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Jan. 27, 2024 - Jim Fetzer

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STOP THE INVASION! 25 States Join Texas as CIVIL WAR Battle Lines are Drawn

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	Well, you picked the right day to tune in and listen to Brighton Broadcast News here.
	It's Friday, January 26, 2024.
	Mike Adams here.
	Thank you for joining me.
	We've got a lot of intel and some, of course, big breaking news.
	About Texas and the collapsing Biden regime and the rising up of now 25 GOP governors who are backing Texas in the Texas ability to defend its own borders against invasion.
	And this is exposing the dereliction of duty of Joe Biden, the entire Biden regime, including, of course, Alejandro Mayorkas and Antony Blinken and all the other traitors and criminals in Washington, D.C.
	And this is about to go into some very interesting places.
	And actually, this is good news.
	This isn't doomsday news.
	This is some of the most positive news that we have seen in a long while, in several years, I would say, because we finally now have the Republican governors saying enough is enough, saying no to Joe Biden and the tyrannical federal saying no to Joe Biden and the tyrannical federal regime that is demanding the ongoing invasion of the United States.
	So this is the biggest breaking news probably since Trump's victory in 2016.
	And it really points to a third Trump victory coming up.
	So let me cover the news for you here and then we'll get into analysis.
	So we have 25 governors, GOP governors across America.
	Remember yesterday when we were talking about this, it was only six states.
	Now it's 25.
	And here's the statement that they issued together in the last 24 hours.
	Quote, we stand in solidarity with our fellow governor, Greg Abbott, and the state of Texas in utilizing every tool and strategy, including razor wire fences, to secure the border.
	We do it in part because the Biden administration is refusing to enforce immigration laws already on the books and is illegally allowing mass parole across America of migrants who entered our country illegally.
	family.
	That's a very interesting term, parole, by the way.
	We'll get to that in a minute.
	They continue, quote, The authors of the U.S.
	Constitution made clear that in times like this, states have a right of self-defense.
	Under Article 4, Section 4, that's the portion of the Constitution that says the federal government must protect states against invasion, by the way.
	And Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the U.S.
	Constitution That's the part that says states can work together to defend themselves in cases of invasion, by the way.
	Continuing, quote, because the Biden administration has abdicated its constitutional compact duties to the states, Texas has every legal justification to protect the sovereignty of our states and our nation.
	Signed by 25, you know, 25 states, you could probably imagine, you know, Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, and on and on and on.
	You know, of course, South Dakota, of course, Wyoming, Ohio, North Dakota, even Nevada, by the way.
	So this is huge news, even Alaska, if you can believe that.
	West Virginia as well, Utah.
	Go Utah, Montana, the whole deal.
	Now, what you're actually seeing here... Oh, and by the way, Arizona would have signed this, except the election was stolen from Carrie Lake.
	So Carrie Lake should be the governor of Arizona.
	She would have absolutely signed this.
	So you can consider that Arizona is also supporting this in terms of the people, the voters of Arizona support this as well.
	So, you know, big shout out to all of you listening from Arizona.
	We know that you're with us.
	And then, you know, it makes you wonder about the other states that did not sign this.
	And of course, those are the states that have been taken over by a woke-tard administration.
	So Kansas, for example, run by woke-tards, right?
	Colorado, New Mexico, and of course, the left coast, California, Oregon, Washington, and much of the East Coast, you know, New Jersey, you know, New York, Massachusetts, and so on.
	Even, gosh, even Pennsylvania, but also Michigan and Minnesota so far.
	Illinois, of course, that's expected.
	Kentucky hasn't signed on yet.
	I'm wondering about that.
	Maybe they're just kind of late.
	I think Kentucky will come around.
	On top of this, Donald J. Trump, who is the president still, technically, has issued a call, this is major, for all 25 states to send their National Guard troops to Texas to help defend the border.
	So we're talking about a rallying of state military troops from 25 states to defy the corrupt, treasonous, criminal enemy occupying force in Washington, D.C.
	that pretends to be the government, the federal government of these United States.
	So Donald Trump put out a statement, quote, when I was president, we had the most secure border in history.
	I wish I could say it in his voice.
	It would be way more effective.
	We had the most amazing secure border in history.
	Joe Biden has surrendered our border and is aiding and abetting a massive invasion of millions of illegal migrants into the United States.
	Instead of fighting to protect our country from this onslaught, Biden is unbelievably fighting to tie the hands of Governor Abbott and the state of Texas so that the invasion continues unchecked.
	I know, this is really incredible.
	In the face of this national security, public safety, and public health catastrophe, Texas has rightly invoked the invasion clause of the Constitution.
	And must be given full support to repel the invasion.
	Now, remember, Biden and the Democrats are in favor of the invasion.
	They are complicit in the invasion.
	They support the invasion.
	Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, you know, I mean, they are the State Department.
	They support the invasion because they're traitors.
	They're engaged in treason.
	Trump continues, we encourage all willing states to deploy their guards to Texas to prevent the entry of illegals and to remove them back across the border.
	All right, that's really critical to understand too.
	To remove them back across the border.
	He's saying, you know, find them, arrest them and deport them.
	Which is exactly what needs to happen.
	Continuing, all Americans should support the common sense measures by Texas authorities to protect the safety, security, and sovereignty of Texas and of the American people.
	When I am president, he says, on day one, instead of fighting Texas, I will work hand-in-hand with Governor Abbott and other border states to stop the invasion, seal the border, and rapidly begin the largest domestic deportation operation in history.
	Those that Biden has let in should not get comfortable because they will be going home.
	Classic Trump statement right there.
	And well stated.
	And it's hard to disagree with that.
	We have According to Governor Abbott, at least 6 million illegals that have crossed into the United States during the Biden administration.
	Other estimates put that at about 10 million people.
	Trump is going to find some significant portion of those people and send them back home.
	And as you may recall, I met with some high level law enforcement in Texas a couple weeks ago, and they informed me of what that plan was going to look like.
	And as you may recall, that will be a mostly a traffic enforcement operation where once Trump gives the green light to actually carry out the deportations, then law enforcement across the state of Texas and surely many other states Probably all 25 states that are on board with this.
	They will begin some really strict traffic enforcement.
	You know, pulling over people that roll through stop signs.
	That might be half of you listening to this, by the way.
	Pulling over people for speeding, even just a little bit.
	Pulling over people, you know, failure to signal.
	Things like that.
	And the purpose of this is to find the illegals.
	Because, you know, you run the driver's ID, obviously, and you can find out pretty quickly if they're illegal.
	Because the illegals typically drive without a driver's license and no insurance.
	And then you would arrest them for illegal trespassing into the United States, or in the case of Texas, trespassing into the state of Texas.
	That's already on the books as a law under Governor Abbott.
	And then you would turn them over To immigration enforcement officials under the Trump administration, who would then process those people for deportation.
	Now, right now, you can't turn them over to the Biden regime because the Biden regime won't deport them.
	And what I was told by law enforcement in Texas is that one of the reasons why they don't do more of this enforcement action right now is because their local jails are full.
	They're full of illegals.
	And they just don't have any more jail capacity.
	They can't get them out of the jails and out of the country quickly enough because, you know, Customs and Border Protection or Immigration Services, whatever departments in the federal government are supposed to handle this, are not handling it, obviously.
	Because the Biden regime is a treasonous regime that wants America to be invaded and overrun.
	And isn't it great to know that Texas took a stand.
	Texas was first.
	And then I believe it was Oklahoma that was second, that said, we stand with Texas.
	And then it was Florida, DeSantis.
	And it was Virginia and Montana, I believe, and South Dakota.
	And that was all You know, two days ago, and then yesterday, it was boom, 25 states.
	We've all had enough of this invasion.
	It's time to say no.
	Now, I'm wondering, well, first of all, let me interrupt myself.
	Today, I interviewed Colonel Tony Schaefer.
	And I asked Tony Schaefer questions about this situation.
	And this was a bombshell interview, very hard-hitting.
	You can't miss it.
	It's coming up here.
	So stay tuned for that interview with Tony Schafer, you know, a few minutes from now, depending on how long I take to cover all this.
	But what you're watching here are the Civil War battle lines being drawn up across America.
	And it's very clear that most of America stands with Texas, at least philosophically, on this issue of stopping illegal immigration, stopping the invasion.
	Most Americans are with Trump on this issue, even if they disagree with Trump on other issues.
	And I spoke with Tony Schafer about also this issue that black Americans support building a wall and stopping illegal immigration.
	And in addition, Hispanic Americans support this effort because Hispanic Americans, who make really great, amazing Americans, by the way, I have so many Hispanic American contacts and friends in Texas and elsewhere, and they want to stop the illegal immigration as well because they don't want to see America destroyed and overrun by MS-13 gang members and, you know, felons released from the prisons in El Salvador and Venezuela and so on.
	So there's really not any group that's opposed to stopping the invasion other than traitors, which is the Democrats.
	You know, the Joe Bidens, the Clintons, you know, the California Governor Gruesome Newsome, you know, the governors of Oregon and Washington and, you know, Colorado and what have you.
	They're all traitors.
	How can they not say, let's stop an invasion of our country?
	They are complicit with the invasion.
	They are engaged in acts of treason by refusing to support stopping an invasion of our country.
	And we are rapidly approaching a time.
	I mean, this, this could escalate very quickly and Joe Biden is in a very difficult situation.
	This is not going well for Biden and the Democrats.
	This could lose them the election.
	I'll talk about that.
	Like how that can happen, but this is rapidly moving to a situation where I think that we could have.
	Now, let me be clear.
	I'm not predicting this as a certainty.
	This is a possibility if the situation continues to escalate.
	But we could have states like Texas beginning to issue arrest warrants for federal agents that are in the state of Texas.
