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00:12:50.000I'd like to propose a toast to our people.
00:12:55.000I'd like to propose a toast to the Voipers, to White Boy Summer, White Boy Century, to the reaction and the reclamation of the United States.
00:27:15.000And its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
00:27:19.000Americanism, not globalism will be our freedom!
00:27:36.000The mayor also just announced the city will start requiring proof of COVID vaccination for a range of indoor activities, including going to a restaurant or to the gym.
00:28:33.000I'm not going to Walgreens to get an mRNA, non-FDA approved, and even if it was, experimental vaccine that goes inside your cells and manipulates your DNA to start producing spiked proteins, which are killing babies and giving people heart attacks.
00:28:57.000Because I'm afraid of the flu, which kills like .00013%.
00:29:36.000People get a small taste of what they used to have, the hard lockdown comes back, and then people are more desperate to do what they're told in order to get full normalcy.
00:29:48.000And they're already talking about that in Iceland.
00:29:51.000They say in Iceland it's a 15-year, 15-year lockdown plan.
00:29:56.000And they're talking about that with the vaccines.
00:29:59.000Regular, every six months, booster shots.
00:30:03.000Booster shots, vaccinations for COVID.
00:30:08.000So you're gonna get your two shots, and then get sick, and then you gotta get a third shot, and then, you know, you just get a shot every six months or something.
00:30:18.000And that's with the 15-year lockdown plan, and that's with the masks, and the plexiglass, and the lockdown, and the vaccine passport.
00:30:26.000I think the endgame is the vaccine passport.
00:30:29.000When all of this is said and done, there will be no independent businesses left.
00:30:34.000There will be no public institution, public or private institution that is open to the public that will not be controlled by the state, that will not be controlled by bureaucrats.
00:30:45.000There's not going to be one place that you could go to outside where other people gather that will not be restricted based on vaccination status or some other arbitrary thing.
00:30:58.000And if they announced it tomorrow that that's what they were doing, people would resist it.
00:31:03.000And the only way to stop this, by the way, is to stop it where it is.
00:32:10.000There's a chance we could have earned that outcome.
00:32:12.000We are continuing to wage our war against the mask mandate.
00:32:17.000I'm a big believer in just making everybody's life harder.
00:32:20.000You don't have to get fired over this stuff, but just make everybody's life difficult.
00:32:24.000Don't let the CDC guidelines be an imposition on you.
00:32:29.000Let it be an imposition on the people that have to enforce it.
00:32:33.000You know, let the people that work at these places of business remind you five times when you're in a store or wherever to put your mask back on and put it on over your nose and do this and that, right?
00:32:48.000Go into one of these stores when they reimpose the mask mandate and get in a confrontation with the worker and get in a shouting match and get kicked out.
00:33:33.000Make them go to their therapist, and get on antidepressants, and cry.
00:33:38.000Because you walked into Target and ruined their whole day.
00:33:41.000Because gas is $4, and they don't know how they're going to pay their rent, and their relationship with their parents is bad, and they're getting used, and Tinder hookups, and then they gotta go to Target, and they gotta deal with some smug right-wing asshole not wearing their mask.
00:33:56.000And let those people go off the rails, and let the whole fucking system go off the rails.
00:34:54.000Of the prettiest dreams Millions of people try To get on the scene And everyone's selling their souls Everyone's selling their Everyone's saying they won't But they sleepwalking, their eyes closed
00:41:16.000But tonight our featured story is about the ongoing trucker protest in the capital of Canada.
00:41:23.000And it's actually a very dark and unfortunate development.
00:41:28.000The Canadian government, headed by Justin Trudeau, has invoked the Emergencies Act which is essentially a War Powers Act.
00:41:39.000And what this does is it allows Justin Trudeau and his government to essentially do whatever they want or whatever they need to do to break the protest.
00:41:49.000And that includes, for example, seizing bank accounts, stripping truckers and trucker companies of their insurance on themselves and their equipment, as well as even potentially mobilizing the military or federal law enforcement.
00:42:05.000I believe it's only been done once in the last 50 years.
00:42:10.000So this is a pretty historical thing here.
00:42:14.000So we'll talk about that and what the Emergencies Act allows the government to do and the whole situation.
00:42:21.000It's, honest to God though, I think it's actually a good thing.
00:42:26.000And I said this about the trucker protest from the beginning.
00:42:29.000There's really no way that we can lose in these confrontations.
00:42:34.000Because what you'll have is either we force a confrontation with the government and they capitulate, in which case we do it all the time and we just get as much as we can.
00:42:46.000Or, and this can happen the first time or the second time or the 100th time, the government will shut it down.
00:42:53.000They'll shut down peaceful, lawful means at redressing our grievances, and all this does is inspire more confidence in our cause, in the sense that it undermines credibility in the government.
