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00:12:09.000And go all the way around the Panama Canal.
00:12:14.000Nothing is going to stop White Boy Summer.
00:12:56.000We're the keepers of the American tradition.
00:13:02.000And I think our ancestors smile on us right now for what we're doing.
00:13:36.000The 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.
00:14:32.000I'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.
00:14:57.000Because I'm afraid of the flu, which kills like .00013%.
00:15:36.000People 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.
00:15:48.000And they're already talking about that in Iceland.
00:15:51.000They say in Iceland it's a 15-year, 15-year lockdown plan.
00:15:56.000And they're talking about that with the vaccines.
00:15:59.000Regular, every six months, booster shots.
00:16:03.000Booster shots, vaccinations for COVID.
00:16:08.000So 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.
00:16:18.000And that's with the 15-year lockdown plan, and that's with the masks, and the plexiglass, and the lockdown, and the vaccine passport.
00:16:26.000I think the endgame is the vaccine passport.
00:16:29.000When all of this is said and done, there will be no independent businesses left.
00:16:34.000There 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.
00:16:44.000There's not going to be one place that you could go to outside
00:16:49.000Where other people gather that will not be restricted based on vaccination status or some other arbitrary thing.
00:16:58.000And if they announced it tomorrow that that's what they were doing, people would resist it.
00:17:02.000And the only way to stop this, by the way, is to stop it where it is.
00:18:09.000There's a chance we could have earned that outcome.
00:18:11.000We are continuing to wage our war against the mask mandate.
00:18:16.000I'm a big believer in just making everybody's life harder.
00:18:20.000You don't have to get fired over this stuff, but just make everybody's life difficult.
00:18:24.000Don't let the CDC guidelines be an imposition on you.
00:18:29.000Let it be an imposition on the people that have to enforce it.
00:18:33.000You 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?
00:18:48.000Go into one of these stores when they reimpose the mask mandate and get in a confrontation with a worker and get in a shouting match and get kicked out.
00:18:58.000You're going to go into Target, you're going to go into Walmart or wherever, and you're going to get in a big fight, and your mouth is going to twitch, and you're going to feel shaky, and you're going to get adrenaline.
00:19:07.000Some of you, some of you, yeah, some of you maybe are used to this.
00:19:33.000Make them go to their therapist and get on antidepressants and cry because you walked into Target and ruined their whole day because gas is $4 and they don't know how they're gonna 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.
00:19:56.000And let those people go off the rails.
00:19:58.000And let the whole fucking system go off the rails.
00:23:50.000We're living unapologetically and being human.
00:23:53.000Like, the act of doing that at all times is the victory over, you know, this oppressive sort of system that wants to control and diminish and intimidate and all of that.
00:24:06.000Like, ultimately, that's why, you know, it's living the dream every day.
00:24:11.000Just by being me, I also wouldn't have it any other way.
00:24:15.000Because, like, I would much rather be suffering and be real and suffer as a human than be comfortable as a slave, than be comfortable as somebody that just belongs for the ride.
00:24:42.000They, they see America merely as a vessel.
00:24:46.000I mean, only a class of people so rootless in their position view America in such a way as merely a vessel for
00:25:11.000And I'm addicted to the serotonin rush.
01:02:22.000I'd like to propose a toast to our people.
01:02:27.000I'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.
01:14:08.000Build your nest who are still broke Jesus saved all my people from this monster For it takes their souls It gives us hope and eats them whole Sin Build your nest who are still broke Jesus saved all my people from
01:32:36.000We're living unapologetically and being human.
01:32:40.000Like, the act of doing that at all times is the victory over, you know, this oppressive sort of system that wants to control and diminish and intimidate and all of that.
01:32:52.000Like, ultimately, that's why, you know, it's living the dream every day.
01:33:24.000I'd like to propose a toast to the Dwipers, to White Boy Summer, White Boy Century, to the reaction and the reclamation of the United States.
01:40:53.000I'd like to propose a toast to our people.
01:40:58.000I'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.
01:55:30.000Very excited to be back with you here tonight on Tuesday.
01:55:34.000We have a big show, huge news, which actually just happened earlier tonight.
01:55:42.000Shortly before this show has started, the Republican Greg Youngkin has won the governor's race in the state of Virginia, in case you missed that.
01:55:53.000Very contentious race, closely watched for the past few months, and up until last night, neck and neck.
01:56:02.000But, just shortly before I went live a moment ago,
01:56:07.000The official mainstream media called the election for the Republican in the race, Youngkin, who is a former private equity firm manager and now is the governor-elect of the state of Virginia.
01:56:23.000Also, Republican won the race for lieutenant governor of the state, too.
01:56:27.000This is a big deal because, as you know, the state of Virginia has gone blue in the last two elections.
01:56:35.000And of course last year there was a lot of cheating, but officially Donald Trump failed to win Virginia not once but twice.
01:56:43.000And Virginia was lost statewide for Republicans in the last few elections for senator, for governor.
01:56:54.000A lot of people thought that Virginia is a blue state.
01:56:58.000Some would argue it's still purple, but I essentially view it as a blue state.
01:57:04.000And just one year after Donald Trump officially lost Virginia a year ago, now a Republican who, while not a hardcore nationalist or populist or anything resembling Trump, didn't disavow Trump, he still was able to win the race and actually carried Virginia with more white voters than Donald Trump did, surprisingly.
01:57:30.000We'll actually talk about that first because that's a pretty big deal but I've got some things to say about it.
01:57:35.000I have a little bit of a different take than a lot of people.
01:57:38.000I see many are celebrating and they're pointing to the fact that in particular this race was about education.