	Texas could begin arresting Border Patrol agents working for the federal government.
	Texas could even begin arresting DOJ agents FBI agents, ATF, DEA, IRS, DIA, and even issuing arrest warrants for Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas and others.
	Imagine if Mayorkas steps foot in Texas and gets arrested and tried for treason in the state of Texas.
	That is not an impossibility.
	I'm not saying it's going there tomorrow, but it could go to that place.
	If the Biden regime responds in an escalatory manner, which they tend to do, as we have seen with Ukraine and the whole Russia situation, as well as the Middle East, the Biden regime, Joe Biden himself is a wildly overconfident, incompetent nincompoop.
	That's a technical term.
	That describes his level of cognitive loss.
	It has turned him into a nincompoop with a special emphasis on the poop.
	Joe Biden thinks that this is still the 1980s.
	He thinks that he's John Wayne.
	He thinks that he personally beat up Corn Pop, a gangbanger in the 1970s.
	Joe Biden thinks America has the strongest military in the world.
	And he thinks that the federal government can do whatever it wants, and not just bully the nations of the world, as the US is doing, provoking Russia, bullying Russia, exploiting Ukraine, and bullying the countries of the Middle East, and of course, previously destroying, you know, Libya, and Working to destroy Afghanistan and Syria and so on.
	The U.S.
	has a bully attitude, especially under Joe Biden, who is living in a delusional, senile world.
	He thinks he can bully Texas.
	And he is wrong.
	He thinks he can bully 25 U.S.
	states that represent, frankly, the most hardened, patriotic and heavily armed Americans.
	Joe Biden thinks he can bully them.
	I mean, Texas and the states that are with us on this, these are the states with the most veterans, the most hunters, the most concealed carry holders, the most law enforcement.
	I mean, you mess with Texas, you're, you got to find out the hard way that, you know, when Texas says come and take it, you might want to reconsider your actions.
	You know, come and take it.
	In this case, it wouldn't be the cannon from Gonzales.
	It would be the come and take the razor wire.
	You know, hey, hey, Joe Biden, come and take it.
	You want the razor wire?
	Come and take it and find out what happens.
	F around and find out because that's where this is going.
	And the U.S.
	military under Biden is not just woke, but it's weak.
	You know, I'm sorry to say this as much as I support veterans, and I know there are really good men and women in the military, by and large, especially among the younger, woke ranks of the military.
	Our soldiers today are fat, obese, lazy, crybaby whiners and snowflakes who can't fight.
	They can't fight.
	They're not warriors.
	They don't have a warrior mindset.
	And they're not well trained.
	They're, I mean, a lot of them are just woke tards with rifles.
	And guess what?
	That doesn't win battles, it turns out.
	Especially if you're up against a state like Texas, that is defending its own land against an existential threat.
	So if this comes to some kind of kinetic conflict, the US military loses against Texas.
	The US military loses.
	Joe Biden loses.
	And the more Biden tries to escalate this, the more rapidly it pushes states like Texas and other supporting states into doing something really historic.
	Now I know we're in an election year and everybody's looking at that election, but I ask you, what if the election is irrelevant?
	Because what if, and this is not a prediction, I'm just laying out possibilities here, what if Texas and the other 24 states, or 25 states, all get together here and announce that they no longer recognize the illegitimate treasonous criminal regime in Washington, D.C.? ?
	They just declare that the election was rigged, that Joe Biden does not represent the American people, that Joe Biden is acting as an enemy of the United States of America, and that these 25 states have the right to defend themselves and they are going to choose a new president themselves.
	There's nothing stopping those states from doing that.
	There's nothing stopping it.
	Joe Biden can't do a damn thing about it.
	The US military can't do a damn thing about it either.
	And besides, all the military assets are over in Ukraine or Israel.
	Some naval assets cruising around Taiwan trying to stop a China attack.
	I mean, the U.S.
	military already expended most of its ammunition and artillery and Patriot missile batteries trying to fight Russia, which didn't even work.
	The U.S.
	military is weak.
	The munitions are almost non-existent.
	And America's capacity to manufacture munitions is almost non-existent.
	You understand?
	The United States military, under the control of the, you know, resident-in-chief, can't win a war.
	Can't win a war against Texas.
	Can't win a war against 25 states.
	If these 25 states just take a stand and say enough is enough, you rigged the election, you invaded our borders, you're destroying our country, you are the traitors.
	We're going to elect our own president.
	We're going to issue arrest warrants for all the federal traders.
	If they do that, they will win.
	They will win.
	And they can run their own election.
	And perhaps that candidate might be Donald Trump.
	Who knows?
	I mean, we may not have a national election in November because we might have the free America states election before that.
	We might have our own new president.
	And then the woke, tarred, treasonous Democrats, they could keep Joe Biden.
	They can keep their senile, cognitively retarded, treasonous morons in Washington, D.C.
	who are destroying all the blue cities and all the blue states, running everything into the ground, printing currency into oblivion.
	Yeah, you can keep all that.
	Guess what?
	The rest of us free states in America We're going to end big tech censorship?
	That would be amazing.
	Just to see Governor Abbott dispatch the guard troops to, you know, Apple headquarters and Google headquarters in Texas and say, guess what?
	You either end censorship or you're not going to be allowed to operate in this state.
	We're going to confiscate all your assets.
	I mean, it really can come down to that.
	And it should.
	It should come down to that.
	But this is where things are headed.
	It doesn't have to involve any bloodshed, and I pray that it doesn't.
	I pray for peace, but I also pray for the reestablishment of the rule of law in this nation.
	And it's clear that the Democrats and Joe Biden have abandoned the rule of law.
	They flaunt it.
	They do the opposite of the rule of law.
	The law says you have to protect states from invasion.
	So they say, let's encourage an invasion.
	And that's exactly what they've been doing.
	And I ask you this question, what if these 25 states issue an arrest warrant for Alejandro Mayorkas and Joe Biden and Antony Blinken and all the others who have been involved in this deliberate invasion and treason and tries them For their crimes against these United States of America.
	Tries them for treason.
	Could that happen?
	Absolutely.
	It should happen.
	In my interview yesterday with Michael Yan, he was calling for that.
	Criminal indictments of these traitors who are complicit in the invasion, actually funding the invasion of the United States of America.
	Yes, they should be arrested.
	They should be tried for treason.
	And if they show up in any of these 25 states, they should be, of course, arrested and held.
	Because they are criminal traitors against these United States of America.
	And if the Supreme Court, remember the Supreme Court, they all get their paychecks from the Biden regime.
	Okay, the Supreme Court is part of the federal bureaucracy.
	And of course, the Supreme Court would rule against the 25 states because the Supreme Court wants to keep its own power in DC.
	But if the 25 states just say, look, you know, we've had enough of the treason.
	We don't recognize the legitimacy of anything in Washington, D.C.
	any longer.
	We don't recognize your fake government, your fake rulings, your fake currency.
	We don't recognize it.
	We're done.
	We're not going to be obedient to a bunch of criminals and traitors who are destroying this country.
	We're going to form our own new America.
	That is actually a reflection of what's outlined in the Constitution.
	We will be the legitimate America, and the Democrats and the Biden regime will be the breakaway portions, the slave states, while the red states will be the free states.
	Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, we will end wokeness, we will end the DEI bullcrap, and all the attacks on white people.
	We'll root out the communists and boot them out.
	We will deport communists out of the 25 states and kick them out to California and Connecticut while we're getting rid of all the illegals at the same time.
	And then the 25 states will become the golden age abundance centers of the new America.
	These 25 states, if this happens, again, I'm just laying out one possible vision of where this could go.
	It's not a prediction.
	It's just one path.
	But if it were to happen, these 25 states would experience a golden age.
	Imagine if you live in the 25 states, you would no longer pay taxes to a federal government.
	Because the federal government would no longer be even recognized.
	You would have a new honest currency.
	That wasn't being printed like mad by the lunatics at the Federal Reserve and the Treasury.
	You could do business, honestly, without being targeted by the IRS because of your political views.
	I mean, it would be a golden age of manufacturing, of food production, energy production, transportation, innovation, technology, even medicine and aerospace.
	In these 25 states.
	Why do you think Elon Musk moved his operations to Texas, huh?
	Because Elon Musk knows what's coming, by the way.
	I've driven by his news center multiple times.
	It's just on the southeast side of Austin, Texas.
	The new, the big Tesla spaceport or whatever that is.
	It's the size of multiple football stadiums.
	You can't tell me they're just building cars in there.
	Come on.
	That thing's massive.
	I watched them build it.
	It's something much bigger.
	But why is Elon in Texas?
	Because he knows Texas and the free states of America.
	This is the future of America.
	This is where you want to be if you want to have abundance and freedom and liberty.
	And you can believe that we in Texas, we are going to defend our borders no matter what.
	And there's nobody in Washington, D.C., not a Supreme Court justice, not a fake occupying president, Not a senator, nobody in D.C.
	can tell us to stand down and allow ourselves to be overrun and invaded by enemy combatants.
	I'm sorry, we're done.
	In fact, this should have happened, you know, years ago.
	But it just took a while to raise the alarm, thanks to the work of people like Michael Yan and Ann VanderSteel and others.
	This has gone super viral now.
	Of course, we've been covering it, and Alex Jones has been covering it, and so many people in alternative media on brighteon.tv and so many other platforms.
	We're covering this.
	We're telling the truth about this.
	And now?
	Governor Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton in Texas, they feel like they have enough backing of the people that they can take these actions and they can stand up and stand their ground against the treasonous Biden regime.
	And I want to encourage every person listening to this.
	If you are in the state of Texas, please pick up the phone today.
	Call the governor's office.
	Call the AG's office.
	I mean, I don't want to create headaches for them.
	Maybe you can send an email.
