Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - FETTERMAN AND BIDEN ARE NOT OK, Plus More DOJ Corruption Exposed, Live w- Sean Parnell | TRIGGERED Ep.43

00:00:00.000 Good evening, folks.

00:00:23.000 Welcome to another awesome episode of Triggered.

00:00:26.000 Thanks for tuning in.

00:00:27.000 As always, don't forget to like, subscribe, download the Rumble app so you can see the real news and have real conversations since no one seems to be wanting to do that these days.

00:00:38.000 Tonight, we're joined by my good friend Sean Parnell.

00:00:41.000 Former U.S. Army Airborne Ranger, author, Pennsylvania politician, someone who's dealt with plenty of nonsense both in the military and otherwise.

00:00:52.000 He's the host of the Battleground podcast and also the author of Outlaw Platoon based on his experiences over there in the desert.

00:01:02.000 Lifelong Pennsylvania resident and he's perfect for tonight's show because we're discussing America's A foremost scholar.

00:01:11.000 Many in the media would even refer to him as a poet.

00:01:16.000 John Fetterman. We'll also talk to Sean about the never-ending witch hunts against my father.

00:01:21.000 We have some funny stories from when he was on the podcast initially.

00:01:26.000 I think we share a lot of stuff in that we've been sort of dealt kind of ridiculous blows by a corrupt justice system.

00:01:34.000 He knows more about the woke military than most, and much, much more.

00:01:39.000 I also want to get into...

00:01:40.000 When we talk about the document scandal, I think we have a pretty funny story from when Sean first did the podcast here with me.

00:01:47.000 I think it was like the second or third episode of the show ever.

00:01:52.000 And he was on here.

00:01:53.000 He was actually staying at Mar-a-Lago.

00:01:56.000 And so when they talk about secure documents versus the Biden garage and stuff like that, I think we have a pretty funny story.

00:02:02.000 I'll let him tell it. But first...

00:02:05.000 Since we're talking Pennsylvania, we've got to talk about struggling Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, who was with Joe Biden at an event in Philadelphia this weekend.

00:02:16.000 And honestly, I don't blame Joe Biden for hosting events with Fetterman.

00:02:22.000 I think John Fetterman makes Joe Biden seem like a Rhodes Scholar.

00:02:30.000 It must be nice, for once, for Joe Biden to be the most eloquent person.

00:02:38.000 On the stage when you're dealing with Fetterman.

00:02:41.000 Just so we understand, John Fetterman's a Pennsylvania senator who had a serious stroke while he was running.

00:02:47.000 The Democrat Party apparatus knew about that, but they loved either his radical policies or the fact that he just signed on to anything that the Democrats would put in front of him because he's bordering on being a vegetable.

00:03:00.000 And they wanted to run him anyway.

00:03:02.000 So here is John Fetterman.

00:03:05.000 Introducing Congressman Brandon Boyle at the event with Joe Biden.

00:03:11.000 Or, like Futterman apparently likes to call him, Boyle Bile.

00:03:16.000 It's close, folks.

00:03:18.000 Close enough for senators, close enough for your taxpayer dollars, close enough for someone who could make decisions to send your children off to war or trillion-dollar financial decisions that they will be beholden to for generations.

00:03:31.000 Check out John Fetterman right here.

00:03:33.000 I'm very pleased to be here and to introduce my friend, Congressman Boyle Bile.

00:03:40.000 Thank you.

00:03:44.000 Well, thank you.

00:03:45.000 I'm Congressman Brendan Boyle.

00:03:47.000 you I mean, it's his good friend, right?

00:03:52.000 Boyle Bile, Brendan Boyle, I mean, it's almost the same, right?

00:03:57.000 Now look, I get it, folks.

00:03:59.000 The guy's had a stroke.

00:04:00.000 That's awful.

00:04:02.000 But he still kept on running in the race.

00:04:06.000 And now he's a United States Senator.

00:04:08.000 The Democrat machine in Pennsylvania knew about it.

00:04:14.000 Sean Parnell, who will be our guest, was actually a competitor against one of the other people that was running in that Senate primary.

00:04:22.000 We can ask him about it, and we can say whatever we want about that individual, but at least he's somewhat competent, unlike John Fetterman.

00:04:32.000 We're allowed to talk about how one of the United States senators from Pennsylvania is clearly unable to perform his job.

00:04:44.000 This is him at a Senate hearing talking about the recent collapse of a portion of I-95 in Philadelphia.

00:04:51.000 Check it out. Today, some comments about the tragic accident on I-95.

00:05:01.000 And if you want to make any comments with respect to that, feel free, you're recognized.

00:05:09.000 No, I... Really, like the 95, 95, 95, you know?

00:05:25.000 Guys, this shouldn't be normal, okay?

00:05:30.000 Our nation's leaders should be capable of speaking in complete sentences.

00:05:36.000 But of course, that's not the case.

00:05:38.000 Fetterman is not alone.

00:05:40.000 He's taking inspiration from the Democrats' fearless leader, Joe Biden.

00:05:47.000 You and I might be living in June of 2023, but Joe Biden is in an entirely different place.

00:05:55.000 His aviators apparently transport him to a simpler time when Queen Elizabeth was still alive.

00:06:04.000 God save the Queen, man.

00:06:11.000 Thank you.

00:06:16.000 Of course, you know, minor details.

00:06:25.000 I don't know if anyone missed it, because there was like a three-week-long celebration in the UK about the life of Queen Elizabeth, who tragically passed a couple of months ago.

00:06:35.000 But, like... Our president doesn't seem to remember that.

00:06:39.000 He doesn't seem to know.

00:06:42.000 He then can't remember which way to go off the stage, and his handlers have to escort him like we would our toddlers when they're approaching, I don't know, a dangerous ledge or something.

00:06:55.000 Even the liberal hacks in the press could hardly cover for Joe Biden and his absolute incompetence.

00:07:04.000 USA Today's White House reporter wrote, and I quote, President Biden's God save the queen man remark after his speech is befuddling many. 1.00

00:07:17.000 Yeah, no shit, folks. 0.99

00:07:19.000 It should be befuddling everyone. 0.99

00:07:22.000 The fact that we're still pretending that this guy has a couple of brain cells left is mind-boggling.

00:07:29.000 The fact that we're pretending that this guy having the nuclear codes is wonderful.

00:07:35.000 Combine that...

00:07:36.000 With the corruption around his entire family and the asinine decisions that we are making, putting China first, America last, bringing us close to World War III, you know, minor things like that, you'd think maybe the media would start asking these questions.

00:07:53.000 But of course, you'd, generally speaking, be 100% wrong, with perhaps the exception of myself and perhaps two or three other people on Rumble.

00:08:02.000 A Dallas Morning News reporter covering the event also wrote, several of you have asked me why he might have said that.

00:08:10.000 I have no idea.

00:08:11.000 I mean, I'm glad that someone from a liberal paper is at least mentioning it.

00:08:18.000 But the fact that they don't take it to the next logical place, which is how the hell is this guy the leader of the free world, should also be befuddling.

00:08:31.000 When he's not speaking nonsense, Joe Biden's just straight up lying to further his radical agenda.

00:08:38.000 In order to grab your guns, he has to say stuff like vans are just driving around cities selling AR-15s.

00:08:46.000 Seriously, folks, this is Joe Biden's excuse for gun control.

00:08:49.000 Listen for yourselves....licensed gun dealers required by law to run background checks on those he's selling a weapon to.

00:08:57.000 And in most cities down in Philadelphia and New York, areas I know well, like up here, you'd see a truck pull up, pull to the curb and selling weapons, selling guns, selling AR-15, selling weapons.

00:09:14.000 Strange. Got a lot of AR-15s.

00:09:18.000 Know a lot of people in that world.

00:09:20.000 And that doesn't happen.

00:09:22.000 But that doesn't matter. And that's the key thing to know about John Fetterman and Joe Biden.

00:09:30.000 Both are clueless and can hardly speak. 1.00

00:09:35.000 They're bordering on imbeciles. 1.00

00:09:37.000 You wouldn't allow them to drive your Uber. 1.00

00:09:41.000 You wouldn't entrust them with anything.

00:09:44.000 And yet...

00:09:46.000 Both are in power to push an agenda designed to strip you of your rights.

00:09:52.000 You don't need Joe Biden to actually know where he is for that to happen, folks.

00:09:57.000 Come on! Minor details, right?

00:10:00.000 His aides can manage that part.

00:10:02.000 Whoever's actually pulling the strings in this marionette show...

00:10:08.000 They know what's going on. 1.00

00:10:09.000 He's just the dumb messenger. 0.98

00:10:11.000 He's the one that will sign anything they put in front of them, no matter how extreme. 0.99

00:10:16.000 And those guys are more than willing to throw him, his reputation, under the bus to get their agenda done.

00:10:24.000 Just look at what happened to a Montana gun store last week.

00:10:29.000 Twenty armed IRS agents stormed into a Great Falls, Montana gun store and seized dozens of boxes of background checks forms.

00:10:40.000 Huh. We were wondering.

00:10:43.000 We were wondering why the 87,000 new IRS agents that the Democrat regime wanted to put in place, why they were being hired, and why they needed guns.

00:10:56.000 Remember this a couple months ago?

00:11:00.000 It seems we know the answer.

00:11:01.000 Turns out folks, 87,000 armed IRS agents probably weren't just there to go after the few dozen billionaires in this country.

00:11:13.000 They were to go after you, your rights, and there was going to be nothing stopping them.

00:11:20.000 This is for there to be a gun registry.

00:11:24.000 That's what they want.

00:11:26.000 The forms have the gun's purchaser's name, his address, birth date, state of birth, gender, social security number, the serial number of any guns purchased in the store.

00:11:37.000 The information is perfectly suited to use in a gun registry database.

00:11:45.000 No different than what we talked about two, three weeks ago, going into June 1st with the Biden pistol brace ban.

00:11:52.000 We'll get into that insanity in a second.

00:11:55.000 But that's what they're doing.

00:11:58.000 They're weaponizing your government against you and against your rights.

00:12:02.000 That's the Biden administration in action, folks.

00:12:06.000 As long as that bumbling old man is in charge, they will keep going after your rights.

00:12:13.000 John Fetterman will be right there to support him.

00:12:17.000 Here's his staffer on hidden video showing that Fetterman would love for everyone's guns to be taken away.

00:12:26.000 Check it out. That was from James O'Keefe's O'Keefe Media Group.

00:12:37.000 James was on the show last Thursday.

00:12:39.000 He's got other big breaking news coming out tomorrow.

00:12:43.000 Uh, none of this should surprise you.

00:12:45.000 Don't forget, John Fetterman's the guy that wanted to release murderers.

00:12:50.000 Serious, serial criminals.

00:12:53.000 Because, you know, what's the worst that those people are gonna do, right?

00:12:57.000 But you, if you could abolish the Second Amendment, you would be helpless to defend yourself against the lunatics that Fetterman would love to free.

00:13:09.000 We're ruled by people who can't even be trusted to cross the street by themselves, folks. 1.00

00:13:15.000 But they have the power to make it so you can't be trusted to own a gun anymore.

00:13:23.000 It's important to laugh at Biden and Fetterman.

00:13:28.000 But remember, their policies and the policies they're trying to push are no joke.

00:13:34.000 And there's someone up there who's a little smarter Willing to push the radical socialist and communist agenda that represents the entirety of today's elected Democrat Congress.

00:13:49.000 This is a party that will do anything to maintain power over you.

00:13:54.000 They are literally bloodthirsty. 0.99

00:13:56.000 Check out fake Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, a non-voting delegate of the U.S. Virgin Islands, saying, my father should be shot. 0.92

00:14:10.000 Not only have had the codes, but now having the classified information for Americans and being able to put that out and share it in his resort with anyone and everyone who comes through should be terrifying to all Americans and he needs to be stopped.

00:14:29.000 Hey guys, they're saying the quiet part loud again, right?

00:14:34.000 No one watching that doesn't believe that's what she would love to happen, okay?

00:14:39.000 She corrected herself after that little slip-up.

00:14:43.000 You think that if I said that about Joe Biden or any Republican said that about AOC or one of the radical insanos in Congress, that they'd just get away with it?

00:14:52.000 No! That's what they'd like.

00:14:55.000 She can sit on there on a major news station and lie, right? 1.00

00:14:58.000 Donald Trump has the nuclear codes.

00:15:01.000 They're out there in the open for everyone at his resort to see.

00:15:05.000 Not that they're under lock and key in a safe covered by Secret Service, the United States Secret Service, right?

00:15:11.000 Not like Joe Biden's open garage.

00:15:14.000 Or his China-funded Penn Policy Center, you know, to the tune of like 50-something million dollars by China.

00:15:20.000 Yeah! I'm sure those files were really secure.

00:15:23.000 No, no, no. These were under guard by Secret Service, but they're running around pretending like the general public had access to the nuclear codes, and therefore he should be shot. 0.96

00:15:33.000 They'd like to see that happen.

00:15:35.000 They would like that to be what happens to their opposition, so they can rule you like the dictators that they are.