01:57:46.000That seemed to be the main issue because, and I've heard this from people I know and I've also read this, education is a very important issue in Virginia, specifically in Northern Virginia, and education became a focal point of this race because the state of Virginia had one of the most brutal lockdowns, COVID lockdowns, out of any state, and that affected in particular primary and secondary school.
01:58:14.000And also Virginia is one of the worst states for so-called critical race theory as well as integration of transgenders.
01:58:23.000And that big story which was in the news a few weeks ago about that transgender girl, male-to-female person who raped a girl which was covered up and then exposed, that happened in Virginia.
01:58:39.000Um, and recently there was a debate between the two candidates for governor, and that seemed to be one of the bigger issues, which was whether or not parents have a right to control the curriculum that their own children are being taught in public schools.
01:58:53.000So education was a focal point of the race, and of course in this year, especially this year, the education debates was focused on things like critical race theory, COVID, all the major flashpoint cultural issues that we talk about on the show.
01:59:10.000And it just so happened that when the race was made about those cultural issues, the Republican won!
01:59:33.000Really, arguably a blue state like Virginia.
01:59:36.000If they're getting killed on issues like that, that goes to show how deeply unpopular they are.
01:59:41.000So it can be seen as a referendum, not just on the state of the Democratic Party and Joe Biden, but also particularly these cultural issues, then it's a very good indicator for us, for Republicans.
01:59:54.000That being said, another important factor about the race is Youngkin, the candidate,
02:00:03.000A lot of people are pointing out, and I've read this in the Atlantic, and I read this in the New York Times, and a few other publications analyzing the race, Youngkin is like a Trump-lite.
02:00:16.000At least that's what the commentary class calls him.
02:00:19.000In the sense that he is right-wing, sufficiently right-wing on enough of the issues, but not as outrageous and not as strongly nationalistic.
02:00:29.000He's a little bit more of a mainstream conservative.
02:00:33.000He accepted the Trump endorsement, but he didn't want to be seen with Trump or didn't want to be identified necessarily with Trump.
02:00:42.000And so that's an important factor in the race because this is something where, you know, just like people are going to look at Youngkin's victory and say that is an indicator about where the constituency, where the voters stand on education and cultural issues.
02:00:59.000That, youngkin, is a sort of a retreat, a walk back from where Donald Trump was.
02:01:05.000I'm sure a lot of people are going to get the impression that if Republicans want to succeed, they have to do something similar.
02:01:12.000That maybe embracing Trump 100%, or being Trump himself, might not be the future.
02:01:19.000And I don't know if that's necessarily the right... I don't know if that's the right takeaway.
02:01:23.000So, we'll talk about that too, and about elections in general.
02:01:27.000This was pointed out by Andrew Anglin earlier tonight.
02:01:30.000The other thing is a big Republican victory like this is going to restore a lot of people's confidence in elections and voting, which isn't necessarily a good thing.
02:01:46.000But I'll just say, you know, on the one hand, we want Republicans to succeed because, particularly for people that live in the state of Virginia, we want the mask mandate lifted and we want young kids to be taught the right curriculum and so on.
02:02:03.000If Republicans are sort of lulled back into complacency because they see they got the outcome that they wanted in one or two races, are we just back for the ride in 2022?
02:02:15.000We're just getting right back on the ride?
02:02:18.000I mean, think about what happened in 2020.
02:02:29.000A national election for the presidency in six states!
02:02:36.000And the mail-in ballots were part of it, the whole deal.
02:02:41.000And are Republicans eager, just one year later now, to just get right back in line for the ride and do it all over again in 2022 and 2024, when there's been no meaningful change?
02:02:53.000In Virginia they had the same election laws in place that they did one year ago, and are Republicans really willing to say, 2022 is going to be great for us?
02:03:04.000We still have to resolve what happened last year, and I fear that people have a short attention span, and too much of this, too many of these victories,
02:03:17.000Is going to alter the course of the Republican Party, where maybe we were headed towards total loss of faith in the system, total loss of legitimacy for the system, and now we're being steered back towards a conventional way of doing things.
02:03:36.000We'll also be talking tonight about Minnesota, where a referendum was voted down by the people, specifically in Minneapolis, to abolish the police.
02:03:47.000So if you remember, George Floyd died a year and a half ago in Minneapolis, and that started the whole BLM riots and everything last summer.
02:03:56.000And since then, in the city of Minneapolis, there has been this proposal being prepared to actually get rid of the police, you know, in response to the George Floyd death.
02:04:07.000The call to action from BLM and from the left was not just to defund the police and take away their money, but to get rid of the police, completely disband the police as an organization.
02:04:18.000And so they came out with a real proposal.
02:04:21.000And the proposal is get rid of the police and replace it with this Public Safety Commission.
02:04:29.000And so if a criminal goes out and commits a non-violent offense,
02:04:34.000In most cases, when someone calls 9-1-1, they will send out a psychologist.
02:04:41.000I didn't even know this was happening until I read about it in the news today.
02:04:46.000So if you see somebody stealing, if you see, again, a non-violent crime, and you call the cops, you know who's gonna come?
02:04:55.000Public health professional in most cases.
02:04:57.000They say the police will still be around, they'll be diminished, they'll be defunded, and they'll be there for apparently the violent crimes or extreme cases, but in most cases you're going to get a therapist to come out.
02:05:12.000They're going to get in some, maybe, I don't know, like they're going to get in some kind of Chevy Impala.
02:05:19.000They're going to jump in a Prius with the siren on it.
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02:08:15.000Actually this weekend and I'll be in New York all throughout next week.
02:08:18.000I'll still be doing the show but I'll be in New York City all throughout next week.
