
Episode 4790: Victory In Texas Against Transgender Ideology; McCarthy Was Right...
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Steve Bannon
Kimmel.
Charlie Kirk
I still have a show, though, right?
Steve Bannon
Okay, good.
Charlie Kirk
Yesterday, after threats from Trump's FCC chair, ABC yanked Kimmel off the air indefinitely. That is blatant censorship. And it always starts small. You know, remember, like in week one of his presidency, Gulf of America. Call it Gulf of America, sure. Seems harmless, but with an autocrat, you cannot give an inch. And if ABC thinks. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive. And clearly they've never read the children's book. If you give a mouse a Kimmel. And to Jimmy. And to Jimmy, just let me say, I stand with you and your staff 100%. And also, you couldn't let me enjoy this for, like, one week.
Steve Bannon
Just.
Mark Mitchell
Come on.
Brian Harrison
Free speech is baked into American identity possibly more than anything else I can think of. And it's not so everybody understands that freedom of speech is part of who we are. It's the way we do the things that we do. Most everybody believes in it very, very strongly. That's why you're seeing the guys on the right coming out against this. I think Trump has a problem in that he continually goes after the things that people were motivated to support him in the first place. You know, the same guys that were criticizing him yesterday on the free speech crackdown and the censorship were the same people who were criticizing him on the Epstein files just a couple weeks ago. Now, all of those voices got tamped down very quickly on the right after a couple of days of people speaking out. I assume that that is what will happen here. But there's only so many times that you keep attacking the very principles that people supported you for before they're going to start noticing that you don't have any principles.
Brian E. Harrison
And I think we're.
Unidentified Conservative Commentator
You don't think so?
Mark Mitchell
I mean, not for the diehards.
Brian E. Harrison
I don't know. I mean, that seems like an optimistic take on reality, but I don't know. I mean, I think mostly people like.
Charlie Kirk
To smash their enemies more than they.
Brian E. Harrison
Care about the principle of free speech. Like, I think that's all our experience for the last 10 years.
Unidentified Conservative Commentator
And we have the President suggesting he's going to declare antifa, whatever that really is, as a terrorist group, something he actually can't do if it's in the United States. Take this all together here. This seems like it is a systemic, a planned crackdown, and one that seems to be very, very dangerous. Right. In our political vernacular, there's a term that gets bandied about to describe repression, which is McCarthyism. And I think it's worth comparing the repression that happened in the late 1940s and the 1950s to what's happening now in the 1950s. Over the course of a decade, 10,000 people lost their jobs here. In the course of a week, it seems as if, according to reporting, more than a thousand people lost their jobs. It took years for the McCarthyites to bring Hollywood to heel here. It seems like it happened in an absolute flash. And it's because the state is at the center of the repression, not some, you know, not some drunken senator on a rage, on a rampage and some other up and coming ambitious politicians exploiting an issue. And if I think about Project 2025 and how that provided a roadmap to remaking the kind of the mechanics, the plumbing of the federal government in order to achieve all sorts of long standing conservative goals, but also to engage in a form of, of culture war. And you know, when we look at what's happened not just to the entertainment industry, not just the threats that have been in actual punishments that's been inflicted on media, you look at what's happened to the university and the fact that, that these, that the president of Texas A and M was just fired this week, that over a controversy where a professor was fired, you look at the fact that there is a federal monitor now installed at Columbia University and that there are all these other threats being wielded against other institutions. And you compile, you add that to the way in which the state, as this font of knowledge, has been reshaped in order to present only good news that the leader likes. And you take that together as an aggregate impression of where we're at in merely the first couple months of this administration. And you think about the years ahead of us, and, and you compare that to what happened during the McCarthy era, you'd say we've survived, you know, a decade of McCarthyism in a very, very short period of time. And there's a lot of Runway left.
I mean, there was something in Semaphore Today where it talked about the origin story of one person in the Trump White House being that he was kicked off the Gawker comments. And Gawker, you know, it just was like, it was a really big part of it. One of the biggest brains for the far right right now, his name's Mike Benz, and his whole thing started because he was kicked off of YouTube in 2018, 2019, for being a, you know, far right sort of agitator, racist vlogger. And so like this is the origin story of so Many of these people. And so I don't think that we can, I think we have to absolutely talk about it is retribution for them. It is not the idea of like, well, be careful what happens when they are.
Steve Bannon
No, it's not hypocrisy, it's retribution.
Unidentified Conservative Commentator
Exactly.
Mark Mitchell
That's right.
Unidentified Conservative Commentator
And they remember what they think happened to them when the other people were in power and now they're getting their just desserts and it's tasty.
