartels would just be taking that to another level. | ||
| So, you know, cocaine is a good example. | ||
| We spend all this money trying to suppress cocaine. | ||
| But apparently people like to do cocaine, okay? | ||
| Well, you know, the CIA was the one delivering the cocaine. | ||
| I mean, this is the issue. | ||
| If America wants to win, we can win. | ||
| If the people in power want a forever war, you know, that's what ends up. | ||
| Look, saying the cartel has people in every city and that's why we shouldn't fight them is not the most compelling argument. | ||
| Welcome back, folks. | ||
| This is the American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith, taking your calls for the next 30 minutes. | ||
| We're going to go out to some other callers now. | ||
| I think it's important to remind everybody on Veterans Day of the overwhelming capability of the American Armed Forces. | ||
| You want to talk about winning a war? | ||
| We won Operation Desert Storm and lost like 75 people to their hundred-something thousand? | ||
| We still have overwhelming military might. | ||
| The problem is how it's used, how it's deployed and for what purpose and to what design. | ||
| If we wanted to just destroy all of Afghanistan, we could have done it. | ||
| Instead, we have this ridiculous counterinsurgency having the soldiers hand out leaflets policy. | ||
| Ended up not being super successful. | ||
| But also that had to do with securing the opium fields and as soon as fentanyl and synthetic opioids came out, it became of less interest to the powers that be. | ||
| And regardless of Like the quagmire of the Middle East that we've been bogged down in. | ||
| Again, it's not because people aren't capable. | ||
| And we saw that when Donald Trump got into office. | ||
| As he's talked about over and over, they're like, it'll take seven years to defeat ISIS. And he did it in two weeks. | ||
| It's about unleashing the power of the American military. | ||
| And how instead it's constantly reined in and haphazardly implemented. | ||
| A little bit here, a little bit there. | ||
| And it just is hilarious to me, the idea that's like, well, the cartels have people embedded in all of our cities, so we can't go to war with them? | ||
| So we surrender to them is what you're suggesting? | ||
| Like, I don't understand. | ||
| I don't understand where you think we're going with this. | ||
| Also, the cartels are completely in bed with the deep state as it exists right now. | ||
| And the only reason they're as powerful as they are at this point is because they're Supplied with our weapons, whether they're purchased as excess from Ukraine or delivered en masse with the Fast and Furious program and other programs like that, or whether it's just the insane amounts of money they've been able to make from human trafficking in cooperation with the UN and Democratic Party. | ||
| Literally just choosing not to countenance their existence anymore. | ||
| We would destroy them utterly. | ||
| Utterly. | ||
| Utterly. | ||
| I mean, it's not even... | ||
| It's not even up for debate, okay? | ||
| It's just... | ||
| It's insane how quickly we could solve all these problems. | ||
| We just choose not to. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's... | ||
| Our capacity is basically infinite. | ||
| To wage war. | ||
| We just use wages for terrible reasons. | ||
| Now to your calls again. | ||
| Henry in Chicago has called in. | ||
| Good to hear from you, Henry. | ||
| You're on the air about the First Amendment. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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Hi. | |
| Yeah, I'm calling. | ||
| I just wanted to ask this question to every American. | ||
| Our president-elect Donald Trump understands the First Amendment because he's threatening anyone who burns the American flag a thousand dollar fine, which That's an infringement on my freedom of expression. | ||
| Number two, he needs to get rid of the HRN-94 because if you criticize Israel by any means, you get labeled as anti-Semite. | ||
| Look at the definition of Semite. | ||
| Semite means, you know, people, the Arab and Jewish background, the language. | ||
| So if you criticize anybody who's Arab or Israeli, you are called anti-Semitic. | ||
| Or if you criticize Israel's policy, That's insanity. | ||
| And then he's going to have his son-in-law. | ||
| He's a Zionist. | ||
| And you can look it up. | ||
| He was part of the implementing the Leviathan project in Israel. | ||
| That's why they cleared all the land to develop with gas and all of that. | ||
| But we got to fight for the First Amendment. | ||
| Because any politician, anyone who says, oh, you cannot do this, and you cannot do that, It's a dangerous journey to become officers. | ||
| You know, you cannot say you're not going to criticize somebody else because, oh, it's against the law. | ||
| Excuse me. | ||
| Be offended. | ||
| If you don't like what somebody calls your name, you know, just ignore them. | ||
| But burning a flag, he's going to make it a law to find anybody who decides to burn a flag. | ||
| Even though it might be your own flag. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| I don't like to burn the flag. | ||
| I don't like that people do that. | ||
| But it's the freedom of expression. | ||
| And we have to learn that because our rights were given by God. | ||
| And we have to understand that. | ||
| We cannot just be judgmental. | ||
| Oh, well, you cannot do this. | ||
| Okay, you cannot wear a long skirt, or you cannot take this person. | ||
| It rolls up into something that we don't want. | ||
| So can you still understand that? | ||
| Well, I personally haven't heard him say that he wants to fine people for burning the American flag. | ||
| I wouldn't really be surprised. | ||
| And again, it's like with all this stuff, you throw Israel in the mix and like all the policies get worse for some reason. | ||
| It's like we're totally anti-war except when it comes to Israel and then we're actually kind of for it. | ||
| And we're totally free speech except if you criticize Israel, in which case you're not allowed to do that, which I don't like and I object to. | ||
| And I think the danger is faced by just the total full spectrum control that the Democrats are wielding and, you know, desirous of expanding. | ||
| I mean, the choice is pretty stark, but I get your concerns that, you know, it has to be full free speech. | ||
| You can't carve out caveats like burning the flag. | ||
| Of course, this is also in a time and place where you can burn the American flag and And nothing happens, but if you burn a rainbow flag, you go to jail for a long time. | ||
| Or you burn a Black Lives Matter flag, and you actually get charged with a hate crime and spend time in jail, like Enrique Tarrio did. | ||
| So, you know, it's like, how about you can burn any flag and it doesn't matter and... | ||
| I would rather live in it. | ||
| If I had to make the choice, because I'm with you, you should be able to burn the American flag. | ||
| It is sort of ironically, you know, one of the things guaranteed by that flag is that you get to burn it. | ||
| It is ironic, but that's the case. | ||
| But if I was given the choice, I would rather live in a country where it's illegal to burn the country's flag than it is illegal to burn the flag of homosexuality, right? | ||
| I mean, that's crazy, and that's where we are at this point. | ||
| So we have to go back the opposite direction. | ||
| But I agree with you that we have to hold Trump to the same standard as anybody else when it comes to free speech. | ||
| He's got to support free speech. | ||
| However, I will say that I totally disagree with this thing where he's like, we're going to deport anti-Semites. | ||
| First of all, there's no mechanism for that. | ||
| You can't do that. | ||
| You shouldn't do that in the first place. | ||
| You can't really do it in the second place. | ||
| Third place, it's a foreign nation, Israel. | ||
| And if you want to criticize Israel, you have all the right in the world. | ||
| However, I do think, just as a blanket belief, if you are a guest in a country, if you're not a citizen of a country, I don't think you have a right to protest anything ever. | ||
| So I think if you're an immigrant of any sort, if you're on a student visa or whatever, I think if you participate in protests against the American government, you should be sent home. | ||
| And I don't care which side you're on. | ||
| If you're an Israeli exchange student and you're protesting Hamas, you should be sent home. | ||
| We saw a protest in New York City. | ||
| A bunch of illegal immigrants marching through the city with signs in Spanish making demands to the American government. | ||
| It's like you all have to go home. | ||
| Everybody who participates in that campaign. | ||
| It has to go home. | ||
| And it's absurd to me to imagine that I would go to a different country as an American. | ||
| I'm not even a citizen there, and yet I'd be organizing and participating in public demonstrations. | ||
| Like, no, absolutely not. | ||
| In the same way that if I invite you as a guest into my home, you don't get to start making demands of my wife. | ||
| Like, absolutely not. | ||
| You don't get to start complaining about the way I do things in my home. | ||
| No, you're a guest here. | ||
| You respect how we do things. | ||
| You shut up if it makes you mad or you go home. | ||
| You know, it's not about anti-Semitism, but if you're here as an exchange student and you're out there protesting the American government, you have to go home. | ||
| This is not your government. | ||
| You don't get to decide what we do. | ||
| So I think, you know, if that's all it is, if it's Trump deporting foreigners who are protesting here, then good riddance as far as I'm concerned. | ||
| And that goes for any topic, no matter what you're protesting. | ||
| You don't have a right to protest in a country you don't even belong to. | ||
| It's absurd. | ||
| Thank you for the call, Henry. | ||
| I do appreciate you're always holding the public servants to the strictures of the Constitution. | ||
| Brilliant, as always. | ||
| Let's go to Doug in Kansas now. | ||
| Doug, you're on the air. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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Hey, I'm a BITU, and I'm a veteran, and I bought your game shirt, which I really like. | |
| I really love your show. | ||
| And I think if it's possible, I'd like to see Jones take that head of the Justice Department. | ||
| That would be nice. | ||
| Everybody's talking about Alex Jones as a press secretary. | ||
| I think give him more authority. | ||
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I think he needs to be in the Justice Department because he's smart on that. | |
| He knows the place. | ||
| And he can cut him off at every corner. | ||
| That's what I say. | ||
| I say you should be ambassador to the UN. Yeah, maybe head of the Justice Department. | ||
| Give him some real authority. | ||
| Put some real power in Alex Jones's hand. | ||
| Watch things turn around real quick. | ||
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And he could make it mandatory that they have to take a little peace of peace term before they're appointed. | |
| Well, thank you very much for the call, Doug. | ||
| I appreciate it, and I agree. | ||
