WarRoom Battleground EP 860: The Controlled Chaos Of Portland; Countdown to The Government Shutdown

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Bannon's War Room Battleground EP 860

Episode Title: The Controlled Chaos Of Portland; Countdown to The Government Shutdown
Date: September 30, 2025
Host: Stephen K. Bannon (A), with guests Mark Mitchell (C), other panelists (B, D, E, F)

Overview

This episode centers around two intertwined themes: the escalating "controlled chaos" in Portland and the imminent federal government shutdown. Stephen K. Bannon and guests dissect the broader ideological struggle in America, linking left-wing activism in cities like Portland to the anticipated administrative shakeup triggered by the shutdown. The discussion moves from historical parallels and current polling to implications for conservative strategy, government reform, and public sentiment. Throughout, the tone is combative and urgent, warning of deepening divisions and advocating for drastic government restructuring.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Countdown to the Government Shutdown

• The fiscal year ends at midnight; no budget or continuing resolution is imminent, making a shutdown inevitable.
• Historic Context: Bannon recounts previous shutdowns (2013, 2018), emphasizing that these were leverage points for policy demands, notably for the border wall under Trump.
• Russ Vought's Role: Russ Vought, former OMB Director and close Trump ally, reportedly has a “very aggressive plan” for using the shutdown to launch reductions in force (“rifts”), bypassing previous constraints between “essential” and “non-essential” government workers.
• Public Sentiment:
  • Mark Mitchell presents new polling showing more than 2-to-1 Americans believe the government is not doing enough to stop political violence, and that a majority now support a government shutdown for budget discipline.
  • “Americans want this shut down...Pull the plug, shut it down. Take an ax to these people. You know, let's balance the budget on the backs of 800,000, largely people that are bought into the establishment.” — Mark Mitchell [15:07]
  • The panel asserts public indifference to dramatics over furloughed workers and growing distrust in core institutions.

2. Controlled Chaos in Portland and the ‘Red-Green Alliance’

• Bannon argues the chaos in Portland—protests, anti-ICE activity, violence against conservatives—is deliberate and strategic (not out-of-control), orchestrated by organized left-wing groups (Antifa, NGOs) as part of a broader Marxist agenda.
• Historical Roots:
  • Traces Antifa to its communist roots in early 20th-century Europe, ties in the Frankfurt School, and discusses cultural Marxism’s opposition to Western and Judeo-Christian values.
  • “This is what, and this is their focus...Antifa has always been Marxist to its core. And now it's been designated a terrorist organization, as it should have been long time ago.” — Bannon [05:03]
• Current Specifics:
  • Reference to attempted violence against ICE agents, “spiraling political violence against conservatives.”
  • Emphasizes Trump’s recent executive actions to suppress Antifa and prepare for “mass deportations.”
  • “Ben [Bergquam] said...about Antifa. This is not out of control. It's very controlled in the fact that they're trying to intimidate the ICE detention centers...so therefore...you can't do the mass deportations.” — Bannon [10:04]

3. The Ideological Battlefield—Two Irreconcilable Worldviews

• Mark Mitchell discusses a “political conflict between two worldviews that are in complete diametric opposition and they're only getting more pure.” [12:45]
• The left, according to Mitchell, is increasingly radicalized, dismissive of compromise and willing to push conflict to the brink; the right is demanding action, not policy nuance.
• “It's not about Socialism versus free market capitalism. That's not what it's about. It's not about Republican policy versus Democrat policy. It's a return to sanity. And if Trump gives them that, I think that they will appreciate it.” — Mitchell [13:46]
• Younger voters and regular Americans are alienated from both legacy parties and establishment structures.

4. The Messaging and Leverage of Shut Down Politics

• The shutdown is framed not just as a budget issue but as a leverage tool—a chance to “take an ax” to a bloated administrative state and fulfill the populist mandate.
• Bannon highlights how old-school deal-making in Congress is dead—now it’s all about brinkmanship and power (“smash mouth leverage”).
• “It's all leverage points now...It doesn't work like that anymore. It's leverage and it's smash mouth leverage. They do it when they got it, we do it when we got it. And nobody can play that game better than Donald Trump” — Bannon [35:49]
• Democrats and activist groups are accused of intentionally funding or enabling the shutdown for their own political messaging.

5. Notable Comparisons and Quotes

• Bill Maher’s recent call for a return to ‘sane’ liberalism is discussed as evidence that even some progressives see the left as off the rails:
  • “The predominant left forces apparently, for whatever reason, want what's happening to continue to happen, even though it's very obviously politically untenable.” — Mitchell [19:44]
• The current economy is derided as a “fake economy... ten companies built on basically Indian H1B engineers and L1s” [22:44]; complaints abound about job prospects for the next generation.
• On partisanship:
  • “No one is intellectually honest on this...There is zero chance, Zero, count that. Zero. That there is going to be a deal between now and midnight to keep the government open. Not going to happen.” — Panelist (B) [33:10]

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Memorable Moments and Quotes (with Timestamps)

• On the government shutdown’s inevitability:

  • “There is zero chance, Zero, count that. Zero. That there is going to be a deal between now and midnight to keep the government open. Not going to happen.” — Panelist (B) [33:10]

• On the dire state of American institutions:

