
Episode 4819: Downfall Of Portland; Breaking Big Tech And Chat Bots Encouraging Suicide ...
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This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. Christians, I 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 in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
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And where do people like that go.
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To share the big lie?
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MAGA Media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
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War Room.
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Banner. Okay, it's Wednesday, the 1st of October, year overlord 2025. We're absolutely packed in this hour, but we're going to carve out as much time as we need. We're going to go back to Portland and to Ben Berkram. First of all, Ben, your interview with the ICE official was incredible. She just walks through very plainly what they're trying to do to end the invasion of this country and to begin the process of mass deportations. Okay? They're just doing their jobs as federal officials under the auspices of the chief executive officer of the U.S. government. That would be a guy named Donald J. Trump. And now your interview with Rick is incredible. I want to start at the top. We're pressed for time, but I want to go back to citizens of this country, regardless of their politics, regardless of the liberals or progressives, can't live besieged by terrorists and the people that support them. Because remember, Ben, the reason the president, one of the reasons President Trump had the victory, for four years, actually for five, we did it even during President Trump's presidency, but then ramped it up when the invasion started on the southern border. And you were so eloquent in what you said yesterday. This is not chaos, not disorganization. It's highly organized by Antifa and the NGOs, just like the invasion was highly, highly choreographed and coordinated. It was not, as Todd Bensman, who's now in the government working over with Homan, used to tell us every day, this is highly organized. This is how they're trying to get in as many people as possible, illegal aliens into the country. So. So talk to you. Take the interview and just go ahead. I know Rick doesn't have comms with us. You go ahead and let her rip, sir.
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Yeah. No. So that's it. Just to give you an idea So I just want to give you. Again, we're start at the beginning. We got the ICE facility behind us. The entire building has had to been boarded up to protect because they've got projectiles being thrown at, it's been firebombed, Molotov cocktails, all of that. And ironically, or you want to be really pissed, the city is actually now trying to attack the building for putting that up. They're saying it's a code violation. While you have that going on, you have all these leftists out here that are aiding and abetting, working with antifa and all these groups to undermine our country. And right next door to where all this is happening, you've got people having to live here in these buildings. Rick is one of those people. Rick, walk us through what the last nine months has been like living here with this insanity.
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I mean, basically every single day I come out here, I walk my dog four times a day. I get called Nazi. They scream at me, they give me a hard time. It's, you know, it's. They're not, they, they say they're peaceful, but they're not peaceful. They're very aggressive, especially at night. I mean, the day crew is not so bad, but at nighttime, I can't even come out here. My neighbors, you know, most of the females that are in here, they're terrified to come even come out. So they, you know, they have to text me so that I can come out and help them.
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It's.
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It's just ridiculous. And, you know, they're. They're not accomplishing anything. They've been here for 115 days and they're yelling at an empty building. It's just, it's. They've literally accomplished zero.
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Are you, you know, Portland tends to be a pretty liberal city. Are you starting to see that shift where even liberals are saying, enough, we're tired of it? People that live in here, I think.
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The ones that are more. More centrist are moving away from that. You know, the radical left. They're the radical left. I mean, they're, you know, there's, they're not going to change.
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That's what, that's what these people are.
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But the people I think that are more in the center, I think, I think I see them shifting a little bit, but.
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And how tough is it? You were talking about your wife, your girlfriend, and some of the elderly ladies that live here. What is that like? I mean, terrorism is, Is a word that's thrown around. What is it like actually living here when you have a mayor that Says there's no problem. It's all under control. The governor says there's no problem.
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They're not doing anything. I mean, they, they care more about the terrorists than they did about the people. People here, police are. The police don't do nothing. The, you know, the city council, they're complicit. You know, it's just, you know, I think they are antifa. You know, it's just that they, they allow this, they enable this. So it's.
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It's.
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Yeah, it's just.
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It's.
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It's just absolutely out of. Out of control. It's out of control.
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Ben.
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That's it.
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Ask. Ask Rick. Just ask Rick. No, ask Rick. Is he, is he thoughtful? Because we're playing both your footage and Andy NGOs footage that is unbelievable from last night. Is Rick, or at least certain people there, the women that can't go out at night? Are people appreciative of the fact that President Trump has now said, we're not going to play this game anymore. I'm sending people in and we're going to clean this mess up?
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Yeah. So, by the way, Rick is a big War Room Posse fan, but that's the question. Are the folks like you that live here that have to go through this every day, are you appreciative of President Trump saying he's going to come in and clean it up?
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Absolutely. He can't get. They can't send those people in here, the National Guard in here fast enough. Come in here and wipe these people out. I'm done with it. I'm done with it.
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Yeah.
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Can't happen fast enough.
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Ben, thank Rick and tell him to be safe. Be safe. Thank you, brother. God bless you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you, sir.
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Anything you want to say to Steve?
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No, actually, yeah.
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Steve, I love you, man.
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You're the best.
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We love you, too.
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Speaking of one of the.
