Stephen K. Van Zandt and Ben Harnell join me in the War Room to talk about the most important things of 2019, and to reflect back over the past year and look forward to 2020. We'll also hear from the team at Real America s Voice and our great production team here at The War Room.
00:04:15.840I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:04:21.260Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:04:25.060If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:04:31.240War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Vann.
00:04:37.000Okay, it's Saturday, 30 December, year of early 2023.
00:04:42.180We're also, this is our New Year's Eve special since the team at Real America's Voice.
00:04:47.220And of course, our great production team here at the War Room.
00:04:49.780We let them have Sunday off, the Sabbath.
00:04:52.820So this is also our New Year's Eve special.
00:04:58.200Tremendous moving voices there from Dublin that welcomes in a ring at the new year.
00:05:03.980So we're going to talk about the most important things of this year as far as trends, analysis, things that are happening that lets you reflect back over the year.
00:05:15.180Hopefully, spend a few moments reflecting back over your own personal life over the year, and particularly how it became intertwined with this effort to save this republic, which is what this show is about, as essentially a platform to help unite you in your task and purpose of saving this country.
00:05:41.740We're going to actually go, if everything goes according to plan, we're also going to go to southern Mexico.
00:05:48.300We're going to talk about the invasion of our country.
00:05:50.280In fact, we're going to stay with the most important things, the financial collapse of our country, the invasion of our country.
00:05:59.980Also, talk about the geopolitics of the world today, and particularly how you guys have been right in your determination to make sure that the country always puts America and our citizens first.
00:06:14.880Against all the lies, misrepresentation, spin, all of it that's been handled to you.
00:06:21.060Ben Harnwell in Rome, and I know we want to go back and talk about the most important things that happened and how they happened, but I do have to – I think I want to start here at where we are and then work back because I do agree with you upon further review, as we talked about the show, that this Politico story from the other day, and now it's been picked up by so many others, of how the Biden regime – and this is how, to me, cuts to the core of their evilness.
00:06:49.800Of how they're now trying to – with words, trying to soft-pedal a new strategy, which is to hopefully hold on – the Ukrainians to hold on to Kiev, given the fact that they've lost the war that the Biden regime got them into in the beginning.
00:07:08.320I want to go back to that, particularly given your knowledge of the EU and British politics.
00:07:13.660We started the year – and remember, we had been against this from the absolute very beginning in February of the year before, January, February of 22.
00:07:26.780We were adamant about where this was going to lead, and I'm very proud of this audience.
00:07:30.880I'm very proud of the people we had on the show.
00:07:34.000Our party line has not changed from the absolute beginning, and we have been one million percent right about this from the beginning.
00:07:41.300But in the start of 23, and really the end of the first year, beginning of the second year, the media spin was hitting high – was in high volume on MSNBC and CNN about how there was huge momentum from coming out of Ukraine and Zelensky.
00:08:00.380And Zelensky made the – his heroic trip to Capitol Hill where he was treated like Churchill.
00:08:08.100And then all the talk was and all the buildup was for the spring offensive.
00:08:11.680But go back to a year ago about how this thing was – I mean the Ukrainian propaganda forces were in high overdrive, given where we are in a year of which we told people we would be here.
00:08:26.060And actually, I think it could turn out to be much worse.
00:08:32.220Well, look, if this is an end-of-year review, then let's do exactly what you just said a few moments ago and look at the trends and see how they played out.
00:08:40.400And my analysis of 2023, if I'm going to put it in a single sentence, if 2023 was the year that pretty much validated everything that we had speculated on in 2022.
00:08:53.040Now, end-of-year reviews, right, it requires a slight amount of humility.
00:08:57.060I didn't get every single judgment call right.
00:09:06.920Every single thing else, however, in the face of all the so-called experts, all the talking heads on mainstream media and on all the cable news, we called it, Steve, in real time on every single significant aspect of this.
00:09:21.640And one of the ways we did this, I think, was because we refused something that we obviously were 100% on, along with the war room posse, is that we don't take the manufactured and synthetic narrative from the mainstream media and assume it's true.
00:09:38.240We dissect it analytically with hypersensitivity and we take out from that, we extract from the totality of the mainstream media the data points, which can be externally verified, and we plot our own line between those data points.
00:09:54.760And that is, we do the work ourselves, the heavy lifting ourselves, the analysis ourselves.
00:09:59.340And that is why I think the war room posse and the war room, where we can be so proud of our analysis over this past year.
