In this episode of Triggered, I talk about what we can do to fight back against the $1trillion-a-day, trillion-dollar, multi-trillion dollar, left-wing corporate machine that is trying to take over the world, and how we can fight back. I also talk about Public Square, a company that gives back to conservative causes, and why you should be supporting them. Don t miss it! It's growing and growing daily, and it's a great way to support conservative causes and causes in your local community. Don't forget to like and subscribe to our new show on Apple Podcasts and subscribe on your favorite streaming platform so you don't miss out on the latest episodes. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and leave us a rating and review on iTunes and other podcasting platforms so we can keep bringing you quality conservative content. Thank you so much for being a supporter of this show, it really means a lot to us and we can't thank you enough. - Don't Tell a Friend about this Podcast: bit.ly/support-thediggered and we'll get back to you soon! - Timestamps: 4:00 - What do you want to support the show? 5:30 - What can we do to help support it? 6:15 - How do you support Public Square? 7:40 - How can we fight back? 8:10 - What are you going to do? 11: What can you do to stand up against the woke corporate machine? 13:00 15: What do we do for Public Square 16:00 | How do we have a better future? 17:30 | What are your values? 18:30 19:40 | What can I do to support a conservative company that shares your values 21:10 | How can I support Publicsquare? 22:10 What s a conservative business do you believe in? 23:40 25: How do I know what I'm working toward? 26:00 What do I need to start a public square? 27: What s your values are you're going to give back to me? 29: What's a company I'm going to support? 30:00 Do you think I m going to start? 35:00 Can I support you?
00:00:06.000We're not really political in this case, although it is in the sense that you guys always ask, hey, you know, Don, what is it that we can do?
00:00:28.000The trillion-dollar mainstream media complex, a trillion-dollar big tech enterprise, multiple trillion, uh, you know, socially and exactly even, maybe we got truth to balance it out a little bit, but, uh, candidly, I think Twitter 2.0, actually for me,
00:02:29.000a a list of all the conservative companies in your area or when you may be traveling and it's growing and growing daily so if you're a conservative business go to public sq uh go sign up uh if you're looking to figure out where you want to support you can go to coffee shop a or b see which one of them's on public square
00:02:49.000You know, put their kids through hockey practice.
00:02:51.000We've seen the insanity of the world in the last few weeks, especially.
00:02:56.000It looks like we're on like a looming bank crisis.
00:02:58.000A couple of major, major banks went under because, you know, woke ESG bullshit and all that nonsense was driving the banking system.
00:03:38.000So when we want to fight back, the key is not giving your money to woke corporate, you know, Starbucks or, you know, one of my sponsors on this show, you know, Patriot Mobile.
00:03:48.000You know, you're going to have a cell phone without question.
00:03:51.000So if you have a mobile plan, have a mobile plan where the company
00:03:56.000Whose Planet is actually gives back to the things that you believe in.
00:04:00.000You can go check out, you know, go to patriotmobile.com slash Don Jr.
00:04:48.000Or you could go to a place where they're going to phone in the fake protesters.
00:04:51.000They're going to come in, you know, try to egg you on the way out.
00:04:55.000That's the battle we're actually in right now.
00:04:57.000So I think you'll find this conversation interesting about someone who, like, well, they always said, well, if you don't like it, you don't like the policies that, you know, X, Y, Z social, go build your own.
00:05:06.000Well, then when you do, they don't really mean that, right?
00:05:09.000They'll put up every wall and you can't, you know, Amazon won't host you on their servers.
00:05:13.000And, you know, so it's not real, but that's fine.
00:05:47.000Sign up if you're a small business so other like-minded patriots can find you.
00:05:52.000But also, if you're just a consumer, go support those businesses because those are the people that are like you.
00:05:57.000And honestly, if you've been watching for the last few years and you don't think that we're in a war for the soul of our country, a war for our identity, you haven't been watching the policies that WOKE will push, even knowing
00:06:12.000That half the country doesn't agree with it.
00:06:45.000So they're, you know, literally in that process.
00:06:47.000And we'll talk about that interview, but it's really important.
00:06:49.000So just in case you didn't think that we're in a war for identity, to be clear, ESPN this week, on like Sunday, celebrated Women's History Month by promoting a special
00:07:05.000About transgender swimmer Leah Thomas, a biological male, folks, who destroyed actual women in sports.
00:07:17.000I'm going to have her on the show here, too.
00:07:18.000I met her, actually, at CPAC, and she was great.
00:07:20.000She was one of these swimmers that got beat that would have been a national champion.
00:07:25.000Because a biological male that had the extra muscular strength, that had the extra cardio capacity, that had the extra bone density, that had like a foot in height on them, you know, won and is lauded as a hero.
00:07:57.000See for yourself what ESPN is pushing on Women's History Month.
00:08:05.000In 2022, swimmer Leah Thomas became the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I championship by winning the 500 freestyle.
00:08:14.000The Texas native competed for three seasons on the men's twin team at the University of Pennsylvania.
00:08:20.000She began her transition after her sophomore season and after a gap year due to the pandemic that forced the Ivy League to cancel all sports.
00:08:29.000Thomas made her debut as a member of the women's team in December 2021.
00:09:03.000How can a woman work at ESPN after that?
