January 7, 2025 • 49 mins
Tonight, on Battleground LIVE, I talk about a major change in Facebook policy, why we should be wary of super wealthy leftists who come bearing gifts, President Trump’s breaking one major news story after the next, Adam Shifty Schiff is back at it again, Don Jr in Greenland, and what to expect with the up and coming Trump Cabinet confirmations.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Warning Europe about to enter the arena and join the Battle.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
To Save America with your host Sean Parnell.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Good evening, America, Welcome to battle Ground Live. This is
the show where we kick ass, and we take names
and we lockhorns with the radical left. We never quit,
we never surrender. From sea to shining Sea and everybody
in between. Welcome patriots on this glorious, glorious Tuesday. And
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really it is a glorious Tuesday because guess what we
have thirteen days until the Big Guy. Well, maybe we
shouldn't refer to him as the big guy. We know
who the big Guy is. That's corrupt. That's our corrupt,
animated corpse of a president and Joe Biden. How about
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we just say this, thirteen days until President Trump is
back in the White House. And folks, this guy is
already changing the world. I mean, look, he's doing a
lot of things. I'll just say this because we're gonna
get into all of this during the show today. I
was watching his press conference today when he announced this
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massive twenty billion dollar investment. And a company here is
investing twenty billion dollars to build data centers. I think
that's a net that's a great thing for America. I
want to see I want to see him bring jobs
back to this country and facilitate more investment into this country.
I want to get this economy going. I mean, the
question is who are going to hire at these data centers.
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We're gonna hire h one B visa holders or foreigners
we actually hire going to hire Americans. I mean, that's stuff.
Those are questions that are gonna be have to gonna
have to be asked down the road. But the point
is is that people feel comfortable, companies feel comfortable. CEOs
feel comfortable investing in America again, rather than keep their
money off shores in some Swiss bank account in a
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country with a lower corporate tax rate than America, I
think that's a good thing to keep that money in
our economy. It's funny, when I was running for office,
used to talk to CEOs, because that's how you meet
with CEOs. If they believe in your vision, maybe the
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CEO or maybe his executive team, maybe they'll invest money
into your campaign. And this is not the same as
like a special interest or a company. I don't think that.
I don't think I even took any corporate money. I
don't think as a candidate you're allowed to take corporate money.
I'm just saying. The point is you talk to people
who you don't run businesses to see what they think
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of the economy. And part of your job as a
candidate is to learn from those people. Learn about the businesses,
learn about how they make money, learn about their bottom lines,
learn about what you can do as a potential representative
to to do great things for them and advocate for them.
In Washington, and one of the things that a CEO
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of a steel manufacturing facility said to me was he
called it Obama time. You know, eight years of Obama time.
And I said, what do you mean by Obama time?
He said, well, those are the eight years in our
country where in this industry, whether it was steel manufacturing,
whether it was it was coal, whether it was natural gas,
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doesn't matter what it was, if it had anything to
do with American manufacturing, he said, during the eight years
of Barack Obama, they just marked time. In other words,
that's a military term for just marching and standing still,
but marching right. I think the point that he was
trying to make was that these companies didn't feel comfortable
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investing in their own infrastructure, investing in their own employees.
They were scared to hire more employees because the economic
conditions that Barack Obama set and the economic policies that
Barack Obama set for this country absolutely destroyed American manufacturing.
Is it wasn't great for it wasn't great for the
economy across the board, but it was especially hostile on
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American manufacturing. And so what a lot of these companies
did was just keep their money in a savings account.
And then President Trump gets in office, beat Hillary Clinton
for the first time, and all of a sudden, these
companies were able to take all that money and invest
it in new technology, invested in upgrading their facilities, invested
if you're working for steel manufacturing, new blast furnaces across
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the board, which which leads to safer working conditions. The
point is is that President Trump is convincing people not
just here in America CEOs here in America, but all
across the world that it's safe to invest in America again.
And that is a very very good thing. So a
couple we're going to talk about this Trump press conference
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because I talked to my commander Melanie, my wife, and
I said man. Every single time this guy does a
press conference, he breaks some really really earth shattering and
serious news. And I'm gonna tell you why all of
it is good for this country, because I maybe maybe
some people are wondering, Hey, what's going on with Panama,
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Why what's this going on with Canada? This Greenland stuff.
I'll see if we can explain this stuff then say,
we talk to you about why it's good for America
and why I appreciate Trump's view on these things. Let
me first just say I'm one of the OG members
of the Battle Crew. Her name is Demanda. She said,
make sure that you mentioned the song name, because I
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got the song that plays on Loop like we all
get in the live chat for folks who are listening
and watching for the first time. And by the way,
welcome to my good buddy Dan Nunn, who's the host
of the Nun Report. It's a great show here on Rumble.
If you're not following the Nun Report already and his nunchucks,
you should definitely go do that. Thank you for rating
the stream today. We see you, We appreciate you. Also.
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Mcgroy Nation. You all are the best, and of course
all of you make up the Battle Crew. I think
that might have been a high coup write that down. Anyways,
I think that she said mention that song that plays
on loop because we had some people asking, and the
song is called let Us Live By They Fall, let
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Us Live By They Fall. Now, I didn't actually know that.
It took Demanda reminding me of what reminding me of
what the song was called. You'd think that I would
know it, given that this is my show. But I
just heard a song, got the rights to it. I'm like,
the song's pretty damn cool. I think I'm gonna play
it on my loop. Never actually look who wrote it,
who sings it, what it was called. I just said
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this sounds pretty cool, and I selected it as my loop.
But thank you to those and the Battle Crew for
scaring me away as you usually do. Also had a
great dinner last night with our daughter Natalie again, she
turned fourteen. Took her out to dinner. Absolutely awesome. I
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can't believe how fast you know, these kids grow up.
It is absolutely unbelievable. She's fourteen going on forty five.
I mean, she's so mature. Actually, all my girls are
very mature. IM not saying that the boys aren't but
girls mature faster than boys. We all know that. And
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in fact, I think some of my girls think that
I haven't quite grown up yet. And that's okay, because
I probably have. I probably haven't fully grown up yet.
But you know, can I just say something about parenting
before we jump into all this craziness. Parenting really does
challenge you in some unique ways that I you know,
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I feel like you don't. You're not usually tracking at
the time you start growing your family. And I mean
I'm not talking about like kids getting in trouble. I mean,
maybe I'm talking about that, but not specifically about that here.
It's just that how kids, in many ways shape I mean,
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I think if you're a good parent, they shape a
lot of the decisions that you make as you try
to navigate this complex you know web that is parenting,
but you know, it's watching these kids grow up and
being around them, and you know, having to fight to
be a dad. I mean, I mean all of this.
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Look back on this stuff, and as tough as it was,
sometimes I consider it a blessing. And in many ways
it's still tough. You know, I don't think any father,
you know, I mean, any good father should have to
fight to see their children. And by the way, I'm
going to tell you right here, right now, we're going
to change that in Pennsylvania. We're going to change the law.
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I'm not going to go down this path this show,
I promise you, but we're going to change this law
and make sure that I just personally believe that kids should,
you know, if both parents want to be involved, if
both are good parents, they should have equal access to
both parents. Nevertheless, parenting is really challenges you in some
unique ways, and I think when it's all said and done,
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I'm grateful for those challenges because iron sharpens iron, and
I think that they make us stronger. In the end,
we look back on our lives and we learn, maybe
sometimes in retrospect, that those challenges teach you something about life,
about who you are, about who your kid is. And
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I think that's a good thing, even if we don't
understand it in the moment. Okay, so before we get
into this, we're going to talk about the Republicans. The
Lake and Riley Act was voted on in the House
Force today. It went good, but I got some stuff
to talk about about that, and then we're gonna get
into this Trump Prince conference where he broke just a
ton of news. But I see a lot of people
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on social media talking about the Panama Canal, the Greenland stuff,
the Canada stuff, and I'm saying, I get where they're
coming from completely by the way where they say, you know,
I maybe I'm questioning how this makes America better, not
being critical of what Trump is saying, but just wondering, like,
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is how does this help us? And I think it's
a legitimate question. I think, like and I've also seen
other people out there saying, talking specifically about Greenland in
this instance, hey, if green if Denmark doesn't stop messing around,
we're going to take them next to And of course
when I saw that somebody posted that on x I
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started laughing because you know, they were in jest, but
it got me thinking. The comment got me thinking, and
that was, you know, I think that Americans just want
America to win again, and they want America to win
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again unapologetically. You know, for a time when I grew up,
I mean in this, I mean, it seemed like anytime
America was involved in an Olympics, whether it was summer
or winter, we just dominated everything we did and we
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were unapologetic about it. We didn't care. We just won.