00:10:07.760Now, let's start right now and work our way back, because there was, as you were mentioning, an article just a few days ago in Politico, which highlighted, I mean, it was somewhat of a buried lead, but it highlighted something that we had been saying was going to take place for the preceding sort of nine to 12 months.
00:10:30.220This was the line pushed by President Biden and President Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, that the West will support Ukraine for, in quotation marks, as long as it takes.
00:10:46.320And then what happened about two or three weeks ago when President Zelensky was over on his last begging mission to D.C.?
00:10:54.220Hold on, hold on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, don't bury the lead, because we've got to get this right.
00:11:00.980However long it takes, with whatever it takes.
00:11:05.700It was both a commitment of duration and a commitment of unlimited resources.
00:11:11.020This is what, this is the lie to the Ukrainian people.
00:11:13.820The Ukrainian people were told, by the highest levels of representations of your government that you pay for, and EU, British, all of it, but particularly Biden came up with this, however long it takes, with whatever it takes.
00:11:29.700So they made a commitment, not just open-ended, which is unheard of, open-ended as far as time goes, but also about the depth of resources that we were put in.
00:11:40.460And with no conditions, I mean, this was an unconditional, unconditional full support, Ben Harnwell.
00:11:47.340Steve, well, it was a lie to the Ukrainian people, and very much an endorsement of Professor John Mishama's thesis right back at the beginning that the Americans were going to fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian.
00:12:01.760That's pretty much an endorsement of his cynical, but absolutely accurate analysis.
00:12:09.580But, Steve, it wasn't just a lie to the Ukrainian people, a disastrous, catastrophic lie to the Ukrainian people.
00:12:17.520It was a lie to the people of the United States.
00:12:19.860It was a lie to America's NATO allies or NATO satellites, whichever term you like to prefer to use.
00:12:27.720And it could have been exposed as a lie with a simple cursory reading of the United States Constitution.
00:12:35.140President Biden had zero authority to make that guarantee because, of course, it requires Congress to sign off on it.
00:12:44.100And, you know, one of the theses that I say constantly about our sociopathic overlords, the reason I say it, and I'm not joking, I'm not going to make an amusing formulation of words here.
00:12:55.480These people are sociopaths. And the reason that they're sociopaths is that there is no limit on the harm and evil and malevolence that these people will do as long as they can elbow themselves to the front of an international press conference and posture at the podium as a morally superior being.
00:13:14.080There is no limit on the harm that they will do.
00:13:17.680And if I can close, Steve, on this point with this analysis, right?
00:13:21.700And we'll talk about this as the show goes on.
00:13:24.020What is absolutely emerged, especially towards the end of 2023, is that the damage that the United States is doing to the international rules based order exceeds by many, many factors that damage that would have simply happened if Russia had been allowed to annex a disputed territory of the Donbass with zero repercussions.
00:13:49.720Now, that would have been damaging to the international rules based order, beloved of our global elites.
00:13:54.900But what they are doing, supposedly in the defense of that order, is catastrophically undermining that, that order and leaving in its place chaos.
00:14:06.540Well, hang on for one second. We'll take a short break here on our New Year's Eve special.
00:14:11.700You're in the war room. We're going to go back to Rome with our own Ben Harnouar in just a moment.
00:16:49.660For those of you that have been with us and for those of you just coming on board now.
00:16:54.100I want to make sure the whole show today is to kind of put it in perspective this year that we came from or came through in your role in it.
00:17:05.640And your role has been the dominant role.
00:17:11.020The reason that Biden is now trying to soft sell a new set of objectives and a new set of perspectives on this debacle in Ukraine and the lies on Ukraine.
00:17:25.580It's because you've stood firm and made sure you convinced the globalist neocon Republicans in the House besides the America First, which is about 100.
00:17:40.020You've convinced the others now that they will be turfed out if they continue along this debacle in Ukraine.
00:17:50.540They tried to hold our they tried to hold hostage the sovereignty of our own nation by coupling this with this border.
00:17:57.640And it was just going to be, you know, more optics, more cosmetics on the border situation to try to say, oh, we're going to get very tough on the border.
00:18:06.500If you give us a 60 or 70 billion dollars to.
00:18:12.380To Ukraine, Raheem is going to join us here in a moment in Raheem is, in fact, was.
00:18:21.820For me, he was an editor of Breitbart London, and he was there at the beginning of this color revolution in 2013 and 14.
00:18:30.580I believe he went over to Kiev itself to cover it live.
00:18:34.740I think one of the first time for five days to cover the revolution, this color revolution life.