00:09:06.000The network seems to be just openly making fun of the notion.
00:09:11.000Are men now better at being women than even women?
00:09:15.000Is that what they're trying to tell me?
00:09:18.000The way I read it is that seems to be the case, because it's freaking insane.
00:09:24.000Of all the women in sports, all the people, the Riley Gaineses of the world, all the incredible runners and swimmers and basketball players, whoever it may be, Leah Thomas gets a special.
00:09:42.000Fuck, man, like, are we in, like, a simulation?
00:09:46.000Am I like Jim Carrey in, like, the Truman Show?
00:09:49.000Like, are you guys all, like, are there, like, 75 cameras around here, like, watching every aspect of my life and you guys are just screwing with me at this point?
00:09:57.000Because it feels like that must be the case, okay?
00:10:02.000If ESPN, okay, for all their woke bullshit, they can't find a woman to celebrate for
00:10:29.000Well, everyone, and it's one of those, even when I post on Twitter, most people are like, yeah, you know, I kind of hate Don Jr., but he's right about this.
00:10:36.000Oh, I can't believe I'm agreeing with Don Jr.
00:10:43.000So, woke ESPN, and again, I said they seem to be trying to give CNN a run for their money in terms of the woke bullshit, but just in case, I'll leave it to you guys to decide who's worse, but from CNN also this weekend, folks,
00:11:01.000If you're white and you've posted a gif or a meme of a black person to express a strong emotion, you may be guilty of wearing digital blackface.
00:11:26.000Is there anything that they can't, like, so if I post, like, the Michael Jackson meme where he's eating popcorn because I'm, like, waiting for some idiot to do something on it, like, I'm committing a hate crime of digital blackface.
00:11:56.000And if it didn't go the other way, it would be rioting and you'd hear about it and this.
00:12:01.000But when the white girl gets sucker punched, it's like, oh, it's just basketball player gets sucker punched.
00:12:06.000If the white person was doing the soccer punching, it'd be a national story, we'd be talking about racism, we'd have to have, you know, vigils.
00:12:17.000I mean, can we just agree, like, hey, good people are good people, bad people are bad people, like, pieces of shit are pieces of shit, and like, great people, like, why can't we judge people based on their character?
00:12:26.000Why can't, like, we allow women to excel in sports?
00:12:30.000Why does someone have to commandeer it?
00:12:32.000If you want to go be trans, go be trans.
00:12:33.000Don't do it to the three-year-olds, okay?
00:12:36.000And by the way, if you push the three-year-old into it, and then when they become an adult, they're not happy with it, since the recidivism rate is in, like, the 90s?
00:15:00.000And I took a lot of heat for this one, but I only mean it in the proper way for those who have been wronged and betrayed, of which there are many people out there that have been wronged and betrayed.
00:15:36.000We will hold a competition to build new Freedom Cities throughout our country, giving countless Americans a new shot at home ownership and a real shot at the American Dream.
00:15:47.000We will build new monuments to our great American heroes.
00:15:50.000We won't tear them down, we'll build them up.
00:15:54.000Clean out homeless camps from our inner cities, get rid of ugly buildings that are hurting those cities and other places, and return to the magnificent classical style of Western civilization.
00:16:08.000We will support baby bonuses, so many people like that, for the new baby boom that will be coming.
00:16:17.000All of this is within our reach as long as we have the courage to stick together, stand firm against all attacks, and see this mission through to ultimate victory.
00:16:33.000Only Donald Trump could have rescued us from Hillary Clinton!
00:16:39.000Without Trump doing three rallies in the final week in the 2018 election in Florida, my governor today would probably be Andrew Gillum.
00:17:36.000I think people have seen just how far the insanity of the left will go.
00:17:41.000The lies that they're telling you, they're just making stuff up out of thin air.
00:17:46.000And in case you weren't sure if that was real or not, Joe Biden this weekend was blasted for claiming that the GOP wants to slash border funding.
00:18:07.000He previously said there are more important things going on than the border crisis.
00:18:11.000But now he's saying, no, no, no, guys.
00:18:14.000We haven't just abandoned Trump's wall.
00:18:16.000We haven't had our border czar Kamala Harris do nothing.
00:18:20.000We haven't sat by while the Border Patrol chief tells Secretary Mayorkas of Homeland Security that, like, hey, we've got no control here.
00:18:28.000It's the GOP that wants to slash border funding, not the actions of the Democrats that we've seen for two years that has led to unprecedented levels of people crossing the border illegally, unprecedented apprehensions, and therefore probably also unprecedented numbers of people escaping through.
00:18:51.000Like, can he say this with a straight face?
00:18:53.000I mean, can even our biased and incredibly partisan, radical, communist, leftist media, can they run with this and, like, not pretend it's a parody?
00:19:21.000They've wanted to shut down the drug trafficking crisis.
00:19:24.000They've wanted to shut down the human trafficking crisis.
00:19:26.000They want to shut down the sex trafficking crisis.
00:19:28.000To me, the Democrats indifference on the border for the last two plus years has shown that they're almost in favor of those things at this point, because you almost have to be to be so freaking ignorant about the issue.
00:19:43.000Like, you can't pretend that it's not happening.
00:19:46.000You can't see the deaths from fentanyl all over the country and pretend that it's not happening.
