Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - The American Dream is on the Ballot, Interview with Sean Davis | TRIGGERED Ep.148

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00:08:28.000 So much of that seems pending.

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00:08:32.000 So, Philip, last week reports emerged that the U.S.-Saudi petrodollar agreement expired.

00:08:38.000 I mean, I know that's a big deal, but for people who haven't been paying attention for the last 50 years as to just how important that is as it relates to our borrowing power, all the ridiculous spending that we have, this changes the game a lot.

00:08:49.000 Can you explain what this is?

00:08:52.000 Yeah, you're absolutely correct.

00:08:54.000 So, reports have been circulated that, you know, There's been an end to the petrodollar agreement between Saudi Arabia and the United States.

00:09:03.000 Now, I don't expect there to be an official press conference.

00:09:06.000 There was no official beginning to the agreement, so I don't expect an official end, if you will.

00:09:13.000 You know, this is an agreement that dates back to the 1970s, essentially in exchange for military

00:09:20.000 equipment and training, the Saudis would agree to sell oil exclusively in US dollars and really has

00:09:26.000 been the cornerstone of dollar supremacy since Bretton Woods. And it's how we've been able to

00:09:31.000 maintain our global reserve currency. The Saudis are showing increasing willingness now to start 0.85

00:09:39.000 selling oil outside of dollars, particularly in Chinese Yuan. And that doesn't bode well

00:09:44.000 for the long term prospects for the dollar, as you know, well.

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00:09:48.000 Yeah.

00:09:49.000 I mean, if the reports are in fact accurate, how would an official end to the petrodollar monopoly affect the U.S.?

00:09:55.000 I mean, clearly it would, you know, I mean, it may be good.

00:09:59.000 I mean, there may be things that, hey, we're no longer going to be able to sell, you know, $50 billion for, you know, transgender awareness in Pakistan and some of the ridiculous stuff that we do. 1.00

00:10:10.000 But, you know, in all seriousness, it feels like it could create a lot of other problems given the $34 trillion outstanding we have debt-wise.

00:10:19.000 You are absolutely correct.

00:10:20.000 It certainly could.

00:10:21.000 You're right, it'll be a curb on obscene government spending, which would be the only sort of silver lining, if you will.

00:10:29.000 Across the board, it would have sweeping effects.

00:10:31.000 First of all, Saudi Arabia would need a new security partner.

00:10:34.000 We know China has been waiting in the wings for years for the opportunity, and we'd lose essentially our most reliable Arab ally, and I think it would put Israel in some trouble.

00:10:45.000 Secondly, nations that need dollars to buy oil won't need those dollars to buy oil anymore.

00:10:51.000 Japan, for example, the world's fourth largest oil importer, they get 40% of their oil from

00:10:57.000 the Saudis.

00:10:58.000 They'd much rather buy in yen, which they can just print.

00:11:01.000 And finally, it just removes the sole positive benefit of owning dollars.

00:11:06.000 Without the petrodollar monopoly, the US is even more obviously just the currency of the

00:11:11.000 world's most indebted nation.

00:11:13.000 So, you know, currency is based on supply and demand alone.

00:11:17.000 And I think it's going to have a long term effect on the value of the US dollar.

00:11:21.000 I mean, it really feels like that could be the end of the dollar as a global reserve

00:11:26.000 I mean, I guess then it just opens up the door for everything else.

00:11:29.000 You know, I think it could be could be the beginning of the end, right?

00:11:32.000 Things like this.

00:11:33.000 They're not earthquakes.

00:11:34.000 They tend to happen more at a glacial pace.

00:11:37.000 But looking at the events over the last four years, right, we've seen global dollar reserves by central banks hit 25 year lows.

00:11:45.000 We've seen under Biden the unprecedented weaponization of the dollar, which has made it less attractive to foreign nations.

00:11:53.000 And let's not forget, in the less than four years he's been in office,

00:11:57.000 U.S. national debt has grown $6.6 trillion. All of these things together are making the dollar

00:12:05.000 increasingly unattractive to global investors. So it certainly feels like the beginning of the end,

00:12:11.000 if you will.

00:12:12.000 and The only thing saving us is there isn't a natural suitor waiting in the wings.

00:12:18.000 The dollar is still the world's tallest midget. 0.51

00:12:21.000 But as it continues to decline in value, the argument will start to shrink for the dollar.

00:12:27.000 And I think longer term, that status is certainly in trouble.

00:12:31.000 Yeah, how do those sort of geopolitical developments just affect everyday Americans, right?

00:12:35.000 You say, oh, well, that's only going to affect, you know, those who are borrowing.

00:12:38.000 I don't know.

00:12:40.000 It seems to certainly have inflationary problems.

00:12:43.000 It seems to create a lot of devaluation of your existing assets.

00:12:46.000 I mean, you know, what else would affect, you know, everyday Americans?

00:12:50.000 Look, you're absolutely right.

00:12:51.000 And we talk about this very much big picture.

00:12:54.000 We've talked about central banks and currency decline.

00:12:57.000 But what we have to realize is what applies to them applies to us, right?

00:13:01.000 They feel dollar devaluation in the form of devaluation.

00:13:05.000 We feel it domestically as inflation.

00:13:07.000 And look at what these banks are doing to protect.

00:13:12.000 2022, 2023, now first quarter of 24, have been the single biggest years for gold buying in central bank history.

00:13:20.000 These countries, they're holding dollars.

00:13:22.000 The purchasing power is falling and gold is the best way to hedge.

00:13:26.000 So yes, these are big concepts, but they apply to us as individuals just at a much smaller level.

00:13:32.000 So I think everybody needs a hedge against by dynamics.

00:13:36.000 And precious metals are the best hedge in climates like this.

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00:14:03.000 Well, it seems like a pretty scary time.

00:14:04.000 I mean, when you look at all the graphs, it's like what you see before every major economic disaster, and we're getting there.

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00:14:22.000 Thank you very much, man.

00:14:24.000 We'll continue to follow all of this, because we're not going to have a choice, unfortunately.

00:14:29.000 Thank you so much for having me, as always.

00:14:32.000 And I guess with that, joining me now, the co-founder of The Federalist, Sean Davis.

00:14:38.000 By the way, one of the great Twitter feeds of the entire platform.

00:14:42.000 Definitely check him out there as well.

00:14:45.000 Certainly one of the more aggressive ones, so we appreciate that.

00:14:48.000 We need some fighters, but Sean...

00:14:51.000 How should Republicans be responding right now to the left's lawfare, right?

00:14:55.000 We see that all over the place.

00:14:56.000 We saw it, obviously, with my father.

00:14:58.000 But, you know, they've gone after other friends of ours, you know, Sean Parnell.

00:15:01.000 They do this thing and they've really sort of exposed their underbelly of just how far they're willing to weaponize our own system of government and law against their own citizens.

00:15:12.000 What can we do to stop this nonsense once and for all?

00:15:15.000 It's a great question.

00:15:16.000 I'm so glad you asked it.

00:15:17.000 I think Republicans need to be responding with maximum aggression.

00:15:21.000 OK, so the left only understands power and they only understand consequences.

00:15:27.000 And up until now, Republicans have typically written a mean letter or they've said something that sounds... Strong tweet to follow.

00:15:34.000 Yeah.

00:15:35.000 Yeah, and then they do absolutely nothing.

00:15:37.000 And I actually look to the Cold War for the example of how you win this war with lawfare.

00:15:44.000 So during the Cold War, we had so many nukes, and the Soviet Union had so many nukes, that both sides understood that if they were to launch one first, they would be destroyed before that one even hit the ground.

00:15:55.000 Mutual assured destruction, right?

00:15:57.000 Yep, and that understanding that you would be eliminated from the earth if you were the first aggressor, that made it so that nobody used them, and that was a good thing.

00:16:09.000 And we need to do that with lawfare.

00:16:11.000 The left needs to understand that if they come after us, they're going to have the exact same rules that they used against us shoved down their own throats.

00:16:19.000 So I wish we weren't there.