Unidentified Caller
That's something that should be talked about for licensing too. When you have a network and you have evening shows and all they do is hit Trump, that's all they do. If you go back, I guess they haven't had a conservative on in years or something, somebody said. But when you go back and take a look, all they do is hit Trump. They're licensed. They're not allowed to do that. They're an arm of the Democrat Party. Thank you everybody.
It's one of the most outrageous affronts on this. This is North Korea style stuff. And, and it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening. And this is exactly what dictators do. It's a, it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly this is a terrible president and a terrible human being who is doing nothing to improve the lives of Minnesotans and who continues to have this double standard.
Steve Bannon
What we're seeing from this administration is a frontal assault, unapologetic. One of the most cherished freedoms we have, the one that we celebrate arguably the most, the freedom to speak out and criticize the very government we elect to represent us without fear of being.
Mark Mitchell
Crushed or bullied or threatened.
Steve Bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
Jim Rickards
Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. You just not got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people, the people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything.
Steve Bannon
In the world to stop that, but.
Jim Rickards
You'Re not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
Unidentified Conservative Commentator
And where do people like that go.
Steve Bannon
To share the big lie? MAGA MEDIA.
Charlie Kirk
I wish in my soul, I wish.
Steve Bannon
That any of these people had a conscience.
Jim Rickards
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. War Room here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
Steve Bannon
It's Friday the 19th of September in the year of our Lord 2025. Do you remember their big crocodile tears? The big crocodile tears and their love of the First Amendment when they were banning President Trump and all of his acolytes, all the leaders of the MAGA movement and many of you in the MAGA movement, they didn't like what they saw. Did you remember their crocodile tears? Well, no, you don't, because they didn't shut them. Ben Smith said it. Hey, we have the power and we're gonna do it. You guys have no. And it's not open for debate. I don't want to be. Oh, free speech. They're in full. Total meltdown about Jimmy Kimmel, one of the biggest scumbags around, who tried to smear, who did smear, right. This movement in the memory of Charlie Kirk for what he said on the show today. Because Doug get away with it. Well, now he's gone, okay? There's gonna be a lot more gone. That's what they're worried about. They're worried about their jobs. In this crew at cbs. Ellison, in this crowd that just bought it. I don't know why Stephen Colbert, he loses 40 million bucks a year. That show cost $100 million a year to produce. Hello, $100 million a year to produce. It's incredible. I think they bring in 60 in revenue. And yes, we're going to start talking. We're going to start talking to these sponsors next week because this thing's got to be shut down. Ellison right now should pull the plug. It's a. They should be sued immediately by the Justice Department and not just talk about, oh, there. It's a front for the Democratic organization. We have that. It's a contribution. In kind. An in kind contribution. If you look at Colbert and you figure, hey, on average, let's say you lost 40 million bucks for the last 10 years. I'm just taking what the current number is. It may be less, but just this is rough Math. That's a $400 million, $400 million donation to the Democratic Party because he never has conservatives on if he has it. Republicans has Liz Cheney, they beat down President Trump and the MAGA movement every day. Well, hey, guess what? We're in charge now. And this is my whole point about a maximalist strategy. Seize the institutions and have a sense of urgency. Has to be done today. Not tomorrow. Today. Today. Today. Action, action, action. And finally they got Kimmel off the air. Right? We got Colbert eventually fired, but he should be removed immediately by CBS's manager. Don't worry about managing TikTok today. Worry about getting rid of Colbert, Just tell him. He said, hey, look, we'll pay your contract out. You're going to lose a lot less than $40 million. Pay his contract down and shut it all down. And I love the fact that the folks around him that have been perpetrating this evil, the staff and the writers, all that, I have no remorse whatsoever. Those guys losing their job. And as you know, populist nationalists, we hate folks when. We hate it when folks lose their jobs, but they have basically supported evil, evil for years. So payback is out. Call it what you want, retribution, revenge. We just call it common sense. The days of you guys being in charge are over. And we're taking every step to make sure that you can't reverse it. This is the key thing. This is why you have to move with the lack. We have to have maximalist position. We have to meet a sense of urgency and seize the institutions and make it so they can never reverse it. So even if they're to steal elections in the future, which is the only way they get in office, like in 2020, if they're able to steal elections that they can't reverse what President Trump is doing. Okay. Huge events happening overnight. A big scalp down in Texas by Brian Harrison. Let's play. We got a short clip on bringing brother Harrison. Let's play it.
Brian Harrison
Video circulating online showed a student objecting to a professor's teachings. That professor was soon fired amid pressure from Republican lawmakers, including the state's governor. Still, the university's president, Mark Welsh, continued to face backlash for his handling of the issue. Welch is now expected to step down today.
