WarRoom Battleground EP 902: Victory In Texas Against DEI; The Fight To Protect Teens And Children Online

Summary

Podcast Summary: Bannon’s War Room Battleground EP 902

Title: Victory In Texas Against DEI; The Fight To Protect Teens And Children Online
Date: December 3, 2025
Host: Steve Bannon
Guests: Brian Harrison, Taj Gill, Joe Allen

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Episode Overview

This episode of Bannon’s War Room Battleground focused on three main themes:

1. A “historic” grassroots win against DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) policies in Texas.
2. Geopolitical commentary on Russia, Ukraine, and U.S./European policy.
3. Ongoing legislative battles to protect children and teens online, centering on federal efforts such as COSA (Kids Online Safety Act) and recent hearings on Capitol Hill.

The episode features candid, forceful conversations with activists and experts, interlaced with characteristic urgency about the stakes for American values, sovereignty, and civic responsibility.

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1. Texas’ Grassroots Victory Against DEI

Guest: Brian Harrison (Texas State Representative)
Segments: [01:59]–[14:13]

Key Discussion Points

• DEI Program Dismantled: Texas ended its largest DEI program, the HUBs (Historically Underutilized Businesses) initiative, under public pressure from conservative grassroots (“the posse”).
• Scope of DEI Mandates:
  • State contracts required fixed percentages (21–33%) to be awarded based on race or gender.
  • These mandates labeled as “facially unconstitutional.”
• How the Win Happened:
  • Traditional bills to end DEI failed in the Texas legislature.
  • Victory credited to direct public pressure, exposure via conservative media (including War Room), and mobilizing social media followers (dubbed “liberty bots”).
• Impact:
  • The defeat of the HUBs program is described as “the single biggest victory against discriminatory DEI in Texas history.”
  • Other wins cited: removal of the Texas A&M president over DEI/transgender issues, and ending DMV’s policy of issuing vehicle registrations to illegal aliens.

Quote:
“We delivered the single biggest defeat against DEI. The biggest victory for people against discriminatory DEI in Texas history.”
— Brian Harrison ([03:24])

Political Class Frustration

• Disconnect with Voters: Despite Texas’ reputation as a red state, Harrison claims its political class functions like Democrats under a shroud of secrecy.
• Transparency: “Transparency is like kryptonite in the liberal Austin swamp.” ([05:26])
• Need for Public Pressure: Every conservative victory “only happened because they were shamed and forced at the point of public humiliation into doing the right thing.”

On Democrat Walkouts (Quorum Break)

• No Consequences: After Democrat lawmakers broke quorum to block redistricting, no penalties were enforced (no seats vacated, no parking spots lost, etc.).
• Comparison to Other States: Democrats elsewhere “play smash mouth”; Texas Republicans do not hold them accountable, which sets a poor precedent for national GOP strategy.

Quote:
“I’m sick and tired of Democrats and leftists fighting harder for the future of our state and nation than so-called Republicans.”
— Brian Harrison ([09:44])

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2. Geopolitics: Russia, Ukraine, and the West

Guests: Steve Bannon, Taj Gill
Segments: [14:13]–[25:09]

Key Updates

• Putin’s Warning: Quoting Reuters, Bannon reads Putin’s latest threat: “If Europe suddenly wants to start a war with us and starts it... it would end so swiftly for Europe that Russia would have no one left to negotiate with.” ([14:39])
• Ukraine Situation:
  • Russia is “grinding down” Ukraine in a prolonged battle of attrition.
  • Ukraine is running out of manpower—sending both teenagers and 65-year-olds to the front.
  • Every potential for peace is allegedly sabotaged, often to keep “the money spigot” open for Western aid.
• European Weakness:
  • Europe is described as having lost its identity and being incapable of withstanding Russian aggression without U.S. support.
  • Notable cultural anxiety: “Europe is now an extension of Arabia and an extension of North Africa… The whole European lineage is gone.”
    — Taj Gill ([19:51])

U.S. Policy and Burden

• Skepticism of U.S. Guarantees: Bannon strongly opposes security and sovereignty guarantees for Ukraine, especially given corruption concerns:
  “We cannot be giving sovereignty guarantees to a bunch of crooks. That's what they are. Yermak’s one of the great crooks out there, and Zelensky's a crook.” ([24:19])

Notable Moment:

Bannon’s historic perspective:
“For 5,000 years, they've been pounding each other. Pounding each other. ... Nobody would ever get involved in the war. In World War II, in the Bloodlands, that was for the Russians and the Germans to pound it out... We cannot be giving sovereignty guarantees to a bunch of crooks.” ([24:25])

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3. The Fight to Protect Children Online: AI, COSA, and Accountability

Guest: Joe Allen
Segments: [33:50]–[50:52]

Key Discussion Points

• Big Win in Congress:

  • Attempt to include an “AI amnesty” moratorium in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) defeated thanks to public blowback and activism.
  • Room to remain vigilant as “trade-offs” led to removal of protections like the GAIN Act (advanced AI chip export controls).
  • Emphasis on continued grassroots action ("put your shoulder to the wheel").

