Bannon's War Room - March 20, 2024


WarRoom Battleground EP 497: The Mental Rot Of Social Media


Episode Stats

Length

54 minutes

Words per Minute

172.02348

Word Count

9,311

Sentence Count

27

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary

In this episode, Stephen K.Bannon and Dave Bratt discuss the economic growth slowdown in the past 70 years, and why it's time to wake up to the reality that economic growth has been going down for decades, and what it means for the future of America.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 this is what you're fighting for I mean every day you're out there what they're doing is blowing
00:00:11.440 people off if you continue to look the other way and shut up then the oppressors the
00:00:18.420 authoritarians get total control and total power because this is just like in Arizona this is just
00:00:24.360 like in Georgia it's another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies and
00:00:29.080 misrepresentations is why this audience is going to have to get engaged as we've told you this is the
00:00:33.520 fight all this nonsense all this spin they can't handle the truth war room battleground here's your
00:00:40.540 host Stephen K Bannon okay welcome it's Wednesday 20 March year of earlier 2024 I want to thank
00:00:48.240 Dave Bratt for being here both in the morning in the evening show Dave here's why I needed to
00:00:53.400 bifurcate this because we had such a jam show this morning the underlying issue in this election
00:01:00.500 right now with everything else going on is the economy and particularly the future of the economy
00:01:05.040 and when we talk about the three converting factors the invasion on the southern border
00:01:09.580 which is adding tremendous costs to our social welfare system plus destroying our education system
00:01:15.600 the health care and crushing wages for working class Hispanics to African Americans as we had on
00:01:21.420 the show this morning number two is the soon-to-be 50 trillion dollars in debt and now that's embedded
00:01:26.880 so even the talk about interest rates that happened today with the Federal Reserve is really it's important
00:01:34.120 as it always is but you've got this embedded massive debt that you got to re that you have to refinance a
00:01:39.520 third of it every year the third is the geopolitical crisis these the beginning of the third world war
00:01:45.340 on the Eurasian landmass that every day sucks us in and and has things like supplementals for 60 billion dollars
00:01:50.800 to Ukraine and the operating tempo of the uh of the carrier battle groups in the Red Sea and what's
00:01:56.120 happening in the South China Sea it just adds more and more to defense costs all those combined
00:02:01.140 add in and but here's the central thing as you've picked it with all the happy talk going on it's the
00:02:05.880 greatest economy ever and stock markets up the underpinnings of the American industrial economy
00:02:11.740 has always been productivity that's how you can see what's happening and you've done an amazing job
00:02:17.060 just to put aside the the the cont and the and the spin and the hype and get down to some very
00:02:22.900 just basic numbers so I want to take your time yeah this is why I love the six o'clock hour gives me
00:02:27.560 more time to explore it so it's the floor is yours you just take it and we'll just roll through the
00:02:33.460 charts as you want to see but I want to give a preamble you should give a preamble about productivity
00:02:37.400 and why that is so important as a guide to could we be going into more lost decades for America
00:02:43.700 yeah well let's uh you just laid it out uh very well the Oxford Don I expect uh no less so perfect
00:02:52.680 intro and uh economic growth uh really is the same as productivity you'll see on the graphs coming up
00:02:59.180 those lines are the same for the past 70 years so when you talk about economic growth that is
00:03:04.840 productivity because productivity the definition is just how much stuff do you make per hour right
00:03:10.360 so it used to be able to picture easy to picture this stuff you know how many automobile parts could
00:03:14.240 you make per hour how many widgets could you make per hour that's productivity and productivity has
00:03:19.640 been going down for the past 70 years and so uh economic growth can be basically uh broken down into
00:03:26.960 three chunks uh manufacturing and capital investment is number one and then human capital and education
00:03:34.560 is number two and then technological growth is number three and so you just got done saying
00:03:41.140 manufacturing we're putting less capital in the hands of the American worker now manufacturing is
00:03:46.980 declining capital investment is declining and as a result that part of productivity is in a shambles
00:03:55.040 right now on top of that human capital education we have huge illiteracy problems now in k-12 education
00:04:02.280 our education system used to be just stunningly excellent in a cross-country comparison now it is
00:04:08.800 not the envy of the world anymore and then finally technological growth uh that has always been kind of
00:04:14.960 the residual piece it's very hard to measure uh but right now you're going to find uh in in what i'm
00:04:20.220 about ready to present that part is problematic but because technological growth is now tied to huge
00:04:25.500 problems uh with the distribution of income all right that the dissemination of technology is not
00:04:32.440 even making its way down through the top firms the magnificent seven uh have captured technology
00:04:39.260 monopolies uh etc and so there's the basic overview right the economic growth is made up of those three
00:04:46.240 pieces all three pieces are problematic right now and then as i said on the earlier show uh this is the one
00:04:53.980 you cannot escape and that's why the numbers are going down down down uh the left has been faking
00:04:59.540 us out right we have a border invasion uh they focus on the cheap labor the tyson plant is the perfect
