WarRoom Battleground EP 514: Gutting The American Economy
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Joe Allen, Joe Allen and Dave Walsh join me in the War Room to discuss the Biden Regime and the collapse of Elon Musk's Tesla business model and the Chinese Communist Party's takeover of the company. We talk about the need for electric vehicles and the future of the EV industry in China.
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this is what you're fighting for I mean every day you're out there what they're doing is blowing
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people off if you continue to look the other way and shut up then the oppressors the authoritarians
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get total control and total power because this is just like in Arizona this is just like in
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Georgia it's another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies and
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misrepresentations is why this audience is going to have to get engaged as we've told you this is
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the fight all this nonsense all this spin they can't handle the truth war room battleground here's
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your host Stephen K Bannon it's Monday 15 April in the year of our Lord uh 2024 something we have
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it's tax day make sure that they get paid you've got to underwrite remember you're underwriting
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uh your own destruction so why not just go and pay up underwrite send the big check right
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because we know the check's going to be big because they're you're getting financially hosed
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uh minute by minute by this government we've got a lot to go through this afternoon of course we've
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been covering non-stop the fiasco of President Trump's the persecution of Donald J Trump I want
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to pivot here and pull the camera back to make sure we can understand uh reset exactly where we are in
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this debacle that the Biden regime and our sociopathic overlords have put us we're going to actually
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have in a in a moment uh I've got Joe Allen here and Dave Walsh uh to uh play um a part of a podcast
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from Kara Swisher if you have or you're not familiar with her name she's one of the best I guess it's
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business journalist in the tech side she has a pod she has a couple of podcasts she's written a bunch
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of books I think she's the editor over there at New York Magazine but she's incredibly influential
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influential the sociopathic overlords in Silicon Valley look at her as like the end all and be all
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of kind of modern uh business journalism I mean she's been all over Elon Musk she knows all the ins and
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outs of all the sociopathic overlords business and they frequently on her show uh she actually had
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the author Isaac Arnsdorf a finish what we started because guess what what are the sociopathic overlords
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fear before we cry before we go from late stage capitalism finance capitalism and crater into uh
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into um tech feudalism well they fear MAGA and they fear uh the war room posse the America first
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movement all of it all the little men and women out there the common man and woman that are part of
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this movement they fear you uh before we start that I've asked Dave Walsh to jump on here Dave
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Dave Walsh there's two two well there's an article over the weekend I asked you to drill down on it
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because you're the first guy to actually tell the American people this about the Chinese capacity
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of coal-fired uh electricity of coal-fired plants which they're they're they're in the process they're
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the leaders of uh the criminal leaders in Beijing are smart people and they're tough people
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they're figuring out uh particularly with the whole world going to um electric vehicles and and
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data centers and the need for electricity as Dave Walsh has shown the need for electricity is going
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to be like exponential of course the leaders in the west they're de-industrializing in Germany
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and the leaders of the United States are doing everything possible to take out continual cheap
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electrical uh uh production offline uh so the business model is insane it just makes no sense
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rationally well the Chinese Communist Party doesn't have a problem with that they're they're
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and they don't care what they put in the atmosphere whatever they put in they put in
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they want electrical capacity and they're going to do it oh by the way just announced today
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massive layoffs at Tesla now they're saying it's because of all the competition from China
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etc for his electronic vehicles number one the demand side of the equation the bottom's falling
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out because they can't charge the things the batteries run out there's no capacity it's just
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a grab bag here in the United States as the Biden regime who can't run anything right shows you but
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also the Chinese Communist Party that is the financing part of Elon Musk and this is one of the reasons I
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have such a big problem with Elon there's one's transhumanism and the other is uh the other is uh his
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controlled by the Chinese Communist Party they've set up all kind of alternatives in case he gets
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off the reservation that uh they've got now got letting a million flowers bloom and they're affecting
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the EV business so Dave Walsh let me turn it over to you I want to go with Tesla first and the implosion
