
WarRoom Battleground EP 848: The Continued Rise Of The Color Revolution ...
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Steve Bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. Christians not got a free shot on 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. And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
Dr. Bradley Thayer
MAGA Media I wish in my soul.
Reporter/Journalist
I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
Steve Bannon
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
Dr. Bradley Thayer
If that answer is to save my.
Steve Bannon
Country, this country will be SA War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. Friday the 12th of September in the year of Lord 2025. You know, Dave Brat is another like, like he's not Charlie Kirk, but he's a guy like a Charlie Kirk. And here's what I mean. These are people that have, they have a natural gentle to them. They are gentlemen and they also have a. They never get cynical, they never get down. There's always kind of a light in their eyes. You can see a burst of life all the time. They're just good people. They're good people to have around you. Dave Bright, he has a twinkle in his eye all the time. Charlie Kirk had that. They're not mean spirited people. They don't talk mean about people. They give people access. They're just good guys. They're nice people. What has Dave Brat been on here for the last month? What is Dave? And Dave Brat is a, was a standard stock Republican when I first met him, when he was a professor at Randolph Macon and Maxwell, the great director of Gettysburg and Gods and Generals, the two great Civil War epics, found this guy to run against Eric Cantor and I laughed at Maxwell. I laughed, I said I'm not going to have a meeting with this guy. You can't do that. This guy's an economics professor at Randolph Macon. He's never going to defeat Eric Cantor. That's impossible. He did it with no money in kind of a Charlie Kirk method, had young people that did it and.
Taj Gill
He.
Steve Bannon
The only time in the history of this republic since its founding that a sitting majority leader was defeated in a primary. And that primary was so strategic because the next day Zuckerberg and Facebook were coming out for a huge rollout meeting on amnesty that all got shut down. It changed the course of history. And Dave Brat, he was a Tea party guy and he was, you know, kind of this Tea Party revolution that then became maga. And what has Dave Brat been talking about on this show for the last two months? You would think Dave Brat is Mike Benzion. You would think Dave Brat is Darren Beatty. You would. He's talking about. You would think he's Raheem Kassam. These guys that really look at the entire apparatus and look at Europe and Ukraine and all of it. He talks about a color revolution going on by the FBI and the CIA against the American people. Antifa's part of that. They're trying to cut at the basics of your. Of the beliefs of the. Of the founding basic facts and beliefs of this republic, the new Jerusalem. To sow chaos and to sow disorder and to get your mind all so that a Katie Brick can say, no. We just need unity and we're the consultants. We need to sit there.
Dr. Bradley Thayer
We need unity.
Steve Bannon
No, ma', am, we don't need unity. Unity is surrender. That is surrender and we are never going to surrender. And that cussedness and that grit and that determination is what has made this country. You think the revolutionary generation didn't have. No, we got to have unity with the British. We got to have unity with the Tories here. We're at the founding stage of the greatest empire it's ever going to be. Of course we don't want to break out. You people are dangerous. We need unity. We need to come together. What was their response? You saw it in Boston harbor and in Concord, in Lexington and on and on in years. Seven years, was it? Seven years of fighting and never quitting, having lost 80% of the battles of the revolution. It's that cussedness in developing this country, across this continent. You ever been out west? We're out west right now. You ever been out west? If you have. Or drive across, not fly across and see and just go, how did these people do this? How did these women do this? How did you raise a family and have children out here when there was nothing and every day you had to get your sustenance and your heat. How did they do it? They were giants and they had cussedness. We owe them to fight for this to our last breath. Like Charlie Kirk did before they executed him. Taj Gill, you've seen these people up close and personal. We're going through a color revolution. The deep state is involved. Oh, Bannon, you're a conspiracy. Was I conspiracy theorist on the pandemic when we called it on the stolen. On the stolen election when we called it on President Trump coming back in the years in the wilderness of President Trump at first, when, you know, half of Breitbart quit on me, because I don't give a damn. If you want to quit, quit. He's the future. This is what's going to save our country. And I don't care what you have to say about it. I don't give a damn. Like, I don't give a damn now. We're never going to surrender. I don't want to hear any Republican that talks about unity, any Republican talks about toning it down, is prepared to give up their country. You're either with us or you're Guinness. These people are on their sitting now. Say they're really taught. They've really tossed up a thing. It's, you know, they're saying, these people are evil. Look what they said about Kirk. Look at how they're laughing and mocking Charlie Kirk. Look how they're gleeful about Charlie Kirk. You seen the video? Don't have the video block. Watch the video. Watch it over and over and over again until it's emblazoned in you. And what they did to Charlie Kirk. And now they want to tone. Oh, we got to tone it down. The rhetoric's getting too heated. Taj Gil, you've seen this scum up close and personal. What is. What is it like, sir?
