Best of The Program | Guest: Nigel Farage | 8/30/21

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Hey, welcome to Monday's podcast.

I'm back, at least for a while, out of the Middle East.

We have an update on the Nazarene Fund and what all of our partners in the Middle East are doing.

It's pretty incredible.

We have now officially gone dark because the mission has changed, but I'll explain that in today's podcast.

Also, Nigel Farage is with us.

He was with the Brexit Party.

He was the guy over the EU that just told the EU off.

I loved it.

He's kind of now telling us off in a way,

saying that

Great Britain will not come and do a joint mission with the U.S.

until this president is out of office.

He talks about what's happening in France and England and Afghanistan and the failures of this administration.

Plus, the latest on Michael Flynn: was he canceled by

JPMorgan Chase?

Did they just cancel he or his family's credit cards?

The answer appears to be yes.

All that and more on today's podcast.

You're listening to the best of the Blenbeck program.

So, while we were all paying to Afghanistan, which, by the way, just let me thank you for everything that you have done.

It's bothersome to me that I am getting any credit for any of this.

All of us have a job to do.

And all you have to do is

say

what's right and then just do what's right.

And you did.

You gave.

I suggested you gave.

And then other people are out there doing all the work to save.

And it's an amazing team effort.

It really is.

And it's not just the Nazarene Fund.

There are several groups that are all working together in tandem.

And

in just one airport, just one weighing station, 12,000 people were rescued that were not going anywhere.

It's remarkable.

We are not going to be talking about

any rescue efforts for the time being.

Things have changed dramatically on the ground, become much more dangerous.

And we don't want to give the Taliban any tips on where people might be, what we're looking for in numbers, or anything like that.

So, we're going to be silent about rescue tips.

Do not mistake our silence for inaction.

We just cannot talk about it.

It is far too dangerous now.

Things have changed.

We'll give you the updates as we can.

But as everybody was following this over the weekend, there's been some other things that have happened.

For instance, Twitter has permanently banned Alec Berenson.

He is a guy who is anti-COVID vaccine.

Yeah, I don't think he would describe himself that way, but he's been very skeptical about COVID, you know, the mainstream coverage of COVID and the mainstream coverage of the vaccines.

Okay, he said, according to him, COVID vaccine, it doesn't stop infection or transmission.

Don't think of it as a vaccine.

Think of it at best as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy.

I kind of, kind of agree with that.

It's like the flu

vaccine.

It might be geared to the current flu, but it's not going to cover you forever.

The flu is constantly changing.

The same thing.

We're going to live with COVID forever.

The idea of wiping it out is ridiculous.

It's not going to happen.

I think you can agree or disagree with Alex on a lot of the points he makes, but to be banned from Twitter because you have a different take than

whatever organization

is fact-checking these claims, it's insane.

And so, you know, the Taliban is still okay on Twitter.

They're, you know, a great follow, Glad.

I mean, that's crazy.

You should see their TikTok page.

It's great.

It's great.

The dances they all do and you.

On Thursday, Google took aim at the Gateway Pundit.

Now, this is a site, conservative, ranked top 200 U.S.

websites.

You may not agree with what they print,

but Google has now permanently demonetized them.

So in other words, they've just shut their business down.

You can't make any money.

So Google demonetizing, I don't know the back end of that as well, but is that basically saying that they can't hold ads that go through the Google ads servers, basically?

And that's a lot of money.

Yeah, that's a lot

of money.

Businesses structure their business completely around those.

Yeah, that was

one reason why we're a subscription service and an ad service, because one of those is going to come to an end.

And if

apparently people like

Citibank have their way, both of them would come to an end.

Because there's one other.

There's one other that really I think is the most disturbing.

All of these are disturbing.

But the third

weekend victim of the purge

is the former director of the Defense

Intelligence Agency and Trump national security advisor, Michael Flynn.

Now, Michael Flynn has already been wronged.

He already has been cleared of all of the stuff that they said.

