Debt Ceiling Day 2 is upon us, and the House of Representatives is on the brink of a showdown with the White House regarding the debt ceiling. On this episode of the War Room, host Stephen K. Kamb joins us to talk about the economic and political implications of a debt ceiling showdown, and why it s imperative that the House hold the line regarding the issue.
00:01:28.900For context, three years ago, that number was only 6%.
00:01:32.940Which translates into a giant jump in the percentage of Americans who are severely delinquent in their auto loans, meaning they haven't paid in three months.
00:01:43.000We just put in a number of almost 6% there, which is worse than the levels of the Great Recession of 2008-2009.
00:01:51.540Patriots, these numbers, this economic reality makes it imperative that the House GOP hold the line regarding the debt ceiling.
00:01:59.020Okay, I want to connect that, people's personal lives, the debt ceiling, what you just saw on Ben Burkwam's footage of coming up to invade the United States of America, and the Ukraine.
00:02:14.920And only Steve Cortez can tie all that together.
00:02:53.760The fact that we have a greater delinquency problem right now in terms of being three months behind, all right, that's severely delinquent.
00:03:00.320If you're three months behind on your car payment, you are about to lose your car.
00:03:04.700And those rates are higher now, Steve, than the 08-09 recession.
00:03:09.100But to connect us to the two other crises, the created crises that you mentioned, the escalation in Ukraine and the border crisis.
00:03:15.560This is a time for America to focus internally.
00:03:19.260It is a time for us to heal our country and to restore our American economy, to connect us to the border.
00:03:25.980In a time of 21 straight months of crashing real wages, the worst streak in all of American history,
00:03:33.160the last thing America needs right now is millions of new workers flooding into this country to compete in the labor market unlawfully and unjustly against American citizens,
00:03:43.400further depressing wages in this country.
00:03:46.400And then regarding the Ukraine crisis, the last thing that America needs right now,
00:03:50.140as we are trying desperately to get our fiscal house in order, as we have this debt showdown,
00:03:55.740which is crucial because we earned the leverage of winning the House of Representatives,
00:03:59.480the last thing America needs is to borrow mountains of money, hundreds of billions of dollars,
00:04:05.360to waste on a corrupt country who is fighting another corrupt country in a war that does not involve any U.S. national interest.
00:05:46.620And people – I did John Frederick's radio show this morning.
00:05:49.120People are – the audience still worked up.
00:05:50.640I think what we say is that we had two – we had Maine, the party there, the pro-America first, MAGA candidates, pro-Trump, flipped Maine.
00:06:01.780And we had Jeff DeWitt, Trump-endorsed, the one in Arizona.
00:06:05.100There's a lot to talk about, and we don't have time right now to talk about it.
00:06:09.120There's some stuff people are working on.
00:06:11.180And, Mike, I think you want to come back middle of the week or in a couple of days and talk about not just your experience,
00:06:17.800but also your takeaways from that, and we'll get to all that.
00:10:00.980This is like one of our – it got somewhat easier when the China virus came into play, and we could do it sitting behind a desk.
00:10:09.980But here, this was a full-on production, and I didn't – we did not have the technology back when I invented MyPillow in 2004 and 2005.
00:10:19.980This technology became available the last couple years.
00:10:22.980We've been working on this for a long time.
00:10:24.980It makes the MyPillow, it makes it softer, it regulates the temperature, and, you know, nobody likes sleep interruption, flipping it to the cool side or using your arm and all this.
00:11:01.980I hadn't seen them in about, I don't know, four or five years.
00:11:04.980And all the crew together, you know, this is – it took all day and night now they're doing – down in Florida and our other studios, they're doing all the testimonials.
00:11:36.980I believe it's the best pillow in history and the best product in history because it helps you so much.
00:11:42.980And it was just awesome making the commercial though.
00:11:45.980I had – it was – it brought back a lot of – I haven't done a commercial like this in about three years since all this started in our country.