| And thanks so much for your support, of course, going and buying the T-shirts or the posters or anything at the Alex Jones store or Dr. | ||
| Jones Naturals or the InfoWars store. | ||
| All of that is helping to build the war chest that we are going to need in T-minus 48 hours when InfoWars goes on the auction block and whatever comes next, we're going to be... | ||
| Well, we're going to be starting off at a disadvantage, right? | ||
| We're going to be forced to start at zero one way or the other. | ||
| So make sure that we have the best launching pad possible by going to thealexjonesstore.com, signing up for the VIP membership and taking us to the next level. | ||
| Thank you for the call, Doug. | ||
| Let's go to Tim in California now. | ||
| We're going to talk about COVID. Go ahead, Tim. | ||
| You're on the air. | ||
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Yes, Harrison, good morning, but let me just say that, and of course Infowars is not church per se, but if you did have a church that you went to for 22 years and you found out that it burned down, you wouldn't all of a sudden just go, oh, I guess I give up on religion. | |
| I just don't care about Jesus no more. | ||
| No, you'd show up. | ||
| You'd start digging out and rebuilding, and you would make that church again. | ||
| Because that's just a place where you gather. | ||
| So the Infowars.com is a place where we gather. | ||
| But no matter where we gather, no matter where you are, we're going to be there. | ||
| We're going to be where you are. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| I hope you do have a successful outcome of your auction and stuff, but believe me when I say... | ||
| This movement will not be stopped simply because they tried to put Alex's Infowars.com on the chopping block. | ||
| That's not going to happen. | ||
| It's obvious now. | ||
| Hooray for you guys. | ||
| You're winners. | ||
| I'll tell you, before you get on to your other comment just on that, I mean, you hear a lot of people, we have the best audience. | ||
| I love my fans. | ||
| Like, I cannot explain to you how awesome our audience is and how powerful you guys are and how we would be nothing without you. | ||
| And like, it's not just, we're not just saying this, just say it. | ||
| It's not just like patting you on the head when we don't believe it. | ||
| Like, genuinely, I am constantly humbled at how dedicated and influential and just... | ||
| Just heartfelt good people InfoWars and the InfoWars audience is. | ||
| It really is a humbling thing. | ||
| So thank you so much for all your support. | ||
| And it's a brilliant thing knowing that there's millions of our fellow Americans out there that will be there for us no matter what they try to do through the courts. | ||
| Thank you for that, Tim. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| But I know that's not what you called in about. | ||
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Okay. | |
| And, you know, it's really a battle of creation versus destruction. | ||
| And even just two billionaires will brilliantly illustrate this. | ||
| You've got, like, Elon Musk versus Bill Gates. | ||
| And it's easy to see which one is on the side of creation, which one's on the side of destruction. | ||
| This is the battle we're involved in, and the Bible clearly outlines it. | ||
| We're not fighting against flesh and blood. | ||
| But what I wanted to call about is, hey... | ||
| These democratic, these treasonous behaviors that they went through, there's still going to be a price to pay. | ||
| Whether they win or whether they lose, there will be a price to pay. | ||
| And the kids, unfortunately the kids are the ones who are going to be paying the price, but not just once, twice. | ||
| For the 2020 COVID show and for the 2024 invasion of America. | ||
| One of them, they got away with it and they won. | ||
| But the second one, they didn't win. | ||
| But whether they won or whether they lost, there's going to be a huge prize. | ||
| It'll take decades to dig out of the hole these guys created for us. | ||
| And my only thing is, is, hey, man, you can't just get away with that. | ||
| Any more than on Veterans Day, some caller calls in to explain that we can't stop the Mexican drug cartel because they're going to do something bad if we do. | ||
| Well, you know, they should be a whole lot more afraid of us than we are of them. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
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But just you get the point. | |
| Just, hey man, what you did to try to win a couple of elections, either one of those is so bad. | ||
| You guys should never show your faces in public again. | ||
| You should never be allowed to be free again for the things you've done. | ||
| That COVID show is unimaginable how much damage that did to our children. | ||
| No, we're dealing with mass murderers here, Tim. | ||
| I completely agree. | ||
| Thank you so much for the call. | ||
| I'm trying to get to as many calls as possible here, but I appreciate all of you, and I appreciate that. | ||
| And you're exactly right. | ||
| These people are just criminals, mass murderers. | ||
| There's no overselling how bad these people are and what needs to happen to them for the sake of justice. | ||
| For that, let's go to, I want to go to Jefferson in Virginia. | ||
| You're bringing up We're good to go. | ||
| You perform a coup against Joe Biden. | ||
| You lose the race that you couped him over. | ||
| And then you turn around and go, hey, can you just make us president anyway? | ||
| Why would he, you scumbags? | ||
| What do you think about this, Jefferson? | ||
| Hey, good morning, Harrison. | ||
| Good to talk to you. | ||
| Yeah, well, I actually predicted this quite a while back, that this is what they were going to do with her. | ||
| Even if she won the election, they could still have Biden step down and let her be president before she took office in the elected capacity. | ||
| But, you know, you guys can make your own adventure there in Austin because Ken Paxton is right there next to you, and he's just crowing about his 100th lawsuit against the Kamala Harris and Biden administration. | ||
| And I think suit number 101 should be a rid of Quo Veranto against Kamala Harris being ineligible. | ||
| And you could make that happen by simply camping out at his office until he has a meeting with You've got to make your own adventure like Don Quixote, take a camera crew, and shame him in a meeting with you, and get him on the record that he doesn't think she's eligible to be president. | ||
| And then when he's up for being the AG in the Trump administration, that will be the first question put to him in the nomination hearing before the Judiciary Committee is, why did you think Kamala Harris was ineligible to be president? | ||
| And he can expound on my argument that, well, you need to have two parents that are citizens for you to be eligible, and she had zero. | ||
| And then the whole What did I say? | ||
| That would invalidate all of the Biden-Harris administration accomplished using her tie-breaking votes in the Senate because she was never actually eligible to be in that position in the first place. | ||
| So the invalidation of like $4 trillion in debt would be something the Democrats would have to pay for, not us. | ||
| And we could shift over to them. | ||
| But this is sort of a long-winded expression of my argument that we're dropping the ball here. | ||
| We're fumbling the biggest issue we could make in sort of a counterattack against them right now. | ||
| We've got them on the ropes. | ||
| We've somehow won this election and have a majority in the Senate, and we're not hitting them with sort of the kill shot politically here where they're saying, Kamala, really... | ||
| Can't be the president. | ||
| She can't be number 47 and jump the line, so to speak, and make Trump the 48th president, not the 47th. | ||
| That's a t-shirt that does Trump know he's not 47? | ||
| He's actually going to be 48 if she gets to be 47 when she's not even eligible. | ||
| Yeah, I think it's I don't think it's going to happen. | ||
| And look, why would it again? | ||
| Biden like they screwed Biden over. | ||
| He clearly there's no love lost between him and Kamala. | ||
| So maybe if you treated him better, that might be an option, but it's not going to happen. | ||
| And thank God we aren't having to argue about Kamala's legitimacy or not in becoming the president. | ||
| Because, of course, I agree with your argument. | ||
| But luckily, we don't have to worry about that because she lost resoundingly. | ||
| So farewell, foreigner. | ||
| You don't get to be president anymore. | ||
| And I really hope Ken Paxton becomes Attorney General of the United States. | ||
| He has been one of the few who has not fallen for the hoaxes constantly. | ||
| And I know you're always encouraging us to go bug Ken Paxton, but it's almost like he's one of the only ones actually doing the right thing. | ||
| I don't even know if I want to bug him. | ||
| I don't even know if I want to, you know... | ||
| Bother him. | ||
| It's like he's doing the right thing most of the time. | ||
| And it's been great to see. | ||
| And in fact, that was one of the tweets. | ||
| I didn't even show you tweets or really any of the videos. | ||
| But there's all these videos. | ||
| John Cornyn and everybody. | ||
| And John Cornyn's going to Ken Paxton. | ||
| Why don't you spend more time spreading Russian propaganda, Ken? | ||
| And it's like, okay, all right. | ||
| We see the dividing line. | ||
| And Ken Paxton's on the good side. | ||
| And John Cornyn's on the bad side. | ||
| So let's get Ken Paxton in a position of power in the federal government. | ||
| And let John Cornyn serve out his time as just another senator in the ranks. | ||
| We don't need him anywhere near a leadership position. | ||
| Thank you for the call, Jefferson. | ||
| Let's go to Jay in Montana on Line 11. | ||
| Who do you think the Senate leadership should go to? | ||
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Okay, the Senate leadership should go to J.D. Vance. | |
| And there is historical precedent for it. | ||
| It has to happen. | ||
| Cornyn and Thune are... | ||
| Dinosaurs of the Republican Party. | ||
| They are not MAGA. And let's be clear. | ||
| The American people, they sent their mandate. | ||
| They said, we want Trump's agenda. | ||
| RINOs, get out of the way or get rolled over, okay? | ||
| We need full throttle MAGA, all gas, no brakes. | ||
| This is what the American people asked for. | ||
| And I'm okay with Rick Scott. | ||
| But if it's not Rick Scott... | ||
| J.D. needs to step in as the president of the Senate and take full control. | ||
| Yeah, I completely agree. | ||
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We just can't have these Trump haters putting up roadblocks every step of the way. | |
| It's unacceptable. | ||
| And, you know, these rhinos, they think that Trump, Trumpism, MAGA is just a fart in the wind. | ||
| Oh, it'll pass and we'll go back to our rhino ways. | ||
| No. | ||
| That is not the case. | ||
| The new Republican Party is MAGA all the way. | ||
| We're going to be MAGA in 2028. | ||
| We're going to be MAGA in 32. | ||
| We're going to be MAGA in 36. | ||
| And we're going to be MAGA in 40. | ||
| And they are the dying establishment. | ||
| And they either need to get down or lay down because this is MAGA train all the way, baby. | ||
