00:02:37.000Very excited to be back with you here tonight on Wednesday.
00:02:41.000We've got a lot to talk about, lots to get into.
00:02:45.000Big news, big things happening in the news tonight, and actually some breaking developing news at the time that the show is being presented.
00:02:55.000President Trump has retweeted a tweet from a constitutional lawyer talking about the Pence option.
00:03:05.000And that was going to be the subject of the show.
00:03:07.000It is going to be the subject of the show, the featured story, the Pence option, referring to Mike Pence's constitutional recourse to alter the outcome of the election.
00:03:20.000Allegedly, this has been endorsed by the president.
00:03:23.000We can assume this is the case because he retweeted a memo about this.
00:03:28.000And we'll be talking all about that tonight.
00:03:30.000We have some more details in a national file report talking about what exactly the legal recourse is in the Constitution with the vice president.
00:03:39.000We talked a little bit about this yesterday, but now we have more details.
00:03:43.000Apparently, there's actually a deadline tonight that Mike Pence has to meet in order for him to challenge Electoral College votes on January 6th.
00:03:55.000And we've been talking about this now for the past two weeks or so, ever since the Electoral College voted.
00:04:01.000We've been talking about this constitutional process where on January 6th, as Mike Pence is reading the Electoral College votes and counting them, he can also choose to not count some votes.
00:04:14.000And there's a report that came out today that says that actually the deadline to put that process in motion is actually tonight.
00:04:22.000He has to submit letters to the states where he's going to challenge the vote, informing them that this is going to happen.
00:04:29.000And the deadline for that allegedly is tonight at midnight.
00:04:33.000Doesn't look like it's going to happen, but we'll talk all about that.
00:04:40.000We'll also be talking about everything that's going on in Trump world today.
00:04:44.000I want to talk about the National Defense Authorization Act, which was vetoed.
00:04:49.000I want to talk about the pardons of a few high profile Trump allies, including Roger Stone, Jared Kushner's dad, Paul Manafort, and some others.
00:05:00.000And I also want to talk about the stimulus bill, which is now in limbo.
00:05:03.000The president didn't veto it, but he's now traveling to Mar a Lago.
00:05:07.000And the bill is basically just out there in limbo.
00:05:10.000It can't be passed without a signature from the president.
00:05:13.000And it doesn't look like the president is going to sign it anytime soon.
00:05:17.000The federal government runs out of money on Monday.
00:05:21.000At that point, they have to start laying people off, furloughing workers.
00:05:25.000It's going to be a government shutdown.
00:05:26.000So now there's a race on in the Congress to put forth an appropriations bill, to put forth a stimulus bill.
00:06:22.000So, this is going to be our last show of the year.
00:06:25.000And I don't really have anything special prepared for you, regrettably.
00:06:29.000I wish I did, but it's been such a busy time, not just for the usual reasons, preparing for Christmas and all of that, but because, of course, I've been busy traveling around to state capitals with Stop the Steal.
00:06:43.000And also, there's been a lot of work happening behind the scenes around AFPAC and other major projects, which you'll see very shortly.
00:06:50.000So, I didn't have anything prepared for today nothing really seasonal, nothing really all that exciting, other than the annual Christmas tie, the annual Nativity scene tie, which I wear proudly.
00:07:03.000On the Christmas show, and I guess tonight is officially the Christmas show, but I want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year's.
00:07:11.000The holiday's right around the corner, and I hope that everybody is happy and healthy and with friends and family this week.
00:07:19.000Certainly, it is, I think, a welcome end to a difficult year.
00:07:24.000And to recap the year a little bit, it's kind of interesting because I remember New Year's Eve 2020 wasn't that long ago, only about a year.
00:07:34.000Last year, and I remember thinking what was going to come in the new decade because not only was it a new year, but it was also a new decade.
00:08:07.000And I remember at the time being very uncertain and eager and anxious about the new year and what it would bring.
00:08:13.000And I think we could all agree that for better or for worse, nobody could have anticipated what happened in 2020.
00:08:19.000It's kind of interesting looking back in hindsight.
00:08:22.000We had all our own plans, our own hopes and dreams, resolutions, whatever.
00:08:31.000And then it took a very different turn.
00:08:33.000And then things were thrown for a loop by the coronavirus, by the lockdown.
00:08:39.000Election fraud, you name it, race riots.
00:08:42.000So it has been a very chaotic and unpredictable year.
00:08:46.000And I think we have to look back on 2020 and think a lot about that as we look forward.
00:08:52.000What we are facing in this country is going to get worse.
00:08:55.000Everything that we saw in 2020, the instability, the unpredictability, these chaotic flashpoints, there's going to be more of them in the future.
00:09:06.000They will increase in frequency, they will increase in intensity.
00:09:09.000And I'm talking about The pandemic catastrophe.
00:09:12.000I'm talking about the terrible lockdown.
00:09:17.000Even if you go back into early January, the saber rattling with Iran, all of these flashpoints foreign policy, race, the economy, these consequences of globalization like I said, they will increase in frequency.
00:09:32.000In other words, you're going to get more of them and they'll increase in intensity.
00:09:54.000Normally, you might say something like, well, if you want to make God laugh, make a plan.
00:09:59.000Well, especially in these uncertain times, things are going to be changing very rapidly in ways that nobody can predict.
00:10:06.000And they'll change very quickly, very frequently, sometimes at a moment's notice, and change the entire dynamic.
00:10:13.000And what we have to do in the coming years.
00:10:15.000is to simply be flexible, adaptable, smart.
00:10:20.000We have to be prepared to deal with these changing times and changing circumstances.
00:10:24.000And there's kind of two ways to look at it.
00:10:27.000You could look at these disruptions, you could look at the chaos in a year like 2020 and think that this was very disruptive to what you thought was going to happen and what you planned on doing.