00:05:05.860 uh example of that uh they're going to import refugees and and cloak it in hey we're doing good deeds
00:05:12.140 well what are the people left behind going to do that you just displaced what are they going to do
00:05:17.180 go on you know you got just massive psychological problems family problems that come to bear on
00:05:23.500 on american workers uh and then you get welfare problems and addiction and and unvirtuous cycles uh for
00:05:32.020 the american people and so the left has been able to cloak a lot of this stuff right the the runaway
00:05:37.580 government spending the green deals the border invasion the endless wars the debt just goes up up up
00:05:44.780 and as i said this morning the tea party friends the mega friends all say dave when does this end well
00:05:52.300 it it the way it shows up is in productivity so let's just get to the charts of uh if denver wants
00:05:57.900 to put up the first one these will be pretty quick i put this one up probably 20 or 30 times uh
00:06:03.900 on this on this program because it's so fundamental and so there what you're looking at there is
00:06:08.860 productivity over the last 70 years so the main point is we used to have way back in 1948 on
00:06:14.700 the far left of that chart labor productivity uh and then real hourly compensation as i said these
00:06:21.420 are the same things so what you're looking at is your lived experience uh you're not imagining that
00:06:27.180 things are getting worse uh your average hourly is going down down down just yeah sure how people would
00:06:36.220 say people would say how in the 1940s or pre-1940s could that be a case because productivity is a
00:06:41.980 function of how smart and hard-working your labor force is right it coupled with the technology and
00:06:48.700 technological and process process development so how could you go back almost 100 years or 80 years
00:06:56.140 and have it more aren't we a more a better educated society we have more access to information the
00:07:01.180 internet's giving you access to all the information known to mankind in its history uh product technology
00:07:07.020 every day i'm hearing about a technology improvement so if though if that's the formula if those are the
00:07:12.540 inputs to get to the output yeah how can we look at a time that most people would say is fairly
00:07:17.820 rudimentary as far as far as all that and that be more productive sir yeah well as you stated at the
00:07:25.260 intro and and i wish we had brother navarro with because this is his bailiwick uh but the raw thing on
00:07:31.340 manufacturing we all know we gave up the manufacturing base and sent all of those jobs
00:07:36.700 over to china and the rest of the world now that decimated manufacture those were the high paying
00:07:42.300 jobs manufacturing henry ford you go back to that history right productivity went through the roof with
00:07:47.500 the assembly line uh people were rich the white picket fences and all this kind of thing and then the
00:07:52.860 human capital right now the the consultants would tell you that even even at the college level parents
00:07:58.540 and kids don't put education in the top 10 reasons they want to go to college right they
00:08:04.620 want a good football program a good meal court good curb appeal good reputation so you can get a job
00:08:10.140 and education it as you see at harvard and then just the the scandals taking place in higher ed
00:08:16.060 right now intellectually is just a disaster people have not stuck to the jobs that lead to productivity
00:08:22.540 everybody's doing gender studies and all this radical marxist stuff for real and it shows up
00:08:27.740 in the data the test scores the nape international test scores are just flat as a pancake with all
00:08:33.580 this increases in spending and then finally that that third piece technological growth has not
00:08:38.700 disseminated down uh through the people right we we thought we're gonna have a dot-com bubble in 2000
00:08:44.620 2005 we had a little productivity pop right there uh but it wasn't permanent and it's way down so now the
00:08:50.540 kids are surfing the web doing social media uh china on tick tock the number one uh profession their kids
00:08:57.740 uh want to take part in uh according to the chinese data they want to be astronauts when when
00:09:02.940 when the tick tock version for the u.s comes over uh it's not restricted to any age group it doesn't
00:09:08.300 talk anything about science and technology it's all social media and cultural rot uh and our kids the
00:09:14.620 number one response uh that they want to be is a social influencer and so that that tells you the
00:09:20.460 productivity uh kind of answer in a nutshell right there the chinese kids want to be astronauts and our kids
00:09:26.620 want to be social influencers and so uh we can go to the next uh chart denver uh the first chart shows
00:09:33.660 the last 70 years this next chart i've also put up several times on the war room uh and it shows that
00:09:40.300 the next 30 years productivity will be roughly 1.5 percent right under two percent for the next 10
00:09:48.140 uh and then one and a half percent for the next 30 years and so uh if if you look at that 70 year
00:09:55.740 graph progression you don't need to put it up denver uh but we ended up kind of down at two percent
00:10:00.620 range one and a half percent a cbo is telling us and so you got to say scratch what do they know that
00:10:06.780 we don't know why is productivity going to be stuck at one and a half percent because of all the
00:10:12.460 fundamentals we just got done listing we're not putting capital in the hands of the american worker
00:10:19.020 to enrich them uh we're sending everything abroad and making it cheap and then hiring uh you know
00:10:25.340 foreign-born workers who took up all the new jobs for the past several years in the in the recent labor
00:10:31.100 reports uh to take jobs from the american people and so cbo has uh that long-run forecast based on the