Steve Bannon
Brian Harrison, once again, you got us five seats. You, sir, and the group that you work with, these great MAGA grassroots of Texas that are saving Texas and therefore saving the republic, you went to work on this. You didn't want a professor. You know, Abbott's a tough guy. He's getting these students. Yeah, the students ought to go. But he's, like, making a big deal at Texas Tech and these other places. I got this student, got this student. He is gutless like he's always been. It was Brian Harrison. And to back that up, the Daily Mail put you up as the lead story last night, sir, overnight, of taking down the president of Texas A and M. Tell us how you did it.
Brian E. Harrison
Well, by joining arms with millions of grassroots patriots across Texas and with across America, including the posse. I mean, look, there was nobody. When I called for President Welsh to be fired nine months ago. And for the entirety of this year, do you Know exactly how many elected Republicans were willing to help call, call for the leftist former Barack Obama official to be fired from his position as Texas A and M University. Up until about 2 days ago. 0. I was totally and completely alone in the Texas government standing up and saying no, I'm sick and tired of leftist progressives running some of our most cherished institutions, including my alma mater, Texas A and M. I love Texas A and M. I want it restored to its pre woke glory. But if it weren't for the people locking arms with me with social media and regular media, by the way, everybody in Austin told me they were, those critics were screaming, oh, you gotta follow the proper challenge. You can't just go air all this in the media. You need to go have some closed door meetings. You know what, let me say something. If we, if I had conducted business as usual the way these weak kneed liberal rhino hack establishment uniparty folks who have been controlling the Texas government for decades, far too long, if I had conducted myself and handled this problem the way they wanted me to, Mark Welsh would be president of Texas A and M today. That leftist progressor, transgender indoctrinator. She would still be indoctrinating students at Texas A and M. But you're right, I'm tired of calling for the little victories. You know, Greg Abbott finally came in after I raised so much hell about this and said, fire the professor. I'm sorry, we're indoctrinating kids all across the Texas A and M University system. What, you're going to pin this on one professor and call it a day? Give me a break. Here's the thing that I was most shocked to learn, Steve. After serving as a senior member of President Trump's first administration and helping to get rid of DEI at the federal level, when I got elected down here in Texas, nothing could have prepared me for the shock. To learn that number one, Democrats run the show in Austin and a bunch of them, by the way, that self identify as Republicans. But number two, the Texas government might well be the biggest funder of DEI and this woke leftist transgender indoctrination in America. And it's time for that to stop. And I think we're making a big progress yesterday.
Steve Bannon
Hang on, I want to get into the details of that. But as goes Texas, so goes the nation. As goes the nation, so goes the world. This is why we have to have a MAGA revolution, a real revolution down in Texas and get rid of these gutless wimps that are in charge. You're going to find out what they're doing with this dangerous radical ideology and the great Lone Star State next in the war room.
Mark Mitchell
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Steve Bannon
Okay, Brian Harrison so the was it Ken Klippenstein has a two pieces he put up on Substack. One is from April where he defines what nihilistic, violent, extremist NVs are. And then he's got a massive scoop coming out of the FBI that they're designating these transgender groups, these militias and others as immediately as NVS for detailed investigations. Also that will be part of, as you know when the designation for Antifa and its affiliates as a major terrorist organization. Of course everybody saw in the cold domestic. You can't do domestic. Yo, dude, write it down. Major terrorist organization, right? Antifa is from Europe. Oh, there's just, you know, they're so. They're anarchists. They're not combined. That is the surface level. That's the foot soldiers. But it's very organized. We're going to get to the very organization. Including media partners. Yes, you're going to see. Perp walked out eventually helping terrorist organization, their media partners. And also all these, a lot of these highfalutin NGOs. Oh yes, oh yes. Oh yes. But that's why we need to take action. Enough screwing around and no more Comer investigations. We're going to have in a minute. Mark Mitchell is going to join us. Comer's trying to start over again. Mark Mitchell, we support him, but we got to see some action. We're going to get to that in a minute. These cesspools that Comer is going to have before him. So, Brian Harrison, pull it back from the top. You sent us the other day something from Texas State where they teach on the taxpayers of the great state of Texas and everything those folks in Texas have been through to create that great state. They teach what? Transgender ideology? Resistance. The resistance movement that has led to things like the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Walk me through this. How could this be so embedded in our greatest state, in the union and maga's biggest state?
