00:48:34.000And it's actually kind of a story that's in development.
00:48:38.000And this is based on something which I saw actually just a few hours ago.
00:48:41.000And maybe a lot of you saw it as well if you've been on Twitter at all this afternoon or this evening.
00:48:48.000There's sort of a weird developing story taking place where the president said in an interview with Telemundo today.
00:48:58.000That he was going to give all of the DACA recipients in America a pathway to citizenship with an executive order.
00:49:06.000Which, if that were true, would be maybe the biggest mistake and the worst betrayal in the Trump administration, period.
00:49:16.000Out of the past four years, and in my opinion, there's been a lot of mistakes and some betrayals, this would top all of it.
00:49:24.000But we're now hearing that maybe this is not the case.
00:49:29.000Even though we saw the interview, Maybe you've seen it, even though the interview quite clearly he says that there would be an executive order giving all of the DACA recipients a pathway to citizenship.
00:49:41.000The White House has since released a statement since that interview came out saying that actually that's not true.
00:49:49.000There's going to be an executive order on immigration, which will increase merit based immigration as opposed to family based immigration.
00:49:59.000And there will be a discussion about a legislative solution for DACA.
00:50:04.000Which does not include a pathway to citizenship.
00:50:10.000We will probably talk more about it next week, but we'll talk later tonight about everything that we know at this point what was said in the interview, what was said in the White House statement, and where we are with immigration.
00:50:35.000We'll also be talking tonight about this Harper letter.
00:50:39.000Which I'm not sure how many people have heard about this or seen this, but a few days ago there was a very high profile letter published by this Harper magazine, signed by 150 prominent writers, academics, intellectuals, and the letter is basically in defense of free speech.
00:50:59.000It's a bit surprising given who's on the letter.
00:51:01.000It's people like J.K. Rowling and Steve Pinker, Margaret Atwood, some people you'd expect, some people you might not expect.
00:51:09.000But this letter was published a few days ago, and it basically says that free speech is under attack, cancel culture is out of control, you know, all the usual stuff that we know about and talk about and experience on this show.
00:51:22.000And what's notable about this is that in the past few days, there's been a number of counter articles written by the Daily Beast, and in particular, a counter letter that we'll talk about tonight from an obscure website that basically says that none of those concerns are valid, there is no cancel culture.
00:51:40.000Free speech is not under attack, and anybody who's concerned about that is rich, white, privileged, all the rest.
00:51:49.000I didn't cover that a few days ago, even though the original letter's a little bit older.
00:51:54.000Like I said, it was published earlier this week, but we're talking about it tonight because of the backlash from this counter letter that's been published.
00:52:02.000And it's a pretty rich and ironic story, one which, you know, it's not unfamiliar to people that watch this show or to people adjacent or inside the America First movement.
00:52:12.000But it's very amusing and it's very rich in irony.
00:52:15.000So we'll be talking about that as well.
00:53:13.000But I did my show last night, and you may know that for the past month we've been experiencing this problem where I'll complete my stream and then the stream doesn't save as a video on the channel that you can watch later.
00:53:26.000That's been going on for about a month, and I've been reaching out to them and talking to them, and I've really just gotten no help.
00:53:34.000You know, one of the guys at DLive has been telling me that he's been talking to the dev team and working with their tech people and trying to figure it out, but I haven't gotten anything tangible until last night.
00:53:46.000Last night, the replay for the show was available right after the stream.
00:53:51.000It's all there, it plays in full, there's no issues.
00:53:55.000So we'll see if that happens tonight, you know, and we'll see what happens next week.
00:54:00.000If it saves tonight and if it saves maybe the first few shows next week, I'll say maybe it's problem solved, which would be very nice.
00:54:09.000And bring an end to a very big inconvenience for a lot of you and for myself that these shows are not available to watch on the channel up until apparently yesterday.
00:54:36.000After being the number one earner, number one streamer on the platform, I now am finally able to utilize the most basic features of the platform that are available to everybody.
00:54:48.000So, you know, we could say congratulations.
00:55:39.000So, we start off this show and we end the week with a very big white pill for America first.
00:55:45.000Truly an inevitable movement now that this is solved.
00:55:48.000But with that out of the way, there's one more thing I wanted to get into before we talk about this Harper letter and we talk about DACA and amnesty, which is, of course, the other big news today Roger Stone's pardon.
00:56:03.000That's, I think, the biggest news story today.
00:56:07.000And this only came out, I think, a couple of hours ago that Roger Stone, who is a friend of Donald Trump's, was charged in connection to the Russia investigation, the Mueller investigation.
00:56:19.000Special counsel for obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and giving false information.
00:56:26.000And so he was about to go to jail, I think, like this week.
00:56:29.000He was about to go to jail imminently, and it was announced today that Donald Trump is giving him a pardon, or not quite.
00:56:49.000The only reason I don't want to spend too much time talking about it on the show tonight is because, you know, I've just got to be honest with you.
00:56:57.000This issue is not really, like, of great concern to me.
00:57:22.000You know, this is not something that I was following very closely as it happened, or now that we're looking at the penalty or the sentencing for Roger Stone.
00:57:31.000So, you know, to me, I look at that and I say, you know, did Roger Stone get a bad deal?
00:58:07.000And I cover the stories that concern me.
00:58:10.000I cover the stories that I think concern you, that concern the country, that concern the people, that concern our cause.
00:58:18.000And, you know, the Roger Stone stuff to me is sort of like the sort of legacy DC intrigue.
00:58:24.000Which is, you know, I think a lot of people sort of scratch their head and maybe their eyes glaze over a little bit when that stuff comes up.
00:58:32.000I'm not sure how you guys feel about it, but I know that was the big news, but I don't really have much to say about it other than that.
00:58:37.000So, hey, congratulations to Roger Stone and good job to everybody that worked on getting him released.
00:58:43.000I know a lot of the Infowars people were involved in that and, you know, a lot of other characters, a lot of conservatives were involved in that.
00:58:52.000But with that out of the way, I couldn't, you know, do the show without acknowledging it, but I can't really feign, like, Too much interest in that.
00:59:01.000I don't really have much to say about it beyond that.
00:59:07.000We're going to talk about this Harper letter.
00:59:10.000And I saw this a few days ago, and I thought it was very stupid because the names on this list, I just had to roll my eyes.
00:59:17.000Which, if you don't know what this is, there was this big letter that came out a few days ago, and it was signed by some very prominent people.
00:59:24.000Like I said, I think one of the bigger names on there was J.K. Rowling, who was the author of.
00:59:31.000And the content of the letter, the message of the letter, is that free speech is under attack and cancel culture has hurt the climate for discussion and innovation and things like that.
00:59:43.000And it's like, okay, yeah, welcome to our world, right?
00:59:47.000Where have we been for the past 10 years or five years, right?
00:59:51.000So, at first, I saw the letter a few days ago and I kind of rolled my eyes.
00:59:55.000You know, we're going to have all these big time liberals writing a letter in defense of free speech.
01:00:01.000And what's annoying about it to me more than anything is that when really anybody talks about free speech, they don't really mean free speech.
01:00:12.000Because, of course, when people talk about free speech like Margaret Atwood or J.K. Rowling or Steve Pinker or even Ben Shapiro, Or Steven Crowder or Charlie Kirk.
01:00:26.000They're not talking about America First.
01:00:28.000They're not talking about the right wing.
01:00:29.000They're not talking about racists or white supremacists.
01:00:34.000Typically, they are talking about very, very mainstream leftists or liberals, or in some cases, very, very mainstream conservatives who get wrongly called racist or white supremacist by the left wing mob, right?
01:00:51.000Typically, they're talking about people that are.
01:00:54.000Not really challenging the system in any meaningful capacity.
01:00:57.000They're basically in line with where the mainstream of most of the establishment is, but maybe they had an off color opinion or a joke or something like that, and maybe they're defiant about it.
01:01:09.000That's typically what's covered under free speech.
01:01:12.000But people like myself, people like Tucker Carlson, people like Donald Trump, anybody who is, again, posing a legitimate challenge to the system, that's typically not recognized by these types as.
01:01:26.000But I'll read you a little report about the letter, who's on it, what it says.
01:01:31.000And the reason we're talking about it tonight is because of the inevitable and the very amusing backlash to this letter by some of our favorite leftists.
01:01:40.000So this is an article about the letter.
01:01:43.000It says, J.K. Rowling, Salman Rushdie, and Margaret Atwood are among the signatories to a controversial open letter warning that the spread of censoriousness is leading to an intolerance of opposing views and a vogue for.
01:02:00.000Rowling, whose beliefs on transgender rights have recently seen scores of Harry Potter fans distance themselves from her, said she was, quote, proud to sign this letter in defense of a foundational principle of a liberal society open debate and freedom of thought and speech.
01:02:16.000Rowling compared the current climate to the McCarthy years.
