00:00:10.000Very excited to be back with you here tonight on Wednesday.
00:00:14.000We have a lot to talk about, lots to get into tonight.
00:00:18.000Our featured story is about Ron DeSantis in Florida, who is now passing a bill through the Florida state legislature that will punish Disney World.
00:00:29.000Specifically, it is going to repeal special zoning laws.
00:00:33.000That have applied to Disney World since the late 1960s.
00:00:37.000And this is basically in retaliation for Disney trying to rape all your kids and turn them into transsexuals.
00:01:11.000We'll also be talking tonight about war with China, which appears to be imminent and happening at any moment right now.
00:01:20.000And the Chinese diplomat called the Secretary of Defense today and warned the United States about our support for Taiwan.
00:01:29.000And we'll get into what exactly that means and what's going on.
00:01:33.000But basically, it's a very, very similar situation with Taiwan and China.
00:01:41.000Very similar to what's happening right now with Ukraine and Russia, in the sense that Taiwan is sort of a forward operating base for the American empire within the neighborhood of a rival great power.
00:01:55.000And now that the rival great power is matching the United States' offensive capabilities with defensive capabilities and building up their army, now they want it back.
00:02:04.000I mean, it's essentially a very similar situation, what we're witnessing in Eastern Europe and in the Eastern.
00:04:34.000So it's shaping up to be the biggest internet event of 2022, and it's happening only on cozy.tv slash Michael Alberto.
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00:13:45.000So our first story is about China and Taiwan.
00:13:49.000And so the big news is that China has called up the American Department of Defense and said, listen, You don't mess around with Taiwan.
00:13:57.000And they're giving us a warning and saying that Taiwan is part of China.
00:14:01.000And so this is, I'll read the news story and then we'll get into the history here and what's going on.
00:14:06.000It says, quote, Chinese Defense Minister Wei Feng told U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that Taiwan is a part of China during the first phone call between the two defense leaders.
00:14:17.000Wei told Austin on Wednesday that no one could change Taiwan's status as part of China, warning that if the Taiwan issue Is not handled properly, it would have a damaging impact on Sino U.S. relations.
00:14:33.000A Pentagon spokesperson told Fox News Digital that Austin stressed that the U.S. remains committed to the One China policy, but did not confirm or deny Wei's remarks.
00:14:43.000The call was a follow up to a recent call between President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, with Austin and Wei discussing U.S. Chinese defense relations, according to Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby.
00:14:56.000Austin and Wei also discussed Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
00:15:01.000China has vowed to strengthen its ties to Russia despite being pressed by the United States and NATO to apply more pressure to Moscow amid Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine.
00:15:11.000The Russian ambassador to China, Andrei Denisov, said, No matter how global dynamics evolve, China will, as usual, strengthen strategic coordination with Russia.
00:15:22.000The comments came weeks after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi joined with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov to call Western sanctions of Russia illegal and counterproductive.
00:15:43.000But it does clue us into the emerging global order after the war in Ukraine.
00:15:51.000And so I said earlier that the situation with China and Taiwan is very similar to the situation with Russia and Ukraine.
00:15:58.000And so you know that Ukraine historically is part of Russia.
00:16:03.000And it wasn't, if it wasn't for this fluke in 1991 that the Soviet Union imploded and collapsed, that Ukraine was able to declare its independence.
00:16:15.000It was also an accident of history in the 1920s that Ukraine was ever an autonomous unit of governance.
00:16:23.000So it's a fluke in the 1920s after the Russian Revolution that Ukraine even becomes a thing, that they even have an administrative entity called Ukraine, because it was always part of Russia.
00:16:36.000And then even then, Ukraine was effectively part of Russia, it was part of the USSR and governed by Moscow, but governed from Moscow as its own entity.
00:16:49.000The country implodes because communism fails, and Ukraine is able to declare its independence from Russia.
00:16:58.000Once it became this administrative unit, it's basically part of Russia.
00:17:01.000Then, the Russian Empire collapses a second time, and Ukraine says they're going to do their own thing.