| I'm glad we did it. | ||
| I'm glad we're pushing forward. | ||
| And If they don't make the right choice, J.D. Vance needs to step up and say, nope, we're taking control. | ||
| And look, even if it's not them fully backstabbing Trump in the way that Mitch McConnell has and a lot of other people have, they just have this old mindset of like, well, we got to trust the process and trust the system. | ||
| And that's why it's like you've got them out there going, Well, if he really did do that to Eugene Carroll, then that's a big issue. | ||
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Well, if he really did take the classified documents, then that's a big problem. | |
| So it's like we need people that aren't even going to entertain the fake nonsense from the leftists. | ||
| It all needs to be snuffed out the instant it raises its head, the instant they try to come up with some new scandal. | ||
| Oh, Trump called Putin. | ||
| What are we going to do? | ||
| We just need somebody in the Republican Party to just go, So? | ||
| Who cares? | ||
| Shut up. | ||
| No, we're not getting distracted by this. | ||
| We've got a border to secure. | ||
| We've got wars to end. | ||
| We've got things to do for the American people. | ||
| So shut up. | ||
| So, I mean, yeah, we need people that aren't even going to allow the Democrats the foothold they need to disturb everything by being respectful. | ||
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And, well, you know, if this is, this could be a big problem, and we should really, we need to handle this internally. | |
| No, no, screw them. | ||
| Screw them. | ||
| It's over. | ||
| We're done. | ||
| We're done being nice. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| That's it. | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| Get on board. | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| Thank you for the call. | ||
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And Cornyn and Thune are special interest money vacuumed. | |
| I know. | ||
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They do not care about the American people. | |
| They're the worst, and luckily everybody's realizing this, and just like Pompeo, enough, I think, pressure is coming from the entire dissident, right, that... | ||
| I don't think either one of these people is going to be chosen. | ||
| It's not up to Trump. | ||
| Well, hold on. | ||
| I'm sorry, Jay. | ||
| I do want to get to one more call before we go. | ||
| Just going to get to as many as possible. | ||
| Thank you so much for the call, though. | ||
| Let's go to Donald in Illinois. | ||
| We've got one minute left. | ||
| Donald, go ahead. | ||
| You're on the air. | ||
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I just want to bring up Donald Trump's the best jobs president and just talk about how the jobs he's about to create. | |
| Yes, sir. | ||
| I mean, he's already creating jobs. | ||
| I mean, the stock market's hitting record highs. | ||
| Bitcoin's hitting record highs. | ||
| It's amazing what's already happened with Trump, just the president-elect. | ||
| Expect the rocket boosters to go to full power once he's actually in office. | ||
| It's a very exciting thing, and I'm going to be very excited to speak to Angela McArdle, who will be our guest in the next hour. | ||
| She, of course, is president of the Libertarian Party. | ||
| A lot of strange things are going on with the Libertarian Party. | ||
| They're, in some cases, arguing with each other quite a bit, but they're also getting more mainstream support and mainstream access to the levers of power than they ever have before. | ||
| So I'm excited to talk to her about what the future looks like for libertarianism, what the Trump campaign, as it becomes the Trump administration, what we're looking for in terms of appointments and other things. | ||
| Stay with us. | ||
| Third hour. | ||
| One second. | ||
| Here's my plan to dismantle the deep state. | ||
| First, I will immediately reissue my 2020 executive order restoring the president's authority to remove rogue bureaucrats. | ||
| Second, we will clean out all of the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus. | ||
| The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled. | ||
| Third, we will totally reform FISA courts. | ||
| The president is allowed to declassify materials. | ||
| He does have that authority. | ||
| So how do you square that? | ||
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Well, the president has the authority to do a lot of things. | |
| It doesn't mean if he does it, it's the right thing to do, such as going to war, pushing a button that is going to launch missiles. | ||
| The DOJ and the FBI are doing everything they can to slow the process to declassify the FISA documents to the point of stopping it in its tracks, redacting portions of the pages, rendering them mostly unreadable. | ||
| Every time we have seen something be unredacted, it wasn't about sources and methods. | ||
| We want to protect those, but every time it has been self-serving to protect the people who have been violating federal regulations, violating protocol of the Justice Department, or violating the law. | ||
| And so it's kind of calling Wolf one too many times to be saying, gee, this is terrible. | ||
| No, it's transparency in the American people. | ||
| Need to see just how bad the DOJ was weaponized. | ||
| The Democrats have long used FISA applications to not only generate a spy campaign on a presidential nominee, but also to spy on journalists. | ||
| Town Hall reported the Obama Department of Justice has spied on journalists. | ||
| They tracked James Rosen, formerly of Fox News. | ||
| They seized the phone records from Associated Press reporters. | ||
| Now the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and Freedom of the Press Foundation have released documents showing that in 2015 the Obama DOJ had secret rules to target journalists under FISA. These documents also show that the Democrat-funded Steele dossier played a significant role in the FBI's justifications and the request to wiretap former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. | ||
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In the initial foreign intelligence surveillance application submitted in October of 2016, the FBI stated it believes Page has been the subject of targeted recruitment by the Russian government to undermine and influence the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election in violation of U.S. criminal law. | |
| The documents also include several renewal applications to extend surveillance of Page. | ||
| And the last renewal in late spring 2017 is significant because at that point, the FBI had dumped Christopher Steele as a source after he misled them over his media contacts. | ||
| As the documents state, subsequently, the FBI closed source number one is an FBI source. | ||
| And while the visible sections of the renewal application don't indicate the dossier was verified, the FBI said that Steele was reliable based on his previous work. | ||
| Carter Page maintains he did nothing wrong and with this latest release of documents, he tells Fox News in a statement, I'm having trouble finding any small bit of this document that rises above complete ignorance and or insanity. | ||
| House Democrats, though, have been quick to say these documents bolster their arguments that the FBI had legitimate concerns about Carter Page. | ||
| Congress, what part of the Fourth Amendment do you not understand? | ||
| Why are we disregarding James Madison's words? | ||
| The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation And particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized. | ||
| Pretty solid authorization there. | ||
| We're unaware of what has happened, and they don't want you to be aware. | ||
| Isn't that the big hurdle, though? | ||
| They tried to deny it existed. | ||
| Now it's admitted they lied. | ||
| It's admitted it's huge. | ||
| It's totally illegal. | ||
| I think that's the beginning of the end of the system if the people simply say no. | ||
| Well, can we say no? | ||
| Here's the issue. | ||
| We depend on these phones. | ||
| We depend on the power. | ||
| We depend on the ability to communicate and to contact our families and to voice chat and video chat. | ||
| So what we need is we need legislation. | ||
| We need some serious, hard-looking at what's actually happening and say, listen, you know, we have to stop this. | ||
| We cannot have a total loss of privacy that is occurring Welcome back ladies and gentlemen This is the American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| Third hour is on, and joining me in studio is Angela McArdle. | ||
| She serves as the chair of the National Libertarian Party and is a two-time candidate for California's 34th Congressional District. | ||
| You can follow her on x at Angela4LNCChair, the website AngelaMcArdle.com. | ||
| Welcome to the show, Angela. | ||
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Thanks so much for having me back. | |
| My pleasure, and what a great time to have you back. | ||
| I mean, congratulations to you, of course, for not just helping Trump get elected, but helping to bring libertarianism actually closer to the levers of power than perhaps ever before. | ||
| Tell us, what's your last two weeks been like? | ||
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It's been crazy. | |
| I mean, it's been crazy. | ||
| I've been sort of involved in three different presidential campaigns all at the same time, juggling. | ||
| But it's been really exciting. | ||
| I'm just thrilled. | ||
| I think I kind of feel like everyone else where I'm like, did that actually happen? | ||
| Right. | ||
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Did we do it? | |
| Pinching yourself, yeah. | ||
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Yeah, something terrible about the buffalo? | |
| Right. | ||
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Seems okay. | |
| I know. | ||
| That's why I keep saying it's like we're abused animals. | ||
| It's like we're afraid to go get the food. | ||
| We think we're going to get smacked in the nose. | ||
| It's like we've got to learn how to win again. | ||
| So there's been a lot of drama with Libertarian Party over this whole election. | ||
| So the three campaigns you're talking about would be the Libertarian, the Trump, and the RFK campaign, right? | ||
| So what's going on with the Libertarian Party? | ||
| As much as I would love to see a good Libertarian candidate actually take a big percentage, I like what you're doing almost even better getting in with the Trump campaign. | ||
| And connecting them with some of the old school, the Ron Pauls and the Thomas Massys, and just getting the influence that we've been blocked out of for so long. | ||
| What is the strategy here, and why do you think this is the right course forward for libertarians? | ||
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Right. | |
| So as of now, and we'll see what happens in four years with who gets the GOP nomination, but we ran a candidate who was very culturally on the left. | ||
| Right. | ||
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Very, very on the left. | |
| And all the polling data showed he did not pull from President Trump. | ||
| So that was sort of how he threaded that needle. | ||