Brian E. Harrison
Sir, this sad, shocking and infuriating answer is because of these so called Republicans that have been leading the Texas government for quite frankly, far too long. I mean, people ask me all the time, where does this indoctrination come from? Where do these ideas get into these young people's head that lead them to do things like what we saw with the assassination with Charlie Kirk, clearly now an act of trans violence. And the answer is as true as it is infuriating. And it should make everyone's blood boil. And I know it makes mine and yours, Steve. The taxpayers, the taxpayers of America and the taxpayers here in Texas, it's them. They have the money. We're taxing Texans out of our homes. And then the so called Republican government here in Texas is weaponizing that money against Texans, against their children and against their values by indoctrinating and inculcating an entire generation into this diversity, equity and inclusion nonsense. This transgender indoctrination and ideology. And this is going to shock people. The problems that I exposed at Texas A and M, that's not an isolated event. It's all throughout the entire Texas A and M. University system, but also, also every public university in the state of Texas has some type of DEI and transgender indoctrination. Most of our public universities, you can get not just one class, Steve, an entire undergraduate course of study and minor in LGBT transgender studies. And Texas State University, there's a viral video went around of a kid. It was disgusting, vulgar display, him mocking Charlie Kirk's death. But so all the elected Republican leadership, including our governor, like, expel the student. And I'm like, I'm sorry, that's a distraction. Sure, expel the students. But the bigger problem is Texas State University is indoctrinating countless more just like him, and they're using tax dollars to do it.
Steve Bannon
By the way, Abbott, correct me if I'm wrong, Abbott, social media's team on one of the students, I think, was the young woman at Texas Tech. He put F A, F O. I'm like, he's a biggest, like, you know, a Texas Ranger coming in. It's unbelievable. These guys think they're big shots for kicking these kids out. Of course the kids ought to be kicked out. No doubt about that. However, you got to go to the railhead of the rot. And that's in the university system that's on these boards. That's people that have known it, have been told to stop it, and it hasn't stopped. It gets perpetuated. And it's because of the gutless nature of the senior folks in Texas politics, as we've seen time and time again. Only when they put a ban that and nudge him in the back. Are they going to do anything other than that? They're going to give you happy talk on Fox of all the stuff they're doing. Go ahead. Go ahead, sir.
Brian E. Harrison
No, they're acting all big and tough by going after these kids. And of course, the kids probably should be expelled in some of these. But fafo? Are you kidding me? Governor Abbott, every single regent, every single chancellor, every single president, every single indoctrinating professor was hired directly or indirectly by you or one of your political appointees. I'm sorry, the rot starts at the top here in the state of Texas. And every single indoctrinator, every single leftist progressive running every public university or every state agency in Texas just about was appointed by Governor Greg Abbott. And quite frankly, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick in the Texas Senate nor the Texas House have expressed one ounce of interest in cutting off the phones for leftist liberal indoctrination. And in fact, they've been appointing leftist, progressive Barack Obama officials all across the state of Texas for Years and they've refused every call to bring us back. And finally let us defund all of this WOKE nonsense. Texas should be leading the fight against woke leftist indoctrination. Not forcing taxpayers to be taxed out of their homes to subsidize the destruction and the cancerous rot indoctrinating the next generation. But that's exactly what's happening down here.
Steve Bannon
Okay, you had a saddle up last week on this video and people put their shoulder to the wheel. We got a scalp, a big one. What's next? What do you, what do you need this audience to do today? Today, Today, today. Because this is all about taking it. It's only going to change if the grassroots take action. So what do we do, sir?
Brian E. Harrison
So two things. One with the executive branch and one with the legislative branch. Go back as the posse. By the way, every one of you that made a phone call or an email from my let me say to you directly, thank you. We couldn't have gotten that victory without your help. But keep it up, okay? The Governor, Governor of Texas appoints all of the leadership in these universities. He needs to be told right now. You call us back for a special session. I've been demanding him do this publicly and in writing for months. He refuses. Bring us back for a special session and order us to defund every public university and every state agency that's using taxpayer money for WOKE indoctrination. And then number two, because you've now seen it. They've got the power. If we can fire the president of Texas A and M just by political pressure. You know what every other leftist indoctrinating chancellor and president of every public university that still engage in transgender indoctrination. Your cover's been blown, man. We know you've got the power to fire them. Fire them immediately. And every other taxpayer funded official engaged in indoctrination. And then to Dan Patrick and the leaders of the Texas House and the Texas Senate, assuming the governor calls us back. Stop defeating every piece of legislation to ban DEI and transgender indoctrination. Stop passing fake bills that actually authorize instead of being woke leftist indoctrination. Stand up be the Republicans that 30 million Texans are voting for and demand and deserve. They want bold Republican leadership. They deserve bold Republican leadership. We have the power here in the state of Texas to save not just America, but the future of Western civilization. But we can't do it if we are funding the very ideologies that Charlie Kirk, God bless his soul and his family, dedicated his life to defeating. But that's exactly what's going on down here in God's country. Texans deserve better. Americans deserve better.
Steve Bannon
Harrison, where they go to your always on fire Twitter feed, sir.