00:43:06.000If they're having to deploy the military or invoke war powers in order to shut down a peaceful protest, that is just one other thing that undermines their credibility.
00:43:17.000So either way you look at it, the authority of the regime is crumbling.
00:43:22.000And so I think if they have to invoke the War Powers Act to stop truckers from honking their horns in the Capitol, it's a vote of no confidence in the government.
00:43:31.000And I think they're acknowledging that.
00:44:02.000Nah, but it's probably not gonna happen, so...
00:44:07.000The big news today is that Vladimir Putin said he is pulling back some of Russia's military equipment from the border with Ukraine, and they want to engage in talks about the fate of Ukraine and its membership in NATO, as well as a number of other items like ballistic missiles, anti-ballistic missiles, and NATO drills.
00:44:33.000So, it's exactly as I predicted last week.
00:44:36.000You know, I went over it in great detail on Friday and I said about the issue, and we'll of course go into it tonight,
00:44:44.000It's a high-stakes, it's brinksmanship, but it's high-stakes diplomacy about the fate of Ukraine and whether or not that's going to be a part of NATO.
00:44:54.000And really, it's about carving out this sphere of influence for Russia, this security net, I guess you could say, something like that, a security threshold for Russia in Eastern Europe, which we're still managing after the fall of the Soviet Union 30 years ago.
00:45:13.000Some are talking about imminent war, and you'll see that if you read the headlines, but if you parse it out, you'll see it's all part of a high-stakes negotiation.
00:45:34.000We've got a couple of nice story arcs.
00:45:38.000Things are beginning to happen again, you know?
00:45:40.000There was a long time where, like, nothing was going on.
00:45:45.000You know it was just coronavirus and like that was it.
00:45:50.000And we used to on the show have these like arcs where for a couple weeks we talk about one or some other thing like the George Floyd deal or the Persian Gulf when they were blowing up all the oil tankers and
00:46:02.000We haven't really had a good ARC in a while.
00:46:50.000So, so I'm a little, you know, a little gaseous.
00:46:53.000That's why I'm high energy because I got, you know, I hadn't eaten all day and I just got, you know, I do kind of feel like shit at the same time though.
00:47:01.000I'm like high energy but I also feel a little like, like lethargic, you know, because I don't eat and then I'll not eat for 24 hours and then I'll just slam like a hot dog and a pizza and it's like,
00:48:47.000And I thought, there's no way we're going to top that this year because it's like the stars aligned last year.
00:48:52.000We're gonna top last year this year it's gonna be really nice so we're very excited about that I I think we'll do that tomorrow so if my people are watching this I didn't I didn't tell them I didn't text them yet but yeah let's see if we could get that together for tomorrow for an announcement
00:49:11.000And we may even add additional speakers later this week.
00:49:16.000You know, there's still a lot going on.
00:49:18.000It always comes together like that, you know, towards the end.
00:49:40.000Sometimes it starts at 830, sometimes it starts at 9, sometimes 10 o'clock.
00:49:45.000You know, it's really sort of all over the place.
00:49:48.000And the only way that you're gonna know when I go live is if you're following this channel and you're getting the notification.
00:49:55.000Otherwise, you're completely in the dark.
00:49:58.000And you could be sitting there for a long time or you could miss a lot of the show.
00:50:03.000It's a very erratic schedule and it's unpredictable.
00:50:07.000So if you want a little predictability, you'll just have to follow and get that notification.
00:50:12.000That way you can, you know, it's like waiting for a table at a restaurant, you know, and they give you the buzzer and then you go and then the table's ready.
00:50:21.000So yeah, so make sure you follow me here.
00:51:13.000So I may just, you know, take a vacation, get off Telegram, not do the show, and just, you know, collect myself, because we've got a big year ahead.
00:51:21.000I've got to collect my bearings, you know, I've got to get my marbles together here.
00:51:26.000So I may take a week off, I haven't really decided.
00:51:29.000The tough thing is once you do AFPAC, then everyone's going to be talking about it, so you want to be there doing the show.
00:51:35.000But when else am I going to take a break, you know?
00:51:39.000Maybe I won't take a break until next year.
00:52:14.000I mean the footage... Almost every frame that I was in in the documentary we're going to use in our promotional material because it was just...
00:52:23.000It was good footage, you know, it was good footage.
00:53:08.000I mean, they lie to your face, they pretend to be nice, they put on a fake smile, they come into your home, and then they go and they try and ruin your life.
00:53:16.000And so I told you all about that yesterday, and then last night, right after the show, I checked Twitter, and I see this guy, once again, this guy Dan, who I thought was just a camera guy, turns out he was a director,
00:53:28.000He goes on this big Twitter screed about the documentary and among other things he says something like
00:53:38.000He made reference to the fact that he was mixed race and said, Oh my gosh, this documentary was so hard.
