Battleground LIVE: In Defense of Pete Hegseth w/Savage Rich Baris

Tonight on Battleground LIVE:

In the arena tonight: Rich Baris, director of Big Data Poll and host of Inside the Numbers

• We should not allow the media and the military industrial complex to smear Pete Hegseth

• Why we should all be outraged

• What it means to focus on the warfighter

• What it means to have an America First foreign policy

 

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good morning Europe. Down to enter the arena and join
the Battle to.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
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From sea to shining Sea and everybody in between. Welcome

(00:30):
patriots on this very very savage Wednesday. And of course
you know what that means. It means we've got savage.
Rich Barris on deck here in a little bit. He's
the director of Big Data Poll, the number one most
accurate polster in the twenty twenty four cycle, and the
host of a great show on Rumble called Inside the Numbers.

(00:53):
So Rich Barris is on deck. You know, got lots
to talk about, folks. Make sure you smash that like button,
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It helps us make the leaderboard. And because of you,
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thank you for that, folks. You know that I've known

(01:14):
Pete Hegseth for a very long time. When he was
nominated for Secretary of Defense, I was excited for him because,
like I said, he is legitimately a friend of mine.
I knew Pete Hegseth long before he was Fox News
contributor Pete hag Seth. I knew him long before he

(01:34):
was you know, Fox and Friends Weekend host Pete Hegseth.
I know his wife, I've met his family, I know
his parents. For God's sake, We're like like, like, that's
what I mean by no, He's just a friend of mine.
And when he got the nod for Secretary of Defense,
I was very excited for him because I thought, boy,

(01:57):
this is what this guy, my friend end has always wanted.
You know, I know I've known for a long time
in his heart of hearts, this is what Pete has
always wanted to do. He has a heart for serving.
He loves this country without question. He's unafraid to defend it.

(02:18):
In fact, he has defended it on the battlefield in Iraq,
in Afghanistan, and then in Guantanamo Bay ironically enough, looking
after the people who tried to kill him on the battlefield.
He's put his life on the line for this country.
And so I was legitimately excited for him. And then

(02:40):
I saw the hit pieces start to roll out, and
I thought, well, damn, this reminds me of something.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Oh wait, what was that?

Speaker 2 (02:53):
The exact same playbook they used against me when I
ran for Senate. When I ran for Senate. I think
you all know the story, but just in case you don't,
I mean, they just to give you a sense of
what they did. They leaked my VA medical record someone
at the vay. The media started to build this narrative
that I was an angry, you know, alcohol abusing veteran

(03:16):
that was a day away from climbing a bell tower
with a sniper riffle. This this is the playbook, just
so you know, that they used with every combat veteran
who served in support of these most recent wars who
also happened to be an outsider, who also happened to
be lockstock and barrel America first Trump candidates. And when

(03:40):
that happens, the media and many people in Washington, lobbyists,
defense contractors, members of the Uniparty.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
By the way, on both sides.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Of the of the aisle, that group of people.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
They loathe outsiders, They loathe Trump people. They loathe reformers, disruptors,
because that means when you say disruptor, it means disrupting
the status quo, and to disrupt the status quo in
Washington in many cases means to disrupt somebody's bottom line.

(04:22):
And I can assure you many of the attacks that
we are seeing on Pete Hegseth right now. In fact,
listen as somebody who has a little bit of insider
knowledge on this one hundred percent. Like there was this
whistle blower report, let me tell you right here first
that it's not even a whistleblower report. Okay, it's a

(04:45):
word document with a couple of poorly written emails. The
media is reporting this as a whistleblower report from Concerned
Veterans for America. That's the organization that Pete and I
worked at at the same time about ten years ago.
It's not a whistle report. It's just a word document
and a couple of emails, I swear to God, But
that the media is there's a difference between a whistleblower

(05:08):
report and that. But these are very old allegations that
were long dealt with water under the bridge, and the
media what they're doing is this again the same thing
that what they did to me. They regurgitate all of
these old allegations as if they're new, as if their
news worthy, and trot them out as if it's breaking

(05:32):
news or something. And this is not coming from the
people who are even involved in the organization. I cannot
stress that enough. When I say organization, I mean Concern
Veterans for America one hundred percent. This report is being
leaked to the media. I don't know who, but it's
an inside the beltwagh type. It's a lobbyist, it's a

(05:55):
defense contractor, it's somebody that does not want Pete sat
at the Department of Defense. And what they're doing is
slow dripping these hit pieces and to to give you
a sense of what this playbook is as somebody who
has lived this, it's often not politicians who launch these

(06:18):
hit campaigns. Don't get me wrong. Politicians will weigh in
after the fact it's, oh my gosh, this is just terrible.
But these are political operators who run these hit campaigns.
And what they do is they make the allegations so terrible,
so unpalatable, so horrifying. Oftentimes you hear it's some sort

(06:42):
of abuse or worse yet, child abuse. And the reason
why they pick those things specifically, and it's Interestingly enough,
this is the same reason why you see so many
Trump candidates accused of this is because it's the same
damn playbook. The reason why they pick those types of
allegations is because they know that the American people abhor

(07:06):
that stuff, which is a good thing. Of course, it's
a good thing that Americans don't support child abuse and
abuse and think like that. It's a good thing that
our culture is against all of that. Abuse is evil, period,
full stop. So if these allegations leak in the media,
most people were like, oh, my gosh, I don't like that.

(07:28):
I can't defend that or be seen defending that. If
you're a non politician, there's some social price to pay
for defending someone accused of something like that, never mind
the fact that the accusations are completely false. But if
you're a politician, you think, well, I can't defend that.
There's a political cost. I mean, my god, my voters
won't support that. But again, the allegations are baseless and false. Right,

(07:55):
So the whole point of these allegations is to have
a chilling effect on not just political potential political supporters,
but also your closest friends and advisors. That is the
point and sometimes even your family members. That is the
entire point of allegations like this. So if we know

(08:16):
we've seen this playbook play out time and again, and
if we know this is what they do, this is
what they do to people that represent a threat to
the system, and we recognize that, hey, they're leveraging or
they're leveling these horrifying allegations to chill levels of support

(08:38):
with political allies, then the remedy to that is for
us to speak out aggressively against the hit And it's
something that both our politicians and our society are gonna
have to get used to.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
So I say all that to say, as.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Someone who's lived through this hell myself, that when I
saw this happening to Pete, a man that I know
that I know all of these allegations against him are
bullshit because I know him, I didn't waste a second
and speaking up. And when the New Yorker came out
with this ridiculous hit piece on Pete, I lived through

(09:20):
those things with Pete. I was a part of the
organization of a Concerned Veterans for America during the same
time that all of those alleged incidents happened. Oh Pete
was drunken at a strip club. He's drunken, he hits
on women, and none of that's true, Like.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
It's all made up bullshit.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
What was also a part of that article was the
idea that Pete financially mismanaged Concerned Veterans for America.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
So badly that he was fired, he was pushed.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Out of the organization. That is also complete and total bullshit.
So I went out there on the record yesterday. You
might have seen Charlie Kirk tweet about that. I was
on Charlie Kirk Show today, on Dan Bongino Show today
also just talking about this. But I said, that is
complete bullshit. He was not pushed out of the organization
because of financial mismanagement. That is a complete and total lie.