• State vs. Federal Approaches:

  • Congress is deadlocked on how to regulate online risks for children, especially regarding liability for tech platforms.
  • COSA (Kids Online Safety Act) criticized as watered down: companies obliged only to have generic “reasonable policies” in place, not to prevent actual harm.
  • Resisting federal “preemption” seen as wise, allowing states to set meaningful standards.

• Online Threats to Children:

  • AI bots and platform algorithms can now autonomously prey on children, not just expose them to human predators.
  • Parent advocacy described as critical but lacking federal political traction.
  • Emotional testimony from bereaved parents at hearings; frustration that their stories are overshadowed by industry voices.

Quote:
“Doing nothing is not even remotely close to due diligence. ... If you went to a town that was completely laissez faire and anything goes, and there’s literally no authority who can step in and say, okay, no, this is predation, it has to stop... Nobody wants that in America.”
— Joe Allen ([44:59])

• Bannon’s Perspective:
  • The rapid evolution of AI-powered agents and bots presents unprecedented dangers:
    “This whole thing about [AI] agentic activity, these bots, is so scary. And that has to be dealt with.” ([42:40])
  • Concern that the “regular order” of policymaking is too slow for technological risk.

Legislative Mood and Momentum

• Committee hearings are described as “arguing over the fine details” while parents wait in frustration; “the real power is in the hands of the people who are making the choices.” ([48:36])
• Positive affirmation that vigilant activism can effect change, but the fight is far from over.

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• “Transparency is like kryptonite in the liberal Austin swamp.”
  — Brian Harrison ([05:26])
• “Zero consequences for the Democrats who broke quorum.”
  — Brian Harrison ([08:48])
• “Europe is now an extension of Arabia and an extension of North Africa... The whole European lineage is gone.”
  — Taj Gill ([19:51])
• “We cannot be giving sovereignty guarantees to a bunch of crooks. That's what they are. Yermak’s one of the great crooks out there, and Zelensky's a crook.”
  — Steve Bannon ([24:19])
• “Doing nothing is not even remotely close to due diligence.”
  — Joe Allen ([44:59])

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Important Timestamps

• [01:59]–[14:13]
  Texas DEI battle and legislative stalemates; conservative grassroots strategies.
• [14:13]–[25:09]
  Ukraine/Russia commentary, the state of Europe, U.S. foreign policy cynicism.
• [33:50]–[50:52]
  AI and child online safety; Congressional wrangling over COSA; risks of AI bots; parent advocacy.
• [05:26], [09:44], [19:51], [24:19], [44:59]
  Key quotes with timestamps.

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Tone & Style

The episode was urgent, blunt, and combative, marked by a sense of embattled activism. The speakers thrived on mobilizing listeners, calling for direct civic engagement, transparency, and holding both political allies and opponents accountable. The original language was vivid, evocative, and confrontational, especially concerning perceived threats from within (state politics, tech companies) and abroad (Russia, European decline).

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For First-Time Listeners

This summary guides you through the most essential topics and arguments of the episode. If you want a sense of the War Room’s priorities—anti-DEI activism, skepticism of U.S. interventions, aggressive protection of children online, and disdain for establishment politics—this episode is a showcase. The podcast’s original tone is maintained: direct, polemical, and focused on “action, action, action.”

Transcript

[Steve Bannon]

This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. I got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big lie? MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

[Joe Allen]

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

[Steve Bannon]

FOREIGN. YEAR of our Lord 2025. Thank you for sticking around for the early evening edition of THE War Room. Breaking news out of Moscow. Reuters Putin warns Europe, if you want war, then Russia will defeat you. President Vladimir Putin warned European powers on Tuesday that if they started a war with Russia, then Moscow was ready to fight and that the defeat of European powers would be so absolute that there would be no one left to even negotiate a peace deal. End quote. We're going to get back to this in a moment. Our negotiators, Jared and Kushner and Wyckoff are over there. We go right there over in Moscow right now. I want to turn to Texas, though, Brian Harrison. Brian, after all the hard work of the grassroots and folks like yourselves down there, we're starting to see some wins. We had a big win today. What do you got for us?

[Brian Harrison]