00:12:41.980This was about a – actually about a year ago.
00:12:43.980And it was my son and others in the company that started talking about this.
00:12:48.980And then they – I said, well, bring me some options back.
00:12:52.980And this patent or this – that patent and fill that MyPillow had, that didn't change.
00:12:58.980But this thread, this temperature-regulating thread that's out there now – and I don't even know how long it's been out there, but we definitely didn't.
00:13:05.980It's not in any pillows that I know of.
00:13:08.980And we – it's a company we work with.
00:13:10.980And then we started – it took months to get – okay, come up with a fabric.
00:13:15.980So the fabric is all – this technology and the thread that makes this fabric, it actually feels smoother now.
00:13:22.980It's – I mean – and regulates that temperature.
00:13:25.980Then, Steve, then we had to get a machine that does the cutting.
00:13:29.980You have to have a technology to be able to cut this different fabric.
00:13:33.980So that was – you know, we bought that.
00:13:35.980And I bought that – it was a hundred and some thousand dollars.
00:16:12.980By the way, I want to make an announcement to make sure everybody understands this is that Mike Lindell is going to be – because I don't think he's gotten out there enough.
00:16:20.980Mike Lindell is going to be on Jimmy Kimmel again tomorrow night.
00:16:23.980Jimmy Kimmel actually wants to return bout Lindell.
00:16:26.980I thought he got beat up enough last time.
00:16:29.980Yeah, it's going to be fun at this time, everybody.
00:16:33.980He said I couldn't come on unless I was in this claw game because I'm not vaccinated.
00:16:38.980So there's going to be a lot of humor and a lot of back and forth.
00:16:41.980Believe me, we've been going – we've been going back and forth for almost three quarters of a year now on whether to come on his show or not.
00:17:39.980But if that's what it takes to help save our country, I'll go on Jimmy Kimmel every day of the week and get attacked by the media over and over again because it's worth it.
00:17:49.980I've got to talk about – by the way, so Jimmy Kimmel tomorrow night, that's 1130, correct?
00:17:54.980It starts – it's ABC's late night show.
00:17:56.980I think it starts after the local news, so it's 1130 Eastern Standard Time.
00:18:00.980We'll make sure tomorrow we're going to promote this so everybody can see Mike Lindell.
00:18:04.980Mike, you tell a great story is that – and this is the power of the effort you're putting back on MyPillow 2.0.
00:18:17.980When you first started to stop selling them out of the back of the trunk of the car at the flea markets, you went and you were going to do these home shopping shows.
00:18:27.980And, of course, they wanted to do actors.
00:18:29.980They said, no, I've got to do it myself.
00:18:45.980And you've become the biggest pillow salesman ever with these great products.
00:18:50.980But is it true – is the first time you ever used actors – it just wasn't Mike Lindell looking into a camera – was the time that you used these actors with the one that you opened up the – the mirror in the bathroom?
00:19:06.980In fact, when we did that commercial, I believe it was about four or five years ago, about halfway through the commercial, I said to my two gals, my CMO, and I said, wow, these two are really good.
00:19:43.980And so – but yeah, every other commercial – we've never used actors.
00:19:47.980This one is so – I just wanted to be – get the message across the best it can possibly be, so I wanted them to come back.
00:19:55.980That's one of our most-watched commercials in history was that one with the mirrors open.
00:19:59.980And they – it's going to be – you wait until you see the commercial.
00:20:04.980It comes out in a couple weeks, but you guys got to see back – I think it's probably the first time, Steve, or anyone got to see backstage of a commercial or the behind-the-scenes, especially one of mine.
00:20:15.980I don't think we've done something like that before, but we thought we'd do it here for your great audience.
00:22:04.980Yeah, I think this is something that we've got to figure out the direction of this, because I think people are very disappointed, not just about the vote, but the way the whole thing.
00:22:11.980The way I said it was on the John Fredericks, it's like you realize now the people associated with it are really the kids who were on student council back in junior high school and the theater club, right?
