CIVIL WAR??? MTG and Gaetz BATTLE Over McCarthy Speakership | America First Ep. 1099CIVIL WAR??? MTG and Gaetz BATTLE Over McCarthy Speakership | America First Ep. 1099
In this special episode of America First, host Nicholas J.J. Fuentes and host Alex Blumberg discuss the latest developments in the race to become the next Republican nominee for the House Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. They also discuss Dave Chappelle's controversial Saturday Night Live monologue about the Jews and why they are not happy with it. America First is a show about the American people by the people, for the people. Produced in Los Angeles, CA and New York City, N.Y.C. Hosts: & Hosted by Theme Song: "Space Junk" by Zapsplat Music: "Goodbye Outer Space" by Fountains of Wayne "Outer Space Warning" by Cairo Braga and "The Little Drummer Boy" by John Singleton Thank you for listening to America First! - Our theme song is Come Alone by The Weakerthans by Suneaters, courtesy of Epitaph Records Subscribe to the Electric Light Orchestra, Inc. Subscribe on iTunes and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, and leave Us a Review on iTunes, too! Subscribe and Share on Podchats! We'll See You Monday, November 19th, 2019, with our next episode! - 5/27/2020 - 6/8/9/19th, 8/9th, 7/10/19, 6/19/2020 Thanks for listening and Share the show! Thank You! -- Thank You for listening! by: Nicholas J Fuenters, Alex, J. J.F. FuENTER, AKA: , Alex, , Sarah, , J. M., , & Sarah, R.J., . , K. M. , Sarah, & Sarah M. , , and Sarah, M. (J. ( ) ( ) , Sarah ( ) & Sarah ( ), , Rachel ( ) and Sarah ( ). J. ( , R. ( ), Sarah ( ) . ( ) ( ) . AND Sarah ( , ) & Sara ( ) - J. & Sarah's ( ) ? , John ( ) ! , Matt ( ) is , Jake ( ) : , AJ ( )
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00:00:01.000The American people will come first once again!
00:02:52.000And although the New York Times and NBC say it's likely that Republicans will get a razor-thin majority by one or maybe two votes, it's still not even finished.
00:03:03.000And this is a very complicated situation now, because of course the party that controls the House, they get to elect the Speaker.
00:03:13.000But it gets a little bit tricky when the Republicans are going to have such a slim majority.
00:03:19.000And the favorite for whom the Republicans would nominate to become the Speaker was Kevin McCarthy when we were predicting a red wave and a 10 or 20 seat Republican majority.
00:03:35.000But now that it's coming down to two votes, it could just be a half dozen Republicans that could prevent any nominee that the GOP puts up, whether it be Kevin McCarthy or Jim Jordan or Andy Biggs or whomever,
00:03:50.000It could prevent them from becoming the Speaker.
00:03:53.000So now there's all sorts of other possibilities, like maybe Nancy Pelosi might remain, or maybe some moderate Republican might be able to get the votes with cooperation from Democrats.
00:04:24.000McCarthy, McConnell, and McDaniel are the three mix.
00:04:28.000I say that as an Irish person, I can say that.
00:04:31.000They're the three mix that are ruining everything, that have ruined the GOP.
00:04:37.000And Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is considered one of the leaders of the MAGA, America First Caucus in Congress, has thrown her support
00:04:46.000Behind Kevin McCarthy, to the shock of everybody.
00:04:50.000While others, like Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, he said that he would rather be waterboarded than vote for Kevin McCarthy for the speakership.
00:05:00.000So two very different tracks within the small but growing MAGA caucus.
00:05:06.000So we'll talk about both positions tonight.
00:05:09.000And reserve judgment because it's sort of complicated.
00:05:13.000And honestly, I don't even know that I've drawn a conclusion.
00:05:17.000I'll tell you, I tend to side more with Matt Gaetz and we'll talk about it.
00:05:44.000So we'll get into all that, but it's going to be some interesting material tonight.
00:05:49.000And we'll also be talking tonight about Dave Chappelle on Saturday Night Live, who did a whole monologue about the Jews, and the Jews are not happy.
00:05:57.000And it's funny because all these libtards love Dave Chappelle.
00:06:06.000I think he's kind of funny I don't know why I don't know when he became such a big deal when he really became this legend The Chappelle show is a little bit before my times I'm not really familiar with all that But he goes on Saturday Night Live and he's considered the voice of reason and one of these liberal Hollywood types that sometimes says
00:06:32.000woke things woke me you know like based things but he really went off on SNL I guess he even gave them a decoy monologue during the rehearsal he gave the decoy monologue and then on Saturday did his did his own thing
00:06:47.000Talking about Ye and Kyrie Irving and how the Jews control the media.
00:06:51.000And even though he was walking a fine line and doing a comedy bit, the Jews still are not happy.
00:11:24.000In 2020, because of the pandemic, historic changes were made to election laws in every single state in the United States.
00:11:33.000In early voting, which was at one point something that didn't even exist 30 years ago, it was in California in 1978, no excuse absentee, but it was totally different.
00:11:46.000Up until the early 2000s in California, to get an absentee ballot, you had to apply for one by mail.
00:11:52.000You had to put down all your information, write your signature, give your reason for it, mail it in, get your ballot, fill out the ballot, submit the ballot promptly.
00:12:24.000It didn't exist for hundreds of years.
00:12:28.000And then in 2020, all the states suddenly adopted it for the vast majority of the people casting ballots.
00:12:36.000And then we saw anomalies like, for example, Joe Biden getting more votes than any other president in history, any other candidate in history, despite not really campaigning and very small crowd sizes and so on.
00:12:53.000And so the point is, I mean, I'm not going to do a whole show about this.
00:12:56.000I just want to talk a little bit about it.