Taj Gill
Yeah, I dealt with him three times. Steve, in 2015, we're doing a security detail for conservative speaker we take to colleges. The first time was at UC Davis, and I had never heard of Antifa before that. The event ended up getting canceled. Right as it was getting started, they showed up. They started rioting outside. They started breaking windows. And I don't think if I can remember correctly, I don't think anybody was hurt that time, but they got the events canceled, which is the definition of domestic terrorists, right? We have a political guy from a different party going to speak, and then he used intimidation and coercion to change the. The narrative. And then the next time was up at University of Seattle, Washington. And that was a big event. And the Seattle Police Department and the campus police were there. They're there in force, luckily, because hundreds and hundreds of these Antifa guys showed up there. They had signs hanging from the overpass on the freeway saying that they're going to kill us. And the police surrounded the entire building. And they let all the people in, the people that wanted to see the event, and the antifa just started going crazy. There was a shooting outside. There was somebody stabbed. One of the SWAT team guys came up to me when Our person was on stage speaking and the SWAT team guy was like, hey, somebody just got shot outside. You want to cancel the event and get out here? Out of here? And I was like, no, let them finish speaking, you know, otherwise they win. So we wrapped the event up and then we drove off campus. We had, I think we had like four or six SWAT team Suburbans escort us off campus. And they escorted us like 10 miles away from the campus because they know these guys basically control the whole city. They have free. The Antifa has free reign up there in Seattle. They roam around everywhere and do what they want because the political environment, the police are basically have a hands off policy on these guys. And then the third one was down at UC Berkeley and we had already dealt with them a couple times. So we ranked up security. And of course the campus police at UC Berkeley didn't want us to carry our weapons. So we're unarmed and just relying on them. And Antifa showed up and that time they started shooting fireworks, roaming candles and mortars at the building we're in. And they actually took the bottom floor of the building. They pushed the police out. The police, police actually gave up the bottom floor to them. So the police were with. We all went up to the roof and we're like barricaded on the roof. And they all had their guns out pointing at the stairwell. And then the police finally took the bottom story of the building back. And then we went downstairs to the parking garage to get our, to get in the car and get out of there. And then TIFA actually lit the parking garage entrance on fire and barricaded it. So I was driving in the lead vehicle. I lined it up. I was just going to run them all over and, you know, plow through and leave. And the campus police basically begged me not to run anybody over. So I was like, okay, fine, how are we going to get out of here? And they had a. They had an underground tunnel. So we went through this underground tunnel and luckily we had foresight. So we put a stash car on the other side of campus in an overflow parking lot. And we went through these tunnels under the campus and came out and got in our stash car and left. But these guys have free reign in the Bay Area, in Portland and in Seattle. We didn't. We were supposed to do a Portland event, but it got canceled because of weather. It was like a crazy snowstorm. Luckily we didn't go there. But they have free reign of the area because the political environment, the, the mayors are liberal. Liberal. The city Councils are liberal and they're very, very like far left radicalized liberals. And they let the antifa terrorize the entire towns. They do whatever they want. The police has a hands off policy on them unless it gets really bad. And you saw it when last time Trump was in office, these people, the antifa, were attacking a Federal Building. The U.S. marshals defended it, but they were strictly on defense. And then people were shining high powered lasers in their eyes. And I think they blinded one of the marshals. Remember correctly, but they need to be designated as a domestic terrorist organization, 100%, full stop. No doubt. They are terrorizing the people, U.S. citizens. They've killed people, they've maimed people, they put people in the hospital, they intimidate people. And it's for political purposes. It's for this left wing ideology. They're basically the foot soldiers of the Democratic Party. Them and Black Lives Matter. And last, last time when we were talking about designating them as domestic terrorists, I think it was Adam Schiff. They talked to him and he's like, they don't even exist. It's just an idea. It's not an organization. It is a fully funded organization. George Soros and Alex Soros fund them through their NGO network. And these people are funded, they're organized, they're equipped, and then they're actually radical, like this kid that shot Charlie Kirk. When you go to these colleges, you get introduced in these networks of these radicals and people like that, they get radicalized online. It's just like radical Islam. It's just as dangerous as radical Islam. This Black Lives Matter, the antifa, this whole left wing ideology, and it comes from the college professors. And we're three generations into brainwashing. It started after World War II. My parents, and then my generation, part of them have been brainwashed. And then my children's generation, part of them have been brainwashed. It's three generations deep of brainwashing. And it starts in the colleges. So going after antifa is part of the. Part of it, but Trump needs to withhold funding to these colleges if they're spewing out anti American propaganda. It's not just about the, the Palestinian protesters, it's the actual college professors that are teaching their students to hate America and to hate themselves. That's the problem.
