Former U.S. Army Airborne Ranger, author, and Pennsylvania politician Sean Parnell joins Jemele to discuss the ongoing witch-hunt against Joe Biden's father, John Fetterman, and the recent collapse of a portion of I-95 in Philadelphia. Plus, Sean tells a funny story about when he first appeared on the show with me in the early days of the podcast, when he was actually staying at Mar-a-Lago. And, of course, we talk about Joe Biden s recent trip to Philadelphia with his friend, Rep. Brandon Boyle (D-Pa.) and his awkward encounter with a man who was with Joe Biden at an event in Philadelphia this weekend. And, as always, thank you for listening to Triggered! Thank you for supporting the show and our mission to make a difference in the lives of women and girls everywhere. Please consider pledging a small monthly amount to support us by clicking the link below. We'll see you next week when we'll have a new episode of the show on the airwaves on Tuesday nights at 7 PM Eastern. Thanks for listening and Good Luck Outlaw Platoon! -Eugene Vellian - The Vagabond Podcast Don't forget to Like, Subscribe, Share, and Share on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe, and Tell a Friend about this and other great stories you've heard on your favorite podcast platform! If you like what you're listening to, share it on your social media platforms, tell a friend about it, and spread the word to your friends about it! or share it around the wide and far and wide! You can be a supporter of this and wide and wide out there! and we'll get a shoutout on the podcast on your friends in next week's episode on the next episode! Timestamps: 5 stars, 5 stars is a discount code: 6 stars equals 5 stars and a review! 7 stars is better than 5 stars equals 10 days free on iTunes! 9 stars is much better than the average review on review and review on iTunes? 8 stars is also a review on my review on a review? 9 days of a review and a discount promo code 10 stars is 5 stars gets me a discount on my podcast? 11 days of free shipping on my site 12 days of your ad discount? 13 days of shipping free on my new book
00:00:27.000As 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.
00:00:38.000Tonight, we're joined by my good friend Sean Parnell.
00:00:41.000Former U.S. Army Airborne Ranger, author, Pennsylvania politician, someone who's dealt with plenty of nonsense both in the military and otherwise.
00:00:52.000He's the host of the Battleground podcast and also the author of Outlaw Platoon based on his experiences over there in the desert.
00:01:02.000Lifelong Pennsylvania resident and he's perfect for tonight's show because we're discussing America's A foremost scholar.
00:01:11.000Many in the media would even refer to him as a poet.
00:01:16.000John Fetterman. We'll also talk to Sean about the never-ending witch hunts against my father.
00:01:21.000We have some funny stories from when he was on the podcast initially.
00:01:26.000I think we share a lot of stuff in that we've been sort of dealt kind of ridiculous blows by a corrupt justice system.
00:01:34.000He knows more about the woke military than most, and much, much more.
00:02:05.000Since 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.
00:02:16.000And honestly, I don't blame Joe Biden for hosting events with Fetterman.
00:02:22.000I think John Fetterman makes Joe Biden seem like a Rhodes Scholar.
00:02:30.000It must be nice, for once, for Joe Biden to be the most eloquent person.
00:02:38.000On the stage when you're dealing with Fetterman.
00:02:41.000Just so we understand, John Fetterman's a Pennsylvania senator who had a serious stroke while he was running.
00:02:47.000The 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.
00:03:18.000Close 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.
00:04:08.000The Democrat machine in Pennsylvania knew about it.
00:04:14.000Sean Parnell, who will be our guest, was actually a competitor against one of the other people that was running in that Senate primary.
00:04:22.000We 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.
00:04:32.000We're allowed to talk about how one of the United States senators from Pennsylvania is clearly unable to perform his job.
00:04:44.000This is him at a Senate hearing talking about the recent collapse of a portion of I-95 in Philadelphia.
00:04:51.000Check it out. Today, some comments about the tragic accident on I-95.
00:05:01.000And if you want to make any comments with respect to that, feel free, you're recognized.
00:05:09.000No, I... Really, like the 95, 95, 95, you know?
00:06:25.000I 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.
00:06:35.000But, like... Our president doesn't seem to remember that.
00:06:42.000He 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.
00:06:55.000Even the liberal hacks in the press could hardly cover for Joe Biden and his absolute incompetence.
00:07:04.000USA Today's White House reporter wrote, and I quote, President Biden's God save the queen man remark after his speech is befuddling many.
00:07:36.000With 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.
00:07:53.000But of course, you'd, generally speaking, be 100% wrong, with perhaps the exception of myself and perhaps two or three other people on Rumble.
00:08:02.000A Dallas Morning News reporter covering the event also wrote, several of you have asked me why he might have said that.
00:08:11.000I mean, I'm glad that someone from a liberal paper is at least mentioning it.
00:08:18.000But 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.
00:08:31.000When he's not speaking nonsense, Joe Biden's just straight up lying to further his radical agenda.
00:08:38.000In order to grab your guns, he has to say stuff like vans are just driving around cities selling AR-15s.
00:08:46.000Seriously, folks, this is Joe Biden's excuse for gun control.
00:08:49.000Listen for yourselves....licensed gun dealers required by law to run background checks on those he's selling a weapon to.
00:08:57.000And 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.