| You know, it wasn't a great turnout for us, but that doesn't matter because what we got out of it was an agreement from Donald Trump to free Ross Ulbricht. | ||
| To abolish the Department of Education and to put libertarians in his administration. | ||
| So I couldn't be happier. | ||
| You know, I think it worked out really well. | ||
| And I think that we've demonstrated we have the ability to play kingmaker. | ||
| You want to run someone like Vivek Ramaswamy or JD Vance next time? | ||
| Great. | ||
| I'm going to run a screaming blue haired leftist. | ||
| Who will not take votes from your candidate. | ||
| You know, if you run a Mitt Romney, though, I may run a Dave Smith or something like that. | ||
| So I'll play nice or, you know, I can play hardball. | ||
| I think that's a great position to be in. | ||
| And again, just the coalition that's being built from RFK Jr., Elon Musk, bringing Ron Paul in, like making that connection. | ||
| These are things that like we never... | ||
| RFK Jr. | ||
| going up talking about getting rid of fluoride in the water. | ||
| I mean, did you ever think in a million years he would be here? | ||
| It's amazing to see this happen. | ||
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It is really great. | |
| I got to pass an invitation. | ||
| From the Trump campaign to Ron Paul, you know, and vice versa. | ||
| And that's out of my hands now, but I was excited that I got to play a small role in that and connecting them all. | ||
| And things like that just keep happening over and over again. | ||
| You know, they basically reached out to me for advice on how to court the votes of libertarians. | ||
| And I said, I can't give you our actual nomination. | ||
| There are legal issues and bylaws issues to get around, but I can tell you what to do if you want the libertarian vote. | ||
| And they were super, super eager. | ||
| They were... | ||
| They listened really well. | ||
| Donald Trump was really warm and friendly about it all. | ||
| So I hope this starts a trend, you know, of advancing libertarian ideals. | ||
| I hope so, too. | ||
| But it's not going to be easy, is it? | ||
| I mean, obviously the sort of the holy grail of libertarianism would be like end the Fed, right? | ||
| If you had to sum it up in one. | ||
| Well, you know, you had Jeremy Powell asked point blank, you know, if Trump asked for your resignation, will you go? | ||
| And he says no. | ||
| So, I mean... | ||
| That's a big battle. | ||
| And we know how powerful the Fed is. | ||
| And we know they're not just going to go away easy or even have their power curtailed without putting up a very powerful fight. | ||
| So, I mean, what's that going to look like in Trump's administration? | ||
| Do you think he's going to go head to head with the Fed? | ||
| Do you think there are mechanisms in place to diminish their power somehow, try to, you know, get back some control to the people? | ||
| I mean, what do you think that's going to look like? | ||
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I think you're already seeing a little bit of shenanigans at play in the Senate. | |
| I think there are a lot of people who want to block him. | ||
| I think we should all set our expectations accordingly. | ||
| I set mine fairly low, and not because I don't think that Donald Trump has the force of will to do things, but I think, you know, they've already tried to murder him once. | ||
| Right. | ||
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We should be realistic about what he's going to be able to accomplish with all these people after him. | |
| So I like radical pragmatism. | ||
| Let's abolish one agency at a time. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So, you know, if we get rid of the Department of Education and they should have the votes also, I think it should be beyond just stripping it down to nothing. | ||
| They should be able to legislative-wise just trash it. | ||
| Just wipe it out, yeah. | ||
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If we could just do one agency every four years... | |
| I mean, we could really get rid of the federal government. | ||
| And that's going to have massive downstream effects. | ||
| I mean, when you get rid of the Department of Education, orchestrating education nationwide, where they've utterly failed and return it to the states, return it to local leadership, actually have a generation that learns things in school. | ||
| Wouldn't that be, you know, a novel idea? | ||
| And, you know, that'll change the world for generation upon generation. | ||
| So it's a really, it's a great idea. | ||
| I always sort of cringe when people say, you know, abolish the Department of Education, because I just want to say, return it to the states. | ||
| You know, taking the leftist kind of style of going, instead of saying we're abolishing this, say, no, we're actually giving it back to the people, because I just get how it, like, they're like, they don't want people to be educated. | ||
| It's like, no. | ||
| The Department of Education is the barrier to education. | ||
| We need to return it to the state so people can actually get educated. | ||
| I think it's a great idea and it's amazing that, again, this concept is actually being promoted by people with power. | ||
| It's an amazing thing. | ||
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We really want to get rid of the federal government's propaganda wing and give taxpayers their money back. | |
| We do want to get rid of lots of bureaucrats' jobs. | ||
| We want to fire them. | ||
| I think that's a very noble goal. | ||
| Don't worry, because Donald Trump will deregulate aggressively, and so there will be a booming job market. | ||
| Time to survive, maybe thrive even in the private sector. | ||
| Yeah, time to actually create things rather than being a parasite. | ||
| And that's one of the things that, you know, once you really start looking at taxes, I'm surprised anybody is not libertarian because you start looking at it and you go, okay, how many people are on government, you know, welfare? | ||
| How many people work for the government? | ||
| And what you realize is like, okay, there's a tiny, tiny amount of people that are the productive citizens and they are funding taxes. | ||
| Everything else. | ||
| And it's just if you would just stop stealing their money, stop being parasites to them, America could really be unleashed and it would be like nothing we've ever seen before. | ||
| What else are you looking forward to? | ||
| We got Ross Ulbricht and pardoning him. | ||
| I know there are a few other people that Trump has promised to look at their cases. | ||
| What else are you looking forward to in the Trump administration? | ||
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I'm excited to see Elon Musk recommend the slashing of trillions of dollars from the federal budget. | |
| We'll see if he's able to actually accomplish it or if it's just a white paper that goes nowhere. | ||
| But I think that he's very talented, obviously. | ||
| And if anybody can do it, it'll be him. | ||
| So he just has to be given the authority. | ||
| Yeah, and then the Department of Government. | ||
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Doge. | |
| Doge, yeah, Government Efficiency. | ||
| The memes are saving us. | ||
| Again, it's like, yeah, you do want to pinch yourself and be like, is this real life? | ||
| It is, it is. | ||
| We have to get used to winning. | ||
| You talked about the Senate leadership. | ||
| That's the big discussion right now. | ||
| The three people, I'm not a big fan of any of them, to be honest with you, but I guess Rick Scott has a lot more support on our side of things. | ||
| What do you make of what's happening in the Senate right now? | ||
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I mean, I think that McConnell and the other swamp creatures who hate Donald Trump and everything he stands for want to... | |
| You know, put as many obstacles in his way as possible. | ||
| They don't want Senate confirmations coming through. | ||
| They want to slow it all down. | ||
| They want to gum it up. | ||
| And so they're giving it a shot. | ||
| And Rick Scott, he's not perfect by any means. | ||
| He's made some comments about red flag laws that I am not down with. | ||
| But I think that he is the most aligned. | ||
| And so that's probably the best chance we have. | ||
| Obviously, everybody would love to see Rand Paul do it. | ||
| But for whatever reason, you know, he doesn't want to take the role. | ||
| Is that what it is? | ||
| He's not putting his hat in the ring? | ||
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I think he's not put his hat in the ring. | |
| That's so strange. | ||
| He has such a great opportunity. | ||
| I wish he would seize it more aggressively. | ||
| What about J.D. Vance? | ||
| You think J.D. Vance being the head of the Senate as vice president, people have floated that? | ||
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That, I mean, he should. | |
| He technically is, so he can certainly help to move things forward. | ||
| That would be nice. | ||
| I think that would be very fun. | ||
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I mean, I also, I think Mike Lee would be great. | |
| Maybe he's holding out for another cabinet position, though, but I trust him to get things going. | ||
| Well, there are a lot of good people and a lot of places to put him. | ||
| What else are you seeing? | ||
| From behind the scenes, I know you can't give us all the receipts, but as you are involved in all three of these campaigns, what are you seeing behind the scenes that you think people are not paying enough attention to? | ||
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Well, these are just the first handful of positions that people are jockeying for. | |
| You know, Susie Wiles just got chief of staff. | ||
| And some people were shocked by that. | ||
| And I thought that was unusual because she's been with President Trump for many years now. | ||
| She keeps her head down. | ||
| She does the work. | ||
| She's one of the people who did a lot of outreach to the Libertarian Party, along with Rick Grinnell. | ||
| I think Rick has come under a lot of heat for his involvement in Assange's Um, detention previously. | ||
| And so I'm excited to see that redemption arc. | ||
| He is someone who advocated face to face, uh, with Donald Trump and, and me, uh, for Julian Assange's freedom that happened last year. | ||
| So I know he's vying for secretary of state and there's been some grumblings online, but I'm like, well, you know what? | ||
| Maybe give, maybe give Rick, Rick a chance. | ||
| He attended our convention. | ||
| Like he seems like he's on a, an interesting story arc. | ||
| So that's, that's an interesting one to watch. | ||
| I think. | ||
| So Rick Grinnell advocated for sort of measures taken against Julian Assange, but has changed his position in that? | ||
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He's completely flipped and advocated to President Trump to free Assange when I had dinner with him both at Mar-a-Lago last year. | |
| Well, that's great. | ||
| And of course, that was one of the big contingents amongst many with Pompeo. | ||
| And it seems like the pressure campaign against Pompeo has paid dividends. | ||
| And Trump just put out a statement saying Nikki Haley or Pompeo are not welcome. | ||