	Maybe you can leave a voicemail.
	But please offer them words of encouragement.
	Call them and let them know we, the people of Texas, we are with you.
	We want you to hold your ground.
	We got your back.
	And Governor Abbott, if you need to deputize a million Texans, To defend Texas?
	To go to the border and defend the border?
	Then you just do it.
	And the people of Texas will rise to the occasion.
	And we will not back down.
	We are with you, Governor Abbott and Ken Paxton.
	And don't fold to the tyrants in Washington.
	We're done with that.
	Biden is weak.
	The dollar is weak.
	The military is woke and pathetic.
	They're bluffing in Washington, D.C.
	when Biden says, we're going to send F-16s.
	He's bluffing.
	Texas has its own tanks and F-16s anyway.
	Texas has its own military bases.
	It's again, don't mess with Texas.
	You threaten Texas.
	You bring a fight to Texas.
	You know, I mean, look at history.
	You're going to have a tough time.
	Can you imagine the optics of Joe Biden actually dispatching the military to try to kill Texans in order to protect the invasion?
	You know, to protect the invaders by killing Texans.
	What would that do for the Biden regime?
	I mean, the optics are horrifying.
	Is Biden really going to go to war with the state of Texas in order to make sure America is destroyed?
	I think if he tries that, we will have more states turn against DC.
	We will have a bigger secession and breakup, or maybe just a bigger Trump victory.
	Now, we can keep this country together if we can hold out and get Trump elected, get Trump into the White House.
	And then encourage Trump to arrest all these traitors.
	Arrest them all.
	Issue criminal indictments to every single government official, every governor, every member of the Senate or the military who was complicit in the invasion, the illegal wartime invasion of the United States of America.
	Every last one of those people should be indicted and arrested and prosecuted under the Trump administration.
	You've got to hold these people accountable for their crimes against America.
	And in order to do that, we've got to get Trump in the White House.
	And in order to do that, we've got to make it to Election Day, number one.
	And somehow we have to stop the Democrats from cheating.
	Now, the Democrats are going to cheat, of course, in every way possible.
	They're going to paper over the windows.
	You can't see what we're doing.
	They're going to close it down.
	And then at four o'clock in the morning, they're just going to run their fake ballots again and again and again until they get the numbers that they need in Michigan and Pennsylvania and Arizona and Virginia and wherever.
	We've got to stop that.
	You can't back down.
	When it comes to election day this year, conservatives and Trump supporters need to be in the room and don't take no for an answer.
	And I'm not saying to escalate into violence.
	We don't want violence.
	We need to do this peacefully and lawfully, but don't take no for an answer.
	Don't go home at three in the morning.
	Watch them, monitor them, record them where you can legally.
	And make sure they know that you're not going to let them steal this election.
	And if we can just even limit the steal, there's going to be so much outpouring of support for Donald Trump in this election.
	Trump will win by a landslide and we might be able to keep this country together.
	That is if we make it to election day.
	Now the Democrats realize this.
	They know this is their last stint at power in America.
	After this, the Democrats are done.
	If they lose this election, they will never regain the power that they hold right now.
	They know that because, well, they are criminals and they are traitors and they're going down once Trump becomes president.
	So they will do everything possible to stop this election from taking place if they feel like they can't rig it.
	So you can expect them.
	To carry out every wartime attack against America.
	And yes, I am saying that the Biden administration and his loyal terrorists at the FBI and the DOJ, they will set off nuclear bombs in U.S.
	cities if it takes that.
	They will destroy cities and mass murder potentially millions of Americans.
	If that's what they need to stay in power.
	They will start a world war.
	They will set off a bioweapon attack.
	They will take down the power grid.
	They will cause a banking collapse.
	They will do anything and everything.
	They will actually probably call Putin and say, Putin, please nuke a US city so that we can halt the election.
	You know, they will try everything.
	They don't care how many millions of Americans die as long as they stay in power.
	That's how dangerous they are.
	These people already got half a million Ukrainian men killed to try to weaken Russia, and that didn't even work.
	If they're willing to kill half a million Ukrainians, how many millions of Americans are they willing to exterminate in order to stop Trump from rising to power?
	Or to stop the American people?
	Or to stop the 25 states?
	How many murders are the Democrats willing to carry out on U.S.
	soil?
	The answer is whatever they think it takes.
	They will murder every last Christian, Trump supporter, gun owner, conservative across America if they get the opportunity to do so.
	And they have no morals.
	They have no ethics.
	They don't respect any rule of law.
	They will think nothing of it.
	They will slaughter millions of Americans if that's what it takes.
	So understand what you're up against here, folks.
	This is not going to be easy to take our country back and get Trump elected or declare a new America.
	It's not going to be an easy path.
	But if we don't take that path we die as a nation and we probably die as people.
	We probably get exterminated.
	We know we get replaced because the 10 million plus replacements are already here.
	They've already been brought in.
	Your replacements are just waiting to take your house Take your job, take your assets.
	The only step left for the Democrats now is to find a way to exterminate you.
	Guess how they're going to do that?
	They're going to set off nukes or start a war or do an EMP attack on themselves.
	Whatever it takes.
	That much is clear.
	You know, look, I think the Biden administration is totally shocked and freaked out that 25 states have joined with Texas.
	I think that they're beside themselves.
	They can hardly believe that this has happened.
	And this is going to throw them into a point of mass desperation, I mean panic, from which anything is possible.
	Any kind of irrational overreaction is possible.
	Now, here's a story from thecradle.co.
	Here's the headline.
	Weak U.S.
	military unable to fight major conflict.
	With a severe recruitment crisis and lackluster scores for readiness and capacity, all three major branches of the U.S.
	Armed Forces are lagging behind Russia and China.
	A study by D.C.-based think tank the Heritage Foundation has ranked the U.S.
	military as weak and determined that lack of action could render the Pentagon unable to defend vital U.S.
	interests across the globe.
	This Heritage Foundation reports a 664 page report.
	I wonder why they didn't add two more pages and make that 666, right?
	But it shows that the readiness and overall score of the Air Force is the worst possible score.
	It's very weak.
	The Navy capacity, very weak.
	The army is rated as weak on capacity, but strong on readiness.
	Nobody wants to join the military, because it's become all woke.
	Even the recruitment videos were trying to go woke.
	The military is trying to recruit transgenders, lesbians, and gays and bisexuals.
	That's why so-called real men don't want to join the military.
	Real warriors don't want to be in the military.
	The federal military under Biden is the weakest it has been since before World War Two.
	And the bottom line is that a lot of the especially the younger soldiers are just not capable.
	Again, they have they suffer from rampant obesity.
	And many of them have been compromised through vaccinations.
	They've been vaccinated to the point of injury.
	And if they actually get in a battle, many of them will die from sudden heart attacks.
	You know, it'll be died suddenly on the battlefield.
	They will die just running from point A to point B, even if they don't take fire.
	They'll just drop dead because of all the vaccines.
	Of course, what they're trying to do now with recruitment is to recruit illegals Now you know why.
	Because they're going to deploy the military against Americans.
	And it's the illegals who will be willing to shoot and kill Americans.
	Whereas most American soldiers in the American military would not follow those orders.
	If they are ordered to fire on Texans, most of them will say, no, no, we're not doing this.
	The illegals will do it.
	They know, hey, we're here to replace these people anyway.
	The extermination begins.
	The extermination, very likely, will be ordered by Joe Biden.
	And they will attempt to carry it out with the military.
	I mean, think about it.
	The United States military, under woke Lord Austin, another treasonous actor, will attempt to go to war against the American people.
	But they will not go to war with the invaders of America.
	They won't stop the migrant caravans and the staging camps that are funded by Mayorkas and DHS and to some degree, you know, with the help of the State Department.
	They won't go to war with those.
	They will go to war with the American people.
	Do you realize that when the first military attack begins to cause casualties, Do you realize that at that moment the Civil War is on?
	You realize there's no turning back from that point?
	For anybody.
	They start killing Texans.
	They should beware of what they're unleashing.
	Because it won't just be Texans that defend the real America.
	It will be people all over America.
	It'll be rural Oregonians.
	It'll be people in Northern California, Eastern Washington, and a lot of people on the East Coast as well.
	But we are living under the rule of an authoritarian, incompetent, but overconfident regime.
	And they will very likely miscalculate.
	They will think they can bully Texas to back down.
	And they're going to make a tragic mistake that, as of now, has a very high probability of putting us into an actual kinetic civil war in America.
	While the Democrats cheer the killing of Texans, by the way, the Democrats will cheer it on.
	Yeah, I mean, you'll see Democrats online and also Democrat governors and Democrat voters are like, yeah, kill them Texans!
	You know, they will say that because that's what they want.
	I guess until the war comes to their doorstep, they don't care.
	But this is the thing.
	It looks like civil war could break out nationwide.
	And then in the midst of that, if the orders are given to the migrant invaders to activate and begin their sabotage operations, you would have millions of enemy combatants all across America, or maybe half a million.
	Carrying out domestic sabotage operations.
	I mean, I have intel sources that say that's the plan that they've been, that the enemy combatants have been given.
	They're awaiting orders to go destroy power grid substations.
	They're awaiting orders.
	Again, these are the illegals that the Democrats support, that Joe Biden supports.
	They will be given orders of activation.
	Here's a GPS coordinate.
	You know, they'll be told go destroy this refinery, go bomb this port, go murder everybody in this police station, you know, go kidnap the mayor, go assassinate this senator.
	I mean, every horrible thing that you can imagine.
	These are the orders that will be given to these enemy combatants who were let into this country by the Democrats and Joe freaking Biden, who didn't even win the election.
	When that day comes, folks, I mean, it's going to be a nationwide war zone.
	Battles in every neighborhood, every street, every city across America.