00:17:09.000And then we know, and we've been over this many times since the war has broken out in Ukraine, for the past 35 years, the United States has tried to.
00:17:19.000Rest Ukraine and all the former Soviet Union countries away from Moscow's orbit and into the orbit of Berlin and London and Washington, D.C.
00:17:31.000And so, of course, that's really what the whole conflict is about.
00:17:33.000It's a tug of war between two great powers, it's a tug of war between American hegemony, which is expanding and which wants total world domination, even if it brings American empire to Russia's doorstep, even if it brings American empire into Russia's neighborhood.
00:17:52.000And effectively into Russia, if you consider Ukraine culturally, linguistically, historically, and meaningfully part of Russia.
00:18:00.000And that's where the conflict is here.
00:18:05.000Ukraine will not be part of the American empire.
00:18:07.000The American empire's frontier does not extend to our border.
00:18:11.000And so Russia is exerting its own foreign policy and its own sovereignty and exerting its own independent sphere of influence, independent from the United States, by intervening militarily, invading in Ukraine.
00:18:24.000And pushing back this demarcation with the West.
00:18:29.000The same situation is happening with China and Taiwan.
00:19:07.000Mainland China is governed by the Communist Party in Beijing.
00:19:12.000But the nationalists flee to Taiwan, which is an island 80 miles off the coast of mainland China.
00:19:19.000And what we call Taiwan, the people in Taiwan call China.
00:19:24.000And so really, it's a dispute about sovereignty and governments.
00:19:28.000So, the communist government in Beijing for the past 70 years has said that they are China.
00:19:34.000The Communist Chinese Party in Beijing, in mainland China, is that's what China is, including Taiwan.
00:19:42.000And Taiwan is just this sort of separatist breakaway region, but they are part of China, just a matter of when they're coming back.
00:19:50.000Taiwan also asserts that they are China.
00:19:54.000The government in Taipei, which was started by the nationalists during the Civil War, after the Civil War, they claim to be the real China.
00:20:02.000They say that they are China, and that that government runs China, and that They have a claim to mainland China.
00:20:11.000The United States policy on this, again, I don't know if that's perfectly right, that's basically what's going on.
00:20:17.000The United States has assumed what is called the one China policy, which is referenced in this article.
00:20:24.000And so diplomatically, since this division began, the United States acknowledges that Beijing is effectively in control of China.
00:20:34.000And we acknowledge that the government in Beijing is China.
00:20:39.000We acknowledge that Taiwan claims to be independent.
00:20:42.000We acknowledge that China lays claim to Taiwan, but we also recognize Taiwan diplomatically.
00:20:52.000Taiwan is not recognized by a lot of countries, but the United States has basically given them a defense guarantee, sends them defensive military capabilities, and maintains this sort of fence sitting position where we're doing business with China, Beijing as China, and without completely recognizing Taiwan's sovereignty, that is effectively what we're doing.
00:21:17.000Taiwan acts as an outpost of American power, diplomatically, militarily, and economically.
00:21:25.000And the reason that we maintain that relationship with Taiwan at the expense of and to the detriment of mainland China is because we know that this checks Chinese power in the Southeast Pacific.
00:21:39.000And we know that if we have that island 80 miles from the coast of China, we know that in a theoretical conflict or something, That serves as a bulwark against Chinese power.
00:21:51.000So, in a very similar way, it's not perfectly the same thing, but you've got this phenomenon of this historical fluke, essentially, that Ukraine is not part of Russia and Taiwan is no longer part of China.
00:22:06.000You've got the expansion of America's frontier to the doorstep of a rival great power to Kiev in the case of Ukraine, to Taipei in the case of Taiwan.
00:22:19.000And you've also got this similar relationship where you've got a rising regional hegemon, a rising peer great power, peer competitor in Russia and in China.
00:22:32.00030 years ago, China could not contest the sovereignty of Taiwan.
00:22:37.000Because if the United States is backing Taiwan, China can't hope to threaten or challenge.
00:22:43.000They don't even want to challenge the United States in Taiwan.
00:22:47.000And the same thing was true of Russia.