00:12:59.000The rebuttal, there really isn't a rebuttal about why we shouldn't scrutinize these elections or why we should not have confidence in these elections.
00:13:08.000They just have this idea that, well, oh, you lost?
00:13:13.000And I would probably agree with that, if not for the fact that in 2020, literally, they just changed how they do elections.
00:13:20.000And we started getting all these other changes.
00:13:23.000Changes in turnout, changes in key counties, and things like that.
00:13:28.000And perfect example here in 2022, the race that was just called tonight, Arizona, it took them a week to count the ballots.
00:13:37.000And that was a state where in Maricopa County, the fifth largest, fifth most populous county in the United States, one out of three polling locations had faulty printers, could not print ballots.
00:13:59.000How can people have confidence in a system, particularly in a statewide race in Arizona, where the most populous county in the state, where the bulk of the votes come in, one-third of the polling locations had problems?
00:16:55.000I'm not saying that to be cutesy, but people that you rig the election, and then who gets elected to be the governor, the secretary of state, the attorney general.
00:17:04.000Oh, it's the people who the rigged system favors.
00:17:15.000Well, what we need to do is elect a leader who's gonna fix the voting.
00:17:18.000Okay, well, the people that control the voting got voted in and the voting system has been rigged now for two elections.
00:17:27.000And you can't tell me... I will not be convinced.
00:17:31.000that this ridiculous absentee ballot scam is legitimate.
00:17:35.000And for people to say that they wholeheartedly believe in that without really knowing anything about it or investigating it, it's just bad faith.
00:17:51.000For decades, Republicans campaigned on voter ID, and they wanted to pass voter ID laws, and the Democrats would say, well, you're making voting inaccessible.
00:18:00.000Well, everybody's got an ID, and everybody can get an ID.
00:18:04.000And there's same-day registration, and there's all these things, but they would say, you're depriving minorities and low-income households of access to voting if you make them show an ID.
00:18:19.000And they use the same rhetoric about absentee.
00:18:22.000When Republicans say, we need to tighten up the absentee voting, ballot harvesting, the drop boxes, and so on, they say, oh, you're depriving access.
00:18:33.000They say that if you don't put a drop box in the middle of nowhere for 24 hours,
00:18:40.000Well then people just don't have proper access.
00:18:43.000If you don't let people carry hundreds of ballots on behalf of absentees, harvesting them, you just don't want them to have access.
00:19:22.000And the retort from the left is, well, you're cracking down on access.
00:19:27.000And you realize that the whole scheme is about drawing out the early vote so that they can just extract as many urban votes from their machine as possible.
00:19:37.000It's about efficient maximum extraction of ghettos, nursing homes, apartment buildings, whatever.
00:19:46.000And it's about going house to house, collecting these absentee ballots, sticking them in the van, going to a drop box at 3 a.m., unsupervised, and dumping them all in there.
00:20:21.000Other than that, the turnout's going up because the Democrat machines got flipped on and they're really reaching.
00:20:30.000And anyway, so we'll cover that announcement tomorrow and you know, Trump will announce for President.
00:20:37.000That'll be very exciting and I'm happy for it.
00:20:42.000But I don't know what his chances are going to be because this is the rigged system.
00:20:46.000Five million illegals in the last two years that we know about, and then you've got this rigged system in place where you can't win Arizona, you can't win Nevada, you can't win Georgia anymore.
00:20:58.000Miami goes red, Florida goes up 20, but Arizona's purple?
00:21:34.000You know, I got clipped by Right Wing Watch the other day and people said that I was like doing this, but that's because this desk is so high.
00:21:40.000I don't know why it's like... It just feels like it's not... It's too... I need to be able to spread my arms out a little bit more.
00:22:47.000And I don't want to spend too much time on this.
00:22:49.000I really want to focus on the leadership fight
00:22:53.000In the Republican Party but we should mention it because this has been going on now for a few months and this is I don't think this has ever happened before.
00:23:02.000There's a quiet revolt happening by black people against the Jewish media and I never thought I would see that.
00:23:11.000I mean we've seen black celebrities tweet this black Hebrew Israelite stuff from time to time like Ice Cube and Nick Cannon and and others
00:23:22.000But this is, I don't think it's ever been this explicit.
00:23:25.000I don't think it's ever been this active and it's obviously being driven by Ye, who is still out here.
00:23:31.000I think he did another media appearance the other day with TMZ talking about like the Illuminati and how they killed his mom and how a lot of people wind up dead and they use trauma to control people and things like that.
00:23:45.000And the big development this weekend of course was Dave Chappelle.
00:23:49.000who did a whole monologue about Yeh and Kyrie Irving and it was interesting because he didn't really agree with them.
00:23:56.000He actually ridiculed Yeh and Kyrie a little bit and said that it was crazy for Yeh to say what he said in this climate and it's delusional to think that the Jews control show business but he also at the same time said that there are a lot of Jews in show business and there's like a lot of Jews in show business and
00:24:20.000There are certain things you can't say.
00:24:23.000You're not allowed to talk about coincidences.
00:24:26.000So he walked a very fine line, which people would call dog whistling.
00:24:33.000And predictably, the ADL and all the Jews are very unhappy about it.
00:24:38.000And so this is a story from the New York Post.
00:24:41.000It says, quote, Dave Chappelle is being accused of normalizing anti-semitism while hosting Saturday Night Live over the weekend.
00:24:47.000The CEO of the Anti-Defamation League publicly criticized Chappelle after the comedian spent the majority of his 15-minute monologue discussing his friend Kanye West and the trouble that the rapper found himself in after tweeting in October that he wanted to go Def Con 3 on the Jews.