00:10:43.000We 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.
00:11:26.000The 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.
00:11:37.000The information is perfectly suited to use in a gun registry database.
00:11:45.000No different than what we talked about two, three weeks ago, going into June 1st with the Biden pistol brace ban.
00:11:52.000We'll get into that insanity in a second.
00:12:53.000Because, you know, what's the worst that those people are gonna do, right?
00:12:57.000But you, if you could abolish the Second Amendment, you would be helpless to defend yourself against the lunatics that Fetterman would love to free.
00:13:09.000We're ruled by people who can't even be trusted to cross the street by themselves, folks.
00:13:15.000But they have the power to make it so you can't be trusted to own a gun anymore.
00:13:23.000It's important to laugh at Biden and Fetterman.
00:13:28.000But remember, their policies and the policies they're trying to push are no joke.
00:13:34.000And 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.
00:13:49.000This is a party that will do anything to maintain power over you.
00:13:56.000Check out fake Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, a non-voting delegate of the U.S. Virgin Islands, saying, my father should be shot.
00:14:10.000Not 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.
00:14:29.000Hey guys, they're saying the quiet part loud again, right?
00:14:34.000No one watching that doesn't believe that's what she would love to happen, okay?
00:14:39.000She corrected herself after that little slip-up.
00:14:43.000You 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?
00:15:14.000Or his China-funded Penn Policy Center, you know, to the tune of like 50-something million dollars by China.
00:15:20.000Yeah! I'm sure those files were really secure.
00:15:23.000No, 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.
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00:19:39.000incredible warrior, great author, someone who's fighting and really
00:19:43.000putting himself in the line of attack of the insane people that are doing what they're doing, Sean Parnell.
00:19:50.000Welcome back, buddy. Good to have you on here.
00:21:23.000But 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.
00:21:30.000We shouldn't live in a country that does that.
00:21:33.000But no one in the media thought to say, like, well, hey, wait a second.
00:21:36.000Red 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.
00:21:46.000Right? Yeah. John Fetterman and his staff, right?
00:21:49.000You showed the James O'Keefe video clip of his staff were saying, well, John Fetterman, boy, it'd be great.
00:21:56.000Like, he would be fine with just rescinding the Second Amendment altogether.
00:22:00.000But among the three of us, like me, you, and John Fetterman, John Fetterman is the only one who's committed a gun crime.
00:22:07.000Like, this is a guy that when he was mayor of Braddock...
00:22:11.000Heard a loud noise outside of his house that was like a firecracker or something, and chased down a black man with a shotgun.
00:22:54.000I 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.
00:23:03.000For John Fetterman, it's like, oh, it doesn't matter.
00:23:05.000We're just going to pretend like that never happens.
00:23:08.000Of course. And by the way, he got these huge spreads in these puff piece magazines like the New York Times.
00:23:15.000I think he had a spread in Vice, was in Rolling Stone.
00:23:19.000And 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.
00:23:31.000And 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?
00:23:47.000Ladies 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.
00:23:55.000Because even though the Democrat Party knew about his stroke and knew about how serious it was, even though...
00:24:02.000key members of the media in the state of Pennsylvania.
00:24:05.000By the way, this is a small state when it comes to political media, Don.
00:24:09.000They knew the severity of his stroke, yet they covered for him.
00:24:13.000And when you had, I think, an NBC reporter come out, she didn't even raise any questions
00:24:18.000about his cognitive status or anything else, Don.
00:24:21.000She simply said, he was having trouble putting sentences together.
00:24:26.000The media industrial complex in this country smeared her relentlessly.
00:24:31.000And this is why we have John Fetterman in office, ladies and gentlemen.
00:25:14.000Whether we like his politics or not, we can say, you know, well put together, speaks well, all this kind of stuff.
00:25:22.000And they still chose John Fetterman over that guy because he wouldn't have pushed for a radical agenda there.
00:25:30.000I guess he was a former veteran as well and maybe wouldn't have been for releasing hardened murderers.
00:25:38.000Or totally eliminating the Second Amendment.
00:25:41.000He'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.
00:26:18.000Well, it tells you that the Democrats, I mean, this might perhaps be an indictment somewhat
00:26:26.000of our party in and of itself, Don, but it tells you that it doesn't.
00:26:31.000This entire debate on our side about candidate quality is complete bullshit.
00:26:38.000I 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.
00:26:45.000Well, you can if you're a Democrat because of all the extra help.
00:26:48.000But you can if you're a Democrat. That's the point.
00:26:50.000They can run a turnip and get a turnip elected.
00:26:54.000And it's because they've seized upon election law.
00:26:57.000They've changed election law in critical swing states and in critical counties to benefit them.
00:27:01.000But 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?
00:27:10.000People, just these political consultants who grift off of politics, who just make money off of candidates each cycle.
00:27:15.000They create these arguments internally on the Republican side and say, and I'll give you a perfect example of what I mean.
00:27:21.000You know, in the 2022 cycle, look back at that, you know, it's like, oh, well, Trump candidates didn't do well.
00:28:01.000Not only did John Fetterman beat Conor Lamb, and everything that you said about him was right.
00:28:06.000He is a far more dangerous candidate in a general election, but ultimately it didn't matter.