(10:13):
I know because I left the organization for the same reason.
I was on the call when all of this was decided.
I was a part of all of this. Pete left
the organization, and then I left the organization shortly after him,
because we had become big believers in twenty fifteen and
twenty sixteen in President Trump's vision newly elected President Trump's

(10:36):
vision on national security and foreign policy issues, the organization
that we worked for at the time did not believe
in Trump's vision of foreign policy. So all of a
sudden you had two top people at the organization who
didn't see odd eye with what the organization was intended
to be. So it was just simple policy difference differences

(10:57):
and everybody left amicably.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
That was it.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
And so I spoke out about that and got attacked
for it on the record yesterday.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
But I want to show you this.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
This is a letter from Concerned Veterans for America one
of their trustees, Randy Layer.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
I want to highlight or just read a portion of.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
This to you. It says this. The truth is.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Pete resigned his position as CEO of Concerned Veterans for
America as a result of a difference of opinion as
to the future of the organization. As I mentioned to you,
policy and what we would advocate for, and so that
he could focus on other endeavors, including his relationship with
Fox News. Pete was not terminated by the organization, and

(11:39):
in fact, we had CBA worked with him through this
difficult decision and mutually agreed to the at the end
of twenty fifteen. It was the best timing for both parties.
So what I said was true. I just need to
make this clear. What I said was true, despite being
relentlessly attacked. I've had hit pieces written on me over

(12:00):
the past couple of days because of this, And guess what,
I don't give a shit. You see this right here,
I don't care. Okay, you've thrown your worst at me,
and here I am. But I'm not gonna let them
do this to one of my friends. And so now
now what I'm doing is trying to rally other veterans

(12:21):
to the cause. If you go to my x speed,
you'll see veterans posting direct to camera videos.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Of why Pete's the guy. Pete is the guy for.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
The war fighters, not for the warmongers. It's the warmongers
that are going after him. It's the warmongers that are
trying to destroy his character. And so this headline yesterday
was kind of a tumultuous day for Pete. I know
I'm kind of getting in the weeds on this, but
you all have to know the truth about this. You
just do because it's easy to fall prey to some

(12:55):
of these false narratives in the media. And I've got
Savage Rich Barris on dec and i want him to
wait much longer.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
But I just want to.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Say, hey, yesterday there was this leak that Ron DeSantis
was gonna be you know, Trump was gonna pull Pete
and replaced with Ron de Santis. Let me tell you
that's complete bullshit. Like I said, Ron de Santis, I
think he's the best governor in the country. This is
not a commentary on him. But I'm telling you that
Wall Street Journal piece last night bullshit. Okay, I can

(13:21):
tell you that Ron de Santos was always considered for
the Secretary of Defense role, going as far back to June,
but Pete got the nod.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
Okay, it's complete bullshit.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Trump is standing with Pete and that was made clear
today by both Pete and President Trump. And so today
you see this headline from the New York Post. Zero
Senate go Piers opposed Pete HeiG Seth for Defense pick
as he vows to never back down amid misconduct claims
like misconduct claims. I don't even like that in the
headline because there's no misconduct. So the article says zero

(13:53):
Senate Republicans are opposing Pete Haig says confirmation. Sources told
the Post on Wednesday as the Defense Secretary designee was
making the rounds on Capitol Hill and defiantly proclaiming he
will never back down in the face of widespread allegations
of past misconduct. And by the way, there's not one
single allegation against Pete that is on the record. It's

(14:16):
all anonymous bullshit, not one single on the record comment
from anybody making these allegations, all anonymous, And so.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
The article goes on, there are zero knows right now.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
One GOP source familiar with the matter said, ripping smears
against the former Army Infantry combat veteran in the press
as bs. At least six Republicans have privately expressed reservations
about President Donald Trump's nominee. NBC News reported bullshit Tuesday,
as claims of binge drinking, sexual impropriety, and financial mismanagement

(14:51):
during his tenure as leader of the veteran's advocacy group
pile up. For every anonymous source making an unfounded claim
about hag Seth, there are twice as many colleagues and
former colleagues who are putting their names publicly on record
to refute the defamatory, meritless slander. Another Senate Republican aide
told the post folks, I'm telling you, come hell or

(15:13):
high water, I'm going to defend my friend publicly because
this is a complete hit job meant to destroy his life,
destroy his family, destroy his character. Oh I know somebody
that went through the exact same thing. And no, I'm
not talking about me. I'm talking about President Trump. They
try to do the same thing to him. Pete's not
backing down. Neither is President Trump. Okay, I got savage

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(17:01):
most accurate polster of twenty twenty four.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Good sir, welcome, How you doing, my friend, Thanks for
having me. As always a lot going on. Actually as
you've been talking, there's been a lot actually, like the
last hour, Well, what the hell's going on? What did
I miss after I've been live? Well, President Trump did
tweet Pete Hegsett's op ed in the Wall Street Journal.
I won't back down, which is a good sign. There

(17:27):
was just so people have to understand in the workings
of this stuff. And there were some meetings with some
senators that were canceled, and then that's you know, for
a meeting with the president. Again, it's like whether or
not the president was going to stand behind this nomination,
and that's a sign that he is in fact standing
behind this nomination.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah, I think we turned the corner today.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
I mean yesterday after the show, it was a real
crazy I mean, it was clearly planned what they were doing.
And then this Wall Street Journal piece comes out that
night like, oh Ron Trump consideringvoting Rond.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
There's no truth to any of that, and even.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
If there was, let me just say, if there was,
it would be a massive mistake. You mean, more a
miss mistake. Ron DeSantis, I know you said he's the
greatest governor in the country. Ron de Santis was like
bread for that job. You know, like look at his
look at his upbringing, with his education, look at his
what you know, it's military service, it should and can't
take it away from But it's like that's the kind

(18:25):
of breeding, and that's the kind of pedigree for a
guy who goes to the behemit that is, the Pentagon
and does absolutely nothing and they win and they move
forward and nothing ever changes. So not saying that to
down him, I'm just saying this is ultimately what Pete
hegg saths nomination is all about you know, the country
voted for change. You look at the polls, they're standing
behind Pete Hagseth. The American public are standing behind Pete

(18:49):
haig Seth. So eventually this really just comes at the
core of this all. It comes down to this. It
comes down to whether or not Republicans at some point
they're going to have to fight. And this is all
going to happen to anybody. All Right, It'll happen to you,
It'll happen to me, It'll happen to Pete, it would
happen to Mother Teresa, it would happen to Jesus Christ

