Watch the video of his speech
here.
Bannon served in the Navy for seven years in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Source.
I’m a naval officer. A real naval officer, not a graduate of the Naval Academy. No,
we had good news - all your naval academy grads out there don't … We
got very good news today. My daughter is a graduate of West Point and she's a member
of the 326 Combat Engineers at the Hundred First Airborne and they got their orders.
Yeah. That's the generation that we've got coming up these are great kids. She actually
got her orders home today so she'll be back and forth Campbell by Thanksgiving so it's a
it's a day of celebration our family. Yeah she … they're great kids. I’ll get to that in a
second about what we've done to them, that generation.
Ben Bernake was Fed Chairman from 2006-2014. Hank Paulson was the Secretary of the Treasury from 2006-2009.
Paulson worked at Goldman Sachs from 1974 until he took over as Secretary of the Treasury in 2009. When he left
Goldman he liquidated his stock holdings, but wasn't subject to capital gains tax, saving him an estimated $50
in taxes. [Source]
Bannon worked at Goldman
Sachs from the mid-80s until 1990.
a guy I used to work for at
Goldman Sachs, Hank Paulson, went to the White House to see the president, a Republican
I might add, and told him because of the mishandling of the bankruptcy of
Lehman Brothers
"On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. With $639 billion in assets and
$619 billion in debt, Lehman's bankruptcy filing was the largest in history, as its assets
far surpassed those of previous bankrupt giants such as WorldCom and Enron. Lehman was the
fourth-largest U.S. investment bank at the time of its collapse, with 25,000 employees worldwide."
[Source]
a few days before, over the weekend, on September 15th, where they didn't really calculate,
because it's quite complicated, they didn't realize that Lehman Brothers was the beating
heart of the world's commercial paper market, in that the entire world, in the commercial
paper market is what funds the working capital of all the large corporations in the world.
That the world's financial system had basically frozen. And on Wednesday, for all you guys
that have money market accounts, the prime reserve fund broke a buck for the first time. In
other words, if you wrote a check four thousand dollars, you're going to get nine hundred
dollars back. The Fed had pumped 500 billion dollars of liquidity in 24 hours into the
system. And by the way, we know all this now because of
Representative Kanjorski
Paul Kanjorski was a Democratic Representative from Pennsylvania. As a member of the Committee on Finanical
Services, he was in a unique position to discuss the actions taken by the US government in the immediate aftermath
of the crisis. He later defended the amount spent in the days following Lehman's crash. Footage of Kanjorski was
also featured in Bannon's flim Generation Zero, which will be discussed further along.
who told it on C-Span, and because of testimony from Congress.
Nancy Pelosi, Democratic House Representative from California. Pelosi was Speaker of the House from 2007 to
2011. She is currently the House Minority Leader.
and Kanjorski and all these guys, and that's what they came up with
TARP.
Nancy Pelosi, Democratic House Representative from California. Pelosi was Speaker of the House from 2007 to
2011. She is currently the House Minority Leader.
Actually, Secretary
Paulson went up with a three-page [indistinct] if you remember. It was a bill. They needed a trillion
dollars that night.
And the question gets to be, when you looked at the fiasco, and we’ll go through some numbers in a
second. How did a situation that … and we had some pretty sizable enemies in the 20th century:
Hitler, Mussolini, the military junta in Japan, the Kaiser, Lennon, Mao, Stalin, uh you know, you go
on and on and on. These guys couldn't even envision what we had done to ourselves, much less executed.
They actually told the president, unless you give us a trillion dollars immediately. And now we know
from
Bloomberg,
It's been difficult to track down the exact article that Bannon references here. That being said, there is a
Bloomberg piece from September 2010 that aligns fairly close to the information Bannon gives.
it was about five trillion dollars of liquidity they needed into the system,
of which, by the way, we've never really had an accounting. Right? We don't have an accounting today
of what really went on and what liquidity got put into the system. This crisis is of such a magnitude.
It's unprecedented in our country's history and unprecedented the world's history.