00:22:48.00030 years ago, it just wasn't in the cards that Russia could dictate.
00:23:11.000And so, in the same way, Russia wants to exert its own independent foreign policy, wants to exert its own independent sphere of influence in its neighborhood.
00:23:20.000And now China is looking to do the same thing.
00:23:24.000China one day hopes to do that in Taiwan.
00:23:27.000And so it's a very parallel situation here.
00:23:30.000And I've said for a long time since the conflict in Ukraine started that this is when we talk about the stakes of this conflict and the significance of its outcome, this is what we're talking about.
00:23:41.000This is the way in which the outcome of the conflict will ripple across the world.
00:23:46.000Because if, for the sake of example, Vladimir Putin invades Ukraine and is successful and dictates the terms, and if he achieves everything he wants, we're talking about carving out a new state.
00:24:01.000A new country in Ukraine, east of the Dnieper River.
00:24:06.000And we're talking about Novorossiya, and we're talking about maybe an independent Donbass, maybe we're talking annexation.
00:24:12.000We're talking about Russia has intervened in a country, invaded a country, seized territory.
00:24:22.000They did everything they could to stop it, and then they failed and were unsuccessful.
00:24:28.000And the message that that sends to China is that the United States is not willing to intervene militarily.
00:24:34.000It says that the United States maybe wouldn't defend Taiwan if Taiwan were attacked by China.
00:24:39.000It also says that even if they didn't intervene militarily, they probably couldn't stop China with other means, with financial sanctions, with monetary measures, everything else that's being done to Russia currently.
00:24:54.000It says that they probably couldn't stop China with all the other tools in their arsenal and all the tools in the arsenal of NATO, the European Union, and the Western allies.
00:25:04.000And it means that an invasion of Taiwan within this decade or the next is much more likely.
00:25:10.000And then, if that happens, well, that basically says that American hegemony in the world is over.
00:25:16.000Because if you have a revanchist Russia and you have a rising China and they share the Eurasian continent and they are exerting a sphere of influence, free of American influence, from Kiev in Europe all the way across Russia through China, through Central Asia.
00:25:37.000Through China, all the way into Taiwan, this is now we're talking about half the globe that is not only not under American control, but is immune from American influence.
00:25:50.000And so now the situation which resulted from the Cold War, which was what you would call the unipolar moment, a period of time where America was the sole superpower and the only hegemon and could basically dictate what happens everywhere in the world, that is now over.
00:27:20.000A world in which America is not the number one country, but another great power among other great powers.
00:27:26.000Competitor, a rival, but just one country among other countries.
00:27:31.000Just one very large military, very large economy among others.
00:27:36.000It will probably still be the leader for the foreseeable future.
00:27:40.000It will still be more powerful than those countries for the foreseeable future, but not by much and not as much as it was before.
00:27:47.000Also, you have this dynamic, and this is a very important way to think about this conflict.
00:27:55.000During the Cold War, it was a bipolar world order, meaning that you had two sides.
00:28:00.000The communist side and the free world.
00:28:03.000And so it was a tug of war between Moscow and Washington and their nuclear arsenals, the size of their economy and their industrial output, the size of their military.
00:28:15.000And the world was being carved up between the two capitals.
00:28:19.000And throughout the latter half of the 20th century, we would analyze the global balance of power by adding up all of the free world and adding up all of the communists.
00:28:31.000So we would look at the United States plus the NATO allies.
00:28:35.000The United States plus Western Europe, plus Canada, plus the Western Hemisphere, plus Japan, South Korea, South Vietnam, the American allies in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, you know, Greece, Egypt was one way and then was another way.
00:28:55.000And then, like I said, various countries in Asia versus the communists, which was the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact countries, China, Mongolia, you know, the.
00:29:08.000The Middle Eastern countries that were on their side, the African, you know, the few Latin American countries on their side, Cuba, Nicaragua, right?
00:29:17.000After the Cold War ended, there were no powers that contested the United States.
00:29:22.000You had to, and again, this may be a little bit difficult to follow, but think about it like this World War II ends, and between roughly 1949 or 47 and 1991, we're talking about basically just a push and pull between all the free world.
