On today's show, my father, former Vice President Joe Biden, explains why he thinks Joe Biden is a terrible human being and why he should never have been given the Nobel Peace Prize. He also explains why the Biden Pill Penalty is a disaster for seniors and calls for Congress to vote to end it. And later in the show, we sit down with Eric Prince, founder of Blackwater, to discuss all things foreign policy.
00:06:57.000And by the way, my father says that Biden's auto pen, you know, the auto pen used to fill out the pardons and probably everything else that Joe Biden did, maybe throw out his entire administration, but certainly in the last few weeks are void.
00:07:13.000What do you think that means for the likes of Shifty Schiff, as many have called him Bull Schiff, Cheney, Fauci, maybe the Bidens themselves, and all the rest?
00:07:26.000We'll get into all of that coming up shortly.
00:07:30.000And then later, I'll sit down with Eric Prince to get into a deep dive into all things foreign policy from Ukraine to Venezuela to the Middle East.
00:07:39.000We'll be covering a lot, so you are not going to want to miss it.
00:07:43.000Eric Prince, he founded Blackwater, is a former Navy SEAL, a big industrialist.
00:07:50.000He's been in those venues, both as a contractor, as a SEAL. He understands what's going on on the ground and what you're probably not being told.
00:07:59.000So you're not going to want to miss that one, guys.
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00:08:32.000Joe Biden's so-called Inflation Reduction Act is a disaster for America's seniors.
00:08:39.000Democrats snuck in a provision to raid Medicare and fund green energy giveaways for their special interest donors.
00:09:35.000And now, guys, let's take a look at some of the top headlines.
00:09:39.000Over the weekend, the Trump administration flew hundreds of Trendelaragua gang members to El Salvador as part of my father's order to rid our country of violent Venezuelan gangs and other criminal thugs.
00:09:56.000These are murderers, rapists, narco-terrorists connected to the Maduro regime.
00:10:03.000But while the planes were in midair, over international waters luckily, a far-left activist judge issued a temporary restraining order to try to stop the flight.
00:10:15.000And beyond the absurd decision, this judge somehow believed it was possible for the planes to simply make a U-turn midair.
00:10:25.000Which, just as a matter of physics, you know...
00:10:51.000A judge is trying to stop us from ridding the country of illegal criminal drug traffickers, murderers, It's literally what the Democrats...
00:11:03.000They're more about defending the worst criminals in the world than they are Americans.
00:11:42.000Now, guys, the authority for my father to do this is found in the Alien Enemies Act, which he invoked over the weekend.
00:11:52.000The order read in part, and I quote, is a designated foreign terrorist organization with thousands of members.
00:12:01.000Trendelaragua operates in conjunction with the Cartel de los Soles, the Nicolas Maduro regime-sponsored narcoterrorism enterprise based in Venezuela, and commits brutal crimes including murders, kidnappings, extortions, and human and drug trafficking, and also weapons trafficking.
00:12:21.000It goes on to say, Trenadera Agua is undertaking hostile action and conducting irregular warfare against the territory of the United States, both directly and at the direction of the Maduro regime in Venezuela.
00:13:44.000Who, in their right mind, whether you're a judge or not, wants known public...
00:13:48.000TDA, a recognized terrorist organization, sent here by the Maduro regime, to create havoc, to unsettle the United States, to use fentanyl to kill thousands of Americans, violence to American citizens, raping and murdering young women in this country.
00:14:04.000They are enemies of this country, and President Trump treated them as enemies, and we did exactly what we should have done.
00:14:12.000President Trump is going to make this country safe again.
00:14:14.000He's going to do it one illegal alien at a time.
00:14:17.000And this weekend, we did 261. So to stop this invasion and these attacks against America, my father invoked the Aliens Enemies Act to get these terrorists out of our country.
00:14:30.000And he's within his constitutional power to do so.
00:14:33.000And again, I'll ask, who in their right minds would be against any of this?
00:19:14.000X, Isn't it ridiculous that a Democrat president can import violent gang members, but some judge claims a Republican president can't deport them?
00:19:28.000In what universe would that make sense?
00:19:46.000They knew and they let them in anyway.
00:19:48.000But Democrats like Jasmine Crockett seem to have an issue with violent criminal gang members and terrorists being removed from the country.
00:19:58.000But you don't have to take my word for it, guys.