Let me just walk you through some math. Depending on the assumptions you make – Medicare, Social
Security, Medicaid, and I realize people say ‘oh they're contingent liabilities,’ but they're pretty
locked in unless you uncontingent them. The liabilities of those three are anywhere from sixty to a
hundred trillion dollars. At a state level, the state governments today are about three trillion dollars
underwater. Municipal governments - you see in Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, things just got
taken over yesterday - municipal governments, I think are something like two trillion dollars underwater.
Municipal employee pension funds are two trillion and corporate pension funds are a trillion dollars. The
biggest problem we have which never gets talked about at any debate, has not been brought up one time -
the trade deficit - which every quarter all the goods we buy from China, and all the foreign oil we buy,
it’s seven trillion dollars. It's the beating heart of our problem - not one question in eight debates has
been asked about it.
There's a guy named
Dr. Kotlikoff,
Dr. Laurence Kotlikoff. As far as can be researched, Dr. Kotlikoff was never the head of Boston Universitys'
Economics Department, though he is currently a professor there. Since 2009 he has been recognized as a William
Fairfield Distinguished Professor, a title given to the most senior and distinguished professors in the department.
It is perhaps that title that Bannon was thinking of when he speaks of him as the "head" of the department.
He was one of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers. He has also run for president as a write-in candidate
in both the 2012 and 2016 elections. He didn't win either time.
been on my radio show, in the Reagan administration - Harvard-trained
PhD, head of Boston University's Economics Department - very low-key guy. They call him the 200
trillion-dollar man. He will walk you through a set of mathematics that shows you the liability side of
the balance sheets about 200 trillion dollars, and his math is not that far from like the assumptions.
The total assets in our country - let’s talk about a balance sheet and income statement so you can see
the scale of the problem we got - all the assets combined, I think, in our country - all the stocks,
Nasdaq, New York Stock Exchange, privately held companies, LLCs, all your companies, okay. All the cash,
all the gold, all the real estate - adds up to about 50 to 60 trillion dollars in assets. And we have
200 trillion dollars and some of those contingent liabilities. But we are upside down.
The industrial democracies have a massive problem today we've never had. We are highly overleveraged.
We have to go through a massive deleveraging. And we've built in a welfare state that is completely
and totally unsupportable. Now, why … this is a crisis, and by the way, Barack Obama is not the problem.
Barack Obama is a symptom of a problem. We have to remove Barack Obama. I don't doubt that for a second.
We have to remove Barack Obama as president of the United States. But that's only the … and let's talk
about this. We had this huge … the reason you're here today on a Tuesday night, listening to some really
great guys who are sacrificing their lives and you guys to come to support in one of these new
organizations when you could be doing anything else. And you're the kind of the thin blue line of what's
going to save us. Because I go around and talk to two groups last night was in Torrance, it's a hundred
people, it's always the same hundred guys. Men and women, throughout the country, every time I go, ok?
That's the scary thing. You are the guys are really going to save us. So the problem is that these
numbers are so esoteric that even the guys of Wall Street - the Goldman Sachs, the guys I work with,
and the guys in the Treasury Department, because they've made some massive mistakes - and they're the
first to admit that - but it's so tough to tie this together because the numbers are so esoteric,
when you talk about a trillion and a half dollar deficits and three trillion dollars on federal spending
all this. It's the reason the
Tea Party, after Santelli’s rant,
This is an odd one. In February 2009, a CNBC commentator named Rick Santelli gave an epic rant on the floor of
the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He railed against the government and its handling of the financial
crisis and against those that knowingly obtained high-risk mortgages. It was during this rant,
in what he claimed was an off-the-cuff moment, that he suggested the organization of a "Chicago
Tea Party." In the halls of conservative legend, it's Santelli that gets the most credit for kicking
off the
Tea Party movement.
the reason the Tea Party revolt
came about - it's the first time in our country's history that we've had a center-right movement principally
led by women, right? If you look at the Tea Party, for the
Jason's,
Origin stories aside, the Tea Party movement came to prominence in the spring of 2009. The movement was a
brought about by a host of factors, most prominent being the financial crisis that started in 2008 and the
election of Barack Obama. They are staunchly against any government overreach and are financially and socially
conservative. Their name derives from the Boston Tea Party - them of the "No taxation without representation."
