BIDEN IMPEACHMENT??? Gaetz FORCES McCarthy To Initiate BIDEN IMPEACHMENT | America First Ep. 1215BIDEN IMPEACHMENT??? Gaetz FORCES McCarthy To Initiate BIDEN IMPEACHMENT | America First Ep. 1215
The first sign emerged today that the House of Representatives will be investigating Joe Biden and his family in regards to the ongoing investigation into the possible impeachment of the former Vice President and his wife, Tammy Biden, and the possible investigation into their dealings with the Russian intelligence services. We'll also talk about the new Starlink satellites and Elon Musk's decision to refuse to extend coverage of the Black Sea, and a story about how the ADL may have been a traitor to the intelligence community, and why it's a good thing it's not a big deal. And much, much more! America First, hosted by Nicholas J. Fuentes, is a show about Americanism, not globalism, and putting the American people first. America First: It's going to be only America, not Globalism, with only America First. The American people will come first once again, America First! - the mantra of this show. Today's featured story: Joe Biden's impeachment is the first step in the process of impeachment, and it's been a long, long time coming. Tonight, we'll cover why this is so important, and what it means for the future of our country and the country's future in the 21st century. Also, we're talking about Starlink, the new satellites, and how they could be a game-changer in the space race. We have a lot to talk about, and we'll have time to cover it all. Stay tuned for a full of stories about Elon Musk, Elon Musk and much more. - The future of space travel, and much, so much more, coming soon! Subscribe to America First on the show, coming up on Tuesday, Tuesday, February 5th, 2020. (Coming soon. ) . Thanks for listening! -- Nicholas JF@America First, the show that s going to have a great show about space travel and space travel. -- copyright 2019, space exploration, and all things space travel -- including Starlink -- by the way, space travel? -- -- and we ll be back in 2020, by the next episode of America First? Thank you for listening to this podcast? (featuring our new episode of the show? ? and more in 2020? , , and more coming soon, coming out soon, soon, next week, coming to you soon,
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00:00:35.000Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.
00:06:46.000So he's not impeached yet but this is going to give them the ability to subpoena and they'll be able to investigate the Bidens even further.
00:06:55.000It's not really great or even good but it's a start.
00:07:01.000And the bigger story within this one is that Matt Gaetz is the one that finally forced McCarthy to do this.
00:07:10.000If you've been paying attention, we've covered this all throughout the whole year.
00:07:15.000It was a very contentious thing that Kevin McCarthy became the Speaker of the House, and in order to secure the votes necessary, he made a deal.
00:07:24.000He made an agreement with Freedom Caucus Republicans like Representative Matt Gaetz, where there were certain concessions given on specific items, which we'll talk about tonight.
00:07:37.000And of course none of those things have been followed through on.
00:07:41.000But there have been two strategies that have been pursued since that deal happened to force Kevin McCarthy to follow through on those things which guaranteed him the votes to become the Speaker.
00:07:54.000And there was the path taken by Representative Marjorie Greene, who before the speakership was even decided, just a day after the election in November, a few months prior to that selection, she had made a deal with McCarthy that she would support him on everything.
00:08:14.000Basically without question, without preconditions, and the idea was that if she was unflinchingly cooperative with him, he would give her, and therefore the base, what they wanted.
00:08:28.000Strategy two, which has been pursued by Gates and others, is that we have to have ways to hold McCarthy accountable in a more hostile manner.
00:08:40.000And so part of the deal to make McCarthy the Speaker was to create a new rule that any member of the House can force a vote on whether McCarthy can remain the Speaker with just one vote.
00:08:56.000So in other words, any member can initiate a vote.
00:09:00.000It's called the motion to vacate and any single member can do it.
00:09:05.000That doesn't mean necessarily that one vote can remove the Speaker, it would be a simple majority, but it's a powerful tool that would put Kevin McCarthy on notice and put him in check anytime one member disagreed and it would give the opposition a ton of leverage over the Speaker.
00:09:26.000And so, to me, and this is the thing we'll cover tonight, I want to examine where we are today.
00:09:32.000It's been nine months, like I said, since Republicans have taken over the House, and we have nothing to show for it.
00:09:39.000Hence, we have to evaluate why that is.
00:09:42.000You know why it is if you watch the show.
00:09:44.000I've been covering it throughout the year, but we'll sort of take a pause and reflect.
00:10:23.000Tonight we'll talk about this story about Elon Musk saving the world by refusing to extend the satellite coverage for Ukraine and thwarting their attempted sneak attack on the Russian Navy in the Black Sea.