It was completely bogus what they said about Michael Flynn.

Completely bogus.

But he just got a account notice from Chase Bank over the weekend.

And here's what it reads.

After careful consideration, we decided to close your credit cards on September 18th, 2021.

Because listen to this carefully, this is the great reset.

Because continuing the relationship creates possible reputational risks to our company.

Wait, because General Flynn might be charging a stay at the Holiday Inn Express,

that somehow or another is going to risk their reputation of Chase Bank?

Just let me remind you, JP Morgan Chase, you know, the one that just wrote almost a billion-dollar check.

Let me get this right.

Almost wrote a billion-dollar check to resolve federal wire fraud charges because the company, in a separate criminal scheme, defrauded the precious metals and U.S.

Treasury markets.

That company is worried about doing business with Michael Flynn.

Come on.

Obviously, in reality, there's no reputational risk to them for having Michael Flynn have a personal credit card.

But this is exactly what the Great Reset write down stop.

It's right down.

It says you can't, companies cannot do business with other companies that have a low ESG score.

Now, while they're not counting on an ESG score yet,

They are already doing it.

And so you can't, if you would have a low ESG score or you're unpopular,

you're on the wrong side of whatever the administration, and I mean of the entire, this new

hybrid of corporate governance and corporate

sleeping with the administration and governments all over the world,

if they deem that you are not

good,

then they will cancel you and you won't be able to buy and sell things.

Well, there's step number one

to General Michael Flynn.

Incredible.

And this is obviously a massive problem all over the place for mainly conservatives in almost every arena of life.

It's coming.

One thing we have, we should spend more time on, I think, is how to solve these issues.

And look, there are some interesting things that people propose through the law.

There are some interesting things that people propose about

doing things on their own, starting your own company.

All those things are part of the conversation.

The part of the conversation that I think has received too little attention from the right is that almost every single one of these problems, when it comes to anything digital,

almost every single one of them can be solved in the crypto space.

You can talk about creating your own social network.

But again, as we've seen with places like Parlor, you start it and then you have all these overlords that can shut it down.

When it comes to the crypto space, it's basically impossible to do this.

All of these programs, when it comes to finance, when it comes to social media, when it comes to storage of files, when it comes to business loans and business arrangements, all of these things are either...

already created in the crypto space or are in the process of being created.

And they can't be stopped like this.

There is no way to stop them like what we're seeing in these stories that happen every day.

You can't take away Michael Flynn's credit card.

They don't know who's paying for stuff.

It's totally a different way of this stuff working and it works totally outside of the system.

And

this is why I'm so

skeptical of governments and the way they're going to try to crack down on this stuff long term.

They're going to try.

But again, when it comes to

actually being able to complete these transactions, complete these posts so they can never be deleted.

They can never go away.

All of that is already available with cryptocurrency and

not just the currency part of it,

but blockchain.

And it's all protected and

everlasting.

And

it's a part of this equation that is really important for conservatives to get their minds around because there's going to be time, I think, where these other solutions aren't going to do anything.

We can talk about changing the law, but we've seen what happens with the law.

We have absolute rights that are violated all the time.

Do you think some little

communication section adjustment, it may help at some point?

I'm not saying it's totally wrong to look at those things, but like long-term, real,

you know, life and death type of issues, a section 230 tweak is not going to bring us to the promised land, nor is even bringing up your own, building your own company.

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Back from the Middle East.

I came in on Saturday.

Wow, there's nothing like flying to the other side of the planet for a couple of days and then flying back.

Oh, it's good.

It's good on the body.

It's good on the body.

Really good on the body.

But

we're not going to be saying

much

for the next few days

because the airport is officially closed now.

Only the military side is getting anybody out.

The commercial side is completely gone.

There are about 12,000 refugees that

groups like

Mighty Oaks Foundation,

the Nazarene Fund, and others have been working to get out together.

We have taken 12,000 people out just

arriving in two airports.