00:20:03.000To deport undocumented Venezuelans that the administration say are dangerous individuals with ties to the gang Trend Aragua.
00:20:12.000That gang is obviously associated with a lot of crime, human trafficking, drug dealing, theft, shootings, including in your state of Texas, right outside of your congressional district.
00:20:22.000And if not, what's your issue with the U.S. using any tool at its disposal to remove undocumented, violent people from this country?
00:20:35.000We already have tools that are available to remove undocumented, violent people from our country.
00:20:41.000And so the idea that you want to go into a zombie law, this is kind of like what we saw in Arizona when they decided to revive a zombie law around abortion.
00:20:50.000It is the fact that we can't trust this administration to actually use a scalpel, but instead they love to use a butcher knife on things.
00:20:59.000And so giving them this wide latitude to just kind of go across and just claim that anybody is anything is wrong.
00:21:12.000And we should just go ahead and use those.
00:21:14.000There's a reason that nobody else has decided to go back into Adams times in order to try to find ways to make sure that we can keep our country safe.
00:21:27.000Remember, guys, Trindle or Aga gang members killed Blake and Riley.
00:21:33.000Here in America, these murders are attacks against our homeland.
00:21:38.000How sick do you have to be to be opposed to getting them out of our country?
00:21:43.000What greater, clear, and present danger to our country would be than having rampant murderers illegally doing drugs, selling them, fentanyl, killing 100,000 Americans a year, murdering and raping innocent young girls?
00:21:58.000These are not the people we want in our country.
00:22:01.000And guys, the stakes could not be higher.
00:22:04.000As my father also wrote this weekend, Trendelaraga has engaged and continues to engage in mass illegal migration to the United States to further its objective of harming United States citizens, undermining public safety and supporting the Maduro regime's goal of destabilizing democratic nations in the Americas, including the United States.
00:22:30.000And now, DHS, DOJ, the FBI, and other key government agencies are being tasked with doing everything in their power to bring these terrorists and their enablers to justice.
00:22:43.000It's a historic shift from the weak leadership of the past, and our country will now be safer because of it.
00:22:53.000And the Democrats let our country get to the point where we needed such bold action to actually fix their mess.
00:23:02.000And it's looking like Biden's auto-pen scandal may be backfiring on him big time.
00:23:08.000because earlier today, my father wrote on True Social, the pardons that sleepy Joe Biden gave to the unselect committee of political thugs and many others are hereby declared void, vacant, and of no further force or effect because of the fact that they were done by auto and of no further force or effect because of the fact
00:23:26.000So if Joe Biden didn't sign the pardons and didn't know about the signings or know what was happening, then wouldn't it follow that the pardons aren't actually constitutionally valid.
00:23:39.000And remember, as we were told, and we told you last week, the Oversight Project...
00:23:46.000Did a full investigation into the auto pen signatures and concluded that all used the same auto pen signature except for the announcement that the former president was dropping out of the race last year.
00:24:21.000But if some random intern is just doing this, if he's not really aware, or if he was made aware but isn't really capable of actually understanding what's in these things, who was running the country?
00:24:32.000How many of these things were actually his will?
00:24:36.000But nevertheless, the Trump administration is continuing to rack up one win after another.
00:24:43.000For example, the nationwide average for gas has declined for four weeks straight, with the majority of states seeing average prices now below $3 a gallon.
00:24:54.000This is what happens when you have an administration that puts Americans first.
00:24:59.000And over at the VA, Secretary Doug Collins announced today that the VA is phasing out treatment for gender dysphoria, explaining that the money saved, which is going to be extensive, And shouldn't be going there to begin with.
00:25:14.000From this change, we'll go towards helping paralyzed veterans and amputees.
00:25:20.000You know, the people that actually really need our help, really need that care, that we're probably not getting serviced well because we were worried about gender-affirming care and hormone replacement treatments and some of the appendages that...
00:25:35.000Maybe not really required for life, maybe fun, but for trans members, remember those?
00:25:42.000Well, now they're going to go to those who need it.
00:25:45.000Remember, guys, we broke the story on this show about the gender-affirming prosthetics program, okay?
00:25:55.000It's hard to believe we're having this conversation and it's real, right?
00:26:17.000But they had that program under Biden and how they were putting woke trans madness over actually getting our veterans the care that they need.
