Battleground LIVE: The RETURN of Savage Rich Baris

Tonight on Battleground LIVE Savage Rich and I discuss the California wildfires, the latest attacks on Trump’s cabinet picks, what to expect with confirmation hearings and what seems to be GOP unity in the House!

 

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
E'repe about to enter the arena and join the Battle
to Save America with your host Sean Carnell. Good evening, America,
Welcome to Battleground Live. This is the show where we
kick ass, and we take names, and we lockhorns with
the radical left. We never quit, We sure as hell

(00:26):
never surrender. From sea to shining Sea and everybody in between.
Welcome Patriots on this glorious, glorious, beyond glorious Savage Wednesday.
You know, I gotta say, folks, it feels like it's
been a pretty long time since we've had Savage Rich

(00:46):
Barris here on the show.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Because it has.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
As I was planning the show for today, you know,
I kind of cobble together everything. This is a one
man band. I'm the producer, I'm the writer. There's no teleprompters,
just all unvarnished me. Sometimes things go okay, sometimes not.
We get by, don't we. As I was playing the

(01:10):
show today, was cobbling together our signature thumbnail for the
show where it's Savage Rich looking dapper in his suit
and me standing there with lightning bolts behind. And I
realized that Savage Rich has not been on the show
since December eighteenth.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
And I gotta tell you, folks, that's a.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Pretty darn long time. So we've kind of gotten out
of the swing of things. And yeah, it was the holidays,
Christmas and then New Year's and then Rich does the
cooking on New Year's Day. That's been a tradition in
his family for a long time. And then he was
out of town traveling and traveling the next day. But
it looks like we are good to go, Savage Rich
bears confirmed for tonight, and it's gonna be a really,

(01:52):
really good night.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
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Speaker 2 (03:29):
Let's just talk about these wildfires, folks. These wildfires in
California are devastating and horrifying.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
I watched some of the footage late last night, and
my heart aches for the state of California those affected
by the wildfires, and we certainly keep those people in
our prayers, do we not?

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Battle crew?

Speaker 1 (03:56):
I saw this video of James Woods talking today, and
James Woods was just one of many people who lost
his home out there. He was just heartbroken. There's something
about a home that becomes very special to us, does
it not. I was thinking about this. I've been thinking

(04:17):
about this.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
A lot for the last couple of days, for a
lot of different reasons. But a home is just you know, a.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Foundation, wood framed walls, some dry walls, some paint roof, whatever.
But it has a ton of sentimental value to people,
especially me. And I don't know what it is. You
just got memories that you make in a home for
a long time. I mean, all the pictures that I

(04:48):
have of all my kids hanging up on the walls.
Imagine all of that stuff just being gone in an
instant and just barely getting out with your life life,
losing everything. I mean, that's what a lot of the
people in California are struggling with right now. I mean,
look at some of these videos that are coming out

(05:11):
of California. It looks like something out of an APO
apocalyptic thriller. We're out of the way until we.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Get your store.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah we do. Oh more, Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Look at all these every single home, every single home
completely destroyed. Here's a video of a of a guy
and his dog trapped in a home. I've gotten words
that these folks have gotten out safety safely.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
But check this out.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
The fire is raging on. It seems like it's unstoppable.
And when disasters like this happened, like the one out
in Maui, people start looking to political leadership for competence
and hope that political leadership is competent. And you know what,
folks in this country, you know, we've had it good
for so long. And we've talked about this a little

(06:15):
bit on the show. How in some ways, you know, Americans,
I don't mean this in a bad way at all,
but they might take their freedom for granted.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
They might take their safety for granted because we got
it pretty good.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
You know, even with the animated corpse that is Joe
Biden in the White House, life is still pretty good
in America as you compare it to some other places
in the world. But competence in leadership, especially political leadership,
matters a lot during times of great crisis. And California
is a state that is oppressively a taxed and I

(06:47):
mean over the top out of this world taxed. You
get almost nothing in return for paying those taxes in
California except for snide liberalism, who just simply ask more
of you on a day to day basis.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
I mean, think about this.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
I think I saw Will Chamberlain say something on X
Today about how California spend eleven billion dollars to build
sixteen hundred feet of high speed rail all while the
fire hydrants and Pacific palisades don't work, no water comes
out of them. I'm sorry, that is an absolute joke.

(07:23):
And meanwhile, our federal government, Joe Biden's USAID has funded
sixteen Ukrainian fire departments with protective gear, motor pumps, chainsaw
rescue motor cutters, rechargeable spotlights, fire extinguishers, and hydraulic rescue tools. Meanwhile,
Karen Bass who's the mayor of Los Angeles by the way,

(07:44):
she's in Africa right now attending the President Ghani's inauguration
with a bunch of other Democrat political leaders. Ezer City burns.
This Democrat cut seventeen point six million from the fire department,
which was I think their second high budget cut. And
these are the kinds of people that they're hiring out there.

(08:07):
To me, not the best, not the brightest, not the fastest,
not the strongest, listen for yourself.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
I am super inspired.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
She took time out of her already busy schedule to
tell us about her vision for the department's future, one
that includes a three year strategic plan to increase diversity.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
People ask me, what number are you looking for us,
I'm not looking for A number is never enough.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Out of thirty three hundred city firefighters, only one hundred
and fifteen are women. Right now, She's already looking at
ways to change that. She's quick to point out that
doing so has a greater purpose attracting the best and
brightest for the job.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
They feel included, they feel valued, and they feel part
of a cohesive team.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
The chief also checks another box when it comes to
inclusivity and diversity and this department. She's a proud member
of the LGBTQ community.

Speaker 4 (08:54):
That just kind of opens the door of people that thought, oh,
I didn't even know that that was an opportunity for me.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
You see why this stuff is dangerous. No, she checks
another box, But I'm sorry this box checking, Especially when
lives are on the line, in professions where lives are
on the line, it matters a lot. And this is
what I mean when I say that DEI is dangerous
and in extreme circumstances, DEI can kill. And this I mean,

(09:23):
look at look, look no further than California's priorities. And
the way that they prepare for this is the state
is surrounded by water, yet their fire hydrants don't work.
Here's Trump about on California three months ago, on Joe Rogan.
He was ridiculed for this.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
But listen, they said, we have no water. I said,
do you have a drought. No, we don't have a drought.
I said, why don't you have no water? Because the
water isn't allowed to flow down? It's got a natural
flow from Canada all the way up north, more water
than they could have used. And in order to protect
a tiny little fish, the water up north gets routed

(10:02):
into the Pacific Ocean. Millions and millions of gallons of
water gets poured. I could have water for all of
that land, water for your forests. You know your forests
are dry as a bone. Okay, dangerous That water could
be routed. You know, you could have everything, not only dangerous.
Billions of dollars a year they spend on forest farret
and you know there's a case with the environment. They're

(10:24):
not allowed to rake their forests because you're not allowed
to touch it. And all they have to do is
clean their forest, meaning rake it up, get rid of
the leaves, get rid of you know, leaves that are
sitting there for five years, and.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
They'll certainly get rid of the dead fall.

