Making Woke Go Broke

Ladies and gentlemen, Baking Woke Go Broke. Please welcome, from Patriot Mobile, Glenn Story, from Ace Specialties, Crystal Mahfouz, from Parler, George Parler, and your moderator, from Voss Media, Orlando Salazar. Good morning, everybody. The book of Ecclesiastes says what's been done will be done again. What's been has been before, that there's nothing new under the sun. The book of Isaiah says, woe to those who call good evil, evil good, who put darkness for light, light for darkness. Woe to those who put bitter for sweet, sweet for bitter, and woe to those who are wise in their own eyes. And finally, the book of Judges says, in those days, Israel had no king, and everyone did as they saw fit. Crystal, when you put all that together, to me, it equals wokeness. Tell me how wokeness has affected your business. Well, first of all, I'm so glad to be here. Not many of you know my story. I have been part of President Trump's campaign, literally, you know, since he announced he was running. July 22nd, 2015, I found myself in Trump Tower, doing what would be the pitch of a lifetime. I was on the brink of losing my company, and here I am, a small business owner from Lafayette, Louisiana, single mom. I literally prayed, and, you know, the oil industry plummeted earlier that year, and I prayed to God, show me the light, show me the way. I can't close my company. I literally was on the brink, and open a door, show me what I'm supposed to do. And when President Trump came down the escalator, it was literally like a light. I saw visions in my head of women for Trump, teen Trump, veterans for Trump. My coworker and I put together these logos. We made merchandise, and FedExed it to Trump Towers, and there I am, two weeks later, doing, you know, pitch of a lifetime. Mr. Trump walks in, and just imagine this, okay? Here I am, you know, I have every product I could imagine on the market, and I have everything laid out. He walks in, and he says, I love everything. I love it. This is our bumper sticker. This is great. How fast can we get this done? And I said, sir, give me one week, and I will be ready to go. And sure enough, I was ready. But the beautiful part about that day is when he looked at me, and he said, no matter what we make, I want to ensure that everything is made 100% right here in America. Yes. And I knew, I knew immediately that it wasn't just about the label. It wasn't about whether it's FedMaid in the USA. It was about supporting American jobs, American families, American manufacturing, putting food on the table, putting gas in the tank. It was about putting this country first. And that's what we built the mission on. And that day, you know, I'm proud to say we built the most iconic brand in political history. Now, fast forward, you know, that's a great story, and I have much to say through the years, but I'm going to fast forward real quick to January 6th. That day, as we all sat back and watched, you know, and personally, I've been to over 350 events. I've seen, I've talked, I've hugged, I've interacted with a Trump supporter. What we saw that day was the Trump, not the Trump supporter that I know. I've had firsthand interaction. So, January 7th rolled around. Look at my phone. Shopify cancels Trump. We were canceled. We went from doing thousands of orders a day to zero. Zero orders. I sat back, started to panic a little bit, but I knew, I kept telling myself, you know what, if anyone is going to defeat the left, it is President Donald J. Trump, and he did. And four months later, we were back online selling the merchandise. Awesome. George, you know a little bit about being canceled. And when we see what's going on in our culture today, we see the three-letter words I like to say, like NFL, NBA, MLB. We see the terrible things that have happened all over the place with the media, with Netflix and Disney. Talk to us about what happened at Parler. Yeah, thanks. Yeah, I mean, look, Parler is the ultimate canceled brand. Everybody knows the name. The name is famous across the whole social media world. We reached out to people in Europe. They've heard of Parler. We platformed medieval equivalent sex communication by the church, and it was sent off to buildings by Amazon, by Google, by Apple, and by a host of other providers as well, you know, Zendesk, and a lot of other people. And what that did was awaken the conservative mind, awaken the free speech mind. Everybody at that point realized that we were not safe. You know, this was an ecosystem of technology built to allow for some expression, but not all expression. Conservatives do not have a voice for expression. If you challenge the dominant narrative of the big tech giants, challenge their sort of monolithic mindset, you will be exiled. And so Parler has spent the last 18 months rebuilding from the ground up. You know, when I look at most tech companies these days, they use a whole host of infrastructure, which is provided for by Amazon, by Google, by Apple, and we have built everything from scratch. We have to. That's a requisite now for what we do. And that allows for us to be censor-free, cancel-free. We can operate without fear of big tech. Well, Adam, we've known each other for a good while. You're from Dallas, and I'm from Dallas. And we've talked about all kinds of big companies being canceled. The name of your company is pretty much racist. You're calling yourself Patriot Mobile. That is like the most racist name you could possibly have. Tell us about Patriot Mobile, and tell us what you've experienced in this crazy wave of localization. Well, I would have to say that it's been an incredible ride, at least. But I want to say I do identify as a Patriot and a deplorable. But with that said, you know, having the name Patriot in