00:22:22.980There's nothing wrong with the theater club or the student council, but, you know, if you're a brawler, that wasn't your first pick as a club.
00:22:29.980And right now, Mike, as you know, I think we need brawlers, right?
00:26:42.980There's some debate as to whether these tanks, the Abrams tanks, will be operational in time for the famous spring offensive that we're expecting Vladimir Putin to launch.
00:26:54.980Whether they're operational or whether they're not, the escalation now is tipping beyond the point where either side, even if it were to want to, could pull back before there is all that kinetic war.
00:27:07.980We are absolutely sleepwalking into World War III.
00:27:11.980Okay, we're going to return a short break.
00:27:14.980We're going to go back to the Vatican to talk to Ben Harnwell about all of it.
00:27:18.980Also, Axios, the corporate media, Mike Allen's corporatist media, finally woke up to the fact, their lead story today is about artificial intelligence.
00:27:29.980Like, wow, this thing may be so far advanced.
00:27:35.980What we've been talking about for a couple of years here, Joe Allen, our editor of all things, transhumanist, will also join us.
00:27:43.980But the awakening of places like the Atlantic Magazine, the New Yorker, the New York Times, Axios, uh-oh, chatbot GPT, got them unexpectedly.
00:28:26.980After I've stolen the title, barred against it, or sold the property, it's 60 to 90 days for that person to even figure out that they're the victim of this crime.
00:29:22.980We have Anne-Marie Slaughter, Ben Harnwell, who's talking about the tanks with iron crosses on the Leopard 2, you know, the bad optics.
00:29:34.980So kind of the bad optics maybe having the panzers when we're on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the surrender of a 300,000-man army, what was left of it, at Stalingrad, which takes place tomorrow.
00:29:48.980And she says, boy, you know, and we hope that issues are going to go into Ukraine.
00:29:52.980And we hope, we certainly hope they don't go into Russia.
00:30:05.980Even though they arguably took a step backwards at Davos with a lack of momentum and a lot of heads of government that weren't there.
00:30:14.980I think it's more of a step back in order to re-solidify rather than a step back to retreat.
00:30:20.980But talking about globalists is a perfect segue into my favourite subject.
00:30:25.980You know how dear to my heart our sociopathic overlords are.
00:30:30.980And it's the degree of lies that they tell, the shameless gaslighting.
00:30:36.980Here's a quote that Ron Klein, the outgoing White House Chief of Staff, came out with over the weekend saying that he was rather happy with Biden's immense successes.
00:30:48.980And he said that Biden had managed the largest land war in Europe since Truman as part of his list of accomplishments.
00:30:56.980Now, I wasn't aware, correct me if I'm wrong, right, I wasn't aware that Joe Biden had ever said publicly or anyone close to him said that he, this is the guy, right, who's not even remotely with it anymore.
00:31:09.980This is the guy that's managing this war in Ukraine.
00:31:14.980Of course, if he were managing it, it would explain a lot why the Ukrainian side seems to be endlessly failing.
00:31:21.980But here's the point. They're never going to tell you the truth.
00:31:26.980Another blinder that came out today was Boris Johnson claimed that Putin on the phone had threatened to drop a missile on him and to kill him.
00:31:40.980Steve, I'm going to go on the record. I do not believe Vladimir Putin said any such thing.
00:31:47.980I will wait for any proof or evidence that Putin said this to Boris Johnson.
00:31:53.980But I think it's more likely that in the passage of time, a civil servant who would have been listening to that call will come out and say, actually, Putin never said any such thing.
00:32:03.980But it's an illustration of the extent that our globalist leaders are willing to go to in order to pick up on your expression just a few moments or so, again, to sleepwalk the world into a further world war.
00:32:21.980Only, of course, this time, a full kinetic war would be between nuclear powers between Russia and NATO.