00:10:38.000Another way to look at it is that all the chaos, all these flashpoints are bringing in great opportunities to change the system.
00:10:47.000What this is bringing is a lot of energy and a lot of momentum, a lot of frenzy.
00:10:53.000And with that, I think there are opportunities to shake up the system and potentially shake loose.
00:10:59.000Entrenched forces and institutions, and harness the power of these unpredictable events in ways that benefit us.
00:11:11.000The response to the COVID lockdown, being against the lockdowns, being against Vax, I think that was a big play.
00:11:17.000Black Lives Matter probably delivered a lot of white people, a lot of Hispanics, a lot of Asians, and a lot of other people that are not traditionally conservative into a Republican tent or certainly a more conservative direction.
00:11:31.000And of course, election fraud has destroyed the credibility of the electoral system and completely delegitimized the government and the Constitution in the eyes of millions of conservatives.
00:11:42.000So, if you look at each of the major crises of the past year that nobody could have predicted the lockdown and the ensuing voter fraud, the race riots, each of these events, as things spiral out of control, have played into the hands of nationalists.
00:11:58.000And that's because it is only within a nationalist worldview that you can anticipate events like this.
00:12:06.000In a libertarian individualist worldview, I don't think that you would have predicted that the giant race riots would break out in the country.
00:12:14.000People that are holding Blexit conferences throughout 2019 are not predicting that Minnesota, Minneapolis, and Minnesota is going to go up in flames because of a race riot.
00:12:24.000But nationalists and globalists are anticipating this in a general sense.
00:12:29.000And the same goes for global government takeover, vaccine mandates, election fraud, and this revanchist Republican establishment that denied.
00:12:38.000President Trump, the presidency by not fighting for him with voter fraud.
00:12:41.000So, as these things happen, although they're not predictable, although they're chaotic and exactly the timing, the manner in which they present themselves, broadly speaking, it is only nationalists that understand, I think uniquely, the challenges coming ahead.
00:12:57.000And the challenges that are coming down the pike, I think, play into our greater narrative, which is to say, we are, in some sense, prophets of doom.
00:13:06.000We see the seeds that have been planted by globalism.
00:13:11.000For the past 30 years, through mass immigration, a corrupt democratic regime that's being built up with the votes from mass immigration, the globalization of the economy, the creation of this class of billionaires, hyper billionaires, more powerful than any human being in human history.
00:13:29.000We look at all these things and we see bad times ahead as a result of them because we know that good fruit does not come from a bad tree.
00:13:37.000I think that's why our perception is unique because we recognize that globalism is a bad tree.
00:13:42.000Everybody else in the political system.
00:13:45.000Republican establishment people, Democrat establishment people, centrists, they fundamentally do not believe that the tree is bad.
00:13:53.000They see nothing wrong with globalism.
00:13:55.000They see neoliberalism and globalism as the solution.
00:13:58.000So I think that in light of the past four years, in light of the past year, I think that we are well positioned to capitalize on these unpredictable events that we're going to see in the coming decade.
00:14:11.000We are well positioned specifically in the context of the events of just the last year with the race riots, the COVID lockdowns.
00:14:19.000The election fraud and the ensuing civil war in the Republican Party.
00:14:22.000And although things didn't go exactly the way that we wanted, restaurants were closed, cities were closed, graduations and birthdays canceled, Easter canceled, some of your cities went up in flames, some people got hurt or put in jail, and we probably won't get the outcome we want in this election.
00:14:40.000Although things didn't go our way exactly in this past year, I remain optimistic about the short, medium, and long term prospects of America First.
00:14:49.000And I remain optimistic because, as I said, As things spiral out of control, as the seeds of globalism begin to bear fruit, I think that a lot of people are going to be looking for answers.
00:15:01.000And they're going to be looking for a worldview that reflects the world as people live, as people live and breathe today.
00:15:07.000And I think that the nationalist, America first paradigm, that's the only worldview that will explain the coming anarchy.
00:15:14.000That's the only ideology that is going to give people any kind of relief or any kind of sense of anticipation about future events.
00:15:23.000And I think that the past year was proof of that.
00:15:25.000And if we have more years like this and maybe years worse than this and more unpredictable, I think that we will have big opportunities, ways in which we don't predict that we can harness and that we can capitalize on to change our current situation, change the dynamic of our political situation, and using that, change our political fortunes.
00:15:47.000It's been a difficult year for a lot of people and for a lot of different reasons.
00:15:51.000But as we close this chapter, I've got to tell you from America First and from the America First perspective, I am optimistic about 2021, and I am optimistic about the 2020s, about the next decade.
00:16:07.000I know we can all breathe a sigh of relief as the year comes to a close and we get ready for Christmas with our families and New Year's Eve and get ready for another year.
00:16:23.000And speaking specifically about America First, we came into 2020 riding high off the Groyper War.
00:16:29.000We had a great success with the first AFPAC conference.
00:16:32.000And then, quite literally, about a week or two weeks after AFPAC, the entire world was shut down.
00:16:38.000And I think this put everybody in limbo for a period of about six months.
00:16:43.000And that is people in politics, people in their jobs, people with school and travel and everything.
00:16:50.000And almost everything was ground to a halt for a long time.
00:16:53.000I think it killed a lot of our momentum.
00:16:55.000But you've seen just in the past two months how we've been able to spin it back up rapidly and in some ways bigger than ever before with Stop the Steal and with the election.
00:17:08.00050,000 live concurrent viewers covering the election.
00:17:11.000And that is after I got banned from YouTube.
00:17:14.000That is after everything that's gone on.
00:17:17.000And now with the Stop the Steal protests, it seems like the movement is entering even a new phase on top of the streaming, which is IRL in real life activism in a way that is not as risky, in a way that's not dangerous, and in a way which is increasing our palatability in the mainstream.