01:02:23.000Adding, quote, to quote the inimitable Lillian Hellman, I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
01:02:32.000A very brave take from J.K. Rowling, a billionaire, feminist, liberal, affluent white woman who wrote Harry Potter.
01:02:41.000Published in Harper's Magazine, the letter is signed by more than 150 writers, academics, and artists, including major names such as Martin Amos, Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, Malcolm Gladwell, and Gloria Steinem, acknowledging that, quote, powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform.
01:03:02.000Along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society.
01:03:07.000The letter goes on to decry what it calls, a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity.
01:03:22.000Wait a second, you're telling me that there's a culture that forces conformity, that forces allegiance to a certain political ideology and sacrificing freedom of speech?
01:03:47.000I need to read about this in the Mensa newsletter.
01:03:52.000Or, you know, we could just look at what's been happening every day for five years.
01:03:56.000It says hitting out at how a panicked damage control is leading to the delivery of hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms.
01:04:06.000The letter criticizes how editors are fired for running controversial pieces, books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity, journalists are barred from writing on certain topics.
01:04:16.000Professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class, a researcher is fired for circulating a peer reviewed academic study, and heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes.
01:04:29.000The letter ends with the writers asserting that the way to defeat bad ideas is exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to silence or wish them away.
01:04:39.000And what is so amusing to me about this letter in the first place is that none of what they're talking about is even remotely true.
01:04:49.000We know that probably 90% of the so called free speech advocates in the country who are prominent at this level, or really, I guess anybody, out of anybody in the country, 90% of them are not really talking about protecting ideas that legitimately challenge the system.
01:05:08.000They'll legitimately challenge the liberal consensus.
01:05:13.000When all these mainstream writers, New York Times bestsellers, people, in other words, that have not been canceled in a meaningful way, people like Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Pinker and J.K. Rowling, when they get on a letter and talk about vigorously defending free speech, they're not talking, for example, about discussions of race and IQ.
01:05:34.000When they're talking about, for example, peer reviewed studies getting circulated and consequences for people circulating peer reviewed studies, they're not talking about peer reviewed studies about that.
01:05:47.000They're not talking about Jason Richwine.
01:05:49.000They're not talking about Jared Taylor, Sam Francis, Peter Brimelow.
01:05:54.000They're not talking about, in other words, In that example, anyone who has anything meaningful to say against the liberal consensus.
01:06:03.000Because a topic like that, an opinion like that, information like that, actually challenges the foundational tenets of the consensus that they're talking about is so stifling.
01:06:15.000What they're talking about is resisting maybe the acceleration rapidly towards something that is far more extreme than what they've already embraced.
01:06:28.000Appeals to liberalism in this manner about free speech are not sufficient because we've seen this before, we've heard this before, and it amounts to empty words.
01:06:40.000When they're talking about free speech in a letter like this from people like this, you know that they're talking about millionaires, billionaires, major celebrities, people that are already given the green stamp of approval, but maybe they call her outside the lines on an issue or a joke or something like that.
01:06:58.000You know, they're not talking about anything that is meaningful.
01:07:03.000They want an arena of speech, a controlled sort of plantation of speech that is just maybe somewhat more broad than what people slightly to the left want.
01:07:14.000If people that are the radical leftists on Twitter and Tumblr and everywhere else, if they want the free speech arena to be this big, J.K. Rowling, Steve Pinker, and Malcolm Gladwell, they want it to be this big.
01:07:28.000But it's still contained, it is still totally controlled.
01:07:31.000And of course, the Real news story today.
01:07:33.000I mean, we heard about that a few days ago, and I don't even consider that very newsworthy.
01:07:38.000I find that, like I said, kind of funny and basically ridiculous.
01:07:43.000You know, that some of the titans of the liberal consensus are now going to be champions of free speech.
01:07:49.000Well, let me know when you stand up for Charlottesville.
01:07:51.000Let me know when you stand up for Tucker Carlson.
01:07:53.000Let me know when you stand up for, you know, Alex Jones.
01:07:57.000Anyone that's been censored in the past few years on social media in a very meaningful and hurtful way.
01:08:03.000You know, as far as I'm concerned, J.K. Rowling still has a verified check mark and her tens of millions of Twitter followers and billions of dollars.
01:08:13.000But the big news story to me about this is the rebuttal, the inevitable rebuttal that's come now from people to the left of these liberal characters.
01:08:23.000And I'll read to you this is a New York Times article about the response letter, which was written by totally obscure activists and self appointed intellectuals.
01:08:34.000This is the article it says, quote, Three days after an open letter signed by more than 150 cultural luminaries, darkly warning of a growing intolerant climate.
01:08:45.000Stirred intense response on the internet.
01:08:47.000Another group issued a counterblast on Friday accusing them of elitism, hypocrisy, and complicity in the bullying that they decry.
01:08:56.000The response letter, titled A More Specific Letter on Justice and Open Debate, chided the Harper statement for what it characterized as lofty generalities as well as ignoring the realities of who actually gets to be heard.
01:09:12.000And surprise, surprise, when they say lofty generalities and ignoring realities of who actually gets to be heard, You know, who do you think they're talking about when they say who actually gets to be heard?
01:09:29.000According to the response published at The Objective, a news and commentary site that explores, quote, how journalism has interacted with historically ignored communities.
01:09:40.000And the historically ignored communities are blacks, browns, homosexuals, transsexuals, you know, an assortment of the, you know, bio Leninist coalition, right?
01:09:52.000It says Harper's has decided to bestow its platform not to marginalized people, but to people who already have large followings and plenty of opportunities to make their views heard.
01:10:03.000It continued The letter reads as a caustic reaction to a diversifying industry, one that's starting to challenge diversifying norms that have protected bigotry.
01:10:14.000The writers of the letter used seductive but nebulous concepts and coded language to obscure the actual meaning behind their words.
01:10:22.000Almost as soon as it appeared on Tuesday, Quote, that letter, as Twitter quickly began calling the Harper statement, set off rounds of debate about free speech, privilege, and the existence or non existence of so called cancel culture.
01:10:36.000And what's funny to me about reading this rebuttal is it is actually true on some level, but not the level that they're talking about, not the way in which they're talking about.
01:10:47.000The counter letter says J.K. Rowling, Steven Pinker, Malcolm Gladwell, you know, all the people that signed this letter.
01:10:58.000Have a bigger platform than 99.9% of the world population.
01:11:04.000These are rich, famous, and mostly white, liberal people.
01:11:42.000People of color, homosexuals, transsexuals.
01:11:46.000That's what they're talking about when they say J.K. Rowling has a big platform and she's not elevating marginalized communities.
01:11:53.000But I hear the same thing and I agree.
01:11:56.000It's just that I disagree about who those marginalized communities are.
01:12:01.000The critique is totally right, but the conclusions are a little bit wrong.
01:12:05.000The real marginalized communities are not black people.
01:12:09.000Black people have been disproportionately amplified unfairly and almost to the point where it's ridiculous by media for decades.
01:12:18.000You could say at least for a generation or two.
01:12:21.000I think that for the most of the lives of millennials, as well as Zoomers, and now Generation Alpha, so maybe for three generations, black people and other minorities have been, I think, disproportionately amplified.
01:12:35.000In the opposite direction because of political correctness and leftism and things of that nature, who have been the marginalized communities?
01:12:44.000Who are the marginalized communities who, for example, are not seen or heard or acknowledged in this article about the battle over free speech?
01:12:52.000Well, it's not blacks, it's not Hispanics or Asians or gay people, it's white people, specifically white Christian conservative American people.
01:13:05.000These are the people that are actually marginalized.
01:13:08.000And it's so funny because I read this.
01:13:19.000J.K. Rowling, all these people, they are rich, out of touch liberals who face no consequences for what they say or their actions.
01:13:28.000I think once you get past a billion dollars, you're basically good, right?
01:13:33.000I think once you get past a billion dollars, once you get past 10 million Twitter followers, as several of the people on this list are, I think you're probably okay as far as cancel culture goes, with the exception maybe of Donald Trump.
01:13:50.000The people that are marginalized by the stifling climate for free speech are people like the ones I just mentioned a moment ago people like Alex Jones, people like Tucker Carlson, people like even the President of the United States on Twitter or on Facebook or on any number of platforms, people like yours truly, like myself.
01:14:15.000It's true, there is a free speech battle happening in the country, but it's not happening because some liberal academic on the New York Times bestsellers list disagrees about what radical feminism means to you.
01:14:29.000That's what J.K. Rowling is talking about when she signs the letter.
01:14:33.000J.K. Rowling, if you're not familiar, has come under fire in the past couple of years because she says that as a radical feminist, transgenderism threatens her conception of feminism.
01:14:46.000Because if a trans girl, in other words, a man who transitions to a woman, can identify as a woman, then that is somehow offensive or undermines feminism from the perspective of biological females.
01:15:00.000Which I guess there's some truth in that.