That's what we did as Americans were filled with grit
and determination and resolve and toughness, in a never quit attitude,
like if you get knocked down, you get back up again.
This is part of who we are. We're competitors, we're
rugged individualists. And I don't know if it's just me,
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but it certainly seems like along the way we've lost that.
Not all of us, but many Americans have maybe lost
that cutting edge, lost that you know, relentless determination, that
the competitive spirit. And I do really think that what
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Trump is representing now, beyond just the policies in and
of themselves, is America coming back and unapologetically winning. I mean,
think about just even the movies from the eighties and
even the nineties, Like I mean, the eighties gave us,
in the nineties gave us Sylvester Stallone, they gave us,
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you know, Steven Sagal, Arnold Swarzenegrebo. He's a dirt ball
lib who's not really from America. But the point is
he played big, tough, strong American action hero. And I
feel like, while some of that's making a comeback, we're
not quite there yet. Bruce Willis was another one, die Hard,
I mean, one of my favorite movies of all time.
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But I think people just want to see America win.
And I think when Trump starts talking about the Panama Canal,
people see it as a win. When people start talking about,
oh yeah, this is this is what we do as Americans.
You know, we talk about Greenland, makes us stronger, makes
us better. Hey, that's a win. Talking to Canada, who's
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taking advantage of us for decades now, both in their
trade and the over reliance on American military might to
protect them from Russia and China. Hey, you're done taking
advantage of us. I think that's what the core of
all this is is about President Trump sending a strong message.
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You know, we're talking about Canada, Greenland, and Panama Canal now.
And you know, President Trump also issued in this press
conference today a very strong statement about the Americans held
hostage by Hamas and said if they aren't released by
the time he walks into office, all hell is gonna
break loose in the Middle East. But folks, my fellow Americans,
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there is something, There is a common thread here that
runs through each in every one of those statements and
it is a finger in the chest of America's allies,
a finger in the chest of America's enemies, and saying
the time of taking advantage of America is over. It
ends now. I'm not even president yet, but it ends now.
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And I like that. I like that. And do you
remember just the movie American Sniper. Let me come over
here to the live chat. While I do it, make
sure you smash that like button, that little green thumb
beneath the video. You guys remember the movie. If you
all seen the movie American Sniper, do you remember that movie?
It was met with meteoric success. And if you think
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back to that time, do you remember Michael Moore, the
liberal Hollywood producer who started attacking Chris Kyle. And I
mean it made it just through Americans, you know, into
an uproar because you know, Chris Kyle, his nickname was
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the Legend, did great things for the for this country.
You know, that movie was wildly successful. I think because
the American people want to know through any means necessary,
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they want to they want to watch movies that celebrate
the greatness of this country. They would have knowned that
it's okay to feel patriotic about America. They want to
see positive military stories told We're the biggest, baddest nation
on the face of the planet. Damn it. Let's make
movies that showcase that. And I think American Sniper did that.
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And it was one of those movies that just became
woven into the fabric of this country. And it exceeded
all expectations at the box office, made way more than
it cost to actually make, and it was profitable because
people came away. While the film itself had a tragic
ending as it retained to Chris's life, the movie made
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you feel proud to be an American. And I think
people just talking about the things that I know, and
that's the American military, think about how Hollywood has really
done a grave disservice to our military warriors. And I
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mean this, You know how I feel about the warrior
class here in America. I don't care what branch you know,
Coast Guard, Air Force, Marine, corp, Army, doesn't matter, Space Force. Now,
I think I got all the branches, but my point
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is the warrior class is exceptional. I believe that they
are America's most precious natural resource. You've heard me say it.
A million times on this show. They are the best
of us. We should not frivolously throw them into to
forever wars and throw them into the meat grinder. Diplomacy
and the pursuit of peace should always be on the table.
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This is what I appreciate about Donald Trump, his love
and appreciation of the war fighter, the people who keep
this country safe. Think about the systematic destruction of warrior
culture as perceived by the American media. Almost every single movie,
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if it's popular, is about a broken veteran in some way.
If it's a veteran type movies, what I mean, you know,
almost everyone or always broken by his experience.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Of the war.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Oh look he's he's got PTSD. He's broken, he's struggling,
he's a powder keg, or he's depressed, or he's got PTSD.
Oh look he's you know, an hour away from climbing
a bell tower with a sniper rifle. I mean, these
stereotypes that Hollywood puts out about America's veterans, especially those
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who have fought in twenty plus years of war. But
not just US, but Vietnam veterans, Korean War veterans, every
generation of American veterans, this stuff is harmful to our community.
And you see it play out even in veteran monuments.
I'm not talking all of them, but most of them
have veterans like looking all sad, holding up their holding
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their chest and looking up to the sky, looking out,
looking all forlorn. And I think to myself, and I
think to myself, you know, stop making us look like victims.
I volunteered to protect and defend this country. I'm a volunteer.
I'm not a victim. Even though my combat experience was hell,
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I would volunteer to do it again. You know, So
these monuments, jeez, pain of military veteran. You know, on
an EE with his rifle at the ready, pulling security.
That sends a message to every other veteran that hey,
there are still other missions out there. America still needs you.
So take an EE, drink water, stay in the fight.
But I mean this is just one example of the
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United States military. I mean, Hollywood does this. There is
a systematic movement in this country, Hollywood, the media, our
you know, our our education system that does nothing but
guilt people for loving this country. And it starts at
a very young age. I mean a lot of these
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history courses are selected to cover things, you know, you know,
bad parts of American history, you know, maybe things that
we're not too proud of. But again, what makes America
truly exceptional is that we always seek to write the ship.
That's why we're different than everybody else. And I think
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with Trump he represents something different. With Trump, he represents
in America that is proud and unapologetically so that's not
afraid to win. I think this is what he means.
This is what he means by America is going to
win again. You're gonna do so much winning, You're gonna
be tough. I mean, this is what he means. And
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I think this this I don't think. I know this
is the core of many of his statements and why
he's talking in the way that he does. The way
an American president speaks can change the world. And I'll
tell you this, Democrat or Republican, if a Democrat president,
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and I'm being I don't think this will ever happen,
but I'm trying to be I'm not. I'm being intellectually
honest here. If a Democrat president got up at the
podium and talked about loving America and hey, we're gonna
be strong in the world, and we're gonna kick ass,
and we're gonna take names, and nobody's gonna take advantage
of us anymore. I mean, I might not agree with
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that guy. I certainly wouldn't agree with him on the
vast majority of things. But okay, at least we start
from a place of loving America. You know, these liberals today,
these Democrats today, it doesn't feel like they love America anymore.
I mean, hell, in some of these liberal areas, you
can't even fly an American flag without being labeled some
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sort of white supremacist. As There's been a movement, yes,
a movement on the on the liberal side of the aisle,
to make the American flags some sort of racist symbol.
It's it's insane to me. Okay. So today Republicans wasted
no time passing the Lake and Riley Act. They passed
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it two sixty four to one point fifty nine. The
bill basically mandates that illegal aliens charged with crimes have
to be detained and then queued up for deportation. I mean,
I think it's a very reasonable thing. If you come
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to this country illegally, you've already broken one crime Frankly,
that should be enough to detain you and deport you.
I mean seriously, and again for first time listeners, because
we've got a lot of first time listeners. We're getting
a lot of first time listeners every day, a lot
of first time viewers joining us for the live show
here on Rumble. The left is very sinister when they
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talk about immigration. I'm just recapping my thoughts on this.
For people who might be joining us for the first time.
They conflate legal immigration with legal immigration, and they try
to kick up all sorts of dust to make it
out to seem like Republicans are against legal immigration. I mean,
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of course we're not. We have a system that lets
in millions of legal immigrants every single year. They come here,
they assimilate, they go through a process, it takes years.
By the time it's done. They really really really appreciate
being an American, I mean not. I mean most of
us are cool with that. Frankly, immigration has gotten so
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out of control, not legal immigration, but because of illegal immigration,
that I think there is merit to a discussion, a
discussion anyway about some sort of a pause on legal
immigration as well, until we can get this situation under control.