His rant can be viewed
here.
Jason W. Hoyt, a conservative radio host and one of the leading figures of the Tea Party movement in Florida.
He was one of several men to found The Liberty Restoration Foundation. The LRF, is, in essance,
a Political Action Committee (PAC) that raises money for candidates or causes.
and all the guys, and I was out there in the in the
Americans for Prosperity
When it comes to PACs, there are the relative small fry guys like the LRF and then there is Americans for
Prosperity. Funded by the Koch brothers, AFP has become one of the most dominate political groups
in the country and have taken the Tea Party to heights no one expected. When you hear mention of the
systemic shift that took place in the 2010 midterms, you need look not much further than the Koch
brothers and AFP. It's their influence, coupled with the
Citizens United v Federal Election Committee,
and all the guys.
This is the first time there was women out there, right? Moms. And the reason it is, is that women are the …
the women are the chief operating officer of the American family, you know? They don't need to know what
trillions of dollars. They know that every bag of groceries is a hundred bucks. They know to fill up an SUV
is a hundred bucks. And they know that Buddy and Sis are going to a State College, State University and
coming back fifty thousand dollars in debt, and living back in the, you know, in the room with the soccer
trophies they got … with no, with no job prospects.
In essence, Citizens United v FEC removed the limit on political spending for corporations and other entities.
While there is still a ban on corporations and groups donating directly to candidates, it opened the door to
PACs and Super PACs. It's this decision that most directly lead to AFP's rise.
Here is some good info on
the details of the case.
that have done more to change the political landscape in this country than anything in history.
A 2010 documentary written and directed by Bannon. It details the financial crisis and the rise of the Occupy
movement (detailed below). It was produced by David Bossie, the head of a conservative non-profit named
Citizens United.
… the generation in their twenties and thirties, we've
wiped them out. This is the first time in American history a generation’s actually change … you know,
given over command to something and we haven't passed on any positive increase in net worth, right? The
sad thing about the
Occupy Wall Street,
The Occupy Wall Street protest began in September, 2011. The protest was centralized around Zuccotti Park, in the
financial district of New York City. Largely made up of younger people, the main issues were both social and
economic inequality and the greed and corruption many saw at the root of large corporations. There was never
a strongly stated platform, an ambiguity that was largely by design. In the months that the protest was active,
the movement spread, with solidarity protests occurring in cities across the globe. The protest ended, in
New York at least, when the police forced the protesters out of the park in November of 2011.
when you look at those kids, is how ill informed they are. That's
the product … that's the product of the American education system. They have no more earthly idea of the
fundamentals of our liberty, the fundamentals of free-market capitalism, and they know zero … absolutely
nothing about our history. That’s why I call them generation zero. We've passed on zero net worth and we've
really, you know … in it … yet, I see part of that … my daughter's part of that generation, that are
fighting a war that's tougher than any war their grandparents fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.
So there is tremendous potential there, but we are passing them on. Unless we act immediately, unless
groups like you can come together … because the political establishment is not gonna do it. And people
go “how can you say that?” I say, let's just look at the empirical evidence. Since the Tea Party revolt,
which the Republican establishment did not support. And if you remember, and look back go to Fox and
look at guys I respect tremendously. William Kristol, Dr. [Charles] Krauthammer, David Frum. You look
at all the individuals …
George Will …
William Kristol, Dr. Charles Krauthammer, David Frum and George Will are all conservative columnists, journalists
or commentators of some sort of another. They have long been considered a part of the conservative
establishment.
look at all the Intelligentsia of the republican party in there
… in the conservative intelligentsia. They were mocking the Tea Party. They were mocking these grassroots
organizations. The reason I made these films is that my buddies on Wall Street kept saying “all these
women bunch of bimbos” and I said, you know, I know Governor Palin, and I know
Congressman Bachmann.
Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann. Palin was governor of Alaska from 2006 to 2009 when she burst onto the
national scene as John McCain's running mate for the in the 2008 presidential election. She has long
been considered a political outsider, and joined up with the Tea Party shortly after the election. She
was the focus of Bannons' 2011 flim The Undefeated. Bachmann was a U.S Representative from
Minnesota from 2007 to 2015. She ran an unsuccessful bid for president in the 2012 election.
I know these women the Tea Party, they're every bit as tough and smart as you guys are.
I mean, think about it, if the elites are so good, how did we get this jam, right? And … but here's
the part that … and that's why groups like you, I'm not[?] promoting you. If you don't hang together,
this country falls apart … will become something very different at the other side of this crisis. Because
this is the fourth-grade crisis in American history. We had the Revolution, we have the Civil War, we had
the Great Depression and World War two … this is
the great fourth turning
The idea of a "turning" in history, specifically in American history, is one that has taken root in Bannon.
The basic idea of "turnings" in history comes from The Fourth Turning, a book written by
historians William Strauss and Neil Howe. It describes the cyclical nature of history broken down into
four "turnings" or mood eras. These four are known as "The High," "The Awakening," "The Unraveling,"
and "The Crisis."
Bannon equates the American Revolution, The Civil War, and the Depression leaded to World War II
to "The Crisis" turnings that America has experienced. The common thought for those that ascribe to
this tenant is that the United States is due for another "Crisis" turning.
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in American history.
And we're going to be one thing on the other side, and by the way, the reason this is so tough is that
before we didn't have competitors like China, or we weren't in hock to guys that are our enemies, or we
had an education in a value system of Judeo-Christian values that a guy like Abraham Lincoln could read
the King James Bible, Shakespeare's plays, and Plutarch's
Lives Of The Noble Greeks And Romans
Bannon could be referring to either Lives of the Roman Emperors or Parallel Lives, both of
which detail the lives of illustrious Romans and Greeks.
and that's all he had, right? And he wrote the second inaugural address and the Gettysburg Address because
that's all you needed, right?
If you look at it for a second, the victory in 2010, and because of groups like a Club for Growth,
Americans for Prosperity, the Tea Party Movement, grassroots movement – it was an unprecedented victory,
right? Not only at the federal level, if you go down and look at the state level, if you look at we
eviscerated the Democratic Party in the south and the midwest and state legislatures in the governorships,
it was a massive victory. We got virtually no credit for that, right? The mainstream media, and even the
Republican apparatus … remember the Republican Party came out with a marketing document 60 days before
that, that said “we're going to cut a hundred billion dollars.”
The Pledge to America,
Released in September of 2010, The Pledge to America was a wishlist / to-do list of legislative items that the
Republicans hoped to accomplish should they win the 2010 midterms in the coming November. These included tax
cuts for both individuals and corporations, a hiring freeze on federal employees except those deemed necessary,
a ban on federal funding to services that provide
abortions,
right?
Okay, the two big things - TARP being one. The second being the budget cuts after the 2010, right?
The first budget - we cut 30 billion dollars. And, by the way, the Tea Party Patriots, if you go
to Jenny Beth Martin and Mark Meckler’s site, they say we actually increased by 3 billion dollars,
but it was a 30 billion dollar cut. Not a hundred billion dollar cut, because of all kind of, you
know, we’re prorated … we’re in the year.
The second was the debt debate. The federal spending, which is every bit as bad as the deficit,
it's the scale of federal spending, because it sucks dollars out from everywhere else. Federal
spending, I think, is 3.5 trillion - 3.75 trillion for the next two years, roughly. It adds up to
seven and a half trillion dollars in two years. In the debt debate we just had we cut 60 billion
dollars. 20 billion one year and 40 billion the next. The numbers … those numbers are irrelevant,
right? Because the system lacks the political courage to actually take it on.