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of the Tesla business model and the wipeout of the Tesla stock uh and then talk about how the Chinese
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Communist Party remember these guys are known to be on every side of every trade right they they want
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to be in control what instrument they control through is kind of irrelevant for them Dave Walsh your
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thoughts about uh bad day for Elon Musk in the electrical electrical vehicle industry well Musk
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announced today laying off 10 percent of his global workforce in his global EV business Tesla which would be
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about 13,000 people because for the first time since 2020 year-on-year demand in units is down
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it's down about eight and a half percent deliveries down eight and a half percent uh from last year year
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on year first time a decline since 2020 in their in their published demand data and yet another issue
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on the global competitive front uh they're dwarfed by Chinese capacity to make cars the Chinese capacity
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to make end-to-end vehicles and then export them massively globally which is what they want to do
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starting with a small beachhead here and batteries only to him but expanding they now produce eight
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and a half times more EVs per year than his entire company Chinese manufacturers of EVs so they now
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dominate the space globally the the longer term strategy for Tesla is an issue you know we got
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massive cost issues with these massive inconvenience with these people finally coming around to the fact
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that government is acing them out of choice acing them out of consumer choice by attempting to force
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them in Western Europe and here force people to buy EVs only there's quite a rebellion against that among
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people turns out the clients buying them are the wealthiest communities in the country tend to be
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democrat communities tend to be the wealthiest 10 percent have something like 40 percent of the demand
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for these so overall you're also looking at a supply chain that the Chinese totally control to make them
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the electric motors the EV the batteries themselves the lithium ion the copper the cobalt the motors and
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the rest of the apparatus in the vehicle they control 100 percent of the supply chain for these vehicles
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therefore they want to make them end-to-end in time in time they'll render Tesla irrelevant because
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their goal and objective is to take over car making also they've we'll talk later they've basically begun to
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take over effectively power generation equipment manufacturer for North America they've taken over
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75 percent of the announced megawatt supply of equipment to make electricity and about 43 percent of the
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monetary value of that a business they weren't even in here only five years ago primary power generating
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equipment that's a business I had been in in my life's work just amazingly rapid pace with which they're
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taking over basic commodity electricity now also in addition to cars
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that they realize that the the future of the world is electric I mean you got this you get and they need
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electrical power data centers uh you know the artificial intelligence Joe Allen is going to join us a
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minute has been making the case that the energy needs the water needs for this in a in a digital world in an
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artificial intelligence world is is so enormous given where we are today does the Chinese because
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they mouth climate change I mean you know one of the things carrying these guys talking about we can't
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put tariffs on we can't do the decoupling we did in the in the um Trump uh administration we can't
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confront the CCP people know that I've been fully sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party in every
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aspect uh is the first civilian in American history and I wear that proudly uh and but the
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John carries the world and the Bidens and the and the Yellens got a kowtow because the number one thing
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is not avoiding a kinetic war the number one thing is that we need them to work as partners uh to make
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sure climate change uh doesn't doesn't hit us yet everything they do every aspect of the business
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their business model is to hell with climate change to hell with anything about what the West is
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concerned about in this kind of cult of climate change it's about getting down to the brass tacks
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of how they dominate electrical production uh on on a global basis and particularly have as much
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cheap energy as possible not just for consumers but for their industrial power Dave Walsh
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they understand deeply manufacturing anything from basic steel making to specially steel making
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to plastics to composites to lithium ion batteries to cars pulp and paper anything any kind of
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manufacturing is heavily heavily heavily electrical electrically powered dependent it's been for
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forever that that's been the case since electricity was distributed in mass quantities beginning in
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1890 they understand this deeply they have managed to talk us out of it with duplicitous stories of