Brian E. Harrison
Without this xp, guys, this wouldn't have been possible. We cover more than all the media in Texas combined. And the grassroots liking amplifying it made all the difference. Here at Brian E. Harrison, please take two seconds. Go to Twitter X@Briane Harrison ryaneharrison. Follow, like, share and amplify. We are going to save this country by saving the state of Texas. And every one of you watching right now, you can play an instrumental and material role in protecting liberty and freedom for the next generation.
Steve Bannon
Thank you, brother. Great work.
Brian E. Harrison
Not good work.
Steve Bannon
Great work. Amazing. Warren Posse, we need a special size. We need to defund and fire. How about that? We'll keep it simple down in Texas. I'll get you some numbers. We'll start making some calls today. Mark Mitchell joins us, the pollster over at Rasmussen. Mark, you had these amazing insights the other day about Reddit and voila. Next thing you know, we're gonna have a hearing on Capitol Hill. And look, I've been on comer, but hey, God bless you if this is where you're going. So walk me through. First off, what exactly has been announced? Congressman Comer, head of oversight, has announced. What specifically?
Mark Mitchell
Well, first I just want to step back and say, Steve, how long are you going to keep playing MSNBC cold opens? I went and checked while I was watching those scumbags. And their, their website is ranked 885 in the US it's ranked between Babylist.com and a gay hentai site. And I just looked in Citizen Free Press, Kane has the 690th rank in the U.S. they're literally irrelevant. I don't think anybody should care at all about these people getting fired. I think it's beautiful because now, because abc, Disney got political, the right boycotted them. Now you fire Jimmy Kimmel and the left boycotts him. It's awesome. Like, burn these assholes to the ground. Like, and I'll also tell you that, listen, if this was a fascist crackdown, like, they want to admit the lies aren't going to stop. They're going to call Trump a fascist. Well, guess what? In four days, Trump approval, his net approval is up 10 points. Right now. Trump is plus seven. We haven't seen that level since the middle of June. So if this is a fact, hang.
Steve Bannon
On, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. That's the biggest bounce and pop I think we've had. How did that, how did the 10 point, what was the 10 point pop. This is over the last week in the trend line.
Brian E. Harrison
Yeah.
Mark Mitchell
Tell Cameron to go to my Twitter feed. It looks ridiculous. I just put a chart up. It's, it's insane. Yeah. Like people, people absolutely are piling behind Trump right now. And I think like we talked about, it's because people are reprioritizing. They're like, man, something's going on. Maybe I should just bury those hatchets and get in line behind a leader. And so the Democrats know this. Rahm Emanuel knows this. Don't ever let a crisis go to waste. The Democrats would be pushing through aggressive action right now. And look, the, the Trump administration starting to do it too. And this is how things change. This is what strong leadership is.
Steve Bannon
Okay, hang on for a second. Mark Mitchell's gonna stick with this. Mark is nailed. One of the secrets of the worm. I actually do the cold opens or my team puts together the cold opens after we talk about it overnight, early in the morning to sell more warpath coffee because you need a cup of hot black coffee when you finish. I'm just kidding. We do it to get your, get your blood up early in the morning. Know what the opposition saying, know what lies or I think we get more traffic than anybody. Short commercial break. Mark Mitchell from Rasmussen on the other side.
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Mark Mitchell
Charlie Kirk was shot nine days ago now, and the first thing we saw was right direction plunge. It's been between 45 and 50% for most of Trump's second term, which is just fanatically unprecedented. We've never seen anything like that before. It dropped from 45 to 40 and it looks like it's on the way back up to 42. That was the gut punch. That was people like, what's going on? It was a drop of 7 points of Republican right direction, 6 points of independence. Democrats went up a little, but I don't think it's because they like that Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Only in the last four days has Trump approval gone up. So I think it's a reaction, maybe it's a delayed reaction or it's a reaction to the action and the way that he's framing these things. And if you can look at that chart, everybody watching right now, that red line, that bright red line that is Trump is in very unprecedented territories because presidents come in. I have the last four presidencies up here. They come in. And the summer is usually where the buyer's remorse and delusion mint sets in. And Trump's number, net +7, right now we don't have a single data point at all, like anywhere past June, July, in any of the other presidencies. So this is new. Normally, presidents are getting beat up right now. And right now Donald Trump is taking aggressive action to crack down on domestic terrorists. And it would appear that America is cheering. And this is the problem we find ourselves in, because I wasn't sure if they were going to keep lying. They are businesses you were talking about that they lose a significant amount of money. Like look at the propagandists at 538 and how much money that the New York Times and Disney threw into that black hole of propaganda and information gatekeeping and they finally just shut it down, they didn't fix it. And I thought, well, maybe after this MSNBC is finally going to have to change and tell the truth. Maybe all these people in the networks are not going to do it for some reason. We don't know. They can't, they're just, they, they can't. So they're going to die. We're watching them die. All these hosts are getting fired, they're rebranding these websites. The ratings are plunging right now. The last time I looked multiple times, combined CNN and Fox News or combined CNN and msc, NBC prime time viewership in the demo was less than half of Fox News combined. And now we're hearing talk about, well, maybe some of these networks will be taken over and turned into conservative leaning things. So they're all dying. But the problem is, is that the Internet stole a march on America. And that's the problem. It's that there's really a political battle between the right and the left and their lies. And the right is winning right now, as anybody who goes to Twitter can see. The predominant narrative now has completely been replaced by common sense, like pro maga agenda type things like nope, we can't have mentally deranged people getting surgically, surgically altered as minors on the taxpayer dollar. No, we shouldn't have like violent narco terrorists flooding across our border. And that's good. But the problem is, is that there's another battle and that's the battle for the mind of our kids and for this fourth turning. And what is society going to look like and how is it going to reform itself? And if society is reformed based on the current set of values owned by the 18 to 29 year olds, mostly zoomers, then we're in real trouble. Like it is messed up out there and that's the people that are going to come in front of Congress and get raked over the coals, hopefully. I don't even know. These people are septuagenarians. They might not understand the right things.