00:10:39.000So I think we'll have time and we'll get to that tonight.
00:10:41.000It's a pretty important story and the timing is really interesting because that all came out even though it's part of this new book which apparently was released just today.
00:10:52.000This story about Starlink, now it could have been a pure coincidence, but it came out the same time that all this controversy surrounding the ADL was going on.
00:11:06.000At the same time that he's calling into question one of the most powerful institutional Jewish forces in the world, this bombshell story breaks that he's a traitor to America, that he's working against the defense industry or the national security apparatus of the United States.
00:11:27.000It could just be a coincidence but it's it's pretty interesting that both of those things happen in the same week.
00:12:09.000I woke up and I had really bad vertigo.
00:12:13.000Like the room is spinning, dizzy, and really bad post nasal drip, which is the worst.
00:12:21.000So I started taking my allergy medicine again and nasal spray because I had been off of it for a little while it wasn't as bad but it's catching up to me again so...
00:13:03.000I don't think we have any other announcements.
00:13:05.000We're gonna have a big, big, big announcement coming up very soon in a matter of a couple weeks and there may be a little teaser
00:13:17.000coming out very soon so I don't want to spoil anything but be on the lookout there might be a major announcement soon we're gearing up it's almost the end of the year so stay tuned to the show but that's all our announcements for tonight so we'll we'll dive in I want to get into our featured story first cuz it's just fresher it's more on my mind
00:13:44.000And we'll talk about this vote in the House.
00:13:47.000So the big story today is that the Speaker, Kevin McCarthy, has now allowed this impeachment inquiry to go forward against Joe Biden.
00:15:41.000And I had predicted that Roy Moore would win, even though there was a major scandal where he apparently had relations with some 16-year-old girl.
00:15:54.000But I still thought that he had a good chance of winning because it's such a red state Anyway, I really think that was the beginning of the voter fraud regardless Regardless they came out in 2018 with a With a big margin of victory and they won a sizable majority and what's the first thing they did they impeached Trump and then after Trump Contested the election in 2020 they impeached him again
00:16:23.000Now understand impeachment means that the House votes to indict with the simple majority.
00:16:29.000So they won their majority and they got their guy.
00:17:56.000And if or when it ever sees the light of day, it won't even pass!
00:18:01.000They won't even be able to indict him.
00:18:03.000Of course Joe Biden would survive a trial in the Senate, but it won't even go there.
00:18:09.000It won't even get to the Senate because it'll never leave the House, because Republicans want a flimsy majority, and even the majority they have, they can't whip all the votes.
00:18:52.000There was a major battle for Kevin McCarthy to even become the Speaker because there was so much dissent against him because Republicans know that this guy is the biggest and most corrupt hack in Congress.
00:19:25.000If you watch the show and if you've been paying attention to politics at the beginning of the year, it's because of this razor-slim Republican majority that they really didn't even have a name.
00:19:35.000They didn't have any viable candidate who could have become the speaker.
00:19:39.000There was nobody who was popular enough within the Republican conference that could do it.
00:19:45.000Kevin McCarthy was just the guy that was the most probable.
00:19:48.000He could get more votes than anyone else, therefore he was the only potentially viable pick, and that made him the guy.
00:19:56.000But there were enough holdouts from the Freedom Caucus, some have called it the MAGA Caucus within the Freedom Caucus, that they were able to deny Kevin McCarthy for about a week, and deny him in a series of more than a dozen ballots, rejecting him, until finally they made a deal and they said, look, you can be the Speaker of the House, even though we all hate you and we know that you're a corrupt piece of garbage, if we can have concessions.
00:20:28.000They wanted, for example, these are a few things.
00:20:32.000They said that they would give McCarthy the gavel.
00:20:36.000They would make him the Speaker if he promised that the House would release all of the 44,000 hours of surveillance footage from January 6th in and around the Capitol.
00:20:50.000Number two is they wanted articles of impeachment against Joe Biden.
00:20:55.000And three, they wanted Kevin McCarthy to defund the salaries of the federal government officials that were prosecuting Trump or doing other corrupt things, the Secretary of Homeland Security and people like that.
00:21:16.000In addition to that, the big concession was they got the motion to vacate.
00:21:22.000And that entails that any one member of Congress can put forward this motion and force a vote on the floor of the House as to whether or not Kevin McCarthy can remain the Speaker.
00:21:37.000And it would take a majority vote, but any member can initiate it.