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climate change of we need to be on the co2 abatement we need to be on that zero
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we've bought into this we're destabilizing our economy and what they've even in the news media
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here today announced that in the last year we've had a 92 gigawatt swing 20 more gigawatts of
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baseload continuous duty coal shut down over here in western europe while china has put in capacity
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72 more gigawatts of it just to give you a reference how meaningful that is 72 gigawatts is the size of
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energy and southern company combined all power generation of those two large utilities in the
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u.s that combined is 72 gigawatts that's what they've built just in the last year in coal plants and then
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they've got 243 under permit and beginning construction for the next four years more coal plants so he's he's
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boosting up coal power production it is cleaner it's it's ultra super critical technology that was
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originally invented here germany and japan that they're using but this is the primary engine of
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their industrial economy to compete and knowing that ai and server centers and data centers must can
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only be run on 24 hour a day huge quantities of electricity not four or five hour a day solar
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or seven hour a day wind must be run on continuous electricity hit hit hit back hit me back again with
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that because this is the future that uh that when you take the energy side that dave walsh walks you
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through and you take the demand side that uh and not the consumer man but the inner the interim demand
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of the data centers of artificial intelligence that joe allen walks you through this is why you have
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such a huge gap between what in the u.s they're talking about in a post-industrial economy because
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a post-industrial economy note to self doesn't mean less power that you need it means more power that you
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need and when you look at this call to climate change what they're talking about here in western
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europe and particularly in germany it's the most bizarre thing i've ever seen because they're
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sitting there talking about this transition and this transition it's not happening and it's not
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going to happen it's it's it's bizarro land given what they've laid out already is going to be the
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man side of the equation the people that have a hard-hitted approach to this is our number one
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existential threat the chinese communist party they are very coldly and with a lot of calculation
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uh and i think they're a big part in back of working with these groups in back of the
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misinformation and disinformation about the whole climate change uh you know the underpinnings
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predicate of climate change to begin with because you see two industrial societies go in in radical
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different directions in one whether you like it or not has an internal logic to it that builds for a
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not just manufacturing superpower but a post-industrial economy the digit that on the digital demands for
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electricity will be there and you have because it's not just coal-fired plants they're also building
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every nuclear power plant you could possibly build and here in the west we're doing the exact opposite
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it's gutting our economy and these are the types of things you can't turn this ship around quickly
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you're making these decisions every day today that literally are going to lead us down a path of
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economic destruction full economic destruction and even if a trump comes in it's not simple to put the
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rudder over to the right and turn this around dave walsh he completely understands what he's doing
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and it's done with duplicitous language that here we would call and do call lying i mean he's talked about
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xi jinping oh we're going to begin strictly controlling consumption of coal by 2025 and by
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2030 we're going to begin to scale back maybe 30 gigawatts of it well what he's talking about are the very old
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plants that aren't scrubbed that aren't supercritical that are quite dirty
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beginning to phase those out for the newer ones that are all for supercritical high temperature
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much more efficient coal plants that are much cleaner by the way there is such a thing as clean coal
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it's done at very high temperatures japan has lots of it is investing in lots of it
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china is primarily investing in that over the next five years
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knowing that he as long as he panders climate change is important over here he's selling us
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products he's selling us all the thin film pv 87 of the world supply of it all the inverters
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now many many uh 30 of the transformers and all of the lithium ion batteries for utility storage
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all comes now from china so he's pandering a sales pitch that which they're not doing themselves
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because to be the dominant manufacturer of these things you've got to have continuous duty ongoing
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power which is what he's building in coal plants and now gas plants because they've taken over about
