Raheem Kassam (42:37)
We are at this, I hate using this phrase, but we are at this crossroads in the conservative movement right now. I think a lot of people see it and a lot of people know it. A lot of people who went to America Fest get it. And a lot of people who spend, I think, too much time on websites like X especially get it at this point in time. I actually deleted that app off my phone because it was just too much drama, too much emotion, not enough getting stuff done all day, every day, and too much for my blood pressure, quite frankly. And I think as a movement, we have that ability. We can choose at this point in time to keep fighting each other, to keep harassing each other, to keep insulting each other, to keep warring with one another, to keep floating theories and ideas and just all of these sorts of things that will only serve to separate. And those of you who Know me will know that for the past 20 years now, working in politics, I have done almost nothing but strive towards the truth, towards what is right, what is moral, what is correct, what is beautiful. And I think all of those things are intrinsically linked. So I'm not. What I'm not saying is that people shouldn't be striving for the truth. But what I am saying is I think we can all do a little better at treating one another a little better at not presuming bad intent, at not assuming negative connotations at every juncture. That is what the left wants. They want us fighting amongst each other. They want us tearing chunks out of one another. If anything in the Last sort of 8 to 12 years in this world has taught us is that actually, in addition to the left not being able to meme, the left can't actually win without us letting them win, without us tearing ourselves apart. And those are some of the things that I think we need to reconcile and we need to avoid in the new year. This is the perfect time to start thinking about it. Between today, Boxing Day and New Year's Day, we've got some time to prey on this stuff and to make sure that when we go into next year with incredibly important midterms ahead of us and incredibly important presidential elections, within just a couple of years of that, that you're going to have to once again put your shoulder to the wheel. Just when you thought you were out, we will indeed be pulling you back in. And one of the things that I wanted to close this show out on, I haven't spoken directly to the camera explicitly for this show a lot over the last two hours, but one of the things I wanted to mention to you is when you see us building things, and whether it's institutions, spaces, events, news, websites, membership, things where people can come together, communities, when you see us building those things, you know, when the left wants to do something like that, they have big corporations who throw in hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars in behind them. The Reid Hoffman's of the world, the George Soros of the world, the CNNs of the world. I'm talking about billions upon billions upon billions. And while there are conservatives who are very wealthy and who support conservative institutions, mine in particular, I'll especially talk about the National Pulse. You know, we from the outset took a decision for that website to be crowdfunded because strings come attached to big checks. Always has been the case, always will be the case. This is my experience over the last two decades. And so when we relaunched the nationalpulse.com a couple of years ago. And I still think it is one of the best resources out there. And I don't say that about any of my work on there. The team over there, Jack Montgomery, Will Upton, Chris Tomlinson, Ann Luti, the whole team that keep that place running all day, every day with all the latest breaking news in formats that are easily digestible. They do just an amazing job, but we are 100% crowdfunded. And what I'll say is this. If you take something like Wikipedia as an example, they do a big fundraising drive every year and they make tens of millions of dollars over the course of two or three days. Well, we don't run off budgets like that. We run off very small budgets. But it is up to people like you at home watching this to chip in and get involved. And so if you join up now@thenationalpulse.com Warham that's thenationalpulse.com Warham It's $9 a month. I mean, it is less than most of your Netflix or NBC's or ESPN's or any of those subscriptions out there. $9 a month funds real news. It really does. And it has done that since our inception. It helps underwrite the site, staff, the server cost. Believe it or not, we get a lot of DDoS attacks, especially from China where we do a lot of reporting on the Chinese Communist Party. And they don't like that. So that's all on our backs. And that's why I have particularly high blood pressure. So I'm asking for your support at the moment. Thenationalpulse.com War Room $9 a month or if you don't want to do that, if you don't want to. And there are discounts if you do annually by the way too. But if you don't want to do that, you can also just do a one off donation@thenationalpulse.com donate and every penny, every dollar counts. I don't do asks like this very often. I think probably once a year on this show on the Boxing Day special is when I do these asks in particular. But at this point in time, I will be quite honest with you, we desperately need it. After President Trump won, a lot of people, people dropped off. A lot of people have stopped paying attention. A lot of people think that we don't need to keep fighting these fights. You know, we're in power now. Why do I need to keep donating to these sites? And that is the particularly wrong headed way of looking at these things because especially in American politics, you know, the election cycles as well as the news cycles are constant, are consistent and we continuously need to be fighting the right fights and putting the right information out there. And I'm grateful to all of you for all of your support, the donors and the members who have been involved from early days. I cannot thank you enough. And to the people out there who are considering joining, just go and look at it right now. It's not going to cost you anything to look at it. TheNationalPulse.com War Room Every single penny help. So it's been a pleasure for me to put this episode for you together. I hope you subscribe at YouTube. Raheem Kassam. Raheem Kassam on all the social media platforms, the NatPulse and the National Pulse on all social media platforms. And of course make sure you support Stephen K. Bannon and the War Room all day, every day. Have a great Boxing Day. I will see you next year.