  • “Judicial system has been completely wrecked. There's a two tiered system of justice, a complete collapse in institutional trust everywhere.” — Mark Mitchell [11:31]

• On Trump’s executive posture:

  • “President Trump, as I said, he's in a phase of his presidency. He's just going to do it and everybody's got to catch up. I don't think he's waiting for staff anymore. I don't think he's waiting for the cabinet positions. He knows what he wants to do. He knows what he has to do to save the country. He's doing it. And hey guys, catch up.” — Bannon [39:57]

• On Antifa and orchestrated chaos:

  • “Antifa has always been Marxist to its core. And now it's been designated a terrorist organization, as it should have been long time ago.” — Bannon [05:03]
  • “This is not out of control. It's very controlled...they're trying to intimidate the ICE detention centers, keep people away...” — Bannon [10:04]

• On the elite’s insulation:

  • “There is no K Street in Capitol Hill for the American citizen. There just isn't. These people are highly isolated, living in a carefully constructed sphere of...things that make them feel good about their job they're doing.” — Mitchell [16:34]

• On public apathy toward shutdown effects:

  • “80% of voters say that the government shutdowns have no impact or very little impact to them. And so it's...They don't care. The boy already cried wolf.” — Mitchell [21:34]

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Detailed Segment Timestamps

• 00:12-01:00: Fiery show intro, populist framing of “fighting a dying regime”.
• 01:02-11:11: Bannon monologue on fiscal year end, shutdown history, Antifa origins, Tea Party/Constitutional populism, and setup for Portland as ideological battleground.
• 11:11-24:01: Interview with Mark Mitchell—poll results, public mood about government, violence, shutdown; accusations of left-wing orchestration and establishment inertia on the right; the importance of bold action and governmental overhaul.
• 24:01-32:12: Inner workings of shutdown logistics, scenario analysis with Russ Vought; discussion about resignations, personnel moves, and media reactions.
• 32:12-35:49: Panel debate: shutdown as a messaging tool, history of shutdown politics, breakdown of old bipartisan deal-making.
• 35:49-39:57: Comparison of previous shutdown outcomes, predictions for political gains, the importance of leveraging moments, Bannon’s appraisal of Trump’s current governing style.
• 41:17 onward: Transition into health product and supplement testimonials (primarily advertisements and not included in depth per guidelines).

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Conclusion and Takeaways

• The episode serves as both battle cry and tactical briefing: Panelists urgently encourage Trump to maximize the leverage of the shutdown moment to dismantle the “administrative state” and project force against perceived left-wing threats, both in the streets (e.g., Portland) and within institutions.
• The mood is populist and confrontational: The hosts and guests consistently frame the events as both a necessary reckoning and a long-awaited fulfillment of MAGA’s promises.
• Underlying all is a narrative: America is at a crossroads between two mutually exclusive worldviews—restoration and sanity versus radical, connected chaos—where populist action is positioned as the answer to deep institutional decay.

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For Listeners New to the War Room

• This episode provides a capsule of Bannon’s worldview: History, policy, cultural analysis, and political combat are woven together in a tone that is both urgent and strategic.
• Notable for its intertwining of grassroots populist frustration with inside-baseball discussion of government operations.
• Offers a snapshot of how MAGA-aligned strategists are preparing for and justifying sweeping government action in the face of opposition.

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Transcript

[A]

This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. You're just not going to 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.

[B]

And where do people like that go.

[A]

To share the big lie?

[B]

MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

[A]

Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

[B]

WAR ROOM here's your host, Stephen k. Ban.

[A]