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50 percent of ensoldo energia gas turbine company to bring more gas turbine technology into china to begin to
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build gas plants leveraging off the pipelines he's getting from russia and now iran for gas this all
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now solve their gas problem that's going to be more fossil fuel which for china is a good and prudent thing
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to do to buttress their already huge manufacturing sector they know exactly what they're doing and by
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talking us out of using electricity that's needed to compete with them that this is this is happening
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it's it's amazing we're going to need we're going to need a lot of strength in a new administration
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that really understands these things i'm not sure regulators attorneys just with that background
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yeah a lot of former government experience only i'm not sure that gets us there we need people
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that really understand the basics of all of this how this fits together and what's happening to us
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concurrently this is a this is now a disaster i'm not sure attorneys are going to work away out of it
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no matter whether they have prior experience or not in this i i think you know we've got to have folks
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that understand this stuff well to be to be looking after how to manage this and bring back industrial
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strength to this country i uh my investment banker days at goldman sachs and my own firm for i don't know
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20 25 years uh i can give you some empirical evidence i don't remember many and there may be one or two
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uh major industrial concerns that employed 50 000 75 000 100 000 people that would announce 10
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layoffs globally that businesses were not in a massive nosedive and of what eventually happened
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is that a major restructuring went on that business i know we're not here to give financial advice but
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just objectively as you look at it this uh announcement today came as a shock to people i mean
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people saw the demand but there's something there's something uh and i've said this long and people
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know i'm a critic of elon musk but there's been something wrong with this company for a long time
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uh and we're not here to give financial advice but as you look at this and it's not just demand but
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you look at the entire sector the electric vehicle uh market is in for some turbulence i think you could
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say dave walsh your thoughts yeah caveat i'm not a financial advisor i will say though about a business
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model where you're dependent on one country for about sixty percent of your supply chain and of the
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massively critical elements the two electric motors and the the ev battery itself being about sixty
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percent of the content of that which you're manufacturing that is coming from your dominant
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competitor who already produce nine times more than you of the whole device end to end that you're
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competing with them on i that does not augur well for a long-term business plan dependence on your
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primary competitor for sixty percent of the componentry of that thing you're making in this
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market and where they make nine times more of that thing you're making than you do already and they
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serve a home market that's about four times bigger than the one here none of this augurs well for any
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business plan for ev manufacturer over here uh then you go to okay why do we need it does does toyota
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not have a better mousetrap with um with hybrids uh that are half the cost proven technology that
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they're very focused on maybe let's look at that as in opposition to standardizing on what the chinese
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want us to total dependence on them not just for batteries but the cars that they're in also that's
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where they're headed and now based on their sheer size they'll win that game with him they'll win
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it so again not a financial advisor but i that this is a it is a very troubled business model
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very trouble the entire dependence on china for the critical components of what he's doing
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dave walsh uh thank you so much where do people go to get uh your social media we'll spend a lot more
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time because energy is going to be central to the run-up to the november election because you can't
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get this economy sorted until you get the energy the full spectrum energy dominance that president
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trump had uh where do people go uh where do people go to get your uh social media well thank you steve
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on the getter and true social at dave walsh energy thank you d thank you so much um joe allen we're
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gonna have we're gonna play in the i think we'll have it ready in the next sector maybe here in a minute
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but i want to just go back to elon musk uh and i'm not here to uh to um spike the football to the
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fanboys but it's central to his um his um rise in the fanboys uh you know minds and kind of the
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consciousness was he's such a great businessman the he was the henry ford of electric vehicles
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this has been a catastrophic announcement today because it shows you how i think he got played by