00:17:38.000So I think that as far as the movement goes, we got off to a rocky start, banned from YouTube, internet drama, COVID lockdown, but we have definitely regained the momentum.
00:17:48.000We've recaptured the energy in the closing quarter, in the final quarter of the year.
00:17:54.000And having done everything in the past three months, I think the movement is well positioned for a big, big comeback.
00:18:01.000And we're going to be able to sustain that growth in 2021.
00:18:52.000And that I'm on the show giving you a general recap as we move breathlessly into a new year, another rally for Stop the Steal in D.C., and to continue the fight and get right back out there and look ahead then to the 2022 primaries where we're going to play a substantial role nationally.
00:19:11.000So we're going to dive into the news though, and we'll talk about everything that's going on.
00:19:16.000I'm sure we'll have a lot of super chats, and we'll get to talk a little bit more about 2020 and Christmas towards the end.
00:19:22.000But I want to knock out all this news before we do that.
00:19:25.000And I think actually I'll talk about the Pence option first because there's really not much else to say other than the update that we got tonight, which comes in the form of the Trump retweet and the National File article, which specifies some new details.
00:20:08.000We've been talking about it for weeks.
00:20:11.000The Electoral College voted on December 14th.
00:20:14.000Now the Electoral College votes are counted on January 6th, and they're not official until they're counted.
00:20:21.000They're counted by the vice president in front of a joint session of Congress of the House and the Senate.
00:20:27.000And the two options where we can still overturn the result of the election are number one, Mike Pence, because he has the power to count the votes, he also has the power to not count the votes.
00:20:37.000And if Mike Pence decides to challenge the election in a given state, he can simply not read the Electoral College votes.
00:20:45.000They won't be counted, and Joe Biden will not be able to surpass 270 Electoral College votes and become president elect.
00:20:53.000After that, you have a contingent election held in the House.
00:20:56.000Option number two is that Mike Pence will read all the votes, but they will be challenged by an objector in both the House and the Senate.
00:21:04.000There'll be a debate in both chambers, and then they will go up and down and vote whether or not to count those Electoral College votes that were counted or whether to not count them.
00:21:14.000And then in this scenario, you could have Joe Biden, because of votes being disqualified or objected to, he could not hit 270, and then you have a contingent election in the House.
00:21:24.000So that is considered the Pence option.
00:21:27.000There's been some more details that have come out, though, this week, which say that actually Mike Pence has to inform the states that he won't be counting their votes by midnight tonight.
00:21:39.000On the, I think it's the fourth Wednesday of December, which is tonight.
00:21:45.000So if he doesn't do it by tonight, he cannot not count the votes.
00:21:50.000Now keep in mind, if he doesn't submit those, if he doesn't submit that information tonight, you could still have a scenario where a representative and a senator object and a contingent election happens through that avenue.
00:22:06.000But as far as Mike Pence unilaterally not counting votes, it can't happen unless he meets the deadline tonight.
00:22:12.000But we have an article here from National File.
00:22:15.000The president retweeted an article about this today.
00:22:18.000It says, President Trump has retweeted the hashtag PenceCard memo that National File obtained earlier this week based on an argument from lawyer Ivan Rakelin, an expert on the Constitution.
00:22:31.000Which, fun fact, I actually met Ivan Rakelin three years ago at a fundraiser for Austin Peterson, who is a libertarian from Missouri.
00:22:42.000I don't know if you guys are familiar, he's online.
00:22:45.000And, um, You know, it was sort of a novelty for me because I had interviewed him on my high school television show back when I was a senior in high school.
00:22:53.000And when I was interviewing for a job at the Leadership Institute, he was in town doing a fundraiser, running for Senate.
00:23:00.000And I popped in, it was somewhere in Virginia.
00:23:03.000And Ivan Rakelin was there and very distinctive appearance.
00:23:06.000He's a short guy, bald, sort of charismatic.
00:23:14.000You know, it's kind of funny how that goes.
00:23:15.000In any case, So, the memo is based on an argument written by this guy, Ivan Rakelin, who is a constitutional lawyer.
00:23:24.000It says, The Pence card memo details that the vice president, in his role as president of the Senate, has the sole power to check and reject unconstitutional electors to the Electoral College.
00:23:37.000The drafters of this White House memo believe that the federal check to the state's elections resides with the vice president, Mike Pence, in his role as president of the Senate.
00:23:49.000Additionally, Pence has the sole power to determine whether to reject impermissible states, slates rather, of electors.
00:23:58.000However, Pence is legally required to do this on the fourth Wednesday in December, which this year falls on today.
00:24:05.000The revelation that Pence alone can reject allegedly fraudulent Electoral College certificates shifts the spotlight from President Trump and congressional leaders significantly by putting President Trump's electoral destiny squarely on Pence's shoulders.
00:24:21.000If Vice President Pence then chooses to follow the law and does deny the Electoral College votes from the swing states of Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Michigan, and Wisconsin before midnight tonight, then all of the states in question will have until January 6th to either assign their Electoral College slates in their respective legislatures or to hold a new election.
00:24:43.000Following the publication of the memo by National File, hashtag PenceCard trended number one on Twitter with supporters of the president, encouraging the news to be spread as far and wide as possible.
00:24:55.000So, the development tonight is that the president retweeted this.
00:24:59.000He's aware of it and apparently endorsing it.
00:25:03.000He wants Pence to not count the electors from the swing states, take away enough electors from Joe Biden that he falls short of the 270 vote threshold, and force a contingent election in the House where Trump actually has a good chance of winning.
00:25:20.000But, of course, we also found out that Pence has to submit this by midnight tonight.
00:25:29.000Right now, it's 9 o'clock, and it doesn't seem like it's going to happen anytime soon.