Tuesday the 30th of September, year of our Lord 2025, last, last day of the third quarter. We'll have all kind of GDP numbers and things come out in the next couple days. It also, because of a quirk of the federal government, it fiscal year is not calendar year. Fiscal year ends tonight at midnight. And audience, how many times we've been through this before, this is a little different. Remember, the longest shutdown, I think in government history was 34, 38 days back in 2018, after which I called shot that Nancy Pelosi put all her efforts into a ground game in the summer of 2018. In the ground game and they went door to door going to progressives to make sure they could get out the vote. In the summer of 2018, it was to impeach Trump. They absolutely are going to impeach Trump as soon as they took majority of the House. Just like if they win in 26, they're going to impeach Trump. They'll impeach Trump in the first 30 days. They're so worked up on this. We had a government shutdown even before they took power. President Trump, I think, shut down the government by not agreeing to another cr, another extension in December. And it went all the way through and it was over the border wall. I think it was over $5 billion. They wouldn't give it up because it's just like they're there with these groups that are all appendages of the Democratic Party. We have said on this show over and over again. So you guys, you know, we don't need to reinforce it that, hey, when you get to mass deportations and not just not getting rid of the bad hombres, but I mean, mass deportations of the 10 to 15 million that came on Biden's watch and Many more here. But I've always said let's just deal with what Biden left the country in the invasion, the 10 to 15 million, and let's sort that out first before we start taking on broader problems about immigration. Eventually you got to get there. Now it's reported, I think the deportation themselves are still, I think roughly around 100 to 150,000. But 2 million foreigners are left. Most of those we think are legal aliens. So that is the self deportation because they know it's a new sheriff in town and we're enforcing immigration laws at the schools, at the hospitals, the emergency rooms, the employers. There's not even enough employers being rolled up here, but it's starting.2 million have essentially gone home. There's a report out today and I've asked Elizabeth to take a look at it. The folks that understand Florida, and particularly South Florida, that this Venezuelan situation with the TSA and the Venezuelans, that around Doral and that area of Miami, there's been a huge, looks like outflow of folks from Venezuela as President Trump takes away these targeted, you know, the TSAs, they can stay here on a temporary visa. You know, Miller's going through every aspect of it. Where the rubber meets the road, though, is here because you have to have the ability to do deportations. And these anarchists and Marxist, I don't like call them communist because I think we're all in agreement, even the ccp, that the economics of Marx, Marx was a sociologist and a historian. He was not an economist. The economic aspects of communism have never really been applied. And where they were, they were an abject, total, complete failure, as Thatcher says, eventually run out of other people's money. But the cultural aspect of it, particularly the fact that it is diametrically opposed to the Judeo Christian west and all the values of the west and looks from, because it's purely atheistic, it looks to destroy the West. And this is what, and this is their focus, that right now, the Antifa, which started as the communist movement in Italy and in Germany during what they perceived with the rise of fascism in the late 1920s and early 1930s, this was the Communists versus, you know, the Spartacist and Antifa versus the Nazis and the fascists. A lot of it played out in street battles. Antifa has always been Marxist to its core. And now it's been designated a terrorist organization, as it should have been long time ago. The last thing I did with Andrew Breitbart, we were getting ready to launch the site you see today. But Andrew was obsessed with this topic because he was an expert in the Frankfurt School. He was an expert in Gramsci, and he was in Herbert Marcuse. Everybody brought the Frankfurt School over to the United States. Really the back of the intellectual framework for Cloward Tiven essentially was overwhelmed. The system destroyed the system destroy market capitalism, liberal democracy, and particularly the United States of America. Andrew was obsessed with this topic. It's kind of what he taught. He taught. He brought this and really made it accessible to people in the Tea Party movement. The Tea Party movement was really to go back to the Constitution, to go back to the founding documents. Michael Patrick Leahy was one of the original leaders of the Tea Party movement, wrote a lot about the Constitution, the constitutional Republic. People had forgotten a lot of these lessons. Declaration of Independence, founding documents, the Federalist Papers, the Enlightenment, how that shaped and formed American intellectual thinking around the time of the revolutionary generation and the generation that were the Framers. Andrew took it a little differently. In fact, he went as one of the scholars with Brian Kennedy. They invited him to be one of the scholars of what Charlie Kirk was later one of those Lincoln scholars. They take a month, and our own Natalie Winters did it too. I think they take three or four weeks and they sit there and get all the great documents of the West. Andrew is particularly focused on the Frankfurt School, particularly. It came to Southern California during the. Right before the war. The World War. And during the World War as many of these intellectuals were forced out of Nazi Germany and places like France and Italy. That lingers with us today. This is a Marxist. What you're seeing is what we call the Red Green Alliance, Marxism or Neo Marxism, with all of its hatred of the west and particularly hatred of the United States of America, combined with the jihadists. And you say, well, how can Marxists and the LGBTQ and all this combined with people that hate them, They're. Their watchword is the enemy, and my enemy is my friend. They work together. They've taken over the city of London. Siddiq Khan is a perfect example. President Trump goes on hour after hour on Sidi Khan, and that's what you're going to get in New York City after the 4th of November. I mean, Trevor Loudon and Frank Gaffney and Raheem Kassam have preached this for a couple of decades. And in fact, Frank was banned from Fox for a while. But talking about no go zones in European cities, which now is obvious. It's like the laptop from hell. It's obvious what it is and what went on, but you're seeing In Portland, what it's coming down to is to stop ICE agents. They just had the attempted assassination of ICE agents the other day by this, by this doper down in another worthless kid raised by, you know, raised by parents who are very disengaged in this fact. He had a very progressive mother. He's a big weed guy, right? Always kind of hanging around and work for these companies that are either harvesting weed or transporting weed. Gets in mind he's going to intimidate ICE agents. He has all the stuff on the bullets, et cetera. Same with Charlie Kirk. You're seeing just the increasing spiraling of political violence against conservatives and particularly against maga. And what MAGA has won the election to enforce and to accomplish, and that is mass deportations. This is getting uglier and ugly. The President's mandate that he signed the other day on Antifa is no small thing. Remember in 2020 when you had. And the other day we were talking about. There were 2,000 identified. This is Colonel Derek Carvey. There were 2,000 identified individuals. You could have rolled up in Portland in the summer of love of 2020. And Bill Barr and Esper talked the President out of it. Well, Bill Barr and Esper ain't going to talk to the President of the United States of it. Now, this is one of the reasons he had all the flag officers come together. One, it was fitness, warrior ethos, all that. Pete did a great job of that. And also to turn the mentality to precision and ferocity in combat. But as important as what President Trump said, that, hey, we've had an invasion from within and my mandate to protect the American people in this republic, I've sworn an oath to heaven to do this and I will do it. And that's what you're seeing out in Portland. And this is why we got Ben Bergquam out there. And Ben is now talking to some of the officials out there. And we never know, you know, Ben may ride tonight or he may get some footage and we'll get Ben back when we can. Is Mark Mitchell with me? Mark, I want to bring. I just want to finish up the Antifa part because this is. We're going up the escalatory ladder, as Ben said. And I think it's a very good insight, which you used to always say here about the border. It's not out of control and chaos. Biden and those guys had a very thought through plan with the NGOs of exactly how they got as many people through here and as deep into the country as possible. And that is why I think criminal charges should be brought against these guys. I don't know what we're waiting for, but Ben said the same thing about Antifa. This is not out of control. It's very controlled in the fact that they're trying to intimidate the ICE detention centers, keep people away from there. So therefore, not only can you not do the mass deportations you need, but, but you intimidate the folks there and the rest of the citizens to say, hey, they've really shut down the Trump administration's ability to do this and therefore it just kind of goes away. You've made a case that what the American people kind of thirst for right now is action, action, action. Can you tell us about that?