Speaker 5 (10:39):
And get rid of the trees that are falling and
that you know.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Okay, that was Trump three months ago. How about Trump
four months ago?

Speaker 5 (10:46):
And you have so much water and all those fields
that are right now barren. The farmers would have all
the water they needed, and you could revert water up
into the hills where you have all the dead forests,
where the forests are so brittle, because no place is
like California. I go to Austria. The head of Ostria
tells me, you know, we have trees that are much
more flammable than what you have in California. We never

(11:08):
have forest flowest because they maintained their forests. And you
have all that water that could be used to what
they call waterflow where the war, you know, where the.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Land would be damp, and you'd stop many of.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
These horrible fires that are costing billions and billions of dollars.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
By the there he is again, Trump three months ago,
Trump four months ago, warning about this problem over and
over again. When Trump was president, he was out there
visiting with Gavenowsom. He was talking to the press where
he's saying, hey, this is dangerous. You've got to do
some forest management at leads to horrible wildfires. But it's
when I say set up before, and I'll say it again,

(11:49):
but when I say that these new Democrat Party policies
are a danger in existential risk to Americans, our safety,
our country, our freedom. This is part of what I mean,
because this is nothing what's happening out in California.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
The left is blaming.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
Climate change, but I can assure you that climate change
doesn't cause malfunctioning in your fire hydrants.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Right.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
The damn state is surrounded by water. This is a
liberal management problem, California being mismanaged for decades by California
radical liberals in a uniparty out there. So we've got
Savage Rich Barris on deck. I don't want to waste
even a second more without him on the show because
it's just been too long.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Welcome back, my friend, Savage Rich Barris. Welcome. I can't
why can't I hear you? Good? We good, don't worry. Yeah,
I got you.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
Now let me switch it again. You should hear me now, right.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
You were a little bit rusty, but that's okay.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
Yeah. I was on another thing and when I go
between Skype, streamyard zoom, whatever, it steals the audio and
I keep forgetting. I got to refresh the setting. I
was saying, how are your brother? Welcome back? Good to
be back, and uh, you must be freezing over there.
We're expecting snow. We're praying for it, hoping.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah, and you look all bundled up and very distinguished
and you're stuff. Man, I'm ready to look at this
very cultured like little what's that calling?

Speaker 2 (13:27):
What is it? You're fine?

Speaker 4 (13:28):
I don't know. Laura got it for me.

Speaker 6 (13:31):
I was watching a little ascot, a little ask got on.
You look like you could be you know, what's that guy?
That guy from a Hallmark man? Uh, you know during Christmas? Uh,
basically he's always got the.

Speaker 4 (13:43):
Coolest sweaters man. What is the name?

Speaker 1 (13:47):
Like the investment banker that goes home to a small
Christmas town and marry the town girl.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
He was actually a speech writer for the Governor of
Illinois in this movie, and he he was like, like
had the greatest outfits and I'm like, and this was
a while ago, and I was like, man, I want
those I want that sweater. I was like that sweaters
and also and it's a little bit different, but it
was really cool. I'm trying to remember this guy's name.

(14:14):
I'm even I'm even searching for it because.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
Laura gets you that for Christmas.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
Two Christmases a guy, two Christmas guy.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
So I saw Laura pop on in the waiting room.
She's not going to give us the gift of twenty
twenty five of doing that live right, because.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
We've only seen them.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
Now because she's gone already, which is why I was
wearing the sweater because we were giving away. Speaking of Christmases,
it was many years ago when we were moving and
my daughter. Do you guys remember the LOL stuff? It
was a big fad for girls. Lol. Yeah, And I
got this huge l OL set for my daughter and
it was in the old house and was we called

(14:57):
it the shoe box before an LOL.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Set for your daughter? Rich Are you sure it was
for your daughter?

Speaker 4 (15:02):
It was for my daughter and she never had a
chance to really do anything with it, and she got
other things that year, So it kind of just sat there,
and now we know someone she a little girl that
she's because she's starting to instruct now with dancing, which
is really cool. And one of the little girls still
loves lol And she was like, you know, pop, so
I want to give this to her because I'm older

(15:23):
now and I never really did use it. So can
you dig it out of the closet and put it
in the car show on? It's like the size of
a seventy inch TV box, you know, And I'm like,
uh sure, honey. And it's really cold out there, so
I had to go do that. Yeah, And then somebody
dropped the can of tomato sauce from the grocery store
on the floor and broke it everywhere.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Oh well, so tell us about your holiday. It's been
a while. Tell us about Christmas, tell us about New Year?
Would you do with the family?

Speaker 4 (15:50):
Look, I really had a good holiday season, I really did.
I wished it was more time. The way the school
schedule was set up with the kids was really stupid.
They're still on break now. And I was raised in
a mid Atlantic New Jersey, New York area, and everywhere
I was like you were either ethnic Catholic of some

(16:11):
sort Italian Polish, right or you were Jewish, So like
we always had our calendar for school surrounding those holidays.
That was like you were off on December twelfth or fifteenth,
and you had so much time. These kids got off
like December twenty first or something or twenty second. It
was ridiculous. So you know, it would have been nice

(16:32):
to have a little bit more time to do some
Christmas stuff with them. But you know, we were working anyway, right,
so I just would have tried to shift that. I
had the turning point poll that we did, so that
was right up against Christmas Eve. They held the Amfest
and Phoenix guys, so like everyone knows, I hate to
travel during Christmas, but you do what you gotta do.
So like you go out there to Amfest. Oh, I