00:29:40.000Led by the United States versus all of the communists led by Russia and some gray stuff in the middle.
00:29:46.000After the Cold War, the dynamic changes.
00:29:50.000And now you just got the United States.
00:29:51.000And the United States itself is more powerful than any one country and any combination of countries.
00:30:00.000During the Cold War, during some parts of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was more powerful than the free world.
00:30:07.000During, like, the 70s, for example, under Brezhnev, you could say the Soviet Union was more powerful relative to the United States.
00:30:15.000After the Cold War, the United States was more powerful than Russia in absolute terms, was more powerful than China in absolute terms, than all the other NATO countries.
00:30:26.000America was 50% or more of global firepower.
00:30:30.000So any one country or all the other countries combined could not overpower the United States.
00:30:37.000In the past 30 years, though, that dynamic has changed.
00:30:40.000And now that Russia and China are significant players, if you add the power of China and the power of Russia, They are more powerful than the United States alone.
00:30:53.000And so, if Russia and China, if you add their power together, if they're in an alliance, that alliance is more powerful than the United States of America alone.
00:31:05.000And this is something very important when you're considering American foreign policy and how the State Department operates, and when you hear the screeching, for example, during 2016, the Trump election, about America's allies and how Donald Trump is alienating NATO and alienating Japan and South Korea.
00:31:24.000If in this decade Russia plus China is greater than the United States, the United States now needs, they rely upon Germany, France, the United Kingdom.
00:31:37.000Japan, South Korea, and Italy to make up the difference.
00:31:42.000The United States and all its allies are greater than Russia, China, Iran, and that axis.
00:32:13.000We were more powerful than anybody and anybody combined.
00:32:17.000And now you're seeing the formation of potential posses and alliances that would be more powerful than America alone.
00:32:25.000That's why the United States now more than ever relies upon the EU, NATO countries, as well as the ASEAN or TPP countries, the sort of Asian bloc they're trying to create in the Pacific.
00:32:39.000AUKUS, Australia, UK, US, you know, all these different alliances that they created.
00:32:45.000And so there's also this question then of strategic autonomy for Europe.
00:32:51.000We're also seeing that continental Europe, specifically France and Germany, increasingly are asserting their own independent foreign policy.
00:32:59.000That becomes a big problem for the United States.
00:33:02.000The United Kingdom is like a slave to Washington, D.C., London will do whatever Washington, D.C. says.
00:33:08.000France and Germany and Italy have not always been that way.
00:33:12.000Japan and South Korea may not always be that way.
00:33:15.000And so you're seeing a world order that is not just shifting.
00:33:18.000We're not talking about a new Cold War between the commies and the Americans, the Russians and Chinese versus the Americans.
00:33:25.000We're talking about a total shakeup where you're going to have maybe these sort of blocks and these different groups of countries which are kind of in flux.
00:33:38.000And you'll have the United States, which is maybe a third of global power.
00:33:41.000You'll have Russia and China, which is maybe a little bit more than a third of global power.
00:33:46.000And then you'll have a series of countries who are not 100% unconditionally on the side of the United States anymore.
00:33:54.000And some are closer to Russia and China, and some are closer to the United States, but they can kind of play ball here.
00:34:02.000And you could see a scenario where Western Europe on the continent maybe they side with Russia sometimes, like in the case of this conflict.
00:34:12.000They don't want to rock the boat with Russia like the United States does because.
00:34:16.000This war in Ukraine, you could see the effects it's having on continental Europe.
00:34:20.000It's not in the interest of continental Europe.
00:34:24.000Fighting a proxy war, which is what we're doing against Russia in Ukraine, is not in the interest of Germany because Germany is completely dependent on Russia.
00:34:33.000It is not in the interest of France or really any of these European Union countries because they're reliant on Russia for food and for energy and for lots of things titanium.
00:34:53.000And so you could see a scenario in the future where Germany says, you know what, I'm not going along with the anti Russia and China policy.
00:35:02.000Whereas 20 years ago, it would be inconceivable that Germany and France and continental Europe would assert a strategically autonomous foreign policy.