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You were in Fort Apache. Fort Apache. Ben, hang on for a second. I'm going to come back to you in a minute, okay? Just, just stay right there. We're going to get back to Ben Berkwom. If you saw that footage, Andy knows. Got it up. And Ben Berkwam, of course, he was with the ice guys last night. When Rick the Citizen says, hey, the building's empty is because they surround it every night. And heretofore, federal officials, et cetera, have not wanted to force the subject. I think that's going to change. I really think that's going to change. I think President Trump is coming down to the conclusion that, hey, it ain't going to. It ain't going to. It's not going to change until we make a change. And that's what he saw. Federal officials last night. Look at those arrests in some of that footage. At least seven people arrested last night. And you've got to clean the whole thing up. And I would go the NGOs and roll them up, too, just like they were at the border. Look, look, nobody wanted to cover this. And I really appreciate Rob and Parker Sig and Real America's Voice giving us the platform and actually helping assist us to get the investigative reporters down there. But Oscar Blu Ramirez, Ben Berkwam and others, dozens and dozens of others reported this for years and years and years and showed you the entire thing, the lies of the Biden regime. This is one of the reasons people said, we've had enough of this. We see in our communities now. We know Biden's lying to us. And look at that. President Trump shut down the border in the first, what, 30 days or 60 days of this administration, of this, of his second term. This is what President Trump called the. They called him together the other state. And that wasn't just the Secretary of War telling them, hey, you're not in shape, you got to get in better shape. They kind of do that every Friday in the military. Anyway, part of it was that, and we're going to fight with ferocity and precision. But the buried lead was the commander in chief saying, hey, look, we're going to win all over the world. We're going to win these wars. Now, you saw what I did with the B2s and the total obliteration of the, of the Iranian nuclear weapons program, right? Total obliteration. That's the way we're going to roll. However, we have an issue before us we have to address, and that is our country has been invaded. There are certain elements that are out of control and the violence is escalating, and that's not going to happen on my watch, full stop. That was the purpose of Donald Trump's address to 800 flag officers yesterday for the first time in American history, face to face, right? And I think they took it on board. And you see what's happening here in Portland, and you see what's happening in places like Chicago, with the crime being out of control and the gangs being out of control. And soon it's going to happen in New York City, because you're about to have the Red Green alliance, neo Marxist with jihadists, control New York City. It's going to happen. Chris Hoare, now more than ever. In fact, I just went through a personal situation with somebody who was remote and had the Internet and the wireless communications down for four days, and, man, did they need a satellite phone. I was going to talk to you later, but talk to people about why now more than ever with everything going on? You need to be prepared. You need to think ahead and get ahead of the program here, sir.
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Well, Steve, yeah, you're absolutely right. Things are really escalating. Just when we had the last UN meeting, what we saw was the Secret Service managed to take down a network of over 300 SIM servers and, and 100,000 SIM cards that were set up within 35 miles of the UN to basically flood the cell towers with messages. And that network of servers had the ability to Send up to 30 million messages a minute. And what that does is that overwhelms the cell towers and therefore effectively takes them offline. And this was focused around the UN, Steve. But this can happen across the country. In the last week, we've seen huge attacks on, on software infrastructures for ticketing systems for airlines, both here in the US and around the world, that causes chaos for flights. And this is a pattern that we've been seeing for the last several years of bad state actors basically testing out how they can influence and disrupt our communications networks and our infrastructure in general. And so we have to be prepared for this. And the only way to do that is to have a communication system that does not rely on these cell towers and the power grid. And that's, of course, sat phone, Steve. So at sat12.3.com, we still have the free sat phone with activation. And right now we're doing the free satellite phone with the free bulletproof backpack. Obviously, a lot of places in this country are getting more and more dangerous, but a free sat phone and a free bulletproof backpack, you're paying just 85, sorry, 95 bucks a month. Uh, you're getting 150 minutes. But this sat phone will enable you to stay in touch. If the cell towers get taken down, if the power grid gets taken down, you know, you are not going to be without communication. Just like your friend discovered there. You don't want to be without communication.
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I was, I was in a situation five, five days. No comms? No, I had to go down, had to drive down to a local village and get comms. I want you to go back, though. I want you to connect dots. This whole thing with the airports being shut down and this whole day, you know, cybersecurity attacks, some in Europe, some here in the United States. Is that directly tied, do you think? That's directly tied to what happened the UN and just take a second, because we haven't had a chance to cover it. This massive thing the Secret Service and other federal agencies found about in New York, what was that specifically?
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Well, it was this network of servers was designed to cause what they call a denial of distributed denial of service attack. And we're used to websites being attacked like this, but this kind of a new development of this equipment being used to disrupt cell towers. And that very clearly, I think is tied to what's going on with other cyber. Cyber attacks around the world. Because the end result is, is that our infrastructure is taken offline and that is designed to cause chaos in the U.S. and look, if I was looking to attack a country, the first thing that I would do and others are doing is figuring out how they can cause chaos to. So that everyone's looking the other way and nobody can communicate. And, you know, if you're out of communications for five days, a lot can happen in that time. You don't want to be in that situation. Either we as a country or you as an individual with your family, you do not want to be left without any kind of communications. But, Steve, I certainly believe that all of these attacks are a part of a bigger plan to disrupt, you know, the infrastructure here in the US and cause chaos on the streets.