The hardest, nastiest days ... if you look at Europe, just look what's happening. Look what
happened in
the House of Commons
This is a somewhat unnecessary step. Since the passing of the Hyde Amendment in 1973, there has been a ban on
federal funds being used for abortions except in case of incest, rape, or if the woman's life is in danger. In
1993, Bill Clinton signed into law an updated form of Hyde that expanded the exception list to be available
under Medicaid. If repealed, centers such as Planned Parenthood would lose the vast majority of their funding,
regardless of the fact that they are legally unable to use those funds for abortions.
and a repeal of Obamacare. To be honest, it's a
very similar list to that of the 45th president.
June 24, 2016 the Western world woke to find that the United Kingdom had voted to leave the European Union. It
was, to say the least, shocking. But, Brexit, as it's so cutely been termed, has its roots in years
upon years of debate. The European Economic Community (EEC) was founded in 1957 and is the direct
predecessor to the European Union (founded in 1993). As soon as 1975 the UK was voting on whether to
stay or leave the EEC. These debates continued throughout the next 40 some odd years, and coincided
with the rise of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). By 2009 UKIP had established its place as a legitimate
party in the UK. In the debate Bannon mentions, the idea of introducing a referendum was still largely
unsupported in the government, but the pressure to have one was rapidly increasing.
[Brexit Source] &
[EEC & EU Source]
yesterday, when some conservative stood up and said “we've
had with Europe. We want out … we want out of this whole mess.” And they turned on each other.
I said this on
Hannity back in February 2010,
A clip of the referenced interview.
when he had me … they had a special for Generation Zero … it was the first time
outside the Passion of Christ they’d ever taken an hour
for one movie. And I said all the easy choices are in back of us. All the easy decisions were
years ago. Everything from here on in, is going to be hard and nasty and ugly and you'll be
called every name in the book. You're gonna be vilified.
And we did cross a line this this past week on the Occupy Wall Street. Only, I believe, in
the Revolution, were there any marches on Tory's houses. When they left and they marched on
Rupert Murdoch's house, and Jamie Diamond’s house, and Mr. Koch's house, and there's one other.
Four houses they actually marched on. That shows you the types of things are going to happen.
Cutting this budget … why is the budget not cut? Budget’s not cut because it's not easy to cut.
Everybody's going to have to take a hit here. And if we draw a line, and it has to be a tough
line that no more taxes, no more tax increases - you just you just exacerbating a problem.
You're going to see this election … Newt Gingrich said on my show that he thinks is the most
important since 1860. I think this election is going to be the nastiest, ugliest in the history
of this country. It's going to be … Americans for Prosperity … I end the film The Undefeated …
by the way, the film's not about Sarah Palin. It is Sarah Palin’s story, but the reason I want
to do it is that she is Wal-Mart Nation. When the movie starts off she's working on a commercial
fishing boat in 1988 with her husband. They own a small commercial fishing boat. And she's not
part of the cultural, political, economic, or social elite in the
Mat-Su Valley,
An abbreviated version of the Matanuska-Susitna Valley in southern Alaska. Palin is from Wasilla, a city
that sits in the valley.
which is out of the loop in a state that's out of the loop, right? She is so obscure, she's more obscure
than anybody in America today when she starts off, and in 20 years later she's risen by being
constant on a handful of principles.
But The Undefeated is the values of the Tea Party. It's the values … I've been around this
country now for three years, showing these films and talking to these Tea Party groups. And
these are the people that are, as Rick Santelli so brilliantly observed, they’re those who
carry the water not those who drink the water. They're the ones that hold our social organizations
together, build our cities, run our little leagues, fight our wars, right? It's the backbone of this country.
And they're enraged. And here's why they're enraged - they understand we have a system now
that has socialism, as you point out so eloquently, we have socialism for the very poor,
right? A system that a trillion dollars a year and welfare state benefits with no taxes, right?
And sixty percent the country getting that. And we have socialism for the very wealthy,
right? The anger of the Tea Party is not racism, is not … they're not homophobes, they're not
nativist.
This is a great time to bring up the amazing essay by George Orwell,
"Notes on Nationalism."
What they are is common sense practical middle-class people that understand that they're
paying for their own and their children's destruction, right? And that's the rage.