This is a huge win and one of just a long string of huge conservative, massive conservative victories the grassroots patriots very much including the posse, have forced to change. I've got some breaking news down here. Steve. I don't know how many times I've been on your show this year talking about how Texas, despite the fact that we have this reputation for being a bold conservative Republican MAGA state, our government is actually very blue, even though the Texas voters are very red. Well, the Texas government has been one of, if not the biggest funders. As crazy as this sounds, a DEI perhaps in all of the country. And in fact, just one program, the biggest DEI program in Texas is called our Hubs program, Historically Underutilized Businesses. And what it is is the comptroller of the state of Texas has been requiring every single state agency when they issue any kind of contract to use minimum DEI criteria here. And I'll give you just a couple examples. For every construction contract in Texas, a minimum of 21% had to be awarded on the basis of race or gender for any special trade construction contracts 33% must be awarded on the base of race and gender for every professional services contract. 24% on the basis of race and gender. Facially unconstitutional. I referred the comptroller to the Trump Department of Justice two months ago exposed this for the past several months have talked about it here with you on War Room alerted the posse. Well guys, I, I think we put the fear of God into the comptroller, into the governor in Texas and as of today, that program has effectively been ended. So I've got some very good historic news. The biggest DEI program in the state of Texas. The posse, hardworking patriotic Texans and Americans all across the country forced a massive defeat against the liberal establishment Austin Uniparty. And now let me make no mistake about this. There is zero chance this would ever have happened through the normal legislative process. Every bill I filed for to end these DEI programs in Texas died an unceremonial death. Weren't even allowed to be debated. But just by going on social media, going on War Room, going on media and going straight to the people over the heads of the Texas establishment, we delivered the single biggest defeat against dei. The biggest victory for people against discriminatory DEI in Texas history. And just to make it clear, at risk of putting too fine a point on it, guys, our social media, I call them the liberty bots, the people that follow me on X. Guys, we have done more for conservatism just in the past few months. And the governor, Lieutenant Governor, entire Texas House, entire Texas Senate combined just the last few months. We forced out the leftist president of Texas A and M who was pushing DEI and transgender indoctrination. We forced the Texas DMV to stop issuing vehicle registrations to illegal aliens. I announced that on your shows too, Steve. And then here today, we've killed the. The single biggest DEI program in the Texas government. And I just want to come on and say thank you to everybody who had a hand in that.

[Steve Bannon]

But Brian, here's the question. Why is it that that the voters don't want this and they're adamant about it. Guys like you've been fighting. But the political class in Texas that is voted into office and empowered right by these same voters. Why? What's the logic? Why do they make it so difficult? Why do they. They're adamant about not ending all these programs unless absolutely humil embarrassed, forced to a forcing function, something like this. What is the mentality that makes him just said that we don't care what our voters want, sir.

[Brian Harrison]

Yeah, no, absolutely. I say this all the time. Transparency is like kryptonite in the liberal Austin swamp. And I'll say this too. I would actually think, Steve, it's like the biggest form of voter fraud. Okay? Voters gave Republicans the governor's mansion, Lieutenant governor's office, massive majorities in the Texas House, the Texas Senate. Republicans have every senate single statewide office in the state of Texas. But you know what happens? These so called Republicans, many of them are actually Democrats. They just know they can't get elected if they were honest. They campaign for office saying, vote for me. I'll stand up to those radical Democrats who are going to indoctrinate the next generations. Vote for me. I'll fight the radical leftists who are going to bankrupt the future of our state and our country. But the second they get elected and they go under that corrupt pink dome down in Austin, they vote to put those very Democrats in power and then they collude with them to pass a Marxist leftist progressive agenda. And they do it all under the guise the shroud of secrecy. And that's why even though it's the most hated Twitter feed in the state of Texas, it has now become the most powerful Twitter feed for those of you who follow me on X. Because we are delivering more and doing more for the voters of Texas than the entire Austin establishment combined. And make no mistake about this, every single one of these conservative victories only happened because they were shamed and forced at the point of public humiliation into doing the right thing. It shouldn't be this hard. You know, when I called for the president of Texas A and M to be fired, this former Barack Obama official who was this leftist DEI indoctrinated, not one other Republican in the Texas government joined me in that fight. But going on war room, the posse patriots across the state and the country, we delivered. And it shouldn't be this hard. But you know what? If this is what it takes to preserve Texas and therefore preserve America and therefore the world, because as you know, Steve, we're in a fight for nothing less than the future of Western civilization and Texas and is on a front line. We are a battleground state. We're the line in the sand for the future of liberty. It shouldn't be this hard. I shouldn't have to work with you and the posse and pressure and shame the elected Republican establishment in Texas into doing the right thing for voters, into doing the right thing for the future. But you know what, Steve? If that's what it takes, if it's that amount of work and that amount of effort if we can do our part to preserve the blessings of liberty and freedom and prosperity for my kids, your kids, grandkids and the next generation of Texans and Americans. You know what, Steve? It shouldn't be this hard, but it is. But you know what? It's worth it. And we're making a difference.

[Steve Bannon]

You know, talk about making a difference. We just had a report from the Heritage Action guys and of course we had turning point on this morning about a rally. This is all about Indiana, about the 90 versus the 8 1. The house just voted it out the first reading and is going to have to go through a couple more. But they said today they had seven hours of act Democratic activists of people around the nation coming in and just and they all referred back to Texas. Texas was the railhead. And I remember having the meeting with you and Glenn story down there. It seems like decades ago but it was really back I guess in July when we, when you, when you help lead us and forced the hand of Abbott to come back. Has anybody, they keep using Texas as an example. Has anybody been penalized at all or held accountable for the Democrats leaving and going to Illinois? Remember all the threats that were there and you know the way you stop this to hold people accountable, make sure. Has a parking spot been taken? Has any seniority been taken? Has anybody offices been moved? Has please tell me something happened about that fiasco with the Democrats.