02:08:22.000We'll be doing some anti-vaccine activism which will culminate in an anti-vaccine rally not this weekend but the following weekend and I'll give you some more details on that I think on Thursday later this week.
02:08:35.000So I'll be announcing our brand new streamers
02:08:38.000Should be Thursday or Friday and their channels will go live on Saturday and I'll also be announcing the details for our upcoming New York City anti-vaccine rally like I said which will not be this weekend but the following weekend and I'll give you all the details very soon.
02:08:54.000We're going to be down there on the ground and we're going to be shooting a lot of content maybe some of it live but
02:09:00.000Mostly we're gonna just try and get in there and protest vaccine mandate cards as well as maybe masks.
02:09:06.000I mean, we're gonna see what we find there.
02:09:08.000But I will be doing the show live over there, so we'll be in the field.
02:09:12.000I don't know what that's gonna look like, but we have the whole setup prepared, so you'll have to join us there.
02:09:17.000But I think that's all of our news, all of our announcements.
02:09:23.000Was there... I feel like there was one other thing I wanted to get to before I talked about the Virginia race.
02:09:32.000Nah, if there was, I can't remember it.
02:09:34.000So, I guess we'll just dive in then, because that's what everybody came to see.
02:10:30.000He had a mathematically secure pathway to victory.
02:10:35.000You know, as far as the swing states went, like Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania, he had an advantage that was mathematically impossible for Joe Biden to overcome.
02:10:46.000Should have been mathematically impossible.
02:10:51.000I shut it down on my set, I changed out of my clothes, I jumped into bed, you know, I was ready to sleep, and then I checked my phone, and boom!
02:12:36.000Though it is considered purple, it has trended towards Democrats for the last decade.
02:12:41.000Polls have shown that the race was exceptionally close to the point where the winner was anyone's guess.
02:12:46.000On the eve of the election, McAuliffe and Junkin were tied in a dead heat.
02:12:51.000Winsome Sears has also been projected to win the Virginia Lieutenant gubernatorial election.
02:12:57.000Some expected that the race may not be called for several days, especially after Fairfax County announced that they would not be meeting their self-imposed 8 p.m.
02:13:05.000deadline for reporting its early vote ballots.
02:13:08.000The race gained national attention as it was being referred to as the bellwether for the midterms.
02:13:14.000Youngkin had focused heavily on the education system, championing parents' rights, and promising to end critical race theory teaching on his first day in office.
02:13:24.000He said in a rally over the weekend, quote, Dr. Martin Luther King implored us to judge one another based on the content of our character and not the color of our skin.
02:13:51.000I mean, I don't love the MLK stuff, and I don't like that he's attacking the concept of race as opposed to anti-white prejudice, but it is a positive development that this is being talked about.
02:14:04.000He's campaigning on it, and if he becomes the governor then that he's gonna shut this down.
02:16:39.000I think it's going to benefit the candidate that systemically cheats, which is always a Democratic candidate.
02:16:45.000Not that Republicans never cheat, but Democrats are better at it, and I think they do it more often.
02:16:51.000So I don't really like that, but that's really besides the point, at least for this election, because we got the result that we wanted, or maybe we were supposed to want.
02:17:01.000I'll say in the first place, and this is what everybody seems to be saying, obviously this election was closely watched, and that's because it's an indicator for where public sentiment is.
02:17:13.000This is one of the most contentious races that has happened since Joe Biden became president, and this is always the case.
02:17:20.000It's always the case that a special election, or a runoff election, or typically the first election in an off year after a president is inaugurated, that is usually looked at as a good sign of what the performance of the incumbent will look like in their re-election, as well as what their performance will look like, or their party's performance will look like, in the midterms.
02:17:44.000You know, for example, back in December 2017 there was that special election in
02:18:06.000And I think there was some fakery going on.
02:18:08.000I'm sure there was rigging involved in that too, but it was unprecedented historic black turnout.
02:18:14.000And as a consequence then, you know, people saw that and they said that's a bellwether for what the midterms will look like.
02:18:19.000And in 2018, Republicans got destroyed.
02:18:21.000You know, they lost the House, barely held on to the Senate.
02:18:25.000They lost seats that they really should have won.
02:18:29.000And so similarly, people look at this race in Virginia, and two, I should also add, people looked at the Virginia, I think it was either the Senator or Governor's race a year after Trump was elected, and the Democrat won in that race.
02:18:44.000So that was similar even for the Trump election.
02:18:48.000But so people look at this race and they see it's the first contentious one.
02:18:52.000It's arguably still a swing state, a purple state, a little bit less than a year after Joe Biden has been inaugurated.
02:19:00.000And they say this is going to give us our first glimpse, this is our first idea of where voters are at before the midterms next year.
02:19:09.000And it's a reflection of how Joe Biden's performing now.
02:19:13.000You know, it's a reflection on, are these approval ratings legitimate?
02:19:17.000And especially in a state like Virginia, where Joe Biden won by 10 points, kind of tells us something about the electorate.
02:19:23.000So, you know, obviously this is a good sign then, if the Republican is able to overcome in a state that Joe Biden won by 10 points, that should be reason, you know, according to the conventional wisdom.
02:19:38.000That Republicans should be optimistic going into 2022.
02:19:41.000And this is a purple state, which is trending blue.
02:19:46.000And it just so happens to be a state where the D.C.
02:19:49.000metro area is getting bigger and bigger.
02:19:51.000Those suburbs in Virginia are the D.C.
02:20:16.000is a city that cares very strongly about this new sort of political cleavage, which is not necessarily between conservatives and liberals, but between populists and the establishment.