| He loved working with them, but not anymore. | ||
| So that I see as another great victory. | ||
| Do you think this is the right way to do it, to just go public pressure, go on X? And it's great because we have such a powerful array of people making this argument right now, from Jack Posobiec to Donald Trump Jr. | ||
| himself. | ||
| I mean, it seems like we all get it, and it's about getting that message to Trump, and it seems like he's open to it. | ||
| So do you think that's just the way forward, is just keep the pressure on, be paying attention to who he's appointing, express whether we like it or not, because he seems to respond to that. | ||
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Yeah, I actually do. | |
| I think that this is highly effective. | ||
| I think it's an incredible moment in history to be alive and be participating in the conversation with who our president is going to pick to run the country. | ||
| And I know that he does see it. | ||
| When I first had a phone call with him last year, he mentioned my Twitter account. | ||
| He had done some intel, some oppo research on me. | ||
| And so I know that he sees this stuff. | ||
| It's not like Biden where someone just gives him a script and he reads it. | ||
| He really does know what's going on. | ||
| What's your take on Biden? | ||
| What's your take on the way he – because everybody noticed it. | ||
| He gave a speech after Election Day where he's totally cogent, never messes up a single word. | ||
| It's like, was he faking it the whole time? | ||
| What's your take on Biden? | ||
| Now they're asking Biden to step down and make Harris the president in the last 30 days so she doesn't – I mean, this is absurd to me. | ||
| Insurrection. | ||
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Insurrection. | |
| Charge them all. | ||
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I think Biden probably got a lot of rest. | |
| He probably just slept the last couple of months. | ||
| Just feel rejuvenated? | ||
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Yeah, he churned out a decent speech. | |
| I think he probably also wrote in his own name for president. | ||
| Right. | ||
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He just doesn't seem on board with the... | |
| The coup against him. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| It's just, it's so funny because it's like, ever since he got a coup against him, like, I've grown to like the guy. | ||
| I mean, he still says stuff that's like, okay, this guy's horrible. | ||
| I mean, he is horrible, let's be clear. | ||
| But it's like... | ||
| He's not calling us terrorists. | ||
| He's talking about unity. | ||
| He's putting on the MAGA hat. | ||
| It's like, man, if he'd been like this for the last four years, instead of standing in front of a blood red wall calling us all domestic terrorists, we wouldn't even have a problem with the guy. | ||
| It's like, why can they not just be normal, decent people all the time and then we wouldn't have a problem with them? | ||
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Yeah, how the turntables. | |
| It took a tax on him in order for him to get some perspective, I guess. | ||
| That seems to be the case with a lot of people. | ||
| We've been talking about it. | ||
| Anna Kasparian with the Young Turks had a bad experience with her side, you know, blaming her when she talked about being assaulted by homeless people. | ||
| Eric, what's his name? | ||
| Mayor of New York, right? | ||
| Eric Adams. | ||
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Yep. | |
| Total, you know, diehard leftist until suddenly they're kicking his door down and, you know, threatening him with arrest. | ||
| And suddenly he's coming out going, yeah, we're getting rid of the debit cards and we need to stop with this division. | ||
| It's like it seems like it takes a personal attack against them for people to wake up to how bad the leftists are. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And this is something that I've spoken with people in the Kennedy camp about. | ||
| You know, so many of them said, my eyes are open now. | ||
| I had no idea. | ||
| Just remember, everybody's in a different place on their journey. | ||
| And so I think, you know, it was really encouraging. | ||
| It was a huge white pill to see people who were diehard, lifetime, lifelong Democrats say, you know what? | ||
| Like, I'm awake. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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You know, we can't put up with this anymore. | |
| It's terrifying. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, and what I struggle to explain to these people is, like, it's your ideology. | ||
| It's built in. | ||
| I've tried to express this since 2016 when people were shocked that Bernie Sanders bowed out for Hillary Clinton. | ||
| It's like, no, this is perfectly in line with his ideology. | ||
| It's a top-down authoritarian ideology. | ||
| Of course they submit to the dictates of the authority. | ||
| That's what they're about. | ||
| So like people don't seem to get that, that like, no, this is baked into your ideology that you submit to authority. | ||
| That's like why we don't like it and why it tends to fail in the long run. | ||
| Do you I mean, I it really seems like there's an opportunity for like, I mean, already the awakening is massive, but like true mass awakening where these these socialists who think they're on the right side of history can just wake up and go, I've been taken for a fool this whole time. | ||
| I mean, how do we take advantage of the chink in the armor, the opening right now as people do seem a little bit lost in the fog. | ||
| How do we take advantage of that and teach people the underlying ideologies that drive both sides? | ||
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Some of it, I think, is about being willing to meet people where they're at. | |
| I know that people on the right and libertarians feel a lot of resentment still towards the way we were treated. | ||
| And I think that's all justifiable. | ||
| But we have an opportunity to lead. | ||
| And we have to rise to the occasion. | ||
| And as people break away from the regime, we have to say, like, come over to our side. | ||
| We welcome you wholeheartedly. | ||
| And as we do that, and as we continue to dominate the culture and have fun and show people that life can be enjoyable and great, I think that we're going to continue to win. | ||
| I think so, too. | ||
| And it's been amazing seeing some... | ||
| I don't know if I have the video here, but there's an NFL player who was fined for wearing a Trump hat and then... | ||
| On Sunday, I thought I put it in here. | ||
| Maybe the crew can find it. | ||
| They're all doing the Trump dance in the end zone. | ||
| I'm seeing frat parties where everybody's decked out in the American flag and they're all doing the Trump dance. | ||
| These videos on college campuses of kids just parading down the street with Trump flags. | ||
| It's like... | ||
| This is such a sea change culturally where there's somebody posted a picture of a guy and he's wearing a Trump hat sitting in a diner in Greenwich Village and it's the person going, you have no idea how weird this is, but it's happening. | ||
| People are not afraid to support Trump. | ||
| They're not afraid to be Republican or be conservative anymore. | ||
| We got to keep this going. | ||
| How do we keep the pedal to the floor in this regard? | ||
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Got to keep the fun up. | |
| Right. | ||
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You know, we got to dominate academia. | |
| We got to dominate entertainment, arts and culture, whether that's graphic novels, cinema, anything like that. | ||
| Parties. | ||
| We have to keep the fun vibes up. | ||
| We spent, I think we spent so many years being angry, you know, and now it's our turn to. | ||
| For good reason. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Right. | ||
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But now it's our turn to celebrate. | |
| And I think that that's what people really are attracted to. | ||
| They're like, those guys are having fun and enjoying their lives. | ||
| And winning. | ||
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Yeah, it's like four years on a sex strike with a shaved head. | |
| It's not a good vibe. | ||
| It's not a good vibe. | ||
| They seem miserable. | ||
| And they seem like legitimately insane. | ||
| Like, I really haven't played many of the compilations. | ||
| In 2016, it was, you know... | ||
| The salt was flowing. | ||
| They were screeching. | ||
| It was so much fun. | ||
| This time it's kind of sad. | ||
| I don't get the same vibe where it's like, ha ha, look at these stupid people screeching. | ||
| It's like, look at these poor people with their broken brains sobbing. | ||
| It's not even fun anymore to mog on them. | ||
| How do we not win in the future? | ||
| What do you think the left is going to do at this point? | ||
| Because they're clearly... | ||
| But they seem demoralized. | ||
| But we can't tell. | ||
| Are they just lulling us into a sense of false security before they launch something huge? | ||
| What's your take on how sort of quiet the left has been since the election? | ||
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Well, I mean, I experience... | |
| I can draw on my experiences from within my own party. | ||
| We have a radical leftist element that infiltrated the Libertarian Party and always tries to... | ||
| To stop me, they're like little cartoon villains. | ||
| And they do it procedurally, though, right? | ||
| It's like procedural hurdles hang up. | ||
| So I think they're going to push really hard to throw every obstacle in the way of Donald Trump for getting Senate confirmations done. | ||
| Lots of deep state bureaucrats are going to cling so hard to their positions. | ||
| There will be hide the ball played with papers. | ||
| You know, they'll create a bureaucratic maze so that we can't accomplish things. | ||
| So how do we overcome that? | ||
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Fire them. | |
| I spoke with Kash Patel about this. | ||
| I was so grateful to have him as the Libertarian Party's guest at Freedom Fest over the summer. | ||
| And he talked about how he and Rick Grinnell fired 15% of the intelligence agencies when they were appointed by President Trump in the 2016 term. | ||
| And he said, you can fire these people. | ||
| You just have to find cause. | ||
| Ask them, what do you do if they can't respond in eight seconds? | ||
| Fire them. | ||
| Fire them. | ||
| Yeah, and it really is as easy as that, and they're gonna cause trouble. | ||
| And I, you know, I do think it's up to us, because I think we failed in 2016. | ||
| I think we failed to back up Trump with everything we've gotten. | ||
| I blame Q for part of that, because his whole message was just trust the plan, just sit back and relax. | ||
| And it's like, this is the beachhead. | ||
| We have to, especially with the Senate leadership stuff that's going on right now, we gotta let these people know, like, this is the agenda. | ||
| The American people have decided. | ||
| They didn't vote for you. | ||
| They voted for Trump in spite of you. | ||
| You tried to stop him and we're just not going to stand for it anymore. | ||