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Folks, it's all part of a. It's all a piece of a whole. You got to get ahead of this. You need to get prepared. Now remember, we're not. I'm not running around with my hair on fire. Hey, you got to do. No, but you get logical people. The My Patriot supply guys and Chris Hoare, come on here. These are professionals that do this for a living. This is why four years ago, we started with Birch gold. I said, no, we're not going to sell gold on Worm. Everybody else does is all the podcasters. However, if you're ready to partner up and walk people through why gold has been a hedge, and particularly in today's times. That was four years ago. It was 1100 bucks an ounce, 3900 today. This has nothing to do with financial forecasting. It just. We're in a fourth turning, okay? And things are going to get crazier. They're going to get crazier. They're going to get crazier. Chris Horror. One more time. Where they go to the satellite phone store, sir.
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They can go to sat1,2.3.com sap123.com or call 941-841-0844. Steve, that's 941-841-0840. You get a free sat phone, a free bulletproof backpack, just 95 bucks a month with activation.
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Okay, we got a lot of moving pieces and Brian Glenn's gonna have a huge story for us probably this afternoon. I don't know if we can get Anyone for a hit this morning? Senator Hawley, if he's out of these meetings is going to join us. Also want to go to Jillian Barbie. So Jillian, by the way, Good news folks. Gold 3900. That's all good. Pattern recognition. We got all kind of information there to make you a genius. We do, we will. You will become, you'll become smarter than the guys on Wall Street. I will tell you that by reading this. Guaranteed. Because they all mocked us a couple of years ago. Budget deficit, I got to get that number. I think it's $2 trillion this fiscal year just ended last night, midnight. What does that mean? It ties to. Let me give you some bad news yesterday. I think it was reported and I keep telling you, the oecd, that's an official organization with the Organization of Economic Development in Europe. The oecd, huge organization. We're a big part of the United States. When you take the ambassadorship to that you get like a 15 room mansion in Paris. So it's a good gig. They put out a report. Financial Times in London broke it down. We are now globally $338 trillion of global debt. And I mean that's everything. That's national debt, regional debt, municipal debt. I don't care if you're a city in India or local waterworks or something in Topeka, Kansas, right. All federal debt, personal debt, junk bonds, add it all up, something called debt. $338 trillion. The point the OECD made in the Financial Times is that the world is kind of over leveraged. Okay? And I keep saying we're going to have the world's biggest margin call. And when that happens, Katie, bar the door. You're going to be glad you're in gold, okay? Because these fiat currencies are all sudden they're going to look like you're going to understand what fiat means. So one of the biggest parts of that, the problems for people under 35 years old, first off the student debt is that what they did to these kids is absolutely horrendous. That's another topic. But credit card debt, your debt now at all time highs and also now all time non performing. So what do you do about it? This is just like the IRS situation. Nothing has your angst more than three things. Losing your job, right in this environment. Number two, I got a problem with the IRS and oh by the way, I got a problem with these credit cards and I'm behind. I can't pay. I'm getting these letters once again. What you cannot do is just Put the letter in the drawer. That does not solve the problem. It metastasizes. Gillian Barbary is here. Just done such a great job with the done for debt crowd. These guys can take care of the problem immediately. And people need. If you want to get that angst and anxiety away and you know what it's like, Gillian, you must deal with this today. Talk to us about it.
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Yeah, you forgot the fourth one. Cancer I held. I had that at my door as well. It was knock, knock. And it was the Grim Reaper who was there. Death and taxes. Done with debt is the way to go. And I'm just going to explain last night I was going through a feed and on TikTok, on the younger side of things, they have all of these. Get $5,000 now, fix your problem. And of course, when you look into it, you owe. You'll end up owing $10,000 on that $5,000. So you are young. If you are going into retirement and you found yourself just living life and you're in debt, this is the way to go. It's called Done with Debt. What is it? Well, we are a team of financial experts. I'm just the mouthpiece. They're the experts that get together and look at your situation, and they are master negotiators. So they can take any of your debt and work magic with it. Now, I'm saying it happens overnight. You have to work with them. Do not stuff an envelope in a drawer before you do anything else. If you're watching Steve Bannon show right now, don't pay another bill until you get your free consultation with done with debt because they're going to tell you. And you can go online and read all of the testimonials. There are many people that they've helped over the years, and what they'll do is get you back on track to financial freedom. They'll work with all the people that are calling you late at night, that are hassling you, that are mailing you. They work with the credit card companies, the banking institutions. They can sometimes get your debt wiped right out, some of it at least. And that's a start. And they can certainly get you on a program of paying back that you can live with, that you can actually still feed your family and go to work and get gas for your car and maybe have a night out with the family. You know, they're not, you know, they're not evil. They want you to have a life, but they also want you to get back on track because, you know, it's so Easy in this environment to get off track and sometimes.
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But if you don't. Hang on, hang on. They're not evil. They're not evil, but they want their money, okay? They want their money. These were unsecured loans. And they're going to show you about how, how your name and reputation secure. This is. You also can't just. People say, well, I'll just go into bankruptcy. If you go into bankruptcy, you're never going to be able to get an apartment. You're not going to be able to get a car loan. That thing will trail with you. My point is there are other alternatives, but until you take action, and it needs to come from you and the audience, just don't sit there and put, don't put the letter in the drawer. It's just metastasizing. One more time, Julian. Where they go, who they talk to today, right now to make sure they can start sorting this problem out.
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Go to donewithdebt.com you get a free consultation. The last thing they want to do is push you into bankruptcy or a big, big conglomerated loan. They don't want bad. So this is the way to get yourself back on track. Look at the testimonies and you'll see you're with the right people. They are. When I say master negotiators, these are the best of the best. Steve.