00:18:40.180So he said we've been there since the very beginning and it's very tough to make hide nor hair of this.
00:18:46.820And the reason is you can never tell who the players are.
00:18:49.060It's all it's a wilderness of mirrors.
00:18:50.900In fact, in this, Ben, I'd be remiss and talk about where we've come this year and now this.
00:18:58.200And remember, the always remember Biden's putting a new face on this for the world is because of this audience,
00:19:06.020specifically this audience stood up when the whole world was against us, when the Republican Party was against us.
00:19:20.160We don't like the elites are involved with this.
00:19:22.960But most importantly, this is the wrong thing for the Ukrainian people, because we're going to end up in a place where the eastern border of Ukraine with the Russian speaking provinces is not going to change.
00:19:55.680They got shoveled into the charnel house here with a country that's left like, as I keep saying, if you look at Bakhmut and some of these places, there's no difference in that than Dresden in 1945.
00:20:09.660And this audience stood in the breach at the beginning, said this does not have to happen because there's other ways to sort this out.
00:20:17.860It turns out, Ben, even in the early days of war, more of this is coming out now as fingers the fingers are going to start to be pointed and history is not going to look good on guys like Zelensky and Biden and Jake Sullivan, particularly Victoria Nuland.
00:20:31.920As we've said from the beginning, when all most of the conservative commentariat was sitting there calling Zelensky, they were fanboying for Zelensky worse than a fanboy for Elon Musk.
00:20:42.960I mean, it was sickening certain commentators whose names I will not mention putting Instagram pictures up or tweeting out pictures of Zelensky going.
00:20:56.920And we told people at the time that this guy was a not a good guy and was only looking after himself.
00:21:04.640But it turns out that the British, particularly the United States were bad, but it turns out the British and Boris Johnson.
00:21:13.060So the question were hands on of of not letting the Ukrainians even come to some sort of negotiate deal in the very early days of this.
00:21:20.380What is the obsession with the Victoria Nulands of the world and the Boris Johnson's the world and that click with Ukraine?
00:21:29.980There's something that the average person in this one I consider myself an average person can't understand why this whole thing's been about Ukraine and particularly shoveling money into Ukraine.
00:21:43.340That when President Trump even had a perfect phone call and brought up the fact of corruption and have to get the bottom of it, he's immediately when I say immediately within 60 days impeached.
00:21:55.900The highest thing you can do to an American president, Ben Harnwell.
00:21:58.940Steve, well, really, this just illustrates the existential danger that Donald Trump confronted the corrupt US military industrial complex with.
00:22:12.860And it was an existential threat to them, and that's why they wasted two basically legislative years with impeachment inquiries on Donald Trump, because they could not afford to let his program go forward.
00:22:31.540And the reason that Donald Trump was an existential threat to these people was that his mandate, and I don't know, probably I don't know enough about American history in the first century of the republic.
00:22:45.620Perhaps Andrew Jackson would be a parallel who went on the mandate of abolishing the precursor to what is today the Federal Reserve, and he did abolish it.
00:22:55.960But both Trump and Jackson had popular mandates with the people.
00:23:01.040They weren't just basically like Joe Biden's boogies term that they'd done.
00:23:21.720Donald Trump had never even fought a political election campaign.
00:23:24.900His mandate to drain the swamp and to build the war, I do not know in the 20th century any political leader to be elected as head of state with a mandate so pure and so convincing,
00:23:42.200given from the people that sort of transcended the political party that that candidate was standing for.
00:23:50.160And it was a direct relationship to the people, to their representative.
00:23:55.400That's why they hated him so much, because he wasn't controlled opposition, as we're used to seeing for decades now, sort of on the table tennis ball that goes between flips between the blue team and the red time.
00:24:08.260He was a guy with his own mandate enabled by the people themselves to do something.
00:24:14.180And that's why the Robert Kagan's and the Victoria Newlands, the whole of the mainstream media, which we support and paid for, right?
00:24:22.280This is the reason all of Congress, all of the Senate, this is why the reason that they are, that they display what we call Trump derangement syndrome.
00:24:32.160It's not really, they're not really deranged.
00:24:33.900They're acting in there like rats leaving a sinking ship.
00:24:36.380They were acting purely, and still are to this day, in their vested, corrupt, vested interests.
00:24:43.480And you only need to look, right, just I'll close with this observation.