	And it'll be just full-blown kinetic warfare, bloodshed, street by street, county by county, all across this country until order is restored.
	But I think that even if that happens, I think that we, the people, still win.
	Because it's the people that are fighting for their survival, for their homes, fighting for their children, for their futures, and it's the people of America who are extremely well armed thanks to the Second Amendment.
	And a whole lot of people across America know how to defend themselves using the Second Amendment.
	This is a country where You know, 100 million people can pick up a firearm and use it in their defense.
	And that's probably what it's going to take when these enemy occupying forces go active.
	So think about it.
	You're going to have the actual war will look like this if it shapes up in this fashion.
	It will be the incompetent, fat, woke military plus the treasonous Democrats Plus the enemy combatant illegals versus all the rest of America.
	But what the Democrats don't realize is that the enemy combatants, once they're activated, they will also murder Democrats.
	You know, the enemy occupying forces that invaded this country, ultimately their job is to wipe out all Americans, Democrats and Republicans.
	So boy, the Democrats are going to be in for a big surprise.
	When they realize that all these people they let in, oh my God, they're attacking us!
	Why are you attacking us?
	We're with you!
	No, they're not.
	They're not with you.
	They're here to take you out.
	And the only thing that's going to save you is the Second Amendment.
	And people who are able to engage in local organized community defense, often typically with local law enforcement, sheriff's departments, for example, or You know, teams of people who are former law enforcement buddies, former military buddies, and joining up.
	People who have trained together at the gun range or have gone through classes together.
	Friends, neighbors, family members.
	They've got a band together.
	And Americans are going to defend their communities.
	And they're going to quell the uprising.
	And it's going to be a magnificent day for America when real America defeats the traitors and eliminates the occupying enemy forces that have been let into this country.
	There will be bloodshed on a scale that we have never seen in this country, not even in the Civil War.
	You know, the first one.
	This will be civil war on steroids and millions will die.
	So let's hope it doesn't come to that.
	But this is the path that Joe Biden is putting us on, on purpose.
	This is the path that Democrats are putting us on.
	Every Democrat out there that voted for Joe Biden and still supports Joe Biden is part of the treason.
	And they are part of a suicide cult.
	They are wanting to see this nation destroyed, not even realizing that they themselves will very likely be destroyed along with it if they get their wish.
	But the rest of us can prevent that.
	So we all get to make a choice about what kind of future in which we want to participate.
	I would love to see a future where we have the United States of America together.
	I would like to keep the Union.
	And maybe if we make it to election day and we can get Trump in the office, then maybe we can keep this union.
	But even then, Trump needs to arrest and indict the treasonous actors.
	We've got to get them out of positions of government.
	The whole chapter of governors and fake presidents sabotaging America from within, that's over.
	That's got to stop.
	We've got to put an end to that.
	Or the other path is fragmentation.
	Civil war.
	That's the path that the Democrats are pushing.
	And they know not what they are unleashing.
	Because they're stupid.
	They're delusional.
	They live in artificial reality.
	They think wars are like what they see on Hollywood movies.
	They have no idea what they're unleashing.
	For me personally, I abide by the rule of law.
	And I demand the reestablishment of the rule of law.
	The Biden regime is lawless.
	That's why I'm so critical.
	What Governor Abbott is doing is to reestablish the rule of law.
	Governor Abbott is not a renegade.
	He's not flaunting the law.
	He's not rejecting the law or rejecting the Constitution.
	He is simply asserting the Constitution.
	That's why we are with him.
	And I'm a law-abiding citizen.
	Every firearm that I own was acquired legally and lawfully.
	For example, I don't own any illegal gun parts.
	I don't have automatic triggers.
	I don't even own any SBRs.
	Everything that I have is perfectly legal.
	Because I'm a stickler for that.
	I'm also someone who promotes peace and wants to live in peace.
	And I hope that we can resolve these issues in a peaceful manner.
	But I also know history.
	And I know that at certain times in history, with such a long train of abuses, like from the Declaration of Independence, then there are times when states have to assert their right to self-defense, no matter what it takes.
	And sometimes that process may not look peaceful.
	And yet, The right to defend your state, the right to defend your life, your person, your community, is an inherent God-given right that's also codified in the Constitution.
	When we act in accordance to those rights, the law is on our side, God is on our side, morality is on our side, and all those who oppose us are immoral, treasonous actors.
	The Democrats, in other words.
	Things are about to get very interesting.
	We're about to go to the interview with Colonel Tony Schaefer, and you don't want to miss this interview.
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	military operating under Biden.
	Maybe they'll try to lay siege to the state of Texas, you know, block the highways or something.
	I wouldn't be surprised.
	The crazy, insane tyrants and Democrats, they're stupid and crazy like, like Justin Trudeau in Canada.
	You know, he invoked the national emergency or something to try to crack down on the Freedom Trucker convoy.
	The Supreme Court of Canada just ruled against him, by the way, and said that was an abuse of power.
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	Yeah.
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	So give it a listen.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	I'll be back with you on the weekend with more updates as well.
	Here's the interview.
	Take care.
	Welcome to today's interview on Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon, and today we are joined by a returning guest, Tony Schaffer with ProjectSentinel.com.
	Mr. Schaffer, it's an honor to have you back on today, sir.
	You're doing incredible work.
	Welcome back to the program.
	Mike, thank you for this opportunity.
	I appreciate the feedback, and I enjoyed our conversation last time, so I'm sure it'll be fun again this time.
	Well, you know, people kept telling me that you're the kind of guy we really need like running the DOD.
	You know what I mean?
	I mean, people want you in positions of power and influence in our government.
	You just have a, you got a solid head on your shoulders, a good experience and common sense about what needs to be done. - Thank you.
	Look, I've advised some of those folks.
	I mean, I worked with Lloyd Austin when he was in Afghanistan as a Brigadier General.
	I worked, I was his clandestine guy.
	Um, I was, I, you know, I advised Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Joe Dunford.
	As a matter of fact, I'd recommended to President Trump that he retained Joe Dunford as Chairman because Obama, believe it or not, had picked, uh, picked, uh, uh, Joe, uh, Joe Dunford, not Biden.
	And, uh, so I am very proud of that.
	And I advised Mike Pompeo when he was Director of CIA.
	So I, I appreciate, Being able to advise folks.
	Those folks listen.
	Others don't.
	So my big issue, Mike, is first off, if you're going to ask me a question, you need to pay attention to my answer.
	I'm not giving it to you because because I want to I want to blow smoke and be your friend.
	It's like, no, I have enough friends.
	Thanks.
	And secondly, you know, if I'm asked to do something, I'm going to do it and give me give me the charter.
	But also give me the top cover to give me political ability to get it done and enough resources to accomplish it.
	And I'll do it.
	And I think that's what scares a lot of folks because Trump likes that sort of thing.
	Other folks don't like that sort of thing because, you know, so I appreciate your confidence.
	I appreciate your audience feedback.
	But I can tell you the permanent bureaucracy doesn't like people like me because we represent change and they don't like change.
	Well, that's exactly right.
	And since we spoke last, of course, we've had the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire caucus, Trump victorious in both.
	We had DeSantis drop out, Vivek Ramaswamy drop out.
	Nikki Haley is done, as far as I can tell.
	So Trump is the nominee.
	That's great news, I think, for America.
	We're seeing a lot of people rallying around Trump, and now the Democrats are absolutely terrified at this point.
	What do you think their play is going to be?
	Well, first off, they're going to continue to use Nikki Haley as a spoiler.
	Let's be honest here.
	I've been watching the coverage of that.
	Like, are you a Republican?
	No, I'm a Democrat, but I voted for her.
	Oh, yeah.
	So, it's like, okay, there's a clue.
	You know, we intelligence officers call those indicators.
	Like, that's an indicator that that's not really someone who's going to be representing the conservative interests that I think need to be exemplified in the coming administration.
	So that's a thing.
	So I think she's going to continue to be funded heavily by the left and the Never Trumpers.
	And Mike, what I find shameful, and look, I deal with folks on the left who are Traditional lefties, that is to say, they believe in free speech, they believe in rule of law.
	They're appalled by the left basically doing everything they can to upend, break rules, and not live up to the basic principles of the Republic.
	Yes.
	Let alone, you know, the idea that the Democrats, Republicans need to find a path forward.
	What we see is a monoparty because, again, I have friends who are Green Party folks Who, who they don't like Trump necessarily, but they hate what he's being put through and recognize how dangerous that is to try to keep another party's candidate from being able to run.
	And so it's, it's, it's a dangerous time.
	And those interests in the middle, by the way, the same interests who tried to bribe Carrie Lake.
	I thought that was great.
	People in Washington don't want you to run.
	It's kind of like.
	Dude, yeah.
	It's kind of obvious that there's a lot of people, and I think a lot of this money is coming from Soros on the left.
	Trying to fund and maintain all of these things which essentially are trying to prevent Trump from becoming a president again.
	Well, and it's interesting because for every one Carrie Lake type of person who says, you can't buy me off for even a billion dollars, who knows how many people took the money and we never heard about it, you know?
	Exactly, exactly.
	This is not a rarity, Mike.
	I think this happens far more than people want to acknowledge.
	I think that's one of the things people are most frightened about.
	No question about it.
	But you know, if anything, this really cements Carrie Lake's credibility and dedication to her mission.
	And I know she's focused on the Arizona Senate campaign, I believe, but she sure would make a great vice president pick for Trump.
	I'm just throwing that out there.
	So I think Trump has got Dr. Ben Carson in mind.
	I think he's looking at a few other folks.
	I know Ben.
	I mean, my vote would be for Ben.
	I think Ben has got... I don't take this as an insult to President Trump, but I think Ben would be a good kind of counterbalance to his high energies, like someone who can be a bit more focused on policy and a good wingman.