(19:09):
if they were a reformer and they wanted to go
into the heart of the deep state as a reformer
and hold someone accountable and change the way things are done,
because ultimately, seean something's got to give, something has to change.
And if Republicans want to hold these voters that just
voted for Donald Trump and gave them a slim majority

(19:33):
in the House, not huge, and gave them a lighter
than expected or should be majority in the US Senate,
this is a great opportunity to show the American public
that they get it. Because the publics behind them, and
the only thing they have to fight at this point
is a bunch of cowardly and corrupt senators who have
ours after their last name, who the Pentagon, the FBI,

(19:55):
and the CIA have by the balls, Because that's what
this really is all about. Let's get real. They pull
the strings on the They pulled the short and curly
when it's time to pull the short and curly, and
that's how they survive. And it's like, are we just
gonna continue like this forever or not? If Tom Tillis
doesn't have the spine, are we gonna continue like this

(20:18):
or not?

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Tom came out and said Tom Tillis came out and said,
if he gets out of committee, he's voting for him.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
That's because he has because he's felt the lean and
the same thing goes for everybody else. So right, you
think that pull from showing Laura Trump would actually absolutely
stomp him into the ground in a primary. If he
dared to vote against this guy, he may not survive anyway.
He better be on his best behavior, put his little
ballet shoes on and go do a little tight walk, bro,

(20:45):
because that's what it comes down to at this point.
Did you want a fight, or did you not? It
will happen to anyone. Look what they did to Jeff Sessions,
him man who served with them side by side for years,
all right years. They started floating rumors about him liking
little girls, little Korean girls because he had an adopted
daughter who isn't of his race. It's disgusting.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
This is who they are.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
And the media is like the public's greatest enemy. I mean,
they really are. They're the public screts. So are you
gonna fold on this nomination? And because the media did
what they always do and they're like a first line
of defense for the deep state, are you gonna fold
on this nomination because of the same old stuff? Or

(21:31):
did you really elect this man to change things? Because
if you really elected this man to change things, put
your head down and move forward. And that's it. They
would never give this nomination up, Sean, They would never
give this nomination up. They put a woman on the
Supreme Court who refused to identify the difference between a
man and a woman. I don't give a damn if

(21:51):
he runs off and sleeps with this one sleeps, so
I don't care. All I care about is whether or
not he sends our children to go die in pointless
wars for lies, for lies charges me and my family
one thousand dollars for a hammer.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
That's all I care about.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
I'm tired of the same crap, the same old stuff.
And if you want change, you got to move forward
with it. All right, Enough with the weakened knees and
the cowardly senator.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
No, here's the here's the thing that's like when you
think about what the allegations are, right, they have thrown
everything at him. I mean, think about it. They came
up with some you know, bogus sexual assault allegation. They
like that there were no charges brought, okay, like none,
and then they, I mean in some articles they accused

(22:39):
him of rape, absolutely horrifying. Then yeah, exactly, and then
they somehow get an email from his mom, which you know,
I I have theories about how that went out there,
but I won't say here, but yeah, and they put
his mom in the middle of it, which is just horrifying.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
She doesn't that I know.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
To go and sit on the Kirby couch at five
times and inter working as a family business. Disgusting, And
they threatened her. They do what they do every time
in their stupid little angry emails. You know, it's like
answer and answer, you know, correct, answer correctly the way
I want you to answer and answer by a certain time,
or else I'm going to go after you. Like, who

(23:22):
the hell do these people think they are?

Speaker 2 (23:24):
I completely agree, Like they threatened her, absolutely, and then
they and then it comes out, Oh so it's not
that they went after his name. They went after his
personal life. They made horrible, horrifying accusation against it. Now
they're going after his leadership. Who does that sound like
they did the exact same thing the press.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
It's the same playbook. They did it to you too.
Get real, Come on, I mean, let's get real. This
is at some point the American public. We had an
election and they said enough of these people. I can't say,
you know, can we the media? As much as you
hate them, folks, you really can't hate them enough. It's
not about whether or not you personally disagree with them

(24:03):
on this issue. That issue, because of course we all know,
the media is largely a vehicle for the deep State's party,
which is the Democratic Party. Unfortunately, really both parties are
served as some form of vehicle for the deep state
and the administrative state in general. But it's not even
a matter of that. They're just not good people, you know,

(24:24):
like most of them are. The vast majority of them
are not good. They're horrible, horrible people. So like if
they're running a smear or a hit on somebody, to me,
it's like, at this point in my life, don't even care.
I don't even care, because if you're on the bad
side of pieces of crap like that, then you're probably
on my side, you know, So I like in, I

(24:45):
immediately and instinctly knee jerk that, and I gotta get like,
you know, I gotta take a step back and always
look and see whether or not they're saying as any validity.
But this entire case against Pete hegseth Oh, the multiple
reports now, like you said, are being slow dripped. They're
all anonymously sourced to Sean, none of this is backed
by a face, a person that they could even get

(25:06):
to come forward. And that started, by the way, the
same way with Cavanaugh, and then they did get some
and then they try to.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
They're looking for somebody, now, guaran damn to you this
the drift drift drip, right, they'll put a.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Bag in somebody's hand. They'll put a bag in something, somebody's,
somebody's I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet. Frankly, I think
that why is because things are different now Sean people
really just don't care. Look at the polls. They want
Pete Hegseth to be confirmed. Like this is not People
are excited about this administration. It's overwhelmingly positive the people.

(25:40):
By the way, economic confidence, how do you feel about
the future, all of this is skyrocketing. Now, you think
that's because they don't trust the American public doesn't trust
Donald Trump to put people in charge this time that
he thinks is going to do a better job and
get the job. Of course they do. That's why they
elected him. Like all of this is the old, same
old playbook, over and over. And I'm sorry, and I

(26:01):
don't mean to be that hard on them, because some
of them are good people just trying to make a
good decision. But the fact of the matter is their
only real obstacle here are a bunch of cowardly and
corrupt senators that really shouldn't even be in the US
Senate anymore. No, you're not wrong about.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
You're not wrong about like, the only thing you are
not wrong about this, The only thing standing in the way,
standing in the way seriously of Trump's nominations are Republicans.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
And and how many Biden confirmations got nominations got shot down, Yeah,
I think like no major ones, but only one small one,
but no one major. He got his entire cabinet, and
those people have done far more damage to this country
than any of the Trump nominees will do.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
It's not even close.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
And to your point about like some of the insider
baseball here, Rich, you know, I can tell you that
Jony Earnst right now, I look, I like, I like her,
So this does I'm not I'm not making this isn't
like a personal attack, but I would tell you that
she wanted the job of Secretary of Defense and she
hid it.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
And now I.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Like that right there, and then like I get it,
like if that's something that she was gunning for, I'm listen,
like I'm this is I'm not like, this is just
human nature. It's just something that she really wanted and
she didn't get it. Okay, I can understand why why
you'd be upset, but you know, your job is advise
advise and consent. It doesn't say obstruct.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
I was just gonna say, That's what I was, Susan saying.
I was gonna bring Joni up. And the fact of
the matter is, you know, Joni asked yourself like, I mean,
are you h are you able to rise to the
challenge that we have in our time? Like? Are you
the wrong person for that job? Because if you're gonna
put your own personal ambition and your own personal whatever

