Bannon's War Room - WarRoom Battleground EP 497： The Mental Rot Of Social Media

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 0.86

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 0.99

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 0.99

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 1.00

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 0.96

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 0.99

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 0.83

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 0.91

00:37:30.380 mothers that tried to stand up for the little girls were at fault they're a bunch of racists 1.00

00:37:33.980 they're a bunch of nativists they're the worst elements of the old irish society and then you've 0.85

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 0.97

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 0.81

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 1.00

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 0.71

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 0.86

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 1.00

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 0.86

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 0.91

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 0.96

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 1.00

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 0.77

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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WarRoom Battleground EP 497： The Mental Rot Of Social Media

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