You know, the bonus pool this year … the bonus pool on Wall Street, of all the financial firms
- in 2007, the year before …in 2006-2007, the two years where all the transactions that imploded
in 2008 - the bonus pools is going to be about the same this year, right? You know, TARP,
[indistinct] … if our business, if your business, your business, got in trouble and Goldman Sachs,
where I was trained, had come in and given you a financing, trust me, you would've been wiped out.
And you would have been fired, right? They weren't. All their stock is still is worth a ton of money
because they weren't. We basically gave them free money and bailed them out.
There's no recession in the Hamptons, there’s no recession in Georgetown. The other day the
Washington Post
reports
From September 27, 2011. "Loudoun, Fairfax remain top two wealthiest counties in America."
five of the seven wealthiest counties in the country are the
suburbs of Washington DC. The per capita income in Washington DC, for the first time in history,
is greater than Silicon Valley. That is not a random event. What Sarah Palin … the reason I
wanted to make the movie … Sarah Palin went up against the political class in Alaska and big oil.
Because, it wasn't that it was corrupt. There’s always going to be corruption, there’s always going to
be bad guys taking money. That's human nature. Read Plutarch. That happened back in Greece and Rome.
We have something much worse. A compromised political class. Crony capitalism in a permanent political
class, right?
It's quite simple. How does a guy go to Washington, basically making a hundred-thousand-dollars a
year as a lawyer, in some [indistinct] and at the end of 10 years, at 165,000 dollars, and another
fifteen thousand by federal money can make, having to keep basically, sometimes two locations, houses
net worth five million dollars … and in 10 years like Harry Reid … how's
Harry Reid's
Harry Reid was a U.S. Senator from Nevada. He served from 1987 until his retirement in January,
2017. Reid was the Senate Majority leader from 2007-2015 and the Senate Minoity Leader from 2015-2017.
He made some waves in his unabashed criticism of the Koch brothers and their zealous funding of the
conservative party. [Source]
net worth
15 million dollars? That's not even a mathematics just arithmetic. How does that work?
That's what the Tea Party … that's what this revolt is about. That's why we have grassroots organizations
like AFP and Club for Growth. That's why we have things outside political parties, because people want
their voice heard. You are the last line of defense. Three nights a week I do this, throughout the
country, and it's always the same hundred people in the room. But I will tell you, as
Slade
Author of the series on the American Revolution, Bookmaker to the Revolution.
said so eloquently, if you look at the Revolution about a third of the people wanted liberty, a
third of the people were hardcore Tories, and about a third we're in the middle saying “I’m going to
see how this thing plays out,” right?
Our country today is about the same thing. We’re a center-right nation of probably 70/30 center
right, but there's only a small core that's prepared to take their Tuesday night, and not just
write a check, but actually throw your being, like Jason and the team have, and trying to change
this, right? And that's what's going to save it. A hundred years from now when they look back, if
we come out of this crisis and we're still the country that Marc…Senator Rubio talked about, of
American exceptionalism
The philosophical idea that America is in every way, shape, and form, exceptional to the rest of the world.
This idea is manifest in three main ways: 1) that U.S history is, in its essence, unique from the
histories of other nations. 2) That the U.S. has an inherent duty to ensure the rest of the world remains
or becomes as free as America. And 3) That the U.S. and its citizens are the best of the best. American
exceptionalims maps very well to Orwell's "Positive Nationalism."
[AE Source]
[Orwell Source]
based upon Judeo-Christian values, right? Believing in freedom, and being
the greatest country in the world, in the torture of freedom [ed. note: somewhat indistinct.]
… if we're that country, and it's
going to take us 20 years to get through this, right? It's going to be because of guys like you.
And if you quit, we are done, right? We're gonna be something very different on the other side.
You can already see in President Obama, you can already see what that's going to be, right? Because
that's just the harbinger. The Occupy Wall Street … I tell guys don't dismiss these kids. Listen
to them. Because it's a shot in the heart of what they believe. And that is off the education system
has taken more money than any education system in the history of the world. Listen to what they
believe - that's the future if you guys don't stand tall.
