Welcome to the Battle Crypaw cast with Convention of States Action President Mark Meckle.
You can watch the original live broadcast Sunday nights at APM Eastern Time on the Convention
of States Facebook and Rumble channels.
Good evening everyone.
Mark Meckle here, your host for the Battle Cry and as always I'm thrilled to be with
you on a Sunday evening.
I'm back at home in Texas where I like to be lots of travel this week.
I've been out in North Carolina.
Then I was in Plymouth, Massachusetts for the National Day of Prayer.
Did a great thing.
We normally do it at the monument to the forefathers.
You see that in the background over my shoulder there.
Copy that.
But it was cold.
It was windy, a little bit rainy, so we were inside.
That was fantastic.
I had to talk a little bit about that later.
Really what I got out of all of this of my travel to North Carolina, being in Plymouth,
Massachusetts with a bunch of great patriots and great believers was that you got to make
sure you don't lose hope.
This is really important.
This is our call to action this week is don't let yourself lose hope no matter what.
This is what the left wants of you.
This is what Democrats want of you.
This is what the media wants of you.
They want to knock you down, knock you down, and knock you down until you don't get up
anymore.
You don't get up anymore if you don't have hope.
If you don't believe that we can prevail.
I believe we can prevail.
I know we can prevail.
I know that we know how the story ends.
Ultimately, we don't know how the story of America ends or if it ends or when it ends.
We just know that we're in the fight.
You've heard me say a lot that duty is ours and the results belong to God.
That's an important quotation from John Quincy Adams talking about why he stayed in the fight
for abolition when he had no chance of winning because he said duty is ours and the results
belong to God.
Now if you believe that you are acting on your duty, then you don't quit.
You don't quit no matter what because it's your duty.
It's not about whether you're winning.
It's not about how much you win.
It's not about how many times you get knocked down.
It's not about whether you're going to win in the end.
It's that you're doing your duty.
I think, at least I believe for me, that I have a duty, a duty, a sacred duty to fight
for our country.
When you fight for the United States of America, you're fighting for the whole world because
if the flame of liberty goes out in the United States of America, it goes out in the whole
world.
This is the place.
Times are difficult.
I understand that we've got a lot of crazy stuff going on in the country.
We've got stolen elections going on, voter fraud going on.
We've got all this stuff that came down with COVID going on, what I would call totalitarian
tyranny of COVID.
We've got the media against us.
We've got the entertainment industry against us.
We've got all the gender madness happening.
We've got the CRT madness happening, the school board madness, the porn in our libraries,
and on and on and on.
I could run out of breath saying that stuff.
I feel like when we watch the media, and now I'm referring to the media that's on our
side, quote unquote, the right-wing media, when we watch that media, it's all kind of
the same.
They're covering the same stories because that's what's news, quote unquote.
The old saying from the news, if it bleeds, it leads.
That means that the scary, dark, disgusting, terrible, depressing stuff is what you're
going to see on the news.
All of these news shows what they do.
It's like they put you in the closet of bad news where it's real dark and there's a bunch
of scary stuff.
They close the door.
They spin you around in circles.
They keep you there for half hour or an hour.
They open the door.
They push you out into the light and you come out stunned and the light's bright.
All you can think about is all the horrible things that you saw in that closet.
That's depressing and it can be demoralizing.
It can turn you into a summer soldier or a sunshine patriot.
These are famous words.
You've probably heard those words before.
Thomas Paine wrote these words.
These appeared in the Pennsylvania Gazette, George Washington's troops at the time were
encamped at McConkie's Ferry on the Delaware River opposite Trenton, New Jersey.
They'd already been beaten by the British troops.
Let's see, in New York City and between September and December, I think they lost over 1,000
people.
A lot of troops gave up the fight, returned home to their family.
Washington's looking at it.
It's like, what happens if they all leave?
Thomas Paine writes these words.
These are the times that try men's souls.
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service
of his country.
But he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Tierney, like hell, is not easily conquered.
And yet we have this consolation with us, the harder the conflict, the more glorious the
triumph.