00:32:28.980And again, our leaders, so-called leaders, are coming out with one distraction after another.
00:32:36.980Boris Johnson again last week at Davos said that he doesn't think that Putin is going to use nuclear missiles.
00:32:45.980He said that. He's drawn his red lines. We continue to push against them.
00:32:50.980So because he hasn't done it so far, he's not going to do it in the future.
00:32:53.980And you just live wondering to yourself, what planet are these people living on?
00:33:00.980But to go from one world war to a purported civil war here in Rome in the Vatican behind me now,
00:33:10.980here's another example of how you'll never get the straight truth out of the mainstream media.
00:33:17.980There is an article by Ross Douthat, who is probably the journalist of the New York Times most to the centre.
00:33:31.980I mean, he's not an out-and-out communist, which is why everyone at the New York Times likes to sort of laugh at him behind his back.
00:33:39.980But he's come up with this article today, I don't know if the guys in Denver might be able to put it up while I'm talking,
00:33:44.980which is headlined, The War Between Catholic Cardinals.
00:33:49.980And the opening words suggests that with the death of Pope Benedict,
00:33:55.980the opening salvos of the Catholic Church's civil war have been deployed,
00:34:01.980specifically referring to that secret anonymous memo by Cardinal Pell,
00:34:08.980whose authorship was made known by the journalist who leaked it, Sandro Magister, a day or so after he died.
00:34:17.980I'm going to go into the article, but to do that, I am going to just read out an excerpt.
00:34:27.980For all their undeniable conservatism, a consistent goal for Benedict, as well as John Paul II,
00:34:34.980was some kind of synthesis for the modern church in which the changes ushered in by the Second Vatican Council
00:34:41.980could be integrated with the traditional commitments of Catholicism.
00:34:46.980Now, long-standing viewers of the war room will home in, as I did on that expression, and say,
00:34:53.980really? Because I don't know about you, Steve, but in my circle of acquaintances,
00:34:57.980I don't know anybody who thinks John Paul II or Benedict were conservative.
00:35:01.980The best you could say about them is that they were more or less just about Catholic at a push.
00:35:10.980But here's the conceit that the New York Times is playing here in order to portray a civil war,
00:35:18.980contrasting Cardinal Pell's memo with its analogue by American Cardinal Robert McElroy,
00:35:27.980who wrote an article in this week's edition of America magazine,
00:35:32.980which is the American Jesuits' main organ of pushing out heresy and dissent.
00:35:39.980And there is, admittedly, a certain symmetry between these two opposites,
00:35:46.980symmetrical opposites between these two cardinals, but it doesn't make a civil war.
00:35:51.980And the reason why there isn't a civil war, and there can't be in the Catholic Church,
00:35:55.980is because the Pope, air quotes, the Pope has all the cards.
00:36:01.980If you're a priest, or you're a member of a religious community, or you're a bishop,
00:36:06.980or if you're a cardinal, then you, whether you, in your heart, accept that Pope Francis is a valid pope,
00:36:14.980or whether you don't, you have to follow through on the obedience which is expected of you in that position.
00:36:21.980And it is impossible to have a civil war against a figure that you're under obedience to.
00:36:31.980Which leads us to, I think, what is really happening in the Catholic Church and the undercurrents,
00:36:37.980is rather than any kind of civil war, which I repeat isn't going to take place,
00:36:44.980at least not in the formal institutional church,
00:36:48.980what is more likely to take place, and we've mentioned this before, Steve,
00:36:51.980is a schism, which is a formal split of Catholics who will say for one reason or another,
00:36:57.980we do not recognise this figure of Pope.
00:37:00.980And how they will do this, I don't know, Archbishop Lefebvre, the French Archbishop,
00:37:06.980tried this in the 1980s, but basically you pull out of the formal Catholic structure,
00:37:11.980and you ordain priests, and you consecrate bishops without the Vatican's consent.
