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00:04:23.000I want to lead with something that I think is an overarching theme, and it's some good news, everybody.
00:04:30.000And if you're like me, you could use some good news right now, which is the ruling class is getting demoralized.
00:04:39.000They thought the implementation of Biden, let me say that again, not the election, but the implementation, it was the most interfered with election in American history.
00:04:49.000$400 million from Mark Zuckerberg from the Center for Technology and Civic Life.
00:04:55.000The interference from big media and tech companies into our last election.
00:05:05.000They also thought that their posture and the authoritarian turn post-January 6 would result in conservatives and just regular Americans backing down.
00:05:18.000They thought that we would be giving up, that we would be suing for peace.
00:05:22.000Instead, conservatives have more energy, more activism, more resolve than ever before.
00:05:32.000You see, the leaders of this slow-motion revolution that we are living through envisioned a much different state of affairs.
00:05:41.000They envisioned conservatives not showing up to school board meetings in massive numbers, but instead trying to do some soul searching and looking for Liz Cheney or Mitt Romney to lead our party.
00:05:54.000They envisioned conservatives doing what we did after John McCain lost in 2008, which was let's go to the middle.
00:06:03.000Now, there was a temporary moment when the Tea Party rose up, but the Tea Party was squashed by both establishment Republicans and the media in a variety of different ways.
00:06:15.000You see, the ruling class right now, they are losing faith in their own project.
00:06:22.000The ruling class is realizing that this is not like storming the Bastille.
00:06:27.000You have to keep on winning elections.
00:06:28.000You have to keep on persuading people.
00:06:32.000Remember, the United States Constitution spreads power over space and time.
00:06:49.000And then over time, you have to win a lot of elections over many years, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten years to keep that hold on power.
00:07:02.000The ruling class hated Donald Trump so much, they said, we're going to cut corners, engage in shenanigans, and we'll figure out the rest once we get power.
00:07:12.000And almost every single goal that the Democrats have had legislatively has been put into jeopardy.
00:07:19.000The $4.7 trillion spending package, in jeopardy.
00:07:23.000The $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, in jeopardy.
00:09:12.000New bombshells show that Trump's coup was real and the threat to democracy hasn't passed.
00:09:18.000Politico, what if 2020 was just a rehearsal on the threat to democracy?
00:09:23.000You see, they're now repeating this incantation: Trump threat to democracy, Trump threat to democracy.
00:09:29.000The only way they can try to rebound their total failure of managing the country.
00:09:35.000But the resignations are mounting, and you're going to see more and more congressional resignations soon of House members that want nothing to do with the impending collapse of the Democrat Party.
00:09:47.000And I know things feel like they are falling apart because they are.
00:10:20.000Because they're dealing with a different type of conservative, everybody.
00:10:25.000They're dealing with a type of conservative that went back to work after things looked really dim and grim.
00:10:31.000They're dealing with a type of conservative that keeps the drumbeat going, that continues to organize.
00:10:38.000They're dealing with a conservative movement that is not intimidated by Merrick Garland marching in, the Praetorian Guard from the Department of Justice.
00:10:45.000And by the way, notice how I've opened up this hour.
00:10:49.000I said the ruling class is getting demoralized, not just Democrats.
00:10:54.000Do you notice Rhino Republicans are resigning too?
00:10:57.000Do you notice that the moderate Republicans are giving up?
00:11:01.000Front page of political playbook yesterday: Democrats warned that the president's decline is alarming.
00:11:07.000In a focus group last week, Pennsylvania Democrats, one after the other, articulated the issue vexing top White House aides, party operatives in Virginia, and voters in Georgia.
00:11:16.000Why isn't President Joe Biden's diminished job rating rebounding?
00:11:20.000All nine participants from Tuesday's session gave the similar answer, C-minus grades for Joe Biden or lower.
00:11:26.000And their answers circle back to a similar point.
00:11:28.000The pandemic and many ways it continues to hinder normal life is souring their views of Biden.
00:11:34.000That would be one of many complaints that I would give.
00:11:40.000But I think that the overarching theme, the private conversations that are now happening between the $100 billion Individuals, the elite ruling class, the people running the media, the people running CNN, the people running Pfizer, the people running AstraZeneca, is this.
00:11:58.000What do we have to do to make these people go away?
00:12:02.000And they're realizing we're not going to go away.
00:12:33.000We're going to talk about how the conservative movement will win because we're embracing that principle.
00:12:39.000Last month, an absolute landslide of all of you made the switch to PeerTalk.
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00:14:26.000It's called Anti-Fragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.
00:14:31.000He also wrote The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness.
00:14:35.000Black Swan is a phenomenal book, and it is, that phrase is overused.
