Bannon`s War Room
Episode 4996: War Of Populist Nationalists Against The Tech Bro's; Legalizing Marajuana
13 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the primal scream of a dying regime?
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 on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you've tried 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? Mega 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. War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann. It's Saturday, 13 December, Year of Our Lord 2025.
Folks, just remember, the theory of the case here is the Republican establishment, the order... establishment of this country are surrounding President Trump and the MAGA movement. That is signal. There's a lot of noise out there, but that's signal.
And how they do it with some of the most powerful institutions, the United States Senate, that will not break the filibuster, won't go on recess appointments, won't back his $2,000 coming from the tariff money to the United States citizen. won't get rid of the blue slips, won't support him on judges, across the board.
And now you've got David Malpass, who's as smart as they come, saying they just reappointed themselves. This is a Fed that President Trump's been at war with. This is not your typical kind of, hey, you know, I'm Nixon. I don't like Arthur Burns. This is not that. The Federal Reserve as an institution has been at war with President Trump, the central bank of the United States.
And as you know, we even question that. We're like Jackson. Why do we even have a central bank? They're at war and they just reappointed themselves. And here's the most important thing. The business media would not even talk about it. Malpas just laid out what they did. The same group, the same, screw Powell. Powell's just the guy. Structurally, we're going to combat him.
You're not going to move us. And we're going to reappoint ourselves. So I don't care if you put Warsh in, you put Hassett in, if Besson wears two hats, we don't care. They're at war just like the Senate is. Now, they're not like War Room, maybe.
We're yelling and screaming in a microphone about this stuff and going out and going to all your meetings and rallies and getting people jacked up into the ramparts because that's political power. They're doing it another way behind the closed doors. This is the way the system works.
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Chapter 2: How do populist nationalists view the tech industry?
They see Trump as a passing summer storm. Josh Pettit, and Pettit, you've got the physical copy of what I don't have, today's The Weekend Financial Times. What's that headline right there, brother?
EU freezes 210 billion euros of Russian assets.
Folks, I'm going to get a copy of that. I'm going to get Elizabeth or Grace or somebody to put it up.
When Viktor Orban says you're crossing the Rubicon, and Viktor Orban is a man that's put it all on the line to work for peace over there and fought these demons in the EU, when he tells you you crossed the Rubicon, folks, when you talk about the kinetic part of the Third World War metastasizes and is not put to bed like President Trump's trying to do,
you're going to remember some dates, and this date's going to be one of them. So Josh Pettit, I would normally have you on here. Remember, Josh is the golf course. the Alistair McKenzie Institute, expert in golf course architecture. So I was thinking of having you on here as we could fit it in before Christmas. President Trump is making a big effort on the DC courses.
In fact, they're taking now, Burgum came up with the idea of taking the, when they're taking excavating for the ball, the big, beautiful ballroom. He's going to now use that as a berm to make even the links, little links courses on the water for the people, these little public courses. I was going to have you for that or some other stuff.
But I remembered when we were talking about the fires in California, the most succinct explanation of what went on was you. You said, hey, look, don't believe the stuff on the surface. This is an interlocking network of these coastal elites and what they've done. They brought this on themselves. They've been working for 30 years.
And until you break that, all these commissions and NGOs and how they work together, just electing politicians, you're just kidding yourself. You've come up with something. And this is about the economy and where it's going. When you talk about data centers and you talk about AI, and right now we had doc Pete Chambers running for governor of Texas that said, yo, out here, it's going to be water.
You're sucking out the aquifers. You're doing it in Arizona. I know in Arizona, it's a huge, huge issue. You've sent me an article, sir. And if we can get it up about a public golf course, I think I believe it's in California. Walk me through it because the price tag, I think the course is worth it. People play there and they play for almost no money.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of the Republican establishment's stance on Trump?
Is that what's happening? You see, is there some insidious effort by the tech bros now start if they can't get zoning in other places, they're just going to go and roll up these golf courses, sir? Well, Steve, you know, I can't help but think of the irony here.
You know, here in California, golf courses have been targeted for years, decades by these overzealous NGOs who profiteer over the conversion of these golf courses into open space. which then allows them to source the state and federal grant monies that are funded by taxpayer dollars in order to conduct these big boondoggle habitat restoration projects in order to fight climate change.
It's part of the climate agenda and it's massive business for these people to the tune of hundreds of millions and billions of dollars a year. So myself and others have been fighting for a long time to protect some of these public municipal golf courses that are owned and operated by these cities in these counties.
They provide very affordable public access golf at a very low cost to the residents.
They're great for seniors, for kids, and they provide such a valuable recreational amenity to these communities. So I was shocked last night to come across this article on golf.com.
about this golf course. Actually, the story mainly focuses on a golf course in Harrisburg, PA called Dolphin Highlands. And yes, it's owned by the county. It's a municipal golf course. It's very affordable. It's actually thriving. It's very busy, does 50,000 rounds a year, which for a seven month season on the East Coast is a lot of golf. So it's doing well.