00:26:25.000So massive credit to the leadership of Secretary Doug Collins over at the VA on getting this done.
00:26:36.000None of this happens, though, guys, without strong leadership that actually cares about its citizens.
00:26:41.000Look what's happening across Western Europe, where leaders are letting their countries crumble under open borders, madness, mass censorship.
00:26:51.000In fact, Conor McGregor, Conor McGregor, the notorious MMA, was at the White House today.
00:26:57.000To explain the dire situation going on over in Ireland.
00:27:29.000And the 40 million Irish Americans, as I said, need to hear this, because if not, there will be no place to come home and visit.
00:27:36.000So with that said, guys, we'll get to Eric Prince in just a few moments.
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00:29:46.000And with that, guys, now my sit down with Eric Prince.
00:29:51.000All right, guys, joining me now, businessman, author, former Navy SEAL officer, Blackwater founder, and now the co-founder of Unplugged, the one and only Eric Prince.
00:30:04.000It was last time I think you were on, you were literally in like the Abu Dhabi airport, like getting yelled at to get on a flight.
00:30:10.000We had a late start, so it's good to have you actually in studio right now.
00:30:15.000But maybe to begin, because you have sort of...
00:30:18.000Such an intimate knowledge of so much of what's going on around the world, just having done that in Iraq and everywhere else with Blackwater.
00:30:27.000I mean, you probably have a better insight than just about anyone as to what's going on in the world right now as we deal with Russia, Ukraine, all of that insanity.
00:30:37.000I'd love to get your thoughts on that in particular, because I think my mindset has been it's hard to get a deal done in Ukraine because the American public have been told that Ukraine's...
00:30:48.000And, you know, if they shoot a Russian Jeep, it's a major victory.
00:30:50.000And if Russia takes, you know, the Donbass, it's like that was a strategic withdrawal.
00:30:55.000How do you combat that marketing, you know, effort, you know, and get the American people to understand that what they're being told is not the case.
00:31:03.000So any deal that we come up with is probably a lot better than they'll be told.
00:31:06.000It is a pointless waste of Ukrainian blood and American treasure that they are not going to retake any of those lands.
00:31:16.000Much vaunted offensive that they tried to do last summer was a complete wipeout.
00:31:21.000They don't have even enough manpower to hardly man their defenses now.
00:31:28.000And the sooner the fighting can be brought to an end, the better.
00:31:31.000The better for Ukraine, the better for its future survival, the better for Western Europe, and actually the better for Russia.
00:31:39.000And most of all, better for the United States.
00:31:41.000Because for 100 plus years, It's always been the policy of the United States to try to keep German industry from combining with Russian resources.
00:31:51.000Now all we've done is, what the Biden administration did, is push Russian resources into a subservient role of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:32:51.00027 million people that they lost in World War II. I think it's important even for perspective of America.
00:32:58.000You know, we believe our movies, that Americans won, we defeated the Nazis.
00:33:02.000Not to take away any of the service of U.S. fighting men.
00:33:06.000We lost 250,000 people in the European Theater of Operations.
00:33:10.000The Russians lost 27 million people fighting the Nazis.
00:33:13.000While we were still messing around in North Africa, you know, in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, the Russians raised 1.2 million from the German Order.
00:33:25.000Sorry, 800,000 from the German Order of Battle.
00:33:29.000And they lost 1.2 million just at the Battle of Stalingrad.
00:33:34.000Just orders of magnitude difference in the level of suffering that they will take, and there's absolutely no point in continuing that level of slaughter in Ukraine.
00:33:42.000Yeah, I mean, at this point, even that mentality has to be ingrained, right?
00:33:51.000And it's not even about high-tech weapons.
00:33:53.000They have a supply chain of their own industrial base that's been supplemented by China and even now by North Korea.
00:34:00.000For the propellants, for more munitions, and of course they bought a lot from the Iranians, it's actually made the Iranian weapons technology better because it's gotten field tested, innovated, and all those people getting smarter and better at fighting is not in America's interest.
00:34:16.000If you shot at the Russians three months after that war started, it would take them an hour, hour and a half to shoot back well at you with artillery.
00:34:35.000Now, you know, when you talk about that right now, I mean, it feels like Putin probably, in my mind, didn't go as hard as he probably could have.
00:34:44.000And I think there's a component of that, you know, certainly the eastern part of Ukraine that definitely did not vote for Zelensky and probably would not ever again.