So today, when I'm telling you not to lose hope, I am saying, don't be a summer soldier
and don't be a sunshine patriot.
Man, it gets hard out there.
Trust me, I know, I'm out on the road.
I get my butt kicked plenty.
And you guys are watching it on the news.
If you're engaged, if you're activist, you're getting your butt kicked too.
That happens to us.
But the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will lose hope and go away from the fight.
They will give up.
But the true patriot will not shrink from the service of his country.
The true patriot will stand it now, will take what's coming, will get up again, will not
lose hope because he or she understands that tyranny like hell is not easily conquered.
And that's where we're at right now.
So I'm encouraging you.
I'm telling you, don't give up hope.
I was in Plymouth, Massachusetts with hundreds of patriots packing a church, praying for this
country on the National Day of Prayer yesterday.
And it gave me so much hope.
I'm just filled with hope.
And so I hope I can project some of that to you.
I hope that I can give you some of my hope.
The important thing is don't give up and don't quit the fight because that's how we lose.
And that's what they want us to do.
Your enemies want you to quit.
They want you to give up.
They want you to let them take your children.
They want you to let them destroy this country.
And I'll tell you, for me, I'm not letting them.
I don't know how it comes out.
Again, as John Quincy Adams says, duties, mind results belong to God.
But I know I'm not going to give up.
I'm not going to lose hope.
So I hope you join me in keeping hope and spreading hope.
I'm going to give you something that's hopeful to lead off the news.
SpaceX today put 56 more satellites into orbit.
That was at about 3 AM Eastern time.
This actually means something hopeful.
SpaceX is a company owned by Elon Musk.
Elon Musk is right now the greatest champion of free speech in the world.
He bought Twitter not as a business venture, but to protect free speech.
It's hard to imagine a guy could put $44 billion into a company to protect free speech, but
that's what he's doing.
And he's allowing people to speak freely.
And we now have Twitter as the greatest free speech platform in the world, not just in
America.
And this same man is putting satellites into orbit.
He's now created the largest satellite constellation in history over 4,000 satellites with this latest
launch.
By the way, they're going up to 28,000 satellites to just absolutely coat the globe so that
you can have access to information wherever you are freely.
And so this is what Elon Musk has done.
The champion of free speech, I think governments are afraid of him.
Certainly our governments afraid of him.
I think governments around the world are afraid of him because he now has his own space force
essentially, his own communications network worldwide, which champions free speech.
And this is a very positive thing.
So I think you should pay attention to it.
Plus, I'm just a space geek.
So I watched the launch today.
Not live, of course.
I wasn't up at 3am.
I actually was, but I was getting ready to fly.
I didn't watch the launch, but I watched it this afternoon.
I watched how they land the booster rocket on the ground, which is incredible stage one.
It actually comes back down and gets reused and re-landed.
This is our fourth launch this week.
I think it's totally cool, exciting stuff.
So you should pay attention sometimes to the good stuff.
And that's good stuff.
Now, here's some bad stuff, not in our country, but in South Africa, South African Rail has
now completely collapsed.
And so ridership on South African Rail has now dropped 94% in the last 15 years, 94%, only
6% of the ridership has left.
That means the entire industry has totally collapsed.
This is what happens when totalitarianians who don't care about capitalism, who are totally
corrupt, take over.
Now, I want to be really clear.
As people are going to say, I'm saying I'm in favor of apartheid.
I'm not saying that apartheid was an evil system.
I'm glad it was dismantled.
But what it got replaced by is not doing the people of South Africa any favors.
Their economy is collapsing.
Their electrical grid is collapsing.
They don't have power all the time anymore.
This used to be pretty much a first world country.
And again, I'm not supporting apartheid.
I'm not supporting the former government they had, but they have now destroyed their economy.
And what I'm saying is the current corruptocrat government is doing this.
It's really bad.
And importantly, it's where we're headed.
If we let the morons in government continue to run things, continue to do it in a corrupt
way, continue to steal, continue to bankrupt our country, we're going to end up like South
Africa or other countries where the whole government is just corrupt.
So this should be a lesson to us.
Now, speaking of collapse, here's a positive collapse.
