In this episode of America First, host Nicholas J. Fuentes talks about the Yang Gang, universal basic income, and why you should not be afraid of the idea. He also discusses the Trump administration's new trade deal with China, and the fact that America has actually had a UBI for over a century. And why it's not a radical idea, it's already here in America! And why you shouldn't fear $1,000 a month, because it's been around for a long time! And, of course, we'll talk about Trump's new border wall, and how it's actually not that hard to get a deal that keeps us all on the same page, and keeps us in control of our borders and our economy. You're not going to get much better than that, folks! Tweet me if you have any thoughts or opinions on any of the topics covered in this episode, and we'll get them on the show! Timestamps: 3:00 - Andrew Yang's plan to give everyone $1k a month 4:30 - Why you shouldn t fear the UBI 5:15 - Trump's border wall 6:20 - We just keep winning 7:00 8:40 - We're going to keep winning! 9:00- We're not winning anymore 11:30- We'll keep winning, we're not losing 12:00 | We're winning 13: What's the problem? 14:20- What are you tired of winning? 15:30 | What are we gonna do next? 16:30 17:20 | What do we need to stop winning too much? 18: Should we be tired of Winning? 19:20 21:00 + 22:00 We're gonna win? 22:40 | How do we stop losing? 25:00 Can we keep winning again? 26:00 What do you want to win more? 27:00 Are we all the time? 29: What s the best thing we can do? 30:00 Is there a better country? 31: Is there something we should be doing better? 35:00 Do you have a plan? 32:00 Will we stop winning enough? 33:00 Who are you going to win the next election? 34:00 Should we win more than that?
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00:02:29.000I said some things which made some people uncomfortable.
00:02:32.000Some of the boomers, I could tell, weren't really on board with it.
00:02:36.000I could tell a lot of the mogapeds, a lot of the hardcore free market people weren't totally on board with it, but I made a discovery last night and this is something I think that's going to shock everybody and rock your world.
00:02:51.000Of course, Andrew Yang, the fixture and the flagship component of his platform is the universal basic income.
00:03:50.000But I discovered that America has actually had UBI for over a century!
00:03:56.000And so we're going to be discussing that tonight, why you really shouldn't fear the UBI, why you shouldn't fear $1,000 a month, because really it's already here in America as we speak.
00:04:07.000You know, it's sort of like when conservatives whine and complain about socialism or big government.
00:04:24.000Elaborate whiteboard and then I pulled up what is really quite simple, which is, hey, it's a thousand dollars a month.
00:04:30.000But tonight I have a real whiteboard for you to sort of illustrate my point on that matter, on the universal basic income, why you shouldn't be afraid of it.
00:04:38.000And so we'll discuss that and then we will talk about the latest contribution from the Trump administration.
00:04:47.000You know, when Donald Trump said during the campaign, you're going to get tired of winning and we're going to win and you're going to say, please, Mr. President, stop winning.
00:04:56.000And I'm going to say, I don't give a damn.
00:04:59.000I, it didn't really make sense to me because here we are two years later and there's no wall and we're still involved in all the wars and the trade deficits are still out of control and they're probably still going to kick us all off social media.
00:05:25.000When he said, you're gonna get tired of winning, you're gonna get bored with winning, we're gonna win so big, when he said it at the Republican National Convention.
00:05:33.000He wasn't talking to us, he was talking to Israel!
00:05:39.000Oh, so that's what he meant by we're gonna get tired of winning.
00:05:43.000The we was not the American people, it was Jews!
00:05:51.000And so we're gonna get into that towards the end of the show.
00:05:54.000That'll be the feature of the show, just the latest victory
00:05:58.000For Trump's base, which is of course Zog, the Jewish lobby, the Israel lobby, these are all separate things.
00:06:05.000He is now officially, or he's moving towards, rather, he's moving towards officially recognizing the Golan Heights as Israeli territory.
00:06:13.000And you might be thinking to yourself, what's the Golan Heights?
00:06:16.000You know, because you live in America, and the Golan Heights aren't in America, so you might be like, why are we doing that?
00:06:23.000Well, I'll explain why that's a very important thing for Bibi Netanyahu, the Likud party, and Israel, and we'll get into why that's such a big deal that we're recognizing their sovereignty.
00:06:33.000But, you know, I think it's a good thing.
00:06:34.000I think, you know, they are our closest ally, the only democracy in the Middle East.
00:06:38.000Hey, it's only right that our presidents serve them.
00:06:44.000I gotta tell you, though, before we jump into the news,
00:06:47.000I almost wasn't going to come on the show tonight.
00:06:49.000I almost wasn't going to come on because I tell you, last night, you know, I do the show, I have a little bit of dinner afterwards, and I'm hard at work in the content kitchen, alright?
00:06:59.000I'm making phone calls, I'm making spreadsheets, there's big things happening, big plans in the works.
00:07:05.000Now that we're in the yanking, I have to say I'm inspired!
00:07:09.000You know, even the mere suggestion of, you know, alleviating financial insecurity or regulating Twitter and YouTube, now that all that stress is off my shoulders, I can feel my IQ rising 13 points.
00:07:23.000I can feel my stress levels going down.
00:07:27.000It really is a transformative effect when you put humanity first, but...
00:07:31.000You know, last night I had my dinner, and I'm hard at work, I'm inspired to make humanity first again, so to speak.
00:07:38.000And then I got hungry, you know, towards midnight, and the kitchen was closed, Mom wasn't gonna make me anything.
00:07:43.000That's the thing, she goes to bed at like 10, so I'm just kind of out of luck afterwards.