00:28:10.000But 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.
00:28:25.000Now, again, you take the ballot harvesting operation out of it, right?
00:28:28.000Where they go, hey, this is the candidate we want.
00:28:30.000You 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.
00:28:41.000But the Democrats are collecting that ballot, filling it in, signing it in, turning it in.
00:28:46.000Which is, I think, where most of this stuff comes from.
00:28:48.000So, yes, is it perhaps a legally collected ballot?
00:28:51.000I guess it could. It depends on the laws of the state.
00:28:53.000But there's zero chance that people could see John Fetterman, listen to him and speak, and say, that's my guy.
00:29:01.000That's the guy I'm actually voting for.
00:29:03.000Now, you can overcome that by being like, hey, just give me a ballot.
00:29:06.000We're going to fill it out how we want.
00:29:07.000We're going to pick the most radical guy.
00:29:09.000Maybe 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.
00:29:19.000I 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.
00:29:31.000Well, if you believe the results, which in this day and age are highly questionable, because to your point about 2020...
00:29:36.000Oh, 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.
00:29:48.000They rig their own primaries with a superdelegate system.
00:29:53.000Joe Biden won't even debate Robert Kennedy Jr., who by the time debates come, Kennedy's probably going to be in the 30-40%.
00:30:37.000None of them, none of them are fit for office.
00:30:41.000The 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.
00:30:50.000And 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.
00:30:55.000What does that say about the people we're told to trust?
00:31:00.000The people we're told are making the important decisions.
00:31:04.000If 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.
00:31:15.000I mean, you could look at anything they've done for the last few years and you'd be skeptical already.
00:31:18.000Exactly. But you throw in a level of incompetence, you know, come on.
00:31:25.000I 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.
00:31:35.000I mean, clearly there is a political motive behind raising questions like that.
00:31:39.000But again, I'll give you what I learned as an outsider who ran back-to-back races, one for Congress and one for Senate.
00:31:47.000The 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.
00:32:03.000Why? Because we represent our constituency's needs.
00:32:07.000The 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.
00:32:21.000And 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.
00:32:31.000They push those talking points down to the representatives and to their useful idiots in the media who then parrot that narrative nationwide.
00:32:39.000And 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.
00:33:17.000The CIA, there must be something to it.
00:33:19.000They're doing it to me. I'm like, wait a second.
00:33:22.000This is all bullshit. It's all one big fucking lie, and no one gives a shit, at least on that side.
00:33:31.000Well, look, I mean, the Democrats, wow, by the way, it drives me crazy.
00:33:36.000You saw Paul Ryan go on, like, one of the Sunday shows and say he's not a big culture war guy.
00:33:41.000While Republicans, on his watch, ceded the culture war for 20 years to Hollywood, in the media, our classrooms, all to the radical left.
00:33:52.000Democrats have slowly but surely infiltrated our institutions and key positions, leadership positions in those institutions.
00:34:01.000And today, what you're seeing today is the end result of that.
00:34:05.000And 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.
00:34:18.000I don't really get down with the culture war.
00:34:20.000That's irresponsible because Politics are downstream from culture.
00:34:25.000You have to engage on those fronts because culture is where the future politics are crafted and shaped.
00:34:32.000And leaders come from cultural movements that surround them.
00:34:38.000Those people end up getting elected to office.
00:34:42.000But circling back to John Fetterman, Don.
00:34:45.000You talked about John Fetterman and how he would get elected.
00:34:49.000We can't engage in this topic without talking about this.
00:34:53.000This is an indictment on early voting.
00:34:55.000Because 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?
00:35:10.000Yeah. If they had the opportunity to vote after they saw John Fetterman.
00:35:35.000We 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.
00:35:41.000Until 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.
00:35:52.000They've had a three month long election day.
00:35:54.000They've had hundreds of thousands of people going on people's doors.
00:35:58.000People 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.
00:36:09.000I mean, you mentioned, you know, the DNC and, you know, and RFK Jr.
00:36:12.000Like, there's a reason the DNC doesn't want Joe Biden to debate him.
00:36:16.000Did you see the Rogan thing, by the way, where he's offering, you know, this radical leftist Dr.
00:36:22.000Peter 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.
00:36:35.000He was one of the few guys that's starting to wake up on the left.
00:36:38.000He 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.
00:36:49.000He 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.
00:36:58.000I was told he was a white supremacist.
00:37:00.000I didn't realize X. I didn't realize Y. I didn't realize he was there cleaning up stuff.
00:37:03.000And he goes... Like, I was just believing the narrative.
00:37:06.000And so he goes on, and the New York Times called him, like, midstream.
00:37:09.000It was like, hey, did someone hack your account?
00:37:12.000And 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.
00:37:21.000And I'm realizing that it's all BS. And he goes, for years, for decades.
00:37:26.000He's a Wall Street billionaire, right?
00:37:28.000So for years, you know, I've been on...
00:37:31.000I'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.
00:37:44.000But 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.
00:37:50.000But the reality is I should assume that all of this stuff is all bullshit.
00:38:24.000That was like this morning that I saw it, so I was like, okay, that's great.
00:38:28.000Well, a couple things on that, though.
00:38:30.000I 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.
00:38:43.000Yeah, 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.