00:19:54.000And Joe Biden can, with a straight face, get up there and say,
00:20:00.000We really want to do something about it.
00:20:02.000It's like opposite day in Joe Biden's demented, moronic, I-don't-know-where-I-am-today world, that they can put this on a teleprompter for him and not even have an appreciation of the irony or the insanity.
00:20:16.000Because I don't believe that Joe Biden even knows what the hell he's doing.
00:21:28.000You don't have to do some of the things that people feel like they have to do in D.C., like so many of the
00:21:34.000The ones we thought were really MAGA seem to be doing over the last couple of weeks.
00:21:37.000Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Donor, I'm going to change the policy I just said on TV seven minutes ago because you got a big check for me and, you know.
00:21:52.000The fact that no one in the media is even saying anything about the border crisis, and that he can just throw it back at the GOP, they're like, oh yeah, it's the Republicans!
00:22:21.000So, speaking of insane, over the weekend, a trans woman was left sobbing at JFK Airport after a TSA agent reportedly hit her in... wait for it... her testicles.
00:23:18.000That people who rely on sponsorship dollars, that rely on this stuff, so much of which has gone so fucking woke, you can't even believe it, that they would have the guts to get out there and say this,
00:24:11.000Again, whether it's at the border, whether it's across the board, you know, again, I promise you, if Donald Trump was on Epstein's list, you'd hear about it.
00:24:18.000Okay, this whole conspiracy, there is not a Hollywood cabal.
00:24:22.000Like, magically, Glujane, whatever the fuck her name was, Maxwell, could go do jail for 25 years for trafficking kids to apparently nobody.
00:25:07.000She called it out where there's sponsorship dollars on the line, where a lot of faux corporate, you know, is involved, where there's actual probably consequences to her for saying the obvious.
00:25:17.000But the fact that she did it is absolutely awesome and so, so, so important for everything that we're doing.
00:25:25.000So guys, before I get to Michael Seifert, I do have to thank all of our sponsors.
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00:27:45.000Economic anxiety, a banking crisis, supply chain shortages.
00:27:50.000You know, our transportation secretary during a supply chain shortage is out there chest feeding, taking nice paternity leave because, you know, that's what you do when 350 million Americans are dependent on you.
00:29:50.000I'd love for there not to be two separate economies.
00:29:52.000I'd love for there not to be divergent interests.
00:29:55.000I'd love for all of those things to be happening.
00:29:57.000But so long as half of woke corporate America and probably a lot more would put us in the gulags, you know, call like peaceful protesters from J6 terrorists, mothers, concerned parents, domestic terrorists for going to a school board meeting and not wanting their children indoctrinated with, you know, BLM and, you know, DEI nonsense, but maybe like learn math instead.
00:30:24.000I'm gonna do whatever I can to help him and Public Square grow and really get that dual economy going until the other side is willing to not be political, to not hate your guts, to not hate your freedoms, your religion, your values, until they're willing to not jam their woke bullshit down your throats.
00:30:47.000We gotta play, and the way to play is by voting with your wallet.
00:30:59.000We always talk about what we can do, what we should be doing.
00:31:04.000We hear and have heard for years, build your own, build your own, and then they pull something else out from under you, right?
00:31:10.000Build your own app, well then Amazon or Apple or Google won't let you on their app store.
00:31:17.000Build your own, then AWS Web Services pulls you off of their server, at least on the tech side.
00:31:23.000I'm with a good friend, Michael Seifert, who created Public Square because he saw what was going on and decided to build his own.
00:31:31.000Michael, again, you guys have probably seen me posting a lot about it, but this is like, to me, the front lines in the battle of pushing back against the insanity.
00:31:41.000I mean, woke corporate is coming after you.
00:31:44.000You can choose to give your money to them, or
00:31:48.000You can find a small business that actually shares your values, and you did that.
00:31:53.000Give us the whole story, because it's really sort of fascinating.
00:32:19.000And so we're all aware that corporations have destroyed our economy.
00:32:22.000They have stripped power away from small businesses because COVID was a great example.
00:32:27.000All the businesses that were preaching about lockdowns, Walmart, Amazon, were the same ones that profited off of lockdowns because Walmart was allowed to stay open while your local small business wasn't.
00:32:37.000And so that is the most illuminating picture of what's been happening the past few decades.
00:32:42.000There are a few major corporations that embrace DEI and ESG and all these socially progressive ideas.
00:32:48.000And the ones that end up paying for it are average American consumers that want nothing to do with those values.
00:32:53.000They want to support the businesses that help them make their patriotism strong.
00:33:00.000And unfortunately, we're in this spot now where we've all awakened to the reality through really harsh circumstances, like people getting cancelled from their banks.
00:33:09.000Clothing companies starting preaching about transgenderism.
00:33:12.000You'll go to Starbucks and not even know that they're funding abortions.
00:33:16.000So we were all kind of asleep to it for a while.
00:33:18.000We knew that these corporations were going the progressive way.
00:33:21.000And then the last few years it's been this big bomb that's blown up that's helped us all realize we need to move our money to people that don't hate us.
00:33:27.000The most fundamental piece of every transaction is trust.