00:25:10.000Said on Sunday, quote, We shouldn't expect Dave Chappelle to serve as society's moral compass, but disturbing to see, at NBCSNL, not just normalize, but popularize, hashtag antisemitism.
00:25:24.000Why are Jewish sensitivities denied or diminished at almost every turn?
00:25:29.000Why does that trauma trigger applause?
00:26:55.000Boo-hoo for Ari Emanuel, the billionaire!
00:27:00.000Boo-hoo for Estee Lauder and boo-hoo for George Soros and for all the other Jewish billionaires and all the other Jews on Wall Street that run the hedge funds and the Jews that run the Ivy League universities and the Jews that run Hollywood and the Jews that run the banks and the Jews that run the Biden administration and the Jews that run the Israel lobby.
00:27:24.000As if we don't have movies churned out year after year about the boy in the striped pajamas and Schindler's List.
00:27:33.000As if every child is not inculcated by the fourth grade about mass graves and gas chambers and roller coasters and human chess pieces and electric floors.
00:27:45.000And we're not constantly brainwashed with Amazon shows about Nazi hunters and the alt-right is the Nazis too and it's gonna be another Hitler and it's Man in the High Castle.
00:27:57.000But you get, God forbid, one guy somewhere says, hey there's a lot of Jews in Hollywood.
00:28:28.000Chappelle also faced swift backlash from various publications and writers.
00:28:33.000The Jerusalem Post tweeted quote, American comedian Dave Chappelle said during SNL that he denounces anti-semitism in all its forms before promptly engaging in anti-semitic tropes.
00:28:47.000Timeout New York theater editor Adam Feldman.
00:28:52.000echoed the sentiment adding in another tweet quote Dave Chappelle SNL monologue probably did more to normalize anti-semitism than anything Kanye said adding in another tweet that while West is nuts Chappelle quote posits himself as a teller of difficult truths which is worse
00:29:14.000So it's a full-on war right now between the Blacks and the Jews, and I'm throwing in my hat with the Blacks.
00:29:22.000I'm with you, and I am with Dave Chappelle, I am with Ye, I am with Candace Owens, I am with Kyrie Irving, and I'm a white guy, and I'm with all Americans that believe that we should not be subject to and controlled by
00:29:40.000A bullying ethnic minority, which is all that you see here.
00:30:24.000We are not sovereign so long as Hollywood and the media and to some extent Wall Street and big business is subject to somebody like Jonathan Greenblatt.
00:30:35.000Think about how crazy it is that we've seen in just about every single domain Jews have exerted their influence based on these cry bully tactics.
00:30:48.000In music with Kanye, Ye is one of the biggest musical celebrities in the world, in history.
00:30:55.000Arguably the biggest or the second biggest in the world right now.
00:31:36.000Once again, one of the biggest comedians in the world.
00:31:39.000By far and away the biggest black comedian in America may be imminently subject to the same kinds of sanctions because he did a monologue basically inoffensive about this subject.
00:31:51.000And even Twitter, a 30 billion dollar company is currently brought to its knees losing 4 million dollars per day in advertiser boycott which represents 92% of its revenue
00:32:05.000In effect, and successful currently, at the behest of the ADL, the same group responsible for the sanctions against all these other celebrities.
00:32:15.000So what we've learned in just five weeks is that the Jews control, through their mafia, gangster, cry-bully tactics, the top musicians, the top athletes, the top comedians and entertainers,
00:32:32.000And not just that, but through their control of large corporations, also control the media.
00:32:42.000And insofar as you offend the sensibilities of the Jews, and they're very sensitive, you can't have a company, you can't play basketball, you can't host a comedy special, you can't be a musician, or sell shoes, or sell sweatshirts, apparently bank, or access social media.
00:33:13.000And people like me have been blacklisted and sidelined and ostracized for saying it, but these things are in a fundamental tension.
00:33:23.000They're in a necessary and unavoidable, inexorable tension and conflict.
00:33:30.000We cannot have American sovereignty insofar as there is this Jewish gangster complex at the center of American power, at the center of American elite life, which we know is a fact, just based on the representation, and which has been demonstrated consistently over the past five weeks before our very eyes.
00:33:55.000And it's indisputably been doing this.
00:34:00.000And it's just like the question about the elections.
00:34:03.000You can't elect the people that you need to elect to undo voter fraud if the votes are rigged in the first place by the people that are problematic.
00:34:20.000How are you going to get American nationalists?
00:34:23.000How are you going to get people that will stand up for American sovereignty?
00:34:27.000And for the American people, if the speech and the expression and representation in every institution of power, not just government, but any kind of power, cultural power, financial power, media power, technological power, government power, is subject to this political correctness which is dominated by cry-bully Jewish mafia.
00:34:54.000And for all these types like Lex Friedman and Ben Shapiro and all these other Jews that are on damage control right now and they bring Yeh on an interview, people like Piers Morgan, and they explain to Yeh and they patronize and condescend to Yeh and Kyrie Irving and Dave Chappelle and anyone who might agree with them,
00:35:15.000They say, well, it doesn't matter that they're Jews and you just need to mind the way that you talk about these things.
00:35:41.000We know who we're not allowed to criticize.
00:35:43.000You can do a monologue about China, you can do a monologue about Russia, you can do a monologue about the Federal Reserve, or about the liberal elite, or whatever.
00:35:55.000Kanye was doing songs about blacks voting Democrat, and Planned Parenthood, and Plan A, and the 13th Amendment, and voting rights.
00:36:05.000He's been doing that for the last three years.
00:36:07.000It wasn't until he said Jews that he got everything taken away from him.
00:36:14.000We've been talking about it for a long time, but it's just consistently being demonstrated.
00:36:19.000And the Jews are in a real dilemma here, because now this has reached a breakout capacity.
