00:01:15.660They entered the evening, what, Johnny, be it about 215 back in the 2024 election?
00:01:20.480That is a gain, that is a gain potentially of nearly 50 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
00:01:28.380It would represent one of the largest gains, or I believe the largest gain since basically 1974.
00:01:34.560That, of course, was the Watergate midterms.
00:01:36.320I can tell you right now that Speaker Mike Johnson just convened a call with members of his staff
00:01:40.520and he announced to them that he will not be running for minority leader in the next Congress.
00:01:45.260A seismic announcement and a seismic decision.
00:01:47.840From the Buckeye State of Ohio there, one of the most controversial races we've watched all election season.
00:01:53.140Amy Acton, the former state health director in Ohio, becoming the next governor of that state as she defeats former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:02:01.640Acton becomes the first Democrat to win the governorship of Ohio in 20 years, a state that Donald Trump won three consecutive times.
00:02:09.220And Kansas, Democrat Adam Hamilton riding voters' dissatisfaction with the economy to victory.
00:02:14.220There's a whole lot of people in Kansas, hundreds of thousands of people are living paycheck to paycheck, and this is not okay.
00:02:19.400In South Carolina, political newcomer Annie Andrews defeating President Trump's hand-picked candidate Darlene Graham.
00:07:38.180and these are the guys who should be getting Pulisic.
00:07:42.520Welcome back to Human Events. I'm Jack Posobiec. For the record, ladies and gentlemen, I have not slept. We've been following the midterm results all night, all morning. There's still plenty to cover. And yes, if you'd see, I've flown back from Phoenix to the East Coast. And now I'm here still going. I know I did not sleep on the plane. But when I can finally call it a day, I'm looking forward to some rest.
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00:11:28.820I want to bring on our next guest, Rich Barris, the people's pundit, someone who, like myself, warned about the socialist revolution, warned about the people burning it down.
00:12:40.840Well, Richard, if I could get into that as well a little bit, I'd also love to throw out that it's not just Iran, but it's also the Ukraine war.0.81
00:12:50.740All of the foreign wars, it just needs to be wound down.
00:12:54.080It's time to focus on putting America first.
00:12:56.820And we talked about I've had numerous debates on, you know, Piers Morgan and other shows with the neocons say when they were trying to tell me that the strikes on the oil refineries and the energy shipments coming out of Russia that Ukraine was doing played no role whatsoever in the increase in energy costs.0.96
00:13:17.280And I said, and I said, I think Zelensky is trying to sabotage the midterms because because he's upset that Trump is pulling support for him.
00:13:26.140That's exactly what happened. That's exactly what happened. And say, you know what? That if he doesn't like it, the American people do not, you know, do not work for the people of Kiev. They work for the people of Kansas. They work for the people of Kentucky. All right. That's what the American people are all about. That's where the focus should be. Not on. What did I say the other day? I said on on Europe, on Yuma, not on Europe, on Chicago, not on Shanghai. All right.
00:13:54.600This is really, really an Indiana, not Iran. So it's really, really simple. We need to focus on putting America first. We need to focus on putting the American people first. It's not just Iran. It's all this stuff, isn't it?0.52
00:14:07.800it really is they've always been connected the same people who always you know uh support these
00:14:13.780things jack and and try to push us into these things they you know they support them both
00:14:18.540one side of their mouth these people during the biden administration somehow biden is senile right
00:14:24.080and he's crazy and we shouldn't get into a war right or we shouldn't do anything the commander
00:14:28.200in chief's lost his mind yet somehow they do think we should get into a war even though the commander0.95
00:14:33.020in chief is senile these are not rational people jack and i would say this to the president you
00:14:38.180know mr president the people who you know advise you to do this thing never had your best interest
00:14:42.720at heart you had the greatest political comeback in the history of any any political figure forget
00:14:49.760it was you know i sometimes look back to antiquity when i try to compare what trump did
00:14:53.940and i struggle to even find one that that matches there's nothing because there's nothing there's
00:14:58.000Nothing. There's nothing to compare it to. Nothing. And now we just suffered. And now we just suffered. After that, two years later, we suffered the worst political, the worst incumbent defeat since Watergate. This is what this war has done. This is what these neocons have done. The president has the best instincts in American politics. He knows the course here. Just you're right.
00:15:20.300They're both linked. The American public are done. There's the four things. There they are. Jack, hundreds of thousands of interviews. You know, we're one of the only pollsters that actually still talk to people during interviews. We actually asked them to elaborate on why they feel the way they do.