00:38:51.000He goes on that program to respond to all this because he knows he's not going to get any pushback whatsoever.
00:38:57.000And he goes on there and says something like, well...
00:39:02.000Scientists don't really, we don't really debate.
00:39:04.000We just write papers. And I'm thinking like, are you freaking kidding me?
00:39:08.000Scientists used to show up to public debates and debate their ideas on the merits.
00:39:14.000And in doing so, it didn't mean that their theories were always right.
00:39:18.000But in doing so, iron sharpens iron, right?
00:39:25.000But 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.
00:39:36.000It'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.
00:39:47.000Pops, like, 1111 just said it's at $2.7 million.
00:39:53.000I'm reading some of the comments from my viewers.
00:40:04.000So, like, for 2.7 to the charity of your choice, like, you should have the debate, right?
00:40:10.000I 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.
00:40:24.000That doesn't give the lunatic a large platform.
00:40:26.000I imagine Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whether you like him or not, has a larger platform than this doctor.
00:40:31.000And then Joe Rogan's platform, if he's willing to make it available Have the debate.
00:40:47.000Exactly. 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.
00:41:01.000Well, okay, but that cuts both ways, right?
00:41:03.000If 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.
00:41:19.000Robert 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.
00:41:34.000And it's like, whoa! Because they're all on the payroll, Sean.
00:41:58.000They're not international business people.
00:42:01.000And 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.
00:42:09.000Again, I've said it a thousand times, but the Chinese are many things, but they're not stupid.
00:42:15.000They're not like us in that they probably don't have, like, diversity quotas.
00:42:20.000You know, we need a strong representation from crackhead, whoremongering, you know, investors.
00:42:31.000A serious investor crackhead and make sure that we're representing all walks of life.
00:42:37.000Like, 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.
00:42:47.000But... They're also smart enough to be like, yeah, sure, I'll throw that guy a billion dollars.
00:42:51.000It's the greatest return on investment to have the weak China policy that they're getting out of Joe Biden.
00:42:57.000Imagine, 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.
00:43:05.000Imagine the things that they have on video that even Hunter was like, you know what?
00:43:09.000Fuck, I probably shouldn't put this one on video.
00:43:11.000Like, 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.
00:43:18.000And they would weaponize it against the Bidens.
00:43:20.000And, you know, that would end the payday.
00:43:22.000So, of course, they're going to do whatever China wants.
00:43:24.000And 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.
00:43:34.000So... You know, in minor details, I know if it was me, there'd be a serious problem with it.
00:43:38.000Even if we, you know, if we were building a building in China, it would be a problem.
00:43:43.000Don, if it were you, you'd be in jail.
00:43:58.000They're sending me to, like, a CIA black site to just, you know, torture me for a few years for the hell of it.
00:44:04.000Like, you know, I wouldn't get that kind of respect.
00:44:08.000It'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.
00:44:32.000Sure, the Shell entity to do business was formed yesterday, but we'll get these morons to do anything.
00:44:38.000Imagine 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.
00:44:47.000Imagine, even in America, Even living that American dream, like, there's no American that stupid that has made that much money.
00:45:16.000The President of the United States' son.
00:45:18.000And we're joking around about this, but you're right when you say he is a massive, walking, talking, blackmail threat.
00:45:29.000And that prohibits, just so people understand, if Joe Biden...
00:45:36.000If 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.
00:45:47.000If we want to bring our manufacturing back from China, we want to manufacture critical medical supply here instead of there.
00:45:53.000We want to bring Apple computers to the United States as opposed to them being there.
00:45:58.000All China has to do is say, Absolutely not.
00:46:01.000Back off this policy, or we're releasing this horrifying stuff to the American media.
00:46:09.000How about Ukraine? Same thing, though. We're on the brink of war with Russia.
00:46:12.000It's the same thing. And, like, Hunter Biden had an energy company.
00:46:16.000Like, there's literally, like, no evidence of him knowing anything about energy.
00:46:20.000He certainly doesn't speak the language.
00:46:22.000He wasn't required to actually show up, and yet he was making, like, six figures a month.
00:46:29.000To do nothing. What do you think that nothing is?
00:46:32.000Now, 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.
00:46:46.000Because you would think, if you're the international businessman, they're making him out to be, like...
00:46:52.000There would be something outside of that sphere, and yet, magically, there wasn't.
00:46:56.000But 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.
00:47:04.000Like, 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?
00:47:13.000Or Joe? Because that's the only logical thing that could be happening.
00:47:20.000The 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.
00:47:37.000Well, 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.
00:47:55.000And 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.
00:48:09.000They want Biden, who can barely string together a coherent sentence and doesn't know where he is most of the time.
00:48:33.000Well, listen, I think it's permanent Washington.
00:48:36.000I 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?
00:48:51.000If 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.
00:48:59.000Donald Trump chose to trample on that narrative, to try to put America first.
00:49:03.000The permanent Washington, on both sides, frankly, because the Republicans have been weak as shit on this anyway.
00:49:08.000Permanent Washington is like, you know what, fine.
00:49:11.000Joe Biden, like his son, they can take some millions as long as you let us keep our grift going.
00:49:20.000I mean, you see that with just the way they're handling, you know, this documents case, you know?