00:10:39.420 fundamentals and then the next chart is the doozy denver if you want to put up the the next one uh
00:10:45.500 is a multi-color chart and uh this one uh requires a little explanation so what this is put together
00:10:54.620 and this caused quite a stir by robert gordon the leading uh productivity economist in the world who's
00:11:00.620 been doing this work for you know 40 years and he's regarded as one of the 50 most influential people
00:11:07.180 in the world by bloomberg right so this is not a fluff piece from right-wing politics this is a
00:11:14.140 substantive research agenda that's been going on he starts off with the kind of what he calls an
00:11:19.340 optimistic vision of just assuming two percent productivity growth then he begins this modern
00:11:26.940 project what we've just been talking about stripping out uh and this is for the bottom 99 of the people so
00:11:34.140 what we're talking about will affect you this is for the everyone except for the one percent super
00:11:38.620 wealthy they're going to reap all the rewards from the technological piece uh so here's what's coming
00:11:44.300 at you so we start off at two percent uh then you strip out uh for starters the baby boomer demographic
00:11:52.300 piece that takes you down uh to one point six percent then you strip out the educational decline that
00:11:58.540 gets you down to one point four percent then you strip out the inequality piece we've been talking
00:12:04.300 about which has negative economic effects that brings you down to one point four percent then you throw
00:12:10.460 in more globalization more loss of manufacturing jobs that brings you down to zero point seven then
00:12:17.500 you bring in david walsh and the higher energy taxes and losing our energy dominance across all sectors
00:12:24.300 and that brings you down to zero point five percent productivity growth and then finally you throw in
00:12:29.740 the consumer debt payments that you've been reporting on the war room where the kids have a 20 percent
00:12:35.260 interest rate and you have huge defaults now on credit and firms are having credit problems so all of
00:12:42.700 that together he he calls these the major headwinds facing us and by the way he did not include artificial
00:12:51.820 intelligence in here which would even blow a wider hole in the income distribution figures and he did
00:12:58.860 not include the endless wars uh which would bring productivity down to uh to zero or negative so you
00:13:06.700 throw in all those headwinds you start at two percent productivity and he says it's plausible that
00:13:12.700 productivity and long-run economic growth could end up at zero point two percent uh by the recognized
00:13:20.220 leader of the field in productivity uh some of the uh modern uh economist krugman paul krugman says
00:13:27.180 you know i my gut just tells me it's wrong right no numbers from krugman nothing because this is
00:13:33.180 devastating to the leftist agenda uh and you know this is not a political remark this is an economic
00:13:39.980 remark but this is the managed decline this is the chaos this is the manifestation of the spiritual war
00:13:48.620 we talked about on this morning's show if the left used to be characterized by liberals i liked
00:13:54.860 having lunch with liberals they were fun you could at least argue about the data they were usually
00:13:59.020 wrong they're optimistic they're well-intentioned uh and they they decimated education etc but they did
00:14:05.260 they did care about the kids who on the left right the magnificent seven ceos who's mentioned the kids
00:14:13.180 in the new york city schools the boston schools the chicago schools the san francisco public school
00:14:18.780 system where is any attention to the productivity of those kids uh and and their future uh well-being
00:14:25.820 it's nowhere to be found and so the last chart uh just kind of summarizes uh what's been going on
00:14:32.700 according to uh this uh the the the leading northwestern uh economist robert gordon and this thing is
00:14:42.140 broken at the width of those uh blocks you're looking at the the green and the red uh are very
00:14:48.140 wide at the bottom because they took place from 1890 to 1972 so that's 80 years of high productivity
00:14:56.940 growth uh in the green and then high economic growth in the red which as we've been saying uh the whole
00:15:04.140 time those are roughly identical when you talk about productivity uh you're talking about economic growth
00:15:10.300 and then you see a little blip uh we're losing uh hours worked in in the labor force uh then you get
00:15:16.460 the 1972 to 1996 so there's about a 15 year period uh and you see uh productivity going down uh gdp growth
00:15:26.780 is still okay and labor force hours went up but now we're moving toward the modern period 96 to 2004 right
00:15:34.700 so eight year period there's your dot-com bubble uh with some technological breakthroughs with a cell
00:15:39.980 phone some of it uh made its way into the workforce made us more efficient uh and so you see a nice
00:15:46.220 spike in productivity there and a nice spike in economic growth uh but a decline in workforce hours
00:15:52.940 now the next uh piece which is smaller from 2004 to 2013 uh where this paper ended is really the same as
00:16:00.940 it would be going all the way up till today so here's what you're looking at today right you're
00:16:07.180 seeing productivity down at 1.3 you're seeing economic growth down at 0.76 less than one percent and you're
00:16:16.460 seeing a loss in work worker hours as well and so that's the trajectory we're on i wish i had i i don't
00:16:25.420 like coming on and giving this news but it's a wake-up call uh because the policies on the war
00:16:31.900 room are are all correct uh but we need you out there to spread the word on why they're correct
00:16:38.540 when you see that we've lost jobs to china all of our manufacturing not all but a huge proportions
00:16:45.180 of manufacturing and it hurts the american people then we need a new china policy uh when you see k-12