[Brian Harrison]

It's funny you say that. I just pulled out my phone here because I just tweeted out this morning. I did the math, Steve. Okay. It has been 121 days since the radical Marxist leftists abandoned their post and broke WAR to stop our redistricting efforts. And here's the statistics. Okay. Because remember the governor said if any Democrat that doesn't show up at 3 o' clock on Monday, you know their seats are going to be vacated. Our RINO speaker signed arrest warrants. I guess they were ceremonial arrest warrants. Okay. Because here's the, here's the statistics. 121 days since they broke quorum. The number of seats vacated. 0. The number of arrests, 0. The number of chairmanships. Yes. Democrats chair committees in the Texas House. And vice chairmanships. The number of chairmanships and vice chairmanships that have been taken away from the Democrats, zero. The number of fines, even $1 of fines that they will have to pay, zero dollars. The number of them that have had their seniority stripped. Zero. The committees they've been removed from, zero. Their offices defunded zero. You asked the big one, Steve, if we wanted to be serious. Take away their parking spots. Nope. They've all got their parking spots. But don't worry, the Republican House caucus did meet and they did pass one. They did vote to not punish the Democrats. So zero consequences for the Democrats who broke quorum. And as of this morning, if my math is right, that was 121 days ago. Let me tell you this, Steve. We can joke about this, but this, this, there's actually. It's not a laughing matter. And I know you know that I'm sick and tired of Democrats and leftists and Marxists and progressives fighting harder for the future of our state and nation than so called Republicans. And it's embarrassing as hell that nowhere is that more true than in the great state of Texas.

[Steve Bannon]

This is why it's so important. You're right. It's funny when you go through there, how shocking it is. But we need to, we need to revisit that. And here's the reason. You've had California break their constitution. You've got, you've got the folks up in illinois now it's 17 3. I think they're going to take a couple this, my beloved Commonwealth of Virginia, which is 6, 5, because it's kind of evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. They're going to put forward an amendment legislation in our referendum in April to go 10 to 1. The Democrats are on fire and playing smash mouth. And we're up in Indiana fighting. You know, we got Turning Point, we got Heritage Action, we got every, all the tribes that come together. And I mean, it is a throwdown. And you've got these Democrats and the Democrats understand how to use something like Indiana as an example. And I go back in Texas, which they turned into a fiasco. We've let them off the hook. There's no penalty for these guys playing smash mouth. And it has to be. We have to do that. We. And we got to turn to Texas and use that as an example, sir.

[Brian Harrison]

Well, and you always talk about this and Stephen, you're exactly right. Like I said, why are the Democrats always the party fighting as hard as possible for the future? Why aren't the Republicans fighting that hard? And you talk about having a maximalist strategy. You. How many times, Steve, was I on with you here on War Room during the Democrat quorum break, talking about, you know, what we call the, the Harrison proposal play hardball every week. The Democrats walk out, that's one more seat. My question is, why the hell didn't we pass a map that gave Texas five more seats because California probably unconstitutionally, by the way, is about to go and erase the gains from Texas. And by the way, the left is was going to fight the Texas redistricting with every bit as much fervor whether we added five seats or six seats or seven seats or eight seats. So why did we only go for five? The author of the bill said we could have done more than five, we should have done more than five. And by the way, we don't know if they're going to count because we've got these judicial activist judges down here, this three judge federal panel that slapped our maps down so we don't even know how that's going to play out. And as best I can tell, there is no contingency from the governor or the leadership of the Texas House or the Texas Senate to bring us back to draw another map in the event that our maps don't survive judicial scrutiny as far as I'm concerned. But we should be working on another map right now that adds five, six, seven, eight, nine seats. We need to be fighting as hard for the future as the Democrats and we should have passed a map that had more than five seats. I mean, as you know, as razor thin as these margins are, the redistricting battle here in the state of Texas may well be the definitive variable. And whether the United States Congress stays in Republican control and Donald Trump gets an actual four year presidency or whether the last two years are stymied because the US House has fall to the radical leftists like AOC and Hakeem Jeffries, I mean you cannot overstate the stakes. And you know, there's one party, best I can tell, that always knows how high the stakes are and is acting like it. And sadly and embarrassingly enough, far too often it's not the Republican Party. And it's past time for that to be to change. And I want Texas actually to be leading the fight against that.

[Steve Bannon]

Brian where do people go to get to get all your information, sir?

[Brian Harrison]

The most hated, but as it turns out, I guess the most powerful Twitter feed in the state of Texas at Brian E. Harrison Ryan E. Harrison on X. Do your civic duty today. Piss off a rhino. Go follow me on X rioneharrison and see if I'd be remiss if I didn't end here by just saying it one more time. Thank you to the posse. If you posted on social media, if you followed me, if you called the governor, lieutenant governor, the speaker, if you sent an email if you posted on social media to stop DEI to fire the Texas A and M president for the DMV to stop giving vehicle registrations to illegal these victories, big victories would never have happened without you. So thank you from the bottom of my heart and on behalf of 30 million Texans to everybody who participated in delivering these big wins, thank you very much.