00:35:12.000Autonomous meaning not unconditionally under the thumb of Washington, D.C.
00:35:16.000And so consider how that figures into the global balance of power.
00:35:21.000If Russia and China combined, Russia, China, Iran, and Venezuela, North Korea, Syria, if all these countries are in this axis, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, specifically Belarus, Novorossiya, If all these countries are in a block and all these countries put together can lean on the United States, and the United States needs these other countries to back them up, but it's not always in their interest,
00:35:46.000this is going to dramatically impact how the world works and dramatically impact the ability of the United States to exert its influence all over the world.
00:35:57.000We need now Germany, Japan, UK, Italy, France, Australia to compete with these other countries, and they may not always be there for us.
00:36:09.000Because it may not always be in their interest to do that.
00:36:12.000And so we can no longer pursue this policy of uncontested global domination by America, which is ultimately a good thing.
00:36:20.000That's a good thing for American dissidents.
00:36:25.000But when we get a call from the defense minister from China telling us that Taiwan is still Chinese soil, what they're telling us is that one day they're going to take it back.
00:36:39.000We're not going to be able to stop them.
00:36:41.000And they're getting bolder and bolder as time goes on, and that's because they understand this dynamic perfectly well.
00:36:48.000And consider how the United States would react if China invaded Taiwan.
00:36:52.000It's a different proposition entirely because Taiwan would actually be more difficult for China to retake.
00:37:00.000The Chinese military is not as sophisticated as the Russian military.
00:37:05.000I don't believe the Chinese military has as much capital as the Russian military.
00:37:12.000And Taiwan is across 80 miles of ocean from China, which makes it logistically much more difficult.
00:37:21.000Also, I believe we've given a lot more material support to Taiwan over the years defensively than we have to Ukraine.
00:37:27.000So it's a little bit more of a difficult proposition in terms of logistics, but we can't keep Taiwan forever.
00:37:33.000And that is simply because if it is logistically difficult for China to invade Taiwan and Taiwan is 80 miles away, it is far more logistically difficult for America to keep Taiwan if Taiwan is thousands of miles away.
00:37:50.000And so it's really just this equation of how long before China develops the offensive capability, how long before the Chinese economy and the American economy cannot go to war without it being apocalyptic for both, how long before China's offensive capabilities shorten the 80 mile gap between them and Taiwan compared to the 2,000 mile gap, whatever it is, between the United States and Taiwan.
00:38:20.000And that's why I've said from the beginning the policy of white knuckling and holding on to these territories for dear life is unsustainable because we cannot keep Ukraine and we cannot keep Taiwan.
00:38:34.000So we need to stop drawing tripwires around territory that we can't defend.
00:38:39.000We have to stop drawing red lines and supplying militarily and basically writing a blank check for proxy war in countries that we're not going to be able to defend indefinitely and certainly not in the near future.
00:38:54.000Are we really willing to go to war with Russia over Ukraine?
00:39:47.000These are in the neighborhood of China and Russia.
00:39:49.000So, what is the vital strategic interest there?
00:39:56.000Taiwan is a little bit different because we rely on Taiwan for semiconductors, but that's all the more reason that we should just build our own.
00:40:02.000Or have them developed in a country that isn't claimed by China.
00:40:06.000You know, but we've got to have a foreign policy with a mind towards cooperation cooperation with the world as opposed to setting ourselves up for conflict.
00:40:16.000Because right now, with these competing claims over Taiwan, we're on a collision course.
00:41:11.000I want to move on, and we're going to talk about the Florida bill.
00:41:18.000And this is kind of a white bill, I guess.
00:41:21.000Well, I don't know if it's a white bill, it doesn't really affect us, but it's just a good thing to see.
00:41:27.000So, you remember, I think it was this month or last month, the Florida state legislature passed a bill which said that public schools are not able to indoctrinate children.
00:41:41.000Under the age of like nine or eight with transgender gay ideology, and I don't think the bill went far enough.
00:41:50.000I mean, basically, what the bill says is uh, you can only make the kids trans when they turn nine, it's like they should just ban it altogether.