00:16:21.000 I wish we could go back to this world where we had rule of law and we had a single standard and we had actual justice.

00:16:26.000 We're not in that world now.

00:16:28.000 So if we want to get back to that, the left has to face their own rules good and hard until they surrender.

00:16:34.000 And until that happens, they're not going to give up.

00:16:37.000 Okay, so for, you know, for people watching the show, obviously, you know, everyone sort of, I think we all agree, we understand that.

00:16:43.000 I use the analogy of, you know, we've been playing t-ball while they play hardball and laugh their ass off every time they get a win.

00:16:49.000 I agree with the strategy 100%.

00:16:51.000 How do we get Republicans in Washington, D.C.

00:16:53.000 to actually do that, right?

00:16:54.000 Because you're right, we aren't playing the same game.

00:16:57.000 That's the only tactic that will work once they start getting a taste of their own medicine.

00:17:01.000 But...

00:17:02.000 Republicans in D.C., with the exception of a very small number, are simply unwilling to play that game.

00:17:10.000 How do we get them there?

00:17:11.000 How do we get them actually doing that?

00:17:12.000 Because I think the people are there.

00:17:13.000 I think everyone understands it.

00:17:15.000 But Washington, D.C.

00:17:16.000 Republicans are feckless and they have not been doing that.

00:17:18.000 It doesn't look like they're changing their minds on it anytime soon either.

00:17:22.000 Yeah, I think there's two things we can do there.

00:17:24.000 The first is these people need to understand that they serve at our pleasure and they work for us.

00:17:28.000 And if they're not going to work for us, and they're not going to do the things that we need them to do, they're not going to work there.

00:17:33.000 So I think it needs to be made clear to them, you do your jobs or you're going to have a different job and we're going to send you packing.

00:17:40.000 Now it is a movement.

00:17:41.000 I think we've been pretty bad at that.

00:17:43.000 And it's hard to fault people who only care about the next election for not doing things that we think they should because they don't pay any consequences for them.

00:17:53.000 So number one, there need to be political consequences for Republicans in Washington acting like a bunch of spineless neutered eunuchs. 1.00

00:18:01.000 Number two, I actually don't think the action has to come from Washington.

00:18:05.000 We have 50 other states.

00:18:07.000 We've got a bunch of those controlled by good, strong governors and good attorneys general.

00:18:11.000 And if you look at what they're doing to President Trump, they're not just doing it from the federal government, from a corrupt DOJ.

00:18:18.000 They're doing it to him in Georgia.

00:18:19.000 They're doing it to him in these completely corrupt New York City courts.

00:18:22.000 There is zero reason on earth why Republican DAs who love this country shouldn't be doing that at the local level in Florida or Tennessee or Texas or Idaho or Oklahoma.

00:18:34.000 Democrats should be facing this onslaught in every state the same way they're doing to our own people.

00:18:40.000 And until they feel that pain, until their own people start getting hauled in and indicted, they're not going to stop.

00:18:45.000 Yeah, so I had this conversation with Charlie Kirk last week, and it was that, which is sort of interesting, like, you still don't see that kind of action either.

00:18:52.000 Even, and frankly, you actually see less action in arguably the most conservative states.

00:18:58.000 It's almost like, you know, the places that you think, you know, have the biggest conservative voting blocs actually end up with a lot of the, let's call it the mushiest, you know, sort of rhino conservative leaders.

00:19:08.000 And I don't know if it's just the Democrats run as conservatives because they know they can't win as Democrats.

00:19:13.000 I don't know if Democrat voters just sort of vote for the weakest Republican, and as long as he gets a couple points of the Republican side of it as well, you know, they get into these positions.

00:19:21.000 But yet you haven't seen that kind of response yet in those states where, frankly, it would be looked upon much more favorably by the constituency than in Washington, D.C., where it would actually take a little bit of balls.

00:19:32.000 At the state level, it's still not happening too much either.

00:19:35.000 Yeah, and we've got to change that.

00:19:37.000 And I think one of the issues we have on the right in the conservative movement is while the left was busy

00:19:42.000 taking over institutions and building an army of foot soldiers and taking over DA's offices,

00:19:47.000 our side was content to just run political ads and say, hey, we took over Congress and we got this many

00:19:53.000 governor seats, we're good.

00:19:54.000 The left understands how to attain and wield power.

00:19:58.000 And I think it's finally dawning on the right that the game that it's been playing for the last 20 years

00:20:04.000 is a losing game.

00:20:05.000 So hopefully now, there may not be an immediate solution right at this very moment, but it feels to me like people are waking up to the nature of the battle that we're facing, and that's going to require a different type of politics.

00:20:17.000 We've got to be doing more than just throwing money at ads every other year, every four years.

00:20:22.000 We need to be going and building institutions at the ground level to take the fight to the left.

00:20:27.000 How do we start that process?

00:20:29.000 You're right.

00:20:31.000 For as bad as their policies are, for how flagrantly they failed everything, not just our country under Joe Biden, but if you look at the policies of so many of the inner cities of this country, and yet They have a very loyal voting bloc that blindly keeps voting for them and will continue to do that.

00:20:48.000 I think we're making some inroads there these days only because the failure is so bad.

00:20:53.000 It's difficult for even them to hide it and it's difficult for their lackeys in the media to cover it up because people are not going to not believe what they see every day with their own eyes as they live their lives.

00:21:04.000 But how do we take that on?

00:21:05.000 Because again, I don't think it's going to come from Washington.

00:21:08.000 How do people Get behind enough of a group that you get enough critical mass to actually effectuate real change.

00:21:14.000 Yeah, so I actually think you have to start with media.

00:21:17.000 Now, obviously I'm a little biased.

00:21:19.000 I run a media organization.

00:21:21.000 But the left has been able to do a lot of what it's done through its control of the media.

00:21:25.000 You know, we call television shows, we don't even think about it, we call them programs.

00:21:30.000 And why do we do that?

00:21:31.000 Because we're being programmed.

00:21:32.000 The left understands the value of media.

00:21:35.000 I think the right is just starting to understand it.

00:21:38.000 Look, we don't need to have the New York Times and CNN and MSNBC and the Washington Post.

00:21:43.000 We really just need a handful of people that are staffed up and funded up that they can take the air war to the left.

00:21:49.000 You know, that's what we've done at the Federalist.

00:21:51.000 We wake up every morning, we look at the narratives that are out there, and we see, you know, what are the leftist narratives that need to be destroyed?

00:21:58.000 And what are the narratives on the right that need to be pushed?

00:22:01.000 Because it takes that over time.

00:22:02.000 You have to convince people.

00:22:04.000 You have to make them understand the nature of the battle.

00:22:07.000 And like I said, it's bigger than just spending money on ads to win an election every now and again.

00:22:11.000 We need permanent, constant air war coming from our side. 0.86

00:22:15.000 And I think that starts with building up our own well-funded media infrastructure to take it to the left.

00:22:22.000 Yeah, I think you're 100% right.

00:22:24.000 I talk about it on this show.

00:22:25.000 Like, hey, like, share, this kind of programming.

00:22:29.000 I know I retweet a lot of your stuff or comment on it or the Federalist articles.

00:22:34.000 Getting that, getting everyone in there.

00:22:35.000 Don't just take the gospel of the New York Times or the CNN version of the story, which is...

00:22:41.000 Usually just, frankly, a lie.

00:22:43.000 I'd like to hear more about your story starting The Federalist.

00:22:46.000 I think it's one of the great sort of conservative outlets out there.

00:22:50.000 Your story in the media and the trajectory of where you think the news business goes over the next five or ten years.

00:22:57.000 Because I think you're right.

00:22:58.000 I do think that's a weak point that's very easy for us to attack because you can demonstrably show How they've not just been manipulating people, they've just been outright lying.

00:23:11.000 Again, people understand that.

00:23:13.000 They see that.

00:23:13.000 Credibility is at an all-time low.

00:23:16.000 How do you start this?

00:23:17.000 How do you continue?

00:23:17.000 And where do we go from there?