00:25:33.000It's 10 o'clock in Washington, D.C. If it was going to be sent out and announced, it would have to be in the next two hours.
00:25:39.000What's more is that Mike Pence is planning on being in Israel for the two weeks after the Electoral College vote on January 6th.
00:25:47.000And right now, Donald Trump is in Mar a Lago in Florida.
00:25:50.000So I don't see how it's going to happen.
00:26:38.000It's been radio silence, and everyone knows that.
00:26:41.000Everyone knows that on the outside, and everyone knows that in the White House, too.
00:26:46.000And now, on the big day, the big deadline when Mike Pence could unilaterally, potentially intervene, and let's say hypothetically that this is unconstitutional, hey, let the courts decide.
00:26:57.000Some might say, oh, well, you don't have the constitutional authority to not read the Electoral College votes.
00:27:03.000Well, the Democrats didn't have the constitutional authority to.
00:27:07.000Alter the deadline for mail in ballots.
00:27:09.000The Democrats didn't have the constitutional authority to send all the monitors home while they were counting votes.
00:27:16.000And the Democrats didn't have the authority to allow people identify as indefinitely confined in Wisconsin because they were afraid of the coronavirus.
00:27:23.000And the Constitution doesn't allow for Democrats to rig the system with mail in ballots, dead voters, voters that don't live in the state, ballot harvesting, and you name it.
00:27:33.000But we have to, well, technically the Constitution doesn't say who cares?
00:28:12.000Strategies and options for ourselves to get the political outcome that we want out of fear that it might be struck down in the Supreme Court after Democrats rigged a presidential election in no fewer than seven swing states.
00:29:23.000The Constitution always reinforces what they're doing.
00:29:27.000One ruling in the Supreme Court made gay marriage legal in all 50 states and overturned all the statutes in each state about that.
00:29:35.000One ruling in the Supreme Court overturned centuries of precedent and made the individual mandate constitutional, and now we have a national health care system.
00:29:43.000And things like this, it goes on and on and on.
00:29:46.000When a case is struck down in the Supreme Court about gun rights, does that ever overturn gun control laws in every state?
00:29:53.000When the Supreme Court shuts down something about a challenge to religious freedom, does that ever change the law in all 50 states?
00:30:01.000In fact, they never take up our cases.
00:30:03.000They never rule favorably, even when it's a conservative majority, a 6 3 conservative majority.
00:30:08.000So the Constitution doesn't protect us from the Democrats.
00:30:12.000In fact, it often reinforces the Democrats.
00:30:16.000And then when we try to do anything, the Constitution stands in our way and says, no, no, you have to let the Democrats steal the election.
00:30:23.000You have to let the Democrats get away with big tech censorship.
00:30:26.000You have to let the Democrats get away with ballot harvesting and you name it.
00:30:34.000That means state Supreme Courts can change the deadlines for mail in ballots, and state election officials can change how the elections are conducted without the approval from a state legislature.
00:30:45.000And we all know this, we all understand this, but it's time for conservatives to wake up and get that.
00:30:50.000It's time for boomer Republicans to realize the Constitution, the courts, the Supreme Court are not going to do anything for you, and they're not going to do anything for us.
00:31:01.000And really, at this point, they only exist to hinder us.
00:31:05.000President Trump's great legacy, allegedly, this is the only reason Ben Shapiro voted for him in 2020, and this is the only reason a lot of people voted for him in 2016, is because his great legacy was supposed to be the three Supreme Court justices, the unprecedented takeover of the federal judiciary overseen by Mitch McConnell, and that this would be an administration that appoints originalists to all these positions.
00:31:33.000How far did that get us in the past four years?
00:31:36.000Did that do anything for us on abortion?
00:31:38.000Did that do anything for us on gun control?
00:31:40.000Did it do anything for us on free speech on the internet, on the platforms?
00:31:45.000Did it do anything for us when you had the biggest voter fraud in the history of the country and you had countless cases worth millions and millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars put before every level of court?
00:32:10.000It's not about getting an originalist in a federal court.
00:32:13.000It's about getting a nationalist in some federal bureaucracy in charge of some position where they can hire 30 people.
00:32:21.000It's about getting a group of nationalists in charge of the bureaucratic machinery that is tasked with interpreting and enforcing the laws.
00:32:56.000All of 2020 was different, largely, in large part, because McEntee's an America firster, he's a patriot, and he brought in people that were going to change the course of the White House, and they did.
00:33:10.000That's how you got the immigration executive order.
00:33:27.000They bring in one person who can bring in jobs, they bring in one person who can bring in a crew, and it changes the whole score.
00:33:33.000If Donald Trump had brought in a good chief of staff, a good secretary of state, a good DHS secretary, A good head of the Office of Personnel, it would have changed the past four years.
00:33:44.000They could have done more damage than every federal judge that they appointed and all the Supreme Court justices they appointed.
00:33:51.000And this is supposed to be the big deal.
00:35:07.000This is like their world war, the Federalist Society.
00:35:12.000A giant election fraud being adjudicated in district courts and in appellate courts and in the Supreme Court.
00:35:19.000They should be all hands on deck right now trying to solve this legal dilemma of how do you get the rightful president in office after voter fraud?
00:36:42.000I think that Mike Pence is throwing in the towel.
00:36:44.000I think Mike Pence is okay with this because you better believe that Mike Pence is looking forward to 2024, like every last one of those dogs are in government.
00:36:54.000Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, they're all looking forward to 2024.
00:36:58.000Nikki Haley, Dan Crenshaw, Ben Sass, they're all eyeing the ticket in 2024 at the top of the ticket as the vice president.
00:37:07.000They all see that with Trump gone, their stock goes up and maybe they're poised to become the new leader of the party.
00:37:39.000It's like I said about Madison Cawthorne.