00:24:46.860Just look at this fact that the paladins, when it comes to Ukraine, the sort of the paladins of democracy,
00:24:54.780will support a guy who suppressed his political opposition in Ukraine,
00:24:59.660and will then in Colorado remove a person from, or try to remove a person from the ballot paper
00:25:06.260to specifically deprive the people from exercising their democratic derogative.
00:25:12.000That just shows you that these, just how far gone these people are.
00:25:16.500They must be opposed, they will be opposed, and they will fundamentally lose in the long run, Steve.
00:25:20.700What, in this year, as it went through, too, because we had the, give me a minute on the spring offensive,
00:25:32.440because that was the big sale job of, and they were coming off, they thought they had the wind to their back
00:25:59.140This is not something that's done over the night.
00:26:00.500The United States Army ain't that great at it.
00:26:04.140And we've been doing it for decades and decades and decades, and kind of learned it from the British.
00:26:09.120Walk me through that, that fiasco, and just the bald-faced absolute lies that were told in this entire time.
00:26:15.000Well, Steve, if you want to pick out one event from the last two years in Ukraine that exemplifies exactly what the corrupt ruling elites have done,
00:26:41.140To bill for the American taxpayer for money.
00:26:44.820Because you've got to remember, a lot of the funding that the United States gave to Zelensky and his regime of crooks for this counter-offensive,
00:27:08.900It was a pretext to beat the American taxpaying public over their head with lies so that the American elites could put their hands in the back pocket
00:27:19.760of the American taxpayers with minimum resistance.
00:30:32.260The two biggest stories of this year and things that drove, one, your efforts to get this Congress straight, but it was really tied to this out-of-control spending.
00:30:45.300The out-of-control spending is inextricably linked with this concept of an American empire, that we have to be everywhere.
00:30:54.320We have to have a trillion-dollar defense budget.
00:30:56.120We are the guardians of this, quote-unquote, post-war international rules-based order, which has really done nothing but strip jobs from working-class people in the United States, suppress your wages, worsen your economic well-being at the benefit of the elites of the world that have profited off of this.
00:31:18.220Both these stories go back to really 2013, 2014, the migration issue starting in Europe with the Syrian civil war and then Merkel allowing in, I don't know, a couple of million, million-and-a-half Syrian, quote-unquote, refugees, where Orban and others stood their ground.
00:31:35.620In addition, the beginning of the Ukraine color revolution driven by the United States, Victoria Nuland, the people of the State Department.
00:31:46.140And here we are today getting ready to close the books on 23 and going to 24, and you see that these are two of the biggest stories of today, 10 years later, with only one big development in between.
00:32:01.760And what was that? The rise of Nigel Farage and the kind of populist nationalist right in the United Kingdom that led to them, Brexit, and taking their country back and their sovereignty, which was the predicate for the great come-from-behind, out-of-nowhere victory of President Trump and the beginning and rise of the MAGA movement.
00:32:23.200So we're going to tie it all together with people that were there. That would be Stephen K. Bannon, Ben Harnwell, and Rahim Kassam.
00:32:29.700Rahim, I want to go back to those days, particularly the way this year started, because this year started, and this is why it's been such a big reversal of fortune.
00:32:38.400And if you watch this show every day, maybe sometimes you don't get it, because we've been so adamant about both of these, about what a worm Zelensky was, untrustworthy guy, and a puppet for the West, and all these things were lies.
00:32:52.140You could see through it pretty easily if you focused. And the demise of Donald Trump or the rise of Ron DeSantis.
00:32:59.000At the beginning of the year, Zelensky's capital was as high as – he was nearing his high watermark, and so was Ron DeSantis.
00:33:09.280Ron DeSantis, people forget, was up, I don't know, 20 points on President Trump.
00:33:14.100And if President Trump had not announced immediately after the midterm election, it would have been much worse.
00:33:25.460Yeah, I think that's right. I think it was the timing that was critical to a lot of it.
00:33:31.140And I think it was this audience, by the way, that was critical to a lot of it, if not all of it, quite frankly, because at the beginning of the year, in January especially, I mean, you know, the national polls, we issued our endorsement the day after President Trump made his announcement, right?
00:33:47.600But for most people, not really plugged into what was going on.
00:33:51.540Hold it. Hang on. I just want everybody to remember, that was on 15 November, right after the midterm elections.
00:33:58.620You were down there. You were one of the few. I mean, we covered it.
00:34:02.640We had a whole crew down there of Moe, and I think Grace went, and I think we had Nicole Grady there, and Natalie Winters, Jane Zirkle.
00:34:12.600We fully had a full deployment. We covered it live here in the war room.