00:16:51.420 education being decimated uh it's clear we need new education policy and we need to privatize it
00:16:56.860 and give the money back to the parents uh who will do the right things by their kids the only thing
00:17:01.580 that's gone up with all the uh spending right la los angeles spending on education right now is
00:17:07.020 fifty thousand dollars per student in in los angeles according to heather mcdonald at the manhattan
00:17:13.500 institute and so with fifty thousand dollars that's an ivy league education and the kids uh thirty forty
00:17:19.500 percent are illiterate the only thing that's going up is paid bureaucrats who are enforcing
00:17:24.700 leftist ideologies they're not teaching uh johnny and mary reading writing and arithmetic anymore
00:17:30.940 and then technological growth ai artificial intelligence uh steve covers it all the time on
00:17:36.060 the show uh it it's uh it's a scary uh piece uh it's gonna take place right the rest of the world's
00:17:42.940 gonna engage in it even if we try to uh do the right thing uh and that will have uh huge implications
00:17:49.820 for even greater divides in the income distribution so the new yorks and the chicagos and the san frans
00:17:56.380 uh the people that uh burquam interviewed on today's show they'll be screaming uh louder hey this is not a
00:18:02.540 fair deal and so uh in the end okay this is an ethical issue not just economics i've it is i've
00:18:11.340 got a and i just need to hold it for a few more minutes but i gotta i got another bombshell to drop
00:18:15.820 here if i've done the math correctly and this is for our audience we're trying to remember we're trying
00:18:20.860 to get people as smart as possible about the the really the most significant issues of the day and not
00:18:25.660 just throughout talking points it's gordon himself that recalculates this and thinks it could be zero two
00:18:31.900 percent productivity correct i just want to make sure i've got the right author of that number
00:18:35.740 yep yeah and he's he's the he's the expert everybody turns to correct both liberals and
00:18:42.940 right wingers he's looked at because okay in his project when does he view that we will get to a 0.2
00:18:51.500 productivity because this year the way we're going we're going to be about one
00:18:55.980 to one and a quarter productivity i think or one to one and a half just in
00:18:59.740 than this calendar fiscal year right 2024 yeah so when in his work when does he get to when does he
00:19:05.980 get to potentially we get to 0.2 yeah he's uh he ends that paper in 13 but he has that 0.2
00:19:17.420 as the productivity growth that will likely go out to 2032 and beyond perhaps out 30 years and so he's
00:19:25.820 just saying based on the trend lines right and the trend lines i showed you are not in dispute right
00:19:31.340 it's been going steadily downhill for 70 years and then cbo confirms those trend lines going down for
00:19:37.660 the next 30 years and then he confirms it and says if you throw in all the headwinds and you take out
00:19:44.140 the top one percent and all the gains that go to them we're left with 0.2 yes yeah 0.2 okay which route
00:19:51.180 okay i just want to so and people should know cbo means congressional budget office once a year they
00:19:56.300 do a that's right they do a big analysis and and for it and people should understand that in their
00:20:01.420 current and this is why i want to get back to the macro models to to make a point here when cbo just
00:20:08.860 did their big analysis and and going forward of which you know they're projecting trillion to
00:20:16.780 train and have to two trillion deficits every year they're the guys saying the 50 trains on the
00:20:21.340 horizon probably going to hit us forward so they're and they're a little bit like although they're
00:20:25.020 center-left they're a little bit like caesar's wife on on on the hill yeah right um when when they
00:20:30.780 when they when they when they did that when they did as we exposed um and broke the story they have
00:20:37.980 actually embedded 10 million illegal alien invaders as part of the workforce they they actually say
00:20:46.300 that this is how you know this is how and that wasn't you didn't get to that until you played 20
00:20:51.020 questions i was watching a c-span where they did a presentation it's not the congressman's the
00:20:55.580 congressional staffers and finally goes yeah well you know we do have 10 million you know immigrants you
00:21:02.140 know new new arrivals that's driving costs down my point to you is that yeah as horrific
00:21:07.820 as all these numbers are as horrific as all these numbers are there's two big games going number
00:21:13.260 one if we do get and i believe you're right with the trend of the 0.2 percent productivity
00:21:20.220 the crash comes faster and it comes harder because right now when people are talking about
00:21:25.100 models we're talking about 53 and as bad as that seems that's on a set of that's on a set of
00:21:31.340 assumptions that are rosy in comparison to what reality is going to be and every day we're getting
00:21:38.060 more reality the reason you saw the african americans that uh that are and they're the ones
00:21:43.180 pitching the great replacement theory i asked on this morning show that's not a steve bannon or
00:21:47.660 tucker carlson this is these folks saying hey they're replacing us right when it gets to 0.2 percent
00:21:54.300 the explosion on debt the uh the need of a social safety net for more people because they're not
00:22:00.140 going to be there's not going to be this type of jobs around you're you are this is not no longer a
00:22:05.420 ticking time bomb this is a something that's up in your face that's going to happen now and here's
00:22:12.940 what's different we have been talking about lost decades like the japanese 30 years three lost decades in a
00:22:19.260 row because of asset inflation and bringing that down the the whole thing with rogoff and and debt