00:37:41.000We're supposed to believe that these people in government, and specifically, not Madison Cawthorne, but these people that have been in government for decades from Washington, D.C., They're coming to help us, really?
00:37:51.000I mean, I know that there's that Reagan stuff about I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
00:38:42.000And I hope it goes into a debate and I hope that it becomes a contingent election in some form.
00:38:47.000And I'm going to D.C. to rally for that to happen.
00:38:49.000In fact, I've heard a rumor that there is a senator that will vote to object and that we'll get our debate and we may get our contingent election.
00:39:11.000These are not even people that like Trump.
00:39:14.000These are the same political creatures in the Democratic Party, but just with superficial differences.
00:39:19.000So I'm not gonna hold my breath that somebody like Mike Pence or Mitch McConnell or any one of them is gonna suddenly have this epiphany and do the right thing.
00:40:10.000And we're going to make our way to 2024 and get an America First back in office, whether that's Trump or whether that's a successor, but that's going to be the mission.
00:40:20.000Okay, so that's the Pence option, but you kind of get it.
00:40:23.000We're going to move on and talk about the White House in the past day or so.
00:40:29.000I want to talk about the pardons, I want to talk about the National Defense Authorization Act veto, and the COVID stimulus.
00:40:37.000So, in the first place, we know the COVID stimulus was blocked.
00:40:41.000The big development from today is that the president is leaving D.C. and heading to Mar a Lago for Christmas without vetoing the bill and also without signing it.
00:40:51.000So basically, that stimulus with the $600 is now in limbo.
00:41:16.000It says, quote, President Trump vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2021, calling it a gift to U.S. adversaries, China and Russia, and making good on a promise to veto if it did not repeal a law that shields certain big tech companies from liabilities.
00:41:33.000He said, quote, My administration recognizes the importance of the act to our national security.
00:41:39.000Unfortunately, the act fails to include critical national security measures, includes provisions that fail to respect our veterans and our military's history.
00:41:47.000And contradicts efforts by my administration to put America first in our national security and foreign policy actions.
00:41:54.000In his letter, he singled out Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act as a reason for the veto, arguing that failing to terminate it will make our intelligence virtually impossible to conduct.
00:42:07.000He also took issue with language in the NDAA that would require the renaming of certain military installations.
00:42:13.000Those provisions would phase out facilities named after Confederate military figures.
00:42:19.000Additionally, he argued that the NDAA directly opposes one of his major foreign policy goals.
00:42:25.000Which is bringing more U.S. troops home, calling it unconstitutional to supersede his authority as commander in chief.
00:42:32.000He wrote, I oppose endless wars, as does the American public.
00:42:37.000Over bipartisan objections, however, this act purports to restrict the president's ability to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, Germany, and South Korea.
00:42:46.000And then finally, I want to talk about the pardons.
00:42:49.000Today, President Trump pardoned Charles Kushner, Paul Manafort, and Roger Stone.
00:42:55.000They were the most prominent names in a batch of 26 pardons.
00:42:58.000And three commutations by the White House after Mr. Trump left for his private club in Palm Beach, Florida for the holiday.
00:43:06.000And I see these three things taken together, and I have to shake my head.
00:43:10.000It's like I said yesterday where the hell was this Donald Trump for the past four years?
00:43:19.000You know, he kills the stimulus bill, vetoes the National Defense Authorization Act, and then at the same time, he's going to pardon his political friends.
00:43:28.000And I'm thinking, where the hell was this guy four years ago?
00:43:34.000You're telling me that you win the presidential election and now you get to exercise a presidential veto over legislation that you don't like?
00:43:44.000I wish we knew about this for the past four years.
00:43:47.000You're telling me that the president has the power of the pardon and he can simply excuse and exonerate people that are your political allies?
00:43:57.000I just don't understand why we had to wait all this time until the lame duck session.
00:44:03.000Potentially four weeks before this president leaves office, before we decided to do things like this.
00:44:08.000Especially the National Defense Authorization Act.
00:44:12.000They put into this bill the renaming of the Confederate monuments.
00:44:15.000They disallow the president through appropriations measures, they disallow him from withdrawing troops from Iraq and Europe.
00:44:24.000And in the same bill, they include nothing about Section 230.
00:44:28.000And the president promised to veto it if it didn't have Section 230, and if it did have those other bad measures, and he did.
00:44:34.000And now Congress may have to reconvene.
00:44:37.000On the 29th, in order to override his veto, and it would be political suicide.
00:44:42.000Imagine you're a Republican, President Trump is the most popular Republican president in American history, just got 74 million votes, more votes than any incumbent president, 10 million more votes than four years ago when he was elected initially.
00:44:57.000And you vote in this crisis during this transition to override his veto in order to keep in place foreign wars, destroy Southern heritage, and prevent Congress from regulating big tech.
00:45:20.000I mean, they may do it and they may commit political suicide, but Trump has forced them into a pickle.
00:45:25.000They either give him what he wants or it's going to be a big problem for them.
00:45:29.000Where was that hardball negotiating when they were negotiating on immigration, on the border wall, on DACA, on COVID stimulus the first time, on the tax cuts, on health care?
00:45:39.000Where was that hardball walk away from the table attitude when we had?
00:45:49.000So, in some ways, it's bittersweet because in these closing days, the president is showing his true colors in the sense that he's still in there, in spite of everything, fighting for the American people to get more stimulus money.
00:46:00.000He is still in there fighting to bring our troops home from the Middle East.
00:46:04.000He's still fighting to protect Southern heritage, to go after big tech.
00:46:08.000And it shows what he's really about, but I just wish that he was Trump.
00:46:12.000He was showing what he was really about four years ago when we had a little bit more time to fix these things, when we had a little bit of a more comfortable window of time to accomplish this.
00:46:23.000This is not exactly the time to have the great battle over big tech, Section 230, the withdrawal from Iraq, and the renaming of the monuments, and everything else that's going on.