[C]

Yeah. And we even have results that aren't released yet. And I just looked at some of the data we got in the overnights and we have a question out there. Is the government doing enough to stop political violence in America? Looks like it's going to come back at more than a 2 to 1 that no, it's not. And so people are really concerned about this and there is the appetite there for action. Now what blows my mind is Americans just know something's wrong. And that's one of the reasons that Donald Trump got in with a mandate. They wanted the insanity at the border to stop, but it's actually larger than that. As we've covered a lot with you, it's about a system that no longer works for Americans. Judicial system has been completely wrecked. There's a two tiered system of justice, a complete collapse in institutional trust everywhere. Everything is just being completely pulled out like a rug from underneath. The American citizens. Even the churches that they go to are increasingly, you know, deciding. What I think is, is we used to frame this as basically an information war or, you know, narratives. Right. Or maybe just a disagreement between policy positions between two different sides. I think increasingly what it seems like is that there is a political conflict between two worldviews that are in complete diametric opposition and they're only getting more pure. You have the left side that believes that Trump's a fascist, that doesn't really care about government spending anymore. That's okay with completely subverting the judicial system. They don't care. They just want this. They want the way that things are going to completely stop now. Those people are reducing a number. They are losing their capability to enforce those narratives. It's a question about how much. And then you have people that just want action to fix this stuff. It's not about Socialism versus free market capitalism. That's not what it's about. It's not about Republican policy versus Democrat policy. It's a return to sanity. And if Trump gives them that, I think that they will appreciate it. Now, the part that I'm worried about, and that we've talked about, too, is that every day I'm surprised at how artificial that all of this on the left is, how connected it is, and how willing they are to push it all of the way up to the brink. And so I'm really worried that we have what is basically the proverbial animal backed into a corner, and it's at its most dangerous because we're talking about antifa today, but we're also talking about the government shutdown. Looks like we're going to have another government shutdown. I would love to cover a shutdown government daily for the next three years. I would love it. And Americans would love it as well. Believe it or not, Americans actually want the government shut down if it would get them caps and spending or cuts. And I've said this over and over again, and everybody fricking ignores me. Americans are done. They don't care if the government shut down. The opinions have completely changed on this. And what do you have? You have basically Soros types. I don't know who or how or what, you know, taxpayer leverage they're using, but they're funding these violent protests, are funding and further funding these organizations. They're probably funding organizations that also enforce their echo chambers. I think that that's what's happening on Reddit. It's probably what's happening on places like Wikipedia. I think it could probably be safely assumed at this point. And now they're also apparently funding groups that are calling for the government to be shut down. That's right. The Democrats apparently want to do that this time, which is why, I guess, that they made unreasonable requests and said, it's our way or the highway. There was just an article, I forget where I saw it, but that OSF has apparently donated as much as almost $8 million to a group indivisible that is now out there actually rallying Democrats to call their elected leaders and tell them to shut the government down. And so I don't know what happens. You know, Trump might have a plan, the Democrats might have a plan. But it looks like tonight we're going into a government shutdown territory, and Americans are fed up. They're angry with the level of waste, fraud and abuse. They think that our spending problems are the problem caused by legislators it's not taxpayers unwillingness to see cuts. Only 23% of them say that. Almost 70% say it's because basically our elected leaders are not doing their jobs. And, you know, people talk about the blame game. And yes, Republicans and Trump combined will bear more blame than Democrats. But here's the thing. Americans want this shut down. So that's a good thing. You want to be blamed for this? Pull the plug, shut it down. Take an ax to these people. You know, let's balance the budget on the backs of 800,000, largely people that are bought into the establishment. And I'm sorry, like, I feel bad for the people that are good that it will truly affect, but this is not the same world as it was, you know, back in 28, 2018, 2013. People I don't think are going to be affected as deeply by looking at TikTok videos of park rangers who are crying about not being able to pay rent. I'm sorry. It's just a different world. We're talking about, like, literally, there is no future for these children. I don't have to rant about how bad it is with the mental health problems, with the relationship problems, the inability of people to buy houses, the inability of them to feel confident that there will be a job market. It has to change. It has to change fast. The H1B thing that Trump did, that's probably going to be a jobs, you know, influence. That was very popular. That was incredibly popular. Finding the H1BS. Let's go farther. Let's go more. 2 million deportations. I was joking with you on text. You know, 400,000 deportations. 1.6 million self deportations. And what did we see? Almost overnight, the number one beer in America is no longer Modelo. It's actually Michelob Ultra. And so elections have consequences. And I think these are good consequences. These are the kinds of things that will make it better for Americans. They should not stop. And you know as well as I know that Trump is probably getting calls from Republican lawmakers day in and day out that are like, what are you doing? Do you really need to do this? You know, my donors are screaming, they don't want this. This is not the way things should be. Nobody's out there basically fighting for the American voter, except for, I mean, you know, you, the network of independent pundits who cover this stuff. It's. There is no K Street in Capitol Hill for the American citizen. There just isn't. These people are highly isolated, living in a carefully constructed sphere of, you know, bubble of Basically cherry picked, you know, things that make them feel good about their job they're doing. I think, I think a lot of these people are good people. But, you know, Alex said it before. The left has a catch, a casting couch to draft into service. Its absolute most insane. The right, its whole system is set up basically still to maintain the status quo. And that's because all of the money on the right wants to maintain the status quo. That's just the way it is. The Ken Griffins of the world, the fort, you know, the foundations, like all of these people, apparently the Koch money, want things to stay the same because you could see it, they bring RFK in front of Congress and what do you see? You see like Republicans who are backed by pharma grilling him. That's what you see. And it's just completely asymmetrical. And so I would love to see the Republicans actually be on the battlefield of these competing worldviews. There are a few that are, but I think universally it can be said, you can correct me if I'm wrong, that they are absent without leave.