00:54:23.000They act like they came here and we were like, you know, burning crosses on the front lawn and saying, you know, HAIL HITLER, you know, something.
00:54:31.000Like, that wasn't happening, you know?
00:54:33.000Like, he came here, we were nothing but nice to them, we were nice to everybody there, I was nice to Louie, I was, you know, I was combative with him because he was asking tough questions, but it was all professional.
00:54:46.000You know, I was nothing but nice to Rory.
00:55:52.000But you had me up there, you had Michelle Mulligan up there, who she's Asian, you got John Miller who's up there who's black, and you were there!
00:56:02.000I mean, he filmed all the speeches, which by the way, none of that made it into the documentary, by the way, but he's gonna really sit there and say off-camera, you know, you don't have to pretend anymore for the cameras, pal,
00:56:14.000He's gonna go on Twitter and go, oh, it was so hard being mixed race in this documentary.
00:56:20.000You watched two non-white people give a speech at our flagship event, you asshole!
00:56:36.000And you know, that's where you gotta look at these people and it's, look, I don't care if you're black, I don't care if you're Malaysian, I don't care, you know, what color, whatever it is, get over yourself!
00:56:47.000Enough already with these black people and these brown people, whatever you want to say, and the carrying on, oh it's exhausting being me, oh it's exhausting being non-white, oh my gosh.
00:57:01.000It's like, listen pal, if it's so tough being mixed race around us white people, why don't you go live in Malaysia then, huh?
00:57:08.000You know, maybe they'll treat you better, but something tells me you got a pretty good deal over there in the United Kingdom, doing documentaries for BBC and getting awards and all that.
00:58:17.000He interviewed John Miller, who was the speaker there!
00:58:22.000You know, it's just, it's enough to make you crazy.
00:58:25.000I know how it goes, you know, it's not like it's some big surprise that these people are that way, but you just gotta call them out, you gotta call them on the carpet, like, go fuck yourself.
00:58:35.000He's gonna go, he's really gonna go on Twitter, again, like he went to a Klan rally or something, like he went to, like, some kind of white power metal concert.
01:00:30.000You're confronting a fucking 23-year-old doing a political livestream who happens to be targeted by all the banks and the government and the biggest companies in the world.
01:00:39.000Yeah, you're real confrontational, pal.
01:00:42.000That's why you're such a chipper demeanor.
01:01:35.000I mean, here's a guy that's funded by the BBC, which is a government
01:01:40.000Media outlet, and that government happens to be the British Empire, the shadow British Empire, which is one of the most powerful institutions in the world.
01:01:49.000Who's the power in this situation, you know?
01:01:51.000It's like they go out to the Westboro Baptist Church, which is just like a bunch of hillbillies, and they go, oh my gosh, you're so evil!
01:01:59.000And then they go back to Hollywood, which is contracted by the most powerful people in the world, and put on TV for everybody.
01:03:20.000You should be walking around and freaking, I don't even know what, with a big, you know, you should just wear a t-shirt that says bitch on it.
01:03:47.000I mean, do they, like, spank him when he comes back?
01:03:49.000When he comes back with his report in the digital forensics lab, does his boss call him in his office with a big cigar and then slap his ass and stuff?
01:03:56.000I mean, that's basically what you would expect, because that's what they are.
01:04:00.000I bet the prostitutes are getting paid more.
01:04:02.000I bet the literal prostitutes are being paid more than Jared Holt.
01:04:25.000So our first story is about Russia, Ukraine, and you know we've covered this for a little while now on the show.
01:04:32.000And I went really in-depth into it on Friday, and I want to avoid reiterating everything I said on Friday, but I'll give you the background.
01:04:43.000So as you know, there's this big, tense standoff right now in Ukraine.
01:04:49.000Russia has amassed troops and military equipment on the border of Ukraine.
01:04:56.000And the United States and NATO are claiming that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is imminent.
01:05:01.000They're saying that Russia is plotting tomorrow, which is Wednesday, during the Winter Olympics of all times, to launch a full-scale ground invasion of Ukraine, seize the capital, and take control over the country.
01:05:18.000Russia claims that this is not what they're trying to do, but they are saying that
01:05:32.000Russia is trying to retain, or I guess reclaim, the lost territories that broke away after the Soviet Union dissolved 30 years ago in 1991.
01:05:46.000And so Ukraine is at the same time that Russia is trying to maintain its sphere of influence from the Soviet days and reclaim what it has lost.
01:05:54.000In the meantime, NATO, since about 1997, has been expanding.
01:05:58.000And NATO has been expanding into the Baltic countries and trying to expand into Georgia and is now currently trying to bring Ukraine within its orbit.