00:36:27.000And it's the same problem that faces every regime when there's a revolution, which is if the Jews do nothing,
00:36:37.000If they don't swiftly punish, if they don't swiftly come down on all these people, well then it will spread.
00:36:44.000People start to echo these sentiments, like we've already seen, and people say, I agree with Ye, I agree with Dave Chappelle, I agree with Kyrie.
00:36:52.000And the conversation is open, there's this perestroika effect.
00:36:57.000It's talked about, it's open, and then it comes down.
00:37:55.000And like, by the way, think about that.
00:37:57.000By the way, think about, that's the same calculus that the Jews have to think about at ADL.
00:38:03.000And that Ben Shapiro has to think about a daily wire, and Dennis Prager has to think about as the Iranian government.
00:38:10.000I mean, think about...because what I'm describing is real.
00:38:13.000Ben Shapiro is thinking about, if I fire Candace Owens, it will look very obvious that I'm the Jew that fired her because she questioned Jewish power.
00:38:27.000Because he knows that it's going to look like exactly what it is and especially in the conservative space it's going to raise eyebrows and people are going to start to ask questions and it's going to create a very inconvenient conversation.
00:38:40.000But he also knows that if he lets her go too far off the reservation that
00:38:44.000This is going to become the norm in conservative politics because she's influential and she's got a big show and she wants to bring yay on.
00:38:52.000So Shapiro's gotta contain her and manage her like the Russian government would contain, like North Korea has to contain Christianity or has to contain dissent.
00:39:04.000And doesn't it say something about the nature of our situation that that is the case?
00:39:10.000We don't have to think about it that way.
00:39:12.000The Trump government never had to think about it that way because we are fundamentally not in power.
00:39:17.000We are fundamentally not running an authoritarian regime based on repression.
00:39:34.000We cannot let people talk about Jewish power, because if they do, the masses will largely reject it, so therefore we have to punish anyone who talks about it, but punish them in a way that's not so brutal, because we have the ability to be as brutal as we want to be, that it might catalyze an even worse reaction?
00:40:07.000If they come down on him really hard, it's gonna alienate a lot of black people.
00:40:11.000Because I'll tell you this, it takes somebody like Ye to start the conversation and throw the first... cast the first stone, you know, throw the first grenade and say, you know what?
00:40:49.000I kind of hope that they go hard on him and maybe force an apology or start pulling the plug on his stuff because that's going to create probably an even worse problem.
00:40:57.000But conversely, if they don't do anything, then it signals
00:41:03.000So that's why the the way that Chappelle did it on Saturday was very clever because he created a lose-lose dilemma where it was he said enough he said enough to placate the Jews where people are going to say he didn't even do anything wrong but he also said enough that was subversive that it was going to antagonize the Jews and so they're put in this situation where
00:41:30.000They were placated but sort of a name only but there was a subversive message and so they're in a real bind because of that and
00:41:39.000Either way, you know that people are talking behind the scenes.
00:42:14.000And I'm gonna say this, and I don't know if this is maybe premature, but I would say that the Jews had better start being nice to people like us.
00:42:26.000Because what comes out of this is going to be a lot uglier and a lot worse for them than anything that's being said on this show or has been said on this show.
00:42:37.000In spite of the fact that I have been bullied by the Jews and I have been oppressed and slandered and lied about and attacked by the Jews, I have been completely precise, for the most part, and even-handed and nuanced about my view about the situation.
00:43:48.000But I know that there are other people that are going to push farther than that once this conversation really starts.
00:43:54.000And the Jews are going to look at people like me in America first and say, damn, I miss when it was just that funny guy and we pushed so hard and then this and that because
00:44:07.000Because history has shown that once this train gets going, and that's why it's important when I say, you know, look, we're not in favor of political violence, we're not in favor of discrimination, I'm not in favor of prejudice, I'm not any of those things.
00:44:21.000What I've said is there is a Jewish elite, they're a minority, but they're a majority of the elite, they're godless, they don't worship our God, they have been abusive, they have been hysterical and paranoid, and they have truly oppressed
00:44:44.000And a new elite should take its place.
00:44:46.000One that has the interests of all Americans in mind.
00:44:49.000And I think that all ethnic and religious minorities should be afforded rights and dignity and respect and should be treated without discrimination or cruelty or hatred or prejudice.
00:45:00.000That's my position, even though I'm a victim of it.
00:45:02.000Even though I'm maybe one of the biggest victims.
00:45:14.000I think that's a very fair position compared to what may be coming, you know, because it's really, when you talk about this Jewish trainer telling you he's going to send him to zombie land, send him to a mental institute and drug him up so he can't enjoy time with his kids,
00:46:05.000There's a great book about this by Hilaire Belloc about the Jews and it talks about how everywhere they go they create this situation because they think they're better than everybody and they act like they're better than everybody.
00:46:18.000They have a superiority complex and this creates needless friction and tension.
00:47:02.000And it's funny because Dave Chappelle basically said exactly what I've been saying on my show for the last six years on Saturday Night Live.
00:47:11.000I never thought I would see the day when not just the talking points on this show about White Lives Matter and anti-white hatred and so on,
00:47:20.000And Catholic monarchy would become mainstream, but also even talking about Jews.
00:47:26.000It just had to be the blacks that would do it, rather than these whites like Matt Walsh.
00:47:31.000And I hope Matt Walsh feels like the biggest loser ever.
00:47:35.000Because Matt Walsh, here's the, and this is the last thing I'll say, and then I'll move on.
00:47:41.000Matt Walsh, he has a beard, and he's like this Catholic family man, and he has in his bio that he's like a Catholic fascist, and...