Steve Bannon
I say this all the time. This thing is so far deeper than anti Semitism. Yeah, there's a lot of anti Semitism, but it's so far deeper than that. I want. They're the brown shirts of the Democratic Party. They're the sa, they're the brown shirts. Taj, you've been on, is it 16 deployments, both as a Navy SEAL, then as a contractor, basically as a, as a Navy SEAL that's off the government's payroll. Sixteen tours. You have been in the Middle east, you've been in other places. The other bad place, bad actors you've met and fought in defense of your country as a patriot. Some pretty bad hombres, right? Pretty tough hombres?
Taj Gill
Yes, sir. Yep.
Steve Bannon
How tough?
Taj Gill
In Iraq, Afghanistan. In Africa. Yeah.
Steve Bannon
And Africa, the Middle East, Iraq, Afghanistan, all of it. Can Antifa give as good as they get? Did they do they rack up there with what the Navy SEALs are deployed against and other parts?
Taj Gill
These guys are, these guys will fold like a cheap knife, Steve. They're. These are the generation that was raised where everybody's a winner and if somebody hurts your feelings, you can go hide in a safe space. And then they've become Antifa. So, you know, these are the guys you, they, they get you going and then you punch them in the face, and then they want you to get arrested. These are, these are those guys. They are weak. And also the, believe it or not, college professors are part of antifa. So the college professors that are radicalizing these students and turning them in Antifa, they go out with them at night and put on the black mask and cause chaos. So now, once if Trump designates them as a terrorist organization and unleashes the FBI, the CIA, the NSA on these people, they're going to fold like a cheap knife. But the problem is they've been protected. They are the protectees of the Democratic Party. They are the protectees of the Democratic mayors, city councilmen in the colleges. So that's, that's what's going on.
Steve Bannon
Hang on one second. I want to bring in Dr. Bradley Thayer. You see the B roll we're showing you is Portland. The President got asked this question the other day about not George Floyd time in Portland, but now in the last couple weeks, and this is about ICE agents. This is about stopping ICE raises, going to where the federal building, where the ICE agents are, Customs and Border, things like that. Border Patrol, Dr. Bradley Thayer, what would it take? First off, do you think we could actually designate Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization?
Dr. Bradley Thayer
Sure. Terrorism is coercion. It's the use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals. Steve. So Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization because it does precisely that. Targeting American civilians in pursuit of their ideological goals, which are communism at root, and thus directly targeting our constitutional republic and the political and civil rights of Americans. And so it operates as Tage was alluding, it operates directly, of course. It operates through, in coordination or through front organizations. Tage mentioned Soros, but Also Arabella, Tides, ActBlue and others. And it also serves to inspire and motivate young Americans through its culture of terrorism. And so when we think about Antifa through the lens of domestic political terrorism, we can see that it serves three major objectives. First, it's muscle, right? These guys are the shock troops of the left. And so it serves as really the way the Red Guard served for the Bolsheviks or for Mao Zedong or Steve, as you mentioned, for the Brown Shirts, the sa, for the Nazis. These guys are about taking over the streets, physically dominating spaces and thereby intimidating, coercing Americans in that environment. Secondly, and very importantly, they're also the recruiting office, and they're the higher education, really, for so many young Americans who are attracted to their culture, to their. Their aims. And so they're really a higher. They're a university for street fighters. And it's important to keep that in mind in terms of what they train, how they train and how they deploy their members. And then thirdly, it also serves as a shield for politicians, for the media, for businesses, for academics to hide behind, as terrorist organizations always do. Steve, I'll take the Irish example, right? There was the ira, Provisional ira, who were the gunman, but then there was Sinn Fein, right, the political party, who had plausible deniability, right? They could say, well, we don't have anything to do with the gunmen. The gunmen are just out there doing, conducting their terrorist act while they serve, of course, a very important function in the political warfare waged against the British, of course. So we need to think about Antifa in that way. It certainly is muscle. It certainly acts as terrorist organizations do. It's a recruiting station. It recruits individuals, it trains them and deploys them, and it's a shield for politicians. And so this is. Has all the hallmarks of a terrorist organization. It has all the hallmarks when you lift up the rug, obviously, Rico, there could be so many measures that could be employed against it, but we need to understand that. So they have, as Tage also mentioned, supporting the maiming, the killing of Americans they've coerced, they've suppressed. They seek to demoralize their political opposition, that is the American people. And so on a daily basis, they're violating America's rights as they seek to undermine our constitutional republic and the political values of that Americans have our political culture, our history, they're seeking to destroy in order to impose their totalitarian aims. Right. Which is what they seek to do at the end of the day.