00:46:35.000I don't think now is exactly the time.
00:46:38.000And that's what I'm thinking as I watch every one of these different developments.
00:46:41.000And maybe this was just a big, maybe this was just a big lesson that we all had to learn.
00:46:48.000And we'll have to get another guy in office, and this time he's got to take what Trump did in the past two weeks.
00:46:54.000And extend that for eight years, you know, or four years, whoever it winds up being.
00:46:59.000Because I think our experience under Trump was kind of instructive.
00:47:02.000It was not sufficient to simply win the White House.
00:47:07.000We had to win the White House, but we also had to control a lot of other things, too.
00:47:10.000We had to control the departments, the agencies, the intelligence community, the military, the Congress, or at least have some juice there, you know, control the agenda.
00:47:20.000We got Trump elected, and a lot of people said, okay, mission accomplished.
00:47:27.000And then it was people like Ryan Priebus and Johnny DiStefano, and it was H.R. McMaster and John Kelly, and you name it, Christian Nielsen, who totally corrupted and co opted Jira Kushner and stole the dream of this administration, stole all of the pride, all the ambitions, all the hopes placed on this president and subverted them completely.
00:51:36.000Actually, yeah, because the security apparatus doesn't protect us and it actively works against us and it has more power than any elected official.
00:54:21.000So, in as much as this past week and these past few months have been the best Trump we've ever seen, and I wish we had gotten more of it, it's still like, what are you doing?
00:55:25.000And I'm actually very pissed off that people aren't talking about that because, you know, I guess they weren't told to talk about that or maybe that doesn't play well or whatever.
00:55:55.000The Trump presidency, I mean, it's not over quite yet, but I mean, we're getting to that point, it seems.
00:56:00.000And after four years, we could look at the Trump administration and say there was a lot of good and a lot of progress against unstoppable odds.
00:56:08.000You know, I mean, you really got to think of it.
00:56:10.000Not only was there a lot of achievement, but it was also against nearly impossible odds and resistance from every angle, and it's miraculous.
00:56:21.000Knowing what we know now about the process, knowing what we know now about what was going on, it could have been so much better.
00:56:27.000And in a lot of ways, it was a missed opportunity.
00:56:29.000And maybe it was a learning experience.
00:56:30.000Maybe we had to experience this so that the next time, if there is a next time that we get a Trump administration or a Republican administration, we know what to do.
00:56:40.000And I'm optimistic that that may happen again.
00:56:43.000And if it does, we got to get it right because we're running out of options.
00:56:47.000We may have just run out of chances, but if we didn't, we are running out of chances quickly.
00:56:53.000And I hope that was a learning lesson for everybody.
00:56:55.000Get involved, be smart, save your money, start a family, play it close to your chest.
00:57:00.000Don't tell anybody exactly what you know.
00:57:04.000You like the free market and individual liberty and the Constitution and all that.
00:57:08.000And get the heritage internship and get the Hill internship and run for office and be a precinct committeeman and get in there, get in the system so that when we are ready to call upon you, whether that's in 22 or 24 or whenever, you're going to be ready.
00:58:39.000Clearly, he knew something that everybody else didn't.
00:58:42.000He knew something that Sam Francis didn't know.
00:58:44.000He knew something that Jared Taylor and Peter Brimelow and all these people didn't know.
00:58:48.000He knew something that the establishment didn't know on both sides.
00:58:52.000And he figured it out and he won and he did the impossible.
00:58:54.000He created an opportunity where people thought there was none in a very creative, unorthodox, and innovative way.
00:59:02.000And that is something in itself which is admirable, impressive, and worthy of careful study and careful analysis.
00:59:09.000And we've got to learn from what he was able to achieve, what he wasn't able to achieve, and build upon his progress because we did make a difference.
00:59:17.000We did make a difference on immigration, on foreign policy, in the Overton window, in the conversation, in the infrastructure.
00:59:23.000Trump started something that will not easily be undone.
00:59:27.000It's not that it can't be undone, they're already working to undo it.
00:59:31.000But he started something which is going to be very difficult for the establishment to put back in the bag.
00:59:37.000And if we're smart, we're going to learn how Trump created this energy, we're going to emulate that, we're going to learn from his mistakes, and we're going to build upon.
00:59:58.000If you've got that football and you're running down the field, you're running it into the end zone, and Trump gets tackled, and they say, okay, you can't run anymore.
01:00:07.000We got to pick it up and we got to take the ball.
01:00:10.000We got to keep going even further, okay?
01:00:13.000If Trump is the race car driver and he's driving around the track, we got to be the nitrous boost.
01:00:20.000Need for speed, fast and furious style.
01:00:23.000And we got to double tap the gas pedal to do a wheelie, and we got to jump over cars and get across the finish line.
01:11:31.000My grandma, she had a very rough year, a lot of bad stuff happening to her.
01:11:36.000She's approaching 90 and lots of things going on.
01:11:41.000And she is, I told you the last time, she's like Interactive Buddy.
01:11:45.000I mean, it's like, you know, that game Interactive Buddy where you're like, you have a baseball bat and you start doing explosions, you set it on fire, whatever, and then you're still hanging out there.
01:11:55.000I mean, everything's been thrown at her, and she's like, you know, and she's still walking around and talking and, you know, watching Fox, watching Newsmax, watching my show, you know, all that.
01:12:44.000Before all of this, before I was dragged into this generational struggle, there was puppy chow and there was video games and there was wrestling and little league and all of that.
01:14:39.000He's going to bitch and moan about the plane ticket, then he's going to shakily stream it.
01:14:44.000And there'll be TTS interruptions, and bling, bling, there'll be diamonds being sent in, and he'll be interjecting.