00:07:47.000Normally, I'll just I'll just sort of go to like the fridge or the pantry and I'll just keep going back and forth and eventually... Do you want me to just make you something?
00:09:01.000Mr. Yang for even having the show because I was it was like six o'clock.
00:09:05.000I'm like, you know, there's nothing really going on in the news I'm not feeling so great, but I said no I I have to do it.
00:09:10.000I've been I've been too lazy I've been Canceling too much.
00:09:15.000But anyway, we're gonna dive right into our first story here tonight, which is
00:09:20.000You know, again, this might come as a shock to people because they see all the activity going on with Andrew Yang and rightly, I think somewhat rightly, the first instinct is to say, and this is sort of carrying on from last night's show, because this is a pretty remarkable thing that's happening.
00:10:01.000And this is unmatched by anybody else in the field.
00:10:03.000In fact, the more mainstream candidates like Kamala Harris and others are having disappointing numbers in terms of engagement, in terms of search volume, in terms of some of the other things going on, fundraising.
00:10:17.000So that Andrew Yang is rising, that his movement is being spread far and wide in the dissident right, I mean, this is a big story.
00:10:24.000This is something everybody's talking about.
00:10:26.000Even journalists are picking up on this.
00:10:29.000There was an article, for example, today in the Daily Beast talking about how, oh, Andrew Yang's message is appealing to white nationalists like Richard Spencer, Faith Goldie, and Nick Fuentes, which
00:10:40.000They should be put in jail for- I don't understand how they can continue to do that.
00:10:46.000I'm not this, I'm not this, I'm not a white nationalist, and then every- oh, white nationalist is this guy, then this and the other thing.
00:10:54.000Anyway, but so they do this whole piece about it and it really is a game changer for the Democratic primary.
00:11:03.000And I've been saying this for years, actually, now, that we really can't make any predictions about 2020 because the race hasn't even started.
00:11:13.000I mean, we don't even know who all is going to be in the field.
00:11:37.000And there are a few misconceptions about the UBI, the Universal Basic Income, the proposal again, which he's calling the Freedom Dividend, to give everybody $1,000 a month.
00:11:47.000Again, regardless of income, regardless of age, regardless of anything else, you just get it.
00:11:52.000Which is, first and foremost, is not supposed to be like a permanent thing for people thinking, oh, we're going to live off of UBI.
00:13:42.000If that means you're working at McDonald's until 5, and then you're driving Uber basically at a loss until 11, and you know, you don't have healthcare and everything else, well, that's just the American dream, says the boomer on their yacht.
00:13:54.000But I'm gonna show you that that's actually not true.
00:13:57.000That's actually not how it works in this country.
00:13:59.000We already have it, to a big extent, for a lot of people.
00:14:03.000So I'm gonna show you what I mean by this.
00:14:05.000This is a little visual summary of universal basic income in America.
00:14:11.000Now this whiteboard might upset some people, it might upset some of my viewers, but it is totally factual.
00:14:21.000Census, and like I said at the top of the show, these stats are difficult to come by.
00:14:26.000They don't really want you to know this information because
00:14:29.000Maybe that might breed conflict because, you know, it tends to ruffle some feathers when some people are going to work every day and they have to pay taxes and other people don't go to work every day and they get money anyway.
00:15:16.000So the first 10 years of baby boomers, these qualified seniors, senior citizens in this country, 90% of them are receiving some form of social security.
00:15:28.00040% of seniors would be below the poverty line if not for social security.
00:15:32.000So this is a fun, this is a fun little game I like to play.
00:15:36.000A fun little trick which I think we're gonna play throughout the Democratic primary.
00:15:40.000The next time you're online, the next time you're at a campaign event or anything like that,
00:15:46.000And you see some baby boomer waddle up to you in some like Hawaiian shirt and their Keens or those New Balances, you know those big blocky white nurse shoes.
00:15:56.000And they say, hey Sonny, you just won a government handout.
00:16:01.000When I was your age, back in my day, we had to work for our keep.
00:16:13.000So the next time you hear about, oh, well, universal basic income, we can't afford that, that's a government handout, and all this other stuff about the dignity of hard work and capitalism from these turning point boomers, why don't you ask them if they're on social security?
00:16:26.000Because nine out of ten of them are gonna say, yeah, I'm on social security, and four out of ten rely on that social security.
00:16:34.000For a lot of baby boomers there's there's uh I will say there is some exception.
00:16:39.000I have certain people in my family who probably deserve it but you know look if these baby boomers are coming around saying hey we're gonna protect the bag you're not getting anything from the bag we have to tell them uh you can't have everything in the bag you're over there hoarding the bag pretending the bag doesn't exist say we could never afford the bag
00:16:58.000Getting the bag is immoral and undignified.
00:17:00.000Yeah, well you're sitting on the biggest friggin bag, and it's bankrupting the country.
00:17:05.000So, 90% of seniors, they're getting a UBI.
00:17:08.000Isn't that interesting how that works?
00:17:56.000But they are about 42%, and I would imagine probably a little bit more, because I don't believe these numbers include the full extent of state and federal assistance.
00:18:05.000So basically, the next time you see... And by the way, blacks are the ones that are going to have a problem with UBI.
00:18:10.000But the next time you see a black person, flip a coin.
00:18:27.000American slave ancestors in this country.
00:18:29.000So, you know, believe me, I do understand that.
00:18:33.000But the universal basic income, so far we see it applies to almost all seniors, half of blacks, Hispanics, 36% are on government assistance.