00:33:31.000And so if I can't trust the bank I bank with,
00:33:34.000The financial institution that I use for insurance or mortgages or whatever, the clothes that I wear, if I cannot trust these institutions, then there's a major breakdown in our economy.
00:33:44.000I've got to move my money toward where I trust.
00:33:47.000And the only way you do that is by shared value.
00:33:49.000So, in January of 2021, I had this idea for a platform that would help connect freedom-loving Americans with the businesses that share their values.
00:33:56.000My wife and I had a list on a piece of paper of all the businesses in our local town that we knew.
00:34:00.000And you're from the People's Republic of California.
00:34:03.000We're from California, and so we need this more than anybody.
00:34:07.000And what's so... Still, more conservatives in California than pretty much every state other than maybe Texas.
00:34:13.000Yeah, it may be California only because of the way they're able to vote, but there's more conservatives there than literally every other state other than Texas combined because of the population.
00:34:22.000It's actually a huge conservative place, but those people don't get to essentially have any
00:34:28.000Real say in things because there's enough votes in LA, San Fran, and stuff like that to outweigh all the conservatives in the farmland and in other areas.
00:34:35.000Even San Diego, it's largely a conservative town.
00:34:37.000People love the family unit, they love the military, they believe in American patriotism, they believe in the Constitution, and yet our voices aren't heard.
00:34:45.000Because where the money is housed in society today is largely in the hands of corporate elites that are partnered with a regime in government that wants nothing to do with our freedoms or liberties.
00:34:56.000And so California, we know that firsthand.
00:34:58.000We figured where better to start this app than there.
00:35:01.000And what we found is we released this app in the fall of 2021, just in San Diego.
00:35:06.000We had a website, an app, lots of local businesses, and it just blossomed.
00:35:11.000We started hearing from the rest of California that they wanted it too, and so we expanded it to the state.
00:35:15.000And then we started hearing that there's a hunger for this nationwide.
00:35:17.000That actually, that list I described, what if everyone could have their list?
00:35:21.000And from there, July 4th of 2022, so about eight months ago, we launched nationwide.
00:35:26.000Now today, over half a million consumers, nearly 50,000 businesses on the platform, all different industries from different backgrounds with one thing in common.
00:35:36.000A shared set of values that embody the principles found in our Constitution so that you know as a consumer, with the blessed assurance, that you're not funding companies that hate you.
00:38:45.000If you're traveling, going to a new town with your family, same thing.
00:38:50.000You're looking it up one way or the other, but if you're going to spend your money, spend it with those who aren't going to take your hard-earned dollars, and ultimately, in many cases, like you said, Starbucks or Disney.
00:39:02.000Take your money and use it to fund stuff that you can't stand, or companies or ideas that literally would put you in the gulags.
00:40:05.000So you can give it to Patriot Mobile, who gives at least a solid percentage, I think it was 10% in some cases, back to conservative causes, whether it's Second Amendment fights, pro-life issues, all these things.
00:40:53.000They're like, what are you speaking about?
00:40:54.000Well, this just happened to me, so I'm going to be doing it.
00:40:56.000But it also, like, sort of fortuitous, like, the same week that you guys are now, you know, going to be going public.
00:41:02.000Like, which is sort of an awesome story about this, but we gotta be doing it, and we're gonna be taking the time to do it anyway, so you might as well look through here.
00:41:11.000So, I mean, tell us more about some of the Public Square businesses.
00:41:20.000Found restaurants in the area, found one, and they're like, we called like last minute, we're like, hey, can you get a table for 18?
00:41:27.000It was like, me, Cam obviously, Carrie Lake, Matt Gaetz, Sean Parnell, Nigel Farage, like it was a pretty solid wrecking crew of, let's say, people that probably have pissed off the vast majority of DC, and they're like,
00:42:44.000In fact, we have a coffee shop in San Diego that has quite a few locations that during the Summer of Love, June 2020, refused to serve police officers.
00:42:57.000If I've spent time in California, it was around San Diego, only because I used to shoot competitively.
00:43:01.000My buddy was the captain of the Marine Corps Rifle Team.
00:43:03.000I used to go shoot at Camp Pendleton a lot, you know, in matches and stuff like that.
00:43:08.000Even for California, it's a reasonably conservative area, but certainly like law enforcement.
00:43:12.000And in all fairness, I don't know that the whole defund the police accomplished quite what people... Very opposite.
00:43:19.000I don't think anyone with a brain actually thought that this thing would end up somehow good, but even like the lunatics in San Francisco are like, maybe we gotta refund the police.
00:44:23.000Just like Apple has a great ESG score because they sub out the child slave labor that's mining cobalt and lithium in Africa to a third-party company.
00:44:42.000Well, and the ESG stuff is so nonsense.
00:44:44.000FTX has one of the highest, well, did have one of the highest ESG scores in the world.
00:44:49.000You can be the most corrupt company on the planet.
00:44:52.000You can have zero morals, no ethics, but as long as you preach the message that the regime wants you to preach, you get a high ESG score.
00:44:59.000And what you know on Public Square, what we've wanted to do is make sure that none of the businesses on the platform have that ESG score because
00:45:11.000And not only that, the whole social component of ESG is so fundamentally anti-human at its core because it classifies people by what they look like.