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Thank you, ma'. Am. Appreciate you. We're going to be spending a lot of time on this because of the simple fact that this, this credit card debt situation, because they fed credit cards to everybody, the credit card companies. I'm not saying they're the villains here, but they're the villains here. And now people have got to pay for it. Here's the thing. They will go in, they will cap the interest rates. They may get a haircut to your total face amount as they negotiate for you, because by the time the credit card companies come out after you, they've already written it off. So anything they get back is juice. That's why you need an expert. You can't do this yourself. You're never going to be able to negotiate yourself. And don't take the easy path out where people say, oh, we'll just go into bankruptcy. That thing will follow you for a long time. Okay, do I have Sheila? Let's go ahead and play cold open for Sheila Matthews, my wingman on one of my favorite topics. Let's go ahead and let her rip.
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In the days after the murder as you're trying to bring the country together, Steve Bannon, the philosopher of the maga. Right.
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Called you a national embarrassment. Yeah, I love free speech. I would give my life defending his.
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Right to say that about me.
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That's okay. We can have that debate.
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There are some people that think I.
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Am a national embarrassment and that's okay, too.
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Who do you blame for the division?
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I do believe that social media is a cancer and it is taking all of our worst impulses and putting them on steroids.
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It is driving us to division. It is driving us to hate these algorithms that have captured our. Our very souls.
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Okay, I went the wrong way. Okay. Sheila's with us. By the way, Josh Hawley. I think we're going to get Senator Hawley at the bottom of the hour. So we're going to hold Sheila over. Sheila Matthews. And last night he was on the Charlie Kirk. The. The turning point was back at Utah Valley. Tyler Boyer was handling and Cox showed up and look, I don't think. I think Tyler and those guys did a great job. Andy Biggs was there, although I don't think they made Cox should apologize. He should grovel for saying Charlie said some inflammatory things. I don't remember that. Not inflammatory in the war room's perspective. So he has to explain himself. But this guy is quite insidious. He and Jared Polis have gone around and he got this disagree together or kind of the group because he's lying to 60 Minutes. He's got a Kumbaya thing he's working on, which is essentially the Chinese social credit, the CCP social credit score, is it not, ma'? Am?
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Yes. Let's not forget the governor of Utah is in the midst of an investigation and now trial of a political assassination of Charlie Kirk. And he is now on the media spreading this dignity index, which is a pilot program of his. His which basically is suppression of free speech. I have two points of the. Of the policy that he's pushing. You know, we are not allowed to mock and attack others. Their beliefs, their commitment, their competence, which we should because this assassination happened in the state of Utah. He has no competence. So according to his dignity index, were not allowed to talk about his competence or his performance under level four, under level seven. He wants to address and admit to mistakes after their investigation fails and this trial fails. And he wants to come together and be lessons learned. And that is something they did in the aftermath of Sandy Hook. This is psychiatry, this is behavioral health and this is suppression of freedom of speech. So the chairman obviously is pushing an agenda here which he shouldn't be because he is in charge of what happened in Utah. Okay. He's in charge of the investigation. His sheriff was in charge of collecting the information on the ground. His sheriff was the biggest failure on one of these sexual abuse cases in the court system, okay. He was a character on A and E where he allowed people into the prisons to mingle with prisoners. I mean, this is this is corruption and we should be able to point that out.
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Yeah, Hang on one second. I'm going to hold you over. She's right. Right now, we've been trying to force it. He hasn't been charged with any federal crimes. So as much as the FBI's helping open, they're not running the deal because there's not been any federal federal charges filed as of yet. Short commercial break According to the Department of Energy, blackouts could increase by 10,000% over the next few years. It's because of massive energy demand from artificial intelligence data centers. We talk about that all the time here in the war room, and we have a fragile power grid. It just cannot keep up with that demand. I don't know about you, but I don't like the idea of being without power even for a day. That's why I got the grid. Dr. 3300 from my patriot supply. It's a powerful solar generator that runs refrigerators, AC units, medical devices, power tools, anything you need to write out a blackout. And right now, for their Christmas in July event, they're including over $1,000 in free survival gear with your generator, including emergency food supply, water filtration, survival tools and more. You heard that, right. Over 1,000 bucks in free gear for a limited time. Head to my Patriotsupply.com Bannon that's my Patriotsupply.com Bannon and grab the Christmas in July bundle before it's gone. Blackouts are coming. Go to mypatronsupply.com Bannon and get prepared today. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. Okay. Welcome back. Senator Josh Hawley joins us. So, Senator Hawley, Russ FOT's going to come up today and I think brief people on what the plan is for deconstruction of the administrative state in the Schumer shutdown. Leader THUNE I think the strategy is pretty good. Make them particularly now it's a bipartisan vote since Nevada and Maine kind of threw in with the Republicans. Are you guys going to vote every couple hours on this until you break the Democrats?
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Well, it sounds like that's the plan, Steve. I just don't understand what the Democrats think they're accomplishing here. I mean, you're going to shut down the government and have a fit over what? I mean, what is it exactly? They can't articulate it. Their demands shift every two days. We all know what the real. Every two hours. I should say we all know what the real thing is here. Say, hey, Trump, this is all about Trump. And it's a hissy fit because they just want to hurt Trump. And you know, I'm sorry, but I just think the American people are going to look at this and say, hold on, I can't now go to the va if you're a farmer, you can't go to the USDA and get the programs that you've applied for that you're paying for with your tax money, Medicaid reimbursements. That's all going to stop because the Democrats just don't like the guy who won the election, by the way. I mean, come on, it's a joke.