(27:59):
it may, I know, I don't want it's not arrogance,
but you know your feelings got hurt. You feel in
the Senate. We need her in the Senate. But if
you're gonna do that, should she be or should somebody
else step up, like maybe the current state attorney general,
who would be doing a much better job and serving
the state of Iowa in a capacity that most more
reflects their values and their desires and their wishes.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
Because if this.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Is not if this is a question for Joni, and
it's not based on his qualifications, folks, it's not based
on whether or not he's he's done anything that's disqualified
for this job. That's a personal beef. You know, let's
get over it. If that's it we just can't afford
to have people who are so small they put their
own personal shit before the good of the country. They

(28:42):
confirmed and nominated a man for this very post, this
very post, who has on multiple occasions throughout his career,
stated that he did not believe in civilian control of
the US military. That is completely disqualified, completely disqual rock
principle of our country. Our founders literally went nuts over

(29:04):
the Quartering Act. I mean, god, man, read a book.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
You're a US.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Senator and you don't even understand the basics to this
country and what makes it work and why we're in
so much trouble. Austin doesn't believe in civilian control of
the military. That should have been the end of his
nomination right there. None of this matters, None of it,
All the stuff we're hanging about with Pete Hacks, none

(29:30):
of it matters, Sean, None of it does. And the
fact of the matter is, again, let's get down to
the crux of this. Are they going to do what
they were elected to do or are they gonna blow
it like they always do and end up with a
coalition worse than the Ross Perrot coalition, Because that's their future.
If they don't get their heads out of their butts

(29:50):
right now, Come on, Democrats, get everybody. There could be
somebody who's got some radical history working with the Black Panthers.
They're in some radical history, working with a violent, militant left,
left wing Marxist group when they were on a college
campuses in the nineteen sixties and seventies. They're in Give
me a break, Give me a break. None of them.

(30:11):
They are full of crap, most of them. Half of
their left ass cheek is owned by the military industrial complex.
And that's what this comes down to. It's not about principle,
it's not about leaks. It's not they're giving them these
leaks and these stories, folks. I just want everyone to
understand how this works. They're giving them cover. They're trying

(30:31):
to give their bought and paid for crooked ass senators cover.
That's what these stories are. They don't really object to
them based on these stories. They don't really have concerns
based on these stories. They need an excuse to live,
to vote the way their benefactors pay them to vote.

(30:53):
So when the phone call comes and it says, Lisa,
vote this way, remember I own your ass. Let me
eat a story to the Wall Street Journal. Let me
leak a story to CNN. She goes, oh, that's very helpful,
Thank you, sir, goodbye. That's how this goes.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
Well. I gotta take your fake.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
Principles and stick them, you know where, Lisa.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
We got to have their votes. We got it.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
We need their votes, so you know, we don't you know,
I think nomination.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
But I know what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
I'm just saying, like like Joni Ernst is on you know,
the Armed Services Committee. We've got to get Pete out
of committee, which requires her vote, and we need her
on board. But to your point, the bottom line is
that the American people voted for this.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
I don't and I don't think it's Trump. How many
points did Trump went Iowa? Buy exactly? And I don't
think not by the way her polster suggested, you know,
I mean Harris was up in the staple pole of
her state. Look, I don't think it's I don't think
it's counterproductive to remind her maybe she shouldn't be on
that committee. If this is such a question, maybe she

(32:09):
shouldn't be. Look at your state. You think that's because
of you? You think that's because of your vision of
foreign policy. You think that's because of the Republican brand
as it stands without Donald Trump. You're out of your
friggin mind. You barely won in twenty fourteen. You did
in a low turnout election. It was last minute movement
to you because the Democrat was an unacceptable gun controller.

(32:32):
And you owe your voters to representation. You owe your
voters representation.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
And not just that.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Like listen, ray as Rich and CVA. When we were
at CVA. This is back in twenty fourteen, which I
think was Jonie's first for a running statewide. Maybe it's
run and run for Senate, and Concerned Veterans for America
backed her and ran television ads supporting her.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Pete was the decision maker all of that.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
I remember that he supported her one hundred percent back then,
one hundred percent. And yeah, isn't that That's why people say,
like friended Washington. Yeah, yeah, if you want a freend
in Washington, get a dog. Let me show you this
this SoundBite, because let me show you the sound bite
of Pete. And like the narrative that the media is

(33:23):
trying to set because yesterday was yesterday, I mean this
all this is always a roller coaster right, it's an
ebb and a flow in the media. You have great days,
you have bad days. When you have bad days, people
smell blood in the water. And then you have all
these stories come out, like what about Ron DeSantis. I mean,
it's just it's just the same playbook over and over
and over again. Well, today was a great day for Pete.

(33:43):
He they they the Trump transition team lifted the moratorium
on media and he's out there doing stand up interviews.
He sat down with Megan Kelly. He walked into this
fantastic that Yeah, he was. I mean, that's the thing
with Pete. He's very good. He just just talk talk
about it. He's the truth is on our side, here
is on his side. Listen to him talking about this.

(34:04):
Are you gonna step down? Are you gonna step down?

Speaker 1 (34:06):
Like? Why the hell are you even asking that question?

Speaker 3 (34:08):
But listen to this.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Have you had any conversations with the president? Left down?
Look like you We've gotten our dis answers.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
I spoke to his Brotherdent like this morning.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
He said, keep going, keep fighting, find your way here
in this all the way.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Why would I back down.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
I'm always gonna fight him.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
I'm here for more fighters. This personal passion. I mean,
you're not what's drawing your name from consideration just to
be play our.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Meeting all day with senders.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
I know your mom was just on Fox she says
that you are changed. So you see what I'm talking
about though, I mean, like you're talking about with the media,
do you see it?

Speaker 3 (34:53):
What do you? What are you? What are you referring to?

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Just piece of garbage?

Speaker 3 (34:56):
Well, just the question are you?

Speaker 1 (34:57):
What do you mean?

Speaker 3 (34:58):
You're in this to the end.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
Why wouldn't I be in.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
This to the end?

Speaker 1 (35:00):
What kind of line of questioning is that? Would you
ever see her do that to to Austin? Would you
see her do it to Merrick Garland? Would you see
her do it to Susan Rice? No? I mean I
could just rattle this off forever. Everck Holder, who once
completely trashed the nation. I mean, we had public statements
from that guy before his nomination. They were absolutely absurd.