[A]

Yeah, no, I think, I think there's no doubt. That's why I asked Alex about the gap here. Hang on for one second. I want to go. Two things. Well, I gotcha. Bill Maher said the other night in a show and he says he just wants to go back to what he called the old Democratic Party or to just reverse time to go back to what liberals used to think in the world. It was that he accused the progressive left of being too crazy and pushing crazy policies and maybe even the rise in violence. And this guy is one of the, as you know, one of the biggest progressives out there and hammering conservatives all the time. He made two comments. He said Democrats really never come on the show because they're afraid, particularly the Clintons and that ilk. And number two, he just wants to go back to a gentler time when you have when liberal ideology ruled. But it wasn't the crazy you saw today because even he said, I think we're spinning, or he implied we're spinning out of control to something that's going to get very dark and very dangerous very quickly. Your thoughts on that, sir?

[C]

I think they can't. I think the forces that are in control of the left have no intention of allowing that to happen. And every time I see Bill Maher, it's because he says something sane and then the right signal boosts him. And that's like kryptonite to the left. The, the predominant left forces apparently, for whatever reason, want what's happening to continue to happen, even though it's very obviously politically untenable. And that is, I think, the question that needs to be answered. And you can say, well, you know, that's great, Bill, I guess, you know, when was he most popular? Probably back in the 90s. I don't know, I never really watched him. But it's like luxury beliefs, those things. You know, the classic liberalism is great. I mean, I agree with a lot of that. But also, like, some of the more progressive stuff and like, focusing on, you know, the save the world kind of climate stuff. Those are things that are possible. Like when you have a government with a surplus, like when you're not on the cusp of one bad bond, bond vigilante puke away from complete financial insolvency. Now, on the right, the problem is similar, but opposite. It's like, okay, well, on the left, whatever powers that be don't want it to change. On the right, it's the same thing, but it's like, you know, the voters are demanding action and, you know, we're not seeing it, just not. They want things to stay the same there, and it's like lazy.

[A]

We've, yeah, we've urged President Trump a maximalist strategy. Seize the institutions and do it with a sense of urgency. And there are people around him that believe in that policy. Do you think that that's a warning? Do you believe that shows the American voter action in something they would be open to supporting?

[C]

Yeah, you know, like welfare transfer payments for everybody. You know, really big social safety nets. You know, all the climate action, like, these are luxury beliefs. Well, apparently at this point in time, traditional conservatism, like whatever, paleo conservative, free market stuff, is probably also a luxury belief, because even though people are demanding strong action, and I've given a lot of evidence tonight that they are, that I think Trump has a lot of leeway. I mean, they want the plug pulled on the government by, like, 56 to 35. Like, every time we test it now, it's the same thing. Please shut it down. And they say, you know what? It doesn't impact me. 80% of voters say that the government shutdowns have no impact or very little impact to them. And so it's. They don't care. The boy already cried wolf. And so, yeah, I think he absolutely could take strong action. But even though Americans are demanding it, they're not like, like we talked about with the younger voters, they're not sold into necessarily this conservative issue set it's not what Americans need right now. And I assume it's probably what still happens behind closed doors in discussions on Capitol Hill, probably discussions with the same think tanks about pushing the same kind of policies that they were talking about 20 years ago. And it's probably stuff that's still full of a whole lot of globalization and offshoring and, you know, amnesty and all this other stuff like who's paying for the interests of the American, the disaffected American voter right now who again, has no lobbyist at all. And we know all the powerful lobbies, the foreign interests, the major corporations that control trillions and trillions of dollars have no intention of anything at all. And you know, all this is it's all been concentrating wealth. Now it's like a fake economy. Oh, the stock market is doing great. Well, yeah, okay. It's like 10 companies that are built on basically Indian H1B engineers and L ones. It's like so unbelievably fake when I have half of 18 to 29 year olds who say that they don't think that they're going to be able to find a job.