00:34:16.700You were there. I think it was you and Seb and Matt Boyle and a couple of others, but you could – even hardcore MAGA, there was a lot that were not there.
00:34:28.240DeSantis has just come off that big midterm victory, up 30 points, I think, or 20 points in Florida, and so many – and people remember, so many of the people – a couple of three of the people who used to be on this show just jumped right onto it.
00:34:40.800DeSantis is the guy. So, I mean, Trump's lowest point, even – almost as bad as January and February of 2021 when he first got to Mar-a-Lago, maybe March was right after that midterm when he announced, boldly announced, set it in motion.
00:34:56.840But by January, he's still 20 points down, correct?
00:35:00.460Yeah, and if you don't mind, by the way, I will say that all of these sort of – the former Hispanic hard men that used to come on this show and gibber to the audience about whatever they want, they caved immediately, right?
00:35:15.580And I don't even need to mention names, but they caved immediately.
00:35:18.200And by the way, now, look, it's the end of the year.
00:35:22.420They're all trying to make their way back in somehow.
00:35:24.280But, you know, the people who turned up on November the 15th, you know, we are the people who were there in 2015, right, before everything, before all of the hangers-on, all the clingers-on.
00:35:37.000You know, we always use the phrase, especially to talk about people like Nigel Farage, Trump before Trump, right?
00:35:44.820And a lot of people do this for a very long time.
00:35:47.680And Geert Wilders is another one that I can think of that's been there and doing this and putting each other to the will and not wavering, right, and not trying to find some compromise with the political establishment to say, okay, well, we'll choose a less controversial version of that.
00:36:04.660And that's what a lot of people thought they were getting out of Ron DeSantis.
00:36:08.500I saw very early on, if the audience wants to know why, because I talked to a lot of those people.
00:36:14.600I talked to the pushaws and the tear mans and, like, all of those people of the world who ended up defecting.
00:36:22.160And I looked at it and I said, you guys don't know what you're doing.
00:36:25.720You don't know how to run a national campaign.
00:36:29.640You don't know any of – you don't have a base.
00:36:32.360And, frankly, a lot of these people are wildly dislikable people.
00:36:36.500The Jeff Rose of the world, all of these people in the DeSantis milieu ended up being people who just couldn't appeal to people at a very human level.
00:36:50.520So that's why you saw as the year went on and they led up to that launch amidst their donors in the basement in that hotel in Miami.
00:37:01.200And then they did the glitchy launch on Twitter.com as it was back then.
00:37:07.020And then, of course, we were told, oh, well, you know, maybe that didn't go very well.
00:37:10.160But wait until he gets on that debate stage.
00:37:49.520It's all to get the political class to part with more American taxpayer cash, to send it overseas, to cover up for the things that they're covering up for in Ukraine.
00:37:57.440It's not a coincidence that Ukraine was what President Trump was first impeached over.
00:38:04.180And it's not a coincidence that they also lied about this spring offensive that never came to pass.
00:38:10.480And then the third thing I think that, you know, this audience really put their shoulder to the wheel on is Kevin McCarthy and getting him out of there.
00:38:35.720When he came out and he took the – I think on Tucker, he took the kind of America first war room Tucker party line, national pulse party line.
00:38:47.020This thing, regional dispute, it's the national security interest of the United States, the vital national security is the southern border, not the eastern-speaking Russian border.
00:38:57.500He had that down from his staff, clearly had been watching these shows.
00:39:28.660And Putin would have never done this in a million years as I was there.
00:39:31.900DeSantis came in to actually be to the right of Trump to a degree and then caved immediately.
00:39:37.860Why would Ron DeSantis, having prepped his whole life for this, thought about it, held his military credentials out as a big deal, that he really understood geopolitics, why would he come out, take our party line, and then fold like a cheap suit within 24 hours, sir?
00:40:23.760And it just so happens to be at the time, at this time, they're giving money to a Republican, right?
00:40:30.580But just like Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood, these globalist donor classes are still the globalist donor class.
00:40:37.600And we shouldn't refer to them as Republican donors.
00:40:39.760These are not people who believe in the same things as Republicans all across this country do.
00:40:43.220These are not people who believe in closed borders.
00:40:46.440These are not people who believe in, by the way, higher tax rates for the billionaire class, the multi-billionaire class that is getting away with all the globalist policies everywhere.
00:40:55.940No, I mean, this is a globalist racket we're talking about here.