I know there can be a positive collapse.
Trust me, bud light sales have continued to collapse.
And this is a fantastic thing.
And you're responsible for it.
All of us are responsible for it.
Everybody who drank any anheuser bush products is responsible for it.
So the sales of bud have gone through the floor.
Bars are canceling bud in general, like offsite sales are complete disaster right now.
People it's become a cultural thing now where people make fun of their friends if they drink
bud light.
Or if you go into a bar and you order bud light, you're probably going to get grief from somebody.
This is the kind of corporate error, this woke mentality that I did that probably I would
argue probably bud light never recovers from it.
And they never should.
And you should never let them.
And they haven't done the one thing that they need to do if they want to try to recover
from this is they haven't apologized.
See, because they're afraid to apologize.
And why are they afraid?
Because they're afraid of the woke mob.
They're afraid of the investment banks that use ESG scores, right?
Or whatever they call it, environmental social governance scores.
And so if they say we're sorry that we put a transvestite on our cannon and insulted all
our customers, they're going to get dinged on their ESG scores.
The banks are going to turn against them.
So they are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
That's exactly where they belong.
I am totally happy about that.
Bud light should get completely crushed.
And anyway, bud light's not real beer anyway.
And you shouldn't drink that stuff.
It's disgusting.
If you want to have a beer and I encourage you to have a beer once in a while, if you're
a drinker, go out and have a beer.
Buy a good local American beer.
Craft beer is just fantastic in this country now.
Wherever you are, there are good craft breweries.
Go to your local grocery store, buy a good craft beer and laugh at the Bud light that's
standing there in the case.
You didn't even put a note like Bud light did this to themselves or this case reserved
for Dylan Mulvaney.
That's what we really ought to do.
We ought to have that stickers made.
Dylan Mulvaney's beer.
Anyway, it's good.
So that collapse is good.
Here's a bad collapse.
Navy recruiting is collapsing.
Navy recruiting fell short 8,000 positions in the last year, 8,000.
I mean, that's a big number for our Navy to be short in their recruiting.
So they have a fix.
They've decided if they could recruit a whole bunch more drag queens or people who like
drag queens, that would really help the Navy.
What?
What?
Who thought of this?
Who thought, can you imagine like virile young men that want to go into the Navy that want
to shoot big guns on ships, want to be on submarines, all this stuff?
Like really serious, manly, masculine, war fighting stuff.
They all want to be surrounded by a bunch of drag queens.
Is that it?
Because that went young virile 18 year old testosterone filled men are thinking.
It's like, I hope I get on a submarine with a drag queen.
Yeah, I don't know who they're trying to recruit.
Maybe they're trying to recruit more drag queens.
I mean, how many drag queens do you think are going to join the Navy because they now
have a drag queen as one of their digital recruiters out there?
So this is an unbelievable thing.
I think you're going to see Navy recruiting collapse even more.
They need to go back to masculine male ads about how they blow stuff up and they dominate
the seas and their discipline and there's camaraderie, not about drag queens.
But will they learn a lesson?
Unlikely, I don't think so.
Here's something else collapsing that's not good, which is our border.
Any border protection has completely collapsed.
And the Biden administration is now talking about it openly.
And what they're saying openly is that illegal immigration is at its lowest point in years.
It's down 90% yerubes.
Don't you know?
Immigration down 90% can't you tell by the hordes flowing across the border, by the cartels
in total control, by the sex trafficking, by the fentanyl, by the militarization of the
border, by the cartels themselves?
Don't you know?
It's totally under control.
Immigrating illegal immigration down 90%.
It's unbelievable how bad it is and how boldly the administration lies about it.
And they lie about it because the media won't tell us the truth.
I just don't understand this.
If I were in the presidential briefing room or the press briefing room and Corinne John
Pierre, no, I should say it correctly.
Karen Jean Pierre, I know I stole that from Matt Walsh because I don't want to say her
name in some fancy way.
The worst press secretary in the history of at least in my lifetime, Karen Jean Pierre
says that illegal immigration is down 90%.
It's an insult to the intelligence of anybody sitting in that room.