00:22:26.060 being over 100 of gdp uh all of these warning signs this is the most serious because this shows
00:22:33.020 you you could have a weimar republic type collapse that literally if you go down this path and continue
00:22:38.620 down this path and and the big shots on and when i talk to the guys on wall street the guy's supposed
00:22:43.900 to be the tough thinking guys i get 75 of those give me the happy talk of well artificial intelligence
00:22:50.380 is going to bail us out technological advancements are going to come and bail us out i go well hang
00:22:54.460 on i said not only is that not going to bail us out that's going to exacerbate the problems for big
00:22:59.660 sectors of the economy one is going to be the coders because i think the coders the mid-range which
00:23:05.660 are 80 of the people you know just learn to code they're the first guys are going to get wiped out
00:23:10.540 because artificial intelligence is going to do that you know they won't do the mozart yeah i'm a
00:23:15.100 you know they won't do the mozart genius type coding but everything else day bratt we got a couple of
00:23:18.860 minutes this has been brilliant uh it's been sobering uh give me your closing thoughts on this
00:23:26.700 yeah well you just said uh robert gordon also weighs in he he's not as optimistic on the productivity
00:23:34.060 gains from artificial intelligence and you know he quotes other nobel laureates they say i see productivity
00:23:40.060 everywhere except i don't see it in the data so you know the cheerleaders on wall street they're
00:23:45.660 always in you know they're pushing up this bull market it's all going to crash we all know it's
00:23:50.540 going to crash and it's just a matter of when right when does the fed stop printing money when does the
00:23:56.700 government quit doing massive deficit spending when does the bond market call in the chips here
00:24:03.340 when does the rest of the world call in the chips and as you said this does not include the
00:24:08.540 implications of having a trillion dollars in interest on the debt right now and potential
00:24:13.820 wars right we we haven't included what happens uh if the ukraine russia thing uh escalates somewhat
00:24:20.860 what if taiwan becomes an issue what if the red sea becomes an issue and it closes down uh world trade
00:24:26.140 somewhat uh those are those are supply side shocks uh that aren't covered here and it's it's also hard
00:24:33.500 to cover productivity right you hear well we're going to use all this cheap labor coming in but
00:24:38.700 economics is about the full cost what you can't see and what you can't see is the decimation you're
00:24:44.460 doing and the social costs are going to spill over onto the hospitals yes uh the drug units the the
00:24:50.140 psychological care needed that those are costs to your economy that are buried uh and and are hard to
00:24:56.940 measure and that's what the the economists will not cover because they don't want to root the uh they
00:25:01.820 they don't want to ruin the bull market dave uh what social media where do people go to get these
00:25:07.580 charts you're going to put them up after the show so where do people go yep yep brat economics on getter
00:25:13.420 brat b-r-a-t economics on getter i'm out giving talks around the country uh i got an email address
00:25:19.340 there if you want to look me up and uh tell me what city you're in and of course bring the uh young
00:25:24.540 scholars to liberty university uh we'd love to have a visit with them and you as well god bless uh thanks steve
00:25:29.900 dave's going to be in and out of dc this week maybe we're getting more back over the war room
00:25:34.700 day brat thank you honored to have you on here great as usual the spiritual and the economic
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00:31:37.820 all this nonsense all this spin they can't handle the truth war room battleground with stephen k bannon
00:31:47.340 so i am resigning as president and leader of finnegal effective today
00:31:50.700 and will resign as t-shook as soon as my successor is able to take up that office
00:31:54.780 i know this will come as a surprise to many people and a disappointment to some and i hope
00:32:00.860 at least you will understand my decision i know that others will how shall i put it cope with the
00:32:06.940 news just fine that is the great thing about living in a democracy
00:32:13.740 okay uh a kind of a earthquake in a country that we focus a lot on not just because of
00:32:19.180 my irish heritage because it is actually a bellwether for what's happening in the globalist
00:32:24.460 takeover of the nation state we're gonna go from county clare to rome to the united states we got
00:32:30.220 great coverage here we got dr bradley thayer's with us ben harnwell's with us in rome and of course the
00:32:34.620 great writer and thinker and political activist michael walsh joins us from county clare so michael
00:32:40.220 just tell our audience we we covered pretty uh extensively this issue you know first the irish
00:32:47.260 passed i guess it was abortion first gay marriage second and now this is the third one how to break
00:32:52.700 the traditional family walk us through what led up to this because this was kind of a shocker
00:32:57.500 i think except for guys like you that have been following this and really being an activist
00:33:02.140 on this behind the scenes walk us through what led up to this and then what happened today
00:33:07.260 well i think we start with the breaking of the authority of the catholic church in ireland which was
00:33:13.580 basically overthrown uh within the past decade or so that is the hold that the church had on the
00:33:21.020 people the uh strength of the irish catholic version of catholicism uh that had to go once ireland joined
00:33:30.540 the european union and it joined because it had a gun to its head called the lisbon treaty which the irish
00:33:38.220 population had previously rejected some decades ago a couple decades ago now and then they were forced
00:33:44.940 to vote on it again until they got it right and they finally on the second vote got it right they