I just think at this point it's common sense when
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you look at how many millions and millions of illegal
a million invaders have come into this country, not just
during the last three years, but you know, this really
started under Obama's administration, where they open the floodgates at
our southern border. I mean, there are probably twenty thirty
million illegal aliens here in this country, and that is
just too much to bear, especially when you consider the
economic implications, the national security implications. We saw what happened
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in Louisiana last week. Cannot let that stuff happen as
is one person. Look at the damage that one person did.
Obviously this guy is from Texas but was radicalized by ISIS,
so it's a little bit more complicated than that. But
the point is we still face a grave asymmetric threat
and having a wide open southern border does nothing but
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exasperate that threat. It's not a good thing. And so
the House Republicans passed the bill. One hundred and fifty
nine Democrats voted against the Lake and Riley Act. One
hundred and fifty nine Democrats vot voted against the Lake
and Riley Act. Lake and Riley, of course, was a
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Georgia college student murdered by an illegal alien. And if
you read the story about how she was murdered, boy,
I'm trying to find the words. To say that it
was horrifying is an understatement because Lake and Riley fought
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for her life until the very last second. Her death
was preventable. Any American who dies at the hands of
an illegal alien invader, their deaths are preventable. Shouldn't happen
here in America. These deaths can be laid at the Democrat,
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at the feet of the Democrat Party. And look you
see one hundred and fifty nine Democrats vote against justice
for Lake and Riley. But prior to that, on Friday,
as I was down in Washington at the Senate swearing in,
I was watching Mike Johnson's speaker, Mike Johnson's speech after
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he won the speakership on the first vote, and he
mentioned something about deporting criminal illegal aliens, because that's the
starting point, right there has to be a deportation operation
here in this country. Got to start deporting people that
come here legally and incentivizing an actual, real life immigration system.
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But he said, we're going to deport criminal illegal aliens
Republicans erupted in applause. No Democrats clapped. Doesn't that tell
you everything that you need to know about this Democrat Party.
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I mean, honest to God, it's it's absolutely unbelievable. And
what the Democrats do is they constantly they do what
they do. They take an issue like say illegal immigration
that is just devastating to this country, just devastating to
this country economically from national security standpoint, across the board,
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a net negative for America. Again, no one has opposed
to legal immigration where there's a system in a structure
and assimilation and people who want to become American citizens
and love the Constitution. But the Democrats are experts at
kicking up dust and conflating an issue. And one of
the things that they do is they never accept blame
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for anything. If their policies led to something that is
detrimental for America, they don't accept blame. They deny blame,
They accuse you of something, and then they cite some
other bullshit thing to kick up all this dust. And
what they do is effectively conflate issues and then point
the fan. Listen to Jamie Raskin, who's a radical leftist
Democrat in the House of Representatives talking about the Lake
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and Riley Act, which again passed, but one hundred and
fifty nine Democrats voted against it, like real common sense
stuff like detain criminals put them on a path for deportation.
Listen to listen to how Raskin goes after the Lake
and Riley Act. Just just listen to this. It's crazy,
it's sinister. It should be rejected.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Don't be lectured by our colleague that we don't stand
up for the American people. The author of this legislation
actually yesterday sent out a tweet social media statement characterizing
the January sixth violent assault on this chamber.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
See there, it is never mind ten plus illegal alien
ten plus million. More than that, more like twenty million,
probably thirty million illegal alien invaders in this country. We
don't know who they are. It's absolutely a national emergency.
This guy doesn't address that, but points the finger at Republicans.
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And you guessed at January sixth, where.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
One hundred and forty officers were wounded, injured, and hospitalized
by a rampaging mob. This way, on this day in
history twenty twenty one, said the gentleman. Thousands of peaceful
grandmothers gathered in Washington, DC to take a self guided,
albeit unauthorized tour of the US Capitol building. I like
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that touch, albeit unauthorized. Earlier that day, President Trump held
a rally where supporters walked to the Capitol to peacefully
protest the certification of the twenty twenty election. During this time,
some individuals entered the Capitol, took photos and explored the
building before leaving. Well, isn't that suite? We see exactly
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how much faith and confidence they really have in the
American criminal justice system and how much they really stand
on the side of law enforcement. Yeah, it was just
a leisurely strolled by a bunch of peaceful grandmothers on
January sixth. Then these are the people that now are
inviting us to dramatically change the immigration laws without even
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hearing as to what it's going to mean in any
particular case.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Okay, dramatically change immigration laws. All we're trying to do
is detained with this bill. B see kicks up the dust. Oh,
they want to dramatically change immigration laws, and so an
inexperienced debater would debate this Democrat on that point. Oh no,
that's not what we want to do they kick up dust,
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They get you to engage in straw men. This bill
has nothing to do with with changing, you know, immigration law.
It's just simply about enforcing the law that already exists
in fast tracking deportation should an legal alien invader be
convicted of a crime. It's common sense and ultimately, I listen,
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I don't think, at least in the short term, that
these lies are gonna be as effective as they were
in Trump's first term. I know, maybe you're thinking this
is an optimistic view. I have no faith in the media.
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They're all a bunch of hypocrite liars. I'm talking about
the corporate media. Establishment media like ABC just completely lost,
but also CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC is about to be sold,
about to go under. All of these news organizations are
hemorrhaging their audience because people don't trust them anymore. People
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like Dan Bongino and a lot of these independent content
creators have a far bigger audience than CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC,
I mean same truth, Megan Kelly and others. So if
their audience is bleeding away, so too where their power
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to push fake narratives. And therein lies the genius of Trump.
And this is what I'm getting to. Trump has done
an amazing job at threatening is the wrong word, but
putting pressure on these social media companies to just simply
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embrace free speech and allow for the open exchange of ideas.
If an idea sucks and it's horrible and it's racist
and terrible and evil, what I would rather see that
statement with my own two eyes, identify who says it,
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so I know that that could write that person off forever,
and let the marketplace of ideas reject something that have
it be censored. That's the great gift. That is the
great gift of the United States Constitution. The First Amendment
was intended for a moral American people, and I still
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contend that by and large the American people are good.
They know right when they see it. So let this
stuff be debated, even the crazy. And Trump has done
a great job at putting pressure on social media companies
to simply embrace the First Amendment, and so to his
Elon Musk. Elon Musk has also done a great job
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in many ways. He's led the charge here. But look
at what Zuckerberg. Of course, Zuckerberg owns Facebook and Zuckerberg
owns Instagram. Look at the video that he put out
this morning. This was dominating the news cycle earlier today
and people have been talking about it ever since. Check
this out.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
I want to talk about something important today because it's
time to get back to our roots around free expression
on Facebook and Instagram. I started building social media to
give people a voice. I gave a speech at Georgetown
five years ago about the importance of protecting free expression.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
By the way, I don't trust this, Okay, neither should you.
Zuckerberg has been He's been terrible to the America First Movement.
Me helped rig the election in twenty twenty four Biden,
no doubt about it. Always be wary of rich leftists
who come bearing gifts. The reason why I warn you
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to be wary is it because as conservatives we are forgiving.
As conservatives, we tend to welcome people into our circle,
acknowledging that, hey we don't agree on everything, but hey,
you're welcome, right, That's what we do with the Big
Ten Party. That's that's part of who we are. Be
wary of rich liberals, rich elitist liberals coming to bear
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gifts like this because Mark Zuckerberg has never really embraced
free speech. He's doing it now because Trump put pressure
on him, so we shouldn't. I mean, look, trust is earned.
I'm not saying rejected outright in perpetuity, but just be cautious.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
And I still believe this today. But a lot has
happened over the last several years. There's been widespread debate
about potential harms from online content. Governments and legacy media
have pushed to censor more and more. A lot of
this is clearly political, but there's also a lot of
legitimately bad stuff out there. Drugs, terrorism, child exploitation. These
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are things that we take very seriously and I want
to make sure that we handle responsibly. So we built
a lot of complex systems to moderate content. But the
problem with complex systems is they make mistakes. Even if
they accidentally censor just one percent of posts, that's millions
of people, and we've reached a point where it's just
too many mistakes and too much censorship. The recent election
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actions also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once
again prioritizing speech. So we're gonna get back to our
roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and
restoring free expression on our platforms.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Okay, so that's a good thing, but he says, right there,
this election is what caused me to think this way.