01:15:02.000But this is the kind of thing that she's talking about when she says cancel culture.
01:15:07.000When we're talking about cancel culture, we're talking about you go to Walmart without a mask, you get filmed, and then you get fired from your job at a construction company, right?
01:15:19.000You flip somebody off in traffic, and a black guy follows you to your house and films you and gets your license plate and your address, and you get fired from your job and you blow up in front of millions of people, and your life is destroyed.
01:15:31.000J.K. Rowling is talking about how she is a billionaire, world famous, and her brand of radical feminism is slightly different than the most radical leftists who are in favor of LGBT.
01:15:47.000But beyond that, I think it's important to read the actual counter letter itself.
01:15:51.000This gave some snippets of the letter, but I really want to read a few paragraphs from the actual counter letter, this one in the objective, written by these leftists in response to the Harper letter.
01:16:11.000It says, Under the guise of free speech and free exchange of ideas, the letter appears to be asking for unrestricted freedom to espouse their points of view, free from consequence or criticism.
01:16:23.000There are only so many outlets, and while these individuals have the ability to write in them, they have no intention of sharing that space or acknowledging their role in perpetuating a culture of fear and silence among writers who, For the most part, do not look like the majority of the signatories.
01:16:40.000When they demand debates, it is on their terms, on their turf.
01:16:45.000So, this is just generally anti white, right?
01:16:48.000You know, they're saying white people won't share their platforms.
01:16:51.000And when they say things, I really hate how leftists, particularly these woke, like black leftists, they always find new, really clever, passive aggressive, bitchy, snarky ways to say, like, because I'm black.
01:17:08.000There is no shortage of really clever, really, whoa, you know, poetry snaps, really snarky ways for black people to say, oh, you know, you don't like me because I'm black.
01:17:22.000You know, I'm not rich because I'm black.
01:18:12.000It says, The signatories call for a refusal of any false choice between justice and freedom.
01:18:20.000It seems at best obtuse and inappropriate, and at worst, actively racist to mention the ongoing protests calling for policing reform and abolition, and then proceed to argue that it is the signatories who are, paying the price in greater risk aversion.
01:18:36.000It's particularly insulting that they've chosen now, a time marked by, as they describe, powerful protests for racial and social justice.
01:18:45.000To detract from the public conversation about who gets to have a platform.
01:18:49.000It is impossible to see how these signatories are contributing to, quote, the most basic vital causes of our time during this moment of widespread reckoning with oppressive social systems.
01:19:00.000Their letter seeks to uphold a stifling atmosphere and prioritizes signal blasting their discomfort in the face of valid criticism.
01:19:08.000The intellectual freedom of cis white intellectuals has never been under threat en masse, especially when compared to how writers from marginalized groups have been treated for generations.
01:19:20.000In fact, they have never faced serious consequences, only momentary discomfort.
01:20:10.000That when European settlers colonized Africa and they were finally able to penetrate not just the coast, but the interior of the continent in the late 19th century, they discovered that not one country within Africa, not one tribe, not one group of people had a written language.
01:20:30.000In all of Africa's history, up until the 19th century, Only one nation developed written language, and that was Ethiopia.
01:20:40.000Every other culture, every other tribe, every other group from Cape Town to Cairo, like I said, with the exception of Ethiopia, had not developed written language.
01:20:54.000So it's kind of funny to me when they talk about black and brown writers.
01:20:57.000It's like, you know, you guys haven't been writing for very long.
01:21:01.000You guys haven't been writing for very long.
01:21:03.000So, you know, before we get all up in arms about.
01:21:07.000You know, mistreatment and historical injustice.
01:21:11.000You know, let's all just pause and reflect on the fact that it's not been a long time that the pen has been put to paper by some of these marginalized communities.
01:21:20.000So let's pump the brakes a little bit when it comes to that.
01:21:22.000But beyond that, I mean, that's just kind of like a funny factoid, kind of just a funny way of looking at things, kind of like a different angle that maybe makes you think a little bit.
01:21:32.000But to me, the bigger picture from this letter shows you how liberalism.
01:21:42.000If you identify as a classical liberal, and this is something, by the way, which we talked about yesterday with the Constitution and how the Supreme Court decided that half of Oklahoma is now an Indian reservation, it goes to show the extent to which constitutionalism, liberalism, in other words, ideology is insufficient to cope with some of the problems that we're dealing with right now.
01:22:07.000Insufficient, I should say, to solve the problems that we're dealing with.
01:22:11.000Because you imagine that a lot of people might look at this letter from both sides and say, wow, you know, finally something nonpartisan, finally something that right and left can get behind.
01:22:24.000Freedom of speech, you know, the basic foundation of any liberal, free, democratic society.
01:22:30.000Finally, some sanity is prevailing in this insane time.
01:22:34.000You know, a lot of people might say that.
01:22:38.000Does the response address any of the arguments?
01:22:41.000Does the response engage with anything that is said in the article, where they talk about how you cannot express experimental or challenging ideas in the country, even if it's out of touch, even if they're not talking about people really challenging the system?
01:22:58.000In the abstract, what they're talking about is true.
01:23:00.000The cancel culture and PC police and all that is ruining freedom of expression, and that will have dire consequences for the society.
01:23:26.000This whole letter about how we value freedom of speech and freedom of speech is, you know, this great tradition and it's good for us.
01:23:32.000And here are these very intelligent, prominent people backing it up people who are liberal, people who are not hateful or, you know, alt right or white supremacist or anything like this.
01:23:42.000And the response from leftists, amplified and elevated by all the mainstream media, by the New York Times and by the Daily Beast and by every other publication, is to say, shut up, you're white.
01:24:36.000When all you can bring to the table is your vaunted ideas and these good faith ideological appeals, what happens when the other side says, I don't care about your ideas.
01:24:49.000I don't care about the things you value.
01:24:52.000I don't care about your foundations for free society or liberalism.
01:25:13.000Well, we have to come to the conclusion that in order for us to have free speech, in order for us to have Western civilization, we need a people who value Western civilization.
01:25:26.000We need a people who appreciate and desire Western civilization.
01:25:32.000But you cannot argue in favor of it or defend it.
01:25:36.000Against people who simply don't care whether they have it or don't, or who actively hate it.
01:25:41.000These people actively hate our civilization.
01:25:59.000And so, all these people that are trying to argue for this inclusive ideological definition of our society, what happens when the newcomers?
01:26:10.000Or maybe people that have been here for a long time, but you know, maybe regarded as spiritual foreigners.
01:26:16.000What happens when the people outside of that civilization simply don't care about it?
01:26:22.000They don't value it in the same way you do, and as I said, are actively hostile to it.
01:27:15.000And substitute inside of that any aspect of our civilization, any aspect of European civilization or its fruits, any part of it for that matter.
01:27:26.000Democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, tolerance for ethnic or religious minorities, or even things like Christianity, more right wing things, right?
01:27:38.000Even things like, you know, classical art, cathedrals, architecture, all of that.
01:27:44.000Substitute free speech for any one of those things and you would get the same rebuttal.
01:27:48.000Well, what about our great cathedrals?
01:27:52.000And you're going to get, you know, probably a Jewish magazine with a black trans writer talking about, well, can we stop talking about your cathedrals and talk about our black lives?
01:28:03.000That's what you'll get in any instance of it.
01:28:05.000And that, on a civilizational level, is what we're getting across the map.
01:28:12.000Maybe instead of trying to win over people who hate our civilization, maybe instead of begging these people to just take it easy on the things we love, Why don't we just stop giving power to those people?
01:28:25.000Why don't we just ignore those people?
01:28:28.000Why don't we defend our culture from those people as opposed to trying to persuade them to love it?
01:28:34.000Because at the end of the day, the people that are in these institutions, whether it's the media or academia, whatever you look at, they hate this civilization.
01:28:43.000I mean, that much has been made clear for decades.
01:28:47.000And they're not going to change their minds anytime soon.
01:28:50.000But they're in all the positions of power.
01:28:55.000Do they think that we're going to get in these universities, get in NBC, ABC, to get to these entrenched bureaucrats and convince them to do the right thing?
01:29:08.000Of course, that's not going to happen.
01:29:10.000They have the power and they're working against our objectives.
01:29:14.000The only way to stop that is for us to get the power and to work in favor of our objectives.
01:29:24.000Everybody's going to wake up and have this grand moral epiphany, a moment of clarity where they realize that they were on the wrong side of history.
01:29:34.000And it's time for them to rectify their actions.
01:30:33.000All these liberals who did not defend, for example, some of the censorship that started around Charlottesville, the censorship of Trump supporters, the censorship of Infowars, of many, many, many high profile people, they can now suffer the consequences of the system that they created, the system that they enabled, that they've participated in, that they don't protect all the legitimate opponents of that system.
01:30:58.000They can be buried by it, as far as I'm concerned.
01:31:01.000But I think it's a message to all of us.