Steve Bannon
And this is. And if you look at the colleges where most of this generate out of, you're never again going to have somebody, you know, Ben Shapiro or whoever does these college tours. You're never going to be able to kind of freelance it and engage like Charlie Kirk has. You're going to have to have more security, more. They've already, in that regard, they've already won, and they know that I want to just go before we're going to go to break in a second. In fascist ideology, in communist ideology, the Bolsheviks, the Chinese Communist Party, the fascists in Italy, in Nazi Germany. This is a central part of when they say that CIA and FBI are the deep states running a color revolution against the American people, a core component of fascist ideology and communist ideology, which all gets to authoritarianism and then a dictatorship. You must have a group like this, right? That every time you look, they have the SA or they have the Red Guard or the Bolsheviks, have these different groups. You have to have. They need to take the streets and they need to have violence. Because right now, folks, trust me, there are so many people that are sitting there going, well, Charlie Kirk was the bravest of the brave. You know, can I do that or no? Now I want to have a group hug. Now I want to call for unity. They understand that violence works. They understand that taking the streets work. Why, history has shown them in Germany and in Italy and in China and in Russia. Right. That these tactics work. And that's how they predicated upon it, have they not, Dr. Thayer?
Dr. Bradley Thayer
Yes, they have. The point of terrorism is coercion through violence and the threat of violence, Steve. So that's by definition, they're going to be violent, and it's very important for them to do. We also want to keep in mind there are foreign ties here. It's not just Arabella Tide Soros. That's bad enough, but the CCP certainly is going to have a hand here, as well as other international actors who wish America ill and wish the American people ill as well. So when you lift up the rug again, I think we're going to find that there are a lot of ties to the Chinese Communist Party and other international actors who are seeking to use this organization, this domestic terrorist organization as shock troop for the aims that we've discussed this evening in order to weaken the United States, undermine the United States and to do their utmost to destroy us, which is the point of it. So we need to recognize the seriousness of this threat. I think Page is right in terms of when the power of the US Government is employed against them. But we also want to recognize it's also a symptom, really, of a tremendous danger, that there are a lot of folks who are opposed to the American way of life, the American Constitution domestically, and they're backed up not just by foundations, not just by George Soros and his son, but by the Chinese Communist Party and other really bad actors. So we got to keep that in mind, too, when we're thinking through that we shouldn't allow this to exist. And we need to employ the efforts that we have, both all the means that we can employ to round this up. Because this fellow who killed Charlie Kirk, the assassin, Tyler Robinson, or alleged assassin, right, was a typical fellow traveler. He was inspired by these guys, right? He doesn't know the history, I would suspect, of communist thought or how he's being employed as a tool, really, to conduct such an evil end. But nonetheless, how many of these guys are out there? The answer is far too many that we're seeing on a weekly basis. And these individuals, wittingly or unwittingly, are conducting the political assassinations. They're undermining, if you will, the cement of our society by killing our leaders, by undermining and essentially deflating demoralizing political supporters who want to fight them and who are doing their utmost at the end of the day to destroy the United States of America. And we recognize that we can understand the gravity of the threat and the need to deal with it. So we do not have this. Because terrorist violence escalates. If it's not stopped, it's going to escalate. And the way to stop it is, Steve, as you have stressed time and again, is to stop it. To actually stop it, we must stop it.