[A]

Mark, where do people go to get your show? You got up and all the information. It's fascinating polling and fascinating analysis. Where do folks go?

[C]

Thanks. We are not funded by the right or left. Any of the political parties we could really use. People support RasmussenReports.com at the very least. Please sign up for free daily newsletter. You can go to Rasmussenpole on Twitter and also YouTube and we're streaming tonight. I think I'm going to go live at 10:30 and hopefully celebrate the shutdown of the government.

[A]

Shut down and do it live. Thank you, sir. Thank you very much, Grace. We ought to put that on our platforms and stream that. So at midnight tonight, at one minute after midnight, it's going to shut down. Runs out of money at midnight. Russ Vogt has a plan. Now there's a rumor, so Forbes has it, Reuters has it, that there's 100,000 government employees that have already tendered their resignation. But they keep saying it's going to happen that has not been accepted or has not been approved. I think the logic there is folks are thinking, hey, if I get the deal, I've got either my retirement, pension, whatever it is, my benefits, if I go out today in this fiscal year and not wait to what's going to happen on the other side, I can tell you what's going to happen the other side. Russ Vote has a very aggressive plan. He sent a memo out the media has gotten part of it. I think it's actually even more aggressive than that. Russ Vogt thinks that he can start to have the way he interprets it and the lawyers interpret it, they can start doing mass layoffs or rifts reduction in force and do them immediately and break down this thing of essential I mean, I think in the war room, engine room, Arizona division sent the thing we talk about government shutdown. It actually technically is very, very few people between essentials and non essentials, although I might add, they are out of cash. So the folks that show up to work are not getting paid, right? There's no cash to pay them and they're not going to get paid. So and there's no off ramp for this. There's no off ramp for this because I think what Mark Mitchell just said is what we absolutely believe. The American people are kind of thirsting for this. They want to see some action taken. They want to see the meat acts taken to a bloated administrative state. You want to deconstruct it, deconstruct it quickly. Toss the keys to Russ vote. He's got a plan. 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You've seen them campaign on problems only to come into office and not solve those problems, leading the American people to think, what is the government good for? And then when you have somebody campaigning on, nothing works. We got to blow it all up. You shouldn't be surprised when you have an American public that's cheering that on or that at least looks at both parties and says, I'm not going to blame one of you. I'm going to blame both of you.

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There's yes, I agree with what you're saying, but this entire institution revolves around leverage now more than ever because the Congress doesn't work like it did in the 1970s or 1980s or before that, where you'd get a cross section of lawmakers who think something should be taken care of and they work together, they get it done, and that's that. That's not the way Congress works anymore. There are a series of leverage points, either natural or self created throughout the year, and lawmakers take advantage of them. And by the way, J.D. vance is not the only one who's been a phony on this issue. I mean, Republicans are now saying, let's negotiate with the government opened. They caused a shutdown in 2013 to repeal Obamacare. They caused a shutdown in 2018 into 2019 for the border wall when Donald Trump was president, by the way. So no one is intellectually honest on this. And I'll just say this now because I think you're going to ask this in a second. There is zero chance, Zero, count that. Zero. That there is going to be a deal between now and midnight to keep the government open. Not going to happen. The government is going to shut down in a few hours. There is. The House isn't even here. So absent Chuck Schumer having some sort of revelation in the next couple hours that he wants to abandon all of his demands and pass a clean government funding bill that the House has already passed. This is not going to be averted, this government shutdown.

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It's easy, yeah.

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To play a clip of JD Vance and talk about Republicans who wanted to shut down the government before. You could also easily play clips of Democrats saying, let's just keep the government open. What's the deal? We don't want to negotiate.

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That was my point in talking about this today. I mean, people look at Washington and they think this was place is a. Is a hot mess. Why, why bother even getting involved in it? Because they don't actually want to work together.

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Well, I think hopefully the lesson that we will learn at the end of this is that the only thing that's sort of consistent throughout here is that nobody ever gets anything out of a government shutdown. I think both sides need to recognize this is not a tool for getting any type of legislative outcome. It's just not. Now, it may be a tool for messaging and it seems like that's what Democrats are probably more likely to do. They want to talk about the issues that are important to them. But what I would tell you, my experience having been through three of these, is that whatever the subject matter that you're talking about tends to fall to the background once you're actually in a government shutdown. The government shutdown becomes the story. Once, once you actually get there and imagine they're going to learn that lesson the same way we learned it in 2013.

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We learned.