(35:21):
They made him seem like he was militantly anti American,
and he slid right through. I mean, come on, this
is again a big deal. It is a big deal
for everyone's like, oh, well, you know, we don't get
this one. If you don't get this one, then you're
a man. You're just going to do this to everybody.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Oh you're listen. You just brought up something that I'm
glad you reminded me of. They already got gates if
they get Pete. This is the hill.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
This I'm not aptismatically dismantling your cabinet. I'm not exactly.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
I'm not even gonna say this is a hill to
we've got to die on, because we're not gonna die.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
We're gonna win the damn fight.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
Like this is the line because if if the deep
state is able to tank Pete, then guess what they're
going to Cash and then guess what they're going to RFK,
and then guess what they will dismantle the Trump administration
before he even gets in office.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
So Pete has gotta be the line in the sand forest.
That's it. I mean, And look the difference with Pete
and Matt and by the way, and that's the case,
Pete and Cash are both in the same boat here.
They're qualified to do this job. That's really what it
comes down to. They're qualified to do this job, and

(36:34):
outside or barring something that is without question. And all
of this stuff is of course with question because it's
anonymously sourced. It's nonsense. You have the guy's mother on
television today. I mean, this is ridiculous. Nobody should have
to go through this, folks. This is ridiculous, all right,
barring anything that's without dispute, disqualifying, or something on their

(37:00):
resume that puts in question whether or not they're qualified
to do the job. Let's say, for instance, like Pete
but Ed Jedge, all right, who you know, was the
mayor of a small city of which he did a
honorable job.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
He bankrupted the whole city.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
Bro There were miles and miles and miles of cargo
ships off both of our main ports at one point.
And yet you know, you ever see Lindsey Graham come out,
or you ever see Tom Tillis come out, or Johnny
RC come out, or Lisa mckowski or Susan Collins, and like, oh,
maybe I shouldn't have cast that vote, you know. I mean,
this is a sucharade, and I want people to treat

(37:38):
it as such. This is an attempt to take away
the government that you elected. And the president has always
been long standing, folks, entitled to the government that he
wants because he is your representative. You don't get to
vote for any of these positions. You vote for the House,
you vote for the Senate, you vote for local leaders,
state and local leaders. You don't get to vote for

(37:59):
the executive branch outside of the people's sovereign projection, which
is the president. And that is really when they're questioning
Trump's When they're questioning him being deserved to being allowed
to have the cabinet that he desires, they're questioning your judgment,
that's what they're doing. And they're not just going after

(38:22):
Trump's government. They're questioning and trying to take away your government.
He is your elected representative sovereign. He's an extension of
voter sovereignty, and them denying him the government that he wants,
like they did in sixteen seventeen. By the way, we're
going down the same road here in case nobody has noticed.
They're running the same playbook. If you get away with

(38:43):
it again, then they are once again denying you your
sovereign right to have the government the executive branch that
you want. And that's ultimately the problem in this country.
An executive branch has grown in this bloated behemoth. It's
not at all represent or accountable to this sovereign. The
sovereign in this country is you, folks. You're the sovereign.

(39:07):
And if you let them steamroll the executive that you nominated,
this steamrolling you. God, man, you're exactly right. You can
stay right there.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
I want to talk to you more about this on
the other side and kind of take a quick break.
And God, you're exactly right. That was a great way
to say that. Can you stay right there?

Speaker 1 (39:23):
Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (39:24):
Absolutely all right back with Savage Rich Barrison a second man.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
That was a great way to explain it. He's exactly right.

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Speaker 1 (41:12):
All right, I want to come back with my buddy.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
Oh wait, actually, actually I'll bring Savage Rich Barris back now,
director of Big Data poll and host of Inside the Numbers,
and Cindy sent me a BT like gif Fontes thank
you for the rumble rant tip Winnie's World, Thank you,
No bones as always, thank you going after Joni Orst
a little bit there, Jen, She says Pete was awesome

(41:38):
on Megan Kelly share this interview.

Speaker 3 (41:41):
I completely agree.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
The more that Pete can get in front of the
media and just smack down these ridiculous false allegations, he
should do it and then no bones again, thank you,
says a ballish to seventeenth amendment that would cure all.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Amen. Amen, let me can I stop you there real quick?

Speaker 2 (41:56):
And Demanda Demanda said the savagery a savage Rich Barris,
great show. Now go ahead, seventeenth Amendment.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
I just want to step in because that commenter is
understanding exactly what I'm talking about. One of the main
problems we have in this country right now is that
we have gotten off on the track with something that
was very fundamental when our founders set up this entire system,
which is who we vest power in and how it's distributed.
The problem we have right now is that, yes, you know,
we are supposed to elect our House of Representatives. We

(42:24):
changed presidency. Of course, we changed the Senate too, and
they are the consent body. They're supposed to be the
most deliberative body. But the truth is they have nothing
to deliberate upon except for the the will of their benefactors,
because the seventeenth Amendment wasn't for you to have a
popular vote in to say, and was to make it
cheaper for rent seekers to buy senators. And that's what

(42:46):
they have done. The academic research on this is so
very clear, guys, not only my own book, which I
won't pitch, but.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
TODs Georgia mitch I wrote a book.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
Ten more ten years ago now called Virtuous our version
to us a republic. We have forgotten clause in the
American Social Contract, and the argument is that we really
are starting to delegate power to organizations, people, and et cetera,
which were really supposed to be invested in us. And
with those powers and rights, like Jefferson said, are responsibilities,

(43:16):
and because we didn't want them, we gave them to
other people, other organizations, right, and that has resulted in
us having less of a say, and of course government growing.
It's literally an inverse relationship. You can you can plot
it on a graph. It's a lot like Robert Higgs's
Crisis of lovey at Them, which is that they grow
even when they use the crisis to grow, and they

(43:37):
recede after the crisis, they never received back to their
previous size as a share of GDP, so they just
keep growing. And because the senators are not accountable to you,
they're really not. Let's get let's get it real here.
Look at what happened in Wisconsin and all these other states.
Grossly outspent, Kerry Lake, grossly outspent. Who do you think
represents the values of Arizona more, Kerry Lake or Ruben Gallegos. Right,

(44:01):
obviously it's Kerry Lake because of the money that was
dumped into it by the rent seekers to buy Ruben. Now,
Ruben's their bitch, and Ruben will care more about what
they have to say than he ever will care about
the will of the voter in Arizona. They'll just buy
misinformation every six years to help get him reelected. That
is the point of this design. And all we have

(44:22):
left in that bloated bureaucracy in DC. Unfortunately, all that
we have left is the sovereign executive the extent, which
is really the extension of our sovereignty. And we let
this go. It's over over. It's why the Supreme Court decision,
which in God the Supreme Court came down on Trump's side.
It's why their decision about whether states could remove a