Steve Bannon
I want to, I want to bifurcate that because I think, and I keep saying this, I think there's segments of the 18 to 30 year olds that are the most based generation this country's ever had. And I think the salvation of this nation lies in there. It's how you help it grow, it's how you nurture. Charlie saw an aspect of it. There's also a broader aspect of that. I think that's where this fight's going to be as they step up and take, you know, entry level Leadership jobs and then work up the, work up the food chain. Hang on a second. But I want to go to. When you say zoomers are messed up overall, I want to go because you brought up the cesspool. The Internet's got a lot of positive stuff to it. It's also got a dark underbelly. And talk about the companies, talk about Reddit. Why is comers hearing, bringing these CEOs in there? And hopefully it's a star chamber. But talk to us about Reddit because I think people were shocked the other day because a lot of people remember Reddit in 16 with the Donald and I think great awakening. It was the Donald great awakening. The Pepys were all there. This is, you know, Cernovich, this is how you had Facebook and you had these sites that were kind of in Reddit Reddit chat rooms that were quite important at the time to get the Trump movement out because Trump didn't have a lot of money. I mean, this is what we knew at Breitbart. This is one of the things we looked at after Gamergate, that there was a real disassociation with young men. Young men had felt like they weren't being listened to, they weren't part of the process. And that's really one of the great driving force powers of the, of The Trump years 15 and 16 all the way to the presidency.
Brian E. Harrison
Sir.
Mark Mitchell
Yeah, I agree with you 100%. What would our society look like right now if Reddit hadn't banned the Donald? That's the problem is that I agree with you that there are a big chunk of these people who are based on, and I think they're powerful leaders, they're willing to take action. And a lot of them are just playing video games right now because society is in a horrible state. But this is the battle that's been playing out. That's what I'm talking about. It's, everybody knows about the public school teachers, everybody knows about captured academia. But the problem is, is that the boot of Marxism has been on the throat of the free market of ideas. These ideas win in a free market. The fact that the Donald rose to supremacy on the free speech outpost at the time Reddit, I think proves it. And the way in which YouTubers rebelled against big media like turning Star wars and Marvel gay and, and making horrible content, that was a culture war that was actually won before Donald Trump got into the White House for a second time. A lot of people don't talk about this. So this is a battleground. But the problem is, is that There have, like I said, I called it a monoculture. That's the problem, is that. Okay, well, how did you get to Charlie Kirk? How did you become a conservative? Were you raised. You had good parents, that's fine. Most of the people did not grow up like me or you. You know what I mean? I didn't have the Internet. I grew up playing stickball. I went to Boy Scouts, there were men who mentored me. I went to church, everybody went to church. I had a two parent household and was instilled with Christian values and I worked hard and I wanted a job and I wanted to date women. It's like absolutely wild now. I also grew up with the Internet and I know what these kids are seeing is that their families are broken, their teachers are weirdos at best, groomers at worst. In many instances, the entertainment that they see, they're exposed to it way too soon. You see six year olds going to movies that are made for like late teenagers all the time, right? And then they go on Internet, the parents not watching them, they're immediately on Tick Tock. Then they get on YouTube. There's really no age filters for any of this stuff. And their mind is being crafted by an algorithm. Then they, you know, they get their teenage friends, they want to. What is, what's everybody doing? Everybody's playing Minecraft, everybody's playing Fortnite. Oh, they're all going to use Discord and they're all going to chat together and oh, this person has provocative things to say, oh, that's fun. I'm going to follow them. And they build communities and then they wind up in Discord chats. That turns into going to Reddit. They, they go onto Reddit and all of a sudden they hear about things like transgenderism and. Who's teaching these kids about transgenderism? It's people on meds, it's 35 year old, like groomers. It's, it's people who. We've had a society that's been fractured by individualism, kinks, niches, perversion in many cases. And now, you know, Steam too, again, I don't think, Steve, I think Steam is the cleanest dirty shirt here. Steam is just a marketplace for video games, but it also has a community, but it's big. Everybody pretty much has a Steam account and that's like, okay, if I'm going to play video games on my computer, then I'm going to be exposed to a culture that has been purifying itself. They went after the gamers, remember back in Gamergate, the gaming industry is much bigger than the movie industry. And it was pretty right. It was pretty right. It wasn't political. But if you went on video game chats in, you