That's quite a good number for something that is absolutely impossible to do.

Do not take our blackout as anything other than

we're keeping our mouths shut because we know that the Taliban is monitoring groups like ours for additional information.

They are actively searching for people.

They are now, you know, the good thing is they're in bed with the Russians and the Chinese.

So that always is going to be good.

They are now monitoring phones and tracking phones.

If you know someone in the Middle East in this situation, please tell them to turn their phones off.

Turn your phone off.

If you need to, use

passwords with each other so you know who you're talking to

and

pick maybe an hour a day that you're going to use your phone, but turn it off.

Turn it off.

Okay.

Other than that, things were great.

Things are great.

Hopefully, we'll have a really exciting announcement coming this week, perhaps this week.

We'll tell you, pretty much we'll tell you when we're there.

But please keep people in your prayers.

There are thousands that are in hiding and want to get out.

Many Americans.

Yeah,

the figure I keep hearing on Fox and elsewhere is 250.

I can't believe there's only 250 Americans left.

There's not.

Because the original estimate was between 10 and 40,000.

And so far,

the number I just heard is 120,000 people we've evacuated and 5,400 of them were American.

5,400.

Well, then there are thousands of people left behind.

And there are really bad guys that are getting onto the planes.

Really bad guys.

Sure.

Yeah, really bad guys.

Sure.

And I hope that our government is, I mean, those are the people that are coming.

Our 12,000 are not coming to the United States.

I can vouch for 5,100 for sure, because that's the ones we've been partnering with Mighty Oaks Foundation, and they've been getting people in, and they've been using our planes to get them out, and we've been sharing things.

And 5,100 people, I can vouch are not coming to america i don't think any of the private um

rescues are going to america unless they're american citizens but i could be wrong but they are just loading up the planes just loading up the planes on the military side uh and i don't know how they're vetting them i don't know And they're coming to Texas.

A lot of them are coming here to Texas.

And

I hope we're very, very careful.

Yeah.

Yeah, because it's, you know,

it's a little nerve-wracking coming from a place like Afghanistan with the Taliban.

Do you know what they did?

You know, you had to have paperwork.

You had to have paperwork.

So

what the State Department was doing on the military side was they were just handing out blank visas.

So you could just, they were just handing out blank.

Just fill your name in.

Just fill your name in.

It gets you through the gate.

Just fill your name in.

Really?

I'm sure that's not going to be a problem at all.

No.

What could go wrong there?

Do you think?

I can't think of a single thing.

I can't think of anything either.

Okay, so last week,

you had a,

I think it was a lieutenant colonel

of the Marines come out and speak out, demand accountability.

Here's what he said.

Listen to this.

All of these people are supposed to advise.

And I'm not saying we've got to be in the in Afghanistan forever, but I am saying, did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, hey, it's a bad idea to evacuate Bagram airfield, the strategic air barriers, before we evacuate everyone?

Did anyone do that?

And when you didn't think to do that, did anyone raise their hand and say, we completely messed this up?

I've got battalion commander friends right now that are posting similar things, and they're saying,

you know,

wondering if all the lives were lost and if it was in vain,

all those people that we've lost over the last 20 years

and he goes on to say that we're all part of a chain while every link may not be tested the strength of the chain is only as strong as each link and you got to be you know good link something like that

and what i'll say is

and from my position potentially all those people did die in vain if we don't have senior leaders that own up and and raise their hand and say, we did not do this well in the end.

Without that, we just keep repeating the same mistakes.

This amalgamation of the economic slash corporate slash political slash higher military ranks are not holding up their end of the bargain.

I want to say this very strongly.

I have been fighting for 17 years.

I am willing to throw it all away to say to my senior leaders, I demand accountability.

Nothing wrong with that, except he's wearing uniform.

While he did it, he recognized that was wrong and he has resigned.

And he was given a choice by the military.

You can either

face disciplinary action.

It would be about a three-year investigation on him.