00:45:19.000And I thought that the true definition of equality was that we don't judge each other by the color of our skin, but by the content of our character.
00:45:50.000Guilting you into supporting a specific... I feel like we're actually regressing in terms of racial equality because of the insanity that's going on out there.
00:46:27.000And then you look at the Harvards of the world discriminating against Asians, who also probably oftentimes happen to overperform academically, whether that's
00:46:36.000You know, a family structure, you know, sort of a, it's just something that's been pushed in there.
00:46:51.000You know, I've experienced some of that, you know, myself, where, even where I went, you know, it's like, well, that guy's, you know, good track star, we're gonna let him into Wharton, and it's like, where'd he go?
00:46:59.000It's like, junior year, what happened?
00:47:02.000Maybe there's just a rigor that not everyone can handle, and by giving them a certain opportunity, and if it's too far, and they can't handle it, are you doing them a favor if they drop out?
00:47:13.000No, affirmative action is... As opposed to going to a school, a great school, maybe not quite the academic rigor, or whether it was mathematical rigor perhaps in that case, or whatever it may be, that's not perfect.
00:47:25.000Sometimes you're not doing people a favor when you're thinking you're doing them a favor, right?
00:47:29.000Well, and it's a false sense of compassion, because there are so many people in our country that hear things like affirmative action, they hear about Yelp giving free advertising to black-owned businesses, they hear about makeup companies
00:48:29.000I'm actually erasing them in the process.
00:48:30.000If I even for a glimpse celebrate that.
00:48:32.000So, what we need to do is have like a harsh wake-up call in the country where we recognize that true compassion looks like embracing reality.
00:48:40.000Because I'm doing you no favors by lying to you.
00:48:42.000I'm doing no favors telling you you can get into a school that you really can't.
00:48:45.000I'm doing no favors telling you that you deserve free advertising because what I'm actually saying is like, I think I have to give you a leg up.
00:48:51.000In San Diego, the bar, so in California, the California bar, the requirements are dropping and their reason was we're dropping the requirements for the bar to accommodate more people of different ethnic backgrounds.
00:49:04.000Are you saying that you don't believe that people of different ethnic backgrounds could have made it on their own and you now have to lower the standards for them?
00:50:23.000So, I mean, tell us some of the, I mean, I know there's got to be some pretty great stories, you know, with Public SQ and, like, just the businesses and making a difference.
00:50:32.000I mean, again, some business, you know, you could see what they're up against, right?
00:50:36.000That coffee shop that may be in public is up against, you know, major tech corporations being, shop at this one place because it's XYZ history month.
00:50:44.000Like, you know, there's always some sort of, you know, and there's a reason not to go there.
00:50:47.000I mean, you know, not only are you sort of artificially boosting one business, but you're also,
00:51:13.000When you walk into somewhere that's trying to serve you a quality product, you deserve to feel welcomed.
00:51:19.000Like it used to be the customer's always right.
00:51:21.000And so if you, it doesn't matter who you are, you're Don Jr.
00:51:24.000or Joe Schmo from Ohio, it doesn't matter.
00:51:28.000If you walk into an establishment, that establishment should care more than anything else about making sure that you feel welcomed.
00:51:34.000And it does not matter what your political background is, that should be the goal of a business.
00:51:38.000And on our platform, that's the drive of these business owners.
00:51:41.000We want to provide quality products and services to Americans, because we're for America, and we believe that one of the principles found in the Constitution is that you have
00:51:53.000So, amazing stories happen every single day.
00:52:03.000We've got a great team that basically captures these stories, and businesses will reach out and share their success.
00:52:07.000Just yesterday, we had a great business called Carnivore Snacks.
00:52:36.000I've been on your platform only for a few weeks now and I've already gotten $100,000 of business and new clientele through your platform because people are tired of the woke healthcare establishment that are using my dollars to fund causes I don't believe in.
00:52:48.000And now they're coming to America First Healthcare and feeling proud of their healthcare options and can know and rest easy at night that they're not funding companies that hate them.
00:52:55.000We're hearing stories from clothing companies that are saying we've had the most successful e-commerce day we've ever had.
00:53:00.0004 Rowan, an amazing clothing company, makes high quality women's and men's clothing.
00:53:05.000They donate 1% of all their proceeds to fatherhood initiatives in the United States.
00:53:09.000And they reached out and they said, hey, we had our best day of e-commerce we've ever had.
00:53:13.000We have a bank in San Diego that continues to get new customers every time another bank comes out and says, hey, we're anti-Second Amendment.
00:53:20.000This bank steps up and says, we're pro-Second Amendment.
00:53:22.000And it doesn't matter what you're purchasing, as long as it's legal, we're going to protect it.
00:53:26.000So the stories roll in, and it's honestly, Don, like the best part about this.
00:53:30.000And I text you stuff every once in a while.
00:53:37.000And to know that we're about a mission that's so much bigger than ourselves, this is really a generational legacy we're trying to create that moves the money back to we, the people.
00:54:22.000So what we pitched to the businesses is, hey, if you want to prioritize your goods and services to a group of consumers that will drive farther or spend more to spend money in alignment with their values, go here.
00:55:04.000To help consumers feel like you felt last night, welcomed in an establishment, this is a great place to do it and you will get rewarded for it.