00:15:43.000 They will open up the border.

00:15:45.000 They'll try to imprison and threaten to shoot their leading political opponents.

00:15:50.000 All for political power.

00:15:53.000 And that's where we are.

00:15:54.000 And that's what we've seen.

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00:19:39.000 incredible warrior, great author, someone who's fighting and really

00:19:43.000 putting himself in the line of attack of the insane people that are doing what they're doing, Sean Parnell.

00:19:50.000 Welcome back, buddy. Good to have you on here.

00:19:53.000 Hey, brother. How you doing?

00:19:55.000 I'm doing good, man.

00:19:56.000 I'm doing good. You know, another week, another indictment.

00:19:59.000 So at this point, I'm just sort of getting used to it.

00:20:01.000 But you're no stranger...

00:20:07.000 You're no stranger to the nonsense as well, you know? 0.76

00:20:09.000 So I get it. I saw what they tried to do to you.

00:20:12.000 Of course, the second then you're not running anymore, it all goes away because it was always bullshit. 0.99

00:20:17.000 But unfortunately, I guess that's the game we're playing in these days, huh? 0.99

00:20:21.000 It is. I mean, and that's what makes the radical left so dangerous in this day and age.

00:20:26.000 And when I was on the campaign trail, one of the things that I talked about all the time, Don,

00:20:30.000 and what I think is right now, probably the gravest threat that we face as a country

00:20:36.000 are is the collusion between big government, big corporations, big tech and big media to force feed

00:20:43.000 narratives on the American people. And you talked about Fetterman multiple times during your lead

00:20:50.000 in, which I thought was fantastic. You were spot on on on everything you said. But but with Fetterman,

00:20:55.000 it's like if you're a Republican candidate, not only do you have to worry about all of those

00:21:00.000 things that I just talked about, like the collusion with all those big, powerful organizations.

00:21:06.000 If you're a candidate, you also have to act as your own media, like your own fact checker.

00:21:11.000 You know, Fetterman used to, you know, campaign when he was still coherent prior to him having a stroke.

00:21:17.000 And you talked about him wanting to release violent criminals onto the streets.

00:21:21.000 And you're 100% right, by the way.

00:21:23.000 But Fetterman would go around with this tagline and say, you know, I wouldn't want Red from Shawshank Prison to spend his life in prison.

00:21:30.000 We shouldn't live in a country that does that.

00:21:33.000 But no one in the media thought to say, like, well, hey, wait a second.

00:21:36.000 Red from Shawshank was in prison because he murdered his wife and his neighbor and his neighbor's baby so that he could get his wife's insurance money. 0.99

00:21:46.000 Right? Yeah. John Fetterman and his staff, right?

00:21:49.000 You showed the James O'Keefe video clip of his staff were saying, well, John Fetterman, boy, it'd be great.

00:21:56.000 Like, he would be fine with just rescinding the Second Amendment altogether.

00:22:00.000 But among the three of us, like me, you, and John Fetterman, John Fetterman is the only one who's committed a gun crime.

00:22:07.000 Like, this is a guy that when he was mayor of Braddock...

00:22:11.000 Heard a loud noise outside of his house that was like a firecracker or something, and chased down a black man with a shotgun.

00:22:18.000 Not even exaggerating.

00:22:19.000 Like, grabbed a shotgun.

00:22:22.000 That's what's crazy. I remember being...

00:22:24.000 I saw that story and I was like, oh, I obviously was pushing it in this, but the media did nothing, to your point.

00:22:31.000 Nothing. If you're a Republican conservative candidate, you've got to be your own PR. You've got to try to get actual media.

00:22:38.000 They will literally never cover anything that's helpful to you or...

00:22:43.000 More importantly, anything that's harmful to the opposition side.

00:22:47.000 Because the guy that's doing all these things, you know, yeah. 0.96

00:22:49.000 So you chase down an innocent black man with a gun. 0.90

00:22:52.000 You threaten him at gunpoint.

00:22:54.000 I don't know. Some would say, if it was you or me, or everyone, I guess, at least in the media, would say that that was incredibly racist.

00:23:03.000 For John Fetterman, it's like, oh, it doesn't matter.

00:23:05.000 We're just going to pretend like that never happens.

00:23:08.000 Of course. And by the way, he got these huge spreads in these puff piece magazines like the New York Times.

00:23:15.000 I think he had a spread in Vice, was in Rolling Stone. 0.95

00:23:19.000 And John Fetterman's response to that was, you know what, as mayor of Braddock, I was the chief law enforcement officer, and I was just afraid of another damn school shooting an I didn't want that to happen to the school and Braddock.

00:23:31.000 And I'm thinking to myself the whole time, is anyone in the media going to look at the date of the attack and realize that it occurred on a Saturday on the weekend when schools were closed? 0.90

00:23:42.000 He's clearly lying to you.

00:23:44.000 He's clearly lying.

00:23:47.000 Ladies and gentlemen who are watching and listening, this is exactly why you have John Fetterman in office today, even though he can't form a coherent sentence.

00:23:55.000 Because even though the Democrat Party knew about his stroke and knew about how serious it was, even though...

00:24:02.000 key members of the media in the state of Pennsylvania.

00:24:05.000 By the way, this is a small state when it comes to political media, Don.

00:24:09.000 They knew the severity of his stroke, yet they covered for him.

00:24:13.000 And when you had, I think, an NBC reporter come out, she didn't even raise any questions

00:24:18.000 about his cognitive status or anything else, Don.

00:24:21.000 She simply said, he was having trouble putting sentences together.

00:24:26.000 The media industrial complex in this country smeared her relentlessly.

00:24:31.000 And this is why we have John Fetterman in office, ladies and gentlemen.

00:24:34.000 Well, listen, it's close to you.

00:24:36.000 A guy that's clearly unfit. It's close to you.

00:24:37.000 I mean, you ran a congressional race against Conor Lamb, and I think the results of that were bullshit. 0.98

00:24:44.000 I was up there with you. 0.91

00:24:45.000 I mean, we did something in sort of...

00:24:48.000 In what would have previously been very blue Pittsburgh at a former manufacturing facility.

00:24:54.000 And I was like, oh my god, Sean's going to crush this thing.

00:24:57.000 And then all of a sudden, the boundaries changed and votes came in from places they weren't allowed to.

00:25:02.000 And they were like, well, we're not going to change it now because someone voted.

00:25:05.000 I'm like, wait a second. So that was nonsense.

00:25:07.000 But you ran against Conor Lamb, who's At least not a radical lunatic.

00:25:12.000 So, I mean, he's a competent guy.

00:25:14.000 Whether we like his politics or not, we can say, you know, well put together, speaks well, all this kind of stuff.

00:25:22.000 And they still chose John Fetterman over that guy because he wouldn't have pushed for a radical agenda there.

00:25:30.000 I guess he was a former veteran as well and maybe wouldn't have been for releasing hardened murderers.

00:25:38.000 Or totally eliminating the Second Amendment. 0.98

00:25:41.000 He'd actually go with, let's call it a blue-collar Pennsylvania Democrat, which is basically, for the most part, a Republican today, not the radicalized communist that you see in John Fetterman that wants totalitarian rule.

00:25:56.000 So they knew they had a good option.

00:25:59.000 They had someone who'd previously been a congressman, actually, as an option, and yet they chose 1.00

00:26:06.000 this imbecile with the disability because they're like, whatever, he's just going to 1.00

00:26:11.000 rubber stamp whatever we put in front of him. 1.00

00:26:13.000 And so, I mean, what does that tell you about today's Democrat Party, not just in Pennsylvania,

00:26:17.000 but in general?

00:26:18.000 Well, it tells you that the Democrats, I mean, this might perhaps be an indictment somewhat

00:26:26.000 of our party in and of itself, Don, but it tells you that it doesn't. 0.99

00:26:31.000 This entire debate on our side about candidate quality is complete bullshit. 0.97

00:26:38.000 I mean, obviously, look, you can't have somebody that's total whack job running at the top of it, like running for Senate or running at the top of a ticket. 0.97

00:26:45.000 Well, you can if you're a Democrat because of all the extra help.

00:26:48.000 But you can if you're a Democrat. That's the point.

00:26:50.000 They can run a turnip and get a turnip elected.

00:26:54.000 And it's because they've seized upon election law.

00:26:57.000 They've changed election law in critical swing states and in critical counties to benefit them.

00:27:01.000 But the point I'm trying to make, Don, is that this entire argument, which is largely driven by political consultants, of which there are four Far too many, right?

00:27:10.000 People, just these political consultants who grift off of politics, who just make money off of candidates each cycle.

00:27:15.000 They create these arguments internally on the Republican side and say, and I'll give you a perfect example of what I mean.

00:27:21.000 You know, in the 2022 cycle, look back at that, you know, it's like, oh, well, Trump candidates didn't do well. 1.00

00:27:27.000 I say that's complete bullshit. 1.00

00:27:29.000 Right. Let's do a quick case study. 1.00

00:27:31.000 Look at Cary Lake, my favorite candidate last cycle, and look at Adam Laxalt.

00:27:35.000 Both great candidates, both great people.

00:27:37.000 I like Adam Laxalt a lot.

00:27:39.000 Largely considered to be an establishment guy.

00:27:41.000 Cary Lake, largely considered to be America First, MAGA conservative, whatever.

00:27:45.000 They both lost, but they didn't lose to stellar, charismatic Democrat candidates.

00:27:50.000 They lost to a Democrat system that can elect a turnip.

00:27:54.000 Like John Fetterman. And so I don't like getting distracted by the candidate quality debates.

00:27:59.000 You talked about Conor Lamb.

00:28:01.000 Not only did John Fetterman beat Conor Lamb, and everything that you said about him was right.

00:28:06.000 He is a far more dangerous candidate in a general election, but ultimately it didn't matter.

00:28:10.000 But John Fetterman beat Conor Lamb in the state of Pennsylvania in every one of the 67 counties, including Allegheny County, where I'm from and where Conor's from.

00:28:21.000 Yeah, I find that hard to believe.

00:28:23.000 Like, is there anyone...

00:28:25.000 Now, again, you take the ballot harvesting operation out of it, right?

00:28:28.000 Where they go, hey, this is the candidate we want.

00:28:30.000 You knock on a door somewhere in a town where, you know, I imagine the person opening the door may not even be able to tell you who's on the ballot in a general election, let alone a Democrat primary.

00:28:41.000 But the Democrats are collecting that ballot, filling it in, signing it in, turning it in.

00:28:46.000 Which is, I think, where most of this stuff comes from.

00:28:48.000 So, yes, is it perhaps a legally collected ballot?

00:28:51.000 I guess it could. It depends on the laws of the state.

00:28:53.000 But there's zero chance that people could see John Fetterman, listen to him and speak, and say, that's my guy.

00:29:01.000 That's the guy I'm actually voting for.

00:29:03.000 Now, you can overcome that by being like, hey, just give me a ballot.

00:29:06.000 We're going to fill it out how we want.

00:29:07.000 We're going to pick the most radical guy.

00:29:09.000 Maybe just the person who's incapable of being one way or the other but will just rubber stamp it because he's totally incompetent and he'll go along with the Democrat agenda.

00:29:19.000 I mean, I see so much of that and I assume that's what's going on there because there's no way that that guy beat Conor Lamb in every county across Pennsylvania without gamesmanship.

00:29:31.000 Well, if you believe the results, which in this day and age are highly questionable, because to your point about 2020...

00:29:36.000 Oh, and by the way, okay. So to everybody that is watching that would be critical of people who question elections, if Democrats could rig a general election, they would.

00:29:48.000 They rig their own primaries with a superdelegate system.

00:29:53.000 Joe Biden won't even debate Robert Kennedy Jr., who by the time debates come, Kennedy's probably going to be in the 30-40%.

00:30:02.000 He's a formidable candidate.

00:30:04.000 Well, he's already more popular.

00:30:06.000 Social media is doing the fact-checking on that one.

00:30:10.000 So let me just say, yeah, he may not have more people voting for him yet, but he's already more popular.

00:30:18.000 But again, that doesn't matter.

00:30:19.000 I guess they run Biden, they do this, they replace him with whoever they want.

00:30:24.000 I mean... We should be on to something by now.

00:30:27.000 I mean, the coincidences seem to only break a certain way at this point.

00:30:31.000 I mean, and by the way, you see it with Joe Biden.

00:30:34.000 You see it with Fetterman.

00:30:35.000 You see it with Dianne Feinstein.

00:30:37.000 None of them, none of them are fit for office.

00:30:41.000 The biggest unwritten rule in D.C., Sean, you probably even know about this, Feinstein, like, for years people have said she's in, like, a pretty severe state of dementia.

00:30:50.000 And it doesn't even matter. She didn't remember that she was off for like a few months, just like a week or two ago.

00:30:55.000 What does that say about the people we're told to trust?

00:31:00.000 The people we're told are making the important decisions.

00:31:04.000 If they're not up for the job, clearly, by any reasonable standard, why the hell would any Americans trust The government with what they're telling you.