00:49:25.000You have Hillary Clinton, like, with hammers, like, actual hammers breaking up stuff that was under subpoena.
00:49:32.000Like, 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.
00:49:38.000Like, because this was sort of funny, right?
00:49:40.000Like— You know, it's under guard of the United States Secret Service with Trump.
00:49:46.000But 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.
00:50:04.000When you did this show, I think it was literally the second or third episode of Triggered.
00:51:40.000We 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.
00:51:48.000And I'm like, hey, you know, it's like 1.30 in the morning.
00:51:52.000Am I going to have any issues getting into Mar-a-Lago?
00:54:24.000Yeah, so look, Secret Service comes out.
00:54:26.000Finally, the cops coordinate with the Secret Service.
00:54:27.000First of all, they didn't believe that I was friends with you, but you got on the phone with them, squared it away.
00:54:32.000Secret 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.
00:54:39.000We 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?
00:54:47.000Yeah. The place is on complete lockdown.
00:54:49.000I mean, the President of the United States, former President of the United States, stays there.
00:54:53.000And 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.
00:55:07.000But, like, to your point, like, the entire place is locked down.
00:55:13.000As tight as you could possibly imagine.
00:55:16.000And... And so the entire case, when you talk about classified documents, first of all, we have an overclassification problem in this country.
00:55:25.000Everything in Washington is classified.
00:55:26.000Everything. And you have every president for the last 50 years bringing classified documents home.
00:56:51.000They 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.
00:57:00.000Figure out how to attack Trump, because they don't care if you get another four years of Joe Biden.
00:57:05.000That's what everyone has to wake up to.
00:57:12.000They get to push their endless wars, whatever it is that they want this week.
00:57:16.000That'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.
00:57:27.000To 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.
00:57:38.000We don't have that. So they want to take what little resources we have in many of these races.
00:57:43.000I don't remember what your race was, but you're probably outspent five to one, maybe more.
00:57:49.000Well, and so interestingly enough, in the run for Congress, I was one of the few challengers to out-raise a Democrat incumbent.
00:57:55.000But 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.
00:58:00.000But for the Senate, you know, Fetterman had national-level contributions from almost every zip code in the entire country, Don.
00:58:07.000Yeah. Yeah, no, I've seen some of these races.
00:59:54.000They 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.
01:00:03.000Hopefully all those damn pesky America first people just go away.
01:00:07.000I don't think it's happening. But they will do whatever they can to hold on to that power just like the Democrats will.
01:00:15.000And I don't want to give your viewers or listeners a false impression here.
01:00:18.000You know, for Congress, I was an anomaly.
01:00:20.000But 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.
01:00:27.000But Fetterman in the primary was having four or five million-dollar quarters.
01:00:31.000So 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.
01:00:57.000You're doing phone banking with that money.
01:00:59.000And Democrats have a 5 to 1 advantage.
01:01:01.000And to your point about how the left fights using non-profit groups and all of these billionaires on multiple different fronts.
01:01:10.000The Democrats sued my political campaign for Senate, like an FEC, some bullshit FEC violation that everybody and their mother knew that was complete bullshit.
01:01:20.000But they did it just so that my campaign would have to spend thousands of dollars of months in legal fees just to defeat it.
01:01:27.000It was just dismissed on how long have I been out of the Senate race?
01:01:32.000It was just dismissed like a month and a half ago.
01:01:34.000So they fight you on all fronts and that's exactly what they're doing to your father precisely because they know he can win.
01:01:44.000And if they thought that your dad couldn't win, they wouldn't be doing any of this.
01:01:49.000And 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.
01:02:32.000And you know me. I am not one to kiss anybody's ass, you know?
01:02:36.000But he is really an electrifying political candidate.
01:02:40.000And it's wrong for our party Look, primaries happen.
01:02:43.000I get it. All's fair in love and war and politics.
01:02:46.000I think, personally, to me, Don, loyalty is something that's really, really, really important.
01:02:51.000I think our party would be stronger if there was more of it out there.
01:02:54.000There'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?
01:03:01.000But 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.
01:03:19.000I know this because he says it all the time.
01:03:20.000They pulled the lever for him thinking that he was just, you know, a A folksy labor union hero.
01:03:26.000The guy's never swung a hammer in his life, you know?
01:03:30.000It'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?
01:03:37.000Like, he didn't have a blue-collar job.
01:03:39.000Like, hey, guess what? I have a pair of Carhartts.
01:03:41.000I've probably spent more time doing Carhartt shit than John Fetterman by a lot.
01:03:47.000And I understand exactly what my last name is, where I come from, but that's how little he had that.
01:03:52.000But they're like, we'll dress him up and we'll make him seem like the blue-collar guy.
01:03:57.000But, you know, that doesn't matter, right?
01:03:59.000We 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.
01:04:10.000You know, this is the issue. Remember, they were going to bring decency, you know, decency back to To the White House, right?
01:04:19.000Now, 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.
01:04:38.000Everything 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.
01:04:48.000But doesn't that say everything what we're talking about?
01:06:07.000Conor Lamb was a congressman in western Pennsylvania because of that fake bullshit.