00:21:42.000And so Kevin McCarthy would be facing a vote, basically a no-confidence vote, potentially every day from any member, any individual member.
00:21:54.000So it was those three things, those three policy items that the Freedom Caucus extracted, and the enforcement mechanism was the motion to vacate.
00:22:04.000We want these three things, and we don't trust you, so to hold you to account, we want the ability to force a vote, a no-confidence vote, with just one member putting forward the motion.
00:23:56.000Or this was a circumstance where Republicans being in control of the House, which has the power of the purse, that means that all appropriations bills have to originate in the House rather than the Senate.
00:24:08.000This is the one time when Republicans controlling just that one chamber would be able to exert influence over the whole process, over the White House or over the Senate, and they completely caved.
00:24:22.000After making a lot of threats and making a big show of negotiating, they caved on everything and they extended it so that there would not be a need for another debt ceiling increase for at least two years.
00:24:42.000So in other words, not until Joe Biden is out of office, potentially, or being inaugurated for the second time, will this be brought back up again.
00:24:52.000So not only did they not defund the salaries, they funded Joe Biden's government for two years.
00:25:00.000That's the status after nine months on all these items, and at the same time there's been no motion to vacate.
00:25:08.000And so like I said, we're at this crossroads here.
00:25:13.000We're three quarters of the way through the first year.
00:25:17.000Next year's an election year, so the whole year's going to be campaigning and Democrats aren't going to budge an inch.
00:25:23.000We've already lost a major opportunity with this debt ceiling bill and we've made no progress.
00:25:55.000And in almost every case they have failed to deliver even the meager promises that they make.
00:26:01.000Because you understand that there are horrible things happening to the country.
00:26:05.000And Republicans are doing a lot of those things, like mass immigration is happening, and these foreign wars are happening, and the debt is out of control.
00:26:14.000And Republicans have never promised an end to mass migration.
00:26:19.000They've never promised an end to foreign wars.
00:26:22.000They've never promised that we would limit military spending or anything like that.
00:26:27.000And of course, none of those things have ever been close to solved or addressed or anything like that.
00:26:36.000But the things that they do promise to fix, they say, well we'll balance the budget.
00:27:38.000Then let them come to the negotiating table and let them make a deal with the MAGA caucus or something.
00:27:46.000Or let the establishment Republicans work with the Democrats.
00:27:50.000They said if the Republicans don't pick McCarthy, then the moderate Republicans will have to go and caucus with the Democrats to pick a speaker.
00:28:00.000And show the whole country that Republicans are completely down with the left-wing agenda.
00:28:08.000Like, show the country, show the Republican base, that the establishment would rather work with the left than with Donald Trump, or Matt Gaetz, or these kinds of people.
00:28:25.000Even if people say that that is the, you know, it's futile to resist because there's an eventuality where McCarthy eventually gets it or something.
00:28:44.000Because you co-sign McCarthy and you're just co-signing more of the same.
00:28:50.000And we saw that in 2020 with the special elections, the runoffs in Georgia, and we saw that in 2018 when they said that, well we can't build the wall just yet because we have this strategy to win the midterms, we're gonna cut everybody's taxes instead.
00:29:08.000Except not everybody, just corporations.
00:29:14.000Anyway, at least this time they put in place some measure where they could get some accountability.
00:29:20.000At least this time when they made McCarthy the Speaker, they fought him, they forced these concessions, and so it looks like the only reason that this impeachment inquiry happened today was because of Matt Gaetz threatening to finally hold McCarthy accountable with the motion to vacate.
00:29:39.000And this is a story from the New York Times.
00:29:43.000That says, quote, Speaker McCarthy on Tuesday opened an impeachment inquiry into President Biden working to appease far-right lawmakers who have threatened to oust him if he fails to accede to their demands for deep spending cuts that would force a government shutdown at the end of the month.
00:30:00.000Mr. McCarthy's decision to unilaterally announce an impeachment investigation with no formal House vote entwined the Republican investigations into Mr. Biden with the funding fight that is rattling the Capitol.
00:30:12.000It appeared to be a bid to quell a brewing rebellion among ultra-conservative critics who have accused the Speaker of not taking a hard enough line on spending by complying with their demands to more aggressively pursue the President.
00:30:26.000Mr. McCarthy said that he would task three committees, Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways and Means, with carrying out the inquiry into the President and his family as Republicans hunt for evidence of financial wrongdoing or corruption.
00:30:40.000Mr. McCarthy's announcement appeared to clear the way for House investigators to issue subpoenas for the bank records of Mr. Biden and his family.