00:31:15.000 I mean, you could look at anything they've done for the last few years and you'd be skeptical already.

00:31:18.000 Exactly. But you throw in a level of incompetence, you know, come on.

00:31:25.000 I mean, look, there's a clear double standard with when you mentioned Feinstein and John Fetterman, where all the calls on the left to get Dianne Feinstein to resign, but no one's calling for John Fetterman to resign.

00:31:35.000 I mean, clearly there is a political motive behind raising questions like that.

00:31:39.000 But again, I'll give you what I learned as an outsider who ran back-to-back races, one for Congress and one for Senate.

00:31:47.000 The Republican Party, Don, we truly are the party of we the people, which is why a Republican congressman or congresswoman from the state of Pennsylvania is very different from a policy standpoint than a congressman or woman or representative in California.

00:32:03.000 Why? Because we represent our constituency's needs.

00:32:07.000 The Democrats are the party of they the people, which is why a Democrat rep from the state of Pennsylvania is exactly the same as a Democrat rep from the state of California.

00:32:18.000 Their voting records are identical.

00:32:21.000 And that's because they get talking points from four people in Washington, D.C., Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and other party leaders at the DNC. And they promulgate those talking points.

00:32:31.000 They push those talking points down to the representatives and to their useful idiots in the media who then parrot that narrative nationwide. 0.99

00:32:39.000 And so this is why, for example, Don, you have Adam Schiff, who, by the way, lied for the first four years of your father's presidency. 0.99

00:32:51.000 Well, he lied about me a lot.

00:32:54.000 I'm guilty of treason, Sean, which is a patriot.

00:32:56.000 I take pretty damn seriously, but he can say that on there.

00:32:59.000 The media would love to have seen them throw me in the electric chair or something like that. 0.92

00:33:05.000 I think it's probably why I'm out there fighting for this stuff, because even I, prior to that, was like, I don't know.

00:33:12.000 I'm going to trust the people at the FBI. They're law enforcement.

00:33:15.000 They must be doing something right.

00:33:17.000 The CIA, there must be something to it.

00:33:19.000 They're doing it to me. I'm like, wait a second.

00:33:22.000 This is all bullshit. It's all one big fucking lie, and no one gives a shit, at least on that side. 1.00

00:33:31.000 Well, look, I mean, the Democrats, wow, by the way, it drives me crazy. 1.00

00:33:36.000 You saw Paul Ryan go on, like, one of the Sunday shows and say he's not a big culture war guy.

00:33:41.000 While Republicans, on his watch, ceded the culture war for 20 years to Hollywood, in the media, our classrooms, all to the radical left.

00:33:52.000 Democrats have slowly but surely infiltrated our institutions and key positions, leadership positions in those institutions.

00:34:01.000 And today, what you're seeing today is the end result of that.

00:34:05.000 And so if you truly believe that politics are downstream from culture, then it's irresponsible for any Republican leader to be like, ah, you know, I'm just a small government, you know, low tax conservative.

00:34:18.000 I don't really get down with the culture war.

00:34:20.000 That's irresponsible because Politics are downstream from culture.

00:34:25.000 You have to engage on those fronts because culture is where the future politics are crafted and shaped.

00:34:32.000 And leaders come from cultural movements that surround them.

00:34:38.000 Those people end up getting elected to office.

00:34:40.000 So can't cede the culture war fight. 0.89

00:34:42.000 But circling back to John Fetterman, Don.

00:34:45.000 You talked about John Fetterman and how he would get elected.

00:34:49.000 We can't engage in this topic without talking about this.

00:34:53.000 This is an indictment on early voting.

00:34:55.000 Because by the time John Fetterman got to a debate, which, by the way, he wanted to make sure that he had a full three months of early voting in the bank before he got on that debate stage, how many people would have changed their vote, Don?

00:35:10.000 Yeah. If they had the opportunity to vote after they saw John Fetterman.

00:35:15.000 Well, listen, I'm torn on this one.

00:35:17.000 That debate was one of the worst debates in American history.

00:35:18.000 It's not easy, because I'm torn on it.

00:35:20.000 Because, yeah, listen, I would love, you know, same-day voting, paper ballots, IDs.

00:35:24.000 But, like, as long as the left has a three-month long, as you said, sort of...

00:35:28.000 Absolutely. You know, election day, we cannot compete under those same rules.

00:35:33.000 We must play those games.

00:35:35.000 We must do the mail-in. Like, hey, one day if we get control, we can do this, we can fix it, and we can make it right.

00:35:41.000 Until then, they are laughing their asses off that we just want to sit there and do the same day election days, and we're hoping it doesn't rain so that people can still make it to the ballots on that day.

00:35:52.000 They've had a three month long election day.

00:35:54.000 They've had hundreds of thousands of people going on people's doors.

00:35:58.000 People who are low propensity voters or people who would have no intention of voting if someone didn't show up and basically say sign here.

00:36:06.000 They are loving that.

00:36:08.000 And they'll weaponize that. 0.71

00:36:09.000 I mean, you mentioned, you know, the DNC and, you know, and RFK Jr.

00:36:12.000 Like, there's a reason the DNC doesn't want Joe Biden to debate him.

00:36:16.000 Did you see the Rogan thing, by the way, where he's offering, you know, this radical leftist Dr.

00:36:22.000 Peter Holtz? You know, a hundred grand, I think, Bill Ackman, the hedge fund guy, you know, again, a super radical leftist, like Bolshevik, Hillary funder and stuff like that, but very successful New York hedge fund guy.

00:36:35.000 He was one of the few guys that's starting to wake up on the left.

00:36:38.000 He chimed in... During the Kyle Rittenhouse shooting, when he was like, wait a minute, he started doing this long Twitter thread when Kyle Rittenhouse happened.

00:36:49.000 He goes, hey man, I'm watching this thing on TV, and I didn't realize that Kyle Rittenhouse didn't kill a bunch of African Americans. 0.66

00:36:58.000 I was told he was a white supremacist.

00:37:00.000 I didn't realize X. I didn't realize Y. I didn't realize he was there cleaning up stuff.

00:37:03.000 And he goes... Like, I was just believing the narrative.

00:37:06.000 And so he goes on, and the New York Times called him, like, midstream.

00:37:09.000 It was like, hey, did someone hack your account?

00:37:12.000 And he goes, no, but, like, I'm watching this guy on TV. I'm finding out the truth after months of, like, hate crime and white supremacy and this, that, and the other.

00:37:21.000 And I'm realizing that it's all BS. And he goes, for years, for decades.

00:37:26.000 He's a Wall Street billionaire, right?

00:37:28.000 So for years, you know, I've been on...

00:37:31.000 I'm either on the deal side and I'm watching it in the Wall Street Journal and I'm reading about it and I'm laughing at how wrong it is because I'm involved or my best friend's involved and I know exactly what's going on and I'm reading it and realizing it's nonsense.

00:37:44.000 But then I turn the page and I read an article where I'm not a subject matter expert And, like, I assume it's right. 0.99

00:37:50.000 But the reality is I should assume that all of this stuff is all bullshit. 0.99

00:37:54.000 And that's exactly what's going on. 0.98

00:37:56.000 So Rogan offered up $100,000, I guess, for RFK Jr.

00:38:01.000 to debate Peter Hotz.

00:38:03.000 I think Bill Ackman actually chipped in another $150,000 to make it happen, to the charity of his choice.

00:38:09.000 And the left doesn't want a debate to happen.

00:38:13.000 Don, Don, I think the number's up to like some absurd amount, man.

00:38:17.000 I think it's up to like $1.6 million.

00:38:20.000 Oh, wow. Okay, so I haven't been paying attention in the last couple hours.

00:38:22.000 I know. I mean, it's crazy.

00:38:24.000 That was like this morning that I saw it, so I was like, okay, that's great.

00:38:28.000 Well, a couple things on that, though.

00:38:30.000 I mean, I think this just shows how desperate the American people are for authentic, real debate, where we talk about critical issues of the day.

00:38:40.000 And of course, what's the guy's name?

00:38:42.000 Dr. Holtz? How do you pronounce it?

00:38:43.000 Yeah, I think it's Holtz. He goes on with this, what's this guy's name, Media Hassan or whatever, who's like the craziest covidiot that there is. 0.99

00:38:51.000 He goes on that program to respond to all this because he knows he's not going to get any pushback whatsoever. 0.98

00:38:57.000 And he goes on there and says something like, well...

00:39:02.000 Scientists don't really, we don't really debate.

00:39:04.000 We just write papers. And I'm thinking like, are you freaking kidding me?

00:39:08.000 Scientists used to show up to public debates and debate their ideas on the merits.

00:39:14.000 And in doing so, it didn't mean that their theories were always right.

00:39:18.000 But in doing so, iron sharpens iron, right?

00:39:21.000 They improved their theories.

00:39:22.000 And science is constantly evolving.

00:39:25.000 But in today's day and age, I talked about the collusion of all of these big government, big corporations, big media early on to push false narratives on the American people.

00:39:33.000 This is why it's so dangerous.

00:39:36.000 It's just easier for all of those organizations and all of those leaders, Don, to be like, oh, you know, sorry, Joe Rogan and RFK Jr., even though that they raise a lot of good points, like they're just anti-vaxxers.

00:39:47.000 Pops, like, 1111 just said it's at $2.7 million.

00:39:53.000 I'm reading some of the comments from my viewers.

00:39:55.000 I mean, $2.7 million.

00:39:56.000 So you're the expert. 0.94

00:39:58.000 You know, and RFK, he's crazy.

00:40:01.000 You know, according to everyone...

00:40:04.000 So, like, for 2.7 to the charity of your choice, like, you should have the debate, right? 0.54

00:40:10.000 I mean, you would think that if you're the expert, if we are to trust, more importantly, if we are to ever trust the science again, one of the leading experts in that field should be willing to debate a lunatic.

00:40:24.000 That doesn't give the lunatic a large platform.

00:40:26.000 I imagine Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whether you like him or not, has a larger platform than this doctor.

00:40:31.000 And then Joe Rogan's platform, if he's willing to make it available Have the debate.

00:40:37.000 So destroy the guy. 0.51

00:40:39.000 Put the nail in his coffin. 1.00

00:40:41.000 End his anti-vax, whatever it may be, forever.

00:40:44.000 But they won't do it.

00:40:47.000 Exactly. I mean, the whole, oh, you know, we shouldn't give anti-vax conspiracy theories any air, especially on a platform as big as Joe Rogan's, and therefore I won't debate.

00:41:01.000 Well, okay, but that cuts both ways, right? 0.95

00:41:03.000 If you're confident in what you believe, then that big platform is a gigantic platform for you to advocate for those beliefs and crush the opposition with facts, but they don't do it because all they're pushing is bullshit propaganda. 0.65

00:41:17.000 And And Robert Malone, Dr.

00:41:19.000 Robert Malone, who is a founder, I think, of mRNA technology, came out today and said this Holtz guy was deeply involved with gain-of-function research in Wuhan.

00:41:34.000 And it's like, whoa! Because they're all on the payroll, Sean.

00:41:37.000 That's what we should figure out.

00:41:39.000 Like, Fauci was on the payroll.

00:41:40.000 Everyone was on the payroll.

00:41:42.000 The World Health Organization, obviously on the payroll.

00:41:44.000 That's why they're all covering for China. 0.99

00:41:46.000 And that's what's more infuriating.

00:41:48.000 When you see the money going to Joe Biden, to his family, to this from China, you know, the granddaughters on the payroll, that this is...

00:41:56.000 And you're like... What on earth?

00:41:58.000 They're not international business people.

00:42:01.000 And our media won't even ask the question of what the hell were his grandchildren doing getting money from these random shell companies investing in China, magically. 0.99

00:42:09.000 Again, I've said it a thousand times, but the Chinese are many things, but they're not stupid. 0.98

00:42:15.000 They're not like us in that they probably don't have, like, diversity quotas. 0.99

00:42:20.000 You know, we need a strong representation from crackhead, whoremongering, you know, investors. 1.00

00:42:28.000 And we're going to give...

00:42:30.000 We're going to find...

00:42:31.000 A serious investor crackhead and make sure that we're representing all walks of life. 0.99

00:42:37.000 Like, they look at us when we do this shit and they laugh their asses off because they realize it's the end of the Republic and it's just starting with its insanity. 1.00

00:42:47.000 But... They're also smart enough to be like, yeah, sure, I'll throw that guy a billion dollars. 1.00

00:42:51.000 It's the greatest return on investment to have the weak China policy that they're getting out of Joe Biden.

00:42:57.000 Imagine, like, I can't name an enemy that probably doesn't have a Hunter Biden laptop at this point, but imagine what we don't know.

00:43:05.000 Imagine the things that they have on video that even Hunter was like, you know what? 0.98

00:43:09.000 Fuck, I probably shouldn't put this one on video. 0.96

00:43:11.000 Like, you know, imagine, like, there's probably a line where he's like, I'm not going to record that because it's a little too extreme. 0.99

00:43:16.000 They probably have that.

00:43:18.000 And they would weaponize it against the Bidens.