01:06:12.000Yet the Democrats have the gall, with many members of the media, to say that Republicans are election deniers.
01:06:19.000When Democrats, like since every election since the 1960s, have questioned the elections.
01:06:24.000Kamala 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.
01:06:32.000The hypocrisy is astounding and it's glaring.
01:06:36.000And 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.
01:07:00.000They were sexualizing our children, jamming it down our throats.
01:07:04.000But like parents didn't even know about it.
01:07:06.000I knew some stories I could tell you from New York, you know, prior to sort of figuring it out.
01:07:10.000But 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.
01:07:46.000They can do that. And we just got to accept all of that because apparently it's just part of that movement.
01:07:51.000Just 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.
01:08:04.000Like, you know, they say these things under the guise of tolerance acceptance, but then they push the boundary further.
01:08:12.000But if we did, it's okay, and here's why.
01:08:15.000When they end up getting caught, inevitably, every time.
01:08:19.000Where'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.
01:08:41.000I mean... After a while, I started thinking, like, there is something deeply, deeply wrong.
01:08:46.000And then I run for office and got a look behind the curtain.
01:08:49.000And by the way, you know, I've got, you know, we're both Republicans, Don.
01:08:53.000I've got many, many friends that are really strong, great Republican congressmen and women and senators as well.
01:08:58.000But I'm talking politics on both sides of the aisle here, man.
01:09:02.000Like, you get a look behind that curtain, running for office, and it became...
01:09:07.000Very, 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...
01:09:15.000Look, I'm Catholic, but I'm not a crazy, Bible-thumping Catholic.
01:09:22.000I mean, I believe in my faith, I'm a believer, like, you know, but...
01:09:26.000There is a spiritual war happening in this country every single day between good and evil, and it's ground zero.
01:09:32.000Imagine taking your children to a baseball game, a sport that's supposed to be as American as apple pie.
01:09:43.000Men, 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.
01:09:57.000Yeah, and what does that have to do with, like, the LGB, let's call it?
01:10:01.000You 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.
01:10:18.000It 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.
01:10:24.000Like, you know, So when I see the extremes, I'd actually love to get your opinion on it.
01:10:30.000You see the tuck-friendly bikini at Target because you really need to make sure that your kid has this, right?
01:10:38.000Like kids that don't know anything about these things.
01:10:40.000You have the drag nuns doing blasphemous stuff.
01:10:45.000I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Navy and their hiring of a drag queen influencer in the Navy.
01:10:51.000Like, 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?
01:11:00.000Well, obviously, it's a fucking drag queen, right?
01:11:11.000I mean, your book about it's incredible.
01:11:13.000Like... This is happening now in the military.
01:11:16.000You know, what is China and Russia thinking?
01:11:20.000Like, what are you thinking as someone who bled for our country?
01:11:22.000If this was going on there, I mean, you know, and when they're like, we can't figure out why recruitment numbers are down.
01:11:29.000It's like, well, I don't know. Like, I would think a big part of...
01:11:32.000The patriotism required to sign up to do that entails actually believing the key tenets of what you're actually fighting for.
01:11:43.000And if they're telling you that trans is the civil rights issue of our generation, it's like, no, it's not.
01:11:50.000No, it's not. If you weren't jamming it down, most people wouldn't even give a shit.
01:11:54.000But you have to commit blasphemy at a Dodgers game.
01:11:57.000You have to commit sex acts in front of children.
01:12:01.000When 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.
01:12:10.000And it's like, wait, but I thought it had nothing to do with the kids.
01:12:12.000So if you weren't actually grooming them, if you weren't trying to have undue influence on a very young and impressionable mind...
01:12:19.000Then why do you feel the need to cancel it when those people aren't there?
01:12:23.000I thought it had nothing to do with it, but of course it has something to do with it.
01:12:35.000I 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.
01:13:37.000You're Americans galvanized and fighting in support of one mission.
01:13:43.000So 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.
01:13:54.000And when you hear people talk about, oh God, drives me crazy.
01:14:09.000No one can explain how a bunch of mail-in ballots for the first time ever was the safest and most secure ever.
01:14:15.000But 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.
01:14:29.000Look, 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.
01:14:57.000You cannot be focused on that bullshit.
01:15:01.000You 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.
01:16:41.000Trans is like the ultimate form of privilege in America.
01:16:44.000You can do and say just about anything.
01:16:46.000I think South Park did a great skit on that, which is like, sir, you can't do this.
01:16:50.000No, no, I'm trans. Oh, in that case, do whatever the fuck you want, because laws no longer apply to you.
01:16:56.000But that continues, and to see it in the military is what scares me the most.
01:17:00.000I mean, does it make you that much more...
01:17:03.000You know, upset and maybe that much more, you know, in desire of an overhaul of our priorities inside the Pentagon and inside our military.
01:17:13.000When 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?
01:17:21.000I mean, I'd pay good money to see this shit.
01:17:23.000Like, it would be, I imagine it would be incredible.
01:17:28.000Well, I mean, certainly there's that component of it when you look at, like, what do our enemies think of us?
01:17:34.000And you want, ultimately, you want them to be afraid of our military and afraid of bold, decisive action from our leadership.
01:17:43.000And 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.