So again, on one hand, it's a good if you're
giving him grace, and I think we all should, you know, trust,
but verify trust has to be earned. But he's saying, hey,
you know, the election got me thinking that, like maybe
we're doing it wrong. But it could also be looked
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at as like, hey, there's an election. Trump has power
and I don't want I'm coming after me, right, So
just just again listen.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
More specifically, here's what we're gonna do. First, we're going
to get rid of fact checkers and replace them with
community notes similar to X starting in the US. Good
after Trump first got elected in twenty sixteen, the legacy
media wrote NonStop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy.
We tried, in good faith to address those concerns without
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becoming the arbiters of truth. But the fact checkers have
just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust
than they've created.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Especially in the US. That's correct.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
So over the next couple of months, we're going to
phase in a more comprehensive community notes system. Second, we're
going to simplify our content policies and get rid of
a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender
that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse. What
started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly
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been used to shut down opinions and shut out people
with different ideas, and it's gone too far. So I
want to make sure that people can share their beliefs
and experiences on our platforms. Third, we're changing how we
enforce our policies to reduce the mistakes that account for
the vast majority of censorship on our platforms. We used
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to have filters that scanned for any policy violation. Now
we're going to focus those filters on tackling illegal and
high severity violations, and for lower severity violations, we're going
to rely on someone reporting an issue before we take action.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Okay, I can't listen to anymore, but the point is,
like removing fact checkers is a big deal, and removing
the filters on immigration in the transgender insanity is a
big deal. Let's see what happens. Let's see if that
algorithm changes. But let me tell you or I'll talk
about it from a political angle. The general rule of
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thumb or what people used to say back in the day,
and I think this is still generally true, is that
elections aren't one on X or Twitter. The vast majority
of America still isn't on X. While the platform is
growing like Gangbusters and Elon Musk has attracted a lot
of new users who want free speech. I mean, I
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think the phrase continues to ring true, and that is
elections are not one on X. The vast majority of
voters are on Facebook. So if Mark Zuckerberg is telling
the truth, we should know relatively quickly if anything has changed.
But this is a net positive for conservatives, and part
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of the reason you might be thinking, like, well, Sean,
why are you optimistic about this? This seems kinda I
don't trust him. I don't either. I've already said this,
I've already said this to you. But it's how the
media has reacted to it that kind of gives me
a sense that Zuckerberg is serious. And then also Mark
Zuckerberg adding Dana White, the CEO of the Ultimate Fighting Championship,
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to the board on meta I think has the media,
the corporate media pretty scared. I mean, look at this headline.
This is the New York Times. I mean, actually, if
I just didn't show you who who wrote it. The
headline says metas as fact checkers or the problem. Fact
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checkers rule that is false. This could be a headline
from the Babylon Bee or some other political satire website.
For God's sake, Meta says fact checkers were the problem.
Factcheckers rule that that was false. You know the problems
that I've had with fact checkers. They're all partisan hacks.
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Savage Rich Barris and I have talked about this at
nauseum on the show. I mean, by the way, Savage
Rich Barris, he's confirmed for tomorrow, He's back in the saddle.
So tomorrow, Savage Wednesday, make sure make sure you're here
for Savage Wednesday. But yes, Savage Rich Barris on deck
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for tomorrow, so make sure you're there. Sorry, got lost
my train of thought. Had a phone call coming in
the middle of the show. This, I think is a
net good This is a good thing for conservatives. And
it wasn't just The New York Times freak out about it. CNN.
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CNN talked about it. Potato Brian Stelter and Jim Acosta,
listen to this. It gets to this.
Speaker 5 (41:08):
Broader sense that when people like zucker Elon Musk, or
mar Zuckerberg talk about free speech, everybody wants pre speech,
but it oftentimes seems that these tech CEOs actually are
favoring or preferring a certain kind of speech. Right, They're
favoring their own speech or their own political preferences, and
not the actual entire user or the community's speech. You know,
(41:30):
the changes announced by Meta today are very much a
Maga makeover, a pro Trump makeover, and that's gonna win
Medico conservative users, but it may repel some liberals. That's
the same thing we've seen happen on Elon Musk's X.
He's turned into more of a right wing platform where
he's pro free speech when it's really pro Musk or
pro Trump speech.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
All Right, I'm sorry. It's just kind of amazing that
here you have CNN, Acosta and Brian Stelter attacking you know,
social media CEOs, which, by the way, Zuckerberg helped break
the twenty twenty election in favor of Biden and was
centering America first conservatives all along the way, and then
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Twitter as well, you remember they kicked President Trump off
of Twitter for talking after January sixth, telling people to
go home peacefully. I mean Jack Dorsey, in charge of
Twitter at the time, did some crazy, crazy things in
centering America first Conservatives. So they're talking as if none
of this happened, and they're attacking musk In Zuckerberg for
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simply embracing again I don't trust Zuckerberg, but embracing freedom
of speech. And here's all we want, folks. This is
the most important part. And I touched on this leading
into the segment. All we want is a marketplace of
ideas where people can share their opinions. That's it. Nobody
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wants censorship on our side of the aisle. If it's
a bad idea, let it stand the test of the marketplace.
If the idea sucks, then I trust the American people
to discard it. I trust my own judgment. You should too.
Shouldn't want these big tech oligarchs telling you what's okay
and what's not okay. To look at what people like
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they want everybody that disagrees with them completely canceled, shutdown,
censored so that they can have a monopoly on the narrative.
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seven to two Patriot. So Trump is at his press
conference today. I'm watching it live. I cannot believe how
much news this guy is breaking in one one hour
press conference. Meanwhile, Biden can't even do a five minute
press conference. It really is stunning that our country has
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been able to withstand the damage of four years of
Joe Biden in company in the White House. It's stunning
to me. It actually is a testament to the resiliency
of America. But what got my attention was in this
press conference with regards to Trump, was just how clear
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it was that he loved America and how serious he
is about making this country great again. Listen to Trump
about making things in the USA.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
By four times more than any other president cut We
did that in four years, and we were just getting started.
We'll impose new tariffs so that the products on our
stores will once again be stamped with those beautiful words
made in the USA, and we are not treated well
as you know by Canada. Canada is subsidized to the
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tune of about two hundred billion.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
I mean, so there he's talking about made in the USA. Look,
people get fired up about this because they say, well,
they say, we'll have to pay more for stuff if
it's all made in America. And that might be true.
But let me ask you, battle crew jumping over here
(47:00):
to the live chat because I want to hear from you.
Would you be willing I know times are tough, but
would you be willing to pay a little extra for
things if there was a guarantee that everything that you
bought was made in America? If we can figure that out.
I mean, obviously we're not going to flip a switch
and make that happen overnight. But I know, for me,
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I prefer buying things that are made in America. And
I think where Trump is coming from here the whole
point of made in America. Let's look a look at
everyone saying yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, I mean like
this is yeah, okay, so this is a good thing.
I think most of us here are America first. Most
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of us here want to see America thrive, want American
jobs to come back. Want small towns will start thriving again.
And if we've got to pay a little bit extra
to chip in to have that, it's okay. But there
are also national secus ccurity implications here, like steel manufacturing
our own steel. You know, we build aircraft carriers here
(48:09):
in America with all American steel because we don't trust
other countries to send us steel to build our warships with.
And of course it makes sense. And a lot of
these weaknesses, the chinks in the armor you could call them,
were really highlighted during COVID. Why is the vast majority
of antibiotic production happen in China? That gives China an
(48:37):
enormous amount of leverage against the USA in the event
of an actual pandemic or in the event that Americans
actually need antibiotics. If they're producing them all there, China
just says, we'll screw you. You're not getting them, we're
not sending them. We want America to suffer. And so
this is why it's important to produce things here. We
don't want to give countries leverage over us if we
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produce things over there. Now, look, doing that allows us
to pay less money for things at the store. But
if it's good for our country, if it's good for
our economy, it's good for national security, and it actually
puts our enemies in a tough spot. So be it.
I'll pay a couple extra bucks to have it made
in America.