Steve Bannon
Dr. Thayer is working on some things for us, hopefully briefing some people and hopefully maybe we turn that into an article and post it. Dr. Thayer, your social media coordinates. Your material is always the best.
Dr. Bradley Thayer
Thank you, Steve. Brad Thayer at X and Bradley Thayer and Truth and Getter. Thanks very much, Steve.
Steve Bannon
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Night after night. This is the scene just outside the ICE facility in Portland. Hundreds of residents live in apartments just feet away. They routinely call police about the noise.
Steve Bannon
And crime, calling about Protestants. They've cornered two women out here. They need help. Please send the cops.
Reporter/Journalist
But the cops did not come. Residents on their own turn the down.
Steve Bannon
It's midnight. We the people need sleep.
Reporter/Journalist
This week, protesters brought what looked like a guillotine. Some confrontations end, with residents getting assaulted. First a bullhorn, then a fist. No arrest was made despite the injuries. On this night in late June, federal police used tear gas and flashbangs. Again, no Portland police in sight. It came out later in court that one officer told another if it were not ice, we could assist directly. Julie Parish sued the city to force police to enforce local laws.
Steve Bannon
This is a full on abdication of police duty in a four block radius that impacts some of the most vulnerable Oregonians that we have. Now they've said me, we're just going to let violent rioters do this for 80 straight nights and we don't care.
Reporter/Journalist
Portland police responded, we take these concerns seriously. At the same time we are committed to protecting individuals rights to express themselves peacefully.
Dr. Bradley Thayer
The Portland approach is pathetic, it's childish.
Steve Bannon
And if you enable people to behave.
Don Powers
The way the protesters have and wreck.
Steve Bannon
The neighborhood for everyone else, they will come back and wreck it the next night.
Reporter/Journalist
The protest chaos, which began with riots aimed at social justice in 2020 and has severely damaged Portland's reputation. It's now ranked by the non partisan Urban Land institute as the second worst place in America to invest. With six and a half million square feet of commercial vacancy. The top 20 office towers have lost 57% of their combined value in five years. Portland's elected leaders ignored our request for comment about what some are calling the city's death spawn. As for those nightly protests, police admitted to us that they have not made a single arrest out there since June 18th.
Steve Bannon
Scenes like these unfolding here as Portland's antifa aggressively protests Trump's immigration policies. Outside the federal ICE detention facility, protests have turned violent. Rock throwing, smashing windows. Federal officers respond with tear gas, flashbangs. Some have been arrested, charged with arson, assault. But now it sucks. Tara. Tara Fall, Portland resident and mother of four, has been documenting the city's chaos for years. She's been brutally attacked and assaulted. I was just, wow, that's one of the great cities in this country. If you ever been to Portland, beautiful city, got the Rose festival there. The Navy's always invited. Incredible. Third Fleet goes up there. Right there. They've taken it. Don Powers joins us. Don, the chairman of the Republican party down the 6th congressional district right south of Portland has a gathering of eagles. I talked last week, you had this amazing. Or two weeks ago you had an amazing get together. You're very maga. Don, tell us about Portland. It's like it's incomprehensible. People thought this ended with George Floyd. It may be in some regards worse now because it's about the ICE agents and trying to enforce immigration policy. Your thoughts, sir?
Don Powers
Well, I'm not, I'm not sure I can add a whole lot more to That, I mean, it is unbelievable what's happened to that city. And it's absolute chaos. You know, it's extremely underreported. First of all, I mean, it's nice that Fox did that piece of. But the Siege on that ice building has been like three months going on for three months. You know, it's nearing, you know, 100 days with no intervention from the feds. You know, and they say that the, you know, Trump Admin administration has taken this seriously because, you know, Antifa, you know, directly says that it's ICE agents that are Nazis. I mean, the Trump administration needs to take it more seriously, I guess is my point, because they are literally saying that the ICE agents are Nazi Gestapo and they need to be killed when they start saying that kind of stuff. And after what we just saw with Charlie, we know what they're capable of. And we know that a few years ago here in Portland, we had a good man from Patriot Prayer who was murdered and slain in the street as well. I mean, we have another gentleman who recently, during this ICE protest, Antifa, threw gasoline on him and he's got burns, second degree burns on his body and they refuse to prosecute it. They say it's a misdemeanor. And they're not prosecuting anybody for throwing gasoline on someone. And we know that they're capable of going even further with that. Right. We've seen where they recently a gentleman threw gasoline on an elderly couple someplace and actually set them on fire. I mean, this is, this is very serious. And I just, at some point I want to know what the rules of engagement are. I mean, when is Cash going to consider them a, you know, a terrorist organization, domestic terrorist, and, you know, start allowing full engagement here? Because this is ridiculous. The police says, as you heard on the other report, even come in within four blocks of that area. It's just absolute chaos. And the residents are scared, the residents are complaining and the police don't do it. If they're not there to protect the residents, then what are they there for?