00:23:19.000 Yeah, thank you for the kind words.

00:23:21.000 We started The Federalist a little over 10 years ago.

00:23:24.000 And we started it because we looked at the right-wing media and we looked around and everything was focused on Washington.

00:23:31.000 Everyone lived in Washington, everyone worked in Washington.

00:23:34.000 They were bombarded with what Washington wanted them to think.

00:23:37.000 And then what they did is they translated that to their readers and their subscribers.

00:23:41.000 It was, hey, everybody out in real America doing real jobs.

00:23:45.000 And paying for our lives and our jobs.

00:23:47.000 Here's what Washington wants you to think.

00:23:50.000 And I looked at that and I thought, this is totally backwards.

00:23:53.000 America doesn't need to hear any more about what Washington wants.

00:23:56.000 Washington needs to hear what America wants.

00:23:58.000 So we started with this idea that we're going to be combative and we're going to be fearless and we're going to fight.

00:24:04.000 And we're going to take the fight to Washington on behalf of the American people.

00:24:07.000 The majority of our staff, we're not in Washington.

00:24:10.000 The overwhelming majority of our writers, we have thousands of them, are spread around the country.

00:24:16.000 These are people with normal jobs, normal family lives.

00:24:19.000 They have skills and experiences that people in Washington simply can't understand.

00:24:24.000 And that gives them perspectives that everyone in Washington needs to hear.

00:24:27.000 And that was kind of the The secret sauce of why I think the Federalist has worked is that we don't really care what Washington wants you to think, and we don't really care what they're up to.

00:24:36.000 We care about them getting through their thick skulls with the American people need them to hear.

00:24:41.000 Yes, I'd ask.

00:24:43.000 I mean, do Democrats actually care right now if they destroy our country?

00:24:47.000 I mean, I look at every policy, whether it's immigration or otherwise.

00:24:50.000 I mean, even those people that are frankly on the left, you saw that skit probably, you know, Louis C.K.

00:24:55.000 talking about, no, they want unfettered immigration because they think Americans deserve to be punished for having been successful.

00:25:01.000 I mean, it is A mindset that I can't even grasp.

00:25:05.000 I mean, they still live here.

00:25:07.000 Their children have to live here. 0.96

00:25:09.000 They're going to be left in a place that feels like a dystopian hellhole.

00:25:15.000 It feels weird to me that they're so dead set on just tearing it all down.

00:25:21.000 What is that mindset?

00:25:22.000 How do you overcome that?

00:25:23.000 How do you get those sort of reasonable people, those blue-collar Democrats, to understand that, you know, the party that represents them in Washington DC has left them and is literally almost cheering for, you know, our nation's demise at this point?

00:25:39.000 Yeah, it kind of feels like we're watching The Hunger Games. 0.80

00:25:42.000 You know, they had all the ridiculous people in the Capitol doing ridiculous things and living lives totally divorced from the reality of what everyone else is facing. 0.81

00:25:51.000 That's what politics and that's what Democrats look like right now. 0.96

00:25:54.000 Look, they're not on the border.

00:25:56.000 They don't have to deal with the crime.

00:25:57.000 They're in gated communities.

00:25:59.000 They have lots of money.

00:26:00.000 Their kids are in private school.

00:26:02.000 They didn't really face any of the consequences of their COVID insanity and their lockdown nonsense.

00:26:07.000 So they're not actually having to feel the pain of their own policies, because they've built these little enclaves around them.

00:26:13.000 And to your question of whether I think they'll destroy the country to keep power, absolutely they will.

00:26:19.000 They remind me of those weirdos we probably knew in high school or college, and somebody would break up with them, and they'd say, well, if I can't have that person, no one can.

00:26:29.000 And you'd be like, wow, that's kind of like psycho talk there.

00:26:32.000 That's how Democrats seem to feel about the country is all they want is power.

00:26:37.000 All they want is our submission.

00:26:38.000 And if they have to destroy the country to get to that point, they're fine with it because they don't actually care about the country.

00:26:44.000 They care about their own power and wealth.

00:26:46.000 Yeah, I mean, I'm watching.

00:26:48.000 I know in the past week, you know, eight illegal immigrants were arrested for ISIS ties.

00:26:53.000 I mean, they're tied to terrorist organizations.

00:26:55.000 They came across our Swiss cheese border with no resistance. 0.57

00:27:00.000 One illegal immigrant was arrested for rape.

00:27:03.000 Another illegal immigrant arrested for murder.

00:27:06.000 And Joe Biden's response is to get up on a world stage and give amnesty.

00:27:11.000 Just outright, just, hey, no problem here to Millions of illegal immigrants.

00:27:18.000 What does it tell you about, you know, what's going on there?

00:27:20.000 I mean, there have to be... I know it's not a popular issue across the country.

00:27:25.000 When does the sort of disjointment of Democrat policy in DC actually start getting Democrats across the country to realize, you know, they've been left behind, that this isn't what they want?

00:27:37.000 And is there ever a bridge too far With the radical policies of Washington, D.C.

00:27:43.000 Democrats and Democrat voters in America, where they say, OK, enough is enough.

00:27:47.000 I'm done.

00:27:49.000 Yeah, that's a really important question.

00:27:51.000 And I think the bigger question is, does sentiment about our politicians even matter anymore?

00:27:57.000 Does it matter what people actually want?

00:27:59.000 Does it matter how they go and vote?

00:28:01.000 I think the Democrats want the answer to that to be no.

00:28:04.000 So they've got some ideological reasons why they're opening the border.

00:28:07.000 They think borders are racist, and they're just intrinsically bad, and therefore they shouldn't exist.

00:28:12.000 But there's also a political motive there.

00:28:14.000 They clearly want to bring in a bunch of people, legalize them, hand the ballots, and then let them vote.

00:28:20.000 And so it's almost like they're doing a two-front war on the American republic.

00:28:25.000 They're trying to destroy the rule of law and flood us with a bunch of people who 1.00

00:28:29.000 don't understand our culture, are not interested in assimilating, don't care about our laws. 0.98

00:28:34.000 And then they want them to actually go and vote as well to replace or to subsume the votes of citizens

00:28:41.000 who do care about the long-term health of that country.

00:28:43.000 So I think what they're doing, it's not just about bringing in a whole bunch of people

00:28:50.000 to remake the country in their own image.

00:28:52.000 I think a lot of it is about trying to rig another election by sending ballots to people who aren't legally entitled to them so that they don't actually have to be accountable to the desires of the people who they're supposed to work for.

00:29:04.000 They want to engineer their own election results.

00:29:06.000 Yeah, I think you actually did something in the Federalist.

00:29:09.000 I saw one of the articles or one of your writers did something about it.

00:29:12.000 I sort of bookmarked it to read later because I've had a crazy week, but isn't there some legislation out there right now?

00:29:19.000 They're trying to make it like, hey, it's okay to vote if you think.

00:29:24.000 You're a citizen.

00:29:25.000 You don't have to be a citizen, but if you think you're a citizen, it's like, that's good enough for us.

00:29:29.000 I mean, they're conveniently doing that.

00:29:30.000 I mean, I guess that's their COVID election response for 2024.

00:29:35.000 That or World War III, I guess.

00:29:38.000 But they're certainly trying to do something to weaponize that vote.

00:29:42.000 Because, I mean, they're saying that with a straight face.

00:29:43.000 It's like, no, no, no.

00:29:44.000 It's not going to be illegal if you thought it wasn't illegal.

00:29:47.000 Even if you do it, we're certainly going to count those ballots.

00:29:49.000 I mean, I think I saw that in one of your guys' pieces, and I'm like, Wait, say it again?

00:29:56.000 You're saying that out loud?

00:30:00.000 Really?

00:30:00.000 I understand maybe that's their motivation.

00:30:02.000 I understand maybe that they'd love to have that, but they're trying to pass a law to make that so.

00:30:08.000 It seems to fly in the face of everything our legal system, our immigration system, everything stands for. 0.73

00:30:14.000 Yeah, it's crazy.

