On today's show, Alex Blumberg and John Ava nonchalantly discuss the rise of the right-wing populist movement, and how Mitt Romney's father, the former president of the United States, Mitt Romney, was a big part of it.
00:10:35.240Mike Johnson was the chief intellectual architect, along with Ken Paxton and those guys.
00:10:40.180But at the, at the congressional level, of writing the amicus brief and getting guys on board because Mike Johnson knew the election was stolen.
00:10:46.880That's got to be quite, besides his biblical worldview, that's got to be quite uncomfortable for old man Murdoch, right?
00:10:55.620They did more damage by, by, by giving these guys a billion dollars in surrendering than anything could have possibly be done.
00:11:01.500I mean, you could argue, and Mike, I, I, I know this goes to your core, but you could argue the machine companies are winning in a, in, in a huge way because Fox wrote him a billion dollar check and, and, and kind of groveled to him on an apology.
00:11:14.940So Mike Johnson coming up is, is not just as biblical.
00:11:19.760I think that's like giving money to yourself, Steve.
00:11:22.420I believe Fox was in on it all along and, uh, way, going way back to calling Arizona early.
00:11:28.040I mean, they did things that don't make sense and, uh, they want, I think they're all part of the unit party and we've got great things going on now and we are winning.
00:11:37.720And, uh, that's why they're attacking me the last two months since the summit we had for, to secure our election platforms.
00:11:44.680I've been under full blown attack and what a better way than to try and destroy my pillow.
00:11:49.400So you take away my voice, but it's not happening.
00:11:52.100Uh, we're, we're, uh, we are winning and, uh, it may like, you know, you don't, you're not going to see it.
00:11:58.040On Fox news that we're winning, Steve, they're not going to tell anybody the, the good things that are going on.
00:12:03.580Um, and, uh, and that, uh, having new, having new leadership is going to change everything.
00:12:09.520You guys are going to see over this next year, so many great things happening.
00:12:14.000Uh, I just want everybody to keep the faith and keep the, keep the hope.
00:12:17.540I'm, I see if you know me, I'm the most optimistic person you'll probably ever see.
00:12:21.400And, uh, but there's a lot of reason to be optimistic right now.
00:12:25.500We've got where the dominoes are going to fall and, uh, and we're going to, we're going to get our country back.
00:12:32.300What do you think about having someone like a Mike Johnson, who's a very devout Baptist and has a very, a very profound understanding and belief in the, the tenets of the Judeo-Christian West.
00:12:43.460And is, is, is, is puts his, his faith, his Christianity as the centerpiece that everything revolves around.
00:12:49.620Well, that's what we had to have everybody.
00:12:54.860We've got to, this is part of God's plan.
00:12:56.960And, uh, uh, you couldn't, I don't think you could have picked anyone better.
00:13:00.180We couldn't have gotten anyone better.
00:13:01.920Um, you know, he's, he's, he's going to look, obviously they'll look into finally look into our election platforms.
00:13:08.220Um, and when you base things on, on your faith and with Jesus Christ and you're basing stuff on that, like me, I pray every morning about what I'm going to do.
00:13:22.020And, uh, and everyone can say, well, boy, you make some bad decisions, Mike, you've made some bad decisions.
00:13:27.820No, that was in the past when I used to be an addict and, and I was making very bad decisions.
00:13:32.560Now you might not understand the decisions that are made, but, uh, we can be proactive in prayer now and, and they line up beautifully with God's word.
00:13:42.500And I think it's what our country needed and, uh, uh, having the war room posse and them all out there and everybody putting pressure on, on, uh,
00:13:52.020on Congress and, uh, it's, you know, we're winning and it's because all of us, uh, it's not just, uh, a few.
00:13:59.100Now everybody courage is contagious and, and everybody's stepping up and that's awesome.
00:14:06.540Uh, Mike, uh, the number is 800-873-1062, uh, mypillow.com.
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00:14:55.660I am the last person on earth to nag about your diet.
00:15:03.920I think you can see I don't always make the healthiest food choices either.
00:15:09.120But I will share that the Mayo Clinic says if you want to help prevent heart disease, lower blood pressure, and cholesterol, eat five servings of fruits and vegetables every day.
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00:17:08.560Let's pull the camera back for a second and make sure we know where we are.
00:17:12.700They were so shocked and stunned that Trump came out of nowhere in 16 and won the presidency.
00:17:21.300And then they had the nullification project right away, all of it, to try to nullify his victory and to make sure he couldn't govern and couldn't shift the country back to America first.
00:17:31.840Then in 20, when he won 74 million votes, 74 million votes, just still breathtaking.
00:17:41.160And they stole the election because we know they stole the election, and they know we know they stole the election.
00:17:47.660That's why there's no evidence, no evidence.