00:55:11.000Not only will you feel liberated because you're living out your values, you're also going to see your profits increase.
00:55:16.000We had a hair salon that reached out and said, hey, I just want to let you know I've been on the platform a month.
00:55:20.000I've already gotten enough new business from Public Square, from PublicSQ.com this month.
00:55:35.000And so, I think the very cool thing that's happening here is that businesses are learning that there's a whole underground movement that's starting to rise up.
00:56:02.000Businesses will generally try it out for a few weeks, a few months, and then they'll reach out and they'll say, how do I do advertising?
00:56:08.000Like, I actually want to move my dollars from Google or from Yelp or from Facebook to Public Square because I'm seeing a better return here.
00:56:14.000And that's obviously, it's what'll keep us going for the long haul, and it's what creates this actual parallel economy that has real legs to it for the long haul.
00:56:22.000Well, you also work with companies like Red Balloon, our friend Andrew over there.
00:56:29.000So if you're looking for conservative employees, you know, you're a Christian business, you know, and you're getting inundated with resumes of people who you know are probably lunatics who are going to figure out the first thing to sue you about.
00:56:40.000I mean, you're sort of almost outsourcing your HR.
00:58:48.000While our community has been built by we the people, we're not owned by we the people.
00:58:52.000We have an amazing community of investors that I cherish so dearly because they've wanted to put their money where their values are and invest in a company and create this company with their capital that would change the country for generations to come.
00:59:06.000But I've been really, really excited also to expand that investor base to have we the people own the company.
00:59:11.000And one of the only ways you can really do that is by going public.
00:59:14.000So people have a lot of problems with going public that are totally merited.
00:59:18.000But we figured, you know what, if we could find the right deal and the right circumstances to where control was ensured and we had the right parameters in place legally to make sure that we had the mission protected over the long haul,
00:59:29.000Going public would provide an incredible outlet for we the people to actually own the company.
00:59:34.000To have 10 bucks in shares of Public Square.
01:01:02.000But he disagrees with my politics, so I'm going to remove him.
01:01:05.000Eventually, that's going to catch up to them, because there's going to be a new Patriot economy that emerges, and we're really grateful to be the tip of the spear there.
01:01:13.000And so, yeah, it's a fun chapter for us, Don.
01:01:15.000It's exciting times, and if you're a consumer, you can join at PublicSQ.com.
01:01:20.000If you're a business, you can join there as well, PublicSQ.com, or you can download the app on the App Store or Google Play.
01:01:26.000And if you're someone who really wants to own this Patriot economy, this new chapter is a great way for you to do that.
01:01:32.000Yeah, and I think that's an important thing.
01:01:33.000You mentioned sort of the control side, right?
01:01:35.000I think some people have that concern of like, well, if you go public then, you know, could the big institutions... No, the reality is you've actually set it up so that there's always sort of control back with you, the team, so there's no one like... Mike Bloomberg can't come in and buy it all, control it, and say, ha ha, we'll take your money, because that's what big corporate has done, frankly, though.
01:02:43.000I mean, there were guys that lost billions of dollars because they're like, I don't want anything to do with it.
01:02:46.000They sold before it went and then, you know, shoots up that 182.
01:02:49.000And now you're dealing with nonsense from the SEC because it's Trump.
01:02:52.000And, you know, but like, you know, that was about
01:02:56.000The people and continues to be so I mean it's unique when you think about like half the country it's like a hundred and seventy five million people that have just been like ah like they'll be with us anyway and no one's actually even trying to cater to them so being first is kind of nice crazy that we have to be but uh but I'll take it
01:03:13.000We feel like we're pioneering something.
01:03:15.000And speaking to the control side, we've always said to our team, to our investors, to our community partners, we would choose failure of our own company before we would choose sacrificing the mission.
01:03:28.000So if it came to, I either compromise and I succeed, or I fail but we maintain our values, I choose failure ten times out of ten.
01:03:36.000Because the last thing this economy needs, the last thing this country needs, are phonies that step up and aren't genuine about their intentions.
01:04:13.000You know, the great swimmer that lost, I'm going to say lost because she didn't lose anything.
01:04:18.000She would have been a national champion, but for Leah Thomas, you know, the six foot four biological male that was somehow allowed to compete against these incredible women athletes that spent their time.
01:04:30.000And I mean, this should be shocking to a lot of people who follow me.
01:04:33.000Like, it's hard to believe that in 2023, Donald Trump Jr.
01:05:05.000Like, every once in a while, like, there's a moment of, like, okay, that was a great play, that's fun, but, like, I have five kids, so maybe it's worse, but, like, you know, going to watch, like, a triple header of T-Ball is, like...
01:05:18.000You're a new dad, so you haven't experienced these things yet.
01:06:20.000I guess it was just the other day, it was like, something like, well like, some absurdly high number of females recently identified as being bisexual.
01:06:30.000And I was like, could that be, or could it be that there's so much social pressure?
01:06:35.000Like, if you're bisexual, even if you've never even tried it or have no interest, if you say that you are, you eliminate the social pressure with that.
01:06:43.000Like, you're participating in WOKE and you're being really, like,
01:06:48.000How did that magically happen in two years?
01:06:50.000All of a sudden, you know, it went from being, let's call it, you know, 8 to 10% of a population to 50.