00:14:39.000Happy to do a whole podcast and radio show on why I think that phrase is overused.
00:14:43.000Where I think you could make an argument that Donald Trump was a black swan event in 2016.
00:14:50.000Fooled by randomness, do not read that book if you are having difficulty understanding faith.
00:14:56.000We'll get into that at a different time.
00:14:57.000But anti-fragility, as Nassim Taleb would say, again, let me read this again.
00:15:01.000The resilient resists shock and stays the same, but the anti-fragile gets better.
00:15:06.000The conservative movement is getting better.
00:15:09.000It's not just that the conservative movement is resilient.
00:15:11.000It's this new term that the more we are beat down, vaccine mandates, supply chain disruptions, arming the Taliban, China's going to take Taiwan, shutting down our businesses, mask mandates, we're getting better and stronger.
00:15:26.000Now, what does this mean for the future of the country?
00:15:31.000This means that we have to embrace all of the stressors, all of the uncertainty, the risk.
00:15:38.000And that is what is going to make the conservative movement strong long term.
00:15:45.000Nassim Taleb continued by saying, simply, anti-fragility is defined as a convex response to a stressor or source of harm leading to positive sensitivity to increase in volatility, leading a negative sensitivity to an increase in volatility.
00:16:03.000Put simply, the party of Mitt Romney is a fragile Republican party.
00:16:10.000Fold at once, Chuck Schumer wants what he wants.
00:16:12.000Mitch McConnell, give him what he wants.
00:16:15.000But the conservative movement I'm seeing shows that Merrick Garland sends a letter from the Department of Justice and more parents are showing up at school board meetings, anti-fragile.
00:16:25.000The conservative movement of Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, and George Bush, and I hate to put Mitch McConnell in that category in that bucket, but he certainly has deserved it this last week because he wavers.
00:16:37.000Let's just say the conservative movement of Mitt Romney and George Bush, when they get kicked off social media, they'd be begging for mercy.
00:16:46.000The conservative movement that gets kicked off social media and the president gets kicked off social media, we understand we are now in a different mindset.
00:17:21.000The Taliban, the more we attacked them, the stronger they got.
00:17:25.000They are an anti-fragile organization.
00:17:27.000They, despite being in the seventh century with machine guns and pickup trucks, they outlasted the Soviet Union and the United States of America.
00:17:37.000That's one example of what an anti-fragile organization would.
00:17:54.000But we beat the British by not losing.
00:17:57.000You see, when you're defending the homeland, you win by not losing.
00:18:01.000You can lose a bunch of battles like the Viet Cong and still win the war because it's the invading force that needs to win everything.
00:18:09.000It's the invading force that needs to take over all things and change the hearts and minds.
00:18:14.000And make no mistake, the left right now in America is an invading force.
00:18:19.000The ruling class is getting demoralized, no different than the demoralization of the British against the American revolutionaries in the 1776, 1780s.
00:18:28.000They're like, how much more do we have to go through?
00:18:31.000The more they persecute us, the stronger they get.
00:18:35.000The more we throw at them, the more they're standing up against us.
00:18:39.000The more that we send mandates at them, the more that we send these issues and these guidances, all of a sudden, the more they're talking about freedom and liberty, the more we try to call them domestic terrorists, the less seriously they take the mandates.
00:18:58.000I'm telling you, if I see this, if this continues and the courage continues, and I'm seeing out of Southwest is unbelievable, out of these pilots is incredible.
00:19:05.000We're going to get to that in a second.
00:19:07.000We're going to win because the future, the future is in the hands of those that bend but do not break.
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00:21:07.000They're so bad that Politico, The Hill, and Axios are saying Democrats' dwindling path in 2022.
00:21:16.000And deep down, you're going to see an outrage level, and it's going to get very serious.
00:21:20.000I'm going to tell you what's about to happen that we have not seen because the plan was always just to defeat Trump, and all of the Trump people are going to go away.
00:21:52.000The governor of the state that we're in right now, Governor Greg Abbott, issued an executive order saying that no one can mandate vaccines.
00:22:15.000I would love to see all these liberal companies that are headquartered in Texas now pay their employees to go leave the state because they are worried that people are not being mandated to take a vaccine that the CDC even says does not prevent you from getting the virus itself.
00:22:34.000We are seeing a collapse of the Biden regime, and we know this.
00:22:38.000It's being pretty well covered by conservative media.
00:22:41.000What's not being covered, though, which is the theme of our opening thoughts here, is how demoralized they are deep down.
00:22:50.000You can see it in their op-eds they're writing.
00:22:54.000That there is this worry that they might have been able to implement Biden and cut the corners, but normal people are not going to put up with this.