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But here's the thing, and you've pointed this out in your efforts to reverse all this defund the police madness, the vote in New York City with the Working People's Party and the dsa. The combination of neo Marxism and jihadists is the same thing we just saw out with trying to stop law enforcement officers from implementing the mass deportation programs around ice. The violence continues to escalate. The radical left is even more radical than ever and they are winning in certain polling, in certain Democrat strongholds, away from what used to be moderate Democrats, which don't even exist anymore. So how can you deal with a party that is becoming radicalized and quite frankly pushing the escalation in political violence? Sir?
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Yeah, I don't know. I mean, this is the question of the day, Steve. And I just look at the Democrats, the elected Democrats, and I think they've got a choice to make. You know, I mean, are they actually going to represent the middle of the road, normal constituents, the working class people? Democrats are always saying we're the party of the working class. Really? I mean, is that right? You're voting to raise their taxes, you're voting to make them less safe. You're voting to offshore their jobs now you're voting to shut down their health care? I mean, really, you're voting to trans their kids? I mean, come on. They've got a choice here to make, Steve. And I think that's what this is really about. This is the Democrat Party melting down before our eyes. That's why they're lashing out at Trump like this now. They're shutting down the government because of their own internal divisions. And I'm afraid it's going to get worse before it gets better. To be honest with you.
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Missouri is maybe the most MAGA of the states, particularly the working class part of it. You're considered one of the leaders of the populist wing of the party. Where do folks in Missouri stand on this government shutdown? What are they, what are they telling you?
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Oh, they think it's stupid. They hate it. I mean, they think it's just classic Washington, D.C. establishment types. This is how they play the game, Steve, which is why, you know, we ought to ban this and we ought to not do shutdowns or allow them. We don't in Missouri. Our Constitution doesn't permit them. I mean, this is just ridiculous. And they look at the Democrats. I think Missourians get it. They get what's going on here. They're like, why are, why are the Democrats doing this? I mean, why are they closing everything? By the way, every Missourian is still getting taxed to pay for this government that now is not working. You know, this is a basic we the people moment. Does the government work for us or are we just here to fund this government no matter what it does? You know, it's a government that's going to be shut down for months on end, but we're going to keep paying our taxes because we really serve the government. Is that the message? That seems to be the Democrats message. I don't think that's what the people in my state believe. And they want people to appear in D.C. to get to work, you know, get off their butts, get to work, start solving some problems here, start getting jobs back, get wages up, get inflation down, get the cost of health care down, put power back in the hands of working people. That's what we need to be doing. Democrats are going in the opposite direction.
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Russ Vote, I think is going to go up to the Hill today and brief people on one of the alternatives they got since the government's been shut down by the Democrats. He's got a couple of different alternatives of how you get into either mass layoffs, rifts. He's got a whole menu. What are your thoughts on that?
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Well, I haven't seen what he's proposed yet, but I just say this to the Democrats. I mean, listen, they're all crying about the fact, oh, Donald Trump now has more power than ever. I mean, you guys shut down the government. I mean, you can't have it both ways. You can't whine and fuss and say, oh, the president is Acting like a dictator when you shut down the government and now, frankly, put onto the President the decision of designating who's essential, who's non essential, who's going to work. I mean, to be honest with you, Steve, what I would urge the President to consider doing is just paying people anyway. I mean, the military, start with the military, our military servicemen and women, they need to get paid. They're doing their job. It's ridiculous. Just because the Democrats don't like Trump, they're not going to get paid. I think the President ought to say, listen, I'm paying the military and if you want to stop me, take me to court. I think the President should say for essential services that the American people have paid for and rely on, he's just going to keep them open. And if the Democrats want to stop that, take him to court, get on the side of the people, which is, I think, where the President is. But I just say again, the Democrats on this are out to lunch. They're off the wall. They're off. They're totally in far left field. And I think it's going to backfire.
A
Senator, you've been one of the voices of reason about the situation with artificial intelligence. And I think people in the Senate, even across the aisle, who normally you can't reach, are starting to understand that we have a big problem here. If this thing's totally unregulated and just allowed to have the oligarchs in Silicon Valley run the deal. Can you give us up to get us up to speed on your latest work in this area?
B
Yeah, well, I mean, here's a sample of this. What's going on right now. Steve, just this morning, there's news reports now that AI chatbots are out there saying that Charlie Kirk was not actually assassinated, that this was a, quote, right wing terrorist incident. Right wing terrorist incident. As if Charlie was somehow involved in it, as if, you know, he deserved to die. I mean, of course it's total propaganda, but this is the kind of thing it's going to be censorship on steroids if we allow these AI companies to control all of the news, all of the data, all of the information. That's what they're doing right now. Those chatbots are also telling our kids how to kill themselves and their kids are doing it. And that's not hyperbole. I've heard from the parents, we've held hearings on this. I mean, literally, that's what's happening. While the oligarchs make billions of dollars. What we need to do is put power back into the hands of normal, everyday working Americans. We need to allow Americans who are harmed by these AI companies whose kids kill themselves or harm themselves because of these chatbots, to be able to sue these companies. It's a basic American right, the right to defend, Defend your own individual rights. We need to make sure that that remains good and true in this AI age. The Constitution is still in effect. You know, AI doesn't wipe out the US Constitution. The Constitution protects the rights of the individual. And we need to double down on that and protect that from these companies who want to come after our kids, want to come after our rights, want to come after our jobs. And I got no sympathy for the oligarchs. I just have to tell you, you know, I mean, they're. They're going to do fine. I'm not worried about them. I'm worried about the worker, you know, out in Missouri who might lose his job. I'm worried about the family who's got a kid, who's. Who asks a chatbot a question about science and then is told how to, how to put himself in a noose. I mean, this has got to stop. We got to hold these people accountable.