| Because clearly these people are, if nothing else, motivated by a narcissistic love of power. | ||
| So like, hey, appeal to that. | ||
| If you want to stay in power, you got to meet us at the table. | ||
| We don't have to meet you. | ||
| But they're still clinging to it. | ||
| And I don't think it's going to last. | ||
| The John Cornyns of the world, they think they're still in charge, but they're just not. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| So, I mean, how do you think we can focus that messaging and get that message across to these people? | ||
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I think that we need to start pressing on some of their donors. | |
| I think that's a very good thing. | ||
| Who are the donors for these senators? | ||
| We need to start reaching out to them and getting them on our team. | ||
| And if not, calling them out and blowing them up and making them wildly unpopular as well. | ||
| Follow the money on some of these guys. | ||
| And some of them, you'll see, they're the top donor to both major parties. | ||
| They just want to be in charge no matter what. | ||
| They really are uniparty donors. | ||
| We've got to drive them out. | ||
| Yeah, I agree. | ||
| And I'm always so sort of... | ||
| Demoralize myself when I see these people, they got a lot of money, they're hardcore, they truly are patriotic, but they just, they think that giving to the RNC or giving to the John Cornyns is like enough, and then they're confused at why we keep losing. | ||
| I do think it's about going after them and going, look, if you want real change, here's who you have to support. | ||
| Here's the right candidate, not the John Cornyns, because you've been donating to them for 50 years and you've never gotten anything. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Too much reverence for establishments. | ||
| Establishment doesn't get you anything. | ||
| It's about personality, force of will, liberty, principles. | ||
| Let that be your donation guide. | ||
| Not reverence for institution. | ||
| Yeah, or longevity, right? | ||
| It really should be seen as a... | ||
| As a bad thing, if they've been in office for that long, it's like they've been in office for the entire time that we have careened downhill towards despotism. | ||
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What have they accomplished? | |
| What have they conserved? | ||
| What powers have they limited? | ||
| And, you know, I know a lot of us have moved sort of from the hardcore libertarian to sort of the, hey, you know, we got to get things done. | ||
| There's got to be governmental power, but it's got to be restricted. | ||
| So, like, I know personally, like, liberty is still my ultimate goal. | ||
| How we achieve that has maybe changed a little bit in my mind where I'm less sort of anti-police maybe than I used to be because we see what happens when you don't have the police. | ||
| You end up locking all of the, you know, shampoo at CVS behind plexiglass walls. | ||
| So it's like, all right, that's That's the opposite of freedom. | ||
| I'm not free if I have to live in a prison. | ||
| I'd rather put the prisoners in prison. | ||
| So I want to talk a little bit about that. | ||
| We're about to go to commercial break. | ||
| We'll be back on the other side with Angela McArdle. | ||
| Follow her on X at Angela4LNCChair. | ||
| That's Angela4LNCChair. | ||
| The website AngelaMcArdle.com. | ||
| Talking more about the... | ||
| Well, the libertarian takeover of the party, the influence that has been denied us for so long finally being wielded for the sake of the American people and our God-given liberties. | ||
| We'll be back on the other side. | ||
| Stay with us, folks. | ||
| All right, welcome back, folks. | ||
| Angela McArdle is my guest in studio with us. | ||
| She is the chair of the National Libertarian Party, two-time candidate for California's 34th Congressional District, but she's here in Texas now. | ||
| Thank goodness she got out of California. | ||
| You can follow her at Angela4LNCChairOnX. | ||
| AngelaMcArdle.com is the website. | ||
| So just before we went to break, I was talking about libertarianism and sort of some of our – people like myself are complicated in a relationship with libertarianism because while I've always considered myself a libertarian and I resonate so strongly with so many ideas promoted by the likes of Ron Paul and the Mises Institute, I love all that stuff. | ||
| The economics is – Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| down with because to me oppression is oppression whether it's coming from a corporation or a government it needs to be treated the same uh is the libertarian party like how are y'all dealing Because, again, I feel like there's a lot of people like me that love libertarianism but aren't down with—and actually you used the term during the break—beltway libertarianism. | ||
| So explain this and sort of what the—is there a transition going on? | ||
| Just what's happening with the Libertarian Party in terms of the beltway libertarianism? | ||
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Certainly. | |
| So there has been a noticeable split, divergence between the libertarians who run the National Libertarian Party and I would say the broader liberty movement, the Ron Paul libertarians, and what we call the Beltway libertarians, people in D.C. think tanks like Cato, Reason Institute. | ||
| They don't like us. | ||
| You know, they are the ones that continue to shill for corporations. | ||
| They were the ones who were super excited about Operation Warp Speed and Getting those shots to as many people as possible. | ||
| Oh, let's get the FDA out of the way. | ||
| And no regard for like, okay, regardless of, you know, corporations and getting rid of the laws, is it a good thing? | ||
| Right. | ||
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Should we be cautious or skeptical? | |
| We can be skeptical of individuals and politicians, but no, you know, we can't ever be distrustful of a corporation. | ||
| So there's a big split there. | ||
| And I think that that... | ||
| Version of libertarianism is really falling out of favor. | ||
| It's becoming wildly unpopular. | ||
| And I think that's a very good thing because it's, you know, again, we were talking in the break, the parties are dying, right? | ||
| The lines are being blurred and there's a lot of topics that sort of I find myself aligning with like AOC and Ilhan Omar when it comes to like Israel. | ||
| And again, I think they are on the right side of that conflict for the wrong reasons, right? | ||
| They see it as a racial divide and they just, you know, think it's the big bad white people, you know, attacking the brown people. | ||
| So like, I think they're stupid in the way that they perceive that conflict. | ||
| I tend to, you know... | ||
| Find my position from nationalism and belief in like, you know, people have their own destiny and can choose it for themselves. | ||
| So we have different reasons, but we end up on the same side. | ||
| So there's a blurring of the parties right now. | ||
| And I think libertarianism has an opportunity here to sort of shed the bowing for corporations that drive so many of the more socialistic type of people away. | ||
| Is there a future for a coalition? | ||
| What do you think the future of the parties is at this point? | ||
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Oh, I think that there's an incredible opportunity before us. | |
| I think the Libertarian Party can potentially play kingmaker at every major election. | ||
| I think that we are ready to wheel and deal with the two major parties and say, hey, you know, we won't run someone and spoil this race for you. | ||
| If you might give us like a down ticket, throw us a bone, you know, give us an appointment. | ||
| Let's collaborate. | ||
| And work together. | ||
| And I think that we're also potentially a good go-between option and a way for people to come together, you know, outside of that. | ||
| We were able to help bring Kennedy and Trump together as well. | ||
| So we can do things like that. | ||
| You know, it's exciting. | ||
| We also run Kennedy's fundraising agreement as well. | ||
| So you never know. | ||
| You know, again, it's very exciting and it seems like just a force of nature at this point. | ||
| Like, it's going to happen that the parties are going to become less relevant and, you know, who knows what it's going to look like even just four years from now, whether the Democrats will still be making the same arguments. | ||
| I mean, they have to know how unpopular and bad these arguments are at this point. | ||
| So, I mean, they're going to have to move more towards the right. | ||
| Trump's moving more towards the right. | ||
| I mean, it's a very exciting time and I'm glad libertarians have a seat at the table. | ||
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unidentified
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Me too. | |
| Right. | ||
| And so how are you making sure that you're making the most out of this opportunity? | ||
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unidentified
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Well, we really got to shout out our wins. | |
| And that's something that's been sort of difficult to me in the lead up to the general election. | ||
| I had two people sue me over my communications with Donald Trump and making deals. | ||
| You know, they don't like that. | ||
| They're like, no, the Libertarian Party can't work with other parties. | ||
| We have to be totally separate and distinct. | ||
| You know, I said, well, we are a distinct organization, but we don't exist in a vacuum. | ||
| Right. | ||
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Right. | |
| You know, once you get elected, you have to work with people in other political parties. | ||
| So we have to just kind of continue on that trajectory, I think, really shouting out our wins and talking about our involvement and inviting people to work with us as well. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And, you know, it strikes me almost like the like the abortion people who, you know, were withholding their vote for Donald Trump. | ||
| He gives them the biggest victory they've had in 50 years and yet they punish him for it. | ||
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Yep. | |
| And it seems kind of like that with libertarians, like here's somebody who's actually giving you the time of day, actually, you know, showing you more respect than any Republican has shown you in my entire lifetime. | ||
| And yet you don't want to take advantage of this. | ||
| It's like they're addicted to losing. | ||
| We gotta get over that. | ||
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They are. | |
| They are addicted to losing. | ||
| I mean, this is the first time in 50 years that we've made an accomplishment like this at the federal level. | ||
| It's the first time. | ||
| And yeah, I took a lot of heat for it. | ||
| And I was like, okay, well, you know, like I'm pretty good. | ||
| I'm not like this brilliant... | ||
| Only human being on the planet who's ever had this idea. | ||
| I think I'm just the only one who was willing to assume the risk. | ||