Warning Europe about to enter the arena and join the Battle.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
To Save America with your host Sean Parnell.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Good evening, America, Welcome to battle Ground Live. This is
the show where we kick ass, and we take names
and we lockhorns with the radical left. We never quit,
we never surrender. From sea to shining Sea and everybody
in between. Welcome patriots on this glorious, glorious Tuesday. And
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really it is a glorious Tuesday because guess what we
have thirteen days until the Big Guy. Well, maybe we
shouldn't refer to him as the big guy. We know
who the big Guy is. That's corrupt. That's our corrupt,
animated corpse of a president and Joe Biden. How about
(00:56):
we just say this, thirteen days until President Trump is
back in the White House. And folks, this guy is
already changing the world. I mean, look, he's doing a
lot of things. I'll just say this because we're gonna
get into all of this during the show today. I
was watching his press conference today when he announced this
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massive twenty billion dollar investment. And a company here is
investing twenty billion dollars to build data centers. I think
that's a net that's a great thing for America. I
want to see I want to see him bring jobs
back to this country and facilitate more investment into this country.
I want to get this economy going. I mean, the
question is who are going to hire at these data centers.
(01:41):
We're gonna hire h one B visa holders or foreigners
we actually hire going to hire Americans. I mean, that's stuff.
Those are questions that are gonna be have to gonna
have to be asked down the road. But the point
is is that people feel comfortable, companies feel comfortable. CEOs
feel comfortable investing in America again, rather than keep their
money off shores in some Swiss bank account in a
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country with a lower corporate tax rate than America, I
think that's a good thing to keep that money in
our economy. It's funny, when I was running for office,
used to talk to CEOs, because that's how you meet
with CEOs. If they believe in your vision, maybe the
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CEO or maybe his executive team, maybe they'll invest money
into your campaign. And this is not the same as
like a special interest or a company. I don't think that.
I don't think I even took any corporate money. I
don't think as a candidate you're allowed to take corporate money.
I'm just saying. The point is you talk to people
who you don't run businesses to see what they think
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of the economy. And part of your job as a
candidate is to learn from those people. Learn about the businesses,
learn about how they make money, learn about their bottom lines,
learn about what you can do as a potential representative
to to do great things for them and advocate for them.
In Washington, and one of the things that a CEO
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of a steel manufacturing facility said to me was he
called it Obama time. You know, eight years of Obama time.
And I said, what do you mean by Obama time?
He said, well, those are the eight years in our
country where in this industry, whether it was steel manufacturing,
whether it was it was coal, whether it was natural gas,
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doesn't matter what it was, if it had anything to
do with American manufacturing, he said, during the eight years
of Barack Obama, they just marked time. In other words,
that's a military term for just marching and standing still,
but marching right. I think the point that he was
trying to make was that these companies didn't feel comfortable
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investing in their own infrastructure, investing in their own employees.
They were scared to hire more employees because the economic
conditions that Barack Obama set and the economic policies that
Barack Obama set for this country absolutely destroyed American manufacturing.
Is it wasn't great for it wasn't great for the
economy across the board, but it was especially hostile on
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American manufacturing. And so what a lot of these companies
did was just keep their money in a savings account.
And then President Trump gets in office, beat Hillary Clinton
for the first time, and all of a sudden, these
companies were able to take all that money and invest
it in new technology, invested in upgrading their facilities, invested
if you're working for steel manufacturing, new blast furnaces across
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the board, which which leads to safer working conditions. The
point is is that President Trump is convincing people not
just here in America CEOs here in America, but all
across the world that it's safe to invest in America again.
And that is a very very good thing. So a
couple we're going to talk about this Trump press conference
(04:57):
because I talked to my commander Melanie, my wife, and
I said man. Every single time this guy does a
press conference, he breaks some really really earth shattering and
serious news. And I'm gonna tell you why all of
it is good for this country, because I maybe maybe
some people are wondering, Hey, what's going on with Panama,
(05:18):
Why what's this going on with Canada? This Greenland stuff.
I'll see if we can explain this stuff then say,
we talk to you about why it's good for America
and why I appreciate Trump's view on these things. Let
me first just say I'm one of the OG members
of the Battle Crew. Her name is Demanda. She said,
make sure that you mentioned the song name, because I
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got the song that plays on Loop like we all
get in the live chat for folks who are listening
and watching for the first time. And by the way,
welcome to my good buddy Dan Nunn, who's the host
of the Nun Report. It's a great show here on Rumble.
If you're not following the Nun Report already and his nunchucks,
you should definitely go do that. Thank you for rating
the stream today. We see you, We appreciate you. Also.
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Mcgroy Nation. You all are the best, and of course
all of you make up the Battle Crew. I think
that might have been a high coup write that down. Anyways,
I think that she said mention that song that plays
on loop because we had some people asking, and the
song is called let Us Live By They Fall, let
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Us Live By They Fall. Now, I didn't actually know that.
It took Demanda reminding me of what reminding me of
what the song was called. You'd think that I would
know it, given that this is my show. But I
just heard a song, got the rights to it. I'm like,
the song's pretty damn cool. I think I'm gonna play
it on my loop. Never actually look who wrote it,
who sings it, what it was called. I just said
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this sounds pretty cool, and I selected it as my loop.
But thank you to those and the Battle Crew for
scaring me away as you usually do. Also had a
great dinner last night with our daughter Natalie again, she
turned fourteen. Took her out to dinner. Absolutely awesome. I
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can't believe how fast you know, these kids grow up.
It is absolutely unbelievable. She's fourteen going on forty five.
I mean, she's so mature. Actually, all my girls are
very mature. IM not saying that the boys aren't but
girls mature faster than boys. We all know that. And
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in fact, I think some of my girls think that
I haven't quite grown up yet. And that's okay, because
I probably have. I probably haven't fully grown up yet.
But you know, can I just say something about parenting
before we jump into all this craziness. Parenting really does
challenge you in some unique ways that I you know,
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I feel like you don't. You're not usually tracking at
the time you start growing your family. And I mean
I'm not talking about like kids getting in trouble. I mean,
maybe I'm talking about that, but not specifically about that here.
It's just that how kids, in many ways shape I mean,
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I think if you're a good parent, they shape a
lot of the decisions that you make as you try
to navigate this complex you know web that is parenting,
but you know, it's watching these kids grow up and
being around them, and you know, having to fight to
be a dad. I mean, I mean all of this.
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Look back on this stuff, and as tough as it was,
sometimes I consider it a blessing. And in many ways
it's still tough. You know, I don't think any father,
you know, I mean, any good father should have to
fight to see their children. And by the way, I'm
going to tell you right here, right now, we're going
to change that in Pennsylvania. We're going to change the law.
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I'm not going to go down this path this show,
I promise you, but we're going to change this law
and make sure that I just personally believe that kids should,
you know, if both parents want to be involved, if
both are good parents, they should have equal access to
both parents. Nevertheless, parenting is really challenges you in some
unique ways, and I think when it's all said and done,
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I'm grateful for those challenges because iron sharpens iron, and
I think that they make us stronger. In the end,
we look back on our lives and we learn, maybe
sometimes in retrospect, that those challenges teach you something about life,
about who you are, about who your kid is. And
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I think that's a good thing, even if we don't
understand it in the moment. Okay, so before we get
into this, we're going to talk about the Republicans. The
Lake and Riley Act was voted on in the House
Force today. It went good, but I got some stuff
to talk about about that, and then we're gonna get
into this Trump Prince conference where he broke just a
ton of news. But I see a lot of people
(10:07):
on social media talking about the Panama Canal, the Greenland stuff,
the Canada stuff, and I'm saying, I get where they're
coming from completely by the way where they say, you know,
I maybe I'm questioning how this makes America better, not
being critical of what Trump is saying, but just wondering, like,
(10:28):
is how does this help us? And I think it's
a legitimate question. I think, like and I've also seen
other people out there saying, talking specifically about Greenland in
this instance, hey, if green if Denmark doesn't stop messing around,
we're going to take them next to And of course
when I saw that somebody posted that on x I
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started laughing because you know, they were in jest, but
it got me thinking. The comment got me thinking, and
that was, you know, I think that Americans just want
America to win again, and they want America to win
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again unapologetically. You know, for a time when I grew up,
I mean in this, I mean, it seemed like anytime
America was involved in an Olympics, whether it was summer
or winter, we just dominated everything we did and we
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were unapologetic about it. We didn't care. We just won.
That's what we did as Americans were filled with grit
and determination and resolve and toughness, in a never quit attitude,
like if you get knocked down, you get back up again.
This is part of who we are. We're competitors, we're
rugged individualists. And I don't know if it's just me,
(11:53):
but it certainly seems like along the way we've lost that.