00:30:16.000 And we'll publish articles saying, hey, illegal immigrants are being given ballots at these processing centers when they're coming in.

00:30:24.000 And the fake news media will fact check and say, excuse me, actually, you're not allowed

00:30:31.000 to vote if you're illegal.

00:30:33.000 Well, yeah, that's great.

00:30:34.000 The analogy I use is, you're not allowed to speed either.

00:30:38.000 But this voting regime they have set up basically says it would be the equivalent of saying,

00:30:43.000 you're not allowed to speed, but we're going to ban any law enforcement from using any speed

00:30:47.000 detection on you.

00:30:48.000 Because that's the actual effect of voting law now.

00:30:50.000 They say if you're an illegal, you can't vote.

00:30:52.000 but they ban states from asking any questions about whether someone is legal

00:30:56.000 or whether they're a citizen before they vote.

00:30:58.000 They clearly want people who are not allowed to vote to be voting.

00:31:02.000 And it's why they're blocking completely common sense proposals in Congress

00:31:06.000 to do things like, I don't know, require citizenship verification before you vote,

00:31:11.000 allow states to ask whether you're legally allowed to vote.

00:31:14.000 The fact that they don't want to do that tells me that they want to make it easy to cheat

00:31:17.000 so that it will be easy to steal the election.

00:31:20.000 Yeah, notice the fact check wasn't, yes, they are in fact giving them ballots.

00:31:25.000 It's like, well, you're not allowed to vote, so why are they giving them ballots?

00:31:29.000 Please explain it to me.

00:31:30.000 And it's amazing when you talk about those sort of common sense sort of voting requirements.

00:31:35.000 I was in Europe last week.

00:31:38.000 And I mean, even these leftist countries are like, what do you mean you don't have ID?

00:31:41.000 Like, how are you supposed to tell? 0.60

00:31:42.000 Like, literally, the Bolsheviks are, like, shocked at how ridiculous the rules are here.

00:31:51.000 The mental gymnastics that is required to try to justify why this would be so. 0.61

00:31:58.000 And yet, I guess they're still doing it.

00:32:00.000 They're more than content to take that win.

00:32:02.000 They're saying it out loud.

00:32:03.000 They're not going to stop.

00:32:05.000 Yeah, they don't they don't care.

00:32:06.000 I mean, they for years tried to make it so you or I couldn't go to a restaurant unless we had a particular ID that said we had gotten the right shots that they wanted us to have.

00:32:17.000 They didn't want you to be able to go to the doctor without an ID.

00:32:20.000 But suddenly, if you say, hey, maybe you should have to have an ID to vote for the most powerful person on Earth who has the nuclear codes.

00:32:27.000 Oh, well, that's racist. 0.61

00:32:29.000 You can't demand that.

00:32:30.000 Saying voter ID is racist is itself racist.

00:32:34.000 Everyone has figured out how to get an ID in this country.

00:32:36.000 It's not really hard because you can't live without an ID.

00:32:40.000 And yet that's the one thing they don't want you to have to show in order to make one of the most important decisions you'll ever make, which is voting.

00:32:46.000 Yeah, and talk perhaps a little bit about the disparate treatment, frankly, between Americans, actual American citizens, and the illegals coming through.

00:32:55.000 I mean, it feels like I would not be able to do the things that the illegals are able to. 1.00

00:33:00.000 I'm not given the same things.

00:33:02.000 We are actually, it feels like, as American citizens, compared to what they're clearly and just flagrantly doing for all the illegals, We're second-class citizens in our own country, and I'm hoping that certain, and maybe this is why, maybe some demographics are figuring that out, which is why they have to import more to make up for that, the loss of reliable Democrat voters, but I mean, it's very clearly that's happening as well, whether it's the, here's $10,000, and here's free rent, and forever, and I'm like... 0.99

00:33:28.000 We don't, there's American veterans, there's Americans with, you know, mental issues.

00:33:33.000 They're not afforded these same freedoms and benefits, yet they get to pay for them in their tax bill very clearly.

00:33:41.000 Yeah, it's enraging.

00:33:42.000 It's almost worse than being a second-class citizen.

00:33:45.000 It's not just that it feels like we have less rights or fewer benefits.

00:33:49.000 We're effectively being robbed to pay for all of it.

00:33:53.000 You have the privilege of paying for your own stuff, plus giving them a lot more, but they're not paying anything into the system, ever.

00:33:59.000 Yeah, I basically can't afford to go spend a week in a nice hotel in New York, and yet they're taking my tax dollars, which I work really hard for, stuff that should be used for my family, are going to house and give benefits to people who are here illegally, who should have been turned around right at the door. 1.00

00:34:17.000 Now look, I don't begrudge people wanting to come to America.

00:34:20.000 It's the greatest country in history.

00:34:22.000 It's awesome.

00:34:22.000 It's the land of opportunity.

00:34:24.000 But you got to do it legally.

00:34:25.000 And it's not that hard to do legally.

00:34:27.000 You just have to follow the rules.

00:34:30.000 And it's enraging to see the amount of gaslighting that's going on to be told that we're bad or evil or racist because we want people to follow the rules and follow the laws in order to share in this awesome country that we're in.

00:34:44.000 Yeah.

00:34:45.000 I'd love to get your opinion just talking a little bit about sort of putting a larger conservative footprint in American culture.

00:34:50.000 I think, you know, apathy from the conservative side.

00:34:53.000 Hey, we're building businesses.

00:34:54.000 We're doing this.

00:34:55.000 We're not going to get on our school board.

00:34:56.000 We're not going to get involved.

00:34:57.000 I mean, you know, how do we change that?

00:35:00.000 Do we get, you know, is there a need for more conservative screenwriters so that, you know, maybe talking about pop culture or, you know, the programming on television, you know, maybe every dad in every show isn't, you know, a big, You know, Dolt isn't seen as a loser.

00:35:17.000 The mother's in charge. 1.00

00:35:18.000 I mean, is that doable?

00:35:21.000 Do we have to have more conservative actors and musicians?

00:35:24.000 How do you take back some of that cultural component that they've sort of ceded and the other side has weaponized against the entirety of the nation, not just one-sided viewership?

00:35:36.000 Yeah, it's a hard problem because I think one reason the left is so fanatical and so energetic about all this, about taking everything over and remaking humanity in their own image, this is effectively their religion.

00:35:50.000 This is how they're sanctified.

00:35:52.000 This is how they atone for their sins is through this.

00:35:55.000 Political activism.

00:35:57.000 The right doesn't have that.

00:35:58.000 We have actual religion.

00:35:59.000 We know who made us.

00:36:00.000 We know whose image we're made in and what's important.

00:36:03.000 And so it's hard, I think, for us to ever get that same level of fire and fervor because it's politics is not religion to us.

00:36:12.000 But what I think we're finding on the right is this idea that, oh, maybe if we win some elections, we'll just be left alone.

00:36:20.000 We're not going to be left alone.

00:36:22.000 And I think that ship has sailed.

00:36:24.000 Yeah.

00:36:24.000 And I think it's an important ship to sail because people now realize that that's not a fiction they can rely on anymore.

00:36:31.000 They can't have this kind of faux sense of non-involvement.

00:36:34.000 Well, I just want to be left alone.

00:36:35.000 I don't want to tell people how to live their lives.

00:36:37.000 Well, I've got bad news for you.

00:36:38.000 They're going to tell you how to live your life.

00:36:40.000 And I think a lot of people in business, especially, are finally realizing this, that live and let live is not the status quo anymore.

00:36:48.000 I would like to get back to that.

00:36:50.000 I would very much like to get back to that.

00:36:52.000 Oh, I'd love it.

00:36:52.000 Yeah.

00:36:52.000 Just being able to do their own thing.

00:36:54.000 But we're not going to get back to that until we win and they lose.

00:36:58.000 And in order for us to win, Our side has to be fully mobilized.

00:37:01.000 And I think the direction we're heading now is something akin to a parallel economy.