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the chinese communist party and he kowtows to them they're they're his paymasters but that this
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business model the stock's gotten crushed i think the stock's lost a trillion dollars in value since
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its peak uh as he bought twitter and other things and i realized darren beady and some of my dearest
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friends and colleagues are are high in the fanboy uh realm but with everything else like if you see what
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he bragged about what he said about tesla and now you see the catastrophe tesla has lay off 10 of
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their workforce in one day and talk about having a major you know industrial restructuring it doesn't
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make you too that doesn't it shouldn't make you too happy about where the chips where his chips in
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the brains are i realize it's all been great today it all been great i'm not sure how much the media
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is really putting scrutiny on but just your thoughts before we go to kara swisher who is kind of the
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the journalist the leading journalist that covers our sociopathic overlords uh and elon must be in
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number one your thoughts you know steve the the kind of spectrum between the ai is everything ai is
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nothing or uh the brain chips are everything brain chips are nothing or electric vehicles are everything
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you know the hype spectrum is always going to be somewhere uh along that and with all of elon
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musk's projects you hear from the the fanboys and from elon musk himself that this is going to be
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everything this is kind of the way in which the tech sector in the us and across the world works in
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general right you have to kind of sell yourself as being the ultimate revolution it will change
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everything and then you have the detractors no no no it's nothing it's nothing's going to happen
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whatsoever ai doesn't exist blah blah blah they'll never perfect a brain chip blah blah blah
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it's always going to be in between and so you know musk is well known for over promising on
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everything right like the fully autonomous vehicles were right around the corner for years now uh kind
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of like uh very similar to the flying car situation so i always try to find some place in the middle
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where is it actually at and where is it going to go where it's at is fairly easy to evaluate uh but
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where it's going to go isn't so musk with his all of his enthusiasm and all of his uh kind of i think
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in some ways underhanded techniques to uh you know reassure the shareholders that their their money is
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being well spent that uh he always over promises and so in this case you can see the fruits of it you
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can see it in a very practical way what is it some fourteen thousand ten percent fourteen thousand
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tesla employees that are hitting the sidewalk right now uh some people would say that's just
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great business he's downsizing well you know uh expanding the business to that point wasn't and so
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and the loss in stock prices also show i think a great miscalculation that's why i think steve you
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know everything from the the big big picture of the singularity to even small things like if you enter
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integrate ai into your education or into your hospital uh or into your military it's going to put
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you ahead of all your competitors it's going to fix everything um it's always going to be somewhere
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in between the absolute naysayers and the people who are just doe-eyed optimists and that that's what i
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see in this just a reality check by the way for the masters tournament over the weekend for the the c
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because they played to the ceo's market with uh ibm and mercedes everything virtually every spot over
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the weekend was all about artificial intelligence to coming into these businesses if you don't think
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it's in the c-suite that's all they're thinking about you would be incorrect one thing we've had
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dave walsh on and you've mentioned it for the post digital for the post-industrial economy the digital
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economy they've made this thing it's all being sweetness and light you know all going to have green
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fields and green pastures and we'll have this digital connection they don't talk about the underbelly
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that the underside of that the power necessary to do that is orders of magnitude higher than the
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powers that we need for steel plants etc the the water needs and the power needs for artificial
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intelligence for the data centers is of order it's just it's mind-boggling and you never hear that
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brought up in the connection with climate change because climate change is kind of their religion
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and part of the way they're going to get there is through artificial intelligence why does the
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media overlook that why do hard-headed business people don't talk about that because that that
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difference that delta is going to have major implications massive implications for this country
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the citizens and quite frankly the people in the world joe allen yeah i think that a lot of
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it is just a conflict of interest so you have the the issue that you want most of these media