A
You saw, and this gets back to the antitrust where the Trump administration started off. It's got Gail over at the antitrust division. You got ftc, fcc people were, you know, we got Google in court, you got Facebook in court. But all of a sudden, guys are trying to cut deals. And, you know, the power, I keep telling people, the power of the oligarchs. They got every. All the best law firms, they get, all the best crisis PR firms, they got the best lobbyists because they got so much money. The power these oligarchs have is personified in D.C. and the fact that they've kind of got it, they got us around it. So how do you, how do you start to fight back on this?
B
Well, the antitrust is a key part of it. I'm glad you brought that up. You know, the President has a tremendous record on antitrust. He started it in his first term, and we got to keep the pedal to the metal on that. And I just urge doj, don't let up now. I mean, you know, you've taken these guys to court. Google, they took to court. Meta Facebook, they took to court. Don't let them cut a deal and wriggle out of it at the last minute. I mean, don't ever forget what they did to us in the 2020 election. For that matter, the 2024 election in 2022, but in 2016. But you never forget in 2020 in particular, their censorship was brazen and they got by with it because they had so much power. We cannot trust these people, ever. The answer is to break them up. It is to get competition in there and it is to protect individual rights, First Amendment rights, your basic right to work, protect your own private property, which is your data, your information in this age. So we got to get DOJ on that antitrust agenda. Going strong, Steve. We've also got to pass protections here at the federal level. People need to be able to say, I'm going to sue these companies. You need to have a right to protect all your own information. Name, image, likeness. It's good enough for college athletes. It ought to be good enough for every working person in America. These companies shouldn't be able to take your stuff or talk to your kids without your permission. We need to give people their rights. And I say again, the Constitution of the United States is still in effect. The AI oligarchs haven't waved it away. We need to make sure that Constitution is good for and accessible to and a real thing for every working person.
A
When you bring this up at the Senate lunch, do you get some blank stares or some nervous coughs or do you feel like you've got some colleagues who are sitting there going, right on, Josh, I love where you're going with this. Is it stony silence or I'm with you, brother?
B
It's closer to the silence. In fact, sometimes it's not silence, sometimes it's Josh, you're totally wrong. And these are dangerous ideas. Josh, all this talk about working, you know, that's dangerous, Josh. And I just say, guys, it is we the people. That's how the Constitution begins. Can I just remind you, we the people. Not we the oligarchs, not we the corporations, not we the establishment. It says, we the people, number one. Number two, who elected us? Who elected Donald Trump? Working people. We're going to be the party of working people or we'll be nothing. Steve, you know that. I know that people in Washington need to get it through their heads, but I would just say this. I say to my colleagues all the time, just ask yourself, do you want a chatbot, some AI chatbot telling your kid how to commit suicide? Do you want that? Do you want some AI chatbot telling your kid that Charlie Kirk was a right wing terrorist? Do you want that? Because that's what's happening right now. And if you think you can trust these people and it'll Just everything will work out great if you just give the companies whatever they want. Give the oligarchs whatever they want. You know, tell individuals, good luck to you. Tell working people, good luck to you. No, it's not going to come out good. It's going to come out the way it always does if you let these people run wild. We need to protect working people in this country.
A
Senator, you're always ahead of the curve. I want to make sure people get your writings. You wrote two books. One, the book was so controversial about big tech. I think the publishing company dumped it. They tried to ban it. It was outstanding. Then he wrote a book on masculinity that really got to the basics. I think of a lot of what Charlie Kirk tried to take around to the universities. And one of the reasons Charlie got such great traction was so highly revered, particularly by young men. Where do people go to get your writings and where do they keep up with you on social media?
B
You can go to joshholley.com, you can follow me on social media at Holly Moe across all the social media platforms. You can find my books anywhere, any bookshop. I hate to even say the word Amazon, given what we're talking about here, Steve, but you can find it there and anywhere else books are sold.
A
Thank you, Senator, for taking time away. I know it's crazy up there today, so thank you for joining us.
B
Hey, thank you.
A
John Thune, I think's got the strategy. He's gonna brace him up against the wall and gonna vote every couple hours. I think, because I think he sees some daylight. He sees some. He sees some weakness. You got Angus King who's always got his finger to the wind. And you've got, and you've got, you've got Nevada. They've already burned. It's already bipartisan. Sheila, I've run out of time, but I'm gonna get you back up here before tell people where they go. You got reports up, you're analyzing this. I want to get you back up this afternoon because the situation in Utah has to be dealt with. And this dignity index and his wife is out with the empathy crisis. We got to talk about this because they're trying to put in Chinese Communist Party social credit score into the US where do people go in the interim, ma'?