00:42:00.000It's basically a concession, it's like what you're really doing is legalizing trans education for fifth graders, you know, or fourth graders.
00:42:08.000In any case, they we did that show, we talked about that.
00:42:13.000But they passed that bill earlier this month, and Disney vocally protested the bill.
00:42:18.000They said it was a don't say gay bill, which bans people from saying the word gay in schools.
00:42:24.000They tried to pressure the state government to not sign the bill.
00:42:28.000And so, now in retaliation for that, for Disney's opposition to the bill, the Florida state legislature is now passing another bill, which is going to target and attack Disney and specifically strip them of special rights that they were given in the 1960s to govern their Disney properties in Orlando.
00:42:49.000It says, The Florida Senate approved a bill on Wednesday that dissolves special self governing status given to Disney over 50 years ago after the company publicly feuded with Republicans over a controversial parental rights bill.
00:43:04.000The Republican controlled chamber passed the bill by a margin of 23 to 16 that would dissolve special status granted to the company that essentially allows Disney to self govern on its large property near Orlando.
00:43:17.000The special status, known as the Reedy Creek Improvement Act, was signed into law in May 1967.
00:43:24.000By Governor Cloud Kirk in response to lobbying efforts by Disney.
00:43:29.000The entertainment giant proposed building a recreation oriented development on 25,000 acres of property in a remote area of central Florida's Orange and Osceola counties.
00:43:44.000Which consisted of 38 and a half square miles of largely uninhabited pasture and swampland.
00:43:50.000Orange and Osceola County did not have the service or resources needed to bring the project to life.
00:43:56.000So, the state legislature worked with Disney to establish the Reedy Creek Improvement District, a special taxing district that allows the company to act with the same authority and responsibility as the county government.
00:44:07.000The passage of the bill comes a day after Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis called on the legislature to take up the measure.
00:44:15.000He said, What I would say as a matter of first principle is I don't support special privileges in law just because a company is powerful and they've been able to wield a lot of power.
00:44:26.000DeSantis said this during a press conference last month as he was engaged in a war of words with Disney over a bill he signed, which prohibits classroom instruction on sex orientation and gender identity with children in third grade or younger on a matter that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.
00:44:45.000Disney released a scathing statement slamming the bill after its signing and referred to the bill as a don't say gay bill, despite the actual legislation omitting the word gay and not containing language that bans the word gay in schools.
00:44:58.000In a statement to Fox News, DeSantis Press Secretary Christina Peshaw argued that it's not retaliatory for the state to pass legislation that allows all corporations to do business on a more even playing field.
00:45:21.000Republicans should get in office in the state level and at the federal level, and they should get a menu of everything that is in their power.
00:45:31.000And then do everything they can to attack our enemies.
00:45:42.000It pushes homosexuality, transsexuality, it lobbies for liberal causes.
00:45:49.000Disney is part of the propaganda arm of liberals and of leftism.
00:45:55.000Therefore, Disney, insofar as it is doing that, is our enemy.
00:46:00.000Insofar as they're making gay movies and gay TV shows, Insofar as they're pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion, and they're pushing environmental and sustainability governance and all these things, they are our political enemies.
00:46:17.000We do not support LGBT, we do not support DEI, we don't support these things.
00:46:23.000Disney is a massively powerful company, not just because it is rich, but also because it is influential.
00:46:29.000It is involved in media, it creates some of the biggest entertainment properties in the world Marvel, Star Wars.
00:47:03.000Well, when you become governor of a major state, you do things like this.
00:47:07.000And if Disney World is in the jurisdiction of Florida, a state that conservatives control with their votes, we should use the Florida government to break the back of the Disney Company.
00:47:18.000Disney wants to be a liberal company, okay, then you're in the crosshairs of conservatives.
00:47:23.000Disney's a company that wants to push liberal values, then you're an enemy of the state.
00:47:28.000You're an enemy of the Republican state.
00:47:30.000And we're going to take your special status and we're going to make it harder for you to do business and we're going to make you play by our rules.
00:47:36.000And that is how every Republican government should function.