Steve Bannon
Do you believe that they're organized enough? Do you believe as a citizen and do you think the citizens of Portland would support you, that they are a domestic terrorist? That these Antifa people doing this now for what you said three months solid, are a domestic terrorist organization?
Don Powers
I believe that they are, absolutely. Because if you, if you lived in Portland or any of the events that are put on here, they absolutely terrorize people. You know, one of the definitions that they have about, you know, an organization like Antifa is whether they're quote, you know, organized, which means, do they have a leadership hierarchy and everything? And therefore, since they don't have this leadership hierarchy, nobody's necessarily directly taking orders, then they're not considered an organization or a domestic terrorist. But they have a communications. They have communications, they have private communication, they have secret communications. They communicate. They haul people in from out of state, they rent homes like Airbnb type homes, and then put them in them. And obviously they're coordinated. So whether they have a direct traditional hierarchy structure of a general, a colonel and so forth, lieutenants, they do. They have those channels and they have communication in that same capacity. It's just not as formal as we're used to. So therefore, it's as if nobody knows or wants to. You can't put them in the box that you want to say. This is the definition of an organization. You've got your president, your vice president, you've got your COO, your CFO, etc. And therefore they don't want to. I don't understand the fear of it, right? There's like this fear of actually just calling them what they are, which is a domestic terrorist organization. And just because you can't put a structure on a traditional structure that you're used to doesn't mean they're not out there terrorizing the state. Doesn't mean they're not out there terrorizing the citizenship. I mean, look what's happened. You just saw in that report how many businesses have left, how many people have been attacked? You know, there's been a few protesters have been arrested for federal crimes, but they all get released, right? It's. Yeah, it's disgusting.
Steve Bannon
Portland's a pretty liberal, progressive city. Would the citizens support this? Because you see that the neighborhood they're talking about looks like working class people. The woman's coming out screaming, I gotta get to sleep, I gotta go to work. Do you think the citizens would support a bigger crackdown?
Don Powers
You know, that's a great question. You would think that they would. You know, the last time we had this kind of rioting going on, we literally had 180 straight nights of rioting in Portland. And people, when I tell them that around the country, they shake their head, go, no, that's not. Paul, we didn't hear about that. And it's absolutely true. 180 street nights of rioting. This is at 100 nights, 100 days, whatever, already with this thing with the ice building. It's horrible. And. And you would think that the people in Portland, right, would demand that their Police do something about it. But here it is and they haven't, you know. So what is it that makes the citizenry of Portland continue to elect the officials that they do, the mayor, that they do, the police force and not want to, not want to want change? A lot of the people on the outside, I'm just on the periphery of Portland and I've been down there at the federal building and you know, when ICE has been, excuse me, when Antifa's been down there attacking people, I've been at other events where the proud boys have put something on and I've gone down there and talked with them and met with them and stood in line with them and it's unbelievable to me that the people of Portland specifically won't rise up and say this is enough. That's what it takes. You know, there's this whole thing is about. We just have to. All it takes, right, is mass non compliance. All it takes is all of us just sitting there saying, you know, we've had enough of this and we're done. And, and it will go, it will stop. But we're not doing that. And the people on the outside of Portland have this mentality of just let's what Portland gets and, and let them rot. You know, they want to lose 50% of their businesses. They want to, they want to have this chaos. Then vote differently, behave differently. But how can you do that when you've got elections that are stolen and corrupt and you've got mail in voting like we have here in Oregon, you know, we, we were the first state to do it. And before we had mail in voting here in Oregon, we had a Republican governor about 66% or 2/3 of the time, let's say. And we haven't had one since. That is not by accident, that is by design. And until we take this thing back, until we take it back, we have, you know, same day voting at the precinct level hand, you know, hand counted and we can have confidence in our elections. This is never going to stop. But we the people need to rise up and have, and put a stop to this. It's up to us. I think you mentioned it earlier, right? You know, nobody's going to come in and rescue us. It's up to us. It's our country, it's our republic to keep it.