[Steve Bannon]

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So Tage Gill, I just want to read a couple of quotes here. I just gave the speake and he said even for Putin this is hard. President Vladimir Putin warned the European powers on Tuesday that if they started a war with Russia, then Moscow was ready to fight and that the defeat of European powers would be so absolute that there would be no one left to even negotiate. With almost four years into the war in Ukraine, the deadliest conflict in Europe Since World War II, Russia has failed to conquer the country, a much smaller neighbor which has been supported by European powers in the United States. Ukraine and European powers have repeatedly warned that if Putin wins the Ukraine war then he would attack a NATO member, a claim which Putin has repeatedly dismissed as nonsense. Asked by a reporter about remarks in the Russian media that Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Zlar Arto had cautioned that Europe was preparing a war against Russia, Putin said that Russia did not want a war with Europe. If this is a quote from Putin, if Europe suddenly wants to start a war with us and starts it, Putin said then it would end so swiftly for Europe that Russia would have no one left to negotiate with. Putin used the Russian word for war. He also suggested that the war in Ukraine was not a full blown war and that Russia was acting in a surgical manner which would not be Repeated in a direct confrontation with European powers today. You had Wyckoff and, and Jared were there. I put it up on, on social media on my Getter account with Putin. It showed the introductory meetings. I just said, hey, finally we're sitting down with the guys who won. They won on the ground without massive U.S. weapons sales or actually given them weapons in many, many occasions, occasions without huge infusions of cash. The Ukrainian people wouldn't, you know, they wouldn't be, they wouldn't be where they are today on the battlefield. The thing would be long over. But they have almost 2 million casualties dead and wounded and the country looks like Dresden in 1945. Somebody's got to become a realist there. And I'm most disturbed by senior personnel. And you should note Marco Rubio was not in Russia today. Just saying it was. Kushner and Wyckoff were there with Putin across the table in any of this loose talk, and it is loose talk about us giving sovereignty guarantees to countries that have guys like Yermak running it. He's now virtually in hiding, if not under arrest or heading to the front. Right, because they now caught him red handed with stealing, they say $100 million, but we know it's billions. So, Taj, you've dedicated a big part of your life to being a patriot and going to serve your country on foreign battlefields. Your assessment of Ukraine, particularly the situation where we're talking about security guarantees and sovereignty. And you saw on Saturday, the president and Homan and the guys finally decided to go into New York City. They went in first, at the very first day's administration. But to have a show of force with ICE now that Mandami, the Ugandan Marxist jihadist, is going to take over. They had an ICE raid. And I mean, it wasn't one of these ones they plan on. It was just kind of ICE guys going down into the, into New York City on a Saturday during the holiday season, during the Christmas season. Right, The Saturday after Thanksgiving. And man, it was a riot. I mean, you had people throwing garbage cans at them. And so it was. These people freaked out. And I got to give a hat tip to the ICE agents for keeping your cool and just getting the job done. But we don't have. This proves we do not have sovereignty on New York City, the global financial capital of the world and the most important city in this country and has been the most important city virtually since the founding of the nation and the revolution. I mean, Philadelphia for a while, Boston for a while, but it was always New York this is hundreds of years has been the most important city in our nation and now we don't control it. Taj Gil, your thoughts and observations.

[Taj Gill]

All right, where do I start? I'll start with Putin. Putin, he's basically crushed the Ukrainian military now since for the last couple years. No matter how much money, how much technology, how much manpower Ukraine throws out of this, Russia just keeps grinding them down. That's a meat grinder. It's a battle of attrition and Ukraine is losing no matter what they do. They're sending 14 year olds to the front lines. They signed something where they can send 65 year old men to the front lines and they still are losing. Russia is just slowly inching forward one day at a time. They're not doing anything big. And now they've developed these new short range ballistic missiles that have conventional warheads on them and there's no way we can shoot them down. There's no way Ukraine can shoot them down. And Europe just wants to keep this fight going and going and going. Every time there's about to be a peace deal or peace negotiations, Zelensky does a crazy stunt. You know, bomb the Russian strategic bomber fleet. They send sea drones into the Russian tankers. They do something to sabotage it. They do not want peace, no matter what. Because if there's peace, the spigot, the money spigot gets turned off. And you talk about ice raids. Europe needs ice raids. Europe needs to close their borders. If Europe wants to fight Russia, maybe they should start recruiting all these Muslim immigrants on the streets. Europe has lost everything. There's no more Europe anymore. Europe is now an extension of Arabia and an extension of North Africa. The whole European lineage is gone. And they can, I don't think there's any way they can beat Russia. Maybe if they use nukes or if they do it real quick, right out the gate. But if not, then it's just going to be a battle of attrition, just like Ukraine and Russia. That's where they live. They live in the meat grinder. They're going to just wear down the European troops.