00:37:05.000 I think it's why we're on rumble.

00:37:08.000 The left has decided we don't want you on our channels.

00:37:11.000 We don't want you in our media.

00:37:13.000 When we go and try and start our own, they try to shut that down as well.

00:37:16.000 We're currently suing the State Department for censoring us illegally as individuals and as a press organization.

00:37:23.000 I think we're going to need to start building parallel economies in finance and banking.

00:37:29.000 In media, in culture, in academia.

00:37:32.000 That may be the only way through this at this point.

00:37:35.000 Yeah, no, I agree with you.

00:37:36.000 I mean, I see it every day.

00:37:37.000 I've sort of been trying to lead some of those culture wars on the business side.

00:37:40.000 You know, they always say, hey, if you don't like it, build your own.

00:37:42.000 So like, you know, I've done it.

00:37:43.000 You know, my news app, I know we push a lot of your stuff.

00:37:46.000 MXM News, I use for, I was debanked by PNC Bank.

00:37:49.000 And I'm not doing anything.

00:37:51.000 I'm not even creating news for, like, I'm aggregating other news.

00:37:53.000 I'm just making sure you see the New York Times with the Federalist, not Just the New York Times on, you know, the first 65 pages or CNN of a Google search.

00:38:03.000 And then, yeah, The Federalist be on page 9,476.

00:38:05.000 And if you had nothing to do for the next nine and a half years, maybe you'd find the article.

00:38:10.000 We got to do that.

00:38:11.000 But you're right.

00:38:12.000 I didn't think of Hollywood necessarily as one of those deities to be worshipped by the left.

00:38:16.000 I always thought, you know, it's You know, Greta Thunberg is the High Priestess of Climate Change, and Anthony Fauci is the Lord God of COVID, and then, you know, it became, you know, Zelensky with a short hiatus for George Floyd, and, like, it's an ever-evolving deity, and I guess it's all part of the same problem, and I'd wonder, you know, is legacy media even on the right?

00:38:36.000 partly to blame for some of these things.

00:38:39.000 I mean, have they failed us too? 0.98

00:38:42.000 I, you know, I noticed, you know, I guess I call out people on the board of Fox News because they're rhinos and they suck, and, you know, so I'm no longer on Fox News. 0.98

00:38:50.000 I haven't been on in two years. 0.95

00:38:51.000 Have they failed us too, succumbing to the pressures of what's out there?

00:38:57.000 Well, honestly, I think every institution on the right has failed.

00:39:01.000 I don't know how you get to the point where we are with people on the right getting shut down, with our government censoring us, with people being thrown in prison for their politics.

00:39:11.000 I don't think you can get to that point without systematic failure across the board.

00:39:15.000 I think we fail to understand the threat of the left.

00:39:17.000 We fail to understand the importance of media.

00:39:21.000 I look at the major institutions in American life.

00:39:24.000 We've got government.

00:39:25.000 It's important.

00:39:25.000 We've got academia.

00:39:27.000 We've got media.

00:39:29.000 We've got Hollywood.

00:39:30.000 We've got military.

00:39:31.000 We've got sports.

00:39:32.000 And we've probably got entertainment.

00:39:35.000 That's it.

00:39:35.000 Those probably comprise, you throw in the church there, probably 99% of institutions that shape our daily lives.

00:39:44.000 The left is infiltrating every single one.

00:39:47.000 At this point, the only one that might still be marginally intact is the church.

00:39:52.000 The church seems to be doing a pretty good job of fighting off the leftist onslaught.

00:39:56.000 Even some of that stuff I'm seeing, though, you know, the Trans Day of Awareness on Easter, they're celebrating it.

00:40:00.000 Like, oh, this is great.

00:40:01.000 What could go wrong?

00:40:03.000 You know, man, I feel like when you're losing the church as well, not across the board, I mean, there's many great, but you see the left making even strong inroads there.

00:40:12.000 That's truly scary.

00:40:14.000 It is, and they're able to do that.

00:40:16.000 It's almost like a pincer movement in the military.

00:40:19.000 Once you control the ground here and you control the ground there, you just start bringing in your troops, you encircle them, and you eventually strangle them.

00:40:26.000 That's what they've done with their control, and it didn't happen overnight.

00:40:29.000 The left worked on this.

00:40:30.000 They call it the march through institutions.

00:40:32.000 They've been working on this for decades, and we're not going to get caught up overnight, but we're certainly not going to get caught up by thinking, oh, we can just stroll through the forest and pick daisies, and la la la, it'll all pass, and we'll all be fine.

00:40:48.000 That's a fairy tale.

00:40:49.000 Our side has to get absolutely serious about taking back these institutions or building up our own to where they're more powerful than what the left has and then using ours to crush theirs.

00:40:59.000 That's just the reality.

00:41:00.000 It's hard and it's frustrating to hear that.

00:41:03.000 I think it's a heck of a lot better than going down the road that we're on now because we're being taken straight over a cliff at a pretty high rate of speed.

00:41:11.000 I joke, like, they're like, Don, why do you fight so hard?

00:41:14.000 I'm like, hey, because I'm one of the first people they're bringing to the Gulag, so we got no choice, you know, and we talk about the sponsors of the show, you know, you know, go to Public Square, you know, shop there rather than Amazon.

00:41:25.000 Like, at least you have your money go to someone that shares your values, or you take the easy way out.

00:41:30.000 So, like, we are, I do feel confident in the sense I see people out there building up these sort of alternate parallel economies, parallel institutions.

00:41:38.000 We just gotta be all in actually supporting the guys doing those things so that we can actually make a dent.

00:41:44.000 If we take the easy way out, if we follow the apathy, if we don't cut off the dollars that are going to literally fund and weaponize every institution of this country against Good patriotic Americans.

00:41:56.000 Like, we have no chance.

00:41:57.000 So, you know, it feels good that there's finally people out there actually doing that.

00:42:00.000 But the other side has such a huge head start that it's scary.

00:42:05.000 It is.

00:42:06.000 But the thing is, you know, I feel like I'm going down the black pill path here.

00:42:10.000 That's not how I feel.

00:42:11.000 I think we're making huge progress.

00:42:14.000 And in fact, oddly enough, Their desperation to censor us and come after us is proof that what we're doing is working.

00:42:22.000 If what we're doing didn't matter, if the journalism we're doing, if your podcast, if it didn't matter, they wouldn't constantly trying to be shutting it down.

00:42:31.000 They wouldn't be going to Facebook and lying about it.

00:42:33.000 They wouldn't be calling things that are their own video.

00:42:36.000 Deepfakes.

00:42:37.000 I think they're actually incredibly weak right now.

00:42:40.000 They're incredibly vulnerable.

00:42:41.000 That's why they know it.

00:42:42.000 The most dangerous animal is not the one wild animal that's roaming around free.

00:42:48.000 It's the one that you've cornered.

00:42:50.000 They're a cornered animal right now, and I think they know it.

00:42:52.000 I think they sense it.

00:42:54.000 We just have to keep up the pressure and keep fighting, because I think we're making progress.

00:42:58.000 And I'll tell you, I look at the right today, and I compare it to 20 years ago.

00:43:03.000 I mean, we're like a fighting machine right now.

00:43:05.000 It's awesome.

00:43:06.000 People understand the battle.

00:43:07.000 They understand the nature.

00:43:08.000 They understand the stakes.

00:43:10.000 They're willing to fight for it.

00:43:11.000 I think we're in a great position right now, but we just got to keep the pedal to the metal and keep fighting.

00:43:16.000 Yeah, and they're pushing the lies so badly.

00:43:18.000 You mentioned deep fakes.

00:43:21.000 It was sort of interesting.

00:43:21.000 I know last week they did one of me.

00:43:23.000 Like, my dad came off a speech.

00:43:24.000 He spoke for 90 minutes in front of, you know, what was like 17,000 people.

00:43:28.000 And I basically gave him like a fist bump.

00:43:30.000 He slapped my hand, high five.

00:43:32.000 They freeze-framed the picture that it looked like I was holding his hand, guiding him down this walkway.