(16:53):
didn't go out for Amfest. They did invite me to
go out, but I had to say no, I had
something else to do. But I did go out that way,
which would have been easy, but I wanted to get
home and I was I really don't like to travel
during Christmas, spend another time and risk not being able
to come home because of some freak you know, snowstorm.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Yeah, air travel is ridiculous with Pete but keg keg.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
Up there and it's terrible.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
I mean, the guy is the worst transportation secretary in
the history of the world.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
We're talking about we'll get it.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
Well, I got one airline back to my regional airport, Schawn.
I have one choice, two flights a day in that
little airport. And if I don't get it, it's a
wrap you know what I mean. So, yes, but I
still did the turning point poll and then had to
go out and then I was done, and then I
wrapped it up and came home. I make Christmas Day
dinner and New Year's dinner. H Laura does his feast

(17:46):
at seven fishes on Christmas Eve, so like I enjoy
it because I barely ever have time to cook. The
only thing I do make on Christmas Eve is I
do the linguini and clam sauce. She does everything else. Yeah, So,
and it was banging. Let me tell.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
You, you're wearing a fancy sweat, you're cooking clam sauce
and linguini stuff.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
Oh that's that's that's.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
An old, very very refined.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
Next thing, you know, you're gonna be drinking a drink
on the show with your pinky up and have a monocle.
Maybe never never, why the opposition to the monocle.

Speaker 4 (18:18):
I'll tell you what, man, I'll never forget when I
saw Axel Rose with that stupid little thing attached to
a cigarette and the hell are you doing? Accent? The
hell is on, bro, You're from Indiana, You're you know
you got off the bus with a piece of straw
hanging out of your mouth. That's the Axle Rose, I know.
Take that ship out of your mouth and start again.
Not again, let's go. Okay, Yeah, I'm trying to enjoy.

(18:41):
It was good. I hope it was.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Man, it was awesome. I mean I was telling I
was telling folks the show. Planning was a little bit
all over the place, just because people were traveling, people
spend time with family. You know, we still tried to
be I took the week off for Christmas, realized very
quickly that it wasn't a week off with five kids
crazy and family coming over. But it was amazing. It
was good chaos and here we are hitting the ground

(19:04):
running in the new year. And by the way, there
was a ton of news that broke over Christmas. I
was kind of blown away by how the news just
kept rolling even though you know, normally, normally in years
past that honeymoon, Yes, that week just and all the
all the everyone's off, I mean, every single reporter, all

(19:24):
the media types that you see on your TV all
the time, they're completely off. And so normally things slowed down,
but it really didn't, and it was kind of unbelievable.
And so now you see all this stuff going on
with the California wildfires, and some of the stuff that
we're seeing coming out of there is just horrifying. Unlike MAUI,
what they have in common are you know, decades of

(19:45):
Democrat leadership lead to you know, one, it can lead
to very very deadly and dangerous crises. And the hope
is is that people I mean, god, it's it's just
got to get them through this horrible crisis. Mean, but
Biden goes out there, God doesn't know where the hell
he is. He does this press conference and seriously, thousands

(20:08):
of people. I talked about a home and how it's
you know, homes have a ton of sentimental value to people.
It's kind of you know, and you know, it's the
forging of memories there.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
On them, Yes, print on them Sean.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yes, and there's something about especially being you know, I
mean maybe this is the case for other countries as well,
But the American dream and home ownership, it's just art.
I mean, at least for me, part of living out
the American dream and you imprint on homes and so
Joe Biden, tens of thousands of people are lost everything
out in California, tens of thousands, devastating wildfire still going on.

(20:44):
Listen to the ship that Joe Biden says, he goes
out there today with Gavin Newsom. Fire still fire, still raging.
Listen to this.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
Good news is.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
So it's hard, kind of hard to hear. He's talking
about the mumbling through the California wide file.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
Fire, your house, I'm a great grandfather.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, that's what we said.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
The good but but he said, but the good news
is but they don't have good news.

Speaker 4 (21:26):
You stupid senile idiot. Their home he's ruined, their life
is destroyed because you're all fanatics. Trump was right. I
was listening to the clip go ahead though, sorry.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
I mean no, no, no, no, no no, no.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
I mean know about this issue. I've done a lot
of public opinion research for people, Uh, in that area.
Devin Nunez and I have had long conversations about this. Uh, sadly,
I mean Devon went to Congress. I don't know, uh
if you know this, but Devon wanted to be a
congressman to fix the water issue. This is the issue

(21:58):
that you know as a farmer himself and knowing all
these people and that that's the issue that Devin decided,
you know what, I'm going to go to Congress and
I'm gonna do something. And sadly he found out real
quick and he'll tell the story better than I will.
That both sides are beholden. You have one side that's fanatics, right,
and then you have the other side or a beholden
to Uh. And I sent you links when you were talking,

(22:19):
but I.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Know, yeah, yeah, check it out.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
The rest of family is a big part of this problem.
Everyone from the left to the right knows it. Mother
Jones to Perfect Union, you know, yeah, they they yeah,
that's one of them. The other ones from Mother Jones
by the way, which is a left wing organization, left
wing outlet. These people love to charge money. They want

(22:43):
to hold the water, charge it on for it. They'd
rather waste it and uh, to keep the supply down.
It's like how the British keep you know, diamonds in
a vault in the friggin ground to keep the supply
low so they could charge a fortune for it. I mean,
this is the way it's been going for years. It's
a major, major problem. It's like one couple has an
enormous amount of power over this issue, and then they

(23:05):
are aligned and they use both people on the right
and people on the left, because those left wing idiots
who run around screaming about like you know, frogs and shit, dude,
like they are useful idiots for these people right here.
And it's like sad that McCarthy and his wing of
the party you know, are two chicken shit to deal

(23:25):
with these people, and they're a major, major part of
the problem. Trump has the solution. David Giulio, who ran
for Congress himself, you know, had put together a plan,
He met with experts, They had this thing nailed down.
And then you have people like Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy,
who you know, you can it's funny, but this is
even before David's time. You know, they run a certain

(23:50):
non establishment candidate runs against an establishment candidate, beats them,
runs in the primary. Of course, open system over there
runs wins. He was running against Jim Accosta really back
then and Bob cost sorry, Jim, Jim, I'm sorry, and
he winds up winning. On election. A couple of a
week goes by and he's still ahead, even though California

(24:11):
Council a month they swear him into Congress. He goes
to Kevin McCarthy and need you know. Kevin's like, hey,
I need you, I need you your help on this bill.
And he's like, sure, so sure, but I need your
help getting this water bill to the floor because this
is a serious problem. You look, people's homes, farmer's crops,
this is huge. Is a national security issue, folks. The
Central Valley is a bread basket. It's a huge issue.