Face disciplinary action, shut your mouth during it,

or resign and you are cut off from all benefits.

Now, he's been doing this for 20 years.

He's earned all of his benefits.

He,

over the weekend,

put his rank on the table and said, I resign and I want nothing except answers.

Now, his latest video is a little weird.

If you watch the full thing,

and I'm not sure if it's because he feels challenged now and he's trying to puff, you know, puff himself, not himself, but puff up just a bit to say, you're not going to take me out.

Because he is now in a struggle for his life, because he is now saying

he is going to

say things and report things

that will take down the corrupt military-industrial complex.

And

you should watch it because

I'm not sure yet how I feel on him.

On this video, I felt great.

Good for you.

That's what we're looking for is somebody who's willing to put

their brass down on the table and say, I don't really care what you do.

I just won't do this anymore.

And I want some answers.

And I'll tell the American people that you deserve answers.

Here's a clip of what he said in his latest video.

When I was a young captain, I worked for a man named Lieutenant Colonel Hobbes.

And we went through some things together.

And he, many people don't know, was actually relieved as an 06 for standing up for moral things that he thought was right.

And he did it within the system, as a lot of people have implored me to do.

And he was just shuffled out the door without really affecting any change.

And then after he exited exited the Marine Corps, he's made a lot of controversy by talking about racial diversity and

equal opportunity problems in the Marine Corps.

And from that respect, I have adamantly disagreed with him.

But just because we have different opinions doesn't mean I don't respect him,

sir.

I love you like a father.

And you made a comment on one of the posts on LinkedIn without giving anyone context of who you were or what our relationship was.

And you said

if Stuart Scheller was honorable, he would resign his commission.

Of all the noise going out there, that one comment has just played through my head.

If Stuart Scheller was honorable, he would resign his commission.

You didn't say is as if in challenging me, you said was

as if you assumed I wouldn't do it

I want to make the announcement today

after 17 years

I'm currently not pending legal action

and I could stay in the Marine Corps for another three years

but I don't think that's the path I'm on

I'm resigning my commission as a United States Marine effective now.

I'm sure there's some MAR admin on how I'm supposed to do that, and I'll work through that.

But I am forfeiting my retirement all entitlements.

I don't want a single dollar.

I don't want any money from the VA.

I don't want any VA benefits.

I'm sure I'm entitled to 100%.

I

breathed on the smell and smoke of burning

for years.

I don't want any of it.

You know, I asked,

all I asked for was accountability of my senior leaders when there are clear, obvious mistakes that were made.

I'm not saying we can take back what has been done.

All I asked for was accountability for people to comment on what I said and to say, yes, mistakes were made.

And had they done that, I would have gone back into rank and file, submitted, and accomplished what I wanted.

The morning after I posted my video and I came into work, my boss came in and he asked me, what were you trying to accomplish?

And that was a very tough question for me.

And my response was, I want senior leaders to accept accountability.

I think them accepting accountability would do more for service members and PTSD and struggling with purpose than any other transparent piece of paper or message.

What he said there, I 100% agree with.

100% agree with.

Especially since Biden told us there were no mistakes made.

He didn't make any mistakes.

We all know Biden's mistakes.

I'd like to know what the military says.

I'd like to know that the military understands that they made massive mistakes.

And they can say, look, we advised against it.

You know, that's fine.

I just want to know that our military understands exactly what has just transpired.

And there are going to be hearings about this.

Believe me, there are going to be hearings.

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Nigel Farage,

we sat at dinner in the Capitol.

It must have been almost, gosh,

two years ago now?

And I don't think we could have seen this coming, our split in our alliance, or at least it feels like that.

Nigel Farage, welcome to the program.

Glenn, thank you very much indeed.

And listening to your introduction, I mean, look, you know, I've spent 40 years working for American companies in business,

being allied politically with Donald Trump and many friends in the Republican Party.