01:31:03.000About the nature of the problem in our country.
01:32:15.000Confusing, and it was as confusing to me as I'm sure it was for you.
01:32:20.000Just sort of a baffling moment and something that's still in development.
01:32:23.000But I saw this on Twitter this afternoon.
01:32:26.000There was an interview between the president and a Telemundo reporter.
01:32:31.000And the Telemundo reporter asked the president what's going on with immigration.
01:32:35.000And the president said, inexplicably, that we're going to do an executive order that will give a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients.
01:32:45.000DACA is deferred action on childhood arrivals, those are the dreamers.
01:32:49.000And that's people that were brought over the border by their illegal immigrant parents as minors, and now they've grown up.
01:32:57.000And the question is, what do we do with them?
01:32:59.000We have deferred action, which means we're not deporting them, but they're not permanent residents.
01:33:04.000They don't technically have legal status here, we're just not deporting them.
01:33:09.000Well, the president said today we're going to give them amnesty.
01:33:12.000So, I'll read you a report from The Hill about this, and maybe that'll clear up why it's a little bit confusing.
01:33:17.000It says, President Trump said Friday that he intends to sign an executive order on immigration within the next month.
01:33:24.000That will include a road to citizenship for recipients of the DACA program.
01:33:29.000In an interview with the Telemundo anchor Jose Diaz Ballart, Trump blamed Democrats from walking away from a deal on DACA and said the Supreme Court's decision last month blocking his administration's plan to end the Obama era program gave him, quote, tremendous power.
01:34:54.000What I'm going to do is that they're going to be part of a much bigger bill on immigration.
01:34:58.000It's going to be a big bill, a good bill.
01:35:01.000And a merit based bill, and it will include DACA, and I think people are going to be very happy.
01:35:05.000One of the aspects of the bill is going to be DACA.
01:35:08.000We're going to have a road to citizenship.
01:35:11.000The White House attempted to clarify Trump's remarks a short time after the interview aired by claiming he had announced immigration plans that he did not discuss in the interview.
01:35:20.000The statement said, As the president announced today, he is working on an executive order to establish a merit based immigration system to further protect U.S. workers.
01:35:30.000Furthermore, the president has long said he is willing to work with Congress on a negotiated legislative solution to DACA, one that could include citizenship along with strong border security and permanent merit based reforms.
01:36:01.000If you remember, we covered this last week on the show.
01:36:04.000The Supreme Court decision from June, I think it was, said that the president could not rescind DACA with an executive order.
01:36:14.000It said that the president did not go through the proper procedure, according to a certain legislative act, to rescind DACA.
01:36:22.000In other words, to rescind those legal protections for those childhood arrivals.
01:36:28.000He was trying to shut down DACA, and the Supreme Court said, You can't do it in this manner with an executive order.
01:36:34.000And the president said, based on that ruling, he can now give DACA recipients a pathway to citizenship through an executive order, which is not true.
01:36:45.000That wasn't the nature of the Supreme Court ruling.
01:36:48.000The Supreme Court ruling had nothing to do with pathway to citizenship.
01:36:51.000It was about whether or not the president could rescind DACA, take away DACA, not open it up and make it an amnesty program in the manner in which he tried to do it.
01:37:01.000And moreover, the president could never give a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants through an executive order.
01:37:26.000And then the White House statement came out later and said he's not even going to touch DACA with an executive order.
01:37:32.000Actually, there's going to be two parts there'll be an executive order regarding merit based immigration reform, and then there'll be a broader immigration bill through Congress, which may have a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients in the end.
01:37:49.000You know, that may be part of a compromise.
01:37:52.000So to me, it was very confusing, and I was initially outraged because you've got something like 2 million DACA recipients, and by the way, they're not children.
01:38:02.000Everybody makes it out that, you know, the DACA, or I think it's 2 million dreamers.
01:38:06.000I think there's actually many, many more DACA recipients.
01:38:09.000I'm pretty sure the 2 million is just the dreamers, but in any case, the DACA recipients are not kids.
01:38:15.000The average age of a DACA recipient is 25 years old.
01:38:19.000So these are not, as the media likes to portray, Toddlers, or even teenagers for that matter.
01:38:27.000You know, these are grown adults at this point.
01:38:29.000They were arriving as children, but they have now grown up into adults in the United States.
01:38:36.000Whatever their age, it doesn't make any sense for the president to give them a pathway to citizenship.
01:38:42.000Give them a pathway to citizenship, and what happens?
01:38:46.000Do you think that the dreamers, do you think that these Hispanics that came over illegally are going to vote for Donald Trump out of gratitude?
01:38:56.000Are they going to vote for Republicans out of gratitude because they were given amnesty?
01:39:01.000Or do you think, like the rest of the ingrates in this country, they will get their citizenship and now they will legally vote for Democrats?
01:39:09.000At least at a rate of 60 to 70%, and maybe more.
01:39:12.000So it's mind blowing to me that this would be a pitch in this executive order.
01:39:19.000And that's why I was confused about it from the beginning.
01:39:21.000And I guess there's some relief because the clarification says, well, there won't be a pathway to citizenship in the executive order, but there will be in a bill.
01:40:29.000Whether it's an executive order or a bill from the legislature doesn't change the fact that you're talking about millions and millions of young, liberal Hispanics who are now going to be able to vote.
01:40:44.000And in states like Texas and Arizona, And states that we need to win in 2020 and 2024, that will never be a winning issue for us.
01:40:55.000The only winning issue for Republicans is to stop immigration.
01:41:00.000Because the people that are coming here, no matter where they come from, are voting for Democrats.
01:41:05.000They're coming into states with major cities, they're coming into, in many cases, red states, and they're voting liberal.
01:41:13.000And they're coming in by the millions every year.
01:41:16.000So, how is it sensible to make a compromise or reform?
01:41:20.000That is anything other than a drastic reduction in the amount of foreigners in this country.
01:41:24.000And as a result, reduction in the amount of voters that hate us and that will never vote in favor of us.
01:41:33.000And some of my thinking about this is that years ago, back in I think 2018, and there was another scare about this I think in 2019, there was a discussion about whether or not the president would give a pathway to citizenship for the DACA recipients in exchange for.
01:41:52.000A major immigration overhaul that makes the immigration system a merit based system as opposed to a family based system.
01:42:00.000Even if that happens, they're not even talking about reducing the amount of immigration.
01:42:05.000All the calls for a merit based immigration reform, which you hear about, which this administration is championing for some reason, does not reduce the overall amount of immigration.
01:42:16.000So you're going to get your pathway to citizenship for millions of DACA recipients, millions of young Hispanics who are liberal, and then on top of that, You're now going to get the same number of immigrants every year.
01:43:06.000Instead of bringing over the relatives of immigrants, which is maybe nepotistic or something like that, we're going to bring over hard working immigrants who have degrees and speak English, and they're going to contribute to our country.
01:43:20.000A lot of Republicans find that appeal compelling.
01:43:23.000They say that the problem with immigration is not that they're foreigners, it's not that they come from foreign countries and have foreign ideologies, foreign heritage, and foreign ancestry.
01:43:38.000The problem is that these immigrants are coming here and they're not working hard.
01:43:42.000So when Jared Kushner and Donald Trump say we're going to have a merit based immigration reform with a point system that rewards people who start businesses and speak English and have degrees and have a job lined up, conservatives say, gee, that's terrific.
01:43:59.000But here's the problem when those hard working immigrants come here, whose jobs do they compete for?
01:44:05.000Instead of bringing over Hispanic landscapers and nannies and people that are going to clean your house, instead now they're going to bring over people with advanced degrees from India and China.
01:44:19.000In other words, they're going to bring over people that will compete with your children or you, depending on how old you are, after you just graduated from college or your kids just graduated from college.
01:44:30.000So think about it this way for generations, they've been taking away upward mobility in this country by taking away the lowest rung of jobs.
01:44:41.000If you're a high school graduate in this country, good luck.
01:44:45.000Good luck getting ahead and making a good life for yourself, let alone a life better than that of your parents, because all of the low skilled jobs for high school graduates have been eaten up and taken over by cheap, low skilled, uneducated immigration and labor from South and Central America and Mexico.
01:45:04.000So that is what's been going on for generations.
01:45:07.000Now, thanks to the Trump reform, thanks to our conservative, patriotic, pro growth immigration reform, Now, not only do you not stand a chance as a high school graduate, but now you won't be able to stand a chance as a college graduate.
01:45:22.000Because now, instead of getting millions of people that are going to come over and take the low skilled, low education jobs, you're going to have millions of people, the same number of them, that are high skilled and with a high degree of education.
01:45:35.000So they're going to come over and take the STEM jobs, they're going to take the engineering jobs, the tech jobs, they're going to take all the good jobs.
01:45:43.000So, whereas you spent maybe tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, To push your kids through a state school or a prestigious school, an Ivy League school, so that they could get educated and get a serious job.