00:40:58.920And DeSantis, like you say, caved to them immediately, caved to them immediately over an issue which he was clearly told, hey, if you can't get right with this, then you ain't right with us, and we will do everything to stop you getting its nominations.
00:42:49.900Ben Harnwell in Rome, Raheem Kassam, both of them there at the beginning of all this, reviewing 2023, a historic year, the ascendance of MAGA as a political force.
00:43:52.520Remember, we're ending a year of turbulence and heading into a year of even greater turbulence.
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00:44:06.040Not that it's something we should not think through, but it's also something that you just can't get off of immediately or you will have a collapse of your system.
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00:44:53.100In closing out this hour, I've got to go back to something because this is going to inform us in reviewing the rest of the year,
00:45:00.500particularly about McCarthy and about what this audience did and about the invasion on the southern border.
00:45:06.080I'll start with you, Rahim, and I'll go to Ben.
00:45:08.220Again, it wasn't like he said, I'm going to raise the taxes of the billionaires or, you know,
00:45:14.360I want to do something tougher on the border or end asylum, something.
00:45:18.300This about Ukraine, the stand he took, which was really not as hard as us.
00:45:25.680So it was but it was in the sweet spot of America first.
00:45:30.080They came down on DeSantis like a ton of bricks and like a little boy.
00:45:35.600He reversed in a very sloppy and unsophisticated manner immediately.
00:45:40.080So exposed to the entire world that he was nothing more than a neocon if you scratch the surface and didn't believe anything.
00:45:46.220So then how could you believe anything this guy said when something so important about the as the Ukraine war at the beginning of the year?
00:45:53.680He thought, why is it that the globalist donor class elite will not allow any heresy whatsoever in thinking about something like the Ukraine, sir?
00:46:03.460Yeah, well, I don't mean to sound like a contrarian on this, and maybe you're just teeing me up here.
00:46:10.060But I completely disagree with the framing of the question again, that he absolutely was at that point in time talking about something worse than raising the taxes.
00:46:20.420It is a tax raise as far as they're concerned, right?
00:46:32.600And, of course, the ultimate tax rise is a tax on their philosophy.
00:46:36.320The tax on their philosophy, by not backing something like that, is a tax on globalism.
00:46:40.860It's a tax on the rules-based global order that they have been beneficiaries of and even helped to set up, have familial lineage in that going back decades to set up.
00:46:52.500So for them, it's worse than two or three pennies on the dollar in terms of a tax rise.
00:47:03.480And I think that's the way people need to look at it.
00:47:06.320You know, this isn't a minor issue to these people.
00:47:09.840Just like Iraq and Afghanistan were places there so many people made their fortunes into bigger fortunes.
00:47:16.760They have been invested in Ukraine in the very same way.
00:47:19.540And mark my words, once this coming year, Ukraine is left by the wayside, they will turn their attention somewhere else on foreign soil to try and grift off destruction, disease, catastrophe, killing, you name it.
00:48:21.740But compared to someone whose instincts may be right, though, not on the point that Raheem was mentioning, I'm not going to argue with that because he's absolutely right.
00:48:30.100But on the general point, you cannot at this point in an existential crisis that the United States now is put someone who is weak at the top of the apex.
00:49:20.280And I'm not peddling envy here about the rich because their gains are not a consequence of satisfying consumers in the free market.
00:49:29.500Their gains, as Raheem was saying, are due to the fact that these people have gamed the system for their own advantage to the extent that the ordinary, regular, working guy can never move ahead.
00:49:46.460Right. That's why we have seen this phenomenon, right, that people with hundreds of millions of dollars have become billionaires at one end of the spectrum and at the other end of the spectrum, people are working two and even more jobs and still not able to make it to the end of the month.
00:50:02.560That is not a consequence of free market capitalism is a consequence that the system is not only corrupt, but corrupting.
00:50:11.920And to repeat the point I mentioned earlier, this is why Donald Trump represented in 2016 an existential threat to their interests, because they are doing this.
00:50:22.720The elites are doing this in the face of the American people with literally zero percent of popular support.
00:50:30.420The only way they can get away with that is by making sure whoever is the leader of the red team or the blue team, that they're pulling the puppet strings.
00:50:40.260And obviously, Ron DeSantis was told the nature of the game and he crumbled.
00:50:47.200Hang on one second. We're going to take a short commercial break back with Raheem, Ben Harnwell.
00:50:55.580We're also going to go to southern Mexico to talk about the invasion of your beloved country.
00:51:00.760We even track down Dave Brad if we can. All of it here on the New Year's Eve special in the war room.
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