00:34:53.000That whole quadrant of the country or half of the country is really ethnic Russian.
00:34:58.000Do you think he actually held back a little bit because of those similarities?
00:35:01.000I mean, it doesn't feel like he went as scorched earth as he could have as quickly as he could have.
00:35:06.000Certainly did not bomb the power and water and the civilian infrastructure nearly as hard as he could have.
00:35:12.000Yes, there's a lot of it that's been damaged.
00:35:14.000But no, it was not at the level of the allies going after Dresden when we erased 100,000 Germans in a night with firebombing.
00:35:21.000Literally targeting civilians in World War II. So, how do you get this to come to a head right now?
00:35:29.000Because it does feel like the world is looking at this conflict very different than some of the other conflicts that are going on right now.
00:35:37.000To me, if I'm looking at it fairly objectively, it's like, ah, we can just keep fighting forever because it's just, honestly, European white men dying on either side of the battlefield.
00:35:48.000All the noise about after the kerfuffle in the Oval Office a few days ago, all the statements of support from the European allies, it's such air.
00:36:03.000I mean, Luxembourg, we support Ukraine with their 800-man army and two unarmed helicopters, right?
00:36:09.000Well, beyond that, they also said they really support the ongoing efforts in Ukraine, but if you ask those same people, were they willing to sacrifice almost anything, meaning pay for some of it themselves, they're like, oh, no, that's different.
00:36:20.000It's like, I want to solve world hunger, but I'm not going to sacrifice a meal.
00:36:28.000NATO is largely 30% virtue signaling by the NATO so-called allies.
00:36:34.00070% of the ass of NATO is American, paid for by American taxpayers, provided by American fighting men and women.
00:36:42.000So it is some kind of different action is necessary as a catalyst to bring this to an end.
00:36:52.000I don't think the Russians have the appetite to invade more.
00:36:55.000They were very clear, not Ukraine, not Ukraine, not Ukraine, and the neocons kept pushing, pushing, pushing.
00:37:01.000This idea that Ukraine is going to be part of NATO, hard no.
00:37:04.000Yeah, we gave them every excuse they needed.
00:37:07.000That's not being a Putin apologist, that's just being realistic.
00:37:09.000They had a 60-, 70-year stalemate buffer zone that was known as the Ukraine, and we moved the borders of NATO, or we're talking about moving the borders of NATO right up onto their border, and that was...
00:37:21.000And so if you think about Russia as a society, then as the Soviet Union, facing as many unfriendly nations with troops on its borders as they did in May of 1941 when the Nazis invaded, that is, again, pressed into their genetics.
00:37:39.000And so they're not going to let that happen again and not be in that situation.
00:37:42.000I mean, literally, in Russia, the railway gauge is different.
00:37:48.000So if you take rail cars across Western Europe, you have to jack it up and literally change the wheels to carry on into Russia so that an invading force can't use their own railway inside of Russia.
00:38:00.000So they've been thinking about this for quite some time?
00:38:18.000Be careful that you don't get an even worse Russian nationalist.
00:38:21.000Because there is a segment of that society that he has to actually placate.
00:38:26.000So to try to bring this to a close, I think one of the things that the Russians offered was basically a 10-year hiatus of these, call it Donetsk, Lohansk, Mariupol, and I can't think of the fourth one.
00:38:43.000Obviously, they have Crimea and they've always viewed Crimea as Russian.
00:38:48.000To have a 10-year pause and then have a vote, a plebiscite, at the end of that, whether those regions want to stay with Russia or go back to Ukraine.
00:38:58.000I think that's a sound, reasonable approach.
00:39:00.000It's let it be a competition of governance.
00:39:02.000Let Kiev clean up the massive corruption and the kleptocracy that is there and compete for people's will to be governed.
00:39:12.000I mean, it's sort of ironic that the people screaming about preserving democracy, if that's the case, I'm not even aware of it.
00:39:18.000Like, you know, no one's talking about like, hey, Russia wants to actually allow elections.
00:39:22.000And I imagine in part of these peace talks, there could be a proper governance of that.
00:39:25.000So it's not, you know, I imagine elections in Ukraine or Russia were probably never on the up and up, but there could be a structure to make it so.
00:39:32.000So Russia actually wants to say, hey, let's let's compete for this in a fair way politically.