Steve Bannon
Yeah. We are the cavalry. Don't be a homesteader waiting for the cavalry to arrive. You are the cavalry. Last question. I know a lot of the work you're doing gathering eagles out there, you're getting more and more young people involved. This event. You had had tremendous support from young people. What is the impact, do you think, sir, on the assassination of Charlie Kirk?
Don Powers
Well, you know, we had two of the Turning Point people here because there's a college rep, right, and there's a high school rep for Turning Point here in Oregon. And you know, this tragedy happened, you know, just a couple days ago. I'm, I know they have an individual tonight, by the way, and I mentioned that of Corbin High School or excuse me, Corbin College. And Turning Point is putting that on. I'm really hopeful that this will give people the, I mean Charlie was incredibly courageous to sit there on campus like that, to go into the, you know, into the lair of, of evil and sit there and invite people to have a conversation. And I'm hopeful that that will inspire a lot of these college kids especially to get more involved and to be more vocal and to be more bold because we've got to get them engaged. You know, at some point you and I are, you know, we're going to go silent into that night. Well, maybe not so silent, but we're, you know, it comes for whom the bell tolls. Right. But they've got to pick up the torch and we need to be able to hand it off to them. We need to reach out to them and educate them and inspire them the way that Charlie did. I don't know what impact it's going to have. I'm very hopeful that it's going to have a positive impact and they're going to rise up and take this as a calling.
Steve Bannon
Don, Social media, where do people go to find everything you guys are doing to fight the good fight in, in the great state of Oregon, sir, you.
Don Powers
Can find me on, on, let's see, on X, of course it's just non compliant in the digit 1, noncompliant 1. And you can find me on telegram at Gideon300.
Steve Bannon
Okay, great. We'll put that up to Grayson. We'll put that out. Don Powers, thank you so much. Congressional District 6 Republican Party Chair. Thank you folks. In all these, Washington, Oregon, California, you get so many great MAGA patriots. You add them up, you got millions and millions and millions. There's they're looking for knowing that people have their back and are not forgetting about them. Taj Gill, your thoughts? Sir, if you were, if I got you three minutes with President Trump, I'm gonna give you three minutes right now. If you got three minutes to talk to the president who loves guys like you, right? You're from Central Casting as he would say, what would you tell him?
Taj Gill
I told him to designate Antifa as the terrorist organization right away. It's, it's imperative to the country. I mean, look, they just killed one of our heroes, one of our leaders. And this guy is going around the country speaking to young men and women at the college campuses where they're actually intimidated and they're not allowed to be proud of who they are. You know, and he actually, he gave the affirmation, he, he let them know that it's okay to be conservative, it's okay to be who you are, and it's proud. To be, proud to be an American is a good thing. And, and he gave them a platform. And it's, it's sickening that Antifa was able to radicalize this kid in Utah online, and this kid went out and murdered somebody at a, at a college campus as somebody very special. It's absolutely sickening. So I think it is imperative for Trump to designate Antifa a terrorist, domestic terrorist organization immediately. And it's also imperative to go after the college professors that are teaching anti American rhetoric at their colleges. They're teaching the kids, you know, they're teaching white kids to be ashamed to be white. They're teaching black kids to be victims. They're teaching everybody that America is a bad country and, you know, that communism is good, socialism is good, capitalism is bad. He needs to withhold funding from these colleges until they clean up their classrooms, and he needs it. Designate Antifa a domestic terrorist organization right away. That's what I would tell him.