01:06:57.000And yet, during COVID, I think the study was they were shocked that during COVID, I guess, those that were identifying as bisexual, all of a sudden, were only in opposite sex relationships.
01:07:10.000It's like, well, could it be because they were never really actually
01:07:14.000But there was a social pressure to do that.
01:07:16.000I see it in, you know, with kids' schools.
01:07:18.000Like, there's a, like, you're not cool if you're not gay, or trans, or something like that in these schools.
01:07:23.000I was talking to a friend in school, a good friend from high school, and her daughters are in school up north, and, you know, she literally said, like, something, it was like 50% of her daughter's class was identifying as, you know, gay or trans.
01:08:16.000So, I mean, when you think about just how rapidly accelerating the insanity is, I mean, I feel like it makes this mission so much more important.
01:08:34.000In politics, in Russia, follow the money.
01:08:38.000When you follow the money, you see the origins.
01:08:41.000And some of these people, they're smart enough to cover the origins because they know how ridiculous it is, but again, they're not willing to lose their money or their power.
01:08:48.000If everyone gets behind this thing, you know, they cancelled my father as the President of the United States, the most powerful man in the world, on paper, because they didn't like what he was doing for the people.
01:08:58.000But, like, you can do that when there's one guy willing to go out on his own.
01:09:03.000All the guns, all the arrows, all the slings get thrown at that one person, and they can take him out.
01:09:09.000They ain't doing that to 175 million Americans.
01:09:11.000Or, if they want to continue doing that, there's enough of a critical mass, and with what you're doing, Michael, to be like, OK, fine, we'll just have two separate economies, and that's OK.
01:09:23.000And like, we'll fund that, and we have people that actually have jobs, and actually work, and actually probably a little bit more consistent on their mortgage payments, and aren't saddled with $500,000 in debt for an underwater gender studies basket weaving degree.
01:09:39.000Sure, the payout on that one's going to be wonderful.
01:09:42.000If we want to play that game, I'm willing to play that, because I trust our people to actually probably be a lot more solid citizens in that respect.
01:09:53.000Like I said, the fact that the same week that you guys are going public, and I've been working with you guys for eight, nine months now, whatever it was,
01:10:52.000He's big though, and he's political, and he's got a voice, and so they probably wanted to target him, but they would never do that to me.
01:10:58.000The reality is, it's the very opposite.
01:11:00.000If they can do that to a man as powerful as Donald Trump Jr., to a family as powerful, they can do that to someone with as big of a massive following, of course they can do it to you.
01:11:17.000I mean, the Speaker of the House was like, this is outrageous.
01:11:20.000Like, the third most powerful man in the U.S.
01:11:22.000government saw my tweet and responded to it.
01:11:26.000Congressmen, senators are hitting it and being insane.
01:11:32.000If they know I probably have that ability, because it's not the first time I've spent a lot, and they know I have that and don't care, think how little they care about you with your 30 friends on Facebook.
01:11:42.000They'll cancel you on Facebook before you can ever get the message out.
01:11:45.000We are slowly becoming communist China.
01:11:49.000With the advances in AI, you know, they're monitoring things, but things are only pushed one way, right?
01:11:56.000You can be the furthest lunatic on the left, and it's like you are boosted artificially.
01:12:02.000Whereas if you say basic things like, hey, there's two genders, and like, you know, and again, I'm actually pretty, like, libertarian on the issue.
01:12:08.000Like, if you're an adult and you want to be, I could care less.
01:12:11.000You know, happy people are productive people.
01:12:15.000When you start saying, like, some lunatic teacher's gonna be telling my three-year-old, and you're gonna carve me out of the process, and literally try to mandate that parents should have no say, because the teacher has some sort of, you know, master's degree, that, like, they should be able to talk to a three-year-old to make a life-changing, altering decision, 15 years before they could buy a pack of cigarettes.
01:12:48.000And part of the challenge too is that...
01:12:50.000This keeps happening in such a faster cadence.
01:12:55.000It's like it used to be these stories would happen once a year, and then it started happening every few months, and then it started happening every few weeks, and now, in the same week, PNC Bank is canceling you.
01:13:05.000Discover, the credit card, they came out and said, hey, any Discover purchases now that are used on guns, we're gonna track, and we're gonna report.
01:13:13.000Visa and MasterCard have been doing that for a few years.
01:13:16.000There was a story last year of obviously Bed Bath & Beyond cancelling Mike Lindell, and that was sort of a big thing.
01:13:23.000But now you're hearing it happen to more and more average people, too, where PayPal came out recently and said, $2,500 fine for misinformation.
01:13:32.000And then they said, well... I mean, think about that.
01:13:43.000I mean, I bet there's a lot of Americans that don't have anywhere near $2,500 in their bank account and PayPal could just say, well, you talked about the Wuhan lab leak theory.
01:14:13.000You, not on PayPal's platform, because it's not like they have a social platform that you're talking back and forth, but you could separately say something somewhere else, and PayPal's just like, cha-ching, cha-ching, I don't like what he's saying.
01:15:21.000It's probably not going to stop them from canceling me, but at least I can be like, hey, this is BS, and maybe other people pull their money from PNC Bank or whatever it may be.