Not all of us, but many Americans have maybe lost
that cutting edge, lost that you know, relentless determination, that
the competitive spirit. And I do really think that what
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Trump is representing now, beyond just the policies in and
of themselves, is America coming back and unapologetically winning. I mean,
think about just even the movies from the eighties and
even the nineties, Like I mean, the eighties gave us,
in the nineties gave us Sylvester Stallone, they gave us,
(12:39):
you know, Steven Sagal, Arnold Swarzenegrebo. He's a dirt ball
lib who's not really from America. But the point is
he played big, tough, strong American action hero. And I
feel like, while some of that's making a comeback, we're
not quite there yet. Bruce Willis was another one, die Hard,
I mean, one of my favorite movies of all time.
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But I think people just want to see America win.
And I think when Trump starts talking about the Panama Canal,
people see it as a win. When people start talking about,
oh yeah, this is this is what we do as Americans.
You know, we talk about Greenland, makes us stronger, makes
us better. Hey, that's a win. Talking to Canada, who's
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taking advantage of us for decades now, both in their
trade and the over reliance on American military might to
protect them from Russia and China. Hey, you're done taking
advantage of us. I think that's what the core of
all this is is about President Trump sending a strong message.
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You know, we're talking about Canada, Greenland, and Panama Canal now.
And you know, President Trump also issued in this press
conference today a very strong statement about the Americans held
hostage by Hamas and said if they aren't released by
the time he walks into office, all hell is gonna
break loose in the Middle East. But folks, my fellow Americans,
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there is something, There is a common thread here that
runs through each in every one of those statements and
it is a finger in the chest of America's allies,
a finger in the chest of America's enemies, and saying
the time of taking advantage of America is over. It
ends now. I'm not even president yet, but it ends now.
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And I like that. I like that. And do you
remember just the movie American Sniper. Let me come over
here to the live chat. While I do it, make
sure you smash that like button, that little green thumb
beneath the video. You guys remember the movie. If you
all seen the movie American Sniper, do you remember that movie?
It was met with meteoric success. And if you think
(14:52):
back to that time, do you remember Michael Moore, the
liberal Hollywood producer who started attacking Chris Kyle. And I
mean it made it just through Americans, you know, into
an uproar because you know, Chris Kyle, his nickname was
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the Legend, did great things for the for this country.
You know, that movie was wildly successful. I think because
the American people want to know through any means necessary,
(15:38):
they want to they want to watch movies that celebrate
the greatness of this country. They would have knowned that
it's okay to feel patriotic about America. They want to
see positive military stories told We're the biggest, baddest nation
on the face of the planet. Damn it. Let's make
movies that showcase that. And I think American Sniper did that.
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And it was one of those movies that just became
woven into the fabric of this country. And it exceeded
all expectations at the box office, made way more than
it cost to actually make, and it was profitable because
people came away. While the film itself had a tragic
ending as it retained to Chris's life, the movie made
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you feel proud to be an American. And I think
people just talking about the things that I know, and
that's the American military, think about how Hollywood has really
done a grave disservice to our military warriors. And I
(16:47):
mean this, You know how I feel about the warrior
class here in America. I don't care what branch you know,
Coast Guard, Air Force, Marine, corp, Army, doesn't matter, Space Force. Now,
I think I got all the branches, but my point
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is the warrior class is exceptional. I believe that they
are America's most precious natural resource. You've heard me say it.
A million times on this show. They are the best
of us. We should not frivolously throw them into to
forever wars and throw them into the meat grinder. Diplomacy
and the pursuit of peace should always be on the table.
(17:31):
This is what I appreciate about Donald Trump, his love
and appreciation of the war fighter, the people who keep
this country safe. Think about the systematic destruction of warrior
culture as perceived by the American media. Almost every single movie,
(17:52):
if it's popular, is about a broken veteran in some way.
If it's a veteran type movies, what I mean, you know,
almost everyone or always broken by his experience.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Of the war.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Oh look he's he's got PTSD. He's broken, he's struggling,
he's a powder keg, or he's depressed, or he's got PTSD.
Oh look he's you know, an hour away from climbing
a bell tower with a sniper rifle. I mean, these
stereotypes that Hollywood puts out about America's veterans, especially those
(18:27):
who have fought in twenty plus years of war. But
not just US, but Vietnam veterans, Korean War veterans, every
generation of American veterans, this stuff is harmful to our community.
And you see it play out even in veteran monuments.
I'm not talking all of them, but most of them
have veterans like looking all sad, holding up their holding
(18:48):
their chest and looking up to the sky, looking out,
looking all forlorn. And I think to myself, and I
think to myself, you know, stop making us look like victims.
I volunteered to protect and defend this country. I'm a volunteer.
I'm not a victim. Even though my combat experience was hell,
(19:09):
I would volunteer to do it again. You know, So
these monuments, jeez, pain of military veteran. You know, on
an EE with his rifle at the ready, pulling security.
That sends a message to every other veteran that hey,
there are still other missions out there. America still needs you.
So take an EE, drink water, stay in the fight.
But I mean this is just one example of the
(19:33):
United States military. I mean, Hollywood does this. There is
a systematic movement in this country, Hollywood, the media, our
you know, our our education system that does nothing but
guilt people for loving this country. And it starts at
a very young age. I mean a lot of these
(19:55):
history courses are selected to cover things, you know, you know,
bad parts of American history, you know, maybe things that
we're not too proud of. But again, what makes America
truly exceptional is that we always seek to write the ship.
That's why we're different than everybody else. And I think
(20:19):
with Trump he represents something different. With Trump, he represents
in America that is proud and unapologetically so that's not
afraid to win. I think this is what he means.
This is what he means by America is going to
win again. You're gonna do so much winning, You're gonna
be tough. I mean, this is what he means. And
(20:43):
I think this this I don't think. I know this
is the core of many of his statements and why
he's talking in the way that he does. The way
an American president speaks can change the world. And I'll
tell you this, Democrat or Republican, if a Democrat president,
(21:04):
and I'm being I don't think this will ever happen,
but I'm trying to be I'm not. I'm being intellectually
honest here. If a Democrat president got up at the
podium and talked about loving America and hey, we're gonna
be strong in the world, and we're gonna kick ass,
and we're gonna take names, and nobody's gonna take advantage
of us anymore. I mean, I might not agree with
(21:25):
that guy. I certainly wouldn't agree with him on the
vast majority of things. But okay, at least we start
from a place of loving America. You know, these liberals today,
these Democrats today, it doesn't feel like they love America anymore.
I mean, hell, in some of these liberal areas, you
can't even fly an American flag without being labeled some
(21:47):
sort of white supremacist. As There's been a movement, yes,
a movement on the on the liberal side of the aisle,
to make the American flags some sort of racist symbol.
It's it's insane to me. Okay. So today Republicans wasted
no time passing the Lake and Riley Act. They passed
(22:08):
it two sixty four to one point fifty nine. The
bill basically mandates that illegal aliens charged with crimes have
to be detained and then queued up for deportation. I mean,
I think it's a very reasonable thing. If you come
(22:29):
to this country illegally, you've already broken one crime Frankly,
that should be enough to detain you and deport you.
I mean seriously, and again for first time listeners, because
we've got a lot of first time listeners. We're getting
a lot of first time listeners every day, a lot
of first time viewers joining us for the live show
here on Rumble. The left is very sinister when they
(22:51):
talk about immigration. I'm just recapping my thoughts on this.
For people who might be joining us for the first time.
They conflate legal immigration with legal immigration, and they try
to kick up all sorts of dust to make it
out to seem like Republicans are against legal immigration. I mean,
(23:11):
of course we're not. We have a system that lets
in millions of legal immigrants every single year. They come here,
they assimilate, they go through a process, it takes years.
By the time it's done. They really really really appreciate
being an American, I mean not. I mean most of
us are cool with that. Frankly, immigration has gotten so
(23:37):
out of control, not legal immigration, but because of illegal immigration,
that I think there is merit to a discussion, a
discussion anyway about some sort of a pause on legal
immigration as well, until we can get this situation under control.
I just think at this point it's common sense when
(23:57):
you look at how many millions and millions of illegal
a million invaders have come into this country, not just
during the last three years, but you know, this really
started under Obama's administration, where they open the floodgates at
our southern border. I mean, there are probably twenty thirty
million illegal aliens here in this country, and that is
just too much to bear, especially when you consider the
economic implications, the national security implications. We saw what happened
(24:20):
in Louisiana last week. Cannot let that stuff happen as
is one person. Look at the damage that one person did.