(24:34):
Kevin McCarthy basically told him so to Paul Ryan that
we don't really want to solve this issue because this
is how we win elections in the state of California,
in that part of the country, in that part of
the state. That's how Republicans win seats in that part
of the state.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
So that he did not.

Speaker 4 (24:50):
Support Kevin's bill and Paul's bill, so they let him
go down in flames, and Democrats kept voting for a
month and beat him by a couple hundred votes that
they found in some trunks somewhere, And Kevin and Paul
sat there quietly because he already made enemies of them,
and they did nothing for him. By the way, the
guy spent like one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and
one that seat against the Democratic incumpment. It was unbelievable story,

(25:11):
but all because he wanted to keep the promise that
he made to the voters when he ran. They burned him,
bro burned him. And you know, Devin for you know,
sat and you know, not a whole lot he could
do about it, but like, this is an issue that
he really wanted to get solved and was rather disappointed
at the inability of Republicans to face off against environmental

(25:36):
groups and the resins. And it's sad, man, It's really sad,
because I've done so much research for different people in
that area, and I'm telling you, the water issue is
a very powerful issue to turn voters away from the
Democratic Party, but Republicans need to have the balls to
do it, John, and we all know how they are
lacking in the Ball Department.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
So let's talk about the transition, well not in the
way that liberals mean transition, but jumped to the speaker stuff.
You know, because I was down in Washington, I was
at the swearing in for the US Senate. I had
to say it was pretty damn awesome watching Kamala Harris,
how humiliating. Yeah, new Republicans set at majority. She messed

(26:18):
up the pledge. That was awesome. And what I was
worried about the whole time was what Republicans were going
to do with the speaker vote, because it looked like
there was going to be all of this chaos again.
And I laid out the procedure, the parliamentary procedure, and
the dangers of that, especially with Democrats like trying to
undermine Trump's second term.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
No doubt that even right now as we speak.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
But I was really surprised, like pleasantly surprised that Republicans
got it done on a single damn vote. And then
the day after, you know, the Democrats had to certify
Democrats and Republicans had Congress had to certify the election results.
On January sixth, Mamala Harris again, and the Democrats day life. Yeah,

(27:03):
worst day, and the Democrats tried to push this again,
this ridiculous January sixth fake insurrection narrative again. But I was,
give me your sense on I mean, is this a
house GOP that's turned over a new leaf. I mean,
I was very surprised by the one vote, very surprised
by it.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
I'll tell you, We'll see how long it lasts. But
I mean, we can't pretend that it didn't take calls
from Donald Trump and influencers and everybody, like I even
know somebody who called Massey. I know someone is close
with Massey and called you know, Thomas Massey who didn't
by the way, Biggs Biggs Soy, all the rest of them,

(27:45):
they did. I made that coming on purpose. That wasn't
an accident. And you know they all did come around.
And we'll see how long they feel like Trump's impact
is essentially you know, like matters. We'll see how long
they feel like he still has the political capital. But
I mean, we'll see. I really I warned people not
to get your hopes up with Republicans, but I mean,

(28:08):
I'm immediately thought about what happened. You and I this
conversation during when they're throwing out Kevin McCarthy. Yes, I
immediately thought of it. I could. I invoked you, and
I are conversations to people that I spoke with and
tried to explain to them where that First of all,
where the hell were you when good people were trying
to primary others. Mike is not a bad guy. You

(28:30):
don't have the votes. Mike had a blue collar, maga
voting record before you forced him to do a job
he did not want to do. And now he's here
trying to do the best he can when a narrow
majority in between people who say they're conservative purists, maga
bomb throwers, and a bunch of people we know to
be rhinos, right, So like he can and people don't

(28:52):
understand that. Many of them don't understand that. And there
are the same people who sat quietly by when there
were all of these good people running and couldn't get attention,
couldn't get endorsements, couldn't get support. So now here you
are with the same conference of rhinos, or maybe a
little bit more. It's a little bit more maga. There's
no doubt it is more maga. But you know, if

(29:15):
you wanted that kind of congress, then you should have
done the work that we told you to do a
year ago, and maybe you would not have run five
points behind Donald Trump everywhere at least, right John Duarte
went down in flames, Mike Garcia went down in flames, right, Like,
all of these people needed to be swapped out and
they weren't, And people weren't understanding how Donald Trump was

(29:37):
appealing to groups of people that they were not. They
were going to run behind everywhere and not get the
majority that they feel like that they that we all
know they needed to get a more maga, a more
conservative agenda easily through and to give Mike some take
some pressure off of Mike, absolutely take some pressure off
of him. Instead, all they do is bitch and moan

(30:01):
and pretend like all they know how to be sean
is bitchers, like bitches.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
That's all they had to do.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
I'm serious, I'm not even saying that to be like profane.
They are professional bitching and moaners and that's all they are.
Like bitch and owners actually, but like that's it. They
don't know how to be effective. They don't know how
to institute any kind like or advance the agenda. They
don't know how to win elections. They don't know how
to get a more effective Congress or conference in the Congress.

(30:30):
They don't know anything but complaining.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
And by the way, Thomas Massey was perfectly fine with
Kevin McCarthy, perfectly fine. So don't give me this purest crap.
Some people think they're more important than they are. And
you know what, we really don't have time for narcissism.
You know, we have a very short window to fix things.
You should be worried about who's going to run for
governor of New Jersey right now after Donald Trump came

(30:56):
within six points of winning the damn state. That's what
you should be doing, registering more Republicans because auto voter
registration is working in your favor. Why aren't you in
Morris County registering Republicans? Like, why aren't you trying to
recruit somebody you know can speak blue collar talk so
they can crush it in Mamath and Ocean County. What
the hell are you doing? All you do is complain,

(31:16):
that's it. And it's like, I'm over these people. I'm
totally over them. They've never even been good at their
job to begin with. I mean, that's the truth of it.
And Massy like, look, there's a lot I agree with.
You did played a very critical role in advancing some
of the issues.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
For sure, no health, no question about it, no question
for Freedom's poll.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
I got to tell you. You know, Barnes and his
organization commissioned the four Freedom's Pole. It was immensely impactful
with getting all you know that conversation with RFK and
Trump in the loop, Well where do we have synergy?
It was huge, I mean, and Massy was a big
advocate for it. Look, food freedom, medical freedom, this is big.
I mean this, So, I mean, he certainly helped there.
But I'm saying, like, look, the issues you have a

(31:56):
problem with right now, they needed to be solved a
year ago. Busy, you were busy supporting Ronda Santas and
trying to realm maga.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
That's what That's true, that's what you were doing.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
So let's cut the ship.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
So after the House of Republicans, surprisingly.