01:06:07.000And this really threatens the borders of Russia.
01:06:12.000Because if NATO controls the Baltic states and if NATO controls Ukraine, then that means that Russia is totally vulnerable.
01:07:01.000It makes it impossible for Russia to defend its borders.
01:07:04.000It is, and this is a technical term here, it is unacceptable security posture for Russia to be in.
01:07:10.000And so, this is where Russia's deployed, I think it's 175,000 troops to the border, and all these tanks and other military vehicles and military equipment,
01:07:51.000Well, there seems to have been a breakthrough because Russia says that they're willing to come to the negotiating table.
01:07:58.000But they say that they have to resolve the question of the future of Ukraine forever, and they have to do that immediately.
01:08:06.000Meaning that Vladimir Putin is demanding that NATO membership be off the table for Ukraine forever and that the West must concede to that now.
01:08:24.000And, you know, they say that they want Russia to sort of demonstrate good faith by pulling out, you know, giving evidence that they're withdrawing their troops and maybe withdraw more of their equipment.
01:08:35.000It's this quote, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Moscow does not want a war in Europe amid rising tensions over Ukraine, but demanded that the issue of Kiev's relationship with NATO be resolved in its entirety immediately.
01:08:51.000Speaking at a joint news conference on Tuesday after talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Putin said Russia had been informed by Western powers that its neighbor would not join the transatlantic military alliance in the near future, but he warned that this was not a satisfactory assurance.
01:09:10.000Russia has amassed more than 100,000 troops around Ukraine's border,
01:09:15.000Putin said, quote, As for war in Europe, about whether we want it or not, of course not.
01:09:19.000That is why we put forward proposals for a negotiation process, the result of which should be an agreement on ensuring equal security for everyone, including our country.
01:09:45.000The US and NATO have flatly rejected Russia's main security demands, which includes a call for NATO to cease all military activity in Eastern Europe, but have sent counter-proposals to Moscow.
01:09:58.000Despite emphasizing the need for the West to heed the Kremlin's primary concerns, Putin said that Russia was ready to engage in talks on other issues such as limiting the deployment of intermediate-range missiles in Europe, increasing the transparency of military drills, and other confidence-building measures.
01:10:18.000His remarks came after Russia's defense ministry said it was orchestrating a partial pullback of its forces from locations near Ukraine after concluding military drills.
01:10:28.000Moscow gave no details on where the soldiers were being pulled back from or how many were being moved, but the Defense Ministry published footage showing tanks and other armored vehicles being loaded onto railway flat cars.
01:10:42.000The German Chancellor Scholz welcomed the announcement of a pullback as a good signal.
01:10:49.000President Joe Biden cast doubt on Moscow's claims of a partial withdrawal, saying that Russian troops near Ukraine remain a threatening position.
01:11:26.000You know, I said on Friday, and I stand by this, I don't think it is likely that there will be a war in Ukraine.
01:11:32.000I think it is a very dramatic, unprecedented move.
01:11:38.000And I don't think that Putin is that aggressive.
01:11:42.000And honestly, I don't think that he really can be that aggressive, because I think that the United States is run by these nutjobs now in the deep state.
01:11:51.000Well, they always have been, but these people are getting more and more belligerent.
01:11:56.000And they're answering every Russian provocation with their own, with this narrative about a Russian false flag, about the imminent war, deploying troops to the border, talking about Americans not being fully evacuated in Ukraine, kind of setting the stage for an international incident.
01:12:14.000So I think that it is unlikely that Russia will go to war.
01:12:17.000And as I said on Friday, this characterization is true.
01:12:21.000It's a very complicated picture because
01:12:24.000The deep state in America, the Zelensky government in Ukraine, which is very corrupt, and the Kremlin all have their own agenda here.
01:12:35.000And there are a lot of theories about the inside baseball, what's actually going on.
01:12:39.000I read something the other day that said that perhaps Washington was planning a move with the Zelensky government to retake the breakaway provinces in eastern Ukraine, in the Donbass,
01:12:54.000And they were planning a limited military sort of engagement to retake those republics and restore Kiev's sovereignty over Luhansk and Donetsk and that it was in response to this that the Russian troops are moving on along the border.
01:13:10.000And that it's actually, you know, this fear-mongering about a Russian invasion is meant by the United States to try to get Zelensky to accept Russian terms.
01:13:20.000That Zelensky is unwilling to negotiate with the Russians and the US is warning them about a Russian invasion.
01:13:27.000Maybe trying to create pressure on the regime in Kiev to accept a negotiation which maybe the Americans are ready to do but Zelensky isn't yet.
01:13:37.000You know ultimately it's all speculation because we don't really know what's going on with the decision makers in the three regimes here.