00:43:37.000 And even like, you know, Kayfile, one of these layers, like, listen, guys, like, we're trying hard to make Trump seem like Joe Biden, who we watch every day. 0.99

00:43:46.000 They say it's a deep fake when you put live video of him falling asleep or falling off a stage or falling on his ass or just getting lost. 0.94

00:43:53.000 You know, like, they're not deepfakes. 0.98

00:43:54.000 Like, there's nothing deepfake about a live video that's real, put out by a leftist institution showing this incompetence.

00:43:59.000 But then they try to counter it by being like, look, Trump, Don Jr.

00:44:02.000 is holding his hand, walking him off the stage.

00:44:04.000 It was literally like a high five as he's walking.

00:44:06.000 He's waving to the crowd.

00:44:08.000 Even the left is like jumping on it, like, guys, we're trying too hard here.

00:44:11.000 We can't create this.

00:44:13.000 I'll try to clip that in there, because it was literally ridiculous.

00:44:15.000 The picture that they ran, and then you show the video, and in like three seconds, you see, like, it was a moment of contact where hands met, and they just freeze that, like, that's the image.

00:44:24.000 That's the narrative, even though it had nothing to do with reality.

00:44:28.000 Yeah, it's actually one of the more absurd examples of gaslighting I've ever seen.

00:44:32.000 It reminds me of Baghdad, Bob, during the war in Iraq where there's tanks rolling behind him and he's like, there's no tanks in Baghdad.

00:44:39.000 There's no tanks in Baghdad.

00:44:40.000 Yeah.

00:44:40.000 It's a mostly peaceful protest.

00:44:41.000 Like bricks are flying, buildings are on fire in the background.

00:44:44.000 Other than that, it's mostly peaceful.

00:44:46.000 It's like, yeah, you guys are trying.

00:44:48.000 But yeah, like this idea that Donald Trump is how mentally infirm the guy gives like hour long speeches.

00:44:54.000 I don't he doesn't seem to me to ever sleep.

00:44:57.000 I don't quite understand. Never has been.

00:44:59.000 Yeah, he's constantly on the road.

00:45:02.000 He's constantly taking fire from the left and answering it.

00:45:05.000 He just press conferences all the time.

00:45:07.000 And then Joe Biden's just like gnawing on his tongue half the time, trying to figure out who he is and where he is.

00:45:13.000 This idea that somehow they're equivalent because they're roughly the same age.

00:45:17.000 I find it actually hilarious because it's so embarrassing.

00:45:21.000 The idea that these two are somehow mentally equal in the health department, it's laughable.

00:45:28.000 And yet, like, they got their marching orders from the White House and they're on it.

00:45:33.000 This cheat fake stuff, this video of Biden getting let off the stage by Obama.

00:45:38.000 They're out there trying to say it was fake.

00:45:40.000 It was their own video.

00:45:41.000 You saw it! 1.00

00:45:42.000 You aired it live, you morons! 1.00

00:45:44.000 Like, what are you talking about? 1.00

00:45:45.000 Like, yeah.

00:45:46.000 But, well, that's the point, though.

00:45:49.000 There's nothing they won't do, right?

00:45:52.000 I used to, you know, 20 years ago, you would ask me, I'd be like, hey, listen.

00:45:55.000 They're only going to do so much to manipulate the election because they know that, you know, a key tenant of people believing in the democracy that they talk about is like a, it's a, you know, it's a running joke, right?

00:46:04.000 They use it.

00:46:05.000 Oh, we're preserving democracy.

00:46:06.000 Like we're going to, we're going to jail all our political opposition to preserve democracy or something.

00:46:11.000 But, you know, they, they talk about it in these jokes and yet, What they do each and every day is such an affront on that democracy.

00:46:21.000 But there was a time I said, you know what, there's only so much they can do to roll Joe Biden over a finish line, because a key tenet of that democracy is people actually believing there's a chance that it was real, right?

00:46:32.000 I mean, if no one believes it, it's sort of over, right?

00:46:35.000 But if you told me today that they said on November 6th, they said, Joe Biden got 450 million votes.

00:46:44.000 I'd be like, they would run with that.

00:46:45.000 Like, in a country of 300, you know, let's call it 330 million people.

00:46:49.000 They'd be like, yeah, we got 450.

00:46:50.000 It's unprecedented.

00:46:51.000 He's that good.

00:46:53.000 I think they would sell that.

00:46:54.000 I think big tech would be like, anyone who says this is spreading disinformation.

00:46:57.000 It was the safest and securest election in American history, or world history.

00:47:02.000 Is there any shame left?

00:47:04.000 Do they care that people no longer even trust the fundamental tenet of democracy in America because of their actions?

00:47:12.000 No, there's no shame at all.

00:47:13.000 They don't care.

00:47:14.000 All they want is power.

00:47:15.000 That's all they care about.

00:47:16.000 And for me, I think the ship sailed when they started trying to tell us that, like, boys can get pregnant, boys can become girls.

00:47:23.000 And then, like, I have to say, this totally, like, hideously disfigured freak is, like, beautiful and stunning, brave and not disgusting.

00:47:31.000 Like, if they're going to lie to you about that, they'll lie to you about literally anything, including an election or a war or how our laws work.

00:47:38.000 Like, they will say and do anything to keep power.

00:47:42.000 Yeah.

00:47:43.000 Lizzo on the cover of like fitness magazine.

00:47:45.000 I think it was like one of those I'm like, this is the new healthy.

00:47:48.000 I'm like, I don't know man.

00:47:50.000 If that's the science, I no longer trust the science folks because give me a break.

00:47:56.000 Yeah, I mean, I'm just a skinny pale dude, but yeah, I don't think that's healthy.

00:47:59.000 Yeah.

00:47:59.000 So, you know, I mentioned earlier, you know, Vladimir Zelensky is, you know, the high priest of, you know, I guess Ukraine, which is a new religion of the left.

00:48:10.000 But what role do you think, Sean, does the endless war machine play in all of this insanity?

00:48:18.000 It seems like such an unpopular thing for Americans across the country.

00:48:21.000 I survey every large group I speak in front of all over the place.

00:48:24.000 I mean, I think I've tallied it up now.

00:48:26.000 It's off the top of my head, like 65,000 people and basically three people.

00:48:30.000 One guy was a warmonger, like from DC, probably profited off the wars.

00:48:34.000 One guy happened to be born in Kiev, Ukraine.

00:48:37.000 And one guy misunderstood the question.

00:48:39.000 He thought it was a double negative, so he actually wasn't for it.

00:48:41.000 So two people of 65,000 thought that Ukraine war was a top ten issue.

00:48:46.000 Not a top three issue.

00:48:47.000 No one said that.

00:48:48.000 But a top ten issue.

00:48:49.000 And yet, you know, you see Mitch McConnell.

00:48:53.000 It's the number one issue for Republicans across the country.

00:48:56.000 You know, how much does the war machine play into all of this insanity?

00:49:00.000 And how do we put an end to that?

00:49:02.000 No, I think it's huge.

00:49:03.000 And I go back and look at the 2016 election results and how angry the left was that Trump won.

00:49:12.000 And not nearly enough attention has been paid to what the real cause of that is.

00:49:17.000 There's two.

00:49:18.000 One, he beat Hillary.

00:49:19.000 That's the unforgivable.

00:49:21.000 It was her turn, Sean!

00:49:24.000 But also, it's this foreign policy of returning to a sane, Jacksonian foreign policy, where it's peace through strength, not peace through constant war, that you need to have a strong foreign policy to make people understand that you don't mess with the U.S., but beyond that, we're not the world's policeman.

00:49:42.000 That is a devastating proposition to people who make trillions and trillions of dollars on the war machine.

00:49:49.000 And you know, if somebody had told me that 25 years ago, I'd say, yeah, I don't know about that.

00:49:53.000 That seems a little crazy.

00:49:55.000 But I've been alive for the last 25 years.

00:49:57.000 I saw what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan.