00:49:35.000And so you work for Shapiro and he signs a big check so that you can have a big house for your family but
00:49:42.000It's honestly sickening because that's such just a dishonesty and it's such a hypocrisy and it's such a betrayal that, you know, you want to be a political person?
00:50:15.000Ben Shapiro is notoriously like one of the most insufferable neo-con, zio-jew shills in conservative politics.
00:50:25.000And you, as a Catholic, reactionary, Christian nationalist, American nationalist, work for him.
00:50:32.000And we all know that doesn't come without a cost.
00:50:35.000That doesn't come without restrictions and restraints.
00:50:39.000And it's not like you can't say that you don't like mustard or you don't like pickles or you don't like freaking potato pancakes and lox and bagels.
00:51:19.000But entertainers to defend our interests.
00:51:23.000It's gotta be comedians, it's gotta be basketball players that are sticking their neck out for the real truth, and they're not even doing it really on our behalf.
00:51:33.000I don't think Kyrie Irving retweeted that documentary on behalf of people like me.
00:51:38.000Meaning white Americans, so-called Republicans, or reactionaries, so-called white nationalists.
00:51:47.000And Kyrie's a little bit different than Ye.
00:52:51.000I don't have a family and a big impediment to that, not only me being an asexual incel.
00:52:57.000It's been the fact that my income has been wrecked, my credit's been wrecked, my money's been wrecked, they have messed with my bag, I can't have a bank account, I can't run credit cards for my business, I can't go to school, I probably couldn't get a job because of the scarlet letter that the godless have put on my lapel for telling the truth.
00:53:19.000And you've got other people that claim the same credibility as me, and pretending to be like me, fearless, courageous, tellers of truth.
00:53:28.000Your job is to talk, pretty good gig, is to tell people the truth, and as a Christian,
00:53:37.000You go out there and lie on behalf, or omit, lie by omission on behalf of your boss that lines your pockets.
00:53:45.000And honestly, I know that sounds cynical.
00:53:48.000I hate saying that because that's the go-to that everybody says, oh you're a grifter, you just line your pockets, but it's what it is.
00:54:31.000And, you know, for me it was always, um, it's interesting because you'll read the Bible and the Old Testament, of course, is filled with stories about God's chosen and they stray from God and they're punished
00:55:54.000And, in a sense, we all, as sinners, we all do it in some sense.
00:55:58.000But some people really make these dramatic decisions, I think, and it's no different.
00:56:06.000And then you begin to understand how people could be so disobedient in the Bible.
00:56:10.000You can see how people, even in the face of miracles, even in the face of a God that they know, who's active in history, who's active or in some cases visible, and takes on a personage in front of them, they can still not believe or not fully give themselves.
00:56:33.000It's no different now than somebody that just wants to play basketball, or somebody that just wants to make their music, or do their show, do their little show, you know, sell their book, Reasons to Vote for Democrats.
00:57:51.000The people that are on the payroll, the people that are still in the algorithm, the people that still have the blue check and so on, that's the red letter!
00:57:59.000That'll be the red letter on Judgment Day.
00:58:04.000So... So I just think about these people that are speaking out, and I'm so grateful, and I think it's so courageous and so commendable, but it's such a... and I'm not the first one to say this, and it's a little bit trite, but in this case it really
00:59:32.000But as I get older, it's harder and harder for me to countenance these countless compromises, which never seem to be fruitful and are always a compromise with integrity.
00:59:45.000And so the feature story tonight is about something very different which is this Republican war over who they're going to nominate and who will eventually be the Speaker of the House after the midterms.
01:00:40.000He was going to be the Speaker of the House after Boehner resigned, but then this embarrassing sex scandal where he cheated on his wife took him out of the running.
01:00:51.000They blackmailed him out of it because there was some sex scandal that got exposed.
01:00:58.000And so he worked with Donald Trump over the last 18 months.
01:01:04.000on the midterm elections and now that Republicans have their unexpectedly slim majority everyone sees him as a presumptuous GOP nominee and the eventual Speaker of the House but there's been a question which has been whether or not he will be able to get support from the MAGA caucus from the Trump supporting the most far-right members of Congress like Marjorie Taylor Greene like Paul Gosar like Matt Gaetz
01:01:30.000And it's worked out in a very precarious way for him because, of course, Kevin McCarthy has sort of ruled with an iron fist in a hostile way against the MAGA caucus as an antagonist.
01:01:42.000Punished Marjorie Taylor Greene, stripped her of her committee assignments.
01:01:45.000Punished Paul Gosar, stripped him of his committee assignments.
01:01:49.000Spoken badly about Matt Gaetz, spoken badly about other members of the conference.
01:01:56.000And now he's found himself in a situation where he's going to need every single Republican vote.
01:02:02.000If the Republicans have a 219 seat majority, that's barely a simple majority.
01:02:10.000So Kevin McCarthy's going to need literally every single one of those votes to win.
01:02:16.000Or else no candidate will have a majority.
01:02:20.000No candidate will have the votes needed to be seated as Speaker.
01:02:24.000And so all these MAGA Republicans that he punished and worked against and bad-mouthed and slandered, he's now going to have to count on all of them to cast their vote for him to be the Speaker.
01:02:36.000And that's the subject of the show tonight.
01:02:47.000And it's a surprise because there were talks for the past couple weeks that they would attempt to mount a challenge against him.
01:02:55.000That they would try to get Jim Jordan, or Andy Biggs, or some other member of the Freedom Caucus to be the Speaker of the House.
01:03:03.000That they, with not a lot of votes, but with enough to deny Kevin McCarthy majority, all the votes that he needs,
01:03:13.000They could create a leadership coup and appoint a total dark horse, create a total upset and get somebody in who we actually like, who's a real ally of Trump and a real MAGA guy.