00:37:16.980Now, I happen to think if more bishops had supported Archbishop Lefebvre,
00:37:24.980the Catholic Church wouldn't be in the position that it's in today.
00:37:27.980But the thesis of this article, just to finish off here, is exactly what I said on this show.
00:37:34.980I think the day from here, the very day Benedict died,
00:37:39.980which is that this now puts people who always maintained that Benedict was the true Pope
00:37:45.980in a very difficult position, because it forces them to say now, at this point,
00:37:50.980whether the papal throne is empty, or whether they're going to do a U-turn,
00:37:55.980and rejoin spiritually, interiorly, in the Catholic hierarchy.
00:38:04.980There are a lot of people, and this is the thesis of this article,
00:38:07.980there are a lot of people that said more or less openly that they don't recognise Pope Francis
00:38:12.980as a valid Pope, saying that Pope Benedict's resignation was faulty.
00:38:17.980What those people are going to do now, I think, will give some degree of momentum
00:38:24.980to the possibility of a CISM moving forward.
00:38:29.980Ben, you're going to get much more engaged in our Ukraine coverage as we ramp it up.
00:38:34.980How do people get to you? How do they get to the War Room Roam show and all your content?
00:38:39.980Thanks, Steve. I'm exclusively on Getter. My profile is simply my surname, at Harnwell.
00:38:47.980I've got a lot of great stuff there over the weekend if folk wants to check it out.
00:38:52.980And perhaps, Steve, I can come back later on this week, because the real question,
00:38:56.980and this is what I've been sort of talking with people over the last few days is about,
00:39:01.980is this idea, the words only lightly referred to here in this Ross Douthat article,
00:39:07.980but the question is, is this principle, this idea called sedervacantism,
00:39:12.980which is that the papal throne is empty, that is really the concept which no one wants to talk about,
00:39:17.980certainly not in public. And that's the question I think that most lay Catholic
00:39:24.980and even bishops are going to have to deal with moving forward.
00:39:30.980Of course it's the War Room. Of course we're going to talk about it.
00:39:34.980The papal throne being empty and this whole concept of schism.
00:39:46.980So the New York Times is now hip to some of these concepts with this column yesterday
00:39:51.980in the New York Times, the Sunday edition.
00:39:53.980We got a cold open from Joe Allen, New York Times.
00:39:56.980Other people are getting savvy on artificial intelligence way ahead of where everybody thought did not.
00:40:02.980They did not listen to Joe Allen and we're not watching the worm.
00:40:05.980Let's go ahead and play the cold open. I'll bring Joe in.
00:40:08.980They are hyper realistic video and audio recordings that use artificial intelligence and deep learning to create fake content or deep fakes.
00:40:19.980The U.S. government has grown increasingly concerned about their potential to be used to spread disinformation and commit crimes.
00:40:26.980That's because the creators of deep fakes have the power to make people say or do anything, at least on our screens.
00:40:34.980Most Americans have no idea how far the technology has come in just the last four years or the danger, disruption and opportunities that come with it.
00:40:46.980You know, I do all my own stunts, obviously. I also do my own music.
00:40:53.980This is not Tom Cruise. It's one of a series of hyper realistic deep fakes of the movie star that began appearing on the video sharing app TikTok earlier this year.
00:41:05.980Mr. Speaker, I stand here today because I am planning to reintroduce the United States Israel Artificial Intelligence Center Act,
00:41:11.980a bipartisan piece of legislation that will cement a mutually beneficial partnership between the United States and Israel on artificial intelligence research.
00:41:18.980This is a critical step forward in an era where AI and its implications are taking center stage in public discourse.
00:41:24.980We must collaborate with international partners like the Israeli government to ensure that the United States maintains a leadership role in AI research and development and responsibly explores the many possibilities evolving technologies provide.
00:41:37.980The United States Israel Artificial Intelligence Center Act will allow us to tap into the expertise of both countries and draw upon each other's resources to explore and develop cutting edge AI advancements.