01:17:54.000There's no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
01:17:56.000As long as the money is flowing, it will continue forever.
01:18:00.000And all the Ukrainian young men will die.
01:18:04.000Vladimir Zelensky will move to L.A. and live in a mansion with the billions of dollars he's amassed.
01:18:09.000He'll be fine. It's the actual people doing the fighting.
01:18:14.000No one's going to talk about that. Yeah.
01:18:17.000Oh, and then you look at what's happening with Taiwan.
01:18:19.000I 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.
01:18:31.000I 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.
01:18:41.000Of course not. And, you know, you talk about, like, what can our military do?
01:18:47.000Oh, my God, there's about a million and one things that I would do right now.
01:18:50.000Like, right now we talked about Ukraine and Russia.
01:18:51.000But 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.
01:19:01.000We 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.
01:19:14.000We've been fighting asymmetric wars against Islamic extremists for the last 20 years, Iraq, Afghanistan, and contingency operations all around the world.
01:19:23.000So to people that are listening or watching, what does that mean?
01:19:26.000It 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.
01:19:36.000So, 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?
01:19:45.000We'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.
01:20:00.000None of that work has been talked about.
01:20:03.000And the only thing, getting back to the drag queen as a Navy recruiter, that's the stuff that's being talked about.
01:20:12.000And it's dangerous. And listen, I think Russia's probably...
01:20:16.000You know, I'm worried about this thing escalating.
01:20:18.000You know, we find out about actual boots on the ground.
01:20:20.000That shouldn't surprise anyone who's been watching.
01:20:22.000They've been, you know, they've been instigating this war for a while.
01:20:25.000It seems, you know, they want Ukraine.
01:20:27.000It'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.
01:20:34.000And it seems like that's what they're doing.
01:20:36.000And, you know, we'll instigate Vladimir Putin.
01:20:39.000I mean, you know, what's the worst he could do with 6,000-something nuclear missiles, right?
01:20:42.000But 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.
01:20:54.000Ukraine has nothing with it if it wasn't for the U.S. keeping this going.
01:20:57.000And the agenda for that seems pretty obvious.
01:21:07.000They could have more people in an army, in a standing army, than we have people, if that's what they wanted to do.
01:21:14.000And they actually have the ability to produce the stuff.
01:21:17.000They'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.
01:21:25.000We 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.
01:21:33.000So, I mean, that seems like the bigger threat.
01:21:35.000How on earth could we fight a war against China?
01:21:38.000We're going to fight the Ukraine proxy war and...
01:21:41.000We're gonna help Taiwan against China, which is, you know, what, 50 miles away?
01:21:47.000Like, I mean, you can't think that we have a chance if you're a serious individual at this point.
01:21:53.000Well, 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?
01:22:04.000None of this happened, Don, when your dad was president, because they actually were afraid of your father, and they were afraid of decisive action.
01:22:15.000And by the way, Your father's tariffs on China put a real hurting on their economy.
01:22:22.000And the fact that within a year of your father's presidency, this country was energy independent.
01:22:26.000I never thought I'd see that in my lifetime.
01:22:28.000But not only that, we were a net energy exporter.
01:22:32.000It hurts Russia. I mean how many times have you heard the Mitt Romney's of the world and John McCain's of the world?
01:22:38.000Try it out. Well, Russia is just a gas station. Well, okay, if you really despise Putin, then you should want America
01:22:45.000exporting natural gas because if natural gas is Russia's main pillar of their economy
01:22:51.000Well, then us being a global exporter dominant global force exporting natural gas
01:22:57.000It crushes Russia But Joe Biden doesn't do that either.
01:23:00.000He decimates oil and gas industry here in this country.
01:23:03.000And because of that, it emboldens Russia.
01:23:05.000The whole reason why their economy hasn't collapsed and only that, their economy's growing, is because they're exporting their natural gas everywhere.
01:23:14.000Because we've allowed them to fill that void.
01:23:18.000But instead, the sanctions gave Russia an excuse with Saudi and an excuse with China to basically get off the petrodollar.
01:23:28.000So the dollar, we actually shot ourselves in the foot.
01:23:32.000The 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.
01:23:47.000I'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.
01:24:01.000You eliminate that, which is what the sanctions have done so far.
01:24:05.000And that's really scary economically at this point, beyond even sort of the geopolitical ramifications.
01:24:11.000Of course we're making it easier for Putin.
01:24:16.000They will do it under no environmental scrutiny, no environmental care.
01:24:21.000They'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.
01:24:29.000We 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?
01:24:41.000You know, climate change is a religion of the left, their deity being, you know, Greta Thunberg.
01:24:45.000You have, you know, the Ukraine war is a new religion of the left with, you know, high priestess Vladimir Zelensky.
01:25:14.000I 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.
01:25:27.000And 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.
01:25:50.000She won't be. If I did it, I would be.
01:25:52.000That's different. You know, but it's just, you know, the double standard is there.
01:25:56.000I mean, listen, at this point, when you look at the weaponized Justice Department and Joe
01:26:01.000Biden literally arresting his top political opponents, you know, are Americans justified
01:26:08.000being more concerned about internal threats versus the external ones?