01:13:45.000What we do know though is sort of the interest based diplomacy here which is to say that
01:13:52.000You know, we don't necessarily need to know exactly what's going on to know what reasonably each of the players wants.
01:14:00.000What Zelensky wants is NATO membership.
01:15:51.000Global hegemony and their ability to project power.
01:15:54.000And what I mean by this is, you know, you've got, it's helpful to think about it this way, these situations, these flashpoints are happening all across the globe.
01:16:04.000This happened in Afghanistan back in July and August, this is happening right now in Ukraine, and the situation, this exact same situation is ongoing in Taiwan with China.
01:16:17.000And so, what is happening is this, 20 years ago,
01:16:34.000Putin has consolidated control of Russia and brought it back as a world power, using largely its military might if the economy isn't very strong.
01:16:45.000And it's, you know, these adventures in the Middle East have proven to be a disaster in Afghanistan and in Iraq.
01:16:52.000And so whereas 20 years ago there was this idea of American military supremacy, which was the bedrock for global American hegemony, which is to say we were supposed to be able to fight two wars at one time.
01:17:05.000We could defend Ukraine and Taiwan at the same time.
01:17:09.000We know that we couldn't defend Taiwan from China, even if we tried.
01:17:14.000We could not defend Ukraine from Russia even if we tried.
01:17:17.000We can't defend them both at the same time.
01:17:19.000And we can't defend them both at the same time, well, in Iraq, and in Afghanistan, and in Yemen, and in West Africa, and in every other country that we're in.
01:17:29.000And so, it's a very, very fragile and delicate thing here where each of these crises has the potential then to ripple across the world.
01:17:39.000And we saw this nine years ago to a lesser extent in Syria.
01:17:43.000Famously, Obama drew the red line, and you can't tell me that that had nothing to do with the fact that in 2013, Obama says that if Assad uses chemical weapons in the Syrian Civil War, then he'll intervene.
01:17:55.000He didn't intervene, and then one year later, Russia invaded Crimea.
01:18:01.000A move that I don't think they would have tried under George W. Bush.
01:18:05.000And they wouldn't have tried it under George W. Bush, because Bush brought us into two wars,
01:18:10.000It was earlier in the century, so America was stronger and Russia was weaker.
01:18:16.000And so, you know, something that happened in the Middle East was leveraged by Russia in Eastern Europe.
01:18:40.000If anything, we're in a weaker posture against China in Taiwan than we are against Russia in Ukraine.
01:18:46.000So, if the Taliban can take over Afghanistan, and if Russia can take over the Donbass in Ukraine, what would stop China from taking Taiwan if that would be the easiest of the three to win?
01:19:50.000And not necessarily just give away the whole world here, but it's time to let go of this historical anomaly, which is that America can run the entire world.
01:20:14.000In some strategic sectors, they're accelerating faster than we are.
01:20:19.000And their military is catching up with ours.
01:20:22.000China is not the country there was 30 years ago.
01:20:25.000And Russia was in shambles after the fall of the Soviet Union.
01:20:29.000Once again, it's not the 1990s anymore.
01:20:33.000Is it reasonable for Russia to accept a security posture where they can't defend any of their borders in the Caucasus, in Central Asia, in Eastern Europe, in the Baltic Sea, in the Black Sea, in the Caspian Sea?
01:20:48.000Is it acceptable for America to have a ground force on its western border in Afghanistan as well as building up a security alliance with Japan and Vietnam and South Korea in the East?
01:21:05.000And if we can't enforce that, it will be challenged.
01:21:09.000And if it's challenged, well either we're going to be bitched out and lose all our credibility, or we're going to be forced to go to a war, a war which we will lose.
01:23:34.000Exactly what's going on, it's difficult to know because we are not, you know, we're not in the decision room in Kiev or Moscow or D.C., but we could parse out basically the stakes here for each country and what they want and what's happening.
01:23:48.000I have to say, I would like Russia to take Ukraine.
01:23:51.000I would like to see Russian military action in Ukraine only because it is a good thing for our chief adversary, which is the regime in Washington DC, to lose credibility and to be humiliated on the world stage.
01:25:51.000You know, just like the American regime is trying to take over our lives and leave us no sphere of influence, they're doing the same thing in Eastern Europe and in the Pacific.
01:26:58.000This is a regime which is just letting people in the southern border.
01:27:03.000And by the millions, legally, illegally, the federal government is participating in the drug trade,
01:27:13.000And Big Pharma and Big Tech, they're participating in the censorship of me in particular, but also other patriots, the debanking, the financial sanctions against American citizens, they're spying on us.
01:28:53.000So I'm sure all of you have seen this at this point, but the Trudeau government in Canada is now invoking the Emergency Act, which is a war powers act, to seize unprecedented government power to shut down the Freedom Convoy, which is now shutting down a number of ports of entry between the U.S.