00:30:48.000In brief remarks at the Capitol, McCarthy accused Biden of lying about his knowledge of his son Hunter Biden's business dealings, and he raised questions about the millions that Hunter and other family members made from overseas firms.
00:31:01.000McCarthy has signaled for weeks that he supports an impeachment inquiry of the President.
00:31:06.000Starting such an inquiry means that Republicans must no longer justify their investigations as part of legislative work, and will instead have broad power
00:31:16.000There's just one problem though with this step which is that they already did that.
00:31:32.000There's already a DOJ investigation into Hunter Biden.
00:31:38.000And I understand that no subpoenas have been issued yet by the House and they probably should take that step.
00:31:45.000But why didn't they take the step at the beginning?
00:31:50.000Why hadn't they not done that already?
00:31:55.000So it's been nearly a year since the election.
00:31:58.000I mean, it's been nine months since they chose a speaker.
00:32:03.000But it's nearly a year, so halfway, since Republicans got elected and they're talking about now they're going to get the authority to begin the investigation?
00:32:16.000Now they have the authority to issue subpoenas and conduct the full investigation and hearings and everything and so is there ever going to be an impeachment anyway?
00:32:33.000But anyway, the article goes on and says McCarthy scheduled his announcement hastily after Representative Matt Gaetz gave word on Monday night that he would be giving a speech on the House floor attacking McCarthy and making the case for his ouster.
00:32:48.000Minutes after McCarthy spoke on Tuesday, Gaetz did just that, saying that the Speaker had reneged on his promises he had made to right-wing lawmakers in return for their votes during his prolonged battle to win his post.
00:33:01.000He said, quote, I rise today to serve notice, Mr. Speaker, that you are out of compliance with the agreement that allowed you to assume this role, castigating McCarthy for cutting a spending deal with Biden this year to suspend the debt limit and failing to hold votes on term limits and a balanced budget amendment.
00:33:19.000He said the path forward for the House of Representatives is to either bring you into total immediate compliance or to remove you.
00:33:26.000He dismissed McCarthy's talk of impeachment as baby steps that lacked a serious strategy and urged Republicans to oppose a stopgap spending bill known as a continuing resolution, which would be needed to keep the government open past September 30th.
00:33:42.000He said, quote, if Kevin McCarthy puts a continuing resolution on the floor, it is going to be shot, chaser, continuing resolution, motion to vacate.
00:33:53.000He told reporters on a telephone call that he intended to regularly force snap votes to remove McCarthy, threatening to make it part of the routine opening of every legislative day in the House.
00:34:04.000He said the prayer, the pledge, and the motion to vacate, which is pretty good rhetoric.
00:34:09.000And so, I actually think this is great that Gates is doing this.
00:34:18.000I don't think that Biden will be impeached.
00:34:20.000And I don't think that the motion of vacates will work against McCarthy because I think it's basically a toothless check from the beginning.
00:34:29.000I don't think it actually checks McCarthy.
00:34:32.000Because there's never going to be a majority that will oust him, I don't think.
00:34:36.000I don't think that that is going to happen.
00:34:38.000For the same reason that it wasn't going to be somebody else as the Speaker the first time.
00:34:44.000If they could cobble together a majority to remove McCarthy now, then they could have cobbled together a majority then to make the Speaker somebody else in the first place.
00:34:54.000So that's why a motion of vacay doesn't really have any teeth.
00:35:20.000I think he's speaking out, which is more than can be said about most.
00:35:24.000And like I said at the beginning, you can contrast this with the strategy of Marjorie Greene.
00:35:31.000After Republicans won the election, Marjorie Greene immediately made a deal with McCarthy that she would unconditionally support him in exchange for her committee assignments back, and she thought that that relationship would allow her to influence the program.
00:35:46.000Because she had been outside the club ever since she got in.
00:35:52.000She very quickly embroiled herself in these major public relations scandals, one of them including me.
00:35:59.000And as a consequence of a series of PR disasters, she was stripped of all of her committee assignments by McCarthy when he was the minority leader in the House.
00:36:09.000And so she was this pariah, she was totally outside the loop, and no influence because she lost her assignments.
00:36:17.000And the moment Republicans won and McCarthy needed votes to become the Speaker, she cut a deal.
00:36:23.000And she said, fine, I will support you in your bid for the Speakership immediately and unconditionally.
00:36:29.000I'll vote for you on everything, and she has, and I'll support you through everything.
00:36:35.000As long as, eventually, you do some of the things that you've promised the base.