00:17:49.980Just with your own eyes and your own experience of the evidence you've seen, I'll leave it to that.
00:18:12.700A guy that has crushed their candidates.
00:18:16.000Remember, their boys have been McCarthy and Jordan.
00:18:20.160Let's face it, Jordan was on there every night, every night, every night, just like Lindsey Graham, every night, every night reporting, just going over and over again, the talking points, over and over again, the talking points, no subpoenas, no real advance.
00:18:32.740You know, he and Comer all the time, we're going to do this, we're going to do that, we're going to, nothing happening.
00:18:36.340Because McCarthy, behind the scenes, didn't want it to happen because the donors don't want it to happen.
00:18:39.960You've got to remember when Trump went back to Mar-a-Lago, think about that day, the 20th of January, 2021.
00:18:59.380And, and we were, this show was the, was the rally point.
00:19:03.780You, the audience, the hardcore, the hardest core of the Trump's, the followers, who knew that he had won the election and who knew if we rallied, he would come back and win again.
00:19:19.140Do you think there were many believers back then?
00:20:14.600We have to get back, because we have to impeach Mayorkas.
00:20:17.720Remember they made that pitch, that you're going to slow down, all the impeachment is going to slow down everything if you do this?
00:20:22.800Remember when they came back, when McCarthy came back, and went on Maria Bartiroma back in September, and tried to sell the fact, we can't, we can't have a, we have to have a CR, you can't shut down the government, because then we're going to slow down the impeachment thing.
00:20:37.420They put a shiny toy out thinking you're a moron.
00:20:44.880Now, because Trump's up in all the polling, and he's building momentum every day, and he's never on Fox, and they won't do a live interview where they will sit there and slobber all over Nikki Haley, and slobber all over Tim Scott, and slobber still over the sanctimonious.
00:21:08.100Don't have him on when they have to have him on.
00:21:09.760And the RNC's putting all the money with these donors to still look for an alternative.
00:21:15.200They're having NBC News and Hugh Hewitt, the most establishment of everybody, on NBC down in Miami on another huge waste of money as a diversion.
00:21:27.780But you prevailed, you prevailed, no one else, you.
00:21:36.380Not Gates, not Bannon, not Mace, not Eli Crane, not Rosendale, not Boebert, not the Hard Eight or the Magnificent Six that were the instrumentality of this victory.
00:21:51.580If it had not been for you, none of it would have happened.
00:23:15.860That we actually get back to the biblical worldview that founded this nation and built this nation into the greatest nation in the history of the earth.
00:23:28.080Created more prosperity for working people.
00:23:32.020Not just the wealthy, for working people.
00:23:33.720And to have it devolve into what it's devolved in, an oligarchy, with the Federal Reserve and the entire system that enriches them at your expense.
00:23:43.400And to add insult to injury, then to protect their empire, to send your sons and daughters onto foreign battlefields.
00:45:39.640I think the Palestinians are saying that the big hospital there, the Israelis are saying, IDF saying, there is a massive tunnel underneath and maybe one of the command posts for the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and they're going to attack it.
00:45:54.520So today, trust me, this is going to get ramped up.
00:45:57.660Eli, people look to you because you've not just talked the talk, you've walked the walk in your defense of this country and our liberties in the Middle East and some of the nastiest, gnarliest times that we've had.
00:46:15.680And I want to get to Ukraine in a second, but I definitely want to get your take on, and people should understand, and listen to Eli, I understand that two-thirds of our audience wants no money to Ukraine, and they're questioning this commitment to Israel, what it really means, et cetera.
00:46:35.140Well, yeah, and I totally understand that perspective as well, Steve.
00:46:42.780I mean, I think that when you are in the spot that we're in as a country, when you're $33 trillion in debt and you have a $2 trillion annual deficit, and it seems like every single time something kicks off around the world, America, we get front-sight focus on it, and we send all of our resources and our treasure.
00:47:03.480We're, you know, there, and yet we could care less about, you know, our own citizens, we could care less about the southern border, we could care less about the families dying of fentanyl.
00:47:13.200And so I totally understand that perspective, and it's something that I've said multiple times now, you know, publicly since this war in Israel has kicked off, that we need to be very cautious in how we proceed, and we need to make sure that our focus and our priority is still the American people, as it should be, as it always should be.
00:47:37.600But, you know, that being said, as a man of faith, and Steve, when I talk about my faith, one of the reasons I am a man of faith is because, and one of the reasons I'm a Christian is because I'm a sinner.
00:47:52.140That's just a fact, man. So I don't think I'm holier than thou or anything like that. As a matter of fact, I accepted Christ into my heart because I wanted him to do for me what I couldn't do for myself.