00:39:43.000And I understand that the Russians would provide a ceasefire to enable an actual election to happen in Ukraine, because I also think that Putin does not view Zelensky as a valid leader anymore because he's outstayed his mandate by, what, 10 months now?
00:40:00.000And so for Putin to have a counterparty to negotiate with is somebody that has to bind, right?
00:40:05.000Just like the CEO of a company has to be able to bind a company for whatever contract it's going to sign.
00:40:26.000And again, most of that, any of the popular is coming clearly from the western part of the country.
00:40:31.000So the irony of it is that his greatest chance at actual political survival would be ceding the eastern part of the country that is ethnic Russian and definitely not in favor of him, and never was, even before the war.
00:40:45.000I mean, they voted for different people.
00:40:46.000It'll be Zeluzhny, who is the Minister of Defense, or the Chief of the Army, or Budanov, the Head of Military Intelligence, or the...
00:41:01.000I would say more of a pro-peace, less corruption candidate.
00:41:05.000It'd be nice, because I think that's the part.
00:41:07.000How much of this money, you know, we're in for, you know, my father said during the State of the Union, you know, $350 billion, and that probably doesn't include the $260 billion that the Pentagon can't account for.
00:41:18.000So I imagine there's a good part of that in that.
00:41:31.000The amount of graft in these purchases is significant.
00:41:38.000I mean, I have a lot of friends that offered products at an affordable, very bid price, and were all rejected because there's always some expectation of a vague coming.
00:41:52.000Coming through a very convoluted acquisition structure.
00:41:55.000Do you think a lot of these arms that we've sent over there also have been sold to other...
00:41:58.000I've read that they've been sold to, you know, Hamas and other things, and so they're taking arms, selling them to terrorists and...
00:42:04.000There's always leakage of that kind of stuff in the battlefield.
00:42:12.000Because we can buy sets of almost anything the Russians field, and corruption goes both ways.
00:42:18.000I'm sure the very best of whatever has been provided to Ukraine has made its way to our opponents, literally being evaluated and replicated in Russian and Chinese armaments factories, 100%.
00:42:30.000The frightening thing is that our stuff doesn't work very well there now.
00:42:35.000The Russians are very good at electronic warfare, and whether you're sending an anti-tank missile, a ballistic missile, a guided artillery shell, within a couple of months, they figure out how to jam.
00:42:47.000The command link or the navigation signal so that instead of hitting precisely, it's hitting off, taking away the whole point of it being.
00:42:53.000And so when you have a $100,000 copperhead guided 155 shell and now it's hitting 100 or 200 meters off, that's bad.
00:43:07.000We delude ourselves in thinking that we're making the Russians weaker, right?
00:43:10.000The neocon wing that says, oh, we're degrading the Russian army.
00:43:52.000You know, the early version of Gulf War I, you know, with a precision bomb.
00:43:57.000Now, literally, everyone has that ability to deliver precision with a small drone, with a...
00:44:03.000With a beer can-sized charge on it, you can clack somebody off 15 kilometers away.
00:44:07.000So that democratization of precision strike is accelerating the battlefield and the lethality in a way that is frightening, that makes hundreds of billions of dollars of our own stuff kind of obsolete and kind of just expensive targets.
00:44:21.000Are we advancing in that same technology?
00:44:26.000A drone comes in, they see a guy, he takes shelter, goes through the window, drops the bomb, everyone dies.
00:44:32.000It's a $300 drone that we'd be using hundreds of thousands of dollars of missiles to otherwise take out.
00:44:38.000I mean, it doesn't seem, it seems very asymmetric that a not all that sophisticated party, then once you get into the jamming technology, that changes, but a not very sophisticated party now can fight.
00:44:48.000Way above their weight class and would have been able to take on any conventional forces from a few years ago in a disproportionate manner.
00:44:57.000I've said it before, it's like Genghis Khan putting stirrups on horses, right?
00:45:01.000So now instead of just riding a horse, you can fight from it.
00:45:04.000That speed that can come from that level of delivery of precision, you're even seeing it against the Navy with the Iranians providing drones, missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles to the Houthis.
00:45:17.000And they've been shooting $20,000 to $50,000 drones at our ships, who then shoot it down with a, not one, but two $1 million missiles, because they have to double tap it to make sure it gets knocked down.