[Steve Bannon]

This is the tragedy of Ukraine. We said this on the eve of the war three years ago now, almost three and a half, almost four years ago. I guess that it's not about the courage and the valor of the Ukrainian people and their dedication. They know it's a meat grinder. It's one of the reasons the mothers and fathers have worked so hard to keep the young men out of it. It's the reason that now they have 300,000 deserters that they're now searching through the European capital zone.

[Brian Harrison]

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[Steve Bannon]

It is a meat grinder. The Russian way of war, when you go to the bloodlands, is not fancy, right? It's not fancy. They got armor, they got artillery, and they got infantry. And quite frankly, they're kind of indifferent to how much the infantry gets chewed up. The Ukrainians have seen that, and that's what's so amazing about them as a people. But the reality is you're just not going to beat the Russian army. And what's happening here is that more and more Ukraine's. I think the President said the other day, it's 25,000 casualties, 25,000 casualties between both sides. One of the bloodiest years of the war has been this year. It's not reported by the mainstream media. You notice you don't see BBC and msnbc, remember the first six months of this war, every night they were there, you were seeing all kind of footage. They don't show it anymore because Ukrainians are getting pounded. It's time to bring it to a close. But the Russians are going to kind of dictate some terms here because they won on the battlefield. And if you don't believe it, just, they'll keep going. They'll just keep pounding. And like I said, they haven't taken Odessa. Their performance hasn't exactly been, you know, been startling. I don't see. Back in, When I was in the service and in the Pentagon, we had all the concern about the Red army coming across the folded gap, and of course the North German plain. I don't see that happening now with this army. Hell, they couldn't even take parts of Ukraine. I don't see them blowing through Poland and into Germany. But, but the Europeans got to know, they got to defend themselves. The point we can't be giving security guarantees and sovereignty guarantees. And in a part of the world where you have guys like Yermak in these governments and Zelensky making decisions, that's an obligation to the American people. That's an obligation of. Look at these kids, 10 years old today. You know, in seven, eight, nine, 10 years, we could, we could be backing some kind of corrupt Ukrainian government with these guys in Brussels that have basically turned their countries over to the Arabs and to the Muslims, right? And they're our partners. Brussels, 30% Muslim. The Fifth Republic in France is about to fall because of finances. The UK's got nothing. They're going to have a civil war in the uk. Those are supposed to be our partners. They would be giving guarantees. We depend upon. It'll all be the United States. It'll be our blood, our treasure. And that's why it's outrageous. General Patton, General MacArthur, General Eisenhower, Field Marshal Montgomery, everybody said, even as crazy as Winston Churchill got about the Balkans, nobody would ever get involved in the war. In World War II, in the Bloodlands, that was for the Russians and the Germans to pound it out. And trust me, it is the bloodiest battles in world history all took a place in that general area. And the leaders of the American and allied forces kept us out. We cannot be giving sovereignty guarantees to a bunch of crooks. That's what they are. Yermax one of the great crooks out there, and Zelensky's a crook. You're gonna give a gov. You're gonna give a guar to a government like that. So when Marco Rubio says our number one thing down in Miami is to make sure the. The Ukrainian people know there'll never be another war. Are you crazy? For 5,000 years, they've been pounding each other. Pounding each other. Anyway, I know I had you on here. I wanted to talk about that, but I really had you on here to talk about your great coffee. You used to be a gunman. Now you're. Now you're a barista. So tell me about your coffee. Where do people go?

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[Steve Bannon]

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[Steve Bannon]

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[Unknown Congressional Witness]

Young people, I want to thank the witnesses, but the panel is missing a parent. There are many here today who could have testified. You're missing a young person. There are other young people here who could have testified. You're missing a psychologist or a pediatrician and one of the many whistleblowers, former tech company employees, to testify on the insidious schemes to addict and exploit children, even as tech company executives knew of the harm to kids.

[Steve Bannon]

So, Joe, you've been waiting for a while. You're in the. You're actually in the war room. I'm going to toss it to you. I want you to talk about first. We had a big victory today and I want the war and posse still to go to Article 3, et cetera. And then I want you to talk about your experience last night and then what you saw at this committee meeting today. Sir, the floor is yours.

[Joe Allen]