02:21:26.000It's a good sign for Republicans, not just that they won a state that Joe Biden won last year by 10 points, again according to the official results, but also it's an interesting sign because of what that means maybe about how a young kid campaigned versus how Trump campaigned, and his M.O.
02:21:44.000versus Trump's, and his political identity, you know, how he identifies as a candidate.
02:21:51.000I will say the other benefit, or the other positive, is not just that Republicans won here, and this is what everybody's talking about, but it's the issues that Republicans won on in Virginia.
02:22:04.000Like this article says, and this is the chatter, Youngkin ran on education, and specifically against the mask mandates, the lockdown of the schools, but also against critical race theory and
02:22:29.000And so it's not just a referendum on Joe Biden and the Democrats and all that, but it's also a reflection of, in particular, the culture wars and how unpopular their agenda is, how unpopular the left-wing cultural agenda is at this point.
02:22:45.000It seems like conservatives are winning the argument when it comes to CRT and also, I think, arguably, when it comes to the mask mandate.
02:22:53.000If they made this, if the Republicans made this campaign, made this election about CRT and masks and they won in a trending blue state, that should tell you something about where the whole American electorate is at.
02:23:06.000That it's not just Democrats that are unpopular, it's not just Joe Biden.
02:23:10.000After 10 months in that's unpopular, but in particular they are losing the American electorate on these issues.
02:23:17.000Where maybe if the campaign were made about health care or about climate change or about something else, maybe the result would have been different.
02:23:26.000This election was about these cultural issues and Republicans won.
02:23:29.000And I've said this for years, if Republicans run on cultural issues like this, I think they would have greater success.
02:23:37.000The conventional wisdom from my entire life has been that Republicans, at least my adult life, has been that Republicans lost the culture war five or ten years ago, and so we just can't play those issues anymore.
02:23:52.000We can't fight abortion, we can't fight feminism, we can't fight trans gay marriage, we can't fight any of that because, so the conventional wisdom goes, all of that has been settled, the liberals run the culture, the politics is downstream from the culture, and if you run on an issue where we've been defeated, you're gonna look like some religious nutjob, or you'll look like some, I don't know, 20th century rube, and it's political suicide.
02:24:22.000Now, while that's the conventional wisdom, I don't know that that's ever actually been backed up by any of these election results.
02:24:29.000You know, people said that, for example, as far back as 2008.
02:24:32.000They blamed Sarah Palin for John McCain's defeat.
02:24:36.000Probably it was Sarah Palin that was the reason that John McCain did as well as he did.
02:25:23.000But if there is any ambiguity about it now, that should be made clear.
02:25:27.000That cultural issues are winning issues for Republicans.
02:25:30.000I think I said this last week or two weeks ago.
02:25:33.000I said the first Republican that makes the race about transgender bathrooms or transgender girl sports, the first Republican that makes the race about the anti-white prejudice and these kinds of things, that Republican is going to win.
02:25:47.000And that Republican's going to be probably the future of the party.
02:25:51.000They're going to win easily, and it's going to show probably the whole party and the country what's up.
02:27:02.000But nevertheless here's a handsome white man who's not not really part of the political establishment and he comes in and he runs on cultural issues and wins.
02:27:14.000I think that if it wasn't proven by Trump that should destroy anybody who's still arguing that the Republican Party needs to
02:27:22.000Become more liberal or pander more to minorities or run more blacks or women or something.
02:27:27.000I think that should kind of tell you the model that works here.
02:27:30.000Let's find white businessmen who are not in politics and have them run all across the country on a cultural agenda.
02:27:51.000Because, you know, a lot of the never-Trumpers, like Bill Kristol, for example, he endorsed a Democrat here, Terry, uh, what's his name, Terry McAuliffe.
02:28:00.000And Bill Kristol said, this is gonna make a big difference!
02:28:03.000And Jennifer Rubin said that, and Joe Walsh said, you know, you can't vote for... Joe Walsh is this Illinois talk radio host, former congressman, he said, you know, Republicans can't vote for Yunkin, we gotta burn the party down, you have to be anti-Trump.
02:28:18.000And I don't know that there's any, I don't think there's any constituency for Never Trump, but if they represent, at the extreme end of it, people that think that Trumpism failed or that we have to go back to the old way of doing things, you know, clearly they were proven wrong.
02:28:33.000So, that's a takeaway that's positive.
02:28:37.000I will say, though, there's something that's a little bit problematic about the race, and that is this.
02:28:43.000Here you have Junkin, who he did get endorsed by Donald Trump.
02:29:22.000And, in this race, I could see why he did that, because, you know, the Democrat here, Terry McAuliffe, he was trying to make the race all about Trump, and try and convince people, because Trump lost in the state twice, officially.
02:29:35.000He was trying to convince voters that Junkin was Trump 2, or he was part of Trumpism, or something, and that never really stuck.
02:29:41.000That never really played well, because, because Junkin maintained that distance.
02:29:46.000So, you know, arguably that strategy worked.
02:29:49.000Youngkin did not embrace Trump and did not embrace Trumpism.
02:29:53.000Like I said earlier, he embraced something softer.
02:29:56.000I don't know that I would call him necessarily a totally mainstream Republican, but certainly he ran as a moderate.
02:30:02.000I don't think he's going to govern as a Trumpist.
02:30:04.000He's not going to govern as a nationalist or a conservative.
02:30:08.000And so, he kind of ran getting support from the Trump movement without really giving anything to the Trump movement.
02:30:17.000You know, he ran with the support of Donald Trump himself and certainly with the help of the MAGA movement with Trump voters that probably wouldn't have voted for him if he were anti-Trump but without really reciprocating any of that.