00:23:02.000CNN.com, the front page of CNN.com, and I do not make it a habit to go there.
00:23:08.000The sentence that sums up Biden's mounting political problems.
00:23:12.000The problem for Biden and his party is that voters know that Democrats are in charge of everything in DC.
00:23:30.000Is that they thought they could carpet bomb conservatives into obedience?
00:23:38.000They thought they could execute the shock and all blitzkrieg campaign.
00:23:42.000And we actually called it that back in the spring.
00:23:44.000We said, buckle up, everybody, it's about to get real rocky.
00:23:48.000Vaccine mandates, firing people because of different beliefs, the implementation of all these new cultural norms.
00:23:57.000And what now I am able to say conclusively in October, nine months later, is that we as the conservative movement have grown stronger.
00:24:10.000When I go and I visit these meetings, I see people that are spending their free time studying the beauty of American history, going deep into why we need to fight and how we need to fight, which actually is a beautiful segue to one of our partners of this program that I'm so enthusiastic about: Hillsdale College.
00:24:33.000We were just flying as a team and we were all over the place.
00:24:37.000And when I'm on the flight, I'm always listening and I'm taking the Hillsdale online courses.
00:24:43.000So, number one, if you have a young person, they should go to Hillsdale.
00:24:47.000I sat in on an Aristotle course with Dr. Larry Yarn.
00:25:15.000I'm about to finish the Western Heritage from the book of Genesis to John Locke.
00:25:19.000I just finished an unbelievable lecture on the Roman Empire and the Greeks.
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00:26:09.000I'm reading this story right here from the Washington Post.
00:26:11.000As a stunning new report reveals Trump's threat to democracy, Republicans shrug.
00:26:16.000So as they realize that the morale of their own troops, that the people around them are losing hope, they are now going back to the only play that they know.
00:26:31.000The only play that they have is to go bring back Donald Trump and to try to demonize him.
00:26:37.000The New York Times said yesterday: Democrats have been unable to deliver much to make their voters happy, and their major agenda items have been stalled in Congress for so long that many of those voters are growing impatient and disillusioned.
00:26:52.000As a matter, many recent polls have shown Biden's approval ratings plummeting to the lowest levels of his young presidency.
00:26:59.000I don't know if it's a young presidency.
00:27:02.000Yeah, it's probably the oldest, but I understand what they mean by that.
00:27:05.000More than half of the disapproved of the handling of the economy.
00:27:09.000And by the way, just so you understand how bad the economy actually is right now, I want to read some headlines of how bad it is right now.
00:27:15.000Food shortages affecting schools across Wisconsin.
00:27:28.000And meanwhile, Republicans have pulled in $146 million for Republican candidates for $400 million total dollars raised for this calendar year.
00:27:40.000There will not be a resource problem for Republican candidates coming up in this next election cycle.
00:27:48.000And I want you to put yourself in the shoes, though, of Ron Klain, Valerie Jarrett, Barack Obama, one of these ruling class members.
00:27:56.000They thought this would be easier because they didn't know who they were dealing with.
00:28:01.000Remember, they are trying to conquer the American project, no different than the British Empire had to conquer and win back the colonies because of such a separation from it.
00:28:11.000And again, all we have to do is not lose.
00:28:14.000We are winning is not losing because they will eventually give up.
00:28:37.000They have warring factions within their own troops.
00:28:41.000They are unable to be able to pinpoint a path forward.
00:28:46.000And Republicans or conservatives, let's just say conservatives, the conservative movement, we are already saying we're in this for the long haul.
00:28:58.000Is the side that gets offended because they get gendered incorrectly going to win, or the side that's willing to get fired because they don't want to take a vaccine going to win?
00:32:26.000But understand in the private musings and text messages, the Peter Struckstroke smirk texting Lisa Page type text messages, you know, the insurance plan type text messages, they're saying to themselves, I don't know how much longer I can do this.
00:32:39.000I'm losing patience with these people.
00:32:46.000Our biggest problem when we visit college campuses at Turning Point USA is finding rooms big enough for the amount of students that want to show up and attend our events.
00:32:55.000School board meetings are having to turn parents away because they don't have time to hear from all of them.
00:33:02.000Their plan was to have empty rooms when I came up to show, show up and speak, to have no parents care about anything, and they could bulldoze us into tyranny.
00:36:29.000They've banned him because of the vaccination status.
00:36:33.000Even though we know, according to the CDC, the vaccine does not prevent you from getting COVID.
00:36:38.000Even though we know the rising number of questions people have about it, we know about azithromycin, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, regeneron, monoclonal antibodies, and the study yesterday, aspirin.