01:45:56.000Because now they're going to be competing with millions of people, not just the ones already with temporary work visas like H 1B, but now also millions and millions of green card holders, citizens, permanent residents, that are going to live here and take their jobs as well.
01:46:14.000As an added bonus, those people are even more liberal than the Hispanics.
01:46:18.000Indians, Chinese, All those immigrants coming over here, they vote for Democrats at a higher rate than even the Hispanics.
01:48:06.000With what he's been doing, which is finding backdoor, indirect, scumbag ways to shut down immigration in violation of the law.
01:48:14.000You know, if you can't get a bill through the Congress that makes net zero immigration, do some scumbag stuff like he did with the Office for Citizenship and Immigration Services.
01:48:25.000He cut their budget so much that they have to furlough more than half their staff.
01:49:33.000That would be a fair trade because we bring in something like a million, slightly more than a million immigrants per year.
01:49:40.000In two years, you'll have made up that difference, right?
01:49:43.000In other words, let's just say for the sake of numbers, you've got 2 million DACA recipients.
01:49:48.000Let's say those guys become citizens tomorrow.
01:49:51.000But if in exchange you shut down all immigration, you get net zero immigration, then that means that within two years, that's 2 million people that you've prevented from coming here.
01:50:48.000And it's such a shame because we just got done talking about, I think it was earlier this week, how many good things the president has been doing on immigration this year and in the past few years.
01:51:34.000But this reeks of Jared Kushner and of the GOP and the RNC and all the mistakes that have made this administration as rough and as big of a missed opportunity as it has been.
01:52:08.000There was talk about a deal like this in January 2018.
01:52:13.000There was talk about a deal like this in January and December 2019 with the government shutdown, and it all blew over.
01:52:19.000You know, a possible explanation for this is that it's a bluff.
01:52:23.000And what the president can do is say, I offered to give DACA, but the Democrats wouldn't give it to me.
01:52:29.000And that's supposed to be an appeal to Hispanics.
01:52:31.000It's sort of like having your cake and eating it too.
01:52:34.000I'm not going to give DACA recipients a pathway to citizenship, but.
01:52:39.000I can push the blame off on the Democrats.
01:52:42.000I think that is maybe that's an explanation for this because it has happened several times before.
01:52:48.000We've heard about a grand immigration deal that hinges on DACA as a bargaining chip, and it's never worked, and it's never come close to working.
01:52:57.000So I don't know if that's just a political play.
01:53:00.000Say you're going to give DACA, don't, and then blame it on Democrats.
01:53:04.000Even if it is, I don't think it's very effective.
01:53:06.000Why don't you just give us what we want?
01:54:15.000It's frustrating, but we'll see what happens on that.
01:54:17.000I don't think there's any reason to believe that that's going to happen because the Democrats will never compromise on immigration, especially not in an election year.
01:55:11.000In fairness, I mean, that really wasn't like a church for like 500 years, right?
01:55:17.000I mean, it didn't operate as a church.
01:55:19.000Not to say that it's not a horrible loss for Christianity, but it is to say that, you know, Turkey has been occupied for a long time, right?
01:55:31.000And that's part of the re Islamification of Turkey, which, you know, I have to say, as a Christian, I don't like it.
01:55:39.000But as a nationalist, I have to respect it in some capacity.
01:55:43.000I don't like to see, obviously, churches become mosques.
01:55:46.000But, you know, Erdogan, unlike our leaders, is defending and reasserting the identity of Turkey.
01:55:55.000You know, whereas Turkey has been under the sway of Westerners and liberals, westernizers and liberals.
01:56:02.000For close to 90 years, or I guess almost 100 years at this point, Erdogan is turning the clock back and making Turkey Muslim and Turkish again, right?
01:56:15.000It's just we wish we could do the same thing.
01:56:17.000I wish we had Erdogan in America who was making our churches great again, Christians great again, and making America European again, right?
01:56:26.000So I have to respect broadly what's happening there, but obviously on the spiritual level, we hate to see it.
01:56:33.000Big Rams says, Why is Reddit so awful?
01:56:35.000What about that site attracts the kind of people that use it?
01:57:27.000You can follow your friends on there and see your friends post their, you know, vacation pictures or their wedding pictures or what they're eating for breakfast.
01:57:37.000And I guess in Reddit, there is some of that.
01:57:40.000You've got communities, but these communities are largely revolving around specific subcultures and oftentimes news or science or things like that.
01:57:52.000So to me, it's got a little bit more substance than a true social media, so to speak, than a Facebook or an Instagram.
01:57:59.000It's a little bit more oriented around things and ideas and art and culture, things like that.
01:58:06.000And for that reason, I think it attracts maybe a very specific demographic of consumers.
01:58:42.000They're both broadly defined as websites that are used by massive amounts of users, but I mean, they clearly have different demographics and different purposes and different uses.
01:58:52.000So, I would guess something like that.
01:58:57.000Martin says, favorite non biblical historical figure from antiquity?
01:59:01.000You know, to be honest, I'm not really like a history buff, but maybe Julius Caesar.
01:59:10.000Aside from Jesus, if it's non biblical, Caesar's pretty great.
02:01:15.000And so the point is this any organization that is explicitly right wing, you know, of this nature, that is not like a GOP club or a Trump voter club, it's going to be subject to scrutiny by the left and by the federal government.
02:01:35.000So, if I were to recommend a group that you could get involved in and find friends or a wife, it would be to do something in your community.
02:01:43.000What I want for our people is relative normalization.
02:01:48.000I think a big problem with the alt right is that it turned inwardly, and it was very much about everybody having their whole life revolve around the movement, didn't really have a life outside of their political views and this political fraternity.
02:02:17.000I don't want to falsely imply that, but you know what I'm saying.
02:02:20.000You want to find people that are, you know, everyday people.
02:02:24.000Maybe not people that are, you know, from online far right political subculture, right?
02:02:32.000It's not to say that there's anything wrong with that, but I think you want to be a well rounded person.
02:02:37.000And also, You know, I think that that opens you up to a lot more.
02:02:41.000I think when you get in your community, I think that opens you up to a different sort of texture of life than it might be if it's like, hey, comrade, hello, you know, white brother.
02:02:51.000It's not to say that we are not all in this together as a movement, but it is to say that we really need to assimilate and integrate into society to have any kind of impact, and I think even for our own sanity and health.
02:03:03.000So, if you want to look for a community, I would recommend going to church.
02:03:07.000I would recommend going to church for other reasons.
02:03:48.000You know, if you're not in college or high school, meaning you're not in a fraternity or an athletics team or something like that, we're Where do people like that go and organize besides their workplace?
02:03:58.000They go to work and maybe they go drinking with their work friends or old college friends or something like that.
02:04:03.000But I mean, what is the source of community outside of that?
02:04:07.000There's not a lot of that left for young people.
02:04:10.000So, you know, I would say that that, I don't think that's particular to us.
02:04:13.000And I would say don't limit yourself by thinking that it's only an us problem.
02:04:17.000I think you should explore your options.
02:04:19.000Talk to your neighbors, talk to people in your church.
02:04:23.000Maybe use social media in your area or something like that.
02:04:28.000I'm not the expert to talk to about finding friends.
02:04:30.000I don't have a ton of friends in my neighborhood, but I'm a little bit of an exceptional case.
02:04:36.000So I would say that you should broaden your horizons, branch out, things like that.
02:04:41.000But in any case, don't go to organizations like that because you want to find friends.
02:04:46.000I wouldn't go join Patriot Front and make a decision like that out of desperation because you're lonely.
02:04:52.000Don't make a life changing bad decision because you're lonely.
02:04:56.000You've got to learn sometimes to live with being lonely.
02:04:58.000You have to learn sometimes to live with.
02:05:42.000Jewish source fallacy says Hey, Nick, did you know there's some half Jewish guy on TikTok saying he was on your Model UN team claiming that you're a racist because you told people on the team that minorities were inferior?
02:05:54.000Yeah, I think you said that in my live chat a few days ago, and I responded to that by saying, LOL.
02:06:00.000I think it was you that said that, and then somebody replied and said, That's not true.
02:06:04.000Nick wasn't even red pilled in high school or something like that, which I thought was funny.
02:06:56.000Mighty Mouse says You say you want to reproduce and raise your own personal army of super soldiers, but what are you going to do with them once you get them?
02:08:07.000And that doesn't mean I don't want the society to be Christian, but I'm also not going to, you know, launch an inquisition because I meet an atheist.
02:08:15.000I understand there are a lot of atheists in the world, and there's a lot of Christians in the world, you know?
02:08:20.000But Jim Goad is the kind of guy that, I mean, he literally will get in my DMs and say, oh, okay, Christian, so.
02:08:27.000You know, God is omnipotent, so does he allow bad things to happen or can he not stop them?
02:08:35.000And you know, that old thing that's like Epicurus or something.