Speaker 4 (32:13):
Why people don't like me? I just help just tell secrets.
Our friend over at a certain website the other day
he's like, man, I don't know. Man, I like, and
I'm like, what are you talking about? He's like, Oh,
if you ask around in this town. What about the
people's pundit. They're all like, oh, an asshole. I'm like, what,

(32:36):
I'm the nicest guy ever. And he's like, not to them,
you're not.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
You know, but you wear such a nice sweater, you
drink with your pinky, How could they possibly dislike you?

Speaker 4 (32:53):
My cup, says Prince. Okay, no, I'm kidding. That's from
my I bought this from my son. I didn't have mind,
which says I forgot my mine. So I think it
says daddy.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
I think would be appropriate.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
Yeah, I think my daughter's this princess. But my wife
and I don't say king queen, and so it's like
mommy daddy, I think something like that.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
So certify, we get Mike Johnson in a speaker, first vote,
and then certify the election results. On January sixth, Democrats
pushed this fake j six narrative began insurrectionists insurrection that
but bro, the American people, I'm telling you, they just
don't give a shit. It wasn't an insurrection. They know
it wasn't an insurrection. I mean the Democrats looked so absurd. Yeah,

(33:37):
like rasking on the House floor. They got these Democrats.
I think Schumer was among them and Hakeem Jeffries doing
this moment of silence. They got people still on television
saying that multiple officers died at police did a.

Speaker 4 (33:49):
Speech before a video, a video before you know, we
can sink as we learn how fragile our democracy could
be ridiculous. The problem they have, and I think this
is important to note, the problem they have, is that,
you know, when we just did Trump's favorability numbers, is
approval numbers that hatred that we saw in sixteen and

(34:12):
seventeen and even in twenty It's just not there anymore,
my friend.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
So get this, Jack Arrett, check us DNA popular.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Check out CNN talking about January sixth, Seriously, just talk
about because this gets to your point, check us out.

Speaker 7 (34:25):
Part of the reason why is okay? Was Trump greatly
responsible for the attack on the Capitol? You go back
to January twenty twenty one, it was forty eight percent.
By the time of December of twenty twenty three. Look
at that again, a clear shift down a thirty seven percent.
This is eleven point drop, very much mirroring that drop
that we saw that the folks that that, of course
would make him ineligible for the presidency.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
So that is part of the reason why, right.

Speaker 7 (34:48):
Folks, fewer folks thought he was responsible, greatly responsible for
what happened on January six But it's not just that.
It's that people simply put didn't care as much about
the attack on the Capitol.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Look at this.

Speaker 7 (34:58):
January sixth is the bi is your biggest memory of
Trump's first term in office. By the time of twenty
twenty four, look at this. Look at this, it was
just five percent. Just five percent of Americans, and among
Republicans it was just two percent. So the bottom line
is few Americans fault that Donald Trump or thought he
was greatly responsible for the January sixth attack, and more
than that, as it went into the rearview mirror, far

(35:20):
fewer folks thought that.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
It was their number one memory.

Speaker 4 (35:23):
Yeah, and this is an extraordinary memory.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
People don't care about January sixth.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
Even in January of twenty twenty one, only forty eight
percent thought Trump was greatly responsible. I mean, that's still
under fifty percent, you know what I mean. It's like
even people back then didn't really care.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
A couple things to note, And you know, I'm saying
this as someone who probably did not. And I said
this on the show too early. It's not.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Probably.

Speaker 4 (35:48):
I did the most research on public opinions surrounding January
sixth and this idea of a threat to democracy, and
I can tell you, you know, as usual, Harry misses
the bigger picture. Okay, what what happened? If he's citing
number one, the Washington Post and the antin aggregate. The
inntint aggregate was awful. It was wrong everywhere. The Washington

(36:09):
Post literally changed the formatting of their questions to make
Harris ahead like they are not even credible anymore. So
even his source that he's citing probably already overstates how
many people really faulted Trump for that. That's important to remember.
But as time went on, it's more than that. And
of course Harry's not going to say this, even if
he's smart enough to know it, and I'm not sure

(36:29):
he is. Something happened. There was this shift this like
uh oh, you know, the change in the overtime window.
When people thought of threat to democracy, right, they invoked
an image not of the q Andon Shaman anymore, but
of how dangerous democrats were, the mug shot. It went
from q Andon Shaman to mug shots of Donald Trump. Right,

(36:51):
they learned that. As they were learning that January sixth
was bs, they began to learn and began to see
a dangerous Democrat and their Lawfair was so it was
more than what Harry's saying it was. That's why, by
the way, unless you watch it inside the numbers, you
had no idea. You might have been shocked that Donald
Trump was going to win the threat to democracy vote,

(37:12):
Well he did.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
I'm so glad you brought that on that experiend a
little bit like because the Democrats are always like Republicans
and Trump's a threat to democracy.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
Right. Actually, that's not what the research Americans did. That
was the beginning, very early on period when there wasn't
Lawfair and they had the microphone all to themselves and
Donald Trump was basically off the national stage. That was
the case back then, and I'm talking about twenty twenty one.
By the time we got to the midterms, it already

(37:42):
began to fade, and then the law Fair came. And
when the Lawfair came, basically Democrats overplayed their hand and
the American voter. You know, we asked this all the time,
you know, what's your most important issue? And among that
what are you voting on? Right, and among voters who
said threats to democracy. By twenty tree, it began to
change and Trump began to gain. It was like huge

(38:04):
deficit in favor of Democrats and in favor of Donald Trump.
But once they especially once they started with Alvin Bragg
and Jack Smith and Fanny Willis and all the law
fair that Americans knew was b s. Not only that dangerous,
they were concerned. It terrified them. Once that began to happen,
they said, these guys are frauds, They're the dangers. Donald

(38:25):
Trump is actually the one who was going to put
an end to it. And when you ask people and
they told you, threat to democracy was their number one issue.
Trump was winning that vote, not by a lot, but
it was incredible considering how dramatic the ship was. So
like if most Trump voters said immigration, or the economy,
or inflation and cost of living, but even among those
who said threats to democracy, which was their whole narrative, right,

(38:48):
they closed. Their campaign's closing message was threat to democracy
and abortion. And they barely won abortion against Donald Trump,
and they lost threat to democracy. So again I can
say this to sum it up, which Harry missed again
because he's a little kid. It looks like he's just
at high school, knows nobody in real America. What he's
missing is that this changed because Democrats overstepped him, because

(39:11):
Democrats engage in law fair and are dangerous fanatics. The
image that was invoked when Americans thought about threats of
democracy went from the QAnon shaman to Donald Trump's mugshot,
which they did not view to be credible. Not only
that they concern them, it scared them. It made them
think that we have a stazzi in this country that

(39:31):
targets political opponents. When you can't beat them, you throw
them in jail. I mean, and now we know. Look
at Mershan, Look at I was.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
Just gonna ignore you. What do you think about that?
Do you give me your thoughts on you?