Obviously this guy is from Texas but was radicalized by ISIS,
so it's a little bit more complicated than that. But
the point is we still face a grave asymmetric threat
and having a wide open southern border does nothing but
(24:42):
exasperate that threat. It's not a good thing. And so
the House Republicans passed the bill. One hundred and fifty
nine Democrats voted against the Lake and Riley Act. One
hundred and fifty nine Democrats vot voted against the Lake
and Riley Act. Lake and Riley, of course, was a
(25:04):
Georgia college student murdered by an illegal alien. And if
you read the story about how she was murdered, boy,
I'm trying to find the words. To say that it
was horrifying is an understatement because Lake and Riley fought
(25:27):
for her life until the very last second. Her death
was preventable. Any American who dies at the hands of
an illegal alien invader, their deaths are preventable. Shouldn't happen
here in America. These deaths can be laid at the Democrat,
(25:51):
at the feet of the Democrat Party. And look you
see one hundred and fifty nine Democrats vote against justice
for Lake and Riley. But prior to that, on Friday,
as I was down in Washington at the Senate swearing in,
I was watching Mike Johnson's speaker, Mike Johnson's speech after
(26:13):
he won the speakership on the first vote, and he
mentioned something about deporting criminal illegal aliens, because that's the
starting point, right there has to be a deportation operation
here in this country. Got to start deporting people that
come here legally and incentivizing an actual, real life immigration system.
(26:36):
But he said, we're going to deport criminal illegal aliens
Republicans erupted in applause. No Democrats clapped. Doesn't that tell
you everything that you need to know about this Democrat Party.
(26:59):
I mean, honest to God, it's it's absolutely unbelievable. And
what the Democrats do is they constantly they do what
they do. They take an issue like say illegal immigration
that is just devastating to this country, just devastating to
this country economically from national security standpoint, across the board,
(27:21):
a net negative for America. Again, no one has opposed
to legal immigration where there's a system in a structure
and assimilation and people who want to become American citizens
and love the Constitution. But the Democrats are experts at
kicking up dust and conflating an issue. And one of
the things that they do is they never accept blame
(27:44):
for anything. If their policies led to something that is
detrimental for America, they don't accept blame. They deny blame,
They accuse you of something, and then they cite some
other bullshit thing to kick up all this dust. And
what they do is effectively conflate issues and then point
the fan. Listen to Jamie Raskin, who's a radical leftist
Democrat in the House of Representatives talking about the Lake
(28:06):
and Riley Act, which again passed, but one hundred and
fifty nine Democrats voted against it, like real common sense
stuff like detain criminals put them on a path for deportation.
Listen to listen to how Raskin goes after the Lake
and Riley Act. Just just listen to this. It's crazy,
it's sinister. It should be rejected.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Don't be lectured by our colleague that we don't stand
up for the American people. The author of this legislation
actually yesterday sent out a tweet social media statement characterizing
the January sixth violent assault on this chamber.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
See there, it is never mind ten plus illegal alien
ten plus million. More than that, more like twenty million,
probably thirty million illegal alien invaders in this country. We
don't know who they are. It's absolutely a national emergency.
This guy doesn't address that, but points the finger at Republicans.
(29:08):
And you guessed at January sixth, where.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
One hundred and forty officers were wounded, injured, and hospitalized
by a rampaging mob. This way, on this day in
history twenty twenty one, said the gentleman. Thousands of peaceful
grandmothers gathered in Washington, DC to take a self guided,
albeit unauthorized tour of the US Capitol building. I like
(29:32):
that touch, albeit unauthorized. Earlier that day, President Trump held
a rally where supporters walked to the Capitol to peacefully
protest the certification of the twenty twenty election. During this time,
some individuals entered the Capitol, took photos and explored the
building before leaving. Well, isn't that suite? We see exactly
(29:54):
how much faith and confidence they really have in the
American criminal justice system and how much they really stand
on the side of law enforcement. Yeah, it was just
a leisurely strolled by a bunch of peaceful grandmothers on
January sixth. Then these are the people that now are
inviting us to dramatically change the immigration laws without even
(30:16):
hearing as to what it's going to mean in any
particular case.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Okay, dramatically change immigration laws. All we're trying to do
is detained with this bill. B see kicks up the dust. Oh,
they want to dramatically change immigration laws, and so an
inexperienced debater would debate this Democrat on that point. Oh no,
that's not what we want to do they kick up dust,
(30:44):
They get you to engage in straw men. This bill
has nothing to do with with changing, you know, immigration law.
It's just simply about enforcing the law that already exists
in fast tracking deportation should an legal alien invader be
convicted of a crime. It's common sense and ultimately, I listen,
(31:09):
I don't think, at least in the short term, that
these lies are gonna be as effective as they were
in Trump's first term. I know, maybe you're thinking this
is an optimistic view. I have no faith in the media.
(31:30):
They're all a bunch of hypocrite liars. I'm talking about
the corporate media. Establishment media like ABC just completely lost,
but also CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC is about to be sold,
about to go under. All of these news organizations are
hemorrhaging their audience because people don't trust them anymore. People
(31:51):
like Dan Bongino and a lot of these independent content
creators have a far bigger audience than CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC,
I mean same truth, Megan Kelly and others. So if
their audience is bleeding away, so too where their power
(32:13):
to push fake narratives. And therein lies the genius of Trump.
And this is what I'm getting to. Trump has done
an amazing job at threatening is the wrong word, but
putting pressure on these social media companies to just simply
(32:36):
embrace free speech and allow for the open exchange of ideas.
If an idea sucks and it's horrible and it's racist
and terrible and evil, what I would rather see that
statement with my own two eyes, identify who says it,
(32:56):
so I know that that could write that person off forever,
and let the marketplace of ideas reject something that have
it be censored. That's the great gift. That is the
great gift of the United States Constitution. The First Amendment
was intended for a moral American people, and I still
(33:20):
contend that by and large the American people are good.
They know right when they see it. So let this
stuff be debated, even the crazy. And Trump has done
a great job at putting pressure on social media companies
to simply embrace the First Amendment, and so to his
Elon Musk. Elon Musk has also done a great job
(33:41):
in many ways. He's led the charge here. But look
at what Zuckerberg. Of course, Zuckerberg owns Facebook and Zuckerberg
owns Instagram. Look at the video that he put out
this morning. This was dominating the news cycle earlier today
and people have been talking about it ever since. Check
this out.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
I want to talk about something important today because it's
time to get back to our roots around free expression
on Facebook and Instagram. I started building social media to
give people a voice. I gave a speech at Georgetown
five years ago about the importance of protecting free expression.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
By the way, I don't trust this, Okay, neither should you.
Zuckerberg has been He's been terrible to the America First Movement.
Me helped rig the election in twenty twenty four Biden,
no doubt about it. Always be wary of rich leftists
who come bearing gifts. The reason why I warn you
(34:37):
to be wary is it because as conservatives we are forgiving.
As conservatives, we tend to welcome people into our circle,
acknowledging that, hey we don't agree on everything, but hey,
you're welcome, right, That's what we do with the Big
Ten Party. That's that's part of who we are. Be
wary of rich liberals, rich elitist liberals coming to bear
(35:00):
gifts like this because Mark Zuckerberg has never really embraced
free speech. He's doing it now because Trump put pressure
on him, so we shouldn't. I mean, look, trust is earned.
I'm not saying rejected outright in perpetuity, but just be cautious.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
And I still believe this today. But a lot has
happened over the last several years. There's been widespread debate
about potential harms from online content. Governments and legacy media
have pushed to censor more and more. A lot of
this is clearly political, but there's also a lot of
legitimately bad stuff out there. Drugs, terrorism, child exploitation. These
(35:37):
are things that we take very seriously and I want
to make sure that we handle responsibly. So we built
a lot of complex systems to moderate content. But the
problem with complex systems is they make mistakes. Even if
they accidentally censor just one percent of posts, that's millions
of people, and we've reached a point where it's just
too many mistakes and too much censorship. The recent election
(36:00):
actions also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once
again prioritizing speech. So we're gonna get back to our
roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and
restoring free expression on our platforms.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Okay, so that's a good thing, but he says, right there,
this election is what caused me to think this way.