01:29:11.000and Canada and tied up Canada's capital city, Ottawa.
01:29:15.000So I'll read this article to you and we'll go into this.
01:29:18.000It says, quote, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canadian history on Monday, citing the threat of Freedom Convoy trucker protests in Ottawa and at several border crossings in the United States.
01:29:32.000Trudeau said, quote, this is not a peaceful protest.
01:29:36.000Illegal blockades have been disrupting the lives of too many Canadians.
01:29:41.000After consulting premiers, government, and opposition, he said, quote, the federal government has invoked the Emergencies Act, confirming media reports from earlier in the day that he would do so.
01:29:53.000The measures will be time-limited, geographically targeted, as well as reasonable and proportionate to the threats they are meant to address.
01:30:02.000Which, by the way, all of that is up to his discretion.
01:30:06.000So, you know, you could claim war powers and you can say, well, I'll only use them for a limited time and for a limited nature and et cetera, et cetera, but you could just say that.
01:30:17.000I could be pointing a gun at you and say, hey, I'm not going to shoot you in the face.
01:30:21.000Definitely not going to shoot you in the face.
01:31:01.000It says, quote, this is Trudeau, he says, this is about keeping Canadians safe, protecting people's jobs, and restoring confidence in our institutions.
01:31:10.000We are reinforcing the principles, values, and institutions that keep all Canadians free.
01:31:19.000Trudeau noted it was the first time a Canadian government has invoked the Emergencies Act, which was passed in 1988 to replace the War Measures Act of 1914.
01:31:29.000The War Measures Act was used during both World Wars to intern Canadians of German and Japanese origin and impose restrictions on the economy, among other things.
01:31:42.000It was most recently invoked in 1970 by Trudeau's father, Pierre, to crack down on Quebec separatists who had kidnapped a lawmaker.
01:31:52.000Close to 500 people had been arrested on that occasion.
01:31:55.000Thousands of Canadian truck drivers and their sympathizers have taken part in nationwide protests since January 22nd, with a Freedom Convoy driving across the country to picket the Parliament in Ottawa starting on January 29th.
01:32:10.000The protesters demand an end to COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates.
01:32:15.000Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau on Sunday vowed to freeze bank accounts of the truckers protesting the vaccine mandates, while the movement's fundraising website remained down.
01:32:25.000Right-wing Christian fundraising site GiveSendGo remained down and the platform has not said anything for over 24 hours, despite the website and official page for the truckers appearing to be hacked and non-functional on Monday.
01:32:38.000A website also said it received a cache of information including donor details to the Freedom Convoy protest after the fundraising site was targeted in a cyber attack on Sunday night.
01:32:56.000The protesters came into the Capitol and said, look, we're not leaving until you give us our freedom back.
01:33:01.000And now, instead of capitulating, the government is saying, we'll just arrest everybody.
01:33:06.000We'll seize your bank accounts, we'll take your insurance, we'll take your money, we'll seize your supplies, and we'll just arrest everybody involved.
01:33:14.000And it's almost a good thing that this is happening because, like I said last week, if it goes either way, the government undermines its own credibility.
01:33:22.000If hundreds of truckers are able to shut the country down and force the government to its knees and capitulate, then the government has no credibility.
01:34:42.000Where does the American government derive its sovereignty?
01:34:45.000What's the spirit of the legitimacy of the law in these countries?
01:34:51.000Well, it's that this is a free and democratic and liberal and open government, right?
01:34:56.000That is the philosophy, that's the spirit that underlies the legitimacy of the Ottawa government's right to rule.
01:35:09.000And so if we go out there and say, you know, Hong Kong, you know, we're not leaving, and then they go in and say, okay, we're declaring war on the people and we're just going to arrest and spy on everybody and take your bank accounts, it's like, okay, so this isn't a free country.
01:35:58.000The world is watching the Canadian trucker movement.
01:36:01.000You're having a similar one in Israel.
01:36:03.000I believe there was a similar one in France.
01:36:05.000They're talking about doing one in America.
01:36:08.000And no one's talking about it, but there is a global uprising that's been going on now ever since Donald Trump got elected, maybe even since Brexit.
01:36:16.000There's been a global uprising in progress.
01:36:29.000But between the Brexit, the Trump Revolution, the Yellow Vest Movement, anti-mask, anti-vax protests, the Freedom Convoy, January 6th, Stop the Steal, it has been an ongoing rebellion against the elites for six years is what it is, and they are trying to contain and control it with a number of strategies.
01:36:50.000So the regime is crumbling worldwide and this is going to have a contagion effect.
01:36:54.000We're having like our version of the Arab Spring except it's real.