(44:44):
president from the valid whenever they want, just based on party.
That's why that was so important. It's also why the
immunity decision was so important, because if you handicap the executive,
they're handicapping your last voice, your last representation in that
and it's just so big right now. Unfortunately, if Joni
Earns was having these little, you know, cold feet moments,

(45:08):
the Iowa State Legislature would rip her ass out of
DC so fast it's not even funny because guess what,
they're being elected by their neighbor. Sean, if you ran
for your state legislature, whether it was the lower or
the up er chamber, you're literally seeing your voters every
day you walk out of the house. Joni gets to

(45:29):
hide and insulate herself now, all right, and she doesn't
have to worry about the legislature coming after her and
bringing her back for being I mean, look, let's face it.
When the debate over the seventeenth the men was going on,
the debate was whether or not they were corrupted, all right, Well,
now the debate is they are corrupted by rent seekers
on Caton Street in Washington, d C. And we have

(45:51):
no way to take them back except for these six
year elections, which are poisoned by misinformation and money. So
we handed we already hand and decapped ourselves. And the
power is not vested the way it used to be,
and that's the problem. I mean, it's used to be dispersed.
And there were multiple ways that the body, the sovereign voter,
the sovereign public could enact change, effect change, and they

(46:14):
are reducing that. Every year we've moved on as a republic,
they've reduced it and it's not even a republic anymore, unfortunately,
not the way it was intended. The seventy a of
the Amendment definitely has to go. It has to go
at some point or we need to find out. You know,
term limits is not a perfect answer to that, although
it's like the number one answer. The bottom line is,

(46:36):
let's stick with one big problem at a time. Let's
get control of the executive branch, and then we'll work
on you know, we'll work on the rest. But this
is a lign as Pete has to be aligned in
the sand because they have this playbook that they use
to keep you from enacting your will, and if you
keep letting them get away with this, then they get
emboldened and they think it's okay to like, I don't know,

(46:57):
I don't like what Kennedy's talking about. You know, whoops?

Speaker 3 (47:00):
All right?

Speaker 1 (47:00):
I mean they just they get in boldened to the
point where this is really just a show. And elections
are just shows because they know they're insulated enough that
the president wouldn't even get his own government or her
own government in there to enact the agenda that they
were elected to enact. I mean this is these are
very big questions. These fights are very big fights, and

(47:22):
they're not just about whether or not, Oh does Pete
Hegsep have a drinking problem? Does he sleep a lot
of women? I don't give a damn if he gets
drunk every Saturday and nails every woman on the planet.
I want him to reform the damn peda God so
stupid trivial nonsense. Let's get real, not to mention, if

(47:44):
we ever dug into Sam Adams, you wouldn't like what
you have to see. If you dug John Hancock's business organization,
you wouldn't like what you have to see. I mean,
John Hancock was the og gangster of the American colonies,
who is basically a mob boss. Who cares? Do they
care about the principle, the principles the country was built upon.

(48:04):
That's where we're at, Guys. We don't have this luxury
anymore for these stupid little things that they drag us
into the trivial, in the mundane, and it distracts us
from dealing with what is the most important questions of
our time. It's gotta stop. It's gotta stop. They have
to lose these fights. They so to start losing these fights.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
So Boston guy again, thank you for the rumble rant
tip he said. Yeah, he said, John, thank you for
putting out all those videos today. That's the perfect way
to fight back. That's why I put it out there.
I found a bunch of just working with veterans out
there that just are have had it like speak out
because we need your voice.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
That's our most dangerous weapon. Yeah, you're welcome, Boston.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
No Bones, the guy who made the seventeenth Amendment comment said, correct,
Rich the Senate seated their power again.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
Thank you, No.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Bones, Geef Fontes again your og. Regular Tipper Todd says
he just ordered five gift boxes from Good Rancher during
the show. They make a great holiday gifts. Yeah, hey,
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And then no bones again. Right, she knows the mid
terms are coming soon and is groveling because we do

(49:16):
not like her.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
Oh gosh, well yeah, listen, lots of people, thank you
all for tipping during the show. My gosh, look at
this slew Coat coming in. I'm loving the constitution lesson Savage. Rich,
thank you, slew Coat just tipped fifty bucks. Holy smokes,
thank you.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
You're in the holidays too. The generosity of these viewers.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
The best best.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
I swear to God like I swear to God like
we have the best viewers, I swear. It's amazing to
see the show grow, and you've been a huge part
of that, obviously, Rich coming on every single Wednesday for
a whole year. I told people on the Battle yesterday
that it looks like a Christmas bomb has gone off
in my house, like everything, all the decorations are out,

(50:08):
but they're just not up in Melanie. But Ben, Melanie
has a thing for Santa Claus. I think that she
has a definite thing for Santa I'm kind of jealous.
There are like a thousand Santas on my pool table
right now, and they'll get placed. And I mean I'm
not even exaggerating there there there are a shipload of
Santa's that well, she just likes Santa's. They'll be everywhere.

Speaker 3 (50:30):
By the way, I like them. I like them too.
They're not you too.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
She said, Sanna's got holiday riza. You can't compete with that.
The guy's got it going on. My favorite one. I
do keep him in the attic and he's actually like
the red green implaid Sanna, which is like really old school,
and he's got a burlap gift bag. I love him.

(50:56):
He goes by the fireplace.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
I like the I like that's saying a collecting thing.
Melanie just texted me all mad with a bunch of
exclamation points, which is never a good thing. Sean stopped
telling people my house is a mess. This is all
live show. Like you're experiencing this as I experiencing. I'm
not saying that the house is as I'm not saying
that I have in mine.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
The house is amazing. It's clean.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
Yeah, in my ear, I'll get in trouble before you.
I'll get in trouble. But with the growth of the
show that you were talking about, I mean, cause you
deserve it. You really do, you deserve it. You you
put on good content. But also you stepped up, man,
you stepped up. You know well, it's not an easy

(51:40):
thing to go through what you did. And it's a
it's a crime, man, it's a sin. What happened to you,
what they're doing to Pete. I mean, this stuff is like,
believe me, Lord is my witness. When all of these
people take their last breath, they're getting life reviews and
every smear they ever ran, bro and how much damage
it did to people's children. You think they're going to

(52:03):
be forgiven for that? Good luck? You better hope you're
right about closing your eyes and that's it and being
a deep sleep because you're in for it. Boy, when
you get there, I'm telling you, I'm so glad you
don't care. It is true.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
It affects kids in a horrible, horrible way.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
And this is you know, I you know, I know
that Pete does not need me to defend him. He's
he doesn't, but I know his family and I know
how this affects kids. I know it because I've seen
how it affected my kids and Rich I'm telling you,
you know, my kids when I ran for Senate, they
weren't on the ballot, you know, my my my wife