01:14:52.000And he'll be me and T-Based and T-Based will be sending in thousands of dollars worth of lemons to his channel, streaming my speech in my kitchen.
01:15:32.000And then Patrick's going to leave early.
01:15:34.000Patrick's going to give his speech, and then he's going to leave without saying goodbye to anybody, and then he's going to stream in the car in my driveway.
01:15:43.000And we're really just going to recreate the Stop the Steal.
01:15:45.000This is going to be the Christmas edition of Stop the Steal.
01:15:51.000Vince is going to go up and say, We've made a list.
01:19:31.000Baguette Groypers says, I have to say, two months ago I was at a crossroads, and when I thought of going down the wrong path, I couldn't stop seeing your face.
01:20:10.000You can be inspired by all kinds of people.
01:20:12.000It's nice to hear that you think of me when you're at a crossroads and think about doing the right thing.
01:20:17.000I don't think it's wrong to be inspired by somebody because ultimately, you know, you look at mortal men that you can relate to that, you know, that you can kind of convince yourself like, hey, it is possible to live a Christian life.
01:21:17.000But, hey, I appreciate that you hold me in high regard like that.
01:21:19.000But, you know, no man is perfect, and that's ultimately the problem.
01:21:23.000You put any man on a pedestal like that, so to speak, or, you know, there's that expression, don't meet your heroes.
01:21:29.000And, you know, that's because everybody is mortal.
01:21:34.000And in as much as you might think a celebrity or whatever, a president, whoever is above that, I mean, we are all just people, and you will be disappointed.
01:21:43.000I'm not trying to say, like, I'm a terrible guy.
01:21:47.000I'm just trying to say everybody isn't perfect.
01:21:49.000And if you put your faith in fallible people, no matter who it is, you're going to be disappointed eventually.
01:26:53.000Charlie D'Amelio, whatever, whatever it is.
01:26:57.000If there was a vaccine, look, I'm deathly afraid of needles.
01:27:02.000I will never get blood work done ever again in my entire life.
01:27:05.000If I go into the doctor and they say, we have to do blood work, like you're going to die, I'll say, you know, everyone's got to die sometime.
01:28:34.000I'm never gonna get blood work ever again.
01:28:35.000Never gonna get a vaccine, never blood work, never an IV.
01:28:38.000I'm never basically gonna see a doctor or have surgery or anything like that ever again.
01:28:44.000Maybe not even take any kind of a drug.
01:28:46.000And I'm kind of going on like hardcore mode.
01:28:49.000I'm playing life on hardcore mode, you know, like when you don't have a heads up display and you don't have health regeneration and stuff like that.
01:28:57.000I'm kind of playing realistic, hardcore mode.
01:29:01.000Where I'm going out in the world, and you know what happens?
01:32:35.000Well, you know, I would say my favorite person in the Bible, besides Jesus Christ, my first instinct would be to say a disciple, you know, like Peter, of course.
01:32:48.000I think Peter is probably the next biggest main character in the Bible.
01:32:53.000But frankly, to me, the book of Job really speaks to me, especially in these times, because I think that.
01:33:04.000Because for a lot of people, when they think about religion, they believe in this prosperity gospel of like, well, you believe in God and then things work out for you.
01:33:12.000You believe in God and good things happen to you.
01:33:15.000And for them, this is sort of like a self help strategy.
01:33:17.000You know, well, if I pray and if I go to church, well, then I'll make money or then things will go my way.
01:33:25.000And that's really not how it works, actually.
01:33:28.000And I've always basically understood that because, you know, growing up, there are a lot of things that didn't go my way, basically, you know.
01:33:39.000And, you know, so growing up and dealing with things in my life, I kind of realized that that's not really where you derive the meaning from life.
01:33:50.000And that's really, I don't think, what God wants us to think about religion.
01:33:54.000I don't think that God wanted us to have heaven here.
01:33:58.000You know, that to me is like one of the biggest things in my life, I think, that's helped me and certainly helped me with my faith, is realizing that God does not want us to have heaven on earth.
01:34:08.000And He's not promising us heaven on earth.
01:34:11.000And he's not even really promising us good things on earth.
01:34:13.000You know, you're supposed to do his will and you're supposed to carry out his plan, and then you get heaven in the afterlife.
01:34:20.000And he's supposed to take care of you a little bit here.
01:34:22.000God will provide, God provides for you here.
01:34:25.000But some people think that it's like, well, things are going to go my way if I believe in God, and if things don't go my way, then whatever.
01:34:33.000But the book of Job, I think, speaks to the sort of fatalistic nature of the Christian worldview and of the world as it is, you know, which is to say that.
01:34:45.000Somebody like Job, everything is taken away.
01:34:58.000My family has seen so much suffering down the generations my parents, their parents.
01:35:04.000And I look at the people in my family, my ancestors, and it's honestly unexplainable.
01:35:11.000And it's, in some sense, it's not fair.
01:35:14.000You've got, you know, I think about like my grandmother had an extraordinarily difficult life.
01:35:18.000One of the most pious people I've ever met, and her entire family, extremely pious, God fearing, pray every day, all that kind of stuff, and yet had horrible things, unnecessarily and excessively horrible things happen throughout her entire life.
01:35:37.000She still believes in God, she still prays, and still unshakable faith.
01:35:43.000And you look at something like that, and there's a real lesson in that.
01:35:47.000That would probably be my next favorite character, so to speak, or next favorite person.
01:35:53.000Because I think that, especially in this time, in all times, but especially in this time, this is how you have to think about life.
01:35:59.000I mean, life has always been suffering in the good times and in the bad times, it's always been this way.
01:36:06.000And, you know, I think a big thing that people have to overcome in their lives in all times is understanding that we don't get heaven on earth, there is no heaven on earth.
01:36:19.000We're in a fallen world, and heaven comes later.