00:43:20.000 And, you know, that would end the payday.

00:43:22.000 So, of course, they're going to do whatever China wants. 0.75

00:43:24.000 And Ukraine and, you know, whoever else has, you know, been paying these guys for something that literally no one on the left has been able to justify as a reasonable business.

00:43:34.000 So... You know, in minor details, I know if it was me, there'd be a serious problem with it.

00:43:38.000 Even if we, you know, if we were building a building in China, it would be a problem.

00:43:43.000 Don, if it were you, you'd be in jail.

00:43:46.000 You'd be denied bail.

00:43:48.000 You would be just like one of the January 6th prisoners, like, rotting away in some D.C. prison.

00:43:53.000 No, no, no. I'd be in Gitmo, Sean. I'd be in Gitmo.

00:43:55.000 They're not giving me a D.C. prison.

00:43:58.000 They're sending me to, like, a CIA black site to just, you know, torture me for a few years for the hell of it.

00:44:04.000 Like, you know, I wouldn't get that kind of respect.

00:44:08.000 It'd be much less. Well, I mean, I'm just sitting here thinking as you talk of, like, Xi Jinping going through a Rolodex and it's like, hmm, we need a crack-smoking, whoremongering, somebody that's close to a political type.

00:44:23.000 Hunter Biden, perfect.

00:44:24.000 Yeah, by the way, it's perfect.

00:44:27.000 Of course we're going to stroke a check to him.

00:44:30.000 No business record. 0.99

00:44:32.000 Sure, the Shell entity to do business was formed yesterday, but we'll get these morons to do anything. 0.97

00:44:38.000 Imagine that when they're talking about the Biden family and the other people there, they could have made $30 million and some would say $250 million. 1.00

00:44:47.000 Imagine, even in America, Even living that American dream, like, there's no American that stupid that has made that much money. 0.99

00:44:59.000 Like, outside of the D.C. beltway. 0.99

00:45:02.000 Because it just doesn't work that way, you know what I mean?

00:45:04.000 They were paying Hunter Biden in bags of diamonds as if he were some Bond villain with an eye patch on.

00:45:13.000 And this man is...

00:45:16.000 The President of the United States' son.

00:45:18.000 And we're joking around about this, but you're right when you say he is a massive, walking, talking, blackmail threat.

00:45:29.000 And that prohibits, just so people understand, if Joe Biden...

00:45:36.000 If China wants to push a foreign policy initiative or sanction China or put tariffs on China to make sure that the trade is free but also fair so they don't take us to the cleaners all the time.

00:45:47.000 If we want to bring our manufacturing back from China, we want to manufacture critical medical supply here instead of there.

00:45:53.000 We want to bring Apple computers to the United States as opposed to them being there.

00:45:58.000 All China has to do is say, Absolutely not.

00:46:01.000 Back off this policy, or we're releasing this horrifying stuff to the American media.

00:46:07.000 Oh, by the way. Oh, by the way.

00:46:09.000 How about Ukraine? Same thing, though. We're on the brink of war with Russia.

00:46:12.000 It's the same thing. And, like, Hunter Biden had an energy company.

00:46:16.000 Like, there's literally, like, no evidence of him knowing anything about energy.

00:46:20.000 He certainly doesn't speak the language.

00:46:22.000 He wasn't required to actually show up, and yet he was making, like, six figures a month.

00:46:29.000 To do nothing. What do you think that nothing is?

00:46:32.000 Now, imagine, you know, in the countries that Joe Biden had some say, all the places where they formed the shell entities, strangely enough, they didn't conduct any international business in a place where Joe didn't have some sort of involvement.

00:46:46.000 Because you would think, if you're the international businessman, they're making him out to be, like...

00:46:52.000 There would be something outside of that sphere, and yet, magically, there wasn't.

00:46:56.000 But again, I don't even have a problem with that as much as I do the fact that our media has not even asked the question.

00:47:04.000 Like, hey, do you think we're getting into World War III because someone in the Ukraine knows a little bit more about Hunter, amazingly enough, than what's already out there?

00:47:13.000 Or Joe? Because that's the only logical thing that could be happening.

00:47:18.000 We're literally there saying it.

00:47:20.000 The closest we are to nuclear war, Armageddon, since the Cuban Missile Crisis, and there's credible ties to Joe Biden, money, the family, all this stuff, and no one's willing to even ask the question.

00:47:34.000 It's insane. I mean, I don't get it.

00:47:37.000 Well, and this is why China, Russia, our geopolitical enemies like Iran, who have the capabilities to advocate or push for a Biden presidency at the expense of your father, it's the most plausible thing in the world.

00:47:55.000 And part of the reason why I know that, in addition to just being a military guy and knowing how our enemies think, They want to get rid of a leader in the United States of America who's actually putting up any sort of fight against them, and obviously your dad was that guy.

00:48:09.000 They want Biden, who can barely string together a coherent sentence and doesn't know where he is most of the time.

00:48:15.000 It's just, Don, it's just...

00:48:18.000 It's what I think we live in right now, one of the most dangerous times in American history.

00:48:25.000 And what I can't quite understand is what does the media have?

00:48:30.000 Like, why?

00:48:32.000 Why are you doing this?

00:48:33.000 Well, listen, I think it's permanent Washington.

00:48:36.000 I think Tucker nailed it last week when he basically said, hey, Donald Trump's cardinal sin was taking on that permanent Washington, taking on the endless wars, because that was just the derivative of the rest of the gravy train, right?

00:48:49.000 The money followed the wars.

00:48:51.000 If you stay in the war, you sell some more missiles, you get the board seat at Raytheon or one of the other dozens of companies, rinse and repeat.

00:48:59.000 Donald Trump chose to trample on that narrative, to try to put America first. 0.99

00:49:03.000 The permanent Washington, on both sides, frankly, because the Republicans have been weak as shit on this anyway. 0.99

00:49:08.000 Permanent Washington is like, you know what, fine. 0.99

00:49:11.000 Joe Biden, like his son, they can take some millions as long as you let us keep our grift going.

00:49:18.000 And, like, it couldn't be more clear.

00:49:20.000 I mean, you see that with just the way they're handling, you know, this documents case, you know?

00:49:25.000 You have Hillary Clinton, like, with hammers, like, actual hammers breaking up stuff that was under subpoena. 1.00

00:49:32.000 Like, wait a second. Like, you think that's different than—and we'll talk about Mar-a-Lago in a second because I want to hear your story.

00:49:38.000 Like, because this was sort of funny, right?

00:49:40.000 Like— You know, it's under guard of the United States Secret Service with Trump.

00:49:45.000 It's in a locked closet.

00:49:46.000 But that's different somehow than Joe Biden having tens of thousands of whatever documents that I read about, like, in his China-funded Pennsylvania think tank and the offices of that, like, in his garage with easy access to Hunter and all of the people that are paying him.

00:50:04.000 When you did this show, I think it was literally the second or third episode of Triggered.

00:50:09.000 You were one of my first guests.

00:50:11.000 You had a disastrous trip trying to get here.

00:50:15.000 We're going to do it live and in person before we figured out all the technology.

00:50:18.000 You were delayed by six hours.

00:50:20.000 You were on I-95.

00:50:21.000 I'm like, hey, we're about to go live, and you're three hours out.

00:50:25.000 So we delayed everything.

00:50:26.000 So everyone didn't see it, but we ended up having a great time.

00:50:29.000 We went late, had a good talk, had drinks and a cigar afterwards.

00:50:33.000 You were staying at Mar-a-Lago.

00:50:35.000 You got back to Mar-a-Lago at like 1.30 at night.

00:50:39.000 Now, you're a friend of mine.

00:50:41.000 You're on the guest list there.

00:50:43.000 You're a decorated American hero.

00:50:47.000 You're an author.

00:50:49.000 You ran for the House and the Senate in Pennsylvania.

00:50:52.000 You were endorsed not only by me, but by my father.

00:50:56.000 And what happened when you got back to Mar-a-Lago at like 1.30 in the morning?

00:51:01.000 Well, so first of all, let me just say this.

00:51:03.000 Let me start off here. I go down there and I was super psyched to do your podcast.

00:51:07.000 I was psyched to hear that you had one and I fly down there.

00:51:10.000 Everything's great. In addition to just psyched to connect with you, I never need an excuse to go down to Florida, right?

00:51:17.000 It's always amazing down there.

00:51:18.000 And you're like... You know, Kimberly, I think you or Kimberly told me like, oh, we're putting you up at Mar-a-Lago.

00:51:23.000 I'm like, Mar-a-Lago? 0.99

00:51:24.000 Holy shit, man. That's a little above my pay grade because I literally live on a farm in western Pennsylvania. 0.99

00:51:29.000 So we'll take that all day long.

00:51:31.000 So we're psyched to stay there. Bring your wife. 1.00

00:51:33.000 Have a good time. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

00:51:35.000 So we get there. We do the podcast.

00:51:38.000 It was an awesome experience.

00:51:40.000 We just sit around. We smoke stogies, had a drink for the next couple hours after the show, just telling war stories about life and politics and everything, family stuff.

00:51:48.000 And I'm like, hey, you know, it's like 1.30 in the morning.

00:51:52.000 Am I going to have any issues getting into Mar-a-Lago?

00:51:54.000 And you're like, oh, it's a hotel.

00:51:56.000 You're good to go. You're on the guest list.

00:51:58.000 Everything you just said. So, like, we get an Uber and we're like, hey, see you later.

00:52:01.000 Had a great time. And, you know, give Kimberly a hug or whatever.

00:52:05.000 And Melanie, my wife and I, we hop in an Uber and we head back.

00:52:08.000 And the Uber guy, like, first of all, God bless him.

00:52:10.000 But he's like... He's like an older gentleman.

00:52:12.000 He's like kind of swerving all over the road, going 35 miles an hour, doesn't know where Mar-a-Lago is. 0.99

00:52:17.000 And I'm like, oh shit, this is going to be kind of a rough night. 0.99

00:52:19.000 It's kind of foreshadowing. And we get to Mar-a-Lago, right? 0.99

00:52:23.000 And we get to the main gate.

00:52:25.000 And first of all... The gate is like 10 feet thick wrought iron bars, literally.

00:52:30.000 Like 10 feet thick. It closes in on itself like this.

00:52:33.000 And the guy's pulling into the gate.

00:52:35.000 And I'm thinking to myself, oh man, I don't know if he should be doing that.

00:52:38.000 Like in the age of like, you know, asymmetric threats and vehicle-borne IEDs.

00:52:43.000 I'm sure the Secret Service is watching this thinking like, what is going on with this car?

00:52:47.000 Like kind of swerving all over the place.

00:52:49.000 And he goes to the back gate.

00:52:50.000 And then he goes back to the front gate.

00:52:52.000 Well, of course, after one go-around of that, a cop car pulls up behind us.

00:52:56.000 And I see it immediately. I'm like, oh shit. 0.99

00:52:59.000 The guy pulls up just before we get to the main gate. 0.98

00:53:04.000 This cop car pulls up behind us.

00:53:06.000 Another one pulls in front of us.

00:53:08.000 Two more pull on the sides.

00:53:09.000 All with their sirens going.

00:53:11.000 There are like five or six cops with their flashlights beaming into the...

00:53:15.000 And I'm like... Wind down the window, and I'm like, look.

00:53:19.000 I'm in, by the way, I'm in a pink flannel and jeans, right?

00:53:23.000 So, setting the scene here.

00:53:26.000 And I'm like, listen, I'm staying at Mar-a-Lago.

00:53:29.000 Don Jr.'s my friend.

00:53:30.000 I know the President of the United States.

00:53:32.000 I know Kimberly, too. 1.00

00:53:34.000 And as soon as I said it, I'm like, oh, man, that sounds really stupid. 1.00

00:53:37.000 There's no way. And the cops are like, oh, sure. 0.99

00:53:41.000 You're staying at Mar-a-Lago.

00:53:43.000 You're friends with Don Jr.

00:53:46.000 and President Trump. Yeah, sure, sure.

00:53:48.000 They clearly didn't believe me.

00:53:50.000 And so the first thing I do is call you.

00:53:52.000 And I can hear Kimberly in the background.

00:53:54.000 I hear Kimberly in the background like, just tell him to say this.

00:53:57.000 And you're like passing on to me what Kimberly said.

00:54:00.000 Oh, I got on the phone. He actually recognized my voice.

00:54:02.000 So it gave us a little bit like they weren't going to shoot you just then.

00:54:05.000 But yeah, you know. You were on my podcast.

00:54:08.000 It wasn't exactly Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, entire required. 0.99

00:54:11.000 I don't really give a shit about that stuff. 0.98

00:54:12.000 So it was different. But Secret Service has the place locked down. 0.98

00:54:16.000 You know, it took a little while.

00:54:18.000 We made it happen. Completely.

00:54:20.000 You got back. Yeah, so...

00:54:24.000 Yeah, so look, Secret Service comes out.

00:54:26.000 Finally, the cops coordinate with the Secret Service.

00:54:27.000 First of all, they didn't believe that I was friends with you, but you got on the phone with them, squared it away.