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companies very reliant on big tech either for access or for advertising uh and many of the people in
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the media are actually quite on board with this sort of total transformation of humanity it's the
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ultimate progressivism so and but then there's also just the the one of the solutions to climate
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change that's put forward a lot you hear this a lot in the world economic forum policy proposals
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is to use artificial intelligence to rake over all of the data that's being gathered from the
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internet of things to understand exactly down to the the smallest detail to understand exactly how
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much energy is being used per household per business per vehicle so on and so forth and use ai to identify
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those areas where more electricity is being used right so ai is now set up as the savior from climate
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change we'll use ai to streamline the economy and streamline people's lives but as you say you have
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to use a ton of electricity in order to train any large model uh you know i really got my head wrapped
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around this i reviewed kate crawford's book the atlas of ai a couple of years ago for chronicles and
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it's only become more and more pronounced since then but she lays out in great detail how not only do
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these data centers use massive amounts of energy so for instance uh gpt4 nobody knows for sure but
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gpt4 from open ai used roughly 0.02 percent of all of california's uh power usage to train gpt4 i mean
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that may say that sounds like a small fraction but when you consider the size of the state and the scale of
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that project it's amazing and it's only going to become more and more ravenous and crawford points
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out that that it's using up tons of power but also they are strip mining the planet for the minerals
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much for having me cara earlier this week we talked about these issues around dictatorships with ruth
00:34:00.540
ben giott um and i were you're our follow you're our follow because we thought it was important
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um and it's a topic i'm thinking about a lot especially because i'm thinking about steve bannon almost
00:34:10.140
continually um who you write about a lot and i which i appreciate for people to understand how
00:34:15.500
important he is and all this um but this is a book where for once donald trump is not the main
00:34:20.060
character as i said it's about maga as a movement talk about why you wanted to dig into it and why you
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made steve bannon such a big character it's absolutely correct to do so but talk about that
00:34:31.260
well thank you yeah it's um the book is kind of like a a search to discover trump anew i mean he shows
00:34:37.820
up at the very beginning and then we see people kind of hearing him and trying to contact him but
00:34:44.620
we don't actually meet him until the very end and you know part of that was just like you know what
00:34:51.260
else is there to say about the most famous person in modern human history but part of it is also like
00:34:57.260
you know i started the reporting at a time when trump was was actually out of the picture right this
00:35:02.220
was early to mid 2021 he was basically in hibernation at mar-a-lago and it was actually
00:35:09.180
the movement um it was his supporters as harnessed and guided by bannon who through their activism at
00:35:18.300
the ground level paved the way for trump to make this comeback it was not at all clear or inevitable
00:35:24.780
that we would be where we are now right you know bannon is you know i think of him as a marketer
00:35:29.180
in a lot of ways i pay a lot of attention he says because he's quite brilliant on communications
00:35:32.860
marketing and he has a media background for people who don't know it he was part of a lot of weird
00:35:37.820
things too including the biosphere he's a long-time media executive he's a little roger ailes in that
00:35:42.380
way so let's talk about a couple of things you interviewed him several times over the last few
00:35:46.540
years um you write he believes that the mega movement could quote represent represented a dominant
00:35:51.660
coalition that could rule for a hundred years um sounds very third reich in that regard and i
00:35:57.420
recently interviewed uh tim ryback about how hitler did a similar kind of revival of himself um talk
00:36:04.940
about bannon's role here and his and and especially before and after january 6 because he's got his own
00:36:10.780
legal problems obviously which he he has tried to squirrel out of yeah well you know there was the the
00:36:17.740
first indictment for the fundraising uh for the wall that uh he and the other people involved were
00:36:22.620
actually spending on themselves allegedly um but trump trump helped him out with pardoning him for
00:36:27.740
that and that actually really helped him you know in that moment right after january 6th when you know
00:36:33.980
again trump sort of disappeared and um a lot of pro-trump voices were disappearing from we're getting
00:36:41.100
deplatformed from from mainstream social media and and weren't getting a lot of mainstream news interviews
00:36:46.780
either um that really kind of supercharged the development of this alternative ecosystem of
00:36:52.460
mega media and bannon really became the the stop the son of that solar system and it helped that he
00:37:00.780
you know had the validation of that trump pardon but but you're also right to think about bannon you
00:37:06.620
know really the the weird period for bannon was when he was a white house or campaign strategist i mean
00:37:12.300
he came on through breitbart he came on as a media figure and so there's something very natural about
00:37:17.340
him as this outsider media figure actually yeah one might compare him to goebbels honestly you would
00:37:22.940
in a lot of ways but also brilliant the way i hate to compliment goebbels but he was brilliant
00:37:28.140
in terms of selling hitler um talk a little bit about you know what is his role what is his role has
00:37:34.300
developed he obviously was on the outs and then he was in trouble legally and then he came back after the
00:37:39.420
pardon uh he has his show the war room um uh i spent a lot of time focused on steve bannon i have to
00:37:45.420
tell you um uh myself talk about what what would you say you called him the son how would you explain
00:37:52.060