00:33:50.380 joined the european union and ever since then steven this is the crucial thing the church was
00:33:56.140 deinstitutionalized and the irish leadership became responsible not to the people of ireland
00:34:02.620 or to the republic of ireland but to the european union so ireland which as you i don't tell you
00:34:11.260 was suffered under british control for seven or eight hundred years uh it lost its language it lost its
00:34:18.860 religion uh legally so catholicism had to be practiced in the hedges uh it lost um its right to its own
00:34:27.900 property it had its houses torn down around its head uh the people were expelled on uh effectively
00:34:35.900 slave ships to the caribbean where they or or louisiana where they worked as indentured servants
00:34:42.540 it lost 50 percent of its population within a couple of years thanks to the uh man-induced famine so all
00:34:50.300 of this has stunted or stunted rather the growth of ireland as a real country country
00:34:57.740 it's worth remembering it's only been a state for a hundred years but it's been a nation forever
00:35:04.060 and it's a point that i keep raising here in ireland where i am now uh and where i went back and
00:35:10.140 connected myself with my own family and moved my family here to ireland so that's how much of a
00:35:16.700 immigrants journey i have made and the walsh o'brien family has made over the last century plus
00:35:22.700 uh it it all came apart once it started eu and then leo varadkar who just resigned uh is half indian
00:35:32.620 he's uh outspoken homosexual he's married to an american guy i believe um he was the new ireland and
00:35:41.580 they're very very proud of the new ireland which is secular which is actually uh anti-religious pro-abortion
00:35:50.860 and we got gay marriage we got pro-abortion we had a referendum on taking the words mother out of the
00:35:57.580 constitution and and woman and replacing it with some neo lgbtq uh language and that was resoundingly
00:36:07.260 defeated two weeks ago just crushed and it's the first time the irish people have stood up
00:36:13.340 since the varadkar and co came in the eu came in and said no more of this this far and no farther
00:36:21.180 and at that point we knew somebody had to walk the plank and it was leo who was just in washington two
00:36:27.020 days ago looking like a little lost lamb trailing an obviously senile joe biden who p.s isn't even irish
00:36:35.260 he's only less than half irish around for saint patrick's day so to quote the musical chicago they
00:36:42.540 had it coming and now we'll see what they do next one last thing no one ever voted for leo varadkar
00:36:49.980 to be the t-shock that is the prime minister of ireland he was installed in a parliamentary coup
00:36:56.300 and then his successor will also be installed in a parliamentary coup unless the growing public
00:37:03.020 pressure all day today twitter's been full of this to call a new election is heated but i don't
00:37:08.700 think it will be let me ask you before i go to dr thayer is that um we had the situation with the
00:37:17.820 illegal with the immigrants in dublin i think with the little girl a month or so ago that had kind of
00:37:24.140 a firestorm but the overwhelming response to that is that the the men and the mothers particularly the
00:37:30.380 mothers that tried to stand up for the little girls were at fault they're a bunch of racists
00:37:33.980 they're a bunch of nativists they're the worst elements of the old irish society and then you've
00:37:39.260 had this and it seemed to me different than the abortion and different than the lgbtq the the marriage
00:37:45.100 vote that they got a little bit arrogant was this because they were too arrogant and didn't press
00:37:49.820 the case hard enough or are you seeing both in the dublin situation with the moms and the people
00:37:55.820 having enough of these girls being molested or are just uh uh you know um people uh bothering them
00:38:04.620 uh and also this uh vote for traditional irish language or traditional language or just the english
00:38:09.660 language about mothers and the concept of a mother central to the family is it a real rising of uh of
00:38:16.860 what i would call a maga mentality in uh to make ireland graded again particularly the original ireland or
00:38:23.180 is this uh they just are so arrogant they took it for granted this was going to be a blowout win
00:38:28.540 no they they are arrogant uh they refer to any of us you well you're a demon over here so
00:38:36.300 congratulations i'm a lesser demon but we're referred to the far right it's a term they use for
00:38:43.180 anyone who disagrees with them is a member of the far right so immigration has become a huge issue in
00:38:51.260 this country it's effectively untrammeled people arrive here with no passports no identity documents
00:38:58.220 they destroy them on the planes they throw them away when they get on the planes they come here
00:39:03.340 and the world is theirs for free uh ireland has now run out of space to put all the people that are coming
00:39:11.100 here for free housing a weekly stipend free clothes free this free that especially from the ukraine which
00:39:20.540 the irish government in its infinite wisdom has decided that in order to fight vladimir putin
00:39:26.540 they're going to make it attractive for ukrainian draft dodgers which zelensky needs in his army
00:39:32.860 to come to ireland all expenses paid forever uh and at at some point uh people have finally decided
00:39:41.340 they've had enough of this the stabbing of the little girl in dublin uh a month or so ago outraged
00:39:48.300 everyone but it was demonized as the far right reaction uh that explosion that was seen after
00:39:56.220 that little girl was wounded uh was not organized by anybody uh the day it happened you could see
00:40:04.300 twitter coming alive for people saying we've got to protest this we've got to stop this but they're