	I don't think...
	He's had the best wingman, that is Trump.
	So I think Ben Carson, having been in the last administration, and I know Ben, I think he'd be a good guy to help really work on the deeper policy issues that need to be examined.
	And with the security, it's great, too.
	I think that she's a firecracker, someone who would actually also bring change.
	And I think it's why they want her out, that they know, Mike, that she would not be a wilting lily.
	She wouldn't just show up and get a nice office and be quiet.
	So I think it frightens them.
	Well, if we could get Kerry Lake into the Senate, that would be a game changer.
	And also, I don't know if you know Jonathan Emord running for Senate in Virginia.
	He's a fantastic patriot, brilliant mind, you know, attorney, fought the FDA and won.
	And he's running in Virginia as well.
	If we could get both of those in the Senate, along with Rand Paul and a few others, wow, things could really change.
	Yeah.
	So, Mike, I guess I can say I believe libertarian.
	I mean, I'm running for a local office.
	I'm running for county commissioner here.
	I, you know, I told him, it's like, you know, I lean libertarian, right?
	I mean, it's not, I've never hidden the fact that, you know, I like a lot of things.
	And they said, no, no, we feel the same.
	It's kind of a Reagan Republican thing and Trump thing.
	There's a certain brand of conservatism that I think is much more pragmatic and realistic than the old days.
	And it does, as a matter of fact, it's closer to the original principles than a lot of the folks I dealt with growing up.
	And I very proudly voted when I turned 18, I turned 18 in October of 1980.
	And I very proudly voted for President Reagan.
	And it was completely independent.
	It's like, my parents weren't political at all.
	I just watched the debates.
	And somehow, Mike, when Jimmy Carter was asked the question about nuclear proliferation, I'll never forget this, and he said, well, I turned to my daughter Amy and asked her about it.
	It's like, what?
	Yeah, she's my age.
	And I don't think I would be able to give good advice on nuclear proliferation, so I'm not going to vote for that guy.
	Well, Reagan was an excellent choice, and we sure miss Ronald Reagan these days, I'll tell you that.
	Let's turn our attention to the flare-up in Texas, where, of course, we have the U.S.
	Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, essentially declared that Texas must allow an ongoing, unlimited invasion of illegals to cross its border, and that Texas is not allowed to defend itself.
	This violates Article 4, Section 4 of the U.S.
	Constitution, which requires the federal government to literally protect the states from invasion.
	I mean, it's right there in the Constitution.
	Governor Abbott has invoked that.
	I know you have the letter there.
	I do.
	He says the federal government broke compact with the states.
	We now have, I think, six states that have expressed support for Texas.
	How do you think this is going to go from here forward?
	I appreciate the way you framed it, Mike, and I think I agree with how you just said it, that essentially that compact between the federal government and the state of Texas or the states in general has been broken.
	And by the way, this isn't the first time the Supreme Court's got something wrong.
	I mean, they just recently corrected Roe v. Wade after How many years?
	30 some years of that bad decision.
	So the Supreme Court is not the be-all and end-all of matters of law and the Constitution, obviously.
	So in this case, I'm appalled that the Supreme Court, and I was listening to an interview with Greg Abbott, where he correctly points out They didn't even issue an opinion.
	They just said, yeah, we don't agree with this, this ruling.
	Uh, you know, we, we, we disagree with the ruling saying that, uh, you guys can, can keep the feds out and, but they didn't actually rule on the law or on the constitution.
	So, so I think Abbott coming back and saying, I'm sorry, dude, you know, uh, the constitution says X, Y, Z, we're going to live by X, Y, and Z. And I think DeSantis has come online strong saying he's going to support it.
	I think Oklahoma.
	I think there's several other states.
	That's a pretty good chance to come in.
	So there's a set of authorities Mike called.
	I think it's title 32.
	I think it's the laws which govern the National Guard and the Democrats in Texas.
	You probably saw this.
	They're all screaming, oh, President Biden needs to activate the Guard.
	It's like, yeah, no, that would create a civil war because – and plus, I don't – I think it would be embarrassing because I don't think the Guard would respond to the federal government at this point.
	I think the Guard would basically say we are members of the Texas Guard.
	Our job is to take and fulfill the oath that to fulfill the oath we took to protect the people of Texas.
	Right.
	And so I think it would be embarrassing.
	I don't think I don't think any guard units would show up for federal service at this point.
	And I think more states need to sign up.
	I'd like to see at least 20 states sign up to help Governor Abbott what he's doing.
	Well, I'm really glad to hear you say that.
	And you bring up an interesting point.
	If the federal government under Biden tries to assert federal control over state guard units, and then if that is rejected, it would really expose the weakness of central authority over the states.
	I mean, that would backfire in a spectacular fashion.
	And yet, Mr. Schaffer, we have an administration that is incompetent, that is overconfident in the way that it is waging war against Russia, for example, has made many, many tactical errors, and has overstretched its resources to a tremendous degree.
	And if it comes to the United States government under Biden and under Lloyd Austin, for example, saying something crazy like, oh, we're going to go to war against Texas.
	I would be asking and Iran and Russia and China and Texas.
	I mean, how many wars do you think you can fight?
	And your comments?
	Go ahead.
	So, no, this is the thing.
	There's an old adage that's not even left or right.
	It's like, pick your battles.
	Pick your battles.
	And they pick poorly.
	It's like that scene in Indiana Jones and the last real one with Harrison Ford and they're looking for the goblin.
	Oh my goodness, I'm getting older and I'm forgetting my movies.
	Indiana Jones and the It's one where they have the night.
	The Temple of Doom?
	No, no, no.
	The one after that.
	I don't know.
	The one with Sean Connery.
	The Sean Connery one.
	Oh, okay.
	And with the night.
	And basically there's a scene in there where this guy picks up what he thinks is Jesus' cup and it's wrong and he drinks from it and he turns into a zombie.
	He picked poorly.
	Right.
	So this administration is one long bad scene of a bad movie because they pick poorly constantly.
	Yes.
	And, you know, and by the way, a quick side.
	Let me frame my answer to Tony Blinken.
	Tony Blinken at the World Economic Forum laid out how we just don't understand how good the Biden administration is doing globally.
	Everybody loves us.
	Mike, don't you understand?
	And all these countries are looking to us for help.
	They're begging us to come in and help them.
	That's according to Tony Blinken.
	And so we know the reality is opposite.
	Nobody wants us to help.
	The Ukrainians only want our money and the advice we've given them have gotten them into the hole they're in.
	And it's interesting that this administration Who's supposed to be anti-war and have gotten us on the precipice of multiple wars and engaged in several where we're working as a proxy and other things.
	It's completely insane and I don't believe it's by accident.
	I think that they know what they're doing.
	I think they're doing this for purposes of power.
	That somehow it's the Baron von Munchhausen syndrome at the international level.
	If you create enough problems, we have to come in and solve them and we're going to be always there trying to do something and have influence.
	So I think it's For purposes of political power, it seems the left wants power for power's sake, not to actually do anything positive with it.
	And I think that's what we're seeing right now at the international level.
	Well, I'm glad you mentioned that because a lot of people are watching this open border invasion.
	And they're asking a lot of questions about why could this possibly be going on?
	You know, that letter from Governor Abbott, or his declaration that he issued, Said that there have been six million illegals that have crossed into America under the Biden administration.
	Doesn't even count what happened also under Trump because he was trying to deal with that.
	Wasn't able to stop it either.
	So we're probably talking about more than 10 million illegals here.
	Now, and I have other guests and experts who come on here and say, you know, like Michael Yan, for example, who's documenting the invasion camps in Panama, says, you know, maybe one out of 10 of those people are truly enemy combatants, ready to take orders, ready to carry out sabotage ops domestically.
	So, you know, I mean, if we're looking at 10 million people, 10% is obviously a million.
	Maybe he's wrong.
	Maybe it's 5%.
	But that's half a million enemy combatants inside the United States right now.
	How can any person in our federal government look at that and say, we need more invasion?
	How is that possible?
	Well, it's not rational.
	It's possible because the progressive left, Mike, have decided as a matter of long-term investment They want a permanent underclass.
	I mean, just recently, that congressman from New York that looks like Jabba the Hutt.
	What's his name?
	He basically said, we need... I love your movie references, by the way.
	I'm terrible with some names.
	I'm trying to think about who this is.
	I'll think of it in a second.
	Anyway, so he basically said on the floor of the House, well, if we don't have illegal aliens, who's going to pick our crops?
	Now, first off, it's racist for him to say that.
	He said it.
	And secondly, he doesn't understand modern farming.
	Modern farming is high tech.
	I live on an active farm.
	Here where I live in North Carolina, I am surrounded literally by farmland.
	You have people who have to come in to measure the contents of the soil.
	You have then people coming in to make sure they get enough nutrients.
	And then in the end, after it grows, after you do all the flying the airplanes over to put the pesticide on them, you have high tech equipment with high tech people who understand how to run it to do the harvesting.
	You don't have people out with their hands.
	So for that level of detachment, To have that level of racism, that's who they are.
	And it's all about, in their view, trying to create a permanent underclass that will permanently vote them into power and maintain them.
	Remember where these people are going.
	They're going to a lot of urban centers.
	They're going to places where they want to have more members of Congress.
	But how can they be so short-sighted?
	Failed policies, by the way, I might add, but they're tied to these progressive centers of gravity.
	And so that's why they're doing it.
	They think that any danger in the short term will be outweighed by the long-term gains of constituency.
	That's what's going on.
	But how can they be so short-sighted?
	Because this is clearly – this is a replacement policy, replacing Americans with people who – they're no longer trying to assimilate into America.
	They are trying to overwrite our culture, our societies.
	And I lived in South America for two years, by the way.