00:45:28.000The Navy says that they've lost, or they've expended a billion dollars worth of missiles shooting down all this incoming.
00:45:35.000The real number is more like $5 billion, because they're counting the billion dollars at the 1990s cost that they bought it.
00:45:42.000Kind of your original inventory carrying costs.
00:46:12.000There's no competition, there's no cost controls, there's nothing, and we just sort of accept it.
00:46:16.000And you compare that to what Musk has done with SpaceX, because he said, look, we're going to lower the cost of Lyft by a thousandfold, and he's done it.
00:46:26.000So competition and innovation, there's lots of great new defense tech startups, and I wish them well, but I fear they're going to run smack into a very cumbersome...
00:46:40.000I wish Pete Hegseth all the best in wrenching defense reform, but Congress has to do that as well, to buy from the small, fast, innovative people instead of the easy button to buying from the bloated cartel.
00:47:12.000The only way to keep that job or to get that job is to keep selling missiles and keep buying from those guys, because that's going to be the more lucrative position.
00:47:18.000So they never bother to try to cut costs.
00:47:21.000You know, you've heard my father's sort of infamous story with the Air Force One renegotiation.
00:47:25.000It's two 747s, but they're like, it's $6 billion.
00:47:28.000He's like, gotta have a three in front of it.
00:48:30.000The cost, perhaps there are obviously lives at stake, but it feels like there's an optic and political expense to an American army soldier as opposed to a contractor, right?
00:48:43.000But you were able to do that better and cheaper than the government itself.
00:48:48.000My family's background was manufacturing.
00:48:50.000And mostly in the automotive industry.
00:48:52.000It was probably one of the most competitive industries in the world in terms of volume of stuff made and how many competitors you have constantly undercutting you.
00:49:00.000And so I got out of the Navy and I took over the die-cast machine business my dad started and took it through a lean transformation kind of based on the Toyota production system.
00:49:11.000And I got to thinking, what does the military do?
00:49:13.000It recruits, vets, equips, trains, deploys and supports people to do a thing somewhere.
00:49:18.000And so laying out Blackwater as a vertically integrated entity to do that process really let us focus on cutting costs at every one of those stages.
00:49:27.000And that's why we could do those things cheaper, better, faster, because we knew what it cost to do the training, to do the vaccination before deployment, or supplying them, or whatever that was.
00:49:48.000I guess I got to ask, because I'm sort of fascinated about when you were talking about sort of the advance in warfare, you know, what the Russians have learned to do, and perhaps what the Ukrainians have learned to do in the last three years.
00:49:57.000We were in war, felt like almost permanent war, at least a solid chunk of my life in Afghanistan, Iraq, 20 plus years.
00:50:06.000Did we learn as much during that period of time as these guys have learned in three years?
00:50:12.000We learned a lot of wrong habits because you had a lot of people that were managing conflict instead of out to just fix it and to solve it.
00:50:19.000Instead of driving towards a moment of absolute surrender, If you think about how the Taliban were hunted the first six months after 9-11, when you had a few hundred SAF and agency officers with air power and their targeting cycle, those guys on the hill were going now.
00:50:43.000And then six months into it, when Bagram became a big normal base, when the beards had to go away and starch khakis, when the conventional military came, then it became a...
00:50:55.000Very conventional planning cycle of days, weeks, months to go target the enemy.
00:50:59.000And so it was just a 19-year repeat of that nonsense that we learned all the wrong habits and promoted all the wrong people.
00:53:41.000During the State of the Union, they can't stand up and clap.
00:53:44.000For a kid who survived cancer, another kid who found out that he got into West Point and was there because his father was killed in the line of duty as an officer of law.
00:54:02.000When I started saying they hate America, I actually believed it, but you didn't necessarily have the hard evidence.
00:54:10.000Just watching them sit and not even clap for some of the most basic and decent things that America has to offer was both scary and eye-opening.
00:54:19.000The most successful political party of the 20th century in America is the Socialist Workers' Party.
00:54:24.000I think their party platform of 1924 has been fully adopted into law and is largely the policy of the Democrat Party today.
00:54:35.000A socialist is just a slightly milder communist.
00:54:38.000And so that idea of fundamentally transforming America that Obama wanted to do, they want to go much, much, much farther.
00:54:47.000I think, to me, one of the measurable differences, and I've said that three years ago, long before this campaign, a successful Trump presidency would be a reduction of real estate value in the D.C. area.