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Brendan, who's the comms guy for Ryan, 2013 and 2018. Aren't those dates interesting? In the midterm that followed 2013, we won the government shutdown over the Obamacare thing. Turned out to be it Got people focused, it got motivation. We won. And hey, after 18, it went into early 19 with President Trump. And then guess what, we picked up net 12 seats in 2020. This is why President Trump, you could tell President Trump won the election in 2020. By the way, Seagal Chadda in Nevada right now is going through a massive investigation out there with the culinary union. Everybody, hey, you better stand by for some heavy role. She's a tough hombre. She doesn't back down. And Main Justice, Main justice, hello, Main justice leaked this on her. That was a, that was a top secret memorandum and what they were working on to get the teams, they gave it to Reuters. The Reuters had the memo read the Reuters story. Mo and Grace make sure everybody in the chats get it and let's put it out, read it. It is so detailed. You know why it's so detailed? They got the goods. But hey, look at what she's doing, bringing the FBI in. All of it. My point is 13 and 18 work for us. This is going to work if Russ Vote is empowered to do his job. Deconstruction, administration, state and these people are going to lose it. They only woke up to the fact. And of course, Jake Sherman, he knows Capitol Hill better and he's absolutely correct. It's all leverage points now. You don't have the old day at Tip o' Neill going out and get a drink and let's cut some backroom deal. It doesn't work like that anymore. It's leverage and it's smash mouth leverage. They do it when they got it, we do it when we got it. And nobody can play that game better than Donald Trump. This is why tonight he's absolutely correct. It's been obvious for a while there wasn't going to be any deal. I think the Democrats just woke up to the peril they're in now. You got this rumor of 100,000 resignations. That's because there's certain government workers, I think they've looked at the thing and said, hey, I better get out. This fiscal year that ends at midnight. So then Trump and Russ vote and these guys can't screw with me. So I'm going to get out of here. Hey, you know we have, remember you're talking a hundred thousand today. And I think Russ Votes got some pretty big plans. Remember Russ votes about rescissions, pocket rescissions, impoundment on the money side, but is also the personnel side. And personnel is not the driver of the huge cost. That's programmatically right where we're spending money. But if you just get the government at a more of the, you know, in your business all the time, the way you do that is personnel. So Russ votes going to have a plan, folks. There's going to be a firestorm tomorrow. Liberal media is going to completely melt down because I realize Trump, Trump is in a stage of his presidency and I did say day. I thought he looked tired and I thought he looked very tired at the yesterday. I thought he looked very tired today at the and the audience picked it up. You saw the low energy on something so important. I thought he was also tired in the, in the, in the drug pricing. And think about that. Everything he's doing is monumental and epic and at a scale that's never been done before, including what's going to happen in begin to happen in Portland starting tonight or over the next 24 to 48 hours, you know, bringing eternal peace to the Middle East. He says being the chairman of what the board of peace, trying to bring that mess together with all those people that have been fighting each other for thousands of years, that ain't easy. What he did in the military today. And I thought his speech, the buried lead there, I didn't think it was that buried is we're here to defend the United States of America and we're going to defend the United States of America, whether it's inside the borders here or whether it's outside the borders. So I thought it was very moving what he had to say. But tonight at midnight, of course, Russ Fot's got a plan. We're going to cover this wall to wall. But this is what I think we all voted for and this is what we worked those years. This shouldn't come as a surprise. I mean, Russ Vogt would talk about this in 2021 as he was standing up CRA center for renewing America. When I went to all the conferences is one of the things that we talked about all the time. He planned for it, he put together on this show. We broke it as an exclusive that time. I think it was in 22. He put together his budget. Right. How you get to a balanced budget, I think in five years. A big part of that was deconstructing the administrative state. And you're going to see some of that tonight. And President Trump, as I said, he's in a phase of his presidency. He's just going to do it and everybody's got to catch up. I don't think he's waiting for staff anymore. I don't think he's waiting for the cabinet positions. He knows what he wants to do. He knows what he has to do to save the country. He doing it. And hey guys, catch up. And I think you're seeing that more and more each day and I think you're going to see it tonight. And these guys right now, they only were aware that President Trump held the cards and was going to do this very late. And Schumer and those guys have kind of now panicked. Remember before back in, was it March or April? They cut a deal and they got eviscerated by the left. This gap is getting broader. Part of it is because you saw Vanity Fair, they think they're going to win big. I mean, they're up 20 points on Cuomo and Adams getting out of the race has had no change really on the margins at all. Sliwa getting out of the race, not going to make a difference. The mandami, the establishment in New York City is bending a knee to this guy. So they deserve everything they get because they're bending a knee to this guy and accepting it. Trevor Comstock, Today's Make America Healthy again as President Trump takes on Pfizer, our favorite drug company since the 3500. The war room posse spent so much of their time working with Naomi Wolf and Amy Kelly over at the Daily Cloud to come up with the Pfizer papers, volumes one and two, which are the backbone of a lot of things they're working on about the vaccines. You guys, I'm getting nothing but rave reviews from people for all of your products. Why don't you walk them through us? Walk us through them, sir.

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Great to see you, Steve. So I know I've come on quite a bit lately to talk about some of our newest product releases, which is the Tyle moisturizer and the creatine. Today, I definitely wanted to touch a little bit more on our flagship products, which is the 100 grass fed beef liver, because we still get emails just people asking more about it and people always just curious to learn more. But for those who don't know, what's really amazing about beef liver is it's arguably one of the best sources of highly bioavailable nutrients, including things like vitamins, minerals, coenzymes, amino acids as well as peptides. So with that you get a wide array of vitamins and nutrients such as iron, zinc, vitamin A, B12, CoQ10, folate. List does go on and on quite a bit, but these will all do things like help promote healthy skin, hair, heart, immune system, as well as Brain function. And then aside from that, it also contains many other critical vitamins and minerals that most people are deficient in. So things like choline, K2, selenium, as well as copper. And then of course, if you go through a lot of our reviews, people just rave about the energy boost that they get after taking the beef liver. So that's always a big plus. And you know, with any of our products, we really tried to make up for the lack of nutrients that are provided in the modern diet. So the beef liver, like I just mentioned, has a ton of vital nutrients which are amazing for you. And then of course we have our other products like the collagen, the immunity, the creatine, as I had mentioned.