00:15:37.340It was very clear. And they gave us, they gave the president a lot of grace. They were unhappy for a while. But because so many viewed him as literally their last chance to live the American dream, they gave him so much grace and time to do those four things. And we just got to the point where we ran out of time. It just didn't happen.
00:19:48.220Yeah, I know. I know. No. And obviously, you and I had many conversations and a lot of a lot of late nights, you know, up on the phone and conversations about why can't anybody see it? Why can't anybody see it? And a lot of people said that Rich Barris is running around like Chicken Little with his hair on fire. And then we wake up to this and suddenly it's like, oh, wait a minute. Maybe we were the ones who were delusional.
00:20:13.440rich i know you have a hard out but what would you say to folks who are waking up today and just
00:20:20.020and and had had had completely disregarded this this idea that we could lose and lose this big
00:20:26.960and then where do we go forward what's the in in a broad sense don't ever ever
00:20:33.160delude yourself into thinking that you own a certain sector of the electorate and the voters
00:20:40.200yes oh they owe you loyalty they don't owe you jack you owe them they entrusted you to do a job
00:20:47.460for them and if you don't not only if you're elected and you don't do it or if you're not
00:20:52.240elected maybe you're a member of the base or whatever it isn't it you are obliged it is
00:20:56.920incumbent on you to make sure that your party delivers for them and shilling is not american
00:21:30.960It's unfortunate, but that's what's happening here.
00:21:33.480If Democrats don't deliver, which they're not going to, I mean, they'll try to come after the president, despite what everyone seems to think.
00:21:41.680They will come after the president because the base will demand it.
00:21:45.720They'll not make anyone's lives better here.
00:21:49.200We're in for a very rocky two years, and that gives us opportunity.
00:21:52.780It stinks, but it gives us opportunity, and it'll be a while.
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00:29:28.360asked about this I did a couple interviews last night and I've had people asking me this morning
00:29:33.480as well they said Jack you know what do you think Charlie would say about all this and you know my
00:29:40.300response has always been, whenever anyone asks me that question, is I think it would be inappropriate
00:29:45.080for me to try to put words in his mouth. I don't think any of us should try to do that because
00:29:49.780he's not here to respond. He's not here to be able to make that response. And I'm sure he's
00:29:57.640watching. I'm sure he was watching last night. I'm sure he was watching those polls and the
00:30:01.900live streams. And, you know, we know Charlie loved the election night live streams. I mean,
00:30:44.280And keep in mind that TPUSA was founded in the Obama era, in the Obama era,
00:30:51.660when conservatives were told that we were going to be an endangered species
00:30:57.240and that the Republican Party was going to be a regional alliance, right?
00:31:02.640And that's when Charlie started. TPUSA all the way back in 2012. In the shadow of all of that, he said, no, I think there's a way forward and I think there's a way forward for conservatives. And he did it and he showed us that path and that path is still open to us.
00:31:19.160And that's the path of America first and making sure that we connect and engage with those young voters and rebuild that 2024 coalition.
00:31:29.220Someone who indelibly understands all of these things, as well as the socialist revolution that is now upon us, is Joshua Lysak, the co-author of, of course, Unhuman Socialist Revolution with myself, as well as Burn It Down with Rich Barris.
00:31:43.380So, Joshua, what's going on, man? You are directly responsible and tied to the two, I would say the two books this cycle that came out that accurately predicted where we were going and what was happening in 2026 in the face of pretty much the entire conservative, you know, consensus saying otherwise.