Speaker 4 (39:41):
You gonna try to jump in here.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
There's a local, a local judge. Who the hell do
you think you are?

Speaker 4 (39:47):
This is the father of the Democratic operative who worked
for Joe Biden, whose firm was paid millions by Joe
Biden's campaign before they passed off to Kamala Harris. I
think Mark Alpern is absolutely right. All of the people
who defend Donald Trump. Are gonna have power soon, Sean,
and they're gonna have government power, police, state power, and
they're gonna investigate this and they're gonna find that. Of course,

(40:08):
there was collusion between a woman who's daddy's a judge
in the case, who also worked for Joe Biden through
her law firm.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Come on, give me a break this. Who the hell
do you think you are? Did he say that that?

Speaker 4 (40:21):
Yeah, he said they're gonna find out. There's gonna that.
There is obviously coordination.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
There is.

Speaker 4 (40:28):
We already can see Fat Fanny's entrance in the White House.
Come on, of course there is Pull some emails, pull
some phone records. You're gonna see her talking to daddy.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
I guarantee you.

Speaker 4 (40:39):
There are text messages between her and Daddy your honor.
All right, this is New York folks.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
I hate to break it to you.

Speaker 4 (40:46):
They're crooked as shit. They're disgusting that judges is a crook.
And you're gonna go through his text messages and you're
gonna find oh Daddy, please, oh Daddy this, Oh Daddy,
that he's gonna be like, you got it, honey, I
got you. I guarantee you. I will bet the farm
on it, and I'm not a gambling man, and I
hope they do, and I hope they derobe his ass,
and I hope they did. He gets just the highest order.

(41:09):
Who I mean, Sean, Who the hell does this guy think?
He is? Stomped her into the ground in the electoral College.
He's the first Republican since Bush to win the popular vote.
And it's much harder twenty years later now for a
Republican to win the popular vote than it wasn't o four.
Who the hell does this guy think? He is thirty
five percent of the black mail vote in Texas. All right,

(41:30):
damn near won the Hispanic vote. Who the hell do
you think you are, Bro, You're not that important, You're
not that people.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Clearly, they clearly given they're gonna god no, no, no,
I'm just saying they're in jail time, they're gonna suspend
jail time, they're still gonna sentence him. Clearly they just
want to have the convicted felon moniker, which is ridiculous,
clearly weaponized. This guy is a local judge interfering with

(41:59):
the peaceful train position of power. I mean, seriously, that's
what's happening. Here, Deniers, Absolutely right. I mean it is
dangerous and and to your point, how how I'm trying
to tie this together, is that you saw it born
out in the research, that the American people saw what
the Democrats doing as dangerous, as dangerous, and they're doubling

(42:22):
down on it. Rich And if it wasn't for Judge
Cannon and Florida Jack's, that bead eyed little freak Jack Smith,
the communist special prosecutor, would have released his report filled with,
you know, one side of false accusations and lies, but
Judge Cannon shot them down. And now we're getting worried
that the Department of Justice is going to leak it

(42:44):
or release it anyway.

Speaker 4 (42:46):
They will. They will leak it, even if there's an
order not to, they will leak it. And by the way, folks,
just so you understand, it was not the norm for
Donald Trump to allow Bill Barr to release the report
of the Muller report. That is not the norm. When
Durham did the report on CIA interrogation, you did not
see it. Okay, when there were special councils in the

(43:08):
Clinton administration, you did not see it. When there were
special councils and the George W. Bush administration. You did
not see it. It is not common practice for the
reports of these special prosecutors to be made public. They
go up the chain and they are dealt with in
house and they are not made public.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
All right.

Speaker 4 (43:25):
We know nothing about the CIA interrogation report.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Zero nothing zero.

Speaker 4 (43:30):
All right. So this is look again, and I've said
this before, and I know eventually this is gonna get
me in real trouble, but it's absolutely true. The Department
of Justice cannot be reformed. The FBI cannot be reformed.
It's great that Pambondi will lead it, and it's great,
you know, they get cash batalent in there to do
whatever reforms they can do. But these institutions need to
be dissolved. They're not even meeting their mission statement. We

(43:51):
had two terror attacks over the holiday season. They pretended
one was a freaking electrical problem within an electric vehicle.
They lie about everything, right, did you see the press
conference in New Orleans? It was this is not a terrorist,
absolute disgrace. These are crooked, disgusting people with way too
much power, and they need to be disbanded. All right.

(44:14):
John Dillinger is not running around robbing banks and by
the way, when he was he had the full blessing
of the working class in this country because he was
fighting back against a bunch of guilds, So you know,
I mean that's the way he was seeing.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
So like they.

Speaker 4 (44:26):
Instituted this this you know, national law enforcement to basically
hunt down and murder these guys, and that's what they did.
And I mean, this is what we expect like better
behavior from them.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
Now.

Speaker 4 (44:38):
Look, they have never been viewed as the moral and
virtuous g man you know, straight out of college and
the guy you want your daughter to marry. They have
never been viewed that it was a bullshit propaganda, you know,
public relations campaign that cross dressing Hoover put on when
he was building the institution. It's not real. It was
never real. These are always have been very dirty people.

(45:01):
If you're non white, you should absolutely want these polaces
closed down. They've killed your civil rights leaders, they've imprisoned
your civil rights leaders. And now guess what, white people,
you're starting to see it too now. So nobody in
this country should even support these institutions being we didn't
need them for two hundred plus years, Sean, we did
not need them. We will survive without them. They haven't started.

(45:24):
They haven't stopped or prevented a single terrorist attack. That
statistic should bow everybody's mind. And it's only because A
Rand Paul, you know, investigating metadata club bulk metadata collection,
that we even know that they have not prevented a
single terrorist attack. Pulse nightclub shooter, all right, they knew
all about him.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
His father stood.