00:55:16.000I mean, that's got to be 15%, you know, 15%, 20% of...
00:55:18.000And I'm sorry for the non-government employee people that are taking that pounding on their house, but it is a sign to...
00:55:26.000The five highest per capita wealth counties in America surround Washington, D.C. That is an exceedingly unhealthy sign, and bringing that back to normal is absolutely essential.
00:55:37.000The cessation of funding USAID, or the pause, and I think you'll find it is such a massive grift.
00:55:46.000Yeah, talk about the depth of that, because again, people, you know, I've gone through the list on the shows, you know, $10 million for...
00:57:03.000It is a massive drying up of a reservoir of Democrat funding that has been washed through the unhealthy halls of the USAID. It sort of reminds me, like, back in the day when I was, you know, formerly a New Yorker, and you'd go to some of these, you know, like, rubber chicken charity dinners, and they're throwing a wonderful party for themselves.
00:57:22.000And at the end of the night, they did a great work.
00:57:23.000They raised $3 million for whatever cause.
00:57:26.000The problem is the party cost $3.2 million for themselves.
00:57:43.000A tiny fraction of the numbers that were raised.
00:57:45.000And when you look at the actual charity auditing firms, right, they don't really view an overhead load of much 10 or 15% as being acceptable.
00:57:56.000These USAID contractors were high 50, 60, 70. Clinton Foundation, right?
00:58:03.000We'll spend $5 billion on this and we'll build exactly zero homes in Haiti.
00:58:06.000And fund the Clinton lifestyle and travel budget.
00:58:12.000I'm so glad they did that to USAID first, and there's so many more across so many organizations to just dry it up.
00:58:19.000The education bureaucracy, which our education standards have continued to plummet since Carter made a Department of Education, and again, that funds so many awful left-wing causes which actually undermine education in the labor space.
00:58:54.000It would be the ultimate empowering thing to give those people ownership, not a mortgage, but a title that they can sell if they want to move or if they want to borrow it to start a business.
00:59:04.000But America should get out of the housing business and give the housing to the people that are in it now and be done.
01:01:36.000If she was campaigning, went to stay at a hotel, the next day the tax police would come and close that hotel.
01:01:42.000If she went to a restaurant, they would close that restaurant.
01:01:45.000They locked her off from any aspect of society.
01:01:48.000And yet, even with her campaigning and Edmundo Gonzalez, the guy who was allowed to run, who was really the surrogate for her, wins the election in...
01:01:58.000End of July by 70 to 30. It really wins by 40 points.
01:02:03.000And the Maduro regime, which is effectively a narco state, there's 34 major narcotic and meth production facilities in the country.
01:03:47.000So again, he's a bully, is a fairly well-funded bully, but their military doesn't really believe him or doesn't really support him.
01:03:56.000A few punches to the face and they will go.
01:04:00.000So, I mean, that sounds a little bit like what we were talking about, frankly, earlier with like the DRC and then Rwanda, the Congo and Rwanda and these sort of bad actors encroaching on their neighbors that may be resource rich.
01:04:13.000That seems to be a recurring theme that we're seeing around the world.
01:04:24.000I trolled Maduro after they stole the election.
01:04:28.000And I said, if Biden and Harris actually want to support democracy in Venezuela, they should raise the bounties to $100 million each, sit back and watch the magic happen.
01:04:36.000Well, that led to a lot of people contacting me saying, please start a GoFundMe.
01:05:30.000And by the way, it's someone who I'm friendly with, but, you know, on a foreign policy standpoint, 10 years ago, we probably wouldn't have agreed on much.
01:05:39.000You know, really actually embrace the Trump doctrine, sort of understanding what it is and actually believes that he's not one of those.
01:05:44.000He does not at all the guy to guy like, well, I'm going to reluctantly do this.
01:05:49.000He actually genuinely believes that I think he's having a good time actually fixing these problems.
01:05:52.000But, you know, they they said they're going to go after, you know, sort of these anti-American regimes around the world, that they'll actually, you know, be consequences to that.
01:06:02.000You know, who are those worst actors in this?
01:06:34.000And even internally, and lots of people that want to breathe free in those countries, you know, it was a huge missed opportunity within the last four years when the women life freedom protests were on in Iran.
01:06:52.000If you're looking for an opportunity to regime change, this seems like the window.