	I was a resident of Ecuador, and I've toured extensively throughout Central and South America.
	I think I know their cultures better than most Americans do.
	And there are great people there, absolutely wonderful people, but if you look at the vast majority of those coming from South America, crossing the border illegally, are from Venezuela.
	Right.
	And they don't understand, nothing against them morally, but they don't understand American culture, they don't understand capitalism, they came out of a communist society, and they expect government handouts, and that's why they want to come here and just get freebies.
	So look, I grew up in Lisbon.
	I went to high school in Lisbon, and I love the Portuguese, but I don't want to be Portuguese.
	I love being an American.
	Right.
	And there's a difference.
	So, you know, it's the same in many places.
	I think most Americans, if you ask them, and you may laugh at this, I attended the NAACP banquet this last Saturday here.
	And I serve, the president of the local chapter is also on the social services board, which I'm on.
	So it was very.
	They love being Americans.
	They started off with some gospel songs.
	They talked about God and how much they love the country.
	And it's kind of like, that's American culture.
	And by the way, they recognize that it's being threatened.
	They're upset.
	They are upset about their own party.
	Giving deference to these illegal aliens who don't have our values, who basically are taking resources that they don't get.
	We have a very poor community here, and they see all this money going to all these illegal causes.
	And by the way, I remind them, it's like, it's your party!
	It's your party doing this!
	I'm really glad you brought that up, because I completely agree, and I would add to that.
	Not only is black America concerned about the illegal immigration policy, but I would say, because I'm in Texas, Hispanic Americans are also just as concerned about illegal immigration.
	I know so many Hispanic Americans who are amazing, wonderful Americans, by the way, And they contribute so much to our society.
	Texas wouldn't be Texas without Hispanic Americans being here.
	But even they say, we've got to stop the illegal invasion.
	We don't want MS-13 gangs overrunning our communities and our churches.
	Come on.
	I don't know if you knew this.
	I supported Sergio de la Pena for governor in Virginia.
	He took on Yonkin in the primary.
	And Sergio was eight years old when he came over from Mexico.
	He worked the fields.
	You talk about cotton picking and he picked cotton.
	Wow.
	He hated it.
	And he worked his way through the system.
	He became a full colonel in the U.S.
	Army.
	And then on top of that, he did all these great things.
	Was the Trump It's like he is one of the most adamant about trying to stop illegal immigration.
	He's proud of being American.
	He's proud of our nation.
	And then he became assistant undersecretary for Western Hemisphere in the Pentagon.
	And it's like he is one of the most adamant about trying to stop illegal immigration.
	He's proud of being American.
	He's proud of our nation.
	And other people who come here from Latin America, from Mexico, legally agree.
	It's like we don't want unmitigated, unrestrained immigration.
	And let me say one other thing real quick.
	I'm a big fan of New Zealand.
	I used to love New Zealand back in the old days.
	I spent some time there.
	I've worked with their military several times.
	If you want to become a New Zealand citizen, They'll take you for two conditions.
	First, you have to have a usable skill that they feel would add to their society.
	That is to say, you can't just show up and be a guy who basically serves lattes at a Starbucks.
	Like, no dude, can you build an airplane?
	Can you do something of worth?
	And then secondly, you have to have enough money to not go on welfare.
	At the time, I think, last time I checked, it was like $100,000.
	So you had to sustain yourself at least for a year to get in.
	Is that racist?
	No, it's a meritocracy.
	At least that policy is based on merit.
	But these days, New Zealand has gone so evil, the skills they want are people who can build quarantine camps.
	Times have changed.
	You may not know this about me, but I'm married to an immigrant from Taiwan.
	And I had been for over 30 years.
	And, you know, look, I got to tell you, the Taiwan people, and I lived in Taiwan also.
	I mean, I speak a fair amount of Mandarin as well as Espanol and so on.
	I'm a pretty international version of America.
	But the people of Taiwan are so, they're so innovative.
	They're so entrepreneurial.
	They compete.
	They work hard.
	I've never seen any culture work harder than the Taiwanese people.
	And when they come to America, they make some of the best Americans.
	I know people who immigrated from Iraq.
	To America, and they are some of the best Americans I've ever met.
	And you know why?
	Because they know what it's like to live under tyranny, or to live in a war zone.
	And they came to America for the American Dream, and they contributed, and they've become some of the best people I know.
	So, you just described the true definition of American exceptionalism.
	It's not that we're better than everybody else.
	You can come here and be American and be the best you can be.
	That's exceptional.
	That's what's exceptional.
	Good point.
	And this is where the left always gets it wrong.
	Oh, people think we're better.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	You can come here.
	Anybody can come here from anywhere.
	And be American and be exceptional.
	That's what's exceptional because those are the nations you just mentioned.
	Taiwan's great.
	They have opportunity there.
	Iraq, you know, not so much probably.
	I think there's other nations which do not provide the opportunity and potential gain, potential favorable outcome to these people.
	And that's what's so great about America.
	By the way, people still want to come here.
	People still want to come here.
	Well, that's right.
	I mean, think about Let's say even a Palestinian today.
	The Palestinian people as an ethnic group are really bright people.
	Yes.
	And when given the opportunities of, let's say, a more free nation, they can come to America and they can thrive in America.
	And the same thing is true of Lebanese people or Jordanian people.
	You know, America, when it provides that opportunity, when we have The lack of tyranny, let's say, small limited government, free markets that function, which they're not functioning that well, you know, because of government control.
	But when they do function, like Reagan era, you know, it's, we thrive.
	That's all we need is to just let people get back to doing what they want to do in terms of business and productivity, innovation and creativity.
	Well, that's the problem.
	Many of the nations you mentioned don't have governments which provide that safe space.
	Governments tend to interfere.
	You mentioned Venezuela.
	Venezuelans?
	Yeah.
	You're not going to get an opportunity there.
	Communist China.
	So unlike the CCP, PRC, Taiwan actually has a functioning democracy.
	People are thriving there.
	As a matter of fact, they just had the same party, not the same guy, but the same party re-elected for the third time.
	First time ever in their history, apparently, that the same party won.
	And of course, notably, They are anti-CCP PRC.
	They want to be Taiwanese.
	They don't want to be Chinese.
	No, by the way, a guy named Joe Biden says, well, I don't support Taiwanese democracy.
	Imagine that.
	Well, he doesn't even support democracy in America.
	But let's talk about Taiwan and China for a moment because you mentioned to me earlier, you have a new Intel report, I believe, of the threat of China.
	So what are some of the highlights that come to mind?
	I don't think it's new.
	It's just I think we continue to try to educate people on the scope of what's going on.
	So to your point, Taiwan has done an amazing job of amassing massive amounts of high tech Building.
	Basically, they are the foundry of microchips on the planet, bar none.
	I mean, you're talking something like 80 plus percent of chips going into cars, one third of all high-tech, high-performance chips are coming from Taiwan.
	And this is significant, and I think it's great.
	It shows the resilience of that democracy.
	Democracy.
	They are democracy.
	And they continue to thrive, and they don't want They don't want socialism.
	They don't want communism.
	They're pretty happy going in the direction they are, which is great.
	I think we should be supportive.
	I think we should have formal treaties with them.
	That's just my judgment.
	It's supporting them.
	And so with that said, China said back in November to Joe Biden's face, In California, during that summit, where they actually took all the homeless folks and PCs off the streets of San Francisco.
	Oh, I remember that.
	Yeah, for Xi's meeting.
	Xi said to Biden's face, we're going to take back Taiwan no matter what.
	That is a policy statement.
	He said it right to Biden's face.
	And of course, Biden blew it off.
	It's like, oh, yeah, whatever.
	No, the Chinese are completely serious.
	The Chinese have decided, the CCP, have decided, and they're mostly Han.
	Han people think that they're literally the gift of heaven to the world and that they, as a racist, as a racial group, have the right to basically dominate the world.
	And this is, I'm not joking about this, this is their view of the world.
	This is what justifies their returning to a nationalistic, aggressive state.
	And by the way, the Chinese military is becoming very aggressive.
	They're amalgamating and accumulating all sorts of powers and authorities over global economics, global trade, and global production.
	Right now, they control something like 80% of lithium production.
	80%.
	And they process it and make batteries.
	And cobalt.
	Cobalt is necessary for all lithium.
	They control I'm an intelligence officer.
	I've literally started warning people on this 10 years ago.
	It's like, dude, we're going in a path that's not going to be helpful.
	manufacturing and aerospace.
	Right.
	And so I'm an intelligence officer.
	I've literally started warning people on this 10 years ago.
	It's like, dude, we're going in a path that's not going to be helpful.
	I have sat in the chairman of the Joint Chief's Office and talked about this with the chairman.
	And I don't know how, it's like, we've got to recognize that long-term, and Mark Milley, I've talked to Mark Milley about this before he was Chairman.
	It's like, you know, and Milley acknowledged that the Chinese and their doctrine have stipulated, even to his face, that they intend to dominate the Pacific Rim.
	Then why don't we do anything about it?
	This is insanity because we know that they control of the entire plethora of batteries necessary for this green economy.
	By the way, the whole green economy, I've got a degree in environmental studies.
	There's no climate crisis.
	All this stuff about OCO2, it's nonsense.
	It's all...
	It's all a canard that's designed to repackage socialism for the kids today, for the next generation.
	And China knows it.
	They know that that's the direction.
	So they're going to be there with all the material necessary for our green economy.
	It's literally insane.
	At the same time that we recognize this, China is becoming more bellicose.
	They state it as a matter of policy.
	They're going to take back Taiwan no matter what.
	It is what it is.
	And somehow nobody wants to acknowledge that the Chinese should be taken at their word and examined as a group of communists who have said, as a matter of policy, we're going to dominate the Pacific Rim to begin with.