00:36:41.000And McCarthy, of course, took the deal, became the Speaker, and then did none of it.
00:36:46.000And there was this incredible moment, I want to say two or three months ago, when Marjorie was really getting a lot of bad press.
00:36:55.000Because she had been, in effect, exposed as a sellout.
00:37:00.000All these promises that she made, and really she hinged her entire career on this deal that she made with McCarthy.
00:37:08.000She insisted, to a very skeptical base of her own voters and supporters, that it was worthwhile to trust McCarthy or to deal with McCarthy because, and she staked it on her own expertise, she said that she knew that by making that deal she could deliver real victories to her voters.
00:38:58.000And after McCarthy forced her to vote on the terrible debt ceiling bill,
00:39:03.000She turned right around and tried to save face and said, well, I'll try to get impeachment now.
00:39:09.000So over the summer after she voted on the debt ceiling bill and the press started to pick up on the fact that this deal wasn't going so well, she goes out and says, well, I'll get the Joe Biden impeachment.
00:39:21.000And Kevin McCarthy comes out, I think this is in June or July, and says, yeah, no, that's not going to happen.
00:39:27.000We're not impeaching Biden anytime soon.
00:39:30.000And she had this, so back to the original point, she had this beautiful, beautiful moment over the summer after these events.
00:39:39.000She had this big meltdown in the press.
00:39:42.000I think she was talking to the Telegraph or Semaphore.
00:40:30.000And she tried to play and she embarrassed herself.
00:40:34.000She did not possess the necessary competence
00:40:38.000Clearly, she didn't know what she was doing, she played with forces that she didn't fully understand, and she wound up on her ass.
00:40:47.000You know, she thought that she was gonna make some sophisticated deal, and she was gonna make a play, and she was gonna do some really Machiavellian, dark triad stuff, and she just got screwed over.
00:41:26.000And it was even more complicated than that.
00:41:29.000It was actually more humiliating because it involved Lauren Boebert,
00:41:34.000Lauren Boebert was able to force a vote on her resolution to impeach Biden but Marjorie didn't get hers there and Boebert didn't have to sell out so there so there was a little of that in there as well there was some additional complexity and it was just like perfect because we had she got so arrogant and so cocky
00:41:59.000And I did this show over the summer, so I don't want to redo that whole show, because I talked about all this at length as it happened.
00:42:07.000But it was so beautiful to see her get humbled by Washington.
00:42:12.000I think everybody was waiting to see that, because she was such a... And, you know, when she was like a rabble rouser, I said, hey, more power to her.
00:42:20.000If she's gonna go there and stir the pot, that's awesome.
00:42:24.000But then she got cocky with her voters.
00:42:29.000When the voters didn't like the deal with McCarthy, when they didn't like that we weren't getting the surveillance footage, she got cocky and she said, well, you're not on the Hill, so you don't know what you're talking about.
00:44:50.000They didn't hold out for very long even, but they held out enough that they sent a message and they said there is some
00:44:58.000Descent within the ranks and they said that not everybody supports McCarthy and we're gonna be the voice for the skeptics that don't trust him and they did secure some written concessions and the motion to vacate is a pretty good step.
00:45:12.000Once again, I think it's more toothless than any of them will let on but it's a step and it's just because that exists that we even get the baby step.
00:46:09.000And now we have a tool, and we have a contract in place, where because McCarthy's not holding up his end of the bargain, a guy like Gates can go to the press and say, look, here's the contract.
00:47:16.000These are the people that raced out to vote in the Georgia Senate runoff in 2020.
00:47:21.000They're the people that raced out in 2022 to vote for candidates that didn't talk about election fraud or were soft on abortion.
00:47:31.000Most Republican voters are light green.
00:47:33.000They're going to give the establishment what it wants, and then they'll hope and pray that eventually they will benevolently give a crumb.
00:47:44.000They'll give something of what they promised.
00:47:47.000And really that's how they operate in society.
00:47:50.000They really are operating like at a societal level like that.
00:47:54.000They go about their lives, they pay their taxes, they go to work, they do their thing, and they just hope that eventually the system will work itself out.
00:48:04.000And I just think that's the wrong approach to everything because everything's a negotiation and everything is a deal.
00:48:12.000And everything really requires our consent as a people.
00:48:18.000And so similarly, there was a time when Donald Trump was running, initially, where he said that if he didn't get the nomination, he would just drop out and run independent and let Hillary Clinton win.
00:49:07.000And we know that, you know, like maybe that could happen, but we also know at the same time we're confident that the establishment won't let it happen.