know, 2006 or 2008, you were gonna hear a lot of hard, hard right stuff. Well, they completely feminized that all the video game developers now have been infested by woke to the point where they're actually shutting down because they can't even put good content out. The fact that this, like, I don't know how many tens of billions of dollars the video game industry is, but these are massive companies that have been imploding over the last five or six years along with all the movie studios because the message doesn't sell. But the problem is, is that the kids are still ubiquitously getting the message online. This, the transgenderism. Reddit. On subreddit. On Reddit is as big as the Christianity subreddit. So it is very much a holy war. These aren't, these aren't like fringe groups. The Anarchy subreddit is 280,000 subscribers into fascists, 120,000. Those aren't even that active anymore because they've been, they've migrated to discord chats, into the, to the dark web, and now again. Are these CEOs cultivating terrorist networks? No, I don't think so. But what they've been doing is they've been what we've seen everywhere. The same thing that happened on Twitter. It's playing out in all these other places. One side of the argument gets shut down. It's not a free market of ideas. Why does that happen? Who's the influence? Is it Soros? Is it USAID? Is it $0.10 ownership stake? Why did they shut down the biggest pro Donald subreddit? It had millions of followers. The ability for them to form narratives.
Steve Bannon
To.
Mark Mitchell
You know, the on ramp for people in.
Steve Bannon
It was a, it was a, it was essential in the 2016 fight. Trust me. And it was. And, and right after they, we won, when big Tech realized what had happened, they shut everything down. Short break. Mark Mitchell on the other side. We will fight till they're all gone. We rejoice when there is no more. Let's take down the ccp.
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Mark Mitchell
Yeah, Looks like we're on track for a messy fourth turning. As I said, people tolerate stuff until they can no longer afford to tolerate things. And it would appear that our time for tolerating radical Marxism is finally at an end. And I, for one, applaud it, because what it ultimately comes down to is literally just. Just an attack on logic, an attack on truth, which is, I think, a very important and fundamental part of our society. And so, yeah, they, I. I read a tweet the other day of somebody who spent time embedded in Antifa. They don't believe any of that stuff. They're not reading the books that you said, Steve. It's literally just about power. And yes, apparently these organizations, although they will tell you. Oh, it's not. It's not an actual group. Yeah, okay. It probably doesn't have incorporation papers in the state of Delaware. That doesn't mean it's not active on the action network, that it's showing up or organizing no Kings rallies, that it's getting money somewhere from probably taxpayers funneled through George Soros NGOs, I don't know, but they're going to trace it now. But this ideology, we've seen it at work. They took. They came for the family. They came for everybody's heroes. They came for the cultural zeitgeist, and they poisoned it. And all of those things have been struck, destroyed, and taken away from people, and they reveled. And I don't think they really care that they've taken these brands and thrown them in the trash, that they've trampled on everything that Americans hold dear. I can't even send my kids to Boy Scouts now. It's unbelievable. And that was a big part of my upbringing. And so they've taken everything from us. And so now it looks like they're being defeated. But where do people go that don't have anything to look forward to? They spend their time wallowing on the Internet, most of them just playing games. Definitely not procreating in a way that we need in order to sustain our dollar hegemony, I can tell you that right, right now. So even if we fix our societal issues, we're still headed for a reckoning of, you know, monetary implosion, as we all know. But they're again, they're not dating at all. Like that was the, hey, that's what everybody my age actually wanted to do. When you're a teenager, you imagine that. And so it's no wonder that some of these kids get radicalized because the groups are there, they've been allowed to fester, nobody has held them accountable at all. It's been five years since Donald Trump actually said the words antifa is a domestic terror organization. And there's been zero prioritization within these companies, within the government, within the conservative movement to hold these people accountable. And accountability is coming now. And obviously they're going to keep lying to try and maintain cover and they're going to try and use it in the most accelerationist way as possible. That's, that's where we are right now. But again, in the fourth turning we, we talked about this. This is the idea that okay, eventually there's a collapse in societal trust. It's cyclical and at the end, at the very end, it all comes crashing down and society gets reformed, most likely out of necessity by a new generation of people. And I can tell you now, we talked about that polling, the 18 to 29 year old polling. These people are not true blooded free market capitalists. They think the system has failed them.