02:30:32.000Again, without the Trump policies, without embracing Trump as a person,
02:30:38.000And I sort of have mixed feelings about that because, you know, if his victory sends a message to Republicans that you should run on cultural issues like Youngkin did, does his victory also indicate to other Republicans that you should not embrace Trumpism?
02:30:56.000That the future may be somebody like Ron DeSantis or Josh Hawley or God forbid Marco Rubio or something like that?
02:31:05.000How many people are going to look at this race and say, see?
02:31:08.000This guy won because he didn't have the mean tweets and the antics of Donald Trump and he wasn't divisive and he wasn't a nationalist.
02:31:17.000Here's a guy that ran as a moderate Republican and he threaded the needle and he pulled off a win in purple Virginia.
02:31:28.000Because if that's the takeaway, that's very problematic.
02:31:31.000This is what a lot of people have been arguing now, really I would say since before Trump even left office, which is that the Republican Party has to return to normal.
02:31:40.000Or people are arguing that in the future the party has to embrace the good parts of Trumpism without the bad parts, or even Trump himself.
02:31:50.000People are saying we need Trumpism without Trump.
02:31:53.000And that means something like the new Cold War with China, which arguably Trump contributed to this new consensus being formed on that, the Trump policies on tax cuts, some of the Trump policies on immigration, the Trump tax cuts, the Trump support for Israel, but without the like racism, without the outsider antagonism against the elites, without the vitriol against the media, without
02:32:23.000Without, in a word, all the good things.
02:32:25.000All the things that made Trump so effective.
02:32:28.000All the things that made Trump a true revolutionary.
02:32:31.000They're saying, we want to take the model that Trump used to win, but fill it up with the mannerisms and the policies of Mitt Romney.
02:32:40.000Fill it up with anything that can be said all day long on Fox News or written in National Review.
02:32:50.000And that is probably the greatest threat to the country, is that if the Republican Party is not able to become a vehicle for American nationalism, if it is taken over by actors that are fundamentally not revolutionary, Trumpism without Trump,
02:33:07.000That is going to abort what is supposed to be an American revolution, a true American regime change, in the sense that, you know, what Donald Trump should have been as a stepping stone, he should have been a prefiguration of a true nationalist populist uprising, which would build up something that challenges not just the Democratic Party, but the whole system, the Republican and the Democratic Party.
02:33:34.000And building up an army, a whole party, a vanguard that could replace everybody in the government.
02:33:43.000That's what it's supposed to be and I think that's still a possibility.
02:33:50.000It's not that Trump's gonna win again and serve four years and finish the wall and things like that.
02:33:57.000But the Trumpism would be a precursor to a real movement, a real vanguard that's going to transition this country and transition the GOP into sort of this new era, turn the GOP again into a vehicle for a truly revolutionary movement.
02:34:14.000And then that vehicle taking over the government and transitioning the government from this hostile globalist elite to a new class of rulers that are patriots and real conservatives.
02:34:28.000The biggest, so if that's our only opportunity, the biggest threat then to the country is that the Republican Party slips from the grasp of the revolutionaries and falls back into the hands of the system.
02:34:41.000If the revolutionaries can't control the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, if there's no vehicle for them to get in government, if there's no vehicle for somebody to get in the White House and make hiring decisions and firing decisions,
02:34:56.000I don't see an outcome where we have good governance.
02:34:59.000I don't see an outcome where we have patriots running the government.
02:35:03.000And the only threat, the biggest threat, to revolutionaries and Trumpists and these kinds of people taking over the GOP is this myth
02:35:14.000That we have to keep winning elections at any cost.
02:35:16.000And the way that we win elections is by running diverse candidates, and people that don't sound like Trump, and people that, again, have the worst parts of Trumpism that boomers have been tricked into liking, and subtracting all the best parts of it.
02:35:30.000And so you get something like this, where this guy's gonna govern as a moderate.
02:35:35.000He's not going to make Virginia the way that conservatives and nationalists and patriots want it to be.
02:35:43.000He's not going to be as bad as a Democrat.
02:35:45.000And people are going to say that's good enough.
02:35:47.000People are going to say that's a victory.
02:35:50.000And are we going to put up a candidate in 2024 who's going to do the same?
02:35:54.000Put up a presidential candidate in 2024 who's only going to be not as bad as a Democrat?
02:36:01.000Not a revolutionary, not a vanguard, not transitioning the government, but some moderate who's going to get in there and just govern more competently than the Democrats?
02:36:13.000Because if that's the case, then we failed.
02:36:16.000What has to occur is fundamental, fundamental change.
02:36:20.000It's not enough to get, like, a new management.
02:36:23.000It's not enough to just simply get good governance.
02:36:26.000We need to take this whole corrupt cesspool and strike at the heart of it, make everybody scatter.
02:36:33.000We have to destroy this power structure which is opposed to, effectively, everybody in the country, opposed to the existence of the country itself.
02:36:43.000We have to strike at the heart of the power system.
02:36:49.000Electing a private equity guy to stop making kids wear masks and stop teaching critical race theories, quoting MLK Jr.
02:36:58.000and talking about individual liberty and stuff, that's not going to do it.
02:37:03.000Electing Ronald Reagan too, electing DeSantis, electing Marco Rubio, it's not going to do it.
02:37:10.000I worry that Republicans are going to have the wrong takeaway from this election, which is to say they're going to look at this and say this is Trumpism without Trump.
02:37:38.000And the whole Trump circus, the opposition to the media, opposition to the deep state, conspiracy theories undermining the legitimacy of the system itself, without all that.
02:37:49.000Trumpism without Trump is, you might as well just call that conservatism.