01:36:21.000And if we do the right thing here, if we believe in God, and in believing in God, we do what He asked us to do, whatever that is, and our faith is unshakable, then we will inherit the kingdom of God, right?
01:36:33.000So that to me is a big deal because I think so many people, like I said, especially now, it's a dark time.
01:36:42.000And what's more is now more than ever, people are hooked on this kind of instant gratification, self.
01:36:48.000You know, advantage for themselves, self interested.
01:36:51.000I guess it's always been that way, but maybe now more than ever.
01:37:52.000Sir Lancaster says, Hey, big guy, I know what you said regarding our chances, but we are so used to losing Republicans to give up at the first sign of trouble.
01:38:01.000Trump just went super saiyan with his speech last night.
01:42:44.000Did you know that Karl Marx was an anti Semite?
01:42:47.000I honestly couldn't give a fuck that that's the case because I've got a hundred other problems.
01:42:53.000Karl Marx isn't one of them, and neither is socialism.
01:42:57.000You know, the whole country is being raped to death by globalists, and we have people, we have young people talking about Karl Marx.
01:43:05.000You know, you're 18, you have the whole world ahead of you, a world full of problems drugs and sexual immorality, and the destruction of the economy, the destruction of our community and the social fabric, and you have 18 year olds complaining about a dead 19th century philosopher.
01:43:22.000This is the extent of the control of billionaires over the political discourse.
01:43:26.000And the only reason you think that is because some think tank created this political worldview and mass produced it and branded it to you and you ate it up.
01:43:35.000So, in some sense, the communism stuff was almost worse.
01:44:32.000Every one of them that you see at the Stop the Steal protests and all that, these people are remarkable people.
01:44:38.000Not only are they great friends that I know I can count on through thick and thin, but they're funny, they make me laugh, they're smart, they have integrity, they're courageous.
01:46:19.000And as far as the chess tournament goes, you know, I would be inclined to say that I would beat him easily because it's cerebral and I'm a genius.
01:46:27.000But, you know, then I was just thinking, you ever see in New York City these chess ringers in the park?
01:46:37.000And you know, I'm thinking to myself, Jaden, he listens to rap music, he doesn't tip in restaurants, he wears streetwear, hates gay people with a passion.
01:46:47.000Like, he's got all, I mean, think of who I'm, think of what I'm describing here.
01:46:50.000He used to play basketball, if that's any indication.
01:46:54.000And I'm thinking, oh, this guy's not going to beat me in chess.
01:46:56.000But then I'm like, wait a second, but what about all these guys?
01:48:02.000And I admire toughness more than a lot of things.
01:48:05.000FF says a big Merry Christmas to everyone except for the degenerate who broke into my mailbox and stole some of my family's Christmas presents while we were on holidays.
01:49:41.000And I agree, the brilliant Jared Taylor.
01:49:44.000Left fanboy Groyper says, To think I got into politics because I saw A This Week and Stupid video from Sargon in the recommended on YouTube five years ago.
01:49:54.000Sub to you in 2018 during the IBS days after seeing you debate.
01:49:59.000Teenage me would never have thought that this is where I'd be as a result of watching some funny British YouTuber.
01:52:22.000Because I feel like I'm not even that old, but I'll have people that message me and they were in high school and they started watching, and now they're like adults.
01:52:29.000And it's not a huge time difference, but it's kind of significant, you know?
01:52:34.000Kensney, who I used to watch the folk salad videos last year, a year and a half ago, and now the guy's like an adult practically, you know?
02:00:31.000Afghan Groyper says, if you watch the Expanse TV series, it's a sci fi political drama, so I imagine a genius like yourself would enjoy it.
02:03:33.000You know, an egg roll and a plate of moist special or whatever, and then I'm gonna get 40 packets of sweet and sour sauce, you know, blah, blah, blah, rip it, squeeze it out, squeeze it all out.
02:03:45.000And then your hands get all sticky, it gets all over your hands, and then you get this big plate full of emptied packets and little pieces of paper that you tore off.
02:04:19.000If I want to make my own food, I just go grocery shopping.
02:04:22.000If I got to dress my own meal, why don't I just not eat a Taco Bell for starters and actually just make something decent or go to a real restaurant?
02:05:37.000That's my second favorite thing to hear is when people tell me they stop, you know, drinking or doing drugs, because that is one of the most destructive things you could do.
02:05:45.000And I'm sure people that have done drugs are, you know, They've been drunk.
02:08:52.000EM says, You always say my name wrong, but Merry Christmas, big guy.
02:08:56.000Yeah, well, your name is dumb, so sorry.
02:08:58.000But maybe you should help me out with that if I say it wrong.
02:09:03.000Merry Christmas to Athos, as I originally figured to bring it up to SCOTUS as a case, but their actions have proven that they wouldn't even hear it.
02:09:10.000I thought if Trump signed something like this, he'd force their hand.
02:09:14.000Dances with Metroids says, I made an effort to say Merry Christmas to every customer at my work, and I've had only two or three gay, secular happy holidays so far.
02:09:23.000Anyway, Merry Christmas to you and everybody here.
02:10:57.000Fat Gay Retards says, You see, those nurses are already making TikToks, dancing to some hillbilly shit, whole hallway of them dancing to I kiss my pretty baby with my fist or something.
02:17:54.000I really appreciate everybody that's been supporting the show this year.
02:17:58.000Big super chats, little super chats, everybody that's been a part of it, everybody that subscribed, shared the show, watched it, everything like that.
02:18:06.000And I hope you all have a very nice Christmas this week.
02:18:09.000I hope you have a great New Year's Eve.
02:18:11.000Be safe, be smart, and I will see you on Monday, January 4th.
02:18:16.000I'll be taking a little bit of time off, but I'll be back bigger and better and stronger than ever before, and we're going to make America great again.