The Congress AI amnesty attempt blew up after Steve Bannon exposed how lawmakers tried to slip it quietly into the NDAA without debate.
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Bannon On AI Amnesty: “The People In The House And The Senate Fully Understood What They Were Doing Here”
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Make sure you go to Article 3. Also go to BillBlaster. Talk to Grace. Let us stay on them.
The head of the House Armed Services Committee, Mike Rogers, as Mike Rogers said today, had lost momentum. Was not going to be in the bill. He is going to put language out on Thursday on the NDAA. It is not going to include the AI amnesty. Scalise just reconfirmed that. And Scalise, you know, in a moment of, you know, enlightenment, says, hey, maybe this was not the best venue to put it through.
You are damn right it was not. And no offense, this is, I think, why it is, you know, and we are going to go to Tennessee. We are going to go to Michael Patrick Leahy in a moment. And I think, and what Leahy is saying is we are hearing that. I think turnout is great. We have got to run through the tape there. You still have got a couple more hours in Tennessee.
But the reason that people are angry is the people in the House and the Senate fully understood what they were doing here. They were trying to slide something in like they changed the Electoral Count Act of 1887, unconstitutionally I might add, to try to fool people. You cannot fool MAGA. We are going to get down and get the receipts and we are going to find out, understand.
And we have now beaten you twice, or we are close to beating you twice. I do not want to get too cocky on this one because they are so duplicitous. They tried it again, a couple of pages, to give them, to take away all your rights, all your controls, all the safety of your children, all of it. And we do not even know what is going on in these frontier labs. All of it, for them to give it to the oligarchs.
Scalise knew this. Mike Rogers knew this. Everybody in the House knew. The Speaker knew this. Guys in the Senate knew this. Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz knew this. They all knew it when it was getting slid in there.
If it had not been, once again, for Mike Davis and Article 3, the Joe Allens of the world, getting people worked up and getting them worked up by looking at the facts, where they came and said, no, this is not acceptable. This is not right. We are not going to have this. And dig in and make enough phone calls and things that folks understood, well, hey, if I vote for this and my constituents know this, I may not be around here.
This is not the way it is supposed to work. You are not supposed to play hide the football. You got defeated back in July trying to do the same crap. And even Ted Cruz was too embarrassed, when we put the spotlight on him, that rat. He did not even vote for his own recommendation.
And we are going to go to Tennessee in a second, and Marsha Blackburn led the fight on that. Remember that, President Trump kind of told them, said, hey, I do not think you guys, I do not think this is going to work. It was like two o clock in the morning. I think the vote was at three. Ninety nine to one. Ninety nine to one.
They had the gall because they think you are dumb. Let us be honest. They think you are idiots. They do. They have no respect. You cannot say they go, no, we respect. You do not respect the working man and woman in this country. You do not respect the middle class. You do not respect your base.
It is one of the reasons the base hates the ruling class and hates the political class. Because you do not come to them and say, hey, look, we got thwarted before, but we got to do this, and China is catching up to us.
Until somebody can show me, and maybe it has got to be the intelligence guys in a declassified setting, that the Chinese Communist Party, if we cut them off from chips, we cut them off from knowledge, we cut them off from technique, we cut them off from education, we cut them off from all capital markets, access to everything, that they can do this, that they are competitive in the Sputnik moment. And they are going to try to make that case. The arms dealer, Jensen Wong, the arms dealer is, he makes that case. He makes the case that, hey, if China wins, not a problem. If Chinese companies win, not a problem. We are all going to have a group hug. Yo, dude. Dude. Not going to happen.
He is pitching all the time to sell everything to them because he is an arms dealer. He is Khashoggi. So this looks like a huge victory once again. The pitchforks showed up and the lords of the manor said, hey, maybe we should rethink this. These people look angry. You are damn right they are angry.
It just goes on and on and on and on. No respect. And beating them once again. And they are going to try, hey, they are going to try the whole, their lobbyists are going to be working. They are going to be trying to hide the football in a million different ways.
And they are partnered now with the tech bros, a lovely group. You have got the, you have got a ruling elite, the Republican establishment, the tech bros. That is a witch’s brew. Incredible.
Okay. We have work to do. Been working hard, I know it, man. Bringing victory after victory. Because remember, victory begets victory.