00:54:32.000 Secret Service comes out. Like, they're in, you got uniformed guys, you got guys in full kit, like body armor, and you've got plainclothes Secret Service guys.

00:54:39.000 We show them our key, he escorts us in, and Melanie and I are like in Mar-a-Lago and it's like pitch black, but there are guards everywhere, right?

00:54:47.000 Yeah. The place is on complete lockdown.

00:54:49.000 I mean, the President of the United States, former President of the United States, stays there.

00:54:53.000 And so Melanie and I are, like, sneaking through the Mar-a-Lago, like, main area, thinking, like, we're going to see your dad in, like, a nightgown and a hat.

00:55:00.000 Like, something like that.

00:55:02.000 But, like, kids, like, sneaking in from high school.

00:55:04.000 Like, how the hell is this our life?

00:55:06.000 But we make it up to the room.

00:55:07.000 But, like, to your point, like, the entire place is locked down.

00:55:13.000 As tight as you could possibly imagine.

00:55:16.000 And... And so the entire case, when you talk about classified documents, first of all, we have an overclassification problem in this country.

00:55:25.000 Everything in Washington is classified.

00:55:26.000 Everything. And you have every president for the last 50 years bringing classified documents home.

00:55:32.000 Tens of thousands of documents.

00:55:33.000 Even vice presidents. You have no classification authority.

00:55:37.000 And Joe Biden, who is a United States senator, brought classified documents everywhere.

00:55:42.000 He has no declassification authority.

00:55:45.000 Well, the president of the United States is the ultimate declassification authority.

00:55:48.000 He could point to a stack of documents in the moment and say, I'm declassifying these right now.

00:55:53.000 So the entire, all of these indictments, like this is just, it blows me away, but they're just so petrified of your father.

00:56:03.000 They're petrified of the movement.

00:56:06.000 And in the fact that your dad, like this is a really, really, really important point, Don.

00:56:12.000 Like he's in a multiple person primary right now.

00:56:15.000 He's already at 50%.

00:56:16.000 Like in 2016, he had like an eight person, nine person primary.

00:56:20.000 I think he won the primary with like 33%.

00:56:22.000 I can't quite remember, but it was something like that.

00:56:24.000 He's in a primary that's just as big, if not bigger, and is already at 50% now.

00:56:29.000 And he's Klein. And the problem is, though, they want it.

00:56:32.000 But again, this is where permanent Washington comes into play, right?

00:56:35.000 So permanent Washington doesn't want Trump either.

00:56:38.000 And that's the Republicans, right?

00:56:40.000 Because there's no consequence to losing in permanent Washington, right?

00:56:44.000 You get the thing, you delay your thing, you keep getting invited to the cool person cock-up party.

00:56:48.000 They want to drag out this primary.

00:56:51.000 They want to make sure that we spend hundreds of millions of dollars To solidify a primary that's already pretty solid, where everyone's slipping.

00:57:00.000 Figure out how to attack Trump, because they don't care if you get another four years of Joe Biden.

00:57:05.000 That's what everyone has to wake up to.

00:57:07.000 They don't care about that.

00:57:10.000 It goes back to business as usual.

00:57:12.000 They get to push their endless wars, whatever it is that they want this week.

00:57:16.000 That's why they want to spend all that money in the primary to make sure That we don't have access to those funds to fight the general against Joe Biden.

00:57:27.000 To form the ground game, the ballot harvesting operation, all of the things that the Democrats do when they have their Soros-funded billionaires that will write them checks for whatever it is that they need.

00:57:38.000 We don't have that. So they want to take what little resources we have in many of these races. 1.00

00:57:43.000 I don't remember what your race was, but you're probably outspent five to one, maybe more.

00:57:49.000 Well, and so interestingly enough, in the run for Congress, I was one of the few challengers to out-raise a Democrat incumbent.

00:57:55.000 But he still had more money in the bank than I did, but I out-raised him, I think, the last two or three quarters in a row.

00:58:00.000 But for the Senate, you know, Fetterman had national-level contributions from almost every zip code in the entire country, Don.

00:58:07.000 Yeah. Yeah, no, I've seen some of these races.

00:58:09.000 It's 5-1, 10-1.

00:58:11.000 I've seen 15-1 dollar-wise.

00:58:15.000 So yeah, you may be the exception because you're good at it.

00:58:16.000 You're good at being out there. You got yourself on TV well.

00:58:20.000 You were one of the few guys that understood that aspect of the game, and that's real.

00:58:25.000 But you see that, and they want to make sure that they have 20-1 against Trump.

00:58:31.000 Because, you know, there's a point you can just flood airlines with BS. That's what they do.

00:58:35.000 There's no accountability. There's no one fact-checking them.

00:58:37.000 There's no one talking about their lies.

00:58:39.000 You know, you're so much better off under Joe Biden, is what they'll tell you.

00:58:42.000 And, like, there's people who will actually believe that.

00:58:45.000 Because they're not into it.

00:58:46.000 They're not watching. Hopefully it's so bad now they're finally paying attention.

00:58:50.000 But they want to make sure we don't have one cent...

00:58:54.000 Of disposable dollars to form the kind of machine that the Democrats have formed collecting these ballots in these states.

00:59:02.000 Because they understand that if you do, Joe Biden and the Democrats, frankly, nothing about their policy is good for America.

00:59:07.000 And Americans will eventually realize that if they haven't already.

00:59:10.000 But they want to make sure of it.

00:59:12.000 And the Republicans at this point, many of them, the rhinos and such, you know, you mentioned Paul Ryan, perfect example.

00:59:19.000 He's totally fine with that.

00:59:21.000 If he loses and they lose, it's just like he didn't give you the wall back in 2016 when we had the House.

00:59:27.000 We had the Senate. He didn't want to not get invited to the cool person Christmas party over at the DNC, so we just won't do it.

00:59:34.000 It's too controversial, he said.

00:59:37.000 That's permanent Washington.

00:59:39.000 Those are the people on the right that we also have a problem with.

00:59:41.000 Now, I don't think America's ever going back to those rhino America last Republican policies. 0.99

00:59:47.000 I'll say Republican loosely because I think, you know, America first policies are very different.

00:59:51.000 That's here to stay.

00:59:54.000 They don't care if they take you out in the process because it delays their ability to have a little bit more power, a little bit more say. 0.99

01:00:03.000 Hopefully all those damn pesky America first people just go away. 1.00

01:00:07.000 I don't think it's happening. But they will do whatever they can to hold on to that power just like the Democrats will. 0.99

01:00:13.000 I mean, Don, you're exactly right.

01:00:15.000 And I don't want to give your viewers or listeners a false impression here.

01:00:18.000 You know, for Congress, I was an anomaly.

01:00:20.000 But for Senate, you know, I was having a million-dollar quarters, and that's what you need to run for Senate in a state like Pennsylvania, in a primary, in a multiple-person primary.

01:00:27.000 But Fetterman in the primary was having four or five million-dollar quarters.

01:00:31.000 So just... Those fundraising dollars, if you're doing it the right way and your campaign is structured in the right way, you want to say that on an operational budget that 85% of every single penny that you raise goes to voter outreach.

01:00:46.000 15% goes for staff, right?

01:00:48.000 So you want to operate on a skeleton crew.

01:00:50.000 You want to have thousands of volunteers to help, which your father has.

01:00:54.000 You're running commercials with that money.

01:00:56.000 You're doing mailers with that money.

01:00:57.000 You're doing phone banking with that money.

01:00:59.000 And Democrats have a 5 to 1 advantage.

01:01:01.000 And to your point about how the left fights using non-profit groups and all of these billionaires on multiple different fronts. 0.99

01:01:10.000 The Democrats sued my political campaign for Senate, like an FEC, some bullshit FEC violation that everybody and their mother knew that was complete bullshit. 0.76

01:01:20.000 But they did it just so that my campaign would have to spend thousands of dollars of months in legal fees just to defeat it. 0.64

01:01:27.000 It was just dismissed on how long have I been out of the Senate race?

01:01:30.000 Almost two years. Almost two years.

01:01:32.000 It was just dismissed like a month and a half ago.

01:01:34.000 So they fight you on all fronts and that's exactly what they're doing to your father precisely because they know he can win.

01:01:44.000 And if they thought that your dad couldn't win, they wouldn't be doing any of this.

01:01:49.000 And the reason why he's so dangerous in a state like Pennsylvania, Don, is because I come from a blue-collar, union, western Pennsylvania family.

01:01:58.000 They're Democrats, Don.

01:02:00.000 Those people are more pro-Trump than some of the Republicans in my family.

01:02:06.000 His bond with middle-class Americans, because he speaks directly to them.

01:02:13.000 On a day-to-day basis, issues that concern them, it's unshakable, Don.

01:02:18.000 And so your dad is able to pull a crazy cross-section of voters that really no other Republican is able to pull.

01:02:30.000 He really, truly is.

01:02:32.000 And you know me. I am not one to kiss anybody's ass, you know? 0.99

01:02:36.000 But he is really an electrifying political candidate. 0.98

01:02:40.000 And it's wrong for our party Look, primaries happen.

01:02:43.000 I get it. All's fair in love and war and politics.

01:02:46.000 I think, personally, to me, Don, loyalty is something that's really, really, really important.

01:02:51.000 I think our party would be stronger if there was more of it out there.

01:02:54.000 There's none. There's not, and that's why I think Truman said, if you want a friend in politics, get a dog, you know?

01:03:01.000 But your dad pulls those blue-collar Union Democrats who, in 2022, pulled the lever for Fetterman because they believed the media hype, that he was just a, you know, hey, look, he wears a hoodie and shorts, and he looks blue-collar, he lives across from a steel plant.

01:03:19.000 I know this because he says it all the time.

01:03:20.000 They pulled the lever for him thinking that he was just, you know, a A folksy labor union hero.

01:03:26.000 The guy's never swung a hammer in his life, you know?

01:03:30.000 It's hard for me to say this one, but he lived in his mom's basement until he was like 40 or something crazy, right?

01:03:37.000 Like, he didn't have a blue-collar job.

01:03:39.000 Like, hey, guess what? I have a pair of Carhartts.

01:03:41.000 I've probably spent more time doing Carhartt shit than John Fetterman by a lot. 0.98

01:03:47.000 And I understand exactly what my last name is, where I come from, but that's how little he had that. 0.97

01:03:52.000 But they're like, we'll dress him up and we'll make him seem like the blue-collar guy.

01:03:55.000 It's like, he's none of those things.

01:03:57.000 But, you know, that doesn't matter, right?

01:03:59.000 We saw, and I've got to get your take on this one, because we saw, like, this weekend, like, you know, Joe Biden had, like, trans influencers who were posing topless at the White House.

01:04:10.000 You know, this is the issue. Remember, they were going to bring decency, you know, decency back to To the White House, right?

01:04:16.000 That was a big part of their claim.

01:04:19.000 Now, maybe it's easy to be decent if you're not attacking someone throughout his entire presidency like they did with my father, but they'll invite trans influencers who feel free to, I guess, go topless at the White House, but they won't invite one Serious journalists to do an actual tough interview with Joe Biden.

01:04:38.000 Everything is with someone where it's prearranged questions and he calls on the person who he knows the questions coming from and they're only allowed to ask X for fear of exile.

01:04:48.000 But doesn't that say everything what we're talking about?

01:04:52.000 Yes! Yeah, Don!

01:04:53.000 Don, Biden's got note cards with descriptions of journalists, their names, and their questions already pre-submitted that he can look.

01:05:02.000 I mean, can you imagine that ever happening for a Republican?

01:05:06.000 It would never, ever happen.

01:05:08.000 In fact, the opposite is true.

01:05:10.000 They're always misquoting you or clipping quotes or doing everything in their power

01:05:14.000 to make you look like some draconian, knuckle-dragging, intolerant freak. And, you know,

01:05:20.000 to your point about the transgender person or activist at the White House, like, flashing

01:05:27.000 people like, you know, the adults are back in charge, really? I mean, again, the Democrats are

01:05:33.000 experts at accusing Republicans for the things that they themselves are guilty of. And, you know,

01:05:41.000 your father, and this is why I think he's so formidable going into this next cycle,

01:05:46.000 he was able to accomplish more in four years than most other, any other Republican president

01:05:52.000 in my lifetime in the face of withering opposition every single day.

01:05:57.000 An election interference the likes of which we've never seen before.

01:06:00.000 The whole Russia hoax, Don, like think back to 2018.

01:06:04.000 That swayed that cycle. 1.00

01:06:07.000 Conor Lamb was a congressman in western Pennsylvania because of that fake bullshit. 0.99

01:06:12.000 Yet the Democrats have the gall, with many members of the media, to say that Republicans are election deniers. 0.99

01:06:19.000 When Democrats, like since every election since the 1960s, have questioned the elections.