00:47:40.000That's how we should treat Twitter, Facebook, and the big tech companies.
00:47:43.000That's how we should treat the mainstream media.
00:47:47.000And I'm talking about the New York Times, the Washington Post.
00:47:51.000Chicago Tribune, NBC, all the major TV networks.
00:47:56.000That's how we should treat companies like Amazon.
00:47:59.000That's how we should treat every institution that works against us.
00:48:06.000That's like what you're supposed to do.
00:48:08.000If you have giant left wing companies that use their influence and their money to buy Democrat politicians, then Republican politicians need to neutralize the source of that power.
00:48:19.000They need to neutralize the source of that money and influence with their political power.
00:48:27.000Republicans always take this line where they say something like, you know, we're not going to use political power because we like small government, or we're not going to use political power.
00:48:37.000It doesn't make you a hypocrite, it just makes you a loser.
00:48:41.000If you don't use the power that you have, power will be used against you and you will lose.
00:48:48.000And like that's been the story of the past 60 years.
00:48:52.000We've had political power, but then we don't use it.
00:48:55.000When our enemies have power, they use it and just do a simple calculation, and it's a matter of time before we don't have any power at all.
00:49:03.000And we don't get a say over what happens in the country at all.
00:49:06.000We're on track to have that happen within like the decade.
00:49:14.000We need to acquire as much power as possible as conservatives, as Christians, and then we need to use it to destroy the base of power of the left.
00:50:05.000We want to amass total power in the country, create the rules, and then the rules will shape the society in the way we want the society to be.
00:50:14.000And if you're not in favor of that, you're abdicating your moral responsibility.
00:50:19.000If we don't make the rules, someone else will.
00:50:34.000And that's the country that you see now.
00:50:37.000That's how you get a country where you have promiscuity and licentiousness and drug abuse and pornography and vulgarity and feminism and abortion and crime and violence and greed and envy and all these horrible things.
00:50:56.000That's how you get a country like the one that we have because we abdicated our rulemaking authority and responsibility and we gave it to our enemies.
00:54:14.000So I don't know if this is going to have a big impact.
00:54:17.000I don't know if stripping this special status is really going to do a whole lot, but we're thinking the right way.
00:54:25.000A person needs to get in control of the executive branch and get a bunch of lawyers and say, Tell me everything I could do to fuck up our enemies and then do all those things.
00:54:34.000So, I don't know if DeSantis is doing that.
00:54:36.000He may be doing some things to just get publicity, things that don't really do much.
00:54:41.000I suspect that may be the case with some of these action items, but nevertheless, even if he's trying to appear to be doing those things, that's better than everybody else.
00:54:50.000That's better than the South Dakota governor who caved to the NCAA.
00:54:54.000That's better than the Indiana governor, the South Carolina governor that caved on similar bills about social issues.
00:55:01.000So, we're definitely, he's definitely setting an example.
00:57:39.000Meaning, like, presumably what they say is you want to, like, exterminate all non white people and then, like, have many non white friends that you're, like, really good friends with.
01:05:50.000And also, if we're going to say that about Hitler, then we can say that about Napoleon, and we could say that about Stalin, and we could say that about Mao, and we could say that about lots of people.
01:06:03.000Now, that being said, that's not what we're about on the show.
01:06:46.000In the middle of all this concern fagging from washed boomers, I just want to say that I witnessed eight friends get baptized and confirmed into the Catholic Church.
01:06:54.000The common element between them, besides true and fervent faith, is that we all went to a pack together and plan on doing so for as long as we can.
01:09:22.000I think I know all the words to it and everything.
01:09:25.000I think there's some good parts in there, but like, I don't think it goes as hard as like No More Parties in LA or Gorgeous or even City of Gods, frankly.
01:09:39.000So, lyrically, I just don't think it's that good.
01:11:09.000I mean, any political movement that is on the scale of what we're trying to create has to bring in people that are somewhat different.
01:11:18.000So I don't necessarily agree with that.
01:11:20.000I mean, when infighting is good when people oppose you, I don't necessarily see it as infighting.