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Am?
A
Social media and your website.
H
Sure.
I
I just want to remind everybody that Utah is the highest state with mental illness. And the governor spends has increased the budget over 12,000%. 1200% rather. So my organization is ablechild.org and people can Find me on the web. We are funded by parents. We do not get funding by state or federal government. That gives us the ability, unlike what Governor Cox likes, is to stand up to corruption. We believe that he is at the center of this. And so we believe that nobody's above the law and there's probably more evidence against him than this.
A
Wow. We'll get you back up at five Explosive biggest. Who had ever thought Utah the biggest mental health crisis? Thank you, ma'. Am. Grayson, Mo. Can you push that out? Back in a moment. What if he had the brightest mind in the war room delivering critical financial research every month? Steve Bannon here. War Room listeners know Jim Rickards. I love this guy. He's our wise man. A former CIA, Pentagon and White House advisor with an unmatched grasp of geopolitics and capital markets. Jim predicted Trump's Electoral College victory exactly 312 to 226, down to the actual number itself. Now he's issuing a dire warning about April 11, a moment that could define Trump's presidency and your financial future. His latest book, Money GPT, exposes how AI is setting the stage for financial chaos. Bank runs at lightning speeds, algorithm driven crashes, and even threats to national security. Right now, War Room members get a free copy of MoneyGPT when they sign up for Strategic Intelligence. This is Jim's flagship financial newsletter, Strategic Intelligence. I read it. You should read it. Time is running out. Go torickards war room dot com. That's all one word. Rickards War Rooms. Rickards with an S. Go now and claim your free book. That's Rickards War room dot com. Do it today. Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. The precinct strategy was absolutely central to the victory in 2022, the midterm. President Trump's win in 2024. You had the, you had the young people with Charlie Kirk, you had the precinct strategy, folks. And now 26. Johnson said it last night. The speaker finally coughed it up and said, hey, if they win the midterm elections, the first thing they're going to do is impeach President Trump. Where you heard that before? We got Dan Schultz and Steve Sterner with us. You had a big event yesterday, Dan and I realize as people get into the precinct strategy and start to go, and then when they move up the chain to the state level, there's a lot of frustration because the establishment always tries to beat back. Can you give us a status? Tell us what happened yesterday. Where do people go to get all this, all the content?
E
Well, thanks, Steve. It went very well, thanks to Steve Stern and Raj for putting it all together. It we didn't have any technical glitches. I started off by, you know, doing a short PowerPoint 14 slides. My first slide, I basically asked, I said I had asked somebody that if there was a better political strategy than the precinct committeeman strategy to save the Republic for we the people to carry it out, what would be that strategy? And if there isn't a better strategy, then please state that. And the answer was, no better political strategy exists for we the people to save the Republic than the precinct committeeman strategy. And the person that I asked was Grok on x dot com. So Grok agrees that if we want to save the Republic, we've got to carry out the precinct committee strategy like big time. But unfortunately still over. And we learned that yesterday from all the people from the 50 states. On average, over half of these slots still are vacant. So we've got to double down and triple down because the average turnout in our primary is 20%, which means 96% of our lovely Rhinos, the incumbent Rhinos, are going to win their primary based on history. And I've done that research and I've used Grok to confirm it as well. So what do you got to do? You got to go to PrecinctStrategy.com learn how to get involved in your party. And you asked me to mention the fact that twice a week now, Tuesdays, 2pm Eastern, Friday nights, 9pm Eastern. So this Friday, 9pm Eastern, Jonathan Broadbent from Ohio, my cohort in Ohio, he's been on War Room as a success story. We co host a X space and the way to find it is just get on at those times. 2pm Eastern on Tuesday, 9pm Eastern on Friday nights. We have a precinct strategy community. You can go in there and find the link or just search precinct strategy and sort by latest and you'll find, you'll, you should find it. You can follow me at those Are those.
A
Yeah, go ahead, give your social media.
E
I was just gonna say I'm.
A
No, no.
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Is that I just.
E
The number two on.
A
On is that PM 2pm and 9pm Eastern Daylight Time. Eastern Time. Yes.
E
Eastern. Yep. 9pm Eastern on Friday nights, 2pm Eastern on Tuesdays. We try to do one during the day and one at night and, and it works out pretty well. And we have a good crew that comes on and we only talk about the precinct committeeman strategy and how to fill those 200,000 vacancies.
A
We'll, we'll stream, we'll stream that in what time is your weekday podcast?
E
There's a 6pm what time Eastern, 6pm.
A
Eastern, 6pm eastern Daily, 2pm and 9pm on Tuesday and Friday. Steve Stern, brother, you did a great job. They coordinate where they go to get all your content, particularly this. We're trying to push this out, the whole thing. We had a huge audience yesterday, but we want to make sure everybody gets a chance to see this, sir.
G
So we had 77,000 on yours alone. We had 5 million all over with all the podcasters. If you want to see this now, go to Stern. American Rumble, very easy. We had many, many people on there. One person from every state. It lasted four hours. It was sensational. Dan was great on it. And we have another one coming up on Election Integrity which will be October 8, which is going to be is important. We'll hopefully get you on to speak. We have some great speakers on there. We're going to have this for Virginia. General Flynn's going to come on. Ken Nunenkamp, executive director of Virginia. Brian swenson from the RNC. Joe DeBox, who you I think had on the America First Warehouse. Andy Mangione, Senior Vice President, AMAC. Gary Myers, the Myers Report. Dr. Robert Epstein, John Vieira from Votify now. Cleta Mitchell Ein, Greg Stenstrom and many, many other people will be on. You want to get on, just go to Esther.