And it was targeted by these AI, in this case, an AI data center developer based out of Dallas, who offered the county in a backroom deal, essentially 10X the market value of this land. So for people that understand land use and zoning, You know, the value, the market value of land is really predicated on the land use and the allowable uses of the land. So.
In the case of a piece of land for a golf course, that zone is a commercial recreation. The valuation is only as much as the golf operation provides. But in this case, the county has rezone the land. To offer it up to a developer to be able to develop for industrial use in this case, a Dennis data centers. which is why now they've 10X the value of land. They've sold it for $46 million.
And this, the article goes on to talk about several other golf courses. There's about a half a dozen or so that are being targeted now, including one out here in California, not too far from me. That was a nine hole course designed by Alistair McKenzie, my hero. But I think this is just the beginning.
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Chapter 4: How do data centers impact local communities?
And I'm just curious, where do you think that comes from and what do you think?
It comes from, so far as I can tell, the perception that the risks outweigh the benefits. So the risks would include massive job loss, chaos, where nobody sort of knows if anything is real, and the fabric of reality itself begins to tear. Of course, the massive energy draw and the huge and expensive infrastructure changes.
The downsides are super obvious, not even to mention the potential this gets completely away from us and eats us or something. As weighed against the potential benefits, which are what? Who's in charge of the marketing for this?
because ai is everything ai means uh everything what i think is more interesting than my opinion or yours on any specific ones here is what's going to happen in 2026 at a meta level and we are shaping up to see the fight of our lifetime between AI companies and the technology industry and rank and file Americans. We actually had a big discussion with Tucker Carlson sitting in for Friedberg.
We had a big debate on this. You're going to hear this play out in 2026 into the midterms and certainly into the 2028 national election. And I pulled a couple of clips here. I think it's worth us getting ahead of the curve here, like we did on the IP issue on Twist.
So first up, we're going to hear from Joe Allen. He is an author of a book that argues against transhumanism. And this is a book that Steve Bannon wrote the intro for Jason.
So clearly they're simpatico here.
What is the objective of the companies that people like David Sachs and Ted Cruz are running cover for? What is this supreme intelligence that the president is talking about? These companies are driving towards artificial general intelligence. And whether you believe that's possible or not, What it shows is they are willing to create something that would replace every worker on earth.
Whatever percentage of that objective they achieve, it will be a net negative for any working American or any worker across the world. So what are we fighting against? We're fighting against people who not only don't care about your well-being other than to use you for training data or to use you as a pet after their singularity. These are people who actively want to replace you.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of AI on job security?
But despite that anyways, and being kind of back and forth with the Trump administration, the Heritage Action has said that they are also going to be primarying all of these Senate Republicans. Club for Growth pledged to primary these Senate Republicans to look at what races they can win. And so now the knives are out. And I think I loved this quote I got.
This was from a source close to the White House. This source told me, metaphorically, this ends with heads on pikes. And I think that is a perfect representation of the anger you are seeing from the White House. And I think it also speaks to what you touched on, Steve, that there are establishment Republicans who are kind of looking to turn their back on President Trump and move on.
And the White House, the president, his allies, the GOP, I don't think are going to be very forgiving of that.
Reagan, we've got Florida, Ohio, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska. I mean, DeGrasse did this in 21. It's one of the reasons we have the House. The war was at the tip of the spear in this. I have said we need a net 10 positive to make sure that we can put it away in 26. This is a struggle. Is the purpose of this exercise ā
that the White House is going through to send a signal to the other people from North Carolina to Florida, you got to get on board and you got to get on board now because we're burning daylight and we don't have time to mess around. We certainly don't have time for another Indiana. It's empowering the Democrats, ma'am.
Totally. I think the White House is feeling pressure on a bunch of different topics going into the 2026 midterms. We are now less than a year out from the 2026 midterms. And we have Americans who are feeling like the economy is not benefiting them. We have Trump supporters who feel like the president is spending too much time on foreign policy as opposed to domestic policy.
And now you have within state governments Republicans who don't want to redistrict their state to help the national party. And I think you can also read this as these people aren't looking at the big picture. These Senate Republicans in Indiana might have a hard time understanding how this can politically impact the rest of the country nationally.
Probably the people of Indiana don't really understand either. And there are probably local politics also at play. I think all of those reasons are totally fair. But this is definitely a matter of politics. It's a matter of national politics. And I think the White House is probably wise to send a message right now, get ahead of it while they still can, because they're going to need every ounce of
of support and tools that they can get heading into the 2026 midterms because there's pressure after the 2024 election. I think So many Republicans were so happy. The GOP was so happy that Trump won that almost every area of the country shifted to the right that now there's this pressure to keep capitalizing on that in 2026.
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Chapter 6: What is the current debate around marijuana legalization?
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