01:26:13.000I mean, I'd argue that, you know, our deep state, a weaponized DOJ run by radical Democrat
01:26:20.000extremists, ones that will literally label concerned parents domestic terrorists for not
01:26:26.000wanting their children indoctrinated with the leftist bullshit.
01:26:30.000I 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.
01:26:44.000Moving 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...
01:26:57.000You know, maybe he was going to do it anyway.
01:27:00.000Maybe 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.
01:27:09.000I 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.
01:27:22.000Yeah, 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.
01:27:37.000Yet our FBI is more concerned with investigating pro-life activists than stopping Chinese espionage and infiltration in this country.
01:27:47.000So yeah, what's happening right now domestically is a far greater threat.
01:29:04.000That's why I genuinely think the internal threats within our country are far greater than the external threats.
01:29:10.000Sure, Vladimir Putin could launch nuclear weapons.
01:29:13.000If we don't give him an excuse to, he's not going to.
01:29:16.000But, 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...
01:29:28.000You'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.
01:29:38.000There'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.
01:29:55.000The 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.
01:30:21.000They could lose their ability to provide for the family.
01:30:23.000God forbid, they could lose their children if they don't agree with gender-affirming care.
01:30:27.000Right? And this is why what we talked about in the very beginning, the collusion between big government and all of these powerful entities.
01:30:35.000There used to be a time in America when the left said, screw the government.
01:31:29.000And 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.
01:31:43.000Nothing even matters because they're not serious people.
01:31:47.000I mean, and it's crazy when you hear Republicans talk about, oh, we shouldn't engage in the culture war.
01:32:41.000This 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.
01:32:58.000You know, a teacher who's more than happy to...
01:33:01.000You 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.
01:33:06.000Like, you know, I had a wild imagination.
01:33:09.000They allowed me to, you know, flourish with that, but not take it so far that I would permanently harm myself.
01:34:43.000Well, because he doesn't agree with the Democrat narrative.
01:34:46.000Like, you know, they'll do whatever they can to take him out.
01:34:48.000And, you know, yeah, no, it's absolutely mind-blowing.
01:34:52.000Listen, do you think Joe Biden, do you think they can, you know, limp this guy through another campaign?
01:34:57.000Or 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?
01:35:08.000Look, it's hard to imagine, looking at Joe Biden today, Don, that he is going to make it through a campaign.
01:35:14.000And I don't think that they want him running a campaign.
01:35:18.000Frankly, if I am a high-ranking Democrat that has any sway over anything, I think I'm going for Gavin Newsom.
01:35:25.000He looks the part. He's going to play the part.
01:35:29.000He's going to pretend to be a moderate.
01:35:30.000The media is going to fly cover for this guy.
01:35:34.000I don't know. Okay, the only problem with that is it goes against the cardinal rules of identity politics of the left.
01:35:40.000How do you go to Gavin Newsom, a white male, bypassing Kamala Harris, who I'm told is an African-American woman?
01:36:31.000You 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...
01:36:44.000Because it'll all be about fooling the American populace into thinking that they're not radical.
01:36:50.000Because the Democrat Party today would never put anyone that's not radical.
01:36:55.000Just look at what they did to Conor Lamb versus John Fetterman.
01:36:58.000They 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.
01:37:12.000Murderers! 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.
01:37:25.000You 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.
01:37:41.000Well, 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.
01:37:51.000Some of the most racist people on the face of the planet are radical leftists today who see identity politics and everything, right?
01:38:04.000Republicans 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.
01:38:20.000How dare you? I mean, Biden eulogized a member.
01:38:25.000We talked about this in the last show, but a Grand Cyclops.
01:38:29.000I got fact-checked for it because it wasn't a Grand Cyclops.
01:38:32.000It was just a Grand Wizard. Or whatever the hell it was.
01:38:37.000Only a Democrat would know the distinction.
01:38:40.000I don't even know the difference in the hierarchy of the KKK because these are not my people.
01:38:46.000But 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.
01:38:55.000But, 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.
01:39:12.000So that's why we have to become unafraid.
01:39:15.000We 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.
01:39:24.000There will be nothing left to actually defend in a couple more cycles, if not this cycle.
01:39:30.000Look at everything they're taking back.
01:39:33.000Look at all the lies that have been propagated.
01:39:36.000And if we allow it, I guess we deserve to lose it, because if we're not willing to fight for it, then who is?
01:39:49.000I mean, getting in the arena, you know, bring your helmet, you know, because you're going to need it.
01:39:53.000It's a fight. But the future of our country is at stake.
01:39:57.000And 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.
01:40:03.000When I came back from Afghanistan, I used to pray over there all the time.
01:40:06.000And I used to say, like, God, somehow I get out of here alive, you know.
01:40:10.000I'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.
01:40:24.000Their 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.
01:40:37.000The left is going to come after you mercilessly.
01:40:40.000But... We only got, in my mind, a few years left before America is fundamentally unrecognizable.
01:40:48.000And by the way, the left tells you that that's their mission every day, to fundamentally dismantle systems and to fundamentally transform America.
01:40:57.000When 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.
01:41:04.000Yeah, listen, when they say it, you know, start believing them.
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01:43:04.000Eventually, you're going to come, and you're going to have to pay the piper.
01:43:07.000I just want you to be prepared for that.
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