01:06:56.000And it doesn't require external troops or anything like that.
01:07:00.000You had literally millions of people in the streets, women that just didn't want to have to...
01:07:04.000Covered their heads and wanted to be able to dance, drink a beer, be in public, and not have to be subject to religious police.
01:07:14.000And so not supporting those people and their desire to be free is a huge mistake.
01:07:20.000And I kept telling the Israelis, for the cost of one or two F-35s, you could actually get rid of the mullahs.
01:07:27.000And it would be an amazing, you know, Iran has...
01:07:31.000Very smart people, very educated, very hardworking, a significant amount of resources, a traditional return of Iran, of Persia, to its rightful role.
01:07:40.000It was one of the most like bohemian countries in the world prior to...
01:07:44.000Yes, and smart and industrious and all the rest.
01:07:46.000If you do that, it would drag the rest of the Middle East far forward because it would make them work hard, innovate, and get off of a Muslim Brotherhood line of...
01:08:00.000So what do you think happens there right now as they seem to be getting ever closer to actually achieving some sort of nuclear capability?
01:08:08.000I mean, can Israel really just sit there and just wait for it to happen?
01:08:13.000It does not seem like that's plausible to me as a thinking individual.
01:08:19.000I think it's an exceptionally dangerous position for the entire Middle East for Iran to be nuclear.
01:08:25.000But again, I don't think that gets solved best by the U.S. When you look at thousands of years of history, attacking Iran from the outside never ends that well, but almost like a firecracker on the inside of your hand.
01:08:40.000I mean, literally, the geography of Iran protects the middle.
01:09:00.000And so pulling Russia away from China towards the West, we have much more in common culturally with Russia than we do with China or India or Japan or Korea.
01:09:12.000Russia has always been a Western-looking nation.
01:09:34.000So, you know, as we talk about sort of broken and or corrupted governments, I think we've experienced plenty of that even here in the United States.
01:09:41.000Anyone who's been watching for the last nine years gets it.
01:09:58.000Can you tell us a little bit about that?
01:09:59.000Because, again, I think, you know, more and more people, you know, if you would have said this, even honestly, even as they were doing it to us, right?
01:10:05.000When they were doing it to me with Russia, Russia, Russia, and I mean, you and I became friends during that time.
01:10:10.000I'm like, I don't even know what they're talking about.
01:10:11.000But, hey, it's the FBI. A for creativity.
01:10:15.000There must be some sort of truth to this.
01:10:36.000Yes, I've felt the heat of the surveillance state coming at me, and it's unnerving.
01:10:42.000And we decided to do this phone after the 2020 election when...
01:10:46.000People were getting thrown off platforms and censorship and all the big tech collusion with big government.
01:10:51.000And I said, we're never going to make big tech better by complaining about it only if we can compete.
01:10:56.000And so we pivoted a tech team I had and said, we're going to build a competitive phone standalone outside of the Google and Apple universe.
01:11:05.000And the more I dug into this, I learned about something called surveillance capitalism.
01:11:09.000Because if you think about what happened after 9-11, USG rightly starts buying advertising information.
01:11:16.000Looking for more people that fit the profile of the 19 hijackers.
01:11:20.000And so that creates an entire industry of data collection from advertisers.
01:11:26.000Then in 2009, when smartphones come out, the apps that are built to sit on that smartphone start collecting all that data and it automatically exports it.
01:12:18.000We have our own secure messenger, our own VPN, our own store.
01:12:22.000So really our device lets you be in the world but not collected and exported to all of it.
01:12:27.000And so especially in an era of AI, like the average kid in America has, by the time they reach the age of 13, has 72 million data points collected.
01:12:39.000I imagine someone could go many lifetimes a few years ago without getting anywhere near that.
01:12:44.000But now, when an LLM large language module gets a hold of all that data, now they can effectively digitally groom you to put whatever it is they want you to think about in front of you.
01:12:58.000So, again, our device lets you navigate, bank, communicate, airlines, sports.
01:13:07.000Video streaming, all the rest, but it's a little different because you're not being digitally groomed for whatever it is you're supposed to see.
01:13:15.000How does all of this, when you talk about security and privacy, what are your thoughts on crypto?
01:13:27.000Because again, it seems like, for me, as I've gotten into that world and getting it, it seems like a great hedge against some of the insanity going on right now.