01:06:24.000 Kamala Harris, our own Vice President of the United States, Question voting machines just two years or three or four years ago when she was a U.S. senator. 1.00

01:06:32.000 The hypocrisy is astounding and it's glaring. 0.98

01:06:36.000 And I think that the American people, you know, especially in a post-COVID world, as horrible as that time was, Don, I think it opened America's eyes to lots of different things, particularly what's going on in our schools with all this trans bullshit and all this propaganda. 0.98

01:06:51.000 I want to hear about that. 0.95

01:06:52.000 I think it's going to play out well.

01:06:53.000 I want to hear what you say about it because I think you're right.

01:06:55.000 It was one of sort of the great self-owns of all time, right?

01:06:58.000 They were doing this stuff.

01:06:59.000 They were pushing it on our kids. 0.65

01:07:00.000 They were sexualizing our children, jamming it down our throats. 0.99

01:07:04.000 But like parents didn't even know about it.

01:07:06.000 I knew some stories I could tell you from New York, you know, prior to sort of figuring it out.

01:07:10.000 But when schools were now on video and kids were doing this, a mom would be walking by, you know, their kids on their computer and they're like, wait a second, what did you say about And you see that.

01:07:22.000 But that's what the left does again.

01:07:25.000 Remember, tolerance and acceptance of everything.

01:07:28.000 We're not grooming your children.

01:07:30.000 And yet, then they do stuff like what we saw last week.

01:07:32.000 The Dodgers inviting the drag nuns for Pride Night. 1.00

01:07:39.000 It's not about acceptance. 0.99

01:07:40.000 They can... We can commit atrocities against Christians. 1.00

01:07:45.000 They can be blasphemous. 0.98

01:07:46.000 They can do that. And we just got to accept all of that because apparently it's just part of that movement.

01:07:51.000 Just like they're not actually grooming our children, but we want to remove, you know, they want to remove children from households who don't just go blindly along with the gender affirming care or worse. 0.99

01:08:04.000 Like, you know, they say these things under the guise of tolerance acceptance, but then they push the boundary further.

01:08:10.000 You know, We don't want to do that.

01:08:12.000 But if we did, it's okay, and here's why.

01:08:15.000 When they end up getting caught, inevitably, every time.

01:08:19.000 Where's this going? I mean, Don, I tell you, you know, having come back from Afghanistan and saw politicians on both sides of the aisle slowly erode every freedom that we have in this country, take it for granted, politicians going into office, making $174 grand a year, solid salary, but end up being worth 20 years in office, 30-some million dollars.

01:08:41.000 I mean... After a while, I started thinking, like, there is something deeply, deeply wrong.

01:08:46.000 And then I run for office and got a look behind the curtain.

01:08:49.000 And by the way, you know, I've got, you know, we're both Republicans, Don.

01:08:53.000 I've got many, many friends that are really strong, great Republican congressmen and women and senators as well.

01:08:58.000 But I'm talking politics on both sides of the aisle here, man.

01:09:02.000 Like, you get a look behind that curtain, running for office, and it became...

01:09:07.000 Very, very clear to me that the battle lines have been drawn in this country, that there really is, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, and I'm not a...

01:09:15.000 Look, I'm Catholic, but I'm not a crazy, Bible-thumping Catholic.

01:09:22.000 I mean, I believe in my faith, I'm a believer, like, you know, but...

01:09:26.000 There is a spiritual war happening in this country every single day between good and evil, and it's ground zero.

01:09:32.000 Imagine taking your children to a baseball game, a sport that's supposed to be as American as apple pie.

01:09:40.000 And these... 0.99

01:09:43.000 Men, these gay men that dress up like nuns, that perform horrifying, you know, I mean, they're acting it out, but it's horrifying demonstrating sex acts on a crucifix outside of Dodger Stadium is disgusting. 1.00

01:09:57.000 Yeah, and what does that have to do with, like, the LGB, let's call it? 0.99

01:10:01.000 You know what I mean? Before you get to the other acronyms that have gone crazy, like, wait, like, I... I have a feeling, like, the dudes in assless chaps in, like, the 60s and 70s probably weren't people that made progress for, you know, just, let's just say, you know, the gay community in general. 0.98

01:10:18.000 It was like, oh, that dude in accounting who happens to be gay and isn't jamming shit down my throat or force-feeding it to me. 0.98

01:10:24.000 Like, you know, So when I see the extremes, I'd actually love to get your opinion on it. 0.99

01:10:30.000 You see the tuck-friendly bikini at Target because you really need to make sure that your kid has this, right?

01:10:38.000 Like kids that don't know anything about these things.

01:10:40.000 You have the drag nuns doing blasphemous stuff. 1.00

01:10:45.000 I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Navy and their hiring of a drag queen influencer in the Navy.

01:10:51.000 Like, because, you know what, hey, if recruitment numbers are down, what's the best way to get patriotic Americans to sign up to possibly die for their country? 0.99

01:11:00.000 Well, obviously, it's a fucking drag queen, right? 0.99

01:11:02.000 Like, I mean, what are they thinking? 1.00

01:11:04.000 No, like, you...

01:11:06.000 Listen, you bled.

01:11:07.000 You had friends die in Afghanistan.

01:11:11.000 I mean, your book about it's incredible.

01:11:13.000 Like... This is happening now in the military.

01:11:16.000 You know, what is China and Russia thinking?

01:11:20.000 Like, what are you thinking as someone who bled for our country?

01:11:22.000 If this was going on there, I mean, you know, and when they're like, we can't figure out why recruitment numbers are down.

01:11:29.000 It's like, well, I don't know. Like, I would think a big part of...

01:11:32.000 The patriotism required to sign up to do that entails actually believing the key tenets of what you're actually fighting for.

01:11:43.000 And if they're telling you that trans is the civil rights issue of our generation, it's like, no, it's not. 0.76

01:11:50.000 No, it's not. If you weren't jamming it down, most people wouldn't even give a shit. 0.99

01:11:54.000 But you have to commit blasphemy at a Dodgers game. 1.00

01:11:57.000 You have to commit sex acts in front of children. 0.89

01:12:01.000 When someone says you can't have children at the places where you're explicitly performing the sex act, you say, well, then we're not going to have it at all.

01:12:10.000 And it's like, wait, but I thought it had nothing to do with the kids.

01:12:12.000 So if you weren't actually grooming them, if you weren't trying to have undue influence on a very young and impressionable mind...

01:12:19.000 Then why do you feel the need to cancel it when those people aren't there?

01:12:23.000 I thought it had nothing to do with it, but of course it has something to do with it.

01:12:26.000 It all does.

01:12:28.000 So, you know, from a military perspective, you see that going on now.

01:12:34.000 What the hell's going on? 0.98

01:12:35.000 I mean, I guess as an army guy, you could have some fun with the Navy for it, but shit, I don't think it makes you feel comfortable living in America and saying these are the people ultimately going to be defending us. 0.99

01:12:46.000 Well, I'll tell you this. 0.95

01:12:48.000 One of the things that you learn real quick, and I'll try to answer your question.

01:12:51.000 Start with the military stuff, end with the stuff at Target here.

01:12:53.000 Yeah, that was a little long-winded.

01:12:54.000 Sorry. No, no, that's okay.

01:12:57.000 I mean, there's so many important questions in there, Don.

01:13:00.000 I'll try to hit every single one.

01:13:01.000 But first and foremost, you learn real quickly that it doesn't when you serve in the military.

01:13:06.000 And I was in the infantry, and this is at a time where there were no women in the infantry.

01:13:09.000 It was just men. 0.78

01:13:11.000 But you learn real quickly that you're black, white, Christian, atheist, Jew, like whatever. 0.95

01:13:18.000 It doesn't matter what race, creed, or religion you are.

01:13:20.000 Like you're only as fast as your slowest person, right?

01:13:25.000 And your differences aren't dividing lines anymore.

01:13:28.000 You're all one.

01:13:29.000 You're all serving the United States of America.

01:13:32.000 There are no hyphenated Americans in an infantry platoon in combat. 1.00

01:13:36.000 None of that shit matters. 0.99

01:13:37.000 You're Americans galvanized and fighting in support of one mission. 0.99

01:13:43.000 So when I see a lot of this stuff with the drag queen and putting forth other people's sexuality, I think it's completely ridiculous because again, none of that matters. 1.00

01:13:54.000 And when you hear people talk about, oh God, drives me crazy.

01:13:58.000 Well, diversity is our strength.

01:13:59.000 Diversity is our strength. They can't tell you why, though.

01:14:03.000 They can't tell you why, but you just have to hear that.

01:14:05.000 It was the safest election ever.

01:14:08.000 No one knows why.

01:14:09.000 No one can explain how a bunch of mail-in ballots for the first time ever was the safest and most secure ever. 0.97

01:14:15.000 But if the people that the Democrats, the media, big tech deem to be the voice of that thing, then it just is, even if there's actually no evidence and even if that's obviously bullshit. 0.82

01:14:29.000 Look, exactly. So when you hear the propaganda phrase, right, that's trotted out by Democrats and Republicans alike, you know, it's intellectually lazy, but diversity is our strength.

01:14:41.000 That's only half the sentence.

01:14:43.000 Actually, unity beyond our many differences as Americans is our greatest strength.

01:14:48.000 Yeah, diversity is part of it. We're a melting pot, but we melt into something.

01:14:52.000 We melt into Americans.

01:14:53.000 And in the military...

01:14:55.000 Your differences don't divide you. 1.00

01:14:57.000 You cannot be focused on that bullshit. 1.00

01:15:01.000 You just can't, Don. When the bullets are flying and you're worried about the man or woman next to you in the trenches and whether or not they live or die that day, you're thinking about getting out of there alive. 1.00

01:15:12.000 You're not thinking about sexuality.

01:15:14.000 You're not thinking about drag queens.

01:15:15.000 None of that stuff matters.

01:15:16.000 So why? Why then?

01:15:19.000 Is our military leading with those things?

01:15:23.000 As if that's going to bring patriots into the military and attract people to serve.

01:15:29.000 It doesn't, right? It doesn't.

01:15:30.000 And so, you know, the military wonders why their recruiting numbers are hurting.

01:15:34.000 I think that they can turn that gaze internally. 0.98

01:15:37.000 And, I mean, there are some, like, it's this kind of shit that's driving people away, right? 0.98

01:15:42.000 And ultimately, the real scary part of all this, Don, is that it weakens our country. 0.99

01:15:47.000 And your stuff about Target and the kids.

01:15:50.000 I feel like some of it's like...

01:15:52.000 The Dodgers would never have a group of people desecrating the Koran.

01:16:01.000 It feels like they would never do it to another group that could be considered a protected class.

01:16:07.000 They would never allow that to happen to Muslims.

01:16:10.000 But if you do Christians, it's like, eh, it's fine. 1.00

01:16:13.000 Catholics, it doesn't matter. 1.00

01:16:14.000 You can go. They cancel it because that was the right thing to do.

01:16:18.000 Then there's a little bit of outcry, and they cave to that within two seconds.

01:16:23.000 And then, you know, they do it anyway.

01:16:25.000 It just never ends.

01:16:26.000 And yet, if you did it to a different class, other than, I guess, you know, if it was white Christians, that's like the most expendable. 0.90

01:16:32.000 You can just do whatever you want to them.

01:16:33.000 They no longer matter. They can't have a say in this country anymore.

01:16:36.000 They're not protected.

01:16:38.000 If you're trans, I'd say today... 0.96

01:16:41.000 Trans is like the ultimate form of privilege in America. 1.00

01:16:44.000 You can do and say just about anything.

01:16:46.000 I think South Park did a great skit on that, which is like, sir, you can't do this.

01:16:50.000 No, no, I'm trans. Oh, in that case, do whatever the fuck you want, because laws no longer apply to you. 0.99

01:16:56.000 But that continues, and to see it in the military is what scares me the most. 0.99

01:17:00.000 I mean, does it make you that much more...

01:17:03.000 You know, upset and maybe that much more, you know, in desire of an overhaul of our priorities inside the Pentagon and inside our military.

01:17:13.000 When you were over there, you know, fighting for this, I mean, did you ever have a conversation with people in the Taliban and ask them their pronouns? 0.99

01:17:21.000 I mean, I'd pay good money to see this shit. 0.99

01:17:23.000 Like, it would be, I imagine it would be incredible. 1.00

01:17:28.000 Well, I mean, certainly there's that component of it when you look at, like, what do our enemies think of us?

01:17:34.000 And you want, ultimately, you want them to be afraid of our military and afraid of bold, decisive action from our leadership.

01:17:41.000 Right now, our enemies are not.

01:17:43.000 And they're on the march, and you're seeing that manifest itself in, you know, a geopolitical conflict in Ukraine with Ukraine and Russia, which, by the way, the way things are going now is going to be a 10-year stalemate.

01:17:54.000 There's no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

01:17:56.000 As long as the money is flowing, it will continue forever. 0.62

01:18:00.000 And all the Ukrainian young men will die. 1.00

01:18:04.000 Vladimir Zelensky will move to L.A. and live in a mansion with the billions of dollars he's amassed.

01:18:09.000 He'll be fine. It's the actual people doing the fighting.