A
Where do people.
G
Yeah go to get on. Right.
A
Dan, we'll link to your.
G
Yep, the RNC's asking. Thank you brother for Virginia and.
A
Perfect Dan Schultz will make sure we stream that. Steve Stern will make sure we stream that. Thank you guys. Breaking new Tim Pool is good. We're going to toss to the Charlie Kirk show at noon as we've done every day for the every workday for the last five, four years is it. Tim Pool is going to be co hosting today, so don't miss it. Tim Pool is going to co host the Charlie Kirk Show Then at 2 o', clock, poso 3 o', clock, gruber 4 o', clock, the great Eric Bowling. We're back here live at 5pm Russell's just been announced gonna be at the Oval Office with the president at 1pm today. If that's open to the public, we'll definitely show that. Also, Brian Glenn is be making a special trip this afternoon. He'll be with us at five. Mike Lindell, what do you got for us? Are people looking for sheets and pillows and other products from MyPillow.com absolutely.
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Date: October 1, 2025
Title: Downfall Of Portland; Breaking Big Tech And Chat Bots Encouraging Suicide
Host: Stephen K. Bannon
Guests/Speakers: Ben Bergquam, Rick (Portland resident), Chris Hoare, Gillian Barbary, Sheila Matthews, Sen. Josh Hawley, Dan Schultz, Steve Stern, Mike Lindell, others
This episode of Bannon's War Room focuses on four significant themes:
The tone is combative and urgent, with a focus on protecting traditional American values, exposing establishment corruption, and rallying the audience to direct action.
Firsthand Account: Ben Bergquam interviews Rick, a local resident, who describes Portland's atmosphere as lawless due to persistent Antifa and left-wing activist presence.
"I walk my dog four times a day. I get called Nazi... Day crew is not so bad, but at night I can’t even come out. My neighbors—most of the females—are terrified to even come out." – Rick (03:12)
Federal Response:
"He can’t get… They can’t send those people in here—the National Guard—fast enough. Come in here and wipe these people out. I’m done with it." – Rick (06:00)
Cyber Threats Escalation:
“This is a pattern… bad state actors basically testing how they can influence and disrupt our communications networks and infrastructure.” – Chris Hoare (10:45)
Global and Personal Debt Alarm:
“The world is kind of over leveraged… We’re going to have the world’s biggest margin call.” – Bannon (17:31)
Debt Solutions:
“Do not stuff an envelope in a drawer. Before you do anything else, don’t pay another bill until you get your free consultation with Done with Debt.” – Gillian Barbary (21:10)
AI Chatbots Encouraging Suicide:
“Those chatbots are also telling our kids how to kill themselves, and their kids are doing it. And that’s not hyperbole. I’ve heard from the parents; we’ve held hearings on this.” – Sen. Hawley (35:47)
“This is going to be censorship on steroids if we allow these AI companies to control all of the news, all of the data, all of the information.” – Hawley (35:38)
Legislative Solutions:
“We need to make sure the Constitution is good for every working person… and a real thing for every working person.” – Hawley (39:04)
Suppression of Free Speech and Social Credit:
“We are not allowed to mock and attack others… this is suppression of freedom of speech.” – Sheila Matthews (26:08)
| Timestamp | Quote | Speaker | |-----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------| | 03:12 | “I walk my dog four times a day. I get called Nazi... Day crew is not so bad, but at night I can’t even come out. My neighbors… terrified to even come out.” | Rick (Portland) | | 06:00 | “They can’t send those people in here—the National Guard—fast enough. Come in here and wipe these people out. I’m done with it.” | Rick | | 09:54 | “Secret Service managed to take down a network… with the ability to send up to 30 million messages a minute… that network… was designed to cause… denial of service…” | Chris Hoare | | 17:31 | “The world is kind of over leveraged… We’re going to have the world’s biggest margin call.” | Bannon | | 21:10 | “Do not stuff an envelope in a drawer... don’t pay another bill until you get your free consultation with Done with Debt.” | Gillian Barbary | | 35:38 | “This is going to be censorship on steroids if we allow these AI companies to control all of the news, all of the data, all of the information.” | Josh Hawley | | 35:47 | “Those chatbots are also telling our kids how to kill themselves, and their kids are doing it. And that’s not hyperbole.” | Hawley | | 39:04 | “We need to make sure the Constitution is good for… every working person… a real thing for every working person.” | Hawley | | 26:08 | “We are not allowed to mock and attack others… [the Dignity Index is] suppression of freedom of speech.” | Sheila Matthews |
This episode paints a dystopian picture of America's urban core, the influence of leftist activism, and the unchecked power of big tech. The War Room positions itself as the nucleus of grassroots opposition, offering both dire warnings and tangible personal solutions—whether through political engagement, economic hedging, or direct legislative action. Senator Hawley's warnings about AI and chatbots, coupled with firsthand accounts from Portland, form a stark call to action for the audience: Prepare, get involved, and fight back against forces both digital and political.