01:11:27.000I don't fight with people that want to cooperate with me, I fight with people that want to usurp me or they have a problem with me in particular or they disagree with our values.
01:11:39.000You know, like when Joe Kent says, I'm for inclusive populism and not focusing on white identity, and I disavow Nick because he criticizes Israel, that's not infighting.
01:12:14.000I don't, the thing is, I don't look at it as infighting.
01:12:17.000It's only infighting when it's people that should be friends and agree with each other on everything, and then it's like petty drama that splits them apart.
01:12:27.000If somebody attacks me, then I have to respond.
01:12:31.000If somebody has a problem with me, they can't be a part of this.
01:12:34.000If somebody has a problem with what our fundamental values, they can't be a part of it.
01:12:37.000But I don't really think so much in those terms.
01:12:39.000It's only when it's sort of unnecessary petty stuff that goes on at a lower level or a middle level that's really annoying.
01:18:30.000So, no, I don't think I give credit for the sort of metaphysical thing going on there, the kind of like, you know, I don't know if I agree with that logic.
01:18:53.000Any chance you could make some new merch?
01:18:55.000I would kill for an America first half.
01:18:56.000I'm going to fucking kill the next person that asks about it.
01:18:59.000You ask me every night about the merch.
01:19:01.000We're sort of working on this problem where, like, the entire financial system is at war with us.
01:19:06.000Could you please be patient while we try to be the first people ever to make a payment processor without the approval of a single fucking bank?
01:21:38.000Cozy has literally saved my life, man.
01:21:41.000Not because of the wholesome content or anything, but its responsiveness alone has helped me keep my eyes on the road instead of screwing with issues on the site while I'm doing 85 on the highway and a subpar platform would have ended me.
01:22:44.000You spelling out the reasoning of using actual political power in the case of Disney being vulnerable in Florida has the makings of a great short clip.
01:23:39.000If I am hiding, could get on that, my one of our niggas.
01:23:45.000If you're watching the show right now, I keep forgetting because we've been meaning to send an email to Salty Cracker, hiding if you could shoot him an email.
01:23:53.000I'll text him after the show and we'll get that going.
01:23:56.000Because, yeah, I think Salty Cracker would be a good addition.
01:23:58.000Razor Fist, yeah, I mean, like I said, he can come on, but I think he sucks.
01:29:42.000I'm moving to Florida soon, and so when I move, I'll, if I consider getting a shark, I'll let you know.
01:29:48.000The sharks might be too high maintenance.
01:29:50.000If I'm going to do something high maintenance, I might as well just do monkey, you know, because if you're having to like clean a tank and do all this kind of stuff, it's like I'd rather just get a monkey at that point, you know.
01:34:01.000Have you ever considered offering Sam Hyde a channel on Cozy?
01:34:05.000I don't think he would be interested, but he's obviously welcome.
01:34:09.000I mean, if he was interested in that, we would welcome him on here with open arms, of course.
01:34:15.000But I don't think he does streaming and he's got a YouTube channel, so I haven't reached out because I just don't think he'd be interested in that.
01:34:22.000But, you know, hey, the offer would always be open, of course.
01:36:30.000Why don't you just use CoinPayments API for payment processing?
01:36:34.000Also, I wanted to get your thoughts on paganism, since that is an ancient belief of our ancestors.
01:36:40.000We are going to have crypto super chats and subs on the site, but we're working on both at the same time.
01:36:48.000We're probably going to, if everything goes according to plan, we'll probably launch credit card first and then crypto.
01:36:54.000The reason we're not prioritizing crypto is because we get the volume on crypto is so much lower than on credit card.
01:37:00.000Everybody tells us to get crypto and then they don't use it.
01:37:02.000So, you know, without credit card, it's just, you know, I mean, we'll have crypto if credit card doesn't work out, but the volume just doesn't compare.
01:37:35.000I'm so happy you brought the mustache back looking good, K. Thank you, yeah, you know, they just can't keep a good mustache down, you know, my parents didn't want to.
01:37:44.000I was watching a documentary on Otto von Bismarck this weekend.