Well, Steve, definitely big cause to celebrate, big win with the ndaa. The moratorium language will not be in there. I think you are absolutely correct to keep the posse vigilant. There are a number of other avenues that this could creep back in. And Steve Scalise has expressed his intent to ensure that federal preemption will be the path for him and his cohort. But we see here that the war room posse's voices are heard. All of the congressmen and congresswomen who stood up sent the letter to the all signed the letter in protest of the NDAA language. I think the collective action has shown that people do make a difference. You put your shoulder to the wheel, real change can happen, but it comes with trade offs. And one of the trade offs, Steve, with the NDAA is the GAIN Act. The GAIN act is most likely then going to be removed. That would have protected U.S. interests in chips exports. It would have given U.S. companies first priority in any sort of advanced, specifically artificial intelligence based processing units. It would appear that people like Jensen, Huang, Nvidia, they have gotten their way and at least at the moment will be free to export with the exception of China. But that is still up in the air. So it comes with trade offs. That being said, I am super stoked and super proud of the war room posse and everyone else across the aisle included who stood up and said that states have the right to determine their own future. And I foresee the federalist approach to this being the one that wins out. Something on Capitol Hill today shows us that the process of trying to create a federal framework is fraught for a number of reasons. The House met today for a hearing, the Commerce Committee met for a hearing to discuss the Kids Online Safety act and a number of other, in fact 19 bills intended to ensure that children are not exposed to any kind of harmful online content. At least if it's, if it's within control of the tech companies. It's still up in the air. You remember that COSA was introduced in 2022, so it's been floundering for years. It's still floundering. And as we heard from some of the people who were testifying in the representatives who were speaking on it, there is a huge argument about whether or not the liability should fall on the companies themselves. So we heard a lot last night from Shelby Knox of Parents Together and others about the, the duty of care clause in cosa, which would have put the pressure on social media platforms, Google, any kind of search engine, to ensure that if their platform is kind of like section 230, if their platform knowingly provided the access to children for predators, or in the case of artificial intelligence intelligence knowingly had chatbots who could for instance, persuade children into suicide, then the liability would have fallen on the companies. In the new defanged legislation, it basically it dictates that the companies have to have reasonable policies and procedures in place to protect against violence, drugs being distributed to children and other sorts of financial fraud and sexual exploitation. But it doesn't really put, it doesn't leave room for, for true accountability for true liability on the companies. The companies simply have to have the policies in place. It's then determined afterwards, even if harm is done, as in the case of the suicide, it's then determined whether or not the company simply had the policy. It's not the harm itself. It's being framed as a kind of free speech issue. And I've heard from a number of conservatives, libertarian types and others that if you put the liability on these tech companies, then you constrain the speech of citizens. But it's interesting, Steve, the main arguments for this beginning in 2022 were coming from groups like the gay rights and advocacy groups who claimed that such policies, if dictated by Republicans, would mean that in essence people would not be able to speak to children about homosexual acts. So it's not, in my opinion, I think that wherever this goes, if it ends in a place anywhere close to where we are right now, where these platforms provide access to children for predators to exploit them, as we saw with the recent unsealing of documents for Meta, the suit against Meta and Alphabet and others, if it's allowed to continue in this fashion, it's just going to continue to degrade the social fabric. It's going to continue to expose children unnecessarily to this sort of poison. It's going to leave these tech companies in position where they continue to profit from it. And as AI becomes a kind of autonomous corruptor, it's just going to, we're going to see this landslide of decadence and basically social decay continue at the behest of these companies and with zero accountability.

[Steve Bannon]

Here's help me through here because we're trying to work through these problems together. There was a huge victory today on Capitol Hill that for the second time, ladies and gentlemen, the, the tech oligarchs with their running dogs on Capitol Hill tried to slip into a massive bill, a must pass bill because this is the authorization for the Defense Department, the, this, this moratorium or what we referred to as AI amnesty, okay. Which opened a Pandora's box of just madness and it was defeated by this audience. And make sure you still go to Article 3 to load up to Bill Blaster still, you know, it ain't over till it's over. Just like in Tennessee. It's not going to be over until it's, until it's absolutely over. So both of those are. They should be victories. They can be victories. We just have to make sure we're closers on this. What has happened though, I think in this discussion of, of parents rights and concern for children, which is a big part of this. Mike, Mike Davis Talking about the four Cs and part of that is child protection. What has come to light, particularly with the families of the ones have been the suicide victims. On chat you saw last night when you were at the National Gallery Art and you were interviewing these families and it's heart rendering some of These stories are about, you know, the kids ordering fentanyl or something else, something that the algorithm got them, and they were doing different behavior on Facebook or whatever. And those algorithms are very powerful the way they can drive you into things. Right. And that has to be dealt with. And I think people are thinking through how it gets dealt with, the artificial intelligence part of it. And although that is at the core, also algorithmic, but the way that that interacts with people is a danger that's even as bad as all those families laid out about the getting access to drugs, of being cyberbullied, of all of a sudden being open. Because the algorithms to depression are two things and led them to sites that talked about suicide. Right. Is different than this whole aspect of a bot or the agentic activity, the activity as a bot, as an agent in your life to lead people, and particularly young people being formed, that is, I think, a whole new set of horrors. Having not really dealt with the first set, now we're layered onto a second set, which is much more sophisticated and much more dangerous that even adults are quite stable. Probably couldn't even handle one of these bots talking to you and luring you into something you didn't want to do or messing with you so much that you had what you call AI bot psychosis. And I think that this has got to be addressed. This is the complexity of this time, of this time. And I tell people we're an inflection point in human history, that so many of the decisions are going to be. Have to be made by young parents. Do I enhance my children? You know, do they need to get chipped to be competitive in the modern world? To get into Stanford, like, you know, I went to Stanford. Do I need to get my children shipped? Because now there's. There's 100 million people trying to get into Stanford all over the world, and it'll take in more foreigners than Americans. This whole thing about the agentic activity, these bots, is so scary. And that has to be dealt with. And I realize the administration's under tremendous pressure, the people on Capitol Hill, the companies, but somehow we're just going to have to work through this. And that's why it's just going to have to go in some sort of regular order. This whole issue about the Chinese Communist Party, they keep holding our face or their head. We need to cut them off with everything that has to be a priority. We need to stop funding the Chinese, fueling the Chinese, selling them chips and all that. And then if they can make the case well, they're making their own chips. Then you have to deal with it separately. But until then, you've got to deal with these regulations, sir.