00:49:15.000Just like Trump did in that instance where he said, look, I mean, I'd like to run as the Republican, but if I don't, I could always run independent.
00:50:03.000They said, well, we're gonna vote for McCarthy who funded primaries against some of us and who's notorious as like a pawn for the lobbyists and establishment shill.
00:50:14.000How about you put in writing what you're gonna do for us and you give us a way to enforce it and then we'll vote for you.
00:50:23.000And so our approach in politics has to be based on that kind of thinking, which is that we have to use our leverage, and we have to sometimes turn the tables.
00:50:33.000If you don't like how it's set, turn the table over.
00:50:38.000We can't always be reacting and responding, and we also can't always be the suckers.
00:50:45.000Politics has made all of us the suckers, where we're always forced to eat shit to accommodate other people, and we have to be comfortable forcing other people to eat shit sometimes.
00:50:56.000It's like, even this summer, they said, look, if the Republicans don't pass a bill, the government's gonna run out of money, and the economy's gonna lose all these jobs.
00:52:52.000With or without the deal, like I said, within 10 years, all the tax revenue that the federal government collects is servicing interest on the debt.
00:53:03.000Before a penny goes to the military, before a penny goes to Medicare, or Social Security, or education, or anything, it all just goes to interest.
00:53:18.000It all just goes to the holders of the debt.
00:54:21.000It has everything to do with the decision-making process in the government, which is that, and this is why I said it's a subtle thing, in the case of Marjorie Greene, notice that who are the beneficiaries of that deal?
00:54:35.000It wasn't just McCarthy, it was Marjorie and McCarthy.
00:54:40.000McCarthy got his gavel, Marjorie got her committee assignments, it was the voters that got screwed and didn't get what they wanted.
00:54:49.000Similarly, when we're talking about the Speaker and we're talking about anything like that, the nomination, the Georgia Senate runoff, these people always win.
00:56:20.000Don't you realize that we are absolutely screwed either way?
00:56:24.000Do you not, at this point, see the writing on the wall?
00:56:27.000If they don't throw you in jail, the fate that will await us and our children in this country
00:56:36.000When you look at the currency, when you look at the debt, when you look at the migration, the crime, the education... Anywhere you look, it's like we are screwed no matter what.
00:56:47.000So, what's a little bit worse gonna do?
00:57:20.000I want to finally talk about Starlink.
00:57:21.000We are technically out of time, but I am gonna knock this Starlink story out because I've been promising it for a long time.
00:57:30.000Our second story tonight is about the Starlink satellites with Elon Musk.
00:57:35.000And I think I've already covered the gist, but basically this is a story that comes from this new biography about Elon Musk, which has been written by Walter Isaacson.
00:58:00.000So there was a story from this forthcoming biography, I think it actually just came out today, but it's a story from last year, from last fall, and it talks about Elon Musk's role in the Ukraine war.
00:58:11.000And in case you don't know, the Ukrainian military, and even our military, is totally dependent on Elon Musk's Starlink satellite system.
00:58:21.000For certain aspects of the war, it requires the Starlink satellites to maintain some of their missile or surveillance activity.
00:58:30.000I'm not really sure the technical stuff because it's very technical, but basically they rely on that satellite umbrella to cover the battlefield of Ukraine and Russia.
00:58:40.000And yet, although the American and the Ukrainian military are in a position of dependency on the Starlink service, they don't own it.
00:58:54.000So they're not in any way owned by the federal government.
00:59:00.000And so the story goes that last year, the Ukrainians were attempting a sneak attack against the Russian Navy in the Black Sea, and they wanted to launch missiles and destroy a significant number of Russian vessels, which would have been a major escalation, but they required Elon Musk to extend the satellites and the coverage of the satellites in order to carry out the attack.
00:59:28.000Because he opposed an escalation of the war, which would be a very big deal if that were true.
00:59:34.000And this is a story, it says quote, Elon Musk foiled an attack on Russia's Black Sea fleet last year by refusing to let Ukraine use a satellite network to guide its drones.
00:59:47.000Ukraine's military forces have relied heavily on the Starlink satellites owned by Mr. Musk's SpaceX company for communication since Russia disabled Ukraine's internet service as part of its invasion in early 2022.
01:00:01.000But Mr. Musk would not allow the network to be used for an attack last September with maritime drones on the Russian naval base at Sevastopol in Crimea.
01:00:11.000At the time of the attempted attack, Mr. Musk spoke with the Russian ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, who had told him an attack on Crimea could lead to a nuclear response.