02:08:39.000And it's like, dude, you know, if you want to do this on a stream, okay, we can arrange a debate or something, but it's like one o'clock.
02:08:48.000I don't really want to get into a debate about theology and Twitter DMs with you.
02:09:37.000Eternal Cringe says Trump on Telemundo said he will sign something in the coming weeks on DACA, which would include a pathway to citizenship.
02:10:53.000I can smell it on them, and I just have no tolerance for them anymore.
02:10:57.000If you're controlled by your carnal appetites like that in such an undignified way, you know, publicly in front of your friends, like, it's just like, what does it matter with you, you know?
02:11:44.000I see it all the time and people might say it's a joke.
02:11:48.000Some of them are more, you know, unashamed than others, but I see it all the time and it is honestly the most.
02:11:54.000Undignified behavior, I think, that you can express on the internet because it is so transparent and is so, you know, opposed to what it means to be a man, in my opinion.
02:13:50.000But yeah, I mean, I'm at that point where we just got to raise the limit.
02:13:53.000I don't want to read these many super chats every night.
02:13:55.000And, you know, 40% of them make me cringe to death.
02:13:59.000So, Holy Servants says, would you say America never formed a fascist or commie government?
02:14:06.000Would you say America never formed a fascist or commie government at the time was more due to the people resisting one or because the foundational documents prevented it?
02:15:26.000Angela says, just thought I'd let you know that for whatever reason, my three elementary school age kids bust out laughing every time they hear you say goofy goober.
02:16:57.000I think that's a miscommunication on your end, but I appreciate the consideration.
02:17:02.000Cool Blue Square says, if you had to play 18 holes of mini golf with Jared Holt, Richard Spencer, and Ben Shapiro, which friend would you take with you to keep you sane?
02:17:35.000I've never had like an exchange with them.
02:17:38.000Obviously, I saw Ben Shapiro that one time and Jared Holt one time at CPAC, but I have never liked to talk to them before, anything like that.
02:17:46.000So, if it was between Ben Shapiro and Jared Holt, I'd honestly, you know, honestly, honestly, I might say Jared Holt only because Ben Shapiro is just cringe.
02:18:02.000I mean, not only is he obviously opposed to America First, but if you've ever watched a show, He's not cool.
02:23:04.000So I know it's uncomfortable, but that's the truth.
02:23:09.000And people have been trying to come up with rationalizations for this for.
02:23:13.000For decades, every rationalization in the book.
02:23:16.000Cycle of poverty, debt overhang, the legacy of colonialism, the legacy of racism, all different kinds of convoluted academic excuses for inequality.
02:24:05.000And there's going to be collateral damage, there's going to be even unintended or bad consequences from any policy.
02:24:12.000But the question is what are our priorities?
02:24:15.000And what do we want our nation to look like?
02:24:17.000And, you know, just because you know an individual that is a certain way doesn't mean we're going to jeopardize our civilization.
02:24:23.000Because for every one patriot who's a DACA recipient, how many more DACA recipients do you have that are criminals or liberals or unwilling to assimilate or hate our culture?
02:24:34.000And it even doesn't matter beyond that.
02:24:37.000The volume of people that are here is unacceptable no matter who they are because they're foreigners.
02:24:53.000So, you know, are we going to be staring down the barrel of a gun in 50 years and saying, gee, well, you know, thank God I determined what our civilization should do based on my one friend?
02:25:06.000We have to look at things on a civilizational level because that's the level that governments make decisions on, is at the civilizational level, not the individual level.
02:25:17.000He can go back and then he can come here the right way if he loves America.
02:25:21.000He can come here the right way or something like that, or he'll just stay home because if he loved America, then he knows what's good for America, which is not unfettered immigration.
02:25:30.000So I think you can separate out the personal from the political from the personal.
02:25:37.000Master Euphoria says maybe it was a joke, but seemed like you were seriously considering removing Super Chats from the show last night.
02:25:43.000Any ideas on what you might replace it with?
02:25:48.000You know, at this point, let's just be honest.
02:25:50.000You know, I've been doing the show for three years, and initially the format was 45 minutes of monologue and 15 minutes of audience questions.
02:25:59.000Think about that 45 minutes of monologue, 15 minutes of audience questions.
02:26:03.000The show has grown to the point now where it's 45 minutes to an hour of monologue and 90 to 120 minutes of super chats.
02:26:13.000To have the super chats be twice the length of the show is insane.
02:26:19.000And, you know, a lot of them are people that are just You know, wasting time.
02:26:22.000And, you know, it's funny the first time, but reading Pee Pee Poo Poo or, you know, whatever, you know, when you get at like 30 of those, it just becomes obnoxious and it makes this show kind of inaccessible for a lot of people because who wants to sit through a three and a half hour live stream or a three hour live stream?
02:26:40.000And, you know, an hour and a half of that is me saying, you know, blah, blah, blah, says blah, blah, blah, you know, a hundred different times.
02:26:45.000So, and a lot of these super chats, you know, it's just not, it's repetitive and it's a lot of questions that are unoptical.
02:26:52.000It's questions that are, um, You know, unpleasant or offensive to read.
02:26:58.000So, you know, you just have to evaluate and say, this is something that can probably be cut out.
02:27:05.000So, I don't know if I'll cut out super chats completely, but maybe I'll moderate them better.
02:27:11.000But people just clearly can't handle it.
02:27:13.000I don't know if it's people just don't know what they're doing or people aren't being responsible.
02:27:18.000But I mean, clearly we've reached the point where people send in super chats for three hours and people are kind of becoming inconsiderate with it.
02:27:28.000And don't get me wrong, I mean, I appreciate that people are supporting the show and they're sending money and everything, but, you know, when you send a super chat that's going to get me banned, you know, like this guy's on his sixth account and he's gone through five unique accounts, and I banned him five times for putting things in the chat that are either personally offensive to me or things that if I read them will get me banned from this platform.
02:27:49.000And it's like, what do you do with a person like that?
02:27:50.000I mean, on the one hand, I'm appreciative for monetary support, but on the other hand, you know, if that jeopardizes the show, well, then, you know, that's.
02:28:00.000It's kind of undermining the whole reason why the show exists.
02:28:05.000So, we just have to think about how the show is going to move on and maybe get better and grow.
02:28:13.000Or you guys can send better super chats.
02:28:17.000And I know a lot of people that watch this show who are big supporters of the show and diehard watchers, and they tell me the super chats are a problem.
02:29:04.000I haven't decided on what I'm going to do, I don't really have a ton of options.
02:29:07.000We're already grappling with how to continue doing the show in the first place, and then I've got to figure out how to corral some of these people on top of that.
02:29:15.000Maybe I'll talk to Entropy and see if I could raise the limit or something like that, find a way to moderate some of these chats.
02:29:20.000Maybe moderators can't even delete super chats, so I literally have to read all of them.
02:29:27.000Anyway, that's kind of the different schools of thought on that.
02:29:30.000It's frustrating, but yeah, I mean, it just gets to a point where, you know, and I don't want to complain for too long, but I do the show every night, and it Takes a toll on me because it just drags on and on and on, and it's just not fun at that point.
02:29:45.000It's not fun on Friday when I've been doing this five days in a row, you know, two and a half to three hours a day, and you know, it's just questions that have been answered a thousand times, or it's questions that are unoptical, or questions that are just, you know, goofy.
02:30:00.000So it gets to be a little bit grating.
02:30:03.000So, you know, one of the benefits of the show is that it's 100% viewer funded, and I love that, and that's great, and it's independent.
02:30:11.000But the downside of that is to have serious funding for the show, then you're reading a trillion super chats.
02:30:17.000You know, the populism has its drawbacks, which is that it often involves the people.
02:30:22.000You know, I have to say that it means that I represent the people, but it also means that, you know, you have to deal with sort of the tragedy of the comments as well.
02:30:30.000So, not a dig, not a dig at all of our super chatters.
02:30:33.000You know, I appreciate the super chats, but I also have to balance people, you know, and, you know, that I appreciate their support and we rely on the super chats, but also the fact that I have to put on an entertaining, Show, right?
02:30:48.000So, on the one hand, it's not that it's unappreciative, but it's just like my first priority is making a watchable, entertaining, good show.
02:30:57.000And if the super chats are interfering with the mission, then maybe we have to find a way to reformulate it a little bit.
02:32:05.000Because, you know, the idea that you would go into a room and like talk to some academic who's going to ask you leading questions, it's like, I can ask myself leading questions.
02:32:28.000Why would I go to somebody who doesn't know me, some clinical professional who I'm paying to tell me more about myself?
02:32:35.000I know more about myself than anybody.
02:32:37.000At least I know about my interior existence than anybody.
02:32:42.000So I just kind of roll my eyes at that kind of stuff.
02:32:46.000I mean, I guess it can be helpful to get some perspective because, you know, people have their blind spots.