that a little further well actually i literally just came here from the war room before this i was doing
00:37:56.940
an interview on his show uh we're neighbors on capitol hill so uh you know i've just gone through the
00:38:02.300
looking glass and and back out but you know about your book yeah exactly um okay because you know
00:38:08.620
it's it's kind of their story um but but the case for their story not being you know when when i first
00:38:14.620
heard about that bannon was telling trump supporters that they needed to go become low-level officials in
00:38:21.580
the republican party you know it's sort of like okay well down ballot but there's a lot of there's a lot of
00:38:26.860
stuff that that people talk about online and what matters is does it actually cross over into a real
00:38:32.780
physical political action and what what became amazing to me about this story is that it was is
00:38:37.740
that i would call around to local party offices all over the country but focusing on the key states
00:38:43.740
and say like are people coming out of the woodwork to be precinct chairs which is like a nothing
00:38:49.420
position that no one's ever heard of and the answer was yes and so that's when i knew that that that
00:38:55.260
is actually the power of bannon is that what happens on his show doesn't stay on his show it actually
00:39:01.820
uh it actually crosses over into action and he's very intentional about that the the what he he is
00:39:08.140
trying to give his listeners a feeling of empowerment and agency and particularly in that particular time
00:39:18.060
after january 6th when when many trump supporters were so confused and disillusioned and disoriented
00:39:24.060
about what happened that guidance was crucial how do you assess him as a person like you were on the
00:39:29.740
show obviously i wouldn't say you're friendly with him but you know him and spend time with him
00:39:34.220
how do you assess him as as a power figure he's very smart um he really does read i mean he he reads
00:39:42.780
voraciously um and you know i kind of there are times when i feel like it's steve bannon's world and
00:39:51.020
and the rest of us are just living in it that he he does understand like a he is he is a generational
00:39:58.060
talent as a political strategist in kind of understanding the both understanding the mood of
00:40:05.340
at least a part of the population and understanding how to channel that into meaningful political action
00:40:10.620
uh nice to meet you this guy is such an interesting character what do you think his end game is when
00:40:16.540
he i don't know if he's married or when he's with people we trust you know he's not a young man and
00:40:23.260
they say what is your end game here like what are your goals what do you want to accomplish if you were
00:40:28.620
to try and look into his soul or his head what do you what do you think the end game is for steve bannon
00:40:35.340
well there there was a point in the reporting where he said very explicitly to me um i'm not in
00:40:41.180
the rebuilding business i'm in the tearing down business right so he he he views the the he views
00:40:47.660
history as a cycle of of building up and tearing down and he wants to be an active agent of that tearing
00:40:55.660
down and so that something new can be rebuilt and what he has in mind is is rebuilt is redefining
00:41:03.260
the two-party system so instead of having two national pluralistic parties you'll have a left-wing
00:41:09.420
globalist elitist party and a right-wing populist nationalist party and he thinks that's a rubric for
00:41:16.060
the nationalist party to dominate right of course he's using the word nationalist which has its
00:41:20.540
recriminations of that um do you so he doesn't want to be there he just wants to he wants to you
00:41:26.060
know i always say some people just want to burn down the world and that they you know they're like
00:41:29.980
they want to change it i'm like no no no they want to burn it down for the next thing kind of thing
00:41:34.460
how does he react to that idea that people are kind of onto him on that thing i don't think he cares
00:41:39.500
right correct because he'll talk he talks to you right he was very i wrote him once he wrote me back
00:41:43.820
in five seconds it was really something to see right and you don't usually get that from figures
00:41:48.220
because he's got his finger he knows who everybody is correct yeah but as you know as a media figure he
00:41:54.380
appreciates the the importance of media you know he's not one of these people around trump who
00:42:01.740
or like ron desantis who like really believe we make stuff up um and we're the enemy um he's much
00:42:07.500
more like trump in the sense that he is is dying to use us uh for his his purposes you know he is
00:42:14.860
unapologetic about using terms like nationalism and nationalism is a hell of a drug but he is a little
00:42:21.820
bit sensitive about and we got into this a little bit on the air just now he is a little bit sensitive
00:42:28.220
about this idea of ending democracy um and he points out accurately that um that this precinct
00:42:36.380
strategy what the trump supporters are doing is using the machinery of democracy to try to achieve
00:42:43.580
their political objective now but it's important to understand that democracy often ends not at the
00:42:50.300
end of a rifle but at the hands of its elected leaders democracy the hello this is precisely what
00:42:55.740
the tim ryback's book is about it's the that hitler used democracy to end democracy that's that's the
00:43:00.940
that's the old i mean that's this nonsense what he's saying to you anyway scott go ahead
00:43:05.740
what role is he playing in the election for 2024 uh from what i understand he is you know he is not
00:43:13.100
the uh the care campaign ceo like he was in 2016 um he is not frequently in touch with trump himself
00:43:21.900
um like other advisors he is in touch with some members of trump's team on a fairly regular basis
00:43:29.420
um but it's helpful to to trump to have that little bit of kind of critical and plausible distance while at
00:43:38.540
the same time you have bannon kind of as a laboratory for developing the movement that fuels trump
00:43:46.220
mm-hmm and and in terms of of uh i would imagine you know one of the things he called trump was his
00:43:51.820
his instrument right that he when he saw him coming down the the elevator escalator at the trump tower
00:43:58.540
he thinks he i think it feels like he thinks trump is not dumb but that he's just the instrument
00:44:04.380
to getting what he wants correct well he thinks that trump viscerally understands the aesthetics
00:44:11.580
of power and how to make himself a vehicle a vessel for the grievances and desires of a lot of americans
00:44:21.900
and and trump has the charisma and the fame and the stature to do that um but bannon is is and bannon and
00:44:30.700
trump have slightly different goals you know everything for trump is about himself and when
00:44:35.900
when when when bannon describes him as his instrument what he's talking about is trying to channel the
00:44:43.260
movement into an institution of the party where it can transcend the limits of being a cult of
00:44:52.780