01:03:25.000And so it came as a surprise when Representative Greene went on The War Room today with Steve Bannon and said that she is wholeheartedly endorsing Kevin McCarthy for the speakership.
01:03:52.000It says, quote, conservative lawmakers sent a strong message to House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy on Monday telling him he doesn't have the votes to be the next speaker.
01:04:03.000The warning shot came just one day before McCarthy heads into a closed-door election seeking to become his party's nominee for Speaker of the House in January.
01:04:12.000The California Republican is expected to easily surpass the simple majority needed to win the nomination.
01:04:18.000But members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus are planning to put up a symbolic challenger to make clear that McCarthy can't reach the magic number needed, 218 votes, in the formal floor vote when the new Congress convenes on January 3rd.
01:04:34.000Representative Andy Biggs told reporters, quote, nobody has 218 and somebody is going to run tomorrow against Kevin McCarthy.
01:04:44.000That somebody very likely will be Biggs himself, though he declined to say he plans to take on McCarthy.
01:04:50.000Other Freedom Caucus members heading into a leadership candidate forum Monday afternoon also repeated that McCarthy will face a challenger, but without naming names.
01:04:59.000Representative Bob Good, who is opposing McCarthy, said, quote, Good has said that a number of Republicans will be interested in jumping into the race once they realize McCarthy can't secure 218 votes on his own.
01:05:20.000While several leading conservatives, including Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, have already endorsed McCarthy, other conservatives are demanding that he agrees to a number of proposed rule changes before they get on board with his bid for Speaker.
01:05:36.000Among the changes they want bring back a rule making it easier to force a vote on ousting a Speaker.
01:05:43.000It's unlikely McCarthy would cede that power to the Freedom Caucus, although he could back smaller proposals.
01:05:49.000Decision Desk estimates that Republicans will end up with 219 seats and Democrats with 216, with a margin of error of plus or minus four seats.
01:06:00.000With a margin that narrow, just a handful of conservatives could prevent McCarthy from becoming Speaker on January 3rd, a scenario that could throw the GOP conference in the House into chaos at the onset of the new Congress.
01:06:19.000Because Kevin McCarthy has been our enemy for a long time.
01:06:25.000Kevin McCarthy was one of the young guns with Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan 20 years ago.
01:06:34.000And his name, ever since 2018, has been synonymous with the GOP establishment and really everything wrong with the party.
01:06:43.000Even going back before that, like I said when Boehner resigned.
01:06:47.000He is just as bad in some ways, although not entirely, as Mitch McConnell or Ronald McDaniel.
01:06:55.000And we know this because on January 6th, he was out there talking with the Democrats about impeaching Trump, invoking the 25th Amendment.
01:07:04.000This is what he had to say, according to a New York Times article in October.
01:07:10.000It says, quote, in the days after the January 6th attack on the Capitol building, the two top Republicans in Congress, Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell, told associates they believe President Trump was responsible for inciting the deadly riot and vowed to drive him from politics.
01:07:25.000McCarthy said he would push Trump to resign.
01:07:30.000On a phone call with top Republicans, he said Mr. Trump's conduct had been atrocious and totally wrong, faulted the president for inciting people to attack the Capitol, saying Mr. Trump's remarks at the rally on that day were not right by any shape or any form.
01:07:46.000He inquired about the mechanism for invoking the 25th Amendment, the process whereby the vice president and members of the cabinet can remove a president from office.
01:07:59.000When he said he would call on Mr. Trump to resign, he told GOP leaders he wished the big tech companies would strip other Republican lawmakers of their social media accounts, such as Lauren Boebert.
01:09:38.000And Marjorie Taylor Greene, who we like, she was scolded by Kevin McCarthy for appearing at AFPAC.
01:09:46.000Paul Gosar was scolded by Kevin McCarthy for appearing at AFPAC and deterred from attending a fundraiser which we had planned in the summer of 2021 by Kevin McCarthy.
01:09:59.000Marjorie Taylor Greene is now on there on Steve Bannon
01:10:03.000Saying that it's bad strategy to oppose McCarthy's speakership.
01:10:11.000Now, me personally, this is me, and I will say this humbly, Marjorie Taylor Greene is in Congress, so she's done something that I have not done.
01:10:30.000She is one of the furthest right members of Congress and she's on the front lines every day.
01:10:34.000She's under constant pressure and being attacked and so she is in a different position than me.
01:10:42.000So I'm speaking as somebody who is younger than her and who is not in Congress and I'm speaking freely as somebody who is not subject to the same constraints as her, okay?
01:10:52.000So I'm being very measured here and I'm being very judicious.
01:10:55.000I don't want to speak out of turn, but this is my position on this.
01:11:10.000She says that if we don't support McCarthy, if McCarthy doesn't become the Speaker, then the Democrats will work with moderate Republicans and they'll put somebody like Liz Cheney in the Speakership, or they'll get Pelosi back, or they'll elect somebody else.
01:11:25.000Because in truth, nobody has 218 votes.
01:11:28.000McCarthy doesn't, but he's probably the closest.
01:11:35.000Uh, if Bob Good ran, Andy Biggs ran, none of them would have the votes.
01:11:39.000So she says it's necessary to get behind McCarthy.
01:11:42.000And of course, she's been promised things.
01:11:45.000She's been promised by McCarthy in the past that she and Gosar will get their committee assignments back.
01:11:52.000Some are speculating McCarthy will put her on the oversight committee.
01:11:56.000And and she believes that if she gets those committee assignments back that she will be able to be extremely aggressive and she can conduct her own investigations and create her own committees and introduce her own legislation and so
01:12:13.000She believes that she can make a deal with McCarthy to increase her influence in the House and really level up because she's only, what, a sophomore or a junior congresswoman?
01:12:23.000When did she get elected first, 2018 or 2020?