02:32:51.000And, you know, I guess that's the thing with neuroses or, you know, if you're having issues, you probably don't have the self knowledge, maybe, or the self awareness.
02:33:02.000I feel like everybody on some intuitive level, deep down, has to kind of know what their deal is.
02:33:07.000But in that case, then talk to your parents.
02:33:45.000But aside from that, I think it's a lot of, I think it's kind of self indulgent.
02:33:50.000I think people should just, you know, there are problems that can get worse the more you think about them.
02:33:56.000It's not to say that you shouldn't think about your problems, but, you know, getting too much inside your head is very much a problem in itself.
02:34:03.000You know, typically I find that if I can't, You know, figure something out, or I'm in a rut, I just kind of keep on going, you know, and eventually I'll have a breakthrough.
02:34:16.000If I'm feeling down or something, I'll do something to take my mind off it.
02:34:21.000You know, I'll keep working, keep doing what I'm doing, and then, you know, I'll feel better in a week, right?
02:34:27.000Or maybe something will dawn on me that I didn't think of before.
02:34:31.000And I just kind of take a very sort of organic approach because life is about growth.
02:34:35.000You know, I don't, if I'm in a bad mood or having a problem, I don't see that as like an illness that needs a remedy.
02:34:41.000I think that's part of life, is you have, Struggles all throughout your life, and you find meaning in them, and you learn about them, and you learn about yourself.
02:34:51.000And, you know, it's not to say that the therapist can't compliment that process, but I feel like shouldering that burden is kind of your responsibility.
02:34:59.000So, but I don't, I'm not like mentally ill, so maybe it's different if you have like an issue.
02:35:05.000So, yeah, so Tony Soprano going to the shrink, I kind of rolled my eyes at that.
02:35:09.000It's like, you know, talking to a shrink, really?
02:35:12.000I feel like an old school Italian who had, you know, looked down on that.
02:38:23.000So I'm in favor of capitalism, but not like this.
02:38:26.000Not like, you know, these giant central banks and giant multinational corporations and free trade and free movement of goods and labor across borders.
02:40:20.000Entropizzle says if lib shits like Rowling, Kirk, and even Shapiro are prepared to enter a rational, sane, civilized dialogue, that's a good thing.
02:40:31.000They probably aren't, but I do think that would be a positive.
02:41:59.000We jumped on because the old one shut down, and then they spread out their production all across the world because a lot of American factories were affected by coronavirus.
02:42:09.000So, and in any case, do you not understand how the world works?
02:42:13.000Wait a second, this merch that I got wasn't made in America.
02:42:16.000Yeah, manufacturing doesn't happen in America anymore.
02:42:19.000So, and I don't know why people are surprised at that.
02:42:22.000Am I supposed to shoulder the burden for that?
02:42:24.000Wait a second, apparel made out of America?
02:44:24.000I think there's almost like a knee jerk response.
02:44:26.000And, you know, I'm a perfect example because I grew up in a suburb that was liberal.
02:44:33.000And, you know, frankly, my parents have somewhat liberal attitudes about things like that.
02:44:38.000And even I. Grew up with like an instinctual, like, repulse, like, reflex when it comes to that stuff.
02:44:47.000You know, because I know there's a lot of people who grow up in a much more conservative household and they're brought up, you know, understanding that there's sexual morality and, you know, some things are unnatural and some things are immoral.
02:45:01.000But I grew up in a community that was very progressive and whatever.
02:45:05.000And I didn't even know that homosexuality was a thing until, like, Middle school until I was like 10 or something.
02:45:13.000You know, when I grew up, that's just something that wasn't talked about.
02:45:16.000And then when I did grow up, it was something that was unquestioned in my school, in my neighborhood, and, you know, even in my family.
02:45:25.000I mean, my family are traditional in some regards, but they're also kind of ambivalent about some political issues, or they were up until I got red pilled, you know?
02:45:37.000So, in any case, the point being is, you know, Even though I didn't grow up, the point being is, I didn't grow up with like a religious or a political or a philosophical objection to homosexuality.
02:45:50.000But in spite of that, when I would see it in real life or on television or anywhere else, I would instinctually be off put by it.
02:46:00.000And I think that tells you something about the nature of those activities, which is that it is, you know, it is intrinsically, like the Catholic Church says, it is intrinsically disordered.
02:46:28.000Like, live in the world for a few years, meet a few women, meet a few homosexuals or blacks or, you know, any of these groups that we talk about on the show.
02:46:37.000And it's like, hello, you know, but beyond that, I mean, like, look at the gay community and then tell me that there's not something deeply, deeply misguided or disordered about those acts.
02:46:51.000Because what you'll notice is that the way that the media portrays it, it's that Heterosexuality and homosexuality are basically, you know, indistinguishable other than that they're, you know, on a surface level different.
02:47:06.000They phrase it like this well, love is love, and it doesn't matter who you're attracted to.
02:47:11.000As if, you know, being attracted to the opposite gender is an arbitrary selection.
02:47:16.000You know, this is not symptomatic of anything.
02:47:19.000There's nothing qualitatively different about it.
02:47:21.000It's just the same attraction, the same phenomenon, but just directed towards something else.
02:47:26.000It's like, Liking hamburgers instead of pizza.
02:47:30.000But then, why would it be the case that they're 3% of the population?
02:47:35.000You know, if it were just a matter of, if it was so arbitrary, why would it be 3%?
02:48:23.000They abuse drugs like animals, you know, like animals and deviant.
02:48:29.000You know, it's not just the homosexuality itself, but.
02:48:33.000It's deviancy compounded on top of that.
02:48:37.000And that people could look at that and say, there's nothing wrong with that.
02:48:41.000It's like, you know, clearly, then the point is this to arrive at the conclusion, it's this.
02:48:48.000It is something that is, it's a self destructive behavior in response to trauma, in my opinion.
02:48:53.000I think that it is a totally self destructive and learned behavior because it's no coincidence that it goes hand in hand with all those things.
02:49:45.000And, you know, one of the things that brought me back to Christianity to talk about that for a moment, or I guess I was always Christian, but that really, you know, made me get serious about my faith, is that the more that I grew up, the more I realized that everything in the Bible is true.
02:50:00.000And at first I realized it because it's not just true because God said so, it's true because you can live it and experience it in practice.
02:50:09.000You know, because I started to notice that all the things that are talked about in the Bible.
02:50:15.000If you follow them, you will live a good life.
02:50:21.000And if you don't, you will be annihilated.
02:50:23.000You know, not just at the end, but you'll be annihilated along the way, too.
02:50:28.000And at that point, I realized, you know, maybe there's something to all this.
02:50:32.000You know, when they talk about all the different rules in the Bible, and, you know, and I don't want to move on to the next super chat, but when they talk about everything in the Bible about what you're supposed to do, you know, When you're supposed to abstain from sex until you get married and get married and have kids, and you're supposed to pray and go to church and be charitable and things like that, not be prideful, not have hubris.
02:50:58.000You know, those aren't commandments that come down because God said so.
02:51:03.000You know, as if it's like if you were to disobey God, you'd be just fine.
02:52:12.000You know, when you think about every other show, Tucker, Sean Hannity, anybody else, You know, they've got breaks, they've got writers, they've got a script, right?
02:52:54.000I told you, everybody, I know that that maybe used to be the case.
02:52:58.000I read that maybe like 10 years ago that the medium fry and the large fry at McDonald's are the same, but they just put it in a bigger container, but it's not true.
02:53:07.000And take it from, you know, you can trust me on this issue.
02:54:18.000You're telling me the Arabs brought Arabic from the Arabian Peninsula when they moved into North Africa and colonized it?
02:54:25.000Yeah, no, I'm talking about Sub Saharan Africa.
02:54:28.000I'm talking about south of the Sahara, where largely they didn't have the colonization and the influence by the Arabs, no written languages.
02:54:36.000And I'm specifically talking about Sub Saharan black Africans, not Arabs, not, you know.
02:54:41.000So, anyway, I don't know if that's a serious question or are people just trying to, well, actually.
02:54:49.000Anyway, Master Euphoria says, Nick, you made the right move avoiding the wage slave life.
02:59:43.000I just wish they did that for every other map.
02:59:45.000Why did they only do the heroes versus villains map in Most Eisley and not like.
02:59:52.000They should have had that in every map.
02:59:54.000You know, because every map had like Conquest or Capture the Flag, and some of them had the Hunter versus Hunted.
03:00:02.000Why did they all have heroes versus villains, you know?
03:00:04.000It's kind of limiting, but yeah, I remember all the ad libs from the different characters, and, you know, I probably remember the entire map.
03:00:20.000I remember logging in all those hours.
03:00:23.000It was such a frustrating game, especially when you're playing with a friend and they just start wailing on you with the lightsaber and you couldn't get up.
03:02:02.000If it's not like a final end product, If it's not something that you unwrap and eat, I don't know what it is.
03:02:10.000So if you're talking about vegetables, rice, seasoning, anything like that, I'm going to have no idea what it is.