	And we think we're going to go on from there.
	What should the U.S.
	do about that?
	But let me provide some background also, because China has suffered a very serious market crash in the last week.
	I think they're called snowball derivatives have been collapsing.
	They have what's called the Evergrande property development Ponzi scheme, essentially.
	Oh my goodness, what a train wreck.
	Right.
	Because, you know, China doesn't have really a pension system, so most of its people just invest in real estate and they have entire ghost cities of real estate constructed.
	Nobody lives there.
	It's really incredible.
	But China has a lot of weaknesses, you know, financial being one of them.
	As you just mentioned, Taiwan, the DPP party just had a major, major victory, even though China tried to interfere in that election.
	They did.
	The Taiwan people clearly voted for a path to stay independent.
	Right.
	And Taiwan is its own nation.
	It has its own elections, its own currency, its own culture, its own media, its own economy, everything.
	By every definition, it is a nation.
	In fact, Taiwan has its own borders, and the U.S.
	doesn't.
	So, you know, Taiwan actually, by some measure, has better, you know, I mean, it's an island nation, so of course it's easier to control those borders, but it's got its own borders.
	China is an economic powerhouse, no question about it.
	The U.S.
	dollar is weak, and because of all the money printing, there's the de-dollarization phenomenon.
	I know you're familiar with it.
	It's happening around the world.
	And there's more trade happening in the Chinese Yuan.
	What should America do, in your view?
	Well, so China, as a matter of policy, is the, I think, fourth, third largest economy.
	They rightly have raised, they say this, it's like, we've raised 600 million people out of poverty.
	Yeah, they did.
	But what, what a cost!
	Because the Chinese don't do it out of, out of altruism.
	They do it because they see people as a resource.
	The communists are, and by the way, this is one of the lessons I learned from this thing.
	The Chinese, for the most part, have gone from dynasty to dynasty.
	The Communist Party is just the latest dynasty.
	They like having an authoritarian monarchy that essentially runs everything.
	So basically, like many things in life, the current CCP, Xi is the emperor, and he's taken on the trappings of every other emperor in the history of China.
	So that's why they feel that they can be nationalistic.
	And they're very much going to be more aggressive because they feel, You know, the heavens have smiled on us, and we can do this, and we have all these resources, and nobody's challenging us.
	So that's the first thing we have to do, is challenge them.
	It's like, no.
	We have to create, like we did regarding the Soviet Union and Reagan, a series of credible deterrents.
	Let me be very clear on this, Mike.
	The best use of military force is not having to use military force.
	That is the grand lesson.
	And trust me, I've seen this.
	I've been mentored by the Reagan folks.
	And that was the ultimate lesson of the Cold War.
	The best use of military force is not using military force.
	It is having it available and using it as a tool.
	But the moment you have to use it, you get Ukraine.
	Trust me, we don't want to go to war.
	But the Chinese are not going to be deterred and they believe they can win a war.
	So, what do you do to deter them?
	You create a series of credible events relating to the military.
	Right now, because of Joe Biden's ineffective management of the military, there's no confidence in us that we can do anything, and that's dangerous.
	So, first off, we have to go back and look at the Cold War and create, like Reagan did, a very credible military that they dare not challenge.
	And will it be expensive?
	No, no, not really.
	I think we waste a lot of money now.
	It's just a matter of reprogramming.
	I could go into the Pentagon and create a credible deterrent within two years using the current budget, probably less.
	I would get rid of a lot of legacy things that we just don't need, just saying.
	Right.
	And then secondly, you have to show the political will that you're going to do something.
	Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
	Basically doing things which are necessary to show political resolve.
	Reagan was a master at this.
	And, you know, one of the things that really upset the Soviets during the Cold War, that made them understand that Reagan was not going to be trifled with, is when Reagan fired the air traffic controllers.
	Like, oh my God, he did something that no other president would do.
	He's serious.
	And that scared the bejesus out of the Soviets.
	So I'm just saying, There's ways of dealing with the Chinese, but the way we're doing it now will not have any deterrent effect.
	As a matter of fact, the more weakness we show, the more we're likely to have a conflict that we're going to have to fight.
	I think we'd win eventually, but let's do the Cold War thing.
	Let's win without a war and do it that way.
	Let's go down this rabbit hole a little bit more because I appreciate what you just said, but I want to query you on this.
	I read a report a couple of months ago that said that China's capacity or bandwidth for naval vessel construction is currently, now I almost couldn't believe this number, is currently 200 times larger than the United States.
	I mean, it seems impossible to me, but let's just take it on a matter of faith at the moment.
	That means that China has the ability to build or repair, you know, 200 times the number of naval vessels that we do.
	Now, I know it's not apples and apples.
	I mean, a Chinese aircraft carrier is not the same as the USS Gerald R. Ford, you know?
	Well, they're going in that direction.
	They and us are the only ones that have the special rail guns that actually launch aircraft because they stole it from us.
	Yeah, well, exactly.
	And I think there's been a lot of treason of technology transfer to China over the years by certain administrations and people.
	But it seems like China would do well to just delay and wait and then outbuild the US Navy.
	And another factor, let me mention this before you answer, please.
	China has Many times greater numbers of graduates in the sciences, including, you know, physics and material science and engineering and so on.
	China is currently engineering some of the best drones in the world, some of the best weapon systems, and also AI.
	So artificial intelligence, China is really very far ahead in that race.
	No doubt.
	What do you think this means in terms of China's strategy and, you know, how can America compete with that if we're not graduating more people who are capable engineers?
	Well, that's part of the problem.
	We've abandoned the hard sciences in most of our universities.
	I mean, literally, you have people learning about underwater basket weaving or, you know, lesbian studies and there's nothing wrong with that.
	Yeah but it's like it's not you're not going to have Carl Sagan's coming out of school these days and with hard sciences and it's a shame and that's something we have to change at the cultural level.
	We have to go back and actually engage in trying to get People to focus on that.
	And I'm sorry, the DEI thing is very dangerous.
	The whole idea of selecting people based on who they sleep with, if they have a mental condition known as transgenderism, or what their skin color is.
	Those things are not adequate for providing, putting people in leadership positions which require them to do something and be successful.
	It's just not, it's not compatible.
	So I think it's something we have to rethink.
	Regarding that, but a lot of the stuff you're talking about, China has had to steal the technology.
	And you point out correctly, there's a book by Bill Gertz called Betrayal, where it points out that the Clinton administration gave tons of high-tech information to China to include the technology for multiple reentry vehicles, MIRVs, for nuclear weapons.
	And then it's continued.
	And still, so all these things happened, and so we can't pretend it didn't happen, but we have to find a way to overcome that and be stronger.
	One of the things, and also, I don't know if you know this, it's something I learned today, the Chinese, the CCP, have the largest coast guard on the planet, 600 ships.
	And those ships are designed to not save lives.
	They've actually got reinforced bows to ram other Coast Guard ships.
	So, yeah, it's like, holy cow.
	Yeah.
	So these people are, you know, basically showing that they're going to be very aggressive and instituting a policy of reclaiming their reclaim.
	This is them, not us.
	They're saying they're reclaiming Territories that were traditionally under China, Chinese control.
	That's what they're saying.
	Right.
	It's a fiction, but that's what they're doing.
	And building artificial islands and then claiming the territory around those as well.
	Right.
	But so, so we, we have to examine these things point by point and establish a policy to counter each one.
	It would take, we could probably go through it and talk about it here for the next 20 minutes, but I think suffice it to say that you'd have to go through and look at diplomatic, economic, Cultural, military, and technology issues and come up with a solution or a set of solutions to each one of those.
	And it's doable.
	It's not a question of doing, it's a question of political will.
	At this point, the Biden administration and most people who are not Donald Trump don't want to do it.
	Yeah, well, one more reason why we got to get Trump back in the White House and help him achieve his third election victory.
	But let me, I don't know if you want to call this pushing back or what, but let me mention something about China that I've noticed as someone, you know, again, I'm steeped in the culture of Taiwan and China and speak Mandarin.
	I've noticed that for many decades, you know, China was great at pirating technology, right?
	They were transferred technology.
	They stole technology.
	And if you go back into the history of even Taiwan, back in the 1970s and even the early 1980s, Taiwan was known as, I'm sorry to say, back in those days, a manufacturer of junk.
	Yeah.
	Japan, even back in the 1960s and 1970s, was also seen as a manufacturer of mostly like junk foreign imports.
	OK, that is no longer true.
	It has not been true for decades.
	Japan is a leading, obviously, world innovator of technology.
	Same thing with Taiwan, as you mentioned, with the microchips, the most advanced microchip systems in the world, and also many other areas, advanced materials manufacturing in Taiwan.
	And I would argue that China has also moved past that phase where they need to steal technology.
	China is inventing tech.
	China is innovating now because just the Chinese people, I would say Asian people in general, are very high IQ people.
	I don't disagree with your premise, but this is the thing.
	Our side is kind of taken down focus.
	So right before Thanksgiving last year, The five eyes nations met, that is the British, Canadians, New Zealand, Australia, United States, and I don't know if you know this, 60% of all intellectual theft that's conducted annually is done by the Chinese, by the CCP.
	So I don't think They're taking that and not innovating.
	I'm saying that they are stealing other people's information continuously to try to feed their innovation, so.
	Okay, yeah, good point.
	I think you've nailed it right there, exactly.
	They steal and then they innovate on top of that or they iterate that.
	I agree.
	Yeah, exactly.
	All right, so then, I don't know, we have maybe 10 minutes left, something like that.
	Let's talk about domestic politics for a minute.
	Trump is the clear leader, you know, for the GOP.
	There's been speculation that the Democrats or the powers that be would be desperate enough to try to stop the election.