01:37:15.000You know, in the Arab Spring, there was this idea that Facebook was going to give rise to all these popular democratic movements in North Africa and the Middle East.
01:37:24.000And it was all astroturfed by the CIA, but, you know, there was this idea that it was contagious, that young people were taking to Facebook and overthrowing their despotic governments like, you know, Mubarak and Gaddafi and Assad and...
01:37:38.000And there's something similar going on in the West, where through social media it's the Freedom Convoy, it's Stop the Steal, it's 1-6, it's the Yellow Vests, it's anti-mask stuff, people are rising up against the government.
01:37:51.000And when one of these things happens somewhere else, it affects the morale everywhere.
01:37:55.000All the Americans are watching the Canadian trucker protest.
01:37:59.000It's not getting covered in the media, but Republicans, Conservatives are paying attention.
01:38:06.000You know, it's like I said a moment ago, they realize that the real enemy here is the regime.
01:38:11.000And the regime is now under siege from two sides here, domestically and internationally.
01:38:16.000They're facing pressure from Russia and China abroad, they're facing pressure from within, from, you know, these nationalist, populist movements.
01:38:27.000Even though this Trucker thing might be going away because the government's going to crush it, it's like, at what cost have they achieved a victory?
01:39:14.000In my opinion, that would have been the better move.
01:39:16.000You do that, you actually bring people back into the fold, and, you know, some people buy back into the legitimacy of the regime.
01:39:24.000That being said, you also open up the possibility that they do something like that again, and what if there is no?
01:39:30.000What if at this point people are so fed up, they say, you know what, good, but fuck you, and we still hate you, and they got a problem on their hand, they just appeased the mob.
01:39:39.000So I'm sure that's why they opted for the Emergencies Act.
01:39:43.000But there's no good options for the regime.
01:40:06.000So they think that they're getting ahead of it by saying, you know what, we're just gonna shock and awe, we're just gonna start making arrests.
01:40:13.000I think that's only gonna make it worse.
01:40:16.000And people in America and all over the world are paying attention and there is this contagion here happening.
01:40:21.000And if it doesn't happen in America or Canada, the good news is it could happen somewhere else.
01:40:26.000And if it happens somewhere else, it'll strengthen us over here.
01:40:29.000And so the momentum in this is with us, is the white pill here.
01:40:34.000This is shot heard around the world, it's echoing throughout the Western world, it's moralizing everybody in the populist nationalist movement worldwide, and it only has to happen in one country.
01:40:48.000And you see the dominoes are beginning to fall.
01:40:50.000It was Brexit, it was Trump, it was this, now you've got this guy Zamora in France, you've got protests happening in Europe,
01:42:11.000Put your property, put your valuables in the custody of a loved one.
01:42:15.000If you've got money in the bank, take some out, put it aside in cash, bury it, hide it, give it to a loved one, put it in a safety deposit box.
01:42:24.000If you've got a computer, phone, ditch the phone, you know, back up all your stuff on another device, ditch the relevant things, use Signal.
01:42:33.000I'm not trying to tell people to cover up a crime, but just be careful because, you know, the government can use these statutes to just, they're very broad and they could use anything and everything and they've got limitless power to get what they want.
01:44:27.000They got bounce castles and they're just grilling food and they're singing songs.
01:44:32.000I mean, yeah, they're honking their horns.
01:44:34.000Yeah, they're shutting down certain highways and things, but, you know, it's not like it's some kind of guerrilla terrorist group or something.
01:46:13.000Uh, yeah, I mean, most of the QAnon stuff is nonsense.
01:46:16.000I mean, a lot of what they talk about, there's truth to it, like, yeah, Pizzagate is real, okay?
01:46:22.000And, um, a lot of these connections are real, Saudi Royal Family, you know, Pakistan, this, like, supermob, the intelligence community, Clinton, like, the conspiracy stuff is usually always on the money, because there is a big global conspiracy happening, but this stuff about Trump is in control and there's, like, white hats in the government,
01:46:41.000And you know like there's body doubles and everyone's being executed and Guantanamo Bay like that's just not happening so the QAnon stuff is just fake but a lot of what they talk about isn't but that's not real.
01:46:58.000Chris chants, did you like how Louis Theroux focus led in on the fly in Brittany Venti's house?
01:47:04.000No, I don't think I caught that, but that's kind of funny.
01:51:57.000So, Stu Peters exposed Vernon Jones as a rapist.
01:52:03.000Chimp Skylark says, can we get Fs in the chat for Chimp, Anakin, Skylarker, Missouri Friend, and all the real friends, Twitter, GC, Groipers, who were purged in today's ban wave?
01:52:13.000Should we even try to maintain a presence on Twitter?
01:52:16.000Well, I gotta say, I don't really have too much sympathy.