your title or your company name is really challenging. However, you know what really throws folks off is we identify, or we call our company God's Company. We invited him into our daily work, and he's at the helm. I mean, he's at the lead of our business. We're stewards of this business. And, you know, the blessings have just come. I just can't imagine not doing it any other way. So how we separate ourselves, though, is we have four pillars, the First Amendment, Second Amendment, right to life, and military and first responders. But really what differentiates us, not only is he at the helm, but we use these biblical principles and donate back to organizations like Concerned Women for America. We do other organizations, SBA, Folds of Honor, etc. It's amazing what God has done. And pretty soon Vos Media. Pretty soon Vos Media. You know, we align it perfectly. Yeah, you know, God's just continued to bless us, and we boldly stand out in front and say we're a Christian conservative organization. We have a Bible study every Tuesday at noon, and you've been to the Bible study before Orlando, and we break bread afterwards. And I will say this. When you put him first, you can't lose. And I encourage everyone to do so. It opens doors, and it puts you in places you never dreamed about. Talking about him first, putting the Lord first, Jesus said, Beware the yeast of the Pharisees, which is, as Rush would say, hypocrisy. The yeast of the Pharisees was hypocrisy. It penetrated all aspects of Christian society in that day. George, talk to us about the hypocrisy that you see that's been created because of Vos Media. It's everywhere. I mean, where do you begin? You know, look at Twitter. I mean, Twitter is the ultimate example of corporate hypocrisy. You know, we can censor somebody because we don't agree with what they think about transgenderism, but at the same time, we're going to allow for the Taliban to have a Twitter account. At the same time, we're going to allow for Iran's Supreme Leader to have a Twitter account. I mean, it's nonsense. I mean, basically, they set up their own rules, and they make you play by them. And this is the problem, by the way. The problem, as my wife would say, is that the right- Who is your wife, by the way? Some of you might know her as Candace Owens. Candace Owens. You didn't come here for me. You came here for her. Thank you very much. She would be here, but we've had our second kid. But basically, the right has for too long played by the left's rules, and the left is playing by nobody's rules. They're playing by their own set of rules, which they're making up as they go along the whole time, and there's no end game to it, right? And so Twitter has done this very, very well. Facebook has done it very, very well. Amazon has started to do it. All these woke corporates are starting to push this narrative, right? I mean, go woke, get broke. I mean, it is true. I mean, look at Netflix stuff. It's down 80%. Fantastic. You know, let's long may that continue. But the hypocrisy of the left is rampant in their own political ideology, and also their own social policy, which is really ironic. The Bible says money is not the root of all evil. The love of money is the root of all evil. And so they love it so much, they go down their own little rabbit trails, and then they end up broke. Crystal, talk to us about what you've seen as far as being a small business and wokeness and the hypocrisy that you've seen from your point of view. Well, you know, for me at age, obviously when I landed President Trump's account and, you know, started listening to his message and, you know, putting this country first and everything wonderful that he had to say about bringing back America and obviously making it great again, I made a decision at that point that I was only going to work with clients who had the same values, the same mission. And for me, it's been great. I mean, I could go to bed at night knowing that I only make merchandise for conservative candidates, organizations, and companies, and our missions are aligned. And for me, you know, that's the only way I believe we're going to defeat, you know, the left and what they're doing to it. Glenn, you can wrap us up. Talk to us about how following your values and not going down those liberal rabbit trails has really made what Patriot Mobile what it is today. You know, and I will, but I want to say thank you to Matt and Mercedes. They have battle wounds all over their backs, and we really admire them for everything they do and other conservative organizations. I look at Parlay, or Parler, inside joke, but anyway, we'll look at them, and it's like, holy cow, if they can do it to Parler, they can do it to anyone. And the fact of the matter is, look, we're all going to answer to him. But I live by that faith, and we're going to go ahead and battle until all of us live that way. And if we work together, and we were talking about it backstage, continue to work together and lift each other up, we will build this red wave and red conservative movement that will benefit all of us, right? And I look, and I made a mistake earlier, but like Golds of Honor and other organizations like Mercury One and Glenn Beck, those guys are doing his work, and they're doing the work that every one of you guys sitting out there believes in. And, you know, I look at it and say, God bless us. We're going to do the right thing every day, and we work with those that appreciate and align with your values. And I think when you do that, you get just richly blessed. And we want to continue to do that, and I would encourage you to check out PatriotMobile.com, a cell phone company that aligns with you guys. Thank you, guys. Appreciate your time. God bless you all. Hopefully we'll see you next year.