personality around a single leader and actually achieve the durability through the party structure
00:44:59.740
that it would need to be a hundred year regime yeah that's why it's not going to work just fyi
00:45:05.980
anyway um it's it's been a busy week for donald trump and his legal team trying to put a stop to the
00:45:11.580
hush money trial it's not working it's slated to begin next week he loves to do those delay tactics um
00:45:16.620
i know you've been following all that i just would love you to talk about um the trump legal issues
00:45:21.020
helping him with these maga supporters that you've been chronicling yeah so there were there is an amazing
00:45:25.180
moment where i jump in for a second we want to get to all this also uh right there and it's one of the
00:45:31.260
reasons um joe that you came on as our editor for all things transhumanism the um the silicon valley
00:45:39.740
are sociopathic overlords and kara swisher is you know she's editor of new york magazine she's got this
00:45:45.100
huge podcast all of the um the people that lead silicon valley come on her podcast they're there
00:45:52.780
she's very familiar with the business models the elon musk uh the uh the facebook crowd google all of it
00:45:59.100
uh and you see right there what and she said well it's not going to work kara i respectfully disagree
00:46:06.460
not only is it going to work it is working what we're building is a grassroots populist
00:46:12.220
nationalist movement to fundamentally change the direction of the country and one of the most
00:46:16.700
fundamental changes is we're going to stop the abuses of working class people with this late
00:46:23.660
stage finance capitalism and what we're not going to allow to do is to allow the sociopathic overlords
00:46:29.980
that you interview all the time to run this country as they do we're not going to let uh people
00:46:35.260
that are either close to being on the spectrum or just total geeks to run this nation the people in
00:46:41.260
this country working class in the middle class in this country are taking their country back
00:46:45.660
and they're going to run it and whether you guys like it or not it is not just going to happen
00:46:51.100
it is happening and that's one of the powers i think of the book because the book gives an
00:46:54.860
unvarnished opinion it's not all sweetness and light there's a lot of characters and remember
00:46:59.100
they're obsessed with the fact that they're the pro-democracy party but that we are actually
00:47:04.460
participating in the in the precinct strategy and taking over the school boards and taking over your local town
00:47:09.740
council and in taking now the national convention where you're all going to be delegates you use
00:47:15.500
you're you're participating in democracy like edmund burke would like but of course that's not good
00:47:20.060
enough because donald trump's hitler and what you're going to do is elect hitler with a massive landslide
00:47:25.500
and he's going to run the country uh joe you see this all the time in transhumanism uh they try to
00:47:30.540
hide all that too of what they're trying to do because in this in the political sphere of what we're
00:47:35.980
trying to do it's overlaid with what silicon valley is really working on which is a fundamental
00:47:40.700
transformation of uh of homo sapiens in essentially human nature of which we're fighting your your
00:47:47.820
thoughts right there is you can smell the fear coming out of silicon valley about our populist
00:47:52.940
movement sir you know listening to that conversation just sounds like every conversation i've ever had
00:47:59.500
with the kind of cosmopolitan sophisticated types uh in university or just living in big cities uh they
00:48:08.540
are i guess very talented at critiquing their enemies with almost zero self-awareness you know just
00:48:16.780
listening to he's like well god forbid americans were to actually you know take the reins and determine
00:48:24.940
their own destiny but people like them i i i think that you know just to bring in a crass south park
00:48:32.780
uh reference they are so intoxicated smelling the uh smug that they are uh emitting around them that
00:48:40.620
they just can't they can't see the forest with the trees so that you know relating it to the the
00:48:45.580
technological element what you what i hear a lot from these people there are a lot of leftists actually
00:48:53.020
who are very very opposed to silicon valley and and the ideas of transhumanism but in the mainstream
00:48:59.340
not so much and i think it's because transhumanism represents just an extension of the progressivism
00:49:05.260
and the hyper focus on intelligence and credentials and the the kind of intellectual
00:49:11.500
structure that they believe should be running the country that a technocracy a rule by experts and so
00:49:18.140
you the the the carish swishers of the world or ezra klein so on and so forth but whatever critiques
00:49:23.900
they may offer uh they still see technology as a a means of enacting this sort of liberal left uh oftentimes
00:49:34.060
super multicultural you know the mass immigration the various kind of sexual deviances that they endorse
00:49:40.940
all of this they see technology as a means of inculcating that in the rest of the populace
00:49:46.540
as a sort of backwards rubes and flyover country and the but on the other hand i think a lot of
00:49:52.700
them certainly some of them by their own admission i also see this massive transformation as being also
00:49:58.620
in line not just a vehicle for the more social and economic agendas that they want but as we move
00:50:06.060
more and more into a world in which these companies are implementing ai and and using it to actually
00:50:12.940
transform the psychology of the world even beyond their own left liberal framework uh they see it
00:50:18.860
as an extension of that it's the next level progressivism uh you know of course we have
00:50:23.100
plenty on our side as we mention it all the time the peter teals the mark andreessen so on and so forth
00:50:28.140
who see a very right-wing uh way of enacting the technological agenda but yeah yeah i i'll say this
00:50:36.700
steve in closing um uh i can't imagine these people uh are are getting paid by you but they
00:50:43.020
just gave you a phenomenal advertisement so uh you know thank you kara swisher we appreciate it
00:50:51.340
uh joe where do people get your writings uh you're gonna be with us on thursday out in las vegas we
00:50:56.620
can't have a gladiator school unless we talk about the one of the main things that would be transhumanism
00:51:02.780
where do people go sir i encourage you to pick up the book anywhere books are sold bookshop.org
00:51:09.580
amazon with the palm payment uh or canonic.xyz dark eon transhumanism and the war against humanity
00:51:17.980
maybe kara swisher will pick up a copy and see maybe what some of the underlying ideologies are
00:51:23.420
that she is backing find all my social media at joe bot xyz and of course war room.org under the
00:51:30.220
transhumanism tab thank you very much steve uh thank you joe by the way thank kara swisher
00:51:36.140
actually i do listen to the podcast all the time it's what we try to do is immerse ourselves
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