I mean, there's nobody this side of the pond who's more pro-American, more pro-the-special relationship than I am.

And it hurts me to say this, but for Biden to unconditionally withdraw from a military mission after 20 years without any planning or any foresight as to how we get our nationals out in the case of a Taliban advance, and to do it without even consulting the British Prime Minister and refusing to answer his phone call for almost 48 hours, sends a message to us.

And the message is, we cannot trust America, despite being our closest partner for over 100 years, we cannot trust America with this man in charge.

And it's a sad realization, but it's true.

And I think it goes even further than the relationship between the UK and the USA.

I think NATO, frankly, I mean, ceases to function.

So the damage that Biden has done to America's international reputation couldn't be greater.

Yeah,

they were all yelling at Donald Trump saying that he was going to destroy NATO.

And I think this has destroyed NATO.

I mean,

what does our alliance even mean?

I mean, I cannot believe that the White House refused the call of the British Prime Minister for over 40 hours.

That's incomprehensible to me.

Yes, it is incomprehensible, but it's also, isn't it, the way that international mainstream media wanted to portray the Trump movement, just indeed as they did with the Brexit movement.

You know, Trump is going to destroy NATO.

No, no, no, no, no.

What Trump did, he turned up at the NATO HQ in Brussels and said, and Barbara had said similar before, but without any particular strength, that we cannot go on with a NATO where major countries like Germany are only paying half the membership fee.

The NATO rules are actually very fair.

Regardless of the size of a country, you must spend 2% of GDP on defense, and the Germans were spending one.

So actually, in many ways, what Trump was doing was trying to make NATO fair, but it was willfully, willfully misportrayed.

What Biden has done is to say, look, you know, we're the big guys in NATO, but hey, we just do stuff without consulting, despite the fact you too have had many hundreds of people killed in Afghanistan and put big money into Afghanistan, but without even the compliment of a conversation, we've decided that effectively the NATO mission is over.

So so yeah special relationship with Britain are completely in tatters at NATO I'm not even sure it can possibly survive what it's just gone through

and of course you know when you look at those photographs today of Taliban soldiers now dressed in American military equipment with 85 billion dollars worth of US military hardware now in the hands of these people with the giant lithium reserves that exist within Afghanistan, now completely open to exploitation with communist China, and warnings coming in the UK today that our terrorism threat is now going up directly as a result of what has happened in Afghanistan.

And one of the most overused words in the English language is disaster.

But believe me, Glenn, this is on every level a disaster.

I heard things coming from the Parliament and the House of Lords that I never

have heard before.

Things like, we don't trust America.

We don't know if we can

get into a military operation again with America.

How significant is what's said on the floor of Parliament and the House of Lords?

Oh, it's significant, Lord.

I mean, look, ever since 1917, ever since America entered the First World War, you know, we have been beside each other throughout virtually every single major conflict.

I mean, side by side.

And yes, of course, America is bigger than us, but it's been a very, very important relationship.

And not just in terms of military, in terms of information sharing as well.

I mean, that's where, in many ways, that's where our two countries are the closest in sharing intelligence.

I'm not even sure.

right now that the British government or security forces

would even share every piece of intelligence with an administration that has treated us with such complete and utter contempt.

Yes, of course, it is right that any government puts the interests of its own citizens first, but you do that as well as consulting with your friends and allies.

And when you work with the Brits, I mean, you know, I know 1812 did happen, but it's a long time ago.

And I think we've been I think we've been forgiven.

I think we're okay.

I think we're okay.

But literally, since April 1917, you know, we are the two countries and we've shed much blood and spent much treasure all over the world defeating Nazism and other terrible regimes.

And for us to have gone through those things together, to now be treated like this, that is why you're hearing members of the House of Lords, members of the Parliament, senior commentators, and people like me who are instinctively pro-American saying we have a real problem now.

And you know something, America,

Biden, whether we like it or not, is the leader of the free world.

And it's him that we look to for really, really big things.