00:48:04.460I wanted him to trade his perfect, sinless life for, you know, my sinful one. And so, please, when I talk about my faith, please understand that, you know, there's a lot of humility there,
00:48:14.060and, you know, I needed that salvation. But when I look at what's, as a man of faith, when I look, and when I open my Bible, and we've been talking about that a lot on this little segment,
00:48:28.420one of the very first book of the Bible, it says that God says that I will bless those who bless Israel, and I will curse those who curse Israel.
00:48:36.200Okay? So, you know, Steve, if I'm on the right path, and I'm right about my faith, and one day I meet God at the end of it all,
00:48:48.500I think that will be one of the most terrifying days of my life. And you know what, brother? I want the Lord to say, you know,
00:48:58.920Eli, you care, son, you cared about the things that I cared about. And you fought for the things that I care about and the things that I love.
00:49:09.020And, you know, like I said, the whole book is based around and centered around Jerusalem and Israel and God's love and his covenant for his people.
00:49:19.940Now, I know a lot of the Western church, you know, there's replacement theology out there and a bunch of other doctrines and theories
00:49:27.000that basically say, oh, those covenants don't matter anymore. You know, God's replaced, you know, Israel, you know, with Americans or Western culture, whatever.
00:49:37.520I don't buy it for a second, but that's okay. I respect everybody's opinion. But Israel is different to me than anywhere else on the face of the earth.
00:49:47.340And I'll tell you why. Because I think it's different to God than anywhere else on the face of the earth.
00:49:52.620And if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But I don't, I, because I'm a man of faith and because I believe the scriptures that I read, I, I, I think that God still has a covenant and a concern and even a controversy with Israel.
00:50:07.180And so I think we need to be cautious and we need to be very level headed and we need to, we need to count the cost, which we're not very good at.
00:50:15.560But I also think, and we have supported Israel. We're supporting Israel right now. And I, and I do believe we will support them in the future.
00:50:22.680I would love to see that be, uh, material support resources. Um, but I'm not a big fan of, you know, us going in there and, and, you know, putting boots on the ground and trying to escalate this thing.
00:50:35.340And I've been clear about that from the beginning, because as this thing kicks off and escalates, this has the potential to turn into, you know, something that we've been concerned about with the Ukraine, Russia, uh, war.
00:50:49.960And that that's world war three. And many of the people that are pushing that and champions for that, Steve have never gone to war themselves.
00:50:57.460They, they've never lost loved ones. Um, they've never seen a family destroyed. They've never seen little kids grow up without their dad.
00:51:05.440And, uh, and, and, and that's, uh, it's very unfortunate. And, you know, it's, I think it's, I think it's a problem when you have, you know, these people that we call war hawks or neocons that are constantly pushing.
00:51:19.960The next, you know, the next fight, the next fight, the next fight. And, and, you know, how many layers there are to it, Steve, when you look at some of the, you know, how the defense contractors are funding many of their campaigns and stuff like that.
00:51:31.480It's, it's pretty disgusting. Um, but this is one of those interesting times where, you know, for me personally, there is a conflict because of my faith and being an America first candidate, you know?
00:51:43.540And, uh, so I think we need to be cautious and level-headed, but I, I do support Israel.
00:51:51.960Uh, real quickly, we've got to bounce. Is there going to be a big, intense debate inside the conference on Ukraine, on Israel, on the defense of the Southern border?
00:52:00.620Are we now going to have a real debate internally with you guys and not just have McCarthy jamming stuff down people's throats?
00:52:08.220Yeah, Steve. I mean, there's, there's always a debate. Uh, we've always been on the short end of the stick just because of our numbers.
00:52:14.440Um, the, the posse has definitely helped with that in blowing up people's phones. And I, I'm so proud of Grace and, you know, her, her friend for developing that app.
00:52:24.100I think it's going to be huge in making sure that the, the American people are heard on it. And, you know, I don't know, you know, how radically this conference is going to change under the leadership of Mike Johnson, Steve,
00:52:35.720but I'm already seeing positive signs and that I think it's going to change, you know, uh, you know, by a couple of degrees here and there. And, uh, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm pretty grateful that I think that we got an upgrade for the American people.
00:52:51.380Eli, real quickly, your social media, where do people go to find more about you?
00:52:56.960Uh, rep, be like crane and Steve, I just wanted to say, thank you so much, brother, for all that you do.
00:53:02.820Thank you to the posse for throwing down every day, man, in the ramparts, getting on those phones, getting on your social media.
00:53:09.900It does matter. And the people up here feel the pressure. So keep it up, please.
00:53:17.440Uh, we commit to you. We will Eli. Thank you. One of the, one of the toughest, hardest guys up there, the best Eli crane.
00:53:24.940Uh, we'll be back. Charlie Kirk next. Jack was over back five to seven tonight. See you there.
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