01:00:24.000Copies of the book from which the story comes were obtained by the New York Times from a bookstore on Friday, though it is not set to go on sale until Tuesday.
01:00:36.000The account was included in an excerpt from the book published on Thursday by the Washington Post.
01:00:42.000Mr. Musk on his social network, X, confirmed elements of the story, saying, quote, if I had agreed to their request, SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.
01:00:57.000Within days of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Mr. Musk began sending Starlink terminals to the country, eventually more than 42,000 of them, in response to public pleas from Ukrainian officials.
01:01:12.000Throughout the war, the connectivity provided by Starlink has been pivotal for Ukraine's military to coordinate drone strikes and gather intelligence, and it has also aided hospitals, businesses, and aid organizations across Ukraine.
01:01:26.000officials have long been uneasy with the vital position in Ukraine held by Mr. Musk, reportedly the wealthiest person in the world.
01:01:34.000He has acknowledged for months being in contact with Russian as well as Ukrainian officials, raising concerns about his being influenced by the Kremlin's view.
01:01:43.000He is also known for his unpredictability and has suggested elements of a peace settlement to the war that officials in Kiev have dismissed as a capitulation to aggression.
01:01:55.000So the story is that this private guy has basically altered the course of the war and has intervened in a way that dramatically changes potentially who could win this.
01:02:09.000Because had Ukraine followed through with this strike, it literally could have been a nuclear war.
01:02:16.000It's one thing to attack the bridges, it's one thing to attack Russia's artillery or tanks, but to destroy their navy in the Black Sea with the support of the United States is a major escalation.
01:02:30.000And maybe it wouldn't have directly catalyzed a limited nuclear strike, but it certainly would have brought Russia and America closer to direct hostilities, and on some timeline could have led to a nuclear war.
01:02:45.000And so I think Elon Musk is a hero for doing this.
01:02:47.000It's an incredible thing, if it's true.
01:02:54.000But if it is true, and he did intervene to do this, then that makes him a hero.
01:02:58.000And it also raises some serious questions about national sovereignty.
01:03:06.000And if the United States government is sovereign and they're conducting this war, albeit it's a proxy war, if they're conducting this war in Ukraine and they're dependent on a private citizen, what is the role of a private firm owner in a position like that?
01:03:22.000Is he totally subordinated to the state?
01:03:25.000Can he be commanded by the Pentagon to use his privately owned satellites to help Ukraine?
01:03:33.000Or is he able to interfere in such a way that it begs the question if he's helping the country that's at war with the United States?
01:03:43.000And honestly, to tell you the truth, my problem is not necessarily in a situation like this.
01:03:56.000It's a big problem that a guy like Elon Musk was able to do this.
01:04:01.000Like, I don't have a problem with what he did specifically here, because what he did was a good thing, but in principle you have to recognize that this can't happen.
01:04:17.000can have a person residing within its borders subject to its jurisdiction contracting with its government and with a massive fortune but also able to deny the official national security policy of that nation.
01:04:35.000No serious country would be in a predicament like that with its own citizens.
01:04:42.000In this case, we happen to agree with what Musk did, and we also happen to disagree with what the government supports.
01:04:51.000We don't support the government's particular agenda.
01:04:54.000We do support the particular actions of Elon Musk.
01:04:58.000That being said, this is a very bad precedent.
01:05:02.000Because what happens when Donald Trump wants to build a wall on the border?
01:05:10.000And a private company says, no, we won't build a wall.
01:05:47.000It's not like he lives in California and we're the fucking government and we could just go and get him and make him do what we want him to do.
01:05:57.000And I say that as the government would obviously, in a law enforcement capacity, be able to compel whatever course of action they desire, because they're the sovereign.
01:06:09.000So, we have to recognize that as dissidents, as the opposition, we're in a unique position where we incidentally support a lot of these things, although we don't support them in principle.
01:06:23.000Incidentally, I support that Elon Musk did this.
01:06:27.000In principle, this is absolutely wrong.
01:07:40.000And I said the same thing about Edward Snowden.
01:07:42.000It's like a country can't have whistleblowers on intelligence.
01:07:47.000Now, again, incidentally, we support it because the government's evil and they're doing evil things and he did the right thing, but if you tell that guy, well hey, you can just come back to America and we wipe the slate clean, what message does that send?
01:08:02.000It's like you have no government then.
01:09:01.000It just goes to show how insane these people are.
01:09:03.000You bet that we have come very close to nuclear war more than once just in the last year and a half because of what's happening in Ukraine.