| So we need more people to assume the risk, do what is the obvious right thing to do, and, you know, just run it to the end zone. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, and look, Trump's the right guy to do it with. | ||
| And I was thinking back to when he appeared at the Libertarian Conference. | ||
| And he says he's going to fire somebody and the crowd just erupts and he goes, well, I didn't realize he was that hated. | ||
| Like, I'll definitely fire him now. | ||
| He responds to the crowd. | ||
| He responds to, you know, what people tell him. | ||
| So, you know, if you're up there booing him, he's going to ignore you. | ||
| If you're Going, yes, fire him, or yes, do this. | ||
| He's going to listen because he wants to be popular. | ||
| He wants to do what the people want. | ||
| So you've got to interact with him. | ||
| You've got to have that interchange. | ||
| If you're just criticizing or demonizing him, what is the point here? | ||
| Is the point to lose with your virtue intact, to lose with knowing that you stood up for your... | ||
| For your unpopular stances, or is it to win incrementally? | ||
| And I think the incrementalism that the Libertarian Party is working on right now is extremely successful. | ||
| Is that the right way to characterize it, maybe incrementalism? | ||
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I mean, I was calling it radical pragmatism. | |
| Right. | ||
| We want to make one major concession, get a couple of major points every election cycle. | ||
| And just be content and happy with that and thankful. | ||
| You know, I want to say also we're very grateful to President Trump for giving us the time and attention that he did. | ||
| Not everybody got that. | ||
| I think, you know, Nick Fuentes is still crying into his bowl of cereal for being passed over, you know, for the libertarians. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, and again, it's like it's Trump's the first one to do it. | ||
| And no other Republicans. | ||
| And it's not that just, like, Republicans ignore Libertarians. | ||
| It's like, if you look at their propaganda and the way that they, you know, some of the things that have come out, here are icons that are associated with white supremacy and white nationalism, and it's the don't tread on me flag, and it's the Betsy Ross flag. | ||
| It's like, they aren't just trying to keep Libertarians off of the ticket. | ||
| They're trying to demonize Libertarians to the point that it's, you know, an extremist ideology that's dangerous and has to be shut down. | ||
| So it's like... | ||
| You really got to take it seriously here. | ||
| You're not playing games with these people. | ||
| They really are trying to demonize and make illegal your belief system, which is the founding father's belief system. | ||
| So it's extremely dangerous what's going on. | ||
| And libertarianism has to get the respect it deserves, not be treated like some sort of fringe, you know, How do you make that argument? | ||
| How do you change the minds of not just the American people, but the people in these bureaucracies that are so scared by libertarianism? | ||
| How do you deal with that? | ||
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I think that we need better history lessons. | |
| I mean, libertarianism, small L, big tent libertarianism are the founding guiding principles of the country. | ||
| Individual liberty. | ||
| That's the whole reason we fought the Revolutionary War. | ||
| You know, it's, I think this should be so basic. | ||
| And thanks to things like the Department of Education, you know, and leftist controlled upper academia, all of that I think was lost. | ||
| Now it's just the United States was founded on racism. | ||
| Oh, it was just a bunch of whiny colonists who didn't appreciate or respect their king. | ||
| It's absolutely cringe. | ||
| Isn't that crazy? | ||
| They're literally trying to take us back to like 1775. | ||
| It blows my mind, but it's absolutely true. | ||
| But you're also sort of identifying the major handicap to libertarianism, which is that you can't do everything as an individual. | ||
| You can't separate yourself from the levers of power and still expect your ideology to be represented. | ||
| So how do you have collective individualism? | ||
| How do you get this pack of lone wolves together to make a difference? | ||
| I mean, that's a big struggle with libertarianism because it is about individual rights. | ||
| It is about treating people as individuals, not going, well, you're white, so therefore you're at fault for slavery 200 years ago. | ||
| I mean, that's ridiculous. | ||
| That's the collectivism that we're against. | ||
| But we understand that you have to act collectively to gain power, to get your ideology put forward. | ||
| How's libertarianism dealing with that? | ||
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Well, you have to be discerning with who you put in charge of things. | |
| And that's not something that I think the party has done a good job of in the past. | ||
| It's been a bunch of rowdy, well-meaning activists who don't know how to drive policy forward. | ||
| So you've got to do that. | ||
| We've got to focus on just a couple of things. | ||
| We've got to be more strategically minded, focused on accomplishing as opposed to opposing. | ||
| When you oppose everything, People will get excited, right? | ||
| People show up to a protest, they're mad about something, but eventually that rage and energy will fizzle as people are focused on things that they can accomplish at home, like taking care of their families and so on and so forth. | ||
| So you have to give people a win and make it quantifiable and something that they can get excited about and do. | ||
| Yeah, and I think a lot of Trump's victories, I mean, he touts slashing regulation constantly, and it's like sort of branding that going, that's a libertarian idea, you know, getting rid of like regulation. | ||
| That's not an old school Republican kind of thing. | ||
| That's a libertarian idea. | ||
| So I think, you know, taking these ideas that are already popular and making sure people know, hey, this is a libertarian idea. | ||
| So, you know, you might you might Scoff at libertarianism, but you love the ideas, actually. | ||
| So how do you brand these positive things with the label of libertarianism? | ||
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I mean, I think Elon Musk is actually doing a really great job of that, talking about just slashing government spending and slashing regulations. | |
| Those are just very libertarian ideas. | ||
| That's something even the Beltway libertarians should be able to get on board with. | ||
| I know they're gnashing their teeth because they hate Donald Trump because he reminds them of their mean dad or something. | ||
| Even though he's a perfectly nice human being. | ||
| But that's so libertarian. | ||
| That's just 101. | ||
| Yeah, at the very basics. | ||
| And again, I just love seeing Ron Paul. | ||
| And I always talk about the fact that we love Ron Paul because of his ideas and because so much of us So many of our journeys politically were like fostered by his ideas, by reading his books, reading, you know, in the Fed, learning this. | ||
| I mean, some people being brought up on his homeschool curriculum. | ||
| So it's like we actually genuinely like respect these ideas, whereas on the left, you have a lot of celebrity, you know, politicians that Nobody even knows what they stand with. | ||
| Beto O'Rourke. | ||
| Like, who the hell is he? | ||
| But people are wearing his t-shirt. | ||
| It's like, they don't even know what these people believe. | ||
| We actually have these ideas that have been unpopular for so long, but we haven't given up. | ||
| We've continued to make the arguments. | ||
| We're finally seeing some success. | ||
| InfoWars exactly the same way, calling out these things for decades and not seeing any respect, not getting any movement politically about it. | ||
| But suddenly things are changing. | ||
| Suddenly the tide is turning and it's so exciting. | ||
| We need to grasp it and not sit back on our laurels. | ||
| So how do you thread that needle? | ||
| How do you celebrate the victories and maintain on top without losing that momentum moving forward? | ||
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We just got to keep stacking our wins. | |
| I mean, to have Ron Paul be involved in stripping down the federal government, I think it's such an incredible gift to give to him in his twilight years. | ||
| Right. | ||
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This man has been working his entire life, I think, for this moment. | |
| And I'm just so happy that he's receiving that recognition right now. | ||
| He gets to have the Ron Paul was right movement. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That moment. | ||
| And we need to just have more moments like that in history. | ||
| So we need to be looking for the next one, accomplishing that, giving people credit where credit is due. | ||
| And then that gives other people, it fills them with hope and optimism. | ||
| And I think that that's what at least the first couple of years of this administration are going to be like. | ||
| It's going to be people excited about things, full of optimism, excited about their future. | ||
| I hope we can hold on to it for the full four years. | ||
| I do too. | ||
| And when you talk about libertarianism in the modern context, you can't leave out Thomas Massey because that dude is libertarianism embodied. | ||
| If you watched his interview with Tucker Carlson, it's like you come away just going, this is the guy the founders wanted. | ||
| To run for office. | ||
| Self-made man, you know, dedicated to these ideas. | ||
| Totally amazing. | ||
| What do you think the future for Thomas Massey is? | ||
| Because, you know, even in that Tucker interview, we talked a little bit about some of the friction between him and Trump. | ||
| Hopefully that's gone by the wayside. | ||
| Hopefully he'll have a more prominent role. | ||
| What do you think the future of Thomas Massey is? | ||
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I think it's very up in the air. | |
| There are a lot of people who'd like to see him be Secretary of Agriculture. | ||
| And I think... | ||
| That would be really incredible. | ||
| There are also people who want him to continue to be a strong voice for opposition to U.S. involvement in Israel from Congress. | ||
| I do think, you know, realistically, he can have a lot more influence and get a lot more things done if he has a cabinet position or some similar appointed position. | ||
| But I think it's really up in the air. | ||
| And I think a lot of people appreciate that he Endorsed President Trump as we got closer to the election. | ||
| I think for Liberty Republicans, you know, and Libertarians, we're our own political party. | ||
| So this doesn't apply to us as much. | ||
| It's a good learning lesson, but Liberty Caucus Republicans, a lot of them behave the same way Libertarian party members do. | ||
| They're highly vocal and critical. | ||
| And it's like, remember, you need to form alliances to get reelected. | ||
| Thomas Massey is very safe, but I think a lot of Liberty Caucus Republicans saw themselves ousted and wondered, does Donald Trump not like us? | ||
| Because we love liberty. | ||
| I don't understand. | ||
| And I'm like, oh no, my friend, you trashed him for four years. | ||