01:18:12.000 They're fucked, but minor details. 0.99

01:18:14.000 No one's going to talk about that. Yeah. 1.00

01:18:17.000 Oh, and then you look at what's happening with Taiwan.

01:18:19.000 I think Blinken was in China today with President Xi and said something during a press conference and said something about he doesn't support a free and independent Taiwan.

01:18:31.000 I mean, so when our enemies don't fear us and our enemies don't fear our leaders and bold, decisive action of our leaders, it does not bode well for our country.

01:18:41.000 Of course not. And, you know, you talk about, like, what can our military do?

01:18:47.000 Oh, my God, there's about a million and one things that I would do right now.

01:18:50.000 Like, right now we talked about Ukraine and Russia.

01:18:51.000 But over the last 20 years, Don, and this is a really, really important thing to talk about, we evolved our force to fight largely an asymmetric threat.

01:19:01.000 We went from fighting Soviet-era Russia, an army that was built to fight Soviet-era Russian conventional threats, to asymmetric terror, and we evolved into what's called brigade combat teams to do it.

01:19:14.000 We've been fighting asymmetric wars against Islamic extremists for the last 20 years, Iraq, Afghanistan, and contingency operations all around the world.

01:19:20.000 Russia is a conventional threat. 0.98

01:19:23.000 So to people that are listening or watching, what does that mean?

01:19:26.000 It means that as of right now, our military does not have Stinger missiles, surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles in direct support of infantry battalions or infantry companies on the ground.

01:19:36.000 So, God forbid, if we find ourselves in a situation with boots on the ground in Ukraine, fighting a conventional Russian force with tanks and air power, how do we fight back?

01:19:45.000 We've not sufficiently modernized our force and evolved it away now from fighting a global insurgency or counterinsurgency to fighting a more conventional Russian threat and, God forbid, a threat in China.

01:19:58.000 None of that work has been done.

01:20:00.000 None of that work has been talked about.

01:20:03.000 And the only thing, getting back to the drag queen as a Navy recruiter, that's the stuff that's being talked about.

01:20:12.000 And it's dangerous. And listen, I think Russia's probably... 0.99

01:20:16.000 You know, I'm worried about this thing escalating.

01:20:18.000 You know, we find out about actual boots on the ground.

01:20:20.000 That shouldn't surprise anyone who's been watching.

01:20:22.000 They've been, you know, they've been instigating this war for a while.

01:20:25.000 It seems, you know, they want Ukraine.

01:20:27.000 It's fertile ground. They'll use it to, you know, the World Economic Forum will take it over and they'll be the farm for the, you know, their globalist agenda.

01:20:34.000 And it seems like that's what they're doing.

01:20:36.000 And, you know, we'll instigate Vladimir Putin.

01:20:39.000 I mean, you know, what's the worst he could do with 6,000-something nuclear missiles, right?

01:20:42.000 But In a conventional war, I guess Russia should be relatively depleted right now, as much as we are, because we've been fighting the proxy war.

01:20:54.000 Ukraine has nothing with it if it wasn't for the U.S. keeping this going.

01:20:57.000 And the agenda for that seems pretty obvious.

01:21:00.000 But the real threat...

01:21:02.000 China. I mean, what could we possibly do against China?

01:21:06.000 They got 1.7 billion people.

01:21:07.000 They could have more people in an army, in a standing army, than we have people, if that's what they wanted to do.

01:21:14.000 And they actually have the ability to produce the stuff.

01:21:17.000 They're stealing all our tech and For pennies on the dollar, they'll improve it after we spend trillions in R&D. They steal it.

01:21:25.000 We say nothing. We allow them to continue, just like corporate America has, because we need to make it for two cents cheaper there rather than putting Americans to work.

01:21:33.000 So, I mean, that seems like the bigger threat.

01:21:35.000 How on earth could we fight a war against China?

01:21:38.000 We're going to fight the Ukraine proxy war and...

01:21:41.000 We're gonna help Taiwan against China, which is, you know, what, 50 miles away? 0.50

01:21:47.000 Like, I mean, you can't think that we have a chance if you're a serious individual at this point.

01:21:53.000 Well, I mean, and this is part of the reason why, you know, it's so dangerous for our country to have leaders like Joe Biden, right?

01:22:04.000 None of this happened, Don, when your dad was president, because they actually were afraid of your father, and they were afraid of decisive action.

01:22:15.000 And by the way, Your father's tariffs on China put a real hurting on their economy.

01:22:22.000 And the fact that within a year of your father's presidency, this country was energy independent.

01:22:26.000 I never thought I'd see that in my lifetime.

01:22:28.000 But not only that, we were a net energy exporter.

01:22:31.000 Who does that hurt the most?

01:22:32.000 It hurts Russia. I mean how many times have you heard the Mitt Romney's of the world and John McCain's of the world?

01:22:38.000 Try it out. Well, Russia is just a gas station. Well, okay, if you really despise Putin, then you should want America

01:22:45.000 exporting natural gas because if natural gas is Russia's main pillar of their economy

01:22:51.000 Well, then us being a global exporter dominant global force exporting natural gas

01:22:57.000 It crushes Russia But Joe Biden doesn't do that either.

01:23:00.000 He decimates oil and gas industry here in this country.

01:23:03.000 And because of that, it emboldens Russia. 0.55

01:23:05.000 The whole reason why their economy hasn't collapsed and only that, their economy's growing, is because they're exporting their natural gas everywhere.

01:23:14.000 Because we've allowed them to fill that void.

01:23:18.000 But instead, the sanctions gave Russia an excuse with Saudi and an excuse with China to basically get off the petrodollar.

01:23:26.000 They'll go in their own currency.

01:23:28.000 So the dollar, we actually shot ourselves in the foot.

01:23:32.000 The only thing I can say that maybe good comes from it is that the U.S. will be incapable of borrowing, so we won't be writing $10 million checks to Pakistan for To fund their very own drag queen story hours because we won't have enough money to fund anything. 0.67

01:23:47.000 I'm not saying that's good, but I'm saying our way of life has been jeopardized by those sanctions and, you know, the reckless spending that sort of the permanent petrodollar has allowed us to actually do as Americans.

01:24:01.000 You eliminate that, which is what the sanctions have done so far.

01:24:05.000 And that's really scary economically at this point, beyond even sort of the geopolitical ramifications.

01:24:11.000 Of course we're making it easier for Putin.

01:24:13.000 All he's got to do is pump gas.

01:24:15.000 He's going to keep doing that.

01:24:16.000 They will do it under no environmental scrutiny, no environmental care.

01:24:21.000 They'll just do it, whereas we could do it, put Americans to work, have the energy independence, have the political assuredness that comes with that, but no, no, no.

01:24:29.000 We gotta somehow magically do it with a windmill, which, you know, it's insane, but that's where we are, because we have, the left especially, has these sort of little religions, right? 0.93

01:24:41.000 You know, climate change is a religion of the left, their deity being, you know, Greta Thunberg.

01:24:45.000 You have, you know, the Ukraine war is a new religion of the left with, you know, high priestess Vladimir Zelensky.

01:24:52.000 It never ends.

01:24:54.000 Fauci was the high priest of the COVID religion, which is the left because they don't believe in anything else.

01:25:00.000 So they create these things as they go.

01:25:03.000 And it's all a detriment to America, our hegemony in the world, and our economy because they don't care. 0.70

01:25:09.000 They'll be taken care of.

01:25:12.000 Well, that's exactly right.

01:25:14.000 I mean, you're 100% right in terms of the left views their politics as a religion, and therefore, and they approach it with the same zealotry that many people who are religious approach their own religions with.

01:25:27.000 And so the ends justify the means for many of them, which is why you have all these crazy radicals on television talking about, like, Oh, well, somebody had a congressman talking about shooting your father, which, frankly, she should be investigated by the Secret Service in jail.

01:25:46.000 Hey, Sean, I got news for you.

01:25:48.000 She won't be. She won't be.

01:25:50.000 She won't be. If I did it, I would be.

01:25:52.000 That's different. You know, but it's just, you know, the double standard is there.

01:25:56.000 I mean, listen, at this point, when you look at the weaponized Justice Department and Joe

01:26:01.000 Biden literally arresting his top political opponents, you know, are Americans justified 1.00

01:26:08.000 being more concerned about internal threats versus the external ones?

01:26:13.000 I mean, I'd argue that, you know, our deep state, a weaponized DOJ run by radical Democrat

01:26:20.000 extremists, ones that will literally label concerned parents domestic terrorists for not 0.99

01:26:26.000 wanting their children indoctrinated with the leftist bullshit. 0.98

01:26:30.000 I view that as a far greater threat to America than anything that Vladimir Putin is doing right now, provided we don't give him the excuse to escalate to nuclear weapons. 0.99

01:26:41.000 And we are the ones doing that.

01:26:44.000 Moving NATO, and having the conversation about moving NATO onto Russia's border, eliminating the, I don't know, 500-mile buffer zone that has stood for 60 years during the Cold War, Ukraine...

01:26:57.000 You know, maybe he was going to do it anyway. 0.59

01:27:00.000 Maybe he wanted to, but we sure as shit gave him an excuse to actually invade that country, and we're pretending we had nothing to do with it. 0.62

01:27:08.000 I mean, what do you think about that? 0.95

01:27:09.000 I mean, because I would argue right now that I'm actually more concerned as an American with our internal threats of this weaponized system of government than I am anything that Vladimir Putin could do to us.

01:27:22.000 Yeah, I mean, Don, you just got done talking about how the Chinese are stealing our trade secrets and then improving upon them without any investment in terms of cognitive ability, sweat equity in terms of scientific investment or monetary investment. 1.00

01:27:37.000 Yet our FBI is more concerned with investigating pro-life activists than stopping Chinese espionage and infiltration in this country.

01:27:47.000 So yeah, what's happening right now domestically is a far greater threat.

01:27:52.000 But even building on that, Don...

01:27:55.000 Americans right now, the middle class is really struggling.

01:27:58.000 I'm a middle class guy, and life is not easy in a Biden administration.

01:28:02.000 We have all sorts of concerns today that we did not have when your father was president.

01:28:08.000 Groceries cost exponentially more.

01:28:11.000 Commodities are like two or three times more.

01:28:14.000 Today, what they were when your dad was president.

01:28:17.000 You know, I remember there was a time when your dad was in office and gas was $1.82 a gallon.

01:28:23.000 And now it's like $4.35 a gallon.

01:28:26.000 But Sean, I'm told by the left that Joe Biden had nothing to do with the prices going up.

01:28:32.000 But when they came down like 20 cents, it was all him.

01:28:37.000 But, I mean, that's what it is, though. 1.00

01:28:39.000 It's that level of bullshit. 0.98

01:28:42.000 You know, they can take credit for anything good, and they're totally absolved of anything when it's bad. 1.00

01:28:48.000 It's clearly their policies.

01:28:49.000 Clearly their—you know, every aspect of it.

01:28:52.000 Shutting down the Keystone Pipeline on day one, on the debate stage in front of millions of Americans.

01:28:56.000 That's never going to happen.

01:28:58.000 Day one executive order.

01:28:59.000 But, like— There's no consequence to the lie.

01:29:03.000 There's no consequence to this.

01:29:04.000 That's why I genuinely think the internal threats within our country are far greater than the external threats.

01:29:10.000 Sure, Vladimir Putin could launch nuclear weapons.

01:29:13.000 If we don't give him an excuse to, he's not going to. 0.99

01:29:16.000 But, like, doesn't stop the left from indoctrinating our children, you know, wanting to take children away from parents who don't go along with the newest religion of trans, you know, shit that... 0.99

01:29:26.000 Five years ago, you'd laugh. 0.99

01:29:28.000 You'd think we were being parodied about what's actually going on in the United States right now, about the hills to die on on today's radical left agenda.

01:29:36.000 And yet, they're serious.

01:29:38.000 There's legislation in the states to take children away from parents who don't just blindly follow through with their children As young as three, telling them that they're a magical biological sex that no one's ever heard of and they have to go through permanent life-altering surgery. 0.98

01:29:55.000 The fact that so few are actually willing to say this and be like, I don't know, I'm calling bullshit, is ludicrous to me. 0.98

01:30:02.000 But here we stand. 0.89

01:30:05.000 It's a scary time, Don.

01:30:07.000 And I think many Americans, you're absolutely right in terms of five years ago, we never thought we'd be here.

01:30:12.000 And I think many Americans are afraid to speak out because if they do, they could lose their jobs.

01:30:20.000 They could lose their livelihood.

01:30:21.000 They could lose their ability to provide for the family.

01:30:23.000 God forbid, they could lose their children if they don't agree with gender-affirming care. 0.99

01:30:27.000 Right? And this is why what we talked about in the very beginning, the collusion between big government and all of these powerful entities.

01:30:35.000 There used to be a time in America when the left said, screw the government. 0.95

01:30:41.000 Don't trust the government.

01:30:43.000 But the left today, oddly, things have flipped, and now it's Republicans that are saying, don't trust the government and the left.

01:30:51.000 Republicans are anti-establishment right now.

01:30:53.000 We're the only party that's actually anti-establishment.