01:15:32.000Social credit score is going to drive whether you can function in society.
01:15:37.000We were threatened to be cancelled by Chase in the early days when we first started our business.
01:15:43.000Started a business, got Chase as our kind of banker, and we got rolling.
01:15:48.000Within three months, a banker called and said, hey, we're concerned about this whole conservative messaging thing, and we'd like to talk to you more about that.
01:16:20.000There was a legislator, I think it was up in South Dakota, which is sort of crazy.
01:16:26.000They called one of these conservative groups that just believed in the nuclear family, and every statistic in the world shows that children tend to end up better when they have active parents.
01:16:57.000Chase Bank wouldn't do the credit card processing for the facility that, because they were hosting me as a speaker.
01:17:02.000Now, I understand that I am not the upstanding
01:17:07.000Okay, I understand that, you know, I am not as good of a guy as Hunter, but they literally were like, yeah, we're just not, they had to cancel the event.
01:17:22.000They had thousands of people in attendance.
01:17:23.000We're like, we can't like, we can't have you in because we can't.
01:18:02.000Go to their PTA meeting to be like, hey man, I don't want you jamming this trans crap down my kids' throats.
01:18:08.000Or critical race theory, where the children are bowing to their friends who happen to be African American in class and it's like, wait a minute, no.
01:18:19.000They were on our radar, but we're a little too busy to actually watch them or catch them before they drive through a Christmas parade.
01:18:25.000But because they checked off boxes, even though they were clearly racist and on a lot of extremist boards.
01:18:33.000They checked those boxes, so... It was a car that drove through a Christmas parade, so we'll investigate the car.
01:18:38.000Like, not the, like, lunatic racist that... Like, really?
01:18:44.000Again, you... It's like we're living in, like, a dystopian, like, reality, and it's actually happening, but what's scarier is, again... Five years ago.
01:18:56.000You wouldn't even thought this was possible.
01:20:03.000We were just talking before the show, and we were saying, can you ever imagine
01:20:08.000Me telling you 15 years ago, one day you're going to talk to a swimmer who places second, even though she won, against a man in a collegiate national championship, and then that's going to make national news, and people will actually defend the man for swimming against her.
01:20:24.000You would have thought we were insane.
01:20:25.000She's the extremist for being like, hey, this is BS.
01:20:29.000By the way, I went to Penn, so Leah Thomas, her school,
01:21:08.000Well, and to your point, you just said earlier...
01:21:12.000If you don't think that's a reality about the cars and turning off your access and all that, if you don't think that's a reality, wake up and realize that it can be.
01:21:20.000Because just as 15 years ago you would have thought we were crazy for saying all this would happen like we've described today, the same could be said today.
01:21:28.000Do not say that it's crazy to think that the government would just turn off your access to your life.
01:21:33.000They absolutely would if they were given the chance.
01:21:36.000They intentionally shut everybody in our houses, removed your access to travel.
01:21:40.000In LA, where I was living at the time just a few years ago, there was a beach that the guy paddleboarding alone
01:21:48.000Got hunted down by lifeguards and by coastal patrol for paddleboarding alone during COVID.
01:21:55.000If you do not think the government would willingly and excitedly shut you down and your access if you keep speaking out against the regime, unfortunately, you have your head in the sand.
01:22:04.000Now, that doesn't mean you have to be hopeless.
01:22:08.000Companies like Red Balloon, companies like Rumble,
01:22:10.000Companies like the 50,000 on the app, nearly.
01:22:12.000I mean, it's so cool to watch this movement rise up.
01:22:16.000So we do not have to be sitting in despair, but we also have to be awake enough to realize, like, we need to take the power back in the hands of the people, use our purchasing power, our time, our resources to support those that do not want a dystopian future.
01:22:29.000And that's ultimately the only way forward.
01:22:31.000Yeah, I mean, we're talking about banks, obviously, a lot.
01:22:54.000Go on PublicSQ, find the bank that matters.
01:22:56.000I mean, you know, so, yeah, listen, tell everyone where you can find it.
01:23:00.000I think everyone understands, but such a big tenant of this show, and again, why I'm on Rumble and not on YouTube, because I'd say one thing and, you know, oh, Don, you're doing great, and gone, like, canceled, like, you know.
01:24:12.000I hope that we all feel awakened to what's happening and how insane society is in the corporate world, but also at the same time filled with hope about the future that we actually can create if we move our dollars toward people that don't hate us.
01:24:26.000Best way you can get started doing that, head to publicsq.com, publicsq.com, or you can download the Public Square app on your App Store or Google Play.
01:24:35.000Get started there, create a free account, takes two minutes, and you're off to the races.
01:24:38.000You can find any industry you're looking for.
01:24:41.000Give him your social handle because he's got like
01:25:09.000So, Twitter is at Real Michael Seif, S-E-I-F, four letters on my last name.
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01:25:29.000That's where we update people on what's happening regularly with the company.
01:25:33.000We have an exciting road ahead and grateful to be on the journey with you, Don.
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01:28:04.000Go over to locals right now so I'll do my uh ask me anything over there I actually pre-recorded this earlier just because I'm on a flight I can't I had to take my daughter I have five kids with different spring breaks I had to take her away for a daddy daughter weekend because that
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