| You have to be more politically and strategically minded. | ||
| They came for you because they needed strong alliances. | ||
| Right. | ||
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So I think that's a big takeaway from this. | |
| And I think that Thomas Massey has been the example and shown like, hey, you know, like let's build bridges. | ||
| So I hope more people follow in his lead. | ||
| I hope so, too. | ||
| And especially when it comes to the Israeli topic. | ||
| And again, in the Tucker Carlson interview, he was talking about how there'd be votes and there'd be two dissenting voices. | ||
| And it was like him and AOC. And it's like, it's weird. | ||
| It's weird bedfellows that you're making here. | ||
| But you got to get things done. | ||
| You got to form alliances. | ||
| You've got to form coalitions. | ||
| And we can think they are... | ||
| Stupid as the day is long when it comes to, you know, things like welfare. | ||
| But hey, we agree on this topic. | ||
| Let's work to get this, to move this forward. | ||
| I'm very happy to see the two-party duopoly, you know, uniparty sort of falling by the wayside and people taking less, taking that less seriously and working to get things done. | ||
| I think that's necessary. | ||
| And again, it's one of these things where it's like you look at socialists or whatever and you go, this is what you people have been calling for forever. | ||
| But now that it's us doing it, you don't want to be involved. | ||
| It's frustrating, really, the way that they want to just look the gift horse in the mouth and not... | ||
| Not just take the opportunity that we're giving them to really create a America first coalition. | ||
| I think that's what's necessary now. | ||
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Yeah, I think that there are going to be people who cling tightly to pettiness and partisanship. | |
| But for the most part, I think your political party registration is going to become less and less relevant. | ||
| People are going to jump back and forth between the parties to get different nominations. | ||
| I think eventually the two parties will still continue to exist, but they just won't mean as much for votes, for endorsements. | ||
| It's going to be more about the individual and what they stand for. | ||
| And that's a very good thing. | ||
| It's also good for third parties. | ||
| You know, that means that we are also helping to push the Overton window in the right direction. | ||
| Yeah, the Overton windows, I mean, it's more or less been shattered at this point. | ||
| Again, you just list the number of things from fluoride to the atrazine to, you know, plastics in the water. | ||
| And like this stuff is what we need to focus on. | ||
| Is it worth it to try to appeal? | ||
| I mean, I think you'd agree it is worth it to try to appeal to the socialist side. | ||
| How do you do that without losing your conviction? | ||
| I mean, can you do that? | ||
| Is it worth it to make those little caveats here or there in the long run? | ||
| Are you playing a long game or do we need these immediate victories to keep the momentum going? | ||
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Well, really, you need both, so you need a big team. | |
| But I always think that it's worthwhile to reach out to the left. | ||
| I've done anti-war activism with the left. | ||
| I've held large rallies, Rage Against the War Machine with people who are far leftists. | ||
| I think it's important. | ||
| I think that it helps us all remember our humanity and our ability to work with one another when we find an issue that we think is an existential threat. | ||
| You know, MAGA communism is this weird thing. | ||
| It's this weird thing. | ||
| That's one way to put it, yeah. | ||
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You know, and there are straight communists, you know, who are like, you know what, Donald Trump is better than Kamala. | |
| And so... | ||
| I'm not quite fully sure what to think about that. | ||
| You know, is it a scary movement meant to infiltrate the right and wreck it? | ||
| Or is it just that a lot of leftists don't want to give up on the abolition of private property, but they're like, yeah, you know, American left sucks. | ||
| You can reach people, though. | ||
| There's all kinds of crazy ways to reach people. | ||
| And again, that's what we're seeing with prominent leftists sort of calling out their own party and going, you guys screwed this up. | ||
| You're too focused on the racial stuff. | ||
| Did you really think that abortion would carry you over the finish line when there's all this other crap that you're on the wrong side of, especially when it comes to the economy? | ||
| So what do you think the left is planning at this point? | ||
| We know they don't give up easily. | ||
| We know they don't just, you know, go, ah, good game, you won. | ||
| You know, here's the keys to the city. | ||
| I mean, that's not what they do. | ||
| That seems like what they're doing now. | ||
| What do you think is in store over the next, what, 60-something days before the inauguration? | ||
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Probably crazy stuff with Ukraine. | |
| Yeah. | ||
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Messing up the Senate. | |
| All kinds of backdoor bureaucratic mazes. | ||
| Hopefully no more assassination attempts, but that... | ||
| Knock on wood, yeah. | ||
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That freaks me out. | |
| Yeah, my advice was to try to put out a tweet on Election Day, just like, you need to go in Mar-a-Lago and not come out until inauguration, and J.D. Vance needs to never be in the same city as you until then. | ||
| You won. | ||
| You don't need to come out and talk anymore. | ||
| Like, we love you. | ||
| We get it. | ||
| We'd love to see you, but just stay safe until Inauguration Day. | ||
| That is a huge threat. | ||
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I hate to say it. | |
| I feel like he needs to be in a panic room. | ||
| Seriously. | ||
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Hide yourself away for a little bit. | |
| Plus, it'd be dramatic. | ||
| You know, you give time to miss him and suddenly he re-emerges on January 20th. | ||
| I think that would appeal to Trump's... | ||
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From the Mar-a-Lago cocoon? | |
| Yes, yeah. | ||
| I think that appeals to Trump's sort of dramatic impulses in and of itself. | ||
| You know, his podcast strategy was so popular and apparently Barron Trump was sort of behind that, which I think was absolutely incredible. | ||
| The media shift that's going on is equally as monumental as the political shift. | ||
| How can libertarians take advantage of that, do you think? | ||
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Well, we have some incredible libertarian voices right now who are doing the Lord's work. | |
| Dave Smith has been really dominating. | ||
| Totally awesome. | ||
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Yeah, he's doing an amazing job. | |
| You know, Joe Rogan is now trying to get him and Trump on a podcast together. | ||
| So that would be great. | ||
| That would be pretty wild. | ||
| I got to introduce Donald Trump's team to Tim Pool. | ||
| And connected them that way. | ||
| And so Tim got to ask some libertarian questions to President Trump. | ||
| I think we just have to keep dominating, you know? | ||
| Like, we're more interesting. | ||
| Regime talking points are so stale and boring. | ||
| I can't imagine that most left to sit down and listen and consume the same material over and over again. | ||
| Maybe the dedicated ones, but not people like left of center, right? | ||
| I would hope not. | ||
| I mean, I can barely stand listening to him for 10 seconds. | ||
| So, you know, I don't know how people have MSNBC on all day. | ||
| Well, yeah, it's just anxiety. | ||
| And like, you know, when it comes to Tim Pool, I thought he had the best response because the left was saying, you know, the left needs our own Tim Pool. | ||
| And he was saying you had one. | ||
| His name was Tim Pool. | ||
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Right. | |
| They drove him away. | ||
| Same with Joe Wright. | ||
| Say the same thing with Joe Rogan. | ||
| They're like, we need a leftist Joe Rogan. | ||
| It's like, that was Joe Rogan. | ||
| You people went insane and he had to abandon ship. | ||
| So this is your own fault. | ||
| So you're right. | ||
| I mean, it's like all these people that used to consider themselves liberal and Democrat, but just the longer they're in the mix and having their eyes open to the reality of what's going on, they find themselves... | ||
| thrust out by the left and and welcomed with open arms to the right so I mean this the strategy has been successful and I I don't want to see We have a needle to thread here, right? | ||
| We have a we have a tightrope to walk where you don't want to go Too hard to where you sort of spoil everything that you've won But you also don't want to moderate so much that you you know spoil what you've won so So, you know, how do you maintain that track? | ||
| How does Trump maintain that balancing act where half the people want him just to go hard and just throw these people in jail? | ||
| I'm on that side. | ||
| Or the other side that's like, well, now that we've won, we can kind of moderate. | ||
| How do you think Trump threads that needle? | ||
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I think that he needs to lean into being aggressive. | |
| Mm-hmm. | ||
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And there are going to be natural impediments and obstacles that come up. | |
| And if you go in very soft, and I'm not going to punish anyone or hurt anyone, you're going to come across as weak. | ||
| And I can't imagine that man coming across as weak. | ||
| The harder you go, the more likely they are to fight back, and you'll probably end up somewhere in the middle in a sweet spot. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| I think there will be sort of a natural balancing act, and it seems like from everything. | ||
| I mean, I'm still blown up. | ||
| There's a DC Shorts video that I played last week where I was talking about, you know, what would have happened if Trump won in 2020 when he still had pins and they had still Democrat domination. | ||
| I know. | ||
| It's like we spent 2020 going, oh, my God, we were robbed. | ||
| This is terrible. | ||
| It's like, well, hold on. | ||
| Four years later, it's coming more clear. | ||
| This is the way it had to be, and it's way better for us now. | ||
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So much better. | |
| It's absolutely brilliant. | ||
| We're already out of time. | ||
| I can't believe it. | ||
| Angela McArdle, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| She is the current chair of the National Libertarian Party. | ||
| Follow her on X at Angela4LNCChair. | ||
| That's Angela4LNCChair on X. Website AngelaMcArdle.com. | ||
| Thank you so much for joining us and congratulations on all the success this year. | ||
|
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Thank you. | |
| Hopefully it continues long, long into the future. | ||
| That's about going to do it for us, folks. | ||
| We'll be back tomorrow. | ||
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