01:30:55.000 Everyone else is. Do what your teacher tells you, and that is the only way.

01:30:59.000 And if you question that, that's not called thought.

01:31:01.000 Even if you end up being wrong, I used to remember where critical thinking was actually a skill that was desirable.

01:31:08.000 It was actually something you wanted someone to be able to do.

01:31:11.000 Now it's not that. Now we have rote memorization, random regurgitation of the narrative.

01:31:17.000 And the narrative is controlled by the radical left.

01:31:19.000 And even if it goes against all of science and everything we've known, we are to believe that they can change it.

01:31:27.000 In the blink of an eye.

01:31:29.000 And if you don't go along, you're racist or you're a climate change denier, one of the two, because literally all of the left's problems can be solved somehow by, I guess, or caused by white supremacy and climate change, because there's nothing else that they go with anymore.

01:31:43.000 Nothing even matters because they're not serious people.

01:31:47.000 I mean, and it's crazy when you hear Republicans talk about, oh, we shouldn't engage in the culture war.

01:31:52.000 That's all the left does.

01:31:54.000 That's why they want children at drag queen shows. 1.00

01:31:57.000 Like, look, you're a grown-ass man, and you want to go to a drag show with a bunch of other consenting adults, more power to you.

01:32:05.000 I don't really care. 1.00

01:32:06.000 But keep my damn kids out of it, you know? 0.99

01:32:09.000 Kids don't need to see that stuff. But you're not allowed to say that. 0.99

01:32:11.000 When people say it, I mean, how many people have been canceled for, you know, He commented on the...

01:32:17.000 You saw that there were a couple of ballplayers.

01:32:18.000 Like, hey man, just leave the children alone.

01:32:20.000 You know, I think it was like Call of Duty, one of the things went like crazy leftist.

01:32:24.000 Just leave the kids alone. 1.00

01:32:26.000 Like, it's not that complicated.

01:32:28.000 Like, we literally have a legal system designed to protect minors.

01:32:32.000 Like, they can't make...

01:32:33.000 Life-altering decisions prior to the age of 18.

01:32:37.000 You always needed parental consent.

01:32:39.000 This is not a novel concept.

01:32:41.000 This is nothing new. And yet, the left in the last 18 months would seemingly eliminate that so that they can take the most impressionable group of society, young children, trying to learn, as young as three or younger, and be like, well, you're going to do whatever your teacher tells you.

01:32:58.000 You know, a teacher who's more than happy to... 0.52

01:33:01.000 You know, when I was that age, I used to think I was a fucking airplane, but my parents didn't let me jump off a building. 0.94

01:33:06.000 Like, you know, I had a wild imagination. 0.95

01:33:09.000 They allowed me to, you know, flourish with that, but not take it so far that I would permanently harm myself.

01:33:17.000 But today, the left...

01:33:18.000 Listen, maybe it solves all of its own problems, because if the left allows them to happen, it's sort of...

01:33:22.000 Let's call it natural selection.

01:33:24.000 You know, they take themselves out, but like...

01:33:27.000 I don't think that's the way we want to live.

01:33:29.000 I don't encourage that.

01:33:30.000 I don't want anyone to do that, but man, it feels like it's going that way.

01:33:34.000 How do you think this all plays out?

01:33:38.000 Don, Melanie and I had the kids at Costco a couple weeks ago, and they wouldn't even give my daughters a free sample of the food.

01:33:48.000 You know, they got free samples of food in Costco.

01:33:50.000 They wouldn't even give one of my daughters a sample of food without consent from their parents. 0.98

01:33:55.000 But Melanie and I were talking, but these kids can walk into a school and talk to any psychologist. 0.99

01:34:01.000 It's okay, food could be poisonous, but you should be able to decide at three if you're going to chop your dick off and, like... 1.00

01:34:06.000 How dare you? How dare you, parent? 1.00

01:34:09.000 How dare you question this?

01:34:12.000 You know, you're clearly... 1.00

01:34:13.000 It's absolutely ridiculous. 0.99

01:34:14.000 ...anti-trans or whatever. I do think... 0.99

01:34:17.000 I think the left overplayed their hand here.

01:34:19.000 And this is why you see, you know, Latinos who for 40 years have voted Democrat, right?

01:34:24.000 But now I think they're waking up because many of those people are very devout Christians.

01:34:27.000 They don't want this stuff foisted on their kids and they're speaking out.

01:34:30.000 And you know what the media is doing?

01:34:32.000 They're writing articles about the rise of Latino white supremacist Latinos.

01:34:37.000 And I think that there was Muslim groups on school boards... 0.96

01:34:40.000 The black white supremacist. 0.91

01:34:42.000 Why is he a white supremacist? 0.99

01:34:43.000 Well, because he doesn't agree with the Democrat narrative.

01:34:46.000 Like, you know, they'll do whatever they can to take him out.

01:34:48.000 And, you know, yeah, no, it's absolutely mind-blowing.

01:34:52.000 Listen, do you think Joe Biden, do you think they can, you know, limp this guy through another campaign?

01:34:57.000 Or do you think there's something, you know, in there a little bit more nefarious to get someone else, perhaps even more radical, to step in when, you know, when this guy inevitably falls over?

01:35:08.000 Look, it's hard to imagine, looking at Joe Biden today, Don, that he is going to make it through a campaign.

01:35:14.000 And I don't think that they want him running a campaign.

01:35:18.000 Frankly, if I am a high-ranking Democrat that has any sway over anything, I think I'm going for Gavin Newsom.

01:35:25.000 He looks the part. He's going to play the part.

01:35:29.000 He's going to pretend to be a moderate.

01:35:30.000 The media is going to fly cover for this guy.

01:35:34.000 I don't know. Okay, the only problem with that is it goes against the cardinal rules of identity politics of the left.

01:35:40.000 How do you go to Gavin Newsom, a white male, bypassing Kamala Harris, who I'm told is an African-American woman?

01:35:50.000 How do they do that?

01:35:51.000 Because I think that's what the problem is with Joe Biden.

01:35:55.000 As bad as he is, and even they know it, you look at Joe Biden and you feel sorry for him.

01:36:02.000 You know, his justice department is trying to literally throw my father in prison for 450 years.

01:36:09.000 And like, I don't hate the guy because I know there's no one home. 0.97

01:36:13.000 It's like, you know, the hamster wheel is barely spinning and, you know, what's coming out of it is garbage. 0.89

01:36:18.000 So... You know, it's hard to hate him. 0.84

01:36:22.000 Whereas you can take, you know, just any random clip of Kamala Harris and you can turn her into Hillary. 1.00

01:36:27.000 It's just hateable.

01:36:29.000 But how do they do it?

01:36:31.000 You know, what's the scheme that the Democrats will use to bypass Kamala Harris to be able to get in someone that at least, you know, on paper can...

01:36:43.000 Maybe, let's just say dupe.

01:36:44.000 Because it'll all be about fooling the American populace into thinking that they're not radical.

01:36:50.000 Because the Democrat Party today would never put anyone that's not radical.

01:36:55.000 Just look at what they did to Conor Lamb versus John Fetterman. 0.92

01:36:58.000 They could have had a reasonable, let's call it, I don't even think he's that moderate, but moderate relative to an insane lunatic like John Fetterman. 0.74

01:37:06.000 And they were like, no, no, no. 0.79

01:37:08.000 We don't want the clean-cut dude.

01:37:10.000 We want the guy that will release. 0.97

01:37:12.000 Murderers! You know, the guy that thinks, you know, children at the age of three should obviously have trans surgeries without parental consent, and we should throw the parents in jail, you know, if they have a problem with this.

01:37:25.000 You know, so I don't know how you get there, because whoever they end up choosing, because it's not about elections, they will choose whoever it is, needs to be just as radical as whoever is pulling, you know, the marionette strings on Joe Biden.

01:37:41.000 Well, I mean, my answer to that question is fairly simple, at least according, at least I believe it is, is the left has standards for everybody else and they don't follow their own standards.

01:37:51.000 Some of the most racist people on the face of the planet are radical leftists today who see identity politics and everything, right?

01:38:01.000 Republicans don't think like that.

01:38:02.000 Republicans don't see skin color.

01:38:04.000 Republicans One of the greatest propaganda schemes in the history of modern politics are the Democrats convincing people that Republicans are racist, when the Democrats were the ones who founded the KKK. Because history is racist, Sean.

01:38:20.000 How dare you? I mean, Biden eulogized a member.

01:38:25.000 We talked about this in the last show, but a Grand Cyclops.

01:38:29.000 I got fact-checked for it because it wasn't a Grand Cyclops.

01:38:32.000 It was just a Grand Wizard. Or whatever the hell it was.

01:38:34.000 Sean, you're a terrible human. 1.00

01:38:37.000 Only a Democrat would know the distinction. 0.99

01:38:40.000 I don't even know the difference in the hierarchy of the KKK because these are not my people.

01:38:46.000 But if you're a Democrat, you know, you probably have a solid understanding of it because that was the Democrat Party, certainly in the South and elsewhere.

01:38:55.000 But, you know, again... The fact that they've been able to lie so well, take over all of culture, take over the areas, the institutions, and be able to somehow frame that as Republicans just shows you how much more evil they are, but they're just better at this shit than Republicans, and that's because we're not willing to engage. 0.99

01:39:12.000 So that's why we have to become unafraid. 0.97

01:39:15.000 We must understand that if we're so worried about Some of the consequences of being vocal, of speaking up, of being a conservative, and there are real consequences.

01:39:24.000 There will be nothing left to actually defend in a couple more cycles, if not this cycle.

01:39:30.000 Look at everything they're taking back.

01:39:33.000 Look at all the lies that have been propagated.

01:39:36.000 And if we allow it, I guess we deserve to lose it, because if we're not willing to fight for it, then who is?

01:39:43.000 You have to fight for it.

01:39:44.000 And you have to do so in a way that's unafraid.

01:39:47.000 And that does not come without risk.

01:39:49.000 I mean, getting in the arena, you know, bring your helmet, you know, because you're going to need it.

01:39:53.000 It's a fight. But the future of our country is at stake.

01:39:57.000 And the whole reason why I ran, Don, was so that, you know, looking in the eyes of my kids, I made myself a promise, man.

01:40:03.000 When I came back from Afghanistan, I used to pray over there all the time.

01:40:06.000 And I used to say, like, God, somehow I get out of here alive, you know.

01:40:10.000 I'm going to throw everything that I have into raising good kids and making sure that my kids don't have to come to a country like this and fight where I was but also make sure that they inherit a nation that is free and rich with opportunity.

01:40:24.000 Their future is at stake and so we have to fight for them to make sure that the America that they grow up in Is better than the one that we had.

01:40:33.000 I mean, it's just that simple.

01:40:35.000 And that's going to come with risk.

01:40:37.000 The left is going to come after you mercilessly.

01:40:40.000 But... We only got, in my mind, a few years left before America is fundamentally unrecognizable.

01:40:48.000 And by the way, the left tells you that that's their mission every day, to fundamentally dismantle systems and to fundamentally transform America.

01:40:57.000 When they say that, they mean tearing it down brick by brick and who the hell knows what it will look like when they're done.

01:41:04.000 Yeah, listen, when they say it, you know, start believing them.

01:41:07.000 I agree, Sean.

01:41:09.000 Thanks for all that you do with this.

01:41:10.000 It's so important.

01:41:11.000 And you're right. You know, other places that we looked at like that.

01:41:14.000 You know, look at Australia. Look at New Zealand.

01:41:17.000 Look at Canada. Look at the UK. All these places that we thought were bastions of freedom.

01:41:21.000 I mean, you know, people...

01:41:22.000 Are getting thrown in jail for missing pronouns. 0.97

01:41:25.000 You misgender someone, it's not nearly the offense as a migrant who rapes a young child. 0.98

01:41:31.000 No, that's different. They're getting a fraction of the sentence of the guy that committed a grammatical error.

01:41:39.000 It's lunacy, but it's happening.

01:41:41.000 So, Sean, you're 100% right.

01:41:43.000 Thank you for doing this. Guys, for those of you, what do we do?

01:41:45.000 What do we do? Stay in the game.

01:41:49.000 Be unafraid.

01:41:51.000 Make sure others see this kind of messaging.

01:41:54.000 Go check out Sean's podcast as well.

01:41:57.000 We need to do this.

01:41:59.000 It's unconventional warfare, guys.

01:42:01.000 The mainstream, even on the conservative mainstream, is not on our side either.

01:42:05.000 We have to do it ourselves.

01:42:07.000 We can't do that without you guys.

01:42:09.000 So like, subscribe, download the Rumble app so you can see it, share it with your friends, follow Sean, check him out on social.

01:42:17.000 Just a great American. Sean, thanks so much for doing this, man.

01:42:20.000 I really appreciate you. Yeah, thanks, brother.

01:42:23.000 Anytime you need me, I'm there for you.

01:42:25.000 Take care, Don. Thank you, man.

01:42:26.000 We'll see you soon. And guys, before we go, just want to take a second just to thank, again, the brave sponsors of the show.

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