(52:42):
wasn't on the ballot, but they were all targets as well.
And I'm telling you my kids still deal with it
every no, I'm serious, man, every single day. And so
you know, obviously Pete is a friend of mine. Obviously
I I you know, I defend my friend, period, end
of story. But I just I see how it affects kids,

(53:08):
and I don't want that for Pete. And there has
to be a counterbalance, like there has to be out there.
There has to be somebody out there saying, no, this
is all bullshit, because as the kids get older, they
will come through this. They will look it up on
the internet. They will read every horrible thing that was
said about their mom and their dad. One hundred percent
it's going to happen. And when they do that Google search,

(53:29):
they need to see somebody out there saying this is bullshit.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
Yeah, it has to have a really good point. This
never goes away anymore. It's not the Bork situation. And
even with Robert Bork, you can still look it up
on the internet, guys, and you can still see what
they did to them. Now, most people understand that that
was the point in the in the nomination process, or
at least it's what the public or you know, the

(53:54):
political followers see where it was the point in the
nomination process where Democrats really began to like politicize it
and run people through the mud and destroy them. But
when they started to wreck Kavanaugh, we because there a
data journalism site. We really weren't like a political news site,
but anything that was noteworthy with data journalism we covered.

(54:14):
And while that Kavanaugh was hearing what's going on, we
actually looked back and the nomination history, and it's overwhelmingly
the case that Democrats have like it's like an evolution
of stooping to a new low. They started this process.
They started this, you know, get in the mud to
stop nominees. They began this. Republicans have certainly not you know,

(54:37):
completely not guilty of it, but they do not do
it at the level Democrats have done. They historically are
the ones who started it and have escalated. It is
really where I'm going into the where into the state
that we're now in where none of this went down
like this in the past, and even when our founders

(54:58):
and our early leaders fought, they've thought about everything. You know,
this one's calling this one ah'mafrod I you know, I'm.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
So glad you brought that up.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
Ye.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
Melanie and I talk about this all the time.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
I did an interview with somebody and they were like,
don't you just think Trump's rhetoric is so terrible? And
Melanie and I had just had a conversation about some
of the ship that the founder said to each other, Adam,
you slept with this woman.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
You're sleeping with all these You're sleeping with your employees,
like your employees.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
You're banging this guy's wife, like the slave they're calling wives.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
You know, this one's nailing this slave.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
They're making fun of wives and horrible stuff about their wives.
I mean like, and I'm like, you think this is
just like a new thing.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
Now. Look at what the founders used to say.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
What's interesting about Mitt Romney's farewell address to the Senate.
I wanted to have a I wanted to have a
video on this today. Uh, But I was like sitting
with a compress on my eye all day when I
was in that storage unit last night. I must have
gotten something in my eye. Woke up in my eyes
I was swollen shut and that's going on. Yeah, it's ridiculous.
I got something in there, I guess. But what I

(56:06):
would have said in a shortened version, what I would
have said, is that that was actually a really historic
speech in the sense that it not only marked what
is potentially the end of all of this. What we're
talking about, the Rockefeller Republican way of doing things right,
And so when we are polling, we up to say
do you align more, and we're talking to a Republican

(56:26):
do you align more as a traditional or America First Republican.
What we really mean by that traditional is that Rockefeller
wing of the Republican Party that really does not identify
the Republican Party. It just did for a shortened period
of time, and that's kind of remains in our memory
because it's modern. But not only did it mark the

(56:46):
end of that period, but the things he said in
the speech also identify why that period is coming to
an end. Right. I haven't been able to stop, unfortunately
my life work of stopping the politicized oh hyperbolic. Uh, yeah,
you got a break. Willard Okay, give me a break,

(57:10):
and then.

Speaker 3 (57:10):
He delecto, Pierre delecto.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
What that means?

Speaker 4 (57:14):
That delectable Peter bro this, this guy creates a fake
Twitter account to trash people, and he's.

Speaker 3 (57:28):
And he's dear delecto. It means delectable Peter.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
That's what he said.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
It's not me, it's it's not bullshit, it's the truth. Literally,
everyone should call him that forever and then that I'll
do it from here on in.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
All right, delectable Peter means then I know it does
it does? You're right, you're right. Then he goes on
to blame that hyperpartisanship for why he couldn't do things
like the budget under control. No, you can't get the
budget under control because you're bought in, paid for two

(58:02):
and you send billions of dollars to Ukraine because you
don't have the spine or the principle to stand up
the Democrats when they pretend they're giving money for COVID
relief when really, in fact, it's nothing but a kickback
to Biden's donors and all of their donors for winning
the twenty twenty election. Because you didn't have a spine
to stop the inflation. Reduction Act, right, because you did it.

(58:24):
But of course who's he really blaming, right, He's blaming
people like Donald Trump who are a stand because that's
what he means when he's just like this, you know,
rabid partisan. You who's he talking about? He's talking about
Trump and Trump reporters. Right, So the nerve of this guy,
I mean, really his speech and him embody this pivot
point we're at in our history where the public has

(58:46):
already said enough, this has got a change, and the
system is operating as it always does in an elastic
attempt to stop it. And again, like I said, and
I really just want to kind of wrap come fullard,
you know, full circle here from what I first said,
which is, if Republicans want to keep these voters all right,

(59:07):
at some point, they're going to have to fight, and
that includes fighting their own and that Listen, give me
twenty minutes. I'll get Lisa Murkowski to vote in favor
of this nomination. Give me twenty minutes. Right, they don't
do what is necessary, and it's time that that gets
done because she's not at all secure and there's nobody

(59:28):
in this world that doesn't have skeletons in the closet.
I don't know if you heard what Laura was saying before,
but the reason it's such as just charade, folks, is
that these people, they're coming out with their anonymous sources,
they probably plucked the story from last Saturday out of
their own damn life, you know. I mean, these are
the worst people to be lecturing anybody about adultery, about

(59:50):
drinking habits. I mean, come on, you know it, Jean,
come on, you know it. Go to an after hours
party for reporters who are covering let's say, Seapack. Go
to the bar outside National Armor and chill out with
the reporters after they're done for the day, you know, uh,
covering Seapack, after they're done smearing every conservative who gave

(01:00:11):
a speech that day. Go look at their behavior, all right.
They're the worst people to be lecturing anybody anyone. And
by the way, that includes a lot of so called
mainstream right leaning people. Right does it really does? And
by mainstream, of course, I mean the Rockefeller wing. That's

(01:00:32):
what I mean. It's not you're not moderate. You just
don't believe in anything. I hate that word. I absolutely
hate that word. Are you a moderate?

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
Moderate means have any convictions, no core principles, Yeah, you
have no core principles.

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
That's what being a moderate means, completely agree.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
And that's why when people say, like, you know, are
you a radical, I say, well, yeah, if that means that,
you know, I radically support the Constitution period.

Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
Yeah, I guess I'm radical.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
But I guess but in today's day and age, that classifies,
at least to the left as far right radical far right.
But I don't give a ship what they think. That's
what that that this will defend right, that's that's that's what.
Where did that get lost along the way?

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
What made me radical? At some point? Right? I'm just
at a point too, and I think something popped in
me after this election. I'm just tired of having my
job listening to the American people not be listening to
and I feel bad for them. Well I've always I
always have, but but I think I've about had it.

(01:01:38):
You know, I think I've about had it because at
some point, believe me, they're going to make them listen.
You know what I'm saying, You can't like this forever.
They Every election is supposed to be a bit of
a release valve, you know, where the tension comes down, right,
and if you can't, if you routinely deny the people

(01:02:00):
the government that they elected and the government that they want,
like this is what they're trying to do again, repeat
twenty seventeen, where they denied a duly elected president's government,
and they denied the people the government and the president
that they elected. If they keep doing this, sean every
time someone really poses a danger to the status quo,

(01:02:20):
which means that translates into will bring change, real change,
not campaign slogan change, real change that is necessary. It
has to happen. This isn't working. This system, this government
is failing. The entire system is failing. We have to change.
We have to institute reforms otherwise we'll have forced austerity soon. Otherwise,

(01:02:42):
I mean eventually. You know, Romney himself talked about the
interest on the debt, you know, so if this doesn't
change at some point, it goes the ugly way. If
they keep doing this, then they're also really preventing that
release foul from doing its job. And that's when things
get real ugly, you know, That's when and it's honestly.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
On that note, we should prepare for the holidays, right,
like things just rejoice that it's Christmas time.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
Trying to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
Actually Christmas bomb that went off in the house. Everything's
really organized. The house is definitely not a mess, but
we've got Christmas stuff everywhere.

Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
Turn the camera and show you I have a in
because there's really no nowhere else.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
To put it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
I have everything that we've done so far, the boxes,
because we'll keep all of the boxes that come, like
every piece of swag we've bought, every wreath we bought,
and I get the wreath covers for every wreath we have.
We probably have twenty wreaths. Every single one of them
is in my office. They're all piled over here, all
over there. It's taller than me. I'm not exactly a

(01:03:47):
tall guy, but it's taller than me. It's just unbelievable.
And the tree is in the dining room right now.
That's got to go up. So I'm in the same
I'm in the same boat with you, Missile Joe. Our
elf elf on the shelf. We read the book last night,
so he flew here from the north pole, you know.
And my son doesn't like me, doesn't like the elf

(01:04:09):
on the shelf as much as she loves Santa.

Speaker 3 (01:04:11):
She does.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
She she sees Santa is like big brother around here.
She doesn't want the elf telling Santa what we do
because that's just like big brother. She is like like
it's like it's like Santa's version of the agency. Yeah,
she doesn't want Santa's version of the NSA in this house.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
We kind of don't, you know, We do it a
little differently. We make him like he's a part of
the family, and uh, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
We You don't sleep with the elf, do you.

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
You're not supposed to the elf. No, we can't touch
the elf. You know.

Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
I have two of them. I have two of them.
Melanie allows the elves to be here.

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
Okay, I gotta send you a video. I gotta send
you a video. It's my wife. She was like, you
gotta come here, Rich, come here. And she's video videoing
my daughter touching him for the first time. And she
because it's been ingrained in her for like twelve years
more than that, she's older now. But she couldn't do it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
Brother.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
She was like, oh my god, I'm so sorry. She
couldn't do it. And finally when she did it, she
just had this like incredible reaction like she did something
wrong and naughty, you know, and it's like it's it
was hilarious. I gotta send you this video.

Speaker 3 (01:05:15):
It's so good.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
It's so good, but it's Chris is an amazing time
of year, man, I really is. It's a great time
of the year, especially if you got little kids, which
I know you still do.

Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
Yeah, so Sean's absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
All tell us how we could support your rich I
mean most people know how, but yeah again.

Speaker 1 (01:05:34):
Best Place is always focused on locals, people's pundit dot
locals dot com, people's pund in dot locals dot com
and check out MG Data poll go to the Public
Polling Project. We're going to do the Christmas poll soon.
I love it every year, and uh we'll also front
load of the Christmas poll and after that then we'll
redirect people into doing uh a pre inauguration poll, right,

(01:05:56):
which we'll want to.

Speaker 3 (01:05:57):
Ask about Garland on the poll for Christmas stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
Right, I'll tell you what, there's a lot of stuff.
We'll have to see how big the poll is. Something
is going to get sacrificed this year. It may be
your favorite Christmas Carol version that may go this year
because we've done it twice now, Darland or no garland. Yeah,
maybe not have official results on this.

Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
We did.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
We already asked live or artificial tree. That's a big
that's a big thank you. I lost that debate in
the house, Melanie. Artificial winds now artificial.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
So we have to have a real tree that's a
real thing for us, Like it's just it's I don't
have us and I'm glad we go that way.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
The kid's tree is real. The decorative tree that's like
the masterpiece of the house. I'll send you pictures like Laura's.
She does a built Moore spruce and it's gorgeous.

Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
That's what I think. That's what uh what what we
do too?

Speaker 1 (01:06:50):
It's really they're just something about them. If you can't
get a hold of a what is that for a something?
Not not a ballm fur, it's oh why am I forgetting?
I love Christmas trees. But if you can't get a
hold of this kind of for a noble for a
noble fur, if you can't get a hold of a
noble for the spruce is where it's at? John, That

(01:07:12):
just says Christmas to me. And but but we'll always
usually get like a a what is it a Douglas
fir No frasier f that's official tree in North Carolina.
So there's a lot of them will get a real
one and we'll put it in the sun room area.
And that's like where the kids have their their They

(01:07:33):
get to decorate with the uh you know, not expensive
ornaments and not like family heirloom ornaments and they get
to decorate with whatever they want. And it's always really cute,
you know, it's always really cool. Worried about the dog.
I don't know what you do with your dogs. He
just Winston just turned one on Monday. Not a right
time is flown by?

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
The dog is doing okay, she doesn't mess with.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
I'm a little scared. Yeah, good luck with all that
somehow from the Christmas Pole, go to the Big down
a Pole and you'll see the Christmas poll. Share it
farm wind if you can, and of course contribute to
it if you can. But locals as always people's pund
at a locals dot com. Awesome, my friend, see you
next week, bro as always, got best to you and yours.

(01:08:18):
I'll see you soon. See your Rich take care brother.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
That is Savage Rich Barris, the director of Big downa
Pole and host of inside the numbers, Go subscribe to
him on locals, go follow him for his show. He's
a great guy and a great patriot. Yeah, folks, that's it.
Garland has got to be on Christmas tree. Gotta be
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