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Steve Bannon
Thank you, brother. Thank you for taking time away. Dad, I know you're busy over there at the company to share this. I knew it was a very big deal for you. Julie Kelly just sent me something that. This is from Charlie Kirk. This is Charlie Kirk's Twitter account. 7 March in the year of our Lord 2022, Charlie Kirk tweets out, Utah Governor Spencer Cox should be expelled from the Republican Party. That was Cox during his transgender. You know, let's give all the. No, Cox. They're boys and they're girls, okay? It's simple. That's the Holy Spirit at work. You've got a problem with that? You deal with the Holy Spirit. They're boys and girls. We don't need a tender hug when these people are transforming these people into dangerous freaks, because that's what's happened. It's time somebody calls it out. Also, couldn't be prouder of the President of the United States. They've got a. Let's put up the Guardian story. The Guardian is just reporting headline. I want you to embrace this headline, folks. Trump declines to call for unity after Charlie Kirk killing in stunning move. And Ed Pilkington, one of the big lefties over there, tries to eviscerate Trump. But you read it, you would not be prouder of President Trump even on election night in 2024. Let me read you the headline. Trump declines to call for unity after Charlie Kirk killing in stunning move. And he lays into him exactly what the problem is. These are criminal organizations. They're trying to do a color revolution in the United States. They're trying to break your will, to break your spirit. All of it. Do we have. Can I play the. Can I play the Untouchables before we leave? Can I do that? Let me see if we got that. We're going to be back. I'm going to get the heads up here. I want to play my Untouchables on political. Well, President Trump, I want to quote again, grace and moment. Everybody say, let's go and play. Trump declines to call for unity after Charlie Kirk killing in stunning move. You're damn right. Let's go ahead and play about political will. I think there's nothing like Vaudreuil. That's what I think.
Dr. Bradley Thayer
Now, are you ready? Ready to go to work.
Taj Gill
Where are we going?
Dr. Bradley Thayer
On a liquor rig. I need another man.
Steve Bannon
This is very interesting. I found a financial disbursement pattern here which shows him. I get. You carry a badge. Yes. Carry a gun. Jimmy.
Reporter/Journalist
What?
Steve Bannon
What the hell are you dressed for Halloween? Shut up.
Don Powers
I'm working where the circumstances.
Taj Gill
Here we are.
Don Powers
What are we doing here?
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Podcast: Bannon’s War Room
Host: Steve Bannon
Date: September 12, 2025
In this episode, Steve Bannon and guests dive into the concept of an ongoing “color revolution” targeting the United States, driven allegedly by state actors within the FBI, CIA, and leftist organizations such as Antifa and Black Lives Matter. The conversation is sparked by the recent assassination of prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk, which the panel sees as a watershed moment in escalating political violence. Through personal anecdotes, historical parallels, and calls for decisive action, the guests argue for the urgent need to designate Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and to clamp down on radical influence in higher education.
“Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people.”
(00:17, Steve Bannon)
"No, ma’am, we don't need unity. Unity is surrender. ... We owe them to fight for this to our last breath."
(04:25, Steve Bannon)
“They need to be designated as a domestic terrorist organization, 100%, full stop. No doubt.”
(13:31, Taj Gill)
"These are the guys you, they, they get you going and then you punch them in the face, and then they want you to get arrested. These are those guys. They are weak."
(15:17, Taj Gill)
“Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization because it does precisely that: targeting American civilians in pursuit of their ideological goals, which are communism at root.”
(17:04, Dr. Bradley Thayer)
“There are a lot of ties to the Chinese Communist Party and other international actors who are seeking to use this organization...”
(22:54, Dr. Bradley Thayer)
"They say that the ICE agents are Nazi Gestapo and need to be killed.”
(35:29, Don Powers)
"You just saw in that report how many businesses have left, how many people have been attacked? ... It’s disgusting."
(37:46, Don Powers)
"It's imperative to the country. ... Antifa was able to radicalize this kid in Utah online and this kid went out and murdered somebody."
(45:31, Taj Gill)
“We are the cavalry. Don’t be a homesteader waiting for the cavalry to arrive. You are the cavalry.”
(42:36, Steve Bannon)
Confrontational, urgent, and combative, the discussion is marked by analogies to wartime, revolutionary struggle, and historical authoritarian movements. There’s a heavy appeal to patriotism, defiance, and the need for grassroots mobilization. The speakers are skeptical of mainstream narratives and frequently call for uncompromising action.
This episode presents the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination as evidence of a violent, organized left-wing “color revolution” threatening the constitutional order in the United States. Bannon, with guests from military (Taj Gill), academic (Dr. Thayer), and GOP activist (Don Powers) backgrounds, calls for the urgent designation of Antifa as a terrorist group and a clampdown on radicalism in higher education and left-leaning urban areas. There is a strong emphasis on self-reliance, grassroots activism, and the rejection of calls for unity, which are framed as veiled capitulation to authoritarianism.
For listeners and non-listeners alike, this episode serves as a rallying cry for the War Room audience, blending dramatic personal stories, ideological analysis, and impassioned calls to action designed to escalate the sense of crisis and the appetite for sweeping political and institutional change.