01:12:34.000And she would go from being on the outside, losing her committee assignments, and being considered a pariah, to the inside.
01:12:40.000And not just on the inside because of her great fundraising, and her popular support, and her close relationship with the President, but also because she'll have a real seat, and a real desk, and a real position of influence in the House.
01:12:56.000And that's her calculus, and that's her thinking.
01:13:19.000These are Republicans that have been screwing us constantly and we can't forget what they've said about us and to us and how they stripped them of their seats and how they've worked against Trump and how they were a disaster in every election since 2018.
01:13:35.000Or really 2016 and really even before that.
01:13:39.000And I probably tend to agree more with Matt Gaetz and here's the reason.
01:13:50.000I really believe, and I've believed ever since 2016, that the game is rigged.
01:13:55.000And that doesn't mean that you don't participate, but it means that you don't play the same game that the Democrats are playing.
01:14:03.000You don't play by the rules that the Democrats are playing with, and for that matter, the GOP establishment.
01:14:09.000I really believe that if you try to earn
01:14:14.000Approval or status or influence in the system.
01:14:17.000None of those things will be conferred upon you without making detrimental compromises.
01:14:23.000Not compromises that are affordable, not compromises that you could say are two steps back or to take three steps forward, but detrimental compromises.
01:14:33.000I think the system is designed that it will not make deals that it loses on.
01:14:42.000The House, which puts on the games, cannot lose money on the games that they host.
01:14:50.000The odds in all the games and all the machines favor the casino that, at least in the most favorable games, 51 out of 100 hands or deals or games will go their way.
01:15:08.000That's how they're able to put on the game.
01:15:11.000And as the designers of the game, that's how they set them up.
01:15:14.000And I believe that politics is very similar.
01:15:17.000I think that the GOP establishment and the Democrat establishment and the government puts on games that they can win.
01:15:25.000I think that they only put on games that they can win.
01:15:28.000And the idea that you can walk into the casino and count cards and you've got a strategy and if you wear your lucky rabbit's foot that you're gonna get lucky and you're gonna beat the house
01:15:44.000I think that's the psychology of the House.
01:15:50.000Of course, nobody goes and stakes their money, and I think nobody goes and stakes their person and their career in politics.
01:16:00.000If they're not tempted by the idea as an idealist or as an ambitious person that they can't win big, that they can't outsmart or with cleverness beat the game.
01:16:13.000And I think that that is a mistake that people often make is they play a game that they fundamentally cannot win.
01:18:28.000He turned the table over, and he rewrote the rules, and he played a game that he could win by using the media.
01:18:36.000And by attacking the Republican from a populist place, which was, of course, what there was a major appetite for in the base, he didn't play for independents.
01:19:24.000In his administration, people were writing front-page anonymous op-eds
01:19:29.000And the New York Times saying, I'm the deep state, I'm in the Trump administration, and I'm sabotaging all of his priorities to make sure that the liberal agenda keeps going smoothly.
01:19:43.000Thank you, Reince Priebus, head of the transition.
01:19:46.000In his first two years, the only two years he had a majority in House and Senate, what did he get from Mitch and from Paul Ryan?
01:19:53.000Didn't repeal Obamacare, got a tax cut for corporations, that's it.
01:19:58.000Nothing on immigration, nothing on infrastructure, didn't get an end to the war in Iraq, war in Afghanistan, got nothing.
01:20:06.000But, you know what the Republicans got?
01:20:08.000Reince Priebus got all his friends jobs in the administration, and Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell got everything they wanted.
01:20:16.000They got their big budgets, they got their port barrel spending, Mitch McConnell got his judges through, the Federalist Society got their nominees through, they got their Supreme Court picks, they got everything they wanted.
01:20:28.000The Republicans cleaned up, and MAGA paid the bill.
01:20:33.000Our political capital, Trump's political capital, that he won.
01:21:39.000In the last couple years, Trump got hip, and he started to turn things around a little bit, and what did they do in 2020?
01:21:46.000Despite Trump being an ally, and campaigning for down-ballot Republicans in the House and Senate, and standing by Republican legislative priorities, when Trump got cheated out of the election, obviously stolen, he did not have the support of the Senate leadership, the House leadership, the governors, the state speakers of the House,
01:22:41.000Trump got screwed out of the election and still campaigned for the Georgia Senate runoff.
01:22:46.000While Mitch McConnell was stabbing him in the back, while Republican senators were stabbing him in the back, doing nothing about the stolen election, Trump was still out there campaigning for them to hold the line and keep their Senate majority.
01:23:07.000And then just weeks after he was overthrown, impeached, with the full complicity of House Republicans, and with the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell holding it over his head,
01:23:20.000He was impeached, censored from social media, bad-mouthed by all Republicans.
01:23:26.000Within weeks, he's meeting with Kevin McCarthy and Mar-a-Lago about how they're going to team up to take back the House.
01:24:14.000Instead, they fell back on their 2018 playbook, which lost them the House, and the 2020 playbook that lost them the House and the Senate and the White House, which was to run to the middle and talk about inflation and the economy.
01:25:36.000We will be your loyal representatives in Congress.
01:25:41.000And they slit his throat in 2020 without even thinking about it.
01:25:45.000They went before him in the Oval Office and said, ah yes, yes, we're your allies, we're your friends.
01:25:51.000And then they went in Congress, they gutted any of the funding for the border, and when he tried to shut down Congress they were in Fox News saying this is the worst mistake ever.
01:26:01.000And after 2022, election night wasn't even over before all the Republicans flew down to Tallahassee and said, we're going to overthrow Trump.
01:26:09.000We're going to put it all on him and burn him.
01:26:12.000We're going to throw him in the house and burn the house down with him in it that we just lost.