Speaker 4 (45:43):
Behind Hillary Clinton and rallies. All right, the sarniav Brothers
Russia putin. They're straw men that they hate so much.
Their boogeyman Sean warned us about the Sarnia of Brothers.
They did nothing. They're too busy climbing up telephone poles
outside of Trump Tower and all there are other political friends,
opponents so they can get dirt on them, or plotting

(46:04):
the assassination of some civil rights leader. They're too busy
doing that then doing their actual job. They need to go, period.
They're not. They are not even constitutional, like our founders
would be horrified by the idea of a federal police force.
They'd be terrified of that. They are not supposed to
have that kind of power, and with good reason. Look
at them, look at their behavior, and by the way.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
I mean they look, I mean they spied. They spied
on Muhammad Ali, right, they had m. J. Edgar Hoover
argued for putting political opponents over eleveny five hundred in prison,
putting them in tournament camps. You know about the Martin
Luther King blackmail suicide letter that a year later that

(46:49):
it was from it was from the FBI.

Speaker 4 (46:51):
But he sent the tape to his wife of him
cheating on her because he refused to be bullied into
not accepting the Nobel Peace Prize.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
Bro am on. It's like there's a long history of it.

Speaker 4 (47:05):
And then even then he ended up dead, by the way,
let's not forget that. Then the guy who wouldn't play ball,
he allowed his wife to get a cheap tape of
his infidelity rather than give in to the FBI. That's
a guy that just doesn't play ball. So what happens
he doesn't play ball with Hoover, he ends up with
a bullet in his brain. If you don't think that
was if you think somehow that was some rogue dude

(47:27):
and not them, you're an idiot. That's what they do
with people who don't play ball. If they can't get
him on something and put him in jail, they end
up in a grave.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
Come on, they can't. This can't be allowed. So he
shift gears with me to Pete hag Seth. His confirmation
hearing is coming up on the fourteenth. Yeah, everything that
I am hearing everything, I mean, this stuff could change
on a dime. But everything that I'm hearing is that
he has the Republican votes to get out of the
Armed Services Committee. Thune John Thune, who is now the

(48:00):
Senate Majority Leader, which by the way, all of his
interviews since taking over a Senate Majority leader have been
very solid, have been very impressed with him thus far.
So I'm cautiously optimistic on that front. But it seems
like Pete is going to have the votes to become
the new Secretary of Defense again, knock on wood. Anything
could happen.

Speaker 4 (48:19):
Yeah, I think.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
That, you know, And now the Democrats right now and
set the scene a little bit here for you, but
they're trying to build They've tried I think three or
four salvos of fake attacks against Pete that he's you know,
he's a crazy veteran that has anger issues. They tried that,
the natural assault stuff, they tried the lust show, he's

(48:41):
a drum. I mean, none of that is done. Of
the suff is true. And now they're pushing Elizabeth Warren.
She's out there saying, oh my gosh, you know, he
has a white supremacist tattoo on his body and that
makes him an insider threat, echoing the sentiments of some
you know, very very liberal master sergeant I think who

(49:02):
served with him in a National Guard.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
I mean, like absolutely crazy stuff.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
But what Pete has his tattoo is a Jerusalem Cross,
and all the Jerusalem Cross represents is Christ's sacrifice and
the mission to spread his gospel to the four corners
of the world. Pete's a Christian, and so what the
hell like this is not a white supremacist symbol this

(49:27):
idea that he's some sort of insider threat because he's
a Christian. I mean, on the surface, these attacks are
just stupid partisan attacks. But when you look deeper into them,
like they're legitimately attacking him for being a Christian, it's crazy.

Speaker 4 (49:42):
I was just gonna say, can we just call it
what it is? They're linking this like, you know, racism stuff,
and they're linking that to Christianity because they have always
linked that to Christianity because they hate Christianity. Can let
let's just call it what it is. Let's call it
spade a space. They just ran a woman who's not
a Christian for pre incident and didn't take a single
second to even discuss the faith of the candidate. For

(50:05):
good God, what a good This is the first presidential
election ever where the faith of the candidate was not
was not a matter of discussion and politicals. And that's
because her own mother has said that Kamala Harris does
not like Christianity, is not a Christian and has always
felt more connected to the Hindu faith if anything. If anything,

(50:26):
and by the way, that's perfectly fine. But yeah, all
that to the American public, then don't hide it and
pretend you're a Christian and go to black churches and
talk with a southern of southern right Christianity. Let's get
to this.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
This didn't dawn on me at all.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
I had never dawned on me one single time that
that she and neither did the media talk about her
faith at all.

Speaker 4 (50:56):
It's a great full time that woman has ever stepped
into a church is to talk to the archdiocese about
how much money it's going to take her not to
prosecute priests who can't keep their winkies in their robes
from the altar. Boys. Bro, that's the only time that
woman has ever stepped foot into a church? Are you
kidding me? And I'm look, man, that's not even a
like that's like an open secret in California.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
So, uh, you know, I mean, good on her, Good
on her for doing that. I mean, like we should
prosecute priests that do that. So she didn't is what
she didn't?

Speaker 4 (51:28):
She watch money from the archdiocese and she This is
for real that I didn't know it either until Peter
Sweitzer had done research on it and you could read it.
What's all about it?

Speaker 2 (51:39):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (51:40):
Bro? I wish I was joking. I am not kidding.
She's in It's in my library.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
I got the I got the book when he first
put it out a couple of years ago, and I
was like, this cannot be right. Looked into it, spoke
to certain people, and absolutely it is correct.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
Right.

Speaker 4 (51:56):
There's also stuff about her her dealings with planned parenthood,
in her role in the arrest and persecution of David
Deliden for being a journalist again a Christian right, a
Christian and a journalist who was who took issue with
planned parenthood, dissecting babies and selling off their baby body parts,
you know, I mean, like this is what she chose

(52:18):
to prosecute while she turned a blind eye at the
best of the archdiocese because they were they were trying
to avoid. Like, and she's not the only one. A
lot of prosecutors in this country were leaned on by
the Catholic Church, not the prosecute priests, that let them
deal with it in house. And she did, and she
did so. I mean, yeah, guys, I gotta get you that,

(52:40):
but you could just look it up. I mean, Peter
Sweitzer has you know, been like one of the best
guys to touch these Nobody wants to touch like we're
all supposed to like what be afraid of mentioning it?
Or isn't she the one who's supposed to be shamed?
You know, nobody on Fox would touch something like that,

(53:02):
Like you call yourself a journalist. Nobody looks into it.
It's got to come out in a Peter Schweitzer book,
which then gets what five minutes on Hannity and disappears.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
That's a good point, man, So what's your take on
on the hag Seth confirmation. I think for me, for me,
this is this is a very important like hag Seth
is very important.