And it shows the intelligence level of the press corps in the United States that nobody,
except maybe Fox News, who I don't watch anymore, is challenging them on that.
And so it's just insanity.
We know what's going on.
And by the way, Title 42 expires on the 11th.
So the 11th, that'll be next Thursday.
And the hordes are lining up and they're coming across the border.
And by the way, if you don't live in Texas where I live, where we're getting this directly,
the Brenton directly, I don't care where you live, you're going to feel this and you are
feeling it in your town.
And there is sex trafficking in your town.
There is slavery in your town.
There are massage parlor brothels in your town.
Right?
So this is going on in your town.
Dying a fentanyl in your town, your town, wherever you live.
If you live in the Northeast, the Midwest, the West, the Southeast, the South, it's happening
in your town.
We have to do something about that.
That's why we did the How Many More Rally.
If you want to get some clips of what that looked like and go to howmanymore.com, we're
going to continue to work through this.
We're going to continue to push the Texas legislature to pass HB 20 and create a border
protection force.
The How Many More Rally was just a starting point.
We're still in that fight.
You should still be in that fight.
This is what somebody does when they're not a summer soldier and a sunshine patriot.
They don't just say, oh, well, the border is collapsing and there's nothing I can do
about it.
No, they stand up and they say, what can I do about it?
I'm going to do something about it.
I'm going to get in the fight.
I think this is really important.
There is a fight going on at every level of American government.
It's an elected government, but it's also in the administrative agencies and we're losing
that fight right now.
The intel community is completely corrupt all the way to the core.
A letter came out today or an email showing that the intel community was conspiring to
help the Joe Biden campaign, the famous 51 intel experts who said that the Hunter Biden
laptop was a Russian disinformation operation.
This was, you had Brennan and some other guys who were previous heads of the CIA all signed
this letter, but there's now an email going around saying that they were doing it specifically
to give the Biden campaign talking points.
The intel community is aligned against you.
Yeah, that's what's going on in this country.
It's terrifying.
Remember when we were calling for doing away with the FBI?
I got some grief for that on the right because they just said, oh, that's too extreme.
It's corrupt to the core.
The CIA is corrupt to the core.
We're going to have to tear them down and rebuild them from scratch because right now
they're deciding who gets to be president.
Not you and me.
It's the CIA and the FBI.
And that can't be allowed to stand in a free republic.
All right, let's turn to COS specifically.
COS is on the move in North Carolina.
I was there this week.
We did a breakfast.
Mike Ferris and I with a bunch of senators.
That was awesome.
But I'll tell you, the senators weren't the highlight.
The highlight were a couple of young girls that spoke about COS to the senators and congratulations
to Anthem and Amy.
They got up there, gave an incredible presentation to the brightest kids I have ever seen in
my life.
One is 10 and one is almost 13.
They did an awesome job.
I guarantee you they're going to be rising stars in COS.
You're going to see more of them.
What we heard from the senators is that likely this will start moving on the 15th probably
thereabouts.
They'll discuss it in caucus in the Senate.
Remember, we've already passed the House.
We're going to go to the Senate.
They haven't really discussed it in caucus.
They're tied up in their budget.
This always happens.
The budget's always a mess.
We expect that to be done by the 15th.
We talked with our sponsor.
He was very positive with us.
I think we got a good shot to pass in North Carolina.
I want to close with this before I go to Q&A, which is where I started, which is don't
lose hope.
I listen to a bunch of media figures out there.
Sometimes it makes me feel like losing hope.
I'm not going to name names and I'm not going to bag on anybody in specific, but I'm going
to bag on people generally.
I'm going to tell you that when the media tells you that everything's bad and everything's
dark and nothing's good, they are suppressing your will to fight.
You have to resist that because it's not correct.
It's not true.
It's not reality.
Reality is there are a lot of people just like you out there in America that not only
have not lost the will to fight, they're in the fight.
All of us from time to time get disappointed, discouraged, frustrated, angry, the key is
how long do you stay in that spot?
You say there for five minutes because you just something made you really mad?
Is it five hours at five days for you or have you checked out of the fight because you just
believe there's no hope?