01:09:11.000If they were about to blow up these ships without Elon Musk telling them no, I mean just imagine what else must be going on that we've never heard of.
01:10:15.000What would be the requirements for you to primarily stream on another platform?
01:10:22.000Guarantee that I would never get banned That's why we're keeping I would probably not do cozy and I would just do rumble If there was a guarantee that I would have free speech But I mean you saw they suspended me for two weeks because I said something lawful So that's why I'm never gonna get rid of cozy now
01:10:47.000You know I mean because I mean look we built Cozy at a time when there was no Rumble and there was no there was no alternative and now there is and I recognize that they have a lot of advantages they have venture capital behind them and
01:11:05.000You know they've got they've got some advantages but the thing that they don't have is they you know I control this and that is very valuable when you have a lot of enemies like I do and when you're saying things that are so controversial so you know there was a moment where I considered maybe we just do rumble because it's not so worth it then I got banned from rumble for two weeks so
01:11:32.000You know, I don't want my destiny to be outside my control again, or the fate of this show at least.
01:14:41.000Lol just watched last night's replay and I was saying in my SC that it was good that for a while in the aftermath of 9-11 people were incredibly xenophobic and the system basically tolerated it.
01:15:10.000I feel like there's so much anti-American sentiment, like 30% of the country would say, like, we deserve it.
01:15:18.000I know that sounds crazy, but it was literally a different country 20 years ago.
01:15:24.00020 years ago, yeah, everybody, red, white, black, brown, yellow, they all said, yeah, fuck those terrorists, we're America, we're gonna go get them.
01:16:47.000Is part of the reason why Russia is enemy number also because it's the most powerful all-white country in the world?
01:16:53.000No, I don't think that has a lot to do with it because China is such an enemy also.
01:16:59.000China is a major adversary and they're not white at all and Iran is a major adversary and they're not... well, some would argue they are.
01:17:06.000North Korea is a major adversary and they're not white.
01:17:08.000I don't think that really... and also Russia's Slavic.
01:17:12.000So you know really stretching our definition of white to say oh the Russia they hate Russia because it's so white it's like if anything they would hate Russia the least out of all the European countries you know and they would really hate like England and
01:17:34.000I don't know that they would hate they'd be like man Poland No, I think if that was the metric they would have a lot less of a problem with Poland and Russia and the others So no, I don't think so No, I don't I don't think it's because they're white no
01:25:04.000And the Slavs are like, you know, they'll just go in, they're eating their cabbage pie, and they're just gonna go and fuck them up.
01:25:12.000You know, they're tough and strong, they're throwing pigs across the farm.
01:25:16.000The Slavs are just gonna go in there and...
01:25:21.000with spears and axes and flaming arrows so that's why I think it's meds Nordic's out but it's you know the Marcus you really let your race down by going true goyim and sympathizing with the Zio Jew so
01:25:56.000So you're obviously, dude, I love when you shit on somebody and then they come back with this Cope and they're being like, and it's like, dude, that is such a Cope.
01:28:56.000It's complicated, but... Really, it's because India's not in direct competition in the same way.
01:29:05.000It's really like... It's a combination of factors.
01:29:10.000I mean, China is directly competing with us for control of the Pacific and for political, economic, military domination.
01:29:20.000India has never had the growth that China has.
01:29:25.000You know, because you recall that China was initially the ally against the Soviet Union.
01:29:32.000It was the Triple Diplomacy or the Triangle Diplomacy that Nixon created between the US, USSR, and China where we played China against the Soviet Union.
01:29:48.000And a big part of why we won the Cold War is because the Soviet Union wasn't totally able to rely on China as an ally.
01:29:57.000And that's when China was the burgeoning little brother in Asia, sharing a border with Russia, the superior military power.
01:30:05.000And it's sort of the same situation with India today, where China is now the competitor, and we're in direct competition with them, and India shares a border,
01:30:16.000with them and India is a regional competitor regional foe of China and so it's really like our dynamic with China has driven us into India's arms but there's also other there's also other reasons I mean India speaks English India's democratic but it's far more about interest it's far more about
01:30:41.000Geopolitical interest although there are there are like these undercurrents that you know, India has more of an Ideological and cultural overlap because India was also a colony of Great Britain so English-speaking the Democratic although that's somewhat changing and
01:31:02.000They share a border with China, which makes them natural adversaries and we're adversaries with China They're also economic competitors, but they're not competitive really with the United States and the way that China is You know India has no middle class So So that's why