Speaker 4 (53:24):
A huge the line in the sands.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
The line, it's it is, it is, it is.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
It is so important for the Senate to stand behind
him and send a damn message to the Uniparty, to
the deep state, to these lobbyists, to these special interests,
to the defense industrial complex that these fake bullshit stories
are not going to stop us from confirming our people.
I am so sick and tired here we are talked

(53:51):
about Pete but gg keg having zero qualifications other than bankruptcy. Well,
I mean, and like, there was never any act the
stories with him, There was never any question about confirming him.
I mean even some Republicans voted for him. So, but
the reverse is never true with Democrats. So Republicans have
got to stick together on this.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (54:12):
And by the way, you know, he was able to
not only tout his military service but dramatically exaggerated and
that didn't derail him. I mean he was borderline stolen
valor Sewan borderline stolen out. I mean he has made comments.
I mean, he certainly served and whatnot but I mean,
he made his service out to be something it wasn't

(54:32):
on numerous occasions. I don't know if i'd say as
bad as Tim Waltz, you know, but like still, and
nobody in the Republican conference stepped up and said, you
know what, I don't like that. It shows bad character. Nobody.
So this is a line in the sand because it
also speaks repete is to me, it speaks to meritocracy,

(54:52):
right versus this art and what Jefferson used to call
artificial aristocracy, natural aristocracy. We wanted to be a country
that really did promote those who were among the natural
ari aristocracy. God gave them gifts and their hard work
and dedication got them to a certain place. And you know,
we should recognize that, and the society should reward them

(55:15):
for that. Companies should reward them for government should reward
them for American public and the voters should see people
who want to step up and serve who we're like
that they should be. They should see it, recognize it,
and reward them for it with victories, right like winning
the election. And that's not what this country has been
run by. It's been run by an artificial aristocracy. God
could be a total moron like George W. Bush, but

(55:37):
his daddy can pull some strings get him into Yale.
You know, it doesn't matter if they catch him with
whatever they caught him with in the trunk in Maine.
He's going to get through. And like, nothing will derail
them because they're part of the artificial aristocracy and they
can't be touched. The defense industrial complex, military industrial complex.
They like them, so they keep them. No story will
smear them. But if someone like Pete steps forward and

(55:58):
he's not part of the club, they cannot be allowed
to just destroy him. Otherwise we will never have a
natural aristocracy. So that and of course the American public
did not vote for the same old, same old. They
didn't vote for that. They voted for somebody like Pete
to be an instrument of the president, you know, like
that's what they wanted Trump to do. And by the way,
I understand he does have the votes. We'll see once.

(56:20):
I feel like, if he gets out of committee, it's
going to be very difficult to stop his motivation, although
I do try. I do expect them to try something
like like a prairie parading a woman out or something
that like a last ditch effort. I would not be
surprised by that. But their their task is getting harder
because now it looks like RFK has the votes. Tulsi

(56:40):
looks and it's a problem.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
He met with Fetterman. Okay, yeah, look I.

Speaker 4 (56:47):
Would have met with Federman too. I would have too,
by the way.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
Yeah, well absolutely absolutely, and and and I'm telling you
if if he gets out of Armed Services, and it
looks like he's going to if Fedman, that's the thing
to watch. If one single Democrat votes for Pete or
really anybody else for that matter, there shouldn't be one
single Republican voting. No, not one, because now you get

(57:13):
a Democrat that's voting for a Republican nominee.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
If I mean, that essentially.

Speaker 1 (57:18):
Gives you political cover, not that not that it's needed,
not that it's needed, but for the spineless among them, yeah.

Speaker 2 (57:24):
Political cover. It's a bible part.

Speaker 4 (57:26):
They got defections over there. I cannot be seen to
be the one who breaks uh, you know, does the.

Speaker 5 (57:33):
Y.

Speaker 4 (57:34):
That's something that one of them can take back to
their donors on K Street and walls, you know, lobbys
on K Street, and say I can't help you here. Man,
they have a Democrat. He's got a Democrat, you know,
voting for him, crossing over and voting from Look, I
don't know what to make a Fetterman on that. On
another note, I feel like I don't trust him as
far as I al throw him by.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
Either he's he's I don't either, rich, but like.

Speaker 4 (57:59):
Somebody is genuine, Like I agree the other day he
and this is not the first time I've heard him
say this. I think it's just the first time I've
heard him make a similar comment, like on Fox News
or media like that. And he said, look, this is
why we lost. If we can't get one of us
or a few of us to vote for a bill
to stop illegal immigrants and deport illegal criminals. Yeah, we

(58:21):
can't get like this is why we have lost. Like
there's something very wrong with our party. This is not controversial,
Like in the state of Pennsylvania, this is not controversial.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
Like, I don't know why.

Speaker 4 (58:33):
You're like, it's a major disconnect from the American public. Now,
of course his political expediency happening there. But I do
feel like the real John Fetterman doesn't find it controversial
to want to have somebody like Pete egg Seth at
the Department of Defense or I.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
Mean he's said, straight up, I mean, we got our
asses kicked. This is how you know democracy works?

Speaker 2 (58:54):
Right now?

Speaker 4 (58:54):
Democracy works? Yeah, and he and he knew it too,
He knew it was coming. So it's but he has
no incentive to tow the party line and follow the bosses.
He doesn't because he was the one being. He was
like a Canarian the coal mine. We're gonna lose. Trump
is gonna win Pennsylvania. Like, what are you talking about?
He was there the entire time, Like, you guys have

(59:15):
got to pull your heads out of your stuck up
two way too far to the left asses and come
back to the center. And they didn't listen to them,
and look at them. Now, should have listen to people
like him and Carbold they'd been in a better position.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
Okay, so Rich, tell us where we can find you. Yep,
we everyone knows, but tell us anyway.

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Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
And I got to say, Commander Melanie and I we
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Speaker 4 (01:00:18):
Did you see some of them?

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
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Speaker 4 (01:00:29):
Isn't she such a beautiful woman? She's like she see
It's like, she's like, I don't know if I like
the pictures. I'm like, you are way better looking than me.
What is wrong with you? Like, I don't know if
I want you to put that out there because people
are gonna be like, what the hell is this woman
doing with him?

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
Well, we love the family pictures, my friend. Hopefully you
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Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
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