And frankly, if America falls, then Western civilization falls.

That is how great these stakes are.

I have to say for my own part, I think he'll be gone.

by November, December 2022.

I think it's very unlikely that he'll stay beyond that and the Democrats will make him the fool guy for some very bad midterm results.

But I'm not too sure that Kamala Harris following him is going to be any better.

So, you know, to think there's three and a half years, three and a half years of this administration to run, I'm just beginning to ask myself, how much more damage can they do?

If we had another September 11th,

how hesitant, what would the world's reaction be to us right now, all of our allies?

Well, I think, to be honest with you, even without um a september the 11th any increase in jihadi terrorism across europe or in the united kingdom or anywhere else for that matter i think the finger will be firmly pointing to washington dc because you know one thing that is true is that for the last handful of years we've been remarkably free of these horrible jihadi attacks

British intelligence is now warning that we do now face we do now face a significantly increased terror threat.

And that's because jihadi groups all over the world have taken great comfort from the way the Taliban have moved forward.

And, of course, they know, and they know that Afghanistan once again will be a place where international terror can be plotted and can be planned.

Let me ask you something off the subject.

America is not seeing the

revolt of the citizens of France and of England to these draconian COVID restrictions.

I mean, people in France are having picnics in the street in front of restaurants that are demanding you have, you know, a COVID passport.

And

we're not seeing any of that.

Tell me what's going on over in Europe with the COVID

mess.

Yeah.

Well,

France is a very unique country in many ways.

And there are things about France we love, and things about France that we don't necessarily like so much.

The English have a familiar saying about the French.

We say the French are revolting, by which we mean

by which we mean.

The French love to take to the streets.

They love to revolt.

They love to protest.

Their fishermen do it.

Their farmers do it.

Direct action is a way of life in France.

And you're right.

The level of protest against vaccine vaccine passports, which President Macron is trying to impose in a very draconian manner, the level of protest against it in France is very significant indeed.

And I think Macron is facing a real problem.

Across much of the rest of Europe, including the UK, whilst there is dissent, it's on nothing like the scale that it's face on.

in France.

Yep, and I, you know, let's see how this one plays out.

But it wouldn't surprise me if the French protests don't succeed against vaccine passports.

And I mean, come on.

You know, the idea that we have to show medical ID and goodness knows what else just to go and buy a cup of tea and a sandwich is frankly ridiculous.

It's against everything we've ever stood for.

It's just plain wrong.

Nigel Farage, one last question.

How are the American people perceived?

Are we perceived separate from the government?

Because a lot of people were against Donald Trump.

The media made him into an absolute tyrant monster.

Many of the people who are now complaining about Joe Biden hated Donald Trump.

I tried to think of a country that would be friendly to conservatives here in America and constitutionalists, and I can't think of any.

How are we perceived?

Yeah, it's been very difficult.

And I mean, look, let's face it, Biden is the creation of mainstream media and the social media giants.

I mean, they're the ones that allowed this man, promoted this man,

made sure that there'd be no proper investigation into Hunter Biden, the laptop corruption,

no question of tens of millions of mail-out ballots being sent all over America.

So, you know, congratulations to the New York Times and CNN.

You got your man, and look what good it's done.

Look, I think the truth of it is that British people certainly, and I think most Europeans, we're not going to lay the blame of this at the door of ordinary Americans.

We can see that it's bumbling, incoherent Biden, a man who is not fit to be president.

So I don't think I don't think all Americans are damned by the actions of that man, but I do think there are large sections of the media in our country and your country that owe us the most almighty apology.

Yeah, I agree.

Well, let it start here.

We apologize.

There are millions of Americans who think this was incredibly

mishandled at best.

And the way that we have treated our allies is despicable.

And we know that.

Nigel, thank you so much.

Thank you.

Keep us alive over there.

Thank you.

You bet.

Nigel Farage, you can follow him at Nigel underscore Farage

on Twitter and theBrexitparty.org.