02:39:01.000I mean, that pre-existed that, but they were expanded.
02:39:05.000And our gun rights were attacked, and abortion went on, and feminism flourished, and gay and trans became normalized and acceptable, and the cities went out of control, affirmative action proliferated.
02:39:19.000So let's temper some of the optimism tonight with realizing that Republican victories are not enough.
02:39:25.000Republicans have won elections statewide, nationwide, congressional, gubernatorial, whatever, for decades, and by some measures,
02:39:38.000They've ruled for longer, and they've won more effectively, and raised more money, and campaigned better than the Democrats.
02:39:44.000But the country is on the same trajectory.
02:39:46.000So it's not enough the Republicans are winning.
02:39:48.000It's not enough the Republicans are pulling off upset elections.
02:39:51.000You want to find some upset elections?
02:40:03.000And you could point to a lot of them over the years, and nevertheless the trajectory remains the same.
02:40:11.000What's important is that the right Republicans are winning.
02:40:14.000Forget even Republicans, it's important that the right people are winning, with the right agenda.
02:40:18.000It's important that people are winning that are opposed to the whole system, not just the Democrats, not just the worst excesses of the Democrats.
02:40:26.000You got a Republican to win because he said that we shouldn't have anti-white curriculum?
02:40:31.000He won because the opposing candidate was some anti-Trump resistance nutjob who said that parents have no say in what their children learn in schools?
02:40:56.000There is a moderate Republican who is the governor of Massachusetts, Charlie Baker, and there's a Republican governor of Maryland and a Republican governor of Maine.
02:41:07.000So I would caution against too much optimism.
02:41:10.000Yes, this is a reflection of how badly the administration is failing.
02:41:14.000Yes, it's a reflection of how unpopular CRT and, in some sense, maybe the COVID lockdowns are, maybe the mask mandates, you know, who knows?
02:42:20.000So I'm concerned that that will happen.
02:42:23.000The last thing I have to say, the last element to this race is it is also concerning that Republicans won this because I know a lot of people now are going to get complacent.
02:42:33.000You know, what's the other lesson of this?
02:42:35.000It's that implicitly, if we won the election, hey, you know, maybe the elections work now.
02:42:42.000I fear that a lot of people are going to walk away from this, and that will be the takeaway.
02:42:47.000Maybe not consciously, and maybe they wouldn't admit it, but there is this sort of implicit assumption that, hey, if we won this time in a blue state, that's awesome!
02:43:48.000Where they stole a national election in six states.
02:43:51.000This was a huge enterprise and it's obvious.
02:43:54.000And we saw that in the audit in Arizona and we've seen that in some of the information that's come out in Georgia.
02:44:01.000Mathematically it has been proven that voter fraud occurred at least in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia.
02:44:08.000And as a result, we have an illegitimate president.
02:44:11.000And how can Republicans, and why should they have any confidence in the system going forward?
02:44:16.000This is something that has to be addressed.
02:44:18.000If it doesn't, why would anybody vote at all?
02:44:21.000And how can we continue giving legitimacy to a system that is not democratic?
02:44:26.000How can we participate in a system, and by voting, by voting we are participating in it, and we're acknowledging, we're sort of, again, we're saying that it's legitimate,
02:44:38.000You can't go out and vote and then lose and say, oh well, I mean, I knew my vote wouldn't count.
02:44:43.000If you're voting, if you're participating, if you're engaging with it, it's as though you're legitimizing it.
02:44:50.000You're legitimizing the government's rule by democracy, by vote, when we know the elections are rigged.
02:44:56.000When we know that if there's a candidate that they don't want to win, they can fix it.
02:45:01.000And they can fix the media, and fix social media,
02:45:05.000And they can, as we talked about yesterday, just manufacture this false consensus.
02:45:36.000If enough Republican voters say openly and proudly and with determination, if they say, we're not going to vote because the elections are rigged, Republicans will have to reassure them.
02:46:15.000And the Republican response to that was, well, you're a child, you're an idiot, if you think that you're stupid, and then the Republicans lost.
02:46:39.000You don't get to call us stupid idiots for asking you, our representatives, to represent us.
02:46:46.000We're stupid, we're dumb because you won't give us what we want?
02:46:49.000Well then we're not going to give you what you want, which is our vote.
02:46:53.000That's the only way that change is going to happen.
02:46:56.000The only way that change is going to happen is through the state, through our representatives in the state, and if they're not going to do what we want them to, we have to stop voting for them.
02:47:04.000That's the one thing that we can do to them.
02:47:07.000That's the one way we can punish them, is to not play.
02:47:11.000The only way to win that game is not to play.
02:47:14.000Once you give them the vote, and they're in office, and they're raising money, and they got the clout, and all of that,
02:47:31.000And then they come back the next year or two years later and they say, I know you hate me, I know I didn't do what you asked me to do, but we can't let the Democrats win this thing!
02:47:41.000And people go, okay, hold my nose, vote again.
02:47:55.000They better do everything they can to reassure us that our votes are going to count and we're not going to be idiots and do nothing other than legitimize a system that is cheating us out of our rightful representation and out of our own country.
02:48:12.000So, does a victory like this make Republicans complacent?
02:48:29.000In 2022, Republicans are going to go out there, and they're going to vote again.
02:48:33.000The Republican Party will do nothing about voter fraud, and Republican voters will dutifully turn out again, and maybe Republicans will win the House.
02:48:43.000I mean, maybe they'll recover the House, maybe the Senate.
02:49:20.000So Republicans have had control of these institutions for a long time, and if it's the same old, if it's the usual suspects, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, I don't think that's anything worth celebrating.