So again, on one hand, it's a good if you're
giving him grace, and I think we all should, you know, trust,
but verify trust has to be earned. But he's saying, hey,
you know, the election got me thinking that, like maybe
we're doing it wrong. But it could also be looked
(36:36):
at as like, hey, there's an election. Trump has power
and I don't want I'm coming after me, right, So
just just again listen.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
More specifically, here's what we're gonna do. First, we're going
to get rid of fact checkers and replace them with
community notes similar to X starting in the US. Good
after Trump first got elected in twenty sixteen, the legacy
media wrote NonStop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy.
We tried, in good faith to address those concerns without
(37:07):
becoming the arbiters of truth. But the fact checkers have
just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust
than they've created.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Especially in the US. That's correct.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
So over the next couple of months, we're going to
phase in a more comprehensive community notes system. Second, we're
going to simplify our content policies and get rid of
a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender
that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse. What
started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly
(37:37):
been used to shut down opinions and shut out people
with different ideas, and it's gone too far. So I
want to make sure that people can share their beliefs
and experiences on our platforms. Third, we're changing how we
enforce our policies to reduce the mistakes that account for
the vast majority of censorship on our platforms. We used
(37:57):
to have filters that scanned for any policy violation. Now
we're going to focus those filters on tackling illegal and
high severity violations, and for lower severity violations, we're going
to rely on someone reporting an issue before we take action.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Okay, I can't listen to anymore, but the point is,
like removing fact checkers is a big deal, and removing
the filters on immigration in the transgender insanity is a
big deal. Let's see what happens. Let's see if that
algorithm changes. But let me tell you or I'll talk
about it from a political angle. The general rule of
(38:33):
thumb or what people used to say back in the day,
and I think this is still generally true, is that
elections aren't one on X or Twitter. The vast majority
of America still isn't on X. While the platform is
growing like Gangbusters and Elon Musk has attracted a lot
of new users who want free speech. I mean, I
(38:53):
think the phrase continues to ring true, and that is
elections are not one on X. The vast majority of
voters are on Facebook. So if Mark Zuckerberg is telling
the truth, we should know relatively quickly if anything has changed.
But this is a net positive for conservatives, and part
(39:15):
of the reason you might be thinking, like, well, Sean,
why are you optimistic about this? This seems kinda I
don't trust him. I don't either. I've already said this,
I've already said this to you. But it's how the
media has reacted to it that kind of gives me
a sense that Zuckerberg is serious. And then also Mark
Zuckerberg adding Dana White, the CEO of the Ultimate Fighting Championship,
(39:39):
to the board on meta I think has the media,
the corporate media pretty scared. I mean, look at this headline.
This is the New York Times. I mean, actually, if
I just didn't show you who who wrote it. The
headline says metas as fact checkers or the problem. Fact
(40:00):
checkers rule that is false. This could be a headline
from the Babylon Bee or some other political satire website.
For God's sake, Meta says fact checkers were the problem.
Factcheckers rule that that was false. You know the problems
that I've had with fact checkers. They're all partisan hacks.
(40:21):
Savage Rich Barris and I have talked about this at
nauseum on the show. I mean, by the way, Savage
Rich Barris, he's confirmed for tomorrow, He's back in the saddle.
So tomorrow, Savage Wednesday, make sure make sure you're here
for Savage Wednesday. But yes, Savage Rich Barris on deck
(40:42):
for tomorrow, so make sure you're there. Sorry, got lost
my train of thought. Had a phone call coming in
the middle of the show. This, I think is a
net good This is a good thing for conservatives. And
it wasn't just The New York Times freak out about it. CNN.
(41:02):
CNN talked about it. Potato Brian Stelter and Jim Acosta,
listen to this. It gets to this.
Speaker 5 (41:08):
Broader sense that when people like zucker Elon Musk, or
mar Zuckerberg talk about free speech, everybody wants pre speech,
but it oftentimes seems that these tech CEOs actually are
favoring or preferring a certain kind of speech. Right, They're
favoring their own speech or their own political preferences, and
not the actual entire user or the community's speech. You know,
(41:30):
the changes announced by Meta today are very much a
Maga makeover, a pro Trump makeover, and that's gonna win
Medico conservative users, but it may repel some liberals. That's
the same thing we've seen happen on Elon Musk's X.
He's turned into more of a right wing platform where
he's pro free speech when it's really pro Musk or
pro Trump speech.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
All Right, I'm sorry. It's just kind of amazing that
here you have CNN, Acosta and Brian Stelter attacking you know,
social media CEOs, which, by the way, Zuckerberg helped break
the twenty twenty election in favor of Biden and was
centering America first conservatives all along the way, and then
(42:15):
Twitter as well, you remember they kicked President Trump off
of Twitter for talking after January sixth, telling people to
go home peacefully. I mean Jack Dorsey, in charge of
Twitter at the time, did some crazy, crazy things in
centering America first Conservatives. So they're talking as if none
of this happened, and they're attacking musk In Zuckerberg for
(42:39):
simply embracing again I don't trust Zuckerberg, but embracing freedom
of speech. And here's all we want, folks. This is
the most important part. And I touched on this leading
into the segment. All we want is a marketplace of
ideas where people can share their opinions. That's it. Nobody
(43:04):
wants censorship on our side of the aisle. If it's
a bad idea, let it stand the test of the marketplace.
If the idea sucks, then I trust the American people
to discard it. I trust my own judgment. You should too.
Shouldn't want these big tech oligarchs telling you what's okay
and what's not okay. To look at what people like
(43:25):
Stelter and Acosta and these corporate media outlets want is
they want everybody that disagrees with them completely canceled, shutdown,
censored so that they can have a monopoly on the narrative.
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much news this guy is breaking in one one hour
press conference. Meanwhile, Biden can't even do a five minute
press conference. It really is stunning that our country has
(45:38):
been able to withstand the damage of four years of
Joe Biden in company in the White House. It's stunning
to me. It actually is a testament to the resiliency
of America. But what got my attention was in this
press conference with regards to Trump, was just how clear
(46:00):
it was that he loved America and how serious he
is about making this country great again. Listen to Trump
about making things in the USA.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
By four times more than any other president cut We
did that in four years, and we were just getting started.
We'll impose new tariffs so that the products on our
stores will once again be stamped with those beautiful words
made in the USA, and we are not treated well
as you know by Canada. Canada is subsidized to the
(46:35):
tune of about two hundred billion.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
I mean, so there he's talking about made in the USA. Look,
people get fired up about this because they say, well,
they say, we'll have to pay more for stuff if
it's all made in America. And that might be true.
But let me ask you, battle crew jumping over here
(47:00):
to the live chat because I want to hear from you.
Would you be willing I know times are tough, but
would you be willing to pay a little extra for
things if there was a guarantee that everything that you
bought was made in America? If we can figure that out.
I mean, obviously we're not going to flip a switch
and make that happen overnight. But I know, for me,
(47:25):
I prefer buying things that are made in America. And
I think where Trump is coming from here the whole
point of made in America. Let's look a look at
everyone saying yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, I mean like
this is yeah, okay, so this is a good thing.
I think most of us here are America first. Most
(47:47):
of us here want to see America thrive, want American
jobs to come back. Want small towns will start thriving again.
And if we've got to pay a little bit extra
to chip in to have that, it's okay. But there
are also national secus ccurity implications here, like steel manufacturing
our own steel. You know, we build aircraft carriers here
(48:09):
in America with all American steel because we don't trust
other countries to send us steel to build our warships with.
And of course it makes sense. And a lot of
these weaknesses, the chinks in the armor you could call them,
were really highlighted during COVID. Why is the vast majority
of antibiotic production happen in China? That gives China an
(48:37):
enormous amount of leverage against the USA in the event
of an actual pandemic or in the event that Americans
actually need antibiotics. If they're producing them all there, China
just says, we'll screw you. You're not getting them, we're
not sending them. We want America to suffer. And so
this is why it's important to produce things here. We
don't want to give countries leverage over us if we
(49:01):
produce things over there. Now, look, doing that allows us
to pay less money for things at the store. But
if it's good for our country, if it's good for
our economy, it's good for national security, and it actually
puts our enemies in a tough spot. So be it.
I'll pay a couple extra bucks to have it made
in America.
Host
Sean Parnell
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