01:26:20.000And a week later, people think they're going to make a deal.
01:27:07.000If the Republican leadership tried to prevent Trump from becoming president in 2016, if they refused to fund a border wall when they had the majority, if they refused to stand up for Trump and prevent a Biden administration, and instead said they would cooperate with Biden in 2020,
01:27:26.000If they rejected pleas by Trump to put voter fraud at the forefront and promised to fix voter fraud in the last two years, and if on election night they blamed their own failure on Trump last week,
01:27:41.000If they did all that, what would make you think that you're going to make a deal now and come out on top?
01:27:47.000That Kevin McCarthy is going to become the Speaker with the votes of the MAGA caucus, which he has bad-mouthed and screwed over and slandered and betrayed and rug-pulled.
01:27:58.000What makes you think that you're going to be empowered in that deal and it's not going to be yanked away at the first opportunity and lost?
01:28:07.000Disempowered the moment that you become effective or in the next cycle.
01:28:13.000I Think it's very short-sighted and that's my opinion and I don't know what what it's like in Congress.
01:28:52.000I remember, you know, one time I was talking to somebody from Paul Gosar's team, and they were saying, you know, listen, the congressman's under pressure every day, and it's so hard, and I said, yeah, I know, I got swatted last week.
01:29:03.000I'm like, I know, I know, I'm on a federal no-fly list.
01:29:07.000The FBI took my money, I'm under investigation, and, you know, so it's like, believe me, I know what it's like, too.
01:29:15.000And I understand, because on a different scale, I'm at a lower scale, but similar things have been brought to my attention.
01:29:24.000You could make a deal with the devil, you can make a compromise and get ahead or empower yourself a little bit, and I get it.
01:29:32.000But we have got to make a decision, and we have got to make a confident, faithful decision with conviction.
01:29:39.000That we're going to win on our own terms, independently, with our own vision, playing our own game, and we're going to play to win.
01:29:46.000As opposed to this hedging our bets, making deals, making compromises, playing not to lose, rolling ourselves back into something recognizable and conventional and safe and inoffensive.
01:30:26.000If in one year, let's say she makes the deal, she votes for McCarthy, McCarthy becomes the Speaker, she gets the House oversight, and she's killing it, and she's really doing damage,
01:30:50.000And I'm not trying to... And by the way, I respect Marjorie greatly and I respect her opinion and her view and she's got a knowledge and experience that I don't have.
01:31:02.000So I respect her for that as well and I don't, you know, maybe there's an angle here that I'm not considering and I'm humble enough to say that.
01:31:10.000I'm humble and I'm trying to be measured enough to say that, that I am not, I'm not trying to incite any kind of a mob against her.
01:32:28.000It's a difficult relationship because, you know, the people in Congress, there's different expectations on them, like Paul Gosar and Marjorie and others.
01:32:41.000It's a very, and people don't realize this, the higher up the mountain you get, the more complex the situation is.
01:32:47.000The more complexity is introduced because there are so many more conditions to satisfy.
01:32:53.000You've got to satisfy the base in your own idea, but you've also got to keep other relationships viable and good.
01:33:02.000And so it's a lot easier, in other words, to be the guy that goes live on a camera and says whatever he thinks without really the same environment than it is for somebody that's in Congress, and I recognize that.
01:33:16.000The higher up the mountain, the more complexity, the more conditions need to be satisfied.
01:33:22.000And I, as a pragmatist, I fully understand that.
01:33:26.000And with the understanding that I can have, from my perspective, I will say that it doesn't seem to me like that's a deal that's going to be great.
01:33:55.000Marjorie, you got embarrassed by Kevin McCarthy when he made you apologize and you were summoned to his office and stripped your committee assignments.
01:34:47.000And then he went on an apology tour and said, I was an idiot, I was wrong about Trump, and he ate a big piece of humble pie, and you know what?
01:35:05.000And for Kevin McCarthy to go from, you know, a few weeks ago, he's bad-mouthing Trump, in this leaked recording from January 21, to, oh well, you know, we're gonna give him the vote, we just have to, it's good strategy, it's like, that just doesn't sit right with me.
01:35:19.000So, that's my, but what do you guys think?
01:35:22.000Because I want to know that, again, that's my gut, that's my instinct.
01:35:27.000And I will also tell you, and I'm not just trying to be nice here, I really do respect Marjorie.
01:35:32.000And here's what you guys gotta understand.
01:38:32.000That's what politics is, is that tension.
01:38:35.000and we don't have a crystal ball but I would say based on the past I think it's a wrong move I think I think people like Marge and Trump got to get together and say fuck the party again I think they got to go to war against DeSantis and McCarthy and the machine they think I think they absolutely have to and they can't care what the outcome is I think you just can't even care because and here's the thing it's not gonna matter and here's the last thing I'll say then we'll get on into the super chats
01:39:42.000I think the idea that you work your way up, you do the playbook, I'm gonna get my seat on House Oversight, I think we just don't have that kind of time.
01:39:50.000And I'm thinking, you're trying to build a career, I get that, but what's the future for the GOP?
01:39:56.000They just, if you can't win this midterm, you're never gonna win another midterm.
01:40:00.000If you can't win in 2020, you're never gonna win a general election.
01:44:36.000What we have going on here is just totally dynamic and visionary and forward-thinking and we're living in the future and game-changing, groundbreaking, innovative.
01:45:14.000He gets hundreds of thousands of views on these videos and you see the comments and it's all these guys who are like, you know, I was a liberal.
01:55:38.000David Hasselhoff And then let's check Nicholas J. Fuentes Now, let's see Now shit actually he's got me beat How about five years, okay, you know what?
01:56:03.000Okay, so not yet He's still a little bit more famous