00:32:08.560thank you jack yes it's good to be here of course i wish better circumstances of this conversation
00:32:18.260that said people are now the pundits the other pundits who are kind of behind the times and even
00:32:23.940predicting a red wave i saw a bit of that they're now coming around our line of thinking and and
00:32:29.560saying well we should have just seen this we should have just known it it should have been
00:32:34.000How did we miss this? And it's like we have been ignored. And sometimes it really sucks to be
00:32:40.920right. Going back to earlier this year, it was very clear, very, very clear that the Iran war
00:32:48.620and its consequences were going to affect the midterms. Even going back to last year, almost
00:32:55.300a year ago now, there was a lot of concern that the candidates being fielded for the primary
00:33:03.080amongst Republicans were kind of barely MAGA-lite, very much watered down old school establishment
00:33:10.900style Republican candidates across state level and even federal races. And there was that concern
00:33:17.460that America First candidates were not getting any attention that they needed, despite how popular
00:33:23.620they have turned out to be. Of course, Brandon Gill, a representative, he's won his re-election
00:33:29.600by double digits, I understand, while other Republicans seem to be synonymous with the
00:33:35.520establishment have lost by double digits in these same elections. So we know that when we run
00:33:42.040candidates who care about the American experience, who care about affordability, about housing,
00:33:49.340about jobs, real estate, the economy, gas prices, the price of eggs, these are all the talking
00:33:56.000points that the democratic socialists this time around just simply stole from us meanwhile we had
00:34:01.840national republican influencers talking about how uh young men were to blame i mean joshua do you
00:34:09.600remember when we had people uh many of which were of the neoconservative stripe on our side of the
00:34:16.940aisle who were running and and folks like me and you were telling people you have to focus on the
00:34:22.980price of food. If people are telling you that the price of food, specifically in this case,
00:34:28.200the burrito was the one that people were bringing up. If voters are telling you that the burritos
00:34:33.700are too expensive and, uh, and that all of the, you know, these, these, these other issues related0.51
00:34:39.300to it relating to H one B's and so many others were driving up these costs. In addition to an
00:34:46.080unpopular farm war, there were neocons. And I remember this, they got so mad at us. Mark
00:34:52.540Thiessen got so mad. Mark Thiessen, the same guy who said back in January that there would be no
00:34:58.880downside to attacking Iran. There would be no downside to the Iran war. The same Mark Thiessen
00:35:04.840then came back and said that who cares how expensive burritos are? Just go make your own
00:35:11.340burrito at home. Well, Joshua, do we have any potential, I don't know, historical precedence
00:35:16.820for times where the people get upset about the price of food amidst an unpopular war?
00:35:24.400If my memory serves me correctly, and of course it does, that would be the year 1917.
00:35:31.500Oh, 1917. Gosh, that was the end of World War I, wasn't it? What country was that again?
00:35:38.040I just, oh my gosh, I haven't slept. I can't think.
00:35:44.380Well, they weren't the Russian Empire for much longer.
00:35:46.820Uh-oh. And of course, it was because issues of the expensive situation involving not just food, but land, quality housing. There were veterans who were coming back deeply disgruntled with the foreign entanglement.
00:36:05.740There seemed to be no benefit to the Russian people, the Russian citizenry, Russian soldiers, obviously, the working class together.
00:36:14.020There seemed to be no benefit to remaining in World War I.
00:36:20.140Queen Victoria's children, grandchildren and other descendants really was the, let's say, context of World War I.
00:36:28.180It was really a family squabble that got wildly out of hand amongst the powers of Europe.
00:36:32.980And so it was seen as the czar's war. Why are we bleeding for the czar's war? Why are we paying so much high prices and we're struggling? And along came the Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin, who simply told the people what they wanted to hear. And then they organized and they formed themselves support.
00:36:52.840you can be radical and and joshua this is something and you and i have been and and we
00:36:59.200we sat down with charlie uh about this back in 2024 so uh two and a half years we've been talking
00:37:06.060about this i almost three years in total warning people that this would come what was the slogan
00:37:11.540it was peace land bread peace land bread so anti-war housing costs and food costs my gosh
00:37:21.480who does that sound like today? Who does it sound like today? Oh, that's right. It sounds like the
00:37:26.980Mondamis. It sounds like the El Saeeds. It sounds like the Tallaricos. This is exactly this. It's
00:37:33.240not a new playbook. It is the playbook of the socialist revolutionaries. It's the same playbook.
00:37:40.060They didn't change it. They just translated it into English. They didn't change anything. They're
00:37:44.340using almost the exact same words that vladimir lenin used in 1917 amidst an unpopular war we
00:37:54.720warned we were getting a socialist revolution and now because people didn't listen we are in one
00:38:00.920what do we do talk about that coming back jack for soviet human events real america's voice
00:38:14.340Jack Posobiec appreciation hour. I can say confidently, I believe, I think Josh Shapiro
00:38:23.100would be the vice presidential nominee if it wasn't for Jack Posobiec. And that is, I'll be honest.