00:50:00.000 They ended Afghanistan and then immediately replaced it with a new war. 0.81

00:50:04.000 Just like doing the ball under the cup trick that they do at the circus.

00:50:08.000 We had like a two-week hiatus.

00:50:10.000 We're like, we got a break for two weeks, but okay, we got to go make some money.

00:50:13.000 It's like Big War watched Big Pharma get rich during COVID.

00:50:16.000 We're like, okay guys, we got to get back at the trough.

00:50:19.000 Let's get in there.

00:50:20.000 And wouldn't you know, it's costing like the exact same as the Afghanistan war did.

00:50:24.000 What a coincidence.

00:50:25.000 So I think the war machine, the surveillance machine, the security state, I think they are all wound up together.

00:50:33.000 I think they've all been doing a ton of shenanigans in Ukraine.

00:50:38.000 For a decade or more, starting with the Newland-led Maidan revolution there.

00:50:44.000 I think there are a lot of skeletons in closets there.

00:50:46.000 I think there's a whole bunch of nonsense that they're terrified of being found out because they were using NATO as their base of operations for all kinds of stuff that the people didn't know about and certainly didn't approve of.

00:50:58.000 And they're terrified of getting found out.

00:51:00.000 So that's number one.

00:51:01.000 And then number two, the 2016 election broke the brains of the left.

00:51:06.000 fundamentally broke their brains. 0.98

00:51:07.000 They couldn't process that Hillary just lost because she sucked and nobody liked her and she couldn't find Wisconsin on a map. 1.00

00:51:13.000 So they had to invent an external actor, Putin, Russia, who's the real reason and they they've never been the same since.

00:51:21.000 And what they're doing in Ukraine now actually scratches two itches for them.

00:51:25.000 They get to hate on Russia more and blame Putin for Hillary sucking, and they get to keep propping up the military surveillance industrial complex.

00:51:33.000 I think it is a huge, huge problem.

00:51:37.000 And it needs to be neutered ASAP because we can't have a bunch of unelected bureaucrats, unelected spies running our government without any accountability. 1.00

00:51:45.000 That's actual fascism. 0.61

00:51:47.000 The left uses the F word a lot, which generally just means things they don't like.

00:51:52.000 This melding of the war machine and corporate America and the surveillance state, that's literal fascism and it needs to stop.

00:51:58.000 Yeah, no, it's interesting.

00:51:59.000 I mean, it sort of feels like that's why the vitriol, the attack is so much against Trump.

00:52:03.000 It's why you see even, again, the Republicans.

00:52:05.000 No, no, no, we got to make sure we fund the war for at least six more years.

00:52:09.000 I'm like, well, like, no one's even articulated to me, like, what does victory look like?

00:52:13.000 I've not seen that yet.

00:52:14.000 I feel like I kind of do this for a living at this point.

00:52:16.000 Like, I have no idea.

00:52:18.000 What victory looks like.

00:52:19.000 I guess it's just the genocide of every male in Russia and possibly all the women too.

00:52:24.000 And I guess, you know, Black Rock can come in there and take over all the farmland and, you know, control the world's food supply. 1.00

00:52:30.000 You know, a couple years ago, that would have been conspiratorial.

00:52:33.000 Today, that's like probably 100% what they're trying to do.

00:52:35.000 But, um...

00:52:37.000 It does seem scary that you see even the Republicans in DC trying to make it almost impossible for Trump to achieve peace.

00:52:45.000 You know, take off, you know, all the tools that he could use to actually achieve, like, peace deals like he did in the Middle East and elsewhere.

00:52:52.000 They're trying to take those tools off the table so that they can ensure that they can get through these four years so they can just keep it going in perpetuity, it seems.

00:53:02.000 Yeah, well, it tells you everything you need to know about the regime, that the greatest threat to them is peace.

00:53:08.000 Yeah, I know.

00:53:09.000 Well, there's no money in peace, right?

00:53:11.000 There's only money in war, so I guess they got to perpetuate it.

00:53:14.000 But, you know, eventually you run out of money, right?

00:53:16.000 It feels like it's not like America's succeeding economically or otherwise.

00:53:21.000 I mean, Bidenomics has not exactly been a What the media has told us it's been, and we know that because we hear people talk about that, not Republicans or Democrats, but everyday citizens in every walk of life, in every aspect of their day.

00:53:33.000 They understand these policies are failing, and yet it doesn't stop us from sending another $50 billion on top of the $160 billion just last week.

00:53:40.000 Yeah, and it's not to say that foreign policy and fighting tyranny are unimportant.

00:53:45.000 I don't like tyrants.

00:53:47.000 I don't like them when they're in my country or when they're in Russia or when they're in China.

00:53:51.000 But you've got to, like, prioritize your problems.

00:53:53.000 And if my house is crumbling, if the electricity doesn't work, If the pipes are leaking, if my fences are down, if there's crime everywhere, maybe I should be focused on fixing my own house and not sending all of my money to go fix a neighborhood that's a thousand miles away. 0.96

00:54:08.000 That seems to me to be foolish.

00:54:10.000 And yet that's exactly what we're doing. 1.00

00:54:12.000 And we're being lectured by these idiots that because we care about our country more and our people more, that that somehow makes us bad. 1.00

00:54:19.000 It's insane. 0.99

00:54:20.000 Yeah, like the analogy I always use is sort of like, you know, every time you get on an airplane, and these days that's getting more and more precarious because of, you know, DEI practices and, you know, Boeing offshoring engineering to people who perhaps aren't even engineers.

00:54:32.000 I don't know what the hell they're doing, but, you know, you're reading about doors and wheels falling off planes in flight.

00:54:36.000 So, but every time you get on a plane, it's like, hey, put your mask on before helping those around you.

00:54:43.000 We're doing the opposite so that you succumb to the fumes or whatever it may be before you could ever actually effectuate any real change, but we continue to do that.

00:54:51.000 It doesn't seem to be working and nothing's changing.

00:54:55.000 Yeah, and it's so frustrating, and you see why.

00:54:58.000 You know, they talk so much about our election and the sanctity of our democracy.

00:55:03.000 They don't give a crap about actual elections and actual democracy. 0.50

00:55:07.000 It's a soundbite, yeah. 0.99

00:55:07.000 It sounds great, but they laugh about it. 0.99

00:55:10.000 Guys like me and you actually are like, yeah, I believe in that stuff.

00:55:13.000 I want it to be real.

00:55:15.000 My problem is, I no longer am fighting to preserve that because I don't actually think it exists.

00:55:19.000 I'm fighting to make it so.

00:55:21.000 I'm fighting to make what I believed America to be B. I feel like that's been bastardized and taken advantage of for so long, probably, you know, many decades.

00:55:32.000 It was only sort of, you know, whether it's Trump or, you know, the phenomenon known as Trump Derangement Syndrome that finally got these guys to say the quiet parts out loud and start, you know, exposing just what they've been doing all along.

00:55:47.000 Yeah, to them, our democracy just means our power.

00:55:50.000 That's all it means.

00:55:51.000 They come up with different words at different times.

00:55:53.000 And the thing you have to understand about leftists...

00:55:55.000 is they approach language differently than we do.

00:55:59.000 So, to you and me, words have fixed meanings.

00:56:01.000 We know what they mean.

00:56:02.000 We can spell them.

00:56:03.000 There's an understanding between us that when we use certain words, we're communicating certain things.

00:56:09.000 To the left, words are just weapons.

00:56:11.000 And they will use whatever weapon they need to use right now to crush you and to get power.

00:56:16.000 And if those weapons include manipulating language and lying Yeah.

00:56:20.000 and censoring and imprisoning their opponents, they'll do it, they don't care.

00:56:24.000 And while they're doing it, they'll tell you that, oh yeah, we actually love the rule of law 0.86

00:56:28.000 and we love real accurate voting and we hate censorship and you're the actual fascist. 0.72

00:56:35.000 I mean, the gaslighting from the left in every facet of our lives is a real problem.

00:56:40.000 It's like they read 1984 by George Orwell and they thought, this is a pretty good instruction manual.