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Hang on a second. In a modern world, you go in these grocery stores, you got the array of different food you have, or some people say food product you've got is unlimited. How can you say in the modern diet, what do you say? Nutrients? We don't, you're saying in the modern diet we have less nutrients with all this advanced food and exotic food and health food that are in like your typical, you know, you know, fresh market, sir.

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Yeah, definitely. So, I mean, there's a couple angles to that, to that question, but first and foremost, obviously processed foods don't have much nutrients at all. And unfortunately a large portion of America still eats a ton of processed foods, even like deli meat, for, for that matter can be considered as processed. But because everything, especially in a capitalistic society, is so mass produced, you still see a lot of companies, whether it's the food products or supplement companies, cutting corners if you will, and just making products, whether it's food or supplements, as cheap as possible and adding a ton of preservatives to extend the shelf life. So again, whether it's food or in supplements, you're going to find a lot of unnatural ingredients. And at least for us, like I mentioned, we really do want to focus on providing like the best bang for your buck in terms of giving you like a product like a beef liver that just has a ton of nutrients that modern diets do lack. But also on top of that, it's amazing because for example, I was at my parents house the other day and I was looking at their bottle of multivitamin that they had from Costco and even that had a ton of preservatives that had seed oils in it, which you find a lot of food products as well, which is pretty unbelievable. So for us, I already knew that for a long time when it comes to supplements, that they still contain a ton of junk seed oils, food dyes, which RFK is working on banning and has banned a few already, and other artificial ingredients. But we strayed away from all that. So we just give you the raw natural ingredients again, whether it's the beef liver, the creatine, the immunity product, the magnesium with vitamin D, et cetera. So again, we're just trying to give you the most authentic products as possible at a reasonable price. That's kind of our whole mission. And then of course, lastly, I always like to mention too that a lot of these companies, whether it's the food companies or the supplement companies, outsource a lot of their production overseas, usually to China. And the quality control is like very, very questionable. So in that regard, we always promise to make sure that everything's produced right here in the usa. And also on top of that, all of our products are third party lab tested. So we test for things like heavy metals, microbes, bacteria, et cetera. A lot of supplement companies don't do that because it costs us a lot of money to do that to perform these tests. But we test every lot so we can ensure that we really are giving you the highest quality products out there.

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Let me ask you a dumb question. Why do I feel that I get a energy boost? You don't really promote it. But why, when I take the grass fed beef liver, why do I feel like I get an energy boost when I take that?

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Yeah, it's a great question. So number one, it's due to its dense nutrient profile. So as I kind of mentioned in the beginning, beef liver in general just has a ton of vitamins and minerals, amino acids, the peptides. So you're already getting that. But what's amazing about it is because it is 100% natural, your body is much better to absorb and retain these nutrients as opposed to flushing them out. So that's why when you take something synthetic, like a multivitamin or any synthetic vitamin for that matter, your body usually just flushes as it flushes it out. Whereas with the beef liver, you actually are retaining these nutrients, which leads to the energy boost which people are very fond of. If you go to our reviews, people are always talking about that. So. So I love it, I take it every day too. And I love the energy boost that comes with it.

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I want to know people, I want to send people to the website. I want them to read the reviews. I think you and Taj and Meriwether Farms, you go and see the reviews. And from people that watch the War Room kind of the colleagues of the folks. And they get a sense that, hey, it's not Trevor or Steve or Taj or Kathryn that's pitching this. You go to the site, you see people that have tried the product and love it and they give them their own reviews. So where do people go to get all the information about the products, number one, and then to see what folks think about them?

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Yeah, 100%. So you can go to sacredhumanhealth.com always make sure to use code war room for 10% off any of our products. If you do subscribe, you're locked into the 10% discount for life until you cancel. If you have any questions, just hit the contact us button. We'll get back to you as soon as we can, usually within a couple hours. And then also if you click on reviews, you can sift through what a lot of the recent folks have to say about all of our different products. And then, of course, if you click on the products at Sacred Human Health, all the information around the products will be there as well for you to learn more about.

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Sir, thank you so much. Trevor Comstock, founder, CEO of Sacred Human Health.

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Thanks, Steve.

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I can tell you if you think things have been intense the last couple of weeks, I think the intensity level a couple of things. Number one, the movement to shut down these terrorist groups and these groups that are getting in the way of federal officials implementing the executive orders and the policies of President Trump on deportation of illegal alien invaders. I think as President Trump says, enough games. We're not playing games anymore. He also has sent troops into Chicago for law and order. I think everybody in D.C. will tell you right off the bat that he's made D.C. a totally, a totally different environment, particularly up around Capitol Hill, Union Station, other parts of the city which had gotten started to get pretty lawless. I think we've seen a huge change. And so that's number one. Number two, the media is going to be completely obsessed. What happens at midnight tonight. President Trump and the team, I think they're handling it perfectly. They're getting ready. 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