[Joe Allen]

You know, Steve, last night you pointed out when we were speaking to the parents, that the parents who had gathered there, their children had been lured by human beings via these online platforms. And we know that into the mists of prehistory that human beings have preyed on each other. That's nothing new. Human beings have preyed on children, that's nothing new. But what the big difference between being able to access children online is it gives all of these new opportunities and windows and it gives a certain degree of COVID Some weirdos hanging around the playground, you see them, you take care of them. If it's online, it becomes something that's concealed with AI, as you had mentioned, it is a continuation of this. But instead of having specific human beings that you can look at, and this person is a predator, this person is trying to harm a child. You now have the potential for autonomous bots that clearly a solid number of children are easily enticed into interacting with. And now it's autonomous. They don't, they don't sleep. They have the ability to, you know, read through the conversation, so to speak, that the child has had with the bot and to understand the child in a way that a human predator would. And maybe again, it's not as if OpenAI coded predatory behavior into it. That's the real problem. They can't keep it under control. Artificial intelligence is a non deterministic system. It isn't easily controlled. And so the question then becomes, okay, do we just do nothing? Because that seems to be the libertarian argument for sure. But even the preemption argument, it says, well, we need federal standards, we need a federal framework to take care of this. Well, with cosa, we see after three years there's nothing they're still arguing over whether it's a free speech issue, whether it should be a policy and procedures issue, so on and so forth. Doing nothing is not even remotely close to due diligence. And it is ultimately up to each parent, it's in some sense up to children to be wise, to be street wise. But if you went to a town that was completely laissez faire and anything goes, and there's literally no authority who can step in and say, okay, no, this is predation, it has to stop. Well, I mean, then you end up in some kind of crazy like Bangkok, seedy neighborhood, right? Nobody wants that in America. And so something has to be done either at the state or the federal level. And right now it's happening at the, at the state level. And so I think this, the, the, the striking of the moratorium language in the ndaa, it just, it is an absolute victory for anyone who's trying to shield children or adults from the worst effects of this. But in the end, it's going to be a continual fight. We might be at this for years. And as far as the, the fight against this sort of transhumanist, post humanist philosophy, well, this is a lifelong fight. And but these victories show you that it's not a fruitless fight. It's not a fight in vain. People can and will win. And I have full faith, as I oftentimes say, Steve, that enough of us will make it.

[Steve Bannon]

No, I think, I think it's pretty evident now because the House, these guys are not leaders, they're followers. There is such an overwhelming blowback on this happening again within 60 days today. Scalise said, and Roger said, hey, this is not the right vehicle. They knew it wasn't the right vehicle when they started it. If they could slid it in, there had been the right vehicle. But because people blew back on it, it wasn't. I think that was so, so powerful of this audience. I want everybody still to go, go to Article 3 or go over to Bill Blasser, get all the information. You should still be lighting people up until the NDAA is absolutely voted on. And it has nothing to do with AI amnesty. I know you got to bounce real quickly. What was the vibe in the room last night? I got to tell you, that was very powerful what you did with those parents last night with the photos of their children and the stories and the people from the Parents Association, Cox or Knox, who was so articulate about what she's fighting for. What was the buzz in the room today?

[Joe Allen]

You know, the House hearing is just a matter of arguing over the fine details. The parents are there, they're looking right at them. As Kathy Castor, who's a Democrat and a lib on to the nth degree, noted that the parents weren't invited to speak. The parents weren't there testifying. Instead, you had trade, trade association types and others who by and large did not carry the same potency as a real life story. Again, I think that it just shows you that as they're floundering for years to determine, well, what do you do about online platforms that are allowing for mass child trafficking and exploitation? What do you do about AI bots that just overtly lure kids into self destructive behavior. Well, you argue about it and meanwhile bereaved parents are watching in frustration and parents whose children are still alive and parents who are extremely concerned about them can't look to the government for any assistance. It's strictly up to them and their communities. I think that it just shows that the real power is in the hands of the people who are making the choices. And to the extent that any state apparatus is going to protect people, it should probably be decentralized, it should probably be specific to the places and the people that are intended to be protected. And so in places like Florida, in places like California, you're going to have very different approaches to this, but at least there is the freedom, so to speak, to, to restrict these tech companies and hold them liable. As for the parents though, Steve, last night it was really, really rattling to look into their eyes and hear the stories, but also see that frustration that they feel like they're pouring all this energy into this and nothing is being done for them by the federal government. But I do believe that with the striking of the language in the ndaa, they also had a huge victory today.

[Steve Bannon]

Huge. Joe, your social media.

[Joe Allen]

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