00:56:46.000 I can work with this folks!

00:56:48.000 This guy was a genius.

00:56:50.000 He could have been doing this decades ago.

00:56:52.000 It's maddening.

00:56:54.000 So what are the dirty tricks you think play out between now and November?

00:56:57.000 Obviously, the lawfare is not going to stop.

00:56:59.000 They're going to continue to try to do that.

00:57:01.000 You know, Biden's only going to get worse and Democrats are only going to get more desperate.

00:57:06.000 You know, what do you think they have?

00:57:08.000 What's left in sort of the playbook?

00:57:11.000 Oh man, that's a good question.

00:57:13.000 My colleague Molly Hemingway and I, we try to game plan this out regularly, and we're constantly complaining to each other that we think we lack the imagination that the left has.

00:57:24.000 Like, I just don't think I have the capacity for evil.

00:57:29.000 They're going to bring in as many votes as they can, illegal or not.

00:57:32.000 I absolutely think they're going to put President Trump in jail.

00:57:36.000 I think they will use violence if they need to.

00:57:39.000 There is nothing that is off the table for them.

00:57:42.000 And my problem is I don't have the imagination to think about all the different things they're going to put on the table.

00:57:48.000 You're not that sick.

00:57:50.000 You're not that sick.

00:57:52.000 Yeah, they'll stop at nothing.

00:57:54.000 They have decided.

00:57:55.000 And I think now that they've started throwing our people in jail, they know what's coming.

00:58:00.000 I'm actually terrified of what the next four to five months are going to look like.

00:58:05.000 I think it's going to make 2020 look like a walk in the park because I know what these people are capable of.

00:58:10.000 What's your prediction for the debate?

00:58:13.000 Oh, hilarity.

00:58:14.000 I mean, I I feel bad for the Biden doctor.

00:58:19.000 He's gotta come up with a cocktail to make that guy seem coherent for an hour.

00:58:24.000 I know they wanted to change the debate format to make sure that Joe Biden could be seated.

00:58:29.000 Doesn't that tell you everything?

00:58:30.000 Like, you can't stand up for an hour?

00:58:31.000 Like, you're the guy they're gonna call at 4 a.m. 0.99

00:58:34.000 if the shit hits the fan, and the world's imploding, and like, I gotta sit down for an hour conversation. 0.97

00:58:39.000 I mean, that in and of itself should almost be disqualifying, but like, what, you know, I had Ronnie Jackson on, you know, last week, you know, what is it that they can jack him up with? 0.99

00:58:48.000 And the answer is, I think we should, our only thing should be, we'll give you whatever we want, we just want a post-debate, right off the bat, Drug analysis.

00:58:57.000 Because I think the Americans deserve to know what they're pumping through this guy's system to make him seem coherent.

00:59:03.000 Listen, I think they did it in the last debate.

00:59:04.000 You see it.

00:59:05.000 Then, like, you collapse afterwards.

00:59:07.000 Towards the end, you just see the energy just go, you know, wither away and die.

00:59:12.000 And yet, it's 100% what they're doing.

00:59:15.000 Yeah, the drugs that they're pumping full into this guy, I would love to see what it is.

00:59:20.000 I mean, I predict that his pupils are going to be black and the size of the sun. 0.56

00:59:24.000 He's probably going to go minutes without blinking.

00:59:27.000 CNN is going to be completely over the top and absurd.

00:59:30.000 They're going to interrupt Trump all the time.

00:59:32.000 They're going to lie.

00:59:32.000 They're going to do fake fact checks.

00:59:34.000 It's going to be a completely loaded affair, you know, three to four against one.

00:59:39.000 But man, Biden's problem is, we all have eyes, and we all have ears, and we can all see the sky, and we all know something's not there, and something's not right.

00:59:50.000 The best doctor in the world, I don't think they can hide that.

00:59:52.000 They might be able to prop him up, Weekend at Bernie style, you know, pump him full of Hunter's cocaine, I don't know.

00:59:58.000 But you can't make it look normal.

00:59:59.000 Yeah, because I mean, I guess that's the difference between this election and others.

01:00:03.000 You've actually had, or will have had, four years under both people by the time you get to election day.

01:00:08.000 Assuming he's still there, right?

01:00:10.000 Who knows?

01:00:11.000 But you had four years under Trump, you had four years under Biden.

01:00:15.000 Hey, I was a real estate guy.

01:00:16.000 Like, it'd be really nice to go back to that world.

01:00:18.000 I could build buildings and be left the hell alone and be invited to the cool person party, you know, in a couple years again once things settle down a bit.

01:00:25.000 You know, that's probably not on the cards these days, but what is it that he could even run on?

01:00:30.000 Like I said, I'd love...

01:00:32.000 To wish him success.

01:00:33.000 Because, again, then we don't have to do it, and we don't have to fight, and everyone wins, and there's millions of... But, like, I can't think of a single metric that he could credibly run on.

01:00:43.000 I can't imagine anything that says that we're better off now than we were four years ago.

01:00:49.000 Now, the media will say that.

01:00:50.000 They'll fact-check Trump's ad nauseum.

01:00:51.000 They'll tell you that, you know, it's wonderful because Joe Biden did X, Y, Z. They'll have a pre-baked line and some notes that he's probably gonna read to be like this.

01:01:00.000 And, you know, it'll be ambiguous enough that the fact-checkers who aren't exactly fact-checkers but more like narrative propagandists will say, well, that's technically right, even if it's total bullshit. 0.94

01:01:09.000 You know, how do you think that plays out? 0.94

01:01:13.000 Man, I think Biden and the people controlling him know they have nothing to run on.

01:01:18.000 It's why they're trying to put everyone who's running against them in prison.

01:01:21.000 It's why they raided Mar-a-Lago. 1.00

01:01:23.000 It's why there's all these stupid cases. 1.00

01:01:25.000 It's why D.O. 1.00

01:01:26.000 Jason, it's number three to go work for Alvin Bragg in New York City.

01:01:31.000 They know they have nothing.

01:01:32.000 It's why they're trying to throw Trump off the ballot or why they tried until the Supreme Court said, yeah, we're not going to allow that kind of nonsense.

01:01:39.000 They know they don't have a record to run on.

01:01:42.000 And so they've got two things they can do.

01:01:44.000 They can make it impossible for you to vote for who you want to, which they're trying.

01:01:47.000 They can take a candidate they don't like off the board completely, or they can just peddle lies and nonsense that's not so much, hey, vote for us, we're great, but hey, vote for us because this guy's awful and he's going to bring back slavery and it's terrible and there's going to be fascism and Nazis and all that.

01:02:04.000 They've clearly chosen they're just going to do insane fear mongering and lawfare. 0.74

01:02:08.000 That's all they have.

01:02:09.000 And cheating.

01:02:10.000 Yeah.

01:02:11.000 Well, it's a lot, and I imagine they're going to use all of that arsenal.

01:02:16.000 So, you know, Sean, thank you very much.

01:02:18.000 Hey, let everyone know where they can find you, where they can find everything for The Federalist, so they can check that out.

01:02:23.000 You know, again, my whole thing is, guys, you know, like, share, subscribe, do the same with Sean and his stuff.

01:02:27.000 Make sure, you know, we can sort of overcome that algorithm, you know.

01:02:30.000 We're never going to get that help from Google.

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01:02:33.000 We're not going to get it elsewhere.

01:02:35.000 We've got to do that ourselves.

01:02:37.000 I think if we all take part in that, if we all become unafraid and willing to share these things, we can actually get that message out.

01:02:44.000 It's not like there's a lot of confidence in those Uh, institutions, whether it's media or otherwise these days, we just gotta make sure that people actually get a chance to see the other side.

01:02:54.000 They can see the other half of the debate.

01:02:56.000 Uh, they can see the facts, not as presented to them by CNN, but, uh, with some reality, uh, behind it.

01:03:03.000 So, you know, let us know where people can check that out.

01:03:06.000 Well, you're very generous.

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