You can't do that.
You can't be a summer soldier.
You can't be a sunshine patriot.
Tierney like hell is a difficult thing to beat, but we can beat it.
I believe we can beat it and I guarantee you we can't beat it if we lose hope.
That's 100%.
If you think you can or you think you can't, either way you're correct.
That's something my dad used to say to me when we were young.
If you believe you can't, if you believe you can, either way you're correct.
So I believe we can.
You should believe we can and then we can and I think we will.
All right.
I'm going to go to Q&A here before we close out.
Our first Q&A is from Barbara, Metaxis and that name is so familiar.
Is that Eric from Metaxis relationship?
Maybe this is Eric's mom.
Hopefully it's Eric's mom.
Can Texas use the National Guard on the border?
And the answer is Texas can use the National Guard, but if they do what happens?
They use the National Guard and then the federal government can call the National Guard away
elsewhere.
And mostly our National Guard is on duty elsewhere right now.
Texas also has a state guard and we've used our state guard on the border and we can continue
to use the state guard on the border, but we need a bigger dedicated border protection
force that's trained for that, equipped for that and literally just designated for that.
That is now pending in the house in Texas in what Bill number is called HB 20 House Bill
20.
I believe that's going to come out of calendars and go to the floor sometime this week, hopefully
by Thursday of this week and then over to the Senate and we're going to have to ram that
thing through and that will create a border protection force.
It doesn't fix the problem.
It's not a silver bullet, but it's a start of it.
They needed to declare the cartels here in Texas as terrorist organizations.
They need to seize cartel assets.
They need to get that border protection force in place.
They need to protect the ranchers.
They need to build a physical wall.
All of those things they can do under the auspices of repelling the invasion and Lord
knows it's an invasion.
All right.
Next active 50 lady from rumble says if the border view crane is so important that we
can spend billions on it, why is our border not important?
Active 50 lady.
I don't know.
I think it is.
I completely agree with you.
In fact, what I think the Texas delegation should do should say no more money for Ukraine
unless we seal our own border.
No more money for a lot of things unless we seal our own border.
And by the way, I'm relatively hawkish on Ukraine.
I like that we're degrading Russia.
I like that we're helping Ukraine.
I understand their corrupt country.
There's a lot of nuance in this situation.
We're not going to go on to that, but I'm more pro helping Ukraine than some conservatives,
but I think we should help ourselves first.
I think we should help the United States of America.
We should secure our border first and we should make our help for Ukraine contingent
upon securing our own border.
Mike Valentine says, have you given any thought to being on Joe Rogan?
Oh, Mike.
Mike, Mike, Mike.
Yes, lots of thought.
If you know Joe, just pick up the phone and give him a call and just tell him to have
me on.
We have reached out.
Our media teams reach out.
I'm sure every person in the world that does anything in the public sphere would like
to be on Joe Rogan show.
I certainly would like it.
My understanding is he's based somewhere here in Austin.
I've never run into him.
I don't know him.
Mike, if you know anybody who knows him, then you should definitely let him know that,
you know, I might be a good guest on the show.
I would love to go on.
I think he's a super interesting guy with interesting, honest perspectives, takes an
honest look at everything.
I'd love to be on the show.
We'll keep trying and it's on the bucket list.
So that means eventually we'll probably get it done.
So I'm going to close out.
I'm going to close out with telling you to have hope.
Make sure you're buying the swag, buying the gear, go to convention.
We're going to go to states.com forward slash store.
Lots of new gear showing up all the time.
I'm some super exciting stuff that we're about to release that I can't tell you about
yet because I'm getting big trouble.
Sometimes I get in big trouble anyway.
So maybe I'll do that next week.
We've got a bunch of cool new gear coming in the store stuff.
You're not going to find anywhere else.
Just your regular t-shirts and stuff and other things that I think you're really going
to want.
So go to convention of states.com forward slash store.
Buy the swag.
Don't lose hope.
We'll see you next week on the ballot.
This has been the podcast version of the battle cry with Mark Meckler.
Visit conventionofstates.com slash pod to learn more.
Thank you for listening.
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