01:52:18.000I've been banned on Twitter since, like, October, so... I don't... I'm not really too sympathetic, but yeah, I guess F in the chat.
01:52:27.000Zorn Krieger says this isn't a withdrawal.
01:52:29.000The units Russia says they're withdrawing aren't even on the border.
01:52:49.000Super Cozy says, besides from being a natural genius, how did you gain all the knowledge you have surrounding politics and considering the fact you didn't graduate college?
01:52:58.000Well, I didn't really learn anything in college.
01:53:45.000It's another thing to read a few articles
01:53:47.000Synthesize and come up with a coherent idea and then Simplify it and then explain it to an audience that doesn't know anything about it So you really have to know it then to do that.
01:53:59.000And so, you know, I have a very intimate Experience with the news every day as a result of that some people just watch the news.
01:54:07.000They read the news, but I have to Gather the news.
01:54:11.000I have to be aware of everything that's going on in some cases.
01:54:16.000And then I've got to put it all together, craft a narrative, and I tie it together across time, which is a key thing too, and how things are affecting each other, you know, in a cross-section, but also how things play out over time, and how they affect each other in time.
01:54:33.000So, you know, when you're doing that for five years, I have a pretty good, pretty good understanding, which is what I try to achieve is understanding here.
01:54:44.000Because I've been covering it all since the Trump inauguration, you know?
01:54:51.000And even before then I was writing about it every day since like May 2016.
01:54:55.000So I've really been covering the news every single day for like six years.
01:55:02.000So I know a lot of the details, a lot of the dates, a lot of the quotes, the, you know, and I...
01:55:37.000Biden was talking about penalizing Russia for trying to hack the election before the election even happened.
01:55:43.000You know, I mean, those are just two things that I feel like a lot of people missed back then.
01:55:49.000And with all this talk about the Russia investigation and new development today about the probe into the Mueller investigation, people forget key details like that.
01:56:05.000Even like the North Korea thing, people missed the brinksmanship going on.
01:56:09.000People, you know, in April 17, everybody got all bent out of shape about the Syria strikes.
01:56:15.000People forget that Trump did that when Xi Jinping was visiting Mar-a-Lago, and I was the only one to say that.
01:56:21.000I was like, hey, maybe he's just putting on a show.
01:56:23.000And people said, no, he's going to war in Syria.
02:01:16.000You have no idea what you're getting into.
02:01:19.000So... The thought of, like, a girl pulling me up on the laptop watching my show, it's like, what?
02:01:25.000I mean, that's fine, I don't care, but it's really more for guys.
02:01:31.000It's a show for these disaffected incels, you know, they're playing Minecraft in the background, they're eating their pizza, you know, alone again on a Saturday night, and, you know, chilling with the fellas.
02:01:44.000But, you know, if girls like it too, hey, why not?
02:02:05.000I mean, my whole disposition is just sort of, I feel like... I don't know, I... You know, there's a certain way that guys are... Guys that are really, really into girls, and guys that girls really, really like, they tend to be more like effeminate, and they tend to be more like kind of...
02:05:45.000What do you think about Kanye insulting Pete Davidson, who stole his wife, while saying that there are a group of people who run the media?
02:05:57.000I think you're reading too much into that.
02:05:58.000I don't think everybody read that and was like, you're with Jews!
02:06:19.000Yeah, I think you're reading too much into it.
02:06:20.000You're projecting what you want onto that.
02:06:22.000I don't think that's what he's talking about.
02:06:24.000I mean, he's certainly aware of it to the extent that it's there, but I don't think he's necessarily saying, like, I'm a secret, you know, whatever.
02:06:35.000People are so, like, divorced from reality sometimes.
02:06:39.000Humongous Blungus says, is it just me or do great minds think and look alike?
02:06:42.000I saw your speech at the New York Vax Rally and after you yelled, bastards in power, you jutted your chin out and you had a Mussolini jaw there.
02:08:50.000Virginians is, hey Nick, can you make it, can't make it to AFFPAC this year but I'm looking forward to the live stream and we'll try to go next year.
02:08:58.000Also your most hilarious tweet was probably, lol George Floyd isn't alive.
02:09:26.000A lot of people don't know this, but Trump and Hannity actually talk all the time.
02:09:30.000And get this, during the George Floyd riots, Sean Hannity was calling Trump every night and telling him not to shut down the riots, because Hannity said that it would help him in the election.
02:09:42.000So Hannity was calling the White House, he was calling Trump personally, every day that that was happening and saying, trust me Mr. President, if this goes on longer, then it will turn people against the Democrats, and they'll vote for you in 2020.
02:11:55.000Heffy Metal Zoomer says, my favorite tweet of yours went along the lines of, everything that liberals believe was created by a PR firm, liberals are no better than animals, they should go lay down in the mud with the rest of the pigs.