So I want to conclude tonight in saying that I'm actually energized, and you know why? Think
about it. And I know all you guys do this. You’ve all read history books since you were kids
and you all think “hey, if I was there during the Civil War, you know, I'd be right in the
middle of it.” Or “if I was in the Revolution [indistinct] I would be right there”, right?
Or in World War Two or the Great Depression, all that stuff [indistinct] “I would be there.
I'd be in Normandy, I’d do all that.”
We have that opportunity today, right? They're going to look back at these 10 years, 15 years,
and it's gonna take us that long, and we're gonna have .. by the way, we're going to have
defeats. There's gonna be days when it looks … that's why I want you guys to see the movie
Generation Zero, because the guy at the end of it tells you, kind of gives a broad
perspective. They're going to be days it’s gonna look so grey and so overcast and like we've
lost like, the day Obama won. We're going to have more days like that. But if we hold together
and we see … exactly what you said … there's so many people that believe in what we believe,
and understand when you start talking to them and engaging them, that, you know, we're not
cloven-hoofed Devils. We’re not nativist, homophobic, racist, right? But they understand
that we believe in what made this country great, and they believe it too.
But they're inundated with a mass media in an education system that's really stolen that from
them. And for every
Drudge, or Andrew Breitbart,
Matt Drudge started the Drudge Report, a conservative blog and news aggregator, in the mid to late 1990s. The
site really took off with it's publishing of stories surrounding the Monica Lewinsky scandal. During this same
time, Drudge met, and eventually mentored, Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart would strike out on his own in 2005 and
found the conservative news outlet, Breitbart. Only a few months from the time of Bannon's speech,
in March, 2012, Breitbart would die of a heart attack.
or these little things you have … for
every AFP and for every Club for Growth, and for every one of these organizations, you've
got this overwhelming apparatus and apathy … apathy of the middle and apparatus on the left.
But we can do it. And I've seen it. And we've seen it in 2010. That victory was humongous.
And I realize people, some people are upset that Governor Palin was not running or they're
just searching for the man on the white horse, and one day it’s Governor Perry, and one day
it's
Herman Cain
Rick Perry was governor of Texas from 2000-2015, presidential candidate in 2012 and 2016,
Dancing with the Stars participant in 2016, and Trump's nominee for Secretary of Energy in Trump's
new administration. Herman Cain, a businessman by trade, rose through the ranks of the Tea Party and was a
candidate for president in 2012. He has a conservative radio show and is a contributor for Fox News.
[Perry Source]
[Cain Source]
… everything like that … it's not about any one individual. It's
about teams, it's about doing this, it’s about next year when we have this, on the first annual
shareholders meeting, we have 500 people in this room and half of them under the age of 40.
It’s ideas and it’s taking those ideas and action, and trust me, you guys are on the right path.
This is not a waste of your time. Because if you don't do it, it's not gonna get done. And
if it doesn't get done, we're gonna lose this country. And we're going to looked at, listen,
this is the last thing I’m going to leave you with.
Only one gener… I think there’s been fourteen generations in this country's history. Only one
generation is looked down as not having fulfilled the
Birkin Compact,
This one has been tough to track down. There are a lot of ideas out there surrounding the social
contract, and even a handful that relate directly to the idea that the preceding generation should
provide better opportunities to the next generation. That being said, it's been difficult to find
any single concept that relates to the Birkin [sp?] Compact. Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
which is we owe as much the people came before us as the people before us. We’re an agent in time, right?
And we have a sacred duty to withhold traditions of the past, our best traditions, and pass
them on to the future. Only one generation in our history didn't do that. That was the generation
of leadership before the Civil War. The Civil War could have been averted it wasn’t. Because
of a failure of leadership. We are the baby boomers, in this room, we’re the second generation
that's going to be looked at as having let this country down, unless we turn immediately and
get our hands on the problem. Through the Tea Party, through these grassroots movements,
through things like Liberty Restoration, we're doing that. And trust me, there's tremendous
power in doing this. So, thank you very much. I'm here to help you guys anytime you want.