	That's a pretty big thing if they were to do that.
	Do you think that's a possibility?
	Do you think we can even have a fair and free election in America?
	So let me give you some Observation.
	So one of the things I did recently is I had my friend Matt Ho on my radio show on A Hard Truth.
	And Matt and I, you can laugh at this, Matt and I used to be on MSNBC in the old days.
	Matt was with Brett McGurk, and who's now the guy in charge of Biden's policy for Iraq.
	Brett McGurk, Matt Ho and I were on with Dylan Rattigan.
	Dylan was kind of a Wall Street guy who had his own show on MSNBC.
	And Dylan was nonpartisan.
	Dylan liked having people from different points of view come in and discuss.
	And our focus back then was Afghanistan.
	But we stayed in touch.
	And so we haven't talked to each other for about 10 years.
	That is Matt and I. Matt's a Green Party guy.
	And Matt Was trying to run against some congressional, oh, he ran for Senate last year.
	And guess who opposed him?
	The Democrats.
	The Democrats got him in court and they stopped anything to do with the Green Party.
	I mean, oh my gosh, it was like litigation.
	It's like the Democrats are anti-Democrat.
	They don't want democracy.
	And then right now, as we speak, The North Carolina Democrat Party, the same group that went after my friend Matt for daring to actually have his name on the ballot as running for Senate, is now saying that, oh, Marianne Williamson and I don't know that other dean, whatever his name is, congressmen who are nationally recognized Democrat candidates, you can't be on the ballot.
	Even though the Democrat Party of North Carolina says, even if they don't campaign here, they have to be on the ballot if they're nationally recognized.
	No, they're just going to break the rules and say, no, we're only going to have Joe Biden on the ballot.
	That's it.
	Wow.
	And they're not doing it just here.
	They're doing it in Florida.
	They're doing it in a number of places where they literally are breaking their own rules.
	Literally.
	Well, of course.
	And then now you see Colorado and Maine Same party trying to deprive the Republican voters of the right to vote for the candidate they want.
	And between you and me, look, this whole 14th Amendment thing, it's nonsense.
	You know, there's a number of credible documentaries out there that go through the whole 6th January thing.
	cannot have run an insurrection against his own government.
	It's not possible.
	The man who was president in charge of the federal government, which you would have to have an insurrection against, was the president.
	It's not possible.
	It's like saying, hey, I'm going to go rob my own house tonight.
	I'm going to take all my TV, but it belongs to you.
	I know, but I'm going to do it anyway.
	You can't do it.
	It's not possible.
	You're not going to get in trouble for taking your own stuff.
	And President Trump was president on the 6th of January.
	No matter how they try to frame this, oh he encouraged, at best he would have interfered with a government process because that's the only thing anybody's ever been prosecuted for.
	There's no, you did not have an insurrection.
	Plus there is a process to question ballots.
	Exactly.
	That process is part of the government.
	Right, right.
	And so anyway, part two of this, this is a long way of answering your question, but no, I think the Democrats are looking at anything because they are so desperate.
	Because I'm like, it was like, there wasn't 81 million votes.
	Come on.
	There's no way that 81 million people voted for Sleepy Joe.
	No, absolutely no way.
	And do I believe there was cheating?
	I personally investigated some of the cheating.
	So no, I have no doubt that President Trump won that election.
	With that said, they are not going to make the same mistakes again.
	I think they recognize we're on to them regarding the Dominion voting machines.
	A lot of people are looking at that.
	I think I investigated ballots, pallets of ballots and UPS trucks being moved.
	I think people are going to be on more of an alert for that.
	The whole 20,000, was it 5,000 mules, whatever it is, Yeah.
	the D'Souza movie where they had all the dumps of ballots.
	People are gonna be more aware of that.
	So they're gonna have to come up with a different cheating scheme.
	I mean, will they still do those?
	They think they'll get away with them?
	Absolutely.
	But it's not gonna be as easy because I think a lot of the groups who they counted on minorities, both Latin Americans and black Americans are not gonna be turning up in numbers for Joe Biden because Biden literally has made their lives worse.
	And therefore, I think the Democrats could be much more desperate and much more willing to do things that were unimaginable just four years ago.
	Well, that's a really good point, because the cheating happened locally.
	It was at the local counting in small rooms, essentially, at the local level in certain cities in certain swing states.
	That's where the cheating happened, and they had to have sort of willing, complicit people.
	And I think you make a really great point there, Tony, that those people are probably rethinking this.
	They might be asking, is my life worse or better today than it was four years ago?
	And I think for most Americans, And especially black Americans, the answer is it's worse now, actually.
	So I used to drive around.
	I used to live in Washington and Springfield, just north, just south of Washington.
	I was always fascinated, Mike, by all the Obama stickers on vehicles, all these, you know, when he first came into office, you know, all the different Propaganda.
	And then, sure enough, eight years later, those knuckleheads were still driving the same car with the same stickers like, I guess, you know, he didn't measure up.
	That hope didn't materialize for you.
	And I think that's the case for most of these folks who are constituents of the left.
	There's no benefit.
	They just become robots who are told, oh, we're going to take care of you, and it never happens.
	And yet they somehow vote for it over and over.
	Amazing.
	All right, you're with Project Sentinel.
	The website is projectsentinel.com.
	Would you like to tell us a little bit about that project here in our last few minutes?
	So much of what we've talked about today, Mike, relates to Project Sentinel.
	So Project Sentinel is an effort to re-examine from the 21st century lens what the Founding Fathers got right.
	And they got most things right.
	And the idea here is that we need to return to the basic principles that were established by the Founding Fathers.
	And so when I see things like Greg Abbott taking and citing the Constitution down to the specific sections to do something, we're all for that.
	I think it's the right way to go.
	But beyond that, there's some big areas that our government's failing us on.
	First off, Every time I hear Joe Biden say reduce the deficit, it drives me nuts.
	The fact that we are spending our children's money, this deficit spending, is dangerous.
	It's stupid.
	And by the way, China is one of our banks that's loaning us all this money.
	And there's been no link between appropriation of money, that is to say the taxes you and I pay, appropriated dollars.
	There's no link between appropriated dollars and government spending.
	None.
	Right.
	Now, you and I try that, see what happens, you know?
	Yeah.
	States can't do that, but somehow the federal government, because it has this fiat currency, that they seem to think that, oh, we'll just, we'll spend our way out of it, is literally going to lead to, I believe, catastrophic failure of our financial system within 10 years, because the debt on our deficit is going to be so great that we're not going to be able to generate enough income to even pay the interest on the debt.
	Well, that's another... We're talking a trillion dollars a year in interest.
	Yeah, right.
	Who's going to have that?
	And I don't think you can print money fast enough without collapsing your economy.
	Well, we're about to find out.
	We're going to find out.
	Okay.
	Project Sentinels.
	So what people can find there is obviously videos, articles.
	What else?
	Well, we actually have the principles of my former boss, Dr. Herb London, Is the foundation for this.
	Herb London, I love Herb.
	You know, I still run the London Center for Policy Research.
	We're in the process of shutting it down for any number of reasons.
	It just didn't come back from COVID.
	Herb London was a traditional liberal who saw the light and became a conservative.
	And he's got a number of great works.
	We try to use his teachings, his books, as a great foundation and interpretation of practical conservatism for the 21st century.
	All of it's linked to the Founding Fathers.
	So we're basically trying to convince people, Mike, to take a step back.
	Don't accept at face value the federal government's I mean, there's no way the federal government should be telling us what kind of light bulbs to buy.
	Or when I hear about the federal government jumping in to help fund programs for homeless on the streets of San Francisco, it's like, really?
	I don't think that's in the Constitution.
	That's a city and state responsibility.
	The federal government should be doing nothing in that.
	And I hear Joe Biden going to all these places, oh, this whole thing is being built with federal dollars.
	No, it's not.
	It's being built by dollars that you've taken from citizens at the local level, processed through, taken a cut, and sent it back down.
	Exactly.
	It's wasteful.
	It's wasteful.
	And so we're saying let's stop that nonsense.
	The federal government should be cut back to those things which are only clearly articulated within the Constitution.
	That's like a 90% cut.
	I think it is.
	That sounds good to me.
	Mike, that's why they don't want Carrie Lake, they don't want Donald Trump, they don't want me.
	Because it's like, you know, I go into the Pentagon and I've literally said I would cut the intelligence community's budget in half and cut the people by two-thirds and it would run five times better and far more efficiently because it's too much bloat and too many bureaucrats who don't want to do any of the work anyway.
	Well, well said.
	All right, the website, folks, is ProjectSentinel.com.
	And Tony, I want to thank you for being with us today, spending your time, and also your analysis, which I think is spot on.
	And I'm really enthused by the fact that people like you are active.
	It gives me hope.
	I mean, there are days I lose hope for the future of this republic, seriously.
	And then I get to interview people like you and, you know, Colonel Douglas McGregor, for example, and others.
	And I feel like maybe, maybe we do have a chance, you know, but then the next day something horrible happens.
	I'm not sure.
	Um, but I, you give me hope, Tony.
	So thank you.
	Well, I know.
	I appreciate people like you saying we need to drive on.
	I appreciate your energy and enthusiasm just to, we need, we can't give up.
	Right.
	And I know it's tough sometimes.
	And look, I, I appreciate the fact that My 30 plus years of being a, you know, someone who, you know, enjoyed breaking the law on our side, you know, I was always pushing the edge.
	I appreciate all of my experience now being used to help educate folks and try to help people understand what needs to be done next.
	So I appreciate the opportunity to talk to you and your audience.
	So thanks again for having me.
	Absolutely.
	An honor to have you on and hope we get to do this again soon, sir.
	Sure.
	Thank you so much.
	Enjoy your day.
	All right, and thank all of you for watching.
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