03:02:21.000Lunchables, graham crackers, yogurt, granola bars.
03:02:26.000I'll know the brands for that because that's the stuff that I see it because I take it out of the box.
03:02:31.000But everything else, that's my mom's domain.
03:02:36.000Kyle Frank says some constitutional conservatives argue that the power of the courts.
03:02:42.000And the democratization of the Senate is to blame for division instead of race.
03:02:46.000What would be the best way to counter this in your words?
03:02:52.000Well, I would say that, you know, if you actually listen to the different camps, none of that is present in what they're saying, in their nominal demands and their actual demands, you know.
03:03:06.000When you see that the Senate has been democratized, where is the relevance for that with Black Lives Matter?
03:03:25.000We could have the best system in the world, but if we had bad people running it, it wouldn't matter.
03:03:30.000So the country is people, the system is people.
03:03:34.000The Senate, the courts, is people, right?
03:03:38.000So to me, to try and push the blame on ideas or laws or policies or parties, You know, in some ways it's not totally wrong, but it's just not getting to the root, which is that there are people in this country.
03:03:55.000So, whether they're using the Senate to go after our country, it doesn't negate the fact that it's people that hate our country in the Senate that are at fault, right?
03:04:03.000So, I mean, to me, that's kind of like the basic premise to me that I figured out.
03:04:08.000It doesn't matter if you have the best system in the world, the best form of government, the best economy, the best businesses.
03:04:14.000You know, looking like Walmart, you think that Walmart runs really well because they just built up a really good rule system or.
03:04:21.000Do you think that the people that run Walmart are really, really smart and really, really competent?
03:04:26.000Do you think that if we swapped out everybody that works at Walmart with like peasants from Brazil or from Nigeria, that Walmart would be as good as it is today?
03:04:37.000No, of course not, because the people would not know what to do.
03:06:49.000Debt is generally a problem, you know, and especially for the country because, you know, at the end of the day, the economy isn't everything, but it isn't, you know, it's still important.
03:06:58.000So, you know, if our debt grows too large, then we're not going to be able to pay for anything.
03:08:17.000I don't even want European immigrants at this point.
03:08:19.000European immigrants, I mean, at this point, they're going to vote for Democrats, and Democrats are going to bring in more immigration from non white countries.
03:08:26.000Why would we want to bring in more liberals?
03:08:29.000You know, in a certain way, it's not only racial.
03:09:34.000You know, if they want to make amends, if they want to make it right, well, then they can super chat this show.
03:09:39.000But as far as, insofar as boomers are going to wreck this country, annoy the shit out of me online, and then not give me money, it's like, you know, you're a disaster for our country.
03:09:53.000Underscore says if Trump made an EO, Using the Immigration and Nationality Act, and it was challenged in the Supreme Court and upheld, could it still be repealed after the ruling?
03:10:04.000Yeah, but then it would have to go through Congress, and then the president would have to ultimately sign it.
03:10:09.000So, I mean, theoretically, it could be changed through legislation, but that would be a lengthy process that Trump himself would have to approve.
03:10:18.000AKC says the octahedron of winning rant was the funniest thing I have seen today.
03:10:48.000So, you know, the time will come for government people and political people to get involved, but I don't think now's the time yet.
03:10:55.000Canadian Groyper says, Hey, Nick, been watching the show for a while now, and I got to say, you're the best political commentator out there.
03:11:02.000Here's some Big Mac money from your biggest fan in the North.
03:11:35.000And as much as that guy talks shit about me, oh, you're in a suit, you're a dork.
03:11:40.000Okay, well, you know, you read comic books and play with action figures and you're a grown man and you think you're like, I don't even know what.
03:11:45.000You think you're like a metal rock star or something, so, and you won't even debate me.
03:15:39.000Agnostics, as Ken confirmed, there are probably feds in the Proud Boys.
03:15:43.000I stopped attending meetings two years ago after some fat dysgenic boomer was trying to get everybody riled up to go to some protest and talking about cracking skulls.
03:15:58.000And yeah, I mean, those organizations are bad news because unfortunately, there are a lot of good people that would be interested in joining a fraternal political organization, but at the same time, Things like that tend to attract a lot of not great types.
03:16:15.000And everybody knows what I'm talking about.
03:16:17.000You know, when you're in fringe politics or political anything, people that watch this day in and day out, I mean, there's a type that's, you know, you could say antisocial and maybe kind of out there.
03:16:31.000And, you know, people that are, let's just say, bad optics or something like that who show up to these things no matter what it is.
03:16:37.000And you just got to be wary for things like that.
03:16:41.000That's why I don't think it's a good idea for anybody to start an explicitly right wing, above ground fraternal organization because those are basically soft targets for federal investigations, soft targets for doxing, for Antifa.
03:16:56.000I mean, why put yourself in that position?
03:16:59.000So, you know, if there's going to be anything like that, it's got to be secret, it's got to be selective, it's got to be vetted, and it'll come from the top down if you want to know the truth.
03:18:21.000I mean, like, that's what you're communicating.
03:18:23.000Really think about what you communicate, not just in the words you say, but in how you say it.
03:18:28.000The context, you got to really, really think about what you're putting out there.
03:18:33.000What is really the signal behind things like that?
03:18:35.000And it just goes to show you're desperate.
03:18:38.000It shows you're desperate and, you know, it shows that you're needy and it shows that you're, you know, you're not willing to really like walk away.
03:19:02.000Relentlessly and slavishly pursue them in that manner.
03:19:08.000I mean, that's not the way to do it, right?
03:19:10.000I don't think women love when you put them on the pedestal and give them all that attention and compliment them as a stranger on the internet.
03:19:17.000I mean, we all know that that doesn't work, but people are thinking with their libido.
03:22:57.000I mean, as a Catholic, and this is what I just can't stand it's like what being Catholic is about, maybe more than being like Christian, is that we respect the authority of the church and we respect the hierarchy.
03:23:11.000You know, that the church is the worldly authority of God on earth and we subordinate ourselves to that authority of God on earth, you know, the representative of God on earth, the vicar of Christ on earth.
03:23:24.000And then you've got all these lay people that are like, well, I don't like this, so I'm leaving.
03:23:29.000And it's like, well, you're a fucking liberal then, okay?
03:23:31.000You're a liberal and you're against the church.
03:23:34.000You can have your own private opinions and your private thoughts, but it's not your place.
03:23:38.000And as much as people might say they're against democracy, they're like, they're really not.
03:23:43.000Because they're against democracy when it's things they don't like, right?
03:23:49.000They're against democracy when democracy in America gives them things that they don't like.
03:23:57.000And then they say, well, we need a right wing leader to make things we do like.
03:24:01.000But when you have a leader that does things that you don't like in a non democratic system, then they say, oh, well, I want no part of this.
03:24:11.000I'm not going to go to this church because I don't like what's going on here.
03:24:15.000Well, you know, part of respecting authority is sometimes you, you know, the authority makes mistakes or the authority goes in a direction that you don't agree with.
03:24:23.000And part of respecting authority is you go along with it.
03:24:26.000That's not our place, that's not our job.
03:25:00.000You know, given in some churches, and it's, you know, that's still sanctioned by Rome.
03:25:06.000But I know a lot of people, it's a fine line where they're like, well, this church isn't, this mass isn't valid to me because I don't like it.
03:26:10.000But I think that I am a little bit more willing to go along with that than a lot of these ironically rad trad Catholics that are calling for open rebellion because they don't like it.
03:27:28.000You know, a lot of super chatters give me a hard time, but Joni Matthews, she comes through.
03:27:33.000Strangers to SpongeBob seasons one through three are timeless.
03:27:36.000Yeah, I was just watching it before the show.
03:27:39.000A holy servant says, better phrasing would be do you think the reason America would never go to an explicitly non democratic government would be due to checks and balances from the foundational documents or due to no direct will of the people?
03:29:21.000Makes me feel better, like I'm kind of still a kid at heart, right?
03:29:23.000If I'm still talking about SpongeBob, if the kids can still, you know, catch a little something out of the show, it's like maybe I'm still with it, right?
03:30:38.000And you could tell that a lot of people don't really understand this because they'll email me and they're like, hey, hey, Nick, want to hang out?
03:30:46.000And it's like, I don't know you, you know?
03:30:50.000And you're right, it is weird, but a lot of people don't even think about that.
03:30:55.000They'll talk to me as though I'm like their close friend.
03:30:58.000Like it's all, it's like, oh, Nick, this familiar guy that I know, that we all know.
03:37:45.000Neil says, What are your thoughts on Don Lemon saying Jesus was not perfect when he was here and then saying people shouldn't deify the founding fathers?
03:41:51.000It's like one of these, it's like chit chat, but on the show.
03:41:55.000You know, it's like somebody sitting down and trying to chit chat with me, and I would hate that in real life, but now I'm alone and reading it on a super chat.