00:38:30.620President Trump didn't win. No, President Trump's message won. Unfortunately, he wasn't the
00:38:36.700messenger. His staff and his team allowed his winning message in 2024 to be co-opted by his
00:38:42.480opposition. All of the candidates on the Dem side that won tonight, we were spending time talking
00:38:47.460about Hassan Piker and El-Sayed. Hassan Piker and El-Sayed were spending time talking to voters
00:38:53.820about how, hey, you know what, maybe you don't want to send all your money to overseas wars and
00:38:57.740have it come back home and work hard for you here. Hey, we want to take on corruption. Hey,
00:39:01.700we want to make the economy work for you. That's President Trump's message. That is the Trump
00:39:06.240doctrine. And Republicans tonight allowed that message to get co-opted by insincere actors.
00:39:14.400So that was Caroline Sunshine. Of course, we've had her on the program before. And that's what1.00
00:39:19.420we're saying. We're largely saying the same thing, that this message was the president's message.
00:39:25.080But unfortunately, it was picked up not by the GOP candidates. It was picked up by the opposition.
00:39:30.920They just used the 2024 campaign talking points around America first.
00:39:56.440There's a perpetual bait and switch. And we've already seen that with both current and incoming House Democrats who are saying that their priority right now is lawfare, lawfare in the president, lawfare in the administration, subpoenas, depositions.
00:40:12.420That's basically the next two years, I think, of national politics.
00:40:15.560It's one show trial after another, multiple impeachments, of course.
00:40:20.320I don't know if we'll see Republican senators defect to get that ultra majority in the Senate for an actual conviction.
00:40:27.160But they're very clear in what their priority is.
00:40:29.260You just say the right things, you win the election, and then you focus on what you really had in mind the entire time.
00:40:38.640But I don't think we can really blame the voters because there were not, I don't believe, enough successes to tout from this particular campaign season where we had so many establishment choices who were on the ballot.
00:40:55.320And that really makes it difficult when it seems like, well, who's been president the last couple of years?
00:41:03.280And it's just an instant, we can call it like a mental trap.
00:41:07.620You know, people go to the gas pump, they see what the number is, and they think of who's president. That's how it's been since George W. Bush, I recall. And it's basically like Bush raised the gas prices, Obama raised the gas prices, Biden.
00:41:22.460And now we're seeing a lot of blame going towards Trump, while at the same time, there continues to be persistent anti-young, anti-male, anti-white rhetoric, not simply just from the left, but from Republicans.
00:41:40.200Joshua, I'm so happy you brought this up because people remember just a couple of weeks ago when, and look, I didn't mean this from, and it's not personal.
00:41:51.480But when Sarah Huckabee Sanders put out that ad that attacked young white men and called them a bunch of lazy gamers sitting on the cat, the couch, and then Ashley Hinson, the Republican Senate candidate in Iowa, went up and said the exact same thing when she was in a race that looked like she could lose.
00:42:14.140Well, when you go and tell your young voters, guys, when you tell your young voters to not come out and vote for you, lo and behold, gosh, look what happened.
00:42:24.380They didn't come out. They didn't. Maybe they didn't like being attacked by you.
00:42:29.700Maybe they didn't like being crapped on by you. And maybe just maybe this is not the best way to win voters over.
00:42:37.460You know, I'm just saying there's a lot of political malpractice and whoever's idea it was to get multiple.0.97
00:42:44.800You got Sarah Huckabee Sanders in Arkansas and then Ashley Hinson up in Iowa doing these things.1.00
00:42:49.780Political malpractice to have them doing things like this.1.00
00:42:53.960Yes, that's right. And some of the numbers that I saw this morning, it looked like nationally amongst white registered Republicans.
00:43:01.600We saw only a 13 percent turnout is the numbers that I saw on average, 13 percent amongst millennials, 11 percent and a handful of fractions there for Gen Z, specifically white registered Republicans.
00:43:16.920That's that's roughly 90 percent of white Republicans declined to show up yesterday.
00:43:24.720That's just an incredible anti-turnout, as if that was the strategy the entire time.
00:43:32.720It's truly incredible, and it's unfortunate.
00:43:35.700And I hope, silver lining moment, what we can do from this point forwards is give messaging from the right over to those very people who have been disdained by the girl boss establishment for far too long.
00:43:51.360I think that's something else. We need less nagging and less harping from the right, from positions of power. The focus is always on the economy and immigration. Economy and immigration. Young men in this country want to be able to buy a house. They want to be able to afford to allow their wife to come home and homeschool their kids, raise their kids, at least for the first couple of years.0.75
00:44:14.440They want to be able to have multiple children in a safe neighborhood.
00:44:18.560And that is the only, the only message that has staying power on the right long term.0.62