02:49:59.000So I actually don't know if it's such a good thing that Republicans are going out and winning elections because all it does is affirm the legitimacy of the system and it's having these two effects.
02:50:12.000Are we going to put up Ron DeSantis in 2024?
02:51:14.000The only difference is that as time goes on, people are going to forget.
02:51:18.000People are going to forget the Trump election in 2016 and how that animated the country.
02:51:22.000People are going to forget the steal in 2020 and how absurd that was.
02:51:26.000People have a very short memory, so I'm very worried that if we see more of these and if we win the House, that might be the worst thing that could ever happen to us, is if Republicans gain control of the House and retain control of the Senate, or I guess technically gain control of the Senate.
02:51:44.000That might be the worst thing that could happen, honestly.
02:52:09.000Republicans are being suckered back in.
02:52:11.000They get a couple of good hands, they win the jackpot, and they're backspending their money in the casino where they're never going to win.
02:52:20.000That's how you're supposed to look at it.
02:55:08.000I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm America first, it's my homeland and everything, but you know, then you see, you see what we're up against, and it's not even just the elites, the people are vulgar.
02:55:47.000and Kobe Bryant, and I'm not making this up, and who was the other one, and somebody else, they were all gonna drive down the street where JFK got shot 60 years ago.
02:56:02.000And they were going to be with Trump, and Trump would become President again, and it was literally going to be the second coming of Jesus.
02:56:10.000And so imagine those people going back to Europe.
02:56:18.000I would say, I'm going to save Europe, and I would torpedo every last boat going to Europe.
02:56:26.000Because don't get me wrong, Europe is totally paused.
02:56:31.000It's not completely paused, but Europe is kind of paused.
02:56:36.000But if you had hundreds of these Q boomers getting on life rafts with their t-shirts that say Trump Kennedy 21 and say, where we go one, we go all.
02:56:48.000If they had 300 pound boomers getting out of life rafts with their with the seed oils and the Diet Coke and all that
02:57:00.000And who would even take him up on that?
02:57:23.000You know, who would even take them up on that?
02:57:25.000A small fraction of right-wing political people who actually like Europe.
02:57:29.000I feel like all the other American conservatives are like, Europe?
02:58:13.000Remember that time he gave $500 billion to blacks for no reason, pardoned drug dealers and rappers while never mentioning MAGA political prisoners?
02:58:23.000A lot of legals amnesty after leaving the border open.
03:02:14.000Trump initiated an unprecedented era of detente with North Korea.
03:02:21.000Trump, like I said, reduced legal immigration by 92% 92% and using public health regulations and the Remain in Mexico policy and brokering a deal with Mexico itself shut down the border and reduced illegal immigration to historic lows before he left office.
03:02:51.000Trump authored an executive order against tech censorship and had the FTC begin to investigate Google and Facebook for antitrust violations, which is ongoing.
03:03:02.000Trump ordered the FCC to reinterpret Section 230 to target tech censorship.
03:03:06.000He did it too late, but he did do that.
03:03:10.000Trump signed an executive order shutting down critical race theory for federal government contractors.
03:03:15.000He brought that conversation into the mainstream!
03:03:19.000So, you know, that's a very one-sided way of looking at things.
03:03:26.000And I, you know, I think that that whole saying things like that just isn't, it's just useless.
03:03:32.000It's short-sighted, it lacks perspective, and it's just useless.
03:03:36.000I mean, are you, do you really think you're the first person to say that?
03:03:40.000I mean, try saying something that's actually, try saying something that's actually contributing to the conversation, you know?
03:03:46.000I come on the show and I try every night to say something.
03:03:50.000I know not everything I say is groundbreaking or new, but I try to at least give a perspective.
03:05:08.000With everything that's happened to me?
03:05:15.000You know here I am trying to go out every night and try to fight the good fight and inspire and show people there's there's still a way out of things and trying to be adaptable and all of that against all odds.
03:05:27.000I'm 23 and I am fighting against the federal government, which is enough by the way, but the federal government and the banks who have deplatformed me from everything.
03:05:38.000I mean I can't even tell you the kind of stuff that I have to deal with.
03:06:37.000We try to do rallies for anti-vax and every time we do it they say you need insurance to get a permit and every insurance company turns us away because of who I am.
03:08:10.000But we, unlike you, me, unlike you, I'm on the front lines, in the fucking dirt, in the trenches, getting my life destroyed, my real life, not my anonymous profile, my real life, my real life, my real well-being, my real body and soul, my face, my name, my legal identity, and all of it.
03:08:32.000And I'm in here trying to figure out all of that.
03:08:35.000I put it on my back and I'm fighting against all these great institutions and you get people out there that want to just complain and want to just remind you constantly, um, you know, Trump sucks actually.
03:09:36.000Bigelow says niggas who send more than four superchats aren't allowed to get mad at black kids stealing a bunch of candy out of Halloween bowls.
03:13:48.000Ben, it was made gay because the whole Khan Inc.
03:13:50.000machine turned that into the latest grift.
03:13:53.000Darren Beatty had a good tweet about that the other day.
03:13:56.000He said it's kind of a damning indictment of the GOP that we've got this infrastructure ready to be spun up to sell Let's Go Brandon t-shirts but to do nothing other than that about it.
03:14:25.000The establishment sees that as an opportunity to sell a t-shirt for $19.99 and buy our package and buy our backpack and buy our hat that says Let's Go Brandon and buy this and that that says Let's Go Brandon and do literally nothing else.
03:14:55.000Ben says, do you have any reflection on the time two years ago when the Republican Party of Scott County, Iowa invited you to speak and then denounced you afterwards?