Steve Bannon
No.
Mark Mitchell
And so it would behoove us to change things sooner rather than later.
Steve Bannon
I think, I think the only, it's a mis term. I'll tell you, we gotta let you go, but gotta have you back, particularly with Charlie's. We're going to do all coverage, Charlie's funeral, and I want to have you as part of that because of your blinding insights. What we have in the United States is not capitalism. We poll for capitalism. It's corporatism. What they reject, what they reject is corporatism. Something that treats them like what has Bannon said for 10 years now? Russian serfs, they don't own anything and they're not going to own anything. They're just a cog in the wheel. And they're sitting there going, well, hang on, this country wasn't built like this. Our forefathers, my great grandparents, my great great grandparents, the history of my Family. It doesn't show that why we're doing it. Mark, where do people go to get all your insights? YouTube, all of it. Sir.
Mark Mitchell
Yeah. Final thought. The paradox just struck me that we see the messy fourth turning coming. You know it's coming. I know it's coming. The rich billionaires know it's coming. And they could avert it by benevolently using their money to help reform these institutions. They could avert it, but they're not going to. And so you know who's going to have to be benevolent. It's the blood of the pearl polls. That's who's going to have to be benevolent. Time after time. Rasmussen Underscore poll. Honest pollster on Twitter. And we just put a pretty good YouTube video out last night too. Rasmussen Underscore poll.
Steve Bannon
I'll have to, I have to, I have to walk you through some fourth turning. It's never benevolent. Just doesn't have that. But we'll talk about that later. Mark Mitchell, brilliant young man and great pollster. Thank you, sir, from Rasmussen.
Mark Mitchell
Thanks, Steve.
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Date: September 19, 2025
Title: Victory In Texas Against Transgender Ideology; McCarthy Was Right
Host: Steve Bannon
Notable Guests: Charlie Kirk, Brian E. Harrison, Mark Mitchell, Jim Rickards
This episode pivots around two major themes:
Bannon and guests also tackle the state of youth culture, radicalization, and culture war battlegrounds across universities, social media networks, and entertainment platforms, presenting current social changes as a climactic “fourth turning” moment for America.
Jimmy Kimmel's Removal
"No, it's not hypocrisy, it's retribution." — Bannon (05:31)
Analogies to McCarthyism
Hostility Toward Legacy Media
"Seize the institutions and have a sense of urgency. Has to be done today. Not tomorrow. Today. Today. Today. Action, action, action." — Bannon (09:15)
Ousting Texas A&M’s President
“I was totally and completely alone in the Texas government standing up and saying no, I'm sick and tired of leftist progressives running some of our most cherished institutions, including my alma mater, Texas A and M.” — Harrison (12:29)
Critique of Establishment Republicans
Strategy for Continuing the Fight
“Fire them immediately. And every other taxpayer-funded official engaged in indoctrination.” — Harrison (22:56)
Media Landscape Contraction
“In four days, Trump approval, his net approval is up 10 points. Right now. Trump is plus seven. We haven't seen that level since the middle of June.” — Mitchell (26:58)
Political Socialization of Young Americans
“Their mind is being crafted by an algorithm... Who's teaching these kids about transgenderism? It's people on meds, it's 35 year old, like groomers." — Mitchell (39:09)
Failures of Institutions
The Fourth Turning Crisis and Youth Disillusionment
“Looks like we're on track for a messy fourth turning. As I said, people tolerate stuff until they can no longer afford to tolerate things. And it would appear that our time for tolerating radical Marxism is finally at an end.” — Mitchell (47:23)
Bannon throughout the episode repeats that “the days of you guys being in charge are over,” emphasizing not only capturing institutions for conservative goals but making their reversal impossible:
“We have to have maximalist position. We have to meet a sense of urgency and seize the institutions and make it so they can never reverse it.” — Bannon (10:02)
Retribution and “action, action, action” are the core rallying cries.
On Kimmel and Media Purges:
On Texas and Transgender Ideology:
On Youth Radicalization and Fourth Turning:
Bannon and his guests close on calls for further “action, action, action,” viewing the recent Texas university shakeup as a proof-of-concept and warning that the time for incrementalism is over. With rhetorical references to McCarthy, the Fourth Turning, and a sense of existential, generational struggle, the episode serves as both summary and rallying cry for the current and future direction of the MAGA movement.
For listeners:
This episode will resonate most with audience members seeking affirmation of maximalist conservative strategy, as well as those wishing for a deep dive into current political battles in media, public universities, and youth culture.