00:40:08.860 called racists the most important thing to know is what this current irish government wants is the new
00:40:14.620 ireland the new ireland is secular it's multi-racial it's gay it's every leftist wish on the planet is
00:40:24.220 what they want to have happen and the irish people especially out here in the countryside where i live
00:40:30.140 among farmers and my relatives uh have just about had enough of this and you're seeing it and i think
00:40:36.700 uh leo saw the handwriting on the wall and he decided to bail first but it's important to know
00:40:44.060 we're ruled by a coalition government of the two major parties you talk about in america the uniparty
00:40:50.780 but here it's an actual fact there are two parties finagale and finafoil and they joined together
00:40:57.820 because neither could get a majority in the last election a few years back and they still couldn't
00:41:03.980 form a government without the green party which is effectively communists and they gave all the
00:41:09.580 important ministries to members of this tiny party that nobody votes for and and the country is
00:41:15.900 essentially ruled by the green party as the ministers of youth and children and tourism and all the
00:41:23.260 various uh ministries and the shameful thing is the leader of the alleged opposition party
00:41:29.900 michael martin which name is uh said today oh he's he thinks this unit party has got to last out its
00:41:36.300 five-year mandate and he's not going to resign or he's not going to break up the thing i call it the
00:41:42.540 racket steve did you know being an irishman like myself there's one thing we're good at it's rackets
00:41:49.660 we invented tammany hall effectively well aaron burr invented but we perfected it we know how to lie
00:41:57.500 cheat sheet and thieve better than anybody on earth well right now we're living the dream right here in
00:42:03.580 the old country unbelievable uh dr bradley thayer you've covered this for us extensively your
00:42:10.860 observation sir well i think michael walsh really got it right in his uh observations that uh the t-shirt
00:42:20.460 leo varadkar had to walk the plank as a result of uh the uh the referendum now on march uh 8th uh but
00:42:29.340 uh that was a very important signal uh you know that uh steve you remember the new york daily news
00:42:35.740 uh headline uh ford to city drop dead right in 1975 well the irish people gave that message uh to uh the
00:42:45.340 uni party as michael walsh uh uh puts it or the racket uh uh as uh as as he mentioned uh the ireland and
00:42:55.020 irish politics are going down the wrong direction the political parties are not listening uh to the
00:43:01.100 irish people it's not clear whether shin fein uh will uh switch tact right now it's fully in accord
00:43:09.980 uh with the dominant parties but we'll have to see whether there's the opportunity for uh shin fein to
00:43:16.940 take a more nationalistic direction um in uh in the future uh i think the irish people are also saying
00:43:25.420 like lee anderson in the uk where lee anderson was a tory a conservative party member of parliament
00:43:32.860 uh who switched to the reform party uh and he said in essence he said explicitly i want my country back
00:43:39.980 right the reason why i'm leaving the conservatives or the chinos conservative in name only to go to
00:43:46.620 reform was that reform was actually fighting for the british people well the irish people i think have
00:43:52.220 the same element there they want their country back they want to uh essentially free themselves from
00:43:58.860 the tyranny of brussels uh and whether they'll be successful at that it'll be a long struggle
00:44:04.300 ultimately they will be successful at so doing uh because the elites have misruled them right you
00:44:11.580 really now have the tyranny of these second or third rate uh elites and the events for example of
00:44:18.620 november uh 2023 uh the uh the horrible night where the algerian who was living in uh ireland uh attacked
00:44:27.660 those innocents the children and an adult the uh the rape gangs uh steve uh that have been operating of
00:44:35.660 course and just the high levels of crime uh the irish people are trying to send a signal uh to those in
00:44:42.860 power and those in power are just plugging their ears uh and saying you know we can't hear you we
00:44:49.740 choose not to hear you uh and so uh it's a very uh a dangerous situation uh varadkar also said he
00:44:57.980 wanted to get out before june right he wanted to give um uh finna gale really the opportunity to get
00:45:05.740 its sea legs back to get on feet before you have local elections in ireland and uh european parliamentary
00:45:12.700 elections in early june uh so uh that to some degree explains uh timing but he had to walk the
00:45:20.060 plank uh for the disaster uh of the referendum but from the elite perspective they don't want to change
00:45:26.220 anything uh and although they fail this time in the referenda they're going to find ways uh to bring
00:45:32.620 about the changes that michael walsh so well described uh in ireland to keep that going to keep that
00:45:40.060 moving uh without any uh change ben ben ben harnwell to this point the european parliamentary
00:45:48.940 elections we're spending a lot of time on that in june i i do agree with thayer that's one of the
00:45:53.100 reasons he he bolted or got thrown overboard they got to focus on that you have uh populist uprisings
00:46:00.060 all throughout europe you have nigel's now back and he's returning to lead the reform party and he's
00:46:05.580 actually talking about maybe making a run at it this time you have the farmers that in in poland
00:46:11.820 overnight you got the farmers that are throwing down hard the farmers in germany alternative for
00:46:15.580 deutschland is uh is the overthrow of the church in ireland is that just taking out any kind of
00:46:20.620 nationalistic i mean do you feel that ireland will join this uh will join this movement uh that's
00:46:27.580 really pan-european right now well let's wait and see steve as far as the catholic church is concerned