03:16:27.000and so I talked to Mike and Laura and I was like you guys are gonna get fired like this you're gonna get put on blast you're gonna get fired I'm like if you're okay with that then I'll go I said but you you're gonna you might regret this and they're like yeah we don't care
03:16:44.000So I drove out there, I gave my speech, I met Lauren Witzke for the first time, that's how I got to know her, and Michael Sisko too, and we went out to the local bar later, we got burgers or whatever, and I think we saw a literal car chase while we were there too, it was kind of weird.
03:17:02.000We went to get burgers after the event in Bettendorf, I think, and there was like a car chase in the middle of the city, anyway.
03:17:13.000So yeah, then Lauren Witzke and Mike both got fired.
03:17:18.000Lauren went to campaign in Delaware and Michael Sisko joined her campaign and the rest is history.
03:17:25.000She became part of the movement, so did he.
03:19:26.000I think I would be concerned about literally anything else, anything other than that.
03:19:33.000Honestly I think I'd be relieved I would be freed so no I don't think that'll happen but who knows maybe maybe it's possible Lord of the cringe says another Tuesday show I feel like Tuesdays your best night incidentally also the night that I watch these things might be related but I've seen most Nick out of context clips which means they were cut from Tuesday shows any thoughts on why your Tuesday shows are clippable peace I don't know I haven't noticed that
03:20:03.000Humongous Blungus is some fat void with leg tattoos convinced my brother to sign up for a turning point mailing list and now he's getting stupid emails all the time.
03:20:12.000I told him his first mistake was talking to a woman, true or not?
03:20:18.000Yeah, that's really based of you to say that.
03:20:25.000Based Texan says was going to go see a band until I realized the headlining band
03:20:30.000Had a tranny frontman so went to a different show at a different venue that same night and lo and behold, same thing.
03:23:05.000So thanks a lot man hoping to catch one of your streams one of these days We got to play fortnight one of these days.
03:23:10.000Maybe we'll do I guess fortnight mirrors is over, but let's let's do the next Next fortnight season.
03:23:17.000We got to get a tournament going or something
03:23:20.000Humongous Blungus, is it just me or do these corporate types seem soulless?
03:23:24.000You talk about service workers being petty tyrants, but employees who work for big companies have that empty look in their eyes and are mean.
03:25:53.000Mr. Kool-Aid says, I get you might have been looking at the election or whatever, but you should let us know if you're going to be an hour late.
03:26:00.000We wait for the live stream and all you have to do is walk downstairs.
03:26:13.000What, you got someplace to be or something?
03:26:15.000Why don't you just enjoy your content?
03:26:17.000You know, I don't think I've ever seen you super chat.
03:26:20.000The guy's got this free show coming to him live every night, and then it's a half hour late on an election night, and he goes, you know, you shouldn't at least tell us if you're gonna be late.
03:27:14.000It's one thing if you patronize the show, then I would go, hey, yeah, sorry about that.
03:27:18.000But if you're freeloading every night, if you're just tuning in, you're just sitting there, you know, this website that I built, which costs money to run, and this show, which is increasingly difficult to do with every passing day, you just sit there every night, hey, excuse me, you're gonna be an hour late.
03:27:35.000It's like, well, excuse me, but I don't work for you, actually.
03:27:42.000And you don't even patronize the show, so... So that just adds to it.
03:27:48.000That's not the only reason, but that just adds a little something to it.
03:27:52.000That just adds a dimension to how outrageous your demands are.
03:28:00.000So... You know, why don't you take that up with the HR department?
03:28:18.000Here, take a number, write a support ticket, and file it inside of your asshole, and then we'll get back to you in 100 to 5,000 years, okay?
03:33:53.000Larry Punks says, the idea that the Christian dogma is useful in self-improvement type of way for the masses and doesn't need faith is stupid.
03:34:01.000Christianity without God is like a super expensive PC without electricity.
03:34:30.000Yeah, that was really an epic moment, because they did, they thought, yeah, he's at this dinner, he's gonna do what every other politician does, and he was playing along at first, and then he really went for the jugular.
03:34:45.000And you see that guy in the back going, whoa!
03:34:50.000She says it takes a village, like in Haiti, where she has taken a number of them.
03:35:00.000Yeah, I've seen that so many times so many bangers in there Hillary's he says you may notice Hillary's not laughing as much as the rest of us and that's because she's already seen the jokes and All of the jokes were said to her in advance of the dinner by Donna Brazil So good
03:36:18.000I'll have to do one of these casual streams and watch that again because there's a lot of there's a lot of really good sort of micro moments in there.
03:36:29.000There's one where he tells his joke and they boo him.
03:36:32.000And he goes, I don't know who they're booing, Hillary, you or me.
03:39:32.000I've had money taken from me for supporting him.
03:39:36.000I had $500,000 frozen because I was at the Capitol on the 6th.
03:39:41.000MAGA grift, that's some grift where you lose half a million dollars.
03:39:45.000Yeah, I'm that greedy bastard grifter who signs up for that short-term grift where the government freezes most of your cash, freezes half a million dollars.
03:40:12.000I'll say things where bank accounts shut down my checking account, the FBI freezes my bank account, and I'm prevented from doing commerce on the internet where I conduct my business.
03:40:23.000Yeah, that makes a lot of sense from a grifting point of view.
03:42:02.000Vincent says Snead Vitus is the Al Smith dinner was so visceral too because he used to go there with his dad It was such a personal moment for him.
03:42:11.000Those people all used to be his friends real human being shit.
03:42:14.000That's really true Yeah, cuz he it was a deeply personal thing You're right Cuz he even said that he said