00:46:34.460 and it's um it's um demotion in the place the historic place of irish society it has a lot
00:46:41.980 to blame for its own um for its it has a lot of responsibility to take that i i think the catholic
00:46:48.300 church especially in ireland uh but we've seen it right across the western world lost a lot of credit
00:46:53.660 credibility around 20 years ago that it still hasn't restored due to the um to the clerical the
00:46:59.820 the so-called clerical sex abuse um scandal um and that's something i think we as catholics need to um
00:47:07.820 need to to acknowledge um we didn't help we didn't help ourselves we didn't help our own voice in the
00:47:13.820 public square with that um and that those abuses that went on for many decades so as a consequence
00:47:21.340 of the the demotion if we can call it that of the catholic church in irish public life the left have
00:47:27.820 been able to and i say the left you know also very strongly secularism let's call it secularism
00:47:33.580 it's a more accurate term and has been able to infiltrate the the two traditionally center-right
00:47:39.740 political parties in ireland fina gail and fina foil um so okay what i want to say here's my
00:47:46.220 takeaway on this because what happened in the referendum and then the manifestation of the
00:47:51.100 consequences of that today less than two weeks later my takeaway is this i mean it's firstly steve it
00:47:56.620 underlines everything we're saying on um on on the war and this is important to point out about how
00:48:02.700 our out of touch our sociopathic overlords are my takeaway steve is just how surprised
00:48:09.740 they were to find out how out of touch they were with that that with the double referendum result on
00:48:16.140 on march the eighth both of those came in and i think about around 70 percent 67 and 73 in those two
00:48:23.500 results on around about a 50 percent slightly under 50 percent turn up and the political establishment
00:48:29.420 which michael walsh and dr thayer have both pointed out all of the main political partisan island
00:48:35.420 supported yes yes on those results all of them basically the country voted no no and the entire
00:48:42.460 political establishment and all the ngos and all of civil society and what have you they were all
00:48:47.420 blindsided by this um that is my takeaway these people are not only out of touch they don't realize
00:48:54.220 how out of touch they are um and as dr fair and michael walsh both mentioned um live rucker did check
00:49:02.700 he did name check the fact that these are that he's leaving now to give two months uh to elect a new
00:49:08.700 leader ahead of the european elections the all-important european elections on june the 8th and june the 9th of
00:49:16.460 which our european sociopathic overlords are running scared they are absolutely terrified because they
00:49:21.980 know steve we say this every day but this is the proof you know this is the shock resignation day
00:49:26.620 this is the proof these people they know the grains of sand are running through the hourglass they
00:49:32.700 they know their time is up fantastic hangover a second uh mike walsh we got about uh 90 seconds
00:49:41.420 is a mega type party or is a populist type party like alternative for deutschland or
00:49:46.300 sons of italy is that you're the expert do you see that arising in our beloved ireland
00:49:53.180 no because the racket will prevent it we have the damnedest electoral system here which the british
00:49:59.340 gave us after the partition of ireland back after the civil war and the revolutionary war which is single
00:50:07.020 transferable vote aka ranked choice which means you vote a whole list of people and then it's interpreted
00:50:16.140 by the vote counters to come out any way they want it uh it's very hard for an alternative party steve you
00:50:23.020 and i have discussed this a few years back to get on the ballot in the first place there is no effective
00:50:29.420 opposition uh since hardwell just said uh they were all in agreement about this and they were blindsided
00:50:35.980 because they've just got their heads so far up their arse as we say here in ireland that they could
00:50:42.060 not see this coming but the system itself needs to be changed because it's not a real democracy it's a
00:50:49.980 tammany hall style democracy in which everyone rewards everyone else with various ministries and perks
00:50:57.020 and the ngos own this country there's hundreds of them and they get money from the government they
00:51:03.660 advise the government it really is a racket steven i i must say as the grandson of a of a boston irish
00:51:10.700 politician uh i can only look upon it with awe and envy to see how well the home country has learned
00:51:16.780 the irish american lesson michael how do people get your latest book where they go to get all your
00:51:23.020 writings oh yeah big news uh but it's now available for uh a pre-order it's called against the corporate
00:51:31.260 media 42 ways the press hates you uh and it is a sort of sequel to against the great reset which we
00:51:40.940 published a couple years back it's 42 different writers uh on all aspects of media malfeasance everything
00:51:48.220 that's been frosting you about the media for the last 10 or 20 years it's in the book and that's
00:51:53.500 available on amazon for pre-order right right now this week mike walsh thank you very much great report
00:52:01.260 from ireland dr thayer your social media where do people get your writings they are at getter or
00:52:07.340 bradley thayer truth or brad thayer at x and see very pleased that you contributed the forward to uh
00:52:13.260 embracing chinese uh communist china america's greatest strategic failure thanks very much steve
00:52:20.140 love that love the book ben harnwell our audience loves you where do they get you
00:52:25.